Hollywood Hunter

In the early morning, she came to the restaurant with her little baby who celebrated her 1st birthday yesterday, but Emma Treston found that the man who came in early was gone again. She curiously asked the housekeeper who was setting the tableware, and learned that the man just A glass of milk was spilled on the pants, so I had to change it.

After a while, the man reappeared.

Signaling the little guy in her arms to greet her father, Emma glanced at the waitress who was following the man.

This is one of the attendants assigned to her by the Westeros family, a beautiful woman with standard blond hair and blue eyes. Emma also noticed that the collar of the waitress uniform was slightly open, revealing a small piece of delicate skin and a jade-like figure. Perfect collarbone.

I probably understand something.

Some of the most common women's tricks.

However, Emma didn't intend to pursue it, because whenever she thought of herself, she always felt that there was indeed such a thing as fate in this world. If this girl had a certain destiny, she couldn't stop it. If not, no matter how hard you try to show off and seduce, it will definitely be useless.

What's more, Emma doesn't think that even if she is so lucky, it means that other girls can easily walk to a certain man. That's true, the other party definitely won't be able to spare the time to attend his little Jack's birthday party in person.

Therefore, even if the waitress waited for breakfast to be served and then took the initiative to stay and take care of the little guy who was put in the baby chair, Emma didn't chase him away, and occasionally ordered him to do some small tasks as usual.

The topic of discussion with men is not taboo.

After all, those around her are to some extent the assistants arranged by the Westeros family, and they are all excellent ones.

"As for the foundation I am in charge of, Simon, I have some doubts. Why do we want to fund primary and secondary education? I have done some research in private. In theory, investing in the field of higher education is more in line with our interests?"

It's about the public welfare fund that Emma is in charge of.

This is an education fund, mainly for the state of Kansas where Emma was born. The funding direction is primary and secondary education in Kansas, assisting in the construction of schools, recruiting better teachers, providing bursaries for poor students, and so on.

Of course, it also undertakes some tasks to help the Westeros family discover talents.

The gifted children in Solvay College did not fall from the sky.

Simon picked up the housekeeper and quietly put on a glass of milk with the right temperature, took a sip, looked at Emma opposite, and said with a smile: "I thought the same as you before."

Emma hummed, slowed down her meal, looked at the man opposite her seriously, and waited for an answer.

Simon said: "Perhaps you should have experienced how bad the federal primary education system is, and according to our survey, the situation is still deteriorating. The public often can only enter expensive schools if they want to get a good education and even change their lives. private schools, but this is beyond the reach of most ordinary people."

Emma thought she understood, nodded, and complimented subconsciously: "Simon, you are such a kind person."

"I said..." Simon smiled, seeing the sincerity of the woman opposite, he didn't say anything at all, and continued: "Although I can accept your compliment just now without reproach, this matter does have a deeper level Consider. In our country, a large number of top private schools have monopolized high-quality educational resources, which actually hinders the advancement of the entire society. This is the instinct of those with vested interests. I don’t want to say more. In such a world where science and technology continue to develop rapidly, if you want to be strong, and want to be strong for a long time, you must have a sound education system for all. Otherwise, only a small number of elites have mastered the top knowledge, which is actually impossible. To maintain the continuous operation of a huge society."

Ten or twenty years later, the United States desperately wanted to promote the return of manufacturing. However, not to mention the low-end, the highest-end semiconductor industry wanted to move to the United States, but it was embarrassing to find that even enough Many qualified technical personnel cannot be recruited. Fundamentally, this is actually a serious problem in the education system of the United States itself.

Emma realized something.

The waitress standing next to the ignorant little guy suddenly said: "Mr. Westeros, I also understand what you are worried about. Hearing what you said, I think Ms. Treston's compliment just now is far from enough. , what you have done for this country in the long run can be described as great."

Simon looked to the side, remembering that the girl introduced herself just now, Claire Wheeler, and said with a smile: "Have you studied this issue?"

Knowing that this was her chance, Claire Wheeler nodded immediately: "Mr. Westeros..."

"I prefer you to call me boss."

Claire immediately changed her words: "Boss, I graduated from Northwestern University with a major in journalism. I happened to do a social survey on federal education issues in my junior year. Although it was limited to some areas around Evanston, Illinois, the school is located, but I... well, and several classmates who did this survey together, also came to a very pessimistic conclusion. The poor primary education system is causing a very serious negative impact on our entire country. For example, in recent years, various In addition to the cost factor, another important reason for the rapid relocation of industries is that it is increasingly difficult for companies to recruit a large number of highly educated professional workers."

Emma listened to Claire chatting with the man across the street. After all, it was a bit interesting. After the other party finished speaking, Emma interjected: "Claire, are you exaggerating? Although there are problems in the primary education system, the Federation has the best higher education in the world." system, attracting the best international students from all over the world, we still have no shortage of talents.”

claire can feel

Thinking of Emma's taste, considering that it might not be so easy to be taken away by a man today, she was very smart and didn't refute, but just looked at the man next to her.

Simon ignored the skirmish between the two women.

Inexplicably, I think of Boeing, to be precise, Boeing's "famous" South Carolina factory.

Super tycoons who are familiar with the inside story of the industry, when customizing Boeing private jets, and even some commercial companies that know the inside story, often add an additional condition when ordering planes: do not want the planes produced by the South Carolina factory, must be produced by Boeing’s Washington State The factory is responsible for assembly.

As for the reason, according to the news that was exposed after Boeing’s series of malfunctions and air crashes, many of the employees of Boeing’s South Carolina factory did not have corresponding professional engineer qualifications at all. Before being recruited, some were driving trucks and some were selling insurance. , and someone else is a city cleaner...

However, these people, after a period of so-called professional training, actually entered the Boeing aircraft assembly line with the highest absolute professional requirements in the concept of ordinary people.

Ridiculous?

It sounds absurd, but it turned out to be so absurdly true.

As for the result, people will probably know it later.

Putting all the blame on India's software problems is nothing more than deception.

Let's talk about the reasons, isn't Boeing reluctant to recruit professional technical personnel?

Certainly not.

Compared with the declining US auto industry, Boeing has enough profit margins, and business executives with a little brains should understand how professional such a company needs to be.

After all, the plane had an accident in the air, and basically no one could survive.

So, why not?

why?

Because there are simply not so many professionals recruited.

Of course, the United States has long been a strong attraction for the world's top talents. However, when these people go to the United States to study, they often don't want to enter Boeing or Ford factories to work as assemblers. After all, the group of international students is either rich or Talented people, neither of these two groups can rush to become workers.

In short, if we want to solve the problem, we still need the education system of the United States to develop talents.

The problem is that when a country's basic education system has major problems, how can it carry out complete "hematopoietic" output layer by layer?

From the very beginning, Simon understood the problem.

However, at first, Simon only thought, what does this have to do with him?

Therefore, of course, as Emma thought, directly investing one's own resources in the American higher education system and pinpointing those talents who are about to mature is the solution with the least investment and the highest output.

Now, of course, I don't think so anymore.

Still understand the truth, the Westeros system is on this ship, even if Simon has the ability to jump ship, however, once something happens, most of the assets of the Westeros system will follow this ship The ship sank together.

Simon didn't want to see this happen.

Since I don't want to, I can no longer think as simple as before, but have to do more things that are really beneficial to the long-term voyage of this big ship.

Reversing the investment in the education system, taking into account higher education, and continuously investing resources to reshape the federal primary education system has become an inevitable thing to do.

Talking about these things, after breakfast, Simon said goodbye to Emma, ​​mother and son, and rushed to the headquarters of Westeros in Midtown to start his day's work.

As soon as she sat down in the office, girl A sent an updated document.

