IN PROGRESS…
√ Cut Out The Processing Animal – go straight to the top
Published 2019/03/08 at 2:16 pm
We grow more plants to feed animals whom we kill to eat, than we grow to feed humans.
But when we eat the animals we’re not getting the benefit of all those veggies eaten by all those animals, because the veggies are no longer veggies.
The veggies eaten by the animal builds muscle, fat and bone as well as maintains all organs and systems of the animal. Knowing that, why not eat the plants in their natural form instead of processing them through an animal?
If plants build muscle, fat and bone as well as maintain all organs and other systems in the animal you’re eating, then why not cut out the middle man/woman and eat plants directly, letting our own bodies build from the benefit?
People who want corn fed cows or grass fed cows are making a connection between what a cow eats and what they want to put, pre-processed by the animal, into their bodies. But these same people won’t eat corn. It makes no logical sense to get the benefits of corn after a cow has eaten it. When you eat a cow you’re not getting the benefit of the corn. You have to eat the corn to get that benefit.
We don’t get two in one by processing veggies in the animal before we eat the animal.
Cut out the middle man/woman – the processing animal – so we get our plant food in it’s non-processed form.
Then stop raising animals to eat.
Feeding animals veggies and other animals, then killing them for our plate isn’t an efficient way to feed humans.
I always preferred going straight to the top, avoiding unnecessary red-tape.
Why use an animal to process my food before consuming it?
So of course, I go straight to the plant for my nutrients.
√ Take A Step Out Of The Ugly Past
Published 2019/03/08 at 2:10 pm
I’m going to keep using the words meat, meaty, to describe the main part and/or texture of the plant until such time that meat = plant. In other words, animals will not be considered meat nor food in the future.
I will not, however, refer to a plant as an animal – nor an animal as a plant. For instance an eggplant isn’t meat, meaning animal. A burger made out of eggplant however will be called plant meat.
Eventually all edible plants will end up in the meat category, signifying food in general as meat. I go with that. The barbarism applied to animals will end – sooner than most people think. Oh how lazy the thought of gorging on flesh and blood when it’s brought straight to your plate.
Ever notice how humans make a lot of noise when eating animals before during after. Singing, dancing, jumping up and down to loud music, flailing the arms, driving the evil spirits from their table, asking blessings from God, offering it up even, saying thank you with bowed heads for the gifts.
So as not to be blamed by any animal-God, or devil-God seeking revenge, they always speak to the God that provided the feast not those who partook. It isn’t their fault, God allowed it. If God didn’t want us to have it then God would stop it.
Ha. Drinking the sweated blood diluted with alcohol to numb the mind of the atrocities, laughing overly loud, robustly spitting the power of evil onto the bloody flesh before swallowed as one consumes another soul. Ha, but the soul is already gone. Not to worry, we’ll numb the bastard next time and eat him alive. That ought to fulfill us just fine.
A plant is a plant and an animal is an animal. Currently meat means either animal or plant. Eventually, animals will no longer be considered food on this planet, so the term meat will refer to the main part and/or texture of whatever plant is under discussion.
Cows are animals, tomatoes are plants. When I develop a formula and a process using plants that replaces and replicates textures and flavors of chicken (which is currently cannibalized by humans for consumption) and I call it veggie chicken, that’s not the same as calling a plant an animal.
It’s an artistic sensory and pragmatic abstract, scientifically formulated to replace the cruelty of enslavement, torture and slaughter that has been imposed on special beings whose purpose on earth was misunderstood by the human animal.
The effort to civilize ourselves and each other is an ongoing evolution that must never take a step back to its ugly past.
Get out of the cave. There’s nothing to fear in the future if you recognize the rights of all beings once born to live out their natural lives on this planet.
Earth is a plan. It’s not a human. And it’s not a human plan, so stop taking credit for something you didn’t design.
Happy Holy Day to all beings!
~ Chef Davies-Tight
√ Colin Connotations
Published 2018/09/16 at 2:01 pm
Colin Kaepernick puts his name on Nike products – big time sellers of footwear
Nike’s worth sourced from The Motley Fool:
Dan Caplinger (TMFGalagan) Sep 9, 2016 at 12:31PM
“The simplest measure of Nike’s worth
The stock market gives the most obvious indication of a simple valuation of a company. Nike currently has about 1.35 billion shares of publicly traded stock outstanding. A price of around $56 per share puts the value of Nike’s publicly traded shares at around $75 billion. However, Nike has non-traded Class A shares outstanding as well. When you add those in, Nike’s total market capitalization rises to about $94 billion.”
OPTICS 101
“Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything.”
Just do it.
This is Colin Kaepernick’s message to the entire world?
Where’d his hair go? Sacrificed it in the photo for a footwear company to use his face on their feet and the feet of the entire world?
And NIKE just paid him for that service. What is he going to do with all that money? Who is he going to give all that money to?
JUST DO IT?
Just do what, is my question and has always been my question. What pervert from Beaverton, Oregon thought that one up?
Just do what?
Whatever anybody is thinking they’d like to do when they encounter that slogan on another person?
Just do what?
- kill someone?
- rape someone?
- steal someone’s car?
- push someone into the street?
- run someone down with your car?
- spit in somebody’s food?
- drug somebody’s drink?
- scream fire in a theatre?
- scream bomb in an airplane?
- blow up a school?
- plan a massacre?
- put a suicide belt on?
- blow up a stadium?
- steal somebody’s shoes?
- throw a dog off a building
- set someone on fire?
- eat somebody’s face?
- smash a baby against the wall?
What? Just do what?
If it’s to do a good deed, then that needs to be interpreted – those who blow up buildings and people for religious or ideological reasons think they’re doing a good deed.
If it’s to show a kindness, then that doesn’t require sacrificing everything. It requires nothing that resembles a sacrifice.
I’ve been an animal rights activist for decades. I never sacrificed. I went without. There is a world of difference between the two.
NIKE is not responsible for what people do when they read or see that slogan > JUST DO IT.
Did Russia really make US citizens on social media vote for Donald Trump according to the democratic populace fueled by the democratic elite by paying for negative political ads regarding Hillary Clinton and the American democratic system of government? If the answer is yes, then NIKE will be held responsible in a court of law for all of the above.
Did Donald Trump becoming president really cause the entire membership of the democratic party to go off the rails and become hate mongers expressing a desire to destroy the American system of government as we know it, by denying half the populace the right to free speech and by undermining the executive, judicial and legislative branches of government? If the answer is yes, then NIKE will be held responsible in courts of laws all over the world for actions taken against individual people, other species, groups, nations and property based on that powerful slogan > JUST DO IT.
Note: There are a lot of loose ended people in the world with all kinds of hair dos, who will follow instructions when they are concisely communicated, as long as you don’t tell them HOW WHEN WHERE or for what reason to do it. But there’s only one fuzzy haired person hijacking stadiums for the purpose of disrupting a sport, a nation and a world for an extremely narrow agenda. The USA has unions to help workers address issues of unfair treatment in the work place – even for multi-millionaires.
It looks like the American black populace slept through 9-11. Guess they didn’t feel the horror that sticks like skin to the American white populace – to this day.
The American black needs to find it’s own soul, instead of hijacking the souls of their unsuspecting victims.
Ditch the slogan is my recommendation.
Ditch the slogan. JUST DO IT period.

√ LOOKIN’ 4 UMAMI
A Lesson In Creamy
Published 2018/03/12 at 11:07 am
Hey, I find it strange that so-called food scientists have isolated a taste sensation in soy sauce or shoyu called umami. I have yet to experience it. Maybe my buds are lacking those needed for that discernment. If not lacking, I can’t find anything, in my global-sensitive buds, resembling anything that I would interpret as a profound palatable experience upon consuming soy sauce. Swishing, gurgling, whistling, tried it all and I got nothing.
Until…I combined soy sauce with a creamy agent. The cream in the sauce screamed eureka! when the umami opened for the first time on my taste bud radar in the presence of soy sauce.
I’m wondering if it isn’t the dried fish or other animal additions to most Asian dishes that give those dishes an animal taste – but frankly wouldn’t it do the same with or without the soy sauce?
Tomato – also called a umami food, but usually found in the presence of cheese or other animal components.
Mushrooms? Same thing – always mixed with animal ingredients to enhance the animal flavor.
So for me it happened with a non-animal cream. Better now than never.
The most potent umami food on the planet barring animals – when you define umami as animal-like or enhancing the animal flavor and not simply savory (which by definition connotes an herbal necessity, which soy sauce lacks) is Kalamata olive and anything coming from it.
