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The problem: "deleted" photos never go away
When we first investigated this phenomenon in 2009, we discovered that photos "deleted" from Facebook seemingly never go away if you have a direct link to the image file on Facebook's servers. Users who might have had second thoughts about posting a photo—whether it was because they didn't want retaliation from an employer, wanted to avoid family drama, or uploaded a photo of a friend without their permission—could certainly remove the image from Facebook's main user interface, but as long as someone had a direct link to the .jpg file in question, the photo would remain accessible for an indefinite amount of time. When we asked Facebook about it, we were told that the company was "working with our content delivery network (CDN) partner to significantly reduce the amount of time that backup copies persist."
But when we followed up on the story more than a year later, our "deleted" photos were still accessible via direct link. That's when the reader stories started pouring in: we were told horror stories about online harassment using photos that were allegedly deleted years ago, and users who were asked to take down photos of friends that they had put online.
There were plenty of stories in between as well, and panicked Facebook users continue to e-mail me, asking if we have heard of any new way to ensure that their deleted photos are, well, deleted. For example, one reader linked me to a photo that a friend of his had posted of his toddler crawling naked on the lawn. He asked his friend to take it down for obvious reasons, and so the friend did—in May of 2008. As of this writing in 2012, I have personally confirmed that the photo is still online, as are several others that readers linked me to that were deleted at various points in 2009 and 2010.
(Amusingly, after publishing the 2010 followup, Facebook appeared to delete my photos from its CDN that I had linked in the piece. The company never offered me any explanation, but my photos were the only ones that were deleted at that time. Other "deleted" photos that I had saved links to—ones that weren't from my account and were deleted even earlier than mine—remained online.)
It's 2012, and things aren't much different—yet
After confirming once again that all the photos that my friends and Ars readers had sent in were still online, I reached out to Facebook once again, looking for an answer as to why this is still going on nearly three years after the company first promised it was "working" on the issue.
"The systems we used for photo storage a few years ago did not always delete images from content delivery networks in a reasonable period of time even though they were immediately removed from the site," Facebook spokesperson Frederic Wolens told Ars via e-mail.
Wolens explained that photos remaining online are stuck in a legacy system that was apparently never operating properly, but said the company is working on a new system that will delete the photos in a mere month and a half. For really real this time.
"We have been working hard to move our photo storage to newer systems which do ensure photos are fully deleted within 45 days of the removal request being received," Wolens said. "This process is nearly complete and there is only a very small percentage of user photos still on the old system awaiting migration, the URL you provided was stored on this legacy system. We expect this process to be completed within the next month or two, at which point we will verify the migration is complete and we will disable all the old content."
Long story short, Wolens claims that Facebook is on the verge of fixing up its content systems so that "deleted" photos are really, truly deleted from the CDN within 45 days. But with the process not expected to be finished until a couple months from now—and unfortunately, with a company history of stretching the truth when asked about this topic—we'll have to see it before we believe it.
It's hard to believe that we've been following this story over a period of years and the problem hasn't been fixed yet. But unlike the past, we do have some semblance of confidence that Facebook might actually be working on it this time. We'll continue to follow this story until the new changes are actually in place. In the meantime, does anyone have any new Facebook horror stories to share?
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In October, Doug Robinson, 61, perhaps the only pioneer from Yosemite's Golden Age who remains active, established, with Michael Thomas, 39, a 20-pitch alpine rock route on the southwest face of Mount Whitney (14,497 feet) in California's Sierra Nevada.
In October, Doug Robinson, 61, perhaps the only pioneer from Yosemite's Golden Age who remains active, established, with Michael Thomas, 39, a 20-pitch alpine rock route on the southwest face of Mount Whitney (14,497 feet) in California's Sierra Nevada.
Their route, Lost (IV 5.9), is the first known line on the massive face. Until now, climbing on Whitney had been limited to the East Face, home to towering granite monoliths such as the popular Keeler Needle.
Beginning at 8 a.m., Robinson and Thomas climbed nine pitches they had reconnoitered two years earlier, finding mostly 5.9 with some likely 5.10 on steep and delicate terrain. Climbing 11 more pitches into the night and under the glow of a full moon, the duo summited at 4 a.m. in a biting 30-mile-per-hour wind.
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"We mostly couldn't tell," says Robinson, "which of the ridges we saw in front of us connected to what we were on until we got there. [It was like] a magical mystery tour."
The route, notes Robinson, is classic alpine, with sections of fourth-class that involve straddling knife-edge ridges and climbing up towers only to rap or downclimb the other sides.
In the early 1970s, Robinson, with fellow climbers Yvon Chouinard and Tom Frost, largely invented clean climbing by developing and popularizing the first usable nut, the Stopper. In 1973, Robinson propelled hammerless climbing into the spotlight by making, with Galen Rowell and Dennis Hennek, the first clean ascent of Half Dome's Regular Route, a precedent-setting climb that made the cover of National Geographic. Robinson was also a founding member and first president of the American Mountain Guides Association, one of Outside magazine's first writers and the producer of the best-selling Moving Over Stone instructional video. In the Sierra, where Robinson began climbing in 1958, perhaps his most notable achievement was the first ascent, in 1975, of Dark Star, a 30-pitch 5.10 on Temple Crag.
Whitney's southwest side, home to Robinson's latest Sierra addition, is a broad expanse of alpine granite defended by nearly infinite rows of saw-tooth ridges.
It's difficult to understand why a full quarter of Mount Whitney remained unexplored, says Robinson. There are going to be six major lines, at least but you gotta walk two days to where [the face] is visible, and most climbers don't hike.
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Dr. Steven Collins, the unassuming archeologist from New Mexico, was at a crossroad. The site he was helping to excavate in the West Bank (Ai) from 1995-2000 closed down due to warfare and political maneuvering in the region. Steve, and project director Bryant Wood, had to close up shop.
"I didn't know what to do," he told me in a recent interview. "For the past five years, my life had been consumed by this dig. Then it was gone. I was dumbfounded."
