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7 Considerations for Crafting an Online Privacy Policy
7 Considerations for Crafting an Online Privacy Policy
If you are starting an online business, conducting email marketing, or interacting with your customers via your website, then you need to be aware of and adhere to online privacy policies.
What do online privacy policies accomplish? Why do you need one? Sometimes, it's required, such as the statutes that govern email SPAM. Others are optional. In general, your online privacy policy is your company's pledge to your customers about how you will use, not use, and protect the consumer data you collect from them. Check out SBA.gov's own privacy policy as an example.
A privacy policy is not just lip service to your customers. You'll need to make sure your business follows the policy by implementing reasonable security measures to protect your customers' data. Failure to follow your business's privacy policy can result in costly legal fees.
The thing about online privacy policies is that they differ from business to business and must be tailored to fit each business' needs. However, there are some general guidelines and laws to be aware of as you craft your policy.
1. Explain How You Collect and Use Personal Information
While not required by law (although the Federal Trade Commission prohibits any deceptive practices), creating a privacy policy is important if you want people to buy your products. This is particularly important if you are involved in e-commerce or if you collect information in surveys or marketing forms. Every customer has a right to know how you collect and use their information.
Online privacy policy generators (just run a search on that term and you'll find them) can help you craft a policy. As you craft yours, be sure to clearly explain the following:
- Your Cookie Policy – Cookies are used to store user preferences or shopping cart contents. Clearly explain your cookie practice.
- How You Share Customer Information – Customers need to know that their data will only be used to complete the transaction and that any further use of that data (including selling or distributing it) requires their consent.
- Contact Information – Make it easy for your customers to contact you or file a complaint.
2. Display Your Privacy Policy – Make sure new customers or users have easy access to your policy by prominently displaying links to it (from your home page, product pages, and in the shopping cart). Remember, you want them to feel comfortable that you take their online security seriously.
3. Publish Your Email Opt-Out Policies – Include opt-out options in your email marketing (the CAN-SPAM Act requires it) and on your website so that your customers have the option of changing or canceling their email notices. Read more about opt-out and CAN-SPAM laws in SBA's guide to Online Advertising Law.
4. Collecting Data from Children – If your website targets children under the age of 13, you'll need to comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).
5. Adhere to Your Policy – Adherence to your policy is important from the standpoint of both customer credibility and the law: the Federal Trade Commission will investigate complaints of unfair or deceptive practices. A case in point: its recent investigation of Facebook privacy practices. As new technologies emerge, such as mobile apps, online communities, and social media, be sure to update your privacy policy to align with any changes to the way you capture and protect consumer information.
6. Get a Seal of Approval – Third party validation of your online privacy and security policy can enhance your credibility. For a fee, these companies can help you create your privacy policy, or review your existing one, and conduct an annual audit to test your compliance.
7. Talk to an Expert – The Federal Trade Commission is constantly reviewing privacy issues. Areas such as cloud computing, mobile applications, social media, and other online services are increasingly coming under the spotlight. If you do most of your business online, talk to a lawyer who specializes in Internet or online law to determine whether your policies are adequate.
For more detailed tips, take a look at SBA's Guide to Online Privacy Law for tips on implementing a fail-safe policy.
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Have Pity on the World's Worst Parallel Parker
Above, we see someone attempting to parallel park their mid-sized sedan in a very big-sized spot.
"How many times has she tried this already, Ray?", the narrator asks at the beginning of the video. "Uh, this is like her second time," replies a timid off-mic voice.
Two times? Why are we even filming, at this point? It's a big spot, to be sure, but who among us hasn't struggled, at some point, to fit a small object inside a much larger hole? Don't be a prick, camera guy.
Then, the Sisyphean drama begins. The car lurches forward, then backward, then forward, then backward. When the nose inches right, the tail creeps left; when the rear flirts with ecstasy, the front end demurs. Never does the curb come closer.
At one point, from our perspective across the lot, it looks like the driver may have finally found success. The narrator rudely interjects: "She's like three feet away from the curb." She continues.
After several more failed attempts, our hero surrenders, her spirit broken, her humiliation total. The car moves slowly, sadly across the pavement and exits. Searching, perhaps, for a spot that will never come.

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Some time ago, The Postnational Monitor, a personal blog focused on "a wide variety of topics to include, but not limited to history, population genetics, and sociology" posted dozens of composite photos of varying geological and ethnic populations, creating an average face for each category. While most categories are a simple comparison, some are surprising social findings, such as the average Indian Female and Indian Male, compared to the average Bollywood Stars, pictured above.
While obviously interesting from a 'population genetics' (no sarcasm meant – simply clarifying the author's, and not this writer's, term) and anthropology standpoints, the pictures are certainly more novelty than profound statement. However, the composites do resemble more serious artworks by other artists, which begs the question: At what point does machine or computer-created photographic manipulation become art?


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What is a Scholarly Journal?
Scholarly journals, which are sometimes referred to as "Peer Reviewed", always cite their sources in the form of footnotes or bibliographies.They generally have a sober, serious look and may contain many graphs and charts but few glossy pages or exciting pictures.
Articles are written by a scholar (e.g., Ph.D. or M.D.) in the field or by someone who has done research in the field. The language of scholarly journals is that of the discipline covered. It assumes some scholarly background on the part of the reader. The main purpose of a scholarly journal is to report on original research or experimentation in order to make such information available to the rest of the scholarly world.
Examples of scholarly journals:
- American Economic Review
- Archives of Sexual Behavior
- Journal of American History
- JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association
- Journal of Marriage and the Family
- Modern Fiction Studies
For more information and examples, check out the Scholarly vs. Popular LibGuide! If you already have the citation for a scholarly article, please use our citation linker to locate the text of the article.
Quick Tip: Many research databases have a checkbox on the search page to limit your search to scholarly/peer-reviewed articles.


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Salaam. Different but the same.
"I hate all Arabs!"
"All Arabs are bad! They'll probably stab us!"
Surprisingly, these stinging slurs were not hurled at their victims from the stands of the Teddy Stadium by rabid Beitar fans poisoned by prejudice and preconceptions. Rather, they were voiced in quivering tones by a group of edgy Ethiopian youngsters in an attempt to mask their mounting anxiety and apprehension upon visiting the Arab village of Jisr A-Zarka for a Budo for Peace-organized joint martial arts training session.
The recent mixed training session between three Budo for Peace (BFP) martial arts clubs offered a microcosmic glimpse into the blinkered psyche of Israeli society and perhaps provides a possible remedy to relieve the prejudice which plagues our communities.
The truth is, we give ourselves far too much credit. Israeli society, at the heart of the 21st century, is not nearly as enlightened and free-thinking as we choose to believe.
Day in and day out, our newspapers and TV screens are defaced by countless accounts of baseless animosity and hatred and are vandalized by endless examples of our collective inability to accept those different from ourselves. In Emmanuel, Sephardi school girls are shunned due to the ancestry of their forefathers. In south Tel Aviv, angry mobs (minus the pitchforks and torches, of course) brand the entire Sudanese community as a syndicate of rapists and thieves. And, most recently, the Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem pulsated with rage and resentment, damning obscenities and offenses rippling through its stands, at the blasphemy of allowing two Muslim players to represent the Beitar fans on their sacred field.
Although the characters in this ongoing social saga may vary, the plot remains the same. Rather than enjoying the rich social buffet Israeli society has to offer, fused with cultural aromas and ethnic flavors, we are sustained by a staple diet of sectorial typecasts and prototypes.
In the face of this warped reality, which conditions us to view our neighbors through a veil of suspicion, it is no wonder that none of us are immune to common stereotypes which mold our perceptions of society. So much so that the piercing insults of the children on the way to the meeting should not be so unexpected.
The unlikely encounter between the Jewish Ethiopian students from Haifa and Kiryat Haim, where the two BFP clubs are run in conjunction with the Haifa Municipality's "Shiluvim Project", and the Arab pupils from the Arab coastal village of Jisr A-Zarka, neighboring Caesarea, was a form of uncharted territory for all those present. To be completely honest, no-one quite knew how to anticipate the children's reactions to their peers.
The distinctions between the two groups were palpably obvious. "There's no way that we're going to confuse who's who", Abed El-Karim, the Arab instructor, said in jest.
On one side of the room the hosting youth from Jisr, dressed in striking black gi (suits) which accented their green and yellow belts, awkwardly appraised their guests from the entrance of their dojo (club). Across the hall, the Ethiopian visitors, bleached white from head to toe in their pristine white gi and starched white belts, huddled together. Their feelings of insecurity and fears for the worst quickly gave way to fascination, mixed with a twinge of envy, at the multicolored belts around the waists of their hosts. "Maybe they're not one of the bad Arabs," one Ethiopian Karateka whispered to her friend in hushed undertones, "They like Karate too".
Determined to bridge the divide separating the two groups, Abed strode over to the cluster of white suits with open arms, inviting everyone to step onto familiar and common ground- the tatami mats of the dojo. As Abed escorted his shuffling charges into his club, filling the silences with animated small talk, an additional, somewhat poetic, commonality came to light- both share the word "Salaam", the word for peace in both Arabic and Amharic. This revelation was the spark needed to thaw the frosty barriers which segmented the two contrasting groups.
With the help of gentle coaxing by the instructors, who explained that the only true difference between them was the "colors of their suits", the make-up of the room quickly evolved from polka dot-style constellations of black and white into an intermingled checkerboard. Before long, youthful giggles of delight and enthusiastic, accented renditions of "Shu Ismak" (what is your name in Arabic) reverberated from the walls of the dojo.
- Creating a social checkerboard: Getting to know each other
By relieving themselves of the social labels which necklace us all and suffocate the chances of acceptance and inclusion, the children defied their differences of language, culture and mindset. The fears and concerns, which shrouded their some-what tense reception, evaporated as the traditional Japanese commands rolled off their tongues in a symphony of muddled accents and they all began to perform the familiar exercises in synchronized, fluid movements. As always, the innovative educational program unique to Budo for Peace was a focal feature in all of the activities. "Harmony", one of the nine core values of the organization, was chosen as the theme of the event and was gently massaged into all of the training exercises and games.
By the end of the meeting, when the Budo for Peace instructors tried to gauge their students' revised assessment of their fellow Karate-loving counterparts, the depth of their previous preconceptions rose to the surface. "I never knew that Ethiopians lived anywhere other than Be'er Sheva", Mustafa said, causing the Haifa natives to erupt with laughter. For most of the participants, this unique encounter was their first contact with members of the opposite community. To them Kiryat Haim, or alternately Jisr A-Zarka, might as well have been Mumbai, Madrid or Mars for that matter. Their only views of these places and of their inhabitants had been received through filtered narratives and recycled reports from second-hand sources.
We know that eroding the deep-rooted discriminations, tainted judgments and bigoted beliefs characteristic of our insular communities is a challenging and perhaps insurmountable feat. However, we do not wish to don rose-colored glasses and punt beauty pageant slogans and promises of "world peace". Rather, we hope to fracture the fortified layers of skepticism and suspicion which tarnish our social interactions by means of bringing shared interests and mutual passions to the forefront of our encounters.
As Bradley Burston wrote in a recent article in the Ha'aretz newspaper on this subject, "Yes, hatred begins at home. But so does hope". By confronting and challenging the socially contrived pigeonholes of class, race and ethnicity and their accompanying connotations, we, at Budo for Peace, hope to sow the seeds of hope needed to trigger a collective wake-up call so that we can all look in the mirror and see not the social tattoos branded to our foreheads, but an individual standing before us.
On Tuesday, 5 March 2013, coinciding with national "Good Deeds Day", Budo for Peace will be holding the first Regional Event of the year for all of its clubs south of Tel Aviv. The participants of the event come from a wide range of demographic backgrounds, including Bedouins, Jews, Arabs and Ethiopians. This moving multi-ethnic encounter is a further demonstration of our commitment to empower at risk youth and marginalized communities and reinforces our mission to promote the values of tolerance and social inclusion.
To find out more about our organization, activities and volunteer opportunities please contact us at email@example.com or visit our website at www.budoforpeace.org.