On October 23 local time, that is, yesterday, another bloody conflict broke out between Palestine and Israel. At the same time, many countries in the Middle East expressed their solidarity with Palestine, and a large rally of a million people broke out in Yemen.

With the turmoil in the Middle East, yesterday Monday, the international crude oil price once again hit a two-year high, with an increase of 6.5% on the day, pushing the price of a barrel of crude oil to a high of more than 35 US dollars.

Speaking of which, $35 a barrel of crude oil is far from the high point of hundreds of dollars in Simon's memory.

However, even the current $35 has already made many countries unbearable. After all, in this era, money is still money, and inflation is far less severe.

The first to bear the brunt, of course, is the United States.

Moreover, the more serious point is that compared with later, the current United States is still a pure crude oil importer, and the era of shale oil is far from coming, so it is more deeply affected by fluctuations in international crude oil prices.

In fact, since September, continuous conflicts broke out between Palestine and Israel again, crude oil prices soared all the way, and the people on the federal side began to gradually become dissatisfied.

So, also yesterday, in Miami, Florida, there was a small demonstration against rising oil prices.

Ordinary people watch the fun.

For Simon, of course, he can tell the twists and turns at a glance.

Not to mention the excitement in the international arena, here in China, Florida.

This is a key swing state.

The voting time for the presidential election is getting closer and closer. It is obvious that now is the final stage of the game between all parties. All means that can be used will be spared, and no one will hold back.

First of all, between Palestine and Israel, it can be said that Clinton ran around for eight consecutive years during his two terms, and was on the verge of reaching a peace agreement several times.

Failed for various reasons. Now, as the US presidential election is approaching, the Middle East suddenly became chaotic, which led to a sharp rise in international oil prices. If this is just a coincidence, it can only deceive children.

Simon was able to get more information.

So know, no coincidence.

In any case, it's all about the election.

After reading the information sent by girl a, Simon only felt a little ironic.

Now, some people may be dissatisfied with the authorities because of the continuous rise in oil prices and choose to vote for the Republican Party. However, those people probably ignore that a certain guy is the spokesperson of the American Petroleum Group.

Now the price of crude oil is only 35 US dollars a barrel, what is this?

You will all be dissatisfied with this appearance, when the time comes, you will taste the crude oil price exceeding $100 a barrel, tsk tsk.

In any case, it's your own choice.

Everything that should be done has been done, and now we are waiting for the results in a few weeks. After reading the information, Simon just put it aside, without any intention of doing anything else.

Then I learned about Chevron's acquisition of Texaco, which has already launched another contact.

This time, Texaco's response is still not very positive for the time being.

After all, the price of crude oil has risen recently, followed closely by the profits and stock prices of oil companies.

Simon is in no hurry.

When a certain super bomb is thrown, the entire energy industry will be in a downturn for a year or two. At that time, if you are still unwilling to let go, there are enough means here to make Texaco's management submit.

Having dealt with some of the corporate routine, Simon turned his attention back to Hollywood.

Today is October 24th.

Tuesday.

This year's Halloween schedule started last Friday.

For Daenerys, the first movie to be launched is "Cruise of Horror" starring Kate Beckinsale, one of the "Charlie's Angels".

Frankly speaking, the structure of this film is too complicated, and Simon doesn’t expect much from the performance of the film in the theater market. Therefore, the production cost of the project is 15 million US dollars, and the publicity expenditure given here is only 7 million US dollars. The number of painted screens is 2107 pieces.

It's low profile.

The key is to watch "The Conjuring 4" this Friday.

However, under the operation of Lena Kane, the first weekend ended, and the result of "Horror Cruise" was not bad. It earned 8.79 million US dollars in the first three days of painting, and it is expected to be around 14 million in the first week. With such an opening, 30 million There is definitely no problem with local income.

Considering that this film is mainly aimed at the peripheral channel market such as follow-up video tapes, obviously, it will also be a small and profitable project.