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I originally joined Pixel Scrapper to download free digital scrap booking, assets, pages etc. However, I am very disappointed with the fact that you need 'download credits' to download anything now. I want FREE digital scrap booking! Also, on a similar note, I am concerned about privacy ... There should definitely be more privacy settings. With these reasons combined, I was looking to delete my account, and found no visible way to do so ... Did I miss something? If I didn't, I hope Pixel Scrapper will change this ASAP.
Download credits / account deletion.
Wow, I am surprised that you are disappointed with this site-all are sooooo generous. Keeping a site open involves funding so unless a person is independently wealthy it would be impossible to provide unlimited free downloads. I might add that as soon as you enter the internet much of your privacy is virtually gone. I don't think you will find many sites as generous as this for "freebies" especially expecting so little from the community. The purpose of this site is not just for freebies but more for a feeling of community....i.e. people helping people. I for one love that I can interact with so many people around the world! If you participate more in the community you would earn more download credits to get more "free" stuff but if you do not want to do that I am sure that Marisa and Jordan will be able to delete your account.
Hi Serafina. I'm sorry that you are disappointed with the site. Marisa and I are working as hard as we can to make it the best it can be. The site is still relatively new, and currently in beta: there is still a lot to be done, and like I said, we're working every day to try and make it better. A lot of things are not finalized or finished at this point, and I apologize for the rough edges.
The goal we have with Pixel Scrapper is to build a place where people can find inspiration and resources in a friendly and inspiring environment. As part of that goal we want to try and provide people with as many free resources as we can, both for personal and commercial use: we want to help people unleash their creativity without having to worry about licensing or attribution issues. The download credit system is necessary because, as Janet has pointed out, hosting files and serving downloads costs money: it would be impossible for us to provided unlimited free downloads to everyone, and still allow the site to remain open; we would go bankrupt quickly.
All of this being said, we care about your concerns, and would like to do everything we can to address them. I wish, instead of canceling your account, you would let us know what we can do to make Pixel Scrapper the kind of place you want to be a part of. Like I've said, this is not a finished site: it's a work in progress, and we are trying to improve it.
Regarding downloads being free: do you realize that you get free credits every day, and that as you interact on the site you gain community points, which make the number of daily free credits go up? If you don't realize that, then perhaps the issue is with our documentation and help system (which I realize could use a lot of improvement. You can find information about download credits and community points in our support pages)... or if you do realize that, then perhaps you feel that the number of free credits you receive every day is too low? Perhaps you don't want to interact on the site in order to gain more credits? I would love to talk with you further...
(Also note that Marisa often gives away freebies on her blog, which do not require download credits to download).
Regarding privacy: what settings are you hoping for, exactly? Do you realize that your email address is never displayed publicly? Do you realize that you are not required to use your real name or picture for your profile? (We just want you to use a name that sounds real. See our profile expectations for details as to why). Again, perhaps the issue is with our documentation? Or if not, please elaborate as to the settings that you desire.
In any case, I will be happy to cancel your account for you, but I would be even more happy if you could let us know what we can do to make you happy: we are on your side
Hi Jordan - just wanted to say Wow - what a full and frank answer. I think you are doing really well and the aims that you had from the beginning seem to me to be coming together at a really fast rate.
Maybe because I am unable to drop in every day I see the changes more. I have been amazed at the amount of high quality beautiful work that gets posted to the site... and how much the forums are used. It is a very lively site so you must be doing something right.
And though it is very nice to get a freebie - I feel a lot better for giving a little back for all your hard work - not to mention the running costs of a image heavy site which costs so much more to run than a text base website.
I also am impressed at the rate at which improvements are made, at least on a weekly basis. I, too, believe the "cost" of downloading pu and/or cu items is very reasonable, to say the least. I still get a bit confused about the CC and DC, it takes a little getting used to, I suppose.
I find it amazing the rate at which Marisa is able to create beautiful graphics. Thanks for all you do.
here goes the sense of community because there are many websites that offer free freebies, just look at the pictures googles ... but I want a house to put my creations.but you must improve the explanations.
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Hi Ana,
Your link is not working.
Yes there are a lot of great examples and creations that are sheared here, which would be great to display our own creations on the walls of our own home.
I think some of what Janet had in her comment needs to be used in the testimonies on that new front page!
I'm sorry Serafina, did not stick with us, because honestly TO ME it was the NEED to earn enough community points, to be able to upload and share my layouts for encouragement that made me take a second and longer look at the website!
Also because as I looked at the information of DC and CC, though it took a bit to figure the ins and outs of...IT also told me more about Jordan and Marisa, and the fact that they wanted "the community" interaction to HAPPEN! There were some forums I've visited and participated for a bit with, but their giving spirit shone through AND I'm not just talking about the bandwidth and designs that they give away ~ if you choose not to currently donate or like in my case can NOT currently donate, (still recovering from our family of four having no major income for over 1 yr). I'm talking about the giving of themselves in tutorials, tech support, layout and designer encouragement! It's like the scrapping parties that really got me interested in safely scrapping my photos over 16 years ago!
Thanks for fostering such a giving community!
I'm new too and I have to admit, the explanations aren't really clear. I find myself unsure about a lot of this site despite the fact that I am a Social Media Strategist in my work life and have 25+ years of computer experience. I run a community site on Facebook and first started on the internet with BBS sites back in the days of the dinosaurs. So it's quite perplexing to me, to find a site that isn't intuitive. I normally take to them like a duck to water. Even now, I can't explain to you if I can save up DCs over a 48 hour period to spend then or if they will automatically reset. I cannot tell you how much more I need to do to increase a level to receive more DCs from my CCs and I certainly can't tell you what time the 'day' resets on this site (and I can't seem to set the site to 'my timezone' either).
Despite all of this, I'm still new here and I'm more than willing to give it a good go. I'll let you know if I'm leaving because of any site issues, but I did think it was important to raise the issues I'm facing right now.
December, boy am I surprised. I certainly do not have anywhere near the amount of experience on the internet or computer as you do but I never found this site that hard to understand. You can find the FAQ with a lot of the answers that you need questions to: FAQ It is on the header and has an entire list of the "subjects" in getting around the Pixelscrapper site. Just to answer a couple - Download Credits (DC) do not carry over from day to day. Recently Jordan was able to update the site so if you put in your profile which time zone you are in your DCs will be renewed each day at 3 a.m. Community Credits are accumulated by things you do on the site and up to 300 CCs will increase the amount of DCs you get each day.
Good luck, I hope this helps.
Hi December: sorry for your trouble and confusion . We're working right now to try to make the site easier to understand, and the help resources better and more accessible. Like I've said before, please realize that this site is in beta, and still in heavy development. It's just me and Marisa (my wife) working on stuff here, and there is a lot to do... we're doing our best
I do really appreciate you letting us know what areas are confusing to you, so that we can know where to focus our efforts!
