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A firestorm ensued after Jorge Cortell, CEO of a healthcare software company called Kanteron Systems, tweeted a photo of a woman's towering stilettos at an entrepreneur-investment conference in New York on Tuesday with the following commentary:
"Event supposed to be for entrepreneurs, VCs, but these heels (I've seen several like this)… WTF? #brainsnotrequired"
Mr. Cortell was hotly accused of sexism, particularly after the ValleyWag blog ran an item on it. People were shocked, shocked, that anyone might appear to suggest that a woman wearing five-inch-high black stiletto platform heels could be calling attention to something other than her brain.
The two-day tweet-convo slid from sublime to ridiculous when Mr. Cortell argued that he wasn't referring to sex at all. Heel wearers are dumb because heels are unhealthy for their feet and backs, he tweeted, repeatedly, until Twitter briefly suspended his account.
"High-heels = bad health choice = dumb," he tweeted.
While podiatry may be his passion, it's more likely that Mr. Cortell was wimping out in the face of an angry hoard of empowered heel-lovers. In an email responding to my questions, he insisted he is only focused on health, as a participant in the healthcare industry. "It seems like some debates are taboo," he wrote in the email. "Cultural complacency is dangerous. Particularly when it affects health."
If he had stood his ground, I would have stood with him. Five-inch-high platform stilettos call to mind the fetishistic footwear of a cabaret performer. If not quite hooker heels, they are nonetheless best paired with fishnet nylons, a sultry voice, and champagne for two.
In a business setting, platform stilettos are the female equivalent of a man wearing his shirt unbuttoned to his clavicle underneath his suit jacket.
Yes, we see them at venture capital conferences and in offices and even board meetings. But let's not pretend they're conservative business footwear. Twitter seems to agree. The social media service on Wednesday labeled Mr. Cortell's heels photo "sensitive content" – requiring many users to click a permissions button to view it.
Do platform stilettos have a place in business? A pair of one-inch kitten heels are more likely to keep investors focused on your cerebrum, if that's your aim. But people in business are meant to use all the tools at their disposal to get ahead. So the real question is, are five-inch stilettos more effective at raising venture capital than 1-inch kitten heels?
Someone should do a study.
Or if you know of one, you can find me @BinkleyOnStyle or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Event supposed to be for entrepreneurs, VCs, but these heels (I've seen several like this)… WTF? #brainsnotrequired pic.twitter.com/Z1vBKxlLzo
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VCHS Names Prom King and Queen
Kyle Cook and Rebecca Jones were crowned king and queen at the 2012 Venango Catholic High School prom. The theme for the prom was "Casino Royale." The event was held April 28 at the Latonia Theater.
Originally published in The Derrick on May 9, 2012.
VC Featured in Faith Magazine
VC alumni Joseph Janidlo was part of a contingent of seminarians who served Mass with the Pope. Check out the Faith magazine article (pgs 10-12) here.
VC's website launch is featured in the Nov / Dec Faith Magazine! Check out the article on page 28.
Check out VC alumni Fr. Matt Strickenberger (pg 7) and Megan Lutz (pg 18 / 19) in the Sept / Oct Faith magazine!
- Boy Scout's Project Adds Color to Oil City Hydrants
- Venango Catholic Homecoming King and Queen
- Oil Creek 100 Trail Runs
- Cranberry Festival Royalty Crowned
- Moriah Mitchell Named Semifinalist
- 16 graduate from Venango Catholic
- Golfer Scholarship
- Baseball Field Named
- Margaret Feldman Writing Winners
- VC students to compete in state science competition
- VC inducts 14 into Honor Society
- More graduates, supporters share VC memories
- Special day at VC brings many memories, smiles
- Venango Catholic going strong at 50 while looking toward future
- 50 Year Celebration
- Vikings capture title
- OC man will be escort for Obama at Army-Navy game
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- VC student wins Applefest logo contest
- Cranberry Festival king and queen announced
- VC headmaster leaves post with mixed emotions
- St. Joe's last graduating class to celebrate 50-year reunion
- St. Joe Class of '62 graduates share memories
- Class wants to greet other St. Joseph students at Friday get-together
- 30 graduate from VC
- Samantha Hugar Awarded the Egan Scholarship for Academic Excellence
- Top students named at VC
- VC student named National Merit finalist
- Ex-Vikings star in rugby at Franciscan
- VCHS Names Prom King and Queen
- Venango Catholic High School Holds NHS Inductions
- Venango Catholic High School Prom Candidates
- Local teens put driving skills to test for big bucks
- Willy Wonka
- VC Students Attend Shakespeare Competition
- Venango Catholic Cheerleaders Visit Head Start Students
- VC 58, West Forest 51
- VC Students Participate in District Chorus
- Catholic Schools Week ends with events at VC
- VC Alum Awarded Third Prize in National Competition
- John Carroll honors former Viking Lutz
- Gearing up for Friends giveaway
- Venango Catholic math team finishes third in competition
- Four area stars make collegiate debuts
- Fryburg Naval commander writes from Arabian Sea
- Venango Catholic names homecoming king, queen
- Vikings clinch KSAC golf title
- Venango Catholic homecoming dance set Saturday
- Venango Catholic High School presented with U.S. Flag
- It's Back to the Books for Some
- VC graduate finds she has mission in life
- AC Scholar-Athlete-of-the-Month
- St. Joseph Class of 1961 holds 50-year reunion
- Hawkins takes top spot in tournament
- Hawkins takes first
- Ex-Viking Rynd to play hoops at the Rock
- Lutz earns academic honors
- VCHS Presents "Touchtone 'M' for Murder"
- Media Celebrity
- OC Kiwanis honors scholarship winners, Hugh O'Brian seminar participants
- 15 graduates receive diplomas at VC
- Venango Catholic names top students
- Venango Catholic National Honor Society Inductees
- VC academic team in Hometown High-Q semis
- Venango Catholic Students Participate in Wash Day
- Venango Catholic Crowns Prom King, Queen
- Fryburg native named commander of Carrier Strike Group Three
- Students do well at English festival
- St. Joseph announces Service Award recipients
- Students Compete, Win at Science Olympiad
- Vikings' Rynd named D-9 boys Player of the Year
- Local stars shine in Kozel all-star contests
- Final 2010-11 Area Girls Basketball Scoring Leaders
- Final 2010-11 Boys Basketball Scoring Leaders
- Former Marble man honored in special Mass
- The streak goes on
- Perfect to the Maxx
- Vikings stay perfect
- Venango Catholic remains undefeated
- Big game dream come true for Packers fans in Steelers country
- Vikings slip past Lions
- 17 VC students attend March for Life
- Good Luck Vikings
- Several area players earn all-state honors
- Vikings ground Falcons
- Venango Catholic advances in KDKA High-Q event
- VC math team places fifth in competition
- Friends for Food passes $36,000 mark
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- Venango Catholic marks anniversary of predecessor
- VC graduate returns from Iraq deployment
- Venango Catholic Names Homecoming King, Queen
- Venango Catholic launches new website
- Vikings open with pair of victories
- VC grad completes sub-internship at Cleveland medical facility
- Oil City native receives business award from San Antonio chamber
- 19 receive diplomas at Venango Catholic graduation
- Pragle, Hesdon head KSAC teams
- Ex-Viking Lutz honored
- OC woman elected to student position for physicians group
- Pittsburgh Steelers safety Ryan Clark visits school
- Venango Catholic High School Receives IT KickStart Grant
- VC student accepts appointment to West Point
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Do you remember the rumor last fall that Bibles were being banned at the Olympic village this summer in Beijing? We tried batting it down here and here. Well, there was an interesting story over the weekend in the Los Angeles Times headlined "Bibles are big business in China" that sheds further light on the history and practice of religion in this world superpower.