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I like the part when George becomes a hero because he is helping others even if he caused the trouble. My favorite character is George because he saved the day and another reason is George didn?t know what the people were looking at. This relates to my life because I like banana cream and so does George. Another one is that my favorite sweets are only chocolate and George likes it too. This story has pictures and they help tell the story because it tells you how did George caused the trouble and how he was a hero.
I think you should read this book because it teaches you how to be a good hero and a great friend.


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HARTSVILLE, S.C. – Junior Jessica Cohen (Ladsen, S.C.) scored a game high 24 points, while classmate Amber Lau (Mt. Wolfe, Pa.) scored 20 points with nine rebounds, but it was not enough to lead the Cobra women's basketball team to a win. The Cobras came up just short against Barton College, losing 72-68 to the Conference Carolinas foe on Thursday night.
Coker trailed the Bulldogs for the majority of the first half, including taking a 20-17 lead with nine minutes remaining in the half. The Cobras then slithered ahead with a 10-0 run and eventually took a 35-29 lead into the locker room at the break.
Barton came out firing on all cylinders, as they opened the second half with a 12-4 run to take the lead. The Cobras took their final lead of the game with a three-pointer by Lau with 14:56, but the Bulldogs scored 11 consecutive points to regain the lead.
Coker used a 17-8 run in the final five minutes of play cutting what once was a 13-point Bulldog lead to just five points. A deep three-pointer by freshman Heidrun Kristmundsdottir (Fludir, Iceland) in the final seconds pulled Coker to within two points, but a pair of free throws by Jannetta Robinson sealed the Barton victory.
Robinson led the Bulldogs with 18 points and seven rebounds, while Jolanda Mitchell had 17 points and six rebounds. Also scoring in double figures was Shante Neal with 13 points.
In addition to Cohen and Lau's performances, Kelley Godbout (Matthews, N.C.) added seven points and five rebounds and Kenley Perry (Bedford, Ind.) had six points and four rebounds.
Coker is back on the floor on Saturday on the road at Erskine College. Tip-off is scheduled for 2:00 p.m.
McDonald's Player of the Game- Jessica Cohen
Cohen scored a game high 24 points with nine rebounds.
The McDonald's Player of the Game is presented by the Hartsville McDonald's and is given to the most outstanding performer during each Coker College home athletic event.


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There really are some lovely new faces in the field thanks to the Spectrum Scholarship Program. The Spectrum Scholars blog here. Check out the Spectrum Scholars on Flickr. And don't forget to add your photos from past Spectrum events to the pool! The Spectrum Scholar Interest Group is also currently building a Spectrum account on Facebook. Additionally, the names and schools of all Spectrum Scholarship recipients by year can be found online on the Spectrum website.
Want to reach the Spectrum Scholars? If you're looking to advertise job opportunities to diverse leaders; find applicants for an internship, residency or fellowship; or build your organization's membership advertising to the Spectrum Scholars is a great way to achieve your goals. Contact the Spectrum Scholars by sending a plain text version of your announcement in the body of an email to email@example.com and it will be distributed to the Spectrum Scholars discussion list.
Find out more about this amazingly diverse group of library leaders for the 21st Century by viewing their websites below. Read up on their accomplishments, hear what they have to say about librarianship, and review their resumes to see how the new voices of the profession are ushering in a whole new era of librarianship!
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Hot Shot – Sash
Sash says her two vices are smoking and sex; we'll take the good with the bad.
Our babe today is a Suicide Girl model, and also works for their customer service/tech support department. It's good to know that they even staff the phones with gorgeous women.
Her heroes are Bettie Page and Charles Manson, which is a confusing combination, but we're not here to judge.


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Definition from Nolo's Plain-English Law Dictionary
At trial, an explanation to a judge by a party or the party's attorney as to how a proposed line of questioning, or a certain item of physical evidence, would be relevant to its case and admissible under the rules of evidence. Offers of proof arise when a party begins a line of questioning that the other side objects to as calling for irrelevant or inadmissible information. If the judge thinks that the questions might lead to proper evidence, the questioner will be give a chance to show how the expected answers will be both relevant and admissible. This explanation is usually presented out of the jurys hearing, but it does become part of the trial record.