For now, I think Janet did a good job of addressing your concerns (thanks so much Janet!), but please let me know if you have any further questions, or difficulties. Please do look at the support pages, which answer a lot of your questions.
Yes I figured that, with persistence, I would find the answers to my questions. The answers weren't really why I posted though. I always think it's a good thing to be able to let you know where I get lost. Nothing beats feedback like newbie feedback, imo. I'm not worried about you being in beta.... I think gmail is still in beta it just means that you're willing to be continually growing and learning. but i felt that i'd give you a heads up on my first impressions
And I agree with you December, thanks for posting these, it sure helps a lot to build this website, that´s still on beta. Maybe for people that have been here for a while and followed the changes it´s easier, as I also have no problems with the site, but I was one of the first people to see it, on closed beta.
Now, just for the sake of curiosity: The FAQ tab on the top bar weren´t there since always; it was put there some weeks ago, due to an user´s suggestions. Can you remember if it were there when you first started using the site and having these kind of doubts? What I feel as a moderator is that the ammount of new people that looked for help since it was put there decreased.
@Lorien I joined several months ago ( I think don't know the date). I never looked for a tab regarding FAQ. Maybe I am just anal but when I join a site I go through everything!!! I looked at just about everything on the site. To this day I have read every single Forum thread/post so it is hard to miss much. I think when I started one of the first things I found was that when you hover over the DC on the top left there is a bubble and I believe that is where I learned all about the DC and CCs. Maybe I am just unique-I was in Accounting and Budget so maybe I am just used to looking at/for things to the nth degree???
@Janet: Don´t know why, I thought you were with us since always, I mean, since Beta. When we entered was really easier to read through all the forum topics (well, at least when I entered - there were 4 or 5 topics and only one forum :p)
In fact, I guess I wasn´t clear lol. I am curious to know if December saw the FAQ when she was a newcomer.
Any and all feedback is absolutely 100% always appreciated
I used this site sometime last year, before the DC and CC I think, and it was pretty confusing so I didn't stay on it for long. I've only JUST realised how the DC work, so i've missed out on months of downloading thinking they accumulated or wouldn't be reinstated if used.
I also have issues using the search tool, as often my searches don't come up with results, even for really common search terms.
I'm also wondering if it's possible to upload my own layouts in the future and have people download them, and if in return one could potentially get more points if their upload was popular? often I see layouts in the gallery I'd like to download and there's no option.
It'd also be nice if there were notifications when your post had been replied to, like on facebook, and options to upload layouts straight from the computer, rather than from a url.
Hi Jess, thanks for coming back to this site and giving it another try!! I'm so sorry that it was confusing and you felt like leaving! This site is very different than most scrapping site due to everything being free! But that can also lead to different and unexpected procedures for the site.
Thank you for taking the time to leave a note here that details issues with the site, because I know Marisa (designer/founder) and her husband Jordan (site developer) work very hard to answer questions and improve the site based on feedback!
Yes, the downloading of free items is done with daily download credits. So stopping by once a day and using your gifted DC for free items allows you to accumulate all the items you want over time. (I'm not certain, but I think this helps keep costs low for running the site )
I'm also sorry you're having trouble with the search tool Items that are uploaded by Marisa and Jordan are tagged by them for searches. However, users who upload their own layouts create their own tags. These tags are descriptions that make sense to the original uploader. But I can see that since everyone's thought patterns are unique, tags used by some users may not be clear to others. At this point I don't have an ideal solution for this situation, but to encourage your patience and creativity when searching for items of interest.
You are definitely able and ENCOURAGED to upload your own layouts to share with other site users! To upload your layouts (straight from your computer) you go to your own My Profile page, listed on the drop down menu to the right of your profle picture and name, on the bar across the top of every page of this site (once you've signed in). On your profile page, below your photo, are some setting managements options listed in pink. Below the settings options are four activity options listed in gray. The last one is called Designer Tools and has a drop down menu arrow to the right. When you mouse-over this arrow, two options appear, "Upload Layout" and "Manage Layouts". When you click on Upload Layout you will be taken to the Create Layout page with a short menu on the left side of the page. Follow the short menu to complete your upload. Where the Menu lists "Template Used" (option #3) and "Kit" (option #4) they are referring templates and kits specifically from the Pixel Scrapper site. If you have used templates or kits from other site, that is fine, and you will not need to use these two options. You receive three (3) Community Points for every layout you upload.
As of now there is not an official way to download layouts that you like, to use for ideas or inspiration. You are able to right-click and "Save As" on any of the layouts if you'd like to keep a copy to learn from.
As for Notifications regarding your posts or comments on your layouts, I believe those options are on a list for future development as soon as time allows. It will be easier to have those options and they will be well-used when they are developed! Please keep in mind the work load required to maintain and improve this site and grant grace as Jordan works non-stop on the technical side of things.
I really hope this helps clear a few things up for you and does not make things more confusing! I am definitely NOT an expert but wanted to help. Please just say if things are unclear or you have any more questions. Jordan has created a Table of Contents for user's use that contains a lot of great information if you'd like to check it out here. Thanks for working with the whole Pixel Scrapping community as we grow and develop together
Thanks for trying to clarify some of my queries.
I do understand and appreciate all that the moderators and site managers do for us, it seems like a massive undertaking, and from what I've seen the site keeps getting better and better. I'm not thinking of leaving, I think you misunderstood me with that. my comments were simply feedback of impressions from when I first joined, as encouraged by Jordan above.
I'm still a little confused as to whether or not layouts and templates I might upload can be used by others in exchange for their download credits.
Currently, there are only two designers on this site: Marisa and Brooke. The other people that have allowance to upload downloadable things are their upload helpers; all the other members, after gallery access, can upload their layouts. So, if you upload one of your layouts at Pixel Scrapper, the page where it appears will look like, for example, this one.
What you are encouraged to do is, if you used Marisa or Brooke´s assets, point what kit you used, so your layout appear as an example of the work using them. In this case, the layout will appear like this one (basicaly, the only difference from the above is: on the related layouts will apear more layouts with the same kit.
The third, and last option for members that aren´t uploader helpers or designers, is: if you use a template for this site (made by one of its designers), you should link your layout with this specific template. It will look like this one: People will be shown what template was used and where to download it.
Independently of the layout you publish on the gallery, you will win three community points.
Now, I don´t know how newbie you are on the digiscrap world, so please forgive me if you already know these before my explanation, but better more than less:
When you see a finished layout from another digiscrapper somewhere else, you are NOT allowed to use it or it´s elements for your own page. What you can do is (a) see the credits list and purchase the supplies in the credits to make your own layouts as you please and (b) scrap lift the layout. Scrap lift is the name we use to when you are inspired by others layous to make our owns; when scraplifting, we can get inspired by the colors, the settings of the layout, the theme, the use of an specific element, and so on. There are scraplifts that can really look like the original layout (for example, this layout is a scraplift of this layout - its on scrapping etiquette that always that you are scraplifting you should say so and link to the original layout). But sometimes the scraplifts are really different from the original source - for example, all the layouts of this page are a scraplift of the same original layout - not listed on the gallery, but on challenges forum istead).
