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Diversity Training Myths Your Company Needs To Drop Now
Don't believe everything you hear about how to bring diversity to your team.
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By Jane Porter 4 minute Read
Diversity training has been one of those buzz terms making the rounds at companies big and small for decades. But while businesses understand that change needs to happen from the top down, social scientists have found that the approaches many companies take are often vastly misguided.
"Hundreds of workplaces and schools use some form of diversity training," writes Princeton psychologist Betsy Levy Paluck in her research on the topic. "But most interventions are not grounded in theory, and there is little evidence of program impact."
In fact, many of the widely accepted practices used by companies today may have the opposite effect of decreasing diversity among managers, social scientists have found.
In one of the most comprehensive studies on the subject, researchers looked at more than three decades of data on diversity initiatives at hundreds of companies across the U.S. to determine their impact. Harvard sociologist Frank Dobbin, one of the researchers who spearheaded that study, spoke with Fast Company about the myths still widely accepted in diversity training today, their dangers, and what companies can do to make a far better impact.
Mandatory Training Is A Mistake
Many diversity trainers talk about the need to make training programs mandatory rather than voluntary, says Dobbin. But while that may seem like a good idea at first blush–of course important issues ought to be prioritized rather than simply made optional–that tactic often backfires. "Ironically, if you make it mandatory, training programs lead to decreases in the diversity of management teams," says Dobbin. "When you make it mandatory, you send the message that it's just there for legal compliance."
Many of the widely accepted practices used by companies today may have the opposite effect of decreasing diversity among managers.
Psychologists have long known that when you force people to do something without giving them a choice, cognitive dissonance–feelings of discomfort caused by contradictory emotions that lead people to change their attitudes–can kick in. "If you force someone to go to something, they don't have to try to make their beliefs and actions line up," says Dobbin. "In fact, you can think, 'I'm only here because they forced me to do this.'"
Instead, training programs like the one Google began offering on unconscious bias last year should always be optional so that employees don't feel like they're being forced to go.
Targeting Managers Can Backfire
Another common diversity training practice is targeting managers and creating training programs specifically for them. Again, this seems to make a lot of sense on the surface. Managers are the ones delegating and working closely with employees, after all. They have the most direct impact on the people working for them. But like mandatory training, focusing on managers alone sends the signal that a company is simply trying to avoid getting into hot water.
"A lot of the diversity training for managers tends to be about the law," says Dobbin. "When there is special training for managers, they take the message that the employer is trying to prevent them from getting sued."
You can't really change people's biases with training.
Dobbin estimates that approximately a quarter of all diversity training programs focus on the legal side of hiring and firing, which not only sends a negative message to managers, but also leads to a decrease in diversity among managers. "If what you are trying to do is increase the diversity of the workforce, training isn't going to do it," he says. "You can't really change people's biases with training."
Don't Blame–Engage
The approach that diversity training programs take to deliver their message often comes across as alienating and discouraging. Such training programs are often designed to help people notice the ways in which they are biased. But this method, says Dobbin, can backfire. "It puts [managers] at the center of the problem. If you do a training for managers–even when it's focused on bias awareness–the message they get is that they are the problem," he says. "If you're trying to change the workplace, that's a negative message."
The key to effective diversity initiatives, research has shown, comes not in mandatory manager training, but rather in finding ways to engage managers to contribute to their company's diversity efforts. For example, encouraging managers to volunteer as mentors to underrepresented employees is one of the most successful diversity efforts taken on by companies. "They get engaged in trying to help people in their careers. They become the champions of those people," says Dobbin. This approach has helped in addressing the issue of women not being promoted as often as men, for one. Getting managers to serve on diversity task forces that engage them in discussions about recruiting and mentoring programs is another approach that most resonated with employees.
"The problem in the tech industry, and in corporate America, is that blaming managers is a lot more popular than engaging them," Dobbin and his coresearcher, Alexandra Kalev, wrote in an op-ed for the New York Times last year.
"Diversity training, annual performance ratings, and civil-rights grievance systems are ubiquitous," says Dobbin. "Mentoring, special college recruitment, management-training enrollment, and diversity task forces are rare."
Jane Porter writes about creativity, business, technology, health, education and literature. She's a 2013 Emerging Writing Fellow with the Center For Fiction
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Innovation drives Knauf Insulation's commitment to sustainability
At Knauf Insulation innovation drives everything we do. Innovation is not only great for business but more importantly it is great for our customers and for the planet.
As our Director of Innovation, Marc de Roeck, says: "We are in the business of sustainability — our solutions save energy, reduce CO2 and improve lives. But, to minimise the environmental impact of our products and processes while maximising their potential in line with our For A Better World sustainability strategy we need to constantly innovate."
So, what does this mean in reality? "It means constantly engaging our customers and everyone within Knauf Insulation to find innovative sustainable solutions to old and new challenges," says Marc.
To mark today's United Nation's #World Creativity and Innovation Day, we showcase the top 10 innovations that have shaped Knauf Insulation's sustainability commitment over the past year.
1 Achieving zero waste
Last month, Knauf Insulation launched a new €15 million facility and service in Belgium to recycle scrap and waste Mineral Wool from construction and demolition sites as well as from our plant production lines. The RESULATION® initiative will help customers by taking away their scrap, avoid the need to send hundreds of thousands of tonnes of waste to landfill and enable this material to be repurposed into new products. RESULATION is one of a series of innovations helping Knauf Insulation to send zero waste to landfill.
2 Creating better products
Knauf Insulation's success depends on finding innovative new ways to make buildings more sustainable. For instance, the company recently launched a new Wood Wool board — Tektalan Smart Tec across Central Europe — that can be installed quickly with fewer thermal bridges to improve energy efficiency. The product proved so successful, 270,000 m2 of Smart Tec have been installed in the Tesla Giga Factory in Germany. In the UK, we developed a new one-stop digital platform — KinetiK® — to provide verified data about Blowing Wool installation in line with new compliance legislation, while our Systems Division has introduced a new Cut-to-fall app that digitally calculates the precise dimensions of inclined flat roof slabs at the swipe of a screen avoiding wasted time, costs and material.
4 Celebrating sustainable certification
In the past year, the company has enjoyed significant breakthroughs in the form of international recognition. Knauf Insulation's Glass Mineral Wool solutions with the company's innovative ECOSE Technology®, for example, is the first Mineral Wool roll and slab product to be officially certified in Europe by DECLARE. The certification is an important public declaration that our products do not contain any harmful or unhealthy chemical ingredients on the International Living Future Institute's Red List.
5 Pioneering sustainable research
Cutting edge research projects have also recent months at Knauf Insulation. For instance, the company has partnered with the Polytechnic University of Milan to examine how insulation can convert buildings into giant 'batteries' that can store comfortable temperatures over several days. In Slovenia, Knauf Insulation joined a European Union project to find new ways to upscale the deep renovation of single-family homes to save energy, reuse building materials and reduce CO2.
6 Unlocking sustainable data
The company aims to publicly launch its new Knauf Insulation Eco-Design Tool later this year. Using a wealth of data from our Environmental Product Declarations, the innovative tool will allow customers to compare and contrast the environmental impact of products and systems using one easy-to-understand simple indicator.
7 Upscaling renovation
In 2021 the innovative one-stop-renovation service, Knauf Energy Solutions, completed the biggest ever large-scale retrofit in history. A total of 184 homes were renovated for the social housing company Woonpunt Zennevallei in Belgium with the aim of reducing building emissions, saving energy and improving living conditions. Prior to the work, KES used in-house technology and cloud data algorithms to demonstrate a range of achievable energy savings based on different renovation scenarios. The housing company selected a cost-effective solution, and every aspect of the renovation was then carried out and managed by KES.
