Cyril's Gleans

gleans + 1xaddenda at 5:55 PM MT, 09/25

 

5 US troops killed as debate grows over Afghan war

 

See the fall colors this weekend or forever hold your peace

 

Marfa lights - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Marfa lights or the Marfa ghost lights are unexplained lights (known as "ghost lights") usually seen near U.S. Route 67 on Mitchell Flat east of Marfa, ...

 

Army inventions, by air and by land The U.S. Army pays tribute to the ingenuity of soldiers and support staff through its "Top 10 Greatest Inventions of 2008" awards.

Pataphysics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

According to Warren Motte, noted members of the college have included Noël Arnaud (Regent of General 'Pataphysics and Clinic of ...

 

A flying car has been a dream for decades but the SkyCar is a proven quantity, having crossed the Straits of Gibraltar en route from London to Timbuktu.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/6230090/SkyCar-magnificent-flying-car.html

 

 

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Cyril likes newspapers.  He prefers a print edition but takes what he can get.  Some of his favorites are

 

-         The Wall Street Journal

-         The Financial Times

-         The New York Times

-         The London Times

-         The Los Angeles Times

-         The Daily Telegraph

-         The Guardian

-         The Houston Chronicle

-         The Christian Science Monitor (now in print only as a weekly)

 

 

 

 

 

 

gleans + 1xaddenda at 10:05 AM MT, 09/25

 

Fanged frog, 162 other new species found in Mekong

 

Why Karzai May Still Be Obama's Best Bet in Afghanistan

By TIM MCGIRK / KABUL - Despite the flaws of the incumbent and the questionable legitimacy of his possible reelection, the U.S. may have no better alternative

 

The grandiose Victorian country house is back in vogue

Times Online - ‎Against the odds the grandiose Victorian country house is back in fashion. By the 1950s, indeed the 1930s, most of these mighty piles of masonry were deemed ...

 

High & Low | St. Simons Island, Ga.

 

Southern Coastal Comfort

By BETHANY LYTTLE

St. Simons, a barrier island on the Georgia coast, is about 95 minutes from Savannah and about the same distance from Jacksonville, Fla.

 

Pretty soon we'll be able to "e-member" anything (for better or worse).
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/09/25/total.recall.microsoft.bell/index.html

 

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Much good poetry has been written in English over the past 110 years, and much is still being written – a good bit outside of North America.

 

A baker's dozen modern poets Cyril likes follow:

 

-         Philip Larkin

-         W. H. Auden

-         Robert Frost

-         Edna St. Vincent Millay

-         Marianne Moore

-         E. E. Cummings

-         Turner Cassity

-         T. S. Elliot

-         Seamus Heaney

-         Les Murray

-         Simon Armitage

-         Stephen Edgar

-    A. D. Hope

 

 

 

 

 

 

gleans + 1xlagniappe at 2:55 AM MT, 09/25

 

Arthur Guinness Birthday Celebrated

Associated Content - ‎Today, September 24 th , is the 284 th birthday of Arthur Guinness, a man celebrated by beer lovers around the globe. December 31 st , 1759, 250 years ago, ...

Happy 250th birthday, Guinness: America's microbrewers salute you Daily Finance (blog)

Happy Guinness Day! The Jersey Journal - NJ.com

Guinness celebrates 250th birthday Philadelphia Inquirer

 

California, fresh, lively, and forever oriented toward the future, has for more than a century been a model for the rest of America. So who killed it?... more»

 

http://www.appscout.com/2009/09/google_wikis_the_whole_web.php <== recommended

 

Major-General Andrew Mackay, a general who led the Afghanistan campaign has resigned over his disillusion in the direction of the Government’s strategy.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/6228725/Afghanistan-general-quits-over-disillusionment-with-government-strategy.html

 

Xanthe Clay cooks a speedy bean soup packed full of goodness and flavour - no excuses for a take-away!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/five-minute-food/6228755/Video-Beetroot-soup-with-horseradish-cream-Five-Minute-Food.html

 

 

lagniappe

 

anyone lived in a pretty how town by E. E. Cummings

anyone lived in a pretty how town
(with up so floating many bells down)
spring summer autumn winter
he sang his didn't he danced his did

Women and men(both little and small)
cared for anyone not at all
they sowed their isn't they reaped their same
sun moon stars rain

children guessed(but only a few
and down they forgot as up they grew
autumn winter spring summer)
that noone loved him more by more

when by now and tree by leaf
she laughed his joy she cried his grief
bird by snow and stir by still
anyone's any was all to her

someones married their everyones
laughed their cryings and did their dance
(sleep wake hope and then)they
said their nevers they slept their dream

stars rain sun moon
(and only the snow can begin to explain
how children are apt to forget to remember
with up so floating many bells down)

one day anyone died i guess
(and noone stooped to kiss his face)
busy folk buried them side by side
little by little and was by was

all by all and deep by deep
and more by more they dream their sleep
noone and anyone earth by april
wish by spirit and if by yes.