It is the meat. It is the lamb. It is anything you want it to be with the proper seasonings and additives.
Extra virgin olive oil is many times used by this chef as an animal alternative – no matter the dish presented. It has always been about the fat, or on a coarse piece of animal the gravy, which traditionally has been mostly fat.
If indeed soy sauce alone possesses all the necessary components to be called umami, then this cream sauce augments the umami sufficiently so that my umami-designated buds can discern it. Interestingly, soy has become one of the world’s foremost go-to foods for animal-replacement therapy.
So, in my view, umami-designated taste buds or combination of buds discern the animal taste, no matter the part of the animal. It is those buds that were meant to preserve all species from being eaten, so that when we discerned an animal on our bud-palate, we would instinctively spit it out. Over time as humans became accustomed to eating that which they were designed to reject, the body assimilated, adjusted, turned a blind eye to the existence of another being in its organism – not without its costs though.
Like the heroin addict’s body that adjusts to heroin to keep the body balanced, in the end the heroin which is supposed to be rejected – and always is initially – wins by destroying the human who indulges in it.
Cigarette smoke acts the same way. Initially our body rejects it, but we keep going back for more, till our body adjusts to it, causing symptoms of withdrawal when the cigarette smoke is blocked from entering the organism. The same is so with alcohol. And coffee and other drugs and substances.
If you cook a mushroom just long enough, it will resemble in texture the mucous membrane, connective tissue, collagen, fat of the animal. A raw mushroom does nothing to excite that resemblance to an animal. Only when cooked does that happen.
Tomatoes. That’s a tough one. Looking for umami and the animal-like component. And maybe that’s it right there. It’s tough. Look at a whole dried tomato, open it, pull it apart, stretch it, yeah, I get the feel and the optics before it even reaches my mouth. The chew is there. Raw tomatoes don’t do that – not for me. Not yet.
Sesame? Sesame oil, not the seeds. Some seeds just texture too much like sand, but squeeze the oil out of them and it’s a whole new day.
One might think that these plant foods were predetermined to satisfy in the human and other animals the desire for eating each other. There had to be a genetically determined way to cause an animal to seek out certain foods, but also to block certain actions taken against other species vying for the same space on the planet. You can’t eat all of your enemies.
It’s all about umami and it’s all in the buds. Chew it and spit it out or chew it and swallow it.
If it can’t get past your nose it can’t get to your palate. There are lots of contradictions in nature that prove that * rule of thumb wrong: Limburger cheese, beer cheese, many cheeses, bread fruit, cooked crucifers, hard-boiled eggs, chitterlings, collard greens, caviar, sardines etc.
So why do we eat something our senses tell us to reject? Because we don’t trust our senses under all circumstances, because we see others do it, because we like breaking our own genetically determined rules for survival, because we like to tempt fate, because it feels good, even though the consequences are bad – but mostly bad long-term. It’s the short-term enjoyment, pleasure, adventure, risk-taking that exhilarates us. That’s how we read it > exhilaration, instead of fear. So there’s a trip-wire someplace that misguides us to think fun instead of fear.
* [RE: RULE OF THUMB reference. You could beat your wife with a stick no thicker than your thumb, but most people don’t make that connection any more. I didn’t. I had to look it up. I thought is was more like a measurement, thumb to eye, like the artist moving their thumb further and further away as if sizing up something – what does the artist see?
Glutamate is the most prominent neurotransmitter in the human body/brain. An excess of glutamate has been linked to numerous neurological-based diseases and disorders. Glutamate is most prominently found in animals, but also exists in plant-life.
“Excitotoxicity (Wikipedia)
In humans, it is the main excitatory neurotransmitter, being present in over 50% of nervous tissue….
…Overstimulation of glutamate receptors causes neurodegeneration and neuronal damage through a process called excitotoxicity. Excessive glutamate, or excitotoxins acting on the same glutamate receptors, overactivate glutamate receptors (specifically NMDARs), causing high levels of calcium ions (Ca2+) to influx into the postsynaptic cell.
