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With the current session of Congress nearing its final days and a host of critical primary care issues still awaiting resolution, AAFP officers converged on Capitol Hill on Nov. 20 to advocate family medicine's agenda.
AAFP President Robert Wergin, M.D., left, discusses repeal of the sustainable growth rate formula and funding for teaching health centers with Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., center, during a recent visit to Capitol Hill. AAFP Board Chair Reid Blackwelder, M.D., and President-elect Wanda Filer, M.D., M.B.A., also joined the discussion with Alexander and his staff.
In meetings with members of Congress on both sides of the aisle, legislative staff and federal regulatory officials, AAFP President Robert Wergin, M.D., of Milford, Neb.; Board Chair Reid Blackwelder M.D., of Kingsport, Tenn.; and President-elect Wanda Filer, M.D., M.B.A., of York, Pa., covered a wide range of issues, including repeal of the sustainable growth rate (SGR), pending Medicaid payment cuts, funding for teaching health centers and care for veterans.
In a subsequent interview with AAFP News, Wergin laid out the strategy when meeting with elected officials or heads of federal agencies: Offer assistance in solving a problem rather than simply asking for direct, unilateral action.
"Our goal is to ask them, 'How can we help make this happen?'" Wergin explained. "We want to be more informative and less directive by acting as a facilitator."
The result of this strategic approach? "The message we brought was well-received by both parties," Wergin said. "That's the best you can hope for. You identify the issue and how it relates to our members."
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- AAFP leaders went to Capitol Hill last week to discuss major issues affecting primary care such as the sustainable growth rate, Medicaid payment parity and support for teaching health centers.
- During a meeting with a top Department of Veterans Affairs official, AAFP President Robert Wergin, M.D., also discussed how family physicians can help increase access for veterans.
- Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., also met with Academy leaders to discuss legislation he introduced that calls for payment of CPT codes for end-of-life counseling.
During a meeting with Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., for example, the conversation focused on permanently repealing the SGR. Bipartisan, bicameral legislation introduced earlier this year aims to accomplish this goal, but the measure has stalled because lawmakers can't agree on how to fund the fix. In the interim, the House and Senate adopted a temporary patch that is set to expire on March 31. If Congress takes no action before that deadline, physicians face a 21 percent cut in Medicare payments.
"He was disappointed that we had another patch because he is motivated to address SGR and lay it to rest," Wergin said of Alexander. "He gave us a sense of optimism that it could be addressed and that he was not in favor of another patch."
Another pressing issue is pending cuts to FPs and other primary care physicians who provide a defined set of primary care services to Medicaid patients. CMS increased the Medicaid payment for these services to Medicare levels in 2013 and 2014, but the parity provision will expire on Dec. 31 unless Congress acts to extend it.
"We were able to make our point on Medicaid cuts and emphasize that the cuts were extremely time-sensitive," Blackwelder told AAFP News. "Twenty-four percent of people in Tennessee have TennCare as their payment, so Medicaid cuts are particularly pertinent to the state and access to care would be impacted by this."
Alexander, a former Department of Education secretary, also expressed support for funding for teaching health centers, which currently is set to expire in September 2015. Under the Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education program established by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, primary care residents receive funding to train in rural health clinics, urban clinics or tribal reservations. If that funding is not continued, residents who began training this year would have to find another program.
"His big focus is on education, and he understands the issue," said Wergin. "He was receptive to the need for adequate funding through fiscal year 2015 and to develop funding sources for the long term."
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Wergin also met with an official at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to discuss implementation of the Veterans Access, Choice and Accountability Act signed into law in August. The law will make it easier for veterans to meet with a physician outside VA facilities if he/she encounters long waiting periods to obtain an appointment or lives more than 40 miles from the nearest VA hospital.
AAFP Board Chair Reid Blackwelder, M.D., left, and President-elect Wanda Filer, M.D., M.B.A., meet with Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., to discuss end-of-life care legislation the congressman has introduced.
During a meeting with Rajiv Jain, M.D., VA assistant deputy undersecretary for patient care services, the pair discussed how family physicians can help increase access for veterans.
"Dr. Jain was impressed that we offered ideas to simplify the process to make it easy for primary care physicians to care for vets who may have difficulty accessing the current system," Wergin said. "We noted that our Health Landscape product(www.healthlandscape.org) could be used to locate the 40-mile radius to the nearest VA hospital that will identify veterans who can qualify to see a physician outside the VA."
Noting that civilian physicians who wish to treat veterans will be required to sign a provider agreement, Wergin asked Jain to explore whether the contract and credentialing phase could be simplified for physicians in small and rural practices, possibly by using the Medicare application process.
End-of-Life Care
Blackwelder and Filer also met with Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., at the lawmaker's invitation to discuss legislation Blumenauer introduced that calls for payment of CPT codes for end-of-life counseling.
"We appreciated his advocacy and support the bill," Blackwelder said. "It's a step in the right direction."
He noted during the meeting that family physicians already provide such care and expressed the AAFP's hope that, if enacted, the legislation would not create an undue administrative burden for FPs documenting such care.
As the Blumenauer meeting illustrated, Capitol Hill visits are about more than simply requesting legislative action. According to Blackwelder, it's important to make a positive connection with decision-makers.
"You have to deliver your message quickly and make it relevant to the person you're meeting with," Blackwelder said. "Hopefully, you have an agreement early on. You like to hear people say that they agree with and support your position or at least that they are open to a conversation about the subject.
"The reality is that decisions are not made in those meetings, but connections are made."
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Chertoff, our Homeland Security czar, has a "gut feeling" that we will have a terrorist attack:
Chertoff indicated to the Tribune that the assessment is "not of a specific threat, but of increased vulnerability"
And sure enough, here come the terrorists with a virtual free pass across our southern border:
The FBI is investigating an alleged human smuggling operation based in Chaparral, N.M., that agents say is bringing "Iraqis and other Middle Eastern" individuals across the Rio Grande from Mexico. … A spokesman in Albuquerque said the FBI had "no viable information" that could lead to a case.
What was that we heard about fighting them over there so we wouldn't have to fight them here? I'd have a gut feeling too if my incompetence at doing my job let all the terrorists come here just so we can keep on getting that supply of illegal cheap labor.

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When my son first started playing baseball, being a coach was the last thing on my mind. My own baseball career ended abruptly with a misplaced throw from third to first, which made it as far as the pitcher's mound where I was standing. I have been afraid of a speeding baseball ever since. As I grew up, I would catch the occasional game on Saturday afternoons, but baseball just wasn't my sport. It was slow and seemed to take forever for a game to end.
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It's safe to say the stock market is roaring.
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- In 2013, $85.4 billion has moved into bond funds, with $73.2 billion heading into stock funds, the Investment Company Institute reports.
- In the week ending May 1, preliminary numbers from the ICI show an outflow from stock funds of $4.4 billion.
