Wednesday, June 28, 2017

@20:30, 6/28/17

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U.S.

Trump Interrupts Call in Oval Office to Tell Reporter She Has a ‘Nice Smile’

Mr. Trump, speaking to the Irish prime minister, said of the reporter, “She has a nice smile on her face so I bet she treats you well.”

Trump is a skilled salesman.

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Business Day

Joshua Newman, a Fitness Entrepreneur, Sentenced to 41 Months in Prison

Newman, a Yale graduate who left a trail of unpaid debts to investors, had pleaded guilty to wire fraud.

Film tends to be mob run.

His behavior is understandable but not forgivable.

He must build a new life.

3
Opinion

Marriage, Baby Carriage and Poverty

For millennials, marriage before children is no longer the norm, and that sequence seems to cause problems.

Domestic economics is rather obvious and classic.
Add to that the fertility limit.

Some pundits are devoted to other theories of cause and effect.

4
Real Estate

$600,000 Houses in Ohio, Michigan and New York

A historic brick house in Columbus, a midcentury ranch in Bloomfield Township, and a 1799 retreat in Old Chatham.

The New York property appeals to me but I can't carry it alone.
Better scale and design I can build.

5
Magazine

David Sedaris Wants You to Read His Diary

The humorist on picking up trash, publishing his innermost thoughts and making himself look bad.

I find him amusing at a distance and after editing.
I would not want him for a housemate in so far as I know him.

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Arts

Nobody Expects Michael Palin: A Comic Actor in a Dramatic Role

Mr. Palin, a founding member of the Monty Python comedy troupe, relishes his central role in the PBS mystery “Remember Me” as a manipulative older man.

I have enjoyed the products of the Flying Circus as I encounter them.

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Magazine

The Classic Cookbooks That Shaped My Career as a Chef and Writer

Samin Nosrat, the magazine’s newest Eat columnist, shares the quintessential books that informed the way she thinks about food, cooking and writing.

I have read none of them.
Please put them on the shelf.

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Travel

T.S.A. Testing 2 Technologies to Speed Airport Screening

The agency is trying three-dimensional bag screening and biometric fingerprint identification to make the security process faster.

The T.S.A. is doing the wrong things.
The result seems to be to make the public afraid.

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Movies

Review: ‘Spell Reel’ Shows a Revolution Filmed, on the Leader’s Orders

The documentary digs up movies shot to document Guinea-Bissau’s war of independence from Portugal in the 1960s and ’70s.

I would view it.
It is propaganda.
Causes are complex.
The results of revolt are always different.
They are rarely better.
Sometimes different is enough.

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Business Day

Robocalypse Now? Central Bankers Argue Whether Automation Will Kill Jobs

At a high-level gathering in Portugal, one of the main topics of debate was whether artificial intelligence could permanently eliminate huge numbers of jobs.

The central bankers are suffering gas pains.
The primary threat of robots is to the clerical work that has been central banking and industrial management. The financial business is automated.
Offshoring  keeps wages at rock bottom.
Personal service is most of the national economies.
Machines are a long way short of that capacity.
I have found no automation in story telling.


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