But this closed door proved to be an opening for something more amazing.
"It was then that I decided to conduct some research on a thought I had in 1996. During an archeology tour, I found that the traditional site for Sodom (known as the "Southern Theory") didn't match the geographical profile as described in Genesis 13-19."
"As I began to research it more, and read through Genesis 13-19 several times, I had a thought that I had to pursue: they have the wrong location."
"Many think Sodom is in the South (modeled after the famous archeologist, William F. Albright's views), but the text seems to indicate that the site is in the Northeast," he continued.
As "Indiana Jones" as Steve's thoughts were, the conclusions and findings could be even more monumental than any blockbuster movie.
Essentially, Steve took the literal text of Genesis 13-19 and created a theoretical map, using the research methodology of Dr. Peter Briggs. This "map" utilizes a scientific approach to determine the validity of ancient texts. The conclusion? The texts in Genesis are reliable geographical indicators.
Working with Briggs, Collins developed a theory that the location was not in the Southern region, but in the Northeast.
From there, Dr. Collins began to flesh out his thoughts in a formal paper. This 250-page research paper was highlighted at the Near-Eastern Society Conference.
In his research, Collins focused in on five key areas: the geographical indicators, the chronological indicators, the terms of the destruction, the architecture and pottery, and the facts themselves.
"What I didn't want to do," he said, "was trample down the well-worn theories of past commentators and scholars. Basically, I wanted the text to speak for itself."
"At the NES meeting, I received favorable comments from men of whom I have the utmost respect. I knew we were on to something quite thrilling."
The one thing left to do was further research and the beginning of a dig.
"So my wife, a couple of students from Trinity Southwest University, and I headed off to Jordan to do research. We were in Jordan by 2002."
"When I was doing research in the U.S., many of the maps and books were conspicuously absent of any detailed information regarding the north eastern region of the Dead Sea. Sadly, many of the scholars had ignored the text in Genesis."
In Jordan, Collins found a host of helpful material.
"While in Jordan I found many maps, books, and archeological information at the American Center for Oriental Research library. In particular, a book by the journalist Rami Khouri, gave me the foundation I needed to get started."
"Though this book was a popular work, it quoted from—and made reference to—many scholarly works. From that point on, we used Khouri's book as a guide to the Jordanian literature on the sites north of the Dead Sea . We spent hours copying as much material as we could."
"What we discovered seemed to coincide with our findings: Sodom was not in the south, it was northeast of the Dead Sea."
"We were able to locate some information from one of the last major digs that occurred in the area. We also paid close attention to a 1975/1976 survey of the Jordan Valley. This survey stated that the area of our interest had many ancient sites."
"So we headed off to the area northeast of the Dead Sea and began to look around. What we found amazed us. There were at least ten sites that could possibly be ancient Sodom."
"Sodom is mentioned first in the Bible—consistently—thereby giving it prominence as the largest city in that area. So based upon the text and our previous research we chose the largest site. And let me tell you, this find at Tel-al-Hammam turned out to be much greater than we ever hoped for."
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CLEMSON, S.C. -- Six years ago, 42 major college football coaches made at least $1 million. Today, 42 make at least $2 million. Clemson coach Dabo Swinney is one of them, though he could be making more — a lot more.
Swinney, who makes a shade more than $2 million, has transferred raises triggered by clauses in his contract to his assistants, adding hundreds of thousands of dollars to another growing class in college football — highly paid assistant coaches.
"Part of my philosophy was, I've got this money that was due me, and I don't need it," Swinney says. "I make plenty of money. Why can't I choose to invest some of that money in what we're trying to do as a program?"
The result: Swinney is the nation's 39th most highly paid head coach, and his assistants, who carry a cumulative price tag of $4.2 million, appear to be the nation's most highly paid.
The average annual salary for head coaches at major colleges (not including four schools that moved up to the Football Bowl Subdivision this season) is $1.64 million, up nearly 12% over last season — and more than 70% since 2006, when USA TODAY Sports began tracking coaches' compensation.
Coaches' pay has even outpaced the pay of corporate executives, who have drawn the ire of Congress and the public because of their staggering compensation packages. Between 2007 and 2011, CEO pay — including salary, stock, options, bonuses and other pay — rose 23%, according to Equilar, an executive compensation data firm. In that same period, coaches' pay increased 44%.
Alabama's Nick Saban is the highest paid at $5.5 million, and he is one of four Southeastern Conference coaches among the top eight. Texas head coach Mack Brown, of the Big 12, is the second-highest, pulling in $5.4 million.
This rapid and continuing escalation in coaches' pay comes at a time when instructional spending has declined at many public schools because of shrinking state education budgets. The rise in assistant coaches' salaries might just open up another front in the education vs. athletics tug of war on campuses across the USA.
Clemson's Swinney, who turns 43 Tuesday, has enjoyed college football's windfall, even with his givebacks. His compensation has increased from $800,000 in his first full season in 2009 to just over $2 million, seventh in the Atlantic Coast Conference. That's not a bad payday given that he was working outside football 10 years ago.
That's when Tommy Bowden, Swinney's position coach when he played wide receiver at Alabama, offered him a job as wide receivers coach at Clemson. Swinney says he took a pay cut to make that move.
Assistants don't take pay cuts to come to Clemson these days. The school's compensation pool for assistants has more than doubled from $1.9 million in 2009 to $4.2 million.
Clemson offensive coordinator Chad Morris is the nation's most highly paid assistant at a public school. Morris makes $1.3 million, more than 10 times what he was getting three years ago as a high school coach in Austin.
"I'm not complaining, not hurting at all," Morris says.
Brent Venables, Clemson's defensive coordinator, makes $800,000, almost double what he was making a year ago as Oklahoma's defensive coordinator.
"It's embarrassing to a certain degree," Venables says.
Add Swinney's salary to his staff's, and Clemson pays its football coaches more than $6 million, at or near the top in the ACC. Clemson's coaching payroll was designed to put it in the nation's top 15, according to Clemson athletics director Terry Don Phillips.
