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Two rush-hour collisions slowed traffic Wednesday evening in Bremerton and Central Kitsap, with no serious injuries.
At 4:54 p.m., an SUV traveling south on State Highway 303 spun out near Central Valley Road and rolled off the road, Washington State Patrol Trooper Krista Hedstrom said. The driver either sustained a minor injury or was not injured at all, she said.
Another car traveling north on State Highway 3 struck a guard rail near Kitsap Way in Bremerton at 5:15 p.m. There were no injuries and the collision partially blocked one lane.
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David Aronoff of Flybridge Capital Partners, a venture capital firm, has co-led the $5 million first round of equity for BetterCloud, a privately held provider of cloud management and security tools for Google Apps. Founded in 2011, BetterCloud has developed an application that is says is used by over 15,000 companies and 5.5 million users. It helps Google Apps administrators provide added controls, visibility, and automation, according to the company.


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Congratulations to Brittany Woodhams, Bachelor of Arts, English (Hons) who was recently accepted to study her Masters in Issues in Modern Culture at University College London.
Brittany will start the year-long course in September this year. After writing her honours thesis on the novels of Jane Austen, Brittany said she is excited to be moving her academic attention to the 20th century and the development of modernism.
"I thought that the one year taught Masters degree would be a great way to combine study and travel. I'm looking forward to experiencing life in London, making new friendships and building contacts within the academic community," Brittany said.


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Ya, it must be chipped.
Yeah, my friend had someone from our dev team in China get a Wii for him (easy to find there I guess). Turns out that he can play US games, ripped GC games, and probably Japanese Wii games (he doesn't have any Japanese Wii games yet). Is his Wii modified? I thought all Wiis are region locked. It was purchased in China. Oh, he can connect to VC just fine, but his weather channel is locked to Japan .
Ya, it must be chipped.
Apparently, It Is.
Sounds like a good deal to me if it came like that! Definitely must be modded if it plays different regions. Which VC releases does he get?
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yeah thats what my chip does to so it must be chiped hopfully it is in english too
LOL - Who expects a console sold in china not to be chipped? Its hard to find real games unless you look hard.
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Well, yeah a modified jap version...just be careful on updating your wii using US version games...goodluck
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yeah my friend got his wii bricked he was to say REALLY MAD
does anyone know this for absolute certain????Sounds like a good deal to me if it came like that! Definitely must be modded if it plays different regions.
have you physically tried to play another regions game on your Wii?
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But you can get loads of othe VC games from round the world easily. lol
i got a fe wames that arent out on VC in uk yet. How you ask.
easy. First make sure you have no wii points left. or spend them before you do this .
secon go into the wii settings and go to country setup and choose anywhere in the world that uses same region as where you are for me i use Pal which is use in a few other place i think it was new zeland i got my VC games from. then go onto wii shop channel buy the game you want then change back to ure country if you want to.
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Measured by numbers of people, the Goose Lake International Music Festival was the biggest thing ever in Jackson County.
Forty years ago today, the spectacle was over.
Two hundred thousand longhairs who were often stoned and sometimes naked cleared out of Leoni Township. Disgusted local officials vowed, correctly, that the county would never have another Goose Lake.
When I arrived in town 15 years later, it was striking to notice the range of disagreement among people who remembered Goose Lake.
Some called the three-day festival an ugly incident marked by open lawlessness. Even the governor declared himself appalled by what happened near Jackson.
Other people, including middle-aged types the kids at Goose Lake might call "straights," said local outrage was overblown. The festival crowd, in this view, was peaceful and fun-loving.
No one guessed a digital age was coming that allows everyone to peek inside Goose Lake and see for ourselves.
A Chicago newspaper reporter named John McDonough attended the festival on his own time and shot 8 mm film. Forty years later, he put it on DVD and allowed the Citizen Patriot to post excerpts online.
Hoping to be exposed to the hippie spirit, I watched the unedited DVD and found a different sort of exposure. McDonough shot no stage shows and few crowd scenes. His film almost exclusively captured naked people walking to and from a skinny dip in the lake. We must assume he was a great admirer of the human form.
A Google search turns up several videos shot by someone who hoped to make a feature movie. The movie never materialized, but YouTube did.
Video clips show a few interviews with stoners and bikers in the Goose Lake crowd. They show drug use. They show shaggy people saying funny words like "bummer" and "rap." They show people going down a big slide and landing on a bouncy thing. They show a grimy toddler flipping peace signs. They show left-wing political activists. They show performances by bands including Ten Years After, Mountain, and Iggy Pop and the Stooges.
One surprise from these preserved slices of 1970 is the fact that few people at Goose Lake smiled as they enjoyed a good time.
Most seemed weary, dirty and somewhat stunned.
It's no wonder the counterculture that spawned the biggest thing ever in Jackson County did not last.
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O'LEARY -- Although it is becoming obscured by tree branches, there is a sign along Highway Two, just east of O'Leary Corner that points the way to the Community of O'Leary.
Now, of course, O'Leary is a town.
Councillor Darren MacKinnon proposed Thursday that the municipality seek permission to trim the tree branches and to put up a new sign that tells O'Leary's new status.
But MacKinnon wants to give west-bound travellers - tourists in particular - another reason to go three-quarters of the way around the O'Leary Corner round-about and head into O'Leary.
Council agreed with his suggestion that the new sign announce O'Leary as "the last service center before West Point."
MacKinnon called it a marketing strategy. "It's selling our town, which we don't do a good job of yet," he said.
Councillor Carol Ferguson agreed O'Leary needs to do better at promoting itself, noting two of O'Leary's main attractions, the Canadian Potato Museum and the P.E.I. Potato Blossom Festival, don't even have O'Leary in their name.
"I think we need a bright new sign," MacKinnon said.
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Thanks! My 8 year old son and husband are so excited. Woke up the baby when they won. Hahaha.
