Sweet Potato Pie, Perfected  In 2018 Birmingham Alabama’s Dolester Miles was named America’s best pastry chef.  Try her sweet potato pie, and you’ll see why.  The first trick is to bake the sweet potatoes.  “When you boil them, it takes some of the flavor out,” she says.  To make sure the filling is smooth and puffs up like a soufflé, she removes any of the potatoes’ fibrous strings before whipping in eggs and a stick of butter.  To improve the texture of the crust, which is as soft as they come, she sprinkles in yellow cornmeal and fortifies it with an egg yolk.  And to bring the flavor of the pie into focus, she enhances the filling with ground ginger and the zest of an orange.  Find recipe at https://gardenandgun.com/recipe/sweet-potato-pie/   Doelster Miles seeks her own inspiration from well-known sources:  cookbooks (Ina Garten and Martha Stewart are favorites), Pinterest, magazines such as Bake from Scratch, Bon Appetit and Food and Wine, and television shows.  “I watch ‘The Pioneer Woman,’ ‘Barefoot Contessa’ and ‘The Kitchen’ — they have good ideas there.  If I see something I like, I go to their website and get the recipe.”  Kim Severson  See recipe for Blueberry Cobbler at https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/how-a-self-taught-pastry-chef-in-alabama-became-one-of-the-best-in-the-nation/2018/10/19/41a1a97a-d255-11e8-b2d2-f397227b43f0_story.html?utm_term=.50e318d92b22

PUMPKIN CAPITAL  Half Moon Bay, a coastal California town south of San Francisco is known as the World’s Pumpkin Capital.  Morton, Illinois just 10 miles southeast of Peoria calls itself the “Pumpkin Capital of the World.”  Floydada, Texas located near Lubbock also lays claim to the title. 

Capital and capitol are a set of English homophones.  Capital can be used in a financial sense to describe money, equipment, or property that is used in a business.  It can sometimes be used figuratively to describe a valuable resource such as “human capital.”  It can also refer to a type of letter, a capital or lowercase letter.  Capital refers to the most important city or town in a region, state, country, and it generally refers to the seat of a government or administration center.  Capital can also be used to refer to cities of specific importance besides government.  Capitol is a building or set of buildings where legislators meet and have session.  https://writingexplained.org/capital-vs-capitol

The current capital of Myanmar (Burma) is Naypyidaw.  See a list of political capitals of notable states in Burmese history from the 9th century to the present at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_capitals_of_Myanmar

Each U.S. state has its own capital city, as do many of its insular areas.  Historically, most states have not changed their capital city since becoming a state, but the capital cities of their respective preceding colonies, territories, kingdoms, and republics typically changed multiple times.  There have also been other governments within the current borders of the United States with their own capitals, such as the Republic of Texas, Native American nations, and other unrecognized governments. 

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

Philadelphia, Pa., was the very first capital. The First Continental Congress had to meet in Carpenters' Hall from September 5 to October 26, 1774, because Independence Hall was being used by the Pennsylvania General Assembly.  Philly has been home to Congress sessions on six separate occasions, making it the most frequent U.S. capital (although not the longest-used one). STACY CONRADT  Read the names of the nine federal capitals in the United States at http://mentalfloss.com/article/22848/quick-9-nine-capitals-united-states

An exhibition of traditional and contemporary Native American art is on display at the Toledo Museum of Art through April 28 2019.  Expanded Views:  Native American Art in Focus features such historical items as a Cherokee tepee cover and Acoma manta to the newer work of such artists as Wendy Red Star and Marie Watt.  The show includes drawings, fiber art, pottery, and other pieces that the museum has been collecting over the last few years to build up its Native American collection, and is exhibited in the museum’s newly renovated space, Gallery 29A.  The show also includes a large-scale, loaned work, Tilchum, by artist James Lavadour, a self-taught artist who lives and works on the Umatilla Reservation in Oregon.  The show, curated by the museum’s director of curatorial affairs, Halona Norton-Westbrook, is free.  For more information, go to https://www.toledomuseum.org/art/exhibitions or call 419-255-8000.  https://www.toledoblade.com/a-e/art/2018/10/31/Toledo-museum-to-exhibit-Native-American-art/stories/20181030106