8 Showcasing green roof solutions
2021 was the year that Knauf Insulation's innovative green solutions took centre stage at the World Expo in Dubai. A six-metre-high Urbanscape® green wall covering almost 500 m2 and featuring 45,000 plants was installed on the Slovenian pavilion at the entrance to the Expo's sustainable district. Despite extreme desert heat, the pavilion remained a lush and verdant example of how green infrastructure can improve the sustainability of any building.
9 Cutting company carbon
Knauf Insulation has committed to deliver net zero embodied carbon products. It is a mission that demands innovation at every single stage of product production. Over the past 12 months, the company has been stepping up its action to find new sources of recycled material, examine the potential of alternative energy sources such as hydrogen and biogas, install new sources of green energy such as wind turbines and photovoltaic panels, finance new energy saving processes and find new ways to transport products with a reduced environmental impact.
10 Inspiring innovative thinking
The business case for diversity and inclusion is clear, it improves innovation, productivity and reduces turnover. A diverse culture allows everyone to thrive and fuels creativity and that is why Knauf Insulation has committed to build on the diversity that has made the company such a success. Knauf Insulation is at the start of its diversity and inclusion journey, but it is working across every region to examine new ways to nurture the differences that make the company culture so unique.
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Christian DACA recipients dream of another Christmas in the U.S.
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Charities feel Christmas fear
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Blue Christmas: Churches acknowledge that the season of joy isn't always joyous
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Lubbock Woman Beaten After Telling Suspects to Return Stolen Car
Luke Matsik Published: September 29, 2021
Photo by Michael Förtsch on Unsplash
A Lubbock woman was assaulted by multiple suspects after she accused them of having stolen a car.
KAMC News reports that the victim was riding in the front passenger seat of a vehicle with 2 suspects. She thought that the vehicle was stolen, so she told those in the car that they needed to return it. That's when the driver pulled into the 1900 block of Avenue O, accusing the victim of taking their money and punching her multiple times. This all happened a bit before 3 p.m.
The suspect in the back seat is said to have struck the victim with a metal pipe while the other suspect pulled out a handgun and struck the victim in the head with it. A 3rd suspect attempted to pull the victim out of the vehicle and ended up stealing her phone, purse and shoes.
The victim, whose identity wasn't revealed, was taken to University Medical Center with swelling, bruising and marks on her right wrist and elbow as well as an open wound on the back of her head.
As of Wednesday, September 29th, the identities of the 3 suspects had not been revealed. Police have yet to make any arrests.
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Jiahong Liu published an article in April 2019.
Based on the national input–output table, a comparable price non-competitive input–output table was compiled for 2002, 2007, and 2012. The influence factors of price and product imports were removed from the table. Furthermore, a water-use input–output table was constructed based on the links between the economic system and water resources management. With the multi-factor structural decomposition analysis (SDA) model developed in this paper, the driving forces of water use were decomposed into 18 factors, and quantitative effect results were obtained. Total water use in China increased by 3.9% from 2002 to 2007 and by 5.4% from 2007 to 2012 with the combined effects of multiple factors. For example, the increase in economic scale raised water use by 46.6% and 45.5%, respectively. Advancement in agricultural technology (production and water-saving technologies) reduced water use by 14.9% and 19.8%, respectively. Reducing the proportion of thermal/nuclear power and increasing the price of electricity have water use-reducing effects. Changes in the mode of development considerably reduced water use by 9.5% and 5.3%, respectively. Water-use management should focus on factors that have great influence on water use and show high water-use sensitivity.
In recent years, China has paid an increasing amount of attention to improving urban and rural drinking water safety, an important aspect of building a healthy and stable society. This study analyzed countermeasures to promote drinking water safety in Turpan City of Shanshan County, in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region. First, we considered the current state of drinking water safety in Shanshan, including issues such as pollution, outdated water treatment technologies, leakage in the water supply pipe network, insufficient emergency management capability in urban areas, and low water supply guarantee rates in rural areas due to poor construction standards. Second, the quantity of guaranteed water resources was estimated; on this basis, an ideal distribution of regional water plants and water supply network needs for the optimal allocation of water resources is suggested. Third, a water purification program was developed to solve untreated water quality problems, including centralized and decentralized water quality treatments alongside intelligent water flow control processes. Water resource conservation and risk control measures are also proposed in order to promote the security of drinking water; equipment updates, and the establishment of an intelligent water management platform are also suggested.


Green. Sustainable. Ecological. Eco-friendly. All of these words are easily interchanged to reducing the harm to our environment. Green building is a way of looking at building in terms of more efficient ways in construction and design that protect our natural environment. The buzz word "green" is becoming a household concept. Implementing green or organic products into our daily routine is impacting our purchases or enhancing our overall decision making process. Interpreting being "green" in home or building construction can come at a variety of levels.
Reducing energy use, conserving water, improving indoor air quality, and reducing dependence on our natural resources is all part of an effort to enhance our green building efforts. Landscaping and Energy Star appliances are the obvious changes we can all strive towards in greening our homes. Meanwhile water infiltration systems, indoor air quality, and home products are becoming hot topics.
Here in Asheville the WNC Green Building Council has introduced a new green home labeling program called 'Green Gauge', setting a new standard for our real estate market- for both new and existing homes. This program provides a green building certification for realtors and homeowners to understand energy performance and green features in their homes.
Creating a well-balanced green home is easily attainable. With government legislation and increased awareness, more products are readily available that are eco-friendly and even produced locally or regionally.
The Home Source Design Center on Charlotte Street is a local Asheville source for green home and building products, for both interior and exterior products. The design center strives to purchase all products within a 500-mile radius, supporting a regional and local economy.
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Apple quarterly profit leaps but shares slip on outlook
Apple says net profit climbs thanks to growing sales of digital content and services to of users and other Apple gadgetry including iPhones
Published 10:23 AM, November 02, 2018
Updated 10:23 AM, November 02, 2018
APPLE. In this file photo taken on September 9, 2015 a reporter walks by an Apple logo during a media event in San Francisco, California. File photo by Josh Edelson/AFP
SAN FRANCISCO, USA – Apple on Thursday, November 1, US time (Friday, October 31, Philippine time) reported that its profit leapt in the recently ended quarter, but shares slid on weaker-than-expected iPhone sales and the forecast going into the year-end holiday.
Apple said net profit climbed 32% to $14.1 billion on revenue that was up 20% to $62.9 billion with help from growing sales of digital content and services to users and other Apple gadgetry.
However, the market was disappointed by word that Apple fell short of expectations with iPhone sales of 46.9 million iPhones and its forecast was not as robust as anticipated.
Apple shares slipped 4.2% to $212.85 in after-market trades that followed release of the earnings figures.
"We're thrilled to report another record-breaking quarter that caps a tremendous fiscal 2018, the year in which we shipped our two billionth iOS device, celebrated the 10th anniversary of the App Store and achieved the strongest revenue and earnings in Apple's history," said Apple chief executive Tim Cook.
The average selling price for iPhones in the freshly updated product line was $793, indicating that Apple was able to deliver more of its priciest handsets.
The results closed out Apple's fiscal fourth quarter ending September 29 and set the stage for the crucial holiday period.
Chief financial officer Luca Maestri said it was the California-based company's best September quarter on record, with revenue growing double digits everywhere it does business around the world.
"We set September quarter revenue records for iPhone and Wearables and all-time quarterly records for Services and Mac," Maestri said.
Apple forecast that it would bring in between $89 billion and $93 billion in the current quarter.
Apple this week unveiled a new version of its MacBook Air laptop, this time made of recycled aluminum, as well as a new Mac Mini and an iPad Pro, all pricier than their predecessors.
Apple also unveiled a new version of its iPad Pro tablet with a screen that looks nearly edge-to-edge and boasts a faster processor. It includes features from the latest iPhones.
The changes are part of an effort to overhaul a product that has seen sliding sales in recent years. – Rappler.com
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KCRA-TV Fraud Documentary Triggers EDD Congressional Inquiry
WorkCompAcademy January 17, 2023 Daily News
KCRA-TV is a television station in Sacramento,affiliated with NBC. It is owned by Hearst Television.
