Breakfast Around the World

Eye opener...

Breakfast is just about ready

What does the world eat for breakfast?

See how folks around the world start their day in this quick little video that has had more than 5.4 million views: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry1E1uzPSU0

For a slide show of breakfast in 22 countries: http://www.buzzfeed.com/ailbhemalone/breakfasts-around-the-world#.gnQMWb8m8

Julia Roberts' Moving Message on Nature

Thoughtful...

Julia Roberts

Julia Roberts' latest role in a deeply moving, conservationist video may just be the best in her career, dailylinked.com reports.

Roberts' message in this recent video may literally help save lives, the website wrote: http://www.dailyliked.net/julia-roberts-powerful-video/

New York's Newest Subway Nearing Completion

Engineering feat..

New Second Ave. subway making progress

New York's long-planned Second Avenue subway line is making progress, Jennifer Weiss reports on wsj,com.

MTA officials say the first phase of the project is 82 percent complete and on track to open by the end of 2016, Weiss wrote.

For more, including a video update on the project: http://www.wsj.com/video/update-from-underground-nyc-second-avenue-subway/6E8A3F5C-18E9-48FA-A0FB-5429E610AFE3.html

Blasting for new subway

Cutting through Manhattan rock

New Book on the Fall of BlackBerry

Five year tailspin...

 BlackBerry phone

How does one company go from controlling half of the world's smartphone market to less than one percent today, and from a profit of $1.9 billion to a gaping $5.8 billion deficit -- all within the space of five years, Parmy Olson asks on forbes.com.

It all started when Apple CEO Steve Jobs took the stage at the Macworld Conference in January 2007 and showed the world that he could download music, videos and maps from the Internet onto a little glass phone in his hand, Olson wrote.

For more on the new book on the fall of BlackBerry:  http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2015/05/26/blackberry-iphone-book/

Funny GIFs

Take a break...

Rotating globe GIF

Some of the funniest GIFs, according to Richard James at BuzzFeed:

Never accept a weird ball from a stranger.

I'll fix those pesky kids.

Oops.

 

Here, I'll do it.

Over the top.

 

Musical Moments: Handel, Zadok the Priest

Hallelujah...

Queen Elizabeth II

  

Queen Elizabeth will mark the 62nd anniversary of her coronation on Tuesday.

Today's Musical Moments' selection is Handel's Zadok the Priest, the British coronation anthem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW9Uudkx42g

For more on Zadok: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zadok

 Handel monument, Westminster Abbey

Home Buyers Busy in Darien

Weekly update...

Breezy outing

Home buyers were active again in Darien in the week ending today.

Twelve accepted offers and two properties going under contract were reported on the Darien MLS.

Other MLS results:

-- 14 new listings of property for sale;

-- 11 price changes, and

-- Two closings.

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