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Amazon is finally cleaning up fake product reviews on its website
Posted By Enrique Manalang On December 26, 2012 @ 12:05 AM In World Wide Web | 4 Comments
When you want something on Amazon that you're not too familiar with, reviews are usually your best bet to help you with your decision. And on Amazon, that's as easy as just scrolling down the page to its user reviews. The one problem with that is, what if those reviews are fake?
It's not uncommon anymore to find books with reviews written by friends or family of the author filled with nothing but praise for what is sometimes a mediocre piece of literature that you would end up disappointed with. Sometimes it might even be people paid to boost the overall score of the product!
Luckily, The New York Times is reporting that Amazon has been culling its reviews as of late. The company hasn't been public about it or the process behind selecting which reviews to eliminate, but the evidence is there with the steadily shrinking number of reviews. What's interesting is that many of the deleted reviews tend to be those of friends or family of the authors, which tend to be biased. I know it's possible that they won't be biased, but as a consumer, I think I would rather read reviews of people who have no affiliation with the product in question.
It's great that Amazon has finally started doing this, but they could have saved themselves a lot of trouble if they started much earlier — there are a ton of reviews on the site, and fakes might be hard to distinguish from the legitimate. Good luck Amazon, you're going to need it.
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She is, without question, one of the most beautiful women to ever appear on an adult video. Twenty-year-old Nautica Thorn has quickly become a fan favorite with her balls-out performances in video and her star turns on Playboy TV's "Night Calls 411″ and "Lex In The City"
You can catch Nautica on her weekly call-in sex show on Spice TV, each Sunday at 10:30 p.m. EST, or in her many movies.
We recently sat down with the Hawaiian beauty and talked about Super Bowl wardrobe malfunctions (and Janet Jackson's healthy sexual appetite and Nautica's desire to fuck her), using condoms and masturbating to lesbian videos with her girlfriends.
Q. Have you been surprised at how well received you've been in this industry and how quickly you've become a sought after performer?
"Yeah I am. I don't know. When I went back home in Hawaii, people knew who I was and I was kind of freaked out. I couldn't really react because I had my parents with me. I walked in the mall and people were whispering."
Q. What's your nationality?
I am half Japanese, quarter Puerto Rican and quarter Hawaiian.
Q. Parents know?
"They know I do nude modeling. They don't know the video part. I'm sure they'll find out. I don't feel like bringing it up over dinner or anything. i don't live in Hawaii but I go back twice a year."
Q. What led you to get into this business?
"I was already a dancer and an agent came up to me and when I was in high school I knew that my job would consist of me taking off my clothes, so I wasn't that surprised. I was a nympho.
" I lost my virginity at 14. I'm 19 right now. I lost it with a guy I wish I didn't lose it to. I invited him over to my house and we fucked in the living room. I was ready. Then I kicked him out afterwards. From that day on, i was a nymph. I just liked arousing a guy, that was pretty fun."
Q. When did it hit you that you were really, really attractive?.
"A couple of years before I actually had sex. I would like to tease guys before I did anything. I stripped for them. I played with their cocks through their pants, a bunch of stuff."
Q. Before we go any farther, let's get some basics down. What are your measurements?
"I have no idea. I just know I wear a 32 C bra. I'm 5-2."
Q. How old are you?
I turned 20 June 13.
Q. Where are you from originally and tell us about your family.
"I'm from Hawaii and I'm the only child. My mom's a secretary and my dad works in construction."
Q. Graduation?
"I moved down to California three years ago. I don't remember what grade I was in. California is bigger and my boyfriend lives out here too. I always wanted to leave Hawaii. It was tough on my parents. They got over it though.
Q. How long do you see yourself in this business? Do you want to be a big star like a Jenna Jameson? Is that possible for you?
"I'm just seeing where it's going to take me. I want to go ahead and have my own video line and do that."
Q. Do you feature dance? Give us some road stories.
"Yeah I do. I'm doing my third show. I haven't' done it for that long. I did Crazy Horse in San Francisco in May. I went there before and the only other club I did was Paradise theatre in SoCal. Nothing crazy happened. I interact with guys more than anything in my shows. Expect a lot of touching and eating stuff."
Q. First time I ever saw you Juli Ashton was pawing all over you on Night Calls on Playboy TV. That's an amazing promotional deal for you. How did that come off and how's life on NIght Calls?
"I like working with Playboy. They yell at us if we stick a cock in our pussy. We can't do that, but for Night Calls 411, some of the girls we actually eat other out and can't show it. We do get off on the toys and if we cum too much on the toys we take it home. They don't' want it back.
"They have really good food. We have a couple rehearsals and go out there and start touching and rubbing each other. I actually had one girl that I met on show that I used to dance with.
"I was pretty sad I was on show and didn't get to meet Tera Patrick. She was gone after I got on."
Q. Tell me about the first time you saw a porn movie.
"I was, huh, about 13 and I skipped school and I called my friends and they'd come over and we'd eat popcorn and watch Asia Carrera. I used to masturbate to girl-girl videos but when me and my friends were there, we laugh it off. We didn't' have like huge big 13-year-old orgies."
Q. Of the scenes you've done so far, what would you say are the hottest and why?
"It would have to be my new one, Invasion, with Jules Jordan and Kris Taliana, just because I love her. It's like a BJ and we had a lot of fun doing it. Another one is Sakura Tales 3, that's one where I actually cum. It doesn't happen often for me jsut because I use a vibrator before my scenes. I'm arlready cummed out. I do it so pussy opens up because soemtimes the guys are kind of big."
