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Non-Einstein Investigators may request the import of animals from their institution to Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Einstein) for scientific core services (i.e. Behavioral Evaluation, Gruss Magnetic Resonance Research Center, Histotechnology and Comparative Pathology, Positron Emission Tomography (MicroPET), Transgenic and Gene Targeting, etc.) studies.
It is the responsibility of the sending institution/Non-Einstein Investigator to provide animal transport. Transport vehicles must be climate controlled. Rodents must be transported in approved filtered shipping containers.
It is the responsibility of the core staff to prepare the core laboratory and environment to receive the imported animals and minimize any possible cross contaminations between Einstein animals and non-Einstein animals. This will include cleaning and preparing temporary animal housing, imaging or behavioral testing equipment, lab benches, animal anesthesia nose cones, induction boxes and restrainers, and any surfaces that come into contact with the animals during the procedures.
If the rodents are to be housed temporarily, overnight or for a short term in the core, arrangements must be made with the core and approved by Einstein's IACUC and an Institute for Animal Studies' veterinarian. The core staff will be responsible for the daily health checks of the animals. Every effort will be made to isolate the non-Einstein animals while they are at the core laboratory. However, there is no complete guarantee that the health status of the non-Einstein animals will be maintained. It is recommended that animals returning to the Non-Einstein Investigator's institution be quarantined upon arrival.
Once studies in the core are completed the core lab will be cleaned as above and all surfaces coming into contact with the non-Einstein animals will be disinfected as approved by Einstein's Institute for Animal Studies. No Einstein animals will be allowed into the core facility until the cleanup has been completed. Any carcasses of non-Einstein animals must be disinfected and bagged and sealed prior to disposal.
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Mmm, the iPad. It's so beautiful, so sleek, so elegant, so useful. I think everyone should buy one. A couple of things I love about it:
Isn't it great that Apple reviews all programs before they're added to the App Store? It's a bit like the Seal of Quality™ stamp that good old Nintendo put on their NES games to ensure you that your purchase would give you hours of quality game play in front of the television set make more money.
In practice, this means that we can feel safe with our iPads knowing that the virtual chocolate box app we purchase meets Apples' rigorous quality standards. And it's only $0.99! That's almost free as in beer, folks (who cares about free as in speech anyway?).
2. Browser Choice
We all know how important the web browser choice is. That's why it's so convenient that Apple already made the choice for us on the iPad: Safari! They even went the extra mile to make it impossible to install other browsers, so I don't need to worry about whether or not Safari is the right choice for me. And besides, Safari is the best browser out there, right?
"Our lives are full of choices. iPod Touch or iPod Nano? Silver, Pink, Orange, Green, Blue, Purple or Black? All of them?
As a for-profit corporation, we have always believed that the freedom to make smart choices should be restricted to Apple to make the product experience, the Web, and the world, a better place. This shows through with our iPad running Safari, a free-as-in-beer, closed-source Web browser that we have chosen for more than 350 people in the US. Values of choice and self-determination are built into everything that we do: you can either buy the iPad, or don't. You know you want to."

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Why Walk When You Can Fly – Soar Beyond Your FearsBy Isha in Awareness on November 4th, 2008 / One Comment
In this world of duality, we all feel different from each other. We meet thousands of people, from so many races, with varying physical conditions, of different ages and contrasting religions. Opposing political beliefs, philosophies, convictions and ideals jostle constantly for our attention. The complex diversity of the world we live in is seemingly endless. From our intellectual opinions to the size of our bank accounts, from our physical appearance to our cultural traditions, we perceive separation everywhere, in a world of extreme contrast and variance, a world of untold possibilities.
Within this experience of separation, we search endlessly for union. We strive to try and heal the planet, we create programs for conflict resolution, we march for peace, trying desperately to get humanity to see beyond its differences and live in harmony.
We do this in our personal lives too, putting all of our energy into trying to create balance in our surroundings. We search for the perfect partner, but when we think we have finally found our soul mate, we try to change and control them so they will fit into our ideal. We search for groups of people who will make us feel accepted, by supporting us in our convictions, our opinions, our beliefs. We join a church, a political party, a self-help group, a corporation, in our search to heal the separation in our surroundings, to find the place where we belong.
But in this search, we are vainly trying to accommodate the limiting beliefs and opinions we have adopted throughout our lives. When someone disagrees with how we perceive the world, we avoid them. We try to surround ourselves with people who confirm our convictions, who support us in our ideas, however negative or fear based they may be. Like butterflies, we flit from one experience to another, the mind never fully satisfied on its endless quest to find what feels like home.
The mind will never feel satisfied. Wherever it goes, it will find disagreement. Even within groups that appear to be united, there is separation—religions branch off into countless factions, political parties disagree amongst themselves, football teams argue about tactics, even the Beatles split up. Everywhere we look, there is separation, diversity, duality.
So we continue on our search, rejecting another group as wrong. Or we fanaticize about the particular perspective of our chosen organization, in our desperate need to convince ourselves and the world that we are right. In our quest for union, in reality we are creating more separation, as our prejudices and opinions distance us more from the rest of humanity, instead of bringing us together in love.
The irony is, we are all exactly the same. It is only our perception that is different. It doesn't matter where you go in the world, everyone is looking for love. It could be the guerrilla in the jungles of Colombia torturing someone, or a missionary preaching in India, helping the poor. We are all looking for love. We are all looking to come back home.
Whether we are in Buckingham palace playing the role of a princess, or a crack junkie in Harlem holding a knife to someone's throat, we have all suffered abandonment of self. We have all suffered self-abuse and we all perceive ourselves as unworthy of love, a multitude of masks covering the things we consider sins.
Everyone is playing their part in this grand opera called life, like the actors on a stage–each with a different role, each with their own part to play. Some are knights in shining armor, others mysterious villains, but the truth–our essence, our greatness–is infinitely the love. Everyone, everywhere, can choose to be that.
The only way to experience world peace is to elevate consciousness. Until we realize that we are all one, the violence will continue. Until we realize that there is no scarcity, that there is nothing to protect – no fanaticism, no religion, or belief systems – until we realize that we are not our ideas, and that ultimately we are all unconditional love, this cycle will continue, eternally. It might appear a little more civilized, it might be better masked, but until we heal the separation we experience within ourselves, we will continue to witness destruction and conflict, in a society based in fear.
You are what you choose. Instead of choosing for fear, choose for love. As we elevate consciousness, our fear based perception of the world starts to fall away. We increasingly focus on the inherent unity of everything. We embrace the beauty of this moment. We fall in love with life. In the wake of full acceptance come all the changes that are needed, because only love can birth our dreams.
As I embrace every aspect of myself, the judgments I have made about myself dissolve. The more I am at home with myself, the more I become at home in the world. My external world becomes a reflection of how I perceive myself. I stop noticing all of its divisions, separations, inadequacies. Instead, I see its glory. I no longer see good and bad or right and wrong, but see everything as just how it is meant to be.
About the author:
Isha is the author of Why Walk When You Can Fly: Soar Beyond Your Fears and Love Yourself and Others Unconditionally. She is the founder of the Isha Foundation Education for Peace, which is headquartered in Uruguay. You can visit her online at www.isha.com.
Excerpted from Why Walk When You Can Fly: Soar Beyond Your Fears and Love Yourself and Others Unconditionally © 2008 by Isha. Printed with permission of New World Library, Novato, CA.
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Looking to save some cash in the clothing department? A new store in Fayette could fill the need.
Nancy Lavinder, along with her husband Trent, have opened My Sister's Attic Consignment Shoppe on Main Street in downtown Fayette. A grand opening and open house is scheduled Friday and Saturday.
"Trent and I have talked about it for a couple of years," Nancy said. "Last year we decided to go with it."
She was hoping to get the store open over the summer, but the project didn't move that quickly. The delay has given them time to do some interior work to the building that Nancy says is her favorite one in town.
Located at 109 W. Main St., her sister Marcia once had an upholstery shop in the building. The structure was built as a bank, Nancy said, and the teller stations are still in place.
Nancy will sell only pre-owned adult clothing, along with some furniture. There will also be some new clothing on sale from a boutique in Adrian.
Consignments will be accepted, but only at Nancy's discretion.
Where did she get the name for the store?
"I have enough stuff in my own attic that I could open my own store," Nancy said, adding that the items in her attic are not all her own.
