List of state foods and agriculture symbols  Search by state or click on pictures at https://statesymbolsusa.org/categories/state-food-agriculture-symbol  The pictures start with five from Alabama, then five from Arkansas.

Faint  As a noun, it means 'the state of losing consciousness'.  Feint  As an adjective, it refers to 'the faintly painted lines on a paper'.  Faint instead of feint is used to describe printers' stationers' items.  A Review of Some Grammatical Errors and Faulty Expressions in English by David Theodore Ackah Jr.

“Hygge” is a Danish term defined as “a quality of cosiness and comfortable conviviality that engenders a feeling of contentment or well-being.”  Pronounced “hoo-guh,” the word is said to have no direct translation in English, though “cozy” comes close.  It derives from a sixteenth-century Norwegian term, hugga, meaning “to comfort” or “to console,” which is related to the English word “hug.”  Associated with relaxation, indulgence, and gratitude, hygge has long been considered a part of the Danish national character.  This vision of restrained pleasure harmonizes with a related Swedish concept, lagom, which refers to a kind of moderation.  Pronounced with a hard “G,” the term is said to come from the Viking phrase laget om, or “around the team,” meaning that you should take only a sip of the mead that’s being passed around so that no one is left without.  Lagom means “adequate,” “just right,” or “in balance” and it is said to have burrowed deep into the Swedish national psyche, if not that of all Scandinavians.  It encourages modesty and teamwork and discourages extremes.  It is related to fairness, the need for consensus, and equality.  Anna Altman  https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-year-of-hygge-the-danish-obsession-with-getting-cozy  Thank you, Muse reader!

The word and the book;  both hook you for life.  Two people who connect others by the written word are not writers, but engineers:  Meet Mayi Gowda and Anu Garg. The former runs a business and the latter offers a free service.  Suneetha Balakrishnan  Read their stories and see pictures at
http://www.indialivetoday.com/building-vocabularies-and-libraries/209772.htm

A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg  We’re going to give the letter L a well-deserved rest:  No el. quartziferous  (kwort-SIF-uhr-uhs)   adjective  Containing or bearing quartz.  From German Quartz + Latin -ferous (bearing), from ferre (to bear).  Earliest documented use:  1831.
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From:  Daryl Docterman  Subject: quartziferous  Thanks for the No e_ ce_ebration. A__ _etters deserve a sabbatica_ once in a whi_e.
From:  Cindi Jolene  Subject: No el  On Dec 23, 1991, I gave birth to a daughter.  We named her Briley Noel.  The next day a family member asked the new baby’s name and I replied, “Briley Noel.”  He looked at me with a confused expression and said, “How do you spell Briley with no el?”  It is an oft-repeated family story now as you can imagine.

Braised Short Ribs & Moxie Beans   serves 6   This is a recipe intended for a cold day, when the wind is blowing sideways and the snow shoveling feels never-ending.  Moxie soda is a beloved New England soft drink first created in 1876 as a medicinal beverage (and is the official soft drink of Maine, where the founder was born).  It’s flavored with gentian root, giving it a bitter flavor, with hints of cola, root beer, and Dr Pepper, which is what you should substitute if you can’t find Moxie where you live.  It’s the secret ingredient in these beans, giving them a complex, sweet, and fruity flavor.  Like all braises, these short ribs improve upon sitting, so make them the day before you plan to eat them if you’re able; the beans can also be made a day ahead and reheated.  Find recipe at https://www.splendidtable.org/recipes/braised-short-ribs-moxie-beans?utm_campaign=WNK_w_NewYearsMessaging_20180103&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sfmc_Newsletter&utm_content=Braised%20Short%20Ribs%20&%20Moxie%20Beans