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Tuesday, September 18, 2012 - Patrik, Zdenek and Jan - CZECH UP
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Jan Panik is a new army recruit and is scheduled for a czech up. We see Dr Patrik Lukasz and Sister Zdenek Berdak chatting as they prepare to see Jan. he arrives and is instructed to strip down to to his shorts and Patrik then begins his examination. After listening to Jan's chest with his stethoscope Patrik tells him to remove his socks and he checks his feet. Turning him around Patrit the has the shorts down and begins an inspection of the cock and balls. He takes a ruler and measures teh length of Jan's cock in its soft state. Then he tells him that it needs to be measured again, this time hard. Jan begins to wank himself and Zdenek then takes over. Jan is enjoying the feeling of another hand on his dick and asks Zdenek to suck it. Zdenek is very happy to oblige and goes down on that thick cock. He sucks on it and Jan seems to be enjoying it very much. Patrik watches closely and soon has a suck on it himself before letting Zdenek take over again. They then take turns on it as Jan just stands and enjoys the feeling. The medics then continue with their examination of Jan and pay particular attention to his ass. With Jan kneeling of the bed Patriks inserts a finger into the tight hole to check it out and then uses a scope to get for a more detailed exam. Zdenek then moves round to Jan's head as Patrik continues to examine the ass. Jan begins to suck on Zdenek's hard cock as Patrik leans down and begins to rim that hot hole. They have more adventures planned for Jan though as Patrik gets naked to join the other two. Zdenek puts a condom on Jan's cock and then climbs onto the bed and positions his ass ready for Jan's cock. Jan slides his cock into Zdenek's ass, his first time ever fucking another guy, and thrusts deep inside him. As Zdenek takes that hard cock he also sucks on Patrik's throbbing dick. Jan fucks that tight ass and is soon ready to blow. He pulls out and shoots his load. Zdenek turns over and Patrik takes over fucking. His cock plows into Zdenek's ass as Jan continues to wank himself. With Patrik fucking him nice and deep Zdenek is hard and wanks his cock as fast as he can, soon shooting his cum all over Patrik's legs. Patrik is ready too and pulls out and dumps a huge creamy load all over Zdenek. Patrik, having completed his examination informs Jan that he has passed inspection and can leave. What a lovely Czech Up, and very nice to see Jan in his first guy-guy sex.
Kamil Pohoda is a great looking guy who came in for a massage. Dressed only in his shorts he walks into shot and then slowly removes them, showing off a nice big cock and low hanging balls. Then Kamil turns around and we see his hot ass too as he lays down awaiting his massage. The masseur arrives, also dressed only in his underwear, and begins his work. Usins some oil he starts to massage Kamil's back. The hands glide smoothly over Kamils back and the masseur straddles his legs to allow longer strokes. After working on the back he moves down to Kamils hairy legs and oils them too, working down to the feet which get a lot of attention also. Moving back up the legs he then begins to work on Kamils ass. Removing the towel we see that lovely ass exposed as the hands massage it. The cheeks part as he works and we see that tight pucker hole, surrounded by hair. Kamil moves up onto his knees, his big balls hanging low. The masseur feels that sexy ass and then the balls. Taking hold of Kamil's big cock he starts to wank it, the balls banging on his hand as he does so. That cock quickly gets very hard indeed under the masseur's touch. Next some lube is applied to Kamils ass and to a vibrator. It slips into Kamils tight hole and works in and out as his cock is wanked some more. That cock stays nice and hard as his ass is filled by the vibrator. Then it is removed, to be replaced by a thicker one and still his cock is wanked. The vibrator is gripped tight by Kamils ass as his cock his stroked by the masseur's hand. It is swapped out for the first vibrator again which goes in nice and deep. Kamil the turns over and lays on his back. His big cock is wanked by the masseur and soon blows a huge load, his body jerking as he cums. The masseur milks the cock until it is completely drained before leaving Kamil to relax. What a great model and an excellent massage, a real treat for the eyes.
Lukas Pribyl is 19 years old and lives in Uhersky Brod. He works as a barman and in his spare time he enjoys sports, kick-boxing and fitness. We have seen Lukas many times before, but everytime he appears he is just as delightful, with his beautiful face and great body. In this video he does his interview, in English, and then stands up to start his show. Writhing suggestively Lukas starts to feel all over his body with his hands, lifting his tee-shirt to show his abs. Then he removes the tee-shirt and we see his great chest. He really does look good. His hand continue to work over his body, and down onto his groin. The belt comes off and the jeans are then opened, with a hand dipping inside. When Lukas pushes the jeans down we see that his cock is already rock hard for us. It stands at full attention as his hands touch it and run up his body to his face. He poses for the camera, that cock poking right out and skywards. Then he turns around and pushes that sexy ass towards the camera, with the cheeks parting very nicely. His cock is pushed down between his legs to complete a perfect view. Lukas then uses his hands to spread those beautiful ass cheeks, so we can see his tight little pucker hole. We linger a while absorbing the glory of that ass before he lays on to the table, looking up into the the camera as he wanks on his big, stiff cock. Then Lukas turns over to give us some more on that hot ass. Again his hands pull the cheeks apart to let us see that hole in glorious close-up. We can savor that hole as his hands squeeze those butt cheeks and just as we think things cant get better Lukas turns over and wanks that gorgeous cock until it shoots a big, creamy load for us. Then it is off to the shower to clean himself up. What a wonderful shoot from a really fabulous guy.
Samuel Rahl is aged 20 and lives in Decin. He is a fitness trainer and enjoys sports and fitness. In this stills shoot Samuel looks very good indeed. With his good looks and natural blond hair he is a real treat. He does a great job in this shoot, as he slowly undresses. He teases us a bit, showing a gorgeous ass, and then letting us see that cock, A little at a time, soft and hanging. Finally with the underwear gone Samuel gets his cock rock hard for us, and what a beauty it is. He poses with that stiff dick and shows us a really gorgeous ass. All in all he is a real beauty. I will be looking forward to his erotic video next week.


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Florida State fans, who were more than gracious hosts might I add, set social media ablaze both during and after "The Pride's" performance at Bobby Bowden Field on Saturday night. Here is a sampling of the reactions of the FSU faithful.
(Special thanks to our man and former Marching Wildcat Jimmy Jay Hernandez {@JimmyToTheJay} for capturing some of these reactions on Twitter).
Hail Pride and Hail Wildcats!!!!
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Winning an Oscar — or just being nominated — can transform a Hollywood future. Yet just because some actors and filmmakers weren't shortlisted for an Academy Award doesn't mean their great work is going unrewarded.
Critics have rightly pointed to 2013 as one of the best movie years in recent history. Consequently, the fields for top Oscars were impossibly crowded, with highly praised performances by Tom Hanks, Emma Thompson, Robert Redford and Oprah Winfrey left on the sidelines.
That A-list pack didn't exactly need awards attention to boost their careers. The more consequential group is those actors and filmmakers a few rungs down the ladder, where acclaim can spell the difference between job offers and unemployment. So far, the industry isn't letting a March 2 invitation to the Dolby Theatre — or the lack of one — determine their value: In some cases, the snubbed are as much in demand as the nominated.
Peter Berg is one such person. Even though he was nominated for a Writers Guild of America honor for adapting the screenplay for "Lone Survivor," which Berg also directed, the filmmaker received no Oscar love (the film earned two sound nominations). But because "Lone Survivor" was a commercial and critical success, the Academy Award rebuff didn't matter.
"The phone rings a lot more, and there are more opportunities," said Berg, who is now working on two HBO series ("The Leftovers" and "State of Play") and is now considering multiple options for his next feature. It was a different situation following his previous feature, 2012's flop "Battleship." "When you're up it's great," Berg said. "When you're down, you have to work a little bit harder. And I've had both."
Some of the overlooked-yet-in-demand include:
David Oyelowo, who played the activist son of a White House domestic worker in "Lee Daniels' The Butler." He'll soon play Martin Luther King Jr. in "Selma," a civil rights drama that has been nearly 10 years in the making.
Brie Larson, who starred as a residential treatment supervisor in "Short Term 12," is currently starring opposite Mark Wahlberg in "The Gambler." Larson also is penciled in to co-star in "The Good Luck of Right Now," an adaptation of the Matthew Quick novel by the directors of "Little Miss Sunshine."
Chadwick Boseman, who played Jackie Robinson in "42," will play James Brown in the upcoming biopic "Get On Up."
Greta Gerwig, the lead and co-writer of "Frances Ha," has been tapped to star in, produce and possibly write "How I Met Your Dad," a spin-off from the hit CBS series.
Oscar Isaac, who had the lead role in "Inside Llewyn Davis," has four features in the can and is now starring in a new crime drama from "All Is Lost" filmmaker J.C. Chandor.
Cinematographer Sean Bobbitt, who shot Steve McQueen's "12 Years a Slave," is now among the town's most coveted directors of photography and he just completed the Jeremy Renner film "Kill the Messenger."
Just as past performance does not guarantee a stock will continue to soar, today's Oscar adulation is no predictor of accomplishment tomorrow. While the Oscars certainly can elevate an actor's profile — few people in town probably knew of Jennifer Lawrence before 2010's "Winter's Bone" became an awards contender — the Academy Award promise of greater things to come can go unfulfilled.
Adrien Brody, who won the lead actor Oscar for 2002's "The Pianist," is now mostly seen in direct-to-video B movies like "Wrecked," "InAPPropriate Comedy" and "The Experiment." The last three movies starring Mira Sorvino, the winner of the supporting actress trophy for 1995's "Mighty Aphrodite," were "Space Warriors," "Theo" and "Trade of Innocents," which had a combined box-office take of $15,091. Even two-time lead actress winner Hilary Swank has struggled to find her footing, failing to generate the kind of buzz and box office of her two Oscar-winning movies, "Boys Don't Cry" and "Million Dollar Baby."
Among those snubbed this past year are several well-known actors who used 2013 to reposition their careers. Rather than continue making forgettable studio fare like "Prince of Persia: Sands of Time," Jake Gyllenhaal returned to his indie film roots, starring in not one but two movies for French Canadian filmmaker Denis Villeneuve, including "Enemy," which opens March 14.
"I think I'm listening and trusting the relationships I have in my life," Gyllenhaal said. Thanks in part to his acclaimed work in Villeneuve's "Prisoners," Gyllenhaal now has more credibility as an actor. "He was incredible in that film," said director Antoine Fuqua, who hopes to direct Gyllenhaal in the boxing movie "Southpaw" after the actor completes the Alpine tragedy "Everest."
When director Rupert Wyatt approached veteran producer Irwin Winkler with some casting ideas for "The Gambler," Larson was high on his list to play a college student involved with a troubled teacher played by Wahlberg. "I didn't know her," Winkler said of Larson. "But I took a look at 'Short Term 12,' and I thought she was tremendous. She reminded me of young Meryl Streep."
Sandra Marsh, the talent agent for the cinematographer Bobbitt, obviously would have preferred that her client was singled out for an Oscar. "Whenever your work gets nominated for an Academy Award, there's a lot of buzz about you," she said. But it's also important to be associated with a movie as acclaimed as "12 Years a Slave," regardless of who is nominated. "Sometimes it just takes time for people's work to be recognized, and sometimes it takes a hit," she said.
Chandor's new movie, "A Most Violent Year," stars both Isaac and Oyelowo. "I thought they both just killed it last year," Chandor said. "I'm pretty excited for people to see the work they are doing. They are gifted, plain and simple."
Producer Christian Colson, who has been shepherding "Selma" since 2005, said Oyelowo committed to play King several years ago, and even put on weight to look like the slain civil rights leader. But the project stalled until recently, when a combination of an up-and-coming director ("Middle of Nowhere's" Ava DuVernay), several hot producers (including Winfrey and Plan B, the company behind "12 Years a Slave"), the box-office success of "The Butler" and Oyelowo's glowing reviews combined to give "Selma" new life.
"It's a perfect storm of elements working in the movie's favor," Colson said. "And David's star power is a big part of all of it."


