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  1. HIPAA laws are largely misunderstood. Pretty narrow coverage scope, actually. Here’s a link that will tell you who is/is not a covered entity/individual under HIPAA: https://www.cms.gov/Regulations-and-Guidance/Administrative-Simplification/HIPAA-ACA/Downloads/CoveredEntitiesChart20160617.pdf

    And a link that explains where the exception fits: https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/covid-19-hipaa-and-first-responders-508.pdf

    I don’t like it, but it is, and has been legal.

     

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  2. I’m working from home, my daughter is schooling online, my wife is taking online college courses. My office is set up in the garage, my daughter is using the office, my wife has the dining room table. We’ve got enough supplies to last a couple of months. So, our only contact with the outside is virtual or when I have to restock the occasional necessity. Even so, both of my gals are in bed with 100 degree fever, aches, chills, cough, dizziness. I’m not sure if it came home from my daughter having worked 12 days ago or on my clothes from an early grocery run a week ago. At this point, their symptoms seem to be improving. So, it could be a seasonal flu. I did have a flu shot in the fall, while they opted not to so that others could have theirs. That would explain why I feel fine and they don’t. I’m hoping that’s all that it is.

  3. HR policy is typically adopted by either ordinance or resolution, depending on the charter language. Likely the mayor is seeking to amend the policy. I’m aware of several city policies that are silent on the issue, they don’t post, and they typically have a clause about personnel observing laws while on duty; and at least one that actively allows it but requires a copy of the HCP on file in HR. Best way to address it is to silently allow. Active support could invite unnecessary risk on the taxpayer if an employee acts irresponsibly, or worse. 

  4. 1 hour ago, Ronald_55 said:

    I just have to say that I think the contrast if funny. Here are all these military style guns, guys in camo uniforms, and tires stacked around. Your friend looks like he could be out at the mall.  I hope he had fun though. I would love to get some time with guns like that.

    Lol. He does look like he's at the mall. I'm sure he is having a blast. He's retired 18z working civ contract for Africom so he gets to play with toys. 

  5. Spoke with UTK PD today, as well as other jurisdictions where my work takes me (Oak Ridge, Cookeville, Chattanooga, Metro PD, etc.) as most of my work locations aren't under campus PD jurisdiction. UTK was surprisingly positive and helpful, as were other agencies...even Commander Drake's office of the Central Precinct for MNPD. Will need to fill out a UTK form for their campuses statewide. Some municipal PD's and SO's as well as metro allowed me to simply fax a letter to them. Overall, somewhat simple, considering having to send upwards of a dozen letters throughout the state. 

    Here's UTK official policy promulgated today: http://policy.tennessee.edu/safety_policy/sa0875/

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  6. I'm guessing the deer will be the ones you'll see when you go and not birds. They seem to know the hunting season calender. :)


    No doubt. A few years back I was hunkered down in a makeshift blind calling. Heard a dog barking, getting closer. Through the woods he comes with a doe a hundred yards ahead. Doe jumped right over me. About scared the crap out of me and the doe.
  7. Actually, if you read it closely, it only protects against criminal charges. It doesn't go so far as to protect the employee against adverse employment action (termination) for violating an employer's policy prohibiting guns as does the guns-in-trunks law from last year. While one couldn't be charged if this becomes a public chapter, one could still be fired.
  8. Wow. Gotta say, that's pretty impressive, especially these days. A successful businessman who recognizes, remembers, and appreciates those who supported him along the way.
    Very cool!


    No doubt. The fact that I'm now a customer for life probably won't even move his financial needle, so I have no doubt that the reason he did it is just because he's a genuinely nice person.
  9. Last week, I had the chance to meet Mr. Potterfield. Had the chance to spend a little time talking to him, and we got to talking about the Type 14 Nambu, among other topics. Really nice guy, and an extremely sharp businessman. I realized that they were once Ely Arms, and I recalled ordering some 8mm Nambu brass from them some 30 years ago from an ad in Shotgun News. Back then they were very small, and he and his brother Jerry ran their business out of a small metal building. He thought it was kind of interesting that I had bought from them way back then. He asked for my business card before he headed out to the airport. Naturally, I didn't expect anything to come of that. However, today I got to my office, and there was a package for me from him - an autographed copy of a book of hunting trips, short stories, and general gun-related stuff that he wrote. What a thoughtful gesture! I have to say I was more than a little impressed.
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  10. I guess I'm not the humane type, because 4" stones are too quick for the sickos you named. Paper cuts and lemon juice to their offending body parts followed by waterboarding, bamboo splinters under the finger/toe nails....well, you get the picture. Some people deserve to suffer slowly for their crimes.


    Nah. Wormscrew a coiled coil tungsten filament into the end of their junk all the way to the bladder, then apply electric current. Then flay them.
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  11. I'm just explaining the southern way to do it. Sweet cornbread is a yankee abomination.

    . J. I. Baldwin and Sons BBQ has been making sweet cornbread since the 1920's and they are as Southern as it gets.
  12. Yep. Tastes just like Delia's in New London, CT when I was growing up. The REAL deal.


    We just can't make pies here like up north. I must say, the best I've had ever is Frank Pepe's in New Haven. Something about a coal fired pie. Wife's from Niagara Falls, so we'll be heading to Little Italy there this summer and getting some authentic pizza. Til then, we'll make due with 5 points.
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  13. Hell, the Muzzies might prevail in a lawsuit -- remember the recent settlement for the Muslim truck drivers who refused to deliver beer?
     
    - OS

    ...and there's always the NLRA. If they were to file a PCA claim with the NLRB, the Board would hold admin law jurisdiction. Could be viewed as protected, concerted activity. Applies to all private sector workers covered by the act, even if not in a union.


    'Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act states in part, “Employees shall have the right. . . to engage in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection.” Strikes are included among the concerted activities protected for employees by this section. Section 13 also concerns the right to strike. It reads as follows:

    Nothing in this Act, except as specifically provided for herein, shall be construed so as either to interfere with or impede or diminish in any way the right to strike, or to affect the limitations or qualifications on that right.

    Unfair labor practice strikers defined: Employees who strike to protest an unfair labor practice committed by their employer are called unfair labor practice strikers. Such strikers can be neither discharged nor permanently replaced. When the strike ends, unfair labor practice strikers, absent serious misconduct on their part, are entitled to have their jobs back even if employees hired to do their work have to be discharged.

    If the Board finds that economic strikers or unfair labor practice strikers who have made an unconditional request for reinstatement have been unlawfully denied reinstatement by their employer, the Board may award such strikers backpay starting at the time they should have been reinstated.'

    Essentially, the labor practice in, and of, itself doesn't have to end up being unfair for them to prevail on reinstatement.

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