What you can do if and only if, you have permission from the kit designer, is to make a quickpage out of your layout. The quickpage looks pretty much like your layout, but you take out your picture and leave a transparent space, and delete your title and journalling too. Here on Pixel Scrapper, quick pages are offered by Marisa on kits that can be downloaded by donators here. Currently, quickpages aren´t offered individually, and users can´t offer their quickpages through the site. If they want too, they need to upload there somewhere else, open a post on freebies section of the forums, and showcase them there.
Hope I explain your doubt.
Thanks Elizabeth and Lórien for stepping in with the super helpful posts!
@Jess: thanks a lot for the feedback; it is always appreciated, and we will certainly take your thoughts into account. To touch on a couple of your points:
- I hope to improve the search experience in the near future. For now, please realize that after you search there are separate tabs for searching designs, kits, and layouts. The default search is for designs only.
- Regarding notifications, we are definitely hoping to get a good system going in the future. Thanks for your patience in the meantime.
I've given you some bonus download credits as a thanks for coming back, and to help make up for your misunderstandings, etc.
Thanks so much everyone for your help and advice. This really is a great, welcoming, and generous site. it's good to be back.
I understand what scraplifting is now, and it's actually pretty cool. thanks for your clear example! I'm very new to all this so your examples and definitions helped a lot, thanks.
Jordan, Thanks for the extra credits. I was wondering whre they came from. I thought perhaps I had won a challenge. hehe.
Hi all,
I just wanted to make a small addition to what is a really a very good thread.
I think we all have different ways of learning and taking in new information. There is no superior or inferior way of doing this, just different ways. For this reason it is really difficult to write instructions and FAQ's that will suit everyone. I think Marisa and Jordan and everyone else helping out are doing a great job and where immediate understanding is lacking, there is an abundance of kind people willing to help out and explain.
What has drawn me to this site is the feeling of community and the possibility to interact with others all over the world. It's like an extended family in a way and I, for one, love this.
So keep up the good work everyone, and hopefully those feeling frustrated with different things will be won over by the great spirit that is evident throughout the site.
Thank you everyone!
Thanks for the encouragement, Magdalena!
I have found no trouble understanding the DC and CC's, the information is quite clear. It states that DC's do not accumulate and it states that CC's accumulate via posting comments (both in download section as well as in the forum), and you receive even more CC's if you start a thread in the forum. The more CC's you get, the more DC's you'll receive each day. You just have to come in each day and use them.
I have never had a problem w/ this concept. I am broke now, whereas I used to be able to shop in any store I wanted and spend as much as I wanted, but after being laid off, I can't do that anymore....so that led me here. The quality of the items is pretty great. Yes, there are other sites that offer great freebies and I use those sites as well, so collectively, I have a pretty decent stash.
I just want to say I love it here and while although sometimes I WISH I could download an entire bundle when it releases, I understand that I just cannot do it. I can't afford (yet) to be a donor, but that will change one day too.
I guess what I am trying to say is, Thank you Pixel Scrapper for all you do!!!!!!!
Thanks Candi for your support! It means a lot
Hi Fran, I sent you an email. It's been a pleasure having you with us here at Pixel Scrapper.
Sorry to see you leave Fran wish you well in all your artistic and scrapping creations!
I'm sorry, too, but I understand - it's easier to be an active participant in just ONE community, rather than several. Sorry it wasn't this place, but I hope you're happy at whatever place you chose...


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When there's a party, they can be moved out of the way for better circulation, but for everyday use these extra seats help connect the sofa at one end and the pair of chairs at the other end. Be sure to use a pair of ottomans — not just a single one. When you have two sofas or any larger seating arrangement, a big coffee table might seem like the obvious solution. But also consider a pair of matching coffee tables. They will keep the focus off one large piece of furniture and let your eye move around the room more easily. One classic coffee table size is 48 by 24 inches, so you can plan on that when thinking about your furniture arrangement. A large coffee table is often double that: 48 inches square.


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The Labor Department on Thursday released its latest report on median wages, and the short version is, there's not much growth to report.
On a year-over-year basis, median earnings were up just 0.8% in the second quarter, to $780 per week. That's short of the level needed to compensate for inflation, and that weakness will make Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen and her colleagues reluctant to lift interest rates.
The median wage data is a bit different than the weekly earnings data that comes out of the Labor Department's payrolls report. That one is the average earnings, and what's likely happening is the growth for top earners is pulling that series up more. Average earnings are up 2.1% year-on-year. (Average earnings also are seasonally adjusted, though a seasonally adjusted version of median wages also shows 0.8% growth.)
The report released Thursday also showed that women earned 83.5% of what men did. For men, those aged 55 to 64 ($1,012 per week) and those between 45 and 54 ($1,009) made the most. For women, those aged 45 to 54 ($783) led the way, with not much difference between those aged 55 to 64 ($770) and those between 35 to 44 ($769).
Management, professional and related occupations had the highest wage, at $1,200, and those in farming, fishing and forestry had the lowest, at $454.
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This was sent to me by an old friend and client and I knew I had to share this one around the community.
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Posted 06 April 2013 - 04:10 PM
I experienced a similar situation,
recovering a abandoned long line on the seabed i found a exhausted nurse shark attached to it.
Considering his/her state being almost unconscious from fighting to become free i decided to risk and try to free him/her.
I had my GoPro running clipped on my bcd but in the situation i did not think to hand the camera to Iris to get some better pictures. :-(
So please excuse the real bad quality!
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In Remains Of 'Pozolero' Victims Dissolved In Acid, Tijuana Families Find Hope
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Photo by Erin Siegal
Investigators in Tijuana have made a gruesome discovery over the last week—but it is one that gives hope to families in Baja California whose loved ones have been kidnapped or "disappeared."
TIJUANA, Mexico In the impoverished neighborhood of Ejido Maclovio Rojas, in eastern Tijuana, most residents have neither electricity nor running water. There are no paved roads. On a street called Calle Cioac, at the peak of a steep hill, sits a small rancho known as "La Gallera."
La Gallera was supposedly a cockfighting ranch, but neighbors say no one has lived here for years. One man told me quietly the people who used to come to La Gallera weren't from around here.
"They drove new cars, and in this town you can't drive cars like that," he told me, in Spanish. "And those kind of cars were coming, like new trucks."
Two years ago, a decapitated corpse was found on the property, which was also said to have housed dozens of stolen cars. Now, state authorities have made a new discovery.
They've found what could potentially total hundreds of bodies. Corpses were dissolved in acid, then deposited into underground cells through a spigot. After authorities unearthed the first pit, they found a second.
