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Giant Coal Export Terminal Denied Permit

SEATTLE (CN) — The Army Corps of Engineers on Monday denied a permit for a proposed coal export terminal near Bellingham, Wash. that was to be the largest such facility in the country.
     The Lummi Nation said the massive terminal would impair their treaty fishing rights. After months of study, the Corps on Engineers agreed with the tribe.
     “I have thoroughly reviewed thousands of pages of submittals from the Lummi Nation and Pacific International Holdings,” Seattle District Commander Col. John Buck said in a statement.
     “I have also reviewed my staff’s determination that the Gateway Pacific Terminal would have a greater than de minimis impact on the Lummi Nation’s U&A [usual and accustomed] rights, and I have determined the project is not permittable as currently proposed.”
     Pacific International proposed the project to export coal to Asia. Falling prices and lack of demand in North America have made exporting coal more attractive.
     Two major potential coal suppliers, Peabody Energy and Arch Coal, filed for bankruptcy this year.
     The plans called for numerous docks that would have blocked access to water and interfered with the Lummi Nation’s access to fishing areas.
     Up to 18 coal trains a day would have traveled through the region to supply the terminal.
     The Lummi praised the decision.
     “This is a historic victory for treaty rights and the constitution. It is a historic victory for the Lummi Nation and our entire region. We are pleased to see that the Corps has honored the treaty and the constitution by providing a decision that recognizes the terminal’s impacts to our fishing rights. This decision is a win for the treaty and protects our sacred site. Our ancient ones at Xwe’chieXen, Cherry Point, will rest protected,” the tribe said in a statement.
     Pacific International called it a political decision.
     “Looking at the set of facts in the administrative summary, it’s quite obvious this is a political decision and not fact-based,” Pacific International Terminals president Bob Watters said in a statement.
     The 1855 Treaty of Point Elliot granted land fishing rights in perpetuity to the Lummi, Swinomish, Tulalip and Suquamish tribes. Pacific International’s proposed terminal was in their usual and accustomed fishing areas. Their combined population today is about 17,000 people.
     “Col. Buck denied this project without prejudice,” the Corps of Engineers said in a statement. “If in the future the Lummi Nation withdraws its objections to the proposal, the proponent could reinitiate processing of the application. A number of other tribes have expressed concern about effects of the proposal on their treaty rights, so if processing of the application resumes, consultation with those tribes would occur as needed to collect information and make decisions with respect to effects of the proposal on their rights.”

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GOP Candidates Joust in South Carolina

     (CN) – Just three weeks before the race for the presidency truly gets serious with the Iowa caucus, the Republican candidates for the job sparred in North Charleston, S.C., trading barbs over everything from Sen. Ted Cruz’s citizenship to Donald Trump’s anger with Muslims.
     Thursday night’s debate was sponsored by the Fox Business Channel. Despite the uncommon chill that has gripped South Carolina for much of the week, scores of protestors spent much of the day and a fair amount of the evening outside the city’s coliseum and performing arts center complex brandishing signs revealing their sentiments.
     “Don’t believe the Liberal Media,” read one.
     “GOP: Owned by the NRA,” proclaimed another.
     Inside the debates transpired much as similar gatherings have since last summer. The primary difference Thursday was that the main debate, which kicked off shortly after 9 p.m., features only six candidates on the main debate stage.
     Heading into the contest, most eyes, as they haven since the first of the six Republican debates held so far, were on billionaire Donald Trump.
     On Monday, a South Carolina lawmaker introduced a resolution in the General Assembly aimed at declaring Trump unwelcome in the state, and on Tuesday, Gov. Nikki Haley, made veiled criticisms of Trump the centerpiece of her response to President Barack Obama’s final State of the Union address.
     Haley, who was delivering the official Republican response to the State of the Union had cautioned voters not to fall for the “siren call of the angriest voices.”
     Asked to respond, Trump said, “I will gladly accept the mantle of anger.”
     “I was not offended,” he added.
     Trump was less cordial to Sen. Ted Cruz, who recently questioned whether the Texas Republican, who was born in Canada to an American mother, is even eligible to serve as president.
     The latest row between the two candidates came after moderator Neil Cavuto asked Cruz about Trump’s assertions.
     Cruz pointed to the candidacies of Sens. John McCain and Barry Goldwater, both of whom faced similar questions. McCain was born in the Panama Canal zone to American parents. Goldwater was born in Arizona before it was a state.
     Cruz then went on to suggest Trump was merely trying to diffuse the Texan’s surging candidacy.
     “Since September, the Constitution has not changed, but the poll numbers have,” Cruz said.
     With that, Trump was off, warning Cruz that the Democratic Party is likely to bring a lawsuit against him if he is the Republican party’s eventual nominee.
     “You have a big lawsuit over your head; why are you running?” Trump asked, his face a mask of frustration and mystification.
     “If you become the nominee, who the hell knows if you could even serve in office,” Trump said.
     To drive the stake in further, Trump cited the opinion of Cruz’s former Harvard Law School professor Larry Tribe, who has also questioned Cruz’s eligibility.
     Cruz dismissed his former professor as “a left-wing judicial activist” who represented former Vice President Al Gore in the 2000 Bush v. Gore imbroglio.
     Tribe, he said, is “a major Hillary Clinton supporter … there’s a reason Hillary supporters are echoing Donald’s attacks on me.”
     Cruz added that he doesn’t believe such a lawsuit by the Democrats would stand up in court.
     The back and forth didn’t end until Sen. Marco Rubio broke in.
     “I hate to interrupt this episode of Court TV,” he said, a wisecrack that brought loud cheers from the audience.
     Rubio and the other Republicans on the stage preferred to focus their criticisms on the Obama administration and on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whom they hope and expect to challenge in the fall.
     But Trump once again was the center of attention when Cavuto asked whether Trump planned to back off his call for a temporary ban on Muslims coming into the country.
     “No,” Trump said.
     “We have to stop with the political correctness. We have to find out what’s going on,” he added, repeating a comment he’s made several times on the campaign trail.
     Former Fla. Gov. Jeb Bush retorted that such statements let alone such policies will not help defeat Islamic terrorists.
     “You cannot make rash statements and expect the rest of the world to respond,” Bush said.
     By espousing such positions, Bush said, “We send a signal of weakness, not strength.”
     On Friday morning, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina formally endorsed Bush, whose father and brother both won the state’s Republican primary on their respective ways to the White House. Graham, once a candidate for the presidency himself, dropped out of the race in December.
     The South Carolina primary will be held on Feb. 20. It is the third contest in the race, after Iowa and the New Hampshire primary.
     The next big political event in the state is only two days away.
     On Sunday, Jan. 17, Clinton, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley will gather at the Gaillard Center in downtown Charleston for the NBC News-YouTube Democratic Candidates Debate, hosted by the Congressional Black Caucus Institute.
     The debate will air live on the NBC network from 9:00-11:00 pm Eastern time.