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Playing this weekend in Charlie's Pub
Bedlam is a band born out of the talent pool of the MN Renaissance Festival. Over the years the band has had a diverse sound and many different members. Its recent incarnation is a folk band with a hippie attitude. Many familiar songs with a different slant along with some original material as well. Paul Regge is adept at lead guitar, Mandolin and the Concertina he also adds his vocal harmonies and laugh to the mix. John Sjogren is one of the founders of Bedlam he is also a member of the popular local Irish group The Tim Malloys. Mark is a virtuoso on the bass guitar his beautiful voice also lends to the groups great sound along with his impressive song writing talents. As the name implies a stage with this group on it is not a very stable one and you never know who may show up and sit in on a set.
Charlie's Pub at the Water Street Inn
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Welcome to 2nd Time Around. Please join us by linking a post that features something that is a 2nd Time Around to you…something from a garage sale, flea market, thrift store, estate sale, etc. Please link your post rather than your blog, and link back to this blog. Thank you for participating.
One of my favorite things to do it shop for my booths at the antique mall and the flea market. I've been doing this for over a year, and it has been lots of fun! It has made my retirement easy-I choose my own hours and am my own boss! And I am doing something I enjoy.
However, I like shopping for the items more than I do cleaning them up and pricing them. Sometimes just to get the car cleaned out, I stash some of the 'finds' on shelves in the garage or a box in our bonus room and forget I have them!
Recently, I've been trying to clean out the stash in the garage and the bonus room, and found some things that I took today to add to my booths.
This vintage spoon rack came from an estate sale, and I've had it so long I forgot how much I paid for it! I saw one in another booth at a different mall that was used as a planter, so I cleaned this one up and put some faux grapes in the copper container. We'll see if it sells….I think my original plan was to paint this piece-and that may be what I will end up doing! I can see it in an ivory shade with a shabby chic look!
I don't know why these brass owls never made it to one of the booths-they just fell between the cracks so to speak! The lady that runs the mall said owls were big sellers-so we'll see!
These pair of owl plaques were from the seventies and made by Homco. My son took them to New Orleans and put them in his booth, but brought them back last week since they had not sold. I marked them down in price-hopefully an 'owl' collector will spot them soon!
Found these little ceramic bunnies in a box in the bonus room. I wouldn't remember how much I paid for them except the price was still on them! I think I bought them last year after Easter, and was waiting til the right time to bring them out! Since Easter is close by maybe they will go home with someone this year! I love their sweet faces!
So, do any of you horde stuff? I'm trying to break my habit of doing this and plan to finish getting all those unpriced and undone projects in one of the booths!
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Shhhhhhhh . . .
This morning on my long run I felt quiet. It was my first run on Darling Hill and The Kingdom Trails in a long time. The sun was just coming up over the Mountains and the sky warmed over Burke Mountain Willoughby Gap. As we passed the Inn at Mountain View Farm the song of my favorite bird, the Red-winged blackbird, filled the peaceful morning.
My marathon training is in full swing. Today I felt tired so it was good to just go out and run and take in the nature, sounds of our footsteps, and the slow warming into spring.
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The pictures are coming in!! Thanks to all that built figs and helped with the shoot!
Hello, Classic-Castle!
The time has come, once again, to post the sign-ups for the Sigfig Photoshoot for BrickCon 2013.
For newcomers to the community, your sigifig is your plastic representation of yourself. This does not have to be castle-y for our purposes; not everyone has a castle oriented sigfig. While preferred, it's certainly not required.
The ultimate goal is to get as many sigfigs from CC as possible, line em all up, and take a picture. Pretty simple, right? Here's a look at previous photos:
BrickFest 2007
BrickCon 2007
BrickCon 2008
BrickFest 2009
BrickCon 2009
BrickCon 2010
And finally, BrickCon 2011:
And 2012:
BrickCon 2012 Classic-Castle Sigfig Photo Shoot by SEdmison, on Flickr
FOR ATTENDEES: Please be sure to bring your sigfig with you! The photo will be take Saturday night sometime, after public hours.
FOR NON ATTENDEES: You have a choice! You can either A) Post in this thread and someone may volunteer to make and bring it, or B) if you have a custom fig, you can send it to me and I'll be sure it gets returned to you.
For Option A: You MUST provide picture reference for your fig. For example:
It's a clear photo, and it's easy to reference the torso, face, hair, and legs. If you don't have a photo and aren't able to take one, please browse either Peeron or Bricklink and give us the references. This makes it easier on us, the attendees, to construct your figs. If you have a particularly rare piece for any of it, please also consider alternatives: If your sigfig uses the forestwoman torso, for example, or the white ninja, please give us a cheaper, easier-to-find alternative. With the massive collections between the attendees, we should be able to construct your fig, but we'd like a back-up plan.
For Option B: Please send me a PM, and I will let you know what snail-mail address to send your fig to. If at all possible, Option A would be best, because it has less room for the USPS to err and lose your fig. But if you really want YOUR fig to be there, we'll do what we can. Just shoot me a PM.
At the Con itself I will try to get the picture done late Saturday after public hours. So you have plenty of time to find me. It case we haven't met in person, ask around at the castle table and they will know me. Also, my badge will say, "Give me your CC sigfig" for your convenience.
I will try and update this thread as you post your need to be built figs and volunteers come forward to build it.


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Clay pot cooking
Hi. I'm a new member. I've read previous posts on using clay pots, but thought I'd ask for the most recent advice. I've been making hearth breads using a thick pizza stone, and introducing steam via a preheated cast iron skillet and ice (Rose Levy Beranbaum's method). I keep reading that a cloche makes superior bread, and I already have a large Romertopf that was previously unused. Per instructions regarding the clay pot, I made my last batch letting the dough rise in the bottom half of the pot, then soaked the top half prior to putting it in a cold oven. The results were OK, but I thought they were not as good as with the stone/steam method. Would it be better to preheat both the bottom and top to 425 or 450, let the dough rise in a different container (possibly my smaller clay pot), and then transfer the dough to the hot clay pot (no soaking involved)?
I can see how the cold start would be great for the summer, but since it's still cold, if the preheating will give better results, I'd like to do that.
Or, should I forget about the clay pot altogether, and experiment with dutch ovens?
Thanks, Beth


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You're making your list and checking it twice, but did you maybe forget to include someone? Like yourself?
Full disclosure: The gifts on this list are not necessarily the traditional ones you might think, like a massage or a cheese of the month club membership. Instead, we at Credit.com decided to highlight some of the smartest gifts you can give yourself -- tools to help you manage your money more efficiently. All of the gifts on this list (with the exception of one) are free, so you can start the new year with a new outlook on your money.
1. A Planning Day.
Whether it's in the days before Christmas, after Christmas or in the new year, you should take just one day to give yourself the gift of good organization. As Gerri Detweiler, Director of Consumer Education for Credit.com, knows, having a plan for managing your money can not only help you earn more with it, it can also prevent you from making costly mistakes.
"Keeping your finances organized can save you a ton of money in late fees, overdraft charges and more," Detweiler says. "Even more importantly, it can save you time -- and you'll be a lot less stressed out."
This planning day can consist of outlining your financial strengths and weaknesses and setting up things like automatic bill pay, calendar reminders for credit card payments, or even a filing system -- digital or otherwise -- for your important financial documents.
2. Forgiveness.
OK, so maybe 2012 wasn't exactly a banner year in your household. You didn't put aside that extra money you wanted to save for a home or you signed up for too many store credit cards while shopping this holiday season. Don't let it get in the way of making the positive money changes you can accomplish. Just renew a few small commitments to making your money management better in 2013, no acts of contrition required.
3. A 401(k) or IRA.
The best gift you can give yourself is a nice nest egg that you can rely on one day. If you haven't already signed up to participate in your company's 401(k) program or if you haven't set up an individual retirement account of your own, now is the time. Even if you can only contribute $20 from every paycheck, that money adds up and can compound interest for decades, depending on when you want to retire. Also, many companies now match employee contributions, so if you aren't saving you're actually leaving some free money on the table.
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The best part about this gift? It's free! Our Credit Report Card gives you a full analysis of what's holding your credit score back from being among the super elite, using a simple grading system that gives you a clear understanding of where your hard work is paying off.
"Checking your credit report can give you the peace of mind that everything is fine, and if it's not, the incentive and motivation to make it better," Detweiler says.
