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When the student was brought to the hospital, he was foaming at the mouth and had a blood alcohol content of .451.
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BATON ROUGE, La. — A Louisana State University (LSU) student was arrested Monday in connection with a fraternity hazing incident that sent a pledge to the hospital.
Phi Kappa Psi member Terry Pat Reynolds II, 21, was charged with one count of felony hazing, 12 counts of misdemeanor hazing, and one count of failure to seek assistance, according to an affidavit for the arrest warrant filed by LSU Police.
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An investigation was launched after police responded to Baton Rouge General Medical Center on October 19, reports CBS 58. According to police, an unresponsive LSU student who was a new fraternity member was dropped off at the hospital at 3 a.m. by a group of males who were later identified as Phi Kappa Psi members. The student had severe alcohol poisoning and was placed on life support.
According to the police affidavit, when the victim arrived at the hospital, he had frothy pink foam coming from his mouth and a blood alcohol content of .451 — nearly six times the legal limit for driving. The student survived and has since been released from the hospital.
During its investigation, detectives with the LSU Police Department collected cell phones from several fraternity members and determined the incident occurred at Reynold's off-campus residence where he providing the alcohol. Eighteen new members were associated with the event — 13 of whom are considered hazing victims and five who were designated drivers.
Reynolds, who was the fraternity's "New Member Educator," gave new members "multiple bottles and cans" of alcohol and would not let them leave until they finished. Witnesses said Reynolds gave more bottles to members if they didn't finish fast enough.
Messages sent through the app GroupMe indicates Reynolds was aware of the concerning conditions of some of its members but that no calls were made to 911 during the event. The affidavit said no one sought help until someone outside the event saw the victim later that night.
Reynolds was released from jail on a $13,500 bond Monday. In Louisiana, felony hazing comes with a possible sentence of up to five years.
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A joint statement from the university and the national Phi Kappa Psi fraternity said they suspended the LSU chapter two weeks ago as the school continues to investigate the incident. The school's office of Student Advocacy & Accountability will also conduct its own investigation.
Reynold's arrest comes a little more than three years after Maxwell Gruver, an 18-year-old LSU student, died from acute alcohol intoxication and aspiration following a hazing ritual at the school's Phi Delta Theta fraternity. An autopsy revealed his blood-alcohol level at the time of his death was .495.
In Oct. 2017, 10 fraternity members initially faced charges connected to Gruver's death. A grand jury only indicted four defendants in March 2018.
In July 2019, Matthew Naquin was sentenced to five years in prison with two and a half years of the time suspended. Sean-Paul Gott and Ryan Isto pleaded no contest and were sentenced to 30 days in jail. Charges against Patrick Forde were dropped due to his early cooperation and testimony at Naquin's trial.
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Bob Saget's wife asks Elon Musk to re-verify late comedian's Twitter account
One year after the sudden death of comedian Bob Saget, his wife has a request for billionaire and Twitter CEO Elon Musk: Give Saget his blue checkmark back.
Saget's widow, Kelly Rizzo, took to Twitter Monday — on the one-year anniversary of his passing — to ask Musk why the comedian lost his verified status on the social media platform after his death.
"Hi @elonmusk -today on the 1 year anniversary of Bob's (@bobsaget) passing, I saw he's no longer verified?," Rizzo wrote. "My husband truly loved Twitter. Out of respect for his legacy, can something be done? Thank you kindly. (friends please help)."
She added that the "Full House" star would have been disappointed to see that his checkmark disappeared because he enjoyed using Twitter.
"The only reason I'm addressing this at all is because I know Bob would be very bummed about this," Rizzo said. "He'd say 'hey, if someone goes to see my page and all the jokes I've tweeted over the years, how will they know it's for sure me!?'"
Hi @elonmusk -today on the 1 year anniversary of Bob's (@bobsaget ) passing, I saw he's no longer verified? My husband truly loved Twitter. Out of respect for his legacy, can something be done? Thank you kindly🙏🏼 (friends, please help)
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Currently, Twitter does not have an option to memorialize the accounts of deceased users. The only course of action available for those accounts is for verified family members to request that the platform delete them altogether.
Musk has not yet responded to Rizzo's tweets, but fans and supporters seconded her thoughts and brainstormed ideas for memorialized Twitter accounts.
"Maybe there could be a special colored check for all legends that have passed on?" one user replied under Rizzo's tweet.
On Jan. 9, 2022, Saget died at age 65 in an Orlando hotel room while on a comedy tour. An autopsy determined the actor died from accidental head trauma, which most likely resulted from a fall.
The prolific stand-up comedian was best known for his role as Danny Tanner, the wholesome single dad to three girls in the 1990s sitcom "Full House."
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Yesterday, Milwaukee-based Clifton Gunderson, the country's 14th-largest accounting firm, announced that Krista McMasters will be taking over as its CEO in June 2009, marking the first time a female will head a top 25 U.S. accounting firm.
McMasters, Clifton Gunderson's chief practice officer who originally joined the firm in 1978 as an associate accountant, will succeed Carl George, who is stepping down as chief executive officer but will stay on with the firm until 2012.
In a press release announcing the appointment, Barry Melancon, president and CEO of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), said that McMasters' "achievement is an important signal that old barriers are falling." He also pointed out that "today, women make up more than half of new accounting graduates and account for 20 percent of firm partners nationwide."
Also commenting on the momentous move was Cheryl Leitschuh, who heads the executive committee of the AICPA's work/life and women's initiative. She told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that "a woman hitting this level in a firm is really a great indication of the work that's been done and the changes that are happening in the profession to accommodate different lifestyles and different career needs."
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Christopher Zorn, liberal arts research professor of political science and sociology at Penn State, will launch the McCourtney Institute for Democracy's spring 2017 speaker series at 4 p.m. on Friday, March 17, in 112 Chambers Building. The title of Zorn's presentation is "The Federal Courts Under Trump." The lecture, which is also the keynote address for the annual spring conference hosted by the Center for American Political Responsiveness — one of two research centers associated with the McCourtney Institute — is free and open to the public.
Zorn is also an affiliate professor of law at Penn State and serves as associate director of the Big Data Social Science Integrative Graduate and Research Trainee Program. He previously served on the faculty at the University of South Carolina and Emory University, and was a visiting scientist and program director for the Law and Social Science Program at the National Science Foundation. Beyond Penn State, Zorn is vice director for analytics at the Arbitrator Intelligence Project and serves on the executive boards of the International Methods Colloquium and the Empirical Legal Studies weblog.
Zorn has received funding from the National Science Foundation and has written numerous peer-reviewed articles on judicial politics and statistics for the social and behavioral sciences. He received his bachelor's degrees in philosophy and political science from Truman State University and his doctorate in political science from Ohio State University.
The McCourtney Institute for Democracy, based in the Penn State College of the Liberal Arts, promotes rigorous scholarship and practical innovations to advance the democratic process in the United States and abroad. To learn more about the McCourtney Institute and its spring 2017 speaker series, visit http://democracyinstitute.la.psu.edu or email the institute at DemocracyInst@psu.edu.
Christopher Zorn, Penn State liberal arts research professor of political science and sociology, will deliver a lecture titled "The Federal Courts Under Trump" at 4 p.m. March 17 in 112 Chambers Building.
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For the last two years I have been working on a 'historical sociology' of two stock markets established in London in 1995 in response to a series of rule changes at the London Stock Exchange (LSE).
The first, the Alternative Investment Market, or AIM, was set up by the LSE. It was established as part of LSE chief executive Michael Lawrence's 'seven-point plan' for the repositioning of the Exchange as an engine for economic growth focused on the UK regions. AIM was also, in part, a reactive move allowing the Exchange to deal with competitive threats in Europe and at home, particularly growing activity under its own Rule 535. It has acted as a proving ground for many smaller companies and plays an important role in the political positioning of the LSE.
The second, OFEX (renamed PLUS in 2004) was privately operated and driven by commercial demand. Originally operated as a trading facility, it achieved legal recognition as a 'designated market' in 2001, and then as a Recognized Investment Exchange (RIE) in 2007. As OFEX it coexisted with the LSE and rode the dotcom wave; as PLUS it served as a vehicle for a market rebellion against the LSE. It struggled to maintain a commitment to its original small company constituency and to compete as a trading venue of choice against the Exchange. While AIM has flourished, PLUS faltered after the financial crisis of 2008, and my narrative finishes in 2012 with the sale of the PLUS RIE licence to ICAP, now NEX.
My research is based on interviews with members of the small company stock market community, as well as extensive documentary records. I have compiled a narrative account of these markets designed primarily for interested academics and for members of the professional community. It's freely available and you can download it here. My narrative begins on the old floor of the LSE prior to the 1986 'Big Bang' and finishes with the failure of PLUS in 2012. I conclude with some brief reflections upon the challenges and opportunities facing stock markets serving the smaller company sector, as illuminated by this history.
Please feel free to download, circulate, and quote. Suggested citation: Roscoe , P J 2017 , The rise and fall of the penny-share offer : A historical sociology of London's smaller company markets. University of St Andrews.