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Grizzly Bear Defenders Fight Logging Projects

MISSOULA, Mont. (CN) – Environmentalists say the U.S. Forest Service is paving the way to grizzly bear deaths by opening one of America’s five remaining grizzly bear habitats to road construction and logging. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies says the Forest Service’s approval of three new projects will hurt the 45 grizzlies that remain in the region.

     Grizzly bears produce small litters at older ages than other bears; they are “hard to grow, but easy to kill” and have one of “the slowest reproductive rates of North American mammals,” according to the federal complaint.
     A single grizzly bear’s rang may cover hundreds of square miles. And the Alliance says that 69 percent of grizzly bear deaths are caused by humans. It adds that roads “literally pave the way for these mortalities” by giving humans access to the bears.
     The affected areas, in the Kootenai National Forest, are part of the Cabinet-Yaak Ecosystem in northwestern Montana and northern Idaho.
     The Cabinet-Yaak grizzly bear population is estimated to be 45. Yet the Forest Service approved three road-building and logging projects: the Grizzly Vegetation and Transportation Management Project, the Miller West Fisher Project, and the Little Beaver Hazardous Fuels Reduction Project.
     These projects authorize construction of more than 14 miles of new roads, reconstruction of 2.4 miles of roads, temporary reopening of 5 miles of closed roads and permanent reopening of 3.5 miles of roads.
     The projects will open up 3,988 acres of the endangered grizzly bears’ habitat to commercial logging. The Alliance disputes the Forest Service’s conclusion that the projects will not hurt the grizzly bears.
     Grizzlies were listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act in 1975 because of land development, increased human access to habitat ranchers’ bent to kill them to protect livestock that graze on National Forest lands.
     The Alliance says the Forest Service violated the National Environmental Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act, the Administrative Procedure Act, and the National Forest Management Act. It seeks declaratory judgment, an injunction and costs.
     It is represented by Rebecca Smith with the Public Interest Defense Center of Missoula.

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GSA Party Man Charged With False Claims

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) – A former General Services Administration official who came under fire in 2012 for organizing a lavish government convention in Las Vegas was federally charged Thursday with seeking reimbursement for personal travel expenses and then lying about it.
     The United States charged 59-year-old Jeffrey Neely with three counts of false claims and two counts of making false statements and using false documents.
     Neely was formerly the regional commissioner and acting regional administrator for GSA’s Public Buildings Service, Pacific Rim Region. Prosecutors say he improperly used taxpayer money for travel and expenses around the Pacific, including Guam, Saipan, Long Beach and Las Vegas.
     In 2012 Neely was scrutinized for his role in organizing a 2010 Las Vegas convention that included magic acts, a hot tub and federal workers sipping martinis on a red carpet.
     If convicted of all charges, Neely faces up to 5 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for each violation.

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California Says Business Preys Upon Canadians

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (CN) – Kern County seeks $4.7 million in fines against a local business for preying on Canadian citizens with criminal records who want to enter the United States.

Filing suit Wednesday in Superior Court, the Kern County District Attorney’s Office claims Trusted Pardon Services, Scotia Pardon, and member/managers Omar Akhtar, Adil Javed, and Jamie Jackson took people’s money but provided little or none of the promised services.

“Defendants falsely represented that they were a ‘full-service company’ that would do all of the work related to a customer’s application to seal a criminal record or for a waiver to enter the United States,” the complaint states.

“When customers called back to check on their order’s status or to cancel defendants’ services, defendants concocted phony excuses about the lack of progress (e.g., lying about having sent the paperwork to the appropriate government agency) and refused to refund the customer’s money. With thousands of customers paying over $1,000 each on average, defendants have committed large-scale fraud,” the district attorney says.

Federal immigration law prevents Canadian citizens who have been convicted of certain crimes from entering the United States without a waiver of inadmissibility issued by the Department of Homeland Security. Canadian law allows people to seal criminal records or have them purged if they were not convicted of the crime.

From 2009 through at least April 2016, the defendants advertised on Facebook, Yelp!, and other online venues. Prospective customers filled out an online form and were then contacted by a Trusted Pardon employee, who promised the business would complete the entire application process on their behalf within three months, according to the complaint.

If the customer was interested, a salesperson would email them a contract and have them electronically sign it while talking to them on the phone. But the salespeople never went over the terms of the contract, and pressured hesitant customers into forgoing a walkthrough of the terms by claiming the discounted price was available only that day, and that reading the contract would take time and result in a higher fee, the district attorney says.

“Many customers thus signed contracts without knowing what the contract said, and the process was so rushed and obfuscated by the sales staff that some customers did not even realize they had electronically signed a contract,” the complaint states.

The district attorney says Trusted Pardon charged each customer differently, based on how much the salesperson making the pitch thought the customer would agree to pay. Since salespeople were paid in part on commissions, they had a financial incentive to misrepresent the terms of the contract, sell services the customer could not use, and “charge as high a fee as the customer would accept.”

The business typically charged more than $1,000 and required payment upfront. If a customer changed his mind and sought to cancel, Trusted Pardon would refuse to do so or charge a $200 cancellation fee even if no services had been performed, according to the complaint.

