Hollywood Hunter

In the early morning, she came to the restaurant with her little baby who had 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 had just A glass of milk was spilled on my pants, so I had to change it.

After a while, the man reappeared.

Signing the little guy in her arms to say hello to her father, Emma glanced at the waitress who was following the man.

This is one of the team of servants that the Westeros family has equipped her with, a beautiful beauty with standard blonde 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 jade-like carvings. Perfect collarbone.

Probably understand something.

Some women's tricks that are all too common.

However, Emma didn't plan to pursue it, because every time she thought about herself, she always felt that the world did have something like destiny. If the girl had some kind of fate, 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 come to a certain man. This is really the case, the other party will definitely not have 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 children's chair, Emma did not chase anyone away, and occasionally instructed the other party to do some small work as usual.

The topic of discussion with men is also not shy.

After all, those around her are to some extent the assistants that the Westeros family arranged for her, and they are all outstanding ones.

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

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

This is an education fund, mainly for Kansas, where Emma was born. The funding direction is primary and secondary education in Kansas, helping to build schools, recruiting better teachers, providing bursaries for poor students, and so on.

Of course, there are also some tasks to help the Westeros find talent.

The gifted children at Solvay Academy did not fall from the sky.

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

Emma hummed, slowed down the movement of eating, looked at the man opposite seriously, and waited for an answer.

Simon said: "How bad is the federal primary education system, maybe you should have experienced it, and according to our survey, it is still getting worse. The public wants to get a good education, and even life-changing, often only by entering expensive private schools, but this is beyond the reach of most ordinary people.”

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

"I said..." Simon smiled. Seeing the sincere look of the woman opposite, he didn't say anything at all, and continued: "Although I can accept your compliment just now, this matter does have a deeper consideration. In our country, a large number of top private schools, through their monopoly on high-quality educational resources, have actually hindered the passage of the entire society's class advancement. This is the instinct of the vested interests. I don't want to say more. However, in a country like this In a world with continuous and rapid technological development, if you want to be strong, and want to remain strong for a long time, you must have a complete education system for all. Otherwise, only a small number of elites have mastered the top-level knowledge, which is actually impossible to maintain. A huge society that goes on and on."

In the past ten or twenty years, the United States is desperately trying to promote the return of manufacturing. However, not to mention the low-end and mid-end industries, such as the semiconductor industry, want to move to the United States, but it is embarrassing to find that even enough Many qualified technical talents cannot be recruited. Fundamentally, this is actually a serious problem in the US education system itself.

Emma understood.

The waitress who was beside the ignorant little guy suddenly said: "Mr. Westeros, I also understand the issues you are worried about. Listening to you, I think Ms. Treston's compliment just now is not 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 just introduced herself, Claire Wheeler, and said with a smile, "Have you studied this problem?"

Knowing that this was his 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. When I was a junior, I happened to do a social survey on federal education issues, although it was limited to some areas around Evanston, Illinois, where the school is located. I... um, and several classmates who did this survey together, also came to a very pessimistic conclusion that the poor primary education system is having a very serious negative impact on our entire country, such as various industries in recent years. In addition to the cost factor, another very important reason is that it is increasingly difficult for enterprises to recruit a large number of professional workers with higher education."

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

Claire could feel Emma's taste, considering that it might not be so easy to be taken away by a man today, the man was under the eaves, and he was very smart and did not refute, but just looked at the man next to him.

Simon ignored the small confrontation between the two women.

Inexplicably, it reminds me of Boeing, to be precise, Boeing's "famous" South Carolina factory.

When super tycoons who are familiar with industry insiders customize Boeing private jets, and even some commercial companies that know the insider, when ordering aircraft, they often add a conditional: no aircraft 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 came to light after Boeing's series of air crashes, many of the employees of Boeing's South Carolina plant did not have the corresponding professional engineer qualifications. Before being recruited, some people drove trucks and some people sold 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 professional requirements in the concept of ordinary people.

Absurd?

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

As for the result, everyone probably knew it later.

Putting all the blame on India's software problems is nothing but stealing.

Besides, why is it that Boeing is reluctant to recruit professional technical talents?

Certainly not.

Compared with the declining U.S. auto industry, Boeing has enough profit margins, and business executives with a little brain should understand how high professionalism is required for such a company.

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

So why not do it?

why?

Because there are simply not enough professionals.

Of course, the United States has long been a strong attraction to the world's top talents. However, these people who go to study in the United States often do not want to enter Boeing or Ford factories to work as assemblers. After all, the group of international students is either rich, or Talented, these two groups, it is impossible for them to rush to become workers.

In short, if we want to solve the problem, we still need the United States' own education system to carry out human hematopoiesis.

The problem is that when a country's basic education system has major problems, how can it continue to produce a complete "hematopoietic" 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 her own resources into the higher education system in the United States, and pinpointing those talents who are about to mature, is the plan with the least input and the highest output.

However, of course no longer thinks so.

I still understand the truth, the Westeros system, on this ship, even if Simon has the ability to jump, 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't think as simple as it used to, but must do more things that are really good for this big ship to sail for a long time.

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.

After chatting about these things and having breakfast, Simon said goodbye to Emma and his son, and rushed to the Westeros company headquarters in Midtown to start the day's work.

Just sitting down in the office, the girl sent an update.

On October 23, local time, that is, yesterday, **** clashes broke out again between Palestine and Israel. At the same time, many countries in the Middle East expressed solidarity with Palestine, and a large gathering of millions of people broke out in Yemen.

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

Speaking of which, 35 dollars a barrel of crude oil is really a lot worse than the highs 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.

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 the fluctuation of international crude oil prices.

In fact, since September, the continuous conflict between Palestine and Israel broke out again, and the price of crude oil has soared, and the people on the federal side have begun to gradually become dissatisfied.

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

Ordinary people watch the fun.

For Simon, of course, the twists and turns can be discerned at a glance.

Not to mention the international excitement, the domestic side, Florida.

This is a key swing state.

The voting time for the presidential election is getting closer and closer, and it is obvious that now is the final stage of the game between all parties.

First of all, between Palestine and Israel, Clinton can be said to have been running for eight consecutive years during his two terms. He was on the verge of reaching a peace agreement several times, and finally fell through due to various reasons. Now, as the vote in the US presidential election is approaching, the Middle East is suddenly in chaos, leading 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.

Anyway, it's all about the election.

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

Now, there may be some people who are dissatisfied with the authorities because of the continued rise in oil prices and choose to vote for the Republican Party, however, those people are probably ignoring that a certain guy is the spokesperson for American Petroleum Corporation.

The price of crude oil is only $35 a barrel now, what is this?

You are all dissatisfied with this look. When the time comes, you can taste the taste of crude oil prices exceeding $100 a barrel, tsk tsk.

Anyway, it's your own choice.

All the things that should be done have been done, and now waiting for the results in a few weeks, Simon just put it aside after reading the information, and has no intention of doing anything more.

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

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

After all, the recent rise in crude oil prices, followed closely by the profits and stock prices of oil companies, will rise.

Simon is not in a hurry.

When a super bomb is thrown, the entire energy industry will be in a downturn for a year or two. At that time, if you are not willing to let go, there are enough means here to get the Texaco management to submit.

After dealing with some corporate routines, Simon turned his attention back to Hollywood.

Today is October 24th.

Tuesday.

This year's Halloween season started last Friday.

On Daenerys' side, the first film to be released is "Terror Cruise" starring Kate Beckinsale, one of the "Charlie's Angels".

Frankly speaking, the structure of this film is too complicated, and Simon does not expect much of the film’s performance in the theater market. Therefore, the production cost of the project is 15 million US dollars, and the publicity expenses given here are only 7 million US dollars. The number of painted screens is 2107.

It's a low match.

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 "Terror Cruise" was not bad. It earned 8.79 million US dollars in the first three days. It is expected to be around 14 million in the first week. Such a start, 30 million The local revenue is definitely no problem.

Considering that this film is mainly aimed at the follow-up video tapes and other peripheral channel markets, obviously, it will also be a lucrative small project.

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