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Peer Gynt ,the protagonist of the play , starts out as a highly imaginative, irresponsible youth to find himself only to know in the end that he has no self. The webinar will consist of an overview of the life and works of Henrik Ibsen as well as a discussion and analysis of the play. Participants will be expected to have read the play, available for free HERE. Thursday, April 8, 6 pm – 8 pm. $10 for ACT members. $15 for Non-Members . Moderated by David Rutter.
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"Now He Has Really Done It!": Marco Rubio Alienates Comic-Con Crowd
Marco Rubio's views on reproductive rights are likely to alienate women. His views on immigration reform are likely to alienate a lot of Latinos. His take on marriage equality is going to alienate the LGBT community. And his plan for tax breaks for millionaires will alienate economists.
But now Rubio has really done it: he's alienated the comic-con crowd.
The latest McClatchy/Marist poll found the Florida senator running third nationally, trailing only Donald Trump and Ben Carson, in the race for the Republican nomination, but there was an interesting age gap: Rubio may be the youngest candidate – he's only 44 – but he enjoys stronger support with older GOP voters than younger GOP voters.
Rubio has pitched himself as the voice of a new generation of far-right policymakers, but voters older than him tend to like Rubio more than voters younger than him.
The senator's take on science fiction may not help matters.
The first hint of trouble came two weeks ago, when someone asked Rubio a familiar genre question: Star Wars or Star Trek? He tweeted in response, "Star wars. It has a political theme." The political themes in Star Trek are hard to miss, making his answer odd.
Today in New Hampshire, Rubio added some related thoughts on the subject, explaining his conflicted feelings about Darth Vader. He also reflected on some childhood toys (thanks to my colleague Will Femia for the heads-up):
…Rubio also revealed that he had a toy version of the Death Star, the fictional base for the movie's darker forces, and re-told a key moment in the series' plot.
"I think I had the Death Star, but it kept breaking just like it did in part two – in 'Empire Strikes Back' when it blew up cause that guy got that rocket to go into that hole," Rubio said. "Remember that?"
No. No, no, no. Noooooo.
Look, I realize Marco Rubio gets confused about economic policy, foreign policy, health care, immigration, the culture wars, and most of the major issues of the day, but he should at least have some basic understanding of Star Wars canon.
First, the Death Star blows up in two Star Wars movies, but "The Empire Strikes Back" isn't one of them.
Second, Luke Skywalker is not to be referred to as "that guy."
And third, I wouldn't really say Luke fired a "rocket."
Political pundits seem to love the Florida senator, but is it fair to say Rubio just lost some backing among sci-fi pundits?
Postscript: If Rubio is looking for pointers on how public officials and politicians should talk about Star Wars, he could get some useful pointers from the Obama White House, which knows what it's talking about.
By: Steve Benen, The Maddow Blog, November 10, 2015
November 11, 2015 Posted by raemd95 | GOP Presidential Candidates, Marco Rubio, Science Fiction | Comic Con, Darth Vader, Death Star, GOP Voters, Luke Skywalker, Star Trek, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back | 1 Comment
"Jeb Can't Even Handle The Little Stuff": The Simple Job Of Finding A Couple Of Handful Of People To Serve As His Delegates
We have a very convoluted system for electing our president, and particularly so within our party nominating contests. In some places we have caucuses that are followed by county and state conventions where delegates are selected to the two parties' respective national conventions. In other places, we have primaries where delegates appear directly on the ballot. In these cases, it's not just a matter of getting the candidate's name on the ballot, you also have to field enough delegates to take advantage of the support you get from the voters. In Alabama, at least, Jeb Bush couldn't meet this basic test.
One data point promoted by the Bush team as a show of organizational strength: Bush already is on the ballot in 13 states. But Ohio Governor John Kasich isn't far behind, with his name on the ballot in nine states. First-term U.S. Senator Ted Cruz's team said they've put his name on ballots in 17 states and territories.
In Alabama, one of the Bush campaign's top targets in March, Bush has endorsements from a member of Congress, a handful of state legislators and statewide officials. Yet, in contrast with Donald Trump or Marco Rubio, Bush wasn't able to find a full slate of delegates to run on the ballot by Friday's deadline.
"It's been hard to recruit people to run because of how his numbers have gone," said Chris Brown, an Alabama Republican strategist who worked for the Florida Republican Party when Bush was governor.
This obviously undermines Jeb's main arguments for his own candidacy. He's supposed to be competent and experienced. His team is supposed to know what it is doing and have a shot at matching the team the Clintons will bring to the general election contest. He's supposed to have enough establishment support and resources to not have to worry about things like ballot access that can be a real challenge to cash-strapped and little-known candidates.
