www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-14/at-jpmorgan-productivity-falls-for-younger-employees-at-home

A troubling pattern emerged as most of JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s employees worked from home to stem the spread of Covid-19: productivity slipped.

Work output was particularly affected on Mondays and Fridays, according to findings discussed by Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon in a private meeting with Keefe, Bruyette & Woods analysts. That, along with worries that remote work is no substitute for organic interaction, is part of why the biggest U.S. bank is urging more workers to return to offices over the coming weeks.

 

bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-14/at-jpmorgan-productivity-falls-for-younger-employees-at-home

you need to fix that link, NSA...

EDIT: never mind... that's the link, without the www. It's just that AAC's forum format doesn't recognize it as such...

 

https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainmen...ublic-medieval-techniques-notre-dame-73120213

The demonstration to mark European Heritage Days gave the hundreds of people a first-hand look at the rustic methods used 800 years ago to build the triangular frames in the nave of Notre Dame de Paris.

 

The only bird that will peck at a Eagle is the crow

Growing up in East Tennessee there were a lot of cornfields and crows. Farmers loved crow hunters. Strictly for sport. One popular and productive crow lure was a tethered owl or hawk on an elevated perch pole. Once it was spotted and the alarm given, crows would pile in to attack it. One person would be tasked with pulling the tethered bird down to safety before it was piled on.

 

Honor, above everything else:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-54224410​

A Spanish athlete is being applauded on social media after he sacrificed a top tier win in the 2020 Santander Triathlon to give it to a competitor who took a wrong turn on the course.

 

Today's Mot du jour.

 

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/22/uk/old-tv-breaks-broadband-village-scli-intl-gbr/index.html

The source of the 'electrical noise' was traced to a property in the village. It turned out that at 7 a.m. every morning the occupant would switch on their old TV which would in-turn knock out broadband for the entire village

 

Honor, above everything else:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-54224410​

Part of getting there is knowing which way to go.

No honor, just two frauds: the one who won, and the one who didn't.

 

https://www.kptv.com/news/gates-hom...cle_9ce9d806-fd51-11ea-8276-a3778646771c.html

 

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As a kid, I once tried to run though a closed sliding glass door. Needless to say, I didn't achieve my goal that day.

 

As a kid, I once tried to run though a closed sliding glass door. Needless to say, I didn't achieve my goal that day.

The prior bit of advice didn't mention that you should completely ignore the obstacles...

 

A hero rat:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-54284952​

The rats are trained to detect a chemical compound within the explosives, meaning they ignore scrap metal and can search for mines more quickly. Once they find an explosive, they scratch the top to alert their human co-workers.

 

https://www.statnews.com/2020/09/24/crows-possess-higher-intelligence-long-thought-primarily-human/

Whether crows, ravens, and other “corvids” are making multipart tools like hooked sticks to reach grubs, solving geometry puzzles made famous by Aesop, or nudging a clueless hedgehog across a highway before it becomes roadkill, they have long impressed scientists with their intelligence and creativity.

Now the birds can add one more feather to their brainiac claims: Research unveiled on Thursday in Science finds that crows know what they know and can ponder the content of their own minds, a manifestation of higher intelligence and analytical thought long believed the sole province of humans and a few other higher mammals.

 

... a manifestation of higher intelligence and analytical thought long believed the sole province of humans and a few other higher mammals...

a personal addendum to that last sentence:
"... and of some members of AAC."

 

...crows know what they know and can ponder the content of their own minds...

Ah. But no navel to gaze at.

 

Ah. But no navel to gaze at.

There are a few versions of Crow with that.

 

There are a few versions of Crow with that.
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I was going to make a comment about "eating crow", but, nah.

 

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My Tex-Mex is pretty good: http://www.texmex.net/Diction/chimich.wav