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What better way to spend your Halloween Day and All Saints Day than to indulge in countless vegetarian food items and vegan goods? The FREE 14th Annual Boston Vegetarian Food Festival has extended to 2 days this year! One of the largest and most popular vegetarian festivals, Boston's annual veggie get down is occurring this weekend , October 31st and November 1st. We are really excited to be a part of the festival again this year and are SUPER excited they have decided to expanded the festival to 2 days.
The event is chalk full of free vegetarian food samples, including many up and coming products, vegan clothing and footwear, vegetarian books and other gifts. Since this year's festival is two days long, there are even more great speakers and cooking demos including a holiday cooking demo from a Vegan Culinary Arts professor, a comedy hour, a Vegetarian 101 panel, and so much more! We of course will be there selling our vegan sneakers, t shirts, handbags, and now our NEWEST line of Organic, Fair Trade, and Vegan Children's and Baby line. So come on down and fill your belly with veggie snacks before celebrating Halloween and be sure to get some early ethical holiday shopping in! Just please be sure and stop by the Autonomie Project table and say hello to Anne and Gina 🙂
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Recently Louie Miller, spokesman for the Sierra Club, criticized the Legislature and me for "costing Kemper County residents millions." Let me set the record straight.
The Sierra Club is fighting the construction of a cutting edge, clean coal electric power generation facility by Mississippi Power in Kemper County. It will be the first commercial scale carbon capture and sequestration system on an electric generation plant in the United States and will reduce CO2 emissions to that of a natural gas-fired power station.
The Mississippi Public Service Commission (PSC) has found Mississippi Power needs more baseload electric generation capacity (baseload means a plant that runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week).
The PSC has also determined the plant being built in Kemper County will be the safest, most reliable, cleanest and most affordable source for that baseload electricity for the forty to sixty year life expectancy of the plant.
The plant will use lignite coal, mined in Mississippi, and convert it to gas to generate the electricity. Mississippi landowners will sell the plant some $300-400 million of lignite over forty years of operation. Before this facility, that lignite had essentially no value.
During construction the Kemper County project is creating some 12,000 direct and indirect jobs. After completion the plant will have created more than 1,000 permanent direct and indirect jobs.
The Sierra Club, a liberal environmental group, nationally opposes any new coal-fired power plants. For years their "Beyond Coal" campaign said new power plants should be fueled by natural gas, not coal. But now, the Sierra Club nationally opposes natural gas-fired electric utility plants, too.
So the Sierra Club's position of no coal and no natural gas plants must mean they oppose new baseload plants in Mississippi. Reliability in providing electricity is essential to economic prosperity and job creation, not to mention the basic quality of life Americans demand and deserve.
Look at the poor people in the Northeast with no electricity because of Sandy. Or remember the days after Katrina before our electricity was restored in a heroic performance by Mississippi Power and our co-ops.
Some advocated to the PSC that the plant should run on natural gas, but the PSC studied this issue and made the right decision: Lignite is likely to be far cheaper in the long-term.
While today's cost of natural gas is $3.60 per thousand cubic feet, after falling below $1.80 less than a year ago; twice in the last decade it went above $10 and on a third occasion to $8. Some analysts are already predicting natural gas above $5 next year.
The best measure of the volatility of natural gas prices came when the PSC required Mississippi Power to seek binding contracts from suppliers to buy natural gas at a fixed price for ten years. Through this certification process, it was revealed that no one would even make an offer to supply the gas for ten years, at any price.
Further, the company has contracts to sell byproducts of the plant, including captured CO2, for approximately $2 billion over forty years – all of which will be used to reduce ratepayer bills.
As with every new electric generating plant, rates will increase when Kemper first goes online, just as they did when Mississippi Power's other generating plants, Watson and Daniel, went online. Today these plants continue to provide stable rates and reliable low cost electricity, as they have for decades.
The Sierra Club's claim that Kemper County residents will lose millions because of legislation related to this project is not true. The Kemper plant and its affiliated lignite mining operations will pay the county more than $7 million annually. That doubles the local tax base and is a huge tax windfall for the county.
Kemper County officials supported 2009 legislation co-authored by some of the county's legislative delegation to reduce taxes on the power plant because it was a win-win situation. Kemper County will see its tax base double while Mississippi Power customers will, as a result of lower taxes, save millions of dollars on their power bills over the life of the plant.
Because of a lawsuit filed by the Sierra Club to stop the Kemper County plant, the PSC did not allow an 8% "construction work in progress" rate increase to go into effect. This rate increase, according to the court testimony, would have saved Mississippi Power customers $500 million through lower rates during the first forty years of the plant's being in service.
Mississippi Power's two biggest customers, South Mississippi Electric Power Association (SMEPA) and East Mississippi Rural Electric Power, both voluntarily put the pre-construction rate increase into effect to save themselves and their ratepayers hundreds of millions on light bills for the next forty years. Thanks to the Sierra Club, regular customers didn't get that relief.
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Here are law students on a Tuesday morning in 2013, hearing that researchers hope over the next decade or so to map the wiring of the human brain, seeing how individual cells link to bigger circuits. A decade is a sprint, less time than since 9/11, to use one benchmark.
The scientists want to lift the hood and get a look at the human mind. The students, in a seminar at Fordham University School of Law taught by Prof. Deborah W. Denno, wonder what that will mean for the law.
Over and over, they put questions to a guest speaker, Joshua R. Sanes, director of the Center for Brain Science at Harvard, about the implications for society if and when brain science can identify with confidence a propensity for violence, or for lying.
He bats it right back at them.
"You tell me," Dr. Sanes said. "It's a huge issue. I wish I had something smart to say."
Last year, President Obama announced that the federal government would create a Brain Initiative to speed up the development of tools that can track how the brain works and how it breaks. It is not hard to imagine the benefits, beginning with more carefully targeted treatments for people afflicted with psychiatric ailments. "There has not been a brand new type of drug for antidepression or autism or schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or O.C.D. in something like 25 years," Dr. Sanes said. "This is where we have to make a long-term investment and come up with some new types of help because what we are doing isn't working."
Work on animals has shown in broad strokes how information gets into the head and processed, but current imaging tools cannot keep up with the brain's processing speed, or are not powerful enough to follow the molecular transactions involved in passing information and creating thought.