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Transactional law team places third in competition
Wayne State University Law School's transactional law team parlayed countless hours of preparation into a top-notch learning experience — and a fine finish, as well.
The team placed third in the region for its buyer's draft of a purchase agreement amendment during the National Transactional LawMeet, a skills competition for students interested in a transactional law practice. The event took place recently at Northwestern University Law School in Chicago. The team placed fourth in the region overall.
The fictional problem before the competitors was based on a stock purchase agreement that had been signed by two parties, said Professor Eric Zacks, faculty advisor for Wayne Law's team. The target company was s a medical diagnostics company that became "embroiled in intellectual property litigation and an FDA investigation" between the times that the stock sale agreement was signed and the deal had closed. Each competing team was assigned to represent either the buyer or seller, and to negotiate an amendment to the purchase agreement to address the changed situation.
"While we are proud of our accomplishment, I am confident that we can use our experience to help the program at Wayne State prepare a team to do even better next year," said law student Chris Attar, team captain.
He, and his fellow team members, students Chris Banerian and Weiling Chou, found the competition to be a learning experience beyond compare.
"Drafting an amendment to a stock purchase agreement, marking up the opposing counsel's draft of that same amendment, and negotiating all of its terms allowed us to learn more than I can explain," Attar said. "The experience was something that we would not have been able to get without participating in the competition. We learned so much about the legal, economic and other aspects that go into conducting a 'deal.'"
Zacks said Wayne Law had more than a dozen students participate in the two-week merger and acquisitions online course leading up to the competition, as well as the preliminary rounds. During one of the preliminary rounds, Banerian finished in the top three nationally.
Wayne Law's transactional law team comprised the three students who went to Chicago and four others — Erick Hosner, Michael Khalil, Katie VanderVeen and Marianna Wess — who "helped behind the scenes as the students drafted a transactional agreement, held mock conference calls with clients, negotiated with the other side, and revised the other team's proposed drafts," Zacks said.
The students compete under the aegis of Wayne Law's new Program for Entrepreneurial and Business Law.
"Part of the PEBL program is designed to give students interested in transactional law a chance to develop the necessary skills to be a successful deal lawyer in real-world situations," Zacks said.
"The PEBL program aims to create as many opportunities as possible for students to explore transactional law beyond the four walls of the classroom, and competitions like this are an integral part of that," said Professor Eric Williams, director of PEBL. "I think the team's recent performance at Northwestern speaks volumes to the enthusiasm and skill our students bring to the table."
Caption: Wayne Law transactional law team members Weiling Chou (left), Chris Attar and Chris Banerian share a moment after competition in Chicago.


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Today's Memorable Movie Moment takes us back to 1978, for the excellent cinematography in a film called Days of Heaven. Written and directed by 3x Oscar nominee Terrence Malick (The Thin Red Line, The Tree of Life), Days of Heaven is an American epic that follows a young couple, Bill and Abby, during the Expansionist era in 1916. Moving from Chicago to Texas in search of work, the two become involved in a scheme to have Abby marry a wealthy farmer who is close to death in order to gain his fortune. This, of course doesn't go according to plan and so a dramatic conflict of jealousy and deceit ensues, loosely based on a backstory that first appeared in Alexander Dumas' The Three Musketeers.
Starring Richard Gere (An Officer and a Gentlemen, Pretty Woman), Brooke Adams (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Dead Zone), and Sam Shepard (Swordfish, Black Hawk Down), the film received Oscar nominations for Best Costume Design, Best Sound, and Best Music – Original Score. Although it failed to win any of these awards, Days of Heaven did receive the Oscar for Best Cinematography for Nestor Almendros. Continue reading


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Consider the following spectacular image, created by Sam Derbyshire and described in John Baez's article "The Beauty of Roots":
In this image are plotted all the complex roots of all polynomials of degree $\le 24$ with coefficients drawn from the set $\{-1, 1\}$. There is some amazing structure in there, about which many questions can be asked! The symmetries about the $x$-axis, the $y$-axis, and the unit circle are easily explained, though: it is not hard to show that if $z$ is a root of a polynomial with coefficients in $\{-1,1\}$, then so are $\bar z$, $-z$, and $z^{-1}$.
Please do look at John Baez's aforementioned article for more zoomed images showing the beautiful detail in this distribution of roots. In particular, towards the interior of the unit circle, the distribution does not fall off smoothly, but seems to form fractal patterns, such as near $z = 4/5$, near $z = 4i/5$, and near $z = e^{i/5}/2$. In fact, these patterns are extremely reminiscent of the images produced by iterated function systems of affine transformations. With a little experimentation using David Eck's Chaos Game applet, I found that to produce fractals similar to these patterns, one only needs to use two affine maps, both of which are the composition of a scaling by about 70% and a rotation by $\arg z$, and differ by a translation. To illustrate:
I'm tempted to say that the whole distribution looks like a catalogue of such affine IFSs, the way the Mandelbrot set is like a catalogue of Julia sets.
My question is simple: Why is this so? What is the reason that the roots of $\{-1,1\}$ polynomials form such a fractal distribution, that behaves locally like an affine IFS?