The prosecutor says Akhtar and Javed encouraged their customer relations staff to lie to customers who called to check on the status of their application. Among other things, they routinely told customers they had sent in applications or completed packets when they had not done so; claimed it was the customer’s responsibility to obtain certain court records despite advertising themselves as a full-service business; claimed they had not received paperwork though they had, but had not processed it; and claimed the contract had expired and the customer needed to pay a reactivation fee to continue the process, according to the complaint

The reactivation fees were at least $125, and usually around $500. If customers balked, the employee would offer phony subsidies, or surreptitiously charge separate fees for each application the customers had hired Trusted Pardon to submit on their behalf.

“The customer relations staff charged reactivation fees and solicited add-on services knowing TPS did not intend to perform any services for the customer. Indeed, Akhtar and Javed handpicked their customer relations personnel based on those employees’ ability to lie, make up phony excuses ad hoc, and persuade customers to pay even more money to TPS,” the complaint states.

The district attorney says Jackson was the best at “swindling money from customers,” and was transferred to the newly formed Scotia Pardon in 2015 to continue the scam.

The business did not return an emailed request for comment Thursday.

Deputy District Attorney Jeffrey Noe declined to comment, saying the detailed, 16-page complaint speaks for itself.

The district attorney seeks civil penalties of at least $1.25 million for false advertising, $3.125 million for unfair competition, and at least $312,000 for violations of the Business and Professions Code perpetrated against a disabled person or senior citizen.

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South Carolina Supreme Court Asks|Governor Sanford to Explain Himself

COLUMBIA, S.C. (CN) – The South Carolina Supreme Court asked attorneys for Gov. Mark Sanford to explain why his request to open to the public an Ethics Commission probe into his travel spending should not also allow state lawmakers access to the panel’s preliminary findings.

     The state Ethics Commission has been looking into Sanford’s travel expenditures since mid-summer, after he disappeared and then reappeared in June and admitted having an affair with an Argentine woman.
     The Ethics Commission is focusing on Sanford’s use of state aircraft, his reporting of private travel expenditures, and his use of state and campaign funds.
     Shortly after the probe began, Sanford wrote the Commission, waiving his right to confidentiality. Sanford maintains he’s done nothing inappropriate as regards travel; he has taken pains to cast his expenditures against those of former governors.
     But more recently, he asked the state Supreme Court to prevent legislators – many of whom as planning to file impeachment charges against him, perhaps as early as next week – from receiving a preliminary report from the commission.
     That report, expected to be released in its entirety shortly before Thanksgiving, will outline the case, if any, against Sanford, and the evidence supporting it.
     Sanford claims that releasing preliminary findings would undermine his defense.
     Supreme Court Chief Justice Jean Toal asked Sanford’s legal team to explain how the waiving of confidentiality does not apply to the preliminary work product of the commission.
     Toal has issued an order of clarification, giving the governor five days to explain whether his letter was intended as a total or limited waiver of confidentiality.
     Those who oppose Sanford’s stand will then have five days to respond to his explanation, after which he’ll get a final two days to address their statements.
     That schedule means legislators won’t have the ethics panel’s preliminary findings when they convene for a special session on Oct. 27 to extend jobless benefits for the unemployed.
     State Rep. Greg Dellene, R-Chester, has said he plans to introduce articles of impeachment during that session. However he’s also indicated he doesn’t expect it to be debated or acted upon at that time.

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Wall St. Lawyer’s Arrest at Protest Alarms Court