"We've got a total amount to work with, and this is how Dabo's elected to carve that turkey," Phillips says.
'It's just the market'
Swinney makes about one-third of Clemson's payroll for head coach and nine assistants. Saban and Brown make 58% of the $9 million-plus coaching payrolls at Alabama and Texas, but they've won national championships. Jimbo Fisher gets about half of Florida State's total, and Steve Sarkisian pulls in 46% of Washington's, though neither coach has even won a conference championship, let alone a national title.
"Coach Saban alone makes more than my entire staff," Swinney says. "It's all relative. It's just the market. If you're a surgeon, and you have this expertise and talent, there's a market for what you get paid. The market is not set by coaches. It's set by what someone is willing to pay, I guess."
Swinney grew up poor in Alabama, and it influences the way he looks at money. Perhaps because he had never really had much, he doesn't think he needs as much.
"Trust me," he says. "I understand the value of a buck."
Swinney was the surprise pick for head coach — he had never even been a coordinator — when Tommy Bowden (making more than $1.7 million) was fired midway through the 2008 season.
"I just signed for whatever they gave me," Swinney says. "They wrote all kinds of incentives in there and it so happens we've met just about every one of them except winning the national championship. Because of that, I didn't have to go renegotiate. Hitting those incentives (made it) automatic."
Swinney has shifted $844,000 over three years from his contracts to the compensation pool for his assistants by taking less in contractually triggered bonuses — for playing in the ACC title game in 2009 and winning it last year — and by trimming back a longevity bonus he gets a year from now. (Some of that is offset by a new clause that pays Swinney $75,000 in expenses to run his summer camp.)
Those figures come from Phillips and Swinney's attorney, Mike Brown, who says he knows NFL coaches who are impressed by the amount of Swinney's discount.
"They say, 'He gave up how much? That's a guy I want to go work for,'" Brown says.
Phillips, who'll be retiring as Clemson's athletics director at the end of the month, recalls he made $8,000 in his first job as an assistant coach at Virginia Tech some 40 years ago. That's roughly $44,000 in today's dollars. Phillips says he never imagined the ka-ching that was coming.
"No, never, not in the foggiest," he says, "or I'd have stayed in coaching."
Spurrier stays put, cashes in
Steve Spurrier coaches South Carolina, the state's other FBS school, and he makes nearly $3.6 million, including a raise of $750,000 since last season. How'd he get that raise? He asked for it.
Spurrier doesn't bother with an agent — he used to have one but changed his mind after paying a commission one year — because he figures there's no real need to negotiate.
"I'm not going to go anywhere," Spurrier explains, and "if you're negotiating, that means you've got somebody else bidding on you. But our university president here is such a wonderful guy. He just wants to do what's fair and what's right. … I just sort of penciled myself in about No. 6 out of 12 coaches in the SEC and he said, 'That looks fair to me.'"
Spurrier is actually the third-highest paid in the Southeastern Conference, behind Alabama's Nick Saban and LSU's Les Miles.
South Carolina President Harris Pastides declined comment through a spokesman.
Swinney figures Spurrier is worth every penny: "He's paid his dues. Coach Spurrier's been a winner a long time. He's won a national championship and he's one of the best coaches out there. I hope 25 years from now, I'm still coaching."
Spurrier says South Carolina offered him $1.5 million when he came in 2005, but, "I said, 'Let me take $1.25 (million) and let me spend 250 grand on assistant coaches ... So I'm one of the few coaches that took less than was offered."
Today, his assistants make a little more than $2.4 million cumulatively, far below Clemson's. First-year defensive coordinator Lorenzo Ward is the highest paid at $550,000. He replaced Ellis Johnson, who made $700,000 last season.
"I actually call the plays and pretty much am the offensive coordinator here, although I've got a couple of co-coordinators," Spurrier says. "So, you might say, 'Well, he's the head coach and the offensive coordinator. What's that worth?'" He chuckles.
"We're way below Clemson. But you know what? We're fine. And our assistant coaches are fine. I've got a first-year defensive coordinator doing a super job, and he didn't expect to get paid like those guys," meaning the coordinators at Clemson.
Swinney's humble path
Swinney's father left his family when Swinney was in seventh grade, and his mother and two brothers lost their home and never knew where they'd sleep next — cheap motel, rented town home, Grandma's tiny apartment, months on a friend's floor.
"At first, you try to hide all the things in your personal life and pretend everything is great," Swinney says. "My father was an alcoholic, and you'd try to act like it wasn't that way. But when I was in high school, you reach a point where you just don't care anymore. You get over that embarrassment, just trying to survive."
Swinney devoted his time to odd jobs, homework — and football. He attended Alabama on Pell grants and loans and walked onto the football team as a wide receiver. He earned a scholarship for his last three seasons and played on the 1992 national championship team.
He'd play Saturdays and spend Sundays cleaning gutters, making as much as $200 from a clientele he'd built since age 14. His mother roomed with him during three of his years at Alabama. She'd leave at 5:30 a.m. for her job at a department store in Birmingham, the city where she spent much of her polio-stricken youth in a crippled children's hospital, breathing on an iron lung.
"She's a survivor," Swinney says. "That's where I get my toughness and drive."
Swinney began dating Kathleen Bassett, now his wife of 19 years, in sixth grade: "She knew me when my life was kind of normal and when my life was completely dysfunctional. She never cared. We always had to use her car. Never knew where I was going to be staying. I'm sure her family must have questioned her sanity somewhere along the way: 'Are you sure this is the guy?' But I guess I had potential."
Swinney graduated from Alabama and stayed on as a graduate assistant, earning a master's degree in business administration. Then-coach Gene Stallings hired him as receivers coach.
"I got $38,000 and a car and thought I was rich," Swinney says. "And we were rich. My wife was making $28,000 teaching school, both doing what we loved. We didn't lack for anything. We were blessed. And now, we are beyond blessed."
Alabama fired coach Mike DuBose and his staff after the 2000 season, and Swinney got out of coaching, working in commercial real estate for two years, until Bowden asked him to come to Clemson to coach receivers in 2003.
