Cyril's Gleans

gleans at 7:45 PM MT, 06/06

Westward ho! Amish escaping crowds, prices in East

WESTCLIFFE, Colo. - A new road sign cautions drivers to watch for Amish horse-drawn carriages in the valley beneath Colorado's Sangre de Cristo mountains.

 

Illegals interrupt less desert military training

TUCSON, Ariz. - Illegal border crossings have dwindled so much in southwestern Arizona that Marine Corps pilots rarely have to abort practice bombing runs any more on their vast desert target range.

 

The Art of Making Money: The Story of a Master Counterfeiter by Jason Kersten (Hardcover - Jun 11, 2009)

 

Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher (Hardcover - Dec 2, 2008)

Buy new: $21.00 $14.28  92 Used & new from $4.19   (133)

 

Puttin' On the Ritz: Fred Astaire and the Fine Art of Panache, A Biography by Peter Levinson (Hardcover - Mar 17, 2009)  Buy new: $32.50 $21.45  48 Used & new from $16.90   (6) 

 

 

`Smart grid' — power lines move into digital age

 

Bodies found from missing plane

Bodies have been found from the Air France plane which went missing over the Atlantic, the Brazilian military says.

Combing the available data

Challenge of deep-sea debris

Air disasters timeline

 

Spy scandal US shock at news of high-level Cuban spy in Washington

Close shave Barbers thrive in Pakistan's Swat valley, post-Taliban

 

 

 

 

 

gleans + 1xBBCstuff at 11:10 AM MT, 06/06

Seasonal Glories: Rhubarb, 3 Ways

By MELISSA CLARK

 

Andrew Scrivani for The New York Times

Curried duck legs with ginger and rhubarb.

Although my old rhubarb compote recipe is speedy, convenient and addictive, it is only one way to experience the bracing pleasures of the plant. It was time to branch out.

 

 

 

Persian Cooking Finds a Home in Los Angeles

By SARA DICKERMAN

A good kebab is not hard to find in a city where hundreds of thousands of Iranians and their families have settled.

Slide Show: The Tastes of Persia in Los Angeles

 

 

Air France probe focuses on airspeed instruments

The Associated Press - ‎PARIS (AP) — Airspeed instruments on Air France Flight 447 were not replaced as the maker recommended before the plane crashed in turbulent weather, ...

 

Missing plane 'bodies found'

BBC News - ‎All 228 passengers and crew on board AF 447 are believed to have been killed when the plane disappeared during its flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.

 

Kuznetsova beats Safina for French title at AP

 

 

BBC Stuff

 

1. Global Business
2. Philip Delves-Broughton

1. Philip Delves-Broughton

Media:

Listen (Duration: 22 minutes 59 secs)

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Last broadcast on Wednesday, 01:06 on BBC World Service (see all broadcasts).

Next on:

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Synopsis

This week Peter Day is talking to Philip Delves-Broughton about his new book, What they teach you at Harvard Business School. Delves-Broughton was a successful British journalist working abroad but gave it all up to go to Harvard to see what business school was like.

Peter Day hears about his experience from trying to stay ‘ahead of the curve’ to the method of teaching, by studying 700 case studies over the 2 year course and keeping up with his classmates most of who were much more experienced than himself.

Former alumni include Michael Bloomberg, Jeffrey Immelt of General Electric and Lou Gerstner of IBM. Whilst giving graduates a great network of contacts and self confidence, does it also insulate them from the outside world?

Related Links

• Philip Delves-Broughton (www.philipdelvesbroughton.com)

 

 

 

 

gleans at 5:15 AM MT, 06/06

 

 

A decadent affair

Anna Tyzack explores the house that gave rise to the 'It’ girl .

 

Couple accused of spying for Cuba for 30 years   WASHINGTON – A retired State Department worker and his wife have been arrested on charges of spying for Cuba for three decades, using grocery carts among their array of tools to pass U.S. secrets to the communist government in a security breach one official described as "incredibly serious." Full Story »

 

Officials: Husband-wife spies lured by stranger

 

Former U.S. official and wife charged with spying for Cuba

By Josh Meyer  Prosecutors say Walter Kendall Myers and Gwendolyn Steingraber Myers, now both in their 70s, worked for the communist regime of Fidel Castro for almost three decades.

 

Apple smackdown: Red Delicious vs. Braeburn

 

 

Federer vs. Soderling in Fre

 

The genius of George Orwell

 

 

 

 

 

gleans at 5:55 PM MT, 06/05

 

 

Well: The Joy of Asparagus  <== Don't overlook the recipes in the reader comments

 

Federer rallies past del Potro in French semis -

By STEVEN WINE (AP Sports Writer) From Associated Press June 05, 2009 2:00 PM EDT PARIS - Sentimental favorite Roger Federer did not quite follow the script Friday at the French Open. He decided to go for high drama. Full Story

 

Federer 1 win from tying Sampras' Grand Slam mark

 

Miller Moths - the Bane of Coloradoans - Associated Content <== their back! - a little later in the season than usual

 

Cottonwood Seeds Cottonwood Seeds. photo: two pieces of. The fruit ripens until the pods, now dry, burst like popcorn, presenting their seeds for the wind to distribute. ... <== last year saw more than ever - off to a good start this year

 

VIDEO: Bear in downtown park tranquilized

 

NYPD looking at futuristic weapons technology

NEW YORK - The New York Police Department is looking into adapting futuristic technology that would allow officers' guns to recognize one another in an effort to avoid the type of friendly fire incident that left a cop dead last week.