- In the past seven years, investors have put $1.1 trillion into bond funds, while taking $900 billion out of stock funds.
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- Longer-term (10-plus years) bond funds' volatility to interest rate risk can leave you exposed to big losses; that 10-Year Treasury Bond fund you own could lose close to 9% in value if interest rates rise just 1 percentage point to 3%. That's a steep drop.
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In other words, a sounder sleep.
Of course, if you want even more comfort, you can simply buy that Treasury security outright. The U.S. government has the safest risk profile of all.
At this point, everyone probably has some level of concern about when they should jump off this runaway stock train — especially those who are getting closer to retirement. As far as where you should put that money, I would strongly suggest bonds, and more specifically, individual bonds over bond funds. While it might take a little more time and effort on the research and management fronts, you can get a better grip on your risks and more easily understand your rewards.
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A different perspective on the clearing of the refugee camp in Calais
The media now seems to have forgotten the plight of the refugees who were displaced at gunpoint from the camp at Calais. Local Hastings and Rye LP member Maya Evans witnessed the events last week and gives her personal perspective. Maya is willing to be invited to speak about this at local LP meetings etc.
Hello from Calais, which has resembled some sort of post apocalyptic scene with 1,500+ unaccompanied minors wandering around wasteland near an industrial park. Bulldozers have worked swiftly clearing most of the camp in less than a week. Today the minors got bussed to various parts of France, they were processed by ethnic group and given an wristband corresponding to the bus they were supposed to get on. The minors didn't seem to know where they were being sent. Now only the most vulnerable remain, some 500 women and kids, currently living in marquee style tents in a guarded cordoned area.
Two days ago I met Fatima, a 32 year old Sudanese woman with 7 kids, she fled Darfour after her husband and sister were kidnapped and then murdered. Her eldest child, 13 year old Selma, was gang raped in front of her and died a few days later from internal injuries. Without a doubt Fatima is incredible, I have no idea how she managed to get herself and 7 kids (all under the age of 11) from Darfour to Calais via several months of sleeping rough in Paris. Her only living relative is a brother who lives in London.
There's was a small hospital within the jungle; in addition to patching people up they also performed terminations, almost daily, mainly for women who have been raped during their journey.
I have mixed feelings about the jungle, an incredibly unique melting pot and community of people thrown together. An intense energy which was normally jovial and optimistic, but could flip to aggression and fights drawn upon racial lines. It's sensible that people are not living outside for another winter, but the destruction of community is always difficult to justify. One thing is for certain, the whole situation could have been dealt with in a far more humane way, and Britain holds a lot of responsibility for the poor handling of the situation, especially
unaccompanied minors, women and kids.
Earlier today I sat with a young Eritrean man who loves to paint portraits of Jesus. He caught my attention as he was watching part of a Parliamentary debate about the Calais crisis. Our very own MP was centre field arguing that Britain was only accepting 300 minors to discourage other minors from taking the dangerous journey to Calais! I get the impression that the French are far from impressed by Britain's shirking of its equal quota of refugees, not to mention having the UK border control in Calais…
Apparently £150million has been spent by Britain on border control in France- imagine if that money had been spent on housing and educating 1,500 minors to become productive UK citizens.


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The U.S. Conference of Mayors opened its midwinter meeting in Washington last week, ironically with drugs as the focus of discussion. Conspicuously absent was the conference host, Washington Mayor Marion Barry, who shortly before was captured on a grainy FBI videotape apparently sipping cognac and smoking crack cocaine from a pipe. Three days after being charged with possession of cocaine, Barry retreated to the Hanley-Hazelden Center for drug and alcohol abuse in West Palm Beach, Fla., declaring that he sought healing in "body, mind and soul." Behind him, the still stunned capital wrestled with questions about the propriety of his arrest...
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Here's a piece in response to the Sunday Photo Fiction flash fiction challenge for January 15th 2017– two hundred words based on this image–
I don't whether to giggle or beg for forgiveness. And I fudged the word limit a little. I know no shame…..
Copyright 2017 Douglas Daniel
Yes, mortal– look upon me and know fear.
When I lived I was Muraz Khan the Terrible, the Blood-soaked, conqueror of Samarkhand and Beluchistan, devastator of Ashgabat, pillager of Tehran. My hordes ranged across the broad world. Mighty kings trembled and crawled on their bellies to kiss my gore-spattered boots. Those same kings gave me their daughters as playthings.
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Centuries later archaeologists uncovered me. I thought my day had come. But something went wrong.
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That is really the power of BIM. All those things we want to do to make our buildings better but take too much time, we can do them now.
BIM models contain doors, but these doors exist as software objects in a database cell. The graphical representations of the door are fed to plan, section and elevation drawings generated from the database. If a user has created five view representations, all five are database-created views. They simply show what is in the database: a bunch of walls, doors, windows, floors. If a door location is updated in the database, the views that depend on that database are updated on the fly.
This is the first order of progress with BIM. Because the BIM database is the source of all graphical building representations, all representations are coherent with the model. There is no chance that an elevation does not match with a plan, or that a section does not match with an elevation.
This ability to draw rather complicated designs (more accurately, to construct complicated database representations of buildings) means a whole set of three-dimensional issues that are prone to drafting mistakes no longer exist. One need not worry that some design might work in plan but not in section. While it is possible to lie with a two-dimensional drawing, it is impossible to lie with a three-dimensional BIM model. The advantages to perfectly faithful drawing sets cannot be easily overestimated. Particularly with complex buildings, BIM provides a huge advantage in making sure a design works in three dimensions.
Let's go back to the spreadsheet analogy. What if, attached to that cell with the door in it, is another cell that contains the U-value for the door? What if every cell in that spreadsheet could contain a U-value? What if every cell in that spreadsheet could contain a cost? What if every cell in that spreadsheet could contain a "responsible trade" or "CSI Masterformat number"? What if the materials, costs, trades, Masterformat numbers, colors, whatever, could be related to the size, area, volume, quantity of the entire model? If I put four doors in a wall, and each door had an R-value of 3, and the wall had an R-value of 20, what if the spreadsheet could determine the energy performance hit from that?
That is really the power of BIM. All those things we want to do to make our buildings better but take too much time, we can do them now.


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In 1978, Skateboard Industry News published a series of Product Primer articles "aimed at giving the retailer a thumb-nail familiarity with skateboard engineering." S.I.N covered decks in their April/May 1978 issue, then wheels in June/July and then in Aug/Sept they covered "the dreaded truck – and find they aren't so difficult to understand at all."
Rather than reprint the entire Product Primer, this Glossary of Truck Terms condenses all that knowledge.
Aluminum: A metal used in the hanger and other parts of the truck. "All of the quality, top of the line truck manufacturers use what is termed '356' aluminum' in most cases 'heat treated to T6."
