Lupini/lupin/turmus beans are high in protein (40%), and fiber (40%).  So every 100 grams of cooked lupini beans, contain around 40 grams of protein.  These beans aid in resorting and building cells, tissue and muscle in the human body.  As lupin beans are high in fiber, they are able to lower the cholesterol in the body and clean the blood vessels.  So they’re also good for the heart.  And finally, these beans are packed with antioxidants and can help prevent inflammation.  There are 2 kinds of dried turmus beans, there’s a bitter variety that takes longer to prepare as it needs to be soaked for several days in water, and water needs to be changed every few hours or at least every day.  Then the beans need to be cooked, and if they’re still bitter then they need to be soaked again in water.  The other kind of lupin beans is sweet, these beans are not literally sweet but they’re not bitter either (the variety is just called sweet).  They can be prepared quickly, by just soaking them in water for a few hours, then they’re cooked for 30 minutes or until they’re sort of soft and yellow in color.  The beans are also used in making lupini flour, and even tofu!  In the Middle East, you will see many street vendors selling these lovely beans that are perfectly cooked, then seasoned with cumin, salt and lots of lemon juice.  Many people cook beans at home in the Middle East.  They are also usually paired with beer (like bar nuts) as they make a great snack.  The beans are first soaked in water, and then cooked in boiling water until they’re soft enough to eat.  Ground cumin is a very important ingredient, as lupini beans can cause bloating to some people and ground cumin can prevent the bloating.  After the turmus is cooked, add lemon juice.  Then sprinkle with ground cumin and salt.  The beans are eaten cold and are stored in the fridge in an airtight container for up to 3 days.  Diana Alshakhanbeh  Find recipe and pictures at https://littlesunnykitchen.com/lupini-beans/



Jenny Wingfield is an American screenwriter and novelist.  Born in Fountain Hill, Arkansas, Wingfield spent much of her childhood in Louisiana, where her father was a preacher.  She attended Southern State College (now Southern Arkansas University) in Magnolia, and after graduating taught languages for several years.  Her screenwriting credits have included the films The Man in the Moon and The Outsider, as well as Hallmark Hall of Fame's A Dog Named Christmas, which was the winner of the 2010 Genesis Award.  Her debut novel, The Homecoming of Samuel Lake was published in 2011.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Wingfield  Read a BookPage interview with Jenny Wingfield by Eliza Borné at https://bookpage.com/interviews/8714-jenny-wingfield-fiction#.XSzlSuhKjCA



Whippersnapper is a word that goes back hundreds of years.  It is a closed compound word, which is a word composed of two separate words that were used together so often that they eventually became melded into one word.  A whippersnapper is a young person who is presumptuous, a young person who is overconfident.  The term whippersnapper is derived from the terms snipper-snapper and whip-snapper.  A whip-snapper was a seventeenth-century term for a young man with nothing better to do than to hang about idly snapping a whip.  Whippersnapper is one of those rare terms that has a somewhat literal origin.  Today, the term is usually used in an archaic sense or as a slightly humorous term.  According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the correct spelling is as one word, whippersnapper, though it is occasionally seen in its hyphenated form, whipper-snapper. 

https://grammarist.com/usage/whippersnapper/



scintilla (plural scintillae or scintillas)  noun  A small spark or flash. quotations ▼  A small or trace amount. quotations ▼  Related terms  scintilla juris  scintillate  scintillation  scintillator  stencil  tinsel  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scintilla



Community Supported Agriculture consists of a community of individuals who pledge support to a farm operation so that the farmland becomes, either legally or spiritually, the community's farm, with the growers and consumers providing mutual support and sharing the risks and benefits of food production.  In a traditional CSA model, members share the risks and benefits of food production with the farmer.  Members buy a share of the farm’s production before each growing season.  In return, they receive regular distributions of the farm’s bounty throughout the season.  The farmer receives advance working capital, gains financial security, earns better crop prices, and benefits from the direct marketing plan.  Find local food and CSAs near you at https://www.nal.usda.gov/afsic/community-supported-agriculture  In Toledo, there is Shared Legacy Farms.  SLF is certified organic with the State of Ohio.  They have various distribution locations, and you pick up your weekly bin at the Toledo Farmers Market.  They also sell organic produce to non-members at the market on Saturdays.  Thank you, Muse reader! 