For months, KCRA 3 Investigates producer Dave Manoucheri and Photographer Victor Nieto traveled across California and interviewed people in other states as part of an unprecedented documentary project that revealed a wave of failures at California's Employment Development Department, or EDD. With nearly 15 hours of interviews from 17 people – and dozens of hours of news footage – the documentary tells the story of what is being called the worst fraud in California history.
And the documentary seems to have triggered a federal investigation of the EDD. On Friday, James Comer, head of the Committee on Oversight and Accountability sent two letters, one to Nancy Farias, head of the EDD, and one to Martin Walsh, head of the U.S. Department of Labor.
The letters both cite KCRA and the documentary "Easy Money: Fraud Fortune and Failures" in the need for an investigation of fraud against the California unemployment system.
From 2020 onward, the department had seen massive numbers of fraudulent applications for unemployment and for the CARES Act era program "Pandemic Unemployment Assistance" (PUA). That program would allow freelancers and gig workers to apply for lost wages, something they had never been eligible for before.
During the pandemic, EDD had a massive number of both legitimate and illegitimate applications for money. In an effort to get money out the door, the leadership at EDD and in the administration lifted fraud controls and allowed people to back-date their claims, assuming that they could catch fraud on the back end. However, EDD had no back-end fraud prevention mechanisms.
The letter quotes the head of California Labor and Workforce at the time, Julie Su, as saying "there is no sugar coating the reality, California did not have sufficient security measures in place to prevent this level of fraud," something she said during a press call highlighted by Easy Money.
Su would go on to become a deputy secretary of labor in the Biden administration.
Comer, a Republican Congressman from Kentucky, took over the Committee on Oversight and Accountability with the changeover in the House of Representatives, now controlled by a Republican majority."Despite the unexpected and unprecedented nature of the coronavirus pandemic, California's problems cannot be blamed on COVID alone," Comer wrote in the letter to Nancy Farias
As part of their investigation, the committee is asking for:
"1. All processes and procedures related to the disbursement of unemployment insurance benefits during the pandemic, including policies and procedures intended to ensure payments are made to the proper individual, and to ensure that the individual is a qualified recipient of unemployment insurance;
2. All documents and communications between employees of the California EDD and employees of the U.S. Department of Labor regarding the state's UI benefit program;
3. All documents and communications related to efforts to prevent payment of fraudulent UI claims;
4. All documents and communications related to efforts to recoup UI claims paid improperly; and
5. All documents and communications related to identifying the total number of improperly paid UI benefits and documents sufficient to show whether those funds remain in the United States or were transferred to entities outside the United States."
They are asking for similar information from the U.S. Department of Labor. The documents are requested no later than Jan. 27. The committee is holding its hearing into the matter on Feb. 1.
Kaiser Health News Says Smartphone May Become Next Doctors' Office
A fingertip pressed against a phone's camera lens can measure a heart rate. The microphone, kept by the bedside, can screen for sleep apnea. Even the speaker is being tapped, to monitor breathing using sonar technology. In the best of this new world, the data is conveyed remotely to a medical professional for the convenience and comfort of the patient or, in some cases, to support a clinician without the need for costly hardware.
But using smartphones as diagnostic tools is a work in progress, experts say. Although doctors and their patients have found some real-world success in deploying the phone as a medical device, the overall potential remains unfulfilled and uncertain.
Smartphones come packed with sensors capable of monitoring a patient's vital signs. They can help assess people for concussions, watch for atrial fibrillation, and conduct mental health wellness checks, to name the uses of a few nascent applications.
Companies and researchers eager to find medical applications for smartphone technology are tapping into modern phones' built-in cameras and light sensors; microphones; accelerometers, which detect body movements; gyroscopes; and even speakers. The apps then use artificial intelligence software to analyze the collected sights and sounds to create an easy connection between patients and physicians. Earning potential and marketability are evidenced by the more than 350,000 digital health products available in app stores, according to a Grand View Research report.
"It's very hard to put devices into the patient home or in the hospital, but everybody is just walking around with a cellphone that has a network connection," said Dr. Andrew Gostine, CEO of the sensor network company Artisight. Most Americans own a smartphone, including more than 60% of people 65 and over, an increase from just 13% a decade ago, according the Pew Research Center. The covid-19 pandemic has also pushed people to become more comfortable with virtual care.
Some of these products have sought FDA clearance to be marketed as a medical device. That way, if patients must pay to use the software, health insurers are more likely to cover at least part of the cost. Other products are designated as exempt from this regulatory process, placed in the same clinical classification as a Band-Aid. But how the agency handles AI and machine learning-based medical devices is still being adjusted to reflect software's adaptive nature.
Ensuring accuracy and clinical validation is crucial to securing buy-in from health care providers. And many tools still need fine-tuning, said Dr. Eugene Yang, a professor of medicine at the University of Washington. Currently, Yang is testing contactless measurement of blood pressure, heart rate, and oxygen saturation gleaned remotely via Zoom camera footage of a patient's face.
Big tech companies like Google have heavily invested in researching this kind of technology, catering to clinicians and in-home caregivers, as well as consumers. Currently, in the Google Fit app, users can check their heart rate by placing their finger on the rear-facing camera lens or track their breathing rate using the front-facing camera.
"If you took the sensor out of the phone and out of a clinical device, they are probably the same thing," said Shwetak Patel, director of health technologies at Google and a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Washington.
Google's research uses machine learning and computer vision, a field within AI based on information from visual inputs like videos or images. So instead of using a blood pressure cuff, for example, the algorithm can interpret slight visual changes to the body that serve as proxies and biosignals for a patient's blood pressure, Patel said.
Google is also investigating the effectiveness of the built-in microphone for detecting heartbeats and murmurs and using the camera to preserve eyesight by screening for diabetic eye disease, according to information the company published last year.
The tech giant recently purchased Sound Life Sciences, a Seattle startup with an FDA-cleared sonar technology app. It uses a smart device's speaker to bounce inaudible pulses off a patient's body to identify movement and monitor breathing.
Binah.ai, based in Israel, is another company using the smartphone camera to calculate vital signs. Its software looks at the region around the eyes, where the skin is a bit thinner, and analyzes the light reflecting off blood vessels back to the lens. The company is wrapping up a U.S. clinical trial and marketing its wellness app directly to insurers and other health companies, said company spokesperson Mona Popilian-Yona.
Panel Clarifies WCAB Limits for Vacating Stipulations of Parties
Wendy Johnson was injured while employed by the Santa Ynez Valley Journal, who was insured by SCIF. Her case proceeded to trial in 2019.The WCJ issued a Findings & Award, finding Johnson was permanently totally disabled and allowing an attorney fee of 20%. SCIF sought reconsideration and the Appeals Board granted the petition for further study and the matter was referred to mediation.
As a result of the mediation, the parties entered into a Compromise and Release in the total amount of $685,000.00.
Paragraph 7 of the C&R provides that "The parties agree to settle the above claim(s) on account of the injury(ies) by the payment of the SUM OF: $685,000.00 The following amounts are to be deducted from the settlement amount: $25,300.00 for permanent disability advances through [June 26, 2013[;] $121,058.93, payable to WENDY THOMPSON FOR NON-SUBMIT MSA[;][and] $137,000.00 request as applicant's attorney's fee."
The $137,000.00 attorney fee amounts to 20% of the settlement. Applicant and applicant's attorney signed the C&R on October 12, 2022 and the attorney for defendant State Compensation Insurance Fund (SCIF) signed it on October 14, 2022.
The Appeals Board rescinded the August 14, 2019 Findings of Fact and Award and remanded this matter to the WCJ for consideration of the C&R. The WCJ issued an Order Approving Compromise and Release on October 24, 2022, approving the settlement terms agreed to by the parties, including the attorney fee of $137,000.00.