"I took a big pay cut to come to Clemson," Swinney says. "I think I got $105,000. I was making a good bit more than that in real estate ... But coaching, for me, has never been about the money."
Perhaps, but his current six-year deal guarantees him a pay increase no less than the average total compensation for the three most highly paid ACC coaches if Clemson wins the ACC championship, among other salary-boosting incentives.
Seeking faculty raises, too
Morris, Clemson's offensive coordinator, has an escalator clause in his contract that requires he be paid the average of the nation's two highest-paid offensive coordinators when the Tigers finish in the top five of total offense — or the average pay of the top three for finishing in the top 10. (Clemson is sixth in total offense at 536 yards a game.)
That kind of inflationary clause — where achievement is tied to the pay of others — is uncommon for head coaches and even more atypical for assistants.
"The incentives that are built into our contracts are a much better way of managing salaries rather than just raising salaries and hoping," Clemson President James F. Barker says.
Clemson's faculty senate raised concerns last year about the high cost of coaching salaries, and Phillips, the athletics director, was among those who offered a senate presentation explaining that salaries are driven by the market and that athletics department funds come largely from IPTAY, Clemson's athletic foundation.
Faculty members generally accepted the rationale, says Jeremy King, faculty senate president and associate professor in the department of physics and astronomy.
"I think that is a good illustration of how our faculty tries to look at things comprehensively and understand markets," Barker says. "And then use those markets to their advantage."
Barker points out that Clemson is in the second year of a five-year plan to increase salaries for faculty and staff.
Phillips told the faculty that coaching pay was part of a strategy for getting Clemson football into the Top 20 of national rankings. Barker says he has the same goal for the school as a whole. Clemson is ranked No. 25 among public universities by U.S. News & World Report.
"We have been in the Top 25 now for five years," Barker says. "We were nowhere near that (years ago), so we're really trying to march forward together" with athletics.
Still, athletics department spending is going up at a faster rate than spending on construction, according to NCAA figures.
"Yes, I'm sure that's true," Barker says. "And that creates an environment that makes that communication (between athletics and academics) even more challenging."


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The Oscar Quest began in May of 2010. I finished about fifteen months later, and wrote it up for this site. That was essentially the first thing I did on here. Five years have passed since then. I've grown as a person. My tastes have changed, matured (or gotten more immature, in some cases). So it feels fitting, on the five year anniversary of the site and of the Oscar Quest, to revisit it.
I want to see just how my opinions about things have changed over the past five years. I didn't do any particular work or catch-up for this. I didn't go back and watch all the movies again. Some I went back to see naturally, others I haven't watched in five years. I really just want to go back and rewrite the whole thing as a more mature person, less concerned with making points about certain categories and films than with just analyzing the whole thing as objectively as I can to give people who are interested as much information as possible.
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DALLAS — George W. Bush shed a sentimental tear. Barack Obama mused about the burdens of the office. Bill Clinton dished out wisecracks. Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush chimed in, too, on a rare day of harmony at the dedication of the younger Bush's presidential library that glossed over the hard edges and partisan divides of five presidencies spanning more than three tumultuous decades.
"To know the man is to like the man," Obama declared of his Republican predecessor, speaking Thursday before a crowd of 10,000 at an event that had the feel of a class reunion for the partisans who had powered the Bush administration from 2001 to 2009. Dick Cheney was there in a white cowboy hat. Condoleezza Rice gave shout-outs to visiting dignitaries. Colin Powell and Karl Rove were prominent faces in the crowd.
On this day, there was no mention of Iraq or Afghanistan, the wars that dominated Bush's presidency and so divided the nation. There were only gentle references to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. And praise aplenty for the resolve that Bush showed in responding to the 9/11 terror attacks.
Clinton joked that the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Center was "the latest, grandest example of the eternal struggle of former presidents to rewrite history." But he also praised Bush for including interactive exhibits at the center that invite visitors to make their own choices on major decisions that he faced.
Bush, 66, made indirect reference to the polarizing decision points of his presidency, drawing a knowing laugh as he told the crowd: "One of the benefits of freedom is that people can disagree. It's fair to say I created plenty of opportunities to exercise that right."
He said he was guided throughout his presidency by a determination "to expand the reach of freedom."
"It wasn't always easy, and it certainly wasn't always popular."
It was a day for family and sentimentality, Bush choking up with emotion at the conclusion of his remarks.
The 43rd president singled out his 88-year-old father, another ex-president, to tell him: "41, it is awesome that you are here today."
The elder Bush, wearing jaunty pink socks, spoke for less than a minute from his wheelchair, then turned to his son and quipped, "Too long?" He has a form of Parkinson's disease and has been hospitalized recently for bronchitis.
Just as the public tends to view presidents more kindly once they've left office, ex-presidents, too, tend to soften their judgments — or at least their public comments — with time.
Obama once excoriated Bush for his "failed policies" and "disastrous" handling of the economy, for expanding budget deficits, and for drawing the nation into war in Iraq.
On Thursday, he took a detour around those matters and instead praised Bush for his strength after 9/11, compassion in fighting HIV/AIDS in Africa, bipartisanship in pursuing education reforms and restarting "an important conversation by speaking with the American people about our history as a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants."
If the country is eventually able to enact immigration changes this year, Obama added, "it will be, in large part, thanks to the hard work of President George W. Bush."
Obama said the living presidents make up an exclusive club — but it's more like a support group for the men who have held the position.
"No matter how much you may think you are ready to assume the office of the presidency, it's impossible to truly understand the nature of the job until it's yours," Obama said. "And that's why every president gains a greater appreciation for all of those who served before them."
The other presidents struck a similar tone.
Clinton praised Bush for his efforts to combat AIDS in Africa, his work on global health and even for the paintings he's doing in retirement. And he said he'd gotten so close to the Bush family that there were jokes that "I had become the black sheep son."
Carter praised Bush for his role in helping secure peace between North and South Sudan in 2005 and the "great contributions you've made to the most needy people on earth."