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You can escape the heat and humidity and see terrific art without leaving town. The 43rd "Art of the State" juried exhibition opened last month, and I visited it on an especially steamy day last week. It's co-presented by the Greater Harrisburg Arts Council and The State Museum of Pennsylvania in its fabulous parabolic gallery on the museum's second floor.
Lee Stevens showed me around. She's the senior curator of art collections, and she gave me the background about this statewide show with a national reputation.
Every year, a panel of judges, one for each art form, chooses from a huge number of entries. This year, there were 2,073 entries from 778 artists. There are two major criteria, according to Stevens. One is the size of work, limited only by the amount of wall and floor space available, and the other is what Stevens calls "quality, quality, quality."
The three categories are painting and works on paper, photography, and three-dimensional art, which includes craft and sculpture. After the judges reach their decisions about what is to be in the show, another judge chooses the awards in each category. There are cash prizes.
This year, the awards juror was Leo Mazow, formerly the director of the Suzanne H. Arnold Gallery at Lebanon Valley College and now the curator of American art at the Palmer Museum in State College.
Judges are encouraged to choose a variety of styles and schools. As a result, the exhibit is a vibrant, vivid reflection of what artists across the state are working on now, or within the past three years.
The fact that there's no overarching theme leads to interesting juxtapositions and consonances. That's where Lee Stevens' curatorial skills come into play, as she decides where to put which work to look its best.
Several midstate artists are represented, including Mechanicsburg's Theodore Prescott, whose three-part sculpture "Small Worlds" was constructed using apple wood from a local orchard before it was razed to make way for a housing development. Prescott won first prize in the sculpture category. Catherine Prescott, his wife, is the painter of the portrait "Yolanda." It hangs nearby and gives the impression of keeping a quiet eye on "Small Worlds."
Not far from the Prescott family area is a work by Jo Margolis of Wellsville. It's a beautifully exotic ink drawing behind glass panels of rune-like figures on the fragile Japanese paper known as Gampi. This work is an example of the range of art you can see in this exhibit — there's nothing else remotely like it.
There's also a beautiful and mysterious digital photograph by Harrisburg's Suzanne Mead called "Cool Blue Portal."
Work by Hershey's Gene van Dyke is exhibited for the first time with his acrylic painting "Spring Orchard #3."
And from Lancaster, Jerome Hershey's acrylic "Final Tribute" is an abstract work, with colors that intensify and mellow in a geometric pattern across the canvas. It's highly emotional, despite its nonrepresentational character, and it's one of the first things you'll see as you enter the gallery. It won second prize in painting.
"People don't realize that our state has more talented artists than in many other areas in the country," Stevens said. When asked why, she mentioned the outstanding art schools and museums in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, and also the benefit of being so close to New York City. "I have so much respect for the talent that's exhibited in these annual events," she said.
In all, 34 counties are represented in this exhibition, which will likely affect the way you look at things after you leave the show. It will also give a welcome respite from Harrisburg's midsummer heat.
IF YOU GO: "Art of the State,"
I'll be listening to beautiful chamber music this weekend when Market Square Concerts presents our annual Summermusic Festival on Saturday night and Sunday afternoon at Glen Allen Mill, between Lisburn and Bowmansdale in Upper Allen Twp. Bring a picnic and enjoy the Fry Street Quartet, joined by the Harrisburg Symphony's Stuart Malina, Peter Sirotin and Fiona Thompson.
Ellen Hughes, director of Market Square Concerts, writes about her experiences and observations about fine arts, classical music and dance performances in the midstate. E-mail her at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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FLEMINGTON — A new police contract aims to give young police officers an incentive to remain on the borough force by adding longevity pay at five years' service.
A contract covering all the police officers except for the chief was unanimously approved by Borough Council at its March 28 meeting. The contract grants a 2% raise for 2013 and a 2% raise for 2014. It also reduces starting pay and puts the money later on in the schedule.
Police commissioner and Councilman Brian Swingle explained that Flemington has a pattern of hiring new officers "and losing them almost immediately to a lot of municipalities who pay higher than we do. Not so much starting salaries but it's really the top end." He explained that most police officers who transfer to another department enter at the bottom of the scale, so "when they decide (to transfer) they decide soon."
Although the new contract extends the time it takes a patrolman to get to the top of the scale, "a new officer will realize there's something for them down the road" and maybe "we can hold on to them."
To accomplish that, longevity pay is added to the schedule. An officer who has been with the force five to nine years will receive base pay plus $500; 10-15 years, $1,000; 15-19 years, $1,500; and 20-25 years, $2,000. Any annual percentage increase will be computed using base pay and not the longevity money. But the longevity money will be used in computing retirement pay.
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Except for promotions, borough officers have not had raises in a couple of years, Swingle said.
Council President Phil Velella asked how the borough's police pay compares to pay in other municipalities.
"We're trying to creep into the mid-range," said Swingle. "Previous to this agreement, our officers were almost dead last in the county, except for Frenchtown, which has one of the smallest police departments. That's why it's so difficult to hold on to good officers."
He said, "In terms of compensation-to-work-effort, we were incredibly lopsided," explaining that "our officers are the busiest in the county." Flemington handles 800-plus calls per officer per year, he said, compared to the runner-up with almost 100 calls fewer. "Most are down in the mid-500 range," he said.
At the same meeting, council approved the hiring of two new patrolmen, who are replacing officers who have left. They are Daniel Lookner and Timothy Poss.
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Best and Worst of the 2011 Grammy Awards: Cee Lo, Arcade Fire, Eminem, Lady Gaga
From Eminem to Dylan: Which performances shined and which ones sank?
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Best and Worst: Bob Dylan, Avett Brothers, Mumford & Sons
Don't get me wrong: The Avett Brothers and Mumford & Sons sounded awesome, together as a string band crew and on their own. They compete equally for my tiny black heart; I'd like to invite them all over for Thanksgiving.
I'm not much of a Dylan apologist, but the band overpowered what he has left of his gruff voice and I-don't-care demeanor. If I were one of those guys playing behind a legend, I'd be over the moon too, but then I'd be very bummed out about a sub-par and frankly scary performance of "Maggie's Farm." This "salute to acoustic music" (was that an electric keyboard?) was a mismatch and didn't play to Dylan's sans-guitar strengths well.