SCIF again filed a Petition for Reconsideration, arguing that the WCJ's finding that an attorney's fee of $137,000.00 is unreasonable and not supported by evidence. The WCAB denied reconsideration of the attorney fee award in the panel decision of Thompson v Santa Ynex Valley Journal – ADJ8004567 (January 2023).
In its Opinion Denying Reconsideration, the panel noted that a stipulation between the parties need not be supported by substantial evidence citing County of Sacramento v. Workers' Comp. Appeals Bd. (Weatherall) (2000) 77 Cal.App.4th 1114, 1121 [65 Cal.Comp.Cases 1]),"
A stipulation is an agreement between opposing counsel … ordinarily entered into for the purpose of avoiding delay, trouble, or expense in the conduct of the action, and serves 'to obviate need for proof or to narrow range of litigable issues in a legal proceeding.(Weatherall, supra, 77 Cal.App.4th at p. 1119.)
Stipulations are designed to expedite trials and hearings and their use in workers' compensation cases should be encouraged. (Robinson v. Workers' Comp. Appeals Bd. (Robinson) (1987) 194 Cal.App.3d 784, 791 [52 Cal.Comp.Cases 419].)
Stipulations are binding on the parties unless, on a showing of good cause, the parties are given permission to withdraw from their agreements. (Weatherall, supra, at p. 1121.)
While the Appeals Board has the authority to reject parties' stipulations, this "discretion does not validate capricious decisionmaking." (Weatherall, supra, 77 Cal.App.4th at p. 1119.)
The panel concluded by stating: "Permitting a party to subsequently withdraw from an agreement because they have changed their mind endangers the finality of approved settlements and undermines transactional stability in the workers' compensation system and risks discouraging future settlements. Defendant here has not even alleged grounds in its petition that could constitute good cause to set aside the C&R."
California/Illinois Attorney Generals Sue Drugmakers for Price Gouging
A vial of insulin can cost as little as $2 to manufacture. Yet at the pharmacy counter, people with diabetes often end up paying hundreds for the life-saving medicine.
In the U.S., insulin is so expensive that many diabetics struggle to afford it even when covered by health plans, and are forced to ration their use – sometimes with deadly consequences. More than 3 million adults in California – over 10% of the state's adult population – have been diagnosed with diabetes.
The California Attorney General filed a lawsuit against the nation's largest insulin makers and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) for driving up the cost of the lifesaving drug through what he alleges is unlawful, unfair, and deceptive business practices in violation of California's Unfair Competition Law.
The lawsuit alleges manufacturers Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk, and Sanofi, and pharmacy benefit managers CVS Caremark, Express Scripts, and OptumRx, have leveraged their market power to overcharge patients. A 2021 report found that insulin costs roughly ten times more within the United States than outside it.
The three manufacturers named in the lawsuit produce over 90% of the global insulin supply and the three PBMs administer pharmacy benefits for roughly 80% of prescription claims managed. The lawsuit argues that because competition is highly limited in both their markets, these six companies are able to keep aggressively hiking the list price of insulin at the expense of many patients.
The lawsuit alleges that manufacturers and PBMs are complicit in overcharging for insulin. Manufacturers set the drug's list price and PBMs then negotiate for rebates on behalf of health plans. Because rebates are based on a percentage of list price, manufacturers raise their list prices to provide the largest rebates they can offer PBMs.
PBMs are often paid for their services with a portion of the rebate they have negotiated. This creates an incentive to negotiate a drug with a higher rebate, not necessarily the lowest price for consumers. As a result, the drug becomes unaffordable for uninsured or underinsured patients, who have to pay the full price of insulin. High list prices also make insulin unaffordable for other patients as well, including those with high deductible health plans or coverage gaps.
And the California Attorney general is not going it alone. The California lawsuit comes on the heels of a similar case filed in December by Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul.
In a 125-page fraud lawsuit filed in Cook County Circuit Court, the office accused Eli Lilly, CVS Pharmacy, Novo Nordisk and several other pharmaceutical companies of artificially inflating the cost of insulin by over 1,000% since the late 1990s.
"Today, insulin has become the poster child for skyrocketing and inflated drug prices," the suit states.The complaint singles out Eli Lilly in particular, noting the price for a dose of its analog insulin Humalog rose by 1,527% between 1997 and 2018.
Major McDonald's Franchise to Pay $2 Million to Settle EEOC Lawsuit
AMTCR, Inc., AMTCR Nevada, Inc., and AMTCR California, LLC have been collectively operating as a single employer and/or integrated enterprise in Nevada, Arizona, and California, and have common management and ownership, centralized control of labor operations, and interrelation operations.
These three entities Collectively own, manage, and operate approximately twenty-two McDonald's fast food restaurants in this tri-state region, and are collectively doing business as "McDonald's." The 22 restaurants operate under the common ownership and management of President/Owner Abelardo "Abe" Martinez III. And they share common managers, such as Director of Operations Theresa Hernandez and Area Supervisor Ruben Benitez, who both oversee employees throughout the tri-state region.
They share a common corporate headquarters and/or main office and human resources department for the entire tri-state region located in Kingman, Arizona.
And the EEOC just announced that this major McDonald's franchisee has agreed to pay nearly $2 million to settle an EEOC sexual harassment lawsuit.
Prior to filing the civil action, the EEOC investigated a charge of discrimination that had been filed with the Commission. Following the investigation, the Commission issued Letters of Determination to the employer, finding reasonable cause to believe that Title VII was violated and inviting them to join with the Commission in informal methods of conciliation to endeavor to eliminate the discriminatory practices and provide appropriate relief.
But the Commission was unable to secure from Defendants a conciliation agreement acceptable to the Commission. Therefore, in September 2021, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a civil lawsuit against the companies in the United States District Court District of Nevada, charging them with sexual harassment and constructive discharge in stores/restaurants in Nevada, Arizona, and California.
The EEOC alleged in general that the "sexual harassment included, but was not limited to, constant groping, grabbing, and rubbing of the arms, shoulders, thighs, and buttocks; offensive comments and gestures regarding male genitalia; sexual advances; and sexual ridicule, intimidation, and insults." And that due to the employer's failure to remedy the ongoing sexual harassment, "the Charging Party and many other adversely affected employees could no longer tolerate the hostile and abusive work environment and were subjected to constructive discharge."
One of the several specific instances of misconduct listed in the Complaint involved a twenty-six-year-old female Shift Manager, and another by a twenty-one-year-old male Cook. Both were employed at Defendants' McDonald's store in Blythe, California. Both claimed to be sexually harassed by the at Defendants' McDonald's store in Blythe, California, the by same General Manager, and who was also the hiring manager at this McDonald's store.
This Blythe General Manager was in charge of receiving and reviewing job applications, interviewing applicants, and making hiring decisions. He was allegedly particularly fond of the young male applicants. After conducting interviews, The General Manager would message young male applicants via Facebook and send them sexually inappropriate messages and requests for dates. The General Manager admitted to Claimant 5 that he informed these male applicants via Facebook that if they refused to sexually engage with him and/or date him, he would not hire them.
During 2017 to mid-2019, many employees complained to "Claimant 5" about the General Manager's sexual comments and conduct. Claimant 5 would relay these employee complaints to upper management, but Defendants did nothing to stop the harassment.
In July 2019, Claimant 5 felt compelled to compile a list of all the sexual harassment complaints that she had received. Claimant 5 submitted the list of complaints to upper management with a request for an investigation and remedial action. Later in July 2019, an employee meeting was held at the store where Defendants required employees were required to sign an agreement regarding sexual harassment. However, allegedly no other remedial action was taken.
After the July 2019 employee meeting, Claimant 5 continued to receive complaints from employees about being subjected to sexually offensive comments by male managers and co-workers. These comments often related to co-workers' body parts such as breast size.
The company has agreed to pay $1,997,500 to resolve the sexual harassment lawsuit. And it has agreed to provide significant, franchise-wide injunctive relief aimed at preventing discrimination and harassment in the workplace.
AMTCR has also agreed to retain an outside third-party EEO monitor who will conduct internal audits of AMTCR's practices in handling harassment and retaliation complaints; establish a centralized tracking system for discrimination, harassment, and retaliation complaints; and ensure accountability and appropriate disciplinary action occur.
The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company Expands Social Mission
The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company, a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC), aims to fundamentally change the way the pharmaceutical industry operates. As a public-benefit corporation, its social mission of improving public health is just as important as the bottom line.
Cost Plus Drugs transparently charges a standard markup on every drug it sells. The costplusdrugs.com online pharmacy launched in January 2022 now carries over 1,000 prescription products, delivered by mail to thousands of happy customers every day. Cost Plus Drugs is working with health plans, managed-care organizations, pharmacy benefits managers (PBMs) and self-insured employers to bring these same savings to employer-sponsored benefit plans nationwide.
RxPreferred Benefits claims it is transforming healthcare through transparent, pass-through Pharmacy Benefit Administration. In collaboration with self-funded employers and health plans, RxPreferred develops custom solutions that drive savings and promote healthcare accessibility for members with innovative strategies, technology, and data access. Headquartered in Nashville, TN, RxPreferred is privately-held and operates nationally, also offering a variety of pharmacy solutions including 340b Administration and PBM Services for Hospice, Long-Term Care, and Workers' Compensation.
Cost Plus Drugs and RxPreferred have announced a new partnership, focused on improving healthcare access and lowering drug spend. With this venture, employers and their members utilizing RxPreferred for their pharmacy benefit will have access to all medications available through Cost Plus Drugs within their benefits package, with future plans to expand this offering along with local independent pharmacies.
"Our partnership with RxPreferred is another step in the direction of bringing transparency to healthcare and lowering drug costs for individuals and families across the country.," said Mark Cuban. "We are excited to work with a like-minded company that aligns with our goals and puts improving access to affordable prescriptions first."
Healthcare and prescription drug spend has continued to be a rising concern for both individuals and companies hosting their insurance benefits plan or plan sponsors. The pricing of drugs and schematics behind the industry are complex and traditionally been veiled from the end-consumer, leading to the need for transparency and control back in the hands of those ultimately paying for the drugs.
"There is an education component for employers and employees needed to help people and their families access the appropriate medications at the best possible costs and live healthy lives.," says Jeff Malone, CEO of RxPreferred. "In an otherwise opaque industry, we're committed to bringing transparency to the prescription drug space, making this partnership with Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company vital to our continued efforts in improving healthcare."
With this partnership, RxPreferred and Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company will bring together employer-sponsored benefits with the option to use Cost Plus Drugs as part of their plan, previously only offered to individuals outside of their insurance package. Cost Plus Drugs makes all drugs and pricing publicly available, giving everyone the opportunity to make informed decisions about their healthcare needs.
RxPreferred started their efforts in transforming healthcare in 2011 with transparent custom pharmacy solutions and now work with employers nationwide to administer their pharmacy benefits plan. This partnership is the next iteration of strategic innovation it provides its' customers as part of an ever-evolving environment with the goals of sustainable prescription drug spend, improved member access, and transparency for employers and their members.
Fatal Occupational Injuries Increased 8.9% in 2021
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that there were 5,190 fatal work injuries recorded in the United States in 2021, an 8.9-percent increase from 4,764 in 2020. The fatal work injury rate was 3.6 fatalities per 100,000 full-time equivalent (FTE) workers, up from 3.4 per 100,000 FTE in 2020 and up from the 2019 pre-pandemic rate of 3.5.
Key findings from the 2021 Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries
– – The 3.6 fatal occupational injury rate in 2021 represents the highest annual rate since 2016.
– – A worker died every 101 minutes from a work-related injury in 2021.
– – The share of Black or African American workers fatally injured on the job reached an all time high in 2021, increasing from 11.4 percent of total fatalities in 2020 to 12.6 percent of total fatalities in 2021. Deaths for this group climbed to 653 in 2021 from 541 in 2020, a 20.7-percent increase. The fatality rate for this group increased from 3.5 in 2020 to 4.0 per 100,000 FTE workers in 2021.
– – Suicides continued to trend down, decreasing to 236 in 2021 from 259 in 2020, an 8.9-percent decrease.
– – Workers in transportation and material moving occupations experienced a series high of 1,523 fatal work injuries in 2021 and represent the occupational group with the highest number of fatalities. This is an increase of 18.8 percent from 2020.
– – Transportation incidents remained the most frequent type of fatal event in 2021 with 1,982 fatal injuries, an increase of 11.5 percent from 2020. This major category accounted for 38.2 percent of all work related fatalities for 2021.
Fatal event or exposure
– – Despite experiencing an increase from 2020 to 2021, transportation incidents are still down 6.6 percent from 2019 when there were 2,122 fatalities.
– – Fatalities due to violence and other injuries by persons or animals increased to 761 fatalities in 2021 from 705 fatalities in 2020 (7.9 percent). The largest subcategory, intentional injuries by person, increased 10.3 percent to 718 in 2021.
– – Exposure to harmful substances or environments led to 798 worker fatalities in 2021, the highest figure since the series began in 2011. This major event category experienced the largest increase in fatalities in 2021, increasing 18.8 percent from 2020. Unintentional overdose from nonmedical use of drugs or alcohol accounted for 58.1 percent of these fatalities (464 deaths), up from 57.7 percent of this category's total in 2020.
– – Work related fatalities due to falls, slips, and trips increased 5.6 percent in 2021, from 805 fatalities in 2020 to 850 in 2021. Falls, slips, and trips in construction and extraction occupations accounted for 370 of these fatalities in 2021, and an increase of 7.2 percent from 2020 when there were 345 fatalities. Despite the increase this is still down 9.3 percent from 2019 when construction and extraction occupations experienced 408 fatalities due to this event.
– – There was a 16.3-percent increase in deaths for driver/sales workers and truck drivers which went up to 1,032 deaths in 2021 from 887 deaths in 2020. This was the primary factor behind the increase in fatalities to workers in transportation and material moving occupations which reached a series high in 2021.
– – Construction and extraction occupations had the second most occupational deaths (951) in 2021, despite experiencing a 2.6-percent decrease in fatalities from 2020. The fatality rate for this occupation also decreased from 13.5 deaths per 100,000 FTE workers in 2020 to 12.3 in 2021.
– – Protective service occupations (such as firefighters, law enforcement workers, police and sheriff's patrol officers, and transit and railroad police) had a 31.9-percent increase in fatalities in 2021, increasing to 302 from 229 in 2020. Almost half (45.4 percent) of these fatalities are due to homicides (116) and suicides (21). About one-third (33.4 percent) are due to transportation incidents, representing the highest count since 2016.
– – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations had 475 fatalities in 2021, an increase of 20.9 percent. Almost one-third of these deaths (152) were to vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers.
– – The fatal injury rate for fishing and hunting workers decreased from 132.1 per 100,000 FTEs in 2020 to 75.2 in 2021.
Owner of Home Health Care Agencies Sentenced for $31M Fraud
42 year old Liana Karapetyan, who lives in El Dorado Hills, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and one count of conspiracy to pay and receive health care kickbacks.
According to court documents, Karapetyan and her husband, Akop Atoyan, owned and controlled home health care and hospice agencies in the greater Sacramento area: ANG Health Care Inc., Excel Home Healthcare Inc., and Excel Hospice Inc.
On behalf of the agencies, Karapetyan and Atoyan certified to Medicare that they would not pay kickbacks in exchange for Medicare beneficiary referrals to the agencies.
