PASS BA Speaker focus: What did Steve Jobs have to say about Daniel Fylstra?
PASS BA Conference is delighted to have Daniel Fylstra speaking at our conference. In fact, he was the first speaker we signed up.
I think it's great that we have such a visionary attending our PASS BA Conference. I'm looking forward to meeting Daniel, and picking up his insights from 30 plus years in the industry. Jobs mentions an event that took place when I was only six years old, and look at how the industry has grown since then. We have Excel's 30th Birthday this year.
We can really say that the team of Dan Bricklin, Bob Frankston and Daniel Fylstra are great innovators who have really changed the industry fundamentally. Although they didn't invent the spread sheet, it was Daniel Fylstra suggested it would be a viable product if it could run on an Apple II computer. VisiCalc was born.
Ever used the Microsoft Excel Solver? Well, here is Daniel Fylstra's paper on the Microsoft Excel Solver, and its design and use. If you've ever used it, you should tip your hat to the great team who put it together. Daniel is one of those people. More recently, Fylstra has been working on Integrated simulation, data mining and optimization in Excel. Here's a recent paper here, from the ACM.
From this insight, there are great innovators and thinkers that can we learn from them. They seek better ways of doing things, about bringing insights from other disciplines. We are inspired by people who see the bigger picture, and I'm personally looking forward to meeting Daniel and thanking him for all he has done for this industry.
Make sure you sign up for the Conference, and take the opportunity to meet a legend in the industry.
PASS BA Conference: Why I'm delighted Mico Yuk is keynoting!
I am on fire about our Keynote Speaker, Mico Yuk! Mico is someone I admire very much. She's a Business Intelligence coach, thought-leader, author, blogger, and data scient, author of Data Visualization for Dummies, and we are very fortunate that Mico has agreed to keynote at the PASS Business Analytics Conference in Santa Clara, CA, April 20-22. Mico will leading the charge of all-star lineup of top speakers from across the world of business and data analytics. Not only is Mico an expert in her fields, but her experience, passion and belief in the power of Business Analytics and Data Visualisation mean that she is the right person to lead the charge at PASS Business Analytics Conference. I'm so delighted that she has come on board. I've been fortunate enough to speak with Mico on the phone, as well as listen to a lot of her sessions on YouTube, and I cannot wait until I finally meet her in person.
Nearly a decade's experience of using and teaching thousands globally how to harness the power of data visualization to create real business results, Mico is the founder of BI Brainz, a leader in enterprise visual solutions, and the BI Dashboard Formula (BIDF) coaching series, focusing on helping enterprises embrace a more visual culture. Named one of the Top 50 Analytics Bloggers, Mico speaks and blogs about all things BI-related.
A world-class lineup of business and data analytics experts from Revolution Analytics, Microsoft, GoDaddy, IBM, Gigaom Research (f which I'm fortunate enough to be a Gigaom Analyst!) , and other leading companies – along with a "Dream Team" of Excel masters – will be joining Mico to share the latest best practices for leading organizations from data to insights to action.
Analytics professionals can get a free sneak peek at the PASS BA Conference's sessions and speakers with on-demand recordings from last week's BA Marathon webinar series.
Here come the IBM experts! Here's one our PASS BA Conference speakers, Richard Lee, sharing his expertise on the topic of data privacy. Richard is a well-respected influencer and strategist in data leadership, and we are delighted to have him join us at the event. Richard Lee is on of IBM's Honours list as a Big Data and Analytics Hero, as well as on of their Champions.
Richard joins another IBM superstar, James Kobielus, who will be talking about Big Data. James G Kobielus is an industry veteran. He serves as IBM's big data evangelist; as senior program director for product marketing in big data analytics, and as editor-in-chief of IBM Data Magazine. Kobielus spearheads IBM's thought leadership activities in Big Data, Hadoop, cognitive computing, enterprise data warehousing, and advanced analytics. Basically, he is an expert in a variety of facets of big data.
Personally I cannot wait for their sessions. I've admired their work from afar and when we were selecting speakers, they went straight onto my wishlist. I have been lucky enough to meet Richard in person recently and we had a great conversation. I'm looking forward to meeting James as well; we've spoken on the phone. I learned things from conversing with both of them, and I'm sure that attendees will gain inspirational and practical advice from both of them.
BAWeekender Roundup of PASS BA speaker activity and Quote of the week!
For the weekend, I thought you might enjoy some BA oriented weekend reading from our fantastic roundup of speakers at the PASS BA Conference. Here goes! This week, we are focusing on Power Bi articles in particular.
Blue Hill's James Haight blogged on why the real promise of bitcoin comes from blockchain applications http://bit.ly/BeyondBitcoinBHR …But I'm particularly interested in James' assessment of Enterprise BI and how Power BI fits in to the enterprise. This is particularly interesting because James covers all the bases – functionality, licensing, pricing and so on. Recommended read!
IBM and all around Big Data influencer James Kobielus blogged on The dev@ was in the details, and in my delivery http://shar.es/1oRXu3 James is a great speaker and his PASS BA Webinar for the BA Marathon was excellent and very well received. You can see it here.
It's fair to say that the Internet went nuts over our choice of keynote speaker. We are truly delighted to have Mico along and the warm wishes are still rolling in! Here is the Chicago Times – BI Brainz Founder Mico Yuk Leading All-Star Speaker Lineup at PASS Business Analytics Conference.
Richard Lee, part of our Communicate and Lead track, is part of the #IBMDataHero hall of fame: Stories of challenges, wins & outcomes. You can see RIchard on the IBM Data Hero list here.
We end with our Quote of the Week! This comes from Bill Jelen, over Twitter. If you say you are starting with clean Excel data, you are 100% lying" – overheard at Bill's seminar. Amen to that!


