Important Innovations

Intro to "How Dare You", Fiction for Girls, by Journalist Ed Kane Inspiring Young Girls to Do Their Best  "How Dare You" is a great fiction, adventure book for young girls.  Everyone of us faces challenges along our runs in life.  At a young age, it can be a new neighborhood that you and your family just moved into and a new school where you don't have any friends.  Enter the book's heroine Cordy and her wonderful dog Bash. New School, Cool Running Cordy, her teacher Ms. Mapes, Cordy's mother and Bash all contribute to starting a girl's cross country team at the new school. The result is enchanted and unimagined adventures. Cordy, Bash and the team have magical runs through a magnificent forest of firefly highways with talking animals, including opossums, owls, squirrels and birds.  The lessons of life Cordy and all of us learn along the runs are profound and leave you feeling great.  For a free Kindle borrow to experience this great children

"How Dare You" by Edward Kane A Magical, Enchanted Running Adventure to Important Life Lessons. I find it an enchanting, magical story of value to young girls. This is Ed Kane's Announcement I'm so pleased to announced that I've just published a fiction story for young girls.  "How Dare You" is the enchanting adventure of 10 year old, spunky Cordy.  Cordy's family just moved and she's entering a new school, not knowing anyone.  She has no friends, with one big exception - her wonderful dog Bash. Running to Life Lessons To remedy her lonely situation, Cordy joins the school's new girls' cross country team.  And with that, she embarks on an enchanting running adventure into a magical forest of firefly highways and talking animals.  Cordy's runs teach her the value of friendship, teamwork, always doing your best and looking for goodness in others.  For a free Kindle borrow, go to  amazon.com/author/ekane  https://

Developing Domestic Alternative to US Domination in Cloud Computing Source:  Stock Image of Cloud Computing Important Global Competition for the Cloud France has brought in two French tech companies - software company Dassault Systems and cloud company OMH to beat the US dominance in cloud computing and provide French companies with a domestic alternative.  The announcement is from the French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire. Very Fast Track Development France wants to build its own cloud secure storing system for storing French companies most sensitive data.  According to some news reports, this project is being developed initially at the French German participatory level and then possibly expanded throughout Europe. The extent of Germany's involvement was not initially detailed. Big R&D Investment The French government's  big concern is a US 2018 law, the Cloud Act, that let's US Agencies access European corporate data stored in the servers of US c

Unique Power System:  Inflight Battery Swaps for Drones Source:  UC Berkeley New Drone/Battery System UC Berkeley HiPeRLab Innovation Can you imagine a drone with almost unlimited flying time?  Well, it's just been created by engineers and roboticists at the University of California Berkeley's HiPeRLab, their High Performance Robotics Lab.  It's a prototype drone system with unique, inflight battery switching technology.  The potential is to keep drones in the air for almost unlimited flight times. Quadcopter Drone with a Docking Deck The team has invented a quadcopter drone with a docking tray that's able to accept a smaller, fresh battery delivering drone.  The battery drone lands on the dock, recharges the larger drone and flies away.  This allows the next battery drone to fly in and take its place to do a recharge. Sustainable Drone Flights This is a fascinating approach to one way of powering sustainable drone flights.  In the future, othe

Sign of Rising Global Air Pollution Source:  Vietnam Air Pollution image Independent Group Says It's the Worst in the World In Vietnam, the air quality has been at the unhealthy level for days.  It's so bad the government of Vietnam has advised its people to limit their outdoor activities.  The pollution problem is severe.  The causes include coal pollution, no rain and farmers burning rice crop remnants after the harvest. May be the World's Worst Air The levels of hazardous small particles, PM 2.5 in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City exceed Vietnam standards and have been rising for a month.  As independent online monitor says the level of PM 2.5 is the worst in the world.  Children, the elderly and people with respiratory issues are being urged to stay away from traffic and any other extensive type of  outdoor activity. It' so bad in Vietnam that people are being urged to wear  masks and goggles when outdoors.  This is another stark example of the pervasiveness o

Upstart, New AI Driven Stock Venue Source:  Stock Image Highly Innovative Stock Trading Imperative Execution is an artificial intelligence driven, US stock trading venue operator.  It's currently going after business with the NYSE and other stock exchanges by adopting their pricing models.  The company indicates that they could also very soon list as a new stock exchange.  This is another important example of artificial intelligence impacting another key industry, in this case investing. More Public Visibility Imperative Execution runs IntelligentCross, which is an alternative trading system (ATS).  The ATS used AI to monitor and improve its performance in real time to save investors money.  The issue for the company is the lack of public visibility.  That's why it wants to either list as an exchange or partner with an existing exchange. Pulling in New Subscribers As an ATS, it's government registered, broker run and has more flexibility to innovate.  But the

Metro Travel Tickets for Plastic Bottle Recycling Source:  Rome Metro Expanding Environmental Initiative to Reduce Plastic Dumping in the Eternal City Rome is setting a new, global environmental standard that's very practical and doable.  It's offering free Metro tickets to travelers who recycle plastic bottles by using machines set-up in three Rome Metro train stations.  The system is scalable, expandable and is working. 350,000 Recycled Bottles and Counting The program is so popular that 350,000 bottles have been recycled since July 2019.  Rome's public transit company ATAC is now extending the program across the entire Metro network and letting it run through July 2020. Works by Simplicity To participate commuters need to download an app into their mobile phone.  The app counts the number of bottles the person has put into the recycling machines and then registers the number of Metro tickets they've earned.  As an example, 30 bottles equate to a ticket