Dr. Sanes has made close study of the retina, which he calls "a beautiful part of the brain." He rates the human eye as a 100-megapixel camera, with 100 million light-receptor cells. The eye also has layers of cells assigned to detecting color contrasts, edges and various motions, especially of objects rising up.
From all these cells, the brain gets 30 different representations of an image, which it — somehow — assembles into a coherent whole. "You've never seen reality the way it is," he said. "By the time it gets to the brain, it has been decomposed. The brain just throws away 90 percent of the information, because the brain's job is to keep you alive."
That means editing out information that does not pertain to predators or to prey. "At some point, we developed a cortex," Dr. Sanes said. "The cortex is kind of in charge of making us think we've actually seen something."
Many discoveries have been made during treatment of certain epileptic patients who can only be helped if a doctor severs misfiring parts of the brain. Because the brain has no pain receptors, patients are awake and can describe what they are experiencing as their neurons are stimulated — something a mouse cannot do.
And it turns out that there is a Jennifer Aniston neuron.
The neuroscientists "found a neuron that would fire when it saw a picture of Jennifer Aniston," Dr. Sanes said. "It wouldn't fire for any of the other people from 'Friends' or a table or a car."
What evolutionary edge a person gets from such a neuron awaits more study.
It is now believed that diseased circuits caused diseased brains, which we experience as psychiatric disorders, Dr. Sanes said. A student, Brittany Taylor, asked what such broken structures would mean if they cause somebody to commit a crime. "Are we going to look at that as a mitigating circumstance, or are we going to have to change our culpability standards completely?" she asked. What if other parts of the brain were involved, or if environmental factors were influencing the neurons? Could someone say with confidence that the neurons made him do it?
"Science has a limit," Dr. Sanes said. "You're going to have all this information and you're not going to know."
But he assured them that they needed to be ready. Knowledge from the human genome project of the genetic code, will amplify — or complicate — brain mapping efforts, which are known as the Human Connectome.
"Fifteen years from now, somebody is going to say it's the 489th neuron from the back of your ear that made you do it," along with a mutant gene, Dr. Sanes said. "That's going to be hard to dismiss.
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Mere days ago (two, specifically), the UK caught wind of the much ballyhooed, but oft not seen white iPhone 4. It might ship next week! Exciting, if you're into white smartphones, but what of the US market?
Today, we're learning that Best Buy has the device listed under an April 27 date in its frequently leaked internal inventory system (one wonders why it isn't a publicly accessible wiki by now). The screenshot above from 9to5 Mac is for the AT&T GSM model, but sources say the Verizon one will make an appearance as well.
Line-waiters should note that the screen also indicates each store will carry about 10 units on launch day. [9to5 Mac]


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Social media elections – Obama vs the Police Commissioners
As the excitement of this week's Police Commissioner elections galvanises the nation and sparks heated debate, I thought it would be worth looking at the role of Twitter in the gripping contest.
After all, looking back at the US election we saw a huge online turnout with voters from coast to coast giving their views and the Obama victory photo becoming the most liked and retweeted post ever. Social media was seen as a critical bellwether to who was going to win, with online sentiment analysis adding to exit polls in the data available to the candidates and media. And after the event voters made their feelings known (or were perhaps just fickle), with Mitt Romney's Facebook page losing fans at the rate of 847 per hour. Go on, click on http://www.facebook.com/mittromney and see the fan count fall.
However when it comes to the Police Commissioner elections, at least in Suffolk, social media isn't really centre stage. Of four candidates, one (Bill Mountford of UKIP) isn't on Twitter and the Conservative and Independent candidates boast 242 followers between them. While they are both posting regular updates, only Labour candidate Jane Basham seems to have really been embraced by the medium, with 773 followers and a whopping 2,576 tweets. And the #suffolkpcc hashtag is generating on average 7-8 tweets a day, with none over the weekend. A quick look across the border at Cambridgeshire reveals similar levels of tweeting, so I'm not living in an isolated pocket of disinterest.
Of course comparing a local police election to the US Presidential contest is unfair. But what depresses me are two things. Firstly, we're continually being told that social media is handing power back to the people, giving us the opportunity to communicate with our elected representatives and get our points across. And politicians have embraced Twitter, even if many just use it as a chance to retweet party propaganda and show off their own importance. But, equally importantly, I believe that the Police Commissioner elections should be about independent candidates as much as those backed by the party machines – social media levels the playing field as it is cheap, accessible and available to all. Everyone should have a view on law and order and, whatever it is, now is the time to get it across to those that will lead your police force in the coming years. Don't just vote, tweet!
All Twitter figures correct as of 9pm, 13 November 2012
November 14, 2012 Posted by Chris Measures | Cambridge, Social Media | Barack Obama, Facebook, Labour, Mitt Romney, Obama, Police Commissioner Elections, social media, twitter, United States presidential election | 1 Comment
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A while back I gave a copy of Ian Fleming's Casino Royale to my father-in-law. It was one of those "the movie's coming out, I wonder how the book is?" kinda gifts. Besides, who doesn't like spy novels? I've read most of John Le Carré's stuff quite happily. And since the Bond movie franchise is based on the Fleming novels, I thought I'd try reading one. So I borrowed it after he'd finished.
I made it 40 pages in. Bond was in France, getting ready to gamble against Le Chiffre. He'd met his contact. And he'd just met Miss Lynd, with whom he'd be working.
Naturally, this being a Bond novel, Miss Lynd was wearing a dress "of grey soie sauvage with a square-cut bodice, lasciviously tight across her fine breasts."After Fleming spills about a page of ink describing how ravishing and well-appointed Miss Lynd is, there's some stage business. Mathis (the contact) leaves, and Lynd warms up to Bond, who is now optimistic he can work with her. But then, this:
"As a woman, he wanted to sleep with her but only when the job had been done."
If you're wondering if Bond is actually a woman, that's because Mr. Fleming has blundered into a dangling modifier.
Sigh. Anyhow, I was all hyped for Bond to win at roulette, bandy the fisticuffs, kiss Miss Lynd with abrasive lust-and-disdain (this being the sexist 50s and all), and pump … umm, lead with his the Walther PPK.