Women and men(both dong and ding)
summer autumn winter spring
reaped their sowing and went their came
sun moon stars rain

 

 

 

 

 

gleans at 8:20 PM MT, 09/24

 

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Young children still need adults around to help them learn from educational television ... [more]

 

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Evolution can never go backwards, because the paths to the genes once present in our ancestors are forever blocked ... [more]

 

Successful dieters may have different brains ... [more]

 

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Dinosaur mass extinction event was muted in Europe ... [more]

 

A New News Site in San Francisco 

By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA - The Bay Area news project says it wants to fill some of the vacuum left by the downsizing of the local newspapers.

 

This Week’s Recipes

Coconut Barley Pilaf With Corn, Chicken and Cashews

Chicken With Herbs

Tteokbokki — Korean Rice Cakes with Red Chili Sauce

Soba Salad With Spinach, Edamame and Miso Dressing

Smoky Pork Burgers With Fennel and Red Cabbage Slaw

 

 

 

 

 

gleans + 1xlagniappe at 7:15 PM MT, 09/24

 

Magritte painting stolen at gunpoint

guardian.co.uk - ‎Maja Pertot Bernard of the Art Loss Register said Magritte was not a painter whose works were often stolen and there were very few missing Magrittes. ...

 

“Web-bot” technology has moved apocalyptic prophecy into the internet age, predicting that the world will end on 21 December 2012.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/6227357/Web-bot-project-makes-prophecy-of-2012-apocalypse.html

 

Spain is sliding into a full-blown economic depression with unemployment approaching levels not seen since the Second Republic of the 1930s and little chance of recovery until well into the next decade, according to a clutch of reports over recent days.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/6228390/Spain-tips-into-depression.html

 

The Daily Telegraph’s investigation into MPs’ expenses, which dominated the headlines for six solid weeks this summer, unearthed what Gordon Brown later described as: “The biggest parliamentary scandal for two centuries.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/6226839/No-Expenses-Spared-the-inside-story-of-the-Telegraphs-MPs-expenses-investigation.html

 

 

lagniappe

 

(Oh friends, .. don't matter if you're a man or a woman. If you're in love
with somebody, these are the words that you got to learn to say. Now
listen carefully. Here it comes...)

I'll be loving you always
with a love that's true, always
When the thing you've planned
needs my helping hand,
I will understand, always, always

Days may not be fair, always
Yeah but that's when I'll be there, always
Not for just an hour,
Not for just a day,
Not for just a year, but always.

I said that I'll be loving you, always
with a love that's true, always.
When the thing you've planned
needs my helping hand,
I will, I will understand, always, always

(Oh that's pretty ... that's pretty too ... Oh darling)

The days may not be fair, always
Yeah but that's when I'll be there, always
Not for just a second, or a minute, or an hour,
Not for just a weekend and a shake down in the shower,
Not for just the summer and the winter going sour,
But always, always, always

(Ok if you don't want to quit, let's try it one more time)

I'll be loving you, always
with a love that's true, always.
When the thing you've planned
needs my helping hand,
I will understand, I will, I will understand, always, always

The days may not be fair, always
(Don't worry, baby)
That's when I'll be there, always
Not for just an hour,
Not for just a day,
Not for just a year, but always.

Leonard Cohen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

 

 

 

 

gleans at 5:20 PM MT, 09/24

 

Spacecraft spies frozen water in Martian craters

 

Planned emission cuts still mean far hotter Earth

 

Butterfly antennas key to navigating in migration

 

The unseen bias in Middle East reporting

 

Are there too many charities in America?

 

Bode Miller to compete in World Cup

 

Cypress Gardens theme park in Fla. closes doors

 

 

Analysis: Obama presidency at pivotal moment

 

Video: Obama Pushes for Nuke-Free World

 

Public Wary of Obama on War and Health Care, Poll Finds

By ADAM NAGOURNEY and DALIA SUSSMAN

President Obama is confronting tepid support for his handling of the war in Afghanistan and an electorate confused about the proposed health care overhaul, according to the latest Times/CBS News poll.

 

Experts Awed by Anglo-Saxon Treasure

By JOHN F. BURNS

An amateur treasure hunter prowling English farmland with a metal detector found a massive collection of gold and silver.