La Gallera's hilltop location offers a panoramic view of the surrounding valleys, filled with modest homes. This slice of eastern Tijuana is one of the poorer parts of the city, isolated and largely left alone by police. Many surfaces are covered in gang graffiti.
"This is an excellent area for those people working in organized crime," Fernando Ocegueda noted. He is the founder of Baja California's United Association of the Families of the Disappeared.
"It's very important for us to know about this location," he told me in Spanish. "It represents hope for a lot of people. There are still families looking for their sons and daughters for five, six years now."
The number of people who remain missing in Mexico due to organized crime is estimated to be as high as 25,000. In the state of Baja California, Ocegueda has been leading the search for five years. His own son Fernando was kidnapped from their home in 2007.
The mass grave at La Gallera was revealed by Santiago Meza, the man known as El Pozolero or "the stew-maker."
Meza worked for drug cartels including the Arellano Félix Organization in Tijuana during the height of the city's drug violence. His job was to dispose of bodies. He did so by liquefying them with chemicals.
"El Pozolero isn't the only one who dissolved bodies in acid," Victor Clark Alfaro of Tijuana's Binational Center for Human Rights told me. He says the sites named by El Pozolero are just a few of many undiscovered mass graves across Mexico.
El Pozolero has confessed to dissolving 300 people. He has been quoted in the media as saying he would like to apologize to his victim's families.
He's also admitted to working for Teodoro García Simental, known as El Teo. El Teo was affiliated with the Arrellano Felix Organization, and later, the Sinaloa cartel. He was arrested in 2010 in Baja California Sur. El Pozolero was captured in Baja California a year before that, in 2009.
From La Gallera, looking out across the hilltops, it's possible to see "Ojo de Agua." That's the first location El Pozolero divulged. The second site, Loma Bonita, is also within sight from the third site, La Gallera.
And standing in front of La Gallera, said Fernando Ocegueda, a fourth as-yet untouched site can also be seen.
At La Gallera, soldiers stand guard behind yellow caution tape. The whole block is cordoned off. Federal officials supervise specialists brought in from Mexico City. They're carefully removing fragments of bone and teeth from the gelatinous mass of human remains. The specialists wear white full-body protection, with special gloves and gray booties. All wear masks over their faces to minimize exposure to chemicals.
Out front, a few cadaver dogs rest inside grey plastic kennels. One of the kennels has a hand-drawn skull and crossbones etched into its side.
Ocegueda has been here, at La Gallera, every day. Sometimes he just stands alone, smoking Marlboros and watching. Other times, families join him. The neighbors in Macolvio Rojas have brought over food, water and soda. They've fed both the families observing the excavation as well as the officials there.
After five years, the authorities know Ocegueda well.
At one point, they even allowed him onto the property to take pictures. He quietly showed me the images: photo after photo of teeth, slivers of bone, and a slimy substance that resembles thick jelly.
He doesn't know if his son is in any of these pictures.
As of Friday, the remains of more than 100 people had been found.
Outside the yellow police tape, others stopped by to observe.
Jessica Rodríguez Epinosa and her cousin Karina Landey lost eight family members to kidnappings. They were seized during a mass abduction during a carne asada in Colonia Independencia, Tijunana on Sept. 21, 2007. Both women's husbands were taken.
They've been visiting La Gallera regularly to watch the investigation's progress.
"We are here because our relatives have been gone for five years now," said Rodríguez Epinosa, in Spanish. "We're feeling bad. We wanted to find them alive. But because it's been five years already… no, no."
She trails off.
Although the excavation at La Gallera was supposed to end Tuesday, it will now continue through this week, due to the unexpected second pit of body parts.
Afterward, the remains will be transported to Mexico City, where they'll undergo DNA testing. The samples will be matched against those in a pre-existing DNA bank, with samples provided by hundreds of people with missing relatives. The process is expected to take months, due to the condition of the victims' bodies.
Standing in front of the site earlier this week, while a rare mix of rain and sun created a faint rainbow overhead, Ocegueda told me that he's hopeful.
"We are very happy that finally, at last, we have renewed hope," he said. "The hope is in the DNA."
La Gallera, he said, should become a monument to the people whose remains were found there. He envisions a place where loved ones can come to sit, remember, and pray.
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Chrisbcarlton needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 58 designs submitted by 19 freelance designers.
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See the attached file and let your creative takeover from there.
Just make sure the word 300 is in it somehow and keep in mind LANGUAGE & FLASHCARDS.
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cdnstephen necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 58 diseños de 20 diseñadores freelance.
Connect Logistics Services (CLS) provides third-party warehousing and beverage distribution services. Connect is solely responsible for the warehousing and distribution of spirits, wine, coolers, and imported beer in Alberta.
We pride ourselves in being the "First Choice" when choosing a third party logistics provider in the beverage sector. In 2009 we celebrated our 15 successful year of operation working in partnership with the Alberta Government. As we look into 2011 and beyond the strategic vision of the company is to continue to offer exemplary service in our core business, distribution, but also expand with a wide range of value added services. These include advertising mediums for liquor agents to contact retailers, and through services such as co-packing and gift-packing their product.
CLS operates LiquorConnect.com, an online B2B ordering tool for Alberta Liquor Retailers, and AlbertaLiquorGuide.com, a consumer product information lookup for liquor in the province. In 2011 we will be merging AlbertaLiquorGuide.com and LiquorConnect.com into a revised website using the domain LiquorConnect.com.
The new website will be redesigned with a similar color scheme to our corporate webpage Connect-Logistics.com (included with this brief).
- Must say "Liquor Connect .com"
- Professional, yet distinctive
- Color = same palette as corporate logo (attached)
- A black and white version will be required if the full color version is not B+W printer friendly (for shipping documents, etc)
- We specialize in liquor distribution, the logo should focus on this. Note: We distribute beer, spirits, and wine.
- Logo should be very marketable to end consumers in an advertising campaign and easily recognizable
- the current LiquorConnect.com logo will be retired and should not be the starting point.
We're specialists in distribution, not design! Please feel free to ask us questions if needed!
The files we will require are:
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- The politically correct term is now Lunar New Year, as opposed to Chinese New Year since many Asian cultures other than China's observe the lunar calendar.
- The Chinese year is based on the cycles of the moon. This is called a lunar schedule (hence the Lunar New Year).
- A complete cycle of the Chinese calendar takes 60 years.
- The Chinese calendar dates back to 2600 B.C. It is the oldest known calendar.
- 2007 is the Year of the Boar (pig).
- Red is considered a lucky color in China.
- At one time wedding dresses were red.
- The Chinese pay tribute to the Kitchen God at the end of a lunar year. The Kitchen God's mission is to inform the chief spirits of a family's behavior over the past year. A household burns a paper image of the Kitchen God, so that he may ascend to the Jade Emperor in the heavens. The Chinese include a paper horse to lift him on his journey, while the Vietnamese prefer a carp fish. Some families smear the lips of the Kitchen God with honey or sweet glutinous rice, to ensure he says sweet things about them.
- According to superstition you must clean your house thoroughly to sweep away misfortune and make way for good luck and fortune in the coming year. The old year and its spirits are banished by sweeping the floors before New Year's Day. (Don't sweep on New Year's Day itself - you'll sweep away the New Year fortune if you do.)
- The house should be decorated with paper cutouts of the words happiness, wealth and longevity.
- Shooting fireworks on New Year's Eve scares away the old year, and households open up windows and doors at midnight as exits for the old year.
- At New Year, special emphasis is placed on the symbology of different foods. Here are what a few foods symbolize:
Bamboo shoots = wealth
Black moss seaweed = wealth
Dried Bean Curd = happiness (note: fresh tofu is not served because the color white symbolizes death and misfortune in Chinese culture).
Chicken = happiness and marriage (especially when served with "dragon foods," such as lobster), family reunion (if served whole)
Eggs = fertility
Egg Rolls = wealth
Fish served whole = prosperity
Chinese garlic chives = everlasting, a long life
Lychee nuts = close family ties
Noodles = A long life
Oranges = wealth
Peanuts = a long life
Pomelo = abundance, prosperity, having children
Seeds = lotus seeds, watermelon seeds, etc. - having a large number of children
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Here's a message for the band! I wouldn't bother spending a single penny that Judas Priest puts out on any album, cd, or otherwise paraphernalia, as long as the ungrateful "Ripper Owens" remains in the band! Clearly his vocal ability stands loud & clear, but his gratitude for where he stands today is pathetic, he didn't get where he is today by chance, not by luck either, TWO people worked very hard to get him the recognition and the opportunity of a life time, and not a mere thank you, or any type of contact has been made. Makes you wonder how he treats the fans? Thanks to those TWO certain people, Tim is living his dream. Too bad "the band" and it's "management" has to keep everything so hush hush. The interviews and stories of how he got here are bull****, and now a movie's in production as we speak, what are they basing it on? Not the real truth, just the bull**** they think is the truth, no one knows the whole truth, except TWO girls, Tim, Scott and the band. How 'bout give credit where credit is due? I know ****ed well the band is thankful, they have been presented with their new, young lead back to heavy metal. So your welcome Glenn, KK, Ian, Scott & Jayne. And for "Ripper" it's pathetic that you lack the poise to acknowledge where, how and from whom you got your big break. A nobody from the middle of Ohio doesn't fall from the sky and land in England in the recording studio with Judas Priest and become their new lead vocalist, not without a story behind it...Let's "Unleash" the story, it lye's in the "East"...
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From everything I have read, it is now acknowledged that "Metal God" is fiction, and only loosely based on Tim Owens' rise to fame. I don't believe the characters are even named the real names, nor the band. It's just the same idea.
Perhaps someone will come forth with "the real untold story" of how the 'Ripper' made it in heavy metal.
There's always room for the Truth, should someone be brave enough to tell it.
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"Metal God" is only loosely based on the story of Judas Priest, and the names aren't the same. Whatever the reason for the similarities, let's hope it's not to glorify some ungrateful bastard, huh?
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This message is in responce to cjmaxiv I totally agree with him/her, I happen to be best friends with Tims ex, The one that got him to where he is now, I want to know how they can do a movie without hearing her side of Tims story, I don't care if the movie is fiction, I want to know how they can do a movie and have someone play Tims girlfriend if the actress don't know a thing about the person she is playing??? why are the people that stood behind Tim and supported Tim, $$
being left with no thanks, and no credit...
for being there and putting up with the B/S.
If this movie portrays my friend as being something that she was not.. then there may be problems!!! Because my friend stood by his side for 6 long years, and put up with him and supported him $$$$... just to make his dream happen.... Cjmaxiv, is right,
they need to give credit where credit is due... CJMAXIV.. please contact me at
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umm i dont think the characters in this movie are going to be playing Tim and his ex. I'm pretty sure their characters will have different names. the movie is going to be loosely based upon what happened to him. they basically just took the story line i guess. I think that's why they're re-naming it from Metal God to something else. they don't want people to think this is a true story. so you dont have to worry about how the actors will play the role, they won't be playing real people.
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newbie: misc commands 2 - file, hostname, domainname date: 9.10.99 As before, a few more commands found on unix systems. While not related, each will come in use at some time or another.
command: file Yes, it's a command. These days, there are hundres of different types of files. often when you run across one you don't know exactly what it is because of a short name, permission, or no man pages. If you try to view the file with cat or more and the file turns out to be binary, we get a screen flooded with garbage. To avoid that, we can use 'file'. examples below will show you everything: First, lets list a few files and a directory we will use file on: forced ~$ ls -ald xmas.schedule kalendar-0.4k.tar.gz bin .profile i idents.c -rw------- 1 jericho users 427 Nov 2 06:03 .profile drwx------ 2 jericho users 1024 Nov 24 18:02 bin/ -rw------- 1 jericho root 243462 Nov 27 22:27 kalendar-0.4k.tar.gz -rw------- 1 jericho hide 293 Dec 3 01:27 xmas.schedule -rwx------ 1 jericho hide 4666 Nov 24 18:02 i* -rw------- 1 jericho root 754 Nov 24 17:56 idents.c forced ~$ Now, using file we see what type of file each is: forced ~$ file .profile .profile: ASCII text forced ~$ file xmas.schedule xmas.schedule: ASCII text forced ~$ file bin bin: directory forced ~$ file kalendar-0.4k.tar.gz kalendar-0.4k.tar.gz: gzip compressed data - deflate method , last modified: Fri Nov 27 04:15:30 1998 , max compression os: Unix forced ~$ file i i: ELF 32-bit LSB executable i386 (386 and up) Version 1, dynamically linked, not stripped forced ~$ file idents.c idents.c: C program text forced ~$ As we can see, it will happily identify what each file is. Newer versions of 'file' will even tell you if something is PGP binary, PGP ascii, and more.
Two simple utils that may come in handy if you bounce around a lot of machines frequently. If a machine doesn't have BASH installed, and you haven't set your prompt in another shell.. you might forget which machine or domain you are on. hostname & domainname flatland ~$ hostname flatland flatland ~$ domainname dimensional.com flatland ~$ Using this information, you can put it together to form your entire domain. The above would indicate: flatland.dimensional.com Some systems will not use 'domainname', but may have alternatives: /bin/dnsdomainname /bin/nisdomainname /bin/ypdomainname
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Designed for companies in the wholesale and distribution industries, the Visa Distribution Program is an excellent way to streamline the accounts receivable process, reduce paperwork, and save money.