Angle: The angle between the kingpin and the axle pivot point. If the kingpin intersects the vertical plane of the axle above the axle, it will tend to be less responsive – or squirrelly – whereas a truck with a lower angle will be more flexible.
Axle: A metal rod – usually steel – that runs through the hangar and provides a threaded mount for bearings and wheels. Most axles are made of steel.
Axle nut: A threaded nut that screws onto each end of the axle to hold the wheels in place.
Base plate: A usually metal plate that is fastened to the bottom of the deck with four or six holes. The baseplate has a pivot cup and a socket for the kingpin.
Bearing: Round metal balls that allow the wheels to turn on the end of the axle. Skateboards in the 50s, 60s and into the 70s used loose bearings. Sealed bearings were another innovation of the 1970s that followed closely after the introduction of urethane wheels.
Bushing: Doughnut-shaped pieces of rubber or urethane that surround the kingpin. Each truck has two bushings, one above where the hanger fits onto the kingpin and one below.
Cushion: Plastic bushings around the kingpin. Formerly known as "rubbers" from the roller skate days, these bushings were made of urethane and other plastics in the 1970s. In general, a rule of thumb: the softer the cushions, be they urethane or rubber, the more responsive the truck will be. Hard cushions will result in a more rigid, but stable, ride.
Die casting: One of two methods for molding trucks parts. Molten metal is poured into a machine where, under pressure, the metal then forms the part. The mold opens up, and the completed part drops out. According to Dave Dominy of Tracker: The gasses that build up during die casting are trapped inside, whereas with sand casting, the gasses are allowed to escape. This weakens a die-cast truck, and makes a sand-cast truck stronger." But Stephen's of ACS claimed, "We've developed a process that allows us to use 356 aluminum, which is aircraft quality. We are also able to heat treat our hangers with the die cast process, which no other die caster can do."
Hanger: The piece that holds the axle and fasten to the base plate. Most hangers have a socket which allows the kingpin to pass through and be fastened/adjusted. The hanger also has a pivot point which is toward the center of the board. Hangers are usually made of aluminum alloys, with traces of other metals, such as magnesium. Some of the "price point" trucks had hangers made of zinc. Many truck manufacturers stamped their company name on the hanger – but alas, not all.
Heat treated: Die cast metals tend to be porous. Air bubbles inside the part come to the surface during the heat treatment process. Heat treated alloys have a greater strength and ductility (or ability to withstand flexing forces) than non heat-treated alloys.
Kingpin: Paraphrasing Steve Cave at about.com: "The name 'kingpin' gets used a lot for a lot of things, but usually carries the same meaning – a piece that holds the whole thing together. For skateboard trucks, the kingpin is the threaded bolt that runs through the center of skateboard trucks, and holds the trucks together. The kingpin runs through the hangar and two bushings, and then directly into the baseplate. Most kingpins are a fat hex-headed bolt, but there are many kinds of kingpins out there.
You can loosen your kingpin to loosen up your trucks, or tighten your kingpin to stiffen up the trucks. I recommend starting out with tight trucks when you are a new skater, and loosening them us as you get more comfortable skating."
Kingpin nut: A nut on the top of the hanger, which keeps the hanger and bushings in place and can be adjusted to make trucks more stable, or looser, as you wish.
Pivot cup: A plastic-lined socket on the baseplate of a truck which supports the hanger at the pivot point and allows a truck to be turned right or left.
Profile: Also known as "geometry," the concept refers to the design relationship between the various components. The profile is the shape of the truck. In general, a narrower, taller truck will be more responsive in maneuvering – desirable for a freestyle rider. A low profile truck will be more rigid and stable for bowl or slalom.
Sand cast: One method of molding truck parts. The molten metal is poured into a sand cavity, allowed to cool and then the sand falls away. Richard List of Lazer sand casts his hangers and base plates: "The problem with die casting is that the higher grades of aluminum that we use don't work with die casting." Sand casting is also slower than die casting.
Steel alloys
T6: 'Heat treated to T6' simply refers to the fact that heat is applies to the casted part, enough to the point where the part has a tensile strength equal to a standard unit of measurement, in this case known as T6.
In the beginning, there was Sure Grip and Chicago and Roller Derby and other trucks made for roller skating, that skateboarders adapted in the 1960s. As steel wheels became clay wheels, the trucks also improved, but those trucks were still made for roller skating.
In the 1960s, there were attempts to customize trucks for skateboarding. According to Old Was Out and New Was In – It Was Time to Turn from Independent Trucks book Built to Grind, C.R. Stecyk III freely admits "Certainly there were trucks before Independent."
Petitbled patented the first inline roller skate in 1819. James Plimpton brought out the quad roller skate in 1863. Chicago and Sure Grip shoe skates were fixtures in the market from the 1930s on. Sidewalk surfers used to find those clunkers, cut them down, and separate the trucks. Mark Richards was a skater from North Hollywood, California who had the hubris to call up the Chicago Roller Skate Company and suggest that they sell him separate trucks on mounting plates. It took the Midwestern roller rink businessmen months to understand what he was getting at, but they finally relented, and the first designated skateboard truck came to the bazaar. This brilliantly simple move in 1963 helped permanently establish Richards' fledgling Val Surf as an industry leader.
Along with Mark Richards and Val Surf, there were other attempts to make custom trucks for skateboarding during the clay wheels era – see Leesure Line – but the foundries of industry didn't really get bubbling until the urethane revolution of the 1970s demanded more!As 70s skateboarders pushed urethane wheels higher, faster, steeper, deeper and more vertical, they demanded more from their trucks. And we all know what necessity inspires.
An ad for Leesure Line from Quarterly Skateboarder in the 1960s breaks down the basic components of a skateboard truck. Leesure Line did not make it to the urethane revolution of the 1970s. But many other companies reputable and fly-by-night rushed in to fill the void. Image courtesy Surfer Publishing Group.
Craig Stecyk synopsized the truck evolution in Built to Grind
By the 1970s, trucks were beginning to be made with other specific skateboard-centric design attributes. Mr. Bennett sold trucks out of his Rolls Royce. The Bahne brothers made a truck. Dave Dominy created a wider truck for slalom called Tracker. Gull Wing die-cast their lot and used cooling fins that were highly reminiscent of 1930s Elgin bicycle hubs. These were the leading brands in a rapidly growing market. Others include Lazer, Excalibur, California Slalom and ACS. The circus of skateboarding was well populated by a thousand other fly-by-night jokers, toy makers and opportunists.
Mr. Bennett was the first in the 70s to make trucks for skateboards and the new performance demands of urethane. Board courtesy Santa Cruz or Terry Campion or Bill's Wheels.
Ask just about any question in the skateboard industry about "Who was on it first" and it will start arguments/fist fights/lawsuits But there is almost no debate that Mr. Ron Bennett was first to make a skateboard truck designed specifically for 70s skateboarding.