Unlike the free annual credit report that you're entitled to under federal law, the Credit Report Card gives you free credit scores, so you can have a numerical measure of where you stand.
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Shredders start at around $50, and get more expensive depending on the amount of work you want it to do and the materials you want it to shred. However, a shredder is vital for disposing of any documents containing your Social Security number, financial account numbers or health information. It's also important for disposing of old debit or credit cards, since identity thieves can dig through your trash and rack up lots of debt just using these old pieces of plastic. And just remember, sometimes even going the extra step of shredding your documents isn't enough.
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SUNY Canton and SUNY Potsdam Support New York State Museum's Stoddard ExhibitionWednesday, September 19th, 2012
SUNY Canton has joined with SUNY Potsdam and other area colleges to support an Adirondack photographic exhibition at the New York State Museum in Albany.
The Seneca Ray Stoddard: Capturing the Adirondacks exhibition is open through February 24, 2013 in the museum's Crossroads Gallery and showcases the works of the iconic Adirondack photographer and conservationist, who was instrumental in the establishment of the "forever wild" Adirondack Park. Visitors to the State Museum on Adirondack Day, Saturday, Oct. 27, will have free access to programs focusing on the natural and cultural history of the Adirondacks. The event will be free and open to the public.
"Seneca Ray Stoddard's work captures the beauty and essence specific to our area," said Interim SUNY Canton President Carli C. Schiffner. "His black-and-white photographs portray our extraordinary surroundings and inspire pride in the North Country. We were proud to work with our peer colleges to help promote and support this culturally-rich exhibition."
The display includes more than 100 of Stoddard's photographs, an Adirondack guideboat, freight boat, a camera, copies of Stoddard's books and several of his paintings. These and other items come from the State Museum's collection of more than 500 Stoddard prints and also from the collections of the New York State Library and the Chapman Historical Museum in Glens Falls.
Stoddard (1844-1917) was a self-taught painter and spent the majority of his life in the Glens Falls area. He sought to preserve the beauty of the Adirondacks through his paintings but became attracted to photography's unique ability to capture the environment. He was one of the first to capture the Adirondacks using the then recently introduced wet-plate photographic process. Though extremely cumbersome by today's standards, the technique was the first practical way to record distant scenes. He studied the Adirondacks intensely over a 50-year period. An online version of exhibition is available here.
A newly formed consortium of North Country institutions of higher education and research are jointly helping to promote the exhibit. The Higher Education and Research and Development Consortium (HEARD) comprises Clarkson University, Clinton Community College, Jefferson Community College, the Miner Institute, North Country Community College, Paul Smith's College, St. Lawrence University, SUNY Canton, SUNY Plattsburgh, SUNY Potsdam, Trudeau Institute and CITEC. In addition to HEARD, other partners include: the Adirondack Center for Writing, Adirondack Life magazine, the Adirondack Museum, Adirondack Photography Institute, Battle of Plattsburgh Association, Battle of Plattsburgh Weekend, the Chapman Museum, Fort Ticonderoga, Great Camp Sagamore, the Hyde Collection, John Brown Lives, Lakes to Locks Passage, Mountain Lakes PBS, and The Wild Center.
Media inquiries should be directed to Gregory Kie, Media Relations Manager, or call 315/386-7527.


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There are few pieces of evidence that attorneys love to lay their hands on more than an opponent's prior inconsistent statement. Admissibility of these statements is rarely in doubt, and they provide attorneys with a golden opportunity to ask the ever-popular cross-examination question: Were you lying then, or are you lying now?
More troublesome, however, are those pesky prior consistent statements. What should be done when a witness keeps telling the same story, the same way, over and over again?
Offered for the truth of the matter asserted, a prior consistent statement is blatantly inadmissible hearsay. It's an out-of-court statement offered for the truth of the matter asserted, and no matter how many times a witness has said it before, frequency will not change that basic analysis.
Setting aside the hearsay problem for a moment, most prior consistent statements won't even meet a threshold test of relevancy, because most prior consistent statements do not tend to prove or disprove a material fact in issue. This is because at best, the probative value of a prior consistent statement requires a leap of faith. In order for a prior consistent statement to be relevant, one must believe that if a person has said something enough times, it's probably true. Common sense and experience tells us that just because grandpa's been spinning that same yarn for the last fifty years, doesn't make the tale any less dubious. Luckily, the Texas Rules of Evidence reflect that basic reality. Otherwise, that's-my-story-and-I'm-sticking-to-it would become the test for admissibility under the rules.
So, for reasons of relevancy and hearsay, the general rule is that a prior consistent statement is inadmissible:
TRE 613 (c): A prior statement of a witness which is consistent with the testimony of the witness is inadmissible except as provided in Rule 801(e)(1)(B).
However, there may be circumstances when a prior consistent statement may become admissible, providing an exception to the general rule:
TRE 801(e)(1)(B): A statement is not hearsay if the declarant testifies at the trial or hearing and is subject to cross-examination concerning the statement, and the statement is consistent with the declarant's testimony and is offered to rebut an express or implied charge against the declarant of recent fabrication or improper influence or motive.
Some may argue that Rule 801(e)(1)(B) opens the barn door to admission of virtually all prior consistent statements. It does no such thing. Rule 801(e)(1)(B) narrowly tailors an exception unique to particular factual circumstances. In order to be admissible, there must be: (1) an express or implied charge, (2) against the declarant, (3) of recent fabrication or improper influence or motive. If the other side doesn't open the door to this testimony by making such a charge, then Rule 801(e)(1)(B) never comes into play, and the statement remains inadmissible.
The language of the rule is highly restrictive. For example, merely impeaching a witness or calling into question a witness's veracity will not in and of itself invoke the Rule 801(e)(1)(B) exception. Furthermore, a prior consistent statement will remain inadmissible, even under a charge of recent fabrication, if the statement was made shortly before trial, in anticipation of trial, or after a motive to fabricate existed. Beaver v. State, 736 S.W.2d 212 (Tex. App. – Corpus Christi 1987).
Even when there has been an express or implied charge against the declarant of improper influence or motive, a predicate must be laid for the admission of the prior consistent statement. As a general rule, appellate courts will not require a trial judge to be a mind-reader. Unless it is painfully obvious from the context, rules of procedure and evidence require that an attorney, when faced with an objection, articulate to the judge the purpose of any offer of evidence. Under Rule 801(e)(1)(B), an attorney seeking the admission of a prior consistent statement over objection should be prepared to educate the judge as to the reason why the exceptions embraced in Rule 801(e)(1)(B) apply. It is not the judge's burden to read between the lines and figure out that the statement would rebut the opponent's charge. The statement must be "offered" into evidence for that purpose. If the attorney fails to lay the proper predicate for the prior consistent statement's admissibility, then the judge may rightfully reject it.
Likewise, when challenging an opponent's attempt to offer a prior consistent statement into evidence, an attorney needs to clearly articulate the basis for the objection. Simply saying, "Rule 801, hearsay" in opposition to a prior consistent statement has been held insufficient to put the trial court on notice as to the particular objection being lodged. Meyers v. State, 865 S.W.2d 523 (Tex. App. – Houston [14th] 1993). A concise statement that (1) the statement offered is a prior consistent statement, (2) which does not fall within the exceptions of Rule 801(e)(1)(B), should be adequate both to make clear your objection and to preserve error on the point, if necessary.
I've said all of this before, and now I'm saying it again. It's just got to be true. And admissible. Well, maybe not.
-Judge Bonnie Sudderth, 352nd District Court of Tarrant County, Texas


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The adventures of a young boy named Max who, after being sent to bed for misbehaving, imagines that he sails away to where the wild things are. Max is loved by the wild creatures who make him their King, though he soon longs to be back home with his family.
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Following our lunch on the mountain, I cleaned up the kitchen and zoned out for an hour while the others went to look around the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute and visit a local farmer's market. (I passed Julia a twenty and asked her to grab whatever she wanted--she brought back sheep's milk cheese, honey, and peach jam. All delicious.)
There's a substantial cattle raising operation on the mountain and surrounding area, focused on the Santa Gertrudis breed. Producing the Santa Gertrudis is a little complicated, requiring 3/8 Brahman Bos indicus and 5/8 Shorthorn Bos taurus. The benefit of this hybridization is a cow that puts on a lot of meat but can tolerate hot and dry climates. I was taking photos of some of the calves when this heifer started racing towards me.
Speaking of heifers, the Institute donates some cattle to Heifer International, a charity organization that provides livestock for people in developing nations. Instead of just sending food, they send healthy and hearty chickens and bees and cows and other animals that can help build sustainable food-producing operations in places where people are hungry.
For dinner that evening, I started out with a selection of cheeses, capicola, and pickles. Folks nibbled and sipped on a little wine before I served my sweet potato soup, requested by Molly and Julia. I made it a little differently this time, omitting the chicken stock and focusing on the flavors of sweet potato and ginger and Riesling. I liked it, but the soup is good either way.
2012 Bokisch Vineyards Albariño
Terra Alta Vineyard, Lodi, California
100% Albariño
$18, 12.5% abv.
Bright and tart with great citrus aromas and flavors. The acidity worked well with the slightly spicy soup. I'm excited about what American winemakers are doing with Albariño.
2012 LangeTwins Sangiovese Rosé
Lodi, California
100% Sangiovese
$13, 12.5% abv.
With the rosé, I made another repeat dish, grilled shrimp with sweet peppers and a salad. This pink wine had dominant elements of wild strawberry and lemon, dry but with full fruit flavors. A very pleasant weekend sipper.
Paul provided the main course of a ribeye roast while I prepared the side dishes: roasted cipollinis, grilled asparagus, and a homemade horseradish sauce. When you're putting this much beef on the table, it's time to open four wines. Continuing with Lodi:
2011 St. Amant Winery Mohr-Fry Old Vine Zinfandel
Lodi, California
$18, 15.5% abv.
Anna really enjoyed this particular wine, which was rich and dark with aromas of black cherry and pepper. Just a little hint of that chocolate and bramble that you can get from the older vines.
2011 Michael David Winery Bechtold Vineyard Ancient Vine Cinsault
Lodi, California
100% Cinsault
$20, 13.8% abv.
I was really excited to try this wine. You don't see a lot of single-variety Cinsault, even from France, and I had a great lunch with the CEO of Michael David when he came to Memphis a few years ago. Produced from 127-year old vines, this wine goes deep with an earthy nose of beef and leather, though red cherry elements start to emerge later. Smooth and tasty with a lingering finish. Highly recommended, and a great bargain.
We continued with a pair of wines from Argentina.
2010 Altimus Estate
Cafayate, Argentina
40% Cabernet Sauvignon, 35% Malbec, 15% Bonarda, 5% Tannat, and 5% Syrah
$35, 15% abv.
Aromas of prunes and dried cherries, with a tart and slightly acidic flavor. Quite a big wine, and one that was well suited to the slow-roasted beef.
2009 Finca Flichman Dedicado
Mendoza, Argentina
85% Malbec, 10% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 5% Syrah
$30, 14.5% abv.
The first thing that strikes you is that this is one heavy bottle, taller and thicker than usual. However, inside the wine is not something that needed to be in a maximum security prison--you get lots of great red fruit flavors, with red cherry, cassis, and raspberry. With breathing, deeper undertones of wood and leather begin to develop.
As is my custom, with everyone fed and multiple rounds of dishes washed and many courses served, I retired to the living room with a glass of the Cinsault and relaxed. Paul and Anna took care of the last round of dishes, and everyone milled around, trying the many wines of the evening, but mostly talking and having a good time. That's what a successful dinner party is all about, and why I was excited to recreate the ribeye roast dinner that Paul and I used to put on when he lived here in Memphis.
Anna took care of dessert with her pots de crème, made without completely melting the chocolate so that tiny chunks of solid chocolate remained, providing a toothsome texture. The eggs used to make the dish came from her own chickens, and the result was decadent and rich.
We stayed up past midnight, and then one by one retired to the back bedrooms of the guest house. Needless to say, I slept like a rock in the quiet, cool mountain air. Can't wait to go back!
Note: These wines were provided as samples.
03 May 2013
Dinner on the Mountain
5 comments:
- Alyce said...
Sounds like a truly great dinner. I'd be interested to taste to Lodi rosé. I´m a bit of a rosé regionalist. Provence/ Languedoc/Côtes du Rhone.
- 02 May, 2013 18:54
- Unknown said...
I did write recently about the greatest Provençal rosés ever from Chateau d'Esclans:
- 02 May, 2013 19:37
- Rusty said...
LOVE the Bokish Albarino...
- 05 May, 2013 13:49
- Unknown said...
I really enjoyed that one. I really can't wait to see what other American winemakers do with Albariño in the future.
- 05 May, 2013 15:55
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The latest study of ignorance among American schoolchildren concludes that, of all the things your kids suck at, they suck at history most of all:
American students are less proficient in their nation's history than in any other subject, according to results of a nationwide test released on Tuesday, with most fourth graders unable to say why Abraham Lincoln was an important figure and few high school seniors able to identify China as the North Korean ally that fought American troops during the Korean War.
And why are kids so lousy at history? Maybe the geniuses who determine what teachers can and can't teach and have bled the history curriculum white have something to do with it:
History advocates contend that students' poor showing on the tests underlines neglect shown to the subject by federal and state policy makers, especially since the 2002 No Child Left Behind act began requiring schools to raise scores in math and reading but in no other subject. The federal accountability law, the advocates say, has given schools and teachers an incentive to spend less time on history and other subjects.
"History is very much being shortchanged," said Linda K. Salvucci, a history professor in San Antonio who is chairwoman-elect of the National Council for History Education.
Many teacher-education programs, Ms. Salvucci said, also contribute to the problem by encouraging aspiring teachers to seek certification in social studies, rather than in history. "They think they'll be more versatile, that they can teach civics, government, whatever," she said. "But they're not prepared to teach history."
Yet it's probably going to be the teachers themselves, rather than the policymakers and administrators who actually control the curriculum, who will get dragged through the mud for this. The armchair pundits who lambast teachers for not teaching this or that subject or concept don't understand that teachers are beholden to guidelines handed down from above—you will cover such-and-such a theme with these attendant sub-themes, your students will be tested on such-and-such a content area, etc.


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A graphene coating material to prevent blood clots associated with implanted devices
|(Nanowerk News) A team of researchers from UCLA and the University of Michigan has developed a material that could help prevent blood clots associated with catheters, heart valves, vascular grafts and other implanted biomedical devices.
|Blood clots at or near implanted devices are thought to occur when the flow of nitric oxide, a naturally occurring clot-preventing agent generated in the blood vessels, is cut off. When this occurs, the devices can fail.
|Some researchers have sought to solve this problem with implantable devices that gradually release nitric oxide, but their supply of the agent is necessarily limited. Instead, the UCLAMichigan team focused on an ultra-thin coating for the devices that acts as a chemical catalyst, generating clot-preventing molecules that can mimic the function of blood vessels.
|The researchers suggest this could offer a long-lasting and cost-effective solution to the problem of these blood clots. The study was published online this month in the journal Nature Communications ("Integration of molecular and enzymatic catalysts on graphene for biomimetic generation of antithrombotic species").
|For the device coating, the team used sheets of graphene, a one-atom-thick layer of graphitic carbon, into which they integrated two components haemin and glucose oxidase. Both work synergistically to catalyze the production of nitroxyl, which can be used inside the blood like nitric oxide, although it contains one less electron. Nitroxyl has been reported as being analogous to nitric oxide in its clot-preventing capability.
|"This may have interesting applications in a wide range of biomedical device coatings," said Teng Xue, the study's lead author and a UCLA graduate student.
|"This work demonstrates how the exploration of nanomaterials, combined with knowledge in chemical catalysis and biochemistry can lead to unique functional structures benefiting biomedical research and beyond," said principal author Yu Huang, an associate professor of materials science and engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. "We will continue to explore molecular assemblies and conjugated catalytic systems as analogs to the functional proteins that can facilitate chemical transformations under mild conditions, like nature does."
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This morning when I remembered it was Earth Day, I started thinking about the concept of "Mother Earth" or "Madre Tierra" – and this in turn reminded me of a word I have always loved – Pachamama. Since it's Earth Day, this is actually an excellent day to learn, "What or Who, exactly, is Pachamama?"
First, what does "Pachamama" mean, and where does the word come from? Pachamama is an Aymara and Quechua word commonly translated to "Mother Earth" but there isn't really an exact equivalent in English or Spanish. While "mama" means mother, in Aymara and Quechua, the word "pacha" means far more than "earth" – the word also encompasses the cosmos, universe, time, and space. (On a personal note: I find it interesting that the word "pacha" in Salvadoran slang, which typically comes from Pipil/Nahuat, means "baby bottle" – So it's another sort of mothering/nurturing word. I wonder if they're related?)
Pachamama is a goddess of the Inca people and is adored in various areas of Latin America – primarily in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru, but also in parts of Chile and Argentina.
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Here are a few quotes about Pachamama that I found interesting:
"It is often difficult for an outsider to understand the devotion of the indigenous people for Pachamama…the principal deity of Andean religion. Pachamama is earth itself, sustainer of all life. In the words of one of the villagers, 'Pachamama gives us life, she nourishes us throughout our existence on this earth and when we die, we go back to our Pachamama from where we will rise again.' Pachamama is powerful. She sustains life for animals and plants alike, but she can also kill with devasting earthquakes and allow lightening to strike. Pachamama and the god of thunder and lightening are considered compadres." – Inge Bolin, Rituals of Respect: The Secret Survival in the High Peruvian Andes
Description: "Q'eros shaman, called a Paqo, in his ultra-bright traditional poncho and chullo (hat) calling the Apu mountain spirits to bless a mesa, a cloth-wrapped package of special found and collected power objects (like rocks and crystals from places you've done ceremony) that a person on the shamanic path carries for ceremonies." // Image source: McKay Savage
"It is very common for the Pachamama to receive the first serving of beer at social gatherings since believers pour a few drops on the ground before they take their first sip. This is a way to thank and feed the Pachamama." – Caserita.com
Description: "Decorated Landcruiser – All decorated in honor of Pachamama over the Carnival period. People were doing this all over the Andean countries today." // Image source: Andy Hares
"According to Mario Rabey and Rodolfo Merlino, Argentine anthropologists who studied the Andean culture from the 1970s to the 1990s, 'The most important ritual is the challaco. Challaco is a deformation of the Quechua words 'ch'allay' and 'ch'allakuy', that refer to the action to insistently sprinkle. In the current language of the campesinos of the southern Central Andes, the word challar is used in the sense of 'to feed and to give drink to the land'. The challaco covers a complex series of ritual steps that begin in the family dwellings the night before. They cook a special food, the tijtincha. The ceremony culminates at a pond or stream, where the people offer a series of tributes to Pachamama, including 'food, beverage, leaves of coca and cigars.'" – Wikipedia/Pachamama
Description: "La juventud es parte fundamental del espiritú que aquí se vive, en conjunto. Yo junto a mi novia nos contagiamos del ritmo y la energía de un pueblo que le agradece a su tierra por lo entregado, un verdadero carnaval, donde no hay personas arrastrandose por demostrar su fe, al contrario hay gente saltando y bailando felices de saber que son ellos los hijos del Inti." // Image source: Pablo Embry
In this quote, the person seems to be referring to the tradition of some Latin American Catholics to crawl on their knees to show their devotion and to thank God and or the Virgin for answered prayer, when he says "…no hay personas arrastrandose por demostrar su fe, al contrario hay gente saltando y bailando felices…" [Translation: "…there are no people crawling to prove their faith, on the contrary, there are people jumping and dancing happily…"] This quote draws a contrast between the two faiths and the way in which they worship, yet there are some who mix their beliefs.
"When the Spanish invaded the Americas, they brought with them their Catholic religion, forcing it upon the indigenous people. But the people, devout to their own gods, resisted these advances…So the Spaniards had to adopt a different plan of attack. As Dr. Cajias says, 'They then decided to mix Catholic beliefs and figures with native beliefs and figures.' At the center of this syncretism are Pachamama and the Virgin Mary. Pachamama is an Aymara and Quechuan word loosely meaning 'Mother Earth.' The Andean people saw Pachamama as a mother who gave them food, water, and all of nature. She was considered a fertile mother because of the fertile land. And the Catholic figure most resembling a caring mother? The Virgin Mary." – Source: Patrick Dowling, BolivianExpress
Description: "Ofrenda a Pachamama." // Image source: Thiago Biá
Regardless of your religious beliefs, all of us living on the earth have a responsibility to care for it, and that's what I take away from the belief in Pachamama. I find it difficult to live in harmony with nature in the modern world, balancing the wants and daily "needs" of American culture with a deeper and truer need to be in balance with everything outside my climate-controlled home which is filled with technology and other conveniences, but I try – and I want to try harder.
Happy Earth Day, Pachamama.


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From time to time someone asks me what happens to all those lemons the manufacturers buy back from my clients. Or, sometimes, "Should I purchase a manufacturer buyback vehicle?" The answer – based on 23 years of work in the field – is a Taylor Swift-esque Never Ever Ever.
For those unfamiliar, all 50 states have Lemon Laws which require manufacturers to buy vehicles back from customers whose cars cannot be fixed after 3 or 4 repair attempts. The defect must be substantial and affect the use or value – and sometimes safety – of the vehicle. What sorts of things have I seen in this field? Vehicles with defective transmissions, faulty electrical systems, engine stalling problems and more. When a case is well-documented I file it up and do what I can to get the vehicle bought back. I have never counted but I have overseen hundreds of buybacks and thousands of cases. Even in the cases where the cars were not bought back they often qualified but that is another story.
When a vehicle gets bought back by the manufacturer, it is taken in and the dealer does what they can to repair the problem. Most are then sent to dealer auctions where the buying dealer is told of the status of the car and usually is also told that the manufacturer will extend a warranty on the car to make up for the vehicle's history. In some states the title is branded but this is only in a handful of states. Carfax even misses this from time to time.
The status of the car is not always passed along to the consumer who buys the vehicle from that dealer but that is not the question we are addressing here. What if you are told? Might this be a good buy?
I would say No. First of all, you are assuming that the vehicle is fixed. Before the car was bought back, the manufacturer was given a last chance repair. If they had been able to make good on that repair, the lemon law claim would have been defeated. Do you think manufacturers punt on the last chance so they can buy the car back and THEN make the repair? Why would they do that? It will cost them just as much to make the repair either way - but by doing it after they have 1) a ticked off customer and 2) a defective vehicle they have to dispose of.
I have encountered vehicles in my career that were not fixable, short of absurdly expensive repairs (i.e., "anything" can be fixed if you are willing to replace everything.) I've seen a car that had been in the shop more than thirty (30) times for a hellacious water leak. When the factory rep looked at it he told me it could not be fixed (short of dismantling the car and rebuilding it – at a cost more than the car's value).
I have seen cars that ate or destroyed parts at an inordinate rate. Timing belts, brakes, oil and so on. The dealer puts in new parts, the vehicle is sold and guess what? The new owner shows up a short while later, looking for a new timing belt or complaining about the brakes or oil consumption.
Yes, the new owner has that warranty which covers this but do you want to spend your time in the shop obtaining your "free" warranty repairs? You don't mind? And when you have to come back again and again?
But wait, aren't some vehicles bought back simply because the owner complained about something inconsequential – or because they just didn't like the car? No. If that was the case, they'd be buying back cars right and left. It's actually the opposite: They refuse to buy back cars they ought to buy back until they are sued, and even then they put up a fight.
So, that Lemon Law buyback vehicle you are considering purchasing? Don't. Run away. And if you really think it is a good buy, here is how you appraise its true value. What is the car worth if it is not fixed and cannot be fixed? Pay THAT price for it. But they will never sell it to you at that price. They will tell you to take a flying leap and sell it to someone else down the road – someone who does not know what they are getting themselves into.
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Christoph Waltz's victory in this category has been a forgone conclusion, so it comes as no surprise.Still he was visibly thrilled and grateful to Quentin Tarantino and the Academy.
"This is you welcoming embrace and there is no way I can ever thank you, but I can start right now," said Waltz.
The award, one of more than two dozen he's received for the role, was as deserved as it was expected.


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Sunday, November 14
Thanksgiving Popcorn!
You've heard of Thanksgiving stuffing, Thanksgiving pumpkin pie and Thanksgiving turkey. But have you heard of Thanksgiving popcorn? Of course you haven't. That's because I just created it.
Why "Thanksgiving" popcorn? Read on.
I handed Jeff a bowl of popcorn and said, "Here, try this."
He ate a couple of handfuls and said, "This is the best popcorn you've ever made."
"Really?" I said. (I thought my best was my maple walnut popcorn.)
He took another handful and tossed it in his mouth.
"Oh, yeah. This is definitely the best. What's it called?" he asked.
"I don't know. I can't think of a name I like," I said.
"You should call it Thanksgiving popcorn. It's got all the flavors and smells of Thanksgiving," he said.
And that, my friends, is how today's popcorn got its name. Hmmm... I wonder if I can get my own Wikipedia entry for it.
Thanksgiving Popcorn
Yields 10-12 cups
Printable recipe.
This popcorn is a fun, kid-friendly appetizer or dessert to serve on Thanksgiving Day and pairs deliciously with mulled apple cider. If you really love pumpkin pie spice, then use it in place of the apple pie spice and call it "Pumpkin Pie Popcorn."
3 tablespoons canola oil
1/2 cup popcorn kernels
3/4 cup coarsely chopped pecans, almonds, or walnuts
1/2 cup dried cranberries
2 tablespoons butter
1/2 cup pure maple syrup
4 tablespoons light brown sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
2 heaping teaspoons apple pie spice seasoning
1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Coat two large rimmed baking sheets with cooking spray or aluminum foil.
2. Pour oil in a large saucepan over high heat and cover. After about 1 minute, listen for the shimmering oil as it heats up, then drop a couple of kernels in the pan. When they start sizzling and spinning, the oil is ready. Add remaining kernels. Cover the pan, and give it a couple of shakes so the kernels get coated with oil. Now listen for the popping. Once it really starts popping quickly, listen carefully. Remove the pan from the heat once the popping slows down to every few seconds, or it could burn quickly. Pour popcorn into a big bowl coated with cooking spray, and add nuts and dried cranberries.
3. In a small saucepan over medium heat, bring butter, maple syrup, brown sugar, salt, and black pepper to a boil. Cook 1 minute. Add apple pie spice. Lower to a simmer for 2 minutes. Cool for 5 minutes. Pour syrup over popcorn and nuts, stirring to coat. Spread the popcorn mixture on to the prepared baking sheets. Bake for 10 minutes. Remove from oven and cool. Break into small clusters.
Here are more delicious popcorn recipes you might enjoy:
Five Spice Popcorn recipe from Macheesmo
Maple Walnut Popcorn recipe from Food Blogga
Aunt Aly's Caramel Popcorn recipe from The Open Pantry
Chile-Lime-Tequila Popcorn recipe from 101 Cookbooks
Parmesan Pepper Popcorn recipe from Peanut Butter and Jargon
Cinnamon Sugar Caramel Popcorn recipe from Two Peas and Their Pod
23 comments:
- Jessica @ How Sweet said...
This popcorn sounds dangerously delicious.
- November 14, 2010 at 1:27 PM
- Valerie Harrison (bellini) said...
Yes it does seem to scream Thanksgiving and holidays and comfort foods.
- November 14, 2010 at 2:03 PM
- debbie koenig said...
Holy crap, that looks crazy good. Me want. Now.
- November 14, 2010 at 2:05 PM
TG popcorn looks terrific - love the name, the story and your recipe!
- November 14, 2010 at 3:50 PM
- Joanne said...
Well you may not be able to bottle up thanksgiving and sell it in a can, but you can certainly pop it out of a kernel! Good stuff.
- November 14, 2010 at 5:02 PM
- Nick (Macheesmo) said...
Holy popped kernel Batman! That's amazing.
Great idea with the apple pie spice (and thanks for the shoutout)!
- November 14, 2010 at 6:36 PM
- DessertForTwo said...
Oh yum! What a great idea! Since popcorn is a whole grain, I wouldn't feel guilty for eating this--perfect!
- November 14, 2010 at 8:16 PM
- homegrown countrygirl said...
This sounds fantastic. And I love that you added pepper to the sweet mix! Yum!
- November 15, 2010 at 2:10 AM
- T.W. Barritt at Culinary Types said...
Forget the turkey! I'm coming to your place!
- November 15, 2010 at 10:11 AM
- Unknown said...
Great idea!
I will make for one of my contributions to Thanksgiving at a friends house.
- November 15, 2010 at 10:16 AM
- Michelle said...
OHHH my! A MUST try!!!
- November 15, 2010 at 11:45 AM
- Susan from Food Blogga said...
jessica-It is. It should come with a warning. ;)
val-That's what I like to hear!
lizthechef-Oh, thanks a bunch!
joanne-Bottle and sell it. Ooh, now there's an idea.... ;)
nick-My pleasure, Robin! ;)
dessertfortwo-I like the way you think.
countrygirl-It's a delicious foil to the sweetness.
- November 15, 2010 at 12:22 PM
- The Duo Dishes said...
The pepper is perfect! That sweet/spicy combo just works.
- November 15, 2010 at 10:50 PM
- Sam Hoffer / My Carolina Kitchen said...
This sounds like it become addictive.
- November 16, 2010 at 8:43 AM
- We Are Not Martha said...
Delicious!! I made a Halloween popcorn and now I'm thinking there needs to be a popcorn for every holiday :)
- November 16, 2010 at 11:29 AM
- The Teacher Cooks said...
I have popcorn in the pantry. Will be trying some of this soon!
- November 16, 2010 at 3:04 PM
- Courtney said...
Amazing idea for popcorn. Popcorn is one of my favorite snacks to eat. Definitely trying this :)
- November 17, 2010 at 9:17 PM
- Alanna Kellogg said...
You are a genius!
- November 19, 2010 at 12:40 PM
Just printed it...going to take it with me when visiting the family for Thanksgiving in Ohio. It's sure to be a treat and a hit! Thanks so much, Susan. - Kate VB
- November 20, 2010 at 6:51 PM
- Aparna Balasubramanian said...
I'm certainly "giving my thanks" to you for this lovely popcorn idea, Susan.
And my daughter's going to be thrilled!
- November 21, 2010 at 4:46 AM
- Jun said...
Great idea! Thanks for sharing!
- November 26, 2010 at 8:14 AM
Made this for a Thanksgiving munchie - people fought over it! It is a new tradition in my family! I am actually making more tonight, so we can eat more standing in line tomorrow - to see Santa. Thank you! Bonus- my 3 year old doesn't like cranberries or nuts, so i get all of the GOODIES!
- November 26, 2010 at 6:44 PM
- Twofarmshares said...
I've already made this twice and both times it vanished almost immediately. This was a great idea - Thanks! Ruth
- December 4, 2010 at 10:14 AM


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Suspicion and Mistrust
Ayatullah al-Uzma Naser Makarem Shirazi
Immunity from mistrust is the requisite of a safe community
For making a safe community, first of all security is required, because without security, freedom is not possible, and in this case, mental, corporeal, material and spiritual capitals are not activated, as capitals always take refuge to secure points and escape unsafe environments!
However, the limits of security are not restricted to life and property, and more important than them is security in view of reputation and protection of individuals' social personality.
On the other hand, another security is needed for completion of above triple securities that unfortunately, material rules are not able to provide it, that is, "mental security" as the most important one in some aspects!
Mental security has two parts:
1- Security of everybody in his own mind setting, and in other words "mental tranquility": that is to say in mental and spiritual view, a man is in a position that disturbing forces do not press upon him from each side, and he is not supposed to rush of various disturbing thoughts and serious mental storms. Rather, he may have a tranquil spirit free from any anxiety, discomfort and confusion.
2- Security in view of judgements of others: that is to say others do not lay rush of their thoughts as well as bad and inappropriate judgements on a man in their own mind's setting, and one's respect and reputation is preserved even in the setting of others' mind. Of course, discussion about each of these securities needs long talks. Herein, we only want to discuss about the latter type that is security in view of judgements of others.
It goes without saying that what is possible to provide in view of rules and materialist governments, with connivance of their other faults, is security in life, financial and somehow social reputation respects (of course as far as it is possible to assess the effects of its damage in view of materialistic and legal rules).
But, mental security in both parts, specially being safe from bad judgements of others is only possible through divine doctrines and heavenly religions, as we know the areas of heart and mind are out of access of such rules and executive forces generally having a material aspect, and lacking the least impression on these parts. Only religious beliefs and ethical principles, particularly in Islam, containing extensive and considerable instructions for achieving this objective, as one of its great privileges, can penetrate into these areas and make it safe. Quran explicitly instructs the believers:
O believers, eschew much suspicion, some suspicion is a sin.(1)
The phrase "much suspicion" may indicate that a major part or most of the suspicions of people about each other are "evil ones", and thereby Quran warns people about the great risk threatening their security in the minds of others, and has introduced it as a "general affection site".
However, the phrase "some suspicion is a sin", considering its previous phrase, may indicate that suspicions of people about each other may be partly based on the reality, but surely a part of them is against reality, as a sin and disobedience. Thus, intellect orders to avoid all types of suspicion for not being affected to this part.
In the Islamic traditions too, it is so emphasized on avoidance from suspicion on the believers that we read in a tradition from Prophet S.A.:
God has forbidden blood, wealth, reputation and suspicion about a Muslim.(2)
This tradition is particularly noteworthy since it has placed security in four aspects (financial, life, reputation, and mental) besides each other, and has forbidden all of them in a single phrase.
Sources of suspicion and pessimism
Suspicion and pessimism in mental view may appear sometimes lightly and sometimes acutely and severely, that is as a mental disease - and anyway it could be the effect of various causes, including:
1- It often happens that source of suspicion is the sense of revenge and malice and envy, and since a man can not take vengeance practically on the other person, and or express it by his tongue, so he retreats to the areas of mind and heart, and causes a sedition there, trumps up him, and judges and rebukes and blames him, and thereby seeks relief of his mind. That is to say whatsoever he could not find outwardly, he seeks in his mind and imaginations, and on this account, and he feels a sort of false enjoyment and tranquility from his action.
This originates from a sort of "subjectivism" and "mental escape from realities" and "resorting to fancy" which is proved today in psychoanalysis. The sense does not appertain to this case. Rather, all cases in which man's desires are not satiated outwardly, and retreat to unconscious inner sense as repressed, man seeks for visionary and fanciful substitutes in order to fill the vacuum created in that respect. Sometimes, he seeks them in the dreamy world (a part of dreams are the effect of this cause).
And sometimes he seeks them in the world of "poetic imaginations" and "dreams in wakefulness", and for this reason, the able poets in whose poems there are affection, enthusiasm, influence and mirth, are those who in addition to poetic talent, have faced with the lost, disappointments and failures, fiery kindness' and unsuccessful loves, and have sought their lost and beloved one in the world of imaginations among the poetic masterstrokes and literary niceties, and thereby their imagination power has extremely developed.
In brief, "mental escape towards fancy" is the source of a lot of mental events, including suspicion, pessimism and mistrust.
2- Sometimes, the source of suspicion is impurity and taint of man, as too much optimism some when originates from the purity and serenity of a man. That is to say a man assumes the others good or bad based on the principle of "self comparison". This is particularly apparent in low knowledge and simple persons.
3- Excusing or reducing one's own punishment in the court of conscience is also one of the other causes of suspicion, because in this way he tries to create some partners for his offences, and suspects on the others for justifying his own ill deeds, and showing them less effective and more usual, and saying that I am not the only one being involved in this state.
4- Suspicion may originate from pride and selfishness, because such people intend to show themselves superior to the others in any way, and so try to create some weak points for the others in the environment of their mind, and devaluate them through different probabilities, and elevate their own value.
5- Educational environment and suggestions of parents and teacher are also important causes of pessimism and suspicion.
6- Association with unrighteous individuals too is one of the causes of suspicion, because the criterion for general judgements of man is often a defective induction which he makes about the individuals dealing with them, as judgements of persons about the people of a city or a village or a country is based on the special individuals having contact with them.
If the associates of a man are unrighteous, he will naturally become pessimistic to all people.
It is mentioned in Islamic traditions:
Association with evildoers causes suspicion in the righteous.(3)
7- Sometimes suspicion has a real source that is when corruption dominates on the people of a certain time or place, so that a man becomes suspicious to every thing based on this intellectual principle that "Suspicion connects everything to its popular sample"
Social losses of mistrust
Social losses of this moral vice are too much and its undesirable effects are widespread and extensive, such as:
1- Suspicion causes social misunderstanding, as those suffering from this condition, look everything pessimistically, and involve in numerous mistakes in recognizing the situation of individuals, events and incidents, real causes and motives of the activities occurring in the society, and live in an dreamy world against what really exist, and this "misunderstanding of realities" certainly causes retardation, non exploitation of opportunities and valuable individuals and failure before the events.
2- Suspicion and pessimism are the greatest hindrance for social cooperation as well as unity and solidarity of hearts, and lead man to an individual life, solitude, isolation and individualism and the vices caused by these attributes. Suspicion does not let man trust on the other and find the basis of cooperation with him, and solve the problems with his assistance.
3- Suspicion causes man to spy about the others and as we already referred, spying is the source of slander and its related vices. Holy Quran too has indicated to this reality in verse 12, Chambers sura.
4- Mistrust is the source of enmities, and sometimes, it is the main cause of bloody wars and battles. There are a lot of families, which are dissociated by mistrust, and there are a lot of competent and dignified men who are killed for mistrust about them! And sometimes suspicion has illuminated the flame of great wars. We read in the occasion of revelation of the noble verse:
If an ungodly man comes to you with a tiding, make clear, lest you afflict a people unwittingly, and then repent of what you have done.
When suspicion and pessimism of "Walid Ibn Oghbeh" was about to cause destruction of a tribe, and Holy Quran prevented this great tragedy through instructing for clarification and investigation.(4)
5- Suspicion extinguishes kindness and friendship, and develops hypocrisy and dissimulation among friends, because such person has to affect friendship with his friends apparently, while his interior is not so, and has a mistrust on them, and this behavior leads to development of spirit of hypocrisy and dissimulation in him.
In summary, the social vices and losses of suspicion and mistrust are more than what are usually supposed, and what we said here above is actually a part of these vices.
Individual losses of suspicion
In addition to social losses, suspicion and mistrust have a lot of irrecoverable losses to some important parts of which we will refer hereunder:
1- Mistrust is the source of spirit distress and torture of body, as well as anxiety and worry. Pessimistic people are often worried, and suffer for their imaginations about the individuals and events. They escape association with individuals, which is one of the normal and effective means of spiritual mirth, because they assume utterances or actions of people as jests and quips for themselves!
They fear of confabulation, which is a useful means for relieving pains and distresses, because they think that it may cause disclosure of their secrets and or other problems! And on this account, they are often depressed, mirthless and sad, and gradually become a useless and idle being.
If this condition of "mistrust" is intensified in man, it will become so serious that he is afraid of everything and everyone, sees all events harmful, assumes normal deeds of individuals as plans against himself, and supposes everybody determined in destruction or trouble of himself.
Obviously, this condition should be included among the mental diseases and out of ethics.
Basically, all moral vices are related to ethics until they have not passed the normal limits, and only moral trainers should treat them. But when they are abnormal, they are considered as a disease, and out of subject of ethic. Excessive envies, excessive prides, excessive spites, excessive blatancies, and such like are all included in this part.
It is interesting that in the Hypocrites sura, while mentioning the conditions of hypocrites, the issue of suspicion and mistrust are accounted among their attributes and it says: they are so suffering from suspicion that:
They think every cry is against them.(5)
And this is one of their worldly punishments.
Of course, this type of suspicion is normal for evil doers, as based on the principle of "self comparison", they suppose the others are aware of their situation, and are going to punish or take vengeance on them, and consequently they always fear.
2- Mistrust about the "people" sometimes leads to mistrust and suspicion on the Creator, and also is transmitted to the basis of man's religious beliefs. Sometimes, they suspect on "Divine Justice" and sometimes in "Divine Power"!
They may also doubt in invitation of divine prophets, and in the depths of their heart, assume their invitation as a sort of histrionics for domination on people and attraction of commons, although they may apparently be faithful to the religious principles.
Non submission of most of evil doers and hypocrites to the invitation of prophets may have been caused thereof.
3- Pessimistic people are often deprived from the inner purity, because they are always slandering about the others in their heart, and thereby some of ethics scholars have called suspicion "slander with heart".
This was a part of individual losses of suspicion and pessimism.
Ways of countering with suspicion
First of all, there is a problem in this discussion that should be solved, that is:
Most often, suspicion is not a freewill affair to be avoided. Rather, in most cases, when observing a vision, or hearing an utterance, or remembering a memory (with special mental backgrounds about the other person), a suspicion appears unwillingly in man's mind. So, how it is possible to avoid it?
The following well-known tradition too proves this sense:
There are three things that no one is secure from them: forebode, envy and suspicion.
The researchers have paced different ways for solving this problem:
1- Some believe that suspicion is not forbidden instinctively, and express the famous prophetic tradition as their proof:
There are three unfavorable things in the believer, and it is possible for him to escape them, and it is possible to escape suspicion through not giving a follow-up to it.(6)
2- Some others say avoiding suspicion refers to not giving a follow-up to it heartily and outwardly. In other words, he shall not establish "heart conclusion", which is freewill, in his heart, and not to feel a hate and disgust to the suspected person, and not to change his relations and behavior with him outwardly. Thus, non-realization of suspicion refers to the same wide sense of word including mind and outward.
There is no doubt that these two are both against the appearance of the verse for avoiding suspicion and the traditions mentioned in this part, because they have forbidden suspicion itself, and there is not any hearty establishment aspect to be evitable.
But the issue of belief and hearty establishment is a freewill affair (because belief and faith is something else than knowledge, as it has been already proved), but hate and disgust are not so.
3- The reality is that although suspicion is not voluntary at the beginning, but its continuation is optional, because it usually originates from a series of unreal factors that cause such a supposition due to precipitancy and hurry in judgement. Hence, one can soon avoid it through thinking and studying about the matter, and subtilizing in different probabilities, and thus it is greatly emphasized in the narrations and traditions that a man should try and do his best for finding correct probabilities in the Moslems affairs, and avoid primary perspectives.
Imam Ali A.S. says:
Do not suspect on the utterance, which you hear from your brother as far as you find a proper way for it.(7)
Therefore, only sudden hearty perspectives are out of will, but stable and durable suspicion is a freewill affair, and this sense is completely compatible with the appearance of the noble verse, traditions concerning forbiddance of suspicion.
Seemingly, the phrase:
Deny your eye and ear about your brother.(8)
which is narrated from Imam Sadegh A.S. addressing Mohammad Ebne Fosail, may refer to attempt for finding proper senses and avoiding primary perspectives.
Methods of treating suspicion
Now that the meaning of forbiddance of suspicion is made clear, it is the time of referring to the methods of treating it.
As we have repeatedly said, we shall always seek the way of treating mental, physical and moral diseases in the causes of their appearance.
On this account, considering the discussion we made in respect to the sources and factors of suspicion, we conclude that:
1- For removing suspicion, first of all we shall engage in correcting ourselves so that if we compare the others with ourselves, it does not cause assuming them vicious and evil doer, and also when we are correcting ourselves, we shall remind always this point to ourselves that it is not correct to assume the others like ourselves. They may possess mentalities much superior and better than us. We shall pay attention that self-comparison which may be one of the aspects of man's self-love, has no logic and scientific foundation, and should not be considered as the basis of our judgement about the others.
2- We shall purify our environment which may be the source of our suspicion and mistrust, and leave off association with the evil doers which may be the source of suspicion on good doers, and note that such poisonous associations, in addition to their other numerous disadvantages, darken the environment of our mind in evaluation of personality of others, and lead us to great mistakes in identification of individuals. These mistakes not only cause moral and spiritual losses, but also deprive us from exploitation of mental and moral resources of competent individuals due to suspicion.
If our educational environment in the childhood has been unhealthy in this respect, we shall wash away the effects of childhood period from our mind through suggestion and studying the conditions of good doers, and association with the pure persons, for compensation of the suggestions causing our present pessimism.
3- We shall regularly envisage the individual and social losses of mistrust and the great dangers threatening us and the society in this way, and repeatedly remember the previous discussions which we had in this respect, and consider this reality that if mistrust is temporarily effective in relieving our "sense of vengeance" or "selfishness", and creates a false transitory peace in us, it has also irrecoverable losses for us which are not comparable with its assumed advantages.
4- If the source of our suspicion and pessimism is moral deviations of others, malice and selfishness, justification of our evil deeds and escaping the chastisement of conscience, we shall become aware of these sources in our mental analysis, and transfer these factors from the mind's unconscious stage to conscious stage.
Since this point is very important in treating moral deviations that when incentives from mind's unconscious stage influence on the deeds and thoughts of man, we shall transfer them to conscious stage through psychoanalysis. It has a deep impression in improvement of our status, and pay attention that this issue is greatly discussed and concerned in the present psychoanalysis.
At the end of discussion about suspicion, it is noteworthy that suspicion and mistrust is logical only when majority of individuals are deviated and corrupted in an environment. In such case, one can not have good opinion on the dubious person based on probabilities; because the possibility of corruption about each person is more, but it should be notified that in such environments too, man shall not take into consideration his suspicion save in what is concerned with precautionary aspects. In other words, while observing necessary precautions, one shall avoid affectation to the deeds with the savour of suspicion and mistrust on the individuals, and this possibility should never be neglected that the suspected person may be one of the righteous minority of the society, and this attitude should be restricted to those vices which have involved majority of society. But, in other cases, good opinion should be completely observed.
The famous tradition narrated from Imam Ali A.S. may refer to the same reality, where it says:
When corruption breaks out at a time, good opinion of individuals to each other causes being deceived.(9)
1- The Chambers sura (49), verse 12
2- Feise Kashani, Mohajjatol Beisae, 268/5
3- Majlessi, Beharol Anvar, 197/74, narration 31
4- Please study the occasion of revelation under verse 6, Chambers sura, in the Example Commentary (Tafsir Nemouneh)
5- The Hypocrites sura (63), verse 4
6- Majlessi, Beharol Anvar, 201/75
7- Kelini, Kafi, 362/2
8- Kelini, Kafi, 147/8
9- Majlessi, Beharol Anvar, 197/75, narration 18


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It might be thanks to the spring, sun and the warm weather, but for quite a while now I have been feeling really inspired, happy and excited. I am too superstitious to say too much, but lets just say life has been good lately. I have been inspired by many amazing blogs, I have been so excited to try new recipes and experiment with new ingredients, and it's these little things that make me so happy.
It is so easy to get stuck in the same routines day after day. Cooking has become something that really breaks up my routines almost daily. Yes I cook every day, but most of the time I'm trying out a new recipe, and when I'm using ingredients I haven't cooked with before, it's even more exciting. This is such an important part of my daily life. It's what creates the balance between work and the life outside work. I also like to do my exercise every day after work to clear my mind and get ready for some kitchen therapy. I have always been an active kind of a person, I can't sit still for too long, I like to 'get things done'.
This salad is inspirational to me because it is so full of flavour. When I was making this, I kept testing it, adjusting the spices, tasting some more, adjusting the vinegar, and so on. It was like painting a picture where you add layers of colours, shades and lights. This is exactly what I love!
There is a lot going on in this simple sounding salad: I love it quite vinegary, but you can adjust the amount of vinegar to your own liking. Taste and adjust, taste and adjust, that's what it's all about :-)
(Recipe adapted from My New Roots)
1 cup French style lentils
3 cups water
1/2 Spanish onion, finely chopped
1 wedge preserved lemon, skin only, finely chopped
3-4 tbs kalamata olives, pitted and roughly chopped
large handful of flat-leaf parsley, finely chopped
100ml extra-virgin olive oil
2 tbs organic apple cider vinegar
1 tsp raw honey
1/2 tsp Dijon mustard
1/2 tsp ground cumin
1/2 tsp ground turmeric
1/2 tsp ground coriander
1/4 tsp ground cardamom
1/4 tsp freshly grated nutmeg
freshly ground black pepper
pinch of sea salt
Rinse the lentils and place in a saucepan with the water. Bring to boil and let simmer for about 15 minutes or until just tender. Drain and rinse under cold water (and drain again). Place in a large bowl.
In a bowl, mix all vinaigrette ingredients together and whisk well to combine.
Mix the onions, preserved lemon, olives and parsley with the lentils, then spoon over the vinaigrette. Stir everything together and place in the fridge for at least 30 minutes. Serve with baby spinach, rocket or other leafy greens.


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The last ten years has brought us some amazing developments in automotive technology. Bugatti brought us the Veyron, one of the fastest and most advanced cars of it's kind. Subaru and Mitsubishi brought cheap speed to the masses. And Tata made the Nano, the most affordable car in the world.
Looking forward to the next decade, we are going to have affordable cars that have standard features like lane-assist, wireless internet and voice recognition. The possibilities are endless, but before we look to the future, lets take a quick look at the past.
Here are the Top 10 Fastest Police Car's of the decade.