Q. I see you do girls on film. Is that part of your real life or just on film?
"I only had one encounter in my personal life with another girl. Other than that, it's just on video. I'd rather have a girl on film than a guy. I like clits, I don't know. I like to suck on them. I would in my real life, it's just I'm always pooped out."
Q. I have never seen you do anal. Why? Is that in your future?
"I'm thinking about it. It's either going to be exclusive on my website, which is what I'm going for. I tried it in my personal life and it just killed me. I was really drunk. He put it in and it really hurts. No shit on the couch so that was good. I'm very clean person down there."
Q. What are your thoughts on ass-to-mouth scenes?
"I'm trying to think if I've done it before. I've actually done it before. Guy has to take a shower then I'll do it. It doesn't bother me. I just don't want none of the ass juices in my mouth. I never tasted it."
Let's watch a video!
Nautica interviewed at Bazooka's Showgirls club in 2008.
Q. Who are your favorite guys and girls to work with? And who do you think is sexy in and out of the adult industry.
"Right now, it would have to be Jenna Haze. I've worked with her a lot in the past couple of months. As for a guy, I don't really have a favorite guy. Everybody has been pretty nice to me so."
Q. Who will you vote for in November? Kerry or Bush?
"No I don't vote. If I don't have time to really sit down and watch election and make sure I now everybody's views, I don't want to vote because I might vote for the wrong person."
Q. What was your take on the Janet Jackson Super Bowl thing and the fallout? Is America too uptight?
"I was pissed off I couldn't see her nipple. I was waiting for Janet to show a fucking nipple. She showed it and I didn't get to see it. I was really proud of her. She's a freak and she finally came out and showed a little freaky side. I know people in the music industry. They say she's a freak, very sexual. If she likes that person, she won't think twice about sleeping with them. I wanna meet Janet."
Q. Think Kobe did it?
"No I don't. Kobe has a really pretty wife and he can get any ass, so I don't think he would have to rape a girl. I can see where his cock could've been really big and stretched her, I can see that."
Q. Now I'm sure you have been asked out by some famous folks, right? Give us the dirt.
"No actually I haven't. I'm not a big club person. So I don't go out. I'm sure if I did, I would see people."
Q. You signed an exclusive contract with Red Light correct? What do they have planned for you?
"I was actually supposed to sign, but they are doing my website, but after whole thing happened with owner and his brother, they're trying to get back on track. Companies call me and I decide whether or not I'll do it. It depends on the price. I work at least three times a week. Three scenes."
Q. I saw you doing a West Coast monster dicks video recently. Is bigger better or something you only want to deal with on special occasions?
"I like Mandigo. He's a really nice guy. His cock is too big. I could barely get the head in. I'm not a big fan of monstrous cocks. Most girls can take it, but down there I have the asian pussy so it stays small."
Q. Hobbies
"I enjoy watching my boyfriend play golf. I played a little but got really frustrated and threw my clubs and sold them. I gave up playing but I like to watch it. I have three dogs, and they keep me occupied."
Q. Anything scare you about the industry?
"Just the diseases. That would scare me. In this industry some people do make up false tests. My pussy is very sensitive and doesn't like condoms. I have reactions to them. That wouldn't' work. So I guess that's good for the guys, huh?"
Q. I want to know about your first film you did. What was it and what happened? Were you nervous?
"Let's see. I did it for Ed Powers. He seemed like a really nice guy and made it very easy for me. I wasn't nervous. I'm not really a shy person. I wanted to get over it. It gets easier once you start really over it. If it's somebody I don't like I won't work with them. I'll tell my agent I don't want to work with these people."
Q. Any parting wish for fans?
"Just keep on watching and stroking."


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Powerball's lack of winners in past drawings have led to this Wednesday's draw being the game's largest pot ever.
Powerball's jackpot prize is now at a record $425 million, the game's biggest winnings ever.
No one has won recent drawings for the lottery, which was estimated at $325 million before numbers were picked last week (those were, for the record, 22-32-37-44-50, and the Powerball was 34), the Associated Press reported.
Iowa Lottery spokeswoman Mary Neubauer said sales over the holiday week for Saturday's drawing were strong, and estimated that sales would pick up even more in advance of the record-breaking pot.
"We'll watch sales to see if an adjustment upwards needs to be made," she said, according to NBC News.
Powerball awarded its largest prize to date, $365 million, to eight co-workers at a Nebraska meat-packing plant in 2006, CNN reported.
The Powerball's cash payout for Wednesday's drawing would be $278.3 million — still shy of the biggest lottery prize ever, Mega Millions jackpot of $656 million.
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$4,000,000 a year for Vanna White it means $333,333 per month, $83,333 per week or $16,666.67 per day! Vanna White's real name is Vanna Marie Rosich. White began with game shows by being a contestent on "The Price Is Right" June 18, 1980. Vanna renewed her contract with "Wheel of Fortune" to remain 'letter turner' until 2014. Vanna became hostess of the program in September 1982 when she replaced Susan Stafford. According to Celebritynetworth.com Vanna White makes four million dollars a year.
"Wheel of Fortune" tapes about 200 shows a year so it looks like Vanna White makes about $20, 000 per episode. Her total net worth is reputed to be $15 million dollars. Pretty penny to be the Queen of Vowels.


