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1. Quote of the Week

Further to that point, in my mind you can have a database that is both relational and schema-less, in the sense that it is relational if the only thing in it is relations but it is schema-less if any data updating operation is allowed to change the number or degree etc of said relations, rather than that being reserved for so called data-definition operations. --LinkedIn.com

2. To Laugh or Cry?

Turning dirty data words into sweet talk

And an oldie, but goodie

Gardner to DBAs, BI Vendors Reinvent Yourselves

3. Online Debunkings

• The role of data modeling in the coming move to Big Data, massive parallelism, and the “cloud”
• The fine line between “informality” and “loss of intellectual rigor
• The impact of social media technologies on data modeling

4. Elsewhere

An old classic:

Unskilled and Unaware of It

and a related consequence

How Our Botched Understanding of Science Ruins Everything

5. And now for something completely different
"Enjoy":

John Oliver: Nuclear Weapons

Fascinating:

Freaky Physics Experiment May Prove Our Universe Is A Two-Dimensional Hologram

About the PostWest:

PA: Israelis Must Return to Their Countries of Origin

How about the Arabs in Palestine, most of of whom originate in immigrants from Arab countries attracted to Palestine by jobs created by Jewish development?

• Gaza Schoolchildren Traumatized by Sounds of Hamas Torture 
• More on child terrorists in Gaza
• 12-year old Gaza boy, playing resistance, dies digging a tunnel

If it's not Jews doing it, who cares. It's not so much care for Palestinians as it is hate of the Jews.
Any way, Nice people. Let's give them a state.

US Providing Indirect Military Aid to Hezbollah

Afghanistan and Iraq redux.

Go Easy on Iran So It Fights ISIS? That's Absurd

Indeed: Why should the US allow an enemy nuclear weapons, when fighting ISIS is Iran's own existential interest anyway? Let radical Shia and Sunni duel it out.

World Council of Churches Demands Israel Release Terrorists

Ah, yes, religion is the source of morality.

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Pls see the PAPERS page for the current version of the paper, when it becomes available.

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Housekeeping:

• Added a LINKS page to the top site menu, with links to items I deem worth reading. Added a few from my old site and new ones will be added as I come across them.
• Overhauled the FUNDAMENTALS list of sources at the right of the HOME page. It now includes links to the bibliographies of E. F. Codd, D. McGoveran, C. J. Date, H. Darwen and myself. 

1. Quote of the Week

The future in data modeling is Object Role Modeling (ORM).  It is a far superior way to approach data modeling (compared to any record-based methods such as relational) that avoids all the pitfalls of "Table Think" and the necessity of normalization. --LinkedIn.com

2. To Laugh or Cry?

Survey data model, what is the best approach?

3. Online Debunkings

Dr. Robin Bloor: Big Data is “nonsense”

4. Elsewhere

• On the foolishness of natural language programming
• UK's National Health Service Moves To NoSQL

5. And now for something completely different

Senator Challenges Zuckerberg

American patriot.

The Exorcisms of Anneliese Michel

Fascinating.

@The PostWest:

• Those Who Forget the Past ...
• The Price of Denial
• Qatar's Peace Makers
• Israeli Occupation? No, Arab!
• Obama’s plan is unreal for lack of military muscle
• The Undermining of Western Education
• What the Palestinians Really Want
• What Else is New?
• Who are the Palestinians
• Let's Give Them a State

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Weak Entities, Referential Constraints and the Conceptual-Logical Conflation