The Visa Distribution Program is a solution for distributors seeking to reduce costs associated with cash/check handling and the accounts receivable process, streamline the labor-intensive invoicing, reconciliation, and collections tasks and maximize business efficiency and profitability.
Here's how you can benefit from using the Visa Distribution Program:
- Less paperwork
- Significant cost savings
- Better cash flow, less risk
- Improve customer loyalty
- Worldwide acceptance
Less paperwork
The Visa Distribution Program streamlines the inefficiencies associated with traditional time-intensive sales requisition and accounts receivable processes. Your employees will be able to focus on strategic value-added activities and spend less time generating invoices, monitoring and reconciling accounts, and collecting payment from your customers.
Significant cost savings
You'll be able to reduce the administrative and operational costs associated with cash/check handling and the accounts receivable process.
Better cash flow, less risk
Designed specifically to expedite the collection of customer payments, the program allows you to improve cash flow and reduce the risks associated with cash and check transactions.
Improve customer loyalty
You'll be able to market your own "branded" Visa Distribution Program to your customers, providing them with greater purchasing power and a payment option that is safer and more convenient than paying by cash. At the same time, the program offers you an opportunity to build loyalty and strengthen your business relationships with your customers.
Worldwide acceptance
Visa is one of the world's leading payment brand and one of the largest payment systems worldwide. As such, the Visa Distribution Program has been implemented throughout Asia, Latin America, and Africa.
Contact your financial institution about the Visa Distribution Program today.


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I had planned to post this next week - but what the hell! There's no time like the present.
A rare score to a bittersweet black and white Brasilian telenovela about a pitiful young orphan boy, written by Dulce Santucci and directed by Wanda Kosmo - I bet you're excited now!
But wait, this is a lovely soundtrack full of wonderful surprises. Who can resist the dreamy groove of "Lot" or the funky "Victor Tema". Arnaud Rodrigues produces, performs and co-writes some of the tracks along with Adylson Godoy, Eduardo Gudin and Mario Albanese - there's even a couple of tunes penned by Toots Thielemans and Barry, Robin & Maurice Gibb. Add the production talents of Jose Briamonte, Cyro Pereira and Luiz Chaves to the proceedings and you have something very special indeed.
1) Tilim
2) Lot
3) Ruas
4) Imaginação
5) Lady Fingers
6) Seven Seas Symphony
7) Mamãe Adriana
8) Tema De Victor
9) Brincando De Brincar
10) Cris e Raul
12) Eu, Tilim


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Yale On Top For 3rd Straight Week
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.. – The Yale men's hockey team was off last week and won't be playing a game until the 29th but was the unanimous No. 1 in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Poll for the second week in a row. The Bulldogs, off to their best start in 80 years at 11-1-0 overall (6-0 ECAC Hockey), collected 510 points and all 34 first-place votes.
The Bulldogs have been No. 1 for three straight weeks and will be again next week because there will not be a USA Today poll.
The top four teams were idle last weekend. The University of New Hampshire remains at No. 2 with 458 points, while the University of Minnesota Duluth (418) sits at No. 3. Boston College (410) claims the No. 4 spot, while the University of North Dakota (403) rounds out the top five after defeating the U.S. National Under-18 Team.
The Elis host the Russian Red Stars on Dec. 29 at 7 p.m. at Ingalls Rink. Tickets are available and can be purchased by calling (203) 432-1400. The rink box office opens at 5:30 on game night.


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ZURICH (MarketWatch) — The Swiss National Bank Monday said a huge drop in the value of its gold holdings would push it to a $10 billion loss, suggesting more investors would feel the brunt of the biggest fall in the price of the precious metal in three decades.
The value of the SNB's gold holdings slid 15 billion Swiss francs ($16.6 billion) in 2013, the Zurich-based central bank said, as the price of the precious metal skidded 28%, its largest drop since 1981. The loss swamped a roughly 3 billion Swiss francs gain on foreign currency positions and a 3 billion Swiss francs profit earned from the sale of a fund that had held troubled assets of UBS AG.
The SNB, one of the world's biggest holders of gold, said the paper loss would force it to cancel dividends to shareholders for the first time since it was founded in 1907. The central bank also said it wouldn't be able to make additional payments to Switzerland's 26 cantons, which are similar to U.S. states, and the federal government for the first time since 1991.
An expanded version of this report appears on WSJ.com
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tonal y nagual
the unseen deserts.
umb kollektif. umb004
everybody knows how catchy harmonies are supposed to sound. but tonal y nagual know exactly why they try to avoid them. their music exists beyond the usual listening habits. it jumps eloquently from one mood to the next and swings bravely between spheric and rythmic poles. their spectrum reaches from anarcho-industrial to folkloristic ambient, which is sometimes reminiscent of coil. but even that influence is not too obvious in the music of giuseppe tonal & tikki nagual. every single piece of this acoustic bag of wonders is an experience, each clear melody a misunderstanding. tonal y nagual: listening like being licked by a frog.
more releases
- tonal y nagual. all releases


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I was going through my posts in order to update my tutorials page, and I discovered something pretty funny. I've never ever made a tutorial for the one piece of clothing I make the most! I call them my "pj skirts" and I wear them. ALL. THE. TIME. because they are just that comfy. I probably have at least 15 of these skirts. Ya I know, rediculous. This skirt is not fancy, it is just your basic, knit maxi skirt with a fold over yoga waist. If just know how to turn your machine on, and sew a straight line, you CAN MAKE THIS!
There are probably a million tutorials out there for this type of maxi already, but here's my take on in it. First off, shop for some knit. You'll need a yard and a half. My opinions on knit are: jersey is great for summer, ponte roma knit is perfect for winter, don't use rib knit, any knit with 3-5% Spandex in it is fabulous! At any rate, pick a knit that holds its shape well...saggy skirts are not cute.
Now, we cut out our skirt. Lay it out folded, just as it is when it comes off the bolt. You'll need to know how long you want it (NOT including the waist band...waist band will add 8-4 inches to length) and how wide your hips are. Cut out your skirt using the following guide.
Cut out your waist band like this. (You'll need two!)
Are you tracking so far? I hope so, because you have just four seams and a hem to do before you are done! First, sew up the long side of your skirt. If you don't have a serger, just set your machine to a narrow zig-zag stitch and set the stitch length a tad longer than normal.
Now sew the two waist band pieces together along the curved sides.
Fold it over so that the seam is inside.
Center the seam of the skirt to the back of the skirt. Mark the centers of both the skirt and the waistband.
With the skirt facing WRONG side out, put the waist band INSIDE the skirt and pin at the centers and side seams.
Sew the waist band to the skirt, stretching it slightly as you sew. Make sure the side seams of the waist band are rounded out as you sew, you don't want pointy corners at your hips!
When you get it sewn, it might look a bit rumpled like this. Eeeww!