      MANHATTAN (CN) — Standing in front of police barricades and chatting with a protester could be grounds for arrest, whether you are a 73-year-old Wall Street attorney or even 86-year-old broadcasting legend Barbara Walters.
     That’s what a New York City lawyer said Tuesday as the Second Circuit heard about the arrest three years ago of Stephen Kass, an attorney with the white-shoe firm Carter Ledyard & Milburn.
     Kass happened to be walking past Zuccotti Park on Sept. 17, 2013, as Occupy Wall Street renewed its presence there to mark the movement’s second anniversary.
     To say that Kass does not fit the profile of a typical Occupy protester is to put it mildly.
     An adjunct professor at Brooklyn Law School and New York University’s Center for Global Affairs, Kass specializes in environmental law for a 162-year-old firm that has offices on Wall Street and Washington, D.C.
     Kass chairs the New York City Bar Association’s Task Force on Legal Issues of Climate Adaptation, but he never participated in Occupy Wall Street.
     He says he knew his rights, however, when NYPD officers ordered him to move along after he’d stopped next to a barricade to chat with an activist on the other side.
     As summed up in the attorney’s lawsuit, police then “falsely arrested, handcuffed and detained [Kass] — all for doing nothing more than speaking briefly with a fellow citizen while standing on a public sidewalk.”
     Kass insists that the police gave an unlawful order — no matter how many times they barked it. The federal appeals court met today to decide whether the officers Kass named in his complaint have immunity.
     Coincidentally, the city’s Department of Investigation released a report hours after this morning’s hearing that rips the NYPD for violating the rights of activists.
     Kass’ attorney Andrew Celli meanwhile told the appellate panel this morning that his client’s case stands alone in his decades of civil-rights advocacy.
     “Your Honors, in almost 25 years of law practice in this area, I’ve never seen anything quite like this,” said Celli, a founding partner of the public-interest law firm Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady.
     “A 73-year-old man is handcuffed and arrested for pausing on an open sidewalk to talk to a protester from across a sidewalk.”
     At least two of the judges on today’s panel appeared to find the situation absurd.
     U.S. Circuit Judge John M. Walker, Jr., in particular, emphasized that the NYPD needs a reason to make someone move.
     “Just police say-so is not enough, right?” he asked.
     The city’s attorney Melanie West agreed but argued that Kass muddied the waters by standing on the side of the protest meant for passersby.
     She said police had legitimate crowd-control reasons to keep the crowd on one side of the barrier, and Kass could have continued his conversation with the protester by moving a few feet to the other side of the barricade.
     “That’s asking him to associate with the protesters,” Walker said. “Then, his partners from the law firm come by, and there he is! He’s in the Occupy Wall Street.”
     “I don’t think the NYPD has a duty to ensure that Mr. Kass keeps his job, Your Honor,” West countered.
     Describing this type of concern as “anticipatory law enforcement,” Walker wondered if police would anticipate problems if a passerby had been standing just down the block in front of the nearby Trinity Church to admire the architecture.
     West replied that, no, a public protest is different.
     U.S. Circuit Judge Raymond Lohier meanwhile offered a different thought experiment.
     “What if you’re Barbara Walters, and you’re right there?” the judge asked, referring to the barricades. “Do police then have the ability under New York law … to arrest Barbara Walters because she wants to talk to protesters, or just listen, not even talk?”
     “If the police approach Barbara Walters and ask her to relocate 10 feet multiple times and she refuses, then yes, I think that they do,” the city lawyer replied.
     Cutting to the heart of the matter, Walker quipped: “Maybe the problem was [Kass] went to law school. He thought he was acting in a perfectly legitimate way which is protected in our society.”
     West seemed to curry little favor with her defense of the officers despite emphasizing the number of times officers ordered Kass to move, but
     “Police who are stationed at a public protest should have discretion to anticipate problems,” she said.
     U.S. Circuit Judge Denny Chin questioned whether Kass had been asking the NYPD to “make an exception, let the one man stay because he’s a 73-year-old lawyer.”
     Rejecting that framing, Celli said: “I don’t think it’s an exception; it’s a rule.”
     Judge Lohier, for his part, felt uneasy when imagining the scene that landed Kass in handcuffs playing out with any hapless bystander.
     “This is troubling to me because I could see anybody showing up at the barricade … and all of a sudden finding yourself being arrested,” Lohier said.
     The panel did not rule on Kass’ case this morning, but hours later the city endured more public ridicule in a report that slams the NYPD as “often noncompliant with a number of the rules governing the conduct of [political activity] investigations.”
     Such investigations have to conform with the terms of a so-called Handshu agreement, which settled a class-action lawsuit for massive civil-rights violations of activists.
     The Handshu case, named after a former lawyer for the Black Panthers, put the NYPD under federal court oversight before using intrusive investigation methods like confidential informants on political or religious groups.
     The NYPD’s watchdog found that the department cut corners with this process, in a 64-page report released today.
     In more than 53 percent of cases, the NYPD continued investigations even after the court’s approval expired, and the department kept using informants and undercover officers after the 120-day time limitations more than 57 percent of the time, the report says.
     More than 95 percent of the files that the watchdog reviewed for this report involved Muslims or Islamic groups, but the watchdog noted that the same rules that the NYPD flouted according to this study were also designed to protect the rights of political protesters.

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In Turkey, peaceful protests in a declining democracy

Peaceful protests in Turkey against the increasingly authoritarian rule of Erdogan's Islamic-based party are a needed corrective, not a revolution. They show a fearless, tweet-oiled, even leaderless uprising to save democracy.

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What is it about public squares – especially those that start with “T” – that draws people to protest against authoritarian rulers? China’s big protests in 1989 were in Tiananmen Square. Egypt had its 2011 protests in Tahrir Square. Now Turkey has seen four days of protests in Istanbul’s Taksim Square.

The Turkish protests, however, are quite different. They challenged a fairly elected government led by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. And the spark was only a small sit-down against a planned destruction of a park. Yet that led to an explosion of peaceful demonstrations nationwide, fueled in large part by popular resentment against Mr. Erdogan’s crackdown on dissent since his party was reelected two years ago.

Dozens of journalists have been jailed under Erdogan, often without being charged. Civil society groups have been harassed. Human rights lawyers have been arrested or imprisoned. And the prime minister, who heads the Islamic-rooted Justice and Development Party, also appears to be maneuvering to alter the Constitution to keep him in power, perhaps until 2024.

Taksim Square became one of the few safe spaces to make a mass cry for freedom.

Turkey’s drift toward autocracy has been so worrisome that the protests didn’t require a leader. Twitter was the main organizing tool. This led Erdogan to criticize the social media as a “curse” – even though he tweets daily to more than 2.5 million followers.

Protesters also were quite fearless in the face of police brutality, revealing the depth of their resolve to fix a backsliding democracy. As is often the case, elected leaders like Erdogan mistakenly presume elections are sufficient for them to rule without shared governance. They don’t consult opponents, honor all minority rights, build a consensus, or operate in a transparent way.

Yet majority rule needs the checks and balances of a free press, independent judiciary, unfettered grass-roots activism, and other correcting mechanisms. Under representative democracy and a rights-ensuring constitution, sovereignty lies with the individual, not the state. Safeguards are needed to rein in the power of the state.

Turkey has found its democratic footing only in the past two decades after years of military meddling and coups. These protests reflect a real concern over the loss of outlets for dissent. They weren’t really directed at criticizing Erdogan’s best achievements – returning the military to the barracks, creating a healthy economy, and trying to end Kurdish militancy. Rather, they should be seen as demanding a corrective. After all, half of Turkish voters did not support his party.

The protests were also a pushback against Erdogan’s attempt to impose the religious practices of fundamentalist Muslims on the entire society. As well-meaning as Islamic-based restrictions may be, they are offensive to secular Turks and represent an arrogance of religious absolutism in a society that values tolerance, respect, and liberty as cornerstones for democracy.

The secular-Islam divide in mostly Muslim Turkey, however, is less important than the debate over keeping proper restraint and prudence in elected government. Many of the protesters were young people who, like their counterparts in the Arab Spring, have the courage and idealism to insist on being heard.

“Democracy doesn’t only mean elections,” stated President Abdullah Gul in a televised address that helped to distance himself from the prime minister. “If there are differing views, events, objections outside of elections, there is nothing more natural than those to be expressed in various ways. Naturally, peaceful demonstrations are a part of that.” He might have added that public squares are natural places to have dissent heard.

