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Monday Oct 3 2016 Roger Corman is the undisupted King of the Low Budgt B Movie Yes he domninated the biker, horror, mood of the minute B genre. And one can see the earliest scenes of Jack Nicholson, Stallone, and others as their career were getting underway. He was the first to go direct to…
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Weekend Oct 2 2016 I just watched the movie The Shallows. Incredibly it only earned a 6.5 at Imdb.com. I would rate it a 9.0, minimum. The themes of the movie are Self Reliance Persistence Ingenuity Perseverance Resourcefulness Actress Blake Lively carries virtualy the entire film by herself. She has over a dozen film credits…
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Weekend Sept 24, 2016 .Odessa is so boring it celebrates a garbage truck. but for good reason, here is an example of globalization – more manufacturing in Mexico importing a new business to Texas A New Supply Chain for manufactured goods A Cost Managerial lower priced solution to a problem
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Tuesday Sept 20, 2016 Carrie Tolstedt has worked at WFC for 27 years. She is known as a micro manager. So how could she not know employees at WFC were creating unrequested cards and accounts for customers? IN audit class yesterday we learned of one student who discovered this had happened to her account. Another…
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Labor Day Weekend Sept 3 2016 Jeff Bridges stars in Hell or High Water. This movie since an early August open in selected theaters cost $12 M to produce and has taken in $9.7 M so far. The big test will be this weekend when it moves to 1300 screens. My research interest regards socionomics.…
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Sept 3, 2016 Labor Day Weekend Peter Fonda spent $400,000 producing Easy Rider in 1969. The movie grossed $60 million. Fonda was never able to repeat the success and apparently spent much of the gain trying to do so. Watch the original trailer here. There of course are always low budget films around but few…
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Thursday August 25, 2016 kDelta Airlines is the first to use RFID chips in baggage tags. The bag broadcasts information to receivers instead of having optical scanners try to read the bar code on the tag. This is like a toll road tag on your rear view mirror. I post this as a huge advance…
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Thursday July 21, 2016 Jimmy's Egg is anothe innovation iover coming the long hours of most restaurants. This franchise is typically located in a a suburb in a low cost by pleasant location. They only offer breakfast and lunch in a sit down waitress oriented fashion. This solves the help problem and limits the menu.…
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Thursday July 21 2016 Here is another example of a restaurant that has overcome many of the problems of a typical restaurant. It is in downtown Odessa, which is not well served with restaurants. I see they dropped breakfast, which they tried for a while, and are now back to the original 11 AM –…
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