The following compares Ulster County School Districts with those of Fairfield County, which is among the top five wealthiest counties in the United States. The per capita income in Fairfield in 2017 was $110,104, versus Ulster, $48,811. National average was $51,640.

Ulster County School Districts per pupil spending: Onteora, $38,587; Rondout, $32,207; Ellenville, $29,465; New Paltz, $27,878; Marlboro, $27,571; Kingston, $27,323; Saugerties, $25,106; Wallkill. $24,090; and Highland, $23,617.

Here are some other districts: Scarsdale, $31,819; Chappaqua, $30,570; New York City, $27,732; Rye, $24,844; Mamaroneck, $24,820, Cornwall. $21,094; and Shenendahowa, $17,17,475. The per capita income for Scarsdale is $454,087. The Westchester districts are wealthy. Westchester is among the 10 wealthiest counties in the United States on a per capita basis at $101,542. A surprise is that Ulster school districts, as a group, are now higher than Suffolk County.

The following are the school district costs of Fairfield School Districts, including some extremely wealthy ones: Canaan, $29,035; Westbrook, $24,111; Norfolk, $22,984; Weston, $22,371; Greenwich, $21,609; Darien, $21,122; Stamford, $18,934; New Haven, $18,381; Norwalk, $17,616; and Danbury, $12,828. Greenwich is similar to Scarsdale.

Why 4 million kids marched with Greta

The Four Million Global Warming Strike is worldwide because there are weather problems that are getting worse and worse in Asia, Europe, Africa, the middle east, Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean, Central America, South America, the Arctic, Greenland, Antarctica, Iceland, the North Pole and North America.

This year we saw Hurricane Dorean almost completely destroy the Bahamas, and before that Hurricane Marie ruined Puerto Rico. No one is safe and because of the cumulative nature of Global Warming, there is a guarantee of far worse destructive storms and hurricanes in the future. And there is a new Global Warming issue: oxygen.

The Amazon and other worldwide forests are the lungs of the world. They are being destroyed by fires worldwide. Could the human race suffocate? Yes. When Greta Thunberg and the kids are concerned about their future. they mean their future.

Do you take oxygen for granted? Don’t.

IBM’s new mainframe may disrupt the data center business

When people say data center, they automatically are saying IBM Mainframe. When it comes to mainframes, IBM is is a class by itself, yet always making its mainframe better. It just came out with its latest model, the z15. The IBM announcement said, “IBM Launches New Mainframe Generation to Combat Cybercrime.” I believe IBM will be selling a lot of z15 mainframes because it meets a need.

IBM calls the z15 “a revamped mainframe server.” The z15 “was designed with extra-secure privacy capabilities to help businesses shift critical data on to multiple cloud networks, known as hybrid cloud.”

You may have read about cities and school districts having their data stolen and have the theft used against them. IBM plans to stop this.

The z15 will control, who can access a customer’s data. This is new.

The IBM mainframes are custom built and cost between $500,000 and $3 million.

What IBM is doing is revolutionary. IBM is “interlocking the z15 to the hybrid cloud.”

IBM is working to get its z15 to work with its hybrid cloud. This a business, which until now IBM has trailed Amazon and Microsoft. The z15 may be a disruptive technology.

It was predicted Highland would lose, but they won 20-7
A local daily newspaper predicted that the Liberty football team would defeat Highland as in recent games Liberty had been scoring 40 points, but Highland won 20 - 7, and Husky players Brian Joyce, Jake Duncan, David Post, Matt Champagne, and Josh Hanna will become household names in Highland.

Quarterback Joyce connected on 7 of 9 passes for 166 yards, Duncan rushed for 76 yards and scored two touchdowns, Post caught 116 yards of passes, Champagne scored on a 15 yard touchdown pass, and Hanna made 13 tackles.

The late Ben Bragg, the 1940 high school player of the year would have proud of them as would Highland College All-American players, Cos Trapani, Sal Marone, and Bill Weston. Weston’s sister, Elaine Murphy recently celebrated her 99th birthday. The late Lem Atkins, an outstanding football coach for Highland, said, “When you pass four things can happen, and three of them are bad. Atkins had never met Brian Joyce.

I left out Johnny Gersch, “the best thing to happen to Highland, since the Mid-Huson Bridge.” Brad Serini, a three year starting center for a NCAA Division one program, and Al Mazzetti, who went from Highland to play for Syracuse.