Early this year, the editors of a Canadian anti-establishment magazine watched Egyptians demanding democracy in Cairo, and young Spaniards camping out in city centers to protest high unemployment, and wondered, "Why isn't this happening in America?" So in an Internet posting in mid-July, Adbusters suggested a time — Sept. 17 — and a place — Wall Street — for people to make a stand. The editors didn't organize any activists, or even visit New York, but thousands of people took their idea and made it real. "All of us had this feeling that there was this powerful wave of rage rising up in America that hadn't found its expression yet," said magazine co-founder Kalle Lasn, who came up with the idea for the demonstration with Adbusters editor Micah White. The Vancouver-based magazine audaciously called for 20,000 "redeemers, rebels and radicals" to occupy Wall Street for a few months. The people who turned Adbusters' idea into a real protest were a combination of veterans of New York City's activist scene and newcomers who saw the magazine's call circulating on Twitter and other social media. They didn't share any particular political goal, but they held a unifying belief that the country's economic and political systems are rigged to benefit big corporations and the very rich. http://online.wsj.com/article/AP1ae187116a7047bca6a9c5e22c87e5e8.html

Cookbooks have been late bloomers in the e-book revolution, lagging behind other categories, like fiction, that have been widely embraced in digital form. Yet cookbooks have recently begun to show signs of strength in the digital book market, bolstered by publishers who are releasing e-book editions of new titles simultaneously with the print versions and converting older, classic cookbooks into digital form. On Wednesday Alfred A. Knopf will release the e-book edition of one of the most famous cookbooks: “Mastering the Art of French Cooking,” by Julia Child, immortalized in the best seller “Julie & Julia” and its film counterpart, starring Meryl Streep. he introduction of “Mastering” to the e-book library is not just a testament to the book’s venerable status and enduring popularity, but also to the publishing industry’s willingness to embrace digital publishing with all its quirks, including, for cookbooks, shorthand measurements like “2 tbsp finely minced shallots,” which appear in smaller type.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/05/books/julia-childs-mastering-the-art-of-french-cooking-joins-e-book-revolution.html?_r=1

Q: What is the average lifespan of our paper money?
A: The U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing says it depends on the note:
• 42 months for the $1 bill.
• 16 months for the $5 bill.
• 18 months for the $10 bill.
• 24 months for the $20 bill.
• 55 months for the $50 bill.
• 89 months for the $100 bill.
Q: What did others say about Yogi Berra?
A: "He'd fall in a sewer and come up with a gold watch." Casey Stengel.
http://www.thecourier.com/Opinion/columns/2011/Oct/JU/ar_JU_101011.asp?d=101011,2011,Oct,10&c=c_13

A Möbius Strip or Möbius Band is named after August Ferdinand Möbius, a nineteenth century German mathematician and astronomer, who was a pioneer in the field of topology. Möbius, along with his better known contemporaries, Riemann, Lobachevsky and Bolyai, created a non-Euclidean revolution in geometry. Giant Möbius Strips have been used as conveyor belts (to make them last longer, since "each side" gets the same amount of wear) and as continuous-loop recording tapes (to double the playing time). In the 1960's Sandia Laboratories used Möbius Strips in the design of versatile electronic resistors. Free-style skiers have christened one of their acrobatic stunts the Möbius Flip. The famous artist, M.C. Escher, used mathematical themes in some of his work, including a Möbius parade of ants.
See more plus pictures at: http://scidiv.bellevuecollege.edu/math/mobius.html