Despite their certifications, from at least July 2015 through April 2019, Karapetyan and Atoyan paid and directed others to pay kickbacks to multiple individuals for beneficiary referrals, including employees of health care facilities, as well as employees' spouses. The kickback recipients included John Eby, a registered nurse who worked for a hospital in Sacramento; Anita Vijay, the director of social services at a skilled nursing and assisted living facility in Sacramento; Jai Vijay, Anita Vijay's husband; and Mariela Panganiban, the director of social services at a skilled nursing facility in Roseville.
In total, Karapetyan, Atoyan, and others caused the agencies to submit over 8,000 claims to Medicare for the cost of home health care and hospice services. Based on those claims, Medicare paid the agencies approximately $31 million. Of that amount, Medicare paid the agencies at least $2 million for services purportedly provided to beneficiaries referred in exchange for kickbacks paid to, among others, Eby, Anita Vijay, Jai Vijay, and Panganiban. Because the agencies obtained the beneficiary referrals by paying kickbacks, the agencies should not have received any Medicare reimbursement.
This case was the product of an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General. Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew Thuesen prosecuted the case.
In separate cases, Atoyan, Eby, Jai Vijay, Anita Vijay, and Panganiban pleaded guilty for their roles in the kickback scheme. They await sentencing.
Girardi Lawfirm CFO Denied Bail in $10 Million Client Theft Case
Courthouse News reports that the former chief financial officer of the defunct Girardi & Keese California personal injury law firm lost his bid to be released from jail while fighting charges he stole $10 million from the firm in a "side fraud" scheme separate from the estimated $100 million disgraced attorney Thomas Girardi is accused to have siphoned off from his clients' trust funds.
Tom Girardi, a titan of the California plaintiffs bar, is believed to have used his client settlement funds as his own personal piggy bank for years. The 83-year-old lawyer is suffering from Alzheimer's and his firm went bankrupt two years ago as reports of his malfeasance came out.
Last year, a Chicago law firm accused singer and "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star Erika Jayne of acting as a "frontwoman" for her then-husband, Girardi. The court filing called Girardi's now-shuttered law firm "the largest criminal racketeering enterprise in the history of plaintiffs' law."
U.S. District Judge Dale Fischer on Monday rejected the arguments by a lawyer for Christopher Kamon that his client wanted a "fresh start" and that there are perfectly innocent explanations why he liquidated his assets in the U.S., transferred millions of dollars to overseas bank accounts, and bought a $2.4 million home in the Bahamas.
"The government has proven that he's a flight risk," Fischer said at the hearing in LA federal court. "The transfer of funds is extremely suspicious in my view."
Kamon, 49, has been in jail since his arrest Nov. 5 at the airport in Baltimore when he returned from the Bahamas. Prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney's Office in LA say that Kamon planned to leave the county, change his name and hide, citing an unidentified witness who they say was an unwitting co-schemer who believed the accountant had authority to use the law firm's funds for his private pursuits.
Prosecutors say Kamon, who worked at the Girardi Keese accounting department for almost two decades, used falsified invoices, fraudulent transfers and cash kickbacks from the firm's accounts to steal millions of dollars. They also claim he improperly used the firm's funds for his personal expenses, including home renovations, travel around the world on private planes and and tens of thousands a month for "female companionship."
It was highly doubtful that he was authorized to provide a $20,000 monthly allowance to an escort, Assistant U.S. Attorney Ali Moghaddas said at the hearing.
If convicted, the accountant could face 11 to 14 years in prison just for his "side fraud," according to the government. That doesn't take into account Kamon possible culpability in the broader fraud scheme perpetrated by Girardi and others, which involved an estimated $100 million stolen from client settlement funds, the government said.
In addition, prosecutors said, the $1 million secured bond Kamon proposes to post as bail is far from sufficient to secure his return to court because he still has millions of dollars in foreign bank accounts.
The judge agreed Kamon could easily reimburse his family members and friends who have agreed to put up equity in their homes as part of his bond should he decide to flee rather than risk a possible 15 years in prison.
Jack DiCani, one of Kamon's attorneys, told Fischer everybody knew where his client was going and that he travelled to the Bahamas and sought residency there under his own name. According to DiCani, he had repeatedly reached out to federal prosecutors in Chicago, where there's a criminal investigation into the purported fraud by Girardi, and there hadn't been any indication that Kamon was a target in that probe, which could have prompted him to flee.
"Mr. Kamon wanted a fresh start at life," DiCani told the judge. "They've taken objective facts and read into them a nefarious explanation – that he was trying to hide from law enforcement."
Kamon doesn't have a criminal record, is charged with only one nonviolent crime, and nothing in his past or present conduct suggests that he is a flight risk, DiCani previously said in his request for pretrial release.
The government, however, said Kamon has been trying to avoid being served with lawsuits in civil litigation stemming from his role at Girardi Keese and that even his own lawyers didn't know where he was. They also scoffed at the argument that there was nothing unusual about the fact that he had four mobile phones on him when he was arrested, saying that for some busy professionals it might be normal to have more than one phone, but not for someone who's unemployed.
SoCal Man Pleads Guilty of Selling Used and Counterfeit Medical Devices
A Tarzana man pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges for running a nearly $6 million scheme in which he knowingly sold used skin-tightening medical devices that were deliberately misbranded as new, as well as counterfeit devices that he claimed were to be used with fat-reducing laser machines.
Kambiz Youabian, 49, pleaded guilty to a two-count information charging him with mail fraud and introducing a misbranded medical device into interstate commerce.
According to his plea agreement, Youabian owned and operated MSY Technologies Inc., a West Los Angeles-based company that did business under the names "Thermagen" and "Global Electronic Supplies" (GES).
From March 2016 to June 2022, Youabian purchased used transducers, which are medical devices used to tighten the skin of dermatology patients by delivering ultrasound energy to a patient's skin. Used properly, transducers are designed to provide no more than 2,400 treatments. After this number is reached, the devices are considered depleted and should be disposed of in accordance with health code regulations.
Through GES, Youabian purchased depleted transducers for nominal sums, typically $50. Youabian then remanufactured the depleted transducers and added fabricated serial numbers to make the transducers appear to be new.
Then, through his Thermagen company, Youabian fraudulently marketed and sold – for many times more than he paid for them – the remanufactured transducers to health care providers and customers as "new" transducers with 2,400 remaining treatments.
To conceal his connection to Thermagen, Youabian used names of fabricated Thermagen employees on correspondences with victim providers and used out-of-state commercial mailboxes for Thermagen's return of address on shipments, which he sent through the U.S mail.
For example, in February 2020, Youabian, through Thermagen's website, sold a device falsely advertised as "new" and "containing 2,400 lines" – and with a retail price of $1,695 – to a buyer. Youabian then shipped the device – which contained a fake serial number – from Los Angeles to Florida via the United States Postal Service.
Youabian also shipped counterfeit PAC keys, medical devices used to operate laser machines designed to reduce fat on patients, through the mail.
He then transferred his ill-gotten gains to bank account his controlled, including accounts he opened in the names of MSY Technologies, himself, and his au pair.
In June 2022, law enforcement executed search warrants at Youabian's home and the GES-Thermagen office in West Los Angeles. In the GES-Thermagen office, law enforcement seized 75 transducers in various states of refurbishment, a manufacturing workstation containing tools and transducer parts, and detailed records of GES and Thermagen's expenses.
Youabian admitted in his plea agreement to unlawfully selling thousands of medical devices, including transducers and PAC keys, and receiving at least $5,821,474 in fraudulent proceeds that should have been paid to the companies that are the sole U.S. distributors for these devices. Youabian also admitted to causing reputational harm to the device manufacturers and distributors of these medical devices.
United States District Judge Dale S. Fischer scheduled a June 26 sentencing hearing, at which time Youabian will face a statutory maximum sentence of 23 years in federal prison.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations and the United States Postal Inspection Service investigated this matter. Assistant United States Attorney Gregory D. Bernstein of the Major Frauds Section is prosecuting this case.