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SummaryOn August 7, 2003, a 29-year-old Hispanic laborer (the victim) fell through the roof of an old building during renovation. The crew, including the victim, was working for an asbestos abatement company at the time of the incident. On-site were the general contractor (Company A), a salvage company (Company B) and the asbestos abatement company (Company C). The owners of the building contracted with the asbestos abatement company to begin work at this particular site. This was the abatement company's first day on the job and they were anticipating doing window, not roof work. When the asbestos abatement crew arrived at the work site, the abatement company's supervisor asked Company A what they would like them to do. The supervisor of Company A told them they would like them to work on the roof. The abatement company owner knew there were weak areas in the roof, but because he thought his company was scheduled to work on windows, he planned to take the supporting aluminum picks to the work site the following day before the roof work began. The abatement company's owner assigned his company's supervisor to be in charge of the abatement crew in his absence. The victim was working on the badly deteriorated roof and fell through. Adequate safeguards were not in place at the time of the incident. When the victim fell, many workers heard him, but workers from company B were the first to reach him. They found him lying on the cement floor inside the building. They notified emergency medical services (EMS) and the victim was transported to a local hospital where he died approximately two hours later. The FACE investigator concluded that, to prevent similar occurrences, employers should:
IntroductionOn August 7, 2003, a 29-year-old Hispanic laborer (the victim) fell through the roof of an old building during renovation. The crew, including the victim, was working for an asbestos abatement company at the time of the incident. The victim was pronounced dead of injuries two hours after being transported to a local hospital. The Wisconsin FACE field investigator learned about the incident through the news media on August 7, 2003. The FACE Director and Field Investigator reviewed official reports and on September 28, 2005 the incident was reviewed with the employer. The asbestos abatement company had been in existence for approximately five years at the time of the incident. Before the company was founded, the owner of the company and the supervisor had worked together in a different company. After the owner began his own company, he hired the co-worker as the supervisor for his company. They hired an average of five to eleven workers at any given time. Employees were considered full-time permanent employees and worked four ten-hour days, year-around. Some of the tar paper underneath the roofing materials contained asbestos and the asbestos abatement company's crew was going to remove the asbestos. This usually consisted of wetting down the roof material, scraping it off and disposing of it properly. In cases where the roof was weak, either a scaffold would be built under the roof from the inside to break any fall if it should occur or aluminum picks would be set across the support boards over each end of the roof to avoid stepping on any weak areas. In this instance, the plan was for the workers to use the aluminum picks to stand on while they worked on those weak areas. At the time of the incident, the company had seven workers, five of whom were working at the incident site. These five workers were Hispanic, including the supervisor. One of the workers had been working for the company one month, while two of them had been there approximately five months. Their time in this country ranged from seven months to six years. The supervisor for this crew had been a supervisor and had done several types of asbestos removal the past eight years and estimated he had worked on approximately 40 roofs. He was fluent in both English and Spanish. The crew spoke varying degrees of English. Because of this, the supervisor gave directions to the crew in Spanish. The victim had worked in construction two years before he was hired to work for the abatement company approximately six months prior to the incident. He spoke some English and was able to understand when others spoke to him in English. This was the crew's first day at the incident site. Everyone on the crew was certified to remove asbestos and knew every part of the job, i.e., piping, pushing the scraper, removing asbestos, etc. The company had a comprehensive written safety program with written task-specific safe work procedures for all tasks written in English. This included written safety instructions about fall protection. The company belonged to the Association of General Contractors (AGC) and was provided with safety training through the Association, a manufacturer or within their own company. The abatement company hired a translator to be at the AGC training that included the 10-hour OSHA training. They also sent workers to a Chicago training facility where they could take the classes from Spanish speaking instructors. A lift manufacturer provided training on lifts. The company held safety meetings regularly, at least weekly or at the beginning of each job. They provided task specific training for all tasks performed, including fall protection. Training included classroom, on-the-job and manual training and demonstrations. For example, the fall protection portion involved ladder training and having the workers demonstrate such procedures as donning the fall protection harnesses and tying off. They were also trained to do a respirator fit test and trained to build a scaffold. The victim had participated in the training programs offered. Routinely, the training was given by the owner or the supervisor, either with the supervisor translating the information given by the owner into Spanish, or by the supervisor presenting it directly in Spanish. The victim was certified to perform asbestos removal. The crew took annual physicals and the annual refresher course for certification in asbestos removal. This was the employer's first fatality. Back to TopInvestigationThe owner of the building contracted with the asbestos abatement company to remove asbestos. The building owner also contracted with the general contractor who subcontracted with additional companies working at the site. The day of the incident was the abatement company's first day at the work site. The asbestos removal company's owner identified weak spots in the roof and planned to place picks over the weak roof areas that workers would stand on to work, rather than standing directly on the roof. These picks are usually supported by the beams on the roof and go over the roof. The asbestos abatement company planned to have the workers wear personal fall arrest systems. The anchoring points were to be either the steel roof trusses or other points to be determined before beginning the work on the roof. On August 7, 2003, the first day at the work site, the abatement company expected to work on the windows, not the roof. The owner of the asbestos abatement company did not go to the site the first day and planned to go to the site the following day with the picks, additional scaffolding and equipment that would be needed to work on the roof. He placed his company supervisor in charge the first day. The supervisor had worked for the company for four years. The crew had four workers, in addition to the supervisor, present the first day and all were certified for asbestos removal. The supervisor of the group spoke English and Spanish well, while the others spoke limited English. The company's comprehensive health and safety plan was written in English and it was not fully implemented the day of the incident. The supervisor at the incident site had a copy of it. He gave verbal directions to the crew in Spanish based on the applicable portions of the written program. Upon the crew's arrival at 8 a.m., the asbestos company supervisor asked the general contractor of Company A what he would like the crew to do. He responded he would like them to work on the roof. While the asbestos company was prepared to work on the windows, the supervisor did not mention they did not have all the equipment to work on the roof or that they were not prepared to work on the roof. The supervisor assessed the condition of the roof from the interior of the old building and determined areas that were weak. He decided the crew would work on the stronger areas of the roof until they had the proper equipment to work on the weaker areas of the roof. The building had a high roof and a connected lower roof (Figure 1) where weak areas existed.
