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Lately, I've been spending a great deal of time in the DB world. My most recent challenge has been in dealing with time-based, or temporal, data. In several real-world scenarios, we find that timing matters, particularly when dealing with transaction-based systems, such as banking, payroll, or HR.
Most relational databases with referential integrity work really well with current state data. But a system may need to keep up with the current, past, and future states as well. For example, if I'm going to create a paycheck for an employee, I may need to know something about his future pay-rate as in "On such-and-such date, Joe Blow will receive a paycheck and be paid x dollars." His current state may be some amount less or more than that particular pay-rate on that date. To further complicate the matter, I will also want to know what we knew when we paid him on a particular date in the past. We may even back-date a pay-raise, creating a future state with an effective date in the past.
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These problems aren't new. Many DB gurus far more able than I am have been digging around these issues for the past 30+ years and nobody has come up with a perfect solution. Some, such as Richard Snodgrass have written entire (quite good) books on the problem (Morgan-Kaufmann, ISBN: 1558604367 (1999)). My favorite discussion, though (primarily because of its simplicity), comes from the always ingenious Martin Fowler: http://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/timeNarrative.html. I highly recommend reading this article for a solid understanding of temporal data patterns.
For our project, we had a DB in place that handled temporal data by never performing an actual UPDATE against a record. This way, a row of data in a table represents a single point in time which can be given a Created Date and an Effective Date. When you need to UPDATE, you simply INSERT a new record with some identifying data, such as an Employee Number for example, to tie everything together. Pretty smart.
But one problem in dealing with relational data in a temporal model this way is in maintaining referential integrity as the data changes. When the updated record is inserted, how can you effectively maintain the relationship between, say, an Employee record, and time-sensitive Compensation data? As you can see, the scenario gets pretty messy quickly, so we need a more elegant solution than INSERTS with effective dating.
One solution that was tried was to create a single "Base" table, with immutable records that contained an ID that was used to tie everything together.
The revised "Base Table" model looked similar to this:
Although this model may work for a while, referential integrity is eventually lost because all entities, regardless of their relationship to each other, were tied back to only the single record in the base table. This had the effect of flattening the data model and forcing the maintenance of referential integrity into the application layer. Over time new applications would come on board and developers that didn't understand the entity relationships (or didn't care) ignore integrity rules.
The model we eventually decided on was inspired by what Martin Fowler referred to as a "Temporal Object" pattern. Basically, we constructed the entire model to maintain referential integrity between all entities through foreign key relationships. Temporal data, such as pay rate, was extracted into separate entities with a foreign key relationship created between them and the table from which they were extracted.
The model we ended up with was similar to this:
Naturally a major concern was that adding these extra tables would complicate JOINs in our queries which, of course, it did. However, most queries added only a single extra JOIN, but there was definitely the potential for many more, depending on the specific query needs. Given the need for Referential Integrity + Temporality, the trade-off was accepted.
With the exception of auditing, most of our needs required only data from a single point in time. We managed this by using an Effective Date field in our temporal tables and passing in a date as a parameter for all our queries. We could retrieve a single employee record for a given point in time like this:
FROM Employee e
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Note that rather than joining directly on the temporal data table, we join on a query that retrieves the MAX effective date starting at the date we pass in as a parameter. This would allow us to retrieve the most recent data as of EffectiveDate we passed in.
[For another approach to the above SQL see Temporal Data in a Relational Database Pt. 2]
There are many other approaches to this problem, of course, but this approach provides the benefit of supporting both temporal record maintenance as well as referential integrity while being only slightly more complex.
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Falls can result in injury. This injury might only be an embarrassment to one's pride; however, at other times, falls can contribute to more serious problems such as a fractured hip, a head injury, and in the worst case scenario, death. It is therefore important that we take a proactive approach to fall prevention.
The International Multiple Sclerosis Falls Prevention Research Network has examined the roles of various fall prevention rehabilitation programs to learn which might be the most effective in reducing fall risk and falls (click here to read the research). A critical element, in all programs, is that participant improvement in fall risk and fall reduction is primarily achieved in the short term but not sustained over the long term. The reality is that most people's motivation, to continue a program, dramatically "falls off" over time.
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I was recently asked if I could provide advice on how patients could get the most out of their Swedish Multiple Sclerosis Center visits. In reality, I think most of us have been patients at least once in our lives. The list of tips I provide is comprehensive. However, critical information may be missing. If you notice omissions, please respond with your own advice in the comments since we can all learn from each other.
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Cognitive impairment is one of multiple scleroris (MS) 's most disabling features and it can affect between 22% to 60% of people living with the disease. Cognitive deficits may include problems with: slower information processing speed; memory impairment; difficulty with new learning and executive functioning. Historically, medical and rehabilitation approaches to the problem have been inconsistent in improving cognition.
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On October 21, 2013 the Multiple Sclerosis Center at Swedish Neuroscience Institute hosted a meet and greet with Buddy Hayes, national speaker for Canine Companions for Independence. Buddy, as she prefers to be called, is a military veteran and the owner of Stanford, a handsome Labrador Retriever service dog given to her by Canine Companions for Independence.
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What is the probability of false positive and false negative results from the serological tests?**
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In 1994 I was diagnosed with celiac disease, which led me to create Celiac.com in 1995. I created this site for a single purpose: To help as many people as possible with celiac disease get diagnosed so they can begin to live happy, healthy gluten-free lives. Celiac.com was the first site on the Internet dedicated solely to celiac disease. In 1998 I created The Gluten-Free Mall, Your Special Diet Superstore!, and I am the co-author of the book Cereal Killers, and founder and publisher of Journal of Gluten Sensitivity.