According to an interview with Mr. Bennett in Concrete Wave Magazine in the Fall of 2006, the story went like this: Mr. Bennett's son Brian got a skateboard for Christmas, 1974. He didn't like the way it turned. Mr. Bennett found the problem was "simply a short wheelbase steering system on a long wheelbase vehicle." He wondered why no one had made a truck specifically for skateboards.
With a background in architectural engineering and an interest in machining, he researched steel alloys, rubber compounds, thermoplastics, aluminum alloys and foundry casting – pulling information and talent from the ailing, early-70s aerospace industry.
He called his product "truks" as opposed to "trucks" to be different and save keystrokes. His goal was to make a "truk" that was lightweight and heavy duty, and also "unbreakable." The base plates broke, but he replaced them every time.
Mr. Bennett named a long list of famous skateboarders who rode his truks: "Tony Alva and that crowd, Stacy, Jay Adams… Steve Cathay, Ellen O'Neil, Tom Sims, the Logans, Skoldberg, Hutson, Hester, Guy Grundy,· Russ Howell… and Chris Chaput who won the '76 World's Championships on Bennetts. It sounds funny today, but nearly ever single Pro was riding
Bennetts, so I never formally sponsored any skaters—although I tried to make sure the Team captains flowed the stuff to their guys."
NHS distributed Bennett truks at first, and Mr. Bennett suggested that the Stage I Independent was a sort of tribute to Bennett's products: "I felt betrayed at the time, but I am not bitter."
Mr. Bennett also began producing Alligator and Super Alligator urethane wheels. Bennett got out of the skateboard industry in the 1980s, when the Hobie licensee – one of his biggest accounts – filed for bankruptcy and NHS began distributing only Independent trucks.
In the book Concrete Wave, Michael Brooke described the first product made for skateboarding
In 1975 Bennett produced the Bennett Hijacker. It was truly different from traditional trucks. The kingpin was placed well below the axle. This meant that skaters would not have to worry about the kingpin dragging on the ground. The parts were of high quality: Bennett used aircraft-quality locknuts and a special compound for his "rubbers" (the part that fits between the kingpin and the axle). The only area where Bennett's trucks seemed to have a problem were the baseplates – they tended to break. Fortunately, the baseplates came with a guarantee – you could mail them back to Mr. Bennett and he would replace them for free.
Here is where I get confused because I seem to think Sims was run by Brad Dorfman and Vision in the 1980s?
By the late 70?s I got very busy getting snowboarding off the ground, and licensed Sims Skateboards to Brad Dorfman in 1981. At the time we had the #1 team with Brad Bowman, Dave Andrecht, Steve Rocco, Todd Swank, Pierre Andre, Chris Strople, Wally Inouye and a lot of the guys who would become very influential in skateboarding. Many of these guys were the Who's Who of skateboarding. It's amazing the guys who were on my team and what they went on to do later in life in the board sports world.
Pierre Andre started Etnies, and Steve Rocco took over everything. And another name you can put in there is Dave Swift, who became the editor of a big skateboard magazine. Muir formed Dogtown Skateboards, and Todd Swank formed TumYetos. Lamar went on to form Lamar Snowboards.
Sims Team Canada: Rick Tetz 1980 – 1st Place Freestyle, CalStreets.com AND Longboarder Labs Founder
But at that time, around 1981, I put my focus on snowboarding after Brad Dorfman took over the skateboard license. What's funny in all of this is that just a couple of weeks ago, Brad Dorfman and Dale Smith made a new deal to license Sims Skateboards. They are spearheading the licensing of Sims Skateboards 25 years later.
When I licensed to Dorfman in 1981 there was a recession going on – 90% of the skate parks shut down and within 18 months skate shops were going bankrupt. And that was gnarly to the major skateboard companies, because it wasn't COD back then. The bad debt was overwhelming. Stores could not pay their bills, and hundreds of shops and parks went out of business.
That was one of the reasons I licensed to Dorfman. Many of these shops would close down owing us $10,000 or $20,000. When Rocco went to COD, that took the risk out of the skateboard industry. He was smart.
Sims made a big surge in the early 1980s and then we were knocked off the mountain by Powell. Stacy Peralta came on board and built a tremendously strong team and product line with George Powell. He had Steve Caballero and Lance Mountain on the team, and stayed on top some time into the mid to late 80s until the day Stacy left, and that is the day Powell collapsed. Literally imploded because Stacy, Rodney and most of the team bailed.
At this time it was when Steve Rocco left SIMS and Rodney Mullen left Powell, and they joined to form what would become the biggest skateboard company – World Industries, and Plan B. Rodney and Rocco double handedly changed the sport of skateboarding from vert back to the streets.Sims Rocco 1980 – Gary Holl
When I asked a bunch of skateboarders to name transitional skateboards, Gary Holl sent me this image of a 1980s Sims Steve Rocco model. Were you still involved with the company when this board came out, and how is it transitional?
The SIMS Rocco skateboard changed the known universe at the time. Everything in skateboarding was about vertical riding on ramps and in pools, and then Sims introduced the Rocco board and wheel to the world, and it started a full revolution back to streets.
But that was on the cusp of when you were getting out of Sims Skateboards and into Sims Snowboards?
The mid to late 1970s is when the Sims company or product line or team or the whole deal had the most influence on the sports, from the wide decks when we ran our 3 Ways Wide ad. That was a revolutionary ad because the day we ran that ad on the back cover of SkateBoarder, every narrow skateboard in every warehouse and factory and store became obsolete. If I had been a better businessman, I would have unloaded all our inventory before running the 3 Ways Wide ad. It was a huge development, but Alva had a lot to do with skateboards going wider, and you can't ignore that.
Why is the 3 Ways Wide ad significant?
This was the first ad showing a wide skateboard. Everything was really narrow prior to this ad. This ad changed the face of skateboarding. This was also the ad I was delivering to SkateBoarder Magazine after which Novak began accusing me of dirty tricks.
What is your side of that "Wonder Boy" story.
I made exactly one trip to SkateBoarder Magazine and that was to deliver the "SIMS 3 Ways Wide" advertisement. I made the drive from Santa Barbara to San Juan Capistrano, because if they received the ad the next day, I would have missed the deadline. When I walked into the room where the production crew was preparing all the ads for blue line, I said "Wow, look at all those ads!
Rich Novak of Santa Cruz Skateboards got wind of my appearance at SkateBoarder Magazine and spun this two-minute appearance into a convenient lie, to disparage me for decades in the skateboard and snowboard industries, and to exalt himself as a 'knowledgeable' and 'safe keeper' of the sports.
About this ad, Tom Sims said "The Quicksilver advertisement I sent you belongs in the Powell Skateboards section.
This was George Powell's first advertisement, and we had a handshake deal that SIMS would be his Worldwide Exclusive Distributor. He promised me this enticing deal if I would promote his skateboards and be in his advertisements, and put my endorsement signature on the decks, as SIMS was the most prestigious name in the sport at the time. Without this ad as proof, it would be my word against his." Ad courtesy Tom Sims.