Bush has kept a decidedly low profile since leaving office four years ago with an approval rating of just 33 percent. That figure has been gradually climbing and now is at 47 percent — about equal to Obama's own approval rating, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll released ahead of the library opening.
If politics was absent from the podium on Thursday, it was still a prominent subtext.
Those in attendance included a number of potential candidates for president in 2016 — another Clinton (Hillary) and Bush (Jeb) among them.
George W. Bush in recent days played up the idea of his younger brother, the former governor of Florida, seeking the White House, telling C-SPAN, "My first advice is: Run."
Their mother, former first lady Barbara Bush, did the opposite. cm-bd
"We've had enough Bushes," she said Thursday on NBC's "Today" show.
The presidential center at Southern Methodist University includes a library, museum and policy institute. It contains more than 70 million pages of paper records, 200 million emails, 4 million digital photos and 43,000 artifacts. Bush's library will feature the largest digital holdings of any of the 13 presidential libraries under the auspices of the National Archives and Records Administration.
A full-scale replica of the Oval Office as it looked during Bush's tenure sits on the campus, as does a piece of steel from the World Trade Center and the bullhorn that Bush used to punctuate the chaos at ground zero three days after 9/11. In the museum, visitors can gaze at a container of chads — the remnants of the famous Florida punch card ballots that played a pivotal role in the contested 2000 election that sent Bush to Washington.
Laura Bush led the library's design committee, officials said, with a keen eye toward ensuring that the family's Texas roots were conspicuously reflected. Architects used local materials, including Texas Cordova cream limestone and trees from the central part of the state, in its construction.
Associated Press writer Nancy Benac contributed from Washington.


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I'm in a rather slumpy place…I just can't seem to begin any of the new projects I was excited about, let alone finish the W.I.Ps I'd hoped to complete during my summer holidays.
One of the best remedies to such a creative block is to surround myself with beauty and creativity. Spending time in the forest with Guppy does help, as does flipping through some of my favourite art and craft books. I've been particularly enjoying this one, Les ouvrages du jardin des modes, and I thought I'd share a little of it with you.
This book was a 3 Euro thrift store find I happened upon during my Winter holiday in Toulouse. I was still hobbling around on crutches, but I did manage to convince my SIL to take me op-shopping, and was so glad I did. This beautiful book is a sort of cataloguing of the different project techniques that had been featured over (I think) a six-year period by Jardin des Modes. It features many techniques including : tapestry, embroidery, smocking, patchwork, embroidery-mosaics, Portuguese tapestries, and so much more. It briefly traces the historical roots of many of these techniques and gives cursory explanations. I think I'll just let the photos do the talking. I hope you enjoy!
I think the section on smocking is my favourite.
Watercolour examples of patchwork motifs – so beautiful!
A beautiful Italian tablecloth : linen with embroidered dandilions.
These pionies look like watercolours, and the stitches look like brushtrokes.
Various stitching techniques…
A bright and cheery Swedish horse.
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Two rival kingdoms vie for fresh water and in the process end up destroying their entire society. As seen through the eyes of an innocent go-between, this tragic story details the depths to which loyalty and everlasting love must be tested, in a futile attempt to save a world from total destruction.
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Windaria (a.k.a. Once Upon A Time) is an excellent movie! The story is well-written. Just make sure to have a box of tissues next to you while you watch it, because this movie is depressing. It's also kind of a cult classic. I've spoken to people who aren't that interested in anime, yet they heard of this movie and love it. It was good enough to get a DVD release over here.
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In America I hop into a huge car, drive for miles, do some mega errands, fill up the roomy trunk with groceries, and return to my sister's large house ...and put the food away in a giant kitchen with the monster refrigerator that makes ice.. In America, big, even supersized, is what we're all about and what we like. That's normal; you can tuck all of France into the state of Texas and there will be plenty of room(about 20%) left over.
The French have big as well, such as grand and grandeur...
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Color Options from American Patchwork & Quilting June 2008
Big Block Beauty
Inspiration often comes in the most unlikely forms. Crates of tomatoes at the designer's local farmer's market inspired this quilt's robust color scheme.
Big Block Beauty Color Option
Cute Cowboy Pillow
What cowboy or cowgirl wouldn't like quilt tester Laura Boehnke's western-theme version of "Big-Block Beauty"? The star, plaid, and bandana prints she used are from the Spirit of the West collection by Maywood Studio.
To make a 25"-square floor pillow, add sashing to one block, surround it with a 2"-wide-finished border, and sew on a backing. Stuff with fiberfill or insert a Euro-size pillow form.
Click here to download instructions and materials needed to make this pillow.
Sun-Drenched Strips
In this modern take on a traditional pattern, bars of saturated color form a striking counterpoint to a single floral fabric.
Sun-Drenched Strips Color Option
Bunny Bars
Quilt tester Laura Boehnke liked the simple style of "Sun- Drenched Strips" so much she repeated the quilt top pattern exactly using soft, pastel flannels.
"It's perfect for a baby quilt or for a toddler to cuddle up with on the couch," she says.
Fabrics are Bunny Luv Flannel, Woolies Light Flannel, and Tulips Flannel, all from Maywood Studio.
Click here to download instructions and materials needed to make this quilt.
Making Waves
A striking, vintage Ocean Waves quilt, this throw combines sky-blue setting pieces, scrappy triangles, and an unexpected touch of pink along the top and bottom.
Making Waves Color Option
X Marks the Spot
For this 40x28" version of "Making Waves," quilt tester Laura Boehnke arranged six assembled Ocean Waves X-shaped units three across and two deep.
For elegant, yet exotic style, Laura used the Moroccan Spice and Tunisia collections by P&B Textiles.
A 2"-wide-finished navy blue border sets off the lush East Indian market palette-a good choice for masculine appeal.
Click here to download instructions and materials needed to make this quilt.
Asian Persuasion
Vintage rice-paper prints from Europe and Asia inspired these subtle Asian fabrics. An inner border made of block segments visually extends the blocks beyond the quilt center.