And, yet, even in a deep red state where he's got significant establishment support, he couldn't accomplish the simple job of finding a couple of handfuls of people to serve as his delegates.
It's almost sad, really.
By: Martin Longman, Political Animal Blog, The Washington Monthly, November 10, 2015
November 11, 2015 Posted by raemd95 | Delegates, GOP Presidential Candidates, GOP Primaries | Alabama, Donald Trump, GOP Voters, John Kasich, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz | 3 Comments
"It May Be Democrats Who Gain The Most": Why Fox Business Is The Perfect Venue For The Republican Debate
The most recent Republican primary debate, which aired two weeks ago on CNBC, was a well-choreographed pageant of pandering, evasion, and deceit. Confronted with moderators who questioned the feasibility, consistency, and wisdom of their issue positions, the candidates responded not with demonstrations of their substantive knowledge, but with fabrications and unfounded accusations of media bias.
Republicans registered their dissatisfaction with enough petulance that the host of Tuesday's debate, Fox Business Network, is trying to set itself apart. To avoid a repeat of the CNBC mess, it is making its moderators "invisible" and thus unable to interject when the candidates say untrue things.
It stands to reason that the GOP and Fox Business will serve each other's purposes perfectly. By renouncing confrontation and skepticism, Fox Business will give Republican candidates the obstacle-free forum they demand; and in return, for distinguishing itself from CNBC, Republicans will refrain from attacking the network's moderators as limelight-seekers or agents of a media conspiracy. A symbiosis of cynicism and reciprocal gratification.
But that isn't to say the debate will redound to the benefit of either Republicans or their inquisitors. Republicans and Fox Business may figure out how to get along with one another, but it doesn't necessarily follow that the candidates or the network will enjoy lasting boosts to either their reputations or their ultimate aims. In the end, the winners of such a delicate presentation might well be the very people Republicans have sought to demonize, at the expense of misled and frustrated Republican voters.
The conservative movement in the Obama era has been marked by leaders who hyperbolize and over-promise, simultaneously stoking latent paranoia and failing to adequately confront these imagined dangers. Recent convulsions on the right—like former Speaker John Boehner's resignation from the House, and former Majority Leader Eric Cantor's defeat last year at the hands of David Brat, a right-wing primary challenger—are widely characterized as self-defeating acts of conservative excess. But they can just as easily be characterized as the justified backlash of a disgruntled conservative rank and file. "[Cantor] wrote, ran on, and promised the Pledge to America," Brat complained recently to reporters. "He is now name-calling, and making fun of—as 'unrealistic'—those who are running on the pledges that he made on paper. So, Eric Cantor was the leader who put forward the Pledge to America, and we're 'unrealistic' for following his logic. Run that by a college freshman in philosophy. That's called a contradiction. Socrates would give him an F."
Republican primary debates are venues for this kind of over-promising and underperforming on a grander, televised scale. The four leading Republican presidential candidates have promised to reform the tax code in equally, but uniquely unserious ways. Donald Trump would reduce revenues by $10 trillion over a decade, but he wishes away this immense calamity by claiming falsely and without any shame that his plan would generate 6 percent economic growth in perpetuity. Ben Carson proposes a tax plan based on the tithe. Ted Cruz's combination of a flat income tax with a value-added tax would be less fiscally disastrous but much more regressive. Marco Rubio promises tax cuts so enormous that he'd have to eliminate the entire non-defense budget, save for Medicare and Social Security, to square away the rest of his promises. These ideas are the embers of the next right-on-right conflagration, which will erupt when the Repbulican nominee swings back to the center during the general election, or when the next Republican president fails to deliver what he promised.
CNBC's fiasco proved that journalists who don't enjoy the auspices of the conservative movement can't successfully contest this kind of outlandishness in real time. Republicans will brush off outsider scrutiny as a symptom of media bias. Fox Business doesn't have that problem. But if for the sake of coalition management its moderators decide they're better off serving as enablers, it won't be in the interest of the party or the candidates or GOP voters. They'll be doing a favor to those who stand to gain from the right's increasingly attenuated grip on reality.
By: Brian Beutler, Senior Editor, The New Republic, November 10, 2015
November 11, 2015 Posted by raemd95 | Fox Business, GOP Presidential Candidates, GOP Primary Debates | CNBC Debate, David Brat, Democrats, Eric Cantor, GOP Voters, John Boehner, media, Tax Code | 1 Comment
"Domain Specific Intelligence": The Truth About Ben Carson; Smart People Can Believe Crazy Things
