Rhiannon Giddens' Freedom Highway album

Rhiannon Giddens is a singer and multi-instrumentalist best known for her unparalleled mastery of the banjo. According to Rhiannon, in America, "in the first 100 years of its existence, the banjo was known as a plantation instrument, as a black instrument."

Internet of Things concept

It is believed that the next technological frontier to be crossed by humans is the Internet of Things (IoT). But what is the Internet of Things (IoT), or, Internet for Things, as one of the early co-founders of the concept, Kevin Ashton calls it?

IoT is a system of interrelated computing devices, mechanical and digital machines, objects, appliances, buildings, vehicles, animals, plants,  or people that are provided with unique identifiers and the ability to transfer data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction. Brief, IoT is about connecting devices or things, over the internet, letting them communicate with us, with applications, and with each other. 

IoT is not a new concept, having been discussed and tried as early as 1982 at Carnegie Mellon University, with a Coke machine being the first Internet-connected appliance. IoT is now becoming a reality for most of us. 

IoT will benefit from Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) which has addressed the limitations imposed by  IPv4. IPv6 has extensively increased the address space, allowing humans to assign an IP address to every "thing" on the planet. The advances in Machine Learning have improved  communication and interaction among humans and machines. 

However, the success of IoT will also be dependent on how humans, and intelligent machines,  will be able to address the cencerns around data privacy, ownership, sovereignty, and security.

Tip Toe Dancer and the Sea Pearl by New Age music composer Karen Marie Garrett

Karen Marie Garret: One of my best New Age  and Easy Listening music composers.

This is "Tip Toe Dancer and The Sea of Pearl" from the album "It is All About the Rose."

AroniSmartInvest Tutorial Part 1: Stocks and Portfolio Performance and Stocks Segmentation. This is part 1 of a series of tutorials on AronISmartInvest™. The tutorial covers launching AroniSmartInvest, web refreshing stock values and ratios with the latest performance data, historical performance analysis, market profile, stocks segmentation, RSS feeds, and portfolio management

Ben King, in 1977 - Stand By Me

"Stand by Me" is a song originally performed by Ben E. King and written by King, Jerry Leiber, and Mike Stoller, inspired by the spiritual "Lord Stand by Me," plus two lines rooted in Psalms 46:2--3.

There have been over 400 recorded versions of the song. Benjamin Earl Nelson (born September 28, 1938), better known as Ben E. King, is an American soul singer. He is perhaps best known as the singer and co-composer of "Stand by Me," a U.S. Top 10 hit in both 1961 and later in 1986 (when it was used as the theme to the film of the same name)  and as one of the principal lead singers of the R&B vocal group The Drifters.

Stand by Me by Ben King