Literally “cheese and pepper,” this minimalist cacio e pepe recipe is like a stripped-down mac and cheese.  https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/cacio-e-pepe 

emporium (plural emporiums or emporia) noun  Borrowed from Latin emporium (“trading station; business district in a city; market town”), from Ancient Greek ἐμπόριον (empórion, “factory, trading station; market”), from ἔμπορος (émporos, “merchant, trader; traveller”) + -ιον (-ion, suffix forming nouns). ἔμπορος is derived from ἐμ- (em-) (variant of ἐν- (en-, prefix meaning ‘in; within’)) + πόρος (póros, “journey; passageway”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to go through; to carry forth”)), modelled after ἐν πόρῳ (en pórōi, “at sea; en route”).  Sense 4 (“the brain”) alludes to the organ as the place where many nerves or nerve impulses meet.   (also figuratively)  A city or region which is a major trading centre; also, a place within a city for commerce and trading; a marketplace. quotations ▼  (also figuratively) A shop that offers a wide variety of goods for sale; a department store; (with a descriptive word) a shop specializing in particular goods. quotations ▼   (historical) A business set up to enable foreign traders to engage in commerce in a country; a factory (now the more common term). quotations ▼ (by extension, obsolete) The brain.  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/emporium 

The Southern Ocean, also known as the Antarctic Ocean, comprises the southernmost waters of the World Ocean, generally taken to be south of 60° S latitude and encircling Antarctica.  As such, it is regarded as the second-smallest of the five principal oceanic divisions: smaller than the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian oceans but larger than the Arctic Ocean.  Over the past 30 years, the Southern Ocean has been subject to rapid climate change, which has led to changes in the marine ecosystem.  By way of his voyages in the 1770s, James Cook proved that waters encompassed the southern latitudes of the globe.  Since then, geographers have disagreed on the Southern Ocean's northern boundary or even existence, considering the waters as various parts of the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans, instead.  However, according to Commodore John Leech of the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO), recent oceanographic research has discovered the importance of Southern Circulation, and the term Southern Ocean has been used to define the body of water which lies south of the northern limit of that circulation.  This remains the current official policy of the IHO, since a 2000 revision of its definitions including the Southern Ocean as the waters south of the 60th parallel has not yet been adopted.  Others regard the seasonally-fluctuating Antarctic Convergence as the natural boundary.  This oceanic zone is where cold, northward flowing waters from the Antarctic mix with warmer Subantarctic waters.  See many graphics at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Ocean 

Erik Pauze, the head gardener for Rockefeller Center has for the past three decades, been instrumental in the scouting, nurturing, and transporting of the Norway Spruce that transforms into the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree.  Though he’s long been at the helm of this process, upon reflection he says not much has changed about the way things are done—fitting, as the tradition of the Tree has looked the same for about as long, save for the Swarovski-encrusted star that has sat atop the Tree since its induction in 2004.  Fun fact:  The latest star introduced in 2018 features over 3 million crystals as well as LED lights.  In 2021 the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree is the first to come from Maryland.  The Norway Spruce is great for the scale it can achieve, it can hold the lights on its branches, and it stands there nice and proud as the tree should.  We found the 2021 tree back in March.  From then until May, we checked in on it to see how it fared coming out of the winter . . . then we started to tend to it, watering and feeding it, as well as thinking about the logistics of moving it to Rockefeller Center.  The Tree is 79 feet tall and 46 feet wide.  Noah Silverstein  https://www.rockefellercenter.com/magazine/arts-culture/who-picks-the-rockefeller-center-christmas-tree-every-year/ 

Maritime Academy Toledo educates students in grades 6-12 (ages 11-18) not only in the normal courses of study for primary and secondary school, but also in 4 (four) courses of study in the maritime industry:  Shiphandling and navigation, Marine engineering, Culinary arts, and Marine environmental science.  Before purchasing NAUTIS simulators 2012, the school taught the maritime-oriented classes mostly from a theoretical perspective, although they had 2 boats to give the students some practical experience.  Unfortunately, this truly practical experience, while beneficial, is only available on a seasonal basis and comes with the high costs of fuel, maintenance, and storage.  In purchasing the NAUTIS simulator, they have the opportunity to give their cadets hands-on experience with navigation, ship-handling, locking/docking, and emergency ship-handling all in a cost-effective and completely safe environment.  The ultimate goal at the Maritime Academy is to educate their students, with the help of the NAUTIS simulators, to enter the maritime industry immediately upon graduation from the institution or to give them a solid foundation to continue their education to finally achieve a license.  https://www.ogv.energy/news-item/maritime-academy-toledo-achieves-advanced-training-goals-with-nautis-simulators   

Do we need weapons to fight wars?  Or do we need wars to create markets for weapons? - Arundhati Roy, author (b. 24 Nov 1961)   

Word of the Day for November 24  betrim  verb  (transitive, dated)  To trim (“decorate”); to adorn, deck, or embellish.  Wiktionary   

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 2460  November 24, 2021