"The poet writes 'my love is as deep as the ocean,' not 'the ocean is as deep as my love,' because the ocean epitomizes depth."  Michael Lewis - The Undoing Project, A Friendship That Changed Our Minds  See Michael Lewis discuss the Undoing Project, a book on behavioral economics and decision making with Mervyn King at New York University School of Business on December 8, 2016.    

https://www.c-span.org/video/?419485-1/michael-lewis-discusses-undoing-project  55:03

Lord Mervyn King joined New York University Stern School of Business in September 2014 as a Professor of Economics and Law, a joint appointment with New York University School of Law.  He was previously a distinguished visiting professor at both schools during the fall 2013 semester.  Lord King served as Governor of the Bank of England and Chairman of its Monetary Policy Committee from 2003 to 2013.  He had been Deputy Governor from 1998 to 2003, Chief Economist and Executive Director from 1991, and a non-executive director of the Bank from 1990 to 1991.  A graduate of King's College, Cambridge with a first-class degree in economics, Lord King also studied at St. John's College, Cambridge.  He was a Kennedy scholar at Harvard University.  http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/mervyn-king

The aerial part of the dandelion, or part which grows above the ground, include the leaves, stem, and flower.  It is generally advised that these parts be gathered while the dandelion is small because the taste of the leaves and stem is less bitter at this stage.  This is of more importance when the dandelion leaves and stem are to be used fresh for salads.  While small, fresh dandelions are a spring treat; the larger dandelions can be collected and preserved for making teas at a later date.  Find freezing instructions and recipe for dandelion tea at http://foragefood.blogspot.com/2014/02/how-to-preserve-dandelion-for-later-use.html  See also  https://proverbsthirtyonewoman.blogspot.com/2013/04/how-to-preserve-dandelion-greens-and.html#.Wso67i7waUk

Outside the U.S., there is no difference between flyer and flier.  They are interchangeable, though flyer is about twice as common as flier.  American writers tend to use flyer for small handbills and flier for people and things that fly.  This distinction does not run deep, though, and the two spellings are very often used interchangeably even in the U.S., so it’s safe to say that neither is correct or incorrect for any sense of the word.  Read more at http://grammarist.com/spelling/flier-flyer/ 

Toledo’s Unforgettable Judge Austin by Lou Hebert   Prior to the creation of a Municipal Court system, Toledo, like many cities, had for years used what was called a "Police Court".  In Toledo, that court was synonymous for several decades with one man:  Judge James Austin.  Judge Austin was undoubtedly one of the city's most powerful and colorful characters of the early 1900's.  According to some accounts, he was the compelling reason that Toledo decided to create a municipal court system of four judges and structured the city's court system.  It was said that a "certain class of citizens was being favored by Judge Austin."  In one edition of the 'Police Journal' of 1922, it was noted that “he withstood the continual howl of the newspapers and the public" for his actions in court.  Despite his critics, Judge Austin remained a popular figure in the city and was reelected to his judicial post many times over, even after the city had gone to a municipal court, Judge Austin was reelected to it and named its chief judge.  Even after assuming his new role as head of the court Judge James Austin continued to create headlines.  The 'New York Times' carried one story from 1920, when Austin couldn't decide the guilt or innocence of a local grocer charged with running a gambling operation and bribery.  So he asked the court audience to vote on it.  He handed out 34 ballots and the vote came back 27-7 in favor of acquittal.  In another infamous case, a group of southern musicians had been arrested in the city's notorious tenderloin district for panhandling, Judge Austin decided their best punishment would be to go get their instruments and come back and give the court a make shift concert, which they did.  It was his creativity in sentencing and his reputation for leniency that often sparked the most furor, for Judge Austin was of the mindset that a jail sentence was not always the best form of punishment.  He believed it did little good to sentence poor people to the workhouse for crimes that "rich people" got away with.  He was known as the “Golden Rule” judge, believing that to be fair, you had to understand what people were going through and that sometimes the heart was a better measure of punishment than laws.  In 1908, back when Toledo had a workhouse near Swan Creek and City Park known as "Duck Island", Judge Austin found himself "guilty" of curiosity and sentenced himself to a "day" at the prison, as an inmate, to see what the experience of a prisoner is really like.  On a bitterly cold day in February of that year, Judge Austin reported to "Duck Island" and subjected himself to endure the indignities of  being just another inmate.  Citizen Austin was treated no differently than others, ordered to strip and get into prison togs, march to the dining hall and was sent to a pond to cut ice for the ice boxes at the jail.  Upon his release, Austin said, he would have to do some "tall thinking" in the future before sending a man to the workhouse.  This was one of the reasons that Judge Austin had earned the nickname of the "Golden Rule" judge.  Another reason for his sobriquet was that the good judge was heavily influenced by the former Toledo Mayor Samuel "Golden Rule" Jones, who also believed that poor men deserve "second chances."  Like Judge Austin, Mayor Jones believed the court should not always punish, but serve to reform.  Thank you Muse reader! 