The supervisor divided the four workers into two groups. The victim and his partner built a scaffold to enable the crew to climb onto the higher roof. They set it up so they could shovel loose roofing material over the edge of the roof to the dumpster below. In order to remove the roofing material, they had to wet down the roof and the hose was taken to the higher roof. The supervisor used a hose to wet down the roof. The supervisor advised two crew workers to stay away from certain areas of the roof. While the victim and his partner were building the scaffold, the supervisor told the two crew members working with him to put on their safety equipment, and he and the other two workers donned the equipment. However, when they were on the roof, they were not properly tied off. The victim and his partner did not put on their personal fall arrest equipment, because they were constructing the scaffold. Once these two crew workers came on the roof, the supervisor noticed they were not wearing their fall protection equipment, but did not redirect them. He thought they were working on the safe area and would be breaking shortly for lunch, and they would put on their fall protection equipment before resuming work after lunch. He did not see the victim and his partner go to the lower roof where weak areas had been identified earlier. While the victim and his co-worker were wearing suits for asbestos removal, gloves and respirators, their personal fall arrest equipment was lying on the ground beside the building. The supervisor and two of his men were working on the higher roof on the side opposite to the lower roof. The victim and his partner were working together on the lower roof. The victim began shoveling branches, leaves and sticks off the roof. While the victim was shoveling, his partner noticed the roof sag under the victim's weight. The partner told the victim to move away because the roof was weak there. The victim did not move and, within seconds, the roof gave way and the victim fell 21 feet to the concrete floor inside the building. Company B had workers inside the building and one of them witnessed the fall. Company B employees were working inside on the higher level and in order to reach the victim, they had to climb down a ladder to the lower level because there were no stairs. (Figure 2). The witness was the first person to reach the victim. The victim was lying on his left side bleeding from his nose and mouth and making sounds, but was unable to speak. A worker from Company B notified the Emergency Medical Services (EMS). The victim was transported by ambulance to a local hospital where he died approximately two hours later.
Back to TopCause of DeathThe cause of death was multiple traumatic injuries due to a fall through the roof at the work site. Recommendations/DiscussionRecommendation #1: Employers should ensure that supervisors are trained to recognize hazards and have the authority to take action and refuse to accept a job when conditions are unsafe.Discussion: In this case, the plan changed from asbestos removal around windows to asbestos removal from the roof of the building. The owner of the company expected to come with the equipment and to give instructions about working on the roof the following day. He was not present to redirect the crew on the day of the incident. The supervisor in charge of the asbestos company followed the expectations of Company A and did not clarify that the asbestos company was not prepared to work on the roof or refuse to go to the roof until the proper equipment was available.
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It's also worth commenting on its reference to credit default swaps (CDS) as a reference to the risk that investors assign that the U.S. could default on its debt. In fact, the price of CDS on the U.S. debt imply nothing of the sort. If the government actually defaults on its debt, the issuer of a CDS on the debt will almost certainly be bankrupt, so the CDS would itself be worthless.
Rather than being a bet on the government defaulting on its debt, the price of a CDS on U.S. government debt should be viewed as a bet on how much people will be willing to pay for the CDS tomorrow. In this way the price of a CDS on U.S. debt can be viewed as comparable to the price of an awful painting by a very famous artist. No one actually wants the painting, but it may hold great value because other people are willing to assign it great value.
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Just made a honey ale and used 5 lb of honey along with 6lb of light malt. Would this technically be considered braggot? Right now I am calling it blonde honey ale just because I used more malt than honey. Side note... Smells coming from the fermenter are fantastic.
Keep me updated on this I would Pike to know how it comes out.
IMO it ceases to be a honey beer when the main source of flavours come from honey rather than malt. But as there is no real standards you could indeed, term it a braggot if you wanted.....
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I understood when the honey and malt are around 50/50 you are talking braggot.
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sounds like a braggot to me, but call it what you want. hope it tastes amazing
@jackfrost, I based my recipie on a belgian grand cru kit that I made before. That kit only used 2 lbs of clover honey. For this one, I used 5lb from a local beekeeper, a raw dark fall wildflower variety with great flavor and aroma. A bit on the expensive side at $4/ lb, but I wanted some quality honey, not the overprocessed stuff at my local supermarket. I used pilsner LME, 1 lb caramel 10L steeping grains, 1 oz centennial bittering hops, 1 oz cascade @ 30 min. I chose not to add any hops at flameout so the honey flavor would not be overpowered by hop aroma. At flameout I added the honey, 1oz bitter orange peel, and 1oz of crushed corriander. Pitched with a 1/2 gal starter of wyeast belgian strong ale yeast. OG was 1.080. Depending on the amount of honey flavor left after primary, I may secondary with a pound or 2 of orange blossom honey.
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This does sound very good. How long are you going to let it ferment/condition for?
I don't really have a timetable for fermentation. It will remain in primary for 2-3 weeks before I start taking gravity samples. When it is stable, it will most likely secondary for a month or so, or until it clears. Whether aging will be with aditional honey depends on how it tastes. If it is good, I will only use a couple tablespooons of table sugar to promote a good layer of CO2 for aging. Then it will be bottled. I'm gonna stick a case in the basement for long term aging. The other case will be for myself and my friends who appreciate homebrew. Maybe a six pack to share at a local beer festival if I am lucky enough to get tickets again this year.


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Mark David Seibel, 52, Oklahoma City, died Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012, at Grace Living Center, Oklahoma City.
He was born May 27, 1960, in Chandler, Okla.
Survivors include his parents, Dave and Verla Seibel, Ellis; two brothers, Steve Seibel and wife, Peggy, Ellis, and Gary D. Seibel and wife, Terri, Salina; five sisters, Sharon Wieblisky and husband, Steve, Kodiak, Alaska, Donna Brown and Kevin Fabrizius, Kerrville, Texas, Lora Gottschalk and husband, Jude, Hays, Natalie Fischer and husband, Craig, Salina, and Lana Garner and husband, Jamey, Lawrence; his birth mother, Pat Connolly, Pueblo, Colo.; and numerous uncles, aunts, nephews and nieces.
He was preceded in death by his grandparents, Edwin and Anna Seibel.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at St. Mary Catholic Church, Ellis; burial in the church cemetery.
Visitation will be from 5:45 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Keithley Funeral Chapel, 400 E. 17th, Ellis, KS 67637.
A vigil will be at 6 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.
Memorials are suggested to St. Mary Grade School or DSNWK in care of the funeral home.
Condolences can be sent to the family by guestbook at www.keithleyfuneralchapels.com or emailed to email@example.com.


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« on: March 19, 2013, 04:02:04 PM »Some think that the number of pixels defines sensor technology. That's why we had megapixel wars, because the uneducated masses think that more is always better.
The 650D and possibly the 700D are sporting 18MP sensors, meanwhile Nikon's new APS-C are all sporting 24MP sensors with good dynamic range, ISO, etc. Food for thought.
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EL PASO - An El Paso man faces attempted murder charges after a shooting in Northeast El Paso.
Police say Johnelle Lionetti shot Octavia Lionetti as she tried to leave their home at 6233 Arch Bridge early this morning.
The victim suffered wounds to an arm and leg. The injuries are not life threatening.
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New Music Monday is a collection of the best new releases in music each week. We share them with you every Monday, every hour on WFUV.
Allen Stone- Allen Stone
Allen Stone looks like he belongs in an indie rock band; he wears skinny jeans, oversized glasses, and has long blonde hair. Yet when he opens his mouth what comes out is a smooth soul voice and a brilliant falsetto comparable to Stevie Wonder. Stone's eponymous new album captures those impressive vocals and the tightness of the singer's band.
Rodney Crowell/Mary Karr- Kin
Singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell once name dropped best-selling author Mary Karr in his 2003 song "Earthbound" before the two even met. The two now know each other quite well, and you can hear the bond they've built in their new collaborative effort, Kin. Due out June 5, the album features guests such as Norah Jones and Emmy-Lou Harris, but the focus remains on Crowell and Karr's connection.
The dB's- Falling Off the Sky
When a seminal band has 25 years without an album and then returns to record with their original lineup, you have to expect something good. The dB's did just that for their new album, Falling Off the Sky. Singer Peter Holsapple says of their reunion, "We grew up together and learned to play music together." Listening to this you wouldn't know they aged at all.
Jerry Douglas- Traveler
It's no surprise that dobro master Jerry Douglas has pulled together the star studded supporting cast for his new record, because it's hard to not recognize his greatness. On Traveler, Douglas features artists as varied as Dr. John and Mumford and Sons to back up his expert skills.
John Fullbright- From the Ground Up
Fullbright's new record is aptly named From the Ground Up. While musically sparse, it also was recorded based on fan support, via website Kickstarter. The 24 year old does his fans well with this heartfelt new album.
The Mavericks- Suited Up and Ready
After an eight year hiatus, influential Raul Malo-fronted band The Mavericks return with a five-song EP. The title suggests that the band is back for good, and let's hope that's true as the music is as great and infectious as ever.
Chris Robinson Brotherhood- "Rosalee"
The Black Crowe's front man Chris Robinson returns with a new band and this groovy new song, "Rosalee." The track is full of long, whammy-barred jams and retro charm. Get the full new album from the Brotherhood, Big Moon Ritual, tomorrow June 5.
Ryan Shaw- Real Love
When listening to Ryan Shaw sing one word immediately comes to mind, soul. The Grammy nominated artist brings back those killer pipes for a new album that has funk, gospel, and a whole lot of that soul.
The Tallest Man on Earth- There's No Leaving Now
Bob Dylan was reborn 29 years ago in Sweden in the form of Kristian Matsson. In vocal style and in songwriting ability The Tallest Man on Earth resembles the legend, and there can be nothing bad about that. Matsson returns with another great album, There's No Leaving Now, and we can hear his own legacy growing.


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Crisis in Darfur Is there any hope for peace? By Karen Foerstel
More than two years after government and rebel fighters signed a peace agreement in Sudan, violence is still rampant in Darfur. At least 2.4 million people have been displaced and up to 400,000 have died. . . .
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Climate Change Blamed for Darfur Conflict
For generations, Arab nomads in Darfur enjoyed a symbiotic relationship with their farming non-Arab neighbors. As the seasons changed, the nomads would bring their livestock from the arid north to the greener lands to the south during the dry season and then lead them back north during the rainy season. The non-Arabs, who came from several different ethnic groups, would allow the nomads to graze camels, sheep and goats on their farmlands, and in exchange the livestock would provide fertilizer for the farmers' crops.
That relationship, however, began to change about 75 years ago. And today, what had once been a convenient alliance between nomads and farmers has exploded into a bloody war between Darfur's Arabs and ethnic African tribes.
While many blame the bloodshed on political or ethnic divisions, others say climate change lies at the root of the devastation. "It is no accident that the violence in Darfur erupted during the drought," U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said. "Until then, Arab nomadic herders had lived amicably with settled farmers."
Most people use "a convenient military and political shorthand" to describe Darfur as an ethnic conflict between Arab militias fighting black rebels and farmers, Ban explained. And, while the conflict involves a complex set of social and political causes, it "began as an ecological crisis, arising at least in part from climate change," he said.
According to the U. N., average precipitation in Sudan has declined 40 percent since the early 1980s. Signs of desertification began emerging as far back as the 1930s. A lake in El-Fashir in northern Darfur reached its lowest water level in 1938, after which wells had to be drilled to tap into underground water supplies. Villages in northern Darfur increasingly were evacuated because of disappearing water supplies.
In the 1980s a severe drought and famine made the northern areas nearly impossible to cultivate, forcing nomadic tribes to migrate even further south and increasingly encroach upon their farming neighbors' more fertile lands. To prevent damage from the nomad's passing herds, the farmers began to fence off their shrinking fertile plots. Violent land disputes grew more and more common.
"Interestingly, most of the Arab tribes who have their own land rights did not join the government's fight," said David Mozersky, the International Crisis Group's project director for the Horn of Africa.
A new report by the European Commission predicts that increasing drought and land overuse in North Africa and the Sahel — the semi-arid swath of land stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Horn of Africa — could destroy 75 percent of the region's arable land. As land and water resources disappear, the report said, such violent conflicts will increase around the world.
"Already today, climate change is having a major impact on the conflict in and around Darfur," the report said.
Economist Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, said Darfur is an example of the conflicts that increasingly will erupt because of climate change.
"What some regard as the arc of Islamic instability, across the Sahel, the Horn of Africa, Yemen, Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan, is more accurately an arc of hunger, population pressures, water stress, growing food insecurity and a pervasive lack of jobs," Sachs wrote earlier this year, using Darfur as an example of a conflict sparked by climate change.
But others say climate change is just an excuse used by the Sudanese government to relieve itself of responsibility. Politics is the real cause of the bloodshed in Darfur, many say, with President Omar Hassan al-Bashir's government bearing full blame for the ongoing violence.
"Jeffrey Sachs and Ban Ki-moon said it's essentially environmental. How dare they?" says Gillian Lusk, associate editor of the London-based newsletter Africa Confidential. "The essential issue is the Sudan government went in there and killed people." And any attempts "to turn it into a primary ethnic or environment issue are dangerous."
Still, many international leaders say Darfur is a warning sign of growing environmental degradation. "Climate change is already having a considerable impact on security," French President Nicolas Sarkozy told an international governmental conference in April. "If we keep going down this path, climate change will encourage the immigration of people with nothing towards areas where the population does have something, and the Darfur crisis will be only one crisis among dozens."
[1] Stephan Faris, "The Real Roots of Darfur," The Atlantic, April 2007, www.theatlantic.com/doc/200704/darfur-climate.
[2] Ban Ki-moon, "A Climate Culprit in Darfur," The Washington Post, June 16, 2007, p. A15.
[3] Ibid.
[4] M. W. Daly, Darfur's Sorrow (2007), pp. 141-142.
[5] Gerard Prunier, Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide (2005), pp. 49-50.
[6] Faris, op. cit.
[7] "Climate Change and International Security," The High Representative and the European Commission, March 14, 2008, p. 6, http://ec.europa.eu/external_relations/cfsp/doc/climate_change_international_security_2008_en.pdf.
[8] Ibid.
[9] Jeffrey Sachs, "Land, Water and Conflict," Newsweek, July 14, 2008.
[10] "Climate change driving Darfur crisis: Sarkozy," Agence France-Presse, April 18, 2008, http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5h7l_NjlMjZF-QWDOwxIbibX5AEuA.


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Community Connections
Contributors to our blogs are faculty, alumni, and students of Seminary of the Southwest sharing their reflections from the context of a community of faith. We hope you enjoy reading, and we invite your comments.
The Harvest is Plentiful, But the Laborers are Few
Alex Easley is a Middler in the Master of Divinity program. Alex comes to Seminary of the Southwest from the Diocese of Texas and currently serves as the Middler Seminarian Intern at St. Julian's of Norwich Episcopal Church.
Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, and curing every disease and every sickness. When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, 'The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.' (Matthew 9:35-38 NRSV)
Last Thursday, February 6th, the Rev. Jimmy Bartz gave a lecture at Seminary of the Southwest entitled "Fear, Risk, Courage, Failure, Intimacy, Change, Mission, and the Kingdom." Throughout his lecture, Jimmy urged his hearers to live courageously, taking risks and following Christ into uncharted territory.
The Other Voice at the Top of the Slope
The Rev. Miles R. Brandon, II is the vicar of St. Julian of Norwich Episcopal Church, a four and a half year old church plant of the Diocese of Texas located in far Northwest Austin. Miles is married to Ashley Brandon, chaplain at St. Andrew's Episcopal School and graduate of Seminary of the Southwest. They have two children Amelia (4) and Mary Ellen (1).
As I reflected on the Rev. Jimmy Bartz's thoughtful and engaging Payne lecture, I was left wondering what is the actual tiny push…the soul bracing moment…that empowers our courage and quickens our resolve just enough to step over the edge into the unknown…the undiscovered future…the potential life-giving relationships we are yet to form.
Reflections: 50 years later
Mrs. Ora Houston is a member of St. James Episcopal Church, Austin, serves on the Black History Month planning committee at Seminary of the Southwest, and is president of the Myra McDaniel Chapter of the Union of Black Episcopalians.
WOW! Can you really believe that 50 years ago the federal government had to enact laws to give equal rights to people who were born in the United States of America? These are the same rights that another group of Americans have had since the signing of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Sadly, others were denied those basic rights because of their ancestry - until 50 years ago.
Bodies Inside of Dreams
Dr. Claire Colombo has served on the seminary's adjunct faculty since 2012. As a freelance educational consultant, she develops religion curriculum for Loyola Press of Chicago and is a regular contributor to their Finding Godmagazines and newsletters.
It's been a wordy month. It began with the Christmas season—the Word made flesh and all that. Then came a flurry of words to meet some professional deadlines. And then came an invitation to take myself, in the flesh, to one of those wordy events you see listed in the Happenings column of the Chronicle and proceed to ignore. In this case, it was a launch party for a new literary journal in town. Not only would I attend it, the invitation went, but would I write some words about it, too?
I would. I had already planned to attend another wordfest—a reading by poet Naomi Shihab Nye—so I promised to blog about them both.
Encuentro: Encounter on the borderlands of Texas
Lecia Brannon is a junior in the Master of Divinity program. Lecia and her husband came to Seminary of the Southwest from Diocese of Camino Real.
Southwest's Master of Divinity Program requires a January Term course entitled Encuentro: Mission in Latino Contexts. Encuentro or encounter is a keyword to what this course is about, however there is so much more. Over the three weeks of this course our class was presented with people and experiences that will require us to absorb, process and discern. Where might we fit in?
Lift Every Voice and Sing!
Cynthia Briggs Kittredge (@cbkittredge) is the 8th Dean and President of Seminary of the Southwest and professor of New Testament. Dean Kittredge holds degrees from Williams College and Harvard Divinity School.
In 2002 I took a sabbatical in South Africa where I lectured in Pietermaritzburg and in Cape Town. On my last Sunday I decided to go to church in a prosperous neighborhood of Capetown. I had heard that one of the priests was leaving; it would be her last Sunday and she was a friend of my friend, Beverly. Wilma Jakobsen was a chaplain at the University and she was leaving South Africa, her homeland, to go to work in Los Angeles where she had spent time as a seminary student.
Receiving the Peace
Meghan Vail is a middler in the Master of the Arts in Chaplaincy and Pastoral Care program. Meghan comes to Seminary of the Southwest from the University of Texas Catholic Center.
On the tenth day of Christmas, I was stranded at the airport in southern Florida (I'll admit, not the worst place to be stranded) along with hundreds of other holiday travelers en route to reality after the restfulness of Christmas vacation. Every terminal gate blinked "cancelled" in bright red letters due to winter storms. As I stood in line to rebook my flights, trying to recall my sense of humor and shed my crankiness, I found myself humming the tune of "The Twelve Days of Christmas," trying to insert gifts for airport travelers that would come in handy in the midst of airport chaos. Three cafe mochas (french hens), two Apple product chargers (turtledoves), and a voucher for a latter day flight.
I was blind; Now I see
Madeline Shelton is a middler in the M.Div. program and comes to Seminary of the Southwest from the Diocese of Texas.
In our reading for this eleventh day of Christmas, Christ heals a man who was born blind. Christ does not say a few words and instantly open the man's eyes. In fact, leaning down to the ground, Christ spits his very own saliva onto the dirt and makes a paste with the mud. Once applied, Jesus orders the man to wash in a pool, and the man sees for the first time.
Blazing with the light of Christ
Claire Cowden is in the Diploma of Anglican Studies program and comes to Seminary of the Southwest from the Diocese of Northwest Texas.
My offering to you this Christmastide is this poem by 17th century Anglican priest and poet, George Herbert. This is a poem about song, not necessarily the musical kind. As you move through the poem with him, may you feel your own soul's song recalled, revived, nourished, empowered, and, finally, in an exchange of gifts with our Redeemer, blazing with the light of Christ!
Make Way for the Lord
Lucy Strandlund is in the Masters of the Arts in Spiritual Formation program and comes to Seminary of the Southwest from the Diocese of Alabama.