Find details for the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library Authors! series (Mitch Albom on November 7 and Damon Brown on November 14) at http://www.toledolibrary.org/authors

The second large-scale World Tea Gathering is from 2-9 November 2018.  Tea activists from France, Japan, Brazil, Germany and Australia will converge on the Art Gallery of South Australia and Adelaide City surrounds, and in conjunction with the OzAsia Festival, to connect people through the playful art of tea.  https://www.worldteagathering.com/adelaide-2018/

Adelaide is the capital city of the state of South Australia, and the fifth-most populous city of Australia.  In June 2017, Adelaide had an estimated resident population of 1,333,927.   Adelaide is home to more than 75 percent of the South Australian population, making it the most centralised population of any state in Australia.  Adelaide is north of the Fleurieu Peninsula, on the Adelaide Plains between the Gulf St Vincent and the low-lying Mount Lofty Ranges which surround the city.  Named in honour of Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen consort to King William IV, the city was founded in 1836 as the planned capital for a freely-settled British province in Australia.  Colonel William Light, one of Adelaide's founding fathers, designed the city and chose its location close to the River Torrens, in the area originally inhabited by the Kaurna people.  Light's design set out Adelaide in a grid layout, interspaced by wide boulevards and large public squares, and entirely surrounded by parklands.  It has been known as the "City of Churches" since the mid-19th century, referring to its diversity of faiths rather than the piety of its denizens.   The demonym "Adelaidean" is used in reference to the city and its residents.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelaide

Democracy is not a spectator sport.  Participate by voting.  Read about the U.S. Constitution, checks and balances, and how a bill becomes a law at http://faculty.washington.edu/jwilker/353/Syllabi/Metzler%202014LegSimManual.pdf

All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players . . . As You Like It by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56966/speech-all-the-worlds-a-stage  Actors include trial lawyers, debaters and politicians.  See also 30 Famous People With Law Degrees by Stacy Conradt at http://mentalfloss.com/article/30760/30-famous-people-law-degrees

When it comes to turning back the clocks on our devices, technology has us covered.  Our smartphones automatically adjust.  But our internal clocks aren't as easy to re-program.  And this means that the time shift in the fall and again in the spring can influence our health in unexpected ways.  "You might not think that a one hour change is a lot," says Fred Turek, who directs the Center for Sleep & Circadian Biology at Northwestern University.  "But it turns out that the master clock in our brain is pretty hard-wired, " Turek explains.  It's synchronized to the 24 hour light/dark cycle.  Daylight is a primary cue to reset the body's clock each day.  "The internal clock has to catch up, and it takes a day or two to adjust to the new time," Turek says.  Over the last 20 years, scientists have documented that, in addition to the master clock in our brains, every cell in our body has a time-keeping mechanism.  These clocks help regulate important functions such as sleep and metabolism.  And increasingly, there's evidence that when our habits—such as when we eat and sleep—are out of sync with our internal clocks, it can harm us.  When we disrupt our routines with erratic sleep or eating habits, it can increase the risk of metabolic disease.  For instance, people who work overnight shifts are at higher risk of developing diabetes and obesity.  Research also shows that kids who don't have set bedtimes and mealtimes are also more likely to become overweight.  At this time of year, as the amount of daylight continues to decrease, it's easy to fall into bad habits.  "The [decrease] in daylight can throw off a lot of things including socialization and emotional rhythm," says Sanam Hafeez, an adjunct assistant professor of psychology at Columbia University.  Allison Aubrey  https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/11/03/663155917/ready-for-the-time-change-here-are-tips-to-stay-healthy-during-dark-days-ahead

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 1981  November 5, 2018  309th day of the year  Word of the Day  recension  noun  A census, an enumeration, a review, a survey.  A critical revision of a text.  A text established by critical revision.  A family of manuscripts which share similar traits; the variety of a language which is used in such manuscripts.  A census, an enumeration, a review, a survey.  A critical revision of a text.  A text established by critical revision.