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On the first day of the first ever ALA TechSource Gaming, Learning, and Libraries Symposium in Chicago yesterday, Scott Nicholson from the Library Game Lab at Syracuse University released a report on The Role of Gaming in Libraries: Taking the Pulse. It's already available online as a PDF file.
Games are big business. Nicholson's report cites an industry report indicating that sales of games have outpaced motion picture box office sales and should surpass music sales in the near future. Read More »
The ALA Annual Conference in DC, which just ended, was another energizing, informative event. In a forthcoming post I will summarize the more substantial sessions and issues that came to my attention. However, in the spirit of the adage, "Life's uncertain; eat dessert first," I would like to share with you the most fun I had at ALA in DC.
Vendor receptions are a time-honored event at these conferences, and the protocol is well-established: Read More »
A hush has fallen over the music industry. It may be the hush of anticipation prior to the birth of an heir who will lead the kingdom to a new golden age, or it may be the calm before the onslaught of the perfect storm.
DRM (Digital Rights Management)--which may be the baby, or it may be the bath water, it depends on who you ask--appears to be on its way out, at least for music. First, Apple and EMI announced an agreement to sell DRM-free digital music files beginning this month. Consumers will pay about 30 percent more for DRM-free music, but there already are many precedents where consumers prove willing to pay more to have something left out of a product. Exhibit A: bottled water. I rest my case. Read More »
Librarians got game. ALA TechSource, in collaboration with the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), is proud to annouce that the first annual Gaming, Learning, and Libraries Symposium will be held on July 22-24, 2007 at the Chicago Marriott O'Hare, which is very accessible by planes, CTA trains, and automobiles. Registration opened this week. Read More »
We live in an age in which social networks, online communities, and the wisdom of crowds are all the rage. This rage may have all the superficiality and transience of a dust devil, which appears to contain the destructive beauty of a real tornado, but actually only kicks up some dust and leaves. But I think this is an enduring rage with potentially profound and positive effects on humanity in general and librarianship in particular. Read More »
Yesterday Princeton University announced it has joined Google's mass digitization project, adding another million volumes to the maw. I reckon people will begin speculating what former president (of both Princeton and the U.S.) Woodrow Wilson would have made of Princeton's participation in Google's project. At least the speculative heat will be off Thomas Jefferson for awhile, who was invoked by University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman to defend this project from beyond the grave. Read More »
During the week leading up to ALA Midwinter, I received an email message from a publicist, stating that his client would be attending Midwinter, and wondering if I would like to conduct an interview. His client is David Pogue, the excellent NY Times columnist and blogger who writes about technology topics, especially handheld electronic devices. I jumped at the chance to interview Pogue, suggesting 10 Sunday morning as the appointed time. Read More »
In the days of yore it was not uncommon for universities in Britain and the U.S. to have a policy called "rustication." If a student acted up academically, he would be sent away from the university for a few months to think about his transgressions and, ideally, rededicate himself to the life of the university. As the term "rustication" implies, the concept in its pure form involves being sent down to the farm. I doubt that many rusticated scholars, such as the young Milton, Dryden, and Swinburne, actually slopped any hogs, but the thought of them knee-deep in muck provides some measure of solace and encouragement for us all. Read More »
After playing around for an hour or so with the recently released public beta version of Microsoft's Live Search Books (LSB), I have to admit—against some vague sense that my better judgment is failing me—that I like it.
Sure, others have reported that LSB does not work well—or at all—when using browser software other than Internet Explorer, but if you stick to the straight-and-narrow Microsoft path, the service works and shows potential. Read More »
Last Thursday's New York Times contained an article (a no-cost subscription is required) that provides a progress report on the $100 laptop initiative, officially known as One Laptop per Child (OLPC). The project is based at MIT's Media Lab and was first announced in January 2005. Led by Nicholas Negroponte, the OLPC project proclaims its main outcome goal thus: "a unique harmony of form and function; a flexible, ultra low-cost, power-efficient, responsive, and durable machine with which nations of the emerging world can leapfrog decades of development—immediately transforming the content and quality of their children's learning." Read More »
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This report is Deliverable D2.1 "In-house Architecture and Interface Description" of the SmartHouse/SmartGrid project sponsored by the European Commission Seventh Framework Program. It reports on in-house architecture and interface description of all automatic energy management devices used in the three field trials.
All public deliverables are:
D1.1 High-Level System Requirements
D1.2 Technology Trends for SmartHouse/SmartGrid
D2.1 In-House Architecture and Interface Description
D2.2 Coordination Algorithm and Architecture Document
D2.5 Final Architecture for SmartHouse/SmartGrid
D3.1 Field Trial Demonstrator Designs
D3.4 General Evaluation Report Including Lessons-Learned from all Three Field Tests
D4.1 Case Study for 1 Million End-Users
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Skip to comments.I GOT 30 MILLION REASONS
Posted on 07/03/2013 5:51:20 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
We keep hearing insistent claims that if Republicans don't pass amnesty yesterday it will be the end of the party.
Can I see the math on that? I can see why bringing in 30 million new Democratic voters would be good for the Democrats, but how does it help Republicans? Maybe conservatives shouldn't blindly trust the calculations of the guy who graduated fifth from the bottom of his class at the U.S. Naval Academy.
If I were a Democrat, I would have tried to sneak this bill past Republicans by proposing amnesty only after reaching some easily rigged benchmarks. But, apparently, Chuck Schumer knows elected Republicans better than I do.
Step One: Everyone's amnestied. Step Two: After they're amnestied, they can bring in all their relatives.
If Hispanics voted 50.1 percent for Democrats, amnesty would be a bad deal for Republicans. But, in fact, they vote 70 percent to 80 percent for Democrats. How did it become an urgent priority for Republicans to bring in 30 million new voters, 80 percent of whom will vote Democratic?
Democrats want 30 million new voters and they will say anything to get there:
-- It's a crisis! Illegal immigrants are "living in the shadows"!
That's not a "crisis." At most -- and this is highly dubious -- it's a crisis for the illegal immigrants. But evidently, "living in the shadows" is at least better than living in Guadalajara. Otherwise, there's an easy solution.
We're told, "You don't know what it's like to live in the shadows!" Yes, you're right, and that proves it's not a crisis...
(Excerpt) Read more at anncoulter.com ...
I take Coulter one article at a time. 3/4 I give a thumbs up. 1/4 I give a thumbs down.
I don't consider her any more insightful than you.
(that's a compliment BTW).
Coulter swings for the fences. She doesn't always hit a home run, but I am glad that she is on my team.
Let me rephrase that.
You and most Freepers have more insight than this woman.
Refers, of course, to the "war hero" John McCain.
what can destory the repubs more than 30 million new democrat voters!?!
even lets be fair and say 80% of the 30 million aredemocrat. thats 24 million new democrats to 6 million repub votes, we're down 18 million net. how isnotvoting for thisgoing to destroy repubsmore than 24 million newmocrat voters would?
My thoughts are that the GOP is or has already alienated most or all of its base, and thinks that it has to create a new base for itself, and may be attempting to do see with this legislation.
But seeing as how they are incapable of selling themselves to anyone about anything, they are going to end up assisting the democrats in extending their base and leaving themselves alienated to just about everyone in the country.
Which is just fine with me, to be perfectly honest, because I can no longer see any purpose or reason to their existence other than to provide a boogeyman for the democrats to run against, and I'd just as soon the democrats no have that boogeyman any longer.
As far as Coulter goes, she mostly pisses me off. Every now and then though I must admit she makes a good point on something or other.
I saw her on Hannity a few nights ago, and she looked terrible. She's too skinny, and she looks like she may have an eating disorder. I'm not sure if that's the case, but she needs to get to eating.
She does NOTHING to sell the conservative message to the larger electorate and she tries to sneak liberal memes into our brains.
I'm sorry, she's not worth a warm bucket of spit.
But what about all the other demographics that can take advantage of this disaster?
Are the mexican's the only ones that get to reap the rewards?
I'd hate to see what the newly minted citizens of Dearborn, Mich...Paterson, NJ...Minneapolis, Minn....Lewiston, Maine...and elsewhere, where the US State Dept has relocated thousand and thousands of 3rd world ugly and Muslims.
Can't wait to have a radical muslim as a sitting member of the US Congress. It'll be great.
Most of Congress kowtows to radical moslem ideology anyways.
She takes a lot of crap for her girly crush on Gov Christie. Now that she is over it, she wants her place back as a best selling author. She is again flirting with her base - us.
You've already got one.
Keith Ellison (D-MN), Nation of Islam.
There's two. Ellison and Andre "X" Carson in Indianapolis.
I know. But, I'm going to go out on a limb and say they are more the prison, black muslim type. And use that to hide behind and give themselves some undeserved press.
I don't think they're wanting the caliphate. Hell, real muslims don't even like blacks, so they're really pissing in the wind with their conversions.
Anne's history, looks, and health aside, she's right on with this issue.
I take Coulter one article at a time. 3/4 I give a thumbs up. 1/4 I give a thumbs down.
I dont consider her any more insightful than you.
I'd say she's batting about .500. She has a snappy way of expressing herself sometimes, but seems to believe she's wiser than she is.
As for the Republicans: I've had more than enough.
Give you a break? I was a big fan of hers until she attacked TEA party thinkers and helped the democrats foist Romney on us. These are the same Democrats that she derides in this article. Next she wants to foist Christie on us.
She is so wrapped up in her cocktail party crowds that she has forgotten about true American Conservatism.
Give you a break? Yeah right. She gets the treatment that she has earned.
amnesty... adding 30m more people to compete for ALL the blue collar jobs, not just the ones under the table
yea, that'll help the little guy
Ann Coulter is the CO2 of American political commentary. She's a lagging indicator, in other words.
Freepers are brilliant and insightful. Coulter knows how to copy and paste their thoughts back to them.
Coulter deserted. It's simply a fact. Am I glad she's trying to repent. Sure.
But I'll not pretend she didn't desert for a while
That's good. But she's getting rich. And we aren't.
And I don't begrudge wealth, but I begrudge wealth based on B.S.
GOP called me today for some donations. I told them to pack sand ... and that I'm seriously tired of the traitorous activity, especially when it comes to illegal immigration. Even the gal on the phone agreed with me.
They can really all just GTH. None of them give two hoots about this country, or Americans. It's all about their reward in Lobbyland ...
Wow...that high? Probably got grade inflation to even pass thanks to Daddy Admiral. He was one piss poor pilot as well. Oh yeah, and 'Songbird' McCain betrayed the POW/MIAs and their families too.
Texas and Florida turn BLUE........and then the game is over......There won't be another GOP president ever......SCOTUS turns completely BLUE by Dims presidential appointments....This ends very badly for America....
Oh silly Ann, can't you do maths? Only 70% of those 30 million will end up voting Democrat. That means we are really adding 9 million Republican voters! /sarc
It's not that she is too "ideologically impure", except maybe when it comes to the homo agenda. It's that she all too often cozies up to the Karl Rove RINO brigade, even though they seem to disagree with her on quite a few issues. So it's more of a "the friend of my enemy is my enemy" kind of thing.
The guy who graduated fifth from the bottom at Annapolis graduated because of who his daddy was.
It doesn't have anything to do with pure enough, it has to do with she's a fraud, she supports Christie, a rino at best, she supported Romney early on, a rino, she dated Bill Maher, a liberal scumbag, and she calls conservative's who disagree with her names.
You should give yourself a break and stop trying to get us to like her, she betrayed us, she is no different then Rubio or McCain, who you no doubt like too.
Coulter was well liked here, was a time when if you posted something against her you were zotted, there was an Ann ping list, I was on it, there were rules that had to be followed, ie posting here picture.
Ann burned here own bridge here with her leftist bent, we saw her for who she really is, those who support her still hold the same beliefs as she does.
I didn't go to the site and read the remainder of the article, but I give Ann credit for what she says here.
Read the column.
As Republicans succeed in passing voter ID laws and similar efforts, shutting down dammocrap "voting of the dead" schemes and other methods of wholesale voter fraud, dammocraps have to create a new source of dammocrap votes.
Hence, legalizing millions of illegal immigrants to replace the previous dammocrap graveyard voters.
You may have misunderstood my position and of many here on FR, I will not read what she writes, most posters here have better insight then she does including me, as a matter of fact if you go back to before she wrote whatever this load of tripe is about you will no doubt find it mentioned here by a FReeper.
She like RubiObama is finished in my eyes, she is just trying to regroup to sell some more books to conservatives.
We also tire of her pimps coming here trying to convince us to return to the days of old as if nothing happened.
To make it even worse she dated Bill Maher, the lowest of low life fascists in America, and most who support Ann are Karl Rove, Jeb Bush, supporters.
I was just pointing out that she no longer supports Christie. You said supports.
I got one as well, probably third one in the last two weeks
I have to admit you were way more polite than I was...
Lord and some people want Perry from Texas as President. if Perry was President he would open the doors and go to Mexico to invite them to America with open arms. I don't see how anyone could love illegal aliens.
Ever hear/see Coulter talk like this when GW was calling for the U.S. to do this for the hispanic vote?
Yes. she did.
Really? You'd have to show me that. I don't recall ANY "conservative" pundits challenging Bush's push for "a new America"...
"I was just pointing out that she no longer supports Christie. You said supports."
I for one do not believe her, she has lied and mislead us before for her own reasons. So she can say whatever she wants, I do not trust her nor do I care what she has to say.
try a simple archive search on her web site. I am sure you're capable.
You have to admit, she wandered in the RINO wilderness for the past few years.
I'm glad to have her on this illegal issue, she'll help a lot.
Interesting. I'm supposed to prove you right?
I went to her archive. There was only one in 2006 that could be against what Bush was doing. The archive goes back to 2000. Bush wanted to do basically what Obama is doing regarding illegal aliens and I don't recall any conservatives talking against it.
No. Coulter takes, and deserves, a lot of crap here because she unapologetically helped the GOPe foist Romney on the party, and STILL thinks Pork Porkie would make a great president. I agree with the poster who said they take Coulter one column at a time. She's a northeast, "Log Cabin Republican" and seems to sell out too easily. Still, most of Ann's columns are very entertaining, and she is usually on the conservative side of the issues.
Those of us who DO remember 2006, though, do recall...in fact, that the amnesty push by Graham, McCain, Martinez and Kennedy was fierce but short-lived.
The Senate had defeated it by June, and Ann Coulter's column against amnesty appeared in May.
The Senate plan for amnesty died mainly because die hard conservatives opposed it, and Ann Coulter was among those speaking out.
Last week on Hannity's radio show she still loved Pork Porkie.... thinks he's the greatest thing since Virginia Slims, and sounded like she wanted him to run for president. Has she had a change of heart in the past week?
From the column:
Maybe New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie supports amnesty (as he did, via his appointed senator), hoping to be the last Republican ever elected president. Theres one for the history books!
But if Christie says hes pro-life while giving the Democrats 30 million new voters, hes a liar. Hispanics favor abortion by 66 percent, compared to 50 percent of other voters.
If he says he opposes Obamacare, court-mandated gay marriage, wants small government and loves his country while voting to give the Democrats 30 million new voters, hes a liar.
Hispanics support Obamacare by 62 percent, gay marriage by 59 percent and big government by 75 percent.
If he says he opposes bloated, expensive public sector unions, hes a liar. Look no farther than California for our future.
Instead of the elites bringing in another flood of low-wage immigrants to clean their homes and manicure their lawns (and vote Democrat!), how about we start getting some immigrants to compete with Florida senators and New Jersey governors?
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This week, President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt met with President Obama and Secretary Clinton in Washington, DC.
Yesterday, Secretary Clinton met with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who held a discussion today with President Obama in the Oval Office of the White House. Read more about President Mubarak's visit.
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The Bible miracle reported during fleeding Egypt should be refered as science water splitting and not as translated as the ocean separated within two side in the past -- that's why Moshe died in Jordan.
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Topic: Race condition unbreakable generating next order number
I have simple order model and i need to generate order numbers (10000, 10001, ...) and i have all orders from many stores in one table so i cannot rely on sequence auto increments in database.
Proof of concept is something like:
before_validation_on_create :generate_no
def generate_no
last = Order.find(:first, :conditions => ["store_id = ?", self.store.id], :order => 'created_on DESC')
if last.nil? then
self.no = 10_000
self.no = last.no.to_i + 1 # increment No
But of course it is easily brekable by two concurent requests, any ideas how to make it race condition free?


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Imperial Valley officers who have fallen in the line of duty. Imperial County Sheriff's Office or contract agencies of the ICSO are marked in green.
The list of fallen officers is courtesy of the Imperial Valley Law Enforcement Memorial www.ivlem.net.
Deputy biographies and photos are courtesy of the Officer Down Memorial Page http://www.odmp.org/
- Julian Partin , Imperial County Sheriff' Dept
End Of Watch: Wednesday, February 11 1920
Deputy Partin was shot and killed by a bar hall owner who was upset about investigations that Deputy Partin was leading. Deputy Partin had been appointed a deputy sheriff the previous October and was attempting to clean up the town of Winterhaven. Deputy Partin made complaints about the suspect's pool and gambling hall to the sheriff and was attempting to have it closed down.
As Deputy Partin walked from his home to a nearby store, the suspect confronted him and shot him with a .32 caliber handgun. The suspect was convicted of Deputy Partin's murder and was sentenced to life.Deputy Partin had been with the Imperial County Sheriff's Office for only four months and was survived by his wife and children. One of Deputy Partin's sons, Policeman C. M. Partin, was killed in the line of duty on January 23, 1927, while serving with the Los Angeles Police Department.
- Paul Robinson , El Centro Police Dept, EOW 1926
- Frank Hunter , Holtville Police Dept,
End of Watch: Sunday, August 21, 1927
Officer Frank Hunter was killed in a motorcycle accident while attempting to stop a speeder on the Holtville Highway, near the Alamo River Bridge. As he rounded a curve on the roadway his motorcycle went out of control, crossed into the oncoming lane of traffic, and struck an oncoming vehicle.
He was transported to Holtville Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries several hours later.
Officer Hunter had served with the agency for one year. He was survived by his wife, son, and two daughters. His son served as a state traffic officer.
- Ivan Null , Imperial County Sheriff's Dept
End Of Watch: Thursday, October 17, 1935
Deputy Null was shot and killed while investigating a robbery of a store the previous evening. Deputy Null had approached a parked vehicle to question its three occupants about the robbery. As he looked into the window he was shot twice by one of the suspects who was armed with a rifle. All three suspects were eventually arrested.
All three suspects, ages 20, 22, and 23, were convicted of first degree murder on November 20, 1935, and sentenced to life in prison
- Earl Fleckiger , United States Border Patrol, EOW 1945
- Anthony Oneto , United States Border Patrol, EOW 1947
- Rubert Franks , El Centro Police Dept, EOW 1948
- Harry Merle Miller, Westmorland Police Dept, EOW 1956
- Kenneth Carl , United States Border Patrol, EOW 1961
- Charles Strawhun, Holtville Police Dept,
End of Watch: Tuesday, January 29, 1963
Patrolman Charles Strawhun was accidentally shot and killed by a fellow officer.
Patrolman Strawhun was killed by a fellow officer while they were practicing quick draws. The officers had just returned to the police station from a pistol range, the other officer had only been on the force two months, neglected to take one bullet from his cylinder before they began drawing on each other. The gun went off and Patrolman Strawhun was fatally wounded.
- Benjamin Solomon, Imperial County Sheriff's Dept,
End of Watch: Wednesday, April 10, 1963
Deputy Benjamin Solomon succumbed to injuries sustained two months earlier when his patrol car was struck by Southern Pacific Railroad train. The accident occurred while he was returning from dropping off a prisoner at Chino State Prison.
Deputy Solomon was survived by his wife and six children.
- Franke Story , California Highway Patrol, EOW 1964
- Milton Smalling, Imperial County Sheriff's Dept,
End of Watch: Sunday, January 22, 1967
Deputy Milton Smalling was killed when his service weapon discharged after falling to the ground. The discharged round struck him in the chest. He was removing equipment from his patrol car when the accident occurred.
Deputy Smalling was survived by his wife, son, and daughter.
- James Burns, United States Border Patrol, EOW 1968
- Robert Mikesell, Brawley Police Dept, EOW 1972
- Michael Edwards, Imperial County Sheriff's Dept,
End of Watch: Friday, May 30, 1975
Deputy Edwards was killed in an automobile accident while on patrol.
- Ralph N. Shaw, U.S. Drug Enforcement Admin, EOW 1976
- Arthur Hennesay, El Centro Police Dept, EOW 1977
- John Vickers, El Centro Police Dept, EOW 1977
- Charles Elmore, Federal Bureau of Investigation, EOW 1979
- J. Robert Porter, Federal Bureau of Investigation, EOW 1979
- Robert Flynt, California Dept of Fish & Game, EOW 1984
- Enrique Camarena, U.S. Drug Enforcement Admin, EOW 1985
- Lester Haynie, United States Border Patrol, EOW 1985
- John McCravey, United States Border Patrol, EOW 1987
- Richard Romero, Imperial County Sheriff's Dept,
End of Watch: Monday, October 24, 1988
Sergeant Richard Romero was killed in a helicopter accident while working on a multi-agency narcotics task force. A car was spotted in a canyon and the helicopter began to descend when its rotor blades struck power lines and caused it to crash.
Sergeant Romero was a 14-year veteran of the Imperial County Sheriff's Office.
- Robert Taylor, Westmorland Police Dept, EOW 1995
- Aurelio Valencia, United States Border Patrol, EOW 1996
- James Schultz, California Highway Patrol, EOW 1996
- John Orellana, U.S. Immigration & Naturalization, EOW 1998
- J. Leonard Speer, Calipatria Police Dept (Former Imperial County Sheriff),
End of Watch: Friday, April 10, 1998
Chief of Police James Speer was shot and killed after responding to a call at an equipment yard on the outskirts of Calipatria, a tiny town in Imperial County. Chief of Police Speer was found dead along with the mother of the suspect. The suspect had managed to gain control of Chief Speer's weapon and shot him in the chest.
The man fled across the United States – Mexico border where he was apprehended by Mexican authorities. He was returned to the United States where he was convicted of both murders and sentenced to death.
Chief Speer had served as chief of the Calipatria Police Department for 10 years and had previously served with the Brawley Police Department, Calexico Police Department, and Imperial County Sheriff's Department. He had a total of 40 years of law enforcement service. He is survived by his wife, daughter, and grandchildren.
- Richard Goldstein, United States Border Patrol, EOW 2007
- Robert Franklin Dickey, California Highway Patrol, EOW 2007
- Adrian Cordova, Calexico Police Dept, EOW 2007
- Luis Aguilar, United States Border Patrol, EOW 2008
- Aaron Garcia , Union Pacific Railroad Police, EOW 2008
- Irene Rios, Imperial County Probation Dept, EOW 2008
- Arnold Obeso, California Dept of Corrections, EOW 2009
- Robert Rosas, United States Border Patrol, EOW 2009


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Last week, I had the pleasure of visiting Ornette Coleman at his midtown loft and studio, the latter of which he affectionately calls "The Doghouse." When I left, I had an earworm moment. I could not shake "Midnight Sunrise" from my head. On that recording, from Dancing in Your Head, Ornette plays his saxophone with the Master Musicians of Joujouka during a religious ceremony of Sufi trance music.
That's a pretty good indication of how my time with him sounded - sometimes mystic, sometimes swirling with idea and sound, always emphasizing humanity, freedom, and eternity. See, Ornette Coleman is not without his own musical language and his own sound grammar. The best way to understand what Ornette Coleman is saying is to listen to what he has to say. Because at 78, he still has a lot on his mind.
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20th July
8 til late
Forest Hall
If you know what it's for, come and help us drown our sorrows. And if you don't, come anyway, and we'll tell you a funny story.
Dress code: Black, cross-dressed, with frills.
The family request no flowers, please. Donations in lieu may be made to Coal Action Scotland
Acts include:
- folk from Wailing Misere
- hiphop from Tickle
- punk from Malicious Mischief
and much more besides.
We'd like as many of our friends bands to play as possible. And friends of friends. Anyone who likes mucking around with music. E-mail harry at firstname.lastname@example.com if you'd like to play, or just turn up with something!
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Mrs. Flinger: A work in progress
UPDATE TO Mrs. Flinger October 16, 2015
Because the Universe has a wicked sense of humor, after this delcaration, my blog threw up all over my last upgrade.
So I'm starting over using Craft. Turning 40 and kid entering Jr High next year, sometimes it's just time for a change. These archives will still exist in the way the last child goes off to college and their room is the same for 20 years, but it's just time to move forward.
Have a trashcan kind of day Mar 02, 2012
There's something funny that happens when you have children. Well, there's a lot of not funny things that happen, like gray hairs and stretched abdominal muscles, but there are non-physical benefits to keeping people with a very young sense of humor around: Lots of ordinary things are just .. not ordinary.
The other day when leaving the house the children noticed the trashcan had blown over in the wind. "WOW!" they exclaimed, "I bet he's never been on his side before! I wonder if he loves it?"
Because seriously, where do they come up with this stuff?
Upon much discussion about the happiness a trashcan feels in his new position, experiencing the world through this new perspective, learning new things about the ground, tires, leaves, they decided today they, too, would have a trashcan day.
So it began that we wish each other a trashcan sort of day. May you find the world renewed through a different perspective. May you experience the ordinary with new vigor. May you find solace in the potentially devastating knowing all things happen for a reason. Or at least enjoy the wind.
The Standoff Feb 07, 2012
#Life#Parenting Siblings#The Flinger Family#Those Little People#Working Mom
It's not unusual to hear a "mommy blogger" talk about the inevitable morning from hell. In fact, I'm pretty sure both of you reading this could tell me you've experience this exact same morning. The difference? It happened to me. And this is how things shook down:
The 4 year old is in a particular nasty phase. It's the morph between preschooler and "real boy" that mimics pre-pubecense with pee accidents. It's a confusing time for everyone involved. This particular morning, the Boy couldn't get a grip. He woke with a nasty case of being four. He sat, emphatically, at the table and stated: "I will not eat this cereal." Now, in case there are any four year old's reading this post let me explain a small known fact among all parents. The minute you state you WILL NOT EAT THIS CEREAL means you absolutely WILL NOT GET ANYTHING ELSE. Eat or don't eat, we don't really care. But that cereal? It's all your gettin'.
When I tried to inform the Boy about this fact, he went in to hysterics. "I WILL NOT EAT THIS! I DO NOT WANT THIS! IIII HHHAAAATTTEEE PANDAAAAA PUFFFFFFFFS!!!!!" Logic doesn't work on a four year old. It doesn't matter he was the one that asked for the Panda Puffs in the first place. It doesn't matter that he wanted to purchase them for six weeks until I finally caved. No, logic and four year olds, as yoda says, do not.
I calmly tell my son he can throw this fit in his room. When he refuses to move, I offer to do the heavy lifting for him. AKA: I pick him up and put him in the room and close the door. At this point sirens in china erupt from sound pollution coming directly from my four year old's mouth. The Boy, he went mental. Screaming, begging to come out, yelling that he needs a tissue. The list goes on and the time slowed. Ten minutes later, he continued with his fit.
Around minute 18 my daughter turns to me and says, "Mom? That's really annoying. I can see why you don't like it when I do that."
At minute 22, it gets quiet. The door cracks a budge and a small boy, my small boy, creeps out. "Mom?" he shyly approaches me, "I'm sorry."
Twenty-two minutes of absolute utter chaos, hell, yelling, and testing. Twenty-two minutes of neighbors hating us, of passer-bys judging, of new gray hairs. Twenty-two minutes to prove a point that I hope he understands twenty-two years from now.
And, for the record? He did eat the Panda Puffs. Every soggy last bite.
Ode to the Office Jan 24, 2012
Ode to the cubical wall
so tall and so gray
It hides the world,
the sun, the rain,
life outside this day
Ode to the second cup of
coffee that so
quickly is out
You bring new life, energy
before leaving me without
Ode to the music of MOG
which plays in my ear
Knocking out sound
of others conversations
allowing me to disappear
Ode to the florescent lights
so nasty on my skin
bringing new resolve
to moisturize
and cut back on the gin
Ode to the coming paycheck
so sweet to my account
if it wasn't for you,
dear bills and debt,
this life I could surmount
The Red Tent of Flinger-ville. Or something like that but modern and with less hay bails. Jan 03, 2012
It was a familiar feeling, one I can easily conjure up in my mind. Not until I was leaving did I realize how long it's actually been that the four of us where together in the same house. What was it, 1995? Was I married back then? Did Dani have to wear a bra back then? Did Kim have kids? Was I battling gray hair?
My sister, my mother, my cousin and I sat drinking sprite infused juice (cough) while taking copious amounts of photos and rocking the baby to sleep. It was a familiar scene even though I can't place when that would have ever happened. My sister lived in Tuscan Arizona five of the last six years. My cousin is only now old enough to be a "person" off to college. My mother lives even further, back in Houston, near the small town my sister and I grew up in. And I? Well, I tend to never sit still for very long. So when realization hits and I'm sitting there laughing about stories from childhood, I forget how rare this event truly is. Technology makes it possible to connect, airplanes make it possible to travel, time allows us the opportunity but life, that bugger, gets in the way so often. Tonight, not traffic nor rain nor deadlines could prevent what the long-over-due gathering of women: women from my family.
We laughed and joked about being parents, about marriage, about college and boyfriends and love. We talked about the children, about life. We called each other out on past mistakes and forgive when someone farts. The scene could've been straight out of the book "The Red Tent" but with less bleeding and less hay bails. I came to understand, during the short hour drive home, how precious that time was. How rare, how familiar, how ancient the gathering of women from a family. The miles and years that separate us hold little tenacity over the truth of family.
May your holidays be everything you asked for and then some Dec 26, 2011
I am blessed with people in my life whom I share traditions with. We watch our children grow together. They bring me joy well beyond a generic word like "blessed." Each year, for as many years as my youngest has been alive, we gather at Christmas to exchange gifts and create christmas memories to hang on our trees. These memories: beaded off-center balls, reindeer with too much glue, pictures of children years younger under glitter and foam; are treasures of magnificence. We hang each on branches every year in prideful spots. These ornaments, complete with thumbprint-smeared reindeer heads, go in the front of the tree. We're proud of our inability to craft at our house. To visitors it appears we're all a bit special-needs with glue but we see laughter and disastrous glitter accidents and children aching to be with their friends.
This year I drew my friend's seven year old son. This kid is an old man trapped in a young-person's body. While my children run around in their own imaginations, this kid talks like an adult. Since I was completely stumped as to what to get a man-child of 70 trapped in a 7 year old's body, my friend tells me to just get an iTunes gift card. It's what he wants, she says. I'm thrilled. "You kidding? Easiest Gift Ever."
On the way home, this quiet, polite young man opens up to my friend. He said, and I quote:
"Oh my gosh! Could you believe that she got me that gift card?!?!"
"I just told you the other day that I wanted that and she got it for me!"
"She must know me so well!"
"Well, we have known her a long time"
"Wait- do you think she's a wizard??"
"Wizards know stuff- stuff that people don't tell them"
"Oh no- she's not- she's a WITCH!" Witches are even bigger than Wizards and they are girls"
"Also- witches have balls- big balls that tell the future"
"I bet Leslie has a big future ball"
........Yep- she's definitely a witch- which is weird because I have never even met one before"
"So I got a gift card AND I met a witch!"
And with that, I hope your holiday is as joyful, and as unexpected, as my friend's son. May reflections on the year bring you happy memories and may looking ahead give you much joy for the future.
Thank you for reading all seven years running….
Mrs. Flinger
Picking your battles Dec 14, 2011
This morning my daughter came down decked out in layers of plaid skirts, short tights, polka dot socks and crocks. Her paisley purple shirt topped off the entire outfit with a proper bow at the neckline. She illuminated joy from every ounce of her 7 year old tiny body. "Wow, hon! You're a party!" She beamed at this compliment from me and sat down all sorts of matter-of-fact at breakfast ready for the day.
My kid? She has the pizazz.
I remember someone cooing over her as a baby. "Doesn't she just bring you so much joy?" It was an innocent question from a perfect stranger, but at the time she was a three week old leech taking every ounce of my sanity in chunks of 45 minute sleeping blocks. I looked up, bleary eyed, and tried to smile a genuine smile all the while thinking, "Mister, have you HAD babies?"
It turns out? He had. His kids were grown now and he was looking at my three week old baby girl with eyes of decades of memories. Memories like the one at the breakfast table this morning.
"Thanks, Mom," she said to me when I told her I was proud of her for picking out such a great outfit. I looked at her, her seven year old self, blonde hair, blue eyed lovely. Joy? Yes. Happiness? Yes. Frustration? Yes. But love, oh so much love, beyond anything I can comprehend.
We ate, walked to the bus together, and there at the bus stop was our neighbor girl, a girl in the same class, wearing nearly the same outfit. Both girls smiled and giggled with shy confidence. My neighbor and I laughed as our daughters caught the bus, girls in mis-matched socks and polka dot skirts, skipping up the steps. "Here's the thing," I told my neighbor, "I figure I'll pick my battles. Don't do drugs, have safe sex, and bygod wear whatever you want."
I hope she keeps this spirit about her. And I know one day I'll lean over a ragged, tired mother, and ask with genuine knowledge, "Doesn't she bring you so much joy?"
She does. Daily.
** Also, super big than you to Babble for naming me one of the top 100 mommy bloggers!
On darkness.. and light Dec 08, 2011
One of my favorite episodes of my favorite TV show ever is "Northern Lights" of Northern Exposure Episode 4:3. It's an analogy of light within the depths of darkness.
Goethe's final words: "More Light". Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that's been our unifying cry. More light. Sunlight, torchlight, candlelight, neon, incandescent… Lights to banish the darkness from our caves, to illuminate our roads, the insides of our refrigerators. Big floods for the nigthgames at Soldier's Field. Little tiny flashlight for the books we read under the covers when we're supposed to be asleep.
Light is more than watts and foot candles. Light is metaphor. Thy word is a lamp under my feet. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Lead kindly light, amid the encircling gloom. Lead Thou [You] me on. The night is dark and I am far from home. Lead Thou me on. Arise, shine for thy light has come. Light is knowledge. Light is life. Light is light.
We're entering the darkest time here in the Pacific Northwest. The time where the sunlight dips to unseen beds at 4pm and doesn't rise again until 8AM. The hibernation of man becomes a reality and people in coffee shops talk about the endless darkness.
We are a collective bear's den: Nestling down for the winter months, comparing caves and scarves and nuts.
It is during the darkest hours of winter that we seek the Light. To me this is found in humanity. In the imperfect solace of friendships, of community, of tree lightings and holiday festivities. Later we will find this in the houses of those we know: lights of comfort, of discussion: of future plans. This is the time of reflection, of seeking, of finding. And hopefully, as the new year comes upon us, even in darkness, it is a time of light and hope; however that may look in a different new year light.
On Depression and Darkness Nov 21, 2011
#Balance#Life#Getting to know me
Events, months, season, holidays, years. Each one sliding by less influential each time.
The daylight ends so early now. Darkness chills the children as they walk off school busses.
Commuters rush in drizzle rain to the warmth and glow of home.
There is a place I dislike to go. My mind swirls with lonely thoughts. If I chat loud enough, I do not hear her.
I try to not hear winter breathing down my neck.
A year? Two? More? How long has this winter lasted? Why is she here again, so soon?
My children delight in the dark. "It's almost Christmas! Mom, look!" breathless they point at the houses already lit with twinkle lights. I smile, aching for their joy. I hold them close, hoping by some tactile osmosis, their enthusiasm for life will soak in to my bones. I cling to them almost with unhealthy gulps. The very people who used to cause me such anguish, such uncertainty, are the very ones who seem to be saving me of myself. I curl up with them in their beds, listening to their breathing. I watch as they relax in to calm. I wonder if I will ever find that space again; the peace, warmth and hope that comes with innocence.