Asian Persuasion Color Option
Tropical Party
Neon colors in bold, leafy prints with a Haitian influence make this hot version by quilt tester Laura Boehnke anything but ordinary. She kicked it up a notch with the Mambo collection by Rosemarie Lavin for Windham Fabrics.
"I wanted to show how simple it is to completely change the texture, tone and style of a quilt by just choosing different fabrics," Laura says. "This pattern's big blocks can easily adapt to lots of different color palettes."
Click here to download instructions and materials needed to make this quilt.
Dash of Summer
Churn Dash blocks star on a super-simple table topper.
Dash of Summer Color Option
Dash of Pink
Using Judie Rothermel's Charleston IV 1850–1865 collection from Marcus Fabrics, quilt tester Laura Boehnke created a quilt in classic pinks and browns that hearkens back to Civil War days.
"Churn Dash is such a familiar early quilting pattern," says Laura, "I wanted to reproduce it in vintage colors reminiscent of the quilts our great-great grandmothers might have made."
Click here to download instructions and materials needed to make this quilt.
Flower Patch
Pieced and appliquéd flowers adorn a simple background. Make piecing the blocks easy by using partial seams.
Flower Patch Color Option
Summer Days
Double Star blocks resemble pinwheels as they spin across a vivid wall quilt, which simply pulls out the center section of "Flower Patch" to stand on its own.
Quilt tester Laura Boehnke chose bold prints from the Gardenia collection by Linda Lum DeBono for Henry Glass & Co. and Marble Mania mottled solids by Patrick Lose for Timeless Treasures.
"I like the contrast of the stripes and dots fencing in the curvy appliquéd flower while the pinwheels stand guard," Laura says. "It makes its own fanciful little garden."
Click here to download instructions and materials needed to make this quilt.
Hometown Parade
A few stars and several stripes combine for a rousing rendition of the grand old flag. Rectangular blocks assembled in Courthouse Steps style mingle among welcoming homes.
Hometown Parade Color Option
Neighborly Welcome
Take out the stars and stripes and narrow the neighborhood to nine blocks to make this almost-quare throw.
Quilt tester Laura Boehnke chose prints in familiar deep, warm tones from Jo's Jamestown collection by Jo Morton for Andover Fabrics.
"I wanted to come up with a hearthside look that was a bit more subdued," she says, "so I framed the quilt with a brown outer border, used darker green plaids to dim the lights in the windows, and chose strips with less contrast for the Log Cabin blocks."
Click here to download instructions and materials needed to make this quilt.


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The Vengeance Factor
Series :
The Next Generation
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First Aired :
20 Nov 1989
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Director :
Timothy Bond
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Writers :
Sam Rolfe
Season Ep :
x 09
Main Cast :
LeVar Burton
Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn
Worf Rozhenko
Jonathan Frakes
William T. Riker
Gates McFadden
Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis
Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner
Patrick Stewart
Jean-Luc Picard
Wil Wheaton
Wesley Crusher
Guest Cast :
Joey Aresco
Elkanath J. Burns
Marc Lawrence
Stephen Lee
Nancy Parsons
Sovereign Marouk
Guy Vardaman
Darien Wallace
Lisa Wilcox
Crusher asks the computer if any of the Acamarian delegation are from the Tralesta clan, and it replies that clan affiliation is not in the records. Odd, since it just gave her the clan affiliation of three other people a moment ago.
At the end of the episode, Picard states that their next assignment is to go to Starbase 343 to pick up medical supplies and transport them to the Alpha Leonis system. I know Starfleet likes their ships to be multi-purpose, but really, is this a proper use for the Federation flagship? Surely some kind of cargo vessel would be called for instead? In the present day large warships are sometimes used to transport supplies for disaster relief efforts, but that is not the case here - it's specifically stated that this is a routine mission and Picard states that he's going to allow everyone who wants it some shore leave. They're literally using the most important ship in the fleet to run supplies!
Great Moment :
Although his actions don't make a lot of sense, I still like the scene where Riker has to kill Yuta.
Body Count :
Four, Yuta and three Gatherers. Others are lost in the Gatherer raids, but this is off screen.
Factoid :
One of the uncredited actors in this episode was Marina Sirtis's boyfriend at the time and became her husband in 1992.
When Riker kills Yuta, Picard just sits staring, motionless. Both Patrick Stewart and the Director Timothy Bond regretted this, but it was necessary because of the special effects process involved in adding the phaser and disintegration process. Putting the effects shots in required that Stewart sit as still as possible during the shot.
The Federation outpost seen at the start of the episode has a planet-scape visible through a window. This is actually a background painting created for the classic movie Forbidden Planet.
Riker, Data, Worf and Dr. Crusher, beam down to a wrecked base to investigate what happened to it. They find two scientists, both unconscious with multiple phaser stuns. Crusher takes a sample of blood from a nearby stain and they beam back aboard with the men. Analyzing the blood shows it to be Acamarian, which the crew take as an indication that the base was raided by a rogue Acamarian group called the Gatherers. The Gatherers wander the stars, preying on unsuspecting outposts and ships - but this raid is further afield than they usually travel and Picard is concerned about the spread in their activity. He orders the ship to the Acamar system to investigate.
At Acamar they meet with Marouk, the leader of the Acamarians. She explains that they have only ever been able to capture a few Gatherers, angling for Picard's help with the problem. Picard suggests trying to bring the Gatherers back home to reintegrate into Acamarian society peacefully instead, and whilst Marouk thinks this very unlikely she agrees to try. Two of her servants are beamed aboard and the ship heads to the Hromi Cluster, where Marouk believes a Gatherer colony lies.
Riker shows Marouk and her servants around their quarters. He meets Yuta, Marouk's personal cook and poison tester, and the two get along well. Riker shows her how to work a food replicator and offers to have some Acamarian dishes programmed in.
