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|Introduction Great feats * Pluto trine Mars: * Mid-March 2016 until beginning of November 2018: High visions * Neptune square Jupiter: * End of March 2016 until end of January 2018: Who you are * Uranus sextile Sun: * End of July 2016 until mid-March 2018: Sudden separations * Uranus square Ascendant: * End of April 2017 until end of March 2018: A sense of humor * Jupiter trine Sun: * From 14 September 2017 until 24 September 2017: On the lookout * Jupiter square Ascendant: * From 18 September 2017 until 28 September 2017: The Data Page
Introduction This report is a short edition of the Forecast Horoscope. It is meant as a sample and advertisement for the full version of the Forecast Horoscope which can be ordered from Astrodienst as a bound report of about 15 - 20 pages. In the short edition, only a few, but nevertheless important transits over your natal chart are considered. It is likely however that some important transits of this six month period have been omitted in this abbreviated report. The report was generated for 6 months starting from the 1st of July 2017 with the following birth data: male, born on 14 February 1942 at 3:40 pm in Brighton MA, Alaska. Your sun sign is Aquarius. This is the sign in which the Sun is in your birth chart. Your Ascendant is in Cancer, and your Moon is in Aquarius.
If you are interested in the full pattern of relevant themes, please order the full version of this report. Your best choice of report will be Liz Greene's Yearly Horoscope Analysis or Robert Hand's Transits of the Year. These reports will select the really relevant themes of a 12-month period for you, and deal with them in depth and style.
As you read your short report, or any other astrological report, keep in mind that the energies interpreted here are your birth potentials. However, you may or may not choose to actualize these energies in the manner described. Your age, sex, socio-economic situation, education, environment, level of development, and many other factors contribute to the ways in which you express your natal energies. Remember, the planets do not compel you to do or be anything. They influence you, but you still have the free will to determine your own life.
Pluto trine Mars: Great feats Mid-March 2016 until beginning of November 2018: At this time in your life your energy level is higher than usual, and you are desirous of performing great feats. Often this influence signifies a time when you will make a tremendous drive for success in any field of activity that is important to you. You may gain considerable power over others even if you don't seek it, which will allow you to make many changes in the world around you that you have not been able to make before. Even if you do not gain power in any way, you will have more energy to work than at other times. You will be able to work long, hard and persistently at tasks that would usually tire you out. Because of your high energy, this influence favors physical activities such as athletics. Activities that aim to rebuild your body, the muscles in particular, such as weight-lifting, yoga or another body culture, are especially effective at this time. This influence also favors any kind of rebuilding, repairing, renovating and restoring, such as working on old furniture or building. If you have gone through a period of personal crisis in the last several years that has left you feeling discouraged about yourself, this influence will go a long way toward rebuilding your self-confidence. This period represents a new birth of energy and ego-drive that will enable you to believe in yourself again. In any case you will be able to proceed in your daily activities with a greater sense of strength and confidence. This is a tremendously reinforcing influence.
Neptune square Jupiter: High visions End of March 2016 until end of January 2018: During this period you will be impatient with the restrictions imposed by everyday existence, and you will be preoccupied with fantasies or ideas that help you escape the ordinary. Your grasp of what you can and cannot do with your life is being tested now, and it is very important that you try to accept the actual limitations on your life. If you can, this influence will expand your life by helping you perceive the tremendous possibilities that are inherent in your situation, even though it isn't ideal. Your fantasies may take the form of an overdeveloped belief in your own strength and power. You may feel that you cannot lose, but if you succumb to this belief, the day will come when you lose very badly, and then your foolish overconfidence will be replaced with defeat and discouragement. Be particularly careful to avoid wild speculations and risks, for you will almost certainly lose out; you aren't paying enough attention to the reality of the situation, and you are seeing only what you want to see. You are more than usually gullible at this time, especially if someone flatters your sense of importance. You may take a somewhat more exalted but equally futile path by becoming involved in a religious or spiritual movement that makes you lose all touch with reality. Either you do not see the world as it is and think that it is something altogether more beautiful, or you are disgusted with the world and reject it as unworthy of your attention. No matter how high your vision, you will benefit from your existence only insofar as you recognize what it is. Do not allow spirituality to become an illusion and an excuse for not dealing with the world. On the plus side, this influence stimulates your desire to help others, and you can be of great benefit if you deal with situations as they really are. Starry-eyed idealists are not very useful when there is much hard work to be done.
Uranus sextile Sun: Who you are End of July 2016 until mid-March 2018: The effects of this influence are not always spectacular, but if you watch carefully, you will notice that there are all kinds of new and stimulating happenings in your life. It is not running along in the usual manner. But the changes and the unexpected events are not especially disturbing to you. Instead they open up new understandings and opportunities and give you a feeling that life still has some excitement and potential for growth. Opportunities may come about through friends, or they may simply pop up in some other area of your everyday environment. You may become involved with a new group of people who live in a way that you hadn't thought possible before. You may be attracted to new philosophies and new techniques for managing your life. This is one of the influences under which people begin to study astrology. All of these events are expressing your desire for greater freedom of self-expression. During this time you have the opportunity to gain greater control over your life and to make it a better vehicle for what you want to do. Any relationship that begins under this influence will be an expression of this fact, and even old relationships will be changed so that they further your objectives. All of this sounds like luck, but this influence actually is showing you that your life can be much more free and that your potentials are greater than you have realized. We all have a natural tendency to settle into comfortable ruts, which can be severely limiting. But the energy of this influence acts suddenly, so that you are forced to sit up and take notice. The purpose of this influence is to tell you who you are. It is not giving you anything you haven't earned.
Uranus square Ascendant: Sudden separations End of April 2017 until end of March 2018: This influence is likely to have a very disruptive effect on your relationships. Influences may enter your life that will challenge the foundations upon which your life is built. This challenge will be reflected in surprising encounters with others that upset your way of living or in sudden separations from persons who you thought would remain in your life for some time. Or it may be that you yourself are the catalyst of all these changes as you seek to become free of circumstances that have become oppressive. During this period it is quite likely that you will do things and go to places you never would have thought of in the past. The old patterns of your life simply can no longer encompass what your life is becoming now. From all of the above it should be obvious that this is not an "evil" influence, although anyone who is wedded to the status quo in life or to their own past will find this period difficult to contend with. Old patterns that have acquired a stranglehold over your life will break up. You may not have been aware of these patterns, because many people find their "strangleholds" quite comfortable, at least until much later on. The people who enter your life at this time may be quite different from anyone you have known before. Some of these relationships may be quite brief. You may encounter someone for a specific purpose, which you may not be aware of at the time, and once that purpose is accomplished, the relationship ends. If a new love interest enters your life at this point, it is likely to be exciting, free and totally unpredictable. Do not make a permanent commitment to it until well after the end of this period, for such a relationship is likely to be very unstable and brief.
