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Timber Ridge Lodge & Waterpark
By: Hayley Panagakis
Make sure conference attendees bring their swimsuits to family-friendly Timber Ridge Lodge & Waterpark. Less than a mile from its sister property, Grand Geneva Resort & Spa, the lodge is a hidden treasure nestled in the backwoods of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, making guests of all ages feel like kids again at Moose Mountain Falls, the property's 50,000-sq.-ft. indoor/outdoor waterpark.
Planners can buy out the 225-room lodge for exclusive use of the waterpark and the newly renovated 3,500-sq.-ft. Cascades Ballroom, which overflows into the lobby for prefunction space. One faith-based meeting accommodates its age-diverse group at the lodge each January by setting separate times for adults and children to use the waterpark, says Kevin Karau, general manager, noting that the hotel also converts the lobby and meeting rooms into game areas for children to play in when they aren't swimming.
Two on-site restaurants, Smokey's Bar-B-Que House and Hungry Moose Food Court, serve everything from barbecue ribs to fish tacos, which is "something that really surprises guests when they arrive," says Karau. While some guests may opt to spend downtime at the waterpark, braving two 30-ft. slides or floating along the lazy river, others can head to the nearby stables for horseback rides; play tennis or a round of golf on two nearby courses; explore the nature trail at Grand Geneva Resort; make new friends at the petting zoo; or venture into the city for a tour on one of the last functioning mail boats in the country. In the winter, groups can also go skiing or hop aboard festive sleigh rides.
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Lately, I have been exploring personalized learning as an approach to meeting all students' needs. Personalized learning "places the interests and abilities of learners at the center of their education experience. In personalized learning, educators develop environments in which students and teachers together build plans for learners to achieve both interest-based and standards-based goals" (Halverson et al, 2015). What I am finding is there is no "gold standard" for this approach. Maybe the concept is too big. Maybe personalized learning is too new. Maybe I haven't studied it enough!
Because I have a focus on literacy and leadership, I thought about what personalized learning might resemble in a reading and writing classroom, specifically. How is it different from what we might expect from a more traditional classroom? Below are the elements of personalized learning as outlined by Allison Zmuda, co-author of Learning Personalized: The Evolution of a Contemporary Classroom (Jossey-Bass, 2015): Time & Space; Assignments; Curriculum; Reporting; Feedback; Roles. Next are a smattering of ideas on how personalized learning might apply to the literacy block. If you have more suggestions, share them in the comments.
Time & Space
- Ensure that enough time is provided daily for authentic literacy experiences, especially independent reading and writing on topics of students' choice.
- Provide more modern furniture for students to engage in reading and writing. For models, check out a local library or an independent bookstore.
- Create natural locations in the classroom for students to share what they are reading and writing. Small tables and mounted counters with stools could work.
- Audit the instructional day to find more time to read and write, and jettison anything that is not at the same level of effectiveness.
- Position book shelves and writing materials so they invite students into reading and writing in authentic contexts, i.e. journaling, blogging, book reviews.
- Replace book reports with book reviews. Use digital tools such as Biblionasium for students to post book reviews for peers.
- Replace book logs with personal journals. Provide open-ended notebooks for students to write about what they are reading so they can share their thinking with peers the next school day (or keep their thoughts to themselves).
- Cancel the school's annual subscription to Accelerated Reader. There is no independently-conducted research that shows Accelerated Reader is an effective literacy program. See the What Works Clearinghouse report for more information.
- Reduce reading projects to the bare minimum with regard to how students are expected to respond to their reading.
- Implement book talks to replace some of the assessments previously questioned. We can gain more information about a student's understanding of a text through them sharing what they are reading verbally than from inauthentic assignments.
- Integrate reading, writing, speaking, and listening into all other curriculum renewal activities. Performance tasks are especially good opportunities to incorporate literacy.
- Make a list of and provide relevant authentic texts that capture the time period of a point in history.
- Curate a list of biographies about famous scientists that students might want to research for a written report.
- Craft big questions that lead students to pursue knowledge online, which will provide opportunities to critically read web-based resources.
- Incorporate writing into formative assessment points, such as constructed responses and personal reflections.
- Develop rubrics for writing genres with students, after a lot of immersion into authentic texts of the genre to be learned.
- Teach students how to self-assess writing at every stage of the process.
- Facilitate monitoring of reading goals through journaling, blogging, and published book reviews.
- Replace grades for reading and writing with frequent qualitative feedback.
- Utilize digital assessment tools such as FreshGrade to share student learning results in literacy with family members and colleagues.
- Utilize online writing tools such as Google Docs to facilitate feedback between classmates.
- Partner with other classrooms locally and/or globally to facilitate feedback between students.
- Provide anchor papers of past work for students to reference when striving to improve their writing.
- Meet with students regularly during independent reading and writing to affirm strengths and offer strategies for improvement.
- Teach students to end a draft of writing with questions they have about parts they are unsure about to guide feedback from the teacher or peers.
- Assign one student to be the class notetaker during a demonstration lesson for a reading or writing strategy.
- Rotate the role of classroom researcher to students. When questions come up during the literacy block, this student is tasked with finding an answer.
- Set up a website (Google Sites, Weebly) where students can publish their finished pieces of writing as authors.
- Designate one or more students to write a weekly newsletter, highlighting the happenings in the classroom. Share this out digitally and on paper with families.
- Put students in charge of the classroom library, after lots of modeling on how to organize the titles and display the covers.
As I completed this list, I realized that a lot of these literacy activities are what typically happens in the best classrooms for reading and writing. Is it reasonable to think that personalized learning naturally happens in an authentic literacy environment?

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Professor of Biology
Education --
AB Biology, William Jewell College
MS Biology, University of Michigan
PhD Zoology, University of Missouri
Appointments --
Professor, Biology Department, Baylor University
Adjunct Professor, Center for Tropical Research, Universidad Veracruzana
Fellow, The Institute of Ecological, Earth, and Environmental Sciences, Baylor Univ.
Description of Research:
As a limnologist, I am interested in many aspects of inland (fresh) water ecology. Limnology is primarily a basic ecosystem science– attempting to understand physical and chemical interactions with living things. With such understanding one can then appropriately address the many water resource problems faced by society. The broad question addressed by my lab is, what governs the biological productivity of aquatic ecosystems? We address this since both too little and too much production are of concern to water resource managers. Too much production; i.e. eutrophication, has provided the impetus for most of our research. The setting for this research has been lakes and reservoirs in the United States and lakes in tropical Mexico. Currently we are studying the plankton community structure of a tropical lake whose food-web base is a perennial near-monoculture of a cyanobacterium (blue-green algae) capable of toxin production. The research involves participation of undergraduate, graduate, and post-doctoral students from both the Unites States and Latin America as part of Baylor's long-time cooperative programs with Mexican universities.
Personnel Research Specialities - Phytoplankton production, bacterioplankton production, ecology of clay-rich lakes.
Microbial Ecology
Plankton Ecology
Selected Recent Publications
Christian, B. and O. Lind. 2006. Key issues concerning biolog use for aerobic and anaerobic freshwater bacterial community-level physiological profiling. Internat. Rev. Hydrobiol. 91: 257-268.
Christian, B. and O. Lind. 2007. Increased sediment-water interface bacteria [3H]-L-Serine uptake and biomass production in a eutrophic reservoir during summer stratification. Fundamental and Applied Limnology, Archiv für Hydrobiologie 168: 189-199.
López, C, L. Soto, L Dávalos-Lind and O. Lind. 2007. Summer dynamics of egg-ratio of the rotifer Keratella cochlearis (Gosse, 1851) in a eutrophic reservoir. Hydrobiologia 589: 175-185.
Moncayo Estrada, R. and O. Lind. 2007. The diet of Chirostoma lucius (Pisces: Atherinomorpha): Seasonal trophic spectrum and ontogeny of piscivory Southwestern Naturalist 52: 229-233.
Christian, B. and O. Lind. 2007. Multiple carbon substrate utilization by bacteria at the sediment-water interface: seasonal patterns in a stratified eutrophic reservoir. Hydrobiologia 586: 43-56.
Wolfe, J. and O. Lind. 2008. Influence of suspended clay on phosphorus uptake by periphyton. Hydrobiologia 610: 211-222.
López, C, L. Soto, L Dávalos-Lind and O. Lind. 2008. On the occurrence of Diaphanosoma fluviatile Hansen 1899 (Cladocera:Sisidae) in two reservoirs from central Texas, U. S. A. Southwestern Naturalist 53: 412-413.
Lind, O. 2009. Lakes of the Southwest. LakeLine 28: 20-22.
Filstrup, C, T. Scott, and O. Lind. 2009. Allochthonous organic matter supplements and sediment transport in a polymictic reservoir: elemental and isotopic evidence. Biogeochemistry 96: 87-100. DOI 10.1007/s10533-009-9346-4.
Moncayo, R. and O. Lind. In Press. Genetic diversity in a Chirostoma species flock. Copiea.
Moncayo, R. and O. Lind. In Press. Trophic partitioning of sympatric Silversides zooplanktivores in a tropical shallow lake: Fish morphometry and diet composition. Tropical Fish Biology.
Wolfe, J., O. Lind and D. Hoffman. In Press. A constant volume artificial stream for reducing variation in aquatic process measurements. Trans. Amer. Soc. Agricultural and Biological Engineering.
Wolfe, J. and O. Lind. In Press. Phosphorus uptake and turnover by periphyton in the presence of suspended clay. Limnology
Filstrup, C.T., J.T. Scott, J.D. White, and O.T. Lind. In-press. Sediment elemental and isotopic compositions record a polymictic reservoir's eutrophication. Lakes & Reservoirs: Research and Management.
Filstrup, C. and O. Lind. 2010. Sediment transport mechanisms influencing spatiotemporal resuspension patterns in a shallow, polymictic reservoir. Lake and Reservoir Management. 26: 85-94.
Moncayo-Estrada, R., O. Lind and C. Escalera-Gallardo. 2010. Trophic partitioning of sympatric zooplanktivorous Silverside in a tropical shallow lake: Fish morphometry and diet composition. Copeia 2010: 431-436.
López Hernández, M. M. G. Ramos Espinosa, M. G. Figueroa Torres, A. F. Macías y O. Lind. 2010. Efecto de agua tratada sobre la biomasa del perifiton de dos sitios del área lacustre de Xochimilco utilizando un microcosmos artificial. Sociedades Rurales, Produccion y Medio Ambiente. 10: 39-61.
Berry, J., A. Jaja, L. Davalos-Lind and O. Lind. 2011. Apparent bioaccumulation of cylindrospermopsin and "paralytic shellfish toxins" in finfish in Lake Catemaco (Veracruz, Mexico). Food Additives and Contaminants, Part A.. 10: 39-61.
Moncayo-Estrada, R., C. Esclera and O. Lind. In Press. Trophic interactions among sympatric zooplanktivorous fish in volume change conditions in a large, shallow, tropical lake. Neotropical Ichthyology.
Moncayo-Estrada, R., C. Esclera and O. Lind. In Press. Spatial patterns of zooplanktivore Chirostoma species during water-level fluctuation in the shallow tropical Lake Chapala, Mexico: seasonal and interannual analysis. Neotropical Ichthyology.
Moncayo-Estrada, R. and O. Lind. In Press. Genetic diversity in a Chirostoma species flock. Copiea.
Moncayo-Estrada, R. and O. Lind. In Press. Long-term change in the biotic integrity of a shallow tropical lake: A decadal analysis of the Lake Chapala fish community. Lake and Reservoir Management.
Honors and Recognitions:
Distinguished Texas Scientist, Texas Academy of Science
Outstanding Scholar, Baylor University
Outstanding Mentor, Council of Southern Graduate Schools


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Notable press on Gran Elefandret (2008) by Miquel Barceló
The monumental sculpture Gran Elefandret, 2008, by renowned artist Miquel Barceló will be on view at the Union Square Triangle through the end of May 2012. Since its debut on September 13th, the inverted pachyderm has been warmly received by New Yorkers. Please see below for selected press items on Gran Elefandret.
Gran Elefandret on Bomb Magazine's blog.
Gran Elefandret on WNYC's Culture page.
Gran Elefandret on The Wall Street Journal's Photo Journal.
Gran Elefandret on Bloomberg's New York Weekend.
Gran Elefandret on New York One.
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Genesee River
|Genesee River (Čunehstí•yu•[1])
Genesee River near Belmont
|New York, Pennsylvania
Counties &
|(see Navbox, below)
|Rochester, NY
|- location
|Ulysses Township, Potter County, Pennsylvania
|- elevation
|2,240 ft (683 m)
|- coordinates
|Secondary source
|Eastern Triple Divide [2]
|- location
|near Gold, Potter County, Pennsylvania
|- elevation
|2,320 ft (707 m)
|- coordinates
|Lake Ontario
|- location
|Charlotte, Rochester, Monroe County, New York
|- elevation
|256 ft (78 m)
|- coordinates
|157 mi (253 km)
|2,500 sq mi (6,475 km2)
|for Lake Ontario
|- average
|4,430 cu ft/s (125 m3/s)
|Discharge elsewhere (average)
|- Portageville, NY
|2,720 cu ft/s (77 m3/s)
The Genesee River is a tributary of Lake Ontario flowing northward through the Twin Tiers of Pennsylvania and New York in the United States.
The river provided the original power for the Rochester area's 19th century mills and still provides hydroelectric power for downtown Rochester.
- Geology 1
History 2
- Floods 2.1
- Literature 3
- Gallery 4
- Crossings 5
- See also 6
- References 7
- External links 8
The Genesee is the remaining western branch of a preglacial system, with rock layers tilted an average of 40 feet (12 m) per mile. It begins in the Allegheny Plateau conglomerate, sandstone, and shale rocks of the Mississippian and Pennsylvanian subperiods. The river also often exposes older rocks such as shales (some rich in hydrocarbons), siltstones and some limestones of the Devonian period at Letchworth and, at a canyon with three more Niagara Escarpment waterfalls at Rochester, limestones and shales of Silurian age.
During the past million years there were four glacial ages that covered the Rochester area with ice and impacted the geography of the area. The most recent glacier that left evidence here was about 100,000 years ago and it caused compression of the earth by as much as 2,500 feet (760 m).[3] About 12,000 years ago, the area underwent massive changes, which included the rerouting of the Genesee and other water bodies. The preglacial eastern branch of the Genesee runs south of Mount Morris and was completely diverted by extensive terminal moraines just south of Dansville, so most of the upper section was diverted toward the Susquehanna River system. Now only a small creek flows in what is left of this large valley. The area of the lower river was also affected. Since the earth rebounded from the melting glaciers more rapidly in Canada than in New York, water from Lake Ontario was spilled over New York due to its lower elevation. During this time, the original outlet of the Genesee River, Irondequoit Bay, was flooded out, creating the current bay. As these waters later retreated, glacial debris caused the river to be rerouted to the west along its current path.[4]
The Seneca nation traditionally lived between the Genesee River and Canandaigua Lake. The region was surveyed by Thomas Davies in 1766. The High Falls was then also known as the Great Seneca Falls, and the Genesee river was also spelled Zinochsaa by early writers.[5]
If "not for hydropower, the flour mills, clothing mills, and tool fabricators would not have located in Rochester",[6] and the 1825 Erie Canal allowed the mills to ship products to New York City. A few hundred feet north of the center of the village of Rochester, the Erie Canal crossed the Genesee River via an 1823 stone aqueduct (802 feet (244 m) long, 17 feet (5.2 m) wide), which was replaced by the 1842 Erie Canal: Second Genesee Aqueduct.
Most of New York west of the Genesee River was part of the Holland Purchase after the American Revolution. The river demarcates the "Genesee Country" of New York to the west and the Finger Lakes geographic region to the east.
On Friday, November 13, 1829 (Friday the 13th), the daredevil Sam Patch jumped to his death before 8,000 spectators at the Upper Falls in Rochester.
In 1836 the Native American portage route, which necessitated many locks. These old locks can still be seen near Nunda. The project was abandoned and the right of way was sold in 1880. The property became the roadbed for the Genesee Valley Canal Railroad, which eventually merged with the Pennsylvania Railroad. Much of the canal and railroad right-of-way is open to the public today as the Genesee Valley Greenway, which was started in 1991.
In 1852 a wooden railroad bridge was built over the Upper Falls at Portageville. It was the largest of all wooden bridges built at the time. The wood from 300 acres (1.2 km²) of trees was required for its timber. In the "summer of 1943", Arch Merrill walked the length of the Genesee River.[7]
A March 1865 thaw was the worst Genesee flood in Rochester history, and a similar 1913 flood motivated the excavation of the Genesee's rock bed in Downtown Rochester. The 1972 Hurricane Agnes flood broke all county historical records, with the most concentrated damage in the Wellsville area.[8][9] The water from Hurricane Agnes caused the only instance where the river's flow exceeded the storage capacity of the reservoir of the Mount Morris Dam, the largest flood control dam east of the Mississippi, and water had to be released from the dam to prevent overtopping of the spillway.
The Genesee has been the subject of books and poetry.
- By the Genesee: Rhymes and Verses by Thomas Thackeray Swinburne (1900)
- A River Ramble: Saga of the Genesee Valley by Arch Merrill (1943). A walk along the Genesee from its source to its mouth
- Genesee Fever by Carl Carmer. Novel about the early settlement of the Genesee Valley (1941)
- The Genesee by Henry W. Clune, part of the Rivers of America Series (1963)
- Valley of the Genesee: A Poem by Charles Edwin Furman (1879)
A View of the Casconchiagon or Great Seneca Falls, Lake Ontario, taken 1766 by Thomas Davies
The High Falls in downtown Rochester
The Middle Falls in Letchworth State Park
See also
^ Peck, William (1908). History of Rochester and Monroe county, New York. The Pioneer publishing company. p. 15. Retrieved 2009-04-04.
NOTE: Čunehstí•yu• is from the Seneca tribe name Chin-u-shio (Tuscarora language) meaning a beautiful open valley.
- ^ Blackwell, Jeffrey (July 21, 2009). "River's source up for debate in Pa. farmland". Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, New York: Gannett Company). pp. 1B,4B. Retrieved 25 July 2009.
- ^ "Geology: 100,000 years ago". Rochester's History: An Illustrated Timeline. Retrieved 2008-07-11.
- ^ "Geology: 12,000 years ago". Rochester's History: An Illustrated Timeline. Retrieved 2008-07-11.
- ^ Supplement to Dobson's Encyclopedia volume 3, which cites Jedidiah Morse as its source, probably the American Gazetteer, 1795
- ^ Baily, Rod (July and October 1984). "Sources of Energy in Rochester's History" (PDF). Rochester History (Rochester Public Library) XLVI (3-4).
- (see also: "Rediscovering the Rambling River". Democrat and Chronicle.)
- ^ "HURRICANE AGNES and the GENESEE RIVER FLOODING".
- ^ "The great flood of 1972".
External links
- "Genesee, a river of western New York".
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- Coordinates not on Wikidata
- Geobox usage tracking for river type
- WorldHeritage articles needing clarification from December 2009
- All articles with unsourced statements
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- CS1 errors: dates
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- Genesee River
- Rivers of New York
- Rivers of Pennsylvania
- Bodies of water in Potter County, Pennsylvania
- Landforms of Monroe County, New York
- Landforms of Wyoming County, New York
- Landforms of Allegany County, New York
- Landforms of Livingston County, New York


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Ordination - Evidence from the New Testament - 1 Timothy 5:22 - Part 5 of many
While lacking any terminology referring to the appointing/calling/choosing of elders, this passage is often assumed to refer to elder commissioning. The understanding of commissioning derives from the assumptions made about the other two passages in the personal letters of Paul containing laying on of hands terminology (as will be seen below), combined with the general use of the laying on of hands terminology (as seen in the discussion above). The context of the passage seems to indicate that the people being commissioned are elders.[1] Whether this passage refers to the commissioning of elders in general or to the commissioning of replacement elders in particular cannot be ascertained by the text.[2] Towner further comments that the second person singular of epitithēmi "envisions Timothy as taking the lead in the procedures (though it is not necessary to rule out participation by others in leadership)."[3] The personal note of the letter does diminish the certainty of this conclusion, though, and there is nothing in this passage that warrants the limiting of participation to only the leadership. Regardless of who is performing the commissioning, the text does furnish another important insight into the laying on of hands. This laying on of hands must not be done "hastily" for it might result in sharing "in other people's sins." [4] We do not see here a pouring of one's personality into the person on whom one is laying his hands (contrary to some of the understanding of Daube's samakh concept), but the reverse process might be seen where the sin of the one receiving the imposition of hands affects the one imposing his hands. This could point to a pattern of "creating a representative or substitute," for the sin of a representative reflects on the one he represents. Again, this passage does not deal with transference or impartation of authority.
[1] Verses 17-20 clearly refer to elders, and since the consensus from commentators is that v. 21 refers to vv. 19-20, and not to the whole chapter, it logically follows that v. 22 has to continue the train of thought about elders. See Philip H. Towner, The Letters to Timothy and Titus, NICNT (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006), 372; William D. Mounce, Pastoral Epistles, Word Biblical Commentary, vol. 46 (Nashville: Nelson, 2000), 316; and George W. Knight III, The Pastoral Epistles, NIGTC (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1992), 237. The fact that the concept of sin flows throughout this entire section (vv. 20, 22, 24) also serves to confirm this tie.
[2] It does seem unlikely that this passage refers "to the later church ritual of reinstating a penitent sinner" (Mounce, Pastoral Epistles, 317; see also Towner, The Letters to Timothy and Titus, 374n72).
[3] Towner, The Letters to Timothy and Titus, 374. One has to wonder if Towner's limiting the action of laying on of hands to the leadership is anachronistic or due to his perceived understanding of 1 Tim 4:14.
[4] For this causal interpretation, see the discussion on μηδὲ in Mounce, Pastoral Epistles, 317-18 or Towner, The Letters to Timothy and Titus, 374n73.


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by Fabian Pascal and Erwin SmoutREVISED: 10/19/16
Confusion of levels of representation is one of the most common and entrenched fallacies in data management [1]. We have written and spoken frequently about "denormalization for performance" [2,3,4,5,6] rooted in logical-physical confusion (LPC), but there is another fallacy, caused by conceptual-logical conflation (CLC). There is even less awareness of the CLC than of the LPC.
- We distinguish between normalization (to 1NF) and further normalization (beyond 1NF up to 5NF), which are qualitatively different. When we mean the latter, we spell it out.
- For the purposes of this discussion we exclude recently proposed normal forms higher than 5NF, which are targeted at specific narrow circumstances and have not yet attained general consensus. If and when we refer to 'full normalization' we mean 5NF.
