Agogue as a word root comes from the Greek word-agōgos, from agein which means ”to lead”.  There are two meanings or interpretations of agogue:  1.  A person or a thing that incites or leads something.  2.  Any substance that stimulates the secretion of something.  Example:  Pedagogue breaks down into:  Peda:  children, Agogue:  leader or teacher.  Peda+ agogue:  teacher of the children.  Find a list of 17 terms with the root word agogue at https://wordpandit.com/agogue-root-word/

Eco comes from the Greek oikos (household or home).  Topia comes from the Greek topos (place).   I ordered Ecotopia on interlibrary loan.  When I got Ecotopia Emerging, I thought I had misinformation on the title.  I finished the book and noticed on the back cover that the library had sent me the prequel to Ecotopia.

Ernest Callenbach (1929-2012) was a U.S. environmentalist, film critic and author whose own Banyan Tree Books published his first novel, Ecotopia:  The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston as First Days in Ecotopia after it had been refused by several professional houses.  It was reported in the mid-1980s to have sold more than 300,000 copies.  Ecotopia Emerging was published in 1981.  Nonfiction texts in which Callenbach elaborated on some of the procedures and theories of the fiction include The Ecotopian Encyclopedia for the 80s:  A Survival Guide for the Age of Inflation(1980), A Citizen Legislature (1985) with Michael Phillips, and Ecology:  A Pocket Guide (1998; rev vt Ecology:  A Pocket Guide:  Revised and Expanded 2008).  http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/callenbach_ernest

In computer science, binary search, also known as half-interval search, logarithmic search, or binary chop, is a search algorithm that finds the position of a target value within a sorted array.  Binary search compares the target value to the middle element of the array.  If they are not equal, the half in which the target cannot lie is eliminated and the search continues on the remaining half, again taking the middle element to compare to the target value, and repeating this until the target value is found.  If the search ends with the remaining half being empty, the target is not in the array.  Even though the idea is simple, implementing binary search correctly requires attention to some subtleties about its exit conditions and midpoint calculation.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_search_algorithm

Wanamaker Building in Philadelphia  The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.  One of the most important things John Wanamaker left to modern stores was the price tag.  Before he popularized the use of set prices, stores relied on haggling.  It seems obvious today, but it wasn’t until Wanamaker invented the price tag that it became the norm.  Opened in 1877, the store was the first to use electrical lighting (in 1878) and the first to use a pneumatic tube system for transporting cash and documents (in 1880).  By 1910, Wanamaker had begun updating his store, slowly phasing out the old Moorish facade that followed the Grand Depot styles of London and Paris, in favor of the lavish, Florentine style it still has today.  The new building featured the incredible Wanamaker Organ, formerly the St. Louis World’s Fair pipe organ.  Despite the organ’s imposing size, it was decided that it was not large enough to fill the Grand Court with it music, and was expanded by Wanamaker’s own staff of organ builders.  After a period of a few years, the organ had become the largest in the world.  https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/wanamaker-building

See also Wanamaker Marketing and Advertisement Annotated Bibliography Kristan Alekna Bradley, Patricia.  “John Wanamaker’s ‘Temple of Patriotism’ Defines Early Twentieth Century Advertising and Brochures.”  American Journalism 15.2 (1998):  15-35 at http://services.library.drexel.edu/static_files/dsmr/kalekna_bibliography.pdf   The Muser has played the Wanamaker organ (very softly because she was overwhelmed by the invitation and privilege.)

Loosely translated, pizzelle means “small, flat, and round” and that’s exactly what these cookies are.  If you love tossing all your ingredients together in a bowl, this recipe is for you.  6 ingredients, 1 bowl.  No mixer of any kind required!  You do, however, need an iron.  Modern pizzelle irons are just like a waffle maker.  One of the most common flavors of pizzelle is anise (black licorice).  However, some of my favorite flavors include vanilla, almond, lemon, and even chocolate!  You can also roll pizzelle into tubes for cannoli (or whatever else you can dream up).  Pizzelle are ideal for a bake sale or cookie swap because they are more rare than the usual chocolate chip cookies or brownies, and they look so fantastic wrapped in a small plastic treat bag tied with a pretty bow.  Find easy recipe by Meggan at https://www.culinaryhill.com/pizzelle-italian-cookies/

waffle   v. intr. 1.  To be unable to make a decision; waver   2.  To speak or write evasively  v. tr.  To speak, write, or act evasively about (something).  n.  Evasive or vague speech or writing.

waffle  n.  (Cookery)  a.  a crisp golden-brown pancake with deep indentations on both sides   b.  (as modifier):  waffle iron.  from Dutch wafel (earlier wæfel), of Germanic origin; related to Old High German wabo honeycomb]  Read much more at https://www.thefreedictionary.com/waffle

Haddonfield Named New Jersey's 'Most Charming Small Town'  Reader's Digest ranked the top small town in every state in its newest rankings by Anthony Bellano Aug 6, 2018  Link to listed rankings in all states at https://patch.com/new-jersey/haddon/haddonfield-named-new-jerseys-most-charming-small-town

The town of Haddonfield, one of the oldest communities in what was originally known as West Jersey, has taken on many different appearances and roles during its lifetime.  Located geographically at a critical point, where the navigable portion of the Cooper River crosses the King’s Highway, which ran between the early settlements of Burlington and Salem, it was inevitable that a community would be established within a mile of this site.  The first European settler, Francis Collins, owned a plantation named Mountwell which he built in 1682.  Collins farmed his property but did nothing to encourage further settlement.  In 1701 a twenty-one year old English Quaker woman named Elizabeth Haddon came to occupy land that her father, John Haddon had purchased.  In 1702 Elizabeth married John Estaugh a Quaker minister.  At first the couple was engaged in simply establishing themselves and running the large land holdings of Elizabeth’s father, John Haddon.  In 1713 John and Elizabeth built a large mansion called New Haddonfield Plantation in anticipation of the arrival of her parents, an arrival which never took place.  The establishment of the community of Haddonfield, however, was assured when in 1721 Elizabeth’s father gave her a deed for an acre of land for a Quaker Meetinghouse and burial ground near the intersection of the present day Haddon Avenue and Kings Highway.  Once the Friends Meeting was established, Haddonfield quickly became the center of commerce for the large, successful farms of south Jersey.  Farmers came to town for the blacksmiths, tanners, saddlers, general stores, taverns and all the necessities required for them to be successful with their farms.  Produce and animals from the farms supplied the growing needs of the nearby city of Philadelphia.  The growth of the village in this era was exemplified by the establishment in 1764 of Friendship Fire Company, a volunteer fire company which still serves the community today.  Read more and see graphics at https://haddonfieldhistory.org/about/history-of-the-town-of-haddonfield/

Darken my door and lighten my day.  Expansion of quote from Kristen Arnett , one of the American Library Association winner's of I Love my Librarian award 2018.  Listen to 2:59 audio at https://player.fm/series/pbs-newshour-segments/appreciating-the-powerful-good-of-the-public-library

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  December 5, 2018  Issue 1998  339th day of the year  Thought for Today  Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished?  Yes, work never begun. - Christina Rossetti, poet (5 Dec 1830-1894)