View all articles by Scott AdamsEach of these three tests provide a certain degree of reliability for diagnosing CD. Of these, endomysial antibody is the most specific test. The following table is taken from our studies (Lerner, Kumar, Iancu, Immunological diagnosis of childhood coeliac disease: comparison between antigliadin, antireticulin and antiendomysial antibodies).
% of Sensitivity | % of Specificity | Predictive Value % Pos | Predictive Value % Neg | |
IgG AGA | 88% | 92% | 88% | 92% |
IgA AGA | 52% | 94% | 87% | 74% |
The following definitions related to sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values may help:
Sensitivity is the probability of a positive test result in a patient with disease. Specificity is the probability of negative test result in a patient without disease. Positive predictive value is the probability of disease in a patient with positive test result. Negative predictive value is the probability of no disease in a patient with negative test result.
Karoly Horvath, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pediatrics; Director, Peds GI & Nutrition Laboratory; University of Maryland at Baltimore: The summary below shows the results of the main serological tests based on several publications including 388 patients with CD, and 771 healthy subjects.
SENSITIVITY- the proportion of subjects with the disease who have a positive test. It indicates how good a test is at identifying the diseased:
Percentage of - IgA AGA | Percentage of - IgG AGA | Percentage of - IgA EMA | |
Average | 78% | 79% | 97% |
Range | 46-100% | 57-94% | 89-100% |
SPECIFICITY- the proportion of subjects without the disease who have a negative test. It indicates how good a test is at identifying the non-diseased:
Percentage of - IgA AGA | Percentage of - IgG AGA | Percentage of - IgA EMA | |
Average | 92% | 84% | 98.5% |
Range | 84-100% | 52-98% | 97-100% |
POSITIVE PREDICTIVE VALUE- the probability that a person with positive results actually has the disease:
Percentage of - IgA AGA | Percentage of - IgG AGA | Percentage of - IgA EMA | |
Average | 72% | 57% | 92% |
Range | 45-100% | 42-76% | 91-94% |
NEGATIVE PREDICTIVE VALUE- the probability that a person with negative results does not have the disease:
Percentage of - IgA AGA | Percentage of - IgG AGA | Percentage of - IgA EMA | |
Average | 94% | 94% | 100% |
Range | 89-100% | 83-99% | 100% |
McMillan SA, Haughton DJ, Biggart JD, Edgar JD, Porter KG, McNeill TA. Predictive value for coeliac disease of antibodies to gliadin, endomysium, and jejunum in patients attending for jejunal biopsy. Brit Med J 1991;303:1163-1165
Ferreira M, Lloyd Davies S, Butler M, Scott D, Clark M, Kumar P. Endomysial antibody: is it the best screening test for coeliac disease? Gut 1992;33:1633-1637.
Khoshoo V, Bhan MK, Puri S, Jain R, Jayashree S, Bhatnagar S, Kumar R, Stintzing G. Serum antigliadin antibody profile in childhood protracted diarrhea due to coeliac disease and other causes in a developing country. Scand J Gastroenterol 1989;24:1212-1216.
Chan KN, Phillips AD, Mirakian R, Walker-Smith JA. Endomysial antibody screening in children. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 1994;18:316-320.
Bode S, Weile B, Krasilnikoff PA, Gdmand-Hyer E. The diagnostic value of the gliadin antibody testing celiac disease in children: a prospective study. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 1993;17:260-264.
Calabuig M, Torregosa R, Polo P, Tom s C, Alvarez V, Garcia-Vila A, Brines J, Vilar P, Farr C, Varea V. Serological markers and celiac disease: a new diagnostic approach ? J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 1990;10:435-442.
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16 Nov 2009 4:58:58 PM PDT Not a bad article but missing one important bit of information. Patient can be iga deficient and that would result in possible false negative results on IGA EGA, IGA ARA and IGA EME. Reflecting that a small intestinal biopsy would be the best approach.


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Commencement set at M State, Seminary
Published 11:17am Tuesday, May 7, 2013Commencement ceremonies will mark the graduation of nearly 1,450 students from the four campuses of Minnesota State Community and Technical College Thursday and Friday.
In Fergus Falls, M-State students may participate in spring graduation events beginning at 3 p.m. Thursday, in the campus gymnasium.
A reception is planned following the ceremony in Legacy Hall.
AnnaLisa Brown, who is graduating with an associate of arts degree, is the student speaker and alumnus David Ellis is the keynote speaker.
Graduation events are open to the public.
On Saturday, Lutheran Brethren Seminary commencement is planned at 1 p.m. at Bethel Lutheran Church, 702 W. Alcott Avenue in Fergus Falls.
Of the two graduates, one will receive the three-year master of divinity degree and one the certificate of theological studies in Bible and theology.
The Rev. Bill Helland of Borup will give the commencement address.
A reception honoring the students follow in the church fellowship hall.
The public is invited to attend.


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hol'n wir uns den Himmel auf Erden.
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hol'n wir uns den Himmel auf Erden.
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convivialisme and "badke" – unity through diversity
when enjoying a dance performance last saturday, i had the experience of a great confluence.
badke by les ballets c de la b, a.m. qattan foundation and kvs (photo: DannyWillems)
on the one hand, the dance performance was about the individual and the collective. "dabke" is a name for a palestinian folk dance – a line dance for weddings and other festivities, meaning stamping on the ground with your feet in a collective way. choreographers Koen Augustijnen and Rosalba Torres Guerrero from belgian les ballets c de la b and dramaturge Hildegard De Vuyst from belgian kvs questioned the role of dabke in the context of the israeli-palestinian conflict. they put the question to palestinian dancers and artists. the outcome is baptised "badke" – something new, "the creation of something self-contained but nevertheless referring back to a shared tradition – that is close to the collective element that is close to or inherent in traditional dance but which still alienates it", as the programme description says. "It is a dance of collective physicality, but also of self-determination; a dance of solidarity and belonging, in which everyone nevertheless stands and counts for themselves." you can watch that transformation by the inclusion of elements of modern dance, hip-hop, capoeira and artistic dance. "The addition of choreographic components from other fields of movement and cultural contexts tells among other things of the desire to be part of a global culture. Through deconstructing traditional dance with the simultaneous adoption of its original social function – the collective – and the introduction of global components the dance charges itself with new content and so acquires a socio-political relevance and explosiveness."
it's an expression of a will to live and of a lust for life – it's a model for conviviality.
for, on the other hand, le manifeste convivialiste, déclaration d'interdependance, which i had signed two days before, das konvivialistische manifest, für eine neue kunst des zusammenlebens, is just about the same. it is about living together, in peace, and in freedom. about 40 french intellectuals, coming from different backgrounds like Edgar Morin or Chantal Mouffe, held a discussion for years and agreed to publish that manifesto. it's a plea for a dynamic balance between individualism and collectivism, for the right of the individual to compete with others as long as it is not detrimental to the collective.
so the dance performance (which abstained from allegations or presenting cruelties) could perfectly well illustrate what "convivial social relationships" are meant to stand for.
"be the systems you want to see in the world"?
for this year's emcsr we made in facebook a t-shirt competition to find the best slogan. people could make suggestions. the one with the most likes made it onto the t-shirts for our staff and for those who wanted to buy a souvenir.
i put the t-shirt on too. however, it's not completely to my taste. it seems to lay emphasis on individual change which is hard to accomplish, given constraints by the system we are all part of.
it is that very system we need to change. and as soon as we agree to that, we – as individual systems – change our minds and do already the first step to change the overall system and anticipate another system. in this struggle, we co-evolve with the system we want to see in the world. that struggle is not against certain individuals but, in the first place, for a change in the structure of society that we do not deem fair because it allows members of society to take roles and positions by which they can exclude other members from the production of and the provision with commons. that struggle is not for us to take over the power. and, for certain, it is not a struggle with ourselves to make us apt to the unfair relations in society.
Dino Karabeg, a participant of the emcsr 2014, showing the t-shirt (photo: emcsr)
– p.s. 12.5.2014. for the sake of completeness: last weekend i came across the following poster in a swiss protestant seminar hotel:
(photo: Lisa Schlager)
it means roughly "be yourself the change you wish for the world", paraphrasing a quote that is attributed to gandhi. notice, however, the dispute: http://www.elephantjournal.com/2011/08/be-the-change-you-wish-to-see-in-the-world-not-gandhi/
why freedom of information is not enough – communication for co-operation
plenary address to the international conference "freedom of information under pressure. control – crisis – culture", tu wien, 28 february – 1 march (photo: Edward Chapon)
A week ago I watched a ballet. Martin Schläpfer choreographed for his dance company "Ballett am Rhein", amongst other pieces, "Ungarische Tänze" (Hungarian Dances) after the music of Johannes Brahms. It was performed at the Festspielhaus St. Pölten.
(photo: Programm/Ballett am Rhein, Festspielhaus St. Pölten)
One of the dances related to the freedom of press. I'd like to tell you the story line that was presented by the dancers against the background of Brahms' pathetic music, which turned the performance into a persiflage: first, a man with a newspaper is barred from reading it, he is fettered by a woman with a rope and, finally, dragged off the scene; then a kind of cheerleader appears who waves two flags; later on, he teaches flag-wavers who neatly line up in a row; however, as you can see on the right of the picture, one dancer performs with the flag of the European Union, whereas everybody else has a national flag – the flag of Hungary, of course; what happens then is that the lead dancer replaces the flag of hers with the "right" one, pops the "wrong" flag into his buttocks and exits.
In my interpretation, this criticism of the restrictions of the freedom of press by the Hungarian government is a wonderful metaphor for an answer to the question "Why is freedom of information under pressure?".
The answer that is given, is: there are some interests interfering with the generation and utilisation of some information, because that information contains or supports values that are different from, or opposite to, the values that are needed to justify the pursuit of those interests. That is, there are conflicting values because there are conflicting interests, and there is at least one interested side that exerts power to solve the conflict in a one-sided way – by establishing public consistency of all values with their interests and eradicating the informational basis for the promotion of incompatible values. The side in question may be in power or may seize power in cultural, political, or economic terms.
Moreover, in our example, it is a national interest (the Hungarian one) the values of which turn out nationalistic when going to outbalance and override values of inter-, trans- or supranational interest (the EU ones). To generalise, it is always a particular interest implying particularistic values when attempting to dominate universal ones; it is always a part being or becoming partial when having usurped a whole or when rebelling against a whole, it is always a worm's-eye view that it attempts to impose when not minding what a bird's eye view could be for the sake of all affected.
If this is so, then freedom of information is seen in a different light. That is, freedom of information is under pressure, if and when the public sphere is instrumentalised to serve one part of competitive interests rather than addressing and expressing the interests of all in a co-operative discourse.
Why am I stressing this? There are three reasons for that:
- First, human communication is from the outset co-operative.
- Second, in the course of history, communication has become ever more idiotic.
- Third, given the current societal conditions, freedom of information is not enough.
First, human communication is from the outset co-operative.
According to anthropologist Michael Tomasello, our great ape ancestors were social beings, but "they lived mostly individualistic and competitive lives" (2014, 4), they were "individually intentional and instrumentally rational" (30) as great apes are still today. Early humas began to speciate not until they took advantage of going beyond "individual intentionality" and adopted "more complex forms of cooperative sociality" (31), which made them achieve shared goals and brought about "shared intentionality".
Tomasello hypothesises a first step towards shared intentionality "in the context of collaborative foraging" (33), that is hunting of large game and gathering of plant foods, around 2 million years ago and culminating 400.000 years ago. Multiple and vanishing dyadic relationships formed in which early humans shared a joint goal, understood their individual role and could take the perspective of the other. In order to support the negotiation of the joint goal and the coordination of collaboration, human communication originated with "a commitment to informing others of things honestly and accurately, that is, truthfully" (51).
The second step is that from early to modern humans who became "thoroughly group-minded individuals" (80) in larger groups, in which they "had to be prepared to coordinate with anyone from the group, with some kind of generic other" (81) some 200.000 years ago; "the individual no longer contrasted her own perspective with that of a specific other…; rather, she contrasted her own perspective with some kind of generic perspective of anyone and everyone about things that were objectively real, true and right from any perspective whatsoever" (122). For Tomasello, the anthropological sense of communication is co-operation.
Second, in the course of history, communication has become ever more idiotic.
Evolution did not take a linear way. The first groups were tribes. Greek antique civilisation ushered in another stage of social formation, deserving the name "idiotism", which I borrow from Neil Curtis (2013), author of a book with the same title. Etymology shows, "idios" meant in Greek Antiquity "the personal realm, that which is private, and one's own" (12). In Curtis' view, "idios" bears also the stamp of "being enclosed". He says that "the creation of the private through the enclosure of public or commonly held resources has historically been the primary means by which property has been secured for private use" (12). By the term "idiotes", then, a person was denoted that is concerned with his personal realm only, with his own, and not with, say, the res publica and the fate of other human beings. Curtis convincingly demonstrates that neoliberalism, not only in ideology but also as a distinct social order, epitomises the principle of the "idiotes". Hence "idiotism" as signifyer of our current society. However, "idiotism" as a feature of society that functions via self-interested, self-concerned individuals goes, in fact, back to social formations in which domination appeared – the institutionalised instrumentalisation of humans for one's own interests, which goes hand in hand with the enclosure of the commons and the denial of free access to the latter. Global financial capitalism is just carrying idiotism to extremes. It originated, when selfish "I"s, after having disguised themselves as incarnations of the tribal "We" overtly entered the stage of heteronomic societies. The actors have become self-regarding persons of their own rather than other-regarding and thinking is short-sighted and does not take into consideration harmful effects on other parts of the system; competition has been prioritised on the higher levels of society over co-operation, which is reserved for the lower levels only.
Communication is for co-operation only, if and when it serves overall competition.
Third, given the current societal conditions, freedom of information is not enough.
The Hungarian dance example shows us:
- in the event of crises, pressure comes overtly: the lead dancer makes use of his power to take away the "wrong" flag – like in Greece, as our Greek colleagues testified yesterday;
- but in normal times, as long as there is one "wrong" flag only among a legion of "right" ones, pressure comes in the disguise of plurality when professional media journalists, for reasons whatsoever (because they experience soft pressure, as Harald Schumann indicated yesterday; or because they have no time any more to analyse what they report and comment, as Susanne Scholl indicated yesterday, and rely on obscure sources like p.r. agencies or follow their own prejudices, if they aren't willingly partisan), contribute to the forming of a mainstream that camouflages its partiality by pretending to be everyman's opinion, which makes itself a self-fulfilling prophecy; this process of ideological phasing – "Gleichschaltung" – works as underlying process in times of crises too, as colleagues from Greek evidenced yesterday; and the blogosphere is, in principle, no exemption.
What is needed today, is another leap in anthroposociogenesis. Biological reductionists try to tell us that the nation state is the highest level of grouping for which we are made by our genes. However, if we don't come to terms with the fragmentation, heterogenisation, disintegration of our societal build-ups, we will face extermination. Thus let's be optimistic: our species had already accomplished a major transition to a more co-operative social life.
What is needed today, is a unity-through-diversity build-up of nascent world society all levels up and down. Such an edifice needs to be based upon the diversity of individuals, serving their true and best interests by acknowledging that they can do so exclusively when in harmony with the overarching system and thus without doing harm to other system components; actors need to be capacitated to reflect their own position and the position of others from the perspective of the overall social system. And, in principle, we are already endowed with such a capacity.
What is needed today, is communication for co-operation. The current state of mediated communication is a big obstacle on the way to a "global sustainable information society" (Hofkirchner).
