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Self-organization of teams in free/libre open source software development. Information and Software Technology Journal: Special issue on Understanding the Social Side of Software Engineering, Qualitative Software Engineering Research, 49(6), 564–575. doi:10.1016/j.infsof.2007.02.004. (2007). 060918.pdf (282.58 KB)
A structurational perspective on leadership in virtual teams. ( )Proceedings of the IFIP Working Group 8.2/9.5 Working Conference on Virtuality and Virtualization. Portland, OR: Springer.. (2007). A Structurational Perspective On Leadership.pdf (327.01 KB)
Asynchronous Decision-Making in Distributed Teams (Poster). Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. presented at the 8–12 November, San Diego, CA.. (2008). CSCW2008Poster11x17Draft.pdf (198.92 KB)
Bug Fixing Practices within Free/Libre Open Source Software Development Teams. Journal of Database Management, 19(2), 1–30.. (2008). jdbm2008 (547.43 KB)
The bug fixing process in proprietary and free/libre open source software: A coordination theory analysis. In , Business Process Transformation (pp. 69-99). Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe.. (2008). The bug fixing process in proprietary .pdf (661.59 KB)
Competency rallying for technical innovation: The case of the Virtuelle Fabrik. Technovation, 28, 679–692. doi:10.1016/j.technovation.2007.11.003. (2008). TECH1410 (381.28 KB)
Decision Making Paths in Self-Organizing Technology-Mediated Distributed Teams. Proceedings of the International Conference on Open Source Systems. Paris, France, 14-17 December.. (2008). Decision Making Paths in Self Organizing Technology Mediated Dist.pdf (159.03 KB)
Depicting What Really Matters: Using Episodes to Study Latent Phenomenon. Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS).. (2008). Depicting What Really Matters Using Episodes to Study Latent Phe.pdf (183.12 KB)
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Coordination without discussion? Socio-technical congruence and Stigmergy in Free and Open Source Software projects. In 2nd International Workshop on Socio-Technical Congruence, ICSE. presented at the 19 May, Vancouver, Canada. Retrieved from http://docs.google.com/View?id=dhncd3jd_405fzt842gv. (2009). Coordination without discussion? Socio-technical congruence.pdf (114.35 KB)
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BWW Reviews: HGO's DON GIOVANNI's Plot Drags Despite Tremendous Talents
Running opposite the bright and colorful SHOWBOAT in Houston Grand Opera's winter repertoire is an austere and dark production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte's DON GIOVANNI. This atmospheric and melodramatic opera presents the audience with the lecherous Don Giovanni, who has hired Leporello to keep a little black book of each of his numerous conquests and sexual assaults against the women of Europe. The show opens with Donna Anna escaping the man and crying out about his assault. Her father rushes to protect her and is unapologetically slain by Don Giovanni. Moving on, Don Giovanni stupefies the naïve Zerlina with his Casanova-like charms and lures her away from her husband Masetto. Meanwhile, Donna Anna, her fiancé, Don Ottavio, and Donna Elvira, an embittered woman that is one of Don Giovanni's conquests, all strive to bring his transgressive improprieties to public light.
Harry Silverstein is the artistic heir to the late director Göran Järvefelt, who originally directed this production. The direction by Göran Järvefelt and Harry Silverstein for the show keeps the plot moving along as quickly as the meticulous score and ambling, often repetitive libretto allow. After the soaring, dramatic overture and energetic opening scene, the plot slows to an almost complete halt as the audience repeatedly becomes witness to Don Giovanni as a sexually rampant monster of a rakish tramp. Things pick up slightly when Masetto becomes jealous of Don Giovanni's interactions with his wife, which leads to the lively and engaging wedding party scene that closes the first act. Likewise, the second act reintroduces themes made abundantly clear in the first act, such as Donna Elvira's willingness to be forgiving of Don Giovanni, which brings the plot to a slow crawl. It finally gains momentum when the statue of the Commendatore appears at Don Giovanni's home for dinner, leading to the opera's thrilling and altogether quick climax and resolution. However, both by Göran Järvefelt and Harry Silverstein have brought majestic, humorous life into the opera. They ensure that it is truly a drama giocoso that occasionally makes audiences roll with laughter, even in 2013.
Trevor Pinnock's conducting of the show is sprightly and enthusiastic. He is certainly passionate about the score, putting his whole body into his artful conducting. Anytime the story seemed to moving too slowly for me, I found my self consummately entertained and enthralled with his abundantly animated full-body style of conducting.
Adrian Eröd's Don Giovanni is not the debonair and ravishing Adonis that the character thinks he is. He is physically scrawny, but perfectly brings to life the suave, sensual charms that sway and woo his conquests with delicate and practiced ease. His unflinchingly unapologetic and altogether static characterization of Don Giovanni ensures that the climatic decision to never repent is believable, facing a sentence to hell without fear or atonement. His rich and melodic Baritone is melodious and well suited and adeptly exploited by the role.
As Leporello, Kyle Ketelsen is loyal to a flaw, earning guffaws and respect from the audience. His character is charming in his own way, and the audience laughs in agreement when he sings that he needs to find a better master in the finale. His powerful and pleasing baritone instrument pristinely brings to life every scene he is in and is most impressive when he appears to almost talk on pitch in the short and spectacularly staccato conversations with Don Giovanni.
Donna Anna, sung in lush, vivacious soprano by Rachel Willis-Sørensen is a showstopping revelation of artful operatic integrity. Every moment she is on stage she is captivating and alluring. Where other characters seem dully repetitious in their rehashed thematic utterings, Rachel Willis-Sørenson fills each note with such brilliant life that the audience never minds hearing her repeat the same idea. Moreover, she conveys Donna Anna's agony and despair with tangible realism, which makes her inadvertently humorous in the finale due to the opera's overarching melodramatic tone.
Veronika Dzhioeva's Donna Elvira is flamboyantly misguided, willing herself to forgive Don Giovanni if he'll settle with her. Mix in a delightful melodramatic flair, and she becomes a consistent and anticipated comic relief throughout the show. However, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte really beat her character arc into the ground by constantly reminding the audience of her willingness to forgive. Regardless, her announcement of becoming a nun elicits great peals of laughter. Furthermore, her soprano voice sparkles and radiates in the role.
Joel Prieto's bright and illustrious tenor instrument is perfectly employed in his portrayal of Don Ottavio. He is beguiling but charmless as he constantly seeks to right the world for his betrothed without really ever stopping to consider her feelings. Joel Prieto boldly sings and brings insensitive arrogance to striking life in his portrayal of Don Ottavio.
Zerlina is brought to luminous life by Malin Chistensson's gleaming soprano instrument. She adds a naïve charisma to her portrayal.
Utilizing a vivid bass-baritone instrument, Michale Summel sings Masetto with an fascinating gusto. His character's jealousy is concretely defined.
Doing double duty by performing in both of the winter repertoire shows, Morris Robinson's alarming and visceral bass instrument is used to differing and powerful affect as the Commendatore. Here he is spartan and commanding, where his Joe in SHOW BOAT is delightfully warm and melodious.
Carl Friedrich Oberle's Set Design perfectly captures the grim tone of the show. The pieces are imposing and bleak. The neutral colors allow for fantastic lighting effects to be employed while appearing unnerving and almost hostile at all times.
Costume Design, also by Carl Friedrich Oberle, is pristinely period appropriate. The colors are dark and bold, and stand out against the muted light color of the sets. Don Giovanni is ingeniously clad in shoes with red heels, setting him visually apart from every other persona on stage.
Duane Schuler's lighting design deftly uses dazzling color palettes to enhance the set pieces and make the mood and tone of each scene visually apparent and appealing. Most interestingly he bathes the final scene in Don Giovanni's home with such a stark white light that everything seems dismal and vibrant at the same time, almost creating the simultaneous washout and brilliance of fluorescent lighting.
Unfortunately all of these astounding and pleasing elements combined together do not make DON GIOVANNI the most captivating and interesting opera that I have had the pleasure of seeing. The repetitiveness of the score and libretto cause parts of the plot to unnecessarily drag, but how does one even begin to try and tighten up a 225 year old piece without ruining your artistic integrity. Furthermore, I couldn't even begin to suggest cuts. Even with its tedious passages, the performance is made enjoyable by the remarkable talents showcased on the stage and in the orchestra pit.
Houston Grand Opera's DON GIOVANNI runs in the Brown Theatre of the Wortham Center through February 10, 2013. For more information and tickets, please visit http://www.houstongrandopera.org/ or call (713) 228 - 6737.Courtesy of Houston Grand Opera. All Photos by Felix Sanchez.
Morris Robinson (Commendatore) and Adrian Eröd (Don Giovanni).
Kyle Ketelsen (Leporello) and Veronika Dzhioeva (Donna Elvira).
Adrian Eröd (Don Giovanni) and Malin Christensson (Zerlina).
Joel Prieto (Don Ottavio) and Rachel Willis-Sørensen (Donna Anna).
Adrian Eröd (Don Giovanni), Veronika Dzhioeva (Donna Elvira), Joel Prieto (Don Ottavio), Rachel Willis-Sørensen (Donna Anna), and Kyle Ketelsen (Leporello).
Adrian Eröd (Don Giovanni) and Morris Robinson (Commendatore).


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Yesterday News Corp unveiled The Daily, its new iPad-only daily newspaper. You have to pay $1/week to subscribe to it.
Bad new though: anyone can easily read it for free.
Andy Baio has created The Daily Index on Tumblr, which simply aggregates all the links to each story within the "paper." (You see, there's no front page aggregating, but every individual story has a link, so that other bloggers can link to it.)
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Recently, I have been experiencing a hair crisis of sorts. I've mentioned it and it still isn't settled… And then I saw the picture Sarcastic Mom took of me at our get-together last week and knew I had to do something about it rightthisveryminute.
The thing is, though I have no problem with changing the color of my hair (as evidenced by the waaayy too dark color of my hair in the aforementioned photo, and the plum hair I've mentioned having) hair styles are different. I'm a bit more chicken about doing anything drastic (though this wasn't always the case either… much to the chagrin of my mama, during my high school years.)
So I got online over the weekend, found a site that allowed me to upload my photo and tried on some new dos. I could even change the hair color, add some highlights and lowlights and even makeup!
I started out on a serious mission. I knew what style I was trying to get to, but I did let myself get a bit distracted by a few others on the way to it.
This Sandra Bullock style was a pretty good first try. I even like the color and highlights that are already in it. But I know I would drive myself crazy with the sultry "hair over the eye" look. I'd still end up with it shoved behind my ear.
Well, hello, gorgeous.
Love the color, but not practical for an everyday style.
Unless I'm a member of some royal family. Which last I checked, I wasn't…
I decided to try a few other styles and colors.
And then things just got downright silly:
My best Gwen Steffani imitation.
The roots are the pièce de résistance, no? I could smuggle a few birds with that monstrosity.
There is just nothing good to say about this one. At all.
I'm sure that somewhere, there is a former stylist for Jennifer Lopez who is still crying her eyes out.
Hello, Charlie!
I don't think I could handle the pressure to pull this one off. Feathered hair is such a risk… plus, I'd have to rummage through my things and locate my old legwarmers and roller skates. Madonna is probably the only one who could remotely pull it off. And I laughed when I saw her with it.
Cate Blanchett is such a beautiful, classy looking woman. But this style, in this color is not for me.
I worried that my short haircuts I used to sport made me look boyish. They had nothin' on this one. Katie Holmes works it a lot better than me.
Spice World, baby!
Wait… is that a smile on my face? Isn't it illegal to sport a Posh hair style and a smile at the same time?
Drats… and I kind of liked it.
Again, with the silliness.
It reminds me of the original Becky on Roseanne.
I bet it would be easy to style… but that's about all I can say about it.
This is a brown version of Patricia Arquette's hair style.
I actually like it.
But I'm not willing to cut my hair shorter… yet.
aaaaaahhhhh – I finally got to what I set out out to find. love love love love love love it. with highlights (below) or not (above). This photo is going with me to the hairstylist. And I'm going to a real one too. Not my usual $6.99 job-y.
Watch out! Mama's splurgin'!
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Here is a photo from the graveside service of Berendena "Dena" Van Leeuwen Donaldson in the Ogden, Weber, Utah Cemetery. I have previously shared Dena's life story. But I thought I would make this photo available and hope maybe we can find a few more people in the photo. My father says he was present, but did not make it into the photo. He seemed to think he was standing with Jan, Richard, and Johnny, he may very well be the hidden person under the bough of the tree. He provided me the names of the people in the photo, but I do not have a second confirmation for the names, so if you can confirm or correct, I would appreciate your help.
Dena died 5 March 1959 in Ogden. This picture was taken 9 March 1959, the date of her funeral and this graveside service. Three of Dena's children are seated (Dora, Gladys, and Maxine). Betty is Dena's daughter-in-law. Dena, Dena's daughter, is standing also beside her husband Chauncey Michaelson. Dad seems to remember Grandpa (Milo Ross) and Dave Donaldson are blocked by the tombstone on the right of the photo. Two of Dena's sisters are visible (Mary and Kate). Dad could not identify any of the other people as they were either not family or distant enough he cannot recall them. I think the man to the right of Johnny Telford and the man to the left of Mary Hewitt are Dena's brother-in-laws, but I do not know which (only four were still living; George, Ellis, Ed, and Alvin), but they have Donaldson traits.


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Satellite Telemetry Used To Study BP Oil Spill Effects on Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle
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Padre Island National Seashore, Texas – The Deepwater Horizon Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) Trustees this week offered a glimpse into the world of scientists working to assess injuries caused by the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on the world's most endangered sea turtle, the Kemp's ridley. Assessment work includes field and laboratory tests to determine oil-related turtle exposure and satellite tracking via transmitters attached to turtles that come ashore to nest and lay eggs.
The assessment is taking place during the current 2012 Kemp's ridley nesting season at Padre Island National Seashore (near Corpus Christi, Texas). This area makes for an ideal study site because more Kemp's ridley nests have been found here than at any other single location in the United States.
The primary nesting site of the Kemp's ridley is near Rancho Nuevo, Mexico, with significant additional nesting in Texas. The full feeding and migratory range of the sea turtle includes most of the Gulf of Mexico. That range includes the site of the Deepwater Horizon (MC 252) mobile drilling rig and the waters and coastal areas polluted by crude oil and dispersants released after the 2010 rig explosion.
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International efforts to protect the Kemp's ridley began 34 years ago with efforts to increase nesting by establishing a secondary nesting site at Padre Island. A key goal is to provide a safeguard for the species should nesting success at the beaches in Mexico decrease.
Satellite tracking of the Kemp's ridleys began in 1997. Movements were tracked to help predict where and when the turtles might nest again, and assist field staff and volunteers in detecting and protecting nests. Turtles were also tracked to identify habitats used in the Gulf of Mexico. This historical monitoring revealed that after the nesting season, most of the tracked turtles left south Texas and traveled northward, parallel to the coast, with their last identified location in the northern or eastern Gulf of Mexico. Since the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, similar NRDA-sponsored studies are providing data being used to determine Kemp's ridley exposure to and injury resulting from MC 252 oil and dispersants.
Along with satellite tracking, NRDA scientists are also collecting blood and tissue samples from adult turtles and fail-to-hatch turtle eggs for chemical and toxicological analysis. These analyses include testing for the presence of both polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), organic compounds present in crude oil, and for the "fingerprint" of MC252 oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill.
The Kemp's ridley assessment work at Padre Island National Seashore is led by Donna Shaver, Ph.D., in coordination with a team of other state, federal and university scientists. Shaver is the chief of sea turtle science and recovery at the National Seashore, where she has worked on Kemp's ridley recovery for more than 20 years.
To follow the movements of sea turtles being tracked with satellite transmitters, visit http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking, then selecting the link "Padre Island National Seashore Kemp's Ridley Tracking Program-2012." These web pages include maps and data showing the movements of 10 turtles tagged with satellite transmitters.
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Eugenio Garza, Jr. knows that personal experience can be a great teacher. His father had been employed by an oil and gas company that moved to Oklahoma and was forced to take an early retirement. With a household of eleven, his father struggled to make ends meet and the family went north to work as migrant farm workers. It was not an easy life, but this experience gave Garza the motivation to finish high school and attend college.
Inspired by the Border Patrol officers he observed as a farm worker, his dream was to become a police officer. He was drafted by the United States Army, and later entered the Air Force. It was there that he was given an opportunity to receive the training as a military policeman to fulfill his life's dream. With encouragement from his family, especially his father, he rose through the ranks. He then pursued his degree in Criminal Justice and landed the post he fills today. A believer in lifelong learning, Garza is now pursuing his Masters of Science in Criminal Justice.
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Two men reported they were shot at approximately 12:30 a.m. on Sunday, March 31 while at an apartment in Orange.
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On Sunday, Oct. 7, more than 1,000 pastors nationwide planned to defy their restrictions on political candidate endorsements by preaching from their pulpits about who their members should vote for in what they are calling "Pulpit Freedom Sunday."
We went out to document on of these illegal sermons, but we unable to capture any violations, as we were met with high suspicion by the church. So here is us basically getting kicked out. Enjoy.
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Durbin, Quinn push for minimum wage increase
CHICAGO, IL (AP) – U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin and Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn have joined labor unions and workers to push for raising the minimum wage.
The Democratic lawmakers spoke Monday in Chicago.
Durbin says the U.S. Senate could vote this week to raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 per hour. He says he supports the measure, which is unlikely to get a vote in the Republican-controlled House.
Durbin says people who go to work every day shouldn't live in poverty.
Quinn is pushing a separate measure to raise Illinois' minimum wage from $8.25 to $10 per hour. He says it would stimulate the economy by putting more cash in workers' pockets.
Opponents say hiking the minimum wage will force companies to lay off workers, adding to Illinois' already high unemployment.


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Introduction to the Black Canyon City LandslideKaatje Kraft (designed with Robin Paarlberg Fergason at Arizona State University for her Preparing Future Faculty Project)
Mesa Community College
Intended Audience: Community College students in introductory physical and environmental geology classes
Black Canyon City, AZ
- 7:45 am
- Meet at MCC
- 8:00 am
- LEAVE MCC (meet on the South Side of the Physical Science Building #8--click here for a map of campus)
- 9:00 am
- Stop in Black Canyon City (BCC) for a pit stop (our last "civilized" bathroom for most of the day)--grocery store & bathroom included.
- 9:30 am
- Arrive at field location and start hiking (this will involve some steep inclines and rugged terrain).
- Noonish
- Lunch on the landslide.
- 3:00 pm
- Arrive back at the vans. We'll stop back in BCC for any needed pit stops on the way out of town.
- 4-5 pm
- Arrive back at MCC.
Students could understand the system that is causing this landslide without hiking, but probably not understand the mechanism quite as well.
This could easily be used for an intensive research project for undergraduates in a geomorphology class or advanced field class as done by Ramon Arrowsmith at Arizona State University
This field trip is designed for introductory level students (it works well with a balance from physical (101) and environmental (110) geology students). This trip can work for any number of students from 6-20, ideally pairing up students from the two different classes.
This field trip was an extra credit option for the students after the 101 students have been introduced to relative dating principles and geologic structures and the 110 students have been introduced to mass wasting processes.
This trip does require some bushwacking and steep ascents in portions. As a result, it is limited to people that are comfortable walking at least 2 miles. This is not on a marked trail, and can lead to interactions with aggressive vegetation and possible interactions with snakes and insects. Students with SEVERE fear of heights are discouraged from attending, however, students with some fear of heights have succesfully completed the field trip with minimal stress.
By the end of the field trip, students should be able to answer (or, at the very least predict) the following questions:
- What is causing this landslide to occur?
- Is the landslide currently active?
- Is this feature a threat to Black Canyon City?
Students share their ideas with the other participants on the trip and also have a better understanding of how geologists do work in the field.
Students stop at several locations along the trip. At the first few stops, they are asked to identify the different materials present in this landslide and describe them as well as sketch them. They also examine the relative age relationships to determine what is on bottom and what is on top (a little tricky as they're walking up section with faults intersecting).
After they're familiar with the materials, we ask them to determine which material is the most likely to cause motion.
At our final stop, they measure the fractures and describe the relationship to the vegetation. We also have an overlook to be able to see Black Canyon City below. We ask them to defend their positions of the type of motion (after a mini-lecture on the types of landslides--slump block vs. rotational) and predict the effect on the surrounding community.
Notes and Tips:
I try to make sure that student are aware of rest stops (we stop at a local supermarket before we go out into the field, and we stop on our way home in case a flush toilet is needed) and encourage them to use the "outdoor facilities" if needed. A full itinerary is provided ahead of time.
The group is required to stay close together since it is not on a marked trail and it is easy to get lost. As a result, students stick together, help each other out, and have a more "bonding" experience overall.
Students are not allowed on the trip if they do not have appropriate (close-toed) footware and some water. It's also nice to have some cold water/gatorade waiting back at the van.
The "trail" follows a stream channel. Since it is a desert climate, it is dry most of the time. If a heavy rainfall has occurred or is likely to occur, this may not be safe.
This area continues to be developed and may become less accessible in the future.
Assessment and Evaluation:
Students hand in their field trip packet at the end of the trip--it is graded for accuracy and effort.
Materials and Handouts:
Field Guide (Microsoft Word 90kB Jun29 06)
Topographic map (Acrobat (PDF) 545kB Jun29 06)
Aerial photographs available on Ramon Arrowsmith's website.


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Hello everyone, :)
I thought that I would go ahead and post a new painting that I just started last night. Its still a work in progress that needs a lot of work. I really want to push the detail with this one and add a few more elements to it. So far I am very happy with the way it's turning out. The process has just been flowing for me so far.
I haven't had much time for personal work lately and it was fun working on this painting. I hope to finish this image soon.
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Hey everyone,
Finally I have a new design for my site which I am much happier with . Along with my new site design I also added a new basic lip painting tutorial to my tutorial page along with an older one that I created in the past. I will soon be adding a lot more content to the site since it is still not complete so keep checking back.
Aside from updating my website I also recently created a new painting. I have always been so fascinated by the universe and nebulae are among the most beautiful phenomenon in space. Just for fun one recent evening I decided to paint my own nebula. All together I spent about an hour or so on it. I may create a more zoomed out version of it as well.
For some more good news my work has also been included in the DVD content of this months issue of ImagineFX. I haven't yet received my copy so I haven't seen it but I'm really looking forward to it. My work was also included in the fxpose section in issue #37 as well.
I haven't had much time to update this blog because of work but I plan on posting a lot more soon.
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Are you looking for a last-minute gift for a New Orleans native who's moved to another city? Or for a friend or family member who loves visiting the city? Or simply your family and friends who would appreciate your own love for the city? This holiday season, you can give the gift of NOLA to any giftee, and you have many options at your disposal.
Fleurty Girl
Fleurty Girl sells a huge range of gifts, including some very unique gifts, from cocktail-named, hand-stamped towels or a fleur de lis nightlight to a vintage city map, cuff bracelet, cosmetic bag or mouse pad. The store also carries plenty of T-shirts, books, music, footwear, accessories and gifts for the home—just about anything you can think of, all in delightful local themes. Gift prices run the gamut, and gift cards are available as well.
Dr. Bob's Artwork
Dr. Bob is a classic and well-known artist in the city, most highly revered for his unforgettable signs that are colorful in both style and verbiage. You can find such sayings as perhaps his most popular, "Be Nice or Leave!" as well as a slew of other sentiments and drawings, all of which are locally inspired. In addition to brightly painted signs and frames, he also decorates each piece of artwork with a selection of beer caps fastened around the frame for a little added flair. You can find most of his artwork either at his store (3027 Chartres) or online on eBay and the Dr. Bob website. They are a little more on the pricey side (most around $85) but well worth it if it's in your budget.
Café Press
If you're looking for gifts that are both New Orleans and Christmas-themed, you can visit Café Press' website for a nice selection. They offer decorative Christmas ornaments featuring a fleur de lis on Mardi Gras-colored ball ornaments (and other ornaments), greeting cards, wall decals, wine charms, T-shirts and more featuring plenty of fleur de lis, famous locations and even a taste of local play-on-words, such as "Heaux Heaux Heaux." Most gifts range between $10 and $30.
Anything Saints-related
Let's face it—We are hugely obsessed with its football team, so anything Saints-related is bound to be a hit this holiday season. T-shirts and jerseys are very popular and can be found at many different stores and online retailers, such as Saints.Fanatics.com or the NFL Shop. You can also find all sorts of different black and gold items for just about any person or occasion at stores and markets across the city as well as various online retailers, and prices run the gamut here as well.
Whether you shop locally or online this holiday season, you'll find the perfect gift for all the loved ones on your list.


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November's Manchester WordPress User Group, run by WordPress co-founder Mike Little, takes place at MadLab (http://madlab.org.uk) on Wednesday, November 21st from 6.30pm to 9pm.
The Agenda includes: NOTE: We will be continuing with the split session idea. The evening will be split into two sessions with a general session from 6.30 through to 7.30 and a development/technical session from 8pm through to 9.
General Session
- WordPress News
- A report from the WordPress Community Summit by Simon Wheatley
- Questions & Answers
- Troubleshooting session
- A Chance to show off your WordPress site
Technical session
- Technical news
- A report from the WordPress Community Summit by Simon Wheatley
- A talk or presentation (TBD)
- Questions & Answers
If you have other suggestions for items to go on the agenda, please comment here or on the mailing list.
Anyone with any experience of WordPress is welcome, whether you've heard about it and want to know more, you're an experienced WordPress user or developer, or anything in between; you are welcome to our meetings.
If you fancy coming along, let us know at our Meetup page.
MWUG is run by Mike Little (http://zed1.com), co-founder of WordPress with Matt Mullenweg (http://ma.tt/about), so come along to discover how WordPress can benefit you or your organisation, and get specific advice on any WordPress questions you have.
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It has been an important life lesson for Tim Tebow, spending a year at the bottom of the barrel, a year with Rex Ryan and the New York Jets. Ryan and Tebow were never going to be a good mix, like oil and walking-on-water.
Tebow learned, finally, that sometimes you have to be selfish. It is the only way to survive in this world. Sorry if thats not the best Christmas message. But Tebow had done everything Ryan had asked all year, bulking up, even playing special teams. He did it without complaint. And when Tebows time came, and Ryan finally realized that Mark Sanchez cant play quarterback, he still didnt get his turn. Ryan passed over him for some third-string guy.
Tebow reportedly refused to play in the wildcat offense on Sunday. That doesnt make his good guy bit a fraud. No, it just moves him from 1950s black and white to 2012 reality. From here, Tebow can leave the Jets and continue to be a good guy, but just do it in less of Disney-fied way.
Look, its possible that Tebow just cant play football. I dont see it that way, but his last two NFL coaches have. That doesnt excuse the way Ryan treated him.
Its pretty simple, really. For all the meaning people have found in Tebow Bill Maher thought he represented the evils of the political right all he has done is try to be a good person and play football. Thats it. Two things. But that is too much for football people to grasp. It is such an unusual combination that coaches, GMs and owners cant accept it, dont know what to do with it.
In Denver, coach John Fox tried to ruin Tebow's career for it. And Ryan just might have succeeded.
Turns out, Tebow was just too much class for the classless acts of Ryan and Jets offensive coordinator Tony Sparano. He was too much grace for the graceless franchise that is the New York Jets.
They used Tebow in the most mean-spirited way. No wait, that isnt true. In Denver, it was more mean-spirited. In New York, they never even gave the man one thought. It was only the image they wanted.
So the Jets smiled nicely at him, told the man they wanted him, paid him well, gave him a helmet and then treated him terribly while trying to benefit from the only thing they wanted: the image. If Tebow had known that thats all he was there for, he never would have wanted to go to the Jets.
He wants to play football.
People might not see it as class that Tebow wouldnt play the wildcat this past Sunday. But Ryan has never once been there for him. His time in New York is up. There was no need to prolong this, not after what happened last week.