The mystery of Ben Carson is that he's a startlingly intelligent man with an inspiring life story who repeatedly makes unhinged assertions that are divorced from reality—and who, as we now know, unnecessarily embellishes his life story. About Carson's braininess there can be no doubt: He's not just a doctor, nor is he just a brain surgeon, he's also performed astonishing medical breakthroughs. In 1987, he was the first surgeon to successfully separate twins conjoined at the head, not a feat that you can do unless you are extraordinarily talented. Yet Carson's impressive medical accomplishments are puzzling in light of the many absurd things he's said, notably that Charles Darwin was inspired by Satan and that the pyramids were created by the Hebrew slave Joseph to store grain (as against what Carson thinks is the belief of many "scientists" that they were created by space aliens).
There's no gainsaying the undisputed facts of Carson's life, which are genuinely elevating. He really did go from a ghetto childhood to Yale to medical school to being a world-class surgeon. Why then has Carson felt the need to gild the lily with apparently tall tales of being a violence-prone kid who nearly murdered a friend, and being offered a scholarship to West Point? Reporting by CNN and Politico has made it clear that these central claims in his autobiographical account of himself are almost surely false.
To solve the mystery of Ben Carson, it's important to realize two facts: First, great intelligence doesn't immunize a person from indulging in magical thinking or pseudo-science. Second, even very smart and accomplished people can be fantasists.
A key text for understanding the Carson phenomenon is science journalist Michael Shermer's Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Times (originally published in 1997 and revised in 2002). In a chapter titled "Why Smart People Believe Weird Things," Shermer notes that "intelligence is … orthogonal to the variables that go into shaping beliefs." What this means is that the factors that make someone believe unusual and non-scientific or pseudo-scientific ideas—everything ranging from ESP to myths about Atlantis to oddball Shakespearean authorship theories to outright holocaust denial—are independent of intelligence. These are beliefs that very smart people as well as the far less intellectually gifted are prone to.
"Another problem is that smart people might be smart in only one field," Shermer notes. "We say that their intelligence is domain specific." Carson clearly has a "domain-specific" intelligence—which he freely applies to fields outside his ken (not just Egyptian Archaeology but also American politics, foreign policy, economics, evolutionary biology, and many others).
But there's a further factor at work: In our educational meritocracy, smart people like Carson are likely to have high social status, which makes them more self-assured and willing to think they are smarter than the experts in other fields. Or smart enough, in Carson's case, to believe they're qualified for the presidency.
In some respects, being as intelligent and well-educated as Carson makes you more vulnerable to what Shermer calls weird beliefs. The smarter and better-educated you are, the more powerful you are at coming up with arguments to justify your positions. In effect, intelligence and education give you the skills at becoming entrenched in motivated reasonings. In Shermer's words, "smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending belief they arrived at for non-smart reasons." This explains the engineers who become 9/11 truthers, the Supreme Court justices who think the Earl of Oxford wrote Shakespeare's plays, the distinguished mathematicians who think HIV is not the cause of AIDS. It also explains Ben Carson.
But aside from his proclivity toward weird ideas (often connected to his right-wing ideology), we now know that Carson is also a fantasist. His inspirational tales about his life seem to be filled with fibs, moments where he takes perhaps a kernel of truth and turns it into an outright untruth.
Here again, we have to recognize that intelligence and accomplishment are no guard against moral failings. Whatever qualities make someone into a fabulist—perhaps a love of powerful stories, perhaps an inability to distinguish between fact and fiction—can be found in the gifted as well as the ordinary. Two distinguished historical figures prefigure Carson in this regard: the novelist Ford Madox Ford and the political theorist Harold Laski. Ford wrote wonderful novels like The Good Soldier (1915), and Laski was a seminal figure in the Fabian movement, yet both inexplicably felt the need to spruce up their life stories. Ford was genuinely friends with figures like Joseph Conrad and Henry James, but made up stories about them in his autobiographical books. Laski was active in the heart of British politics, yet his letters and private conversations were filled with untrue stories about meeting famous people and doing extraordinary things.
Ben Carson is fast becoming a tragic figure. He's a man of genuine merit, yet he's tarnished his reputation through his inability to resist fantastic ideas—and to make up fantasies about his own life. He stands as proof of the fact that intelligence is unconnected to morality.
By: Jeet Heer, Senior Editor at The New Republic; November9, 2015
November 11, 2015 Posted by raemd95 | Ben Carson, GOP Presidential Candidates, GOP Primary Debates | Charles Darwin, Economics, Egyptian Pyramids, Evolution, Ford Madox Ford, Foreign Policy, Harold Laski, Politics, Truthers, West Point | 1 Comment
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text:
require 'spec_helper'