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NEW YORK (MainStreet) Carolyn Blackburn maintains cell phone service for herself, two college-aged sons and her new husband through Sprint. The Newport Beach, Calif. resident pays $325 a month to provide service for five iPhones.
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"I could save money if we went to AT&T, but my credit is marred from a divorce three years ago," Blackburn told MainStreet. "That's why I haven't switched."
When Blackburn signed on with Sprint in 2003, she had no debt problems.
"I am locked in, because Sprint only knows me as having wonderful credit," she said. "My new husband has good credit but we are keeping our money separate."
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Blackburn and her family are among the many Americans who have found happiness with their mobile devices through Sprint.
However, overall satisfaction is highest among AT&T customers followed by Sprint and T-Mobile with Verizon Wireless sliding into 4th place, according to a 2014 J.D. Power U.S. Wireless Smart phone Satisfaction Study."AT&T has a higher percentage of its customer base owning iPhones which tend to generate higher satisfaction scores," said Kirk Parsons, telecom services analyst with J.D. Power & Associates. "All carriers have competitive pricing but typically T-Mobile has the lowest monthly cost."
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Wagner Park in Wheatfield Twp. may become bigger if the township receives a state grant.
Township supervisors adopted a resolution at a March 26 public meeting stating their intentions to apply for a Community Conservation Partnerships Program grant through DNCR to buy 145 acres adjacent to the park's west side.
The 145 acres were appraised at $450,000, and the grant requires a 50-percent match from the township.
The land is being offered to the township by the Lawrence L. and Julie Z. Hoverter Charitable Foundation of Harrisburg. The land was owned by the Hoverters, who owned land across Central Pennsylvania. The board is trying to liquidate all land owned, as the two had no heirs.
Supervisor Barry Schrope said the township receives $3.93 of taxes, while the county receives $58 of taxes on the land.
Supervisor Bob Hines said the purchase "would be an investment in the future.'
"It's a chance of a lifetime," Supervisor Jim Fuller said.
A vast majority of residents supported the proposal.
"Being a member of the recreation board, I've seen first hand the increasing need for recreation in the community," said David Mills, parks and recreation board vice chairman.
Duncannon Sportsmen's Association President Carl Fox said support from the association was adopted "unanimously.'
"In talking to different municipalities to the south and east of Perry County ... their response is, 'Well, that's really a no-brainer. We would die for recreation space in our townships,"' Paul Finkenbinder said.
Resident Joe McNaughton Jr. was against the grant, saying he didn't see what couldn't be done with the land currently in the township's possession.
"The township should endeavor to do something that supports all residents and not simply a few," McNaughton said.
The township received several letters of recommendation, including letters from state Rep. Mark Keller and state Sen. Jake Corman.
"Open land and accessibility to open space and recreational areas is extremely important to the quality of life for the residents of the municipality," Corman wrote.
"Approval of grant monies to help fund the purchase will greatly enhance the community's park, not only for township residents, but also for visitors from the surrounding tri-county region," Keller wrote.
The township recently purchased a 69.5-acre tract for $50,000, and the other $50,000 was covered by the same grant the township currently is applying for.
It was the first addition to the park, secretary Vicki Jenkins said. The grant was applied for and approved last year.
Wagner Park currently sits on 133 acres. The original 64 acres was donated to the township by resident Mildred Wagner in 1991 and the park is named after her.


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WIMBLEDON, England — Thanks to a bit of advice from her big sister and a bunch of aces from her big serve, Serena Williams is back in the Wimbledon semifinals.
With two more victories, Williams will be holding a Grand Slam trophy for the first time in two years.
Williams smacked 13 aces at up to 120 mph and overpowered defending champion Petra Kvitova 6-3, 7-5 in the quarterfinals today. Beforehand, Williams' father and coach, Richard, asked his other title-winning daughter to relay some suggestions.
"I went and had Venus talk to her, because Venus can get (through) to Serena better than anyone in the world. So I told Venus, 'I'm not going to talk to her. You talk to her.' So Venus went and talked to her. When the match was over, I told her, 'Venus: Good coaching! Good coaching!"' Dad said after snapping photos of Serena's victory from his front-row perch in the guest box above a scoreboard.
"I wanted Serena to move her feet a little bit more and to not concentrate on what the girl's doing, but concentrate exactly on what she wished to do," he continued. "And that was the only message."
Consider it delivered.
On Thursday, Williams will play No. 2 Victoria Azarenka of Belarus, the reigning Australian Open champion, who defeated unseeded Tamira Paszek 6-3, 7-6 (4) under the roof at night to reach the Wimbledon semifinals for the second straight year.
The other semifinal will be No. 3 Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland against No. 8 Angelique Kerber of Germany.
On the men's side, the quarterfinals will be played on Wednesday. The matchup are: No. 1 Novak Djokovic vs. No. 31 Florian Mayer, No. 3 Roger Federer vs. Mikhail Youzhny, No. 4 Andy Murray vs. No. 7 David Ferrer, and No. 5 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga vs. No. 27 Philipp Kohlschreiber.
While defending champion Djokovic, six-time champion Federer and Youzhny got a chance to rest today, everyone else slogged through a start-stop-start-stop afternoon of rain delays with the temperature in the low 60s.
The last two American men in the draw were beaten: 10th-seeded Mardy Fish wasted the one-set lead he built before play was suspended Monday and lost to Tsonga 4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-4, 6-4, and 126th-ranked qualifier Brian Baker's surprising run ended against Kohlschreiber 6-1, 7-6 (4), 6-3.
Williams, 30, is bidding to become the first woman at least that age to win a major title since Martina Navratilova at Wimbledon in 1990. After battling health problems in recent years, she turned in her best performance of the tournament against her most difficult opponent.
After being stretched to 9-7 and 7-5 third sets against less-accomplished women in the two previous rounds, the No. 6-seeded Williams pounced on No. 4-seed Kvitova from the opening serve.
"You can't play a defending Wimbledon champion or Grand Slam champion and not elevate your game," said Williams, who produced 27 winners and only 10 unforced errors. "I had to weed out the riffraff and just get serious."
Within a week, Williams cut her feet on glass at a restaurant, leading to a series of health problems, including being hospitalized for clots in her lungs, then the removal of a pocket of blood under the skin on her stomach.
"No one tries to have ups and downs. Some things happen sometimes, and you have absolutely no control over it," said Williams, whose only first-round loss in 48 Grand Slam tournaments came at the French Open in late May. "So I think it's how you recover from that, and how you handle the downs even more than the ups can really (reveal your) character."


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Boys' basketball has tough week
The Mount Si Wildcats boys' basketball team struggled offensively Jan. 30 in a loss to Newport.
Matt Winter scored 19 points as the Knights successfully avenged their upset loss to the Wildcats Jan. 22 with a 61-42 victory. Richard Woodworth paced Newport with 12 points.
Tanner Riley had a strong night, scoring 18 points for Mount Si, but the team overall shot only 29 percent from the floor and was held to just three points in the entire third quarter.
Collin Bennett added 10 points to aid the Knights' effort. Newport's cause was also helped by strong rebounding; the Knights picked up a staggering 47 boards.
The Wildcats played very well last Friday at home against league-leading Issaquah, but a 13-0 Eagles run at the end of the first half changed the entire tone of the contest as Issaquah used that spurt to pull away and get the victory.
Bren Hobzek scored 21 points as the Eagles rolled 69-48. "We knew we would see a different Mount Si team than we faced earlier in the season and we've got to give them credit because they're getting better," said Issaquah coach Jeff Patrick, who added praise for his junior star. "Bren's our guy. He's our leading scorer and when we need a basket, he's a guy we look to to take the big shot for us and he did that tonight and thankfully, it was going in," Patrick said.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio — A man was shot in the chest late Wednesday night on the city's West Side.
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It may be early in the 2013 MLB season, but there are a number of clubs that should already be reaching for the panic button and pouncing on it as quickly as possible.
These are teams that were expected to compete for a postseason spot in 2013, but after slow starts, those chances of a playoff appearance have been put in jeopardy.
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A recently announced round of overnight closures to the Bayonne Bridge will help to facilitate improvements, but many local businesses and services that rely on the crossing will experience at least a minor inconvenience during the shutdown.
The closures are part of the "Raise the Roadway" project meant to allow larger, more modern ships access to the region's ports.
January and February will see closings Monday through Thursday from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m., and Fridays from midnight to 8 a.m. Eight full weekend closures are expected this year.
Laura Joyce, a sales associate at Paulanto Bakery, located at 387 Broadway, said that the sweet shop normally uses the bridge to make daily overnight deliveries to John F. Kennedy International Airport, but has had to to reroute their delivery drivers through the Holland Tunnel, adding time and expenses to an already costly endeavor.
"Of course we're going to work around it for our clients, but it is a bit of a nuisance," she said. The redirection not only adds roughly between an hour and an hour and a half to the round trip, but production must also start earlier to ensure enough time is left for transport.
Mark Borkowski, owner of Advanced Towing at 1163 Kennedy Blvd., said that even though it uses the bridge on average only once or twice a week to haul broken-down cars out of Staten Island or Brooklyn, those customers will ultimately face a heftier charge than they normally would.
"We don't use it so often. I guess we would have the same issue as the bakery," he said, "but essentially the cost is going to be passed onto the consumer."
Borkowski explained that because the company's bills are based on time spent and miles traveled, having to redirect drivers over the Goethals Bridge and up the Turnpike, drivers stuck in the wrong place at the wrong time will have to shell out more cash than during hours when the bridge is operational.
Even The Jersey Journal won't be a stranger to the closures' influence. Circulation Director Richard Gathen said that an extra 15 minutes will be added to the nightly trip to pick up the following days' copy of the newspaper, which is printed on Staten Island, affecting its timeliness in getting to store shelves.
"It's pretty significant in our line of work," he commented. "Speed to market is critical for us, so it's a big delay."
Gathen said that if the paper isn't available for crack-of-dawn purchases made by early morning commuters at 24-hour outlets such as 7-Eleven and Dunkin' Donuts, they could see a slight downturn.


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1. The Fake Tan, aka the `Soul Man`
Does anyone but us remember the 1986 movie `Soul Man` where whitey-white actor C. Thomas Howell takes a bunch of "bronzing" pills so he can pass as a black man and get a scholarship to Harvard? The film has many, many problems (racism, stupidity) but perhaps chief among them is how Howell`s skin more resembled the shade of Ernie from `Sesame Street` than anything close to African American.
Weirdly enough, this alien-cum-Muppet look was highly sought after in the aughts, when pale, natural skin became essentially banned from the red carpet and everyone from Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton to Christina Aguilera and Jessica Simpson strutted around with a sort of orangey tanorexic glow.
2. Excessive plastic surgery
Why, for the love of God, would an attractive young woman endure painful, expensive surgeries to make herself look like a waxy, duck-lipped cartoon? Beats the heck out of us, but that`s exactly what reality star Heidi Montag and thousands like her opted for in the aughts, creating expressionless faces and the kinds of bulbous bustlines we`d never seen before and, frankly, we never need to
3. This haircut
Kate Gosselin birthed eight children total, and, rather famously, six at one time. She endured a highly public and seemingly painful divorce, was vilified by the press for behavior she may or may not have indulged in on a popular dancing show, and has appeared on countless magazine covers for having a great body! Raising Kids! Etc! Still, she may always be best remembered for the follicular atrocity at left, a reverse-mullet haircut that terrifies us but became a massive craze in 2009.
4. The Snooki Pouf
When the `Jersey Shore` debuted last year, dozens of women`s magazines and fashion blogs were earnestly abuzz with just how to get Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi`s signature hairstylewith some even comparing the look to Sarah Palin`s more modest 2008 campaign `do.