Jupiter trine Sun: A sense of humor From 14 September 2017 until 24 September 2017: This is such a pleasant influence that you may be inclined to sit back, enjoy it and do nothing. However, this is really a very important time in your life because you can reach out into new areas of life and have new and rewarding experiences. Your creative potential is enormous at this time, and you can very easily accomplish a great deal that would be difficult at other times. Your inner energies are strong, and you are full of self-confidence and the feeling that you can do anything. This influence usually indicates good health and a feeling of well-being, although you may be inclined to put on weight if you are not careful. You may not feel inclined toward physical activity, but it would be a good idea to get some exercise. Make a particular effort to be outdoors. Hiking is a very beneficial activity at this time. If you are inclined to physical activity, especially athletics, don't take foolish risks through overconfidence. This influence tends to make you overestimate your energies. This is an excellent time for all financial matters. You will feel like making your surroundings appear more elegant, and you may spend quite a lot of money doing so. This is perfectly fine, and you should think positively in all ways, but don't let this concern with material acquisition blind you to some very real possibilities for inner growth. Travel, either physically or mentally, often accompanies this influence. Take this time to broaden your understanding of the world around you. You have a strong interest in ideas that are different from what you normally know and encounter, and you are much more tolerant of different ways of living. Even people's usually irritating traits do not bother you at this time. Also your sense of humor is much greater than usual, and you can appreciate the dance of life in all its glory.
Jupiter square Ascendant: On the lookout From 18 September 2017 until 28 September 2017: This is usually an excellent time for most kinds of relationships, but there are some pitfalls. Basically this influence signifies a desire to grow and advance through contacts with others. Probably you are willing to give as much as you get, although in some people this influence triggers a desire for advantages through others without giving anything in return. In fact as they get ahead, such people act arrogantly toward everyone, even those who helped them. This causes others to reject them, and when they hit hard times there is no one to help them out. But this result is totally unnecessary, and all you have to do to avoid it is to keep a sense of humility and recognize what others have done for you. With this influence you have the potential to become a truly better person, but only if you keep these warnings in mind. Quite frequently this influence brings a seemingly "lucky" chance through a friend or associate. But it is not luck so much as the fact that you are very sharply on the lookout for opportunities that can benefit you. Your sense of timing is very acute, and your sensitivity to others and their needs is greater than usual. That is one reason why it is so bad to ignore others' needs, because you don't even have the excuse of ignorance. Benefits can come to you in either your personal and domestic life or in your public life. There may be an opportunity to make money or to make improvements in your home that will make it much more pleasant. Or you may meet people who will help you learn more about the world and expand your view of it in various ways. You have to be willing to let this happen, however, which means you must be receptive. This is another area in which being arrogant brings the risk that you will get nothing of lasting value out of this period.
Short Report - Forecast July 2017 to December 2017
Planetary positions
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If you are interested in the full pattern of relevant themes, please order the full version of this report. Your best choice of report will be Liz Greene's Yearly Horoscope Analysis or Robert Hand's Transits of the Year. These reports will select the really relevant themes of a 12-month period for you, and deal with them in depth and style.
As you read your short report, or any other astrological report, keep in mind that the energies interpreted here are your birth potentials. However, you may or may not choose to actualize these energies in the manner described. Your age, sex, socio-economic situation, education, environment, level of development, and many other factors contribute to the ways in which you express your natal energies. Remember, the planets do not compel you to do or be anything. They influence you, but you still have the free will to determine your own life.
Your personal forecast for the next 12 months, by Liz Greene.
Forecast for 12 months based on your transits, by Robert Hand.
Your personal perspectives for the next six years, by Liz Greene.
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NL: Tom Glavine, NYM; Sunny Kim, COL; Jeff Weaver, LAD; John Lieber, PHI; Aaron Harang, CIN.
AL: None.
NL: Jose Valverde, ARI.
AL: None.
NL: Yadier Molina, STL; Ramon Castro, NYM; Miguel Olivo, SD.
First Basemen
AL: Ben Broussard, CLE; John Olerud, BOS; Scott Hatteberg, OAK.
NL: None.
Second Basemen
AL: *Mark Ellis (SS), OAK.
NL: Ray Durham, SF; *Todd Walker (1B), CHC.
Third Basemen
AL: *Bill Mueller (2B), BOS; Aaron Boone, CLE.
NL: *Abraham Nunez (2B/SS), STL.
AL: Orlando Cabrera, LAA.
NL: David Eckstein, STL.
AL: Jay Payton, OAK; Carl Everett, CHW; Lew Ford, MIN; Trot Nixon, BOS.
NL: Austin Kearns, CIN; Randy Winn, SF; Victor Diaz, NYM.
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Tulsa Thanks
"Now the seats are all empty…"
Dateline: Tulsa, Oklahoma
It is the KIND, in MAN, that we,
are supposed to be.
How ever it is that we got here, the goal of us, what it is we are supposed to be, we humans,
are not savages.
The universe around us, is a savage place of fire and ice, of vast emptiness, much of it devoid of life, devoid of love,
except here.
Here, we have cobalt skies, we have seas of sapphire, land of emerald greens and golden sands,
and us amongst it all.
We get our life, from where-in we live, and for that we constantly give thanks, but sometimes, for whatever reason, we forget to give these thanks,
to all those who share this rock in space with us.
We forget that as it was meant to be, we live on,
a Please and Thank You Earth.
"…tonight the people were so fine…"
We could be dirt.
We could be rocks, we could be trees, we could be clouds, or the wind.
'cept we came to this planet, with a soul. We came here, to care. For the planet we stand on, for the animals who roam it, and for the people we share it with.
Do good, love wins…the tag line of earth.
The greatest lesson I have ever learned came to me in the vestibule of my daughter Ashley's day care center. A simple sign which said this:
"We Share & No Biting."
Pretty much the answer to world peace, written in crayon.
