Few things in this world could be described with the following adjectives:  sweet, milky, sharp, nutty, salty, savory, hard, soft, buttery, toasty, zesty, mellow, tangy, creamy, ripe and earthy.  All of these words are used to describe various cheeses of the world.  Here are some other, more interesting, adjectives:  smelly, pungent, ferociously pungent, goaty.   It seems there’s a cheese for every palate.  That long list of words is indicative of the love people have for this ancient dairy product.  Somewhere, sometime in the history of civilization, before recorded history, the following scenario must have transpired (according to a book called The Cheese Bible, which should know).  Some milk was left to sit out in the open where it soon thickened.  Bacteria began to take action creating a chemical reaction converting lactose to lactic acid.  Soon the milk curdled and the liquid was drained and the remaining curds became firmer.  Today there are hundreds of varieties of cheeses, divided into groups based on types and even regions where they are made.  In the United States alone there are more than 300 types of cheese made from cow’s milk.  In 2002, the average American ate 30.6 pounds of cheese, six pounds more than in 1990, according to the United States Department of Agriculture.  Ohio has its fair share of cheese processors and dairy farms that supply them.  Ohio ranks in the top 10 in the nation for several cheese types and is the No. 1 Swiss cheese producer in the country.  Two Ohio cheese makers, Pearl Valley Cheese Company and Biery Cheese Company, both received awards at the 2004 World Cheese Contest in Wisconsin.  This international competition brought together 1,300 entries from 19 nations to compete.  Pearl Valley won a silver medal for its Colby cheese, and Biery Cheese was awarded first place in two different pasteurized processed cheese categories. 

Pat Petzel  http://ourohio.org/neighbors/people-and-places/food-3/for-the-love-of-cheese-2/

                                                                                                                                     
Robert Dugoni was born in Pocatello, Idaho and raised in Burlingame, California.  Growing up the middle child in a family of ten siblings, Dugoni jokes that he didn't get much of a chance to talk, so he wrote.  By the seventh grade he wanted to be a writer.  Dugoni wrote his way to Stanford University where he majored in communications/journalism and creative writing as well as working as a reporter for the Stanford Daily.  He graduated Phi Beta Kappa and worked briefly as a reporter in the Metro and San Gabriel Valley Offices of the Los Angeles Times before deciding to attend the UCLA School of Law.  Dugoni practiced law full-time in San Francisco as a partner at the law firm, Gordon and Rees, and is currently of counsel for a law firm in Seattle.  While practicing law Dugoni satisfied his artistic thirst studying acting at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, and appearing in equity and non-equity shows throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. His longing to return to writing never wavered, however, and in 1999 he made the decision to quit the full-time practice of law to write novels.  For the next three years, Dugoni worked in an 8 x 8 foot windowless office in Seattle s Pioneer Square.  He completed three novels, two of which won the 1999 and 2000 Pacific Northwest Writers Association Literary Contests.  However it was Dugoni's non-fiction expose, The Cyanide Canary, that gave him his start in the business.  Published in 2004 by Simon and Schuster, the critically acclaimed true story chronicled the investigation, prosecution, and aftermath surrounding an environmental crime in Soda Springs, Idaho.  It became a Washington Post Best Book of the year, and the Idaho Book of the Year.  Dugoni's debut novel, The Jury Master followed the next year and became a New York Times bestseller. Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine chose it as one of three "Best of the Best" debut novels of 2006.  http://www.robertdugoni.com/dugoni.html  Find Dugoni's five novels in the David Sloane series listed at:  http://www.goodreads.com/series/61967-david-sloane
 

Charles Sanders Peirce was born on 10 September 1839 in Cambridge, Massachusetts--when Darwin was only 30 years old--and he lived until 1914, the year World War I began.  His father, Benjamin Peirce, was a distinguished professor at Harvard College and the most respected mathematician in America.  Benjamin was Harvard's Perkins Professor of Astronomy and Mathematics for nearly forty years, was largely responsible for introducing mathematics as a subject for research in American institutions, as his son Charles would be for logic a generation or so later.  Benjamin is known especially for his contributions to analytic mechanics and linear associative algebra, but he is also remembered for his early work in astronomy and for playing a role in the discovery of Neptune.  He was a member of a small group of men, known as the Lazzaroni, who were largely responsible for the 19th century American institutionalization of science in such organizations as the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the National Academy of Science, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Lawrence Scientific School.  Benjamin Peirce was widely recognized as the most powerful mind thus far produced in the United States.  http://www.iupui.edu/~peirce/peirce/life/lifex.htm  See also:  http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Peirce_Benjamin.html

Read an article in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) on Benjamin Peirce (1809-1880) and link to other Internet resources at:  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/peirce-benjamin/

Read an article in the SEP on Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) and link to other Internet resources at:  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/peirce/   

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Staircase Home in Phoenix Saved  The dispute over an important Phoenix home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright has been resolved, according to the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy.  The house at 5212 E Exeter Blvd, Phoenix, AZ 85108 was last listed for $2.515 million.  An anonymous benefactor agreed to buy the desert gem and transfer the property to an Arizona not-for-profit organization responsible for the restoration, maintenance and operation of the David and Gladys Wright House.  The home was completed in 1952 for Wright’s son David and his wife, Gladys.  What makes this particular property important is that its spiral staircase design foreshadows the breakthrough design of the Guggenheim Museum in New York.  It is the only one of Wright’s single-family homes that utilizes that circular spiral plan.  See pictures of the Phoenix home and the Guggenheim Museum at:  http://www.zillow.com/blog/2012-12-21/frank-lloyd-wrights-staircase-home-in-phoenix-saved-by-anonymous-buyer/

The recorded history of Mars observation dates back to the era of the ancient Egyptian astronomers in the 2nd millennium BCE.  Chinese records about the motions of Mars appeared before the founding of the Zhou Dynasty (1045 BCE).  Detailed observations of the position of Mars were made by Babylonian astronomers who developed arithmetic techniques to predict the future position of the planet.  The ancient Greek philosophers and Hellenistic astronomers developed a geocentric model to explain the planet's motions.  Indian and Islamic astronomers estimated the size of Mars and its distance from Earth.  In the 16th century, Nicholas Copernicus proposed a heliocentric model for the Solar System in which the planets follow circular orbits about the Sun.  This was revised by Johannes Kepler, yielding an elliptic orbit for Mars that more accurately fitted the observational data.  The first telescopic observation of Mars was by Galileo Galilei in 1610. Within a century, astronomers discovered distinct albedo features on the planet, including the dark patch Syrtis Major Planum and polar ice caps.  They were able to determine the planet's rotation period and axial tilt.  These observations were primarily made during the time intervals when the planet was located in opposition to the Sun, at which points Mars made its closest approaches to the Earth.  Better telescopes developed early in the 19th century allowed permanent Martian albedo features to be mapped in detail.  The first crude map of Mars was published in 1840, followed by more refined maps from 1877 onward. 

See images and read much more at:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Mars_observation