I reach out for familiarity. I find songs, blips of light from favorite scenes in movies, quotes in books. I revel in the colorful paintings my children proudly display for me. I work diligently to find the Happiness. And yet, here, in this space, the darkness is heavier than I expect. I try, I try, I try. And yet…
On fifteen minutes Oct 27, 2011
#Life#The Flinger Family#Baby O#Working Mom
"Mamma, will you play with me?" There are three other children at school outside playing under the careful eye of their pre-school teacher. I briefly consider the deadlines, the emails, the phone calls. "Yes, Buddy, I will." His face lights up and he runs to select a ball from the bin. We play "kick the ball" which could also be called soccer if we were a little more agile.
At first we are tame, kicking softly, rolling the light red ball across the cement in the covered area back and forth from my large feet to his tiny ones. One of us kicks it a bit too hard and the other laughs as the ball bounces off the divider and the wall. We kick with a twirl. We kick with both feet after jumping. We kick until the ball flies over our heads and we giggle. I am there, at the preschool, in the crisp autumn air with my son laughing while the inbox sits and the clock relents.
Finally it is time for me to leave. I hug, I kiss, I smother with so much love I hope he holds on to me forever. I pull away in my car and I see his small familiar face peering out from the fence. He waves, I wave, he blows a kiss and I blow one back. He signs I love you and as I sign it back my eyes fill with tears of gratitude and thanksgiving. Sometimes fifteen minutes can heal even the most busy of todo lists.
On #EECI2011 Oct 25, 2011
#Travel#Life#Getting to know me#Working Mom
We are over Deluth. We are leaving the Big Apple behind in sunset lights and long shadows. I ponder the past few days, how a few days can be such a grand event, how every group of few days provides alternate versions of life. Carrying my camera down the streets of Brooklyn, watching with the eye of an observer, I pictured myself walking to the cafe to meet a friend on this sunny morning. I would know the cafe barista because this is what we do most Saturdays. I'm not sure if I own a dog, a small one, in this alternate life, but if I do, he walks with me as the kids run ahead. I can see this all through my lens, and my eyes tear up for a brief second with the thought of my children, how wonderfully in love I am with them, how deeply I miss them every single trip, and how desperate I am to show them these lives, even if we do not live them.
*I should always wear a Jenn Lukas as an accessory.*
It is not that I have such a wide array of worldly experience that these new places are becoming familiar. No, though I never travelled to Brooklyn or NY City before, there is an air of comfort to it. The subway is a strangely wonderful experience. The buildings are twice as tall as they seem on TV. The shops are so crowded, a way I only experience at holidays, I squeeze and bump body parts with several strangers in a stretch of three minutes. But they speak English, and for some reason this catches me off guard. The city, this experience, the bustle and tousle of humans in small spaces, the colors, the bricks, the small shops with outside seating: these qualities feel so European to me, my only experience in this environment having happened thousands of miles across an ocean or two.
*A Robert Eerhart and Louis sandwich, the founders of EECI.
No, I'm not sure if Brooklyn and New York feel familiar because of my traveling experiences or if they feel like home because of the people I see within moments of arriving. There is a band of brothers waiting for me at the nearest pub, ordering beer and waiting up well past the appropriate hour of dinner. There is greeting, smiling, hugging and limbs flying around necks. They are people I know beyond work, they are part of a bigger picture I can not possibly explain without bringing you with me. It is impossible.
*A few of the odd boys
As the MC of the conference, I take stage early on the first speaker day of the conference. I am nervous there, but in the crowd I see familiar faces. I remember something I read from Scott Burken, "Everyone in the audience actually wants you to succeed. They are breathlessly waiting for you to kick ass." I'm not sure if those are his actual words, but those are the words that repeat in my mind as I introduce myself, welcome the crowd, and kick off the first speaker.
*Look! That's me on stage! (I did that a lot)
It is this way for two days. The mic, the speakers, the people. It is a blur of puns and friends taking the stage next to me. We manage to make it to the second day, the very last speaker, a good friend of mine, and wrap up the event. It is a feeling of camaraderie, of faith in a community, of strengthening friendships and working relationships. Few conferences can compete.
*Brits who live in Canada still love to drink beer. This teaches us two things. 1. Brits who live in Canada like to drink beer and 2. So does everyone else.
So it is that I think of them as I fly over Deluth. My European friends. My colleagues on twitter. My peers from states and countries and time zones. We gather once a year, in different cities over the world. But we bring with us a sense of home, a sense of comfort, a sense of family. Because of this I know the next city I go to I will think fondly of taking the wrong subway or ordering the wrong menu item. I will laugh to myself quietly unable to explain an inside joke I share with a community thousands of miles wide. I will struggle to explain this to my children when they ask where I was. "I was at a conference, sweetie," I will reply, "and I missed you very much." It is that second part where they will hug me, waiting up past their dinner hour, with arms flying around necks. And I will know I am home again.


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Food marketers love to capitalize on the so-called �health halo� around some foods�you know, the idea that anything with, for instance, �gluten free� on the label is good for you. But not all health food products are really all they�re cracked up to be, says registered dietitian Emily Brown, a nutrition expert for Runnersconnect.net. �The calories, added sugar, preservatives and sodium in some of these highly processed foods can really sabotage a healthy diet,� she says. Here are her top health food imposters. RELATED: Do You Need These Weird Health Foods? � 1. Frozen vegetarian dinners. Don�t let the �vegetarian� badge lull you into thinking it�s automatically healthy, Brown says. Read the label: Some brands of Indian, Asian, Italian or Mexican convenience vegetarian dinners are high in fat, calories and sodium. Make sure an entree provides no more than one-third of your daily requirements. For most people, that�s 500-700 calories, 500-700 mg of sodium and 15-20 grams of fat per meal. 2. Smoothie-bar smoothies. �People think they are healthy because they contain fruit and milk or juice,� Brown says. But the fruit is often packed in sugary, preservative-filled syrup, she says. Smoothies are often also made with whole milk, ice cream or frozen yogurt, which can add up to as many calories as a milkshake. Stick with smoothie bars that use fresh fruit (sans syrup) and let you select the additional ingredients: Choose juice, yogurt or low-fat milk. Or, make your own using one of our 30 Healthy Smoothie Recipes. 3. Frozen yogurt. The word �yogurt� itself implies health, so many people don�t even think twice about checking grams of sugar or calorie counts, Brown says. �It really is worth looking at the label, because many yogurts contain a lot of sugars,� she says. Treat frozen yogurt like soft-serve ice cream: Eat sparingly if you want to watch calories. 4. Protein or energy bars. Read the front of the label, and it might seem like there�s a lot of good stuff in these bars, like nuts and berries. But flip it over for the real facts, Brown says. �Many bars are highly processed and designed for a long self life,� she says. They are also very condensed calories, packing 200-300 calories without providing the fullness of a well-rounded meal, she says. Unless you are athlete with high calorie needs, you�re better off having a handful of nuts and dried berries. 5. Energy drinks. Don�t expect to get a quick boost of energy from the small amounts of B vitamins or amino acids found in some of these drinks. �It�s the caffeine, and, in some cases, the sugar that�s doing the trick,� Brown says. An occasional energy drink is OK, but if you are relying on these drinks to get through your day, find ways to get more sleep and to eat better, for your health�s sake. 6. Turkey or chicken sausage. 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The fat in coconut has some interesting but controversial properties. It contains medium-chain fatty acids, which are easily absorbed and helpful for gastrointestinal problems. Some research suggests that medium-chain fatty acids raise metabolism better than other fats, and can help people lose weight and burn off stored fat. And some very controversial research suggests that medium-chain fatty acids can help reverse neurological problems--even Alzheimer�s. Bottom line: Include some coconut oil in your diet, but for weight loss, make sure it substitutes for other fat and keep your overall calories low enough to lose weight. 9. Nut butters. Peanuts aren�t nuts, they are legumes. True nut butters, such as almond or cashew, usually have a better mix of fats (monounsaturated) than peanut butter. But they are as high in calories as peanut butter, and some brands contain added salt and sugar, so you�ll have to check labels. 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Alumna and faculty member gives Convocation address
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September 21, 2009
The 2009 Convocation featured Dr. Cherese Winstead, DSU assistant professor of Chemistry, as this year's keynote speaker. Dr. Winstead is also a DSU alumna who has come home to give back academically to her alma mater.
