Cyril's Gleans

gleans + 1xaddenda at 7:10 PM MT, 07/18

 

Google Books or Great Books?

The enduring value of the Republic of Letters, in all its forms

 

seamus heaney article - good

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jul/19/seamus-heaney-interview

 

Special Operations in the Age of Chivalry, 1100-1550 (Warfare in History) by Yuval Noah Harari (Paperback - Mar 19, 2009)

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Dead Souls: An Epic Poem by Nikolai Gogol, Donald Rayfield, and Marc Chagall (Hardcover - 6 Nov 2008)  Buy new: £29.99  2 Used & new from £29.99   (1) <== recommended

 

1st Day of Fla. Hunt Nets Nearly 10-Foot Python

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- A program to eradicate invasive pythons from Florida's Everglades began Friday with a slithering success: Trappers caught a nearly 10-footer within about an hour of setting out, a shock to even the experts.

 

FAYETTEVILLE, Tenn. - A suspect was in custody in the slayings of six people, five in southern Tennessee and another about 20 miles away in Huntsville, Ala., authorities said Saturday. Full Story   Giant mysterious blob found floating off Alaska coast   'Death to China' heard at Rafsanjani sermon. Why?   On India trip, why Clinton won't stop in Pakistan   Why did it take so long to catch spy for China?     addenda   A century after Swinburne Atheist, philhellene, prophet of sexual revolution, Algernon Swinburne was also a master-metrician and a pioneering critic   Algernon Charles Swinburne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) was an English poet, controversial in his own day. He invented the roundel form, wrote some novels, and contributed ...   810. Ave atque Vale. Algernon Charles Swinburne. The Oxford Book ... 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900. Algernon Charles Swinburne. 1837–1909. 810. Ave atque Vale (IN MEMORY OF CHARLES BAUDELAIRE) ... www.bartleby.com/101/810.html - Cached - Similar Creating from nothing: Swinburne and Baudelaire in "Ave Atque Vale ... Sep 22, 2006 ... Algernon Charles Swinburne was among the earliest English critics to praise Charles Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal (1857). www.accessmylibrary.com/.../summary_0286-28900401_ITM - Cached - Similar

 

 

 

gleans + 1xaddenda at 1:35 PM MT, 07/18

 

Watson reclaims lead at an amazing British Open

TURNBERRY, Scotland - Tom Watson still leads the British Open. One round to go in his quest to become the oldest major champion in golf history.

 

Review: the First Night of the Proms

 

US ship in ancient Tower ceremony

A US vessel is the first ever non-British to take part in an ancient ceremony at the Tower of London.

 

 Fuel-cell legacy
The push space has given to tomorrow's power plants

 

Rule Britannica?
Why exactly is the encyclopaedia's brand so strong?

 

Graveyard etiquette

Claims that tourists have been picnicking on a war grave in Scotland have prompted a hostile reaction from some. But what are the rules for behaviour at a burial ground?

Wimbledon fans park in graveyard

Anger at 'war graves picnickers'

 

 

addenda

 

Truth and the Gunfighters

By Jeff Nilsson

July 21st, according to American history books, is the anniversary of the first Western gunfight. On this date in 1865, James B. Hickok faced Davis Tutt in Springfield, Missouri. Following an argument over loaned money and a pocket watch, the two men faced each other across the city square. Both men reached for their weapons. Hickok's shot hit Tutt in the chest. The man had enough life left to exclaim “Boys, I'm killed!” and stagger to the courthouse steps before collapsing.

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Strawberries Romanoff

An ancient cocktail or dessert to top off any special summer occasion, this sweet treat is every bit of strawberry-citrus goodness.

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Last Week: Zucchini Stir-Fry

 

 

 

 

 

 

gleans + 1xORA at 9:50 AM MT, 07/18

 

The World's Biggest Bar Crawl

 

 

Tequila, From the Pews

By JONATHAN MILES

A new image for tequila is emerging at the Lower East Side bar and restaurant Allen & Delancey.