feature Track do
  let!(:conference) { create(:conference) }
  let!(:organizer_role) { Role.find_by(name: 'organizer', resource: conference) }
  let!(:organizer) { create(:user, role_ids: [organizer_role.id]) }
  let(:user) { create(:user) }

  shared_examples 'admin tracks' do
    scenario 'adds a track', feature: true, js: true do

      sign_in organizer

      expected = expect do
        visit admin_conference_program_tracks_path(conference_id: conference.short_title)
        click_link 'New Track'

        fill_in 'track_name', with: 'Distribution'
        fill_in 'track_short_name', with: 'Distribution'
        page.find('#track_color').set('#B94D4D')
        fill_in 'track_description', with: 'Events about our Linux distribution'
        click_button 'Create Track'
      end

      expected.to change { Track.count }.by 1
      expect(flash).to eq('Track successfully created.')
      within('table#tracks') do
        expect(page.has_content?('Distribution')).to be true
        expect(page.has_content?('Events about our Linux')).to be true
      end
    end

    scenario 'deletes a track', feature: true, js: true do
      track = create(:track, program_id: conference.program.id)
      sign_in organizer

      expected = expect do
        visit admin_conference_program_tracks_path(conference_id: conference.short_title)
        within('#tracks', visible: true) do
          page.accept_confirm do
            find_link('Delete').click
          end
        end
      end

      expected.to change { Track.count }.by(-1)
      expect(flash).to eq('Track successfully deleted.')
      expect(page.has_css?('table#tracks')).to be false
      expect(page.has_content?(track.name)).to be false
      expect(page.has_content?(track.description)).to be false
    end

    scenario 'updates a track', feature: true, js: true do
      create(:track, program_id: conference.program.id)
      sign_in organizer

      expected = expect do
        visit admin_conference_program_tracks_path(conference_id: conference.short_title)
        within('#tracks', visible: true) do
          find_link('Edit').trigger('click')
        end

        fill_in 'track_name', with: 'Distribution'
        fill_in 'track_short_name', with: 'Distribution'
        page.find('#track_color').set('#B94D4D')
        fill_in 'track_description', with: 'Events about our Linux distribution'
        click_button 'Update Track'
      end

      expected.to_not(change { Track.count })
      expect(flash).to eq('Track successfully updated.')
      within('table#tracks') do
        expect(page.has_content?('Distribution')).to be true
        expect(page.has_content?('Events about our Linux')).to be true
      end
    end
  end

  shared_examples 'non admin tracks' do
    scenario 'adds a track', feature: true, js: true do

      sign_in user

      expected = expect do
        visit conference_program_tracks_path(conference_id: conference.short_title)
        click_link 'New Track request'

        fill_in 'track_name', with: 'Distribution'
        fill_in 'track_short_name', with: 'Distribution'
        page.find('#track_color').set('#B94D4D')
        fill_in 'track_description', with: 'Events about our Linux distribution'
        fill_in 'track_relevance', with: 'Maintainer of super awesome distribution'
        click_button 'Create Track'
      end

      expected.to change { Track.count }.by 1
      expect(flash).to eq('Track request successfully created.')
      within('table#tracks') do
        expect(page.has_content?('Distribution')).to eq true
        expect(page.has_content?('Events about our Linux dist...')).to eq true
      end
    end

    scenario 'withdraws a track', feature: true, js: true do
      track = create(:track, :self_organized, program_id: conference.program.id, submitter: user)
      sign_in user

      expected = expect do
        visit conference_program_tracks_path(conference_id: conference.short_title)

        accept_confirm do
          click_link 'Withdraw'
        end
      end

      expected.to_not(change { Track.count })
      expect(flash).to eq("Track #{track.name} withdrawn.")
      within('table#tracks') do
        expect(page.has_content?(track.name)).to eq true
        expect(page.has_link?('Re-Submit')).to eq true
      end
    end

    scenario 'updates a track', feature: true, js: true do
      create(:track, :self_organized, program_id: conference.program.id, submitter: user)
      sign_in user

      expected = expect do
        visit conference_program_tracks_path(conference_id: conference.short_title)
        click_link 'Edit'

        fill_in 'track_name', with: 'Distribution'
        fill_in 'track_short_name', with: 'Distribution'
        page.find('#track_color').set('#B94D4D')
        fill_in 'track_description', with: 'Events about our Linux distribution'
        click_button 'Update Track'
      end

      expected.to_not(change { Track.count })
      expect(flash).to eq('Track request successfully updated.')
      within('table#tracks') do
        expect(page.has_content?('Distribution')).to eq true
        expect(page.has_content?('Events about our Linux dist...')).to eq true
      end
    end
  end

  describe 'organizer' do
    it_behaves_like 'admin tracks'
  end

  describe 'signed in user' do
    before :each do
      create(:cfp, cfp_type: 'tracks', program: conference.program)
    end