Novak's other stunts in business are actually far more repugnant. I will not discuss those here.
One of the reasons Novak was so pissed is because when I ran that ad, all the narrow boards were instantly outdated. If he had known about that ad he would have unloaded the tens of thousands of narrow skateboards he had in his warehouse. Novak was pissed because he didn't see the wide thing coming. He got caught with his pants down, as did everyone. I should have dumped all my narrow boards at half off. I just wasn't a greedy enough or savvy enough businessman.
Where are you from originally?
I was born in Los Angeles but grew up in New York, New Jersey and Rhode Island.
Sounds like you learned how to surf here and then were whisked away into exile on the East Coast?
No, we moved when I was two years old. My dad went back there to work at some company and we moved around. Technically born in LA, but grew up mostly in Jersey.
What year were you born?
This is starting to make sense, based on this whacko theory I came up with in Chapter One, about skateboarding being born in 1947 and then hitting puberty in 1959.
In 1960 we took a vacation back to visit my grandparents in Los Angeles – and to go to Disneyland. I saw some kids skateboarding on the sidewalk, and that changed my whole life. I ran into my grandparents' garage and grabbed some ancient metal roller skates, cut them in half, mounted them to a 2" x 4" took one run and said: "This is it. I love sidewalk surfing."
I thought that board was long gone, but then my parents sold that house in Los Angeles – right after the LA Riots.
The Watts Riots in 1965 or the Rodney King riots?
The Rodney King riots. That was 1992. My parents sold their LA house in the early summer of 1992. That's when I found that 2" x 4" skateboard, which I hadn't seen since 1960. They were clearing out the house and there was the board sitting there, covered in dust in the garage.
About 10 years later, Stacy Peralta was interviewing me on my ranch while doing filming for the Dogtown movie. He saw the 2" x 4" board and flipped out. He said: 'That's the most prehistoric thing I've ever seen.'
But that trip from Jersey back to Los Angeles in 1960 is what got me into skateboarding. It didn't exist on the East Coast and was just starting in LA and southern California. And that lead to everything else that happened to me.
Tom Sims first skateboard. Horizontal view of the 1960s skateboard that launched a 70s/80s empire. Skate courtesy Tom Sims.
Where in LA was this?
Those first kids I saw were coming down Plymouth Boulevard right near Hancock Park – two blocks from the Ebell Theater on the cement sidewalks. I took a couple runs on my 2×4 skateboard and it worked really bad, but I still could feel the magic. I asked those kids where they got their boards. They told me to go to Sears Roebuck on Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles. My dad got me a Roller Derby or a Roller Sport skateboard, I can't remember, but I do remember the price: It was $14.99.
I don't have that board anymore. I took it back east and showed it around to my friends and when I rode it people looked at me like I was an alien. No one had heard of a skateboard or seen a skateboard and you couldn't buy them for a few years after that on the Eastern Seaboard.
So I had to make my own skateboards when they broke or when my wheels wore out. I was dead without a skateboard. There were good Chicago trucks on my first board. They were durable, but the wheels wore out very quickly. My dad took me to this rough neighborhood in Camden, New Jersey. We went to a roller skating rink to buy wheels which were old used ones off the rental roller skates. The rink manager charged me twenty-five cents for wheels and five dollars for a pair of used old roller skates, which had great trucks.
Composition wheels?
I bought a whole box of used roller skate wheels from that guy. I survived for a long time and started building skateboards for my friends – so I would have someone to go skateboarding with. I was building skateboards for buddies just to spread the fun.
I could make two skateboards from one pair of roller skates. That was my first commercial enterprise – I just wasn't charging any money.
The hill I lived on was an unbelievably good skateboard hill – just paved with perfect asphalt. I had the ultimate setup growing up – a swimming pool in the backyard with Greenmount Road out front – everyone in town knew that was Skateboard Central.
You were skateboarding your swimming pool?
No we would play Marco Polo after skateboarding for hours on hot summer days. The pool was unskateable due to squared corners.
When did you start surfing?
In 1966 my dad bought me my first surfboard and that's when my life changed even more, because I had rented surfboards the two previous summers and fell in love with surfing after just one wave. Now I had my own 9' 4" Surfboards Hawaii nose rider. I was in heaven.
Where were you surfing back there?
The Jersey shore, mostly Long Beach Island and Ocean City.
Even before that, back in 1963 I built the first snowboard. In the winter you couldn't skateboard everyday in South Jersey, so I tried to figure out how to make a skateboard for the snow. All I wanted to do was go skateboarding so I made a snowboard in woodshop to cure my addiction. I called it a Skiboard, and subsequent wood shop classes kids started to make their own Skiboards based on my design. This is all years before the Snurfer. Haddonfield New Jersey had the only snowboarders in the world for at least three winters until the Snurfer hit the stores in 66/67!
Skateboarding lead to everything for me: Snowboarding, Surfing, Skimboarding and Wakeboarding. I was living a "boarding lifestyle" long before the culture was born.
Where did you live in Jersey?
Haddonfield, across the river from Philadelphia. It's a wealthy enclave of Colonial homes – where many of the Philadelphia Flyers now live. Haddonfield was a conservative, Colonial town. I got arrested just for skateboarding. I would love to get that police report.
Vertical bottom view of the skateboard Tom Sims made in 1960
inspired by kids he saw in the streets of Los Angeles.
Board courtesy Tom Sims.
What year did you get arrested?
Right at the beginning. Right in that 1960, 1961 era.
Skateboarding is not a crime. You could have been the first.
They threw me in the squad car and they didn't even know what skateboarding was. It was on my record, and my mom and dad were concerned: "What's that thing you are using in the streets?" I told the police it was a skateboard. They huffed and puffed and kept staring at me as if I was a crook or something.
At what point did your fascination and avocation start to become a profession?
I started building four-foot skateboards in the mid-Sixties, to simulate surfing. At the time, surfboards were all over nine feet long so on those four-foot skateboards I could walk the nose and do kickturns and all that stuff. That went on until the late 1960s, when the short board phenomenon hit surfing in Hawaii, Santa Barbara and Australia. That too changed the world of surfing and even skateboarding. I started building surfboards in my parents' garage which were the first short surfboards on the East Coast.
Were you doing this all in a vacuum?
I was following Surfer Magazine. I'm trying to think when I first saw a SkateBoarder Magazine. Can't remember. My magazine collection was lost in a flood some years back here at our ranch.
I moved to California in 1971to find better waves and better skateboard hills, but I can't remember when I first saw a skateboard magazine. I was just a skateboarder/surfer guy living in the foothills of Montecito outside of Santa Barbara. No TV, no radio – a little adobe hut for $50 a month. No bathroom, no shower. I used a hose for a shower and we had an outhouse.