I should tell you that we live on an acre in the country one hundred and twenty-five kilometres south-west of the city. We moved here two months ago after another unsuccessful attempt to love – and afford – the city. We used to live in the mountains. Then children came, and I needed to find the kind of regular work that feeds a mortgage and a family, and which one finds more of in a city. We moved to a terrace house in the inner city and tried to like it. But I'm not much good at the kind of work you have to do to afford the kind of oversubscribed and overlit life the city wants you to lead, and every day in town was another day I couldn't see out to any kind of country, and every day I seemed to become less like the man I thought I was.
So here – to keep it trim – we are in the landscape again. The house we found was built for the man who ran the dairy for the big property from which our acre has since been cut. The house has grown in the hundred years since it was that first dairyman's home. It has four bedrooms now, its weatherboards are a nice dusty yellow, and its roof is clad in corrugated iron. It is a plain house, but pretty, and it is set about with rose bushes and mature trees, and it is more than enough for us.
But the real reason we bought the place – apart from the paddocks over the fence and the space around us and the cool air above, and apart from the fact we could afford it – sits down the back between the silver poplars and the oak. We moved here because of a cowshed. The cowshed is a little older than the house, and it is the reason the house is here. It is made of brick, rendered now and painted the same kind of yellow as the house. According to Ross, who came the other day to dig a trench to bring the telephone wire down from the house, the cowshed is a four-stand walk-through, and it would have milked sixty head twice a day one hundred years ago. Since mid-March it is where I have sat and worked, and I am sitting there now – writing this – in early June. Across the lane the elms have stopped being yellow and stand bare against an acid-clear winter blue sky. The ground smells of poplar leaves and the aftermath of rain. The light is failing; soon I must go and lock the hens in their coop. Down in the paddocks some heifers bawl. Soon the frogs will start up along the Wingecarribee, which snakes through the pastures and the willows and the birches down there, a quarter mile from where I sit.
I am in Australia, though it's not easy to tell. No eucalypts here. No sheoaks in sight. Nothing to place me here except for the name of that river and the way a mob of Eastern Greys bounds away in its desultory panicwhenever you get close to them in the paddock by the river, and the fact that it is winter in June, and the way right now the possum drags its world-weary self into the nest it calls its own in the ceiling above my head. Something antipodean – which has nothing to do with 'Australia,' that abstraction, of course, but everything to do with the way this place belongs to the natural history of this bend of this particular river on this particular continent under this bit of heaven in the present geological era, the Holocene, doomed and beautiful era of men – something antipodean, more than a scent, less than a voice, something close to a sensibility, is immanent here, in the face of so much circumstantial evidence that this cowshed is set down somewhere in West Massachusetts or The Cotswolds. And I don't believe for a minute that I would write the truth about this place, nor would I write truly from this place about anything, if I didn't catch in my syntax and diction something of the cadence of that local Wingecarribeean intelligence, including the way it plays among these colonial cows and cowsheds, these immigrant trees and grasses and women and children and men, such as me, sitting here in my post-pastoral shed withmy pale skin, my Cornish surname and my Apple computer.
Australia, the driest continent on earth after Antarctica, is drying out. Down in the southern half of the island, we're nearly ten years into a drought that's starting to feel like the future, global warming being what it is turning out to be. The dam, for instance, that keeps Sydney in water, is below thirty-five per cent, and it's not been above fifty for as long as I can remember. In the place where I have come to live, a panicked government has slyly approved the pumping of the Kangaloon Aquifer into the river system that stocks that dam – a plan that threatens to wreck the pastures and swamps and brown-barrel forests of the basalt hills under which the aquifer runs. Such is our growing desperation. For the skies have dried up, and the ground below is perishing. In five years we will have a desalination plant turning the Pacific Ocean into potable water. But we'll be needing quieter and more radical solutions than that: like, for instance, the sclerophyll habits of the native trees – their ethic of restraint.
But in the meantime, we have been dancing and voting and praying for rain – and we've been doing it too well, it seems. For suddenly, on the very afternoon of the eve of last weekend, a long weekend, a low-pressure cell settled over a large tract of the east coast and dropped 200-odd millilitres out of cyclonic winds over the next two days. Trees fell, houses fell, roads fissured, and cars upon them and families within them were washed away. Farming land and shopping malls and entire suburban streets were inundated.
Things were pretty calm, by comparison, here along the Wingecarribee. I went out Saturday night and strung a tarp over the chicken coop, because I hadn't got around to getting someone to get around to patching the leaky roof, and the girls were having trouble staying dry. I was wetter than they'll ever get by the time I had fought the blue tarp placid in the gusting winds and pinned it with bricks to the roof. And my cowshed leaked; the winds were carrying rain from all points, including, apparently, north, and some of it got in under the big barn door. I came in Saturday morning and found a shallow kind of estuary making a muddy kind of sea of the rug on the concrete floor. I mopped it up and plugged the gap with an old towel and got a fire started in the stove and thanked the household gods that the good old structure, home now to my library as well as my work, was as sound as it looked, and I got on.
By Sunday the worst was over – though not in the Hunter, where floods were just making ready to come downstream. The system that had caused all this had blown out to sea to make its peace. But a trough was coming in behind it, so I figured we had a few good hours to take our cloistered selves and our cabin-feverish children outside. The paddock is normally where I would have started. The paddock and the river. To check on the ducks and the white-faced herons, the horses and the roos. 'Can you take me to the paddock?' Henry, who is four, asks whenever I return to the house from the shed. This morning he was more eager than ever because he could see from the house some impressive puddles down there in need of being splashed. But right there – that was going to be the problem with the paddock, even in good rainboots. So instead, we took a drive to Berrima, and after horsing round at the village shops while Maree discovered bargains, we drove some more and landed up at Berkelouw Book Barn.
Now, I don't need any more books. But you don't have to need them. I found some nice old Zane Greys and a Paul Auster and a Larry McMurtry, but I left them. I found two volumes by a good poet who used to live close by, one of them named – aptly – Berrima Winter, and I bought them. And then, after an hour's bibliophilic shambling about the wooden floors, face out on the counter of the café, where we had bought off the boys with a milkshake, there it was, the thing I didn't know until then I had been looking for: The Book of Tea.
The book was a small work of art, humble and finely made and useful like a piece of anagama pottery: a small hardback, bound in white cloth, the title gold embossed on a black panel, and textured brown endpapers inside. This was an object incarnating an idea, and the idea, happily, was what the book was about. The Book of Tea is a Zen classic, written a hundred years ago by Okakura Kakuzo. What Okakura, like Basho well before him, wanted us to know was that the tea ceremony, performed, of course, mindfully, might be not just a metaphor but an actual practice – right up there with painting and poetry and solitude – for mindful living; for a well-made, dignified and responsible kind of life, and for what Okakura called a beautiful death.
What he meant by that was not so much an actual (good) death but a kind of dying to one's meaner self – a making of one's life, as Sam Hamill glosses it in the introduction – part of a greater work of art. And that greater work of art is the way that nature goes. 'The first task for each artist,' Basho wrote in Knapsack Notebook, meaning not just the making of art but the making of a good, true and beautiful life, 'is to overcome the barbarian or animal heart and mind, to become one with nature'.
'Tea mind', if I have understood it, describes pretty well how I aspire to live here and how I would like to write and how I would like quietly to change the world's mind. And I am pretty sure I'm going to fail, though the failing and carrying on anyway is part of the ethic The Book of Tea describes. Which goes something like this: to live conformably with the rest of creation; to live modestly, mercifully, truly; to say nothing, if one can't say something that helps; to do nothing, if one can't do something that helps. And there is an aesthetic that goes with it: the simple vernacular beauty of the little white book and the tea ceremony it describes; of the cowshed and the paddocks in winter. I was always attracted to the idea of living mindful of one's small part in the larger natural world. In the story of one's habitat. In the narrative of evolution. In the geologic epic of the world. I like the idea, though I always stumble at the practice, of living as if I really were a part, like the wrens in the hedge right now, of the place in time, attuned, as Basho put it, to 'nature through out the four seasons' (not that there are four seasons here).
The secret to the beautiful life, then, is tea; the secret is attunement to a larger world than one's self; the secret is perspective; the secret is humble, open-eyed, big-hearted, tough-minded awareness.
I paid for the milkshake and coffees, and I bought the book, and as we drove home into the returning rain, I began to wonder how tea mind might look in weather like we had just had, in weather not yet done. What would the tea-mind practitioner look like, for instance, having drunk their tea and walked down to a cowshed, sending some e-mails as the storm resumes outside, and writing some poems and later, perhaps, doing something about trying to persuade the government to stop drawing so mercilessly on the Kangaloon Aquifer just over the ridge – what would one look like if one's actions were attuned to a once-in-thirty-year weather event like this? What would tea mind look like in cyclonic mood? What would Hurricane Katrina mind look like, for that matter, and what good would it bring?
Nature never was temperate, and she is not getting any calmer. A life pursued at one with nature would not be the tranquil endeavour The Book of Tea might make one imagine. Would a beautiful life and death include behaving now and then like a turbulent low-pressure cell, like the waves that washed a tanker onto Nobby's Beach and forced thousands of Novacastrians out of their homes and washed nine people away in their cars and killed them?
