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There's nothing more refreshing that hearing a new band that actually turns you on. Furyon is one of those bands. They have the comfortable soundings of a band like Shinedown or Alterbridge, but they have a progressive element and a front man that gives it even more originality. "Gravitas" is a great album that I highly recommend to anyone who's a fan of hard rock music. Recently I got the chance to chat with Furyon frontman Matt Mitchell. You can listen to the interview on our new Zoiks Interview Podcast located here.
Zoiks!: Hello this is Bob.
Matt Mitchell: Hello Bob how you doing?
Z!: Pretty good how are you?
MM: I'm not too bad thank you very much my friend.
Z!: How did your band come together?
MM: Uh it came together, well me and the guitarist Chris Greene we've been writing partners for a long time, and we did have a band before called Pride which we had a couple of releases out about 10 years ago. That band folded and we decided we wanted to do something a little more harder edged so 7 years ago we formed Furyon.
Z!: Cool. Where did you get the name Furyon from?
MM: Well it's like a warrior name you know? And we wanted something that was gonna kind of represent that kind of thing you know strength and sort of loyalty etc. etc. So the whole "Chronicles of Riddick" thing kind of helped a bit I suppose. You know?
Z!: Cool. How would you describe your band's sound or musical direction?
MM: That's quite a simple one really. If you like your music kind of heavy and groovy, but with sort of melodic vocals, you know, that's what we wanted to do. You know, we wanted something that was gonna be heavy and slightly progressive sounding but with a kind of melodic edge to it you know?
Z!: What is your band's writing process? Is there a designated song writer or is it more of a group effort?
MM: Well for the first album myself and Chris Green wrote 90% of it you know, but don't get me wrong I always believed that in a band the nuts and bolts are extremely important you know what I mean? We couldn't have done it without the other guys you know? It wouldn't have sounded the same.
Z!: The producer in your newest album is Rick Beato. How did that collaboration come about?
MM: Through Kip Winger actually.
Z!: Really?
MM: Chris Green lives in the states actually now, Chris. He was playing some, it was like this session guitar thing he was doing for an old star American band called Scrap Metal. And it's kind of made up of guys from Nelson and it's mainly made up of guys from Nelson, a little bit of Slaughter you remember those guys? And then they have sort of guest people, you know like they might have a guest singer like Eric Martin or CJ Snare from Firehouse or just that kind of thing you know? From that sort of time, and they needed a lead guitar player that could play them songs, you know, and play that sort of vibe, and Chris got it and he sort of managed to meet Kip Winger who was opening acoustic and told him about our album and what we were trying to do etc etc. and it worked out that Kip was a friend of Rick's. So one thing leads to another you know? Cuz Rick's a very hard guy to get a hold. You could send Rick a million demos and he'd never get back to you just because he hasn't ever opened the e-mail you know what I mean? He's a very busy man like a lot of producers are. And he heard our stuff and he liked what he heard so he went for it and I think it was either us or Puddle of Mudd that he was gonna do at the time so I was pleased that he was interested in doing what we were doing.
Z!: That's a cool story. When did you get interested in singing?
MM: I got interested in singing, I always interested in playing and singing really as a kid. I know it's a bit of a cliché story, but I used to literally sit in my, lie in my bed and listen to my dad would be playing Led Zeppelin and stuff downstairs and I'd be just pretending to you know play guitar and sing the songs, but it wasn't until I was in my early teens I really wanted to play and sing and stuff and I didn't play an instrument and I was at school and we were all asked to sing a song one day and I chose to sing, I can remember what it was, it was a Survivor song, "In the Burning Heart" I think it was, and after that all the school bands would sort of make a band and then they'd just say right you're singing. You'll sing and you'll sing. And I sort of realized I had a thing for it. That was it really and from then onwards I was singing in bands from about fifteen, fourteen, fifteen, and yeah that was it. I've just been doing it ever since and I love it.
Z!: Do you have a routine for when you're on the road and singing every night to protect your voice? What would you recommend to young singers trying to you know cuz people don't realize it but that can take a real toll on your vocal chords?
MM: It's a big, I mean like literally I've just finished a six day, I mean it's only six days back to back, but here and there and but even doing six days back to back you know is you know about it you know? And you have to kind of look after, one of the key things I do is I keep myself well hydrated, you know I drink a lot of water and I warm up through the day. For young singers I would suggest they kind of xxx and get some kind of good technique you know. A lot of people tend to shout sing so to speak and there's only one answer to that and it kind of wrecks your voice so you have to sort of learn a certain amount of good technique. And you know these days there's a lot of good things out there and a lot of good coaches out there you know? Especially in America.
Z!: What are your current touring plans?
MM: Current touring plans at the moment we are booking for, we've just done our own show here in London and we go up and down the country here. Our next gig is actually in Ireland and we are being booked for festivals and stuff for the last spring early summer, and our booking agent is just sporadically kind of throwing us tours and stuff like that at the moment you know so we're kind of in and out. At the moment we've got kind of shows dotted around. I think when the album comes out in Europe on the 23rd things will probably kick into place a bit quicker and hopefully we'll be able to get out there and do some more kind of two – three week stints. You know?
Z!: Do you have any plans to come to the states anytime soon?
MM: Absolutely man. It would be awesome to come over to the states. We've already got our tour manager sort of ready to roll for over in Chicago so as soon as the want is there and the budget you know what I mean, for it to work. Of course we're not gonna pay out of our own pockets to come and play because it's just not feasible, but as soon as it's there in place for us to do. And that means even if we can just come over, play to the fans, and make a small living out of it. You know what I mean? It would be fantastic to do because of course we did the album there you know?
Z!: Yeah I think once people hear it there will be a demand for it.
MM: Well that's the thing. I'm hoping there's gonna be some good promotion. I'm hoping the promotion's gonna be good for America because although they're gonna love it in Germany and places around Europe I do think the sound is for America.
Z!: Correct me if I'm wrong, but some of the bigger bands here you know Shinedown, Alterbridge, then you guys kind of mix in that progressive side too and those bands are huge here. I mean I've only heard a couple songs, I didn't realize I had the album until today but I really think you're gonna be huge here if you get the proper support.
MM: Yep.
Z!: What can fans expect from your live show?
MM: A lot of energy. There's always a lot of energy and again a lot of real stuff. We don't ever come out on stage, I don't ever come out on stage and stand and talk bollocks for 15 minutes you know what I mean? We get out on stage and we get sweaty and bloody straight into it you know? As much energy as possible and as much connection with the crowd. It's nice to kind of connect with people. I mean it's great if we've got a busy show, it's great you know? If you're playing in front of people that want to be there then it's gonna be even better you know? It's always hard to play in front of people that you're trying to impress, but if you're playing to a fan base then it's all on you know?
Z!: Do you remember the first show you saw live and how did it affect you?
MM: I saw Europe. I saw Europe and I met them. I remember they signed my jeans. I was a young teenager, they signed my jeans, and I was thrilled to bits. I remember thinking I was standing outside the backdoors of the venue when these very tall guys got off the bus with their very big bombastic hair and I remember watching the concert and thinking to myself wow that sounds like it's on tape or something. They used to be very very very good live, I'm sure they probably still are now, and what's funny is I went and saw Bon Jovi about two weeks later and thought the opposite, thought this doesn't sound right you know? Like I said I was just a teenager at the time so all I knew at the time was this doesn't sound right you know? But then again that was on Bon Jovi's "New Jersey" tour and they were very very tired. I was a big Bon Jovi fan when I was a kid.
Z!: It's funny you say that. The first album I got was Europe's "The Final Countdown," the 2nd album was "Rocky IV" with Survivor's "Burning Heart" on it.