But alas, if Fleming's writing is so lazy as to make mistakes like that, how am I to trust him when Bond's life is on the line — or Miss Lynd's garters?
Yes, well, you can forgive the old man all you want, since after all, it's just once sentence. But if I read writing that careless, I can't help but wonder if that same carelessness holds true for the story … if, sooner or later, Bond is going to shove his Walther down the front of his pressed gabardine trousers and accidentally shoot one of his nuts off. (Which, come to think of it, would make that earlier sentence a bit of foreshadowing, wouldn't it?)
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Tara Ragan, vice president of Walldinger Racing Inc., an agent for suspended NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver A.J. Allmendinger, released a statement on Wednesday as Allmendinger awaits results of a second drug test. Allmendinger agreed to let NASCAR test a second urine sample on Tuesday. Those results are expected within five days, according to reports. The statement:
"In an effort to help our colleagues in the media report on this in a timely and accurate manner, we wanted to provide some additional details regarding AJ's sample 'A' test results. AJ tested positive for a stimulant. He has no idea why the first test was positive, and he has never knowingly taken any prohibited substance. AJ is collecting his medicines and supplements for testing to determine whether an over the counter product caused his positive test. AJ and all of us at Walldinger Racing respect NASCAR's testing program, and he has requested that his 'B' sample be tested as part of the process of getting to the bottom of this. We will have the opportunity to review all of the scientific data surrounding the test following the 'B' sample test, but our understanding is that AJ's test was slightly above the threshold. As of this morning, we have not been given notice of when the testing of the 'B' sample will take place. Thanks again for all of the support of our fans, team, and sponsors as we continue working through the process."
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My first stop for the weekend is dinner with JOLO Winery & Vineyard proprietors JW and Kristen Ray. JOLO is the Yadkin Valley's newest winery and future home of End Posts, an upscale boutique restaurant and taste room. The winery is scheduled for a soft opening, booking private tours and events beginning in November. JOLO will celebrate its official grand opening March 2014 when End Posts opens to the public.
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After checking into the Hampton Inn & Suites in Dobson, N.C. (Exit 93 off I-77), we take a 30-minute drive to Pilot Mountain to join J.W. and Kristen Ray for dinner.
|JOLO's Surry Stacked 'Maters with mozzarella and basil pesto puts a new spin on tomato sandwiches.
The Rays own and operate JOLO Winery and Vineyards (219 JOLO Winery Lane), the Yadkin Valley's newest winery, which is scheduled to begin booking private events with a soft opening in November. The public grand opening will be held in March.
The Rays purchased the property, which sits on an 81-acre tract of land, and planted a vineyard in 2010. JOLO is named after their two sons Joe and Logan.
For dinner, the Rays served a four-course meal from the menu of their soon-to-open restaurant and taste room, End Posts, which is currently under construction and scheduled to open next spring at JOLO. The upscale boutique restaurant and taste room will feature an open kitchen, seat 24 and feature a seasonal menu that changes weekly.
Since JOLO's first vintage of grapes has just come out the ground, each course was paired with wines from McRitchie Winery & Ciderworks (www.McRitchieWine.com). The family-owned and operated winery has a reputation for its ciders, but its wines are amazing.
Day 2: Merlot and Mayberry
The following morning, we take a short drive from Dobson to Mayberry. Oops, I mean Mount Airy, the hometown of Andy Griffith.
I can see why so many people think that Mayberry, the fictional setting for "The Andy Griffith Show" is an actual town. In fact, many of the people living there seem to think so as well. After all, Griffith is quoted as saying that Mayberry is just a "state of mind."
But for some, that state of mind has crossed into the physical realm. Mount Airy's historic downtown is filled with people who have taken on the personas of fictional characters from "The Andy Griffith Show" - from Barney Fife to Floyd the Barber.
Even the businesses have incorporated "Mayberry" into their names. Some borrowed their entire names from fictional places featured on the show.
Snappy Lunch (125 North Main Street) is one of few businesses mentioned on the show that actually predates the series. We stop by to try the famous pork chop sandwich, which is more of a pork tenderloin served a on big bun and piled high with chili, slaw, mustard, onions and tomato.
After leaving Snappy, we walk a couple of blocks to the Andy Griffith Museum (218 Rockford Street), where Tanya Jones greets us by the TV Land Landmark Statue of Andy and Opie going fishing and gives us a guided tour.
After visiting the museum, we take the Squad Car Tours (www.TourMayberry.com) around Mount Airy – down Main Street past Floyd's Barber Shop where "Barney Fife" is passing out tickets for offenses such as "Excessive cell phone use," "being obtuse" and "spreading hog-wash." We also visit the town's open-face granite quarry, which is the world's largest.
The squad cars drop us off at Wally's Service Station (625 S. Main St.), which is located next to the Old Jail and Visitor's Center. Then, we head downtown and indulge in little retail therapy, purchasing souvenirs, before having lunch and a wine tasting at Old North State Winery & Brewery (308 North Main Street).
|The mountain views at Round Peak Vineyards are breathtaking. It's the perfect destination for sipping wine on the "crush pad" while watching the sunset.
After lunch we took a short ride to Round Peak Vineyards (765 Round Peak Church Road), and the mountain views are amazing. It's the perfect place to come chill on the spacious back porch, which they call the crush pad, and watch the sunset.
The vineyard sits on 12 acres and produces 8 French and Italian varietals. However, they are currently rolling out a second line of semi-dry wines under the label Skull Camp. In the coming months, Round Peak is opening a restaurant and microbrewery. I can't wait to go back.
We capped off the evening back in Dobson with a tour of the state's largest vineyards, Shelton Vineyards (286 Cabernet Lane). It's owned by brothers Ed and Charlie Shelton, who have strong ties to Charlotte. They built the Hearst Tower and a number of other buildings. It was cool touring the vineyard and learning how the brothers literally built their business empire from the ground up.
We have dinner at Harvest Grill (286 Cabernet Lane), where I fall in love with the Southwestern Lobster Salad, which is a mix of lobster, guacamole, roasted corn Pico de Gallo and cilantro sour cream served with flour tortilla chips.
Day 3: Historic Downtown Elkin
The next day we travel 10 miles down the highway to Elkin for lunch and a wine tasting at Elkin Creek Vineyards (318 Elkin Creek Mill Road). On Sundays they serve brick-oven pizzas. We order the Bacon Brie pizza, which does not disappoint.
Afterwards, we head over to Brushy Mountain Winery (125 West Main St.) in historic downtown Elkin for another wine tasting. We're greeted by Beth Duncan, who gives us a little background on the small town and how the historic downtown area is slowly being revitalized.
Beth pours the best wine I tasted the entire trip, the Brushy Mounty Booger Swamp White. Despite the name, this wine has the most amazing nose – brimming with the aromas of tropical fruits including mango, peach, apricot and honey. It could easily be made into a candle and tastes as delicious as it smells.
We walk a couple of blocks down Main Street to Elkin's newest hangout, 222 Public House at The Liberty.
It's housed in an old tobacco house that has been renovated and converted into an event hall, gift shop and sports bar. The Panthers are playing. We watch them lose, then hit the road back to Charlotte.
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How RIM shipped the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet without native email, calendar and contact apps is beyond anyone.
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PlayBook OS 2.0 is everything the PlayBook OS should have been last year. Instead, RIM thought it was acceptable to release the 7-inch tablet and force owners to tether their BlackBerry smartphones to it in order to read BB email, calendars and contacts.
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The new OS update also brings with it a section filled with Android apps, a new BlackBerry Video Store and enhanced web browsing functions. We're still waiting for our PlayBook to update (no doubt because everybody is updating at once), but we'll be back to update with what's improved or not when it's actually up and running.
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Then Go can take the software guts of an existing physical server and pour them into a virtual machine container, or it can install a pre-built virtual appliance on a machine or deploy a squeaky clean VM with nary a bit in it. Go is also used to monitor the performance and resource utilization of VMs running atop ESXi and updates the hypervisors as patches become available.
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Talks between Gov. Jerry Brown and the so-called "GOP Five" have stalled.
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schneiderjl necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 1467 diseños de 138 diseñadores freelance.
Social Media from Scratch
I love the creative process and beautiful design.
My background is 26 years of marketing, big agency advertising, market research, brand management and small business consulting. I have been working on a social media training product called Social Media from Scratch since September 2009.
I'm partnering with a social media expert who has developed a proven system that helps small businesses drive more qualified leads to their websites. We're passionate about helping small businesses grow. We love our clients and want them to do well.
We're results-oriented entrepreneurs, just like our clients. We like to have fun in what we do, at the same time, we do work hard.
I've personally spent full time since August 2009, learning online marketing, how to create an info product and how to do an Internet launch. I am also going to feature a survey on a website to get the best language for positioning the product.
The target audience is male and female small business owners who have a website, in the age range from 35 to 54. Their business is their life. It is more than a way to make money, it's a huge part of who they are.
Their business gets them up in the morning and keeps them up at night. Especially in this economy. They have a strong sense of family, but honestly, sometimes their business keeps them away from their families. They are looking for ways to make doing business easier. They probably think that social media would work for their business, but are overwhelmed by the idea of using it. They need a simple system.
They like that it is virtually free and think it would give their businesses a positive buzz with their customers. They also are "early adopters" who use the Internet daily and are always looking for new ways to build their businesses. They want to be seen as experts in their industry and trendsetters among their friends and colleagues.
They may have tried learning social media themselves, but haven't kept up with it because they think it takes too much time. They need our system because it works. With it, they will have the option of using Virtual Assistants who can do a large amount of the routine social media tasks for them. Owners would need to spend about an hour a week developing content or do it themselves (w/out a VA) for an hour a day.
Since 99% of my business will be in the US, the globe has to feature North America front and center. We Americans can only recognize a globe from that perspective. ;-)
Also, not all designs have to feature the globe. If you want to go with something else that represents SOCIAL MEDIA, that would be great. Thanks for all you hard work. Jane P.S. If you want to get a message to me, please use the private email, because sometimes I can miss messages left in the Comments Section. Thanks.
I am seeing few icons I like that communicate "Social Media." One that I do like is the globe because it communicates that social media is worldwide. I am interested in seeing some version of the globe incorporated. Thanks.
If you can come up with a sophisticated three-color-plus-black design, I would like to see it. The two color plus black seems a little lacking. Just keep the colors muted and professional. Thanks. Jane
I closed this contest yesterday and got feedback from several small business owners that the multi-colored logos do not convey the level of professionalism, sophistication and tone appropriate for a business product.
Therefore, I am now defining some new requirements for the logo as well as listing the requirements that are relevant from the original concept:
Tone: sophisticated, upscale but not too formal. Note: The training product will sell for $497, with four coaching sessions per month that sell for $97 per month, ongoing.
Type: Must convey a contemporary attitude; can be two colors plus black
Emphasis: "Social" and "Media" need to be given equal weight
Overall: The whole design should be clearly readable.
Icon or graphic: The design should contain a subtle icon or graphic treatment that communicates the idea of "social Media."
- Needs to be a logo for "Social Media from Scratch" not just initials "SMfS" or "SMS"
- Appeals to men and women
- - Is approachable
- Is clean and clearly readable
- Is modern but not futuristic
- Will work for the web, print and business cards
- Don't use the color pink, orange or green
- Contains some sort of graphic element or icon that helps communicate the idea of Social Media from Scratch. This element needs to be appealing from a design standpoint and not detract from the name. I don't want anything "horsey" or awkward looking.
Specific design request: If someone can figure out a way to use this in a sophisticated logo, I'm interested: SOC!AL MED!A. (Using ! instead of I.)
What I do NOT want:
The Social Media Examiner logo is the exact OPPOSITE of what I'm looking for. I can NOT stand this design. It looks childish, has way too much going on in it and the jungle/explorer theme is dated. The whole this is just really bad.
The logo will serve as the design foundation for all future efforts: web, print and business cards.
A few of the designs from the original contest still earned 5 stars because they got positive feedback, despite that fact that they are mulit-color.
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Charles looks OK as Chiefs beat Cardinals 27-17
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Jamaal Charles took a solid hit to the left knee on his very first carry, then bounced right up and helped the Kansas City Chiefs score touchdowns on their first two possessions en route to a 27-17 preseason victory over the Arizona Cardinals on Friday night.