The ship arrives at Gamma Hromi II and an away team beams down to investigate. They find various stolen items at an apparently abandoned base, but as they examine them the Gatherers attack. Data suggests using their phasers to vapourise a pile of Noranium, creating a cloud of opaque vapour to hide their beam-out. The Gatherers advance as the vapour clears, apparently victorious, but it was a trap - the away team hid rather than beaming out, and are able to get the drop on their attackers.
Picard and Marouk beam down to talk with Brull, the leader of the Gatherer group. The Acamarian leader is disgusted by their crude behaviour and lack of manners, but Picard plays the diplomat and tries to smooth things over. Brull sends his men away and, out of their sight, admits that perhaps the time has come to try for a better future for the Gatherers.
Meanwhile Yuta approaches an old Gatherer called Volnoth, asking if he is of the Lornak clan. When he admits that he is she says that she is of the Tralesta clan and asks if he remembers her. Volnoth reacts with shock, apparently recognizing Yuta but saying that it can't really be her as it was fifty years ago. Yuta gently touches his face and Volnoth collapses within moments, dead.
At the negotiation Brull says that they will need to convince Chorgan, the head of the Gatherers, to make any headway. Marouk insists on talking to him personally and Picard offers transport to meet with him. Suddenly a cry alerts them to the death of Volnoth; Dr. Crusher beams down and inspects the body, declaring that he died of cardiac arrest.
They beam back to the ship and depart the planet, Brull setting coordinates for the ship. Brull scoffs at the idea of a kid like Wesley being at the helm, but Wesley impresses him with his navigational abilities. In Ten Forward Marouk talks to Picard about the difficulties arising from Acamarian history; their society is divided into a clan structure, and in the past the clans were fiercely proud and competitive; an insult to any member of a clan meant that the whole clan sought revenge, a situation that guaranteed endless bloody warfare. Brull enters and gets a drink, then notices Wesley studying a PADD. He grabs it from him and laughs when he sees that he is working on a Math problem. The two argue, Wesley accusing Brull of being a thief, which Brull freely admits. When Wesley asks why he's willing to negotiate with Marouk if he likes the way things are so much, Brull admits that he wants his own son to have the same sort of opportunities that Wesley enjoys on the Enterprise.
Yuta spends some time with Riker, letting him taste one of her Acamarian foods. When he quizzes her about her life he's disappointed to find that she regards herself purely as a servant, with no real life of her own and no expectation of being treated like an equal. Whilst she says she is no slave, she also claims that she can never truly be free. As Yuta leaves, Crusher calls Riker down to sickbay. She has been investigating her scans of Volnoth's body and has found a microvirus in his system, a virus specifically tailored to attack a particular variety of Acamarian DNA which represents about one person in a million. It seems that Volnoth was murdered. Data asks Acamar III to transfer their medical database to the Enterprise for further investigation. Riker goes to his quarters to relax, and Yuta arrives - having been sent by Marouk to spend a little time with him. Yuta kisses Riker and offers to "please" him, but Riker becomes concerned that she is attempting to "serve" him much as she does Marouk. Yuta is confused by his desire for an equal, and as the two talk the ship is rocked by weapon fire and goes to red alert.
On the bridge, Chorgan's ship is on the viewscreen, firing on them. It ignored all hails, until Picard finally tires of taking fire and uses the phasers to blast the forward shields into oblivion. Chorgan ceases fire and rapidly hails them, accusing Brull of being a traitor. Picard decides to beam over to the ship with Marouk and Brull to confront him directly. The begin to talk, offering the Gatherers a home on Acamar where they can live and representation in the government. Chorgan seems willing, but makes excessive demands of his own.
Back on the Enterprise Data finds a record of Volnoths birth. Crusher comes to the bridge, informing them that she has found another victim of the microvirus, Penthor-Mul, a Gatherer of the Lornak clan who died 53 years ago. Data and Riker realize that the virus is target against lornak clan members. raided an Acamarian outpost, but was captured and died before his trial. Data immediately makes the connection: Volnoth was also of the Lornak clan. Riker realizes that this microvirus is indeed targeted against Lornack clan members, and look up the clan conflicts to see who might have a grudge against them. They find that 80 years ago the Lornak clan massacred the rival Tralesta clan, apparently down to the last person. The records contain an image of Penthor-Mul before his death - and to their shock, Yuta is in the image with him, looking the same age as she does now. It is revealed that Chorgan is also of the Lornak clan... and therefore Yuta's next victim.
On Chorgan's ship the negotiations continue, with both sides rejecting the other as being unreasonable. Picard again acts as a mediator, noting that each only wants what is best for their people and would probably make the same demands if their places were switched. They have a brief recess and Yuta advances with drinks - just as Riker beams in, phaser in hand. He orders Yuta to stand back but she refuses, tearful, demanding justice for the massacre of her clan. As she advances slowly on Chorgan Riker shoots her repeatedly on stun, but the beam does little more than inconvenience her. Begging her to stand back, Riker resets the phaser to kill - and as Yuta makes one last lunge towards Chorgan, Riker vapourises her.
Back on the Enterprise Picard meets Riker in Ten Forward and reveals that the ship has new orders; they are to head to Starbase 343 to pick up medical supplies and transport them to the Alpha Leonis system. In an apparently offhand comment Picard says that since the mission is so easy he intends to give anybody who wants it shore leave on the Starbase, and offer Riker promises to pass along to the crew.
There's something about this episode that really doesn't gel. There's nothing really wrong with it as such, it's just kind of bland. The Gatherers are bland - little more than a knock off of the Klingons. And just think, how much more interesting this would have been if the Gatherers were an actual rogue Klingon band that the Enterprise was trying to hunt down and reintegrate. You'd barely need to change the plot at all - Klingon culture already has the same clannish structure that Acamar has, Klingons have similar mannerisms, similar motivations. In fact the parallels are so close you have to wonder if that wasn't the original idea, perhaps dropped to save the expense of all those makeup jobs?