In Denver, Fox inherited Tebow, and never wanted him. But with fans Tebowing all over the place, and demanding to see Tebow, Fox finally gave in. It was not because he thought Tebow could help the Broncos win. It was because Tebow had become a hindrance in the rebuilding, a distraction.
Fox played Tebow only to prove something to fans who thought of him as Football Jesus. He wanted them to know that Tebow cant play. So Fox called all the wrong plays, and short, precise passes for Tebow, things he is especially not good at. And when Tebow started winning, ultimately leading the Broncos to the playoffs, it was a nightmare for Fox and John Elway.
The Tebowmania just kept growing. Elway dumped him anyway, and covered his tracks by signing Peyton Manning. And the Broncos are Super Bowl contenders now.
The Jets saw too many things in Tebowmania. Not Tebow, just the mania. The Giants had won the Super Bowl, while the Jets had become the new Bronx Zoo. The Jets wanted to class up the place a little, and get some of the attention from the other side of town.
He was used. Paid well, but used.
Thats not to say he can play at the NFL level. He has been given one chance, and he won with it. He has proven to be a leader, without fitting the paradigm. But his coaches just dont think he can do it. Elway might have proved his point with Manning, though it took one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time to make that point.
But nothing would have been lost by going to Tebow this past Sunday, when third-string guy, Greg McElroy, didnt look any better than Sanchez, and the Jets lost again.
I think Ryan was afraid of the man, actually. What if Tebow had done it again, started winning despite the inability to throw a precise pass? It would have made Ryan look all the more inept for sticking with Sanchez the whole season.
What a mess. Theoretically, someone from the Jets had scouted Tebow, thought he had what it took to play quarterback, right?
Hah! That was never part of the equation. So Tebow moves on now, after one more week with the Jets. Hell likely end up in Jacksonville, where he probably should have gone for this year. Heres hoping Jacksonville sees him as a man and not a stunt or political statement.
After his college greatness at Florida, though, you wonder what theyll see him as, football player or incredible ticket-seller. Fans there will pressure coaches more than they did in Denver.
At least Tebow knows what to watch for. He is learning.
He still sucks at throwing the ball.
Bleacher Report article by a Tebow fan. He's a nice guy but the Jets didn't treat him poorly because he had "too much class."
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Another talking head, trying to defend Tebow who will never be a starting QB in this league, another talking head who has another agenda of pimping a guy whose only claim to fame is his supposed class and how great of a teammate he is, which he just violated, and his religious faith and work off the field, which is undoubtedly highly commendable.
I'm sick of the complete bull**** that Ryan and the Jets screwed Tebow...
Really? A guy whose own teammates have been PUBLIC about his performance on the practice field, and how awful they are. There is half the fan base crying for Sanchez to be gone because he's lost the respect of his teammates, how the **** does Tebow get passed over on this very same analysis?
What a crap article by another Tebow fan, the Jets don't owe Tebow crap.
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What a biased article. Journalistic crap. Jets don't owe Tebow anything, period.
Posting up something from Bleacher Report as a legitimate news article was bannable at one point a few years ago. It has all the integrity of an Incarcerated Bob tweet. All long-time posters know that. But hey, anything to promote an agenda. It's the Christian thing to do.
Does the OP know that "bleacher report" is merely a site where fans sign up under different names and then type whatever bullsh-t article they want where they can then bring it to forums like here and act like it's legit?
BAN THE OP for believing that we're all THAT stupid and gullible.
Heck, Ban renegade for being so far up Teblow's brown-eye he can see out of his mouth.....
No need to.ban renegade...
He'll be heading to Jagwires.com or some other place with his beloved Timmy on Monday
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Now Tebow knows how we feel as fans.
****ed over.
I also really really want to play QB for the Jets! I can't throw a football well, but I'll work really hard and do what the coaches ask of me. Can I play now?
jPoppy, under the following circumstances I can see why you thought you'd be the starting QB. After all, IF:
If all season long Rex Ryan told you, your teammates, the media and the fans that you're the legitimate #2 QB - and then he benches the #1 QB - you'd be correct to believe you get to start.
If you were the active #2 QB even with 2 broken ribs, and Coach Ryan told you, your teammates, the media and the fans that he didn't dress McElroy because YOU had gotten the reps that week as #2 QB and knew the plays and McElroy didn't, then YOU are absolutely correct to believe you get to start if #1 QB is sidelined.
If Coach Ryan tells you, the team, the media and the fans that if #1 QB Sanchez gets hurt YOU will come in to replace him and play the usual traditional offense instead of the wildcat, then you are correct to believe you'd start if #1 is benched.
I can provide you with links to the press conferences etc where Rex has made these statements and many similar statements over the course of this season.
Rex Ryan effing lied to Tebow and everyone else until the lie became so obvious that even the most trusting of souls, Tim Tebow, could no longer believe it. Man up and admit it.
So to answer your original question jPoppy, sure you can play. Rex Ryan totally deserves to have YOU as starting QB.
You're riding that pony because you have nothing better to blame for your hatred. Don't get all sanctimonious now and pretend that this make-believe "quitter" rumor is why you hate Tebow. You'd hate him no matter what he does.
Hey, on another point, how do you feel about John Elway after college when he was the #1 draft pick for the Colts and refused to play for them? He'd never had an NFL game in his life but demanded to be traded. Yeah, I thought so. You'd support him. or any other college draft choice doing that. Imagine if Andrew Luck had done that! Oh sheet, imagine if Tim Tebow had done that! Oh wait, no one can imagine Tebow or Luck being arrogant enough to do that.
How about you stick to the FACTS next time instead of writing fairy tales.