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Locked in a tight race, Sen. Scott Brown (R) of Massachusetts and Democratic rival Elizabeth Warren pulled no punches in their first debate Thursday night. At the end, both were still standing.

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One of the hottest US Senate races in the nation got hotter Thursday night, as Sen. Scott Brown (R) of Massachusetts and Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren appeared both self-assured and feisty in the first of several televised debates.

Ms. Warren put pressure on Senator Brown to defend his voting record as a Republican serving one of the most Democratic states in the nation. And she sought to put the race in the context of its larger stakes: A vote for Brown could help put other Republicans, with views much more conservative than his, in charge of the US Senate.

Brown cast himself as an independent champion of common-sense, middle-of-the-road positions – and his rival as out of touch with the needs of a still-struggling economy.

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"The criticism you're hearing [from Warren is] I don't want to raise taxes – guilty as charged," Brown said at one point.

He also called Warren's personal character into question, using their face-to-face meeting to repeat a concern he has raised before in comments to the press: Did she use an unverified claim to native-American heritage to get a leg up in an academic career that landed her ultimately at Harvard Law School?

Warren said that in her childhood, her parents told her of Cherokee and Delaware Indian ancestry, and that she didn't question that story. During her academic career, she put herself on a list of "minority" professors in a national directory of law schools. But in the debate, Warren repeated her prior assertions that questions about the matter have been answered. People who helped hire her at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard have said the issue of minority status didn't come up during the hiring decision.

Brown also sought to undermine Warren's reputation as a fighter for downtrodden workers and middle-class families. He said she had earned large fees from an insurance company for work opposing the claims of asbestos victims.

Warren rebutted his charge, saying a Boston Globe investigation concluded that Brown's characterization of the case was misleading.

As the debate ranged from issues of character to national policy, one thing stood out: no major missteps. Neither candidate backed down against the other; neither was at a loss for words.

When Brown touted his service in the Army National Guard in answering a national security question, Warren was ready with references to the big role that military service has played in her family.

When Warren said Brown was too cozy with oil companies, Brown said his goal was to cut gas-pump prices for consumers, not to protect corporate profits.

Brown sought to defend himself against Warren's gains in the polls with an important bloc of voters: women. He emphasized his support for abortion rights and contraceptive care as part of health insurance. And he said that, as a child, he had stood up against a stepfather who was abusive toward his mother.

On the economy and tax policy, the candidates echoed the presidential race between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.

Warren said a balanced approach like the one President Obama advocates, including higher taxes on the rich as well as spending cuts, is needed to heal the job market and fix federal deficits. She called for government investments in infrastructure, while pledging not to raise taxes "on working families." She said Brown, by contrast, has aligned himself with tax breaks for those in the top 2 percent in income.

The election "goes back to the same basic question," she said. "Whose side do you stand on?"

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Near the end of the debate, Warren said a vote for Brown could end up helping Republicans retake control of the Senate. Giving an example of what that could mean, she said Sen. James Inhofe (R) of Oklahoma, who has called global warming a "hoax," would have powerful sway on environmental issues.

"You're not running against Jim Inhofe.You're running against me," Brown said.

The race remains a close one. Nationally, it's unclear whether Republicans will be able to push to a 50-seat majority or higher in the Senate, where they now hold 47 seats. Brown's and Warren's next public debate is set for Oct. 1.

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Strava in Augmented Reality: Here’s how it works

As Interbike kicks off you’ll see a slew of both mainstream as well as smaller companies try and get your attention with new products.  Some of these will be products that you genuinely find useful and plan to buy, and others will just be ones you sit and marvel at with either fascination or child-like intrigue.

It’s that second emotion that covers a new app released today for Strava that allows you to see your Strava workouts and routes in augmented reality.

For those not familiar, augmented reality is roughly when your camera (or a camera) is pointed at the environment around you and then the phone/computer overlays data on top of it.  For example, it could be holding up your phone at the top of a chairlift and having the ski runs overlaid onto the terrain around you.  As you turn the phone, the labels ‘stick’ to the terrain.

With Fitness AR, a secondary company is leveraging a combination of Strava’s API’s and Apple’s new ARKit technology.  As such, this app is only available on iOS.

Once you launch the app, you’ll see it’s pretty simplistic. Down on the left side you’ve got some sample routes you can load up from exciting places.  This is notable if you happen to live in a terribly flat farm locale and don’t want the most boring demo ever.

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Alternatively, you can link up your Strava account to view your own workouts, routes, and friends’ workouts.  So I did just that.

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With that all done I’ve got my listing of recent workouts:

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Because I wanted something exciting, I went with this Swiss Mountain ride one from a week or so ago. You can see my whole post and video about it here. It was epic.

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Now the app will ask me to place the map somewhere.  The first time I did this I just tapped the screen, and that looked kinda silly with the mountains floating in mid-air.  So I’d recommend placing it on a table or something, it’ll look fitting that way.

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With that done, the mountains are rendered, as is my route.  What’s unique here is that I can physically walk around the table, getting closer and further and the imagery zooms accordingly based on where I go and what I point my phone at.

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You can also pinch to zoom and rotate using your fingers as well.  Further, you can then select your friends’ activities or your routes.

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So rather than try and explain this further in screenshots, let me just share with you this super quick demo video I shot.  It helps to make it all make sense:

Pretty nifty, huh?

Now of course, augmented reality is nothing new.  It’s been around for years, despite various companies claiming they just re-invented the wheel.  And of course, the ability to zoom around your Strava workouts has certainly been seen elsewhere.  But it’s the ease to which this is now on your phone that’s notable here.

In any case, I figured it’d be a fun little thing to talk about that didn’t require 18 hours to write an in-depth review.

The app is available as of today from the App Store for $2.99.  Note again that because it relies on Apple’s new ARKit tech, it’s not available for Android.  Also note that you can’t get mad at Strava for that, because it’s a 3rd party that’s making this app.  They’re just leveraging the Strava API.  Oh – speaking of which, you need iOS11 for this – so get your phone all updated!

I’m not sure how often (or if ever) I’ll use the app again. But it was fun to poke around, and I’ve certainly spent $2.99 in far more frivolous ways.