    it_behaves_like 'non admin tracks'
  end
end

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


The holidays are here! How did that happen? I'm starting to make my list of gifts to buy for loved ones, so I thought I'd round up a few of my favorite things that you might like to give to your family and friends. I'm just as particular about the items in my home as I am my recipes, which is to say very particular.
Here are some of my tried-and-true favorites, from clothing and accessories that are worth every penny, to natural skin-care products that work, to my favorite non-fiction read of the year and the ten-dollar gold earrings I can't stop wearing. You might find a few new favorites to add to your own wish list, too!
For even more ideas, check out my kitchen essentials, as well as my favorite cookbooks and last year's holiday gift guide. Some of the links below are affiliate links, which means I'll get a small commission if you purchase through my links (at no cost to you, of course). Thank you for supporting Cookie and Kate!
Tad Carpenter Field Print: If you're curious about the blue print behind my little tree, you can get a better look at it here. It's made by a local Kansas City illustrator and available for purchase online, along with lots of other fun prints. Update! I just found his prints (framed) at West Elm, too.
J.Crew Stadium Cloth Cocoon Coat: This warm, classic coat is one of my favorite purchases of all time. I call it my Princess Kate coat. The eye-catching color brightens up cold winter days and I get compliments on it everywhere I go. I bought this coat a couple of seasons ago, so it's no longer available in royal blue, but it comes in a ton of other bright colors this year.
Everlane Casual Petra Bag: Everlane makes the most amazing clothing and accessories for men and women, with total transparency on where the items are made and how much they cost to make them. I treat their leather tote bag like my briefcase. My 15″ MacBook fits perfectly inside, even in its neoprene case. The quality of this bag is far superior to the similar totes at J.Crew and Madewell. I don't think I'll ever need another one!
Frye Melissa Tab Knee-High Boot in redwood vintage leather: This year, I splurged on the most gorgeous pair of brown riding boots. I'm still wearing my first pair of riding boots, ten years later, and I intend to wear these for at least as long. They're also available in black and in wide-calf sizes as well. If you can't find your size, check Zappos.
Radha Organic Rosehip Oil: I'm cleaning up my skincare act and this natural oil is working wonders. Rosehip oil came recommended by Monique, who has the most amazing skin, so I thought I'd give it a shot. It's very moisturizing and, I swear, it seems to be fading some faint age spots on my cheeks. I just apply a few drops at night since it has a light orange tint to it. If you're worried about breakouts, I haven't had any from this oil. Did I mention it's only $12?
Osmia Spa Series Rosemary Body Mousse: Super luxurious, rosemary-scented body mousse that really moisturizes. I love the smell of this stuff and it doesn't irritate my sensitive skin. Osmia makes a lot of wonderful natural skincare products and their founder, Sarah, is a really passionate, funny lady and former E.R. doctor.
Beautycounter Dew Skin Tinted Moisturizer: Beautycounter is a new cosmetics and skincare company that uses strictly non-toxic ingredients. I traded in my Nars tinted moisturizer for their version and I like it even better. It's light and provides a nice amount of natural-looking coverage. The built-in sunscreen has saved me from several sunburns already.
Le Creuset 5.5-Quart Dutch Oven in white: Will I ever be quiet about my Le Creuset Dutch ovens? Nope. This heirloom-quality pot makes everything taste better and looks great on the table. The 5.5 quart size is perfect for making 4 to 8 servings of soup, pasta, rice and so forth. Amazon is offering a nice price on the white one right now, but it's available in even more colors at Williams-Sonoma.
FashionABLE Legesse Tea Towels: My friend Kelly helped design these woven cotton tea towels, which benefit the Ethiopian women who made them. These absorbent towels wash beautifully, come in lots of great colors and patterns and are reasonably priced at $16 each.
Vitamix Blender: Here's another item I can't stop talking about. Vitamix is offering refurbished blenders with soup and smoothie functions for $329 right now. They come with my favorite blender container (the tall one), too. I have a refurbished Vitamix and it has never failed me. If you want the Rolls Royce of blenders, I can also vouch for this beaut. Give the gift of ultra-creamy soup this year!
Earlywood Ladle: Another soup-related gift, a handmade wooden ladle. Treat this beauty well and it will live forever.
Ikea Sittning Salad Server Set: I'm really digging these retro salad servers from Ikea! Available in stores only.
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking: I identified with so much of this book. It helped me better appreciate my own quirks and the diversity of personality traits around me. Steal away from the holiday hubbub with this one, and know that you're not the only one who needs plenty of peace and quiet.
Withings Activité Pop Smart Watch: This watch is a really cute fitness tracker. It counts your steps and tracks your sleep automatically. I've gotten a number of compliments on its looks and people freak out when I tell them it works like a FitBit, too.