How this happened is still beyond our understanding, though we`re happy to see that, in 2010, the look was relegated to where it belongs: The Halloween costume rack.
5. Drawn-On or Shaved Eyebrows
This Annette-Funicello-`50s beauty throwback got even thinner and less natural this time around, with naughtier, more sexualized celebs like Pam Anderson penciling them in and runway models (and `America`s Next Top Model` makeover recipients) wearing no eyebrows at all.
6. The Return of Crimping
Wavy hair went electrical-socket wild once again, when an unloved `80s styling technique returned with a vengeance in 2008, but (thankfully) flamed out just as fast.
7. All things black
Seen on everyone from Lady Gaga to runway models, Rachel Zoe, and your mom, ultra-dark lipstick and nail polish made a huge splash in the past few years, starting with deep, deep burgundy and moving quickly to jet-iest jet black.
Call us old-fashioned, but we could never get fully behind the look, which seems particularly harsh and unfeminine, especially as it went from edgy urban stylista to commonplace `Real Housewives."
We have to agree with Kanye West about this particular beauty trend. Last month he tweeted, "Please don`t let girls start wearing dark lipstick again. I just think girls need to know that guys don`t really like black lipstick."
Our question: Do girls like it either?
8. Shaving your head, on one side
This half-shaved haircut, or what we like to call, "army on the right, lady on the left" was found in some truly odd places in 2009, like on pretty singer`s Cassie`s head and the famous noggin of Carmen Electra. It`s kind of ugly, it lacks versatility, and worst of all, if you don`t like it, there`s nothing you can do to correct it, FOR MONTHS, save wearing a perma-hat.
. Sad lip liner
More than a new trend, or even a re-imagined old-trend, this is a look from the `90s that some women (like strippers and, sadly, at least until 2007, Kim Mathers) refused to let die. It involves drawing a thick outline of your lips with a dark pencil and then, doing nothing else, as if your mouth is a coloring book that`s never been colored in, or a two-dimensional cartoon awaiting CGI, or like you took an art class once but stopped going after you learned "tracing."
It`s a heinous technique, it ages the wearer, and no one should ever do this again in all of the land.
10. Hair extensions
African American women have supplemented their own hair for decades by weaving in sleek, natural-looking faux-hair piecesusually to quite beautiful-looking effects. Not so much for the white gals, especially the blondes, who, since around 2000, have used Rapunzel-length weaves that have been bleached to a hay-like consistency and look like mangled princess wigs that were once maintained by a group of toddlers. The worst perpetrator of this hair trend has to be Britney Spears, who has famously walked around, ill-groomed and with half of her extensions falling out.
Other terrible white-girl weaves of the past decade: Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Brooke Hogan, Amy Winehouse.
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SAUGATUCK, MI — "8 The Play", a stage drama written by Dustin Lance Black, will come to Saugatuck Center for the Arts for one show only, 4 p.m. Sept. 9.
Tickets are $35 and go on sale Wed., Aug. 1 at the Saugatuck Center for the Arts website, or by calling 269-857-2399.
The play is a dramatic reading of the California courtroom trial of Perry v. Schwarzenegger, which argued that the state's passing of Prop. 8 banning gay marriage was unconstitutional.
"8 The Play" famously debuted in Los Angeles in March, with stars George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Kevin Bacon, Jamie Lee Curtis, Martin Sheen, John C. Reilly and more, and was directed by Rob Reiner.
The Saugatuck version will feature, according to a press release, "a 21-member cast of local and national theatre professionals" and be directed by Kevin Stamm. A Q&A will follow the performance, and all proceeds will be donated to the American Federation for Equal Rights.
Black is the Oscar-winning screenwriter of "Milk" and the writer-director of "Virginia," which he filmed in the Holland area in 2009 with stars Jennifer Connelly and Ed Harris. He also narrated the 2010 documentary "8: The Mormon Proposition," which tackled the same topic, and has screened at the Waterfront Film Festival in Saugatuck.
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About Bach
Publication Year: 2008
Published by: University of Illinois Press
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Philipp Spitta, author of the monumental nineteenth-century biography Johann Sebastian Bach (Leipzig, 1873–1880), once explained his passion for his subject by pointing out that Bach was a composer "whose life and works have occupied a considerable portion of my own." Certainly Christoph Wolff could...
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A Master Teacher Revealed: Johann Pachelbel's Deutliche Anweisung
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For musicians of the Baroque Era, the ability to teach and attract students was essential to establishing their reputations, supplementing their incomes, and helping them to fulfill their myriad duties in church, city, or court positions. In Germany, the teaching tradition is well illustrated by Johann Pachelbel, whose...
From the House of Aaron to the House of Johann Sebastian: Old Testament Roots for the Bach Family Tree
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In 1735 Johann Sebastian Bach turned fifty. During the course of that year he drew up a family tree delineating six generations of male members of the Bach family and prepared an annotated family genealogy to accompany the family tree. In addition, at around the same time he began to assemble...
Combinatorial Modeling in the Chorus Movement of Cantata 24, Ein ungefarbt Gemute
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pp. 35-52
In recent decades, the pioneering work of Georg von Dadelsen and Alfred Dürr on the chronology of Bach's Leipzig cantata performances has led to a better understanding of Bach's compositional process, as well as the nature of his responsibilities as Cantor of St. Thomas. Bach began his regular duties on...
Choral Unison in J.S. Bach's Vocal Music
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pp. 53-60
One of the most striking textures in J.S. Bach's ensemble vocal music is unison choral writing, in which four (or more) parts join in singing the same melodic line. Passages scored this way (Table 1) stand out from their musical surroundings, and we might well ask why Bach turned to this...
You Say Sabachthani and I Say Asabthani: A St. Matthew Passion Puzzle
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pp. 61-67
The answer to the question of what Bach wrote is simple: Both his autograph for the work and a copy, made around 1756 by Johann Christoph Farlau, probably from Bach's composing score, clearly read asabthani. The librettist for Bach's St. Matthew Passion was Picander, pseudonym of...