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  1. simon

    not running on the 6s “The app requires specific features not available on this device” :(

    I’m guessing it needs the dual camera … 7 and above ?

  2. Artur

    Admire your ability to shoot such a decent video at a random Starbucks!

    • John

      Not to dis on Ray’s mad camera skillz or anything, but the video image stabilization in the most recent crop of iPhones is amazingly good, especially considering how tiny the hardware has to be.

    • Painfully funny fact: That was actually the third time I shot that video – fourth if you count another one I did sans-audio in Amsterdam.

      1) Initial video/photos shot in Amsterdam Starbucks last weekend – but didn’t narrate video, so decided against it. Used photos for this post.
      2) Shot another video in Vegas Starbucks early yesterday morning, but audio came out like crap. Decided against it.
      3) Shot another video in parking lot of a closed Dairy Queen using the hood of my rental car as my table. Audio came out great, but video was a bit fuzzy. Discarded it.
      4) Went back to Starbucks this morning. Still cropped half my head off, but gave up on caring and went with it. :)

  3. Tosin

    DAMN YOU ANDROID!!!!!!!!

  4. John

    Total insta-buy!

    I’m hoping this will show the steep, punchy, terribly non-flat farm roads (10 to 20+% grades) around here.

  5. rickNP

    Pretty neat! It … umm… could use a little help, though. Several times my map on-screen puts me in the middle of dirt and I have to manage to either one-finger or two-finger move around to re-establish my POV. Then if I decide I want to pinch-to-zoom at all, it resets itself in the middle of dirt again and resets the zoom level. I can also just walk closer or further away to zoom in or out, but usually wish to zoom in more for close looks than walking would allow. Like Ray alluded, it’s more of a novelty. I may take a look at more epic activities as I complete them, but that’s about it.

  6. Paul S.

    You really don’t want a link like that now that iTunes 12.7 is out. iTunes no longer does iOS applications, so Safari and iTunes on macOS traded the hot potato back and forth, neither knowing what to do I’m reminded again of why Apple’s address is 1 Infinite Loop. Tried to order on my iPhone 6 running iOS 11 and it wouldn’t let me. We have a few iPads that it might permit, including my daughter’s iPad Pro. (Their toys get more expensive with time.)

    Here’s hoping that they realize there are seasons. I really hate looking at a cross country ski track displayed on a summer forest.

  7. Ade HUghes

    The pre-defined rides work on my 6s but the app crashes when I try to use my own Strava rides :-(

  8. Jonny

    My Strava rides/runs don’t seem to have 3D terrain, just a flat satellite map (live in England). Has anyone else got this? The demos work fine…

    • Neil Jones

      Yeah, mine too – I don’t know if it’s just because the geography doesn’t have any extremes (i.e. mountains) so it just looks relatively flat (even though it doesn’t feel it when I’m cycling!).

      Bit disappointed really, not as immersive as I was hoping for without any Alpe d’Huez-style rides under by belt. I wonder if it does Zwift rides?

      Plus, for some reason it only shows the first 7 activities I ever logged on Strava, none of which were particularly exciting.

      I’m not even convinced that this app will get much in the way of updates, it’s really just a very simple AR demo that’s been developed to be part of the ARKit early goldrush. Not that I blame the developers at all, good luck to them.

  9. Matty

    If only it was ok to use with a VR/headset? That’s the future!

  10. Nathan B

    Got to be honest, when I saw the title, I expected some kind of KoM virtual partner to display on a device like Garmin’s Varia Vision.

    I could be climbing a hill, and see a Mario Kart style ghost riding a few metres ahead of me. That would be cool!

  11. Juan

    Can’t download tha app into a 6+ running iOS11. Keeps giving the error “The app requires specific features not available on this device”
    I’ve rebooted the phone to see if that helps, but it did not. Weird.

  12. John

    Your definition of augmented reality is not true. You described a smart video generator. The definition is in the phrase: augmented *reality* as in real, not recorded one. Such technology, seen in iron man’s movies, is existed in pilots helmets only. Beeing accurate is the most important thing to me, I really thought go gonna tell about a company that manage to deliver a true augmented reality experience, but got dissapointed.

    • Neil Jones

      I’d argue that this is AR, not the 3D rendition of the ride itself (VR), but the way it maps that onto a table or other object. Not exactly exploiting AR to the full, but AR nonetheless.

    • Indeed, as Neil says this is AR, just not VR. A lot of folks get those two mixed up. Just like people often mix up 360* with VR. There are layers of each technology, but this is as pure a definition of AR as you get.

  13. William

    What do you use to record what’s on your phone screen?

    • iOS11 now does it natively. You can enable it under Control Center > Customize Controls > Screen Recording. Then just swipe up and hit the dot looking icon.

      One tip is to ensure you turn on the ability to record sound if you want it (by default it doesn’t), though I can’t remember off-hand where the heck that setting is.


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A couple of years ago I wrote a column about Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the "South Park" guys, and their proposed Broadway-bound "Mormon Musical."

After detailing how they have lampooned all things LDS since their earliest collaborations around 1993, I suggested it was time for the duo to find a new target.

After all, Mormons have figured in their movies, their animated TV series and even in the interviews they've granted over the years.

Some might argue that because Parker and Stone have satirized so many other religious sects besides The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — and often been more vicious toward them — that Mormons should lighten up.

No argument here. But these guys do seem to have a strange fixation with the LDS Church that they just can't get over. Does it ever occur to them that they've been there, done that?

Anyway, at the time, who knew if "Mormon Musical" would even get off the ground? Broadway lore is littered with the remains of plays that were never mounted, productions that never opened and others that premiered to great fanfare only to close within a few weeks.

But here we are, more than two years later, and Parker and Stone's "Mormon Musical" has evolved into "The Book of Mormon" and is scheduled to open next month on the Great White Way in the Eugene O'Neill Theater (that noise you hear is O'Neill rolling over in his grave).

