We recently saw Stephanie Beck Cut Paper Sculptures at Philadelphia International Airport (Neighborhood Arrangement #1: Maze, Aviary, Neighborhood Arrangement #1: Circle) See story and two of the three sculptures at: http://www.phl.org/art/beck.html The sculptures are on view through January 2011. See slide show of Beck's paper sculptures at: http://www.stephaniebeck.org/paperCutworkSculpture.htm See many more sculptures including all three mentioned above at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephaniebeck/

Colonel Charles Whittlesey (1808-1886), born in Connecticut and a graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point (1831), was a resident of Cleveland and served as a prominent geologist and topographer for the first Geological Survey of Ohio (1837-1838). He published more than 50 reports on the geology of the State, including early studies of Lake Erie water levels, shoreline erosion rates, and mineral resources. Whittlesey also served as a geologist for the US Geological Survey; exploring the mineral resources of the Lake Superior region, and later working there as a mining engineer. He became an authority on western history and archaeology, discovering more than 60 earthworks in Ohio and mapping half of them. He is credited with doing much to develop mining engineering in Ohio. His life work includes some 200 scientific papers http://www.ohiosci.org/OHIOSCIENCE200APPENDIX.htm

The Whittlesey culture is a Late Prehistoric group that occupied portions of northeastern Ohio. It is distinguished from other Late Prehistoric societies mainly by distinctive kinds of pottery. Many Whittlesey communities were located on plateaus overlooking stream valleys or the shores of Lake Erie. The villages often were surrounded with a pallisade or a ditch, suggesting a need for defense. The Whittlesey culture is named for Charles Whittlesey, a 19th century geologist and archaeologist who was a founder of the Western Reserve Historical Society. http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=2052 Note that this Web site lists Ohio science and technology contributions by county.

Ohio Archaeology Month is celebrated in October. Find the month observed for all states at: http://www.saa.org/ForthePublic/NewsEvents/ArchaeologyWeeksMonths/ArchaeologyWeekMonthbyState/tabid/143/Default.aspx

Matthew Carter (born in London in 1937) is a type designer. Carter's career in type design has witnessed the transition from physical metal type to digital type. He was named a 2010 MacArthur Fellow. His best known typefaces are Verdana, Georgia and Tahoma. See his many other typefaces at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Carter

Helvetica was developed in 1957 by Max Miedinger with Eduard Hoffmann at the Haas'sche Schriftgiesserei (Haas type foundry) of Münchenstein, Switzerland. Haas set out to design a new sans-serif typeface that could compete with the successful Akzidenz-Grotesk in the Swiss market. Originally called Neue Haas Grotesk, its design was based on Schelter-Grotesk and Haas’ Normal Grotesk. The aim of the new design was to create a neutral typeface that had great clarity, no intrinsic meaning in its form, and could be used on a wide variety of signage. When Linotype adopted Neue Haas Grotesk (which was never planned to be a full range of mechanical and hot-metal typefaces) its design was reworked. After the success of Univers, Arthur Ritzel of Stempel redesigned Neue Haas Grotesk into a larger family. In 1960, the typeface's name was changed by Haas' German parent company Stempel to Helvetica (derived from Confoederatio Helvetica, the Latin name for Switzerland) in order to make it more marketable internationally. It was initially suggested that the type be called 'Helvetia' which is the original Latin name for Switzerland. This was ignored by Eduard Hoffmann as he decided it wouldn't be appropriate to name a type after a country. He then decided on 'Helvetica' as this meant 'Swiss' as opposed to 'Switzerland'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvetica

Pecorino is sheep's milk cheese. Hundreds of different ones are made throughout Italy, but the type I think is being referred to here is an aged style that is a grating cheese. Pecorino Romano, which isn't hard to find, would work. If you can find the Sini Fulvi Sini brand, you'll have a superior example. Fresh ricotta cheese has soft, nearly melting curds and tastes clean and almost sweet in its creaminess. Most of what we have here is a cow cheese, but in southern Italy it's often done with sheep's milk. Freshness is essential with ricotta. If at all possible, taste the cheese before buying. If premium ricotta isn't unavailable, look for whole-milk Polly-O, available in many supermarkets. A sound sheep's milk ricotta is produced by Old Chatham Sheepherders in Old Chatham, New York.
Homemade Ricotta For about 1-1/2 pounds of cheese, pour 3 quarts, plus 3 cups whole milk into a stainless steel pot with 1 cup heavy cream (not ultra pasteurized). If possible make them both organic. Line a large sieve with cheese cloth or a thin towel and set it over a medium bowl. Bring the milk and cream to a very gentle simmer, stir in 2 teaspoons salt and 1/3 cup lemon juice (fresh squeezed). Simmer 1 or 2 minutes or until you have cloud-like clumps floating in almost clear liquid. Don't let them cook until they are hard. Scoop them up and into the sieve. Gently press out excess moisture so the cheese isn't soupy. Put into a storage container and chill. The Splendid Table October 6, 2010

Plant Exchange on October 9 in Toledo All are welcome to join local gardeners for this FREE exchange! Please bring plants and gardening paraphernalia in good condition.
9:00 AM Plant Drop-Off
9:15 AM Workshop - Sustainable Eating & Veggie U
10:00 - 11:30 AM Plant Exchange Information 419.243.4857 Location Original Sub Shop, 402 Broadway (near Amtrak Station) http://www.toledogarden.org/content/events/

samizdat (SAH-miz-daht) noun An underground publishing system used to print and circulate banned literature clandestinely. Also, such literature. From Russian samizdat, from samo- (self) + izdatelstvo (publishing house), from izdat (to publish). Coined facetiously on the model of Gosizdat (State Publishing House). A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg
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From: Charles Burbank Subject: samizdat
My best friend studied Russian at Stetson in the early nineties. She shared this word with me as it was the "publisher" of many of her creative works while she was in college. The -izdat ending was also on a couple of other words tamizdat (which means published out there, i.e. works that were smuggled out and published outside Russia's borders), and magnitizdat (which deals with recorded tapes that were smuggled out of the country as well).
From: Michael Bash Subject: euphemism
Even euphemism becomes a euphemism. I think it's in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" where George asks if anybody "has to use the euphemism" before they leave.

A mesostic is a poem or other typography such that a vertical phrase intersects lines of horizontal text. It is similar to an acrostic, but with the vertical phrase intersecting the middle of the line, as opposed to beginning each new line. The practice of using of using index words to select pieces from a preexisting text was developed by Jackson Mac Low as "diastics". It was used extensively by the experimental composer John Cage. There are two types of mesostic: fifty percent and one hundred percent. In a fifty-percent mesostic, according to Andrew Culver (John Cage's assistant), "Between any two [capitalized] letters, you can't have the second [letter]." In a one-hundred percent mesostic, "Between any two [capitalized] letters, you can't have either [letter]." See example of a one-hundred percent mesostic at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesostic