Sunday Paper - Vaccination

With the support of the medical community, a panel of New Jersey State Senators voted to eliminate religion as an acceptable reason for New Jersey children to avoid vaccines required for school attendance. The vote was split along party lines. I find it interesting that Republican senators object to this bill. State Sen. Gerald Cardinale, R-Bergen argued: "It’s their own right to follow their conscience.” Does she think the same about abortion?

Sunday Paper - School Start Times, Interchangeable Lens Cameras, Open Sourced

  • Mercer Me: The Hopewell Valley Regional School District (HVRSD) considers later school start times for middle and high school students given that current early start times were chosen to solve transportation issues and may cause mental health issues and stress in children. I expect that Montgomery Township and West Windsor Township may do the same. Princeton Township already has.

  • Washington Post: We are ensuring a technological period where what's real and what's fake can't easily be determined. Is that your spouse on the phone or an AI?

  • The Online Photographer: Some of us are old enough to remember family vacations with either mom or dad snapping away on a film camera. Some of us are old enough to have done the same with a disposable film camera of a compact digital camera. At the end of the year, an elder would assemble prints of these photographs into an album, and occasionally, at least a few times a year, the family would gather and share stories captured by the images. But our kids may experience their family adventures through the lens of a smartphone camera and the impermanence of social media.

  • Vox: .. Recode by Vox is launching Open Sourced, a multiplatform journalism project supported by the Omidyar Network that will expose and explain the hidden consequences of tech — the good, the bad, and the complicated.

Sunday Paper - Wholesale Coffee Beans, Blogging in 2020, Adopt a Woman, Electoral Districts, Apple Media Bundle

News of the week.

Rocky Hill's local coffee retailer, Vitaliy Shakirov, has shifted his business focus from retail to wholesale. The new venture is called Rockaffe.

Choosing the right wholesale coffee supplier for your business, whether it is a coffee shop, as a complement to your restaurant, or as a business perk, is essential to meet business needs. What should you consider before you make a perfect cup of coffee for your business? Vitaliy Shakirov

Ben Werdmüller wrote a blog post about the best way to get started blogging in 2020.

In an attempt to mitigate gender discrimination in the board room California passed a law that amounts to gender discrimination. Shareholders are suing.

California state legislative districts are so large that it dilutes the electoral power of political minorities. Libertarian activist is part of a group that's trying to get federal courts to force the state to add more seats to the state legislature.

According to Bloomberg, Apple is planning to bundle Apple Music, Apple News, and Apple TV+. I am not an Apple News subscriber, but I subscribe to Apple Music, and I am currently on a free one year trial of Apple TV+. While there are only a few shows I find interesting, the quality of the content on Apple TV+ is quite good. Assuming Apple does offer music, news, and streaming bundle at a decent price point, say $25/month, I would sign up.