My whole life revolved around skateboarding, surfing and snowboarding. By the mid 70s, I started building three and four-foot ash skateboards to sell, and my first dealer was the Channel Islands Surfboards shop – ironically now owned by Burton. My second dealer was Val Surf in the San Fernando Valley.
Ironic why?
Because Burton and I became fierce competitors in the snowboarding business years later. By 1976 I was selling Sims Skateboards in Japan Europe and Australia. We had several hundred dealers all screaming for more product. It was really hard to keep up with all the orders.
What were you selling exactly?
Those three and four-foot wood skateboards and then the 30-inch fiberglass boards that were like the Bahne boards. I couldn't keep up with the wooden boards, but we could do unlimited fiberglass decks from a company in Burbank called Ampul Corp. I remember going to their factory and smelling all the resin and seeing fiberglass dust fill the air.
Basically the fiberglass boards by Bahne, G&S, Sims and Santa Cruz were all very similar until Sims started doing the multiple ply maple boards. My friend – Wee Willy Winkle's father – had Canada's largest wooded maple door factory in Toronto. Willy, who was a big Sims Skateboard fan and champion skateboarder in Canada called me up and said: "What do you think about laminated maple Sims Skateboards?"
I jumped on a plane to Toronto and the rest is history.
Thus spake Tom Sims: "The bottom board is one of my first production prototype four foot skateboard, which I test rode as one of my personal boards in 1972/73. The four-foot skateboards I had made in the mid 60?s were actually rectangular! The top board is one of the first production boards I was building myself to sell to the surf shops. The wheel wells are likely the very first wheel wells ever. The sand and resin textured top was the first skateboards with grip – which was the precursor to grip tape." Boards courtesy Tom Sims.
You couldn't keep up with the wood orders?
I was hiring "Mountain Drivers" (local people from Mountain Drive in Montecito) with band saws to cut them out, and then eventually in the mid 1970s somewhere I had to start buying fiberglass skateboard decks from Ampul. We would silk-screen the Sims name and sold them as 'completes'.
I was buying skateboard trucks from some guy in Laguna Beach and then some hardware and stuff from Con Colburn down in Venice. I was buying ACS trucks and Metaflex wheels and eventually ACS and Bennetts. And then finally it was just Gull Wing, Tracker and Indy. I have all these old price lists and ads that are kind of classic.
I virtually worshiped skateboarding and the whole experience. So basically what happened was from the early 70s I was kind of a guru of skateboarding. I mastered the hills of Montecito and the Tea Bowl – an iconic skateboard reservoir I found a few miles straight up the mountain from the swanky Biltmore Hotel. There was a huge reservoir built by a wealthy woman in the 1920's, but it was now empty – luckily for me and my friends. And I was pretty much the undisputed founder and ruler of the Tea Bowl. I believe there is a scene in the movie 'Freewheelin' with Stacy Peralta and I at the Tea Bowl.
By 1977 CR Stecyk and SkateBoarder Magazine were referring to me as "The Godfather." It was around this time that George Powell called SkateBoarder Magazine concerned with all the Sims exposure and said: "Sims must be paying you bribes." He also said: "Whatever Sims is paying you I will pay more." Warren Bolster, the editor of SkateBoarder magazine told me this story many times just laughing out loud hysterically.
During this era I was driving down to the different contests in So Cal and winning most everything the Sims team and I entered. That all peaked in 1975 when I won the World Skateboarding Championships.
Tom Sims taking one of his mid-1970s longboards to the top of a California reservoir – sucked bone-dry by drought. Photo courtesy Tom Sims.
Which event was that?
The Hang Ten World Skateboarding Championship down at the LA Arena in September of 1975. When I won there I was on top of the world, then all of a sudden Tony Alva comes along and dethrones me within a very short time. He won the World Championships in a following year and then all of a sudden Alva skateboards were in huge demand. I had to work hard just to sell skateboards after that, because so many wanted Alva due to his mystique and prowess in empty pools just as the Dogtown movie depicts him.
He really was the best pool rider of that era. He changed the whole paradigm for me and the sport. One moment I couldn't make skateboards fast enough, and then when Alva came along, I had to work to sell skateboards, because everyone wanted Alva. He was an earthshaking phenomenon. Sims dominated the skateboard mags and then Alva came along and took over, there and in the magazines and the business world.
An interesting thing happened just before this time in skateboard history. Many of the Dogtown skateboarders from the Zephyr Team quit Zephyr to join the Sims Team when their sponsor got into difficulties. Jay Adams, Bob Biniak, Jim Muir, Paul Constantineau and Wentzle Ruml all became Sims teamriders – most of those guys were using Sims wheels anyway so when they left Zephyr they came to me: "Will you sponsor me?"
And I was willing to sponsor them – especially Jay and Biniak and the other guys – because they had surfing as their underlying motive for skateboarding. They rode skateboards as if they were surfing and had a style I loved too.
I couldn't relate to the San Diego skateboard scene – the freestyle thing and only doing 360s and click clacks and this and that. We were looking for banks and bowls and pools. So I related with the Dogtown guys. We did photo shoots in drainage pipes and we'd go to Hemet and all the way to Arizona – to Big Surf in Tempe. We hung out and skated places like the Escondido Reservoir – any ditch or pool we could find.
Many times SkateBoarder or Transworld, or Thrasher Magazine staff showed up as if it was 'in the wind' that the Sims team was riding somewhere.
My skateboard team riders were mostly Ventura and Venice-based surfers: Stevie Monahan, Frank Blood, Davey Miller, Richie Vanderwyk and John Drury and the Venice Rats. Lots of those guys were hot surfers, so it made sense for me to sponsor those Dogtown guys for a while. It felt right, and everything was going great and then… Muir busted off to officially form Dogtown Skateboards. I had to say bye to my Santa Monica and Venice crew.
Published in SkateBoarder 2#3, the results of the Hang Ten World Pro/Am Skateboard Championships show Tom Sims placing in the Top Three in three divisions – and also who was riding for who in September of 1975. Ad courtesy Jim Goodrich and Surfer Publishing Group.


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Your students will love this amazing collaborative poster featuring 8 words, morning-routine related. Each student will get one piece of the puzzle that they will color. After assembling all the pieces, you will get a giant poster !
Once colored, your students will be able to put the labels under each picture (which you will be able to take down when test-time comes)
: wake up – have a shower / a bath – get dressed – brush my hair – eat breakfast – brush (my) teeth – put on (my) shoes – go to school
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Note that there is no instruction regarding the color of the background for each picture. That is totally up to your students !
>>>> A tip : ask them to color the clip art with felt-tip pens and the background with pencils. The images will be more visible this way !
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Italian builder Admiral Tecnomar will present 40m superyacht Cacos V, launched in May and delivered in July, at the Monaco Yacht Show 2013.