Those of us who know not the secret of properly regulating our own existence on this tumultuous sea of foolish troubles we call life are constantly in a state of misery while vainly trying to appear happy and contented. We stagger in the attempt to keep our moral equilibrium and see forerunners of the tempest in every cloud that floats on the horizon. Yet there is joy and beauty in the roll of the billows as they sweep outward toward eternity. Why not enter into their spirit, or, like Liethse, ride upon the hurricane itself?
I am pretty sure that Okakura's idea would bring small comfort to the extended family of a mother and father and three young children whose car fell into a fissure opened in the Old Pacific Highway last Friday in the thick of all this by the falling rain and the rising creek and carried downstream to their deaths. Nature, whether you are at one with her or not, is blind, like justice. Riding the hurricane can kill you, and the dying won't always be beautiful. There is a quietism in tea mind – there is a kind of resignation implicit in the very ethic I aspire to – that troubles me. But as in nature, so in human life – and so Ecclesiastes, that other great book, says – there are storms and there is death; there is violence and there is peace; 'there is a time for every purpose under heaven'; there is a time, for instance, to weep, and a time, a bit later, to laugh; there is 'a time to break down and a time to build up'.
So I can see how tea mind – place mind, if I may translate Okakura loosely, even cowshed mind – might include rage and protest, rightly steeped, of course, and poured precisely for whom and only for whom it was meant. When marching on the Capitol, I hear Okakura intone, just march on the Capitol; when writing nature poems, just write nature poems; when changing the baby, just change the baby; when changing the world, just change the world. Master the steps required for that one task, and perform them in good time, as though they were the most natural thing in the world – and the only thing on your mind right now.
The weather event played right through the weekend – it still plays – in newspapers and on television as a story of calamity: holidays ruined, property damaged, hopes dashed, lives, worst of all, lost. Disaster is one way, perfectly understandable, to characterise the weather. And again, it is all very well for me, high and dry in my cowshed in the placid Southern Highlands, to say this, but to tell the weather that way is to see the world from an alienated, merely human perspective; it is not to see things whole; it is not to observe the world with tea mind. Ours is, after all, a continent in drought; the land – and we upon it – need the rain. And we need it to come as emphatically as this; the groundwaters are drying out, and only such heavy rain, again and again, will bring them back, if they are ever coming back. We should be giving thanks, while we also help and comfort those who have suffered.
The world, we must not forget, has changed. It was always thus, of course. That is the nature of the world. But lately it's been doing it fast, and it looks like we are largely to blame. Where I live, the world has got drier; and in many places it is getting sporadically stormier. Like this weekend. This is nature now. This is a new kind of season, and we had better get used to it. There is going to be more hurricane-riding before we are through. 'The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings,' Okakura advises. So let's adjust; let's see the fierce new world for what she is; let's ride her and rein her in how we can.
When I interviewed David Suzuki last year, he told me that the world has, in his estimation, ten years to change its habits fundamentally – to the tune of ninety per cent, which is to say, almost completely. We're going to have to scale things back. Drinking tea will not be enough; but it does speak of moderation, a thing we are going to have to master again. The modesty and simplicity of the ceremony remain a powerful metaphor in these immoderate and apocalyptic times. We need to use less of everything, Suzuki explained to me with alarming equanimity ('tea mind'?) and assurance – less energy and water, in particular, in everything we do (writing books, warming houses, travelling, lighting our lives, growing grain, raising cattle, raising children, fashioning clothes, shipping everything, you name it) if we are to avoid tipping the earth into the kind of unstoppable atrophic chaos Al Gore's film, An Inconvenient Truth, so vividly depicted. And we need to do it fast and stay calm while we do.
The good news is we have the techniques and the wherewithal, Suzuki and others say, to change our ways to that degree in just about every field. The bad news is what it always was: everywhere in the developed and developing world there is an overwhelming lack of political, mercantile and domestic will. Prosperity is a drug of addiction; denial and lethargy are two of its side effects. So perhaps the best news of all is also the worst: we are running out of oil. Nothing may teach us to live more slowly than running out of gas. And when the oil is gone – and later the coal – we will, if it is not too late, stop fueling the engine that is overheating the system.
The Book of Tea speaks of the ultimate virtue of attunement, of living at one with the way things go. Harmony is the organising metaphor here. The phrase 'at onement,' which grew out of a Middle English expression, used to mean the same thing – harmony. 'Atonement', though, which that phrase evolved into, means not just harmony but a process of reconciliation, some kind of putting things right again, and – importantly – some kind of sacrifice or suffering. If we want to live sustainably, if we want the world to keep us, and more particularly our children, we are going to have to surrender some of what we have; we are going to have to give something away. It is going to cost us, and so it should: it is worth the world. Someone has to suffer, and it might as well be us.
We need, more than anything, to learn the elegant restraint, the modesty, of the tea ceremony – a thing the eucalypts already know. And we are going to need to persist. Ritual repetition of modest gestures is what the tea cere-mony, like all Zen practice, consists in; it is what it teaches; it is what the world needs now, possibly more than love. Unless that is what love really is.
The tea ceremony – 'teaism', as Okakura calls it – 'is a worship of the imperfect.' To live well is to essay something within your gift and to work at it until you have got it more or less down. Perfection, in other words, is not necessary, even in these urgent times. We are going to fail the world long before the world fails us; it is a question of how badly or beautifully. What is compulsory is effort: sacrifice and discipline and selflessness.
One cold night this week, after the stories, some of them recited by the boy, some of them read by his mother, Maree was talking Henry to sleep, and she was talking, as mothers sometimes will, about how the boy had come into the world and how it had made her glad. Nearly asleep, the boy asked her, 'What is the world?' What, indeed.
'What is the world?' is the question we may be here to live. Learn the world, Basho might almost have said, and forget the world. That is to say, become not merely yourself; become, where you are, what the world is. Celebrate the world; it is beautiful and terrible. Like God; like one-self. Come into the world over and over again.
And because the world, in its physical manifestation, is also what we drink and breathe and eat and walk and work upon, we had better not just observe it; we had better husband and conserve it. And try to rein ourselves in.
After the rain, we had four hard frosts; four cold and brilliant days. Now it is raining again. Steadily this time. Good rain; nothing violent. By mid-month this is already the wettest June since 1964; 350 millilitres of rain have fallen, and this is only the start of what we need. The Wingecarribee has broken its banks and made a floodplain of the pastures just below me. But still there is hardly a word of welcome for the rain. Nothing much is said in the press or on the streets of the virtues of this drenching (except at last today a mention at the bottom of the nightly news that our dam may soon be up to close to fifty per cent capacity.) We seem to need all our stories to speak of ourselves. We want drought and flood; we want tragedy and loss; we want heartbreak and fairy tale and comfort. The land is the big picture, and we forget to paint it. It isn't news, of course; we are, as ever, the news.
So the rain runs in the papers as the quantum of damage, as contested insurance claims, as heroics and adversity, and it is all those things, and, had I lost my family or farm or library, my teacup might be stormier. But mostly the rain is itself; that is the story, and it would behove us to listen. I have been hearing it all day on the roof and in the gutters; I've been seeing it in the hanging lichens of the poplars. The trench Ross dug across the yard has subsided. The boys step in it, and Henry gets stuck there, right up to his knees. The world has got hold of him.
At dusk I wade out to the car and drive – there I go driving again – with our baby girl to the post office to send a birthday card to a nephew before it's too late. Lucy falls asleep in the car on the road; that was part of the plan. I am home now, and I have carried her to her cot, and I hope she's sleeping still, but I have come back here to write on, and it rains on, and Maree's in the house feeding the boys, and night is falling along the Wingecarribee. My wife knows a whole lot more than I ever will about the art of tea and the business of patience and the repetitive performance of small, good, necessary tasks. But something in me wants to write today. So here I sit again at small, difficult repetitive gestures of my own, in which I persist in a cowshed, noting 'the beautiful foolishness of things', in case it helps. And beside me rests The Book of Tea.
When I came upon The Book of Tea, I was wrestling with a poem. I didn't know – I still don't – if it is an especially good poem. But I knew I had to write it, and I had been sitting at it in the shed, picking it up and putting it down between other obligations all week, in every kind of weather, most of it cold. That Sunday morning in the bookbarn, I knew my poem was two stanzas short. A poem is an equation, among other things, and mine hadn't quite come out. I was aware, too, that my poem was still looking for whatever it is that tautens a poem, that tightens its screws – a line of thought older and more beautiful than I had discovered working alone in a cowshed; it wanted, perhaps, a hit of caffeine; the medicinal fragrance of a cup of hot black tea. And when I opened the tea book, it happened.
I found in the book what my poem had been trying to help me think – about the way I want to live and work, here by the Wingecarribee, or wherever, until I am done; I found what I had been trying to say. It wasn't the only answer in the only words I will ever need to the best question I'll ever ask; half the books in my library know the same thing the tea book told me. Some of the books of my grandfather's preaching Bible lying over there on the third shelf up have been talking to me thus all along. But it was a good answer, shapely and wise. And timely. And not only for my poem.
I found in The Book of Tea an economics and a moral geometry – to use Okakura's phrasing – for the slow and mindful, engaged and grounded life I aspire to here, and at which, as I say, I will almost certainly fail. The tea ceremony, writes Okakura, 'is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life'. Maybe that is what I am down here working at tonight, my feet cold in their boots, the rain falling hard again on the roof.