Sein Segen fliesst daher wie ein Strom, BWV Anh. I 14: A Source for Parodied Arias in the B-Minor Mass?
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Based on the latest diplomatic source studies, all but perhaps two of the twenty-seven movements in Bach's B-Minor Mass can now be considered to be parodies, and virtually all of the nine arias fall into this category. So far, however, a concrete model has been pinpointed for only one of...
Johann Friedrich Schweinitz, "A Disciple of the Famous Herr Bach in Leipzig"
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Absent from Hans Löffler's groundbreaking compilation of Johann Sebastian Bach's students is the name of the Göttingen organist, university music director, and city cantor Johann Friedrich Schweinitz (1708–1780). Apparently Löffler had not encountered Georg Linnemann's earlier research...
Johann Christian Bach and the Church Symphony
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Among the members of the Bach family, Johann Christian (1735–1782) enjoyed the widest renown during the eighteenth century. Far more traveled than his father and brothers, he became the principal figure of a "Bach tradition" outside of Germany before the nineteenth century. This can...
Scribes, Engravers, and Notational Styles: The Final Disposition of Bach's Art of Fugue
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pp. 111-123
To my knowledge, the first detailed examination of the engraving in the original edition of J.S. Bach's Art of Fugue was carried out by a graduate seminar conducted by Christoph Wolff at Columbia University in 1971. On the basis of a detailed analysis of the engraving, a student...
Notes on J.S. Bach and Basso Continuo Realization
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In addition to these documents, there are short entries on continuo realization in the Clavierbüchlein für Anna Magdalena Bach: the "Einige höchstnöthige Regeln von General Basso" of Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach and "Einige Reguln vom General Bass" in the hand of Anna Magdalena herself. Although...
Music for "Cavaliers et Dames": Bach and the Repertoire of His Collegium Musicum
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As it is well known, Bach led the University Collegium Musicum ensemble in Leipzig from 1729 to 1737, and then once again from 1739 to at least 1741. During his tenure, the group performed once per week for two hours throughout the year: in summer on Wednesdays, from...
A Print of Clavierubung I from J.S. Bach's Personal Library
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Over the course of his long career in Leipzig, Johann Sebastian Bach saw seven editions of his works into print (Table 1). Each of these publications generated several hundred exemplars, most of which were sold to colleagues, friends, students, and the general public (often at the...
Carl Reinecke's Performance of Mozart's Larghetto and the Nineteenth-Century Practice of Quantitative Accentuation
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A performance-practice convention among classically trained musicians holds that metric accentuation in tonal and post-tonal Western music is qualitative rather than quantitative in nature. Accentuation of strong beats is clarified primarily by stress accents—dynamic inflection and articulation...
"Grand Miscellaneous Acts": Observations on Oratorio Performance in London after Haydn
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In the early weeks of Lent, 1814, the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden, London, presented a concert featuring Part I of The Creation, "composed by Dr. Haydn." It was followed by "Two Grand Miscellaneous Acts" consisting of arias and choruses by various composers. Although the choice of the word...
Back from B-A-C-H: Schumann's Symphony No. 2 in C Major
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For much of the year 1845, Robert Schumann was occupied with the composition of his Six Fugues on the Name B-A-C-H, op. 60. For some critics, this retrospective shift to a rigorous genre from the early eighteenth century seems symptomatic of a new pursuit of classicist control, one that marks...
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Page Count: 232
Publication Year: 2008
OCLC Number: 785781251
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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Cleveland's pending school layoffs are remarkable in scope and striking in detail.
Some teachers with more than 20 years' experience will lose their jobs in June because they never met the requirements for a "continuing contract," often referred to as tenure. Support units of nurses and social workers were weakened or obliterated.
The cuts touched special education, which encompasses a fourth of the district's 44,000 students and had seemed off-limits. Prominent coaches will be out as teachers, so their athletic roles are gone, too.
The school board voted Tuesday to lay off more than 700 teachers union members and 68 paraprofessionals, or aides. Teachers protested, but interim Chief Executive Officer Peter Raskind said he couldn't ignore a "stubborn set of facts," namely a $47.5 million deficit and shrinking enrollment.
District figures show more shuffling is in store for schools that went through makeovers this year to qualify for a federal reform grant. Five high schools on that list -- Collinwood, East Tech, Glenville, John F. Kennedy and Lincoln-West -- will lose staff, ranging from 12 to 28 per school.
Cuts will also jolt some so-called "innovation" schools where teachers are handpicked and test scores sparkle. For example, the Warner Girls Leadership Academy, an elementary school, will lose 11 staff; MC STEM High School will lose nine.
All 15 district social workers and 32 nurses, about half the total, face layoffs, said Pat Gunter, a nurse who survived. She sits on the board of the teachers union, which represents the social workers and nurses.
Previous Plain Dealer coverage
- Layoffs by school (pdf)
- Cleveland school board lays off 643 teachers, closes seven schools (April 5, 2011)
- Cleveland schoolteacher surprised by reaction to short film about students: Michael McIntyre's Tipoff (April 2, 2011)
- 650 teachers could be laid off, seven schools may close as district struggles to contain costs (March 22)
- School officials consider selling historic downtown headquarters (March 21)
- Local fiscal woes, tight state budget and no levy effort add up to a need for cuts and creativity: Editorial (March 20)
- More PD coverage of Cleveland schools
About 15 percent of Cleveland students are "medically fragile" and depend on the nurses for help that includes administering medication and suctioning tracheal tubes, Gunter said. Nurses cover up to three buildings, providing assistance that Gunter said the children require to remain in school.
Nurses also arrange for physicians and dentists to visit schools, bringing services needy parents can't afford on their own. Last school year, the nurses coordinated 30,000 such visits, Gunter said.
The social workers each handle up to 15 schools. Gunter said nurses summon them daily to intervene in cases of suspected abuse.
"We save lives, and we keep children in the classroom so they can be educated," Gunter said. "Sometimes they come to us sharing more than we ever want to know."