The first motor yacht launched by the group since Giovanni Costantino took control in 2011, the aluminium, semi-displacement motor yacht is part of the Imperio Series, designed by Luca Dini and Admiral Centro Stile. The colour contrast of the hull along with the innovative lines and vertical bow give the exterior a masculine, powerful appearance that characterises the Admiral brand. Cacos V has received recognition by RINA for having the lowest noise and vibration levels and has been given the classification COMF (Y) 90, 100.
Cacos V boasts a large internal volume for its length, coming in at 479GT. This space has been maximised with a full-beam owner's cabin and saloon, while guests are accommodated in four lower-deck guest cabins. The large living and dining areas on the main deck feature wide, full-height windows.
One of the main features of the interior by Group Style Center is the detail on the staircase connecting the upper and lower decks, which has single, cantilevered steps jutting out from the wall, illuminated by an LED panel polished in bicolour resin delivering a 3D effect. The interior is furnished in dark oak and polished Makassar, and silk and leather details provide a classic finish.
During the Monaco Yacht Show, Cacos V will host an exhibition of works by Italian minimalist artist Riccardo Gusmaroli as part of 'Art on Waves.'
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Choose Your Own Adventure books were perhaps as much a game as a legitimate literary experience, but titles like The Abominable Snowman (28 possible endings!) offered intrepid readers the chance to select at every story juncture a new quantum reality, so-to-speak, by deciding which "action" to take given a scenario. For instance, if you "chose" to go into a dark cave without a flashlight, you would turn to page 68...and promptly fall off the edge of a precipice. Or if you decided to "go back to camp" for your flashlight, you would end on an entirely different path. I remember reading these books during my middle school years and really enjoying them. To my adolescent mind, they were suspenseful in the sense that every action had an impact...sometimes deadly. Because I had a keenly developed sense of the macabre even at that tender age, I would often pick the wrong solution, just so I could experience a terrifying demise.
Not surprisingly, the popular movie/tv genre franchises of the day emulated the Choose Your Own Adventure format. Star Trek and Raiders of the Lost Ark jump to mind. To me, this was true nirvana: the chance to send Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock or Indiana Jones into adventures where I could determine the outcome. Why, that's almost as fun as...video games are today. (Remember, this was twenty-five years ago, okay?)
Simon & Schuster published Star Trek "Plot-Your-Own-Adventure" stories in 1982 under their Wanderer imprint (for $2.95 a pop). "You are in command of your favorite Star Trek II characters," the cover of Distress Call (by William Rotsler) informed us. The plot: "The U.S.S. Enterprise has just received a frantic call for help from the vicinity of the unknown planet of Varda III."
"This is an adventure with as many twist and turns as your imagination allows," suggested the book's rear cover, which was nicely illustrated with images from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
Ballantine's "young adult line" offered several "Find Your Fate Adventures" for the character of Indiana Jones (at $1.95 a book) Among the titles were Indiana Jones and the Lost Treasure of Sheba (by Rose Estes), Indiana Jones and the Giants of Silver Tower (by R.L. Stine), Indiana Jones and the Legion of Death (by Richard Wenk), and Indiana Jones and the Cup of the Vampire (by Andrew Helfer). As these books put it: "Right from the start, you are in charge. Depending on the decisions you make, you could wander endlessly through catacombs, meet real-life werewolves, or fight to the death with bloodthirsty bandits. Every thrilling and dangerous step of the way the choices are up to you as...
...you find your fate."
Isn't that just irresistible? I imagine elitists probably scoff at the choose your own adventure-style books, but they left an indelible impact on me, in part because of the sheer ingenuity of their authors. As a wanna-be writer from the second grade on, I found it fascinating (in sixth grade, anyway...), that one story could spawn over a dozen plausible but different outcomes. To me, these books offered a glimpse behind-the-curtain, and I started to understand some of the mechanics of plot development. American literacy rates are in the toilet these days, but Kathryn and I read our one-year-old Joel several books every day (even if it's Jasper the Cat, or Guess How I Much I Love You), and I'm thrilled to see that even at his age, he goes to the book shelf without prompting and picks up books he wants to look at (and then staggers around from room to room, pointing at pictures...). I figure that the Choose Your Own Adventure Books will be perfect for him when he's a little older.
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Part 8: To the Investigators
Part 9: To the Missionaries
I meant to write a few post this past month but time flies whether one is having fun or not, I found. I had resettled closer to downtown San Diego with a friend, a dog, and a lot of projects. My work keeps me on the computer most of the time, though every now and then I also get to do something a bit more calorie-chewing... And we all need that especially after all the holiday feasts of November and December!
|Mormon Battalion Memorial on top of Presidio Hill
First off, how can there be any free agency (Mormonese for 'free will') if god can unerringly know everyone's future action? If god knew that I would bring the sisters some blackberries that day, then instead I decided to live up to my moniker and smorged up all the blackberries myself, then I would have retroactively proven god wrong now, wouldn't I? So you really can't have it both way; either there is free will/agency and god doesn't know our future decisions, or there is no free will and god knows the future. The way the sisters interpreted the story didn't support the concept of free will at all, but predestination.
My second problem had to do with this idea that god showed wisdom and mercy in penalizing Adam's disobedience by doing him and mankind the great favor of allowing us to die and suffer (in so doing enabling us to 'learn' new things... this little nugget comes from the Book of Moses in The Pearl of Great Price, I think). I would agree that being mortal is a major plus. I shouldn't wish to live so long that I become tired and bored with living! The setting up of this so that Adam had to do a 'bad' thing of disobeying in order for good thing (mortality and spiritual progress) to become available for man bugged me, however. Why would a god purposefully set Adam up to fail and then deigned to chastise him for fulfilling god's plan when he did? And why reward bad behavior? Wouldn't it have been more moral-building to set this up so that good thing can happen only if Adam had chosen to do 'the right thing'?
Don't get me wrong, I have very little tolerance for obedience just for obedience's sake, but the way this story is told to me made it quite clear that obedience is the desirable virtue and that Adam had goofed when he ate the fruit. So... I had a hard time understanding why the Mormons should find this tale so faith-building (even though I am, by now, quite familiar with this religion's running theme of 'the end justifying the means'). It seemed to me that the morals of the story go against both the notion of free agency and the idea of a just god or the virtue of obedience!
Needless to say, this meeting didn't lead me any closer to accepting the Mormons' idea of god. Ultimately, after having asked oneself the questions 'what is god and what, if it exist, is god like?' one also has to ask, 'if there is a god but it is immoral, would I still submit myself to it?'. Do people worship an idea of god because they are afraid of what god can and will do to them if they refuse, or do they worship a god because it is worth worshiping?
A good sport as she always is, Sister Begeistert actually thanked me as we parted for 'making her think again'. Sister Blondchen was harder to read, though I thought she became more a Constanze than a Blond as our meeting came to a close. Was that an improvement? I don't know. Have a look/listen to a marvelous Constanze and see!