High Ca2+ concentrations activate a cascade of cell degradation processes involving proteases, lipases, nitric oxide synthase, and a number of enzymes that damage cell structures often to the point of cell death. Ingestion of or exposure to excitotoxins that act on glutamate receptors can induce excitotoxicity and cause toxic effects on the central nervous system. This becomes a problem for cells, as it feeds into a cycle of positive feedback cell death.
Glutamate excitotoxicity triggered by overstimulation of glutamate receptors also contributes to intracellular oxidative stress. Proximal glial cells use a cystine/glutamate antiporter (xCT) to transport cystine into the cell and glutamate out. Excessive extracellular glutamate concentrations reverse xCT, so glial cells no longer have enough cystine to synthesize glutathione (GSH), an antioxidant. Lack of GSH leads to more reactive oxygen species (ROSs) that damage and kill the glial cell, which then cannot reuptake and process extracellular glutamate. This is another positive feedback in glutamate excitotoxicity. In addition, increased Ca2+ concentrations activate nitric oxide synthase (NOS) and the over-synthesis of nitric oxide(NO). High NO concentration damages mitochondria, leading to more energy depletion, and adds oxidative stress to the neuron as NO is a ROS.“…wikipedia
…Further, glutamate occupies a central position in amino acid metabolism in plants.”
Glutatamate is an amino acid associated with proteins – animal or plant.
In fact, the existence of glutamate in animals and plants is pervasive.
Since eating plants has not been associated with neurological diseases and disorders (NDAD), it might be wise to reduce the amount of glutamate ingested by reducing significantly or totally the amount of animal products ingested.
You can still have your umami and eat it too – only through plants, would be the correct survival advantage choice to make, not through animals.
√ WE ARE THE NOISELESS
Published 2018/02/14 at 9:27 am
Most of what I see at rallies where people protest prejudicial social conditions of every type, including those of other species, is a lot of screaming, mostly screaming in fact. Such loud, vicious, teeth-bearing, gut-ripping vitriol that it becomes worthy of the name assault.
But it isn’t working. Assault never does do anything but get somebody’s attention short-term. A loud noise, everybody looks where it’s coming from. The message to the brain is assault assault alert alert get out get out – unless it settles down, then it’s okay to stay.
Noise gains or loses its power commensurate with the decibel level. The decibel level at modern-day rallies is way too high. High decibel levels are incitement tools used by rally planners to get attention and keep the attention.
Soft-spoken rarely works except also to agitate. Don Lemon of CNN notoriety uses that soft-spoken approach, but it isn’t effective. It isn’t real. You can see him seething beneath the surface of his mask and he likes that you can see that, but it doesn’t work except to make him look insincere.
Agitate and they’ll probably all go home.
Incite and they stay only because once incited it takes a longer time to come down from the incitement.
Incite at several locations with varying start-times and you’ve got a rally that will last all night resulting in destruction.
But still there’s no message, except violence. The rally then becomes reduced to its signage, but even those blurbs/bumper stickers get watered down due to the close proximity to the noise assaults popping all over the streets.
Try total silence. Synchronized courtesy. No utterance from the mouth, no singing, no humming, no nothing that can be in any way construed as noise.
No eyeball rolling. No makeup, no drinking beverages, no back packs. No mask unless it’s the animal mask with no hole for your mouth.
No chains, flame throwers, bats, signs. No words. No skateboards, roller skates, hockey sticks. Only the presence of a multitude of people who come in peace. No baby strollers. Who would take a baby to a rally?
I’ve never seen a peaceful rally. The government regards any rally that doesn’t result in a murder as peaceful. Even if a few blocks are burned to the ground and cars torched, it is still considered mostly peaceful.
A few bad apples they say. But a few bad apples is what it takes to make a mob of bad apples, so stop using that phraseology. You’re looking stupid. People have eyes and ears. You claiming something didn’t happen when they saw that it did, makes you look incompetent.
That is a low bar the USA sets for peace. Don’t think other nations haven’t taken note of where that bar is located.
No arm waving, no flailing, no hair flipping, no improvisational movements, no dancing.
WE ARE THE NOISELESS. No horns. No road-blocking.
One person carries one sign. Make it a powerful message – one that everyone can agree with, not in a perfect world, but in this world, now.
The multitude follows the sign-holder. Show the world what follow looks like. Instead you show the world what chaos looks like. Not good. Not effective.
Can you do that?
Then your message falls on deaf ears. You lack discipline.
Discipline is the key to all success.