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Administrating and Developing with Informix
Back from IIUG
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Hi All,
So I got back from this years IIUG. It was a blast, as usual. The IIUG is making efforts to increase the number of presentations that are applicable to developers. This year it included presentations on Database programming with PHP, a section on open source coding with informix, programming with drupal, and then I did a best practices presentation for application developers.
I don't know when the IIUG will make the presentations available, but you do need to be a member to get them, and the process is simple, and free. Just go over to
And sign up.
Chicago Informix User Group meeting
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The Chicago Infomrix User Group meeting looks to be a good one. Here is the invite email form Rob Beal...
IIUG 2009 Conference Highlights
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Here's an IIUG conference summary email that was sent to IIUG members today..
No other conference in the world will focus this intensely and comprehensively on the Informix product set. For 3 action-packed days across 5 content-rich tracks, from April 26-30, there will be an absolute focus at The Marriott Hotel in Overland Park, Kansas — which is right down the street from the Informix Development Labs.
Don't delay register now! http://www.iiug.org/conf/2009/iiug/register.php
No matter how you look at it, this conference is an unbeatable deal. So, plan on being at the 2009 IIUG Informix Conference in Overland Park, Kansas April 26-29, 2009.
TUTORIALS (Sunday April 26th)
TECHNICAL SESSIONS (Monday April 27 — Wednesday April 29)Over 85 technical sessions over three full days!For an updated list of sessions, visit: http://www.iiug.org/conf/2009/iiug/sessions.php
CERTIFICATIONAll attendees can take IBM Information Management Certification exams at no cost. Each of these tests is a $150 value!
IIUG 2009 Conference Information
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The IIUG 2009 Conference in Overland Park, Kansas is coming up on April 26-29th.
Cindy Lichtenauer from the IIUG Board of Directors recently sent an invite which introduced the conference as follows:
Nowhere in the world will you find a conference where you will get more foryour money!
For the low price of $649 you will be able to attend three jam-packed daysof Informix-only content. You can attend the 2009 IIUG Conference and yourconference fee, hotel, airfare and all meals will be less than what youwould pay for the registration fee alone at other conferences! Beat theprice increase on March 1 and make sure you will be able to attend, as the2008 event was a complete sellout.
We have lots of new content this year including 5 tracks containing 88technical sessions, Keynote presentations from IBM executives, greatnetworking opportunities, an exhibit hall filled with Informix vendors andfree IBM certification.
Afternoon Sessions (1:00pm-4:30pm, Lunch 12-1 included)
All Day Sessions (8:30am-4:30pm, Lunch and breakfast included)
If you're going I hope to see you there. This year I'm currently scheduled to give a presentation on Informix virtualization, and have a standby session on IDS on Windows. If all goes well I'll get to participate in some usability sessions and demo's as well..[Read More]
Northern California User Group meeting tomorrow
The Informix User Group of Northern California are having their first meeting tomorrow Friday May 16 from 9:30 - 2:30.
Here is the agenda:
The meeting is held at:
4400 North First Street, Suite 100, Room 1066
San Jose, CA 95134 (directions)
Most importantly lunch will be provided, so if you're in or around the Bay area take an extra long Friday lunch break and go and see what's new..
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IIUG Conference Photos
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A few stragglers from the IIUG conference are camping out at the Doubletree for various meetings this week, and the consensus is that the first IIUG conference for many years was a great success as well as being fun. Good job Stuart and team. The sponsors I spoke to appreciated having such an Informix focussed attendance at the booths too.
If you were at the conference this week there is a good chance you'll see yourself in the IIUG Conference 2008 photos, as enigmatic Frenchman Jean-Georges Perrin was very efficient with his camera.[Read More]
IIUG 2008 - an Interview with Stuart Litel
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You may have seen announcements for the 2008 IIUG Informix Conference in Lenexa on April 27-30 this year. Ones like this for example..
But is it worth going to? why Lenexa? what can we expect this year?
I put these and some other tough (well slightly tough) questions to IIUG President Stuart Litel who kindly agreed to an exclusive interview with the Informix Application Development Blog..
A. It will be a very technical event with a concentration on purely Informix. All the sessions revolve around the entire Informix product line.
Q: Why did the IDUG and IIUG conferences go their separate ways?
A: A few reasons.
1) The IIUG Board believed that the users wanted a more affordable and Informix only event. We had experience at doing two day events before and we attracted many more people.
2) We wanted to do an event that was a break even event financially, not where costs were very high and the price had to be high and also not to make a big profit, but only to put a little seed money away to cover costs to do an event each year.
Q: Why would people want to take time out of their work schedule to attend the IIUG Conference?
A: I have personally been to each and every Informix conference since they started about 15 years ago. I personally believe it is not only what you learn but the people and relationships you make, such as meeting you the first time a few years ago and fellow Informix users around the world. If I have technical problems or questions I have the contacts throughout the world to talk to and help with my word situation.
You will be learning and meeting some of the best instructors, but at conferences you are meeting the best technical trainers from IBM, developers like yourself, Jonathan Leffler, John Miller, Madison Pruet, Kevin Brown, Scott Lashley as well as fellow users who you can share work experiences. I have often said give me two days at a conference with power users and developers vs ten weeks of Informix only classes and you will learn not only more but create the right contacts to assist you in your every day business life. And don't forget you can meet Carlton Doe and get a copy of his IDS 11 book autographed!
Q: Attending a conference is a big waste of money, discuss..
A: I definitely dont agree with that statement. See all my comments below. I mean for about $1500, three days, over sixty sessions on JUST INFORMIX and its related products, how can you beat that. I have heard well its not only the money but also the time away from the office. Please tell me what better deal there is in the IT / IBM / Informix world. The IIUG created this event to be just that an event that people will learn about and talk about later. I have heard people comment about coming to Kansas City, whats there to do. Trust me I just about the same thing, but it does not matter where we hold the event, we are there for the event and to learn and meet fellow users and this proved to be the perfect location.
As for the Conferences being a waste, hey I have been to every Informix Conference there ever was under Informix Corp. Every IBM event that had Informix content (the old Technical Conferences and now IOD) and IDUG / IIUG event and most of what I have learned and almost all the Informix contacts I have in the world were all made due to coming to these conferences. It is like anything else, it is what you make of it, and here you have the opportunity to make what ever you want with fellow users from around the world.
Q: What presentations are you planning to attend?
A: Me personally, to tell you the truth I have not looked at the sessions yet. But there is over 60 Informix technical sessions, the most number of Informix sessions than any IBM conference or other event anywhere in the world! and for the price, how can you beat this! The bad news I doubt I will get to any sessions, because I will be too busy with the event. Although I try not to miss sessions from what I call the "Gang of Five", the Five IBM Distinguished Engineers - they are always the best (of course Guy I will get to your sessions).
Q: Why Lenexa, I mean come on, why Lenexa?
A: If you take a right hand turn out of the hotel it is College Blvd. Drive five miles or so down the road and that is where most of the Informix developers and support team for IBM are actually located. Many of these people will be presenters at the conference in addition the Monday night party we intend to invite the entire Informix development and support staff to the party. One big family is what I am calling it!
Also Kansas City is centrally located in the middle of the United States so we are not at either coast. I remember the biggest Informix conference ever was held in Chicago with over 5,000 attendees and I believe one of the reasons was due to the location. What do they say in real estate... LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION. well Overland Park / Lenexa / Kansas City provided just this.
Q: Do you have any entertainment lined up for us?
A: Wait you said people were there for the technical sessions... OK I will give you an exclusive PEAK but will not spill all the details.
Sunday night will be a reception in the Exhibit Hall starting around 6PM
Monday night will be an event which I will call "Party with the Informix Family" with all the attendees, developers and support staff from the area invited and Tuesday night is an off site event which I will not give you any of the details. But here is something I will say to you... They put me in charge of the parties, so if you have met me before you will know the food and beverages will be good (and I love to eat and I hate drink coupons hint hint :) )
Over the years I tell lots of Informix stories and I will always remember a few years back at an Informix conference run by IBM I walked down a hallway and there was Jonathan Leffler sitting on the floor eating lunch with some users drawing all kinds of technical information. Give Informix users some good Informix content and pizza on a box and a corner to sit in on the floor and they are happy... We re there for the technical information, but the entertainment will be fun too!
Q: How are the registration numbers looking so far?
A: We are way ahead of schedule. As of the writing of this to you, we only have space for about 110 - 120 more people. The hotel can only hold about 340 people in the main conference room, so that is our limit. Also on the Hotel room block, we have blown over it twice! I had to call the hotel and get more rooms under the hotel room block. We are way ahead of projection. In fact we have more Informix people already registered than attended last years combined IDUG / IIUG event and we still have over 11weeks to go!
Also on the side of Sponsors / booths... We have more booths already signed up an paid for then the IBM IOD and IDUG 2007 events combined!
Q: Why Lenexa again?
A: Cause we want to be where the developers are! It gave us access to the core of the Informix team (of course besides you guys up in Portland, Oregon!)
We have three of the most important people in the IBM Informix world coming to speak. Arvind Krishna is the Vice President of Database Servers for IBM Information and he will be the keynote. If you have never heard Arvind speak, he is truly very informative and very entertaining. Also speaking will be Jerry Keesee and Bernie Spang together. Jerry is the Director of World Wide development for IBM Informix and this past year at IOD, Jerry's session was one of the few for any product that was standing room only. In fact they closed off the room due to fire regulations. Bernie Spang is the Director of WorldWide Marketing for IBM Information Management Databases. These two are great together, which is why I asked them to do it together. It will be fun to see who gets more time on stage!
And speaking of these three individuals, there will be some world class special announcements happening that I cant talk about a this time, but they will be press worthy announcements happening (opps that is all I can say). But there is some other special stuff happening that I have not even told the conference committee yet that I have planned up my sleeve.
Speaking of the Conference committee, these people are doing one heck of an amazing job. Lead by IIUG Board Member Cindy Lichtenauer, One of the IIUG Founders and first President Walt Hultgren and long time IIUG Board Member James Edmiston, they are joined by long time Informix users: Kernoal Stephens, Tammy Frankforter, David Link, Bruce Simms and Tom Beebe.
Also one last note. I got an email from someone in Croatia the other day who is coming. He figured out that he can fly to the USA, stay for the entire conference and pay for the conference registration for less than it costs just for the registration only to an IBM conference in Europe and this event is where the true Informix knowledge will be, so he is coming to the event and urging other users in Croatia to also come.
Personally I have estimated that the total cost of the event for someone in the USA including Airfare, hotel and conference registration is only about $1500 from most anywhere in the lower 48 states! Remember a week at an IBM class is I think about $2500 just for the tuition and IOD registration is about $1595 for the EARLY BIRD. Here you get much much more for about the less cost!!
Thanks Stuart! From what I've heard the list of sessions is being finalized about now. Here is where you can check the list of Confirmed Technical Sessions. Hope to see you there in April.
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Return of the Northern California IIUG
Many years ago there was an active Northern California branch of the International Informix Users Group. Somewhere along the way participation dwindled and it fizzled out. Following some successful Informix tech fair and tech day events in the California Bay Area there has been renewed interest in this group, resulting in its recent reactivation.
The IBM contact for the group, Suma Vinod has sent me the following announcement:
Our website is http://www.iiug.org/iugnc/. Announcements about events and tech talks will be published on this site as they become available.
A good reason to attend these events if you're within reach of the Bay area is the large pool of Informix support engineers and developers based in the IBM Silicon Valley Lab available for talks. Thanks Suma and IIUG for setting this up, and welcome back IUGNC! I wish you every success.[Read More]
IIUG Developer's Desktop Newsletter
The IIUG has a new publication out called the IIUG Developer's Desktop Newsletter. Published monthly, the newsletter is aimed at helping application developers who work with IDS do more with the product. Edited by Mark Jamison, the first edition has a Java theme, with the following technical articles:
There are plans for an "Ask the Developers" section where your questions are answered by Development. Questions, articles and comments can be sent to: devnews _at_ iiug.org.
Overall, great first newsletter Mark (and all contributors).[Read More]
Upcoming Events
The IIUG Calender of Events is rather full lately. Currently running is the IDS Cheetah Technical Workshop in Zagreb, Croatia. Next up is..
IDS Version 11.1 Executive and Technical Briefing - Bangalore
Date: September 11 2007
Ashish Jane writes about the upcoming Cheetah technical briefing in Bangalore with Kevin Foster..
On the 11th of September, at the IBM India Executive Briefing Centre,Bangalore, there is a comprehensive briefing on the release of IDS11.1 (codenamed "Cheetah"), the product roadmap and live presentationsof new product functionality. The keynote speaker is Mr. Kevin Foster who currently leads Informix ISV Development and Support.
Kevin is a heritage Informixer who was a Senior DevelopmentManager prior to the acquisition. He has a deep technical backgroundand is very well placed to discuss the product, it's features and it'sfuture.
Thanks & RegardsAshish
Cheetah Tech Days
9/12 Chicago, 9/19 San Jose, 9/20 Seattle, 9/26 Waltham, 9/26 Costa Mesa, 9/27 Salt Lake City, 10/30 Bethedsa, Maryland (DC User group).
These tech days have been taking place at various cities throughout Summer, and follow the same basic formula. Here is the announcement for the Seattle event, which like the last announcement I blatantly copied from comp.databases.informix:
We have scheduled a meeting for September 20th at the IBM Facility in Seattle Washingon.
Please join us!! Come and meet your local IBM Developers, Support Team andManagement to find out what is new and exciting at IBM! The most exciting thing happening thisyear is the latest release of Informix Dynamic Server, or CHEETAH! There will be a lot to discuss about Cheetah at this meeting.
** TOPICS ** "A Breath of Fresh Air"
What will Cheetah offer you?? A.I.R.
A - Agile (Scalability, Extensibility, Web Location Based Services)
I - Invisible (Embed-ability, small footprint, Admin Free)
R - Resilient (Global Availability, High Availability, Security)
8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast and Registration
9:00 . 9:15 Welcome and Introductions (Darrel Riley - President SIUG)
9:15 - 10:15 Overview of IDS "Cheetah"
IBM will announce some exciting news about the next release of the Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) - code-named "Cheetah." We will highlight the new features, and cover results of therecent beta test run, along with a roadmap showing the direction of future IDS releases.
10:30 - 11:30 Agile - Performance enhancements in Cheetah, application development
If you thought IDS was fast now, just wait until you get your hands on the latest updates that deliver peak performance to your applications. Learn what has been added in IDS Cheetah(and what you've been missing if you are still on IDS 7.31). Find out the implementation details so you can take advantage of these for your solutions.
11:30 - 12:00 Agile - IDS an Agile Choice for Application Development
Do you Web 2.0? Find out more about how you can take advantage of a Services Oriented Architecture to easily deliver location based information to your applications. IDS extensibility and the new Web Feature Services in Cheetah make this possible. The new Basic Text Search that is included in IDS Cheetah will also be covered.
12:00 - 12:45 Lunch
12:45 - 1:45 Invisible - Enter the "Administration-Free Zone"
If you like the 'hands-free' reliability of IDS, you're gonna love the new tools that make administration even easier. The new OpenAdmin Tool for IDS provides a GUI based view of allof your data server activities - starting with a map of server locations that can drill down to the detail of an individual SQL statement. Other new features allow automatic scheduling to keep your weekends free.
2:00 . 3:00 Resilient - Availability Solutions in IDS "Cheetah"
IDS has long provided multiple robust solutions to support high availability of your data.IDS "Cheetah" builds on those strengths with new options to design the right availability solution to meet your needs. Learn how customers achieve 99.999% availability (less than 5 minutes downtime per year), and how these new choices can improve performance and provideworkload management for easy scalability.
3:00 - 3:30 Resilient and Secure - Protecting your Information Assets
Learn how the new security features in IDS, including Label Based Access Control (LBAC),can help you protect the information assets in your IDS databases. New levels of control will make it easier to isolate protected information to meet regulatory compliance requirements and gain competitive advantage.
3:30 - 5:00 View the Demos and Meet the Experts
You've seen the presentations, now take time to talk to the experts who created these newfeatures, and see demos that illustrate how you can use the new functionality in your applications.
- Date: Thursday, September 20, 2007- Time: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM- Networking and refreshments: ** Doors open at 8:30 AM for continental breakfast ** ** Lunch will also be provided ** (There is NO charge to attend this meeting)- Place: IBM Facility: Room 9026. Seattle, WA
- RSVP info: register via email, contact Cindy Lichtenauer:cindy _AT_ iiug.org
IIUG tv?
The mysterious Frenchman Jean-Georges Perrin has been quiet lately. Therefore he is up to something.
Last seen at IDUG sporting a camcorder and tripod, there was clearly some kind of grand multi-media scheme in progress. At last, secret sources (JGP's blog) reveal plans for IIUG TV.
The short teaser on the website promises IDS Street talk.. I do recognize several IIUG regulars on the video, including John Miller demoing IDSAdmin (soon to be called something else) in the IDUG Exhibit hall. That's not me in the background, and the bored, tipsy look on my face is actually rapt concentration.
Will iiug.tv be the Informix go-to site of the Summer? I await with baited anticipation.[Read More]
IDUG Report
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The rest of IDUG rushed by in a blur, here are some notes..
In the morning I delivered my IDS for Windows internals talk. If anyone downloads the slides from the conference website or IIUG please note they claim the 64-bit Windows port of IDS will not support ISM. As development plans have progressed this has since turned out to be a cheap lie, ISM support is now planned. In my defense, I am a cheap liar.
Freed up to attend a few sessions I followed a meandering path of application development, security and Linux, beginning with Sergio Ferreira's JSTL SQL tags talk, which starting with the Java web stack explainedJSTL - the Java Standard Tag Library, EL - Expression Language, and how to use the various JSTL components such as SQL.
In the afternoon Alexey Sonkin provided some tips on Optimizing Linux for IDS - I was expecting this to get very technical and was not disappointed. Topics included performance comparisons for different Linux filesystems, partitioning optimization for drive geometry, picking the best I/O scheduler for database performance, optimizing the kernel memory swapping algorithm, the quadratic dependency between network connections and SOC VPkernel processing time, and FASTPOLL.
Here is a copy of the official conference agenda for Tuesday evening:
On Wednesday morning I met Anatole Vishon who demonstrated some of the new features in Server Studio 6.x currently in beta and due for releaseto coincide with IDS 11.10. There is a lot to cover in Server Studio and I'llsave this for a separate blog entry later this week.
In the afternoon I caught Jonathan Leffler's Encrypted Communications with IDS 10.0 presentation which took us from Kerckhoff's Principle, the Diffie-Hellman key exchange protocol and AES to setting up encrypted network communication in IDS using Encryption CSM.
Next was Paul Watson going through some Public and Free Datablades- a useful range of blades to extend SQL functionality that are freely available and easy to build and install. For some reason Paul thought I'd make a good sacrificial goat for various object relational questions that came up - maybe it was a punishment for arriving late, either way I'm going in disguise to his next talk.
Later that day coaches were laid on to give conference attendees a taste of BayArea traffic and transport them to a reception at IBM's plush Silicon Valley Lab (SVL). As the throng were shepherded to the reception area we were waved and cheered by resident developers - presumably the slow ones who were unable to get away when rounded up.
On Thursday the only session I managed to see was Gary Ben-Israel's Hitchhiker's Guide to J2EE - an illuminating guide to the framework universe, AJAX, EJB, and some of the serious problems to that need to be overcome when developing within a Java framework. As a result of this talk and some offline chats I've added Wicket to my "to learn about" list.
Throughout the conference the Exhibit Hall was busy. IDS had 4 pedestals, including an IDSAdmin demo showing new replication features and an interesting gaming development demo which I hope this blog or IDS Experts might cover in the near future.[Read More]
IDUG Monday
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Downtown San Jose was bustling with Mexicans on horses, teenage girls and pasty engineers on Sunday as it hosted Cinco de Mayo celebrations, the NCVA Junior Girls Volleyball Power League Regionals and IDUG North America.
IDUG kicked off with a series of Sunday educational seminars. Of the 5 Informix ones I managed to catch Speed and Performance in IDS presented by John Miller and 20 year Informix veteran Scott Lashley who was grumbling about being offered a senior coffee in Macdonalds - I'm sure it was an innocent mistake. It was good to pick up some performance tips from the experts - must increase my physical log size to take advantage of non-blocking checkpoints - ok the online log has been telling me that for a while but it's good to get a reminder..
Fancy hoof-work on W San Carlos
Today saw the official start of IDUG. For the keynote two retired IBM fellows Pat Selinger and Don Haderle were reanimated to discuss the future of database technology. They have a cute comedy routine going with a dash of bawdiness, which makes a change to standard hype-laden conference keynotes.
Monday was the busiest day for me with my interminable JSP/Ajax and Krakatoa/Solano talks and booth duty but did get to attend one Special Interest Group meeting - Informix for Data Warehousing & Business Intelligence - where hardcore data warehousers shared their thoughts and questions with Kevin Fennimore, Ron Flannery and Martin Lurie. The consensus is these guys would like to see more XPS warehouse friendly features ported into IDS. Tomorrow I just have to inflict my soul-crushing IDS Internals for Windows presentation (it's soul-crushing in a good way, honest) and can then report on a few other sessions.[Read More]
IDUG North America Looms
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Yesterday was the last day to upload draft presentations for IDUG 2007 - North America (May 6-10), taking place in San Jose, home of the Museum of Quilts and Textiles, not to mention the largest collection of Egyptian artifacts in Western North America, allegedly. So far I have uploaded 1 out of 3 drafts, and in the spirit of prevarication am now writing about it rather than finishing the job.
Browsing the conference grid I see there are 4 separate Informix tracks and plenty of new material. It's reasonable to expect we'll be learning a lot more about Cheetah (IDS 11.10). There is an early bird discount available until March 23rd.
The IBM Information Management Technical Conference 21-25 May 2007 in Düsseldorf, birthplace of Altbier and Kraftwerk, in that order, is currently gathering papers. Early bird discount lasts until February 28.[Read More]
Washington Area Informix Users Group Forum follow up
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Why post a follow-up to a conference I didn't attend? Because the Washington Area Informix Users Group Forum organizers always have the decency to make PDF files of the presentations available. 2006 presentations packed with useful technical information are downloadable here: http://www.iiug.org/waiug/present/Forum2006/Forum2006.html.
Having read the presentations you'll no doubt want to see who delivered them. Meticulously documented for the historical record are keynote and party photos, along with conference speakers/sponsors: 1, 2, 3, 4.
But what was it like to actually be there? For that we have Jean Georges Perrin's conference blog, which begins "I am enjoying a glass of Chateauneuf du Pape in the Air France VIP lounge at Dulles". Hmm, I wonder where he's from, I'm guessing England.
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Coudray identifies environmental factors and processing concerns that you need to control in order to produce reliable, high-quality printing screens.
Screenmaking: The Gateway to Image Quality
It is not uncommon for me to receive phone calls from screen printers who are at the end of their rope. They appear to have all the right tools and all the right supplies. They use good chemicals and emulsions. But for some reason, they just can't seem to get the results they are looking for--image quality doesn't measure up to their expectations. They say their exposed screens lack sharpness and edge definition and are full of moiré. These common problems most often originate during screenmaking, so this month I'll describe some ways you can control key aspects of the process, manage your shop's environment, and explain how you can--in a matter of hours--dramatically improve the quality of your image output.
Back to basics
Following some standard procedures and adding some internal check points will make a majority of the ills vanish. Let's start with emulsion. Printers who want to produce decent work select quality dual-cure or photopolymer emulsion. The emulsion's solids content should be more than 35%, which is adequate for good to excellent edge definition. For the photo emulsion to have a fighting chance at maintaining fine halftone dots, or very fine lines, it must be capable of resolving them. This is a problem if the emulsion is too old. If you use a dual-cure emulsion, count on a maximum usable time of four weeks from the time you sensitize it. For the sake of perspective, photopolymer emulsions remain usable almost a year from the time they're sensitized.
The same concept applies to screens. Once you coat a screen, you have a maximum of one week before it will no longer resolve those 3-4% dots. As time passes, the coated screen experiences a phenomenon known as dark reaction. This is common to almost all photo-grade materials. The term refers to the tendency of photosensitive materials to essentially expose themselves over extended periods of time, even if no addtional light sources are present. So whatever emulsion type you use, get in the habit of recording the date when you sensitized the emulsion. Also mark screens with a coating time and date. This can be very helpful in tracking down problems related to resolution.
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Dear Sam,
I love love loved the country vibe that you showed in a recent column and I want it in my condo. I live in a big white box. I keep going the modern and minimal route because I've seen it been done so well by neighbours in my building. I'd like to take your advice and buy country-style things. Will this work if my furniture is modern? Should I have a certain percentage of modern and country? I'm furnishing my office. Any advice on how I can get a real country feeling? I have no idea where to start.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Hi Alberta,
Modern country is the perfect style for anyone who likes clean and simple lines mixed with raw and textured finishes. Accessories with a country vibe will definitely work with your modern furniture.
I wish there was a magic formula like 20% country and 80% modern equals modern country bliss, but those kind of numbers are baloney and subjective. The good news is you don't have to do it all at once. Start slowly by adding rough and rustic pieces, and removing smaller mod side tables and lamps. Countryfying may take a couple of years and that's totally fine — interiors with history and personality are ones that are decorated over time. Be sure to have images and measurements of your furniture when you're shopping to ensure that your new purchases will be in scale with what you have.
When pulling together your office, start with the big pieces. A painted or wood desk will give you a casual country feeling. Glass and chrome are great for those who want the mod-country blend. The wool rug and wicker chair in the photo below from Pottery Barn add texture and warmth, as do the wicker baskets, wood bowls and frames. Nothing says country like oil-rubbed bronze finishes, especially when used on lamps and hardware. It's the small (and inexpensive) details that really amplify the country vibe. Speaking of details, check out the red-and-white seersucker-striped magazine holder, apothecary glass pencil jars and the door-knob picture-frame hangers. And, we can't overlook the oversized dominos in the windowsill that recall board games played on rainy days at the cottage.
It's all about creating a mood. And this relaxed country style is one that you could easily bring to your big white box. Stay true to your style, and the neighbours will be imitating you!
Happy Decorating,
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Have we been giving lengths as overall? I sold MRO supplies for Bowman fastener company and we always gave measurements from the seat (bottom face) of the bolt. I would say that is 1/2" long.
The 1969 AIM specifies the spoiler-to-lower valance bolts as #9417075 #10-24 x 3/4" with a captured washer and #10-24 nut with captured washer #3759924. Do these bolts look like originals?
LLoyd - took mine off the 69Z that we are restoring as we speak....and cannot find where I put them. as soon as I can find them ill post a pic...this is 9D car of 69 we are restoring with orig spiler bolts and nuts


