Monday July 17, 2017
I commented that students could subscribe to the WSJ for a mere buck a week. Here is a sample of what I leaned just this morning reading the Monday, the slowest day of the week for newspapers.
Roger Federer won is 8th Wimbeldon tennis title this weekend.
EnerVest a fund buying oil and gas wells in 2013 during triple digit oil prices has lost apparently all the value of its investments. Obviously EnerVest was not reading my Market Perspective log which warned of the danger of high prices then. There was no shortage of oil we argued, why the high price. And of course it ell to one third of that value.
We are studying cost accounting in ACCT 3314. The most expensive independent, outside the big six studios, will e rfeleased July21. Valerian csot $180 M but does not feature a well known franchise like Spider Man nor is it a repeat of an existing franchise like Fast and Furious. Billed as a cross between Avatar and Star Wars, it is a French made sci fi set in the 28th Century. Here is an example of job order costing our topic today in 3314. Would you rather be on one $180 million film or six lower budgets at say at $30 M each? Early reviews are mixed.
We don't do a lousy job educating our students at TAMUSA on the arts, we do no job at all. But one can learn a good deal about American artist Andrews Wyeth. Wyeth like Rockwell drew rural American, and the reviewer remarks, if Rockwell can gain legitimacy again so can Wyeth. Winter 1946 at right. Seems a shame we do really nothing to utilize the McNay, Witte, or SA Art Museum for our students. Not to mention zero interface with the theater programs at other schools in town. Has anyone ever seen Death of a Salesman or Streetcar Named Desire?
I know of no other journalist who covers Central and South America as Mary O'Grady does each Monday in the WSJ. Today she explains the Cuban control over Venezuela even as it reels from not enough food to eat and weekly protests. Cuba wants to control the country for a lane to transport cocaine from Colombia as well as to spread it totalitarian regime throughout South America. Will outside nations speak up about the human rights tragedy?
Right under that column, Andy Kessler challenges the lone held education mantra that learning a foreign language is important, necessary, and teaches foreign culture. It does none of that. He notes the Oklahom of all placeds is substituting learning computer code for foreign language. 51%of the Internet is in English. If we are serious about STEM, let's do the same here.
La Raza Loses the Race, check it out
On the op ed page Fred Barnes notes that Republicans are not team players. I am guessing John McCain is giving Mitch McConnell 'cover' by staying in Arizona after an operation so that the needed 50 votes can be obtained. By the way is this 1797 or 2017? Why can't McCain vote electronically from Arizona? Requiring all Senate and House members to live in their own districts and have Town Hall every week rather than on vacationmight put them back in touch with America.
The Democrats as always are united, the Republicans as Fred writes seem to think this is an individual sport like tennis or golf, not football or basketball. Failing to replace Ovbamacare will leave us with Obamacare as rate escalate and insurers abandon the market. What is Rand Paul thinking?
I am always on the hunt for a good ethical story. And here is one The conscience of a Valet. The writer worked as a car valet at 1789 Restaurant, an upscale Washing DC eatery. He describes various tip stories. But the best he says happened like this. Sean realized he was holding a $100 bill, far too large judging by the car of the owner. So he chased the car for three blocks, hailed down the drives, and offered the tip back. The driver took it and returned, three bucks. Now the ethical question, was that ethically fair. Should he not have received at least 20 bucks? What do you think we can discuss in class and I will reveal the answer to what the valet thought.
Finally Elon Musk warns about the job encroaching danger of Artificial Intelligence. AI. I am seeing a lot of this. My take is that it won't be AI that causes the provblems of decreased job opportunities but the general lack of interest and dumbing down of education. Arum and Roksa have a book out several years ago on this topic check out
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