Lines on ruled paper provide a guide to help users keep their writing or drawing consistent with a predetermined set of rules.  The ruling layout is not determined by the paper size but by the purpose, style of handwriting or the language used.  Common examples:  Note paper (or writing paper, filler paper, loose leaf paper, binder paper) is typically used for handwriting and is produced in different layouts and sizes.  The layout usually consists of evenly spaced horizontal lines, or feints, with vertical lines drawn to indicate margins, the middle of the page, or sections of a line.  Graph paper has horizontal and vertical lines evenly spaced over the entire page to create a grid of squares and is used for drafting, drawing and plotting graphs.  Often every tenth or fifth line is bolded to assist in counting the lines when plotting data.  Quadrille ruled paper (or quad paper) is similar to graph paper but without the bolded tenth lines.  It is useful in mathematics to keep numbers in columns when doing manual operations such as long division or long multiplication, and in spreadsheets or accounts.  Semi-log ruled paper is similar to quadrille ruled, except the horizontal lines are spaced according to the logarithmic scale instead of being evenly spaced.  Log-log ruled paper is similar to semi-log ruled except that both the horizontal and vertical lines are spaced logarithmically.  Manuscript paper is used for handwriting music.  The most basic page is laid out with a series of five-line staves, each spanning the width of the page.  As notebook paper is to the written word, music manuscript paper is to the written score.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruled_paper

The pel in compel, impel, and propel derives from the Latin verb pellere, “to drive,” as in the way one drives sheep, forcing them to go in a certain direction.  compel:  transitive verb.  To urge irresistibly, oblige, force.  impel:  transitive verb.  To drive, force, or constrain a person to some action by acting upon her mind or feelings; to urge on, incite.  propel:  transitive verb.  To drive away or out, to drive or push forwards, onwards, or in a specified direction; to cause to move along.  Three other pellere verbs in English are:  dispel:  drive asunder, scatter; expel:  to drive out; repel:  to push or thrust away.  Maeve Maddox  https://www.dailywritingtips.com/compel-impel-and-propel/

Both compel and impel contain the idea of using physical or other force to cause something to be done.  Compel means to constrain someone in some way to yield or do what one wishes.  Impel means to provide a strong force, motive, or incentive toward a certain end.  It might help, in some instances, to think of impel as the carrot and compel as the stick.

http://data.grammarbook.com/blog/definitions/compel-vs-impel/

January 18, 2018  Amazon reviewed 238 proposals from across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico to host HQ2, the company’s second headquarters in North America. Amazon announced it has chosen the following 20 metropolitan areas to move to the next phase of the process (in alphabetical order):  Atlanta, GA, Austin, TX, Boston, MA, Chicago, IL, Columbus, OH, Dallas, TX, Denver, CO, Indianapolis, IN, Los Angeles, CA, Miami, FL, Montgomery County, MD, Nashville, TN, - Newark, NJ, New York City, NY, Northern Virginia, VA, Philadelphia, PA, Pittsburgh, PA, Raleigh, NC, Toronto, ON and Washington D.C.  http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=2327285

Peter Mayle, the British author whose midlife relocation to France inspired his best-selling "A Year in Provence" and other works set in his adopted country, died January 17, 2018 at age 78.  A Brighton native, Mayle was in his late 40s and had worked in advertising and in educational publishing when he moved to France in 1987, planning to write a novel.  But, as he told the Guardian in 2010, he was so caught up in the new world around him —"the farmer next door, the mushroom hunter and the lady with the frustrated donkey"—that he wrote to his agent, Abner Stein, telling him that the novel wasn't working out.  "Eventually I sent Abner a long letter, largely inspired by guilt, trying to explain why I hadn't even started the novel, listing some of the distractions," Mayle explained.  "To my enormous surprise and relief, he wrote back saying that if I could do another 250 pages like the letter, he might be able to find a publisher."  "A Year in Provence," released in 1989, was a word-of-mouth success that sold millions of copies, was adapted into a miniseries by the BBC and was credited with opening up a market for such other expatriate stories as Frances Mayes' "Under the Tuscan Sun."  Mayle's other books included the children's stories "Where Did I Come From?" and "What's Happening to Me?" and the novel "A Good Year," adapted by Ridley Scott into the 2006 movie of the same name, starring Russell Crowe and Marion Cotillard.  In recent years, Mayle completed a quartet of "Caper" novels: "The Vintage Caper," ''The Corsican Caper," ''The Marseille Caper" and "The Diamond Caper." https://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/celebrities/article195420979.html 

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 1829  January 19, 2018  On this date in 1829, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy received its premiere performance.  On this date in 1853,  Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il trovatore received its premiere performance.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_19  Word of the Day  ununennium  noun  The systematic element name for the (as yet undiscovered) chemical element with an atomic number of 119 (symbol Uue).  Wiktionary