Freedom of information, the plurality of opinions, is just a necessary condition to enable social systems and their actors to get ready for the transition required. Freedom of information is a precondition, but not the end.
using Robert Rosen's modeling relation for understanding systems practice
in Cómpeta in Spain where i recently took part in a conversation between systems engineers and systems theorists, the basic question was touched: what is systems practice? what is the relationship between systems science and systems engineering?
my answer to that is: humans stand in practical relations to real-world systems, as they face problems when being appetent in the face of systems that afford being treated in specific ways only to facilitate desired outcomes. systems science is the scientific way of understanding systems and understanding systems has one practical aim: to guide practice. systems engineering as well as systems design as well as systems management and whatever is the name you give to those activities that build upon the knowledge of systems and builds up technological knowledge, that is, knowledge that transforms the knowledge of systems into knowledge of how to intervene in the systems such that those interventions yield desired outcomes – all these activities belong to systems science. technological systems knowledge is just one part of the overall systems endeavour. together with empirical and theoretical systems studies it forms part of a bigger whole, the systems science(s), irrespective of whether or not any part is aware of that. systems technology is the praxiological part of systems science, while systems thinking in theoretical terms is its ontological part and the methods of investigating systems are its epistemological part. altogether they contribute to the scientific change of real-world systems. and the better they are aware of each other, the better they reflect their role in the edifice of science, the better they connect to each other, the better will the science-based outcome of societal intervention be.
Robert Rosen is famous for his modeling relation:
what i'm doing is to specify Rosen's natural system as real-world system whatsoever and specify his formal systems as systems science that models the real-world system; to specify Rosen's encoding as systems understanding and his decoding as systems intervention; the whole loop then becomes systems practice.
i add the three layers of science referring to aims, scope and tools: the uppermost layer represents the context of application, of "adding value" to the model, which is the level of technology (that's praxiological knowledge); the next layer represents the justification context in which scientific knowledge is exposed to critique (the exposure to critique and making judgments about the result of this exposure is as well praxiologically instigated but focused on the ontological perspective of science); the bottom layer reprsents the context where discovery is made and includes gathering of empirical data (which itself has a praxiological aspect but is specified here in an epistemological context):
now, not only are systems understanding and systems intervention societal (social, human) activities that cross spheres of different qualities and thus inextricably inhere emergence; but also within the modeling activity, the systems science on the right hand, there are leaps of quality when transgressing from one layer to the other and ergo are no logically, mathematically, algorithmically compelling entailments possible in its entirety. simulations etc. are only subordinate parts in the emergent modeling process of science (including technology).
there is another austrian film-maker who belongs to the same kind of people mentioned in the previous post. his name is Erwin Wagenhofer and the title of his recent film is "alphabet". it forms the final part of a trilogy after "let's make money" (2008) and "we feed the world" (2005).
it's a fundamental critique of the current form of education systems globally imposed on developed and developing societies. pupils are trained for functioning in a social order in which what counts in the end is money; in which they are expected to outperform their competitors; and in which they are socialised to regard their schoolfellows as competitors. they aren't educated in the broad antique meaning of the word "education". they loose their creative capabilities. they are trained for becoming "idiots" (see my post on "idiotism"). already in the first minutes of the film i was absorbed when watching the report on china in which the modern individualistic schooling system collides with the traditional culture of collectivity.
website of the film
when i watched the scenes showing executive education i was heavily reminded of the youngsters me and my colleagues at the faculty of informatics seem to select during the measures we have been taking since 3 years to reduce the number of students in order to increase the quality of teaching. those freshmen-to-be are forced to promote themselves, to be self-regarding, and they will, in addition, learn to compete against each other due to the study restrictions we impose on them through knock-out exams in the first semester. those are not the students our university would need for producing "technology for humans" as our vision says on the facade of the building where i had my bureau. we rather make ourselves accomplices in the destruction of an education we would need for the betterment of social conditions.
against the overpopulation myth
it's a good thing that film-makers step in when mass media journalists don't do their job but multiply ideologemes instead. Werner Boote, a vienna resident, is one of them. he is well known for the fim "plastic planet" in which he reports aubout the dangers plastic poses to our biosphere. when confronted with opinions that there are too many humans on earth he decided to make a new film: "population boom".
that film is a plea for humanism. it provides a systemic answer: it is not the number of people but the way how the social systems we are part of make us relate to each other – are we conditioned to seek for short-sighted self-regarding aims or are we allowed to care for each other?
that film is an example for how systemic thinking can deconstruct deep-rooted wrong beliefs that inhibit proper solutions.
the music video "reach out" (click on the snapshot)
why another journal on systems?
better late than never the journal "systems. connecting matter, life, culture and technology" put its first issue online. the Bertalanffy Center made it possible.
what is different about that journal is that it aims at providing a platform for self-reflection of the systems movement and its plurality of approaches, schools, theories, concepts, application fields etc., whether or not they have "system" in their designation (cybernetics, evolutionary theory, sciences of complexity etc., revolve around the systems concept). it's a platform for enhancing the discussion between all these strands about their fundamental ideas and about their impact on society.
it is my deep conviction that thinking in systems terms is the best way of thinking transdisciplinarily, which society needs to cope with the global challenges.
the journal was founded during the preparation of the emcsr 2012. when the title of the new journal was to be found, we came across another journal the title of which perfectly seemed to suit our purposes: "Systems: Journal of Transdisciplinary Systems Science". that was the journal of the Polish Systems Society. but it stopped production in 2007 when the then editor-in-chief and president of the society, prof Myeczyslaw Bazewicz from the Wroclaw University of Technology, passed away, as we had to learn. thus our journal is, in a way, in memory of this predecssor. it resumes its tradition to emphasise transdisciplinarity.