As I sat in church on Christmas Eve, my brain full of a semester's worth of new Biblical Studies knowledge, I felt very distant from any Jesus who might be found sleeping in a wooden manger. In the two Gospels that mention the birth of Jesus, only one spends much time on the story of his infancy. To me, the Jesus of the Gospels is a grown man who meets us where we are but invites us to be more than we have been. So who is this little baby? Where is the challenging and radical man from the Bible? This baby can't tell cryptic parables or invite sinners to dinner. I wondered what Christmas meant to me as someone who is very much fascinated by the adult Jesus.


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Somebody asked me few days back that if you remove your logo from all of your marketing pieces will it still be relevant ?
When we talk about branding it's not uncommon for people to mistake their logo as their "branding". Your logo is only one piece of your branding strategy. Your logo is a symbol that can provide consumers with instant and powerful brand recognition of your business and the services or products that you offer. The "utterly butterly girl " is so popular that if you remove Amul from its ad, there are fair chances that you will recognize it pretty easily.
Before beginning the process of logo creation be sure that you have developed your brand strategy. Why? Your logo is like a small ad for your company, without the strategy behind it a logo can put across the wrong message and in return weaken your strategy. You want to keep your brand message consistent to help increase consumer recognition.
How do you know when you are ready to move to the process of having your logo created?
- The mission of your logo is to portray the values and goals of your company. Make sure that these are clearly established before venturing out to find a logo designer.
- Be clear about the message you want your brand to convey so that your logo can clearly reflect that message. You must have a strong association between your brand and your logo. Remember it is only one piece of your branding strategy.
- Your logo should reflect professionalism and growth no matter how small your company is.
- If you are designing your logo in-house to save money be sure to market-test your efforts.
- Make sure that the logo you select is not dated but can be used effectively year after year. Keep in mind it is how consumers will recognize your company.
The conclusion of the role your logo plays in your branding strategy can be summed up in the following statement.
Confident branding and a strong branding strategy uses design to communicate a message that attracts the target audience that you want to attract - a message that creates confidence in your brand while differentiating between you and your competitors. Does your logo fulfill this mission? If your answer is no it may be time to consider strengthening your brand strategy and looking at a new logo to re-position your company.


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Canadians for International College Program 08!
Due to \"lack of interest\", the Disney Company has decided to stop hiring Canadians for the International College Program (Summer only). If Disney sees we are interested, they will hold potential interviews for the program in March 2008, with a leaving date of June 2008. Let\'s show them we ARE interested, and that Canadians make the best magic ;) Please sign the petition if you are a Canadian University student, currently enrolled in at least a 4 year program and interested in attending March 2008 interviews, leaving June 2008 . again this is ONLY for the summer program(International College Program) at Walt Disney World. For more information visit: http://www.disneyinternational... ************ PLEASE SIGN YOUR FIRST AND LAST NAME **************
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Madrid - We're not actually talking about going back in time here, but Spanish lawmakers proposed on Thursday switching the country to a more appropriate time zone to make sleeping and eating times more regular, workers more productive.
Spanish time currently runs one hour ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) in winter, and two hours ahead of GMT in summer. This applies to the whole country with the exception of the Canary Islands out in the Atlantic ocean.
The country lies on the same geographical timelines as neighboring Portugal and also the UK, but clocks in Spain are operating on the same time as France and Germany.
Turns out this is because the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco's fascist government adopted it to be in line with Nazi Germany, and it has remained that way ever since.
According to Intereconomia (Spanish language) in 1942, at the beginning of World War II, the United Kingdom and Portugal decided to change their clocks into the same zone as Western Europe for military reasons. Franco, of course, did so out of sympathy for Hitler.
However, when the war ended, the United Kingdom and Portugal returned to their original time zones. Spain remained where it was and ever since then lives an hour ahead in winter and two in summer.
A report presented to the Spanish Parliament on Thursday read: "The fact that Spain for more than 71 years has not been in the correct ti...


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Greater Anglia train on the Norwich to London service. Photo: Bill Smith
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Passengers face delays of up to an hour after their train to Norwich broke down.
A fault on today's 10am Greater Anglia service from London Liverpool Street to Norwich was reported as the train approached Shenfield.
The train will stop at Shenfield and passengers will be transferred onto the next train.
They are due to be delayed by 30 minutes to one hour.
A Greater Anglia spokesman said: "We apologise for any inconvenience caused. Passengers will be able to claim compensation for a delay of that length."
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It is no surprise these trains break down. The locomotives were great in their day. They are now old and worn out.
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One of the bigger debuts came this week when Ford took the wraps off the 2011 Explorer. Here is William Clay Ford Jr. with the Explorer on Monday, July 26.
The new Explorer will be lighter and more fuel efficient, according to Ford.
More than 400 teams take part in the "Festival of Slow." The cars will drive 10,000 miles through 15 countries on their way to Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia's capital city.
Hillary Colbert drives "Sundancer II," a solar-powered car, to Garden City Community College in Garden City, Kan. Colbert is taking part in the Hunt-Winston School Solar Car Challenge in which teams drive solar-powered cars from the Texas Motor Speedway to Boulder, Colo.


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"Sun, Storm, Cloud"
Light plays an important role in the paintings and drawings of April Gornik. Whether it is a storm brewing over the water, and the light shading the blues of the sky, the sea and the action, or the soft tones of the Chinese countryside that bring to mind the light pursued by the old masters, Gornik captures the various times of day of a variety of landscapes. Even in her charcoal drawings does Gornik so effectively use the light that one could almost mistake the work for a black and white photo.
Artist: April Gornik
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