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Ilosone (Erythromycin)
Ilosone belongs to a group of drugs called macrolide antibiotics. These work by killing or stopping the growth of the bacteria that cause infections.
Cynopryl, Eltocin, Erypal, Erythrocin, Erythrokem, Erythromycin, Estocin, Pediazole
Cipro, Arava, Precose, Wellbutrin, Lipitor, Moduretic, Levothroid, Seroquel, Cymbalta, Lamictal
Also known as: Erythromycin
Generic Ilosone is created by pharmacy specialists to struggle against infections (pneumonia, Legionnaire's disease, sexually transmitted diseases, skin infections). It is also helpful in treatment of severe acne and prevention of heart diseases in people who suffer from rheumatic fever. Target of Generic Ilosone is to control, ward off and terminate bacteria. Generic Ilosone acts as an anti-infection remedy. Generic Ilosone operates by killing bacteria which spreads by infection. Ilosone is also known as Erythromycin. Generic Ilosone and other antibiotics don't treat viral infections (flu, cold and other). Generic Ilosone is a macrolide antibiotic. Generic name of Generic Ilosone is Erythromycin. Brand names of Generic Ilosone are Ilosone, MY-E, Erythrocin Stearate Filmtab, E-Mycin, Ery-Tab, E.E.S.-200, Robimycin, E.E.S.-400, Eryc, EryPed, Erythrocot, CE Dispertab.
Patients should be counseled that antibacterial drugs including Ilosone Tablets should only be used to treat bacterial infections. They do not treat viral infections (e.g., the common cold). When Ilosone Tablets are prescribed to treat a bacterial infection, patients should be told that although it is common to feel better early in the course of therapy, the medication should be taken exactly as directed. Skipping doses or not completing the full course of therapy may (1) decrease the effectiveness of the immediate treatment and (2) increase the likelihood that bacteria will develop resistance and will not be treatable by Ilosone Tablets or other antibacterial drugs in the future.
Diarrhea is a common problem caused by antibiotics which usually ends when the antibiotic is discontinued. Sometimes after starting treatment with antibiotics, patients can develop watery and bloody stools (with or without stomach cramps and fever) even as late as two or more months after having taken the last dose of the antibiotic. If this occurs, patients should contact their physician as soon as possible.
In case of overdosage, Ilosone should be discontinued. Overdosage should be handled with the prompt elimination of unabsorbed drug and all other appropriate measures should be instituted.
Ilosone is not removed by peritoneal dialysis or hemodialysis.
Store according to directions on package. Do not freeze. Check the expiration date of your prescription and discard any unused portion after that date or after your doctor tells you to stop taking it.
The most common side effects associated with Ilosone are:
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A steadfast commitment to enabling and empowering people driving social change.
In 1989, Clare Clark established the Carold Institute for the Advancement of Citizenship in Social Change, a small foundation that made a big impact in adult education and democratic participation.
In a sector where it is rare to carve out opportunities for reflection, the Carold Institute provided precious space for people to deepen their learning and share their learning with others.
With the Alan Thomas Fellowship, leaders at transition points in their career benefited from year-long sabbaticals to pursue research of importance to the sector. Fellows shared this research through reports, books, films and more.
The Carold Institute also brought together groups of people animated around topics related to social change–local and global democracy, for example, and citizenship and globalization–in learning circles and other events. Some of these rich discussions are captured in the Carold Institute's publications, which remain relevant today.
The Carold Institute established the Winifred Hewetson Awards in Community and World Service, in honour of Ms. Clark's niece Win, who was one of the founding board members of the Carold Institute.
In these and many other ways, the Carold Institute has connected people and provided a space where deep relationships formed, creating a vibrant network of those who shared a vision of adult learning related to citizenship and social change.
Over its 30-year history, the Carold Institute held fast to the vision of Ms. Clark. The question of "what would Clare say or want" provided a moral compass to guide its decisions.
In 2016, with the changing context of the social change sector and the adult education sphere, the board of directors agreed that the future of the Carold Institute's work could only be guaranteed by embarking on a bold new partnership. They agreed that Ms. Clark had not envisioned the continuation of the Carold Institute for its own sake and, as they approached the limits of their financial resources, sought opportunities for collaboration rather than closure.
In CKX, the Carold Institute found a partner that shared their values. This partnership means that the Carold Institute's work will continue and grow. Together CKX and the Carold Institute are creating a new kind of social change agency, with a vision rooted in Carold's core values and a new, bold pursuit.
The archives of the Carold Institute, as well as Clare Clark's papers, are held by the University of Waterloo.
We have created a legacy, a fellowship to be proud of; may it continue to flourish.
- Nigel Martin, former Board Member.
Carold initiated conversations on dozens of issues that impact our understanding and practice of democracy and citizenship in Canada today – resource extraction in first nations communities, security and civil society, participatory democracy, innovation in social movements in Quebec, human rights and citizenship, emerging trends in voluntary action and more, the interface between big data and civil society. An impressive agenda for a little foundation with no staff and no office.
Carold really is an amazing organization, doing what it can to improve civil society in Canada and around the world. It was a privilege to be a part of it.
[Clare Clark] had a way of popping up everywhere, which really drew me closer: she was a leader in an era where women of her social class mostly held teas and garden parties.
Carold has been a true place of reflection, exploration and social change. It has indeed been a small organization, shaped by ideas and the enthusiasm of its board members. Unfettered by a rigid structure, and limited really only by the amount of energy, time, and ideas one could bring to the table.
The Carold Institute seems to me to the most "ego-less" organization I have ever experienced. I think that may be what has allowed it to inspire and enable creativity and commitment among so many in such different parts of our country.
With the Carold Institute, I have seen a dedicated, thoughtful group of people take full control of a little bit of power and use it for the common good.
The Alan Thomas Fellowship to Promote Civil Society and Voluntary Action was established in 2007 by the Carold Institute to develop better public understanding of the importance of volunteerism and to strengthen nonprofit leadership.
Alan Thomas was one of Canada's most influential adult educators and integral to the creation of the Carold Institute. He also authored many books in the field and was a member of the Order of Canada.
Fellows spent a year in reflection and research, culminating in a project that contributed in a publication or artistic expression that contributed to knowledge in the nonprofit sector.
In 2016, the Fellows met in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. During the three-day retreat, they discussed the state of leadership in Canada's social change and advocacy movements.
Watch brief video reflections by the Fellows on their experiences of the Fellowship.
Read their reflections in What Time Is It?, the report summarizing the retreat.
The Carold Institute's values of reflection, learning, and social change is informing the design and development of CKX's suite of programs.
Alexa Conradi is an award-winning author, speaker, trainer and feminist activist. She is the author of Fear, Love and Liberation in Contemporary Québec: A Feminist Reflexion, to be published in 2019 by Between the Lines. From 2009-2015, she was president of Canada's largest feminist organization, the Fédération des femmes du Québec. From 2006-2009, she served as the first elected president of the political party Québec solidaire.
After years of swimming against the current, Alexa used her fellowship to write Les angles morts: Perspectives sur le Québec actuel about the blind spots facing Quebec society regarding feminism, relations with indigenous people, systemic racism, violence against women and rising inequalities.
Frances Waithe is the co-founder and executive director of the Dare Every Soul to Achieve (DESTA) Black Youth Network, a community-based organization serving marginalized youth. She has spent the past 25 years working to improve the lives of the people in her neighbourhood of Little Burgundy in Montréal.
Frances used her fellowship to reflect on her experience and to distill the future direction for DESTA's programming and for herself as an agent of change in her community.
Luc Gaudet is the founder and artistic director of Mise au jeu, a participatory intervention theatre company. Luc's research on the use of games and theatre as a tool for personal and social development has taken him throughout Quebec and around the world.
During his fellowship, Luc reflected on his social interventions through Mise au jeu and established a model of the stages in turning the public into actor. In particular, he focussed on the power of play in the process.
Kim Pate is mother to Michael and Madison and a lawyer and teacher by training. Prior to her appointment to the Senate of Canada, she was the executive director of the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies (CAEFS), a federation of societies which work with and on behalf of marginalized, victimized, criminalized and institutionalized women and girls.
Kim's fellowship allowed her to develop strategies to advance human rights advocacy with and for a population who represent the fastest growing prison population. She trained law students in prison law and human rights; community support workers in identifying and addressing reintegration needs of women in and from prison; and criminalized women in addressing human rights and women's reintegration needs.
In her initial Senate address she signaled her intention to continue her advocacy work.
Nicole Rycroft is the founder of Canopy, a nonprofit that works with the forest industry to develop business solutions that protect ancient and endangered forests.
Nicole's fellowship project asked how successful nonprofits can most effectively scale their impact to provide positive models of change in other communities and other regions of the world. She studied for-profit franchises and licensing among numerous models to evaluate how charities could best scale their influence and effectiveness across jurisdictions, without developing large and unwieldy structures.
John Cox is a community development worker living in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He has a long history of advocating for people with disabilities, working with the Nova Scotia chapter of People First, the oldest self-advocacy organization for people who have been labeled intellectually disabled.
During his fellowship, John examined the advocacy work of people labeled as having intellectual disabilities, and the influence and impact their mobilization has had on Canadian policies of inclusion. He documented the history of the People First movement in Nova Scotia and in Canada.
For more than 40 years, Paula Carr has worked in the community services sector and with municipal and provincial departments, supporting leadership within local organizations in Saskatchewan and British Columbia. She is currently a health care system development agent with the Doctors of B.C.
In her fellowship, Paula analyzed the community development practices of Collingwood Neighbourhood House in a culturally diverse Vancouver neighbourhood. She examined its methodologies for creating socially inclusive environments and developing intercultural leadership to inform work in similar contexts.
A former journalist, in 2002 Michel Venne founded the Institut du Nouveau Monde (INM), a non-partisan organization which promotes citizen participation. He is now a policy analyst and adviser.
For his fellowship project, he studied the role of citizen participation in the creation and implementation of social innovations, with a particular focus on the work of INM, its citizenship schools and its citizen forums. He developed many resources to illustrate the tools used to engage citizens and to generate social innovation.
Peggy Edwards is a health promotion consultant, policy analyst and writer based in Ottawa specializing in issues related to aging, social justice, voluntarism and gender. She is a leader in the Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign, which supports African grandmothers who are raising AIDS orphans.
Vincent Greason is an adult educator who has been actively involved in grassroots community and labour organizations in Quebec and Ontario. On the board of the Ligue des droits et libertés since 2006, Vincent works at the Table ronde des OVEP de l'Outaouais, a popular education coalition in Western Québec. In 2017, he was awarded the Prix Émile-Ollivier for his lifetime achievement in advancing adult education.
During his fellowship, Vincent examined the role that Quebec's community-based organizations have played, and continue to play, in the collective life of Quebec's community movement, focusing particularly on activist groups involved in the defence and promotion of collective rights.
Penny Goldsmith is a BC social justice activist who for eighteen years was the coordinator of PovNet, an online communication network and teaching tool for anti-poverty frontline workers, community advocates and poor and marginalized people.
During her fellowship, Penny wrote and subsequently published a graphic story entitled "Storming the Digital Divide: the PovNet Story" with artist Kara Sievewright.
Penny has since become involved with a mental health choir. She also sings with Solidarity Notes, a choir which performs for social justice causes.
The Carold Institute's publications considered pressing questions about democracy, citizenship and globalization, volunteerism, and more.
Michael Clague, Leslie Kemp and Juliet Huntly provide lessons from 10 successful community service organizations in British Columbia from 1997-2008.
Can democracy be renewed? How can it become truly participatory and open to all citizens?
Building Local and Global Democracy describes the causes of the recent democratic deficit, and local and global efforts to counter it.
Examining governance among indigenous people in British Columbia, the barriers to democratic participation experienced by women of colour in Toronto, participatory budgeting in a Brazilian city, and more, Building Local and Global Democracy shows how local and global realities affect citizen engagement in their democracies.
Citizenship and Globalization summarizes a 2002 Carold symposium on the democratic worldviews of social movements, and how they drive positive change.
It also summarizes the remarks of the event's four speakers: John Foster of the North South Institute on human rights; Lorraine Guay of the World March of Women on women; Elizabeth May of the Sierra Club of Canada on the environment; and Nancy Neamtan of le Chantier de l'economie social on the social economy.
The 1990's were a time of political and societal change in Canada, with government cutbacks and more demands on health, social service and community agencies.
Voluntary Action and Organization in Canada compiles reflections from nonprofit sector leaders on how the sector can remain vibrant and continue to contribute to Canada's civil society.


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ROUNDUP: Sierra boys tie, girls fall in pivotal VOL track meet
Miranda Miller shatters own program records in pole vault, triple jump
Bulletin staff reports
OAKDALE — Sierra's boys track team settled for a tie at The Corral but is still in good position to earn sole possession of the Valley Oak League championship.
The Timberwolves girls team lost its shot at winning a second straight title, falling to undefeated Oakdale, 84-48. The boys meet ended in a 68-68 tie, which is inconsequential if the T'wolves take care of business in their league finale against Weston Ranch next week.
"I'm proud of our kids today," Sierra coach Ezequiel Ruiz said "We knew it was going to be a tough meet and we gave it our best shot. I can't be upset."
Sierra's girls (4-1) couldn't keep up with the deeper Mustangs but had highlight performances from Miranda Miller. She broke two of her own program records with winning marks in the pole vault (10 feet, 6 inches) and triple jump (37-11). She also took first in the 100 hurdles and long jump.
The boys outcome came down to the final two events. Trailing by 14, the Timberwolves (4-0-1) managed to sweep the 3,200-meter run with Axel Rios leading the charge. They then claimed the 4x400 relay while Oakdale did not field a team.
Sierra did not have any double winners but got notable efforts. Holden Fishburn took first in the shot put and second in the discus; Nick Stanley finished first in the 110 hurdles and second in the 300 hurdles and Jerardo Saucedo was second in both the 400 and 800.
Sierra will take a handful of its athletes to the Sacramento Meet of Champions on Saturday. Weston Ranch visits next Thursday, April 25.
Kimball 4, East Union 3
TRACY — The Lancers (1-5 VOL, 9-10 overall) took another tough loss, as Kimball (5-3, 13-5) prevailed in walk-off fashion in the seventh.
Fernando Segura gave East Union a 3-2 lead with a two-run homer in the top of the fourth inning. He finished 2 for 4. Starting pitcher Andrew Morones tallied eight strikeouts, giving up two runs (one earned) on five hits in six innings.
"I thought he pitched well today," East Union coach Gene Ballardo said. "He got himself out of james and gave us a good chance to win the ballgame. We hung in there and fought hard, we just couldn't close it out at the end."
Lathrop 3, Mountain House 0
MOUNTAIN HOUSE — Lathrop ended its first campaign in the Western Athletic Conference with a tidy 25-14, 25-19, 25-18 victory.
The Spartans went 12-0 in their first title run and are 27-1 overall going into their final regular-season match next Wednesday at Ripon Christian, the Trans-Valley League champion.
Tyler Riggleman (14 digs) and Gabriel Gutierrez (three aces, 20 digs) crushed 10 kills apiece to lead the attack. Adrian Corona contributed seven kills, six aces and six digs. Sergio Tapia racked up five kills and five assists, while R.J. Carmesis amassed 40 assists.
Central Catholic 5, Manteca 4
MODESTO — The Buffaloes (8-4, 8-5 overall) had a chance to play spoiler for VOL champion Central Catholic (11-1, 13-2), which secured an outright claim of the crown Thursday. Oakdale could have earned a co-championship had Manteca won.
It was another competitive defeat for Manteca, which has qualified for the Sac-Joaquin Section playoffs.
"Two matches this week with 5-4 losses," coach Frank Fontana said. "We have been in every match we have (lost). Even though we lost we can take away some positives and get ready for the playoffs."
Manteca's top four singles players won their matches Solman Aniss ended the regular season undefeated with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Dane Juarez. Kurtis Ma (6-4, 6-2), Nick Pio (6-4, 6-4) and Harshawn Singh (6-2, 6-3) were the other victors.
East Union 9, Kimball 1
TRACY — John Perazzo finished 3 for 4 with a double and two runs, while Benjamin Slaughter struck out four and scattered seven hits in the complete-game victory.
East Union (4-2 VOL, 12-5 overall) trailed by a run before erupting for six in the top of the fourth. Anthony Flores added two hits, one of them a double, and two RBIs to the onslaught. Austin Orr also slugged a double, driving in three runs.
MOUNTAIN HOUSE — Lathrop (9-0, 12-3 overall) capped its perfect run in the WAC, rolling to a 25-13, 25-17 sweep.
Arman John pounded 10 kills to go with four aces and seven digs. Tory Sumbler set 19 assists, and Kyle Constantino collected three kills and five digs.
East Union 12, Kimball 4
TRACY — The first-place Lancers (7-0 VOL, 17-2 overall) played stellar defense behind pitcher Emma Silva, who struck out three. The defense strung together 14 consecutive put outs at one point.
Offensively, Danielle James went 3 for 5 with a double and three RBIs. Emily Mendoza finished 3 for 4 with two RBIs. Anjelica Morales scored twice and drove in one, ending up 2 for 2 at the plate.
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Q: Are Hausdorff measures on the real line Haar measures for some locally compact topology? For $0\leq d\leq 1$, let $\lambda_d$ be the $d$-dimensional Hausdorff measure on $\mathbb{R}$.  Note that it is translation-invariant.  Does there exist a locally compact topology $\mathscr{T}_d$ on $\mathbb{R}$, finer than the usual topology and compatible with the (additive) group structure (i.e., $+$ and $-$ are continuous), such that $\lambda_d$ is, up to some normalization, the Haar measure for $(\mathbb{R},+,\mathscr{T}_d)$?
(For $d=1$ the usual topology provides a positive answer.  For $d=0$ the discrete topology does.  So the question is whether we can do something in between.)
Bonus points if $\mathscr{T}_d$ can somehow be made "canonical".

A: The answer is NO because the Euclidean and the discrete topologies are the unique locally compact group topologies on $\mathbb R$, which are stronger that the Euclidean topology of the real line.
The reason is that $\mathbb R$ endowed with such topology $\tau$ is a locally compact abelian topological group without small subgroups, so is a Lie group (by the Gleason-Mongomery-Zippin Theorem). Since $(\mathbb R,\tau)$ admits a continuous injective map into $\mathbb R$, it has dimension $\le 1$. If the dimension of the Lie group $(\mathbb R,\tau)$ is 1, then it is (locally) homeomorphic to $\mathbb R$. If the Lie group $(\mathbb R,\tau)$ has dimension zero, then it is discrete.

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Leonard Carroll Wixson, whose real estate business Plantation Realty has been an icon on W. Broad Street, died August 9, 2009, at the age of 83 after an illness.
He was the husband of Marilyn Lamont Wixson for more than 60 years, father of Leonard Matthew Wixson of Star Tannery and Carolyn Wixson of Woodbridge, and grandfather to Maggie Wixson and Emmalee Haga. He is also survived by one brother, Gerald Wixson, of Bradenton, Florida.
Mr. Wixson was born in St. Ignace, Michigan, on July 5, 1926. He served in the U.S. Navy in World War II, earning a Presidential Unit Citation and campaign medals for his service in the South Pacific. After his marriage on August 27, 1948, he moved to Arlington to complete his college degree in 1950 at George Washington University.
In 1953 he formed Plantation Realty and, in 1960, moved the business to an old house in the center of Falls Church City and restored it as a brick office at the corner of Oak Street and W. Broad Street.
In 2003, he received a 50-year award from the City of Falls Church. In recent years, he lived on Belmont Bay in Woodbridge to be closer to family and his weekend retreat on the Potomac River.
Friends may call at the Murphy Falls Church Funeral Home, 1102 W. Broad St. (Rt. 7), on Thursday, August 13, from 6 to 8 p.m. The memorial service will be held at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 3022 Woodlawn Ave, Falls Church, VA 22042 on Friday, August 14 at 12 noon, with calling hours from 11 a.m. to noon. He will be interred at Arlington National Cemetery later this year. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Holy Trinity Lutheran Church or Capital Hospice, 2900 Telestar Court, Falls Church, VA 22042.


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Q: php mail function goes straight to junk folder I have set up a contact form, with basic fields. The form is sent to the site owner and a message sent to the customer submitting the form. The function works but allways send the message to the junk folder. Is there something wrong with my headers or is it just hotmails junk settings.
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0rn";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1rn";
$headers  .= "From: contact@mysite.com\r\n";
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers)or die("mail error");

The message's are HTML emails, just a nicer way of displaying the message. Also in my email account instead of displaying my from varable it says ,' CGI Mailer' -- confusing.
UPDATE - no longer works at all
//mail customer
$from = 'donotreply@mysite.co.uk';
$subject = 'Your message has been recieved.';

$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: My Site <'.$from.'>' . "\r\n";

$msg = '
<html>
<head>
<link href="http://linktocss/.../etc" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
formatted message...
</body>
</html>
';
mail($email, $subject, $msg, $headers)or die("mail error");

A: Nowadays Email-Clients and Servers perform massive checks on the emails sending server, like Reverse-DNS-Lookups, Graylisting and whatevs. All this tests will fail with the php mail() function. If you are using a dynamic ip, its even worse.
Use the PHPMailer-Class and configure it to use smtp-auth along with a well configured, dedicated SMTP Server (either a local one, or a remote one) and your problems are gone.

A: Edit
This worked for me, and did not end up in SPAM/Junk, but in my Inbox.
<?php
//mail customer
$from = 'donotreply@mysite.co.uk';
$to = "email@example.com";
$subject = 'Your message has been received.';

$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$headers .= "From: The Sending Name <$from>\r\n";

$msg = '
<html>
<head>
<link href="http://linktocss/.../etc" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

</head>
<body>
formatted message...
</body>
</html>
';
mail($to, $subject, $msg, $headers)or die("mail error");

?>

Footnotes: I noticed that you are using an external stylesheet. Many Email services such as Google will not render those. It's best to use inline styling to achieve better/desired results.

Original answer
The (most likely) reason (as per your posted code) why your mail ends up in SPAM is that your headers are invalid.
You have rn bunched up together, instead of using \r\n
Use this instead:
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$headers  .= "From: contact@mysite.com\r\n";
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers)or die("mail error");

Or better yet, use: As taken from the PHP website's mail() function
$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
$headers  .= "From: contact@mysite.com\r\n";
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers)or die("mail error");


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How is data beginning to shape the world around us?
Ramesh Nagarajan | August 8, 2019
The pace of new digital technology is quickly changing the way authorities collect and use data. How might this change society in the near future?
Digital transformation is quickly altering how we collect, store and analyse data. 5G is about to launch and data storage is getting cheaper. A lot of discussion has been dedicated as to how businesses will use this real-time big data, but what about how governments are set to improve society by tapping this new valuable resource?
Let's start with 5G.
This is the next major generation of mobile network technology and it's critical to the new generation of real-time applications. As with 4G, its focus is on mobile data and the speed at which it delivers it. The difference is that 5G specifications indicate that users will achieve minimum download speeds of 100Mbps — faster than the NBN in most cases.
Furthermore, latency will drop from the current 4G specification of 60 milliseconds to potentially as little as 1 millisecond, and more devices will be connected to the network at the same time than ever before. This means that self-driving cars, connected machinery, monitored wearables, measured land use, and all types of Internet of Things devices will be passing real-time big data like never before.
This begs the question — how will this real-time big data be used?
Let's start to answer this question by considering the fact that the world's internet population has grown by more than 750% over the past decade, to more than three billion people, and will soon encompass more than half of the world's population. From there, there will only be growth, until everyone is connected to the net one day. Every minute, more than three million pieces of content are shared on Facebook, and more than 300,000 tweets are sent — and that's just the start.
Welcome to the Internet of Things (IoT)
The internet is no longer just the domain of people, as the Internet of Things ecosystem of connected devices is proliferating at a rapid rate. Conservative estimates suggest there will be upwards of 30 billion connected IoT devices by 2030. With the ability to collect real-time information from cars, buildings, household electronics, and even livestock using 5G, the uses for IoT data are potentially infinite, and could finally realise a truly digitally connected world where the movement and health of everything is tracked and analysed.
Storage technology is also enabling more and more data
At the same time, there's been a number of extraordinary advances in storage technology and architecture. While the price of data storage has plummeted over the past 15 years by an average of 30% per year, the ability to capture more data so cost-effectively means that essentially more data will be captured.
Here's how governments are approaching things
Among so much talk of commercial efficiency and shareholder value when it comes to technology, it's actually what governments are doing with this rapidly evolving and real-time data that is often underrepresented when we talk about the benefits of big data. Let's take Japan as an example.
Japan is the most high profile example of a government pursuing a bold digital transformation strategy in order to solve many of the inherent challenges they face in the future.
While the global population continues to age, Japan in particular has one of the world's lowest fertility rates combined with one of the world's highest life expectancy, resulting in a markedly older population, who will only become older on average over the coming decades.
This will cause a variety of significant social issues for the way they produce goods and services, deliver healthcare, manage workforce shortages, and counter potentially stifled economic growth. At the same time, Japan is considered a global technology leader, so the Japanese Government has developed their Society 5.0 program as a way to leverage investment in digital technology to solve many of the problems they will be facing. Society 5.0 has been defined as a "human-centred society that balances economic advancement with the resolution of social problems by a system that highly integrates cyberspace and physical space."
It is about incentivising technology leaders to develop solutions that provide societal benefits beyond improving efficiency and the value of shares.
There are many applications
For example, health providers can begin transforming the way that healthcare is delivered. Elderly people can have their vital metrics monitored in real-time from anywhere — and help sent almost in anticipation of a potentially serious medical episode. Cars can become driverless so the elderly remain mobile and active outside their homes. Agriculture can be monitored, and automated activities can be triggered based on real-time measurement of humidity, precipitation, temperature and more, potentially by region and by paddock. Through greater collaboration between governments, universities, and industry, new insights can be unlocked for solving huge environmental challenges such as climate change.
Smart city initiatives are changing the way we'll live
Within local governments and municipalities all over the world, including Australia and New Zealand, smart city initiatives are now the digital transformation focus for city planners looking to deliver better and more cost-effective services to citizens.
IoT-connected buses and trains will revolutionise public transport, while smart car parking facilities will free up space all over a city. There's even talk of smart bins that notify waste management only when they need to be collected, and street lights that only turn on when they detect movement.
All of the above is being powered by new capabilities for capturing, storing, and analysing data. Through continued collaborative innovation between technology providers, enterprises, government, and the academic world, we will soon have the ability to create a previously unimaginable world.
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It appears St. Patrick's day is seen by the left akin to a clan rally.
Thanks. 10 lbs. of corned beef cooking. Wearin my best Irish shirt and ballcap. Kids band is playin at the Irish tonite. And lots o green beer. Good day to ya and god bless Ireland. Oh. And I have 6 big green plants in the backyard thanks to the new Ca. law.
It's interesting that the Irish don't seem to offense at holiday people use to promote the stereotype of perpetually drunk Irishmen.
Warning minor use of "profanity"
That's okay, most here have no tolerance for collusion, either.
Doesn't stop you, Mr. Holier-than-thou.
So people around the world are celebrating a white man's holiday yet you refuse to call it racist?
People on the left (of which I am probably one) drink heroic amounts of Guiness on St. Patrick's day and end up singing Pogues and Dubliners songs with the entire ex-pat community.
Never once have I ever heard anyone say it was like the klan.
Not even I have been drunk enough to hallucinate that!
12 oz. honey blond beer. 1/4 oz. OG bud. Add mescaline. Whatever color you want it to be.
You're impressed by your own post?