Charles, the NFL's second-leading rusher in 2010, had 12 yards on three carries and caught one pass for 11 yards in his first action since ACL surgery on the left knee last September. Two other key starters who also sat out last season with ACL surgery — safety Eric Berry and tight end Tony Moeaki — also played with no apparent problem, a huge relief for fans and coaches.
For the second straight game, the defense for Arizona (tied No. 23 in the AP Pro 32) yielded a touchdown on the opening drive, with Matt Cassel hitting Peyton Hillis on a 12-yard scoring strike to open the game.
In their second possession, the Chiefs (No. 18) romped 72 yards in just four plays, capped by Shaun Draughn's 4-yard run.
Little was decided in the battle between John Skelton and Kevin Kolb for Arizona's starting quarterback job. But William Powell, a second-year running back from Kansas State, had a big game, rushing for 92 yards on nine carries. He scored the Cardinals' first touchdown on a 2-yard run on fourth down after exploding for 67 yards a moment before.
Skelton started and was 3 for 6 for 35 yards and one interception. Kolb, who started in the Hall of Fame game against New Orleans, came off the bench and was one for 5 for 21 yards. The Cardinals, who spent the week practicing at the Chiefs' camp in nearby St. Joseph, Mo., dropped to 0-2 in the preseason, while the Chiefs matched their preseason victory total for the past three seasons.
Cassel, who missed most of the second half last season with a hand injury, looked sharp. He connected with a wide-open Hillis to finish a 12-play, 72-yard march for a 7-0 lead the first time the Chiefs had the ball and was 5 for 6 for 67 yards. He rifled a 29-yard completion to Dexter McCluster to set up Draughn's TD run with 4:13 left in the first quarter.
Hillis, an offseason free agent signing, had 41 yards on four carries. He broke through a big hole on the right side of the line for a 28-yard run in the second TD drive, helping the first-teamers to touchdowns on the only two possessions they played.
Abram Elam intercepted Skelton's pass intended for Larry Fitzgerald and returned it 37 yards to set up Ryan Succup's 22-yard field goal in the third quarter. Succop's 24-yarder following Devon Wylie's long punt return made it 20-10.
Ricky Stanzi, the Chiefs' third-string quarterback, found backup tight end Steve Maneri for 19 yards in the fourth period to help set up a 7-yard touchdown run by Cyrus Gray. Gray had 15 carries for 65 yards and Maneri had three catches for 69 yards.
With 8:28 left, the Cardinals made it 27-17 when Richard Bartel connected with Jaymar Johnson on an 18-yard touchdown pass.
The replacement officials were not shy about throwing flags, calling six penalties on each team for a total of 149 yards.
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Do we work hard? Sure, because everyone here wants to make it.
Are you always looking for something new to learn? If yes, you'll fit right in.
Our employees take pride in doing their jobs well and in exceeding our customers' expectations. Plus, there's something really cool about the buzz our commercials create and knowing you're a part of the company who makes them.
At Hardee's.®, success for each of our employees is possible with good ideas, hard work and determination – all traits we look for when we interview people like you. If hired, you'll bring a great work ethic as you go about your daily job. And you can expect a menu of great tasting choices you'll be proud to serve. That combo of good people serving great food makes the Hardee's.® experience one that keeps our customers coming back for more.
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Hardee's Restaurants LLC was built on the fundamental belief that success is possible with vision, hard work, and determination. Each year, we award thousands of dollars in college scholarships that recognize both academic excellence and community leadership. We work closely with food banks and other groups to support families in need. Our work with local charities allows us to witness firsthand the positive impact of our endeavors.


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Okay, here is a quick list of the addons I have. You can get all the ace ones through the WoWAceUpdater (which I suggest) or just at http://www.wowace.com.
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The Centro Histórico, Mexico City's formerly gritty downtown quarter, is the place to see all manner of architectural styles. A sampling:
1 Art Nouveau Epic interior murals by several of Mexico's top painters, a Tiffany glass curtain, and twice-weekly performances by the Ballet Folklórico de México make the Palacio de Bellas Artes a must (Hidalgo and Eje Central Lázaro Cárdenas; 52-55-5512-2593).
2 Oriental/Moorish The Casa de los Azulejos, a sixteenth-century palace that's now a Sanborn's restaurant/pharmacy, is covered in blue and white azulejo tiles. Don't miss Orozco's mural Omniscience near the stairway (Francisco I. Madero 4; 52-55-5512-1331).
3 Functionalist Though no longer the tallest building in Mexico City, the earthquake-proof Torre Latino Americana is still a landmark. Ascend to the forty-fourth-floor gazebo (Eje Central Lázaro Cárdenas 2; 52-55-5518-7423).
4 Baroque On the Zócalo, the Palacio Nacional is a government building of varying capacities since conquest. Built over the palace of Moctezuma II, it has a red tezontle facade and Diego Rivera's famed murals depicting the history of Mexico (52-55-3688-1602).
5 Aztec The Spanish built over it, but archaeologists have been continuously excavating an entire city block's worth of the main temple of the Aztecs, the Templo Mayor, on the Zócalo. You can tour its museum and archaeological site (52-55-5542-4943).
Move over, Gabriel Orozco. Fresh young artists are flooding spaces like San Ildefonso, which hosts avant-garde exhibitions (Justo Sierra 16; 55-5702-2991). Director Paloma Porraz Fraser names the local talent to watch.
Melanie Smith "She's known for her textured, thoughtful black-and-white photos. Her work can be found in El Eco Experimental Museum [52-55-5535-5186]."
Damián Ortega "At the Venice Biennale was his Cosmic Thing (2002)—a disassembled VW Beetle suspended in midair like a constellation of stars. His puzzle-like rock sculptures are at his local gallery, Kurimanzutto [Gob. Rafael Rebollar 94; 52-55-5256-2408]."
Abraham Cruzvillegas "He uses bike wheels and kitchen knives in installations that are reflective—and often blunt—about social problems. He's also represented by Kurimanzutto [see above]."
Thomas Glassford "His Xipe Tótec (2010) features LEDs covering the skyscraper Torre de Tlatelolco. It's the city's lighthouse—the first thing you see when approaching by plane."
Behind a grungy, hot-pink ice-cream parlor facade, the city's coolest new club, M.N. Roy, doesn't get busy until around 3 a.m. (C. de Mérida 186). There's a science to keeping crowds dancing until sunrise. Here, songs for every time of night, chosen by the club's fearsome door gal, sometime-model and transgender recording artist Zemmoa:
12:30 a.m. "Ay Mínimo Escribe Un Adios," by Zemmoa: "Start the night on a good note. I wrote it about a lover who left without saying good-bye, so it's a sad song, but it doesn't sound that way. It gets people on the dance floor."
2 a.m. "Resistiré," by El Dúo Dinámico: "By a 1960s Spanish pop band, it has a feel-good beat. It reminds me of the innocence of those times, which is good for the heart."
3 a.m. "Despiertame," by Gloria Trevi: "I admire Trevi, a Mexican pop-rock singer, because her songs have so much soul. Its slowness is perfect for the point when people are coupling off and dancing a little closer."
4:30 a.m. "Yo Soy Tu Maestro," by Los Telez: "This is for dancing cumbia, which is a type of salsa that's quick and punctuated by pivots. The song loosens everyone up."
5 a.m. "Caliente Caliente," by Raffaella Carrà: "It's a beautiful, romantic song that sounds free and a little silly—like something you'd dance to in the rain."
A village 20 minutes south of downtown, Coyoacán was the stomping ground of Leon Trotsky and Octavio Paz, and today's new hipster hangouts have reinvigorated its boho pedigree. Here's what to check out when you're in the hood:
1 La Bipolar Y Tu Mamá También actor Diego Luna's cantina offers alcoholic aguas frescas and a kitschy-meets-modernist look (Av. Malintzín 155).
2 La Casa Azul Frida Kahlo's cobalt-blue house is now a museum containing her final painting, Long Live Life (1954), which depicts watermelons on a blue background (52-55-5554-5999).
3 Los Danzantes Sit in a charming plaza, eat duck enchiladas, and drink from the long mezcál menu (Pl. Jardin Centenario 12; 52-55-5554-1213; entrées from $23).
4 Teatro Bar El Vicio A cabaret in the former home of poet Salvador Novo, a flamboyant intellect known as Mexico's Oscar Wilde (C. Madrid 13; 52-55-5659-1139).
5 Tostadas de Coyoacán The tostadas here have myriad toppings, including octopus, seviche, and pork (Mercado Coyoacán stands 181 and 182).
6 Corazón de Maguey Maguey worms, a Mexican delicacy, are best tried here, where they're sautéed and served with avocado (Pl. Jardin Centenario 9-A).
7 La Guadalupana Channel Frida and Diego at this 1930s bar: The intelligentsia loved waxing poetic under its vaulted ceiling (C. Caballocalco and C. de la Higuera).
The milky 2,000-year-old Aztec drink made from fermented sap is having a moment, and there's a brew for even the choosiest palate at these spots.
For the Picky Eater
Peanut Pulque at Bósforo Mezcalería: Flavored with peanuts and mamey (a tropical fruit native to Mexico with a sweet orange pulp), it's a bit more accessible than tangy old-school varieties. For the adventurous, there are also toasted-grasshopper quesadillas (Calle Luis Moya 31).
For the Locavore
Celery Pulque at Los Insurgentes: Barrels of pulque from nearby Tlaxcala arrive at this trendy nightspot each week. It's imbued with seasonal stuff like prickly pear or celery (Av. Insurgentes Sur 226).
For the Hipster
Piña Colada Pulque at Pulquería La Nuclear: Fancy a tropical pulque in an oversized ceramic jug? Get it at this hipster pulquería complete with saloon-style doors and karaoke (Eje 2 Sur/Querétaro between C. de Orizaba and C. de Jalapa).
For the Foodie
Pulque Cake at Biko: One of the world's best restaurants, it uses pulque in a nontraditional dessert—it's freeze-dried and put in a nut cake served with molten chocolate spheres, butter, lemon ice cream, and wine-cured strawberries (Presidente Masaryk 407; 55-5282-2064; set menu from $74).
The Classic A colorful, traditional Talavera serving dish, pictured right, from the artisanal market La Ciudadela (C. Balderas and Pl. de la Ciudadela).
The Current An Hermès-like silk shawl from Pineda Covalin, inspired by indigenous designs such as Otomi embroidery and Huichol art (Campos Elíseos 215; 52-55-5282-2720; from $124).
Nicholas Gilman, author of Good Food in Mexico City (iUniverse; $16), knows the city's food scene like no other. His favorite taco options, from high-end to low:
$$$$ "Paxia's taco de pescado contains flaked snapper subtly seasoned with cilantro and the odd, lemony herb pápano. It's served on a light corn tortilla with thin slices of grilled pineapple [Av. de la Paz 47; 52-55-5616-6964; entrées from $17]."
$$$ "El Bajio, pictured left, helmed by the great Carmen Tititia, has tacos de carnitas that are nothing more or less than confit of pork, tender and juicy. Plus, the tortillas are hand-hewn, the salsas iconic [Alejandro Dumas 7; 52-55-5281-8245; tacos from $1.30]."
$$ "Tacos al Pastor, or 'shepherd style,' are the most iconic Mexico City food. At El Huequito, a tiny joint open since 1959 in the Centro Histórico, the pork—which is juicy and succulent, with a smoky aroma that lingers until you take the next bite—is swathed in chile de árbol, topped with chopped onion and cilantro [C. Ayuntamiento 21; 52-55-5598-9027; tacos from $1]."
$ "Salón Corona is a cool bar that has been serving tacos de guisados—varied meat stews—since 1928. Get the mole verde, which has minty, creamy green mole and a payload of tender pork. The large house-made tortillas are pleasingly redolent of corn [C. de Bolívar 24; 55-52-5512-9007; tacos from $1]."
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They have become the new poster guys for Sox fans' discontent.
They have become the new poster guys for Sox fans'
J.D. Drew and John Lackey.
They are the ones lambasted on talk shows, constantly
criticized, as if all the ills of the Red Sox would be eradicated
if only Drew and Lackey suddenly disappeared, this year's villains.
And always hovering over these attacks is the fact that they make
so much money.
But you know what?