The Key to discipline is spiritual growth.
The Key to spiritual growth is self-knowledge.
The Key to self-knowledge is love.
If you can’t do that, then you don’t know yourself.
What’s discipline?
The motive to move.
It starts with a thought.
Move that thought – to a good place for all.
Okay, I can compromise.
Whisper. Not like you’re in a saw mill. Like you’re in a library.
I wonder what that sounds like – thousands of people whispering.
The Blacks can’t do it. Their eyes will be popping all over the place from the strain.
Train yourself. Use a mirror.
“You can do it. I know you can.” SL (my original quote, not Obama’s)
You won’t be able to stop talking with your hands. I have that problem too. The minute I start hand-talking people start looking at them like I’m going to punch them. They don’t hear a word I say.
I’ve got a better idea, walk like a penguin. Don’t put your arms in the sleeves of your shirt. Button your shirt. Or wear a sweat shirt; it’s easier. And keep your hands out of your pants. Who raised you to do that?
I see a field of whispering penguins out there. Wonder what they’re up to?
They’re not happy about something.
What?
Probably same as always, they want more money. They want you to forgive them their debts.
“Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.”
Can we do that?
Make some phone calls.
√ I’ll Take Half & Half…
Published 2017/10/01 at 12:28 pm
The USA needs a leader that’s half Republican and half Democrat dusted with liberty for all.
I think Donald Trump can be that leader. Unlike Hillary Clinton he doesn’t expect the populace to do his job.
Although I voted for Hillary Clinton and have been a lifelong Democrat, now that I see the true character of the democratic party, I’m glad she lost.
To the Democrats: Stop acting so needy and vengeful. Where did your leadership skills go? You don’t need a certain title to lead. That high road never existed for you. It was a trick. Maybe you never had any integrity. You all sound, look and act pathetic. Wipe those God damned smirks off your faces. It’s really getting difficult to look at you all twisting and squirming.
Democrats became the Pity Party when they lost a slam dunk to a white guy. And I am now glad they did.
√ WAKE UP IRON CHEF
Published 2017/06/28 at 12:23 pm
According to the Chairman (person) of the American Iron Chef food network cooking show, an Iron Chef must respect the ingredients.
How does one show respect for the animal they murder for their plate, or many times, via Japan, eat alive?
They use the word respect often. Respect for regional tastes as an example. Respect for what otherwise would be called tradition, so that I’m assuming they want people to keep slaughtering and eating those they slaughter.
Since when do chefs give the diner what they want? The chef creates the menu, not the diner.
How can you respect a chef who murders for you? Or how can you respect a diner who demands it?
There is no honor in hypocrisy and contradiction. There is no honor in deception. There is no honor in murder.
Animal chefs are not honorable.
√ Foreign Foods In Foreign Lands
Published 2017/05/26 at 10:12 am
I don’t like French food in France. I don’t like Russian food in Russia, I don’t like Hawaiian food in Hawaii. I don’t like Asian food in Hawaii. I don’t like Italian food in Italy. I don’t like German food in Germany. I don’t like Mexican food in Mexico. I don’t like English food in Britain. I don’t like Dutch food in Holland (the Netherlands). I don’t like Swiss food in Switzerland. I don’t like Belgian food in Belgium. I don’t like Austrian food in Austria. I don’t like Finnish food in Finland.
I don’t like street food anywhere.
I like everything À la Sharon. My way not your way. My taste buds not yours. In the style and manner of me. Using ingredients I like from everywhere that I want them from, combined and cooked the way I like to combine and cook them, not according to your culture or your dried up used up old never going to work for me method. I don’t give a rat’s ass about your culture and how you dismember an animal dead or alive passed down from generation to generation of serial offenders.
I don’t like your bread unless it’s made in an American bakery – the way I like bread to be made, the way I like bread to taste and texture. I don’t want you to pound the dough on a rock with filthy hands you scratched your ass and the snot from your nose with, then sell it to me as authentic.
The only thing I want authentic is me – not your greasy, slimy, dirty, grown in toilet water garbage that you call authentic foreign food.
I don’t like the animal in anything.
So all you foreigners who eat insects, keep them out of the foods you sell to me, unbeknownst to me, because you made a deal with somebody in the USA government giving you permission to use products I don’t want in my food. We’ll make the people adjust was the plan.
Not this old lady. I don’t adjust to slaughter and filth and allergic reactions to shell insects – yeah that’s right. Shell fish. Shell insects, beetles, whatever the name du jour happens to be in any given year. Keep your allergy producing foods in your own country, in your own pantry. I don’t want them.
It’s about moving forward – not moving backwards, where we all return to the jungle to scrape the dirt with sticks to gouge up worms for snacks. Whose global planning idea was that?
Fire their asses.
√ Not all animal-free dairy and animal-free meat foods are alike
Published 2017/04/16 at 7:34 pm
Flavor, texture, color, aroma play a huge role in the products engineered to taste, look, feel and smell like something they’re not.
For me it’s all about the essence. I don’t want a food that tastes so much like a real cow, pig or chicken that I can’t tell the difference. Nobody likes to be fooled to that extent, and neither do I. However, if it isn’t pleasing to the senses, then what’s the point? It doesn’t help the animals for an animal consumer to eat an animal-free product, not like it and never try another, or to expect an animal consumer to try a non-animal product that hasn’t been developed to its full flavor, texture, color and aroma potential.
With animal-free meats particularly, there are other factors that come into play: How does it feel against the teeth, and against the actual flesh part of one’s own palate and tongue?
How do the salivary glands respond to the animal-free quality of the product that is supposed to serve as a substitute or alternative? And then, the after-taste. Some animal-free meats by themselves won’t win a prize, but combine them in a sandwich or other dish and the story changes for the better, much better!
I do not want to eat something that’s ‘not bad’. How many times have we heard people say those very words when tasting a vegetarian dish? They’ll chew, chew, stick out their lower lip to sniff and say, “not bad”. Although there are some really good products on the market today, when you get a bad one, you don’t forget it. And there are people out there who seemingly don’t have taste buds, who are in business to sell you something that actually turns your salivary glands dry.
I’ve been engineering vegetarian recipes since the early ’70′s without tofu or substitute flesh meat or dairy. I didn’t see the point of giving up meat, then eating a meat substitute. I don’t have to eat veggie-grain-soy based meats and dairy in order to be animal-free.
There’s nothing written in a rule book that demands that of me. I could go the rest of my life with no meat or dairy substitutes/alternatives and savor every meal without them. Why do I want sausage on my pizza, when I don’t eat meat?
However, once I wrapped my head around the animal-free sausage mimicking flavors and textures created by the cooking process and not particularly those of the suffering animal, I became more alert to the essence of the way people, for thousands of years, have been making dead animals taste via the cooking process to make them palatable. The same process can be used in the preparation of any plant-based food.
For example, most people don’t eat raw animals. At the very least, they hold it over an open flame to char it. Humans like that charred taste against the fat and fibers of the meat.
Well, you can do that with animal-free foods too. You just have to know how, when and with what foods to do it. After cooking with animal-free meats I discovered that it’s not as simple-minded as the box instructions lead one to believe. Thank goodness for that, since we’re not limited to a strict interpretation as to how to prepare them.
The vegan meats and dairy products I use and like, thus recommend, are at a level whereby any improvements made would be a bonus.
However, sometimes the improvements one wants to see in a product can be accomplished by the way the consumer prepares it. Frankly, I think most animal-free meat and dairy producers don’t know what can be done with their own animal-free products to make them taste and texture great. That’s where the cook comes in. A slaughterer can give you a slab of flesh, but it’s the cook who makes it taste good enough to eat.
For instance, some veggie meats have this annoying sweak-to-the-tooth quality as you chew them. When in a sandwich you don’t notice it, but if I’m making a veggie sausage tomato sauce, again, it’s annoying. What I’ve found is that if I let the cooked sauce with the veggie sausage in it set overnight in the refrigerator, the ‘squeak disappears. It’s probably the acid from the tomatoes that does it. Not all animal-free meat brands do it. Maybe some people like the sweak; I don’t know.
As I said earlier in Chef’s Compass: “My goal is to make animal-free taste great. We use fresh, raw, canned, frozen, vacuum packed, dried and some processed foods. Although our simultaneous goal is good nutrition, we don’t eliminate salt, sugar and fats that would otherwise compromise the flavor and keep you from wanting more”.
Remember, your refrigerator-freezer is a pantry too! Keep it clean and neat!