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I usually watch Morning Joe on MSNBC, but I watch less of it all the time. Thank God for recording devices with fast forward. Today a half hour was more than enough. Turns out Jared Kushner appeared helpful at the Senate hearing and the latest steps on repeal/replace of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) are keeping the possibility of change afloat, but leaky. In short, not much news.
Republicans are so divided it is possible that they will have to swallow their insistence on repeal and work with Democrats to improve healthcare in ways that garners votes from both sides of the aisle. What a novel approach.
Oh, and Jeff Sessions remains Donnie Trump's piñata, as our boy who would be king is obsessed in his resentment that Sessions failed to quash this irksome Russia/Trump investigation. His sin was recusing himself thus opening the door to Trump's (I surmise) haunted house. Sessions committed the crime of being more loyal to the constitution than to his sire, something a number of conservatives have noted as a good thing despite their general backing for the Donald.
The strength of Sessions' support among conservatives is reflected by Russ Limbaugh calling Trump's treatment of Sessions "unseemly". That's like the pope accusing one of his parishioners of being uncatholic, reason enough for Trump to stop verbally battering the AG, if he can be that reasonable.
So, Donnie is in a bit of a pickle here. Maybe that's why he has come out with a new item to be aghast about, the banishing of "transgender" people in the military. Now that is a big bright object to distract the media from weightier things………….
Such as North Korea. At the end of the program co-host Mika Brzezinski brought up the issue of that rogue nation apparently about to test another intercontinental missile and a recent report that they might have one capable of hitting our mainland in a year or so, sooner than had been expected.
Then she mused that perhaps they should have spent more time on that and less on the Trump soap opera on display in Washington.
Good idea Mika. How about expanding upon that in your next show.
Oh, I still haven't found a current article on General Mattis. I assume that is because the Secretary of Defense is working his tail off figuring out what the hell we should do about North Korea and has no time for interviews.


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In the Era of Online streaming and Internet Entertainment, many companies have started their own streaming services and now it's time where users have various options to choose from and pick one which suits them. But this might be difficult and confusing as new users don't have the idea of what they get in that particular streaming service. So we… Read More


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How wildland firefighters are trying to focus on their mental health.
State Bar wants to recoup cost of Thomas ethics investigation
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The State Bar of Arizona will try to recover nearly $300,000 from former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas.
The bar outlined costs incurred during a lengthy ethics investigation, which ended when Thomas was disbarred last month. He was accused of several ethical lapses, including prosecuting public officials because of personal animosity.
The legal costs date back to April 2010, and mostly include lodging, meals, and transportation associated with the independent attorney from Colorado who argued the case against Thomas.


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Point Shoot Play classes are going very well and we have had a lot of great feedback. Thank you to all the people who attended our workshops at last week's Gold Coast Craft Fair. It was such a busy week and I loved meeting so many people.
With June's Scrapbook Convention & Expo at Brisbane's Convention Centre looming, make sure you don't miss out on any of our exciting classes. Point Shoot Play are hosting three workshops daily – Photoshop Basics, Digi Scraps (both classes using our laptops for hands-on play) and Creative Photography. Bring your camera for the latter class, as we are going to have a lot of fun! Classes are filling fast. You can book HERE.
The official website has a tutor's page (HERE) and Point Shoot Play will be in Classroom 1. Haha – I'm the first on the list…. very strange feeling, let me tell you!
Point Shoot Play has been granted Exclusive Rights to use a selection of Rhonna Farrer Designs throughout our classes as well as to be able to provide these designs on discs for sale at our classes and shows that we attend…
If your coming to the Brisbane Scrapbook Expo, over the June long weekend-pop in and say Hi and grab yourself your very own Rhonna Farrer Design Set..
If you have attended any Point Shoot Play classes thus far, please shoot us an email
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Sample Job Safety Analysis Form: Are You Compliant With Federal and State Laws?
Keeping Employees Safe
A safety analysis form (click on screenshot) clearly lists various tasks and what is involved in each. For example, a person in charge of changing all copier toner might have a task that says, "Remove and replace copier toners as required."
Beyond, that the actual method for replacing toner cartridges is described in depth and following that, any hazardous conditions that may occur when performing the task.
For your convenience, find a sample job safety analysis form in our Media Gallery. This two page form shows an example of how the form should be utilized along with a blank template to help you comply with OSHA standards.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) also offers a great free brochure you can download that includes how to use these forms and lists the safety standards your organization is required to meet—you can download the brochure here.
The Need for Compliance
Employers and HR managers need to be well versed on OSHA safety laws including set required safety meetings and employing an official OSHA safety plan.
Not meeting safety requirements if inspected by OSHA or state safety organizations will result in fines.
Companies can receive mega fines from the simplest of safety violations such as not filing OSHA Form 300. This form must be posted annually and show the number of injuries and if not posted, companies can receive fines as high as $10,000. Fines for not ensuring an adequate safety plan can range in the hundreds of thousands depending upon the type of organization, number of employees and hazardous tasks.
Employees who feel they have not been educated on various hazardous tasks and become injured can blame an organization for lack of training and failure to post proper directions. This can result in employee lawsuits and even inspections by the Department of Labor or OSHA—something no company enjoys.
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As a business owner, over the years I've been tempted by those snail or email offerings from companies that offer complete OSHA compliance safety plans—for a price. Smart HR departments and business owners can avoid the price of manuals and forms from these types of companies by finding all they need on the OSHA website. Most forms are free where others can be purchased for a fraction of the cost compared to companies who charge to create an OSHA approved safety manual.
Your local Department of Labor, along with OSHA can also help with required employment posters on safety—these need to be posted as well in order to prevent unwanted fines.
What to Do Now
Beyond downloading our free sample job safety analysis form, visit the OSHA website to find tools that ensure the workplace is safe for everyone. If your organization works with any type of hazardous chemicals or hazardous tasks (this can even mean using a ladder to change light bulbs) you need to have safety forms that offer employees an outline on how tasks should be completed along with any warnings associated with completing the task and providing the appropriate safety gear or equipment. These to do items are essential to avoid fines and employee lawsuits.
One of the most important things to remember beyond the job safety analysis is conforming to hazardous materials and material safety data sheets also known as MSDS. To comply with this safety standard, OSHA provides a good explanation what is required with MSDS and how to implement a program. Find their guidelines here.
Instead of paying for a safety analysis for each job or task within your company or purchasing costly manuals, visit both OSHA and the Department of Labor to ensure employees are safe at the workplace at all times.
OSHA – https://www.osha.gov
The author holds a degree in HR management and has helped to implement many OSHA approved safety programs.
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"Experimental Design Issues for Assessment of Carotenoids Lutein and Zeaxanthin in Age-Related Eye Disease Study 2 Formulation for Age-Related Macular Degeneration", JAMA Ophthalmol, vol. 132, pp. 904-905, 2014.,
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