Four days Seven hours until 9AM Monday and time for Poor Widdle Timmy to head to LaGuardia for his flight home to his beloved JaxSuzy and the rest of his adoring cult blinded by adoration to his clear and obvious lack of NFL quarterback ability
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Volunteers of America and Major League Baseball players have teamed up to inspire the next generation of volunteers by launching a new radio and TV public service announcement campaign titled "Teammates."
The PSA campaign was created to encourage students, teachers and administrators to volunteer through the high school-based Action Team national youth volunteer program, administered by the Major League Baseball Players Trust and Volunteers of America. PSAs were recorded in January 2013, when LaTroy Hawkins (New York Mets) and Craig Kimbrel (Atlanta Braves) were joined by more than 100 high school students from the Dallas/Ft. Worth and Houston areas -- most of them Action Team members.
The campaign demonstrates that high school students can have a profound impact in their communities when they become "teammates" as part of the Action Team. The PSA also demonstrates the continuing growth and popularity of this unique program.
The Action Team was launched in Denver in 2003, and to date, Action Teams of high school students and Major Leaguers have inspired more than 64,000 students to serve over 204,000 people in need.
This school year, Major Leaguers and more than 900 Action Team Captains in 130 high schools across the country are working together to inspire and train the next generation of volunteers. There are Action Teams in 34 states, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico and Japan. Each month, Action Team Captains participate in a conference call hosted by legendary broadcaster George Grande featuring a Major Leaguer and an "Action Team High School of the Month."
Action Team Captains also receive free posters, DVDs, T-shirts and brochures to help support their efforts. They are invited to attend Action Team training sessions at the beginning of the school year and receive free tickets to Major League Baseball games as well as certificates of achievement signed by Major Leaguers near the end of the school year. The Players Trust annually awards $40,000 in college scholarships to recognize the efforts of Action Team Captains -- those students responsible for planning and organizing the volunteer activities that help mobilize their peers to get involved.
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Have you read Douglas Reeser and Claire Novotny's recent Anthropology News article on heritage distancing? The article, Destroying Nohmul, describes the destruction of an ancient Maya site in Belize. Read the entire article on the Anthropology News website, below is an excerpt:
The bulldozing and destruction of the ancient Maya site at Nohmul, in the Orange Walk district of northern Belize, has recently received widespread international attention. The largest structure of the ancient ceremonial center was reduced to rubble for use as road-fill by a local contracting company, a widely condemned act that will likely result in minimal consequences for the perpetrators. This incident, and others like it, are examples of the vulnerability of major historical sites, demonstrates the importance of the archaeological landscape for communities, and brings up issues of cultural heritage and engaged anthropology.
Nohmul was a medium-sized city founded in the Middle Preclassic period (650 BC – 350 BC). Interestingly, its fortunes waned during the Early Classic period (AD 100 – 250), when it was all but abandoned, only to be re-occupied during the Terminal Classic (AD 900 – 1000), when ties to the Yucatan peninsula are evident in its architecture and ceramic assemblage. Nohmul is one example of Maya longevity, memory, and re-use of important sites. When they re-occupied it in the Terminal Classic is was already an ancient place – at least 1000 years old. Nohmul has been a marker of place, history, and ancestral heritage for more than 2,000 years (see Hammond et al.).
Though a small nation, the Belizean landscape is blanketed with ancestral remains of the ancient Maya, from densely populated cities like Caracol to villages such as Chan in the Belize River Valley, as well as countless unnamed hamlets throughout the country. As the Director of the Institute of Archaeology, Dr. Jaime Awe, pointed out in a recent interview with Belize's Channel 7 News, the size of the Institute of Archaeology is miniscule compared with the archaeological resources they are tasked to manage, and Awe's frustration over the events at Nohmul is palpable in the interviews he has given to the press. This is not to minimize their significant efforts – last year archaeologists from the IA successfully and efficiently excavated late Preclassic period archaeological remains encountered during road construction in downtown San Ignacio. They also actively oversee and grant permits to numerous archaeological research projects taking place throughout the country.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – MIT head football coach Chad Martinovich will welcome 26 new faces to the football program this fall. The Class of 2014 features representatives from 15 different states, including four players from California and Texas and three from Maryland and New York.
The Engineers will kick off the 2010 season when they host Becker College on Saturday, Sept. 11. The game time for the inaugural meeting between both programs is 12:00 p.m.
2010 Incoming
James Balchunas - OL, Plainview, N.Y./Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK
Austin Boesch - LB, Nashua, N.H./Middlesex School
Rhys Borchert - CB, Pocatello, Idaho/Century
David Christoff - DL, Dallas, Texas/St. Mark's School
Kevin Clayton - WR, Germantown, Md./The Bullis School
Joseph Driscoll - RB, San Diego, Calif./Torrey Pines
Happy Enchill - K, Norcross, Ga./Norcross
Ryan Friedrich - OL, Waldorf, Md./North Port
Daniel Gillund - DL, Wildrose, N.D./Divide County
Heath Gould - DL/LB, Las Vegas, Nev./The Meadows School
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Brent Johnson - LB/DL, La Canada, Calif./La Canada
Morgan Krey - DL, Lake Forest, Ill./Thacher School
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Matt Merlino - DB, Vancouver, Wash./Union
Mathew Peterson - K/P, Spring, Texas/Klein Oak
Max Powers - DL, Rochester, N.Y./Brighton
Joel Santisteban - DL, Cedarhurst, N.Y./Lawrence
Billy Thalheimer - QB, Natick, Mass./Natick
Derek Vaughn - DL, Goddlettsville, Tenn./Davidson Academy
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Social Media and College Admissions
Are colleges using social media as part of the student admissions process? Schools.com explored this topic with the Reading Students like an Open Facebook infographic. It's hard enough to get teenagers to understand that online photos and status updates will be a permanent record of their behavior for the rest of their life, but even more immediately it could impact their entrance into college!
