Sorry, forgot to publish my blog yesterday. Should you want to read it, CLICK HERE.
Yes, I did say yesterday that I would avoid mentioning anything more this week about Donald Trump's hush money trial. Well, this should be okay, for the New York Times this morning summarized late night hosts joking about Trump's decision not to testify. I also yesterday provided my take on the trial and ramifications. But who am I? Here is Time magazine's view: on what would happen if Trump is convicted:
The presumptive Republican nominee is currently facing trial on 34 felony counts over allegations that he falsified business records to conceal a $130,000 hush-money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election. He’s the first former President in the U.S. ever to be indicted, and while he faces three other criminal cases, the New York case will render the first verdict and may be the only case that gets to trial before the election.
A felony conviction will NOT disqualify Trump from continuing his presidential campaign, even if jailed. Eugene Debs (left) a century ago and Lyndon LaRouche (he ran every four years for president between 1976 and 2004, once while still in jail) both had criminal convictions.
Judge Juan Merchan has the flexibility to place Trump on probation and fine him instead of jail. While Trump has continued to disparage the judge, this could still happen if the jury decision is guilty.- If incarcerated, it will be where Trump's former chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg was sent, New York's Rikers Island, the state's largest, and on an island. New York has 62 jails in 62 counties, with an inmate population of 20,500 in 2020. In addition, the state has 52 prisons with 34,128 inmates. The state budget alone is $3.6 billion/year.
If convicted and elected president on November 5, Trump cannot pardon himself, for this is not a federal crime. The state governor, Kathy Hochul, can, but she is a Democrat.- If convicted, Trump will of course appeal, and the process would not be settled until after November 5.
Would Trump be able to vote? If jailed in New York, no. But the chances for this happening are low, so yes, he will almost surely vote.- A guilty verdict will influence future juries if the Supreme Court decides he is not immune, and will definitely hurt Trump, in future trials and against Biden.
- Incidentally, he still faces 40 felony counts in the Florida classified documents case, four counts in DC and 13 in Georgia.
I just saw the 2024 World University Rankings. Here are the top, and more.
- #1 University of Oxford
- #2 Stanford University
- #3 MIT
- #4 Harvard (a surprise for being so low)
- #5 University of Cambridge
- #6 Princeton University
- #7 California Institute of Technology
- #8 Imperial College London
- #9 University of California, Berkeley
- #10 Yale University
- #12 Tsinghua University, China
- #14 Peking University, China
- #19 National University of Singapore
- #26 Duke University
- #29 The University of Tokyo, Japan
- #50 Karolinska Institute, Sweden
- #52 University Texas at Austin
- #55 Kyoto University, Japan
- #60 The University of Sydney, Australia
- #62 Seoul National University, South Korea
- #63 University of Wisconsin-Madison
- #74 University of Southern California
- #75 Sorbonne University
- #76 Yonsei University, South Korea
- #99 Ohio State University
- #99 Erasmus University, Netherlands
- #150 University of Auckland, New Zealand
- #199 University of Notre Dame
- #199 Queensland University of Technology, Australia
- #199 Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
- #209 George Washington University
- #210 University of Illinois
- #212 University Hawaii at Manoa
- #241 University Utah
- #322 Kyushu University
- #347 Washington State University
- #368 University of Georgia
- #395 Temple University
- #414 University of Central Florida
- #423 University of Delaware
- #463 University of Oregon
- #489 Tulane University
- #510 Auburn University
- #594 The University of Tulsa
- #604 The University of Alabama
- #616 Baylor University
- #630 Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
- #692 Lehigh University
- #699 Louisiana State University
- #724 University of Nevada-Las Vegas
- #779 Texas Tech
- #793 William & Mary
- #881 Howard University
- #921 Marquette University
- #959 Rochester Institute of Technology
- #963 San Diego State University
- #986 Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
- #997 Waseda University
- List goes on and on.
- As might be suspected, QS World University Rankings is based in the UK.
I've had an office at the University of Hawaii Manoa for more than half a century. I never thought of ours as an outstanding university. Let me today change my mind.
- The University of Hawaii at Manoa is ranked #211. Is that good, okay or bad? Actually, fabulous.
- There are 25,000 universities around the world.
- If the UHM ranked #212, this means.
- 212/25,000 = 0.0085.
- 0.0l is 1%.
- 0.0085 is 0.85%.
- Or, we are in the top 1% of all the world universities.
- How good is being in the top 1%?
- The top 1% of Americans earn $819,324. 0.85% means an annual salary of close to $1 million.
- You would have a net worth of $5.8 million.
- Your IQ would be 135.
But U.S. News and World Report also has an annual rating.
- The latest one I saw has the University of Hawaii at #394, which is 1.6%. Still not bad.
- I'm in the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, which covers the Geo and Atmospheric Sciences.
- Geosciences, we are ranked #60
- Atmospheric Sciences, we are ranked #40.
- UHM Engineering is at #854.
- In this 2022-3 ranking, their top universities are:
- #1 Harvard
- #2 MIT
- #3 Stanford
- #4 University of California, Berkeley
- #5 University of Oxford
- #6 University of Washington Seattle (#25 in the above ranking)
- #7 Columbia University
- #8 University of Cambridge
- #9 CalTech
- #10 Johns Hopkins
The 2023 Student.com rating shows the top three as:
- #1 MIT
- #2 Cambridge
- #3 Stanford
- #80 is the University Washington at Seattle.
- #1 Harvard
- #2 Stanford
- #3 MIT
- #18 University of Washington
- #22 Tsinghua University
- #29 Peking University
These are just four ranking systems. Wikipedia has a list of many more.
From the New York Times this morning. Supernova or coronavirus?
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