 

Invasive mussels imperil western water system

 

Sumer food & drink recipe special Forty years after Delia published her first recipes, future contenders for her crown serve up treats

 

today's Ordinary Reading Assignment

 

Beyond a Common Joy: An Introduction to Shakespearean Comedy by Paul A. Olson (Hardcover - Dec 1, 2008)

Buy new: $45.00 $36.52  19 Used & new from $32.50

 

Don Watson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Don Watson (born 1949) is an Australian author and public speaker. ... His latest book, American Journeys is a narrative of modern America from Watson's ...
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gleans + 1xORA + 2xaddenda at 9:20 AM MT, 07/18

 

 

Nancy Drew’s Granddaughters

 

Going Back in Time in Old England, Sip by Sip

 

Twitter, hype and history

 

Walter Cronkite, Voice of TV News, Dies

 

 

today's Ordinary Reading Assignment

 

Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension (Philosophy of the Mind) by Andy Clark (Hardcover - Oct 29, 2008)  Buy new: $35.00 $28.00  47 Used & new from $21.89

 (3)

 

Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness

by Alva Noe (Hardcover - Feb 17, 2009)  Buy new: $25.00 $16.50  38 Used & new from $12.50

 (6) 

 

 

addenda #1 <== thanks to Comrade LordBosham

 

HIC! is a hilarious and entertaining romp through history,
literature, and wine. Julian Curry weaves together quotes
about wine from authors and historical figures ranging
from Shakespeare and Dickens to P.G.Wodehouse and
W.C.Fields as he tells the history of wine in general,
and of a certain bottle of 421-year-old wine in particular.

http://www.wine-entertainment.com/hic.html

 

 

addenda #2

 

Wine Lovers' Page/Learn About Wine

This feature combines our wine-tasting dictionary and wine-pronouncing glossary. Featuring more than 500 wine-related words and phrases, the Wine Lovers' ...
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Wine Terminology, Words and Dictionaries directory.

Search for a Glossary or Subject Dictionary Match All Words ... Glossary of Wine-Related Terms - Flicks4Fun.com: No Description Available from this Site. ...
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Wine Dictionary, Glossary and Terms directory.

A pronouncing dictionary of wine-related words and phrases, where you can look up common wine terms, read their definitions and hear them pronounced. ...
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Amazon.com: History of Wine Words: An Intoxicating Dictionary of ...

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Pronunciation dictionary: wine: Words related to wine in Forvo

Learn how native speakers pronounce words related to wine.
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Pronunciation dictionary: French (Français): Words related to wine ...

Learn how french native speakers pronounce words related to wine (from Climens to Nicolas Feuillatte)
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Wine Words : Department of Word Lists : Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus

We called wine director Jennifer Malone-Seixas, sommelier at New York's elegant Fleur De Sel restaurant, to ask her about words related to wine: ...
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Urban Dictionary: synonyms: kool aid. antonyms: wine. related ...

synonyms: kool aid. antonyms: wine. related words: fizzle - 1 definition - Kool-Aid most often the Fruit Punch flavor (Hense Red. It is called fizz...
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Wine Trail Traveler

May 18, 2009 ... This 208-page book provides a look at the origins of words related to wine. The book has three basic categories including locations/regions/ ...
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gleans at 3:55 AM MT, 07/18

 

Powerful Iranian cleric says country in crisis
TEHRAN, Iran - In a sign of endurance for Iran's protest movement, demonstrators clashed with police Friday as one of the nation's most powerful clerics challenged the supreme leader during Muslim prayers, saying the country was in crisis in the wake of a disputed election. 

 

Top Iran figure calls for protesters' release

Iran's ex-President Rafsanjani challenges the country's leaders at Friday prayers, as police fire tear gas at protesters.

