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gleans at 5:50 PM MT, 10/24

 

Ever-Present Surveillance Rankles the British Public

By SARAH LYALL - A local government’s investigation of a British family over a girl’s school application raised concerns about the usage of a 2000 surveillance law.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Bank failures hit 106 for year; many more are weak

 

Darwin Lives! Modern Humans Are Still Evolving

TIME - Eben Harrell - ‎Modern Homo sapiens is still evolving. Despite the long-held view that natural selection has ceased to affect humans ...

 

The Minimalist

 

Autumn Sonata: Sprouts, Bacon and Figs

By MARK BITTMAN

Like many members of the cabbage family, Brussels sprouts are at their sweetest and best when grown in cool weather.

Video: Brussel Sprouts With Bacon and Figs

 

5 dumbest things on Wall Street

 

Unpublished letters to the Editor: 'Dear Sir, Am I Alone in Thinking?'   A new book of unpublished Daily Telegraph letters celebrates the wit and wisdom of our readers.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/6417140/Unpublished-letters-to-the-Editor-Dear-Sir-Am-I-Alone-in-Thinking.html

 

Lyse Doucet discovers the beauty and perils of one of the remotest areas of Afghanistan.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/8322737.stm

 

 

This Week’s Recipes

Brussels Sprouts With Bacon and Figs

Shaking Beef (Bo Luc Lac)

Sautéed Wild Salmon With Brown Butter Cucumbers

 

Sahara Glowing Heart
1 oz London dry gin
1 oz absinthe
1 oz apricot brandy
.5 oz grenadine.
Shake with lots and lots of ice and strain into a large saucer champagne glass

 

 

 

 

 

 

gleans + 1xlagniappe + 1xaddenda at 6:15 AM MT, 10/24

 

As family income falls, college tuition climbs‎ -

The report said paying for a four-year public college took up about one-quarter of the median family income. A private university swallowed up about ...

 

Remembering names; and what to do when you forget

 

The Number of Job Hunters 65 or Older Skyrockets

By STEVEN GREENHOUSE - Nearly half a million people 65 and older want to work but cannot find a job, this group’s highest unemployment level since the Great Depression.

 

Bank failures top 100, only part of industry woes

WASHINGTON – The cascade of bank failures this year surpassed 100 on Friday, the most in nearly two decades. And the trouble in the banking system from bad loans and the recession goes even deeper than the number suggests. Full Story »

 

Why Angry British Voters Are Tuning In to Bigots

By CATHERINE MAYER / LONDON  - The leader of the racist British National Party provoked revulsion with his appearance on a national political TV show. But his message resonated with some viewers

 

Q. Horati Flacci Carminum Librum Quintum
Rudyard Kipling

 

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Antigonish (poem) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
I wish, I wish he’d go away...

When I came home last night at three
The man was waiting there for me
But when I looked around the hall
I couldn’t see him there at all!
Go away, go away, don’t you come back any more!
Go away, go away, and please don’t slam the door... (slam!)

Last night I saw upon the stair
A little man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
Oh, how I wish he’d go away

 

 

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gleans + 1xlagniappe at 11:095 AM MT, 10/23

 

Women Marines want a chance outside the Afghan wire 

 

W. H. attacks on conservatives worry moderate Democrats 

 

How did archbishop of Canterbury's treasure end up in a river? 

 

Seoul food

Michael Fitzpatrick on the South Korean movement to reclassify dogs reared for meat as livestock 10 comments

 

Gallowglass - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jump to: navigation, search ... The term "gallowglass" or "galloglass" is an anglicisation of the Irish, ...

 

 

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Eros Turannos

 

She fears him, and will always ask
What fated her to choose him;
She meets in his engaging mask
All reason to refuse him.
But what she meets and what she fears
Are less than are the downward years,
Drawn slowly to the foamless weirs
Of age, were she to lose him.

Between a blurred sagacity
That once had power to sound him,
And Love, that will not let him be
The Judas that she found him,
Her pride assuages her almost
As if it were alone the cost--
He sees that he will not be lost,
And waits, and looks around him.

A sense of ocean and old trees
Envelops and allures him;
Tradition, touching all he sees,
Beguiles and reassures him.
And all her doubts of what he says
Are dimmed by what she knows of days,
Till even Prejudice delays
And fades, and she secures him.

The falling leaf inaugurates
The reign of her confusion;
The pounding wave reverberates
The dirge of her illusion.
And Home, where passion lived and died,
Becomes a place where she can hide,
While all the town and harbor side
Vibrate with her seclusion.

We tell you, tapping on our brows,
The story as it should be,
As if the story of a house
Were told, or ever could be.
We'll have no kindly veil between
Her visions and those we have seen--
As if we guessed what hers have been,
Or what they are or would be.