- We deliberately overlook the distinction between BCNF and 5NF, because cases where there actually is a distinction are fairly rare in practice and it does not materially affect our argument.
"The primary purpose of normalization in a logical entity-relationship model is to identify a single point of definition (or a single point of update for the ACID-oriented modellers) for any given data-item (or groups of data-items in the higher normal forms). Unfortunately just about all discussions of "normal forms" are very simplistic and nearly all the examples of the "normalization process" deal with very simple examples focussed on the values assigned to data-items rather than the purpose of the data-item itself." --When was the last time you were able to build a relational model without a non-DB person insisting on the 'need' for denormalizing?An enterprise-specific entity-relationship model (ERM) is at the conceptual level (about the real world). As defined by Codd and others, normal forms of relations are at the logical level (database representation). "Logical ERM" conflates the two levels. CLC is a frequent factor in poor database design: normal forms are not "in a E/RM", but in a logical model.
Note: The comment offers a very unusual formulation of the objective of full normalization that very few would recognize as a result of redundancy elimination (we did not). With a considerable slack in the interpretation of terms, it goes like this: "Without redundancy, every data item appears only once in the logical structure and, thus, provides its own "unique single point" to which updates must be applied ("ACID modelers" is an equally odd term and we would not use it in this context)." We also pondered the meaning of "focused on the values assigned to data-items rather than the purpose of the data-item itself." Full normalization applies to relations, not the attribute values within a relation.
First, the fundamentals:
- A relation is normalized (in 1NF) if all its attributes are defined on simple domains without meaningful components, whose values are treated atomically by the data language;
- A relation is fully normalized (in 5NF) if all dependencies that hold in it are join dependencies (FD) of the non-key attributes on the key (informally, this means that the relation represents facts about a single type of entities).
- A relation that is in 2NF-4NF (i.e., represents facts about entities of multiple types) can be further normalized by replacing it with its 5NF projections that represent facts of a single type each, without loss of information.
- 3NF-5NF relations can be denormalized down to 2NF form by replacing them with their joins. [2] without loss of information.
- Relations in 1NF can be denormalized by introducing non-simple attributes (e.g., defined on relation valued domains with meaningful components) with values treated as non-atomic by the data language).
"A particular bug-bear and a mistake that +90% of "data modelers" make, is analyzing "point in time" views of the business data and "normalizing" those values hence failing to consider change over time and the need to reproduce historic viewpoints. Let's say we start with this list of data-items for a Sales-Invoice (completely omitting details of what's been sold):To ascertain the normal form a relation (pictured by a R-table) is in, we must know the attribute dependencies that hold in it, which reflect property dependencies in the real world. They are specified by one of the business rules comprising the conceptual model -- that is represented by an integrity constraint in the database. But we are asked to detect a normalization mistake -- a violation of 5NF -- in the absence of both the rule and the constraint (i.e., to infer/assume/guess the dependencies based solely on the column names). Hence Erwin's response:
SALES-INVOICENearly every time, through the blind application of [full] normalization we get this (you'll need to draw the diagram to get the picture):
Customer Name,
REFERENCES Customer-Account,
Invoice-Address REFERENCES Address
"Your example has nothing to do with full normalization. To the extent that any "mistake" has been made, it's probably the failure to recognize that "address line as it was at the time of placing the order" is not necessarily the same as "address line as it is currently known right now, 10 years later". You might be interested to know that there are database design schemes that address this problem--correctly--without "denormalizing the details back into the invoice".that evoked the following reply:
"If it's not a mistake then why do so many "data modellers" make that mistake? I've lost count of the times that someone, when converting my information mode into a database schema, has done that type of conversion "to normalize the data" and then I have to argue with them to explain the error of their ways whilst they accuse me of "denormalizing" their data. There's even a term for it – it's called "over-normalization"."The database field is riddled through with misconceptions and errors due to poor grasp of data fundamentals, CLC being one of their consequences. "Overnormalization" is a label attached to all sorts of poor logical designs that have nothing to do with normalization/further normalization. Failure to spell out the conceptual model (business rules) and starting with logical database design (including confusing tables with relations) is certain recipe for poor design and all its costly implications.
In the real world the dependency that holds is not
{customer} -> {address line}but
{customer, invoice date} -> {address line}Had the correct dependency in the conceptual model been spelled out, it would have been clear that the single relation is not denormalized. But if we are given either of the two relations and asked in what normal form it is in without the dependencies, it is impossible to say with any certainty.
Note: Incidentally, "blind application of normalization" would not have left NET_AMOUNT, VAT and TOTAL_AMOUNT in the SALES_INVOICE relation, because of the real world dependency
{net-amount, vat} -> {total-amount}(unless VAT denotes a percentage and not an amount, which we are not told either). If this dependency is taken into account, then TOTAL_AMOUNT should be separated into its own relation with {NET_AMOUNT,VAT} as key. However, such a base relation would violate the Principle of Representational Minimality (PORM) [7] because it is redundant: it can be derived from the other base relations. If the calculated attribute is left in SALES_INVOICE, an integrity constraint must be enforced to guarantee that at all times
NET_AMOUNT + VAT = TOTAL_AMOUNTIn conclusion:
- Distortions or misuse of normalization/further normalization should not be confused with the real thing. Often normalization terminology is applied to unrelated design aspects (e.g. designs that avoid missing data, include calculated data or aggregation, or represent entity supertype-subtypes). "Overnormalization" is a misleading term used for any poor logical design.
- Full normalization alone is not sufficient to achieve designs devoid of drawbacks. For example, "details of historical customer data moved into invoice tables" is not inconsistent with 5NF, yet is bad design.
- Property dependencies are axioms about the real world, represented in the database by attribute dependencies expressed as integrity constraints. Normalization theory is logical design reasoning based on those axioms (e.g., identification of the key, assessing the normal form of a relation). Different dependencies identify different keys and normal forms. Applying normalization/further normalization without spelling out property dependencies specified in the conceptual model is like reasoning without axioms: any conclusion is possible.
- Guessing normal forms by inspecting R-tables that picture relations, based on just column names is a fool's errand (which can be tricky even with simple relations) [7]. It is practically impossible with realistically complex relations, particularly beyond BCNF.
- With knowledge of data and relational fundamentals, a well defined, complete and documented conceptual model and adherence to the Principle of Full Normalization (POFN) should implicitly yield a 5NF database. Explicit normalization/further normalization is necessary only for repair of designs that did not adhere to the POFN.
- Practitioners may be aware of one -- redundancy -- but not all of the drawbacks of denormalization [6]. What is more, few realize that the specific type of redundancy introduced only by further normalization (normalization does not cause redundancy!) must be controlled by the DBMS to ensure database consistency, via enforcement of special integrity constraints; do not know how to formulate them (if they are supported by SQL). Unfortunately, if they added these constraints -- a serious development burden -- it would all be for naught, because they would execute the very joins denormalization is intended to avoid [2].
[1] Pascal, F., THE DBDEBUNK GUIDE TO MISCONCEPTIONS OF DATA FUNDAMENTALS.
[2] Pascal, F., The Costly Illusion: Normalization, Integrity and Performance.
[3] Pascal, F., Normalization, Further Normalization, Ease of Use, Integrity and Performance.
[4] Pascal, F., Tables, Full Normalization and Business Rules.
[5] Pascal, F., Denormalization for Performance: Don't Blame the Relational Model.
[6] Pascal, F., The Costly Illusion of Denormalization for Performance, forthcoming, All Analytics.
[7] McGoveran, D., LOGIC FOR SERIOUS DATABASE FOLKS, forthcoming (draft chapters).


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Key Events In The Week Ahead
by Zero Hedge - October 23rd, 2011 11:32 pm
Courtesy of ZeroHedge. View original post here.
Submitted by Tyler Durden.
You mean, aside from the relentless headline barrage? Why yes, in a vivid reminder of what used to happen when actual fact-based events mattered, here is a complete summary of the key events in the coming week.
From Goldman Sachs:
Last week was a week of consolidation after the short-covering rally in the two previous weeks. Range-bound price action dominated across asset classes as investors were being kept busy following the European news, while macro data continued to stabilise at low levels.
In the week ahead, this pattern of stabilising macro data and Eurozone policy meetings will continue. Of course, the focus is on the EU summit on Wednesday, though expectations are not particularly high after weeks of continued negotiations and repeat summits. After the latest meetings this weekend, the details on bank recapitalisation, PSI involvement in the Greek bailout and a leverage scheme for the EFSF remain vague. While Eurozone leaders continue their debate, the week will also deliver a batch of interesting macro data in the Eurozone. Starting with the preliminary Eurozone PMI, we also get German consumer confidence and CPI data. Italy publishes consumer confidence as well and retail sales. Finally, Italy will try to issue EUR5-6bn in bonds on Thursday and Friday, possibly the first serious test of market confidence after the Summit on Wednesday.
The potential for a substantial Dollar sell-off and notable Euro rally is clearly there. Positioning data suggests continued stretched Dollar shorts against pretty much any currency, including the Euro. A quick and convincing solution to the Eurozone crisis could therefore lead to a sharp reduction in the Eurozone risk premium. Having said this, uncertainty remains high and our base case is for "muddling through" rather than a quick and convincing Eurozone solution. Last week's modest strengthening of the CHF and the JPY may have been a warning sign that currency markets also remain skeptical. It may therefore take a bit longer before the September risk aversion moves can be unwound further.
Beyond the focus on the Eurozone, there are a number of central bank meetings this week (HUF, CAD, NZD, SEK, JPY, INR, ILS, RUB), with only the RBI expected to tighten monetary policy in India, as inflation pressures remain high.
Finally, in the US, third-quarter GDP and durable goods orders will likely be…
Hi, My Name Is Europe…And This Is What Happens When My 12-Step Program Fails
by Zero Hedge - October 23rd, 2011 9:42 pm
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Submitted by Tyler Durden.
Unaccustomed as we are to discussing the American Psychological Association's 12-Steps to recovery, Credit Suisse have produced a clarifying reduced set that enables us to better judge the road being taken by the heterogeneous set of deaf-dumb-and-blind monkeys currently 'solving' the European addiction issues. The critical underpinning, that we have tirelessly brought to the public's attention, is a fear that the illustrious leadership of our world are not even grappling with the real issues. CS tries to answer the following deeper questions: Are we recognizing the cost that is coming to the core, multiplying as we wait? Are we building credibility and starting to stem this overwhelming tide, or are we pretending, taking the target of our addiction from whatever source we can find it (latest target: the IMF) in the interests of a brief respite?
Policymakers, led by Chancellor Merkel, have started to recognize the existence and nature of the problem. We are irresistibly reminded of the steps towards recovery from addiction; the addiction in question being the par pretense and curing debt with debt.
Chancellor Merkel said last week, "The summit won't be the final point where we regain the confidence of others, but it will be a stepping stone, a marker on the road. All of the sins of omission and commission of the past cannot be undone by waving a magic wand."
This reduced set of 'steps' is required for investors to be confident that leadership are moving forward positively as opposed to hiding their stash in a top cupboard for later – or addressing the wrong issues.
Steps 0 to 2 seem most critical for now with Credit Suisse pointing to the following for Step 1:
…an acid test for any discussions, and the reason we expect disappointment, is whether the proposals:
1) Seek to cure debt with debt / confuse the markets into seeing solvency created for free / maintain the bezzle / damage credibility; or
2) The opposite and provide a visible mechanism for bringing costs of the order of a large fraction of a trillion euro or more to the core.