 

'Greatest Generation' dwindles at D-Day memorial

NEW ORLEANS - It's "A Gathering of the Greatest Generation" - though this year only a small group of that era's aging heroes will commemorate the invasion of France at Normandy 65 years ago.

 

 

SC's Spoleto hits sales goal ahead of last weekend

 

Two charged as Cuban spies in US

The US charges a former government official and his wife with spying for Cuba over a 30-year period.

 

 

 

 

 

gleans at 11:00 AM MT, 06/05

U.S. troop buildup in Afghanistan is in full force

By Laura King  Most of the 17,000 combat troops ordered by Obama will be in place by mid-July -- nearly all of them in southern Afghanistan, the heartland of the Taliban insurgency.

 

One day in Los Angeles, a helicopter changed television news forever ... [more]

 

What's so hot about chili peppers? ... [more]

 

Pack­Bots, Predators and Ravens are the first wave of front-line robots ... [more]

 

Just in case you need to know -- running may be your best bet against a mountain lion attack ... [more]

 

Rye deal
Why is Catcher in the Rye still so popular?

 

Two unpublished Poirot short stories found in Agatha Christie's holiday home

 

News: Fan taught himself to read author's 'bloody awful handwriting' to unlock mystery contained within 73 notebooks at Devon house

• Extract from an unpublished Agatha Christie story, The Capture of Cerberus
• Agatha Christie

 

First edition of Ulysses sells for record £275,000

News: Well-preserved copy of James Joyce's 1922 classic had been unread, except for the racy bits

 

Hay festival highs

 The Hay festival's over for another year. If you missed it this time around, here's our pick of the Hay highlights

• Complete Hay festival coverage

 

 

 

gleans + 1xORA at 9:05 PM MT, 06/04

 

Sign language

Another selection of amusing signs sent in by readers on their travels.

 

Einstein's 'spooky physics' gets more entangled LiveScience.com

 

You and Ian Hamilton

A life's work in 160 pages, in contrast to the confessional excesses of much poetry of the past half-century

 

Tickled apes yield laughter clue Research carried out by tickling apes and infants suggests laughter evolved in a common ancestor of great apes and humans.

 

 

A Bing thing
What makes a really good search engine name?

 

Tech-word origins: stranger than science

 

today's Ordinary Reading Assignment

 

Moose (Reaktion Books - Animal) by Kevin Jackson (Paperback - Dec 3, 2008)

Buy new: $19.95 $13.57 26 Used & new from $9.97

 

Taming the Infinite: The Story of Mathematics by Ian Stewart (Hardcover - Sep 18, 2008)

Buy new: $29.41  14 Used & new from $24.53

 

 

 

 

 

 

gleans at 7:00 AM MT, 06/04

 

Kangaroo steaks for Aussie soldiers

Australia spends £1 million on improving troops' food

 

Demand for elite forces outpaces growth AP

 

 

Common GPS could help better track airline flights

 

How an iconic image came to be USA Today

 

Federer has clear path to 'greatest-ever' honor FOXSports.com - ‎After his clinical 7-6 (6), 6-2, 6-4 destruction of French hopeful Gael Monfils on Wednesday, all 13-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer has to do is win ...Roger Federer beats Gael Monfils at French Open Los Angeles Times Federer Feels 'Adopted' by Parisians During French Open Quest Bloomberg Federer into 20th consecutive Grand Slam semifinal The Associated Press Bloomberg - Bloomberg

 

Got problems with rising sea levels? Here are some survival tips from 5000 BC ... [more]

 

Geologists find a hidden drip deep under the US ... [more]

 

Military-backed public schools on the rise in US

 

 

 

 

 

gleans + 1xnerdnews + 1xlagniappe at 7:30 PM MT, 06/03

 

A past flight may offer clues to Air France 447

 

 

Air France jet likely broke apart above ocean

 

More Colorado farmers losing hope

 

Watching at work
How tech is letting firms keep an eye on employees

 

Bridging the gap to quantum world

"Entanglement" is seen in a mechanical system for the first time, narrowing the gap between two branches of physics.

 

 

nerd news

 

INTERNET
Move Over, Amazon? Google Aims to Sell e-Books
Google's plan to offer online access to books on a variety of Web-enabled devices could threaten Amazon's Kindle

DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT
Microsoft Moves onto Nintendo's Motion Turf
The software giant's Xbox 360 gaming console will have a camera system that lets users bring body movements and voice commands into play

 

lagniappe

 I Dream of Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair
a poem by Stephen Foster  
 
I dream of Jeanie with the light brown hair,
Borne, like a vapor, on the summer air;
I see her tripping where the bright streams play,
Happy as the daisies that dance on her way.
Many were the wild notes her merry voice would pour,
Many were the blithe birds that warbled them o'er:
Oh! I dream of Jeanie with the light brown hair,
Floating, like a vapor, on the soft summer air.

I long for Jeanie with the daydawn smile,
Radiant in gladness, warm with winning guile;
I hear her melodies, like joys gone by,
Sighing round my heart o'er the fond hopes that die:
Sighing like the night wind and sobbing like the rain,
Wailing for the lost one that comes not again:
Oh! I long for Jeanie, and my heart bows low,
Never more to find her where the bright waters flow.

I sigh for Jeanie, but her light form strayed
Far from the fond hearts round her native glade;
Her smiles have vanished and her sweet songs flown,
Flitting like the dreams that have cheered us and gone.
Now the nodding wild flowers may wither on the shore
While her gentle fingers will cull them no more:
Oh! I sigh for Jeanie with the light brown hair,
Floating, like a vapor, on the soft summer air.

 

 

 

gleans at 12:45 PM MT, 06/03

Federer safely into last four

 

Roger Federer moved closer to first French Open title with straight sets quarter-final defeat of Gael Monfils.

Kuznetsova stuns Serena

 

Dubrovnik: the perfect break

Ahead of the city's annual arts festival, Michael Kerr admires Dubrovnik's atmospheric churches and ever-changing views.

Google Map: Dubrovnik's highlights

 

Anti-piracy pup sniffs out 35,000 illegal DVDs

 

Telegraph: Best Digital Publisher

 

Video: Cool-er ebook reader

 

The Gadget Inspectors see if the Cool-er is the iPod of ebook reader

 

Sony joins new 'controller wars'

Sony gives the public the first view of its new game controller for the Sony Playstation 3.

Sony unveils PSP Go gaming device

Microsoft unveils new controller

 

Origin of Antarctic ice revealed The East Antarctic ice sheet was formed over an "Alpine" backdrop 14 million years ago, research suggests. 'Ghost peaks' mapped under ice

 

Robot sub reaches deepest ocean A robotic submersible called Nereus has reached the deepest-known part of the ocean: the Pacific's Challenger Deep.

 

Storm threat
What could have brought down Air France flight 447?

 

 

 

 

 

gleans + 1xNYTfoodstuff + 1xlagniappe at 9:40 AM MT, 06/03

Australia Bristles as China’s Economic Shadow Grows By MICHAEL WINES A Chinese investment in Australian mining has tapped queasiness in Australia over its Asian neighbor’s rising influence.

 

Is there a formula for a good life? ... [more]

 

Bloody Omaha
Memories from the beach that cost thousands of lives

 

Serena Williams Out at French Open

 

 

 

The Digital Home

Happy 25th birthday, Tetris

Tetris will turn 25 years old later this week. And we have a retrospective on the ups and downs of the famous falling-blocks puzzle game's history.  Read full story

The Social

Internet Week party report: It never stops

The first two nights of the annual Internet Week New York's after-hours scene indicate that the drive to promote digital innovation and convergence tends to disappear around midnight.  Read full story

 

 

NYT Food Stuff

 

Asparagus: Spring’s Most Versatile Vegetable

Pasta, soups, salads — asparagus is a wonderful addition to a wide range of dishes.

See all Recipes for Health »

Bar? What Bar?

New bars and restaurants that are styled after speakeasies represent a strange exercise in nostalgia: an infatuation with the good old days of Prohibition.

• Slide Show
• Reader Q and A on Prohibition and Speakeasies

 

 

Bringing Flavor Back to the Ham

By HAROLD McGEE

Makers of dry-cured hams in Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Iowa are determined to revive country ham and to develop American versions of European classics.

 

This Week’s Recipes

Rye Old-Fashioned

Crisp Chicken Schnitzel With Lemony Spring Herb Salad

Fresh Strawberries With Almond Crème Anglaise

Pickled Asparagus

Broiled Calf’s Liver

Sun-Cooked Strawberry Preserves

Mixed Lettuces With Charred Spring Onions, Walnuts and Parmigiano-Reggiano

Southeast Asian Mussel Salad

Publican Chicken

 

lagniappe

Down by the Old Mill Stream
Words and Music by Tell Taylor
Chicago: Tell Taylor, c1910

My darling I am dreaming of the days gone by,
When you and I were sweethearts beneath the summer sky;
Your hair has turned to silver the gold has faded too;
But still I will remember, where I first met you.

The old mill wheel is silent and has fallen down,
The old oak tree has withered and lies there on the ground;
While you and I are sweethearts the same as days of yore;
Although we've been together, forty years and more.

Chorus:
Down by the old mill stream where I first met you,
With your eyes of blue, dressed in gingham too,
It was there I knew that you loved me true,
You were sixteen, my village queen, by the old mill stream.