Washington, D.C.-based consultant David Osher works with the district on quelling violence and other impediments to learning. He said strengthened ties to community agencies will help after the layoffs but can't replace the nurses and social workers.
"Within a process of overall improvement, this is a step backwards," Osher said. "It's a significant loss. Things will have to be done to make up for that loss."
Head coaches on the layoff list include Lincoln-West football's Caldwell Washington, and Glenville boys basketball's Michael Holt.
Washington said three of his four assistants -- Dan Barnhart, Kyro Taylor and Joe Slusarz -- were also notified. Washington hopes the Wolverines will "find some way to carry on."
"I thought I'd be able to get one more year," said Washington, who has taught for 33 years, the past 29 in health and physical education at Carl and Louis Stokes Central Academy. "It was shocking, but the system is plain broke."
Holt has coached the Tarblooders for 10 years, leading them to a 165-42 record and four city championships, the most recent in 2007.
"I'm very, very disappointed," said Holt, who has been in the system 21 years and heads Glenville's physical education department. "I teach and help kids. It's about making a difference. Right now it looks glum, a sad day. It's become a money-crunching business."
For some, Cleveland school layoffs have turned into a ritual.
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"This isn't about backing any particular legislation, this is to identify people of faith to be advocates for reform and civil debate (Titus 3:1-2)," Hunter explained. "Moreover, people of faith have a moral responsibility to be a constructive part of making health care secure and affordable for all Americans."
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In what may be as pure an act of pandering as I can imagine, ESPN proves it has no sense of shame whatsoever.
9 responses to "A tale of two Florida quarterbacks…"
ESPN had to show Tebow highlights from his first game as a Bronco. ( 2 rushes for 2 yards)
I just threw up in my mouth.
This makes me feel uncomfortable.
Someone get Connor Nolte on the phone. I want to know if his interne duties at ESPN included keeping the votive candles around the Tebow shrine lit, or if the full-time staff does that on a volunteer basis.
Anyone catch the author of that article? None other than our "I'm not a Florida fan" Andrea Adelson.
Honestly it is mind-blowing to me that ESPN hired her.
Sadly, it is not all that surprising the the WWL would hire her. Why not, this is also the network that turns over it's airwaves to Chris Berman, Stuart Scott, Granny Holtz, Mark May, Craig James and produces such horrific programs as that shoutfest (can't recall the name of the show) featuring Jay Mariotti, Jackie McMullan, Woody Paige, et al or the equally dreadful Sports Reporters where we are assaulted with unctious douchebags like Lupica, Albom and Feinstien bloviating. Not to mention, they gave Jim Rome his own show….so….yeah not terribly surprising when you view their overall body of work.
You think the Tebow thing gets old try looking at the well Bosie State can still win it all and play for MNC meme. ESPN was trying like heck to rehab BSU's image as soon as the VT game was over. ASU beat Mich and the highlights were all over ESPN. JM beats VT and they show one play and mention it's an upset.
Tim can't tie Denard's shoelaces.
Thank goodness Rich Rod got him so Irwin or CPJ could not get him.
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DB2DD: Thanks so much for speaking with us, Susan, on this important topic. XML is such a pervasive technology. Can you explain why data management developers and DBAs need to be aware of what's happening with XML?
Susan: Data management developers need to be familiar with XML because XML is widely used as a notation for data exchange between computers. XML underpins Web Services and Grid Computing, which provide an infrastructure for computer systems and applications communication.
Increasingly, it is becoming desirable for:
- Data held in databases to be annotated and published as XML for data exchange.
- Database processing to be driven by incoming XML documents.
- XML document to be stored and searched.
DB2DD: I've noticed that XML people use the word "document" a lot. What is the specific meaning of that word in this context?
Susan: Basically, chunks of XML are called XML documents. Here is a sample XML document where name, last and first are element names (tag names) and salary and band are attribute names:
<personnelRec> <person salary="999000" band="A"> <name> <last>Austen</last> <first>Jane</first> </name> <email>email@example.com</email> </person> </personnelRec>
Notice how the tags are hierarchical. This a requirement for XML documents.
DB2DD:Can you explain why this relatively simple concept has become so popular?
Susan: Software running on diverse platforms and operating environments can produce data annotated as XML, which makes it easier for software running on the same or different systems to process the XML data without much planning. In addition, there are considerable bodies of general purpose software and tools that manipulate XML making it easier to develop XML-enabled applications. All these characteristics have made XML popular since it first became a candidate recommendation at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in 1998.
DB2DD: But if we consider the relational data case, why use XML? Why not exchange relational results between systems?
Susan: Two features make XML suitable for data exchange between computers that have not been introduced to each other before:
- The way characters are encoded in an XML document is defined within the XML itself through an encoding declaration. The encoding declaration tells the processing software the level of the XML specification that the document conforms to, and what encoding the document is in, ideally in Unicode.
- Additional constraints on the content of an XML document can be specified separately in either a:
- Document Type Definition (DTD)
- XML Schema (also an XML document)
DTDs and XML schemas can be placed locally or across the network, and can be found using the universal notation of URLs.
Software can process a piece of XML in accordance with the XML specification by consulting the encoding declaration in the XML document itself and optionally the appropriate DTDs or schemas, if rigorous checking or analysis is required. The processing software does not need to check with the XML producer.
Contrast this with relational result set processing: Only the database system that produces the result set knows the description of what has been produced, and it may be that the software processing the result set is not permitted to access the database system to make inquiries, for example when the database is owned by another company or organization. Increasingly, we see relational result sets being published as XML, with an accompanying schema, making it possible to process result sets independently of the producing database system. To make this easier, consortia are defining XML schemas for exchanging banking, insurance or medical information that is typically held in relational databases. You can find lists of such schemas at the OASIS consortium.
DB2DD: What are you saying? Are you implying that this is the end of relational databases?
