Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Why Covid-19 has resulted in New Jersey desperately needing COBOL programmers

And they are asking for volunteers? Hell, my last contract they were billing me out at $180 an hour, my share was a pittance of that. Since I know both COBOL and Assembler forwards and backwards maybe $200 an hour for a three day work week, with hotel stay, meals and travel paid for.  That might get me out of retirement.

Why Covid-19 has resulted in New Jersey desperately needing COBOL programmers

The coronavirus crisis has sparked all manner of unexpected consequences, including the Tokyo summer Olympics being postponed and auto insurers reaping extra profits as people stay home. In New Jersey, it’s resulted in something that few people outside that state’s tech department would have foreseen: a dire need for COBOL coders.
Standing for Common Business-Oriented Language, COBOL initially made a splash by giving coders a programming language that could work across the proprietary computers of multiple manufacturers. That was in the early 1960s. After becoming a staple of mainframes, it eventually came to represent dusty legacy code, including during the Y2K crisis 20 years ago. Despite this it’s still widely used to support many business systems, including ATMs and credit card networks, and the developers involved do need COBOL skills.
In New Jersey, experts are now needed to fix COBOL-based unemployment insurance systems that are overwhelmed due to pandemic-related job losses. At a press conference yesterday, governor Phil Murphy asked for the help of volunteer coders who know how to work in COBOL.
Of course, as cyber-security expert Joseph Steinberg noted on his blog, many such volunteers would likely be elderly, making them especially vulnerable to Covid-19. Whether they would risk venturing out (or work on a volunteer basis, for that matter) to fix creaky systems is an open question.
Meanwhile, New Jersey residents are clamoring about delays on their unemployment claims. The state recently experienced a 1,600% increase in claims volume in a single week, said labor commissioner Robert Asaro-Angelo during yesterday’s briefing (video below, at 46:35), noting that “over the prior two weeks we saw more than 362,000 people apply for unemployment as a result of this public health emergency.”
He added, “We’ve made no secrets about the inflexibility of our legacy technology.”
This piece has been updated to clarify that COBOL remains in wide use in many systems today, despite being considered a legacy language.

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