No worries! A nice generous pat (Don't rub, just pat!) with a hot steamy iron will smooth most of it out, and what's left won't show when you wear it.
After you hem the bottom, do the same thing with the iron to tidy it up a bit. Now, wasn't that just the easiest thing you've ever made in your life?!
Don't blame me if you get hooked on them, and end up with a closet full of them!...like a certain someone I know! Oh yes, and did I mention these make the. best. maternity skirts EVER??!!
Here are some other maxi skirt variations you might have missed that I've done in the past.


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amhero needed a new stationery design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 62 designs submitted by 18 freelance designers.
We need a full color logo for our brand True Hero
True Hero Simulations
Hero Sims creates simulations that train everyday heroes – our firefighters, our police officers, our emt & paramedics, our nurses and our security officers. We need a simple logo design to convey
But Real People
Will need to be interchanged with the following brands -American Hero- so we can add other countries and regions .
Will need to be in two forms - True Hero and Hero Simluations
We need this in full color but should translate well into black and white
On Completion - Art Work submitted in hi-res .psd or .ai and with original font file


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The easy way
You can just download the generic version (when you are logged in) and install it like any other program.
The hard (old) way
PacketTracer is an application from Cisco that allows network simulations and training using Cisco/Linksys products (like routers/switches/wireless hardware).
I used to run it under Wine but the Linux version is now available, unfortunately it is only for Ubuntu/Debian and Fedora/Red Hat.
But of course it can be installed on Arch (what can't you do with Arch? :) with a little work.
- Run the installer. While it displays the license agreement, DO NOT DO ANYTHING! Go to another terminal and run "find /tmp -iname *.deb".
- Grab the .deb file, put it somewhere (like ~/tmp) and issue this command:
bsdtar -xf PacketTracer-5.0-u.i386.deb data.tar.gz
- Decompress the data.tar.gz file, it will create a folder usr within the currently directory, and within 'usr/local' there is a folder 'PacketTracer5'. Move it to /usr/local.
- To run: /usr/local/PacketTracer5/packettracer. Enjoy :)
Looks ugly, but you can fix this and make it grab your system theme by symlinking the Qt libraries in /usr/local/PacketTracer5/lib/ to the ones in /usr/lib, e.g.
libQt3Support.so.4.3.3 -> /usr/lib/libQt3Support.so.4
libQtCore.so.4.3.3 -> /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4.3.3
libQtGui.so.4.3.3 -> /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4.3.3
libQtNetwork.so.4.3.3 -> /usr/lib/libQtNetwork.so.4
libQtSql.so.4.3.3 -> /usr/lib/libQtSql.so.4
libQtXml.so.4.3.3 -> /usr/lib/libQtXml.so.4


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The Finger Pickin' 5 Pack is a collection of 5 of my songs that have a strong emphasis on finger picked acoustic guitar. All songs are designed to be seamlessly looped. Here are the songs with a brief description:
Morning, With Coffee: 60 second loop featuring fingerpicked nylon stringed guitar, piano, and electric piano. This song is very mellow and pretty, with a driving but peaceful feel. Could be used as low key background music for a number of different applications.
Acoustic Loop – 26: 60 second loop featuring lightly finger picked acoustic guitar, piano, a pad sound, and electric piano. The feeling is very light and subtle – imagine being out camping on a summer evening, watching the sun set. Mellow, laid back and folksy.
Acoustic Loop – 28: 60 second loop featuring two fingerpicked acoustic guitars, piano, electric piano and drums. This composition has a floating, triumphant feel, and like all the acoustic loops featured in my profile is designed to be used as background music for many different applications. This song gives a positive feel without being in your face.
Acoustic Loop – 22: 60 second loop featuring acoustic guitar, piano, bass and drums. Has a driving, but thoughtful and sentimental feel, almost a bit wistful or melancholy
Acoustic Loop – 6: 60 second loop featuring acoustic guitar, drums, ukulele, organ, and bass. Slow, laid back feel.


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Part Type: (R) = Authentic reproduction of the original GM product TH = Turbo Hydramantic shift transmissions
Years: 1964-1977
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This is an extra heavy-duty shifter built for street, competition or off-road use. Made with heavy metal gates and precision engineered to enable fast positive shifts without missing a shift, making it virtually impossible to jam or spring out of the gate. Shifter is equipped with a strong marine-grade cable and all the necessary mounting hardware for easy installation.
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December 1996 — New Englanders claim a birthright to complain about the weather. As we note that the summer of 1996 was coolest and wettest in recent memory, most of us have already forgotten that summer 1995 was unusually warm and dry. Such variability in weather is normal, yet in historical times there have been truly exceptional events. For example, 1816 is known as the "Year Without a Summer."* During that year, there were killing frosts all over New England in May, June, and August. July 1816 was the coldest July in American history, and frosts came again in September. Crop failure led to food shortages throughout the region. Although the immediate cause of cooling has been ascribed to the volcanic eruption of Tambora in Indonesia the year before, the Year Without a Summer occurred during a time when weather was generally more harsh than today. Persistently harsher weather suggests a change in climate, and the late 16th through the 19th centuries have become known as the "Little Ice Age."
The Little Ice Age, and several preceding centuries, which are often called the "Medieval Warm Period," are the subject of controversy. Neither epoch is recognized at all locations around the globe, and indeed at some locations there is clear evidence of warming while others show distinct cooling. One author titled a paper: "Was there a Medieval Warm Period, and if so when and where?" Nevertheless, when data from all Northern Hemisphere locations are considered, the annual average summer temperature proves to be a few tenths of a degree lower during the coldest part of the Little Ice Age in the late 1500s and early 1600s. Various forcing mechanisms have been proposed for such changes, including variation in the sun's energy output, volcanic eruptions, and mysterious internal oscillations in Earth's climate system, but none satisfy all of the data.
Natural climate changes like the Little Ice Age and the Medieval Warm Period are of interest for a few reasons. First, they occur on decade to century time scales, a gray zone in the spectrum of climate change. Accurate instrumental data do not extend back far enough to document the beginning of these events, and historical data are often of questionable accuracy and are not widespread geographically. Geological data clearly document globally coherent climate change on thousand-, ten thousand-, and hundred thousand-year time scales, so why is the record so confusing over just the past 1,000 years? Second, as humanity continues to expand and make more demands on our planet, annual average temperature changes of a degree could have considerable social and economic impacts. Third, as there is widespread agreement among climatologists that changes due to human impacts on atmospheric chemistry will eventually lead to global warming of about two degrees over the next century, it is important to understand the natural variability in climate on the century time scale. Will the human effects occur during a time of natural warming or cooling?