my friend Shu-Kun Lin from the enterprise mdpi had a very similar idea. he and me had some negotiation on whether or not to combine efforts. yet there was a difference in the respective business models. his journal is open access too, but they levy article processing charges which is only waived for the start of the journal (so for the journal "information" that has left its first phase behind it is now 300,00 chf). our policy is to have our journal free from author fees.
the first isse contains papers of the emcsr 2012.
editorial of issue 1, volume 1
book cover
some weeks ago i read in an Austrian newspaper the comment of Peter Moeschl, a former surgeon and now cultural critic, on the state of democracy in supposedly advanced societies. in that comment he made reference to the etymological origin of the term "idiot" i was not aware of. i was so intrigued by the greek meaning that i googled the term "idiotism" and i found the book by Neal Curtis titled "idiotism – capitalism and the privatisation of life".
"idios", so Curtis, meant "the personal realm, that which is private, and one's own" (12). in his view, it bears also the stamp of "being enclosed". he says: "the creation of the private through the enclosure of public or commonly held resources has historically been the primary means by which property has been secured for private use" (12). "idiotes", then, denoted a person that is concerned with his personal realm only, with his own, and not with, say, the res publica and the fate of other human beings.
Curtis convincingly demonstrates that neoliberalism, not only in ideology but also as a distinct social order, epitomises the principle of the "idiotes". hence "idiotism" as signifyer of our current society.
i would go even further. "idiotism" as a feature of society that functions via self-interested, self-concerned individuals goes, in fact, back to antiquity and earlier social formations in which domination appeared – the institutionalised instrumentalisation of humans for one's own interests, which goes hand in hand with the enclosure of the commons and the denial of free access to the latter. global financial capitalism is just carrying idiotism to extremes.
first ISIS conference
a glimpse of the FIS 2013 (International Conference on the Foundations of Information Science) in Moscow, 21 – 24 May. it was the first conference organised in the framework of ISIS (International Society for Information Studies). its topic was education for the new millennium.
a small present from Austria to the parting president of ISIS, Konstantin Kolin, Institute of Informatics Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences (left), from the new president.
there must be fun: from Beijing to Moscow. the FIS conference in Beijing 2010 ("Towards a new science of information") paved the way for the establishment of ISIS. in the middle, Robert Jahn, ISIS Secretary General, flanked by Kang Ouyang, Social Information Science Institute in Wuhan, on the left, who organised the Beijing conference with the help of Zong-Rong Li, now professor at the department of psychology at te same university, on the right; sitting on the floor: Nick Zakharov, Shakespeare connoisseur, in charge of the Moscow Local Organizing Committee.
the serious side of life: from Beijing to Moscow to Vienna 2015. ISIS officers and Secretary General from left to right: Kang Ouyang, Past President; Konstantin Kolin, Immediate Past President; myself, President; Pedro C. Marijuán (Bioinformation Group, Zaragoza; FIS – Foundations of Information Science), Vice-President for Protocol; and Robert Jahn.
150 years Vernadsky
during a visit to the Neue Synagoge in Berlin – at least, to what is left. second from the right, physicist Werner Ebeling whom i had the pleasure to meet since long. he was one of the reviewers of my habilitation (photo: Peter Kühn).
on the occasion of the 150th birthday of Vladimir I. Vernadsky, the Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften convoked a conference together with several other scientific societies (see the programme and the abstracts). it took place in Berlin on 15th march 2013.
the title was programmatic: in english, "from the mineral to the noosphere". by that it was an attempt to bridge the divide between natural and social sciences. this is exactly what Vernadsky tried. his idea was that humankind is a geological force as the biosphere is with regard to our planet. that's why for him a noosphere is in the making which penetrates the biosphere (and the geosphere). interestingly, though he was a naturalist by education and profession, he did not commit the so-called naturalistic fallacy. that is, he did not reduce the noogenesis to, say, biological factors as many of today's materialistic scientists are still used to doing. the noogenesis is rather due to human labour and human science and human technology, all of which are not ideational factors appearing like deus ex machina either – the culturalistic fallacy. in systems language of today, they pertain to the organisational relations humans produce through interaction and which, in turn, channel their actions when doing their metabolism via the detour of society. Vernadsky was not a a system theorist. however, his idea is implicitly system theoretical.
anyway, given this great idea, one question mark remains: is noogenesis already irreversible? does it not mean that societies have to reorganise such that they develop along a sustainable path? aren't we still in a transition phase? is it not the case that despite all achievements of civilisation we might face exterminism as the majority of prehuman species did?
(my slides are available under "presentations".)


