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1. Quote of the Week

"Legion is a Hadoop MapReduce tool that turns big, messy data sources into clean, normalized flat files ready for ingestion into relational tables in a data warehouse (e.g., Postgres COPY)." --GitHub.com

2. To Laugh or Cry?

• Everything you need to know about data modelling for document databases
• Data denormalization is broken
• When To Avoid JSONB In A PostgreSQL Schema

3. Of Interest

• A political pamphlet from the Middle Ages (E. W. Dijkstra Archive)
• Calculating Precision: Thoughts on Dijkstra’s Formal Methods

And now for something completely different

The PostWest (The future of the West is all behind it)

When you're frustrated by your own impotence with the real villains

• Syrian government, allies advance before U.N. council votes
• Russia vetoes UN resolution to 'save Aleppo'
• Putin scraps key nuclear disarmament deal with 'unfriendly' US
• Images show activity at North Korea satellite launch site
• The US State Department’s New Plan to Flood North Korea With ... Information 
• Philippine leader tells Obama 'go to hell', says can buy arms from Russia, China
• Saudi led-airstrike kills 82 in Yemen
• As Saudis bombed Yemen, U.S. worried about legal blowback
• More than 140 killed in airstrikes on Yemen funeral
• US paid ransom money to Iran to free Americans
• U.S., others agreed 'secret' exemptions for Iran
• Why China Won't Listen to the U.S. on the South China Sea
• Anger as fighting in Afghan city Kunduz forces people to flee 
  

do what everybody else does -- turn on the Joos:

• Obama’s settlement critique ‘an alibi’ for planned anti-Israel move
• White House strikes ‘Israel’ from Jerusalem dateline on Obama’s eulogy transcript 

because they're the only abuse target left without any associated price to pay. That's how it's been for thousands of years: not in our country and not in their country either.
Some superpower -- pathetic.

Pinch me of the week

Video of the week

The Video Obama Didn’t Want To Get Out

Book of the week (purchase via this link to support this site)

Oren, M., ALLY: MY JOURNEY ACROSS THE AMERICAN-ISRAELI DIVIDE