Clayton Garrison, founding dean of the School of Fine Arts at the University of California, Irvine, died July 27 at the age of 93. He was a visionary stage director, choreographer and theater professor who left a lasting imprint on UCI and what's now known as the Claire Trevor School of the Arts.
Six University of California, Irvine assistant professors have been chosen from a highly competitive cohort to receive 2015-16 UCI Hellman Fellowships, which support research by junior faculty members who show great promise. Their projects focus on self-driving cars, economic instability at the U.S.-Mexico border and the production of carbon-neutral fuels, among other topics.


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You may recall this little fella's brother and as you can see below this one follows the more traditional War Griffons colouring. I'd wanted to attempt some opposite colours, red and green, yellow and blue and somehow the more standard colours didn't get completed.
Although Looking at his twin and the original War Griffons spec sheet below maybe both of them bare little relation to what is 'Codex approved'.
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Band Booking: Pete Swanson on Blissful Noise and His "Police Academy" Inspiration
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Pete Swanson, everybody. Maybe you first heard about him because he was one-half of the noise duo Yellow Swans, who did the blissed/abrasive/blissed thing pretty well? His solo debut, Man With Potential, built on that foundation, while his latest EP, the memorably-titled Punk Authority, follows in the dancier direction heard on last year's Pro Style. Swanson makes memorable music that's often delivered in memorable ways; Punk Authority is catchy and chaotic, danceable and dissonant. And so I caught up with him via email to learn more about the EP's genesis, his working methods, and a certain 1980s comedy franchise.
Where did the title Punk Authority come from?
I love the ambiguity and oxymoronic nature of the title, but it comes from some overly serious discussions that I was engaged in several years ago surrounding the ways in which sub-cultures police themselves and how they can be more unethical than the mainstream systems of carrying out justice. People who are living marginal existence in opposition to the dominant culture and then perpetuating those same, oppressive structures in a smaller community.
The phrase kept coming back to me when I would consider titles for different works, but I never had a visual narrative adequately fleshed out until I came back to Police Academy 2 while recording Man With Potential…
Man With Potential has a definite rhythmic pulse to it, and Punk Authority goes further in a danceable direction. What, for you, is the ideal blend of musical textures and rhythms?
I think idealism is always a dead end. I'm an improviser. I record everything live to two tracks and I peck out most of the rhythmic content in the moment on switch sequencers on my synthesizer. The beats are the result of my buying a kick-drum module for my synthesizer and finding using it satisfying. I currently find rhythm to be a very enjoyable element in my music but I'd like to be able to get out of the limitations of that grid-framework at some point.
Instead of being concerned with issues of melody vs. rhythm I'm more concerned with issues of control vs. lack of control. Honoring constraints that I've developed vs. usurping those systems and trying to build some new arm of my instrument. I'm interested in the content of the music determining it's own destiny to some extent… I'm the editor, but I'm hardly in the driver's seat..
How would you define the concept of Punk Authority relative to Pro Style or Man With Potential?
Each record has distinctly different narrative themes as well as fairly different content.
MWP was based around ideas of hypermasculinity becoming a self-defeating expression. The music is both much more clear than the other two records, more varied in terms of sound vocabulary, and I think is a much heavier record in terms of emotional content. These are basically the reasons why MWP was released as an album and the other two as EPs.
Pro Style was an attempt of mine to engage directly with the tradition of electronic dance music. The track "Pro Style" is the most straight forward techno I can make.. The VIP version is so deteriorated and is more true to the music I was doing live at that point. That particular track was very satisfying and I ended up exploring that experiment more fully on Punk Authority
I already explained the narrative themes of Punk Authority so I'll spare another explanation.. The music resulted from me having to prepare material to play live that was aligned with the more beat oriented work that people have been interested in. These tracks are basically the best work that I recorded over 9 months and is actually in sequential order. If you listen to the tracks, I think you'll notice things getting more melodic and more dance-aligned. Playing out live again has been super fun and I'm cool with my work being in dialog with the audience reaction. People have been dancing.
How did you come up with the cover art concept?
Like I said above, the title came from some very serious conversations in the past, but the visual themes never aligned with the language until I re-watched Police Academy 2. There's a scene where the police commissioner returns to the precinct after being assaulted by a punk gang and he's covered in graffiti. That image had remained in the back of my mind since I had last seen that movie when I was 10 or so and I found the potential for self-effacing humor to be too enticing. I have absolutely no skills or resources to make this sort of thing happen and fortunately my roommates are interesting and talented people. Sara La Rosa is a competitive weight lifter and is an incredible make up artist. Ryan Burke is a talented photographer and often goes out in incredibly elaborate outfits. Between the two of them, we were able to capture this vision of being covered in graffiti and held captive by a fictional punk gang.
For a song like "C.O.P.," how do you go about beginning its construction? Does it begin with the rhythm? With a particular melody or collision of sounds?
Well… I don't really construct these pieces. I'm not a producer, or someone that approaches music with a great deal of premeditation. I basically just turn on my gear and make decisions as I go. I always start with some degree of predetermined melodic content that's basically mapped out on one of two sequencers that I use that control 3 oscillators. That being said, the way that I process everything can produce several other layers of melodic or rhythmic content that may, or may not be influenced by any other more intentional sounds. Basically, I've devised a system that is unpredictable to a certain extent and a lot of my playing is trying to find satisfying grooves within that chaos, getting bored with said groove and trying to shatter it through various means. There's as much lack of intent in my music as there is intent.
I throw most of my recordings away and only keep edits that I find to be compelling in terms of narrative and content.
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Tom McCarthy's C, Gary Lutz's Divorcer, and everything by Cesar Aira.
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School bus crash in Georgetown
Saranac Hale Spencer
A school bus crash in Georgetown on Thursday afternoon caused one minor injury, according to state police.
Troopers are investigating the accident, which happened at about 3 p.m. when a 17-year-old man didn't yield to the school bus at the intersection of Wood Branch Road and DuPont Boulevard, U.S. 113, according to police.
The teenager was driving a 2003 Ford F250 pickup truck heading south on Wood Branch Road and the bus, driven by 81-year-old George Haller of Millsboro, was heading north. The truck didn't yield at the intersection and the bus swerved to avoid it, according to police.
Both vehicles stopped on the shoulder of DuPont Boulevard. The only injury was to a 16-year-old Georgetown girl who was taken to the Nanticoke Memorial Hospital with minor injuries, according to police.
The teenage driver of the truck was ticketed for failing to yield the right of way and failing to have proof of insurance with him.
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In Musanze City, Northern Province on 18th – 22th November 2018 was held a workshop on Nutrition Budget Analysis, Leadership for Development, Effective Advocacy, Resources Mobilization and MEAL. The workshop was organized for Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Alliance Rwanda. This is a member of Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement – Civil Society Network.
Legally registered in June 2016, SUN Alliance is an umbrella of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in Rwanda that promotes sensitize on specific nutrition actions. With his 79 civil society members from all CSOs and academia up to date, its primary purpose is to strengthen the coordination between nutrition actors, through tracking results and aligning strategies, programs and resources of its members within the country in elimination of all forms of Malnutrition. Indeed, SUN Alliance believes that collaborating with partners to implement programmes with shared nutrition goals, and collectively mobilize resources to effectively scale up nutrition, with a core focus on empowering women and children is an effective approach that addresses malnutrition.
According to the study conducted by the Rwandan Ministry of Agriculture and the World Food Programme (WFP), the Comprehensive Food Security and Vulnerability Analysis (CFSVA) report in Rwanda indicates that levels of stunting among children aged under 5 dropped to 36.7 percent in 2015, down from 43 percent at the time of the last analysis in 2012. Stunting, where a child is short for their age, is an indicator of chronic malnutrition and permanently affects brain development and health.