WHAT'S IN IT
Marmite is the name given to two similar food spreads: the original British version, first produced in the United Kingdom and later South Africa, and a version produced in New Zealand. Marmite is made from yeast extract, a by-product of beer brewing. The British version of the product is a sticky, dark brown paste with a distinctive, powerful flavour, which is extremely salty and savoury. This distinctive taste is reflected in the British company's marketing slogan: "Love it or hate it." Other similar products are the Australian Vegemite and the Swiss Cenovis. The distinctive product was originally British, but a version with a different flavour has been manufactured in New Zealand since 1919, and this is the dominant version in New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. The image on the front of the British jar shows a "marmite" (French: [maʁmit]), a French term for a large, covered earthenware or metal cooking pot. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmite
Gefilte fish is a loaf of chopped up fish, usually white-fleshed freshwater fish such as carp or pike. The chopped fish is generally mixed with onions, carrots and parsley. Eggs and matzah meal hold the mixture together.
Find recipe at: http://kosherfood.about.com/od/howtokeepkosher/ss/gefilte.htm
Haggis is leftover lamb or beef, seasoning, oats and onions cooked. The haggis is traditionally served at Burns Suppers on 25th January each year to commemorate Scottish poet Robert (Rabbie) Burns, and ceremoniously brought to the table with bagpipes playing. Rabbie wrote the poem “Address to a Haggis” During Burns' lifetime haggis was a popular dish as it was very cheap.
See recipe at: http://www.scotlands-enchanting-kingdom.com/haggis-ingredients.html

Phrases from The Likeness by Tana French
. . . one of those content, absorbed silences that go with good food.
. . . the kind of tangle that buys lawyers new Porsches . . .
. . . a frantic, limitless ability to octopus herself onto anyone who might be useful . . .

Exhibits of interest--click links for stories and pictures
From Archimedes to Buzz Lightyear, scientists and superheroes alike have yearned to grasp infinity. "Beyond the Infinity," an art installment by the French artist and architect Serge Salat, explores the same territory—with endless reflections. The installation, traveling through cities in China through the beginning of November, is like a high-tech hall of mirrors, blending sculpture, light, music and reflective panels to alter viewers' perceptions of space. Shifting colors of light, from red and gold to blue, are meant to evoke the cycle of day to night.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203476804576615631080924132.html
Impressionism: Masterworks on Paper Collaboration of the Milwaukee Art Museum and Vienna's Albertina --over 100 watercolors, drawings and pastels http://mam.org/impressionism/
Picasso to Warhol: Fourteen Modern Masters With more than 100 world-famous works assembled exclusively for the High Museum of Art in Atlanta from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, this exhibition features fourteen key 20th-century artists, seen together for the first time in the Southeast. http://www.high.org/Art/Exhibitions/Picasso-to-Warhol.aspx
Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art and Design Furniture, ceramics, jewelry, painting and more from over 160 artists and designers. Displays 1940s, 50s and 60s objects-- at Museum of Arts and Design in New York
http://collections.madmuseum.org/code/emuseum.asp?emu_action=advsearch&rawsearch=exhibitionid/%2C/is/%2C/479/%2C/true/%2C/false&profile=exhibitions
Infinite Jest: Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York through March 4, 2012 The exhibition explores caricature and satire in its many forms from the Italian Renaissance to the present, drawn primarily from the rich collection of this material in the Museum's Department of Drawings and Prints. The show includes drawings and prints by Leonardo da Vinci, Eugène Delacroix, Francisco de Goya, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Enrique Chagoya alongside works by artists more often associated with humor, such as James Gillray, Thomas Rowlandson, Honoré Daumier, Al Hirschfeld, and David Levine. http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2011/infinite-jest--caricature-and-satire-from-leonardo-to-levine
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Current and ongoing exhibits http://www.sfmoma.org/exhib_events

Eunoia is the shortest English word containing all five main vowel graphemes. It comes from the Greek word εὔνοια, meaning "well mind" or "beautiful thinking." It is also a rarely used medical term referring to a state of normal mental health. In rhetoric, eunoia is the goodwill a speaker cultivates between himself and his audience, a condition of receptivity. In book eight of Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle uses the term to refer to the kind and benevolent feelings of goodwill a spouse has which form the basis for the ethical foundation of human life. Cicero translates eunoia with the Latin word benevolentia. Eunoia (book) is a work by poet Christian Bök consisting of five chapters, each one using only one vowel. In the science-fiction television series Earth: Final Conflict, Eunoia is the name of the native language of the Taelon race. Bök was a consultant on that series and helped develop the language. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunoia