Wednesday, March 2, 2016

CE #5.1

1. List the top 2 candidates in the Texas primaries for each political party and tell me the percentage of voters who selected them. Page A1, jumps to page A11 (Hint: you will find the information you need on page A11 somewhere, but looking at the start of the stories on page A1 is smart)
 For the Democratic party Hillary is winning at 63% compared to Sanders 31%. On the Republican side of the party Cruz is at 41% while trump is at a 28%.

2. How many students will benefit from a $1 million donation by Gregg Lowe and his wife? Page B1 "Couple donates $1M..." 
The donation will increase the number of students that can be supported by 600.

3. What will Savara Pharmaceuticals do with its recently acquired $20 million? Page B7 "Austin's Savara raises $20M"
The new financing will support the AeroVanc phase 3 trial, which is to help people who have cystic fibrosis.
4. Which of the 4 streaming titles would you be interested in watching? page D2 "Austin filmmaker getting..."
From the descriptions I would like to watch Adult Beginners or The teller and the Truth.
5. Who were the two teams that beat the UT mens and women's basketball teams yesterday emphatically sending the message that neither team is ready for the post-season and what was the score in each game? Page C1 (Hint: the boys played one team and the girls played another, they are not the same school) 
The Jayhawk's beat the mens team while Baylor beat the women's team.

Apple Vs The FBI
I find this whole situation to be quite silly. The government obviously is not going to court with apple so they can only open these phones. Of course they want to spy on us and take advantage of the power apple will have given them. Exactly why apple shouldn't give them the key, and their is no law saying they have to. The government is simply power hungry and want to take advantage of apple. I don't think Apple should ever have to give out access to their products to anyone. If someone took my phone, of course I would want to be able to access that information, good thing apple has that already built in. Their is ICloud, all you stuff is saved to your name and information meaning that by losing your phone you are not losing access to the information, It just means that someone else now has access to it as well. National security has no business in Apples policies or moral standards, but the phones that were of people who have done messed up things, only then should they be concerned. Which makes no sense because the phones the governments wanted to unlock Apple has already unlocked a ton and said they would unlock the rest but not give out the authorization key to the government. Further proving my point the government is only seeking power out of this. Personally, my father has social media himself and does check what I post and does generally monitor the information that comes and leaves our house. Totally fine with me since I don't post bad things or use the internet for bad. I think that yes parents should monitor some of the information their children are taking in and viewing but shouldn't be internet crazy about it and check every little thing they do. Thats overprotection, and overprotected children usually have a lack of many necessary skills in life. Children should be exposed to technology on their own terms. I know that sounds weird, but its all so interesting. I remember when I was really young that I wanted to use my dads computer and browse the web but he wouldn't let me. Theres an aspect of curiosity the only technology can expand in grow. The best time to grow those attributes is in childhood, but the technology isn't all good. So technology for children should be monitored, and as a teenager as well just not as much. Once the individual has reached adult hood that shouldn't be a problem, if they grew up with the right character and moral standards they will know what technology should and should not be used for.

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