At the end of the workshop, a designated participant' representative presented the group recommendations. First and foremost, he stated that based on the nutrition budget analysis, the available budget remains short. He then continued with the actual recommendations which among other highlighted the sharing of workshop acquisitions, creating a portal to facilitate the sharing of research results and achievements on malnutrition among members and the umbrella partners, and establish a guidance that defines a common approach of interventions across the country.
Participants also set out the necessity to fundraise for a study on local administration staffs perceptions on related malnutrition issues and its impacts, in order to enhance them, as it has been observed that unrealistic perceptions can restrain required collaboration for its resourceful fighting. Furthermore, after consultations with his delegate, the group managed to get the programming of an extraordinary meeting to connect the umbrella with the Early Childhood Development Program (ECD) for a strategic collaboration based on their relevant capacities and experience in the field.
Likewise, other consultation initiatives with EDC are envisaged for strategic partnership on guidance and about programs implementation process. This may consider a possible access to grant at his disposal, in a tentative approach to reduce the gap of the short budget in view of the extent of planned interventions.
Welcoming, the Vice Mayor in charge of Social Affairs of Musanze District at the workshop closing stage, Mr Janvier RUKWATAGE representing SUN Alliance Rwanda's board of directors began by expressing particular thanks to the district administration, as well as to the office of the governor of the Northern Province for his welcome and particular interest in this seminar. In particular, he highlighted the constructive environment put in place by the country's leadership, in particular by the President of the Republic, H.E Paul Kagame, who allows civil society organizations to accomplish freely their mission with a guaranteed collaboration of the public sector.
He said that the role played by the Musanze District in its participation related to the umbrella programs as well as such senior district official who join this workshop in spite of his imperative duties is a tangible proof of this close collaboration. He finally acknowledged that this can only bring positive impacts and desired changes from this program of fighting against malnutrition and its negative effects.
Addressing the group of participants at the closing stage of the workshop the Vice Mayor in Charge of Social Affairs, Mrs Marie Claire UWAMARIYA highlighted the relevance of efforts gathering by such experts coming from all districts of the country to find practical solutions to the critical challenge of malnutrition. She believes that the time is appropriate to build on such a worthwhile opportunity to find suitable response.
On behalf of the district administration that she was representing, she expressed her delight for the workshop, which was held in their district and whose members were also involved. During 5 days, participants analyzed the budget and realized that the available budget was not sufficient. Fortunately she observed that they started to think about planning for alternatives resources. She then appealed for opening perspectives for home grown solutions to ensure a better future to our children, a future free of malnutrition.
Otherwise, participants requested an increase in the budget allocated to nutrition, prioritize nutrition specific interventions and include district plans to eliminate malnutrition in the performance contracts and she affirmed that nutrition budget was increased in the recently developed district development strategy.


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Angad Vir Singh Bajwa holds the distinction of being the first Indian shooter to win a skeet gold medal at any continental or world event. Parinaz Dhaliwal
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In these times of social distancing, sport is a casualty. Tournaments stand cancelled, seasons suspended and sport worldwide is almost at a virtual standstill. ESPN will be bringing you serialized accounts of Indian athletes, cooped up in homes or training camps, on what their lives are like now, with calendars scrambled, competitions on hold and plenty of time to kill.
Angad Vir Singh Bajwa
Skeet shooter, Indian Olympic shooting team
How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected your preparation?
It has completely screwed my training in a big way.
As a shooter, I can possibly peak about twice in a year, so I have to plan [for tournaments] ahead. This year I thought those would be the shotgun World Cup in Cyprus and the Olympics. Just before the World Cup, the federation said we weren't going to be going after all. Then we were supposed to have the Delhi World Cup and that got cancelled as well. I left for home and then two days later I was called back for trials in Delhi.
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It has been challenging for my coach [Norwegian, Tore Brovold] as well. He was supposed to come to India a week back but that looks unlikely now. He had been working with me in Cyprus and so when he got back to Norway, he got placed in quarantine. He's going to be in there for another 10 days.
What about training?
The fact that we can't travel abroad, hits us shotgun shooters a lot more than the rifle and pistol guys.
Our sport is an outdoor one. It's similar to golf in a way because we need to shoot in different conditions and in different ranges. I've put a plan in place to practise at ranges in Pune and Hyderabad but there is a limitation there. In Europe, the ranges usually have mountains or trees in the background. That makes it a lot more challenging. In contrast, most ranges in India have the skyline as the background. There's nothing in the horizon, making it very similar and it's a lot easier to track the target.
Is there any advantage to the current travel restrictions?
The only advantage I can see is that I'll get to spend some time at home after a really long time.
The national camp has gone on for a month now because there haven't been any tournaments we could take part in. A lot of athletes here are from or around Delhi but I'm from Chandigarh. The biggest thing I miss is home. Staying in a hotel really drains you out, especially if you are living out of a couple of suitcases.
What's your physical training looking like?
The other advantage I can think of is that I'll get some time to work on my fitness.
I usually do three days of weight training and five days of cardio. Just because there is not a lot of certainty about the future doesn't mean that I can just forget about my fitness or diet. Physically I need to be consistent because if I swing between weights, that affects my shooting.
I'm normally very disciplined. I'll hit all my macronutrients. My cheat days aren't too bad, maybe a Subway sandwich. As of now I'm maintaining my 2,400 calories a day. I speak to a lot of nutritionists and also some of my seniors like Ronjan [Sodhi]. They use their experience to tell me what I should be doing.
"If you told me I'd get coronavirus if I travelled to Tokyo for the Olympics, I'd do it anyway." Angad Vir Singh Bajwa
What do you plan on doing in the free time you have?
I'll catch up on my Netflix for sure. The new season of Money Heist is starting in April so I'll probably watch that.
That's a strange feeling because normally I would be analysing my video and getting feedback from my coach. I can't do that because it's difficult to do video analysis when he's not here. He has actually asked me to take a break from shooting for the next one week entirely. I think I can manage to do that for a couple of days but I'll be itching to get a gun in my hands after that.
What's your worst-case scenario?
The absolute worst-case scenario for me would be the Olympics getting called off.
It's a financial hit as well. I'm largely self-funded and all my coach's tickets and accommodations had been paid for before he got placed in quarantine. But that's still something I'm okay with. I'm shooting the best I have ever done and where I am today is the result of eight years of work. It would be devastating for me if I couldn't go to the Olympics.
It's so important to me that if you told me I'd get coronavirus if I travelled to Tokyo for the Olympics, I'd do it anyway.


A long stretch of road in Bhairidevarkoppa in Ward No 25 is in pathetic condition and is also slippery. This slushy road is also risking the lives of motorists and school children of Shiavanand high school, Urdu school and other schools in the vicinity. As road is slippery, many motorists and students are falling and injuring. It is represented by former CM Jagadish Shettar. It should be tackled immediately.
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Q: MobileIron Apps@Work Error I try to deploy the Apps@Work MobileIron application on iPads. The application installs correctly, I've resigned it with iResign. However when I launch it an error message appears:

Cannot Open Apps@Work Your device is not configured to access
  Apps@Work. Contact your administrator to ensure you device is
  registered and configured with a supported MobileIron server.

Then I redirected to the Mobile @ Work application and this message appears:

Mobile@Work Erreur de l'application : impossible de communiquer avec
  l'application. Veuillez contacter le développeur de l'application.
  L'ID du paquet d'applications est com.*

It seems I've no link between Apps@Work and Mobile@Work, do I need to use a specific certificate or a specific bundle id ? I never change the server url in Apps@Work, do I need ?
Thanks

A: The app is probably not getting authorized. If you have access to the console log, look for a line with the text <Warning>: Debug current auth state: 0, message: (message). The (message) part will give more specific information about the failure.
The most likely cause is that the initial attempt to authorize the app failed, which would produce the message <Warning>: Debug current auth state: 0, message: An unexpected error has occurred, so this app cannot be authorized. Check your device's network connection, check for an updated version of this app, and then return to this app after 5 minutes. For more help, contact your administrator.

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