The ancient Egyptian deity Amun, worshipped by the Greeks as Ammon, had a temple and a statue, the gift of Pindar (d. 443 BC), at Thebes, and another at Sparta, the inhabitants of which, as Pausanias says,  consulted the oracle of Ammon in Libya from early times more than the other Greeks.  At Aphytis, Chalcidice, Amun was worshipped, from the time of Lysander (d. 395 BC), as zealously as in Ammonium.  Pindar the poet honored the god with a hymn.  Such was its reputation among the Classical Greeks that Alexander the Great journeyed there after the battle of Issus and during his occupation of Egypt, where he was declared "the son of Amun" by the oracle.  Alexander thereafter considered himself divine.  Even during this occupation, Amun, identified by these Greeks as a form of Zeus, continued to be the principal local deity of Thebes.  Several words derive from Amun via the Greek form, Ammon, such as ammonia and ammonite.  The Romans called the ammonium chloride they collected from deposits near the Temple of Jupiter-Amun in ancient Libya sal ammoniacus (salt of Amun) because of proximity to the nearby temple.  Ammonia, as well as being the chemical, is a genus name in the foraminifera.  Both these foraminiferans (shelled Protozoa) and ammonites (extinct shelled cephalopods) bear spiral shells resembling a ram's, and Ammon's, horns.  The regions of the hippocampus in the brain are called the cornu ammonis--literally "Amun's Horns", due to the horned appearance of the dark and light bands of cellular layers.  See graphics at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amun


The word sycophant has its origin in the legal system of Classical Athens.  Most legal cases of the time were brought by private litigants as there was no police force and only a limited number of officially appointed public prosecutors.  By the fifth century BC this practice had given rise to abuse by "sycophants":  litigants who brought unjustified prosecutions.  In modern English, the meaning of the word has shifted to that of an "insincere flatterer" (see sycophancy), used to refer to someone practicing sycophancy (i.e. obedient flattery).  The word "sycophant" entered the English and French languages in the mid-16th century, and originally had the same meaning in English and French (sycophante) as in Greek, a false accuser.  Today, in Greek and French it retains the original meaning.  The meaning in English has changed over time, however, and came to mean an insincere flatterer.  The common thread in the older and current meanings is that the sycophant is in both instances portrayed as a kind of parasite, speaking falsely and insincerely in the accusation or the flattery for gain.  The Greek plays often combined in one single character the elements of the parasite and the sycophant, and the natural similarities of the two closely related types led to the shift in the meaning of the word.  The sycophant in both meanings can also be viewed as two sides of the same coin: the same person currying one's favor by insincere flattery is also spreading false tales and accusations behind one's back.  In Renaissance English, the word was used in both senses and meanings, that of the Greek informer, and the current sense of a "flattering parasite", with both being cast as enemies—not only of those they wrong, but also of the person or state that they ostensibly serve.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sycophant



Amazon.com Inc’s (AMZN.O) Audible was sued by some of the top U.S. publishers for copyright infringement on August 23, 2019, aiming to block a planned rollout of a feature called ‘Audible Captions’ that shows the text on screen as a book is narrated.  The lawsuit was filed by seven members of the Association of American Publishers (AAP), including HarperCollins Publishers, Penguin Random House, Hachette Book Group, Simon & Schuster, and Macmillan Publishers.  “Essentially Audible wants to provide the text as well as the sound of books without the authorization of copyright holders, despite only having the right to sell audiobooks,” AAP said in a statement.  The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.  reporting by Ayanti Bera in Bengaluru; editing by Anil D'Silva  https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-lawsuit-idUSKCN1VD1ZY



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