Ignorance

• The survey, conducted among 550 data and analytics professionals across Operations (Ops) and IT in organizations with over 200 employees, found that increasing data requests overwhelm IT teams, but security concerns hinder their ability to provide employees with access to timely data.
• “IT and other data professionals are challenged to keep up with increasing demand for timely data access from an exploding number of sources, while also ensuring the security and governance of that data," said Amit Sharma, CData co-founder and CEO.
• Sixty eight percent of respondents acknowledged disregarding data inputs, with the primary reason being the inability to access information promptly (49%).
• A data connectivity strategy encompassing both live data and replicated data will do more than relieve IT teams – it’s the missing link behind security and data literacy issues that are prominent in today’s technology landscape.

• It feels too soon, perhaps because in everything he wrote, he opened up new ways of thinking, writing and reading.
• From the start, he was exposed to, and immersed in, the absurdity of human culture.
• He grew up in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, then lived under Stalinist rule, where he was an active member of the Communist Party.
• I have been reading him, quoting him and teaching from his writings for decades, after bumping into his work in 1988.

Interrogating totalitarianism, with humour

• But in each novel, Kundera offers some humour – often bitter, but capable of leavening the otherwise bleak, and densely reported, content.
• But he also develops an erotic narrative that seems to suggest lighthearted sex can allow us to live fully in the moment.
• Weight and lightness, laughter and forgetting, repetition and change, politics and sex: his first four novels incorporate such dualities.

Author in exile

• In 1975, he fled his home for exile in France, and continued writing works of fiction that mostly followed the signature structure he first developed in The Joke: multi-part, multi-voiced novels, where the narrator interpolates critique, commentary and philosophical statements in the text.
• This makes for a restless story, one that shifts to and fro across locations, times and contexts.
• The focus of Kundera’s novels is their wrestle with questions of knowledge, the complexity of being and a constant uncertainty.

‘Things are not as simple as you think’

• In The Art of the Novel (1986), he outlines a history of how novelists unpacked various dimensions of existence.
• Homer never wondered whether, after all their many hand-to-hand battles, Achilles or Ajax still had all their teeth.
• But for Don Quixote and Sancho teeth are a perpetual concern – hurting teeth, missing teeth.
• Homer never wondered whether, after all their many hand-to-hand battles, Achilles or Ajax still had all their teeth.

Teller of inconvenient truths

• He won other prizes, after all, among them the Jerusalem Prize in 1985 and the Herder Prize in 2000.
• Perhaps it was his writing style that meant the Nobel committee saw him nominated on a number of occasions, but never awarded him the prize.
• Robin Ashenden suggests he “had become a teller of truths inconvenient to the modern age”, and maybe there is something in that.

• In this campaign, the Phantasticals are rare fantasy creatures that are extraordinary, unique and, of course, fantastic.
• Along with the characteristics that make them so special, they all have something in common: they are strong, resilient, and often go unnoticed.
• Just like people who live with rare, serious and debilitating diseases, such as pulmonary hypertension and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• FNP122 is an oral formulation of edaravone, a compound that can prevent oxidative stress at the cellular level.

• TORONTO, Jan. 17, 2022 /CNW/ - The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) is launching its first national dementia awareness campaign during Alzheimer's Awareness Month in Canada, to reduce negative perceptions about dementia and the people living with the condition.
• Uninformed attitudes and beliefs about dementia can result in stigma, which can affect people living with dementia, their loved ones, and caregivers.
• The campaign also highlights the abilities of people living with dementia while breaking down negative perceptions, to make our communities more welcoming and supportive.
• The Public Health Agency of Canada is part of the federal health portfolio.