Of several approaches to studying climate on decadal to century time scales, here I will touch on the study of long series of measurements made at sea and the study of deep sea sediments. Ordinarily, there is little overlap between these two approaches. Reliable and continuous hydrographic observations rarely extend back beyond several decades, and deep sea sediments usually accumulate too slowly to resolve brief climate changes. However, the northern Sargasso Sea is a region where we have five decades of nearly continuous biweekly hydrographic data, a long history of sediment trap collections to document the rain of particles from the sea surface to the seafloor, and exceptional deep sea cores of sediment. The co-occurrence of these three elements has led to one of the first reconstructions of sea surface temperature for recent centuries in the open ocean.
Oceanographically, Station S in the western Sargasso Sea is important because temperature and salinity change there is typical of a large part of the western North Atlantic, and it is exclusively western North Atlantic water that is transported northward and eastward by the Gulf Stream. These are the waters that eventually cool and sink in the Norwegian and Greenland Seas, flowing southward to complete a large-scale convection cell that plays a fundamental role in regulating Earth's climate.
In addition to long time series of hydrographic data from Station S, the site is remarkable for the long series of sediment trap data collected by WHOI's Werner Deuser, beginning in the 1970s. Those traps have recovered nearly continuous samples of the seasonally changing rain of particles that settle from surface waters to the seafloor. An important component of those particles is the calcium carbonate shells of planktonic protozoans known as foraminifera. There are about 30 species of foraminifera, or "forams," and Deuser's investigations have established the seasonal change in species abundance and their stable isotope composition. We now know from these studies that only one species of planktonic foram, Globigerinoides ruber, lives year-round at the surface of the Sargasso Sea, and it happens to deposit its calcium carbonate close to oxygen isotopic equilibrium with seawater. This means that G. ruber is ideal for reconstructing past changes in the temperature and salinity of Sargasso Sea surface waters, as the figure at right illustrates.
Note that the average sea surface temperature and salinity from near Bermuda display some systematic variability on an annual average basis since 1955. These changes reflect a decade-long variability in the North Atlantic climate regime that is known as the North Atlantic Oscillation (see Deser article inset by McCartney). In this time series, the most severe climate occurred in the 1960s when annual average sea surface temperatures were depressed about half a degree by extreme storminess in the western North Atlantic. Cold, dry winds during winter storms also probably raised surface ocean salinity in the 1960s by promoting increased evaporation. If we had "annual average forams" from the 1960s, their oxygen isotope ratio would look like the time series shown in purple. The biggest climate change of the past five decades could indeed be recorded by the forams.
Long before I knew that G. ruber was the best possible foram for reconstructing sea surface temperatures, I selected that species for my stable isotope studies because of its consistent abundance on the Bermuda Rise, in the northern Sargasso Sea to the east of Station S. At the time (the early 1980s), the Bermuda Rise was under consideration as a possible site for burial of low level nuclear waste, and it was necessary to know how rapidly and continuously the sediment accumulates. It turns out that because of the action of deep ocean currents, fine-grained clay and silt particles are selectively deposited there, resulting in very high rates of sedimentation. And whether samples are of modern or glacial age, G. ruber is consistently present. Much of my work over the past decade has documented the climate changes that occur on thousand year time scales and are preserved in foram isotope ratios and other data from Bermuda Rise sediments.
Until recently, the available data from the Bermuda Rise showed evidence of century- to thousand-year climate change continuing right up to about a thousand years ago, the age of the sediment at the tops of our cores. Because these samples were recovered with large, heavy tools that free fall into the seafloor, I suspected that they might have pushed away sediments of the last millennium without actually coring them. As a test of this idea, we acquired a box core from the Bermuda Rise (box cores penetrate the sea-floor slowly and disturb surface sediments little) and radiocarbon dated its surface sediment at the National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Facility located at WHOI. Results showed that the sediment was modern, and additional dates were used to construct a detailed chronology of the past few millennia. When temperatures were calculated from oxygen isotope results on G. ruber from the box core, and when data were averaged over 50 year intervals, I found a consistent pattern of sea surface temperature change (see figure at right). The core-top data indicate temperatures of nearly 23 degrees, very close to the average temperature at Station S over the past 50 years. However, during the Little Ice Age of about 300 years ago sea surface temperatures were at least a full degree lower than today, and there was an earlier cool event centered on 1,700 years ago. Events warmer than today occurred about 500 and 1,000 years ago, during the Medieval Warm Period, and it was even warmer than that prior to about 2,500 years ago.
These results are exciting for a few reasons. First, events as young and as brief as the Little Ice Age and the Medieval Warm Period have never before been resolved in deep sea sediments from the open ocean. Because the Sargasso Sea has a rather uniform temperature and salinity distribution near the surface, it seems that these events must have had widespread climatic significance. The Sargasso Sea data indicate that the Medieval Warm Period may have actually been two events separated by 500 years, perhaps explaining why its timing and extent have been so controversial. Second, it is evident that the climate system has been warming for a few hundred years, and that it warmed even more from 1,700 years ago to 1,000 years ago. There is considerable discussion in the scientific literature and the popular press about the cause of warming during the present century. Warming of about half a degree this century has been attributed to the human-induced "greenhouse effect." Although this is not universally accepted, it is widely accepted that eventually changes to Earth's atmosphere will cause climate warming. The message from the Bermuda Rise is that human-induced warming may be occurring at the same time as natural warming—not an ideal situation. Finally, building on the studies of physical oceanographers and climatologists, marine geologists and paleoclimatologists may use the North Atlantic Oscillation as a model for understanding North Atlantic climate change on longer, century and millennial time scales.


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Furniture Row Racing, a single-car organization headquartered in Denver, Colo., is racing in unfamiliar territory. Barney Visser's team, which enjoys a technical relationship with Richard Childress Racing, has put a driver into the top 10 for the first time this late in the season since fielding its first NASCAR Sprint Cup entry in 2005.
Proving the volatility of this year's championship battle, Kurt Busch has gone from 20th to ninth in just three races – fueled by a trio of top 10s capped by last weekend's sixth-place finish at Daytona.
An unlikely pick to qualify for this year's Chase, Visser and Busch are proving the experts wrong although the driver cautions about reading too much long term into the recent surge.
"We're not putting the cart before the horse; we still have a long ways to go with a lot of hard work ahead of us," said Busch. "You can go down as quickly as you can go up in the point standings.
"Look at us. We were 20th in points just four races ago."
Busch's future appeared cloudy after being released by Penske Racing after the 2011 season. Visser effectively got the 2004 champion off the "waiver wire" running Busch in last year's final six events. Busch responded by ending the year with three consecutive top-10 performances.
The early season showed promise. Busch was spectacular at times but the finishes were uneven. Things began to click at Charlotte Motor Speedway where Busch finished third in May's Coca-Cola 600 to kick off a run of five top 10s in seven races.
"We always felt the potential was there but the costly combination of mistakes and bad luck kept us from advancing," said Busch, a 24-time NASCAR Sprint Cup winner. "We kept plugging away and the positive work effort is paying off."
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