And Step 2 – acceptance that the market can help – is also very…
WSJ Economists' Q3 GDP Forecasts: 2.1 in Q3 and 2.0 in Q4
by Chart School - October 23rd, 2011 9:35 pm
Courtesy of Doug Short.
One of the big economic announcements in the week ahead will be the Advance Estimate for Q3 GDP, published on Thursday, the 27th, at 8:30 AM EST by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The final number for Q2 GDP was 1.3%. Economists in general are optimistic that Q3 will show an improvement in this broad measure of the economy. According to Briefing.com, the consensus for Q3 is 2.2%, which is a bit more optimistic than Briefing.com's own estimate of 2.0%.
But what sort of distribution of opinions do we find among the economists? Is the range of opinions wide or narrow? Let's review the data in the Wall Street Journal's October survey of economists, which is available in Excel format here. Fifty of the 56 economists solicited for survey responded. The chart below arranges the Q3 GDP forecasts horizontally from low-to-high to give us a clear idea of the distribution of responses and any outliers.
As the chart suggests, the majority of professionals fall into a fairly narrow range around the 2.1 mean (standard deviation of 0.56).
What do the economists see for Q4? The median and the mean are fractionally lower, but the range is considerably wider with a definite outlier at the bottom and a pair of outliers at the top.
We'll find out later in the week how close the WSJ survey Q3 GDP consensus is to the Advance Estimate.
Watch Merkozy Cracking Up Following Question If Italy Can Implement Reforms
by Zero Hedge - October 23rd, 2011 7:52 pm
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Submitted by Tyler Durden.
Even our non-polyglot readers will have zero problems understanding the response (in French) by Merkozy, when asked during the press conference, whether Italy, which has the second largest debt load in Europe at $2.2 trillion and inches behind German, will succeed in implementing promised 'reforms.' The wholesale laughter 19 seconds in the the clip, by not only the entire audience, but by Merkel and Sarkozy pretty much explains what the "next steps" in Europe are as the continent has now given up any pretense it is even trying to keep a serious facade on the upcoming serial defaults… and why 10 Year BTPs will need much more than just the SMP, EFSF and the hand of god to stay above 90 in the coming week.
Source: La Repubblica
As for the question of why Italy provokes laughter, we are not too sure. After all, as Italy goes, so does the world.
As a reminder…
- Morgan Stanley estimates net issuance should total 35 billion euros per year in 2012-2013, less than expect annual coupon payments of around €45 billion per year
- A total of €157 billion in Italian government paper will fall due by the end of the year. Redemptions will peak in September, when €46 billion of BTP CTX bonds mature
- Italy has raised €277.4 billion euros in debt so far in 2011, or 65.3% of its full-year target, the Treasury said – suggesting further issuance of €147.4 billion, according to Reuters calculations
- Italy's public debt stood at €1,890 billion at the end of April, according to Bank of Italy figures. The public debt figure includes postal savings
- Italian government bonds and short-term bills totaled €1,583 billion at the end of June according to Italian Treasury data. Their average term was 7.09 years
- A one percentage point increase in Italy's debt yields adds about €3 billion euros to interest payments in the first year, and twice that in the second, the Bank of Italy has said
- Italy forecast in April that 2011 debt servicing costs would total 4.8% of GDP, or about €77 billion
- The International Monetary Fund estimated in April that 47% of Italian 2010 government debt was held abroad. Morgan Stanley last week estimated foreign holdings at 44%
- Banks domiciled in Italy held €192
Weekly Market Commentary: Bulls Maintain Control
by Chart School - October 23rd, 2011 5:55 pm
Courtesy of Declan Fallon
The Russell 2000 continued its advance towards 760 resistance with technicals improving and a long way from overbought territory. Plenty of room for upside.
The Dow enjoyed a stronger accumulation as technicals finished the week net bullish. However, it was an index which finished on 'bear flag' resistance, so despite the bullish technical setup the preference is for a move down Monday.
The S&P was able to go a step better and edged over 'bear flag' resistance and put some distance on what had been a resistance around 1,209. Technicals also turned net bullish for the week.
The Nasdaq closed the week slightly lower, but technicals did enough to turn net bullish.
But helping the Nasdaq is the continued improvement in market breadth. The Percentage of Nasdaq Stocks on Point-n-Figure 'Buys' improved to turn technically net bullish.
So while the technical picture is net bullish across indices on the weekly timeframe, the presence of indices at 'bear flag' resistance suggests next week will be a downward one – starting Monday.
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Europe Goes Full Bailout Retard: EFSF Rescue Capital To Be Officially Double-Counted
by Zero Hedge - October 23rd, 2011 5:03 pm
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Submitted by Tyler Durden.
Europe has officially entered the Tropic Thunder zone, where one, forget one thousand , monkeys armed with one simple solar-powered calculator, can come up with a better plan than (JP Morgan-advised) Europe. Because as we pointed out on Thursday, "nothing changes the fact that with €100 billion set aside for bank recaps, a woefully low number and one which will do nothing to assure investors that banks have sufficient capital, there is still not enough cash to "guarantee" all future issuance" – well it appears that Europe finally did the math which led us to conclude that the EFSF is DOA. So what is Europe's solution? Why double counting aid already pledged of course: "EU bank plan may include aid already pledged to bailout states-sources." Uh, what? "A drive to lift bank capital across Europe by up to 110 billion euros ($153 billion) is expected to include the roughly 46 billion euros already pledged to Ireland, Greece and Portugal to help their lenders, EU sources told Reuters….Another official confirmed the intention to count money already earmarked for banks in Ireland, Greece and Portugal in any recapitalisation plan. "The problem with shock and awe numbers is that it implies that the money is there," said one official, reflecting on ministers' reluctance to set public goals for recapitalisation. "But governments don't have the money."… Just as was repeated here over and over and over and over… And yes, that red stuff shooting out of the place where your head was a few second ago, is blood. It is now Europe's official "plan" (for at least the next 2-3 hours) to use mystical, magical money, which is somehow double-counted to bail out both a bank and a country at the same time…
If over a third of the EU's bank recapitalisation drive, which investors hoped would inject more than 100 billion euros of fresh money, is accounted for under old bailout programmes markets are likely to react with disappointment.