Understanding the current DSU Student Government Association's theme of "Smart is the New Cool." Dr. Winstead decide to affirm that belief in the following Convocation address she gave on Sept. 10 in the Education and Humanities Theatre:
As an alumna of Delaware State University, I once sat where you sit today and believe me, the last thing I ever expected as a freshman is that one day I would stand before you as faculty of Delaware State University.
Students, you are living during an exceptional time, attending one of the greatest universities in the first state that helped to elect the first African American President Barack Obama, our nations Vice President from the first state of Delaware, Joseph Biden, the first administration to select the first black Attorney General, Eric Holder and the first Hispanic Supreme Court Chief Justice, Sonia Sotomayor.
These are tremendous advancements in our history of which you all played an important part… and you have the opportunity to pave your own destiny here at Delaware State University.
We know that the decisions we make have a effect on our future. As you make decisions in life, You need to ask yourself, "Will it, help or hinder my progress, and would I be comfortable with that same decision if it were broadcast on CNN or published in the local newspaper?"
Now, I want to engage you in another activity and I'll need full audience participation. I'm going to name two people and I want you to tell me which one made the best choice!
Donovan McNabb ….or Michael Vick? Donovan McNabb is a great leader and well respected quarterback in NFL. Michael Vick is a great athlete still struggling to regain his character.
The path you take is about the choices you make!
Muhammad Ali or Mike Tyson? Both are great fighters but Muhammad Ali is known for his character and leadership –a living legend, and Mike Tyson… well, let's just say he should have had a good meal before he fought Holyfield.
The path you take is about the choices you make!
JayZ or TI? Now some of you may have thought I was saying letters of the alphabet but these are actually hip hop artists. The answer is JayZ. He is clearly defined as a hip hop mogul. I know you like TI, but he's made poor choices plain and simple — he's in jail!
The path you take is about the choices you make!
Lebron James or Kobe Bryant? Even though Kobe Bryant made MVP and took the Lakers to the championship; Lebron James is well respected both on and off the court because of his character.
The path you take is about the choices you make!
Biggie or Tupac? Both are Hip Hop icons but neither made the best choices!
The path you take is about the choices you make!
Whitney Houston or Bobby Brown? Well…let's just leave that one alone.
The path you take is about the choices you make!
Last but not least…
George Bush or President Barack Obama? Please let us learn from our mistakes.
The path you take is about the choices you make!
So students…
To be a great leader… or not.
To study or not.
To graduate or not.
The path you take is about the choices you make … each and every day.
Now the take home message is not to say that you won't make some bad choices in your life – life is about learning from the mistakes.The key is to minimize the negative effect of your decisions on yourself and others.
Remember, the path you take is about the choices you make.
But at the same time, students, let's not make the type of mistakes that involve academic probation, jail or bail. These are issues that students find themselves in due to poor choices. Please, let us find ourselves making choices such as, "Which graduate school should I attend? Which fellowship/ salary offer I'm going to accept?" or, "Should I go for a PhD, MD, or JD?"
Now is the time for you to choose between longevity vs. short term gratification – or the so called "5 minutes of fame" Let me give you examples of the outcomes when choosing one or the other.
A final is coming up in a core course, say Mathematics 101. You choose to cram instead of taking the time all semester to understand the material. And say you pass (by the skin of your teeth no less). You give yourself a high five, dap, pound or whatever. Your whole aim was just to get out the class because you don't want to...nor will you ever see it again, right? Wrong!
Take my word for it you will see it again, in some form or fashion, and you will have to learn it all over again! Longevity vs. short term gratification… Studying to learn vs. to simply pass.
Successful people are those that apply learned concepts. You cannot apply if you never comprehended the concept. Study to learn vs. to just simply pass (heads up: passing the class – that's the best case scenario).
Instead of choosing to be the big man on campus for a couple of years, being the 'flyest' female on campus, partying with the frat or sorors, or athletes… telling the stories of your famed football/basketball career and then having to answer the age old question "so you went to Del State…when did you graduate?" and not having an answer to that question (embarrassing).
How about being the man on the yard with the high GPA, the football player majoring in physics, the frat/soror with your goals in mind to be both smart and cool.
Quick question: out of all entering freshman, who do you think makes up the largest proportion of students interested in science and engineering? African American males make up the largest proportion of students interested and intending to major in science and engineering – but only 8.8% graduate. What happens? Longevity vs. short term gratification. Young men, we need you to finish.
So I charge you with setting your standard of being smart and cool. Young men, pull up your pants to be about business here at Delaware State University. Treat your peers with respect and not fashioned after what you hear on the airwaves. Young ladies, have your intellect be the first thing that a young man notices – intelligence is beauty. I promise, you can be a Michelle Obama too! And just remember, our First Lady chose the right man.
In a few years – and it will go fast – when all the parties stop, when your friends have married and moved on to raise families, and you're working in your respective professions. Smart will still be in style. Keep in mid that being "cool" without the being smart is merely a trend.
At Delaware State University, we think that it's cool to be smart. We urge all of our students to take charge of their future – no matter what anybody thinks. We encourage you to study hard; do not accept mediocre grades, and to take pride in yourself and your accomplishments. Some of the students here today who recently graduated from high school can attest to feeling that you could have done better, that you could have graduated as an honor student if you had only pushed yourself a little harder.
Well, here you have the opportunity to apply yourself and prove to yourself that you can and will do better. So I ask you to become the student you know you can be.
And while it's good to socialize and get together with friends, your main focus should be on your studies. It's good to have friends and value their opinions, but always remember to be true to yourself – your greater self. Remember the key to a successful academic career is to surround yourself with people who are smarter than you.
Hopefully, by now, you realize that the path you take is about the choices you make – so try to make good and informed choices.
When it comes to your studies, expect more of yourself, courses will become more difficult each year. Make sure that you dedicate the time to your courses to ensure a good academic standing and a sound comprehension.
We are proud of you and we want you to be proud of Delaware State University. We're glad you're here! Congratulations, God bless, I'll see you in Chemistry class. Hopefully only once!


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tingjunkie wrote:Ali Shan Din Hu from FL. This time given a week or so to get over any travel shock and made in a gaiwan instead of a pot. No noticeable improvement.
Also had my first round of 2010 Farmer's Choice BZ in the gaiwan as well. Quite disappointed compared to the 2009. Got a strong boiled corn on the cob (or corn silk) flavor, but the floral/fruity notes and long finish were lacking.
Is it me? Maybe I'm in a tea slump. Perhaps it's the weather? I'm not giving up on these. Usually Floating Leaves delivers the goods.
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