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Bedrooms | 4 |
Bathrooms | 3 |
Separate WC's | 1 |
Property type | house |
Minimum Stay | 4 - 7 nights |
We will be renting out our family home in the east bay area of the San Francisco Bay for a few weeks this summer. We are located approximately 25 miles east of San Francisco and 35 miles south of the Napa Valley. It is perfectly central to see all of the sites of Northern California. Our home is set up so that when you are not out sightseeing, you are able to relax and enjoy the most of the California sunshine. Our yard consists of a heated (78-80 degree) swimming pool, an enclosed trampoline for the children, a basketball hoop, table tennis, an outdoor fire pit, gas barbeque and an outdoor shower. We have chickens that provide fresh eggs and a summer garden complete with tomatoes, zucchini, cucumbers and basil. We also have an apple and plum tree that you are welcome to pick from. Our home consists of 4 bedrooms and 3 1/2 baths so there is plenty of room for a large family. Two of the bedrooms have double beds and one has a double bed and a pull-out trundle. The master suite has a king size bed. The home comfortably sleeps 9, but can sleep up to 11 with our inflatable aero bed. There are 2 updated bathrooms with showers, plus a Jacuzzi bath and enclosed shower in the master suite. There is a half bathroom off of the family room. We have a full-size front loading washing machine and dryer to do laundry. Our kitchen was remodeled just one year ago and has everything that a chef could want. Our home has all of the amenities to make your stay pleasant; air conditioning, Wi-Fi internet and cable television. There are 3 televisions; one is located in the family room, one is in the kitchen and one is in the master bedroom. We are also 1/4 of a mile to Briones Regional Park. This park has hundreds of miles of trails for hiking. We are 1.7 miles to the closest grocery store, Starbucks and pharmacy. Although you will need a car, we are just 3.4 miles to the closest train station (BART) that can take you to San Francisco and Berkeley. This is our family home, so you will find all of the comforts of being at home here. There will be some of our items in drawers and closets and we do have 2 outdoor cats, 2 bunnies and 7 chickens that will be looked after by our neighbor. We hope that you will take advantage of all that our home has to offer!
This home was large and well appointed. Great kitchen, cookware and tools. We enjoyed the pool on lazy days and there are a couple of BART stations nearby when you are ready to see San Francisco. We even took a day trip over to Yosemite National Park from here. The owners were more than helpful anytime we had a question.
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we had a fantastic week here , lovely big pool, spotlessly clean.
only a couple of miles from shops and entertainment , great location.
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Property Damage Protection | $99 |
Cleaning Fee | $100 |
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Zenger-Miller, Inc. filed as an Articles of Incorporation in the State of California and is no longer active. This corporate entity was filed approximately thirty-eight years ago on Monday, August 8, 1977 , according to public records filed with California Secretary of State.
John Zenger served as the Chairman
Edwin Musselwhite was the President of Zenger-Miller, Inc..
The Director of Zenger-Miller, Inc. was Edward Johnson.
The registered agent for the company is John Harbottle. Also known as a statutory or resident agent, the registered agent is responsible for receiving legal notifications regarding court summons, lawsuits, and other legal actions involving the corporate entity.
Key roles for Zenger-Miller, Inc. |
John H. Zenger
Chairman, Director
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Edwin A. Musselwhite
President, President
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Edward E. Johnson
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O. Jean Williams
Director, Secretary
Inactive |
Constance Bentley
Vice President
Inactive |
Kathleen M. Hurson
Vice President
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Filing Type: | Foreign for Profit Corporation |
Status: | Inactive |
State: | Florida |
State ID: | P22355 |
Date Filed: | Friday, December 30, 1988 |
Registered Agent |
Filing Type: | Articles of Incorporation |
Status: | Inactive |
State: | California |
State ID: | 00850106 |
Date Filed: | Monday, August 8, 1977 |
Registered Agent | John Harbottle |
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Book your room at Résidence Soko-Eder
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Max Occupancy: 2 guests (up to 1 child, 1 infant)Studio for 4
Max Occupancy: 4 guests (up to 3 children, 1 infant)One Bedroom Apartment for 4
Max Occupancy: 4 guests (up to 3 children, 1 infant)One Bedroom Apartment for 6
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Max Occupancy: 6 guests (up to 5 children, 2 infants)Seaside residence in Ciboure with free parking
Situated by the sea, this residence is within 3 mi (5 km) of Port of Saint-Jean-de-Luz, Nivelle Golf Course, and Port de Saint-Jean-de-Luz Ciboure. Maison Louis XIV and Church of St-Jean-Baptiste are also within 3 mi (5 km).
Property Features
Along with an outdoor pool, this residence has WiFi in public areas and laundry facilities. Self parking is free. Additionally, tour/ticket assistance, multilingual staff, and a garden are onsite.
Room Amenities
All 116 rooms have furnished balconies or patios and feature kitchenettes with refrigerators, microwaves, and dishwashers. Other amenities available to guests include sofa beds, WiFi, and flat-screen TVs.
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Hotel Amenities
Résidence Soko-Eder features an outdoor pool, a terrace, and tour/ticket assistance. High-speed wireless Internet access is available for a surcharge. This Ciboure residence also offers multilingual staff, a garden, and laundry facilities. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
- Luggage storage
- Total number of rooms - 116
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Tours/ticket assistance
- WiFi (surcharge)
- Laundry facilities
- Multilingual staff
- Garden
- Terrace
- Pool sun loungers
- Free self parking
- Year Built 2006
- Number of buildings/towers - 7
- Outdoor pool
Family Friendly Amenities
- Outdoor pool
- Kitchenette
- Laundry facilities
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Sofa bed
- Refrigerator
- Microwave
Available in all rooms: Wireless internet access ( 2.00 EUR per day )
Available in some public areas: Wireless internet access ( 2 EUR per day )
Free self parking
Room Amenities
- Private bathroom
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Cookware, dishware, and utensils
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Hair dryer (on request)
- Dishwasher
- Cribs/infant beds (surcharge)
- Furnished balcony or patio
- Access via exterior corridors
- Kitchenette
- Refrigerator
- Coffee/tea maker
- Microwave
- Bathtub only
- Sofa bed
- Flat-panel TV
- WiFi (surcharge)
- Day bed
Where to Eat
Continental breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 9 AM and 11 AM.