It would effectively shrink the overall package, designed to protect EU banks from the fallout of a Greek default and ease their borrowing difficulties amid a creeping credit freeze, from more than 100 billion euros to something around 60 billion.
It would also rest the burden for EU bank recapitalisation in large part on Spain,
Chaos in the Land of Oz, Part 2
by Zero Hedge - October 23rd, 2011 3:53 pm
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Elliott and I interview Russ Winter of Winter Watch at Wall Street Examiner. ~ Ilene
In part 1 of Chaos in the Land of Oz, we established that the Fed is the Wizard and we are living in an economic Land of Oz. In part 2 we discuss whether there is a pathway back to Kansas.
"My people have been wearing green glasses on their eyes for so long that most of them think this really is an Emerald City."
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Chaos in the Land of Oz, Part 2
Elliott: In Part 1 of our interview, we agreed that by not allowing the too-big-to-fail (TBTF) banks to fail, the federal government is continuing its environment of corruption and moral hazard. Case in point – the scheme to force taxpayers to insure Bank of America's worthless debt via the FDIC.
So, Russ, it will get worse, until TBTF banks get decapitalized?
(Note: "Recapitalize" banks is code for pulling it out of the hide of German (and other) taxpayers and future generations. "Decapitalize" means: do the crime, do the time – take the losses.)
Russ: Right. Take the investors out, the bondholders, and shrink the sector. Banking globally should be cut in half. That means the capital backing these institutions needs to go to money heaven. The word for it is "losses." Right now we have "too big to let lose" because of fear of a bad hair day.
I was very disappointed last week when they started shilling for more bailouts. The bankers resist the restructuring, and the market rallies on that news. The market is hooked on bailouts and socializing losses. That was the basis of the 2009-2011 bull market. That can't go on forever. All these money managers are chasing stocks because they expect another bailout. It's nonsense!
Elliott: As an investor, I like to look for value. But it's so hard to find real value when so much has been gimmicked by the Fed.
Russ: That's my view entirely.
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Summarizing The Sheer Chaos In Europe: 9 Meetings In 5 Days
by Zero Hedge - October 23rd, 2011 2:44 pm
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For over a year, our premise #1 in interpreting the newsflow out of Europe has been that in the absence of actual practical ideas, and the continent's glaring inability to do simple math, the only option left to bEURaucrats has been to literally baffle people with so much endless bullshit that the general audience would be simply stunned by the possibility of an alternative that the union's leaders were all talk and absolutely no action, let alone analysis. As of today, we now know that that is precisely the case: for over a year Europe has been mouthing off hollow rhetoric in hopes that the market would just leave it alone, and that promises of promises and plans of plans would be sufficient. That plan (pardon the pun) has now failed. And so behind the scenes chaos turns into fully public panic. As the FT's Brussels blog summarizes, the only game left in town for Europe now is to push off D-Day, but not to some indefinite point in the future, like the US, but to tomorrow, and tomorrow and tomorrow, to channel the bard here. And nothing confirms better that it is all over for Europe, than the following summation of the terror and utter cluelessness gripping Europe, than the following sentence from the FT: "Just to recap, by Wednesday night there will have been nine meetings of ministers or national leaders in five days."
- Friday afternoon: Eurozone finance ministers
- Saturday: EU finance ministers
- Saturday: EU foreign ministers (general affairs council)
- Sunday morning: EU national leaders
- Sunday afternoon: Eurozone national leaders
- Wednesday: EU finance ministers
- Wednesday (tbc): Eurozone finance ministers
- Wednesday: EU national leaders
- Wednesday: Eurozone leaders
This excludes some pretty major conferences, such as the impromptu pow-wow for Jean-Claude Trichet's retirement in Frankfurt last Wednesday, and a bilateral summit between Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy on Saturday.
Simply said, Europe has telegraphed that it has failed to even plan for a plan.
But for those curious about the largely irrelevant details, here they are again from the FT:
After a two hour overrun, the meeting of the EU 27 has broken up here in Brussels, to be followed by a pow-wow of
EURUSD Opens Lower
by Zero Hedge - October 23rd, 2011 1:58 pm
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Hardly the apocalypse scenario that the G20 and Nicholas Sarkozy predicted, but certainly not a ringing endorsement of European cohesion and stability. If this melts up in the Sunday futures session, we fully expect it to be due to ongoing FX repatriation by French banks.
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What if you only had 1 day in a famous city/area in your Target Language (TL) country? Where would you go, what would you do? This is the premise for my "Visit to Kyoto" activity with my Yr 3 Japanese class. This is a 3-class activity that introduces my students to some iconic Kyoto sites – and hopefully gives them ideas should they plan a trip in the future!
Day 1 – Webquest/Google Docs Survey – In order to establish a common basis for discussion, I ask that they visit the National Tourist site for Japan – and in my case (as I've outlined my authres challenge before) in English. I want them to see the specific country's site, the extent of its offerings and, as I have a high population of students who don't have English as their first language, the variety of languages offered to explore the site . For Kyoto I identified 5-7 top sites in the city. For the assignment the students are asked to go to each site and complete the following information (in English and on paper):What is it? Where in the city is it? Why do tourists go there? What would I see if I went there? What could I do if I went there? Why would I personally want to go there?
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