Meanwhile we do no harm, for they
That with a god have striven,
Not hearing much of what we say,
Take what the god has given.
Though like waves breaking it may be,
Or like a changed familiar tree,
Or like a stairway to the sea,
Where down the blind are driven.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

 

 

 

 

 

gleans at 9:35 AM MT, 10/23

 

Commentary: 'Wild Things' is scary, but so is life

 

Flight Overshoots Airport, Puzzling Experts

By MATTHEW L. WALD and LIZ ROBBINS  - It was unclear how two pilots could have overflown their destination by 150 miles. A radar map shows the flight as it circled back to the airport (KMSP) in Minneapolis.

 

Theodore R. Sizer, Leading Education-Reform Advocate, Dies at 77

By MARGALIT FOX - Mr. Sizer’s pluralistic vision of the American high school helped shape the national discourse on education and revise decades-old ideas of what a school should be.

Teacher Training Termed Mediocre

By JENNIFER MEDINA - In a speech at Teachers College at Columbia University, the education secretary, Arne Duncan, said the schools need “revolutionary change.”

 

 

The Cheat

Bar Menu

By SAM SIFTON

Zachary Zavislak for The New York Times

This is fall America, urban-autumn edition: meals are becoming heartier and high-low snacks are what’s for dinner.

• Recipes: Serious Potato Skins | Tempura-Fried Green Beans With Mustard Dipping Sauce

 

To Cut Global Warming, Swedes Study Their Plates

By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL

New labels listing the carbon dioxide emissions associated with the production of foods are appearing on some grocery items and restaurant menus around the country.

• Calculating Emissions Is Problematic
• Previous Articles in the Series »
• Slide Show: Sweden Focuses on Cutting Food Emissions

 

Tomato Salad With Turkish Tahini Dressing

By MARTHA ROSE SHULMAN

This popular dressing is perfect with steamed vegetables as well as tomatoes.

• See All Recipes for Health »

 

 

 

 

 

gleans + 1xbookstuff at 9:05 AM MT, 10/23

 

Take another look of time and space here and far far away ... [more]

 

What can science fiction tell us about the mind, consciousness and what it means to be human? ... [more]

 

Diana Henry's favourite Bramley apple puddings - Sensational puddings using that British favourite – the Bramley apple  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/recipes/6398687/Diana-Henrys-favourite-Bramley-apple-puddings.html

 

Devon Pub Guide: The Hunters Inn, North Devon - Tucked in a beautiful Exmoor valley, The Hunters Inn is an old-fashioned pub and hotel with a laid-back attitude. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/pubs/6398598/Devon-Pub-Guide-The-Hunters-Inn-North-Devon.html

 

The Paris Review Interviews Vol 4
The Skinny - This 4th volume of collected interviews is another gem, with a wide range of writers featured, from Jack Kerouac to PG Wodehouse, and it's all introduced by ...

 

Internet rules and laws: the top 10, from Godwin to Poe - The internet has matured into a world of its own, and like the real world, it obeys certain immutable laws. Here are 10 of the most important.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/6408927/Internet-rules-and-laws-the-top-10-from-Godwin-to-Poe.html

 

Barack Obama sees worst poll rating drop in 50 years - The decline in Barack Obama's popularity since July has been the steepest of any president at the same stage of his first term for more than 50 years.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/6409721/Barack-Obama-sees-worst-poll-rating-drop-in-50-years.html

 

Red wine makes fish taste too fishy - Scientist have discovered why we prefer white wine with fish – because red unpleasantly accentuates the fishy taste.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/6408825/Red-wine-makes-fish-taste-too-fishy.html

 

 

book stuff

 

Harvard University Press: Orlando Furioso: A New Verse Translation ... Cover: Orlando Furioso: A New Verse Translation. David R. Slavitt is a poet and the translator of more than eighty ... Find this book in libraries near you: ...

 

Amazon.com: Hybrid: The History and Science of Plant Breeding ...

Review. "The reason you and billions of other people will eat today is a ... Hybrid the book displays, like hybrids themselves, all the marvelous fruit of ... With Hybrid, Noel Kingsbury reveals that even those imaginary perfect foods ...

 

Barnes & Noble.com - Book Search: Paul Murdin

Secrets of the Universe : How We Discovered the Cosmos by Paul Murdin. Hardcover. Reader Rating: See All Detailed Ratings. Write a Review ...

 

Who's in Big Brother's Database? - The New York Review of Books

By James Bamford. The Secret Sentry: The Untold History of the National Security .... Because the book is structured chronologically, it is somewhat difficult to .... According to a later review, Aid writes, NSA had "virtually no useful

 

Amazon.com: Never a Slow Day: Adventures of a 20th Century ...

Never a Slow Day is the story of newspaper reporter, Frank A. Aukofer, working in the ... This book is Aukofers account of his journalism adventures over the years, ... Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review ...

 

Frank A. Aukofer discusses his new book: "Never a Slow Day" | www ... Aug 3, 2009 ... Frank A. Aukofer discusses his new book: "Never a Slow Day" | www.spjdc. ... He continues to write an automobile review column, DriveWays, ..

 

Yoknapatawpha, Images and Voices by George G. Stewart : Eurospan ...A Photographic Study of Faulkner's County with Passages from Classic William ... Book details for Yoknapatawpha, Images and Voices: Contributors: George G. ... in Southern Cultures and the Faulkner Newsletter & Yoknapatawpha Review. ...

 

Something for the Pope to read // News // Office of News and ...

Oct 15, 2009 ... Flanking the book are two essays by MacIntyre. ... 'Intractable Disputes about the Natural Law' is a must-read not only for moral ... and much more, has yet to write his review, but his invitation has given rise to some ...

 

Book Review: The Bard: Robert Burns, A Biography by Robert ...

Mar 21, 2009 ... Robert Crawford states his purpose succinctly: The book, he writes “aims to .... Pingback from Topics about Travel » Book Review: The Bard: Robert Burns, .... People Are Unappealing, Peter Abrahams, Peter Carey ... ç recommended

 

 

 

 

 

 

gleans at 7:00 PM MT, 10/22

 

NASA observatory discovers most distant known galaxy cluster

 

Algae may be secret weapon in climate change war

 

Ambulances start charging extra for obese patients

 

Man pleads guilty to DWI in motorized La-Z-Boy 

 

Poll: US belief in global warming is cooling

 

Web 2.0 Summit: Where tech worlds collide -

Software makers, social networks, and even hardware makers shake hands and link their products at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.

 

PS3: No longer the next-gen console punching bag

Although it's not a certified trend, the PS3's sales victory in September is seen as a harbinger of good things for the perennial video game console also-ran.

 

Book Association Challenges Retailers’ Price Plan

By MOTOKO RICH  - A trade group for independently owned bookstores has asked the Justice Department to investigate what it describes as “predatory pricing” by Amazon, Wal-Mart and Target.

 

Maggie Shiels takes a look at how the role of the graphics processing unit is changing the very nature of film-making.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/technology/8300310.stm

 

Extraordinary camera footage taken by a BBC crew proves that golden eagles do hunt and kill reindeer.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8314000/8314558.stm

 

 

 

 

 

gleans + 1xaddenda at 1:20 PM MT, 10/22

 

Times Co. Shows Loss but Beats Forecast

 

'We have broken speed of light' <== can cold fusion be far behind?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/3303699/We-have-broken-speed-of-light.html

 

Navy's newest warships top out at more than 50 mph

 

atlantic correspondents Enough About Amelia by Lane Wallace "It's time. Past time. Amelia Earhart was an interesting, adventurous, and accomplished woman who lived and died unconventionally. But so did many of her peers." read more

 

 

Welcome to the real Narnia The "hidden" code to Narnia can be found in medieval planetary lore, Tom Wright says. At the risk of sounding like Dan Brown, Michael Ward, the foremost living C. S. Lewis scholar, makes a wholly convincing case for reading the seven Narnia stories in relation to the seven planets ("including the Sun and the Moon but excluding Uranus, Neptune and the now demoted Pluto").

 

Signs of Recovery Don't Extend to Jobs - WSJ.com ... Signs of Recovery Don't Extend to Jobs ..... The language you used does not comply with community standards. Please re-enter. ...

 

China Expands Cyberspying in U.S.‎ - China is among more than 100 countries that have the capability to conduct cyberspying operations. The bulk of the report describes the growing ambitions of ...

 

 

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>Subject: TPM: The Philosophers’ Magazine | Sci-Phi: Realism
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>Pretty surprising - at least it surprised me.
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>Ex-Nonlocal-Realist Bob
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>http://www.philosophypress.co.uk/?p=738

 

BobbingandWeavingintheBurbsBob,

 

  Old hat.  Vide

 

  George Berkeley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

  Whatever.  As you know, my favorite quotation is “Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.”

 

  Variously attributed:

 

  Quote Details: Sir Arthur Eddington: Not only is the... - The ...  Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. Sir Arthur Eddington English astronomer (1882 - 1944) ...

 

  J. B. S. Haldane - Wikiquote  The world is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than ...

 

  KTSerFFOI – and read Berkeley

 

BluffandHeartyintheHiCoBob