Old Navy Striped Compression Leggings: Meet my all-time favorite yoga leggings. These are so soft and comfortable. They're stretchy but never lose their shape, and they're thick enough that they're not see-through in the slightest. I also love Old Navy's black leggings, but there's something about the fabric of this striped version that makes them even better. If you're in between sizes, I find that their leggings run snug.
West Elm Bodega Glassware: Really nice looking and cheap glassware. These glasses look delicate but they're plenty durable. If you need extra glassware for guests this year, these are perfect—only $36 for a set of twelve. You can purchase them individually in stores.
Vermont Farm Table Live-Edge Walnut Board: That beautiful background is a live-edge walnut board from Vermont Farm Table. Vermont Farm Table is a family-owned business that makes gorgeous wooden kitchen tools, as well as my dream dining table.
Everlane Silk Short-Sleeve Crew: Meet my latest Everlane obsession, this super elegant silk tee ($75). You can dress it up with a long necklace or fold up the sleeves for a more casual look. The sleeves are a little longer than your average women's cut tee, which means they are actually flattering. Everlane now offers a ton of different styles of silk tops, as well as exceptionally soft cashmere sweaters. Their menswear is really sharp, too.
8mm Gold Bar Earrings: These super simple, dainty 14-karat gold-filled earrings are handmade in Brooklyn and cost only $10. I put them in and forget that I'm wearing them for days!
If you need even more ideas, don't forget about my kitchen essentials shop, favorite cookbooks list and last year's holiday gift guide!
Thanks, Laura! That's a great idea. I'm kind of obsessed. Happy holidays!
Love all these picks!! Totally agree that Frye boots will last forever! (I've had mines for ~3 years and they still look new!) Also love Susan Cain's Quiet–I really related to it too. I want to read Brene Brown's Rising Strong next! Have to check out those JCrew coats–so classy and chic!
Thanks, Emily! I haven't read Rising Strong yet, either, but I love Brene Brown!
That Dutch oven is on my wishlist!
This is a great list! A post or two ago you mentioned the vitamix sale (and free shipping!!!) and I bought myself one. I'm so excited to use it! My husband and I have recently gone vegan (after being vegetarian for many years) and I'm on the verge of killing the "normal" blender I've had since the start of college. Which, eek, I'm realizing was seven years ago.
Hey Krystal! Ohhh, I'm excited about your new Vitamix. That's such a great deal. Yay!!!
Rosehip is such an amazing oil. I'm so happy you like it! Happy holidays, Kathryn! xo.
Ohh, so much good stuff! I especially love the "Princess Kate Coat" :) Question about the compression leggings: do you find them too tight? I've been looking for a pair of compression leggings, but in some of them, I find they are hard to move around in. Thoughts?
Thanks, Elissa! My normal size in those leggings is too "compressed" for my liking, so I size up. They're perfect for lounging and for yoga that way.
Kate, I love your blog, and initially came across it because I am a an animal loving vegetarian. I have to say I am suprised and disappointed to see the celebration of leather. In my paradigm, it's no different than Cookie's skin. I know we all have areas of personal conflict and compromise when it comes to our relationship with animals, and it is impossible to be human and live entirely without causing harm to other beings. This is why I emphasize my objection as "the celebration of." I do feel we can, and should, strive to at least minimize our personal exploitation of animals whenever possible and also to model this ideal by example. We can't completely avoid the products of animal suffering, but we can be vigilant in considering how we can reduce our personal impact.
Hi Mary, thank you for your feedback. I hear you. In the past year or so, I have started paying more attention to where my clothing comes from and I think this post reflects that. I would really like to see companies be more transparent about their sourcing and labor practices, whether they're making leather or not. I have been operating under the assumption that most leather comes from animals who were raised for meat so I'm not contributing to their demise by wearing it, but I've very recently realized that is not always the case. For what it's worth, I do buy quality items and take care of them so they last a long time, and I'll be giving more thought to future purchases than I have in the past.
Love this list! I'm going to have to check out those Old Navy leggings. I bought a new pair from Gap recently and I've been very disappointed with them since they are a little see-through. But I'll give Old Navy ones a go – the stripe pattern is fantastic! Also, I admire your commitment to sustainability and supporting companies that promote transparency in their supply chain. I work on human trafficking research and appreciate your advocacy!
Thanks, Alexa! I am paying a lot more attention to where my clothes come from lately. I hope you like the Old Navy leggings. I size up so they're not super duper tight, which probably helps prevent the see-through issue as well.
Such a great list, Kate! I splurged on those same Frye boots and have absolutely no regrets. Just love them and wear them all of the time! Been wanting to read Quiet as well- heard so many good things about that one!
Thank you, Emily! Yay for matching boots!