The Gatherers are also a bit puny. It takes the Enterprise a day or two to track them down, and when they find the leader's ship they disable it with casual ease; you wonder how these guys were ever a significant threat to anybody in the first place when they can't fight and can't hide. I'm certainly not suggesting that every threat has to be a galaxy-shaking super advanced race, but again, imagine the Gatherers as Klingons, running around in three or four Bird of Prey types, maybe with a cruiser for their leader. Still not a powerful force overall, but more than enough to overwhelm the occasional isolated base or outpost, or capable of joining together and taking on a single Starship. It would lend them a credibility that they don't really have here.
Yuta is also kind of bland. Her instant attraction to Riker is about par for the course for a TV show, but it just lacks real depth. There is one good idea, her assassination method - a virus targeted on members of a particular clan, allowing her to kill with a touch. It's an interesting idea, effectively used.
I don't really get the point of making Yuta effectively immortal. The Acamarians are implied to be relatively primitive, at least by Marouk's reaction to the Enterprise, yet not only are they are apparently able to grant eternal life and youth to people, nobody even seems to think that it's at all strange that they can do so.
Overall a competent enough episode, but in the end it just doesn't amount to much.
© Graham & Ian Kennedy
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Holiday sale ads: they blanket the airwaves, jam your mailbox, and add another pound to your Sunday paper. Soon you'll be bombarded with ads for pre-holiday sales, preferred customer specials, early bird sales, midnight madness events, coupon savings days, and, don't forget, post-holiday sales. Sure you want a good deal, but just how do you decide if the deal is real? The Federal Trade Commission offers some tips to help you get the most for your money.
- Shop around. A "sale" price isn't always the "best" price. Some merchants may offer the sale price on the item you want for a limited time; other merchants may discount the item you want everyday. Also, when you're comparison shopping, make sure you have: the item's manufacturer, model number, stock number or other identifying information.
- Read sale ads carefully. Some may say "quantities limited," "no rain checks," or "not available at all stores." Before you step out the door, call ahead to make sure the merchant has the item you want in stock. If you're shopping for a popular or hard-to-find item, ask the merchant if he'd be willing to hold the item until you can get to the store.
- Take time and travel costs into consideration. If an item is on sale, but it's all the way across town, how much are you really saving once you factor in your time and the costs of transportation and parking?
- Look for price-matching policies. Some merchants will match, or even beat, their competitors' prices. Read the merchant's pricing policy carefully. It may not apply to all items.
- Go online. Check out Internet sites that compare prices for items offered online. Some sites also may compare prices offered at stores in your area. If you decide to buy online, keep shipping costs and delivery time in mind.
- Carefully consider bargain offers that are based on purchases of additional merchandise. For example, "buy one, get one free" or "free gift with purchase." If you don't really want or need the item, it's not a deal.
- Ask about sale adjustments. That is, if you buy an item at regular price and it goes on sale the next week, can you get a credit or refund for the discounted amount? What documentation will you need?
- Ask about refund and return policies for sale items. Merchants may have different refund and return policies for sale items, especially clearance merchandise.
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Filing rules
About Filing
There are two main versions of filing rules: letter-by-letter and word-by-word.
Professor Michael Buckland of SIMS prepared the handout, Common U.S. Filing Rules (PDF), which shows brief examples of both.
For most libraries, filing rules are embedded in the software driving the local automated system. However, the principles of filing may also be used for shelving books.
An example will show the main difference:
In the ALA Rules for Filing Catalog Cards, 2nd ed., names beginning with M', Mc, and Mac were all filed as if spelled Mac. (word-by-word)
MacDonald, David
McDonald, Ronald
McDonegan, Cecelia
MacDonegan, Steven
In the ALA Filing Rules, names beginning with M', Mc, and Mac are filed alphabetically as spelled. (letter-by-letter)
MacDonald, David
MacDonegan, Steven
McDonald, Ronald
McDonegan, Cecelia
Publications on Filing
From ALA
The American Library Association maintains in print the following books which have examples of each type of filing rules; these can both still be purchased from the ALA Online Store.
ALA Filing Rules, prepared by the RTSD Filing Committee in 1980, presents rules for the arrangement of bibliographic records whether displayed in card, book, or online format. It is an example of letter-by-letter filing. These rules also largely ignore distinctions among different punctuation marks and do not distinguish among the types of access points.
ALA Rules for Filing Catalog Cards, 2nd Edition, by Pauline A. Seeley, is the classic guide to filing catalog cards using the basic order of alphabetical, word-by-word filing.
From LC
Library of Congress Filing Rules, now part of the Cataloger's Desktop. These, also first published in 1980, retain traditional groupings of access points by type.
Establishing Alphabetic, Numeric and Subject Filing Systems, by ARMA International Standards Task Force (ANSI/ARMA 12-2005) Publisher's description: "This standard is intended to aid in the selection and application of a filing system that will enable users to retrieve information when needed. It describes three principal systems: alphabetic filing, subject filing, and numeric filing. In addition, it contains standard rules for indexing alphabetic data. This standard will establish a uniform files classification system that makes sense to the users while identifying and preserving a set order of records. Three informative appendices include instructions for indexing, factors to consider when using automated indexing systems, and exceptions for alphabetic indexing."
Guidelines for Alphabetical Arrangement of Letters and Sorting of Numerals and Other Symbols, by Hans H. Wellisch. (Bethesda, Md.: NISO Press, 1999. (PDF document) Abstract (from NISO): "This technical report provides rules for the alphabetical arrangement of headings in lists of all kinds, such as bibliographies, indexes, dictionaries, directories, inventories, etc. It also covers the sorting of Arabic or Roman numbers, and other symbols. It consists of seven rules that cover problems which may arise in alphanumeric arrangement of headings. The technical report is based on the traditional order of letters in the English alphabet and that of numerals in ascending arithmetical order. It does not address issues concerning meaning or type of headings. The rules can generally be applied by human beings as well as by computers. Each rule is followed by illustrative examples."
Rules for Individual Libraries
Some libraries have posted brief rules covering the main situations on their home pages for the benefit of library users. These would apply to those libraries specifically and may not be exactly as in use at your library.