They didn't set their own salaries. They were offered these
salaries by Theo Epstein.
This is the reality, one that often seems to get overlooked as
both Drew and Lackey become the most visible symbols of fan
They don't pay themselves.
It's easy to overlook this. We see players making Monopoly
money, and we all know that's the cost of doing business in today's
sports world. So we jump past the front page of the newspaper, the
one that's become a daily diary of reduced services and a pension
system that's broken, a daily diary of broken dreams, and we turn
to the sports page, society's version of Fantasy Island, the
magical place where guys get paid millions of dollars to play a
game little kids play for nothing.
But they don't pay themselves.
This is the system, and we all buy into it, even if at some
level we know that this is one of the reasons why a family could
live for a week on the price of the tickets. This is the system,
and we all buy into it until someone doesn't produce and than all
our pent up hostility is poured on to them.
Drew and Lackey are overpaid? No kidding.
Drew has never been liked since he first got here in 2007. Part
of it was that he was replacing Trot Nixon, the ultimate "dirt
dog," the anti-Drew. Part of it was his go-through-the-motions
style. Suffice it to say it's not the kind of style that plays well
to passionate Red Sox fans.
And there's no question that his high salary - $14 million a
year - follows him around like an afternoon shadow, something he
can never escape from. If the Red Sox pay him a lot of money, he's
supposed to produce, right? No matter that a player is the same
whether you pay him a $100 a year or $1 million. The only thing
that's different is the size of the paycheck.
And the perception, of course.
Lackey - who's paid over $15 million per year - often looks as
if he's in the middle of a nervous breakdown, a man no longer at
piece with himself. Little wonder. He has not pitched well. His
wife reportedly has cancer. Last week, in his most recent start at
Fenway, he was terrible, and afterward he was petulant with the
media, essentially saying it didn't matter what he said because
reporters were going to write what they wanted anyway.
Is it any wonder why fans have turned on both of them? It is any
wonder that they've become the object of fan discontent?
In a sense they've both joined the list of high-priced guys who
were brought in here in recent years and failed to meet
expectations: Edgar Renteria. Julio Lugo. Matt Clement. Dice-K.
Have we missed anyone? Probably. But you get the point.
All of these players were signed by Epstein, the onetime boy
wonder who now has two World Series titles on his resum�,
which in Boston means he's never going to have to pay for another
drink for the rest of his life. Sports is the ultimate bottom-line
business, and there's no question Theo has delivered in all the
ways that matter. He has rebuilt the farm system. He and his people
keep sending quality players to Fenway, everyone from Kevin
Youkilis and Dustin Pedroia, to Clay Buchholz to Jacoby Ellsbury,
plus the numerous prospects that have been used in trades.
Oh yeah, there's also that little thing about being the general
manager of the team that won for the first time in 86 years,
slaying all the ghosts of the past.
Bottom line?
Epstein has been very good for the Red Sox.
That doesn't mean he's beyond reproach, doesn't mean every
decision he's made has been a good one.
Say hello to Drew and Lackey.
But Epstein, like his Yankees counterpart Brian Cashman, has
that kind of luxury. Epstein can afford to make mistakes in ways
that most of his contemporaries cannot. That's the perk that comes
with being the general manager of a big-market team with a
$170-million payroll.
That's just the reality of being the general manager of the Red
Sox, where you are judged by whether you win or not, not by how
much money you spend, or how many mistakes you make.
Just as Drew and Lackey should be judged on what they do on the
field, not by how much money they make.
Because they don't pay themselves.


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RMOUG 2012 – Hello Denver!
Posted by Riyaj Shamsudeen on January 10, 2012
On February 14-16, I'll be at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado for RMOUG's Training Days Conference. This is the largest regional Oracle User Conference in North America and attracts presenters from all around the country and the globe. I'll be presenting:
Presentation Name: Troubleshooting RAC Background Process
Abstract: RAC background process performance is critical to keep the application performance. This session will demo techniques to review the performance of RAC background processes such as LMS, LMD, LMON, etc. using various statistics and UNIX tools. The presentation will also discuss why certain background processes must run in higher priority to maintain the application performance in RAC.
Presentation Name: A Kind and Gentle Introduction to RAC
Abstract: This session will introduce basic concepts such as cache fusion, conversion to RAC, protocols for interconnect, general architectural overview, GES layer locks, clusterware, etc. The session will also discuss the srvctl command and demo a few of these commands to improve the understanding.
Presentation Name: Parallel Execution in RAC
Abstract: This presentation will start to discuss and demo parallel server allocation, intra, and inter node parallelism aspects. The session will discuss the new parallelism features such as parallel statement queuing, parallel auto dop, and discuss the interaction of those features with RAC. The session will probe a few critical parameters to improve PQ performance in RAC.
Click here for more information or to register for RMOUG's Training Days.


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Stereotyping is an unfortunate quirk of human nature that runs through car enthusiasm like a bad social disease. Some automotive preconceptions have completely lost legitimacy (if there was ever any in the first place) but refuse to fade away. What stereotypes about cars or drivers need to die?
The modern fifth-generation Chevrolet Camaro is a serious, sophisticated (if supersized) tech-heavy musclecar. It is very fast, it is a brilliant reinterpretation of classic styling cues... and the first thing that always comes to mind whenever anyone hears the word "Camaro" is "trailer park." Yes, you'll find a few F-body Camaros lined up next to most double-wides, but the latest generation has a diverse appeal. Be-mulleted driver may still prefer Camaros, but what of fancier mullet owners? People with an Execu-Mullet like Mark Fields?
Frankly, the new Camaro is too nice and too expensive to wind up in your average trailer park. Outside the duplex of a Wal-Mart middle manager? Sure. But that's a big difference.
(QOTD is your chance to answer the day's most pressing automotive questions and experience the opinions of the insightful insiders, practicing pundits and gleeful gearheads that make up the Jalopnik commentariat. If you've got a suggestion for a good "Question Of the Day" send an email to tips at jalopnik dot com.)