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And this is the spirit of the air more and more in our materialistic world. Now 'things' aren't inherently bad, but our desire for things over God, that's the bummer.
Piper says here,
"Or are we in bondage to the pleasures of this world so that, for all our talk about the glory of God, we love television and food and sleep and sex and money and human praise just like everybody else? If so, let us repent and fix our faces like flint toward the Word of God in prayer: O Lord, open my eyes to see the sovereign sight that in your presence is fullness of joy and at your right hand are pleasures for evermore (Psalm 16:11)."
And Piper mentions something interesting. Our passions and desires. Are we as believers passionate for God's Kingdom? Does the thought even enter our minds? Are we waking up every morning and finding more joy in reading the ESV in pretty letters on our iPhones or iPads than we are in meeting with our Savior? When you stand before Jesus even for just a few minutes in the morning and praise Him for how big He is, you can't help but feel small. Feel awe. And desire to know Him, praise Him, and make His name known in this world.
If and when you truly seek Him you will not be capable of leading a passion-less life. He inherently inspires passion.
Now a few more quotes.
"Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires, not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased." - C.S. Lewis
Or another favorite is Yancey who steals away for a retreat and reads the whole Bible from cover to cover in a week. HIs observation? . . .
"As I read through the Bible in my winter aerie, I marveled at how much God lets human beings affect him. I was unprepared for the joy and anguish-in short, the passion-of the God of the Universe. By studying "about" God, by taming him and reducing him to words and concepts that could be filed away in alphabetical order, I lost the force of the passionate relationship God seeks above all else." - Philip Yancey
Our God doesn't want us to walk through this life acting like the eternal damnation of the friend standing next to us is no big deal. Acting like it can wait until we're done with this really promising Dilbert cartoon. Our God wants to know our friend. He wants to call him from darkness to light and to see him respond.
I'm not saying don't rest. I am saying don't miss the battle. It's happening. And you're either fighting or you're taking tea time instead of entering in.
I have to end with one of my favorite verses ever.
"From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has suffered violence, and the violent take it by force." - Matthew 11:12
Will you be a violent man? Will take the Kingdom of Heaven by force? Or are you too interested in blogging or your iPad, or that fancy pair of shoes, or that raise?
Lord awaken us to Your majesty. Call us before You and show us our worthlessness apart from You. The insignificance of everything around us if You're not there. Remind us that because of You we have a hope for this world, and an eternal hope. Give us a burning sense of pain for the lost around us. Show us the battle and help us to enter in. Teach us to fight the fight that You have ordained for us and make us passionate for You. Passionate for Your name to be glorified. Amen.