Nearby Things to Do
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Golfing nearby
- Snorkeling nearby
- Surfing/boogie boarding nearby
- Kayaking nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Scuba diving nearby
- Water skiing nearby
- Rafting nearby
- Windsurfing nearby
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Golf lessons available nearby
- Segway rental/tour nearby
- Boat tours nearby
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessible parking
- In-room accessibility
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-in time ends at 6 PM
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is 10 AM
Payment types
Pets allowed, Only dogs and cats are allowed, Maximum number of pets per room 2
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
Debit cards not accepted
No rollaway/extra beds available
- A tax is imposed by the city: EUR 0.88 per person, per night. This tax does not apply to children under 13 years of age.
- Resort fee: EUR 0.67 per person, per night
- Pool access
- Beach loungers
- Bicycle storage
- Parking
Optional extras
- Fee for continental breakfast: EUR 8 for adults and EUR 5 for children (approximately)
- Fee for in-room wireless Internet: EUR 2.00 per day (rates may vary)
- Fee for wireless Internet in public areas: EUR 2 per day (rates may vary)
- Pet fee: EUR 6 per pet (varies based on length of stay)
- A late check-out fee will be charged
- Deposit: EUR 200 per stay
- Cleaning/housekeeping/linens fee: EUR 43 per stay, varies per unit size
- Crib (infant bed) fee: EUR 16 per stay
We should mention
Guests can arrange to bring pets by contacting the property directly, using the contact information on the booking confirmation (surcharges apply and can be found in the Fees section). Alcohol is not served at this property.
National Rating
This hotel has received its official star rating from the French Tourism Development Agency, ATOUT France.


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If you're new, welcome to the group! If you're not, welcome back! The gym is a short walk from the Van Dorn metro station. It's next to a group of car repair shops. If the shops are closed--and they usually are at night--you can park in their spaces. There is also overflow parking available in the Carrier HVAC business next door on weeknights and weekends Tell the gym staff you are with the climbing Meetup group and they will discount the day pass price to $14 (the normal cost for a day pass is $18). You will also need to rent climbing shoes and a harness ($10 for both) if you don't have your own gear. Once you are set with the front desk come find us. If you can't find us, please ask one of the staff members to point out the Meetup group. For those who are new to climbing, SportRock's "Basic Skills" class is the best way to learn how to climb safely. SportRock charges $25 for the class which includes gear rental and an all-day gym pass. The class starts at 7pm and usually takes 2 hours. Sign up on the SportRock website. If you have time before your class starts, come find us and say hello. If you have trouble finding us, ask a staff member to point us out. Then, after your class is over, you can climb with us if you're not too tired. If you don't know how to belay and don't take the class, we're still happy to belay you your first time. For experienced climbers: If you know how to belay but haven't been belay checked at a Sportrock gym, ask one of the staff members to test you when you first arrive. There's no charge for taking the belay test. If you pass, they'll give you a pink laminated belay card to wear on your harness so everyone knows you're OK to belay. If you fail, you can try again the next time you visit the gym. The Meetup group consists of members of all skill levels and abilities. We are a friendly bunch of enthusiastic climbers who enjoy the physical and social aspects of climbing. When you are a part of the group you will always have a climbing partner as well as a fellow climber who might just know the special technique or trick to help you get past that difficult climbing problem. What to bring: This is *indoor* climbing, so dress for the gym, not the mountains. If you wear shorts, you may want them at least mid-thigh in length so the harness straps won't be on your bare skin (though it isn't really a problem if you wear short shorts). There are locker rooms to change in and cubbys to store your stuff. I recommend you also bring a water bottle, but the gym does have a water fountain and they sell drinks. One final note: Your forearms will be really sore the next day since holding onto the wall uses muscles that you don't normally exercise. Don't worry: once you've been to the gym a few times, those muscles will get used to it and soon you won't even notice.
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Bailey Middle School Principal Chad Thomas was recently named principal of the year by the N.C. Parent Teacher Association.
Thomas is in his second year leading the Cornelius school, which has about 1,500 students. During his tenure PTA membership has gone from about 1,000 to 1,500. Bailey PTA leaders nominated Thomas for his rapport with students, families and faculty and his work to make sure the volunteer group includes all families.
Thomas shared the credit with parent leaders. "This is the smoothest and most effective PTA I have been around," he said. Staff reports
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Modelling simultaneous removal of trichlorfon and glucose in a hybrid bioreactor containing magnetically immobilized biomass
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Issue Date | 1998 | ||||||||
Source | Water science and technology, v. 38, (4-5), 1998, p. 179-186 | ||||||||
Summary | This paper focuses on a simultaneous removal of trichlorfon and glucose that was added as carbon source for degradation requirement of trichlorfon. A hybrid bioreactor, having both suspended and magnetically immobilized biomass, was used for investigating this removal of both substances. To evaluate the respective roles of these two types of biomass, a mathematical model was developed and also verified well with experimental results. It has been found that the suspended biomass plays a key role in removing both substances in the system. This is due to complete coexistence of both trichlorfon-degrading and glucose-removing bacteria completely in each type of the biomass. Such a system would be applicable to the treatment of complex industrial wastewaters that contain easily biodegradable organics as well as refractory pollutants. (C) 1998 Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. | ||||||||
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