MM: Yeah yeah yeah. Me and Chris Green the guitartist today, he only posted something up on his facebook or something today or something saying watching "Rocky IV" and we were having a laugh about it today all the comments and stuff like that you know what started out as a joke has turned into a disaster. We were so completely kind of like messing around. I love that movie too.
Z!: What would you say is your band's greatest achievement so far?
MM: You know "Metal Hammer" here in the UK, you know this magazine? They cover mounted a version of our album at the end of last year like a fun cover mount just for the UK. And I think that was quite a big achievement you know? For us. They offered to do that for us and they don't do that for many bands. And then we opened, there's a festival called the High Voltage Festival, which is a classic rock festival last year, and we opened the Metal Hammer stage, and you know Slash played, Judas Priest played, Dream Theater played, Queensryche played, lots of great bands that I love and I think that was probably the highlight so far alongside what will hopefully be the next highlight is this release you know?
Z!: That's all I had, thanks for taking the time and take care.
MM: Cheers Bob! Keep in touch yeah?
Bob Zerull is the Managing Editor of Zoiks! Online. He writes pop culture commentary, does interviews with bands, and reviews music and stand-up concerts. He also administers Zoiks! Online's Facebook page. Follow Bob on twitter at bzerull. Email Bob at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Matt Mitchell from Furyon Talks "Gravitas" and "Rocky IV" – Interview
There's nothing more refreshing that hearing a new band that actually turns you on. Furyon is one of those bands. They have the comfortable soundings of a band like Shinedown or Alterbridge, but they have a progressive element and a front man that gives it even more originality. "Gravitas" is a great album that I highly recommend to anyone who's a fan of hard rock music. Recently I got the chance to chat with Furyon frontman Matt Mitchell. You can listen to the interview on our new Zoiks Interview Podcast located here.


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Are we snacking too much? As if you need to ask . . .
There have been Onion parodies about eating in America becoming an 24-hour, all-you-can-eat buffet for every consumer. The Onion's piece on Starbucks opening a Starbucks in the bathroom of an existing Starbucks was perhaps the perfect headline for the trend.
More real evidence comes in survey results from a research and marketing group that links consumer companies to their daily buyers. The survey about how people snack during the day confirms a lot of what we already know, with better details: We are eating too much, and too often, for inexplicable reasons other than that the food is there.

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The stately tower topped with a rooster belongs to the Evangelic Lutheran Church of Sigulda. The parish of Sigulda was established back in 1225. Historical records show that the first church was built near Sigulda castle a year later. There are no records about its appearance, but we can presume it was a wooden structure. A masonry church was later built in it's place and is mentioned in the 1483 chronicles as the church of St. Bartholomew.
Both families of the Sigulda manor owners, Count von der Borh and Knyaz/duke Kropotkin, were benefactors of the church. Olga Krapotkina, following the example of her father who in 1854 covered the expenses of repairing the floors and church organ, supported the church and parish during her lifetime. Even though she later converted to the Russian Orthodox faith, she continued to help the church. The altar painting by local artist Cirulis was also one of her gifts. Unfortunately the painting is no longer there. There are also ornate ceiling lamps in the church dating back to the second part of the 19th century, possibly another gift of Olga Krapotkina.
A marble relief made by the then German-Baltic sculptor, August Folts, was been placed in the altar room after the demise of the patroness. A relief of the Countess Eleonora von der Borgh, the grandmother of the Olga Krapotkina, was also there. Both commemoration tablets are now at the Turaida Museum reserve.
In 1930, the new iron-concrete tower, designed after architect's Konstantins Pēkšēns drawing, was completed, and the new altar adorned with the painting "Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane" by Janis Roberts Tilbergs.
During the Soviet era from 1965 to 1990, Sigulda church was the only house of the Lord and was used by a number of members from different religions.
The church is open to visitors daily from 10am until 5 pm.
You can view the exhibition on the church's history and a series of artworks made from buttons called "The Button mosaics" by Valdis Atāls. You are also welcome to climb the tower and take a look at the area from the above!
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U.S. District Court Judge Derrick K. Watson of Hawaii on March 15, 2017, blocked enforcement of key provisions of President Trump's revised executive order, "Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States." The order banned most people from six predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States.
The executive order, which was to take effect March 16, 2017, would ban people from six predominantly Muslim countries—Syria, Yemen, Iran, Somalia, Sudan and Libya—from obtaining visas for up to 90 days. It also would suspend the U.S. refugee program for 120 days.
The revised ban was issued in place of a more expansive travel ban announced in January that was stopped by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals via a temporary restraining order. The latest executive order eliminated language from the original travel ban that gave preference to religious minorities. The new version also exempted certain classes of people from the ban, such as green card holders and those with already valid visas.
Hours before the revised ban was to go into effect, Watson issued a temporary restraining order to block enforcement of sections 2 and 6 of the executive order, which pertain to the issuance of visas and the halt to refugee admissions. Watson held that the second ban violates the Establishment clause of the First Amendment, in that it bans entry of people of a particular religion. He cited Trump's campaign rhetoric against Muslims as evidence of the ban's discriminatory intent.
The judge's order held that those who would be affected by the ban, travelers and students for example, contribute significantly to Hawaii's economy. He said that an objective observer "would conclude that the executive order was issued with a purpose to disfavor a particular religion," and blocked the executive order nationwide. The following day, U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang of Maryland also issued a nationwide temporary restraining order blocking the executive order, citing Trump's past statements. That ruling was more limited in scope in that it only pertains to the section of the ban that would prevent issuance of visas.
The Department of Justice, defenders of the ban and the ban's opponents, will submit additional briefs to support their arguments pertaining to a permanent stay before the district courts in Maryland and Hawaii.
For now, the travel ban is not in effect. Based on these decisions, the Department of State will presumably continue to issue visas to refugees and people from the six countries and the Department of Homeland Security will allow their entry into the United States.


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With "Salt" currently sitting on a little over $100 million domestic and with the international rollout kicking off shortly on the Angelina Jolie spy thriller, talk has inevitably turned toward a possible sequel considering the ending leaves things wide open. In fact according to The Los Angeles Times, everything is ready to go if the film is greenlit.
The film's scribe Kurt Wimmer has ideas for how to advance the story, director Phil Noyce is said to be interested in returning, and star Angelina Jolie has previously said that she's keen to work on a sequel and in fact has a relatively free schedule coming up as Tim Burton's "Maleficent" and the Kay Scarpetta films are still some way off.
The question now is simply one of money. Costing $110 million to produce, the film's domestic performance simply isn't good enough on its own. As a result the studio is waiting on how the film performs in key international territories where star-driven escapist spy films tend to fare better at the box-office.
Meanwhile with "The Expendables" opening to a strong $35 million over the weekend, sequel buzz has already begun and Sylvester Stallone tells The Hollywood Reporter that he's already 'plotted out' the follow-up film's direction – "I believe this group has to continue to evolve; it just can't become the same people. So how do you get new people introduced into the group, and how do you have some of the other people leaving? Those are the challenges."


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Chalk and Acrylic.
Dedicated to X
Yellow and Green
Yellow and green like the natural valley underneath your sternum.
Yellow and green because I wear my heart on my sleeve.
Yellow and green like growth and mutual reliance.
Yellow and green because I have trusted you with so much and yet so little.
Yellow and green like when the hills kiss the sun.
Yellow and green because this ultimately came, without much thought or inquiry.
Dedicated to those who happened into my life and managed to stay in.
Interpersonal relationships: Being in charge but also leaving enough room for the unknown.
Relationships may sometimes seem overly centred around trying to make things work. The level of difficulty of this is often dependent on one's ability to tolerate and willingness to understand. It is almost common knowledge that you cannot choose your biological family but you can choose your friends. However, some friends happen to you like an unforeseen event. Sometimes they are disastrous, even catastrophic and other times a wonderful surprise. You end up going through or coming out of such experiences with thoughts like 'what just happened?'
For the most part of life, we do not have a choice with regards to a majority of stuff that happens to us. For instance, the people we were born to, the struggles we were born to deal with or other circumstances we found ourselves in.
We may not really have a say when it comes to the people that happen into our lives, the ones we fall in love with, the ones that hurt us, the ones that we have to work with or those who become family members along the line. However, we do have a great amount of discretion when it comes to deciding who stays in. We just need to be wise with how we use this choice.


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The Four Kinds of Bracketing in the Wolfram Language
There are four kinds of bracketing used in the Wolfram Language. Each kind of bracketing has a very different meaning. It is important that you remember all of them.
|parentheses for grouping
|square brackets for functions
|curly braces for lists
|double brackets for indexing (Part[v,i])
The four kinds of bracketing in the Wolfram Language.
When the expressions you type in are complicated, it is often a good idea to put extra space inside each set of brackets. This makes it somewhat easier for you to see matching pairs of brackets. v[[ {a,b} ]] is, for example, easier to recognize than v[[{a,b}]].


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If you're thinking of buying a second-hand caravan there'll be loads of questions you'd like answered. To help you, so we've compiled here some of the basics such as what to look for ...and what to avoid. Considering buying a second-hand caravan is quite a big step, with a commitment to invest a fair amount of money. I you've no experience of buying second-hand caravans, things like "What type of caravan should I buy?" and "How old should it be?" may seem like almost unanswerable questions.
So, let's get you started on your first step to second-hand caravan purchase and an enjoyable future of trouble-free touring...
For many the choice to buy second-hand is made by budget constraints but there are actually many good reasons to buy second-hand. A second-hand caravan will hold its value far better than a new one and if minor wear or tear occurs, as it often does if you have pets or children, it's far less significant. There's a very wide choice of styles and specifications out there, and you won't have any delivery delays that can occur with new models.
March, April and May is our busiest period and we are usually working flat-out. Throughout the months preceding this period we are looking to clear stock to make space for new deliveries. This 'dead' period for sales, around Christmas and the New Year can be the perfect time to grab a bargain.
Alternatively once the rush of new caravan deliveries is over, our forecourts are usually full of second-hand caravans, many of which will have had only one owner.
When you're investing a fair amount of money in a second-hand caravan you'll want to make sure it's the right one for you. Clearly personal preference will be a large informing factor to your decision, but you'll also have to consider availability, budget, servicing and spare-parts availability. It's also worth keeping in mind that anything too unusual could pose problems if you ever want to resell it at a later date. If the layout, style or finish is unconventional, it may be a bargain to buy, but that might be because other caravanners don't find it very desirable. Here we've broken down the main points to consider when choosing the make and model of your second-hand caravan:
mid range, manufacturer, continental, specifications, size.
You'll be able to find out the age of a caravan by checking the serial number, usually found on the chassis or chassis plate. The caravan or chassis manufacturer will be able to identify the year and model of the caravan from the number. If the plate is missing, or the manufacturer is no longer in business, the caravan's handbook should give you a clue to the age, but make sure it is the correct booklet for the model. Most caravans have a practical life of about 14 years, if they're looked after, so you might want to choose a second-hand caravan that is well within that age. In order to get the best specification, modern styling and all mod-cons you should try to buy 'as new as possible'. Of course the younger the caravan is, the more expensive it's likely to be. If you intend to buy an older caravan, take some time to do a little research on the availability of spare parts and check the condition of the caravan very thoroughly.
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Self-made billionaire Tilman Fertitta expressed his interest in purchasing the Houston Rockets to ABC13. Fertitta is the CEO of Landry's Inc., and is the chairman of the University of Houston Board of Regents.
"I have an interest, these are big shoes to fill," Fertitta said. "Les Alexander has done a tremendous job."
Fertitta said he would purchase the Rockets by himself if the number was reasonable.
"If it's an unreasonable number, I'll pull a group together and if it's a crazy number I won't participate," he said.
He also promised to keep the Rockets in Houston.
Tilman Fertitta offered $81 million for the Rockets in 1993 (lost by $4 million).— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) July 17, 2017
If he wants them now, he'll have to pay $1.5 Billion+.
Jim "Mattress Mack" McIngvale is the owner and operator of the Gallery Furniture franchise in Houston. ABC13 has confirmed his interest in the team.
During the Houston Astros 2014 season, Mattress Mack offered a promotion that refunded furniture purchase prices to 500 customers.
With the international success of Hall of Famer Yao Ming, the Rockets remain a top team in Asia. Sources close to Ming told Eyewitness News that the former Rocket is interested in the team.
Rockets are top team in Asia. Could boost value on sale, especially if Asian interests get involved.— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) July 17, 2017
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I was sad to receive my latest copy of The New Writer magazine and read the enclosed letter from the publisher that this would be the last issue. Unfortunately, the economics of running a magazine meant that despite the efforts of the new owner who took control just over a year ago, it was not financially viable to keep the publication going.
Good luck.
It's sad for me, not just because I was a regular contributor to this publication, but because in the days when the magazine was known as Quartos (it became The New Writer when it merged with another publication) this was where I had one of my first articles published, way back in 1993. Spurred on by this success, I went on to have several more articles published in Quartos, and then I became a regular contributor to The New Writer.
It's a fitting reminder that magazines come and magazines go. As writers we need to be prepared for such events, and look for new markets to replace those that have fallen by the wayside. Sometimes this can be beneficial because it encourages us to look for new markets, to stretch our boundaries and step out of our comfort zones. When I worked for a high street bank, we were rarely in the same role for more than three years - management liked to 'shake us up a bit' by moving us to a new position, or a new branch, just to keep us on our toes. Magazine closures have the same sort of effect.
So while I have a lot of history with The New Writer, and I'm proud to have been part of the team who contributed to its pages over the years, and I'm saddened to see it go, I also appreciate that this is a moment of discovery … of new opportunities. Who knows what may happen as a result of this? Although we may like to think that we control our writing careers, we are not always in control.
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Designed with the help from a friend of Denis Wick, Tim Jones, Principal Horn of the London Symphony Orchestra and director of renowned horn makers, Paxman. These new mouthpieces use a radically different outer shape to the well-established internal shapes developed over the years by Denis Wick and Paxman. The result, an unusual outer shaped mouthpiece with the endorsement of Paxman giving great credibility.
The range covers a broad spectrum of sizes from 16.55mm to 18mm stemming from the Denis Wick 5N, 6N, 7N, and Paxman 3B and 4B internal dimensions, whilst also using some traditional cups for the smallest sizes, giving a total of 7 models that will join the similar Heritage range of mouthpieces for trombone, cornet and tenor (alto) horn.
Denis wicks engineer, also a horn player, has worked with the (1890) Hawkes-type mouthpiece which has a thin cup-wall, nearest to the rim, combined with extra mass below the cup to make immediate, easy response, particularly in the high register, providing smooth legato playing with a really beautiful just-heard overtone structure to the sound, that should work effectively with the deep, mainly conical mouthpieces that are always used with the French horn.
While the look of the mouthpiece is a big departure from the traditional 'funnel' shape of other mouthpieces, the internal sizes and rim profiles are completely conventional. In a world where to stand out from the crowd is sometimes not easy, we very much feel that the benefits of this design make it worthwhile to dare to be different!
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Brussels sprouts love a whisper of lemon, which is what the zest provides in this combo. The ricotta becomes creamy when you add a small amount of cooking water from the pasta to it, but you have to serve this right away or the ricotta will stiffen up again. I used gluten free Le Veneziane fettucine made with cornmeal, and thought the color and texture were very good. It only took 5 to 6 minutes to cook.
Total time: About 20 minutes
3/4 pound Brussels sprouts (about 16)
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
1/2 cup ricotta
1 garlic clove, mashed with a pinch of salt in a mortar and pestle or put through a press
2 teaspoons finely grated or chopped lemon zest (I use a microplane for this)
2 tablespoons minced chives or parsley, or a combination
1 ounce Parmesan, grated (1/4 cup)
12 ounces gluten-free fettucine (to taste), such as cornmeal fettucine
1. Begin heating water for pasta.
2. Trim bottoms of Brussels sprouts and quarter lengthwise or slice. Heat oil over high heat in a large, heavy skillet and add Brussels sprouts. Sear for about a minute without stirring, then turn the heat to medium-high, add salt and pepper to taste and stir or toss in the pan until tender and the edges are seared light brown, about 5 minutes. Some of the leaves will detach and get black, but don't worry, you can discard them. Remove from heat and transfer to a bowl or plate.
3. When water comes to a boil, salt generously and add pasta. While pasta is cooking, mix together ricotta, garlic, lemon zest and chives (or parsley and chives) in a large bowl. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
4. When pasta is cooked al dente (see timing instructions on package but check a minute before indicated time), remove 1/4 cup of the pasta water. Mix 2 to 4 tablespoons with ricotta. It should have the consistency of cream. Add a little more water if it doesn't. Drain the pasta and toss with Brussels sprouts, ricotta mixture and Parmesan. If pasta seems dry, toss with a little more of the cooking water or another tablespoon of olive oil. Serve at once.
Yield: Serves 4
Advance preparation: There is not much advance work to do: it is pretty much a last minute dish.
Nutritional information per serving: 486 calories; 15 grams fat; 5 grams saturated fat; 2 grams polyunsaturated fat; 8 grams monounsaturated fat; 22 milligrams cholesterol; 79 grams carbohydrates; 8 grams dietary fiber; 156 milligrams sodium (does not include salt to taste); 17 grams protein
Martha Rose Shulman is the author of "The Very Best of Recipes for Health."


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Then one day while watching a documentary on the great Tanjore (Thanjavur) Temples I realised I wasn't alone.
The below is a picture of a embossed saint meditating
This appears quite prominently on the rock surface where it is found. Simple enough.
The below is a picture of a Cat meditating, with some mice looking up to it which appears at the bottom of the rock surface and is of a smaller size than the saint
Now we all know what will happen when the cat stops meditating, its definitely going to be hungry!
Talk about the warning of following a holy man blindly!!
What really amazes me is that both these rock carvings are found on the same wall in Tanjavur. Now we can never be certain if this was sneaked in or was officially authorised. Nonetheless these sculptures sure had a way of getting their point across.
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You may have been warned at some time in your life not to eat at night or after [insert Magical Hour After Which All Food Consumed Turns To Fat here] or else you will gain weight. While I can only surmise about the origin of this assumption, I might venture to guess that a food intake cut-off time came about as the result of somebody's diet protocol, a technique of which was likely put in place to reduce overall caloric consumption--agreeably, not a bad strategy to help moderate intake. Unfortunately, the idea must have gotten twisted over time into the lore it has since become: eat at night and you're doomed for weight gain, no matter what! But like numerous other urban legends of nutrition, the science behind the eat-at-night-and-get-fat warning just is not there. Let's take a closer look.
Next, your body doesn't process food less efficiently at night, nor does it somehow simply and preferentially store all night calories as fat (although if it did it would most likely be to punish you for eating so late, you bad person--take that!). Additionally, keep in mind that while you may stop moving, your body does not stop when you are asleep. Your heart continues to beat, blood circulates, lungs function, digestion proceeds, and your brain keeps working. This all takes energy — meaning you are still burning some calories.
In a 2006 paper published in Obesity Research, primate researchers observed how much, what, and when 16 monkeys ate over one year, as well as tracked weight changes, and found that the monkeys who consumed most of their food at night were no more likely to gain weight than monkeys who didn't eat at night, suggesting that there is no inherent correlation between time of day and weight gain. Even though humans aren't monkeys, the researchers believe that their study still helps dispel the notion that eating at night inevitably causes weight gain.
While the hours at which you eat throughout the course of a day do not independently and affirmatively cause weight gain in people who are not exceeding their energy needs, it does appear that when you choose to eat throughout the day (your eating pattern) may be a predictor of overall caloric intake and, subsequently, weight status. Researchers at the University of Texas-El Paso studying how time of day influenced self-reported food intake in 867 free-living individuals found that those who ate more earlier in the day ate less overall, while those who ate more at night consumed more calories overall. Researchers speculated that the individuals consuming a greater proportion of daily calories in the morning were provided a beneficial level of satiety which helped moderate the amount of food ingested over the rest of the day. If you are overweight and tend to eat a large proportion of your daily calories at night, it might be wise to think about shifting your eating pattern.
Indeed, sleep deprivation seems to be increasingly linked to obesity. Other research has indicated that lack of sleep may cause alterations in glucose metabolism, contributing to insulin resistance, and potentially leading to increases in appetite.
In summary, keeping the causes of weight gain and the basic formula for weight loss shrouded in mystery is a very good tactic for the diet and fitness industry, but these enigmas are often just illusions. As usual, the keys to weight control boil down to how much you eat coupled with your overall dietary choices--your weight doesn't give a damn what time it is.
Andrea M, Spaeth DF, Dinges NG. Effects of experimental sleep restriction on weight gain, caloric intake, and meal timing in healthy adults. SLEEP. 2013;36:981-990
Castro JM. The time of day of food intake influences overall intake in humans. J Nutr. 2004;134:104-111
Sullivan EL, Daniels AJ, Koegler FH, Cameron JL. Evidence in female rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatto) that nighttime caloric intake is not associated with weight gain. Obesity Res. 2005;13:2072-2080


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Much could be said about Renton. It's not quite the eastside, it's nothing like Seattle; and it doesn't have much in common with Kent and further south. It seems to be the forgotten city in the Seattle area. But I am here to tell you that there is a wonderful beer drinking scene that is emerging in this underrated city and I am here to help you.
To make things easier, I've created 4 categories of drinking. We have Craft Beer, Dive Bars, Specialty Bars, and Date Night. I do this cause everyone has a different idea how they want to drink, people who frequent dive bars and want a cheap Coors want nothing to do with a craft beer bar… and that's just life.
First we start with.
Craft Beer Bars
Brewmasters Taproom – The jewel of craft beer in Renton. The beer drinking community is becoming quite smitten with this bar as it features 24 rotating taps, a wide variety of bottles and cans, and a fun atmosphere. Owner Marley has built a family of friends among her regulars. Highly recommended if you are a craft beer lover.
Four Generals Brewing – The only brewery in Renton, and known to put out some outstanding lagers and lighter beers. The Brewing Network recently did a piece on this brewery – as they continue to get more love in the brewery community. Located in the old city hall, ask nicely and you might be able to visit the old jail cell. A good stop.
Local 907 – Craft beer bar and restaurant, this establishment offers traditional bar food plus a good size craft beer list. A good place to stop before a night of drinking to get a good burger and a few beers. They also have darts, pool and buck hunter for those who like to be entertained.
The Brick Pub and Grill – The unsung hero of the highlands, the Brick boasts a great menu with a solid selection of craft beer. This is a great spot for those who are looking for something off the beaten path of downtown Renton.
Dog and Pony Alehouse – Famously known for being on Restaurant: Impossible, the DnP is a local hangout Boeing employees. Boasting a wide variety of local craft beers and a menu that features my favorite fish and chips in Renton, a good spot in the North Renton neighborhood.
Whistle Stop – Advertised as a "Your neighborhood family pub", the Whistle Stop has a great food menu and a quality craft beer selection. They always have a cask beer on tap to keep things interesting. Whistle Stop often has brewers nights also for those looking to try to breweries from around the northwest.
Trenchers – Originally the site of World of Beer, Trenchers as undergone a lot of change in the past years. While they have pulled back on the craft beer and have focused more on their food menu, you can still find quality beer and slightly higher than average prices.


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Total Body Reshaping and the effect of stem cell
Among the rising trends of recent time isTotal Body Reshaping. I can say that Total Body Shaping is a surgery that I am most used to and that I can enjoy most of my art and enjoy.
What is Total Body Reshaping?
Total Body Reshaping is a surgical procedure performed by changing the body fat, especially the waist, hip, belly and leg area. In fact, in summary, we take the excess fat and transfer it to the other area where we want to gain volume. I can say that we have to move from place to place.
May be you are unhappy with the fat on your tummy, you find your waist thick, but at the same time you think your hips are tiny and dull. We can gather all these surpluses and realize your hips with fat transfer.
How is Total Body Reshaping done?
We do this with liposculpture application. With your fine-tipped cannulas, your excess fat is drawn first. The vibrating mechanism at the end of the device also allows us to shape the body while collecting the fat. When you are thinning your belly or getting your belly, we have a chance to make a contour of the abdomen with this device. Briefly, instead of a flattened waist and abdomen, a tremendous image is obtained, with folds and stumps.
All of these recovered fats fall into a non-aerated device, allowing the life of the stem cells in the intended fats. Then, without ever leaving the operating room, these fats are instantly centrifuged and separated from water and unnecessary contents, resulting in a pure stem cell column. At this point, if there is a region where volume is required, transfer is made there.
What level of technology is it?
The transfer of fat has been done for more than 10 years, but its popularity has increased in recent years because it enables us to enrich from the stem cell we use and to purify it on the spot without being removed from the operating room, so that our fat transfers are transported more smoothly and durably than in the past. The fat transfer content obtained using these techniques allows the stem cells to survive and prolong their life and give a smoother result. Briefly, these highly purified stem cells and, moreover, a small amount of high-density stem cells. These regenerative type cells not only fill the tissues but also increase the circulation.
What is the benefit of the stem cell?
We pay attention to this, just as we look at a baby, we are separating the fats in tenderness. The reason is actually very simple:
1- The living stem cell continues its life in the field where it is transferred, that is, it accompanies you for life. So it does not melt, it does not get lost, it ages with you.
2 - The skin tone is tremendously rejuvenated as it increases the blood circulation in the area where it is delivered. The skin becomes livelier and brighter than the old one.
3- There is no such thing as a complication or an allergy that fillings can create because you are using your own fat and stem instead of any filler. Briefly, since you are your own fat, there is no need to worry about an allergic reaction or rejection of touch by your body
Remember, it will continue to age and lose volume as it normally does, but the process will be essentially permanent.
Is fat transfer expensive?
Fat transfer is more expensive than filling materials. However, if you do the calculations, you can see that in the long run the fat is more costly than dermal fillings. Also, the process we have already done here is not just volume as it is not before. It is both contour, volume, and unwanted removal from the fat.
Most importantly, do not forget that you are doing something permanent. The results depend on the ability of the surgeon, that is, how it shapes your body, in terms of an artistic point of view. Of course also the collection of stem cells, separation, transplantation, and most importantly, is the primary rule of ultimate satisfaction and long-term satisfaction with the outcome of the patient.


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PARKLAND, Washington – Cal Muramaru and Kyle Strash combined to hit 7-for-10, but the Puget Sound baseball team lost to Pacific, 10-7, Saturday evening. Pacific Lutheran hosted the non-conference game.
Puget Sound (16-22) jumped out to an early 1-0 lead in the top of the first. Muramaru hit a one-out double down the right-field line, and Kyle Strash followed with a run-scoring double. However, the Boxers answered back with three runs in the home half of the opening stanza.
The Loggers tied it up, 3-3, in the top of the second inning when Dylan Salcedo and Muramaru both hit RBI doubles. RBIs by both Tyler Brazelton and James Dejesus gave the Loggers a 5-3 lead in the third inning.
Still, Pacific found an answer and plated four runs in the bottom of the third. The Boxers' lead grew to 10-5 after six innings.
Muramaru went 4-for-5 while hitting No. 2 in the order, and Strash was 3-for-5 while batting right behind Muramaru. Salcedo finshed the game 2-for-4 with two RBI.
The season concludes Sunday, April 29, at Pacific Lutheran. The Loggers play Linfield at 1 p.m., and then have a rematch against Pacific scheduled for 4 p.m.


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The issue of democratic process is central to building a horizontal movement, and one that so many of us have been discussing, debating and getting both inspired and frustrated by for a long time. Good process can be liberating and amazingly effective and affective. Bad process, well, we have all experienced how deeply aggravating and debilitating that can be and is.
This short essay and the below interview hope to add something useful to these conversations, both with practical examples as well as theoretically.
A number of people, frustrated with some of the challenges we have faced in our assemblies in Occupy and Occupy inspired movements, have for some reason decided that it is because of horizontalism – seeing horizontalism as a form of decision making, and one that results in bad process. Horizontalism is a social relationship, and not a form of decision making. Many people in the new movements, from Greece and Spain to the US are using the language of horizontalidad, horizontality, and horizontalism to describe the new relationships we are attempting to create. Horizontalidad was first used to describe the relationships that emerged in Argentina after the 2001 economic crisis. Similar to what is being witnessed now, in Argentina hundreds of thousands of people went into the streets, without political parties or unions leading them, and formed neighborhood assemblies, recuperated workplaces and set up a massive barter network – all as a part of horizontal self-organization. Horizontalidad became one of the main ways people described what they were doing. Not having a similar word in English it has been imperfectly translated as horizontalism. Horizontalidad is a social relationship that implies, as its name suggests, a flat plane upon which to communicate. Horizontalidad implies the use of direct democracy and the striving for consensus, processes in which attempts are made so that everyone is heard and new relationships are created. The idea that horizontalism can be a thing, something that exists simply by saying so, and therefore by its invocation it is somehow brought into practice, is not quite right. We cannot become horizontal merely by declaring ourselves horizontal, or willing ourselves into horizontalism.
Direct democracy does not mean consensus – any form of consensus, though it of course can, and usually does. And consensus merely means striving for a synthesis of ideas, not a specific form or way of arriving at that synthesis. The forms of decision making a group uses is up to the group. From my experience in places such as the newer movements in Argentina or the assemblies in Greece, they strive for consensus, meaning that they try and come to an agreement after lengthy discussions where all speak and are heard. But in the end, whether they vote, have a consensus minus two, three or ten or just get a feeling for the group and don't vote or take blocks at all is different in each place. The key is to be flexible with what works and does not work and being willing to change the process as necessary
For us in Occupy, and here I will speak to personal experience in New York, though having spoken to people in different places around the country have found our experiences were quite similar. We began with a specific form of consensus process that tried to reach a full consensus with a fall back position of a vote of 90%. While community agreements were an active discussion, they never fully transpired. That was largely because we began with a few dozen people who were not living together or having daily assemblies. We began small and with some things in common. I will not argue that it was right or wrong to begin with consensus –- I am just stating the fact. I do think however that we should have had community agreements in place before the possible occupation – but hindsight is always easier.
Then we occupied Zuccotti turned Liberty. We inherited a process for a few dozen people, and had anywhere from many hundreds to thousands of very diverse people participating in that process. Seeking consensus in this situation, many people agreed, was unwieldy at best and often not workable. But we stuck with it for awhile – we are only talking two months. (By the second month we had a very active working groups seeking alternative forms of decision making, which, through education and a vote of over 90% eventually became the spokes council model.)
The assemblies in Liberty were incredibly inspiring and also often frustrating. Both things can happen simultaneously. One of the most frustrating was the fact that individuals were able to dominate the discussion by "manipulating" the process. It is unclear who was manipulating, if that is even the correct word, or who had the active intention to disrupt, and who was just confused by the process – the result is and was the same. A small group was able to dominate a very large one.
There are so many reasons people want to dominate a discussion or assembly, from the most nefarious, such as infiltrators such as cops and representatives of the political police, to political parties and groups who want to make the agenda fit theirs, to people who are just hurt and lost in our society and this is the first time anyone pays attention to them, so they crave it all the time. It is not about blaming the person with the bad behavior, and better not to since it is a distraction, best is to make disruptions as close to impossible as possible.
This is all said and argued in the context of a directly democratic space that seeks horizontal relationships.
So now to the question.
What can be done about disruptive behavior – intentional or otherwise?
Gopal from Occupy Farms in California explains, "if democracy isn't structured in, then power dynamics in our society play out, and two of the worst are tyranny of the eccentric, and then the left is just prone to toxic group process: processing the process."
He goes into detail, with suggestions from their experiences ranging from community agreements from the very outset, including such things as people have to be actively involved in some aspect of the project to rules. The last one, rules, is something we somehow often feel is antithetical to a horizontal space. I believe it is just the opposite actually, without agreements, that we have ways of enforcing, a space cannot be fully democratic and safe for all.
In Argentina the main disruption of the assemblies was left political parties trying to dominate – not something we face in the same way in the US. Over time, and after many assemblies fell apart because of it, the movements have now learned many ways of addressing this question. One is to "out" the person when they are speaking. (The Greeks do this as well now.) So if a person is pushing a certain position in an assembly and you know they are from a party, you make sure the person has to identify the position from which they speak. That way the group can decide as a whole if they want to take up the issue that is often being belabored by the one or few individuals. Knowing who is who, left parties, union representatives, NGO staffers, and from what position they are speaking is key. This is also related to a point Gopal and the Greeks makes about knowing who plans to carry out proposals.
In Greece, something a few of the neighborhood assemblies found made for a more democratic process in their direct actions decisions was participation and enactment based decision making, meaning those people who intended to carry out the action were the ones to vote on it. There is first a conversations on the matter, with participation by everyone, and then a vote by those intending to carry it out.
On the first night of Occupy in NYC we did something similar. Once there was agreement to occupy the park we broke into different groups/assemblies. The people who intended to stay in Zuccotti met as their own assembly. The decision was that since they were continuing to put themselves at risk, they alone should make the decisions regarding the specifics of the occupation of the space.
In Brazil, so as to avoid the centralizing of power based on position and information, the Free Fare Movement rotates roles within the movement, making sure no one is taking responsibility for one group or project for too long. This is one of the ways they help create a more democratic process in leadership and participation. It also addresses many roles that are often gendered and class based.
The below is a selection from a conversation with Gopal Dayaneni, a long time organizer and activist, based in the Bay Area of San Francisco. He is a part of Movement Generation and was a key organizer of Occupy Farms in Albany, CA. The selections shared here go into a number of questions and practices, from the concepts of 'winning concessions' to 'contesting power' and 'goals without demands' to the specifics of democratic group process.
(Marina Sitrin and Dario Azzelini took part in this conversation/interview for their book They Can't Represent Us! Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy.)
My name is Gopal Dayaneni, and we're in Oakland – we're actually in Berkeley, but Greater East Bay. The borders are arbitrary, so we sort of talk about the East Bay as where we are—the borders are arbitrary and we weren't the arbiters. I'm part of Movement Generation Justice & Ecology project—we're a collective of organizers who work at the intersection of racial and economic justice in the urban environment, and ecology, economy and empire—the relationships between those. We're trying to build the capacity, the analysis, the action skills of communities, of communities or folks organizing in communities of color, working class communities in the urban environment, to see themselves as on the frontlines of the root causes, false solutions and impacts of ecological destruction.
Can you talk more about Occupy?
So we were very inspired of course by the Occupy moment, and maybe even now Occupy movement—it's still I think an open question whether it's a moment or a movement—but super-inspired, and didn't really predict it; in the sense of, we've obviously been watching what's been happening globally, and we sort of understand the world to be in this place of this sort of fork in the road between economic transition or ecological collapse. And we were seeing that play out in all of these interesting ways. We understood the relationship between the fires in Russia and the Arab Spring—for us that was very transparent and clear. So we were looking for what those triggers were going to be. We saw the front line in ecofascism in the United States as being the South and Southwest, where water stress and resource pressure and populations where they shouldn't be, are creating this sort of xenophobia and libertarianism.
So we were seeing all these things bubbling up, and very inspired by that movement, and particularly because of this idea of translocal organizing that we've been really hammering on: this idea of autonomous, place-based organizing and locally-driven goals and demands with a common vision, shared strategies and unified frames. And Occupy presented that for us. And we were like, look, this is it, this is a great amazing opportunity to use and test an idea. And we got involved right away. Both locally, and also as social movement folks being involved in some of the conversations in New York and nationally, trying to figure out how to participate.
So here in (we're place-based) so for here for us in the Bay area, the two major "Occupys" were Occupy Oakland and Occupy San Francisco, the results of Occupy Calis in Berkeley and Occupy Berkeley, which was very odd. I had already been involved for several years with the Take Back the Land Movement. Take Back the Land was sparked out of Miami by Max Rameau and the Center for Pan-African Development. This was the taking over first of vacant public land and building a shanty, an occupation of homeless folks, and then defending it using a local law called the Pottinger Act, which said you can't arrest people for doing life-sustaining activity on public land. So they took over vacant land next to vacant public housing, built a shanty, ran it democratically, and built composts and toilets, did all kinds of great stuff, and then ultimately won. The city of Miami and Miami-Dade County gave in to them, and said you can have it, you can develop it however you want. And when it got burned to the ground they had already butt up against their limits of self-governance.
They were struggling with this issue of the collective nature of it and the running of the community as an autonomous village—essentially, was providing political cover for things like drug dealing, for example. There is a great book about it called Take Back the Land.
That was 2006-7, and it burned down, and we had already started discussing what are the next steps. Then the bubble burst—the financial crisis happened-this was two years before Occupy, and Max and Take Back the Land started putting homeless folks in folkless homes, and the idea that the banks don't get the bailout and the houses do —so taking the houses back. There was a big move about that in 2009, and in 2010 a big "spring offensive" to do all these housing takeovers. And that's what really started the rebirth of that strategy, not so much of squatting and adverse possession—that kind of movement had been around a long time—but the idea of picking this fight with the banks. And that transitioned very quickly into the principal reduction / mortgage modification fights, which were much more mainstream. The banks can do that, and it doesn't contest—it wins a concession, it doesn't contest for power, which I think is really an important aspect of what defines, or should be defining, the Occupy movement, and all of our decisions around goals and what we worked towards. It needs to be about contesting for power, not winning concessions.
What do you mean by contesting?
So for example, with the farm, just to spin around a little bit, we took over this big Gill tract, which was originally 104 acres; it's now 13 acres. We occupied it, which is the last best agricultural soil in the urbanized East Bay. And it is public land governed under the University of California Berkeley. So we took that land and we started a farm, right away, and with 200 people, day one, we managed to put in about 40 French intensive rows as a direct action, because it was easy for anyone to plug into, as opposed to permaculture or some other form of sustainable agroecology. We went with French intensive row cropping, because anybody could plug into it. My kids were there, my whole family was there, my whole household was there—this was an all-inclusive direct action, and the direct action logic was farming, and the slogan was 'Farmland is for Farming.'