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SANFORD, Fla., Nov. 17 (UPI) -- Police in Florida said a high school principal received a profane letter in an envelope smeared with feces.
Sanford police Sgt. David Morgenstern said a Seminole High School employee was putting the 6-inch-by-8-inch envelope into Principal Mike Gaudreau's mailbox when she noticed the foul smell, the Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel reported Wednesday.
Police said the worker and three or four other school employees who touched the envelope while trying to determine the cause of the odor were placed in quarantine until the Seminole County Fire Department's Hazardous Materials team identified the substance as excrement.
"We were concerned at first," Morgenstern said. "You could mask some sort of chemical. We wanted to make sure all the faculty and students were safe."
Morgenstern said the envelope contained a letter with "colorful language talking about the high school principal."
The spokesman said police were investigating and the person behind the letter could face a charge of disrupting a school function.
"There are no real charges for sending a poopy letter," Morgenstern said.


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Essence wrote:
On marrying Kez's father Ime Udoka:
"Marriage is not a priority for me…I have never seen a marriage work. I'm not saying I'll never do it; It's just not where we are as a family. I'll be at home with my man, having a perfectly loving time, and I'll see all these comments on some site about how wrong I am for not being married. I don't feel less loved or less loving because I'm not married."
On co-parenting with Massai's father:
"Massai's dad and I have had the most challenging times, and I wasn't always sure we wouldn't end like my mother and father. But we've arrived at a place where I can truly say he's not a baby daddy, he's my friend, finally. He is an amazing father."
On motherhood:
"Motherhood is not easy, but it's natural. I worked hard to have the career I wanted, but I've also been deliberate about my personal life. None of this is a mistake."
On having a baby in her forties:
"I'm in my forties, post baby and I'm thinner than I've been in years. The last step will be letting my hair go natural. That's when you'll know I'm free…"


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Saving Hope
Trash to Treasure: The Story of One of the Egg Industry's Tiniest Victims
As I pulled the small, dust-covered door in the shed's floor open, I soon realized that this was no exit, no escape route. It was a cold, pitch-black resting place for hundreds of the egg industry's victims. Trash bins, packed to the brim with insect infested bodies, filled the dugout. The floor was crawling with bugs and thoroughly littered with dirt, feathers, and the decomposing bodies of dead hens. It was a living hell, brought to life courtesy of consumers' demand for the "incredible edible egg." The already unbearable consciousness of this hell was worsened when I noticed movement in one of the trash bins. I easily would have mistaken this hen, determined to survive, for a lifeless corpse had she not lifted her tiny head, stared at me with curiosity, and blinked her eyes from atop the pile.
Weaver Bros. had exploited her since the day she hatched from her shell, and now they were finished with her. Now that her abused, battered, and exhausted body could no longer take the stress of being confined to the filthy wire floor of her cramped battery cage, they had no use for her. They threw her away like nothing more than yesterday's newspaper, a dirty rag, or a piece of garbage. Her comb was pail, her body was becoming increasingly cold, and she had little energy. Only the worker who tossed her there knew how long she had been left in this state, to die alone. She had been shown no mercy or compassion throughout her short life as an egg producing machine. Death would be no different.
But we weren't going to let her languish. We couldn't. Unlike the over 275 million other egg-laying hens who endure the harsh cruelties inherent in "modern" egg agribusiness every year, she would get a second chance. She was going to enjoy fresh air, the feeling of green grass beneath her feet, and the warmth of the sun on her back. We weren't going to allow her to die alone in the cold, dark, filthy, hellhole of this egg farm. We were her only hope, her only chance of escaping and receiving refuge. I knew that if we didn't rescue her, she would soon become yet another casualty of the violent egg industry.
The sounds of the ventilation fans became louder, the temperature colder, and the reality harsher as I cautiously lowered myself down into the dugout. It was becoming increasingly difficult to hold back tears and the emotions that stir them. I maneuvered my way between the other cans in preparation for lifting the hen to safety. Looking into her eyes allowed me only to think of the sheer number of hens suffering disease, broken bones, or exhaustion who met their deaths in the same way she had been left. I felt ashamed of myself for the time I spent not working for the animals; sleeping even seemed like a selfish luxury. But I knew this was no time to get caught in a reflective moment. I slowly reached my hands into the cold, rusted steel bin and began to gently stroke her remaining feathers. As I reached under her body and began to gently lift her from the can, I spoke softly to assure her everything would be okay. Her body was thin and obviously underweight. I held her close to my chest and continued to talk quietly to her. She did not struggle, resist, or protest -- she didn't have the strength. Protected in my arms, we headed home, leaving behind the nightmare of her past existence.
Safe at last in the comforts of her new haven, her dirty, overgrown nails were clipped before she received a warm bath to remove the hardened feces which had become caked on her feathers, under her wings, and on her belly. Perhaps for the first time in her life, she touched the ground and was able to fully stretch her wings and walk freely. She did little walking, though, for she was visibly fragile, weak, and exhausted. Though she had made it out of Weaver Bros. alive, her survival was not assured. I carefully offered her a small amount of water through a narrow syringe. She lifted her weary, shaky head as she drank dropper full, after dropper full. The next day she received a vitamin drink. Her energy increased, and her unique personality began to show. In just those few short hours her trust of me had already grown. Her health more stable, she was ready to make the trip to the avian veterinarian for treatment.
Dr. Peterson, better known as Dr. P, was eagerly waiting for us when we arrived at the Troy Animal Hospital. I brought the green cat carrier into the exam room and gently set it on the sterile, stainless steel table. I could almost see Dr. P's heart drop to the floor when she opened the carrier door and lifted the hen onto the table. "Poor thing," said Dr. P before she began the examination and blood tests. After extensive evaluation, Hope was diagnosed with pale mucous membranes, a sinus infection, a hard nodule ventral to her left eye, a hemetone on her left wing, bruising on her upper dorsal surface, and abrasions and swelling on her right foot and toe. Dr. P confirmed that she was emaciated, weak, and suffering from severe muscle trauma. A fecal examination revealed the parasite coccidia. She received fluid injections to help re-hydrate her underweight body and give her much needed strength. For five days she was nurtured in a warm, isolation ward and treated with medication.
Today, the hen who was first discovered barely living, left to die alone in a trash bin amidst the dead bodies of her sisters in the hopeless misery of Weaver Bros. Egg Farm, now lives free. She has been given the name Hope, in aspiration that one day there will be no egg factories, no battery cages, and no exploitation.
Written by Nathan Runkle, MFA investigator
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Apr 26, 2012
Central Connecticut men's track & field senior Sam Alexander and junior Colby Delbene ran at the Penn Relays on Thursday. The meet will be hosted at Frankling Field on the University of Pennsylvania's campus in Philadelphia, PA.
Day one of the meet will take place on Thursday, April 26th and conclude on Saturday, April, 28th.
Alexander placed in the top-ten of the 5,000m on Thursday with a personal best time of 14:07.77. The senior finished ahead of Lehigh's Evan Kosgei (14:10.30) and Iona's Alexander Soderberg (14:11.28).
Delbene posted a 22nd place finish with a time of 14:35.51. His time placed him ahead of Tenessee's Chris Bodray (14:38.08) and Penn State's Matt Fischer (14:38.62).


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|Region 1 cover
|DVD release
|Star Trek films
|No. of discs:
|Jonathan Frakes
|Region 1 release date:
|22 September 2009
|Region 2 release date:
|22 March 2010
|Region 4 release date:
|29 October 2009
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ASIN B002XISFIG (region 2)
|2373, 2063
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The 2009 DVD release of Star Trek: First Contact (released in Region 2 in 2010, and concurrently with its Blu-ray counterpart) included a series of new special features, and a digitally-remastered version of the original theatrical cut.
However, in order to give the then new Blu-ray Disc format preferential treatment – as was common industry policy at the time – , less special features are featured on the DVD variant.
Special features Edit
- Audio Commentary by Damon Lindelof and Anthony Pascale
- Industrial Light & Magic–The Next Generation
- Interviews with ILM's John Knoll, Bill George, John Goodson, and Alex Jaeger about the effects and starships from Star Trek Generations and Star Trek: First Contact.
- Greetings from the International Space Station
- E. Michael Fincke sent greetings from space.
- SpaceShipOne's Historic Flight
- Mike Melvill talks about his adventures.
- Brent Spiner: Data and Beyond Part 2
- Brent Spiner talks about Data, Star Trek: First Contact and Trekkies.
- Trek Roundtable: First Contact
- Larry Nemecek talks with Anthony Pascale, Charlene Anderson and Jeff Bond.
- Starfleet Academy: Temporal Vortex
- Sarah Backhouse, in the role of a Starfleet science officer, informs about the temporal vortex.
|Previous Region 1 release:
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country re-release
|Star Trek films
|Next Region 1 release:
Star Trek
|Previous Region 2 release:
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier re-release
|Next Region 2 release:
Star Trek: Insurrection re-release
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