So how nasty will it be? Will it make fun of the people, the culture or the doctrine? Will it go after things that church members consider sacred or simply attack the usual targets (polygamy, the Mountain Meadows massacre, Proposition 8, etc.)? Will it have a gooey center that is ultimately warm toward Mormons, even as the faith is brutally skewered, as has been the case with Parker and Stone's other portrayals?

Despite the misleading title, "The Book of Mormon" is apparently not about the Book of Mormon. It follows a pair of U.S. missionaries who proselytize in Uganda, and it's a traditional musical, as have been some of Parker and Stone's other efforts, from "Cannibal! The Musical" to various episodes of "South Park."

So will it be original or just a more expensive variation on what we get locally each year with "Saturday's Voyeur"?

Everyone is pretty tight-lipped about the specifics, but as reviews begin to pour in over the next few weeks (it goes into previews next Thursday), we'll see.

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Some of the LDS faithful are already calling for a boycott or protest, but the church itself, in an unusual move, has issued a statement that would seem to undermine such suggestions.

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If you play into the controversy generated by something like Parker and Stone's show, it just might backfire.

You may recall church member Terry Rakolta's 1989 outrage at the crass sitcom "Married … With Children," and how her well-intentioned and highly publicized call to arms for a boycott instead helped extend the life of that show by several years.

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Yesterday, the DW Blog brought you a selection of gorgeous and somewhat off-the-wall designers’ Christmas cards. Ranging from the hirsute to the cute to the Tweet-based, the selection proved that creativity comes alive with a little festive prompting.

Now, we all know that these design folk can make things look pretty, but the question is, how do they fare in a very different medium – carolling?

If you’re as intrigued as us to find out whether a knack with a pencil translates to being handy with a hymn sheet, you could do far worse than to head down to St James Church next Monday for the creative industry’s Christmas Carol Service.

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The event is organised by Deborah Dawton of the Design Business Association, Ian Cochrane of Tice Group, Rodney Fitch and Vicky Bullen from Coley Porter Bell – the consultancy who designed the invite for the event.

Dawton says, ‘It seemed like an obvious thing to do – there’s a lot of people in the industry who sing and we thought it would be a great opportunity to pull everyone together.’

She adds that they hope to make the event an annual one, with plans to create a 15-caroller-strong designers choir for next year’s service.

‘It was one of those things where you don’t know whether it’s going to work or not’, she says. ‘But it has really caught people’s imaginations.’

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If you need further persuasion to turn up, attendees are promised not only a decent go at belting out some festive favourites, but also some restorative mulled wine and mince pies in the crypt afterwards.

The creative industry’s Christmas Carol Service runs from 18.00-19.15, Monday 20 December at St James Clerkenwell, Clerkenwell Close, London EC1R.  To register for your free ticket visit http://creativeindustrycarols.eventbrite.com/

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Two weeks ago Design Week reported that 300 Million had fallen into administration and closed its doors.

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The consultancy had also counted  Russian-based international telecommunications company Yota and the London Symphony Orchestra among its clients.

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November 5, 2014 3.2k views

What is the limit of emails per hour for my droplet? From what quantity shipments are considered SPAM?

If I have 1000 (or more) subscribers to my newsletter, as I proceed to send a newsletter to each of them without the process being classified as SPAM?

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  • Yes. Spam classification is based less on number of messages (although that too) and more on configuration (dkim, spf, &c), content (does it contain "v1agra," are the links obfuscated), and reaction of users (how many mark it as spam, or never look at it).

    If you have troubles with delivery, see that you pass checks, and experiment with the content a little. Make sure you use double opt-in (ask people to give you their email and then send them an email with a link to confirm they want to hear from you.

    Alternatively, use an ESP like Mailgun or Mailchimp.

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CAN-SPAM Act states that you should have an opt-in. As @BOFH (love the name, by the way) said, double opt-in is best.

Furthermore, CAN-SPAM act requires an opt-out link that is respected within 24 hours (you have 24 hours to remove them from the time that they opt out). CAN-SPAM act also states that you must clearly state that it is a marketing message and provide your company name and contact info (address) somewhere in the e-mail.

As an aside: RFC states that you cannot have more than 300 recipients on any e-mail message, but it's best to have your script send to one recipient per message.

I've written an (out-dated) e-mail solution that handles opt-in/opt-out. It's open-source:

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Discussion in 'Transportation' started by mtdewlarissa, Nov 3, 2009.

  1. mtdewlarissa

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    we will be making our 2nd trip from pa. my daughers friends family is coming to. we need to rent a 7 passager mini van. any why to help decrease the costs. we rent a house offsite.
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    Just about the best idea is to check out Mousesavers.com and read their info regarding rentals. They give some good codes for decent rates. Then, go to the various rental company sites and plug in your info..that's about the best way to go.
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    I just got a great deal on a mini van mid January from Alamo through Priceline by bidding. I checked all the sites, discount coupons and codes, then started by bidding at $28 a day. That was rejected, but I was invited to bid again 2 days later. I bid $30 a day and it was accepted. After taxes and fees it came out to be about $305 for the week.
    I figured I saved about $100 over the next best deal and more than half off the Alamo website. The only drawback is that I cannot change or cancel the reservation, but I won't need to.
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Most parents worry about their ability to cover higher education costs for their children. That issue becomes even more complex when parents divorce. While married or single parents can choose to contribute to their child's educational costs, it can be another story for divorced parents subject to court orders or settlement provisions. For divorced parents, the issue is not just how, but who.

Rules differ by state, but some states, including Utah, Washington and New York, allow judges to require non-custodial parents to contribute to their child's higher education costs. Other states, such as Alaska and New Hampshire, don't require parents to pay for their child's college education and judges typically will not order a parent to do so unless the parents had a previous agreement. Therefore, in some cases higher education issues will be considered by the judge, while in other cases, the parents will come to an agreement within the divorce settlement.

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Is there a cap on expenses?