It’s often said that the most basic form of architecture is shelter.  There’s a famous illustration on the frontispiece of Marc-Antoine Laugier’s “Essay on Architecture,” a staple of Architecture 101 college syllabi, showing two tree branches lashed together to form a pitched roof: the so-called Primitive Hut.  Yet it’s possible to pare the idea down further.  In the simplest sense, human beings build two kinds of things in the world.  We build connective things and we build protective things.  We build tunnels and we build walls.  Tunnels suggest connection but also rule-breaking and escape.  Walls suggest not just division but authority and control.  Christopher Hawthorne  Read more and see pictures at http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-ca-cm-building-type-border-wall-20171231-htmlstory.html

Allan Monga, a junior at Deering High School in Portland, Maine, traveled to Washington, D.C. to compete in the Poetry Out Loud contest on April 23, 2018.  It's a national competition in which students recite great works of poetry, and it's run by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation.  But Monga, who says he fled violence in his home country of Zambia, was initially barred from the national final because of his immigration status:  He's an asylum seeker and does not yet have U.S. citizenship.  Poetry Out Loud's official rules require permanent residence, so Monga filed a lawsuit against the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation.  A judge granted a motion allowing him to compete, and he went on to represent the state of Maine in the competition.  He read two poems but did not advance to the finals.  Read interview highlights including why he connects to "America" by Claude McKay.  A few comments from Allan Monga:  "Poetry is like a whole new world to me."  "It's like I'm in a relationship with poetry."  "Your feelings, or passion for it, grows everyday.  And honestly, I will not let anyone stand in between the relationship I have, I've grown for poetry."  https://www.npr.org/2018/04/24/605260963/asylum-seeking-student-says-nothing-can-stand-between-him-and-poetry

Bob Dorough, whose career began as a composer, arranger and singer in the booming New York jazz scene of the '50s and '60s before he became the musical keystone of Schoolhouse Rock!, died April 23, 2018 in Mt. Bethel, Penn. at the age of 94.  The Arkansas-born, Texas-raised Dorough began working in music in the army, serving as a composer, arranger and player in the Special Services Army Band between 1943 and '45, before getting a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of North Texas.  In the late '40s, Dorough made his way to New York, working there as a pianist and singer.  He released his debut album, Devil May Care, in 1956 on Gus Wildi's Bethlehem label.  In 1971, with the jazz money running thin, Dorough was asked by his boss at the advertising company where he had a day job to set the multiplication tables to music; his boss cited his children's ability to remember Hendrix and Rolling Stones lyrics, but not their school lessons.  "I got the idea that three is a magic number," Dorough told NPR's Rachel Martin in 2013.  "Then I looked in the magic book and sure enough, three is one of the magic numbers."  That concept became the song "Three Is a Magic Number" and the project would become the Grammy-nominated Multiplication Rock.  Originally intended as a school workbook, the concept was pitched and sold to ABC executive Michael Eisner, becoming the first of the long-running Schoolhouse Rock! series of educational cartoons that became an all-but inseparable part of of '70s and '80s childhood.  Read more and link to videos at https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2018/04/24/605232291/bob-dorough-jazz-musician-best-known-for-schoolhouse-rock-dead-at-94

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