"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."

― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

Power BI(M): Business Intelligence in the Construction Industry

Through networking and a good dose of serendipity, I was able to launch a vertical training on Business Intelligence and Microsoft Power BI with Forma Mentis, my historical partner for delivering tailored training. The video of the webcast launch can be seen on YouTube (and below).
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Omeros in the Caribbeans

Derek Walcott was a Saint Lucian poet, playwright, and painter, and one of the major voices of Caribbean literature. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992, and his work often explores Caribbean history, identity, colonial inheritance, and the meeting of European and African

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