As Facebook has become more and more popular—if it were a country, it would be the third largest in the world—its use in the field of education has expanded, too. In fact, more than 80% of college admissions officers report using Facebook as part of their recruiting process.
Are admissions officers really looking at the Facebook profiles of prospective students? And if so, are they making admissions decisions based on these profiles? Below is an infographic that highlights the answers to these questions and more—which might surprise you.
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You all sure appreciate a sense of irony — Tiny won our naming contest with 104 votes over Tex's 85. The remaining nominated names trailed behind, with Huey coming in at 19 votes, Sam with 10 and Amigo with eight.
We've gotta say, we were pulling for Tiny all along. Just look at him; it's perfectly paradoxical:
Tiny the T.Rex is having trouble cracking this geode. He should come to HMNS' geode-cracking station!
The winning name was first nominated by Katy Yeager Huggins, who won four passes for a guided tour of the new Hall of Paleontology. Congratulations, Katy!
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Anglican Chaplain Denies Problem of Islamic Extremism on University Campuses
An Anglican chaplain at a British university has rebutted claims that universities throughout the U.K. are a breeding ground for extremist recruitment, and that universities are not doing enough to tackle the problem.
Jeremy Clines who is the Anglican chaplain at the University of Sheffield has said that Islamic extremists were not the problem for universities, but rather government spending cuts were of greater concern.
Clines said, "People will explore radical views whether they are at university or not.
"Universities are fantastic places for people to learn from each other and, contrary to the notion that they foment extremism, can help to moderate extremist views by encouraging dialogue and understanding, and by providing opportunities for people to explore views that are different from theirs."
"In that sense, they are a great place for developing community cohesion," he said.
Last week the British Home Secretary Theresa May warned that Britain's universities were not doing enough to address Islamic extremism, and were being complacent.
She reported, "I don't think they have been sufficiently willing to recognize what can be happening on their campuses and the radicalization that can take place.
"I think there is more that universities can do."
May also warned that funding would be cut to Islamic groups which espouse extremist views.
However, the Student Christian Movement has warned against exaggerating the problem. In a statement by the SCM the group said: "SCM opposes groups who promote violence and bigotry, whether they be Muslim, Christian or anything else.
"We should not imagine that such tendencies are confined to Muslims. Christian students across Britain engage in constructive dialogue with Muslims, people of many other religions and those of no religion.
"They work together where they agree and debate with respect when they do not. SCM is concerned that talk of 'radicalization' risks exaggerating the problem posed by extremist speakers and fuelling the fear and division from which extremism grows."
President of the National Union of Students, Aaron Porter, also attacked May's comments, saying they were "wild sensationalism", and that she was seeking to shift the blame for extremism onto universities.
Porter said, "Given that the law requires universities to provide freedom of speech, and the government refuses to ban the hard-line group Hizb ut-Tahrir despite promises to do so, it appears irresponsible of Theresa May to try to shift the blame for non-violent extremism on to universities or students.
"Facing up to the challenges that non-violent extremism brings to campus life requires careful support and guidance from government, not wild sensationalism that only serves to unfairly demonize Muslim students."
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LeTourneau University held its 2nd annual Aviation Art Show at the Abbott Aviation Center, with the following entries awarded as winners.
In the Art category, LETU students David Shimp took first place with his painting of a World War II aviation mechanic. LETU Nathan O'Quinn won second place with his pencil sketch drawing of an F-18. Lisa Ward of Fort Worth won third place with her painting of an airplane prop silhouetted against a brilliant sunset.
In the Photography category, first and second place went to Linda Cortelyou of Pittsburg, Texas, for her photos of military planes. LETU student Justin Sutton won third place with his photo of an American Airlines jetliner taxiing near an airport terminal.
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Dr. Neil Efird
Dr. Neil Efird served as an economic development advisor in the U.S. Army's Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute (PKSOI) at the U.S. Army War College in 2009. He has broad experience in economic development in conflict-prone societies with both the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Army. As a Foreign Service Officer, he served in diplomatic assignments in Russia during its transition toward a freemarket economy; in Kosovo during its reconstruction; in Mozambique during its civil war; and in the U.S. Mission to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization. Dr. Efird's managerial assignments included Asian trade relations, global investment affairs, African refugee assistance, and assistance to the former Soviet Union and East European democracies, with emphasis on Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Croatia. Dr. Efird's military assignments included overseas tours with the 30th Artillery Brigade (Okinawa) and the 9th Infantry Division (Vietnam), as well as stateside tours with the 82nd Airborne Division, the 171st Support Group, and other active and reserve units. His duties spanned the spectrum of operations, logistics, and intelligence management, including staff assignments with the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Department of the Army. Dr. Efird's experiences influenced his academic studies, which focused on development in conflict-prone societies. His dissertation research on reform of centrally-managed economies focused on the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany), in the context of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. While a lecturer at the Catholic University in Angola, Dr. Efird organized a distance-learning program between the state university of Angola and East Carolina University, while publishing the article, "Development in Globalization: Perspectives for Angola." He taught international economics at Dickinson College and a variety of international business management subjects at George Washington, Trinity, and Shippensburg Universities, and at the University of Maryland, European Division. Dr. Efird holds a B.S. in Engineering Science from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, an M.A. in English and Master's in Business Administration in Management from Duke University, and a Ph.D. in International Business from George Washington University.
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The State-Owned Enterprise as a Vehicle for Stability
April 14, 2010
Authored by Dr. Neil Efird.
State-owned enterprises affect stability in conflict-prone environments, and decisive control of them creates positive or negative conditions. However, it is a challenge to know how and when to use these enterprises, and a good set of metrics is necessary to measure their effectiveness.