• Professor Elam

    Tuesday Nov 15, 2022

    Prosecutors ask for 15 years for Holmes

    Holmes' attorneys filed an 82-page document late Thursday calling for a lenient sentence of no more than 18 months, saying her reputation was permanently destroyed, turning her into a "caricature to be mocked and vilified."

     

    that's a hoot, she did it to herself so why have pity on her?

  • Professor Elam

    Weekend Nov 12 20 22

    November 4, 2022

    Professor Dennis L. Elam

    Texas A&M University-San Antonio

    One University Way

    San Antonio, TX 78224

    Professor Elam,

    Yesterday, the Socionomics Foundation Board approved a motion to start a grant program that will support professors in their efforts to speak at conferences and to pursue other engagements for the purpose of sharing socionomics research with academics and other professionals. 

    The Board voted to make you the inaugural recipient of the grant program and authorized a $4,000 grant to you for the aforementioned purpose. 

    Moreover, the grant program will be named in your honor: Elam grants. 

    We are optimistic that Elam grant recipients will make a significant impact on the history of socionomics in forthcoming years by conducting and sharing important research that will inform society’s understanding of how social mood influences the tenor and character of social trends. 

    On behalf of the Board, we wish you many congratulations and hope you will find a moment to celebrate.  

    Cheers,

    Matt Lampert

    President

    Socionomics Foundation

  • Professor Elam

    Thursday Nov 10 2022

    SA City Councilman Clayton Perry now faces arrest for leaving an accident scene in an apparently hit and run.

    Kiefer Sutherland made a similar mistake a few years back.

    Ed McMahon, co host of the Tonight Show  in Johnny Carson days always had a hired car and driver in his contract. Good idea,

    Paul Pelosi age 82 arrested on DUI charge.

    if you are a public person let someone else do the driving.

    McGraw Hill has sent me to two book review conferences. Each time they had a driver with car meet me at the airport.  Going down the elevator to the luggage claim he was there with a sign saying Dennis.What a great perk, no hassle, he knew where he was going all I had to do was relax in the back seat That is the ticke.

     

     

     

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  • Professor Elam

    Tuesday Nov 8 2022

     

    I thank you so much for your response.  We are still looking for a Full-Time Spring 2023 Audit Intern, so if you know of any additional candidates, please send them my way.  We appreciate our ability to reach to you at any time.  Have a great week!

  • Professor Elam

    Tuesday Nov 8 2022

    Good evening Professors,
     
    We are inviting you and 4 of your students to an exclusive event held on Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at San Antonio Marriott Airport.  Firms and Businesses have sponsored you and your 4 students to attend this very informative Etiquette session including dinner!  The agenda with details are attached.
     
    Please choose the 4 students that will confirm their attendance to this event.  We need their names and email addresses.  TXCPA San Antonio's Executive Board with other CPA's in the community will be there to meet the students and network with accounting professionals.
     
    The deadline to RSVP is Friday, November 11, 2022.  To RSVP, please email Javi Valdes, javi@txcpasa.cpa<mailto:javi@txcpasa.cpa>  or myself Jacqui Belcher, Jacqui@txcpasa.cpa<mailto:Jacqui@txcpasa.cpa>.
     
    If you have any questions, please call!
     
    Thank you so much for your assistance and your continued support of our young leaders in the community.
     
    Jacqui

    Etiquette Dinner / Networking Students & CPA Event

    Tuesday, November 15, 2022

    San Antonio Marriott Airport-77 NE Interstate 410 Loop, SA 78216

    5:00p.m. – 7:00p.m.

     

    5:00 p.m.                    Check-in & Networking

    5:30-5:40                    Welcome and Program Introductions

    5:45-6:40                    Program/Etiquette Session

    6:40-7:00                    Closing Remarks and Networking

     

    Etiquette Session Overview:

    1. Nametag placement, business cards, & handshakes
    2. How to save your seat
    3. How to make small talk
      1. Appropriate small talk topics
      2. Inviting others into the conversation
    • Leaving a conversation
    1. Navigating Your Place Setting
      1. What’s what and what’s yours
      2. Resting vs. finished position
      3. Holding your silverware correctly
      4. Signals to waitstaff
    2. Meal Service Etiquette
      1. Preset vs. staggered
      2. Shared items
      3. Special dietary restrictions
    3. General Table Etiquette
      1. Table manners
      2. Cell phones
      3. Respecting the speaker
    4. Small Group Interviews
      1. Expectations of the hosts/how to prepare
      2. Relating the event etiquette to a small format dinner
      3. General Etiquette
        1. Cell phone
        2. Dress attire
    • Eye Contact
  • Professor Elam

    Tuesday Nov 8 2022

    A federal judge denied Elizabeth Holmes’s bid for a new trial, the latest setback for the Theranos Inc. founder who was convicted of fraud in January.

    U.S. District Judge Edward Davila, who oversaw Ms. Holmes’s trial which began last year, said in a ruling late Monday that the arguments in her three motions for a new trial didn’t introduce material new evidence or establish government misconduct, adding that a new trial was unlikely to result in an acquittal.

    Ms. Holmes is scheduled for sentencing on Nov. 18. Earlier Monday, a court probation officer submitted a presentence report, an investigation into Ms. Holmes’s legal and personal background.

  • Professor Elam

    Weekend Nov 5 2022

    After the success of the first two Godfather films, others detailing the era filled in the blanks.

     

    Here is my chronological list, at one point the original Godfather I & II was recut into time order instead of all the flashbacks used in II, that would be better but here we go

     

    Godfather I

    'Bugsy with Warren Beatty, the founding of the Flamingo and modern Vegas, also theJewish side of the mob

    Godfather II

    'Goodfellas

    Casino – how you run a Casino, pre corporate ownership of Vegas

    Gotti – not the Travolta version but the Emmy Winner starring Armand Assante

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116441/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2

    Godfather III frankly is a disappointment, not up to the standard of the first two and adds nothing in terms of Vegas and mob development

  • Professor Elam