Rafsanjani fans flames

Views on Rafsanjani sermon

In pictures: Tehran protest

 

 

An Unruly Haven in the Woods

 

Peaches Beckon, in a Palette From Green to Golden

By MELISSA CLARK

An obsession with green peaches leads to an improvised recipe of roasted chicken thighs with peaches, basil and ginger.

 

Restore the noble purpose of libraries

 

'Get Real,' by Donald E. Westlake

By Robert Crais  The author pulls of a seemingly impossible job: making an absurd conceit believable.

 

A Lohan comeback or just more 'Pains'?

By Denise Martin  Lindsay Lohan's new TV movie might be a good step, or it might be another stumble.

 

Zut alors! French wine sales go down the drain

 

Cream of our hearts

 

Wikipedia painting row escalates The battle over Wikipedia's use of images from a British art gallery intensifies into a war of words. Gallery in Wikipedia legal threat

 

 

Digital refusniks
How do you persuade people to go online?

 

 

 

 

 

gleans + 1xORA at 2:30 PM MT, 07/17

 

 

Job hunting? This week's most intriguing openings.

 

Citigroup profit soars on Smith Barney sale
NEW YORK - Citigroup Inc. surprised Wall Street Friday, reporting a $3 billion second-quarter profit instead of the big loss analysts expected.

 

Panel gives huge boost to high-speed rail projects

WASHINGTON - Funding for a signature high-speed rail initiative of President Barack Obama would get an enormous boost under a transportation spending bill approved Friday by a key House panel.

 

Alaska's Palin promises to keep on tweeting

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin plans to stay in touch using Twitter even after leaving office on July 26. In a tweet posted Friday, Palin indicated that when she's out of office, she'll use a personal account on the social networking site to stay in touch.

 

Judge rules against Atlanta in regional water wars

 

 

Watson leads, Woods misses British Open cut

 

Talking toy 'translates' dog barks

 

Endeavour shuttle docks

 

 

today's Ordinary Reading Assignment

 

The Gary Snyder Reader: Prose, Poetry, and Translations by Gary Snyder (Paperback - April 4, 2000)

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Mountains and Rivers Without End: Poem by Gary Snyder (Paperback - Mar 3, 2008)

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Back on the Fire: Essays by Gary Snyder (Paperback - Jan 28, 2008)

Buy new: $14.95 $11.66  46 Used & new from $0.78   (3)

 

The Selected Letters of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder, 1956-1991 by Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg,

and Bill Morgan (Hardcover - Nov 25, 2008)

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gleans at 5:50 AM MT, 07/17

 

San Diego menaced by jumbo squid

Scuba divers off the Californian city of San Diego report unnerving encounters with large numbers of Humboldt squid.

 

 Green deserts
Could climate change be good news for dry areas?

 

How 10 classic novels got their titles

 

UK dig reveals an ancient city

Silchester dig reveals how ancient Britons built a thriving city 100 years before Roman invaders

In pictures: Silchester discovers iron age past

 

Get with the program

Top 10: Long before ebooks appeared, computers were providing rich material for writers. From William Gibson to EM Forster, the author of Roadside Crosses rounds up the best

More authors' top 10s

 

Bank of America Reports Profit on Trading Gains

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Bank of America, like Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase, said it had a handsome profit of $2.42 billion from its trading business.

Two Giants Emerge From Wall Street Ruins

 

 

Prehistoric Creatures Under Big Sky

 

 

36 Hours in Cincinnati

 

Christopher Hipp, Who Bolstered Computer Power, Dies at 47

By ASHLEE VANCE

Mr. Hipp was a designer of compact devices that gave companies substantially more computer power while using significantly less space.

 

 

 

 

 

gleans at 4:15 AM MT, 07/17

 

To escape a 1930s culture war that soon turned into a shooting war, artists, writers and composers fled Europe for Southern California... more»

 

Economic theory in meltdown: the biggest financial calamity in 80 years has left the reputation of economics in tatters... more»

 

The legacy of the Apollo programme is a formidable one, and so interwoven in modern life that we hardly think of it ... [more]

 

Relive the Moon landing live [more] ... [more]

 

If children are not permitted to be adventurers and explorers, what will become of the world of adventure, of stories, of literature itself? ... [more]

 

Forty years on there's another look at the worries, wonder and sheer delight of men landing on the moon [more] ... [more] 

 

Some real Hollywood techniques have been applied to the real Moon landing footage ... [more]

 

Social interaction contributes more to learning than previously realised ... [more]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

gleans + 1xaddenda at 6:40 PM MT, 07/16

 

Google’s Profit Surges in Quarter

 

I.B.M. Profits Beat Wall Street Forecasts

 

Bits: A Sharp Downturn for the Video Game Industry

 

Recipe Redux: Moroccan Tomato Soup, 1991

 

 

Frames That Play Hard to Get

By GUY TREBAY

A writer laments the recent discontinuation of his eyeglass frames by Oliver Peoples.

 

Times Topics: Eyeglasses

 

 

addenda (from Business Week)

 

CEO GUIDE TO TECHNOLOGY
How Cloud Computing Is Changing the World
A major shift in the way companies obtain software and computing capacity is under way as more companies tap into Web-based applications

CEO GUIDE TO TECHNOLOGY
Best and Worst Places for Data Centers
Demand for off-site computing power delivered over the Web is rising, but finding the best place for those machines isn't easy

CEO GUIDE TO TECHNOLOGY
Cloud Computing: Small Companies Take Flight
Small businesses are flocking to the new services, which provide secure IT infrastructure with little up-front investment and no heavy lifting

VIEWPOINT
Enter the Cloud with Caution
Here are nine questions to ask before trusting your company's data or computing tasks to an outside provider

CEO GUIDE TO TECHNOLOGY
Podcast: The Risks and Benefits of Corporate Cloud Computing
Corporations are starting to look at the potential benefits of cloud computing—computing power obtained through the Internet. But large companies have particular security and reliability needs

 

 

 

gleans at 5:00 PM MT, 07/16

 

Firefighter says Sotomayor's ruling divides people

WASHINGTON - Frank Ricci, the white firefighter who recently won his reverse discrimination case at the Supreme Court, said Thursday that an unfavorable ruling by Sonia Sotomayor and other judges "divides people who don't wish to be divided along racial lines."

Gates: More US troops could head to Afghanistan

FORT DRUM, N.Y. - The Pentagon's chief said Thursday he could send more U.S. troops to Afghanistan this year than he'd initially expected and is considering increasing the number of soldiers in the Army.

Jumbo squid invade San Diego shores, spook divers

SAN DIEGO - Thousands of jumbo flying squid - aggressive 5-foot-long sea monsters with razor-sharp beaks and toothy tentacles - have invaded the shallow waters off San Diego, spooking scuba divers and washing up dead on tourist-packed beaches.

Budget umpire: Health care bills would raise costs

WASHINGTON - Democrats' health care bills won't meet President Barack Obama's goal of slowing the ruinous rise of medical costs, Congress' budget umpire warned on Thursday, giving weight to critics who say the legislation could break the bank.

Sotomayor on her way as GOP pledges quick vote

WASHINGTON - Sonia Sotomayor sped toward confirmation as the nation's first Hispanic justice Thursday, encouraged by Republican promises of a quick vote and cheered on by a Democratic senator's challenge to take on the Supreme Court's conservative wing when she arrives.

Rising unemployment accelerates foreclosure crisis

WASHINGTON - Relentlessly rising unemployment is triggering more home foreclosures, threatening the Obama administration's efforts to end the housing crisis and diminishing hopes the economy will rebound with vigor.

 

Solo sailing record for US teen

A 17-year-old American becomes the youngest person to sail around the world alone, after a 13-month voyage.

 

IBM raises guidance, profit blows past forecasts

 

Blacks are most obese group, study finds

 

Fight for swine flu vaccine could get ugly

 

 Steady hands
A unique exercise - how to dismantle a nuclear bomb