Susan: No, indeed not. Rather, it is the beginning of integration between hierarchical data exchange formats and relational data storage formats. Relational databases have excellent characteristics for high performance processing through data independence after normalization, and a very advanced query language. XML lacks both these properties, although XML query languages will become available through SQL/XML and XQuery. Instead, XML has mechanisms to make it possible to interpret the content of an XML documents independently of its producer. You can think of XML documents being constructed from various hierarchical arrangements or views on relational data, and then being processed on another system with a completely different set of underlying normalized tables. Because your system can be driven by XML documents created by another system, perhaps in another company, you will sometimes want to store and search the XML documents you receive, as well as use the XML documents as a data input source for your system, hence the need for hierarchical and relational data integration.
DB2DD: You mentioned SQL/XML and Xquery. What are they?
Susan: These are topics of much interest to the data management community. SQL/XML consists of extensions being defined in the SQL language to support XML explicitly. One of the first steps in SQL/XML has been to map data types and names between XML and relational systems; for example, how to map between a relational column name and an XML element or attribute name. Mappings from relational tables to XML documents have also been defined. Another step has been to define SQL functions to annotate relational results from an SQL query as XML. The SQL/XML work is being done in the H2.3 subgroup of the SQL group (NCITS H2) of the US standards body. SQL/XML extensions appear in DB2 V8.1.
XQuery is a language being defined at the W3C to query XML directly and to return XML results. This is an exciting activity. It is not often that a major new query language is invented.
DB2DD: You mentioned Web services and Grid computing. What are they? How are they related to XML? Are they relevant to database systems?
Susan: Web services provide a way of defining a software interface (method names, input parameters, output parameters etc), called Web Services Definition Language (WSDL) standardized at the W3C. By examining WSDL, it is possible to deduce the request and reply messages that should flow across the network between clients and servers. For cross-language and platform inter-operability, WSDL messages are annotated as XML. Interoperability between diverse clients and a server that supports a particular WSDL interface is one of the goals of Web services. Further Web Services related standards are being developed, such as WS-Security at OASIS.
DB2® supports Web services making it possible to access DB2 data and stored procedures as Web services, by generating the appropriate WSDL in a straightforward way. It will also be possible for DB2 applications to act as Web services clients. You can read more about Web services support in DB2 in the DB2 Web Services zone on the DB2 Developer Domain.
Grid computing is about defining standard interfaces between systems software components, to do such things as make it possible for one computer to schedule work to run on another computer, or to access data from distributed sources using standardized interfaces. Grid computing interfaces are defined through WSDL and are being standardized through the Global Grid Forum (GGF). Web services based interfaces for files and databases are beginning to be defined at GGF in the Database Access and Integration Services Working Group (DAIS-WG). IBM is actively participating in GGF in the DAIS-WG. A paper presented in GGF5 is available at http://www.globalgridforum.org/Meetings/GGF5/pdf/dais/document2.pdf
Keep an eye on Grid computing - As you can see from the recent IBM splash about eBusiness on demand, IBM is working hard to make Grid computing more and more a business reality.
DB2DD: Obviously a key component for the success of XML is the fact that that there are many XML related standards but it is difficult to keep track of them. Since it has grown so fast, how does the standardization process work?
Susan: It's true that there are a number of consortia etc that are working on standardization because there is indeed so much work to do. Let's break the standards down into four categories as shown in Figure 1; it makes it much easier to think of them this way:
- First there are standards on which XML relies, such as Unicode and the URL notation.
- Next, there are standards for the basic definition and composition of XML. These standards make it possible to exchange XML across heterogeneous systems and applications, and to write basic XML applications. The standards include the XML specification (includes DTDs) itself and the XML schema specification, XML fragments, XInclude, etc.
- Next, there are standards that are the building blocks for XML data and systems. These are standards that help with constructing advanced XML applications and formats. These include XML transformation technologies (such as stylesheets through XSL, XSLT), query languages (such as SQL/XML and XQuery), and XML navigational interfaces (such as DOM).
- Next there are the standards to help build applications that communicate through XML notations across neworks in standard ways, such as Web services and Grid computing.
Figure 1. Some XML-related standards
DB2DD: Speaking of standards, we've heard about XML 1.1. What is it? Is it important?
Susan: Yes, XML 1.1 is important because it provides support for the latest version of Unicode and therefore XML 1.1 also includes support for a character that is used on z/OSTM systems to denote line endings in document (similar to line feed or carriage return characters). Until XML 1.1 is supported in XML parsers, z/OS users may find that some of their XML documents may be rejected as non-well formed or invalid, depending on where the character appears in their documents.
DB2DD: You've talked about how XML affects applications. How is the success of XML affecting data management systems, such as DB2?
Susan: The popularity of the XML notation as an exchange format is putting many requirements on database management systems, including:
- Storing and searching XML as more quantities of XML are being exchanged.
- Querying and updating XML as more quantities of XML are being stored.
- Transforming XML into other XML formats as many more ways of representing data as XML are being defined.
- Transforming XML into relational formats as XML is being used to drive many existing and new business applications.
- Transforming relational data into XML as more companies, systems and applications exchange data formatted as XML.
DB2DD: It sounds as if we should be talking to you about how these requirements may show up as changes to DB2.
Susan: I'd be happy to.
DB2DD: Are there any closing thoughts you'd like to add?
Susan: It is a wonderful time to be working in data management. There are so many new opportunities concerning data. Seize them!
All statements regarding IBM's future direction or intent are subject to change without notice, and represent goals and objectives only.
- W3C (The World Wide Web Consortium) at http://www.w3.org/
- IETF at http://www.ietf.org/
- OASIS Consortium at http://www.oasis-open.org/
- SQL Standards at http://www.ncits.org/tc_home/h2.htm
- XQuery at http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery/
- WSDL (Web Services Definition Language) at http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl
- GGF (Global Grid Forum) at http://www.gridforum.org/
- DAIS-WG at http://www.gridforum.org/6_DATA/dais.htm
- XML 1.1 at http://www.w3.org/TR/xml11/
- Tutorial using SQL/XML features: Efficient Ways to Publish Your DB2 Data as XML by Seeling Cheung
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