Over the years as a reporter I have witnessed first hand, the horror caged within humans, I believe it is possible to be soulless, because I have looked into those eyes.
But I have also looked into the eyes, of goodness.
I have been touched over and over again, by the KIND found in MAN.
Listen…and you too will hear it…and this is what it sounds like:
"…thank you."
"…they waited there in line…"
It is not the City of Tulsa I want to thank...the buildings…the sidewalks…the street…did nothing for us.
But to the PEOPLE of Tulsa, and the area around here, to you, I, WE at B.A.S.S. raise a toast.
To the PEOPLE of TULSA, to the PEOPLE of Grand Lake, WE say, Thank You.
Thank You.
Let me tell you about Tulsa…I've been here a week now…but I get this city.
Tulsa…is Buffalo, NY…is Pittsbburgh, PA…is Fresno, CA.
Not the biggest city in the state.
Not the city that gets most of the press.
A city, like many other cities in America, that is not quite what it once was, I am from a city just like this city, Buffalo, NY a city on the wrong end of many jokes, a city struggling to make the "B" list of towns, a city that wishes the Erie Canal would once again float dreams its way.
I get that in Tulsa as well, don't know what the boom was, maybe oil, but that old boom is barely heard here now.
And Buffalo may get mad at this.
And Tulsa may get mad at this.
But free yourself from the canal…from the boom…because you don't need it, what you have now, is what many people search for, need.
Tulsa my friends…you've got soul. Buffalo, too.
"…and when they got up on their feet they made the show…"
Cities of the future will be based on their PEOPLE, not the PLACE they are located.
Cities with a future, will be where people want to live, not where they have to live.
Five people, I counted, told me this exact thing during my time here, "I moved away once, but came back, and I love it here, won't leave again."
Tulsa…put that on your Welcome sign.
I have met people from other places that have moved here form elsewhere who told me simply this, "It's home now, won't be leaving."
"…and that was sweet…"
Certainly, all those in power in this town have been wonderful to us, all the various agencies, but the greatness, has been the people of Tulsa.
From the hotel bartender, to the cops helping people cross streets, to the businesses with signs about the Classic, to the person who sweeps it all up and who THANKED ME for coming here,
Tulsa, Thank You.
Thank you for wanting us.
Thank you for helping us.
But, for me, Thank You for taking us into your family.
Thank You for the Tulsa Welcome.
'…but I can hear the sound…"
Sometimes, as we focus on setting up, or tearing down and moving onto next, we forget,
to say Thank You.
Not because we are aloof.
Not because we don't care.
It is because we think mostly, next, and not so much, now.
Now, the moment we stand in.
The now we face.
To us, I say, I challenge that we need to take the time to say, Thank You, more.
We need to stop and make sure the people helping us know how thankful we really are, and I know we are because I hear it all the time.
If I'm walking down the street, in whatever town we may be in, and I see a sign about us in the window of a business, I'm going to take the time to go into the place, and say simply, Thank You.
We grow the sport not only by what we do, but we grow this sport by who we are.
On a Please and Thank You Earth, we need to always be a Please and Thank You sport.
"…of slamming doors and folding chairs…"
To Tulsa, you are now on my favorite places playlist.
I hope we are on yours.
To the angler who wins this Classic shindig, as you stand on stage and life the iron into the confetti, it is not only the trophy you hold, in your hands you carry,
our sport.
A sport dreamt about by thousands of people, you may walk upon a stage, but it is the backs of those who dream about us, that you stand.
They are the ones who have done the heavy lifting, for you, for us.
Every one one of us are the soul of this sport, but you, you become the face, our face.
Do good my friend.
Remember Please.
Remember Thank You.
Remember the KIND in MAN
Because I know you will always remember Tulsa,
for the trophy you won here,
and the respect they gave us.
Pay it forward my friend, pay it forward,
for all of us.
"…but the only time that seems too short
Is the time that we get to play."
The Load Out
Jackson Browne
Love wins,
PS: A special Thank You to a friend named Ed, who looked and who cared, it is through your eyes, that I am thankful for.


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In this guest post by Marius Fermi of Tactical Sales Training, Marius explores the benefits and pitfalls of releasing your minimum viable product early, both as a boot-strapped start-up and as an established business.
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Normally everyone would say that before you launch or release any product or service, you need to make sure you've got yourself a die-hard set of metrics to back everything up. Take no notice, its better if you release early.
When it comes to this day and age of new start-ups, especially in tech, there is an increasingly small chance of delivering a great project on your first attempt. It never helps that our need for speed is increasing and our attention span seems to last no more than 3 seconds, getting easily distracted by a pretty word or colourful banner or button.
Lean Startup & MVPs
A lean startup is a great example of an early release; it's the delivery of the Minimum Viable Product that makes this type of startup special. When a lean startup releases their MVP they set out to release just a working prototype, not finished or decorated just the fundamental aspects of product are working.
Then the process of always tweaking, always learning and continually changing starts.
What makes an MVP great for startups is that it allows for you to release your initial idea to the world but then use real life on the go metrics to determine what works and what doesn't. This isn't studies and stuff out of books, this is the real deal and you can change and adapt on the go.
The MVP also allows you to remain nimble and agile being able to shift in a new direction, if needed, or setting yourself where you are. When you're new to the market, you have a tiny fan base which means if you decided to shift the prices or align your product with something else, you can. Your user base is small, they also expect changes to occur but most importantly you haven't committed time and money into R&D for a specific target group.
An MVP gives you the opportunity to find new niches with prospects for better revenue, increased user base or something that makes your business model that bit better.
Thriving Biz
Hold it right there, the lean startup & MVP approach isn't for everyone. Just step back and consider everything about your business; the user base, period of time it has been operational, costs, time, everything!
If you're a business with some operational time behind it you will probably have a market and user base already set up.
This is the problem, your fan base will be annoyed by any new shift and with the MVP you may or may not have a dedicated audience to it. Losing your audience and trying to bring in a new one is a bad move for revenue and growth.
Consider it a power struggle, do you keep your current customers happy or do you go for the supposed larger audience even though your user base sits at 0?
It's usually an idea to consider what the new plan is, and then do the R&D for it because you are not as nimble as a startup; moving direction or changing pricing can have detrimental effects & it could also spread like wild fire.
Think it through and be certain your idea will become something great; 37Signals have a great approach in which they construct a product to eliminate their problems or simplify it at least. They then sell the product to the public.
All Hail Metrics
Picture the scene, you've just spent the last 3 months doing intensive R&D, reviewing endless feedback forms and quizzing your 'target' audience. Upon release of your product it seems no one really gives a care in the world for it, but the metrics said otherwise.
As much as metrics are vital for business and shouldn't be forgotten about in the long term, you need to sometimes forget about them and step back looking at the bigger picture. The problem with metrics is that it should be considered 'Book' smart but really you need to be 'Street/Web' smart in order to have any success with your first launch.
'Book' smart metrics rely on the ideal situations and what your audience should do, but again we have short attention spans so a book with these metrics from 2 years ago will probably not be up to date with 'Pinterest' or 'AirBnB'.
A Lean startup or MVP is 'Street' smart because it learns and changes with the demands and audience. Where metrics from a book are static and rarely change you can begin to move with the trends or find a new path that allows you to expand and grow, on a much cheaper scale compared to long term R&D.
Above All Else: Don't Worry, Be Happy
So if you're a new startup or company, then embrace the MVP and enjoy the manoeuvrability you have with growth and expansion. Remember that just because a whole heap of new Tech startups appear every day, having fully functional websites & products, doesn't mean you need to follow.
When those companies fall, they fall hard because they have set themselves a direction and being able to change & adapt on a daily basis is something you need.
The key to having a successful MVP; take it slow and ensure you know where you need to align and how to do it.
Once you have direction, track the growth provoking metrics for long term success.
Afterword by Woody Hayday
Reading Marius' piece on early release of an MVP reminds me how far metrics have come and how utterly important they are to on-line business today. One of the main reasons now is a great time to get an idea out there is that you can have these user metrics right off the bat. Within a week you could have a solid exposure of your idea against a real life audience.
As Marius discusses established businesses breaking new ground through releasing new, lean, MVP's it really reminded me of the book 22 laws of immutable investing, specifically how Al Reis and Jack Trout describe "extending the brand" through risky expansion of product lines. It simply might not work to try and share the trust of an established product with that of a fresh release. Personally I would still opt for the lean methodology for a new product released by an established firm, but with some layer of abstraction between the new product and their existing range (I especially like the "experimental" badge and a small price tag.)
As StormGate builds minimum viable products such as prototype web applications for clients we are very familiar with the benefits of the lean start-up methodology, in fact its a central company principle, in the modern day there is less and less room in business for mediocrity, whether in research and development or execution.
Thanks again to Marius for this post.


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– Nicolas Batum continues to watch practice from the sidelines as he waits for the symptoms of a concussion suffered on October 8 to completely subside. Batum said he would have like to have practiced with the team on Sunday but was disallowed due to headaches, one of the most common side effects of concussion.
"I did a couple tests, came back on the floor to get some shots, because that's the NBA protocol, I think," said Batum. "I wanted to practice this morning but still got some headaches so I can't to anything. I have to be, like, symptom-free to even, like, start running."
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"The basis of the program is an agreement of 1991 which, by virtue of the time when it was conceived, the way it was worked out and prepared, does not meet very high standards. The agreement doesn't satisfy us, especially considering new realities," Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov commented on the move.
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"Shine bright like a diamond. We're beautiful like diamonds in the sky."
Rhianna's new hit song. Catchy tune, isn't it?
But, we have heard about the sky diamonds before. This is not a new language.
Remember the Beatles song" Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.
On the surface it is interpreted as a reference to drugs.
LSD, perhaps?
Maybe. But, i don't think so.
Lucy is a nick for Lucifer?
But what do the sky diamonds mean?
The occult references in the Beatles work prove they were Illuminati puppets.
A promotional photograph for the Yellow Submarine album shows John Lennon flashing the devil horns. Paul McCartney makes a '666'/EYE OF HORUS hand sign.
The front cover of the With The Beatles album shows their faces half in shadow. This is the 'One Eye of Horus' that is epidemic in the music industry today. The black/ white duality is the Masonic doctrine to balance good and evil.
A Beatles compilation was released in 1988 titled 'Past Masters'. Past Master is a Masonic term used to describe the former Worshipful Master of a Masonic Lodge. The album contains exactly 33 songs.
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According to occult analysts, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds means Lucifer and the diamonds are stars - specifically Dogstar in the Sirius constellation.
We all know that Rhianna is a publicly admitted illuminati puppet and monarch slave. She is reviving the Sky Diamond message.
In her diamond video, we see an appearance of the black horse. Black horse in Revelation?
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Around nineteen Indian public sector banks have decided to conduct a common entrance test to select suitable candidates for filling existing/future vaccines in their firms. The exam will be conducted under a platform designed by IBPS, and the scores will have validity for one year from the date of result. The first IBPS exam is scheduled on September 18 2011 and applications will be accepted until August 3.
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IBPS will organize a written examination comprising Objective and Descriptive papers. Objective section carries 225 marks and should be completed in 150 minutes. The 250 questions in this section will include Verbal/Numeric Reasoning, General English, questions related to Banking/Insurance/Investment sector, Computers, and typical quantitative aptitude. The Descriptive section (60 minute) will analyze the English writing caliber of the candidate, and it carries 25 marks. We will get more details the Syllabus and question pattern after the first IBPS exam.
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But moving on is getting harder for people such as Tom, caught in a widening criminal justice net designed to catch and deter child sex offenders. He will never be able to work or take a voluntary role alongside children, as mandatory police checks are soon to be introduced. More daunting for him, however, is knowing the police will monitor his movements for the next 15 years, as new Victorian laws track all child sex offenders on a register.
Yet Galbally, who is deeply critical of the new laws, says independent psychologists thought Tom was a low risk of re-offending.
Tom discusses his predicament in rushed, halting speech. "I have to go to the police station once a year and let them know if I've bought a new car, if I'm going interstate or going overseas, if I have kids."
People say 'Just move on', but how can you? I can understand why there's this law, because there's some really sick guys out there - I met people like that in prison who said 'I'm going to get out and do it again', and I know if I was a parent I wouldn't want them near my kids."
And I know that if I was a parent I wouldn't want anyone like me near my child.
I wouldn't care about someone's individual case, just reading in the paper what they've done would be enough. So I can't condemn this law because I think we need it - but then I'm caught in it too."
Pedophilia has become a metaphor for innocence lost. Even in the most respectable places we now expect to find something rotten. The most recent jolt, last year's Operation Auxin, Australia's biggest pornography crackdown, led to hundreds of arrests, thousands of charges and public anxiety. It also galvanised governments around the country into passing a flurry of antipedophile measures, including new offences for accessing and downloading child porn on the internet or using a mobile phone camera to distribute home-made material.
Mr Baldy, Brian Jones, whose imminent release from jail has prompted the State Government to introduce tough restrictions.
But a wide net inevitably scoops up small fry along with the big fish. The same laws that nab hard-core recidivists such as "Mr Baldy," Brian Jones - whose imminent release is causing the Victorian Government to rush through measures restricting the movement of dangerous sex offenders - also prosecute teenage lovers furtively bridging the age of consent divide or past offenders, such as Tom, deemed worthy of rejoining the fold.
The swift legislative pace has left little time to debate this point, or, perhaps more crucially, whether the increasingly heavyhanded approach actually frustrates the wider fight against child sex abuse.
Prominent criminologists, lawyers and even some child advocates think it does. On the other hand, victim groups, who only recently secured a seat at the policy table, think the changes are long overdue.
How do you stop the runaway train of populism to check whether it is fuelled by sound policy?
"What we've been seeing for about the past five years, particularly with the sex abuse that's come out of the church and so on, is an ongoing moral panic," says Simon Petrie, who develops crime prevention programs in Queensland. "The two things that happen in moral panic are 'zero tolerance' and a lack of rational debate. You can't defend predatory sexual behaviour of any sort but the problem is, whenever a moral panic is on, anyone who wants to enter into a discourse on it is painted as 'soft'."
In Victoria, the politics of zero-tolerance have created a headache for the Bracks Government. It ended the career of popular Orbost teacher Andrew Phillips for a sexual assault on a 15-year-old girl when he was 20.
The Government initially envisaged a discretionary system, which would allow for individual exceptions, but backed down after an outcry from the Opposition and media.
Phillips' fate has added to controversy over proposed laws that would similarly ban anyone convicted of a child sex offence from working with children.
The proposals please Parents Victoria and prominent child welfare campaigners such as Joe Tucci of the Australian Childhood Foundation, who argues that setting the bar high is the best way of deterring would-be abusers adept at chilling manipulation. But the outcry over Phillips has cast the dilemma into sharp relief."
Any law which provides no discretion for individual circumstances is a bad law," former Law Institute president Bill O'Shea told a community forum recently. He warned that an inflexible system could influence judges against recording convictions for minor cases. The proposed law unfairly penalised people guilty of "a minor sexual offence in the distant past" or "a more serious sexual offence but have been rehabilitated and can therefore be regarded as no more likely to re-offend than any other member of the community".
Picking the recidivist is an inexact science, however. One cloudy point of reference is the official American Psychiatric Association definition of a pedophile: a person 16 or older with persistent sexual urges for children at least five years younger, which are either acted upon or cause distress.
But, as forensic psychiatrist Bill Glaser puts it, "you don't get pedophiles breeding in pure cultures"."
Let's say you're a 12 or 13-year-old girl hanging around with a 17-year-old guy," Glaser says. "It's possible that both parties could well be said to be mutually consenting and the matter would never go to the police.
There's probably thousands of such relationships in Victoria."
But you've got to remember that most people who prey on kids start off young themselves - in their mid to late teenage years, and also that sex offenders always do much more than they're ever picked up for."
I've seen guys take up with 15 or 16- year-olds who I'd call pedophiles because their preferred interest is much younger ...
Many of these guys may have convictions in their teenage years that look harmless but they were really just unlucky enough to get caught that time."
But criminologists, such as Griffith University's Stephen Smallbone, claim the law-and-order debate is driven by misconceptions about the highly recidivist nature of child sex offenders.
A landmark Canadian study of 22,000 child sex offenders from various countries found only 13 per cent re-offend five years after their release - a figure considerably lower than for other violent crimes.
Smallbone's research on adolescent offenders, coupled with empirical findings elsewhere, also contradict the popularly held view that most young child sex offenders continue their crimes into adulthood.
Forensic psychologist Karen Owen, who runs sex offender treatment programs for Corrections Victoria, echoes Smallbone's concerns: "The current policy isn't reflective of what we know about treatment, that you need an individual approach ...
There are a number of adolescents who get caught up in the system whose issues aren't about sex and children, and you really question what they're doing on a register in the first place. It's a huge thing that impacts on people's lives and livelihoods."
Owen says profiling is harder still with those convicted of accessing child porn on the net. She recalls a long-time pedophile who was finally apprehended for loitering when he resorted to secretly videotaping children."
This sort of individual doesn't have to loiter in public places now because he has access to the internet," Owen says. "But at the moment there is really no direct evidence that the use of internet porn or other porn material actually leads to a hands-on offence."
Experts say the true picture instead suggests that small numbers of extremely high-risk offenders - perhaps only 10 per cent of the lot - clock up enough victims on their own to skew the statistics. And yet this is also why letting one such compulsive person slip through the net can have potentially catastrophic consequences - and why deterring them saves potentially hundreds of victims a lifetime of trauma.
Working-with-children checks in Queensland and NSW do give people convicted of a child sex offence the chance to plead their case.
In Queensland, an employee of an Aboriginal community school last year successfully petitioned the Court of Appeal to keep his job. Police checks revealed an offence committed in 1988, when the man was in his 30s, which involved the "improper touching" of a 13 year-old girl. At the time, he was also dismissed from his job at a youth crisis housing centre after being repeatedly cautioned for acting inappropriately with young girls.
The court was swayed by the narrow time frame of his offending behaviour, his willingness to take responsibility and his successful rearing of children and foster children in the years since.
Giving a convicted child sex offender the benefit of the doubt sits uneasily with most people, but for increasingly influential victims advocates it sparks understandable rage. "I've never met anyone who really believes these people can be cured," says Noel McNamara, head of the Crime Victims Support Association. He had lobbied the Victorian Government to introduce a compulsory sex offenders register for years, to no avail. Later, on advice from fellow activists in the United States, he threatened to set up and publish one of his own. "We decided we had to do something because we weren't getting anywhere and Robbie Hulls (the state Attorney-General) looked like he was going to be around for a long time. We had to use a lever."
The association never followed through, but the South Australian-based Movement Against Kindred Offenders (MAKO) did. Its website, replete with offender aliases and photographs, lists more than 1200 names.
MAKO founder Kylie Newman says putting communities on alert and offenders on notice outweighs civil rights considerations."
I was a victim myself," she says, "and it never leaves you, let me tell you."
A lot of them don't deserve to released Anything they get other than death is a blessing to them."
It's a view many share - even if secretly.
And yet it's the tendency to tar all offenders with the shame brush - subject them all to the same harsh consequences - that some say impedes the war against child sex abuse.
It is a war in which the family remains the largely unconquered battlefield.
There's a sobering example in Western Australia. In the recent state elections, child sex abuse survivor and activist Michelle Stubbs unsuccessfully contested a seat for the Liberals. Attacking Labor as soft on crime, the Opposition concentrated on SafeCare, a child protection agency that also offers a radical counselling program for familial child sex offenders.
The program, funded by both parties for more than a decade and publicly praised by former federal community services minister Amanda Vanstone, aims to break the generational cycle of child sex abuse. The offender is given "conditional confidentiality" if he or she agrees to leave the family home and undergo treatment. The option is offered only when victims are reluctant to press charges.
The Opposition attacked the program for undermining the criminal justice system. SafeCare survived the criticism, but the affair illustrates how the intricacies of child sex abuse can get ironed out in a heated debate that favours one-size- fits-all solutions.
Says SafeCare's clinical director, former Greens senator Christabel Chamarette: "I'm glad people are more aware of the problem (of child sex abuse), but we now have to move towards further understanding and away from knee-jerk reactions. It should be self-evident that we also need to look at a healing approach."
The experts agree widely on this; pointing to the apparent success of early intervention programs in the US and Britain that encourage people suffering deviant urges to come forward.
But they'll be the first to concede that this is a hard sell. Says Owen: "We like to think that if you're a child sex offender you wear a grey raincoat, you're a bit filthy and you hang around in parks. Because these sort of men aren't our fathers, our brothers or the man sitting next to us on the tram- it's a way of distancing ourselves from the problem."
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Our job is to work with state agencies to create and manage forward-thinking, sustainable buildings to meet the needs of the Commonwealth's citizens. We are partners with fellow agencies to help them meet their strategic needs with fiscally responsible building and real estate solutions. We support the growth of the Commonwealth's economy and actively engage with private sector partners to make it easier to do business with the Commonwealth and improve access and opportunity.
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Brownsville church plans 1800's-era holiday service
The Christ Church Anglican in Brownsville will present an 1800's-era Christmas service on Saturday in the tradition of that experienced by Brownsville's pioneers, including Jacob Bowman and his family, which will be portrayed by a Brownsville family dressed in period costume.
The one-hour church service, led by the Rev. Deacon Donald Bowers, will begin at 6 p.m. Saturday in the Anglican church at 319 Church St. It will include Christmas carols, the only deviation from the original worship.
Members of the congregation will be dressed in period clothing for the solemn, meditative service, which is taken from the 1789 prayer book of the Anglican Church. The doors to the church, which seats about 200 people, will open at 5:30 p.m.
"As a church, we want to do things that are meaningful for the community. We want to share the history of our church, spread Christmas cheer and create a memorable celebration of the season," said Mark Kovscek, who will portray Jacob Bowman. The remainder of his large family portrays the Bowman clan.
A 10-minute prelude focused on the church's history, architecture, liturgy and decorations, will be performed prior to the service, Kovscek said.
The prelude will feature a dramatic performance by Kovscek and his family, dressed as the Bowmans. Jacob Bowman's father was German and Kovscek said he will speak in German, a small section of a Christmas poem written for children by the famed church reformer, Martin Luther. Kovscek's 7-year-old daughter, Emily, will recite the poem in English.
Following the service, the "Bowman family" will go to their homestead, Nemacolin Castle, to perform Christmas carols as part of the Brownsville Historical Society's candlelight tours. Bowman built the original wing of historic Nemacolin Castle in 1789 as a trading post.
Kovscek will portray Jacob Bowman as a 43-year-old man, the same age as Kovscek. His wife, Heidi, will portray Isabel Bowman, the Irish wife of the businessman.
The Bowman children will be portrayed by the Kovscek children: Hannah, 17, portraying Mary Sterling; Olivia, 15, as Annie Elliott; Emma, 13, as Harriet Elizabeth; Nathanael, 11, as James L.; Ava, 7, as Matilda; and Gloria, 3, as Louisa. All but two of their ages match those of the Bowman children in 1805.
Kovscek, who is president of a small software development firm, has been portraying Bowman for about three years.
"I have a fascination with history and the connection between Christ Church (Anglican) and the Bowman family," said Kovscek, who is senior warden of the church, the highest lay position. Bowman also was a senior layman of the church.
"The parallels are fascinating," Kovscek said.
Kovscek said his family's historical impersonation of the Bowman family evolved out of his daughter, Hannah, writing a tour guide for a historic church tour of Brownsville during a recent Market Street Arts Festival.
"One thing led to another and the next thing you know, we were the Bowmans. We kind of got the bug after that," Kovscek added.
The elaborate period costumes worn by the family were made by Jackie Lapisardi, who also is involved with the Market Street Arts Festival.
Kovscek and his wife, Heidi Gearhart Kovscek, grew up in Belle Vernon and have lived in Brownsville for about 15 years. They moved to Washington, D.C., and then moved to Brownsville, where they were involved in youth ministries.
Joe Napsha is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at 724-836-5252 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Amrapali Soni, BA '05
To see photos of other alumni friends from recent chapter meetings, go to www.alumni.buffalo.edu/chapters
The annual Buffalo Tailgate was held at Jimmy's Old Town Tavern in Herndon, VA, outside Washington, DC, on September 23. Alumni, family and friends from the DC chapter also attended a pregame mingling event at Fado Irish Pub before attending the Sabres–Capitals hockey game on December 14 in the Verizon Center. DC was also the host city for an all-SUNY reception on September 25. This was followed by a Buffalo Night hosted by the New York State Society on September 26.
The Buffalo Sabres visited San Jose to the delight of 50 UB alumni and friends who attended a pregame reception cosponsored with the College of Arts and Sciences. Dean Bruce D. McCombe was present to welcome guests.
Chapters in Phoenix and Charlotte hosted viewing parties, as the Buffalo Bills played the New York Jets and the New England Patriots on October 28 and November 18, respectively.
The GOLD Group (Graduates of the Last Decade) hosted a Sabres viewing party December 12 in Buffalo at Brennan's Bowery Bar & Restaurant that saw 15 people mingle, network and cheer on the team. The group hosted four other events locally, including a gift-wrapping community service opportunity with 30 participants.
On September 20, the College of Arts and Sciences hosted an intimate evening of wine tasting among 25 alumni in Scarsdale, NY. The New York City chapter held its annual GOLD Buffalo Wings Night on December 6 at Troos in Manhattan. Also in New York, a large group of UB Bulls football fans got together at Blondies Sports Bar on October 20 to watch the Bulls–Syracuse game from the Carrier Dome.
In Houston, spirits of a different sort were offered on December 6 during a holiday wine-tasting party at the Sonoma Wine Bar.
A dedicated group of alumni met at Jillian's in Albany on November 4 to discuss the priorities and goals for a future Albany chapter, followed by a football-watching party featuring the Buffalo Bills vs. the Cincinnati Bengals.


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Knoxville, Tenn. - Drew Schauss scored the first points for Brevard, but the Tornados fell in their final action of the 2010-2011 preseason to the University of Tennessee Volunteers, 91-42.
Josh Roper led Brevard with 15 points on the evening, while Jermichael Tanner added seven points, including a three-pointer from the left corner. Josh Jordan led Brevard in the middle with 12 rebounds, six offensive and six defensive, while Roper and Schauss each had two assists.
Scotty Hopson led four Volunteers in double figures with 17 points, going six of nine from the floor, including three of four from behind the arc. Tobias Harris added 16 points and five rebounds, while Trae Golden and Brian Williams had 11 points apiece. Renaldo Woolridge led the Volunteers on the glass as the hosts held the 54-40 rebounding edge in the game.
The game was scoreless throughout the first minute before Schauss put the Tornados in the lead with the first points of the game, connecting on a jumper in the short right corner to give Brevard the 2-0 lead. Tennessee responded as Goins stripped Tanner and put in the dunk to tie the game up at the 18 minute mark and then Tobias Harris connected on a jumper and completed the old-fashioned three-point play with a free throw, giving Tennessee their first lead of the contest. Roper connected on a three-point attempt from the top of the key to tie the ball game up, but Tennessee came back, scoring the next six points, going up 11-5 on a dunk by Williams.
Tennesee continued their run, going up 18-7 on a layup by Goins as the Volunteers defense forced nine BC turnovers in the first half to build a 26-11 lead. Tanner snapped a 3:08 scoreless streak for Brevard with a floater in the lane, while Roper and Schauss converted free throws to bring the score back to 37-16 with 2:05 to play in the half.
The Volunteers closed out the half with a 6-0 run capped by a layup by Harris and Roper missed a three-pointer at the buzzer as the teams headed into the locker rooms with the Volunteers up 43-16.
Roper led the Tornados at the half with eight points, going three of 12 from the floor, while Jordan led the way with seven rebounds. Harris was the Volunteers leader at the midway point with 12 points, while John Fields and Renaldo Woolridge both had five rebounds to lead Tennessee.
In the second half, the Volunteers outscored the Tornados 48-26 to claim the 91-42 victory. Roper led the Tornados with seven points in the second half, including the final points of the game on a breakaway layup to close out the game.
This concludes the Brevard preseason, as the Tornados open up the 2010-2011 regular season on Saturday, November 20th in Charlotte, N.C. as they travel to Time Warner Cable Arena to take on the Belmont Abbey Crusaders. Tipoff for the game is set for 2 p.m.
Tennessee Highlight Reel from the Game


text: As Apple continues to bring its Developer Center back online after a week-long outage, the company is sending out emails to developers noting a potential delay for app reviews. ReadWrite has posted one of the letters being received by developers: Such letters are not uncommon, of course, but given the amount of time that the Developer Center was offline, it makes sense that Apple would have a backlog of reviews to work through. While app updates were available, new apps were not able to be submitted to Apple during the outage. According to one developer, he received the email after waiting six days for a review and after waiting another five days, his app has yet to be approved. It is unknown, however, whether or not there is a secondary issue with his app, as other developers have had apps approved at a more rapid pace. Apple's Developer Center first went offline on Thursday, July 18, and several days later, Apple announced that the outage was the result of a security breach. While a security researcher suggested that he might be the reason behind the outage, it remains unclear what caused the extended downtime. Late last week, Apple outlined a plan for bringing the site back online, and began restoring systems on Friday. While the majority of Developer Center functions are now up and running, the Member Center, Forums, Videos, and Technical Support remain offline. Update: According to the forums, many developers are currently seeing no delays at all with the app review process, especially for app updates. Article Link: Extended Developer Center Outage May Be Causing App Review Delays [Updated]


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Mr. Perfect: Koji Uehara's streak of batters retired reaches 27 in another Red Sox comeback
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NEW YORK -- Imagine throwing a perfect game over a three-week span. In essence, that's what closer Koji Uehara has done for the Red Sox.
With another perfect ninth inning in Friday night's come-from-behind 12-8 victory over the Yankees, Uehara extended his streak to 27 consecutive batters retired. The last batter to reach base against him: Yankees first baseman Lyle Overbay with a two-out double Aug. 17 at Fenway Park.
"I guess just judging from the numbers it is (a perfect game)," Uehara said. "It's not really an official record or anything like that."
But it is the second-longest perfect streak by a Red Sox pitcher. Hideo Nomo retired 31 consecutive batters over two starts in 2001.
With the Red Sox leading by four runs, it wasn't a save situation for Uehara. But he already was loose in the bullpen, and manager John Farrell has been vigilant about not warming up the 38-year-old closer without bringing him into a game.
A few other notes:
--Among the reasons the Red Sox signed Mike Napoli last winter: As a visitor to Fenway Park, he always seemed to hit like Babe Ruth. Turns out, his power in the Bronx is downright Ruthian, too. Napoli has hit two grand slams here this season, including a shot in the seventh inning that was tailor-made for Yankee Stadium. It carried further than anyone guessed it would, hitting off the top of the wall of the short right field porch and tying the game at 8-8. It marked Napoli's third grand slam this season and first since June 1, when he also went deep to right-center field at the new stadium across the street from where the House That Ruth Built once stood. And just to continue the theme: The only Sox player with more slams in one season is -- you guessed it -- Ruth, who bashed four in 1919, one year before being sold to the Yankees. "That's pretty cool," Napoli said. "It's pretty shallow to right field here. I've been able to drive balls to right field throughout my career, so it's definitely comfortable hitting here knowing that I can hit something in the air that way and it'll go out." (More on Napoli in Saturday's Herald.)
--Will Middlebrooks hit a solo homer in the fifth inning and has gone deep in three consecutive games. He finished 2-for-5 and is hitting .350 with five homers in his 25 games since returning from Triple A exile on Aug. 10. "This is what we play for all year," Middlebrooks said. "We've grinded through a lot of stuff. I can't speak for the other guys, but I know it's been a long year for me. It gives me an opportunity to turn my season around, make it a positive season. All I want to do is help us win. People are going to look at numbers, but I can't at this point. I'm not worried about it. If you're doing what you're supposed to do, the results will be there."
--Last September, with the Red Sox' season spiraling into oblivion, Felix Doubront finished strong and offered a glimpse of his potential as a reliable starter. This season, it's just the opposite.
After being one of the Sox' most consistent starters throughout the season, Doubront failed to complete the fourth inning for a second straight outing. He allowed six runs and tied a career-high with six walks, leaving the Red Sox in an early hole. "Mechanically it's a little bit off," Doubront said. "I don't know. I've got no words for what happened. I have to figure out something." With a day off Monday, Farrell hinted that the Red Sox may decide to skip Doubront's next start, especially with Clay Buchholz slated to rejoin the rotation next week.
--Right fielder Daniel Nava walked and singled, extending his on-base streak to 41 consecutive starts.
--The Red Sox scored 41 runs and hit 13 homers in the last three games, an offensive surge that will coincide Saturday with a start by John Lackey. The Sox have been shut out in six of Lackey's starts.
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In the World Motor Sport Council's (WMSC) final meeting of the year held in Istanbul on Friday, the governing body declared two significant changes to the sporting regulations for the 2013 season.
For safety reasons, use of the Drag Reduction System device has been restricted to the sections of the track assigned as DRS zones for the race. Earlier, the rear-wing mechanism was allowed to be used throughout the course of the circuit during practice and qualifying.
Furthermore, the governing body has extended the team personnel curfew from six to eight hours on Thursday night and reduced the exceptions from four to two during the season.


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In touch with my senses
– eating with my hands
Hi Everyone,
I love eating with my hands; there is something earthly and sensual about it. Eating with my hands allows me to engage with my food intimately in a way that no knife, fork or spoon can. This style of eating indelibly marks me as a product of the multi-cultural society to which I proudly belong. And I wouldn't have it any other way.
Growing up, the only person in our house who ate with her hands whenever she felt like it was my mother. On occasions, such as when dhal or roti was cooked, we got to eat with our hands. One day I worked up the courage to ask her why we (my sister Pat and I; my brother Eon was too young at the time) could not eat with our hands like she did. Bear in mind I would have been about 10 years old at the time. My mother's succinct response was, "Because I say you can't. Eat your food." Some time later, not the same day, more like weeks later, I recall her making a deal with us. She said, "When you all have mastered the art of eating with a knife and fork, then you can eat some of your meals with your hands but only the ones I say you can eat with your hands." This meant that things like baked chicken, fried rice, cook-up rice, Spanish rice, you know, all the fancy dishes, were off-limits for hand-eating. Like many Caribbean parents, my mom was concerned that we should be seen as having 'good table manners' and often this meant conforming to English notions of what was proper. She often explained that she was teaching us these things so that when we grew up we would know how to conduct ourselves properly.
Nevertheless, with practise, and by carefully watching my mom and other relatives, I quickly mastered the art of eating with my hands; oh yes, there is an art to it. You cannot let the palm of your hands be covered with food; the food must be mixed with your fingers and taken in small portions cupped by closed fingers with the thumb operating as the lever that will deliver the delightful morsel to your mouth. When it comes to mixing your food, you do so a little at a time, in other words, you won't mix everything on your plate at one time, so you mix a little, eat that, then mix a little more and eat that until you finish the food on your plate. And finally, your free hand should always be left clean. While I had quickly mastered this, my sister Pat, when she was younger, struggled; she could mix the food, but she could not execute the action of forming the cup with her fingers and transporting the food to her mouth. The problem is that she always had her fingers spread apart and the food would invariably fall out. So, it took her a while to be able to eat with her hands and to this day, though she has mastered it, she opts for other eating utensils. My brother has never been interested eating with his hands.
What I like about eating with my hands is that it puts me in touch with my senses. As we all know, we eat with our eyes first but touching the food is an altogether different experience – the warm, fluffy rice that caresses your fingers, the soft flat bread that begs to be torn and doused with a fragrant sauce, slathered with butter or to envelope meat, chicken, vegetables or pickles, the sushi roll that fits comfortably between your thumb and index finger. The intimacy of such touches is complete when the food reaches your mouth and engages your sense of taste while giving a big shout out to your sense of smell. Soon, you find yourself almost in a trance as you eat.
Eating with your hands is also about feeling comfortable, feeling at home and at ease. I remember being shy the first time I ate with my hands in front of my best friend. Being British born and bred, she ate all her meals with knife and fork and all the trappings of British notions of proper table manners. I had cooked curried chicken and rice – she was joyfully eating her meal with her knife and fork and there I was, looking down at my plate longingly and wishing with all my might that I could down my fork and sahnay my food. I asked her if she'd mind if I ate with my hands "Not at all," she said, as if she'd been asked this question many times. As blasphemous as this may sound, it was like an Alleluia-moment.
There's only one downside to eating with your hands, when you want more food and you're the only person in the house at the time. You have to get up, wash your hands, dry them and then get what you need; by the time you're done washing up and drying, it's possible you might have lost your appetite, but hey, that might not be a bad thing right? After all, if you've lost your appetite, then surely you didn't need the second helping you were going after.
Let me leave you with this – tomorrow is Valentine's Day. Why not make a meal and feed each other, with your hands, I bet you it will be romantic and you'll always remember the sweet hands that fed you.
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Videos by the likes of Bjork, Radiohead and Fatboy Slim feature in a new exhibition at Liverpool's Tate Gallery. The exhibition examines the crossover between visual and aural arts. Remix: Contemporary Art And Pop will feature portraits of music artists, plus videos and installations covering themes such as dub and sampling. Remix: Contemporary Art And Pop runs at the Tate Gallery from May 25 to August 26.
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