According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the cost of tuition, fees and room and board at a private non-profit institution averaged $41,970 for the 2014-2015 academic year, a 25 percent increase over the prior decade after adjusting for inflation. With the costs of a college degree rising, it may make sense to agree to an appropriate cap on expenses. A common method is to use your state's university as a baseline. For example, you could agree to pay 75 percent of the maximum amount charged by your state university, including room and board. The rest could be paid for by the other parent, paid for by the student or covered by financial aid, student loans or scholarships. Establishing such a cap can help ensure that you aren't legally obligated to cover more than you are financially able if your child chooses an expensive university.

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Some parents with the means to do so set aside a lump sum to cover higher education expenses. Others agree to save incrementally in the years leading up to college. Whatever you decide, funds should be set aside in a trust account or a 529 Plan, a tax-free account for higher education expenses.

Securing money in these types of accounts limits the temptation for one parent to "borrow" from easily accessible savings accounts. After all, you don't want to reach your child's 18th birthday to find out that their college fund has been depleted to pay for living expenses or legal bills.

It's also a good idea to include a requirement for life and disability insurance with limits sufficient to cover college expenses. This ensures that the student's education is covered in the unfortunate event of a parent's death or disability.

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You can change the beneficiary to another member of the family or roll the funds into a sibling's plan without tax consequences. Many parents choose to pursue additional education after their kids are out of the house, so the excess 529 funds can be saved for that purpose as well.

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If you withdraw money from a 529 Plan for non-education expenses, you'll have to pay tax and a 10 percent penalty on the earnings in the plan, but you'll never owe tax on your contributions to the plan. You can avoid the penalty if your child doesn't need the money because he or she received tax-free scholarships, grants or employer-paid educational assistance. As long as your withdrawals during the year are not more than the amount of the scholarship, you will pay tax on the earnings but will not owe a penalty. You'll want to hold on to letters or other correspondence documenting the amount of scholarships, grants and educational assistance received to support the penalty-free withdrawal

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Divorced parents who don't have an agreement in place can try to work out an agreement when the child is ready to attend college or take the matter to court. Depending on the laws of their state of residency, a judge will evaluate each parent's education level, available assets and income to determine if one or both parents will contribute.

Talking about finances can be a challenge for any couple, especially those going through a divorce. Still, it's important to discuss your child's education and work out an agreement that makes the best financial sense for your family. Get a head start on hashing out some of these issues during the divorce negotiations so you can plan and save for your child's college education as soon as possible.


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Stone monuments in the Angkor archaeological park, registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, are considerably deteriorated nowadays and the state of the preserved ones is getting worse quickly. Thus, international experts are intensely looking into causes of a bad technical condition of these important monuments and try to find suitable solutions for their rescue.

The Czech research team participates in saving these monuments in Angkor as well, with the five‑year research project ‘Thermal Imaging and Structural Analysis of Sandstone Monuments in Angkor’.

The main project objective represents the analysis of a stone structures loading by environmental temperature changes and their influence on a static safety of the monuments. Besides the research directly in Angkor, numerical simulations of behavior of stone structures loaded by external actions, focused on an effect of temperature changes also make a part of the project.

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In next research phases, the steps performed so far will be further developed in such a way that the influence of temperature changes on the stone monuments behavior in Angkor could be more specified and optimal procedures could be proposed to preserve the monuments for next generations.

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Get a Plan Set Up For Them

When transitioning to a new company it can be difficult to know where to start. The first day should not be something that is left open for the employee to define. Properly acclimating a new hire means setting expectations for them and letting them know what is expected of them. The first day, or even possibly longer, should have a schedule set in place for them. This can be as detailed as you want it to be. For example, if your new employee is entering the workforce for the first time maybe you’ll put a little more detail in their schedule. Conversely, if they are well experienced you can assume they’ll be more comfortable in their new role and take the reins so to speak.

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Provide them with everything they’ll need to come out of the gate and be successful. Help familiarize them with processes and people they will deal with on a regular basis. This could be different for every employee or department so take special care when going through this process. Don’t assume they know how the company runs, it is their first day after all.

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Remind them why they were hired in the first place. You brought them on because you saw a need that had to be filled and they were the key to filling it. Make it apparent that they made the right choice in accepting the job offer and making the transition to your company. At the end of the day everyone wants to feel like their work matters and if they don’t, they’ll eventually move on and use their talents elsewhere.

This all might seem pretty obvious, but I think sometimes we forget to slow down and take the proper steps to make newcomers feel welcome and like they have a place in the company. Think back to when you were new - what worked well for you? What do you wish would have been done differently? Those are the things that matter.

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Med Staff Auxiliary

The wives of the doctors on staff at Doylestown Hospital have a long history of working together to benefit our patients and their families. In 1965, a group chaired by Elizabeth Willard began meeting informally to determine how to best support the growing hospital. By 1968, the group had organized itself more formally as the Doctors' Wives of Doylestown Hospital. Their goal was to raise money to purchase new medical equipment and improve hospital services. Over the years, the group's special fundraisers included Hospital Day at Peddler's Village, amusement rides at the Village Fair and the annual spring luncheon and fashion show.

In 1993, the Doctors' Wives of Doylestown Hospital changed its name to the Medical Staff Auxiliary. Since its inception, the Medical Staff Auxiliary has given nearly $300,000 to support key initiatives of Doylestown Health.

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"We value the important contributions of the Medical Staff Auxiliary throughout their history," said Doylestown Health CEO Jim Brexler. "Here is another example of how a determined group of women can impact medical care in their community. Their donations funded the purchase of state-of-the-art equipment and helped expand services for our patients and families. The Auxiliary is an important thread in the fabric of our history."

Joan Parlee is a founding member of the group and wife of retired radiologist Donald Parlee, MD, a member of the Doylestown Hospital Medical Staff from 1965 to 2008.

"I have been fortunate to be involved with Doylestown Hospital in so many different capacities over the years," shares Joan, an active member of the Village Improvement Association of Doylestown (VIA). "The various organizations that have supported the hospital through the years share a common goal - ensuring the highest quality care is available to our community."

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In this new role, Joan was pleased to present Doylestown Hospital with a final gift of support from the Medical Staff Auxiliary.

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