We could have been fighting to get the University of California to put an urban agriculture farm and centre there. We are not fighting to change what the University of California does on that land—we are fighting to take the land away from the University of California, and put it in a commons. And the closest thing we have to a commons under law in the State of California is a conservation easement. An agricultural conservation easement is the only in perpetuity easement you can get in California. The idea is we're not trying to change what the University does on the land; we're trying to change who governs the land. And there's a very big difference between a campaign to change practice, and a campaign to change power dynamics. So with the Take Back the Land housing fights, right now housing is understood as 'there's private property, and there's public housing. There's private land, and there's public land.' And the idea is to construct that third space of the people's. So that right now it's public and private, and we need the people's. And that's where we're trying to create commons centered housing. How do we leverage the land trust model in a way that de-speculates the soil that takes land off the market? That's where it becomes about contesting for power. And there are lots of ways to do land trusts that don't contest for power—like buying the land, and then putting it into a land trust. So then it's a one-time purchase, now it's de-speculated ideally, but it doesn't actually change power relationships and power dynamics, and how property is held.
Goals Without Demands?
So for Occupy, it's this very exciting moment of, "Wow! Goals without demands." I can imagine all kinds of goals without demands that are truly transformative—like for example, if we all decided we were going to take out Bank of America. There's nothing you can do to stop us. We're not trying to change what Bank of America does: we're gonna eliminate a bank. We're going to do it one at a time. And here's how it's gonna work, and here's our strategy. And we build the action logic in such a way that when somebody walks up to an ATM machine, and it's got an 'Out of Order' sticker on it and there's glue in the card slot, they understand that it's part of this ongoing campaign. That we took the time to build people's understanding of what we were doing, so that the sacredness of their property becomes irrelevant. And they can scramble all they want to peel as many of us off our movement by throwing bones, and it becomes this fight over the story and the values of "if it's too big to fail, it's too big to exist." We're going to destroy the bank, and there's nothing you can do to stop us. We're going to make it so unstable an asset that people will withdraw their capital from it in full. And it's not like is that gonna collapse the entire banking system? No! But it does this thing of saying 'We have power that is unstoppable, and there's nothing you can do to stop us. We're just gonna do it, because we can, and it's a goal.'
And the Encampments?
There's three aspects of the occupations: one is the political space it creates for people to gather, come together, and plug in and organize, and all of that. Which I think is really important, and that's typified by the general assemblies, the workgroups, the organizing that comes out of it—the marches, the demonstrations, all of that, the general strike. We had two –the port shutdown. All of those things come out of that. So that's one piece of it and that's absolutely essential. And having a base to work out of is critical. And I think that's one of the huge values of the Occupy encampments.
A second aspect of them is the prefigurative politics of it. Occupy Library, Occupy Kitchen, Occupy Gardens, Occupy Clinic. And it's the idea that we are going to model a better way to be in the world; we're going to meet our needs better together. And I think those were hit and miss, and they were different in different places, and there were better than some, and some aspects were not. Occupy Clinic—the Occupy medics and Occupy clinics—have been some of the most successful, because people with real skills set up shop. There was Occupy Social Workers, and things like that, trying to provide, meet people's needs. Occupy Library was also a piece that was very popular, because anybody could come and give books, anybody could figure out how to organize it, so it was a model.
Those aspects of it were very interesting, but again, that is one of the places where the self-governance challenge comes, or our ability to do anything at scale becomes a problem. So born out of that idea is some of the kinds of things that I think are the new face of Occupy. Like Occupy the Farm. People who were in the Occupy Gardens, take the 3 to 6 months it takes to find that destructive development project happening in your community on arable land, and do it at scale. Occupy at scale. Plazas are pathetic—we should be occupying at scale. What's that vacant building, what's that bank that closed and that building's still vacant? Occupy it and start something at scale, that models the democratic process, the horizontal structures, the flatness, the participatory nature of it. All of that. So that was the second aspect.
And then the third aspect, and I think the most vulnerable aspect, was the encampments. The idea was that in some ways the failure of the encampments was about scale—about people not understanding the scale of human activity, and what it takes to create a high-density environment in a small space. I think folks—especially folks in the city, who have no idea what it takes to grow food for people, and no idea what it takes to provide water for people, and no idea how much human waste is produced in a single day—didn't and could not self-govern these encampments effectively. What happens when you create an environment with a high concentration of people, many of whom will have special needs, where the tyranny of the eccentric, and infiltration, and toxic group process can quickly train-wreck your self-governance?
So this gets into the horizontalism for me. Tyranny of the eccentric and toxic group process are the two things that crash our truly democratic left processes, and it's because of different trends within our movement.
One of which is the thing that people are now calling the tyranny of structurelessness, or the idea that autonomy means lack of organization, or that anarchist means that we don't believe in structure. Those of us who come out of the movement—the left direct democracy movement—believe very much in structure and process, but if democracy isn't structured in, then power dynamics in our society play out, and two of the worst are tyranny of the eccentric, and then the left is just prone to toxic group process: processing the process. As soon as somebody becomes uncertain about the agenda, then we spend 3 hours on actually hacking the agenda, instead of trusting the facilitators to just guide us through the process.
So I think the encampments became vulnerable because of this. I think the encampments work when there is a true decision dilemma or double-bind for the State or the 1%. Which is we have to put them in the position where there is an actual decision dilemma—am I willing to use violence in the face of this set of actions, or am I willing to exercise some form of tyranny over this group of people, given what they're doing? Or putting them in the situation where I'm 'damned if I do, or damned if I don't'—if I attack them, I look if I'm beating up on kids. If I don't attack them, my power's ruined. There's this double-bind.
The encampments create the double bind of 'we can govern better than you'. That is the action logic of the encampment—we can meet our needs better than you are meeting our needs. And the moment we don't do that, we eliminate the decision dilemma for them. The moment somebody gets hurt in the encampment we have proved that we 'cannot provide safety as good as they can'. Obviously it's not true—they cannot provide safety through policing either, in fact worse—but that's not the popular narrative of safety and security—people assume the police can keep you safe. So unless we create a situation that clearly disrupts the assumption, and that creates a vision that's better, then they don't have a dilemma. So the moment it looks like street fighting with the cops, there's no decision dilemma. Their rule is to respond with force or greater force. So you throw a plastic bottle and they respond with rubber bullets. It's not right or moral, but it's not a decision dilemma for them.
What does it mean to do Occupy the Farm at scale? What does it mean to address some of the issues around the self-governance questions around the encampment, but still use the Occupy tactic and strategies around this idea of urban land reform. What does an urban land reform movement look like in the United States? That's the question this collective here has been asking itself for four years. What does an urban land reform movement look like in the United States, one that's based on agroecology and principles of ecological resilience and all of that, what does that look like. So this was an opportunity for us to engage in that.
What makes Occupy the Farm unique? One is the action of logic—we don't talk about violence versus nonviolence or this or that or the other thing—there's a very clear action logic. If it's farming, it fits. If it's not farming, it's not part of the action. Thus one of our core slogans is 'Farmland is for farming'. Another one of our core slogans is, 'If it's the right thing to do, we have every right to do it'. For me, this was very, very important, because it makes it 'ok.' It meant asserting the moral authority to do it, in such a way that everything we did was about trying to make it totally easy to participate. So my family was there every day, and my kids were there, it was their first act of conscious moral obedience, breaking rules because the rules are wrong, because the rules serve the rulers. And we all knew what we were doing, and we did this thing, and you know, on that very first night, one of the things I said in that very first circle was, "If I can't bring my kids I'm not coming back." Because that to me is a litmus test of the success of our farm.
