Since 1953, Atlantic tropical storms had been named from lists originated by the National Hurricane Center.  They are now maintained and updated through a strict procedure by an international committee of the World Meteorological Organization.  The six lists are used in rotation and re-cycled every six years--the 2022 list will be used again in 2028.  The only time that there is a change in the list is if a storm is so deadly or costly that the future use of its name for a different storm would be inappropriate for reasons of sensitivity.  If that occurs, then at an annual meeting by the WMO committee (called primarily to discuss many other issues) the offending name is stricken from the list and another name is selected to replace it.  Several names have been retired since the lists were created.  If a storm forms during the off-season, it will take the next name in the list.  Find lists for Atlantic and Pacific storms and lists of names for other tropical cyclone basins outside of NHC responsibility at the World Meteorological Organization tropical cyclone naming page.  https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml 

One bite into a cannoli from Gino’s Pastry Shop takes you on a journey through history. The recipe hasn’t changed since Gino Raguso established the business in 1960.  His son Jerome Gino Raguso, still uses the same methods and recipes his father wrote in a cherished notebook.  The handwritten recipes have etched Gino’s Pastry Shop into Bronx history.  “One guy comes from Boston every three, four months and gets an item called Bones of the Dead,” says Jerome, “This type of cookie—they’re very hard—it’s supposed to be for [All Souls Day on November 2] but we make them all year round.”  Though the assortment at Gino’s Pastry Shop is wide, it’s the cannoli that garners the most acclaim.  Every part of a cannoli is essential and interdependent—just like the Bronx.  Being there for the community is a large part of what makes Gino’s so special. When funding was threatened to be cut from the Bronx Zoo, whose foot traffic impacts local businesses in Belmont and Fordham, Jerome transformed his specialty into a pointed message.  During a lawmakers’ meeting to discuss the proposed cuts, he delivered cannolis with a surprise twist.  “When [each councilmember] opened up the box, inside the box was a cannoli,” he shares, “but inside the cannoli was a handwritten letter that I wrote saying ‘Due to budget cuts, this is what 53% of a cannoli would look like—an empty shell.”  The strategy worked, and the budget cut was reduced.  That’s the power of a great cannoli.  https://ediblebronx.ediblecommunities.com/food-drink/handwritten-recipes-have-etched-gino-s-pastry-shop-bronx-history 

Before industrial farming, children across Southern Italy grew up watching their town butcher kill livestock.  Neighbors convened for small “pig festivals” in the local piazza, where the butcher drained and collected the animal’s warm, rich blood.  Any young onlooker’s squeals of horror would soon be turned to delight—the crimson liquid was immediately mixed with milk, sugar, and chocolate, then cooked into a velvety pudding.  With its luxurious mouthfeel, salty-bittersweet cocoa flavor, and a topping of pine nuts, cinnamon, toasted bread, or candied citron, sanguinaccio dolce made it easy to love pig blood.  Though this Southern Italian signature was once widely adored, the delicacy is now difficult to find.  Because blood has a short shelf life (it must be cooked or frozen within 24 hours), regions across Italy banned its sale in 1992.  Suddenly, accessing fresh blood required slaughtering one’s own livestock.  Those who grew up with the dessert still revere it, but the days of neighborhood snout-to-tail celebrations are long gone.  https://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/sanguinaccio-dolce-chocolate-blood-pudding  Thank you, Muse reader, who learned about sanguinaccio at Gino’s Pastry Shop in The Bronx.  

logodaedalist  (log-uh-DEE-duh-list)  noun  One skilled in using or coining words   

From Latin logodaedalia, from Greek logodaidalia, from logodaidalos, from logos (word) + daedalus (skillful).  Earliest documented use:  1727.  

ludicrous  (LOO-di-kruhs)  adjective  So absurd as to provoke laughter  In the beginning the word meant sportive.  From Latin ludere (to play).  Ultimately from Indo-European root leid- (to play), which also gave us allude, delude, elude, illusion, ludicrous, Ludo, collusion, ludic, and prelude.  Earliest documented use:  1619.   A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg   

The first Monday of October in 2022 is marked as World Architecture Day by the International Union of Architects.

The first Monday in October in 2022 marks the start of the yearly term of the U.C. Supreme Court (SCOTUS).  https://ballotpedia.org/Supreme_Court_cases,_October_term_2022-2023  See also https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/02/us/conservative-supreme-court-legitimacy.html

The Supreme Court first assembled on February 1, 1790, in the Exchange Building in New York City--then the Nation’s Capital.  Chief Justice John Jay was, however, forced to postpone the initial meeting of the Court until the next day since, due to transportation problems, some of the Justices were not able to reach New York until February 2.  The earliest sessions of the Court were devoted to organizational proceedings.  The first cases reached the Supreme Court during its second year, and the Justices handed down their first opinion on August 3, 1791 in the case of West v. Barnes.  The number of Justices on the Supreme Court changed six times before settling at the present total of nine in 1869.  https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/institution.aspx 

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 2572  October 3, 2022