• Video Report

 

 

 

 

gleans + 2xaddenda at 1:40 PM MT, 09/24

 

US and UK deny special relationship is in trouble Gordon Brown rules out claim Britain is being excluded from meetings on Afghan war

75 comments

• Obama snubs Brown over private talks
• Lance Price: Obama's busy, get over it Gordon
• Obama hails UN's vision for 'nuclear-free world'
• Live blog: G20 Pittsburgh summit
• G20 wags' risky trip to Warhol Museum

 

Travel writing - truth or fiction?  If 'the lie is intrinsic to travel books', what is their future in the online age, asks John Hooper

18 comments

 

 

Nature photographer Rob Ward is thrilled to have captured a magnificent white buck in the Forest of Dean.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/local/gloucestershire/hi/people_and_places/nature/newsid_8272000/8272689.stm

 

 

An electric battery-powered unicycle, shaped like a figure eight, has been unveiled in Japan.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/technology/8272485.stm

 

 

In the era when the idea of women on the front line was even more controversial than today, Susan Travers was the only woman in the French Foreign Legion.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8271773.stm

 

 

 

addenda #1 <== Some of Cyril’s Favorite Reading

 

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The Georgia Review - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia  .. The Georgia Review is an award-winning, nationally respected literary journal founded in 1947. It won the National Magazine Award for ...

 

 

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gleans + 2xaddenda + 1xBBCstuff at 11:15 AM MT, 09/24

 

video Low Bridge, Everybody Down Rachel Dickinson, author of the October issue travel story, narrates a photo tour of the Erie Canal. watch video

 

Chestnut trees, once nearly gone, thrive as seedlings
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American chestnut trees were once a dominant species from Georgia to Maine, making up about 25 percent of the hardwoods in the forests. ...

 

 

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EDITOR'S CHOICE Valerie Jamieson, features editor Asteroid attack: Putting Earth's defences to the test How would we cope if we knew a massive rock would strike the planet in just 72 hours? Would we prepare or panic? The US air force tried to find out...MORE

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LAST WORD   ALL THE JOBS Why do geese need so much fat? Find out in this week's Last Word column...MORE

 

 

BBC Stuff

 

--> tune in, debate and listen online with your weekly World Agenda guide 26 September 2009 Aliens, the Arts and the mystery of the Arctic Sea This week, BBC World Service embarks on a mission of discovery. In Aliens, Matt McGrath realises it may only be a matter of decades before we discover we're neither unique nor alone. He asks, if the truth really is out there, what does this mean for religion? And how will we cope with the concept of life being common in the cosmos? World Drama experiments with a season of plays on science. Arthur Giron's play Moving Bodies dramatises the colourful life of Nobel prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman and peers into the mind of the man, who helped develop the atom bomb. And for Assignment, Sarah Rainsford tries to uncover exactly what happened when Russian Cargo ship 'The Arctic Sea' mysteriously disappeared off the British coast earlier this year. Heart and Soul: Aliens 26 September; World Play: Moving Bodies 26 September; Assignment: The Mystery of the Arctic Sea 1 October    Memento What item would you choose to symbolise your life by? In Memento, we meet four migrants in Britain who were forced to make that tough choice. For Fazli, an Afghan child refugee, it's a pen given to him by his father. And for Fungayi, a political activist from Zimbabwe, it's an mbira – a traditional musical instrument he treasures, because it reminds him of better times. Memento 2 October Calling Nigeria As part of Connected Africa, BBC Hausa has tackled the challenge of reaching audiences in remote Northern Nigeria - by giving villages mobile phones, so they can send in reports themselves. For World Agenda, the Head of BBC Hausa, Jamilah Tangaza, discusses how Labarinku A Tafinku (Your News in Your Palms) has been a ringing success.  Discover a different point of view in African Perspective Listen again to programme highlights BBC News Coming soon Latest podcasts BBC World Agenda: For the stories behind the international headlines   Dog fighting in St Louis Sudan: Keeping the peace African sport: Speed up with Fast Track Digging up the tiny T Rex Take the US$1000 challenge Is robotic warfare the future? Classical music: Making waves in Iran BBC in other languages Change your details | Click here to Unsubscribe BBC World Service reacts to live events and breaking news, therefore programme schedules are subject to change at short notice.

 

 

 

 

 

 

gleans at 9:00 AM MT, 09/24

 

Audio slideshow: Plum Pie
BBC News - PG Wodehouse's witty prose - poking fun at the English upper classes - has won him a small army of fans that continue to celebrate his numerous works, ...

 

Recalling a Home That Really Is a Castle

By SARAH LYALL

Hazel Thompson for The New York Times

William Fiennes, pictured in Hyde Park in London, has a memoir, “The Music Room,” about his family’s efforts to raise his brother.

William Fiennes’s memoir of his late epileptic brother features a childhood growing up in Broughton Castle, which has been in his family since the 15th century.

• Excerpt From ‘The Music Room’

Books of The Times

 

'Where Men Win Glory'

By JON KRAKAUER
Reviewed by JANET MASLIN

Jon Krakauer’s book about Pat Tillman, the N.F.L. player who left football for the Army and died in Afghanistan, feels cobbled together in a spirit of desperation.

• Excerpt | Profile of Jon Krakauer

ArtsBeat Blog

The Fall Bookselling Season Is in Full Swing

By MOTOKO RICH

Dan Brown and Edward M. Kennedy helped kick off the fall bookselling season and delivered some of the strong sales that booksellers have been craving all year.

 

The Essence of America in 1,095 Pages

By PATRICIA COHEN

Harvard’s new “A New Literary History of America” roams far beyond any standard definition of literature, with entries on the porn star Linda Lovelace, the indie film “Wild Style” and Hurricane Katrina.

Books of The Times

 

'The Dead Hand'

By DAVID E. HOFFMAN
Reviewed by DWIGHT GARNER

This authoritative and chilling new history of the cold war arms race is deadly serious, but can verge on pitch-black comedy — “Dr. Strangelove” as updated by the Coen Brothers.

• Excerpt

 

Best Buy and Verizon Jump Into E-Reader Fray

By BRAD STONE

Two big names are teaming with iRex Technologies to market a touch-screen e-reader to rival the Kindle from Amazon.

 

Before Choosing an E-Book, Pondering the Format

By PETER WAYNER

A variety of software is making it possible to read a book on a diversity of hardware, and to even tinker with the typeface.

 

 

 

Small Amusement Parks Surviving a Downturn

 

 

Taliban Widen Afghan Attacks From Base in Pakistan

By ERIC SCHMITT and MARK MAZZETTI

The Taliban’s expansion into regions of Afghanistan over which they once had little influence comes as the Obama administration is reassessing its military strategy in the nation.

• Top General Denies Rift With Obama on Afghan War
• Taliban Ambush in Pakistan Kills 8

 

10 signs she's flirting

 

The largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever found has been declared officially to be treasure by the south Staffordshire coroner.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/6225975/Anglo-Saxon-gold-largest-ever-hoard-officially-declared-treasure.html

 

An extreme pogo artist has learned how to leap over cars as he seeks to bring his hobby into the pantheon of extreme sports.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6225687/Pogo-artist-aims-to-widen-hobbys-appeal.html

 

Gordon Brown has been snubbed repeatedly by Barack Obama during his trip to the United States, as the fall-out from the release of the Lockerbie bomber appeared to have left "the special relationship" at its lowest ebb for nearly 20 years. <== hubris - whom the Gods would destroy, they first make mad

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/gordon-brown/6224813/Barack-Obama-rebuffs-Gordon-Brown-as-special-relationship-sinks-to-new-low.html

 

Lord March's daughter Alexandra Gordon Lennox presents her impressions of this year's sell-out festival of historic racing at the Goodwood Revival.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/motorsport/6223000/Goodwood-Revival-the-insiders-view.html

 

Aids is now generally acknowledged to be caused by HIV which was originally transferred to humans from chimpanzees from West Africa

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6225356/AidsHIV-Where-it-came-from-and-how-it-spread.html

 

 

 

 

 

gleans at 2:30 AM MT, 09/24

 

Police spot mountain lion in east Colorado Springs

 

US scrambling to come up with new Afghanistan plan?

CNN - Barbara Starr - ‎WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Obama administration's national security team is working on alternative strategies for the war in Afghanistan that ...

 

James Joyce’s Ulysses : more venerated than read because it has been so long held in academic captivity. Declan Kiberd wants to set it free... more»

 

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds has as much relevance today as it did when first published in 1841 ... [more]

 

Can a daily pill really boost your brain power? ... [more]

 

Famed and feared Hope Diamond goes naked

 

A world first: Vaccine helps prevent HIV infection

America armed, but guns not necessarily loaded

Ceefax, the world's first teletext service, is gradually being switched off around the country, as the digital 

switchover takes hold. To mark its 35 birthday, Ceefax journalist Ian Westbrook has compiled 10 

little-known facts from its history.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8260196.stm

 

The UK's largest ever haul of Anglo-Saxon gold artefacts is found beneath a field in Staffordshire.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/england/staffordshire/8271241.stm