When I first arrived in the US on 9/1950, the cost of mailing a simple letter is 3 cents. Over the years, the cost of a letter gradually rises to over half a dollar however the speed of letter delivery also increased in the US. Even though not guaranteed, a letter mailed in the morning will general ...
A recent study ranks Massachusetts as the best state to live in the US as measured b y education, helath care and low crime rate. Having live here for 71 of my 74 years in the US, I definitely agree. My wife and I am glad to have ohosen to remain here in our retirement years with familiar environme ...
This is my view of the future of our world and American society even though I won’t be around to see it happens or not – a bifurcation of our human population and the resulting chaos. I am worried for our children and grandchildren. As it is already becoming apparent, Artificial Intelligence ( ...
I arrive in the US on September 2nd 1950. I remember the first car ride I had from NYC to Boston took ten hours going through every town along the northeast coast. Nowadays the same drive takes only less than four hours. This is of course due to President Eisenhower's INTERSTATE HIGHWAY p ...
As accounted in my previous blog article here is the official report of the conference.celebration. It consist of : 1. Event report :. It is made by Prof. Hui Yang (from Penn State University, Editor-in-Chief, IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering ). This is attached below as ...
I have reported in the past of my good fortunes of having my 50 Ph.D students and my life time employer, Harvard University, helping celebrating my 60th birthday, my 67 year old retirement party, my 70th birthday, my 80th and just to be sure my 85th birthday (since no one can predict ones longevit ...
There are a large number of fraudulent activities on the Internet. Many are specifically aimed at senior citizens since this group is most susceptible to be fooled and often has largest financial assets. Just to show how sophisticated and clever such activities have become, I’ll give my own exam ...
Recently a US Bank is selling 100 year CDs with ~4.00% annual interest. The CD take 100 years to mature. The minimum amount is US$1,000. which in 100 years when it matures will become US$10,000+ (approximate 10 times due to compound interest.) Now the question here is: Is this a good investment ...