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National Hurricane Center
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
The Bathurst Bay Cyclone, also known as Tropical Cyclone Mahina, which struck Bathurst Bay, Australia on March 5, 1899, is generally credited with the world record for storm surge. The cyclone's storm surge is variously listed at 13 - 14.6 meters (43 - 48 feet). The Category 5 cyclone was a monster--with sustained winds in excess of 175 mph and a central pressure between 880 and 914 mb. Mahina killed at least 307 people, mostly on pearling ships, and was the deadliest cyclone in Australian history. The eyewitness account of Mahina's record storm surge was provided by Constable J. M. Kenny, who journeyed to Barrow Point on Bathurst Bay to investigate a crime on the day of the storm. While camped on a ridge 40 feet above sea level and 1/2 mile inland, Kenny's camp was inundated by a storm wave, reaching waist-deep. On nearby Flinders Island, fish and dolphins were found on top of 15 meter (49 foot) cliffs. However, an analysis by Nott and Hayne (2000) found no evidence of storm-deposited debris higher than 3 - 5 meters above mean sea level in the region. They also cited two computer storm surge simulations of the cyclone that were unable to generate a surge higher than three meters.
Indeed, Bathurst Bay is not ideally situated to receive high storm surges. The Great Barrier Reef lies just 20 - 40 km offshore, and the ocean bottom near the bay is not shallow, but steeply sloped. Both of these factors should conspire to keep storm surges well below the record 13 - 14.6 meters reported. The authors concluded that the actual surge from the Bathurst Bay Cyclone may have been 3 - 5 meters. The observed inundation at 13 meters elevation, plus the observation of dolphins deposited at 15 meters above sea level could have been caused by high waves on top of the surge, they argue. Waves on top of the surge (called "wave run-up") can reach five times the wave height at the shore for steeply fronted coasts like at Bathurst Bay. Since waves in the Bathurst Bay Cyclone could easily have been 3 meters, 15 meters of wave run-up on top of the surge is quite feasible. Since wave run-up doesn't count as surge, the status of the 1899 Bathurst Bay Hurricane as the world record holder for storm surge is questionable. However, the event is certainly the world record holder for the high water mark set by a tropical cyclone's storm surge, an important category in its own right.
|Figure 1. Satellite image of Bathurst Bay, Queensland Province, Australia. The record 43 - 48 foot storm surge wave occurred on Barrow Point, marked by an "x" on the map above. Image credit: NASA.
|Figure 2. Track of the 1899 Bathurst Bay cyclone. Bathurst Bay is located at the point where the 914 mb pressure is listed. Image credit: Whittingham, 1958.
Australian Storm Surge Records
The largest storm surges in Australia occur in Gulf of Carpentaria, due to the large expanse of shallow water there (the Gulf of Carpentaria is the large bay to the left of the zoomed-in map of Bathurst Bay shown above). According to Australian hurricane scientist Jeffrey Callaghan, "From all reports the storm surge from the disastrous 5 March 1887 cyclone flooded almost all of Burketown (some 30km inland from the Gulf). A copy of a 1918 report to the Queensland Parliament from the Department of Harbours and Rivers Engineer refers to the sea rising to 5.5 metres above the highest spring tide level at the Albert River Heads. This level is about 8 metres (26.2 feet) above Australian Height Datum (AHD). The biggest measured surge in the Gulf of Carpentaria occurred on 30 March 1923, when a surge of 21.4 feet was recorded at a Groote Eylandt Mission".
Indian Ocean/Bay of Bengal Storm Surge Records
The funnel-shape of the North Indian Ocean and shallow bathymetry act to focus some of the world's highest storm storms onto the low-lying area at the northen end of the Bay of Bengal. Thanks to the dense population of the region, 22 of the world's 30 deadliest tropical cyclones have occurred in the Bay of Bengal. Although only 1% of all tropical cyclones that form each year strike Bangladesh, that nation has suffered 53% of all world fatalities due to tropical cyclones (Ali, 1999).
The highest storm surge from a Bay of Bengal cyclone is reputed to be the 44.6 foot (13.6 meter) storm surge (Shrestha, 1998) attributed to the Great Backerganj Cyclone of 1876. Banglapedia lists the surge from this cyclone at 40 feet (12.2 meters).
The highest storm surge in the past century from a Bay of Bengal cyclone occurred during the Great Bhola Cyclone of 1970, when a storm surge of 34.8 feet (10.6 meters) roared inland during one of the highest high tides of the year (Karim and Mimura, 2008; Shrestha, 1998). The death toll from the cyclone was the highest in human history, estimated at 300,000 - 550,000.
Figure 3. The Bhola Cyclone of November 11, 1970 in the Bay of Bengal, approaching Bangladesh. The 34.8 foot (10.6 meter) storm surge caused the highest tropical cyclone death toll in history, 300,000 - 550,000.
Western Pacific Typhoon Storm Surge Record
In the Western Pacific, where tropical cyclones are called typhoons, the world-record for the highest storm surge is 19.5 feet (5.94 meters), according to Fengshu and Xinian, 1989. This occurred on July 22, 1980 at Nandu Station, China, during Typhoon Joe. At the time, Typhoon Joe was a Category 1 storm with 80 - 90 mph winds and a pressure of 965 mb.
Ali, A. (1999), Climate change impacts and adaptation assessment in Bangladesh" (PDF File), Climate Research 12: 109-116, 1999.
Anonymous, 1899, The Outridge Report--The Pearling Disaster 1899: A Memorial", The Outridge Company, 1899
Karim, M.K., and N. Mimura, 2008, "Impacts of climate change and sea-level rise on cyclonic storm surge floods in Bangladesh", Global Environmental Change 18: 3, pp490-500, doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2008.05.002.
Nott, J, N. Hayne, 2000: How high was the storm surge from Tropical Cyclone Mahina?", (PDF File) Australian Journal of Emergency Management, Autumn 2000.
Shrestha, M.L. (ed) (1998), "The impact of tropical cyclones on the coastal regions of SAARC countries and their influence in the region", SMRC N. SAARC Meteorological Research Centre, DHA, Bangladesh, October 1998, 329 pp.
Fengshu, L., and W. Xinian, 1989, "A Review of Storm-Surge Research in China", Natural Hazards 2: 17-29, 1989.
Whittingham, 1958, "The Bathurst Bay hurricane and associated storm surge", (PDF File) Australian Meteorological Magazine, No. 27, pp. 40-41. Scanned and put on-line courtesy of John McBride.
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