And we were right across the street from a school, so we had the encampment, because that's how we held the space. Every morning you wake up, you break down the encampment, and then you farm. Every night, whoever's left and is spending the night, puts up the encampment. The idea was the camp served the farm—it wasn't an encampment for the sake of an encampment; the encampment was a tactic to hold the farm. And part of it is that farmland is for farming: farmland is not for whole foods, farmland is not for gene isolation research, farmland is not for a ball field, and farmland is not for a camp. Farmland is for farming—and we're going to create this urban farm for the practice and promotion of sustainable agriculture. Another key part of it was, you have to work to participate.
We had the little red hen rule….
The first thing to just be transparent about is, there was a core group of people who launched this thing and set out an agenda ahead of time. The vast majority of people who went on that march on Earth Day—that was this hippy march in North Berkeley called Love the Land—people came because they thought it was a Berkeley-hippy-Earth-Day thing. Most of the people had no idea where they were going on this march, and it ended up at Gill Tract. I stood up on a van, explained what we were going to do, we took care of the gate, and we went through the gate. We never took out the fences, because we need the fences for the deer. Everything was driven by what it takes to run a farm. So part of the thing was we had a core organizing group that launched it, so we had the structures in place to be able to say we are going to transition from the core group of people who organized this thing, to a shared process, so we did that. But that was bumpy, that was hard, and when I say it was bumpy I mean it was bumpy in terms of, it wasn't flat—some of us had more power than others. We were struggling with the transition.
We were totally transparent about it. Those of us who had more power and who were making decisions, we need a structure in place to be more inclusive of everyone to make decisions, or people like me will make all the decisions. I'm very clear about that, we were all very clear about that.
So we laid out very early on a proposal that said, everybody has to be in a work group, everybody has to work to stay, and if you don't work, somebody's going to come up to you and ask you to work. And it doesn't mean people can't take rests—everybody has different capacities to work—and there were lots of things you could be doing. I hardly ever got a chance to farm—I was almost always doing media or communications or framing or strategy work—and there were some people who did kitchen stuff all the time, but they got to participate in the decision making. We broke down decision making, so we said, camp kitchen gets to make kitchen decision. They'll tell us what decisions they made, and if people have concerns about those decisions, they can tell them, and they can take that into consideration, but it was not everybody making every decision. We tried to break that down very quickly.
You know one of the things that's interesting about the Occupy movement and the demographics of Occupy for a lot of the core folks? There are a lot of folks here who have never been part of a direct action spokescouncil. Their idea of direct democracy is this idea of everybody sits in some massive circle and twinkles their fingers. Folks have not been engaged in scaled interventions of thousands of people organizing mass mobilizations, let alone long-term governance structures, like Direct Action to Stop the War in San Francisco.
We ran that for years on the spokescouncil model. And it dissolved after a point, but the idea that it could grow and contract, and it was scaleable and all that … people just don't know the history. So I think that was one of the things that was very interesting for some of us. I mean, I'm 43, I'm one of the oldest people involved in the project. It's really interesting. And you know, people think of me as a liberal, 'cause I'm trying to think about strategy, as opposed to just like, 'let's fight with the cops.'
So then how do and did you talk about structure, accountability and process?
It was hard, and it was never totally perfect. There were a couple things that happened. One thing is that we made a proposal around decision making, and that took several meetings to land, and we knew that was going to happen. And the thing that was truly transformative, I think, about the farm, was there were a lot of people, a lot of young people, from Occupy Oakland, and Occupy Oakland was their political home. They'd found their place, and there was still something that they didn't know wasn't working. There was something—it was great but it was hard, there was something about it that wasn't really right, and they didn't know what it was. And the farm answered that question, which was purposeful productive activity and a goal. A real outcome, that you could imagine winning, as opposed to an oppositional framework. Very, very few people who were involved in Occupy Oakland and Fuck the Police protests imagine that they're going to dismantle the state through Occupy Oakland's confrontations with the cops. I do not believe that the vast majority of them deep down believe that that was the way forward. But it was the first place to offer the political space to have a robust analysis and a broader critique, and to offer this sort of idea of democracy, that there's more to democracy than voting and shopping. That idea was exciting for folks.
And we are trying to make these big connections around ecology. When UC shut off the water, and we were watering by hand, I would say to people, "We're going to save any produce that comes out if this, we're going to save all those seeds." Because we know exactly what kind of water stress these plants were grown under, and it is the future. It's the future that we all will face. This is like an experiment in seed saving. The first season will be the most robust, drought-resistant seeds possible, because from the moment they were tiny little starts, they got nowhere near enough water. That first squash, the seeds from that matter. So those ideas, that way of integrating what you were doing with the bigger picture, that had a visionary politic, this idea that it was very purposeful, that the target was clear, and the target was vulnerable, and the claim was morally right, all really turned on a lot of light bulbs, which gave us a lot of latitude to make mistakes. And I think our ability to be (at least for some of us) really trying to be transparent about it, saying like we get that this is hard: we're trying to make very very quick decisions about strategy, and media, on the fly, and people are dispersed over 14 acres, and trying to gather them all together, it's hard.
So we did put forward a decision-making process and that was hard but successful, and we floated all these concepts, like tyranny of the eccentric, and toxic group process, and explained to people why we would strive for consensus twice, and if we didn't pursue another proposal, could call for a vote, and we'd default to 80 percent, but we would really strive to resolve the concerns and all that kind of stuff. We didn't want that if you couldn't live with the decision that the vast majority of the group wanted, you would have to withdraw your participation, and that would kill the project. The idea that a critical mass of people withdrawing their participation would kill the project was the protection against bad decisions. We have to be able to execute on the decisions we make. If there's 20 percent of the people who aren't going to execute on the decision, then it will fail. That was the idea.
The above reflections come out of a conversation with Gopal, but he would be the first person to tell you that these are collective thoughts, ones arrived at through discussions with others in struggle. I am sure he would also argue that their experiments with forms of decision making and organization come from collective and historical knowledges – put together in ways that allow for more experimentation and the creation of new knowledges. I say this so as to suggest that we, in our movements, take time out to think together more about our processes and experiment with various ways to make them more affective and effective. There are myriad of experiences and people all over the world from whom we can learn and share. Learning from our and others mistakes, as well as successes is key. Taking the time to develop empowering process is at the heart of creating the new affective world we are creating every day – and for the future. The future is in the present.
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We live in a brave new world my friends (see yesterday's article), a world in which genetically engineered cows give more milk and are immune to mad cow disease, computer processors are multiplying their cores like frisky rabbits, and you can easily publish your book yourself. Isn't that nifty? (That's my new favorite word.) Many of us see ourselves as authors, but the extreme difficulty of breaking into the big publishing houses' good graces (seems like you have to be a celebrity to get a book published by these guys nowadays), makes our dreams seem unattainable. Things are changing, however.
There are now more and more companies who will help you publish your book yourself. Two in particular look pretty good. They will help you with your layout, marketing and sales, and will produce your book only when someone buys it, so there's no up-front cost to you. Visit Lulu.com and Blurb.com to find out more.
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So, a lot of folks (myself included) believe that there is intelligent life on other worlds in the universe.
Some folks (myself not included) believe that at least some of the governments of the Earth have been in contact with them.
Discussions of whether or not there should be "disclosure" by governments on the existence of extraterrestrials always boils down to a question of whether or not we, as a society, are ready for such news. Often cited is the idea that religious people in particular would completely freak out.
Personally, I'm inclined to believe that we, as a culture, ARE ready for such an announcement, were one coming. The majority of people (something like 60% IIRC) already believe in extraterrestrial life already.
That does leave a question though: Is there room in religion for aliens? What would the implications of the Gospel be with the knowledge that there are other living beings in the universe?
My personal opinion is that nothing in the LDS Church would change, except that maybe we'd start gearing up to send missionaries to other worlds