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If theater is your religion and the Broadway musical your sect, you've been woefully faith-challenged of late. Venturesome, boundary-pushing works such as Spring Awakening, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and Next to Normal closed too soon. American Idiot was shamefully ignored at the Tonys and will be gone in three weeks. Meanwhile, that airborne infection Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark dominates headlines and rakes in millions, without even opening. Celebrities and corporate brands sell poor material, innovation gets shown the door, and crap floats to the top. It's enough to turn you heretic, to sing along with The Book of Mormon's Ugandan villagers: "Fuck you God in the ass, mouth and cunt-a, fuck you in the eye."
Such deeply penetrating lyrics offer a smidgen of the manifold scato-theological joys to be had at this viciously hilarious treat crafted by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, of South Park fame, and composer-lyricist Robert Lopez, who cowrote Avenue Q. As you laugh your head off at perky Latter-day Saints tap-dancing while fiercely repressing gay tendencies deep in the African bush, you will be transported back ten years, when The Producers and Urinetown resurrected American musical comedy, imbuing time-tested conventions with metatheatrical irreverence and a healthy dose of bad-taste humor. Brimming with cheerful obscenity, sharp satire and catchy tunes, The Book of Mormon is a sick mystic revelation, the most exuberantly entertaining Broadway musical in years.
The high quality of the writing, design and direction (the latter duty shared by Parker and the seasoned Casey Nicholaw) should surprise no one: Parker and Stone have been honing their musical-theater chops for nearly two decades. The team's student film, Cannibal! The Musical, was made in 1993, and in 1999, South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut was aptly (if cheekily) hailed as the year's best new musical. More recently, Team America: World Police paid snarky homage to Rent with the parody ballad "Everyone Has AIDS." As for Lopez, his long-running puppets-behaving-badly hit speaks for itself. These song-and-dance pranksters were destined to one day mock the Church of Latter-day Saints, an institution that, like the Broadway musical, is a singularly American invention.
Starting off in (where else?) Salt Lake City, Utah, The Book of Mormon follows a mismatched pair of proselytizers, Elders Price (Rannells) and Cunningham (Gad). The former is the clean-cut ideal of a Mormon doorbell-pusher: white-bread, well-groomed and safely asexual. Cunningham, however, is a fat, slovenly manchild who tends to lie. Despite Price's callow wish to be assigned missionary work in Orlando, Florida, the two are sent to save souls in war-torn, AIDS-ravaged, poverty-stricken Uganda. The dawning horror on Rannells's face and the spastic, gleeful incomprehension on Gad's upon hearing the news is priceless. The evolving friendship between their two characters lays the emotional foundation for the show, and gives even the cruelest jokes about disease, racism and homophobic self-loathing a sweetish, innocent finish. That human dimension reminds you that the long-lived comic genius of South Park (heading into its 15th year) relies on children blinded by navet, but who can see through society's lies.
Likewise, by smashing together two disparate worlds—prim, über-Caucasoid Mormons and long-suffering, hope-starved Africans—the creators can lampoon Western illusions about that complex, troubled continent (the anthem "I Am Africa" is sung by distinctly pale cast members), while scoring laughs off the sort of horrors that should never be put on a Broadway stage ("I have maggots in my scrotum" is a recurring lament). We chortle disgustedly at an African man who thinks raping a baby will cure his AIDS (a documented crime), but truly grotesque is the notion that a couple of Bible-toting white boys can be of any real help.
In fact, the uses and abuses of faith, the strange persistence of these ancient (or in the case of Mormonism, not so ancient) bedtime stories, is a central theme. Religion, the creators firmly point out, is showbiz, and the satire bites into both the absurdities of Joseph Smith and his angel Moroni, and the intoxicating frivolity of musicals. Of the dozen or so classics referenced by musical pastiche, sight gag or laugh line, there's Wicked, Pacific Overtures, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Music Man, The Lion King (naturally) and The Producers.
Such a magpie aesthetic makes perfect sense for a show that examines, with impressive insight, cultural transmission, adaptation and assimilation. "It was a bunch of stuff you made up," Price says to comfort Cunningham, who fabricates a wildly blasphemous version of Mormonism for the natives. "But it pointed to something bigger." Just so, The Book of Mormon is more than a collection of offensive jokes about female genital mutilation, bestiality and Mormon kitsch; it's about our ineradicable hunger for narrative and mystery—no matter how weird, sick or damnably fake.


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Governor proclaims July 16 as Americans with Disabilities Act Day
CHICAGO - In honor of the 23rd anniversary of the historic signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) will sponsor a special event showcasing Illinois' continued commitment to persons with disabilities. The free event will be held Tuesday, July 16 from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. at the James R. Thompson Center in Chicago.
"We're committed to keeping the promise of equality and continuing to improve the quality of life for people with disabilities in the state of Illinois," said IDHS Secretary Michelle R.B. Saddler. "During fiscal year 2013, the IDHS Division of Rehabilitation Services helped more than 5,000 individuals enter the workforce and live independently."
Governor Pat Quinn also proclaimed July 16 as Americans with Disabilities Act Day in Illinois and encourages all citizens to reaffirm the principles of equality and inclusion by ensuring that people with disabilities are included in the mainstream community life.
This year's celebration, "ADA Breaking Down the Barriers," highlights the talents and accomplishments of people with disabilities through art and interactive exhibits, entertainment provided by performers with disabilities, workshops and a three-on-three wheelchair basketball exhibition. The Illinois Department of Employment Security and the IDHS Division of Rehabilitation Services will also host a job fair for persons with disabilities from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The "ADA Breaking Down the Barriers" celebration encourages the state and persons with disabilities to work together in the same spirit that accompanied the original enactment of this law. This celebration highlights the contributions of persons with disabilities in Illinois, as well as their everyday challenges and successes. It also serves as a reminder to every citizen of the importance of civil rights protections for Illinois residents and facilitates broader awareness about an inclusive society.
For the last 23 years, IDHS has joined with a coalition of other state agencies and councils to sponsor a statewide event commemorating the passage of the ADA, which was signed into law in 1990. The celebration not only recognizes the accomplishments of people with disabilities, it shows how state agencies, programs and other organizations have worked to implement the law. Illinois has a long standing history of protecting the rights of persons with disabilities, going back more than 30 years to the passage of the Illinois Human Rights Act (December 6, 1979), which prohibits discrimination against any person with a "physical or mental disability."
For more information about IDHS programs and services for persons with disabilities, please visit www.dhs.state.il.us.
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A grand jury in Florida is going to investigate the killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, a case that has grabbed national attention because of concern that the young man may have been a victim of racial profiling and that local police haven't been aggressive enough about looking into his death.
Orlando's WESH-TV reports that:
"State Attorney Norm Wolfinger announced Tuesday his decision that a grand jury will investigate the Trayvon Martin case." 'I share in the desire of the family and the community to accurately collect and evaluate all the facts surrounding the tragic death of Trayvon Martin,' Wolfinger said in a news release."
Update at 11:40 a.m. ET. This Was "A Hate Crime," Congresswoman Says:
On Tell Me More a short time ago, Rep. Corrine Brown, D-Fla., whose district includes Sanford — where Martin was killed on Feb. 26 — said she believes "this ... was really a hate crime."
George Zimmerman, who killed Martin in what he says was a case of self defense, was a "self-appointed" neighborhood watch patroller who focused on Martin solely because the young African-American man was "walking while black," Brown asserted.
During her conversation with host Michel Martin, which came before Wolfinger's announcement about the grand jury, Brown said she only has faith in the federal Justice Department to properly investigate the incident. As we reported earlier, the FBI and Justice's Civil Rights Division are getting involved.
Update at 11:18 a.m. ET. Wolfinger's Complete Statement:
"I share in the desire of the family and the community to accurately collect and evaluate all the facts surrounding the tragic death of Trayvon Martin. That is why I directed the expeditious review of the investigation which was delivered by the Sanford Police Department one week ago today; areas for further investigation have been identified; and, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement has agreed to assist and has been working hard with my office since Friday March 16th. I will also be utilizing the investigative resources of the Seminole County Grand Jury which will be called to session on Tuesday, April 10, 2012."I respectfully request that the public remain patient as this process continues forward. We are a country based upon law, and as the State Attorney for the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit I am sworn to uphold those laws. As I have previously stated, the public is entitled to no less than a thorough, deliberate, and just review of the facts. We intend to honor that commitment."Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.


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An apparent grenade attack on an anti-government protest in Thailand's capital has killed at least two people and wounded nearly two dozen others, as unrest in the country continues amid a push by opposition forces to topple the elected prime minister.
NPR's Michael Sullivan reports:
"The blast occurred near Central World shopping mall in the heart of [Bangkok] and at least three children are among those most seriously injured, according to the government-run Erawan Medical Center.
"The blast occurred less than 24 hours after an attack on anti-government demonstrators in the eastern province of Trat. A 5-year-old girl who'd been eating noodles at a nearby restaurant was killed in that incident, with many more wounded, raising fears that the long-running political crisis in Thailand may be reaching a critical point."
The latest round of unrest in Thailand stems from an amnesty bill introduced last year by the government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra that would have allowed her billionaire brother, Thaksin Shinawatra, a former premier ousted in a 2006 coup, to return to the country despite a conviction on corruption charges.
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You have a busy life and a to-do list a mile long. Unfortunately simply adding a new task to your to-do list doesn't actually mean it'll get done. Wouldn't it be nice if you could get out in front of your to-dos at work and at home, always know what's on your plate, and even have a little time to think about how you can work smarter instead of slaving away every day? You can, and it's easy to do: you just need to incorporate a weekly review into your schedule.
What Is a Weekly Review?
Simply put, the weekly review is a set-aside period every week, usually an hour or two, where you dedicate yourself to getting organized for the week ahead and ensure that nothing is slipping through the cracks. We'll get to how later, but the important thing to remember is that the review is time reserved for you to be an executive of your personal and professional life, organize your tasks, make lists of people you need to follow up with, and arrange your priorities so you're always working on the things that are actually important. Photo by David Chico Pham.
This also means that you shouldn't spend your review time actually working. This is your time to step back, connect with your work, and act like an executive—the CEO of a company of one. During your review, it's important that you—like any good manager—set the priorities, not micro-manage.
David Allen, the creator of the popular Getting Things Done productivity technique and proponent of the weekly review, has said that if you're not doing a weekly review, you're not really following GTD. Of course, you don't need to follow GTD to take advantage of the weekly review; all you need is a desire to get a better handle on your work and life.
The weekly review is supposed to help you do three things: get clear, get current, and get creative.
Get Clear. Take some time to clean up your workspace and empty your inbox. Then, review your projects. Which are most important? Which ones have milestones coming up in the following week? Organize them by priority and urgency so when you start next week, you'll know what to start without having to think about it.
Get Current. Look at your calendar. Perhaps next week you have a big meeting with your boss about a big software upgrade, but you forgot to call the vendor to get the details. Put that call on the calendar for next week, and give yourself enough time to research before your meeting with your boss. Finally, check your mail for anyone you may be waiting on input from. Make notes or appointments to check in with them next week.
Get Creative. Look at those projects you've always wanted to get to, like redesigning your personal web site, and think about what small parts of those projects you might be able to slip into your schedule. Think about how you can be more efficient—maybe you're a sysadmin and there's a new tool that will cut down on the time you spend each week pushing patches to your servers. Take some time to get out in front of your life, instead of sitting in the passenger seat.
First Things First: Put It On The Calendar
Pick a day that works for you—whether it's the end of the week, or the day after a big weekly event that you have to deal with at work—and put your weekly review on the calendar for the end of the day. If you wait until you have your whole weekly review planned out and ready to go, you'll never do it. Ideally, you'll want to make it the last thing you do that day, and schedule it for a good hour or two. Photo by Joe Lanman.
I scheduled my weekly reviews for Friday at 5pm, and stretched them out until 7pm, when I normally left the office. It sounds like a long time, but you'll only need that time when you get started and have a lot to go over. With time and practice, you may even get your weekly review down to 30 minutes. It's not impossible, and hey—if you finish early, you can go home early, right? Either way, get it on the calendar, and the rest will follow.
Build Your Checklist
A weekly review checklist is an essential tool to making sure you touch on all three of the pillars mentioned above. Here's what a basic review checklist looks like, courtesy of GTD Times: Photo by Karuka (Shutterstock).
Get Clear
Collect loose papers and materials
Get Inbox to zero
Empty your head
Get Current
Review Action Lists
Review past calendar data
Review upcoming calendar
Review Waiting For list
Review Project (and larger outcome) lists
Review any relevant checklists
Get Creative
Review Someday/Maybe
Be creative and courageous
If you need more detail, David Allen offers a template checklist (free, but requires registration) on his site to get you started, and this one (scroll down to weekly review) is another good example. On the GTD forums, some users have shared their own checklists for inspiration. Whether you use a template or build yours from scratch (and it doesn't have to be long—just those things you want to make sure you do every week), make sure you populate it with things you want to review and not do. Remember, you're not supposed to spend time working during your weekly review—just reviewing.
My checklist is highly customized to my activities, and even if you start with a template, yours should be as well. If you don't work with paper, for example, there's no reason for you to spend time every week cleaning up your desk. Also, don't forget to include your personal activities in your weekly review—are you renovating your house? Planning to redecorate your apartment? Get those items on your checklist as well so you don't forget to check in on their progress as well.
Try a Trigger List
If you're having a hard time building a checklist, you may consider using a "trigger list" to jog your memory each week. The trigger list is just a long list of items you should scan during your weekly review to make sure you didn't forget anything. It's designed to trigger your memory and help you remember something you may have forgotten. We mentioned how you can use a trigger list for school and personal projects, and productivity guru Merlin Mann published this one at 43Folders a long time ago for professional projects.
To build your own trigger list, just copy and paste the templates, remove anything that doesn't make sense, and start brainstorming projects and areas of your life that might need a little follow up. Then just add them to the trigger list. As with your checklist, don't forget to add your personal life as well—your PTA commitments, community group, family events, even work-life balance and social events. The last thing you want is for your personal and social commitments to pile up while you spend time organizing your professional life. To build on the "CEO of one" analogy, think of yourself as the CEO of your whole life—not just the CEO of your job. They may be different divisions of the same company, but if one fails, they all fail.
Walk Through Your Review
When your weekly review is scheduled to begin, get in the mood. Get up, take a quick walk around your desk or office. Grab a cup of coffee or refill your water bottle. Make sure you're jazzed for it—you're about to close the books on your week, it should be a happy occasion! When you get back to your desk, put on your headphones, steer clear of any distractions, fire up your favorite song or a playlist (in fact, at the GTD forums, a number of users have "weekly review theme songs") and get started. Photo by Dan Foy.
Stick to your checklist. If you've built it with the three pillars in mind—clear, current, and creative—you should have a simple set of to-dos in front of you. Tidy up your inbox. If you're not sure how, consider emptying your inbox with the trusted trio. Add any actionable appointments or responsibilities to your calendar. Fire up your to-do app and clear out anything you've already done, and add new to-dos that come to mind. Finally, round out your review with the creativity items on your checklist—whether it's research, talking to other people you want to learn from, or just sitting with a cup of tea thinking about how you can work smarter and not harder.
Make Sure You're Reviewing and Not Doing
One common trap that people fall into when trying a weekly review is that they spend too much time actually doing things instead of reviewing them. If you hear someone say the weekly review only works for a small number of tasks, or that their weekly review takes hours upon hours, the problem may be that instead of scheduling a time to call that software vendor back, you're actually taking time out of your review to call them. Don't fall into that trap—it's tempting to do it now and get it off your plate, but a rule of thumb is that if the to-do takes more than 2 minutes to accomplish, stop and schedule it or put it in your to-do manager.
What a Real Weekly Review Looks Like in Action
I use a checklist and a trigger list every week for my review, and it's scheduled every Friday afternoon. Working with a team that spans time zones can make it a challenge, but the important thing is that you try to schedule it for a time when you won't have any distractions or interruptions. My weekly review is usually about an hour, and here's how it plays out: Photo by Lisa Yarost.
0-15 minutes: Clean up email/paper notes. Interview notes, new contacts, and emails I want to follow up on all get filed. If there's a message I can fire a response to in a minute or two, I'll respond, but nothing that requires research.
15-45 minutes: Review ideas, projects, calendar appointments. This is where I spend the bulk of my time. I look through my idea bank (stored in Wunderlist, which I mentioned last week), trash anything stale, add new ideas, and assign dates where I can. I head over to my to-do app (ReQall, another tool I love), clear out old and completed tasks, and add new or follow-up items based on my calendar, assignments, and trigger list.
45-60 minutes: Brainstorming. This is where I head back to my idea bank and start brainstorming topics I want to write or learn more about, items in the news that are worth investigating, and personal projects that need my attention.
Reap the Benefits
My weekly review is scheduled for an hour—it used to be two when I was a project manager—and it usually takes me about 45 minutes, give or take a cup of tea. It took some time to get used to, but I learned that when you take time to step back and reconnect with the things you have to do and why you have to do them, you begin to understand what's really important, what you really have time for, what you need help with, and how much bandwidth you actually have. You'll finally be able to respond to your boss when they ask you "So what's on your plate," without fudging the answer, and you'll know for fact whether you have time to help your neighbor with their landscaping project next weekend. Photo by wetwebwork.
Most people consider the weekly review a difficult thing to start, but it doesn't have to be. Hopefully, with these tools it's a bit easier to get into the habit, and once you're in it, you'll find the benefits will pop up all over your life. You'll be more organized, you'll never wonder if there's something you forgot to do or something you should be working on, and you'll never be afraid you forgot about something important. You'll be in control, and with that control comes the flexibility to accept changes as they happen.
Do you have a weekly review on the books? How long is it? Do you follow a checklist, or do something different? Share your techniques in the comments below.
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... myself!
It's been on my mind for a long time. But often time is my enemy and I find myself pushing such tasks to the bottom of my list. However, after just a little under 2 years, 330 posts and over half a million visitors to the blog, I seriously need to introduce myself.
So this becomes my official about page for What's For Lunch, Honey? Something that was missing all this time, making the blog and my blog personality rather incomplete. So, I start 2008 with a good resolution - a decent "about" page.
Who am I?
Meeta - that's my name given to me by my dad! I was born back in the summer of 1972, one beautiful day in Bombay, India. I was practically delivered in a hotel! It's where my father has worked for most of his life and it's what injected the hotelier's blood into my veins. This hotel lifestyle enabled me to travel the world, get close to many cultures, learn a few languages and experience many great adventures.
Knowing only a hotel life, I decided to follow my dad's footsteps and studied Hotel Management, specializing in Marketing and Guest Relations. I trained in one of the finest luxury hotels of this world in Doha, Qatar. That is when a tiny spark for food was ignited in my soul.
I now have settled down in Germany, with my two men, Tom my husband and Soeren my adorable son of 5 6 7 11 16 years.
Hotels are not a part of my life in Germany. After graduating I came to Germany and worked in an advertising firm, an architecture and design firm and a couple of software firms. Don't ask how that came about - it just happened!
Now I am in Weimar and for the first time in my life I feel grounded at having found a great place to lay my hat. But my travelling feet continue to itch! Let's see where life takes me.
I love photography, always have, but it was with the start of this blog that I discovered the world of Foodography. Since then the passion for photography I developed has taken a complete new angle and opened so many exciting doors. I try to capture shots that speak a thousand words, that makes one feel as if they were a part of the scene and experience the photo with their senses. You tell me if I am succeeding!
What's with the Food Blog?
Somewhere along the way I got obsessed with food. Not so much the eating it but more the cooking it. It was simply divine to see people relish the food I had prepared and then to see the perfect look of satisfaction on their faces. That was it! I did not need the compliments - it was that look that had me hooked.
You know the one I mean.
A bite, forkful or a spoonful of a dish and as you place it into your mouth your tongue begins to tingle with the burst of flavors you have been craving for all along - but simply were unable to find the perfect combination. You close your eyes because you just want to relish this one second for a moment longer.
That look on people's faces made it all worthwhile. As my recipes and creations became more elaborate I needed a way to express myself. I can talk, cook and eat food for hours. It never bores me. I just needed a way to share my passion, findings, research and experiments and that is the way I got around to creating a blog that mainly focuses on food.
I originally started with The Daily Tiffin, however I needed a more food oriented blog to satisfy my food craze and so a few days later What's For Lunch, Honey? was born.
Today, I feel quite proud with every mention, award, accolade or the results of a photo/writing job I have achieved with this blog. I never thought that What's For Lunch, Honey? would grow and become a prominent part of the Food Blogging community. And I certainly never thought I would have my own media and press page! But I do and it makes me ecstatic every time I get to update that page. LOL!
In February 2009 Times Online UK selected What's For Lunch, Honey? as one of the World's Top 50 Best Food Blogs.
Yup - you bet I feel good about that one!
What's with the name?
The name has a very simple story behind it. The blog was created within a few minutes and without much thought to it. It was actually created while I had a bake in the oven and my two men came in and asked "What's for lunch?" and right then and there I decided that, this would be the perfect name for a food blog.
I started with what now seems like a rather naive first post, but as always, once thrown in the deep water, I learn to swim on my own and fast. At that time I had no idea that there were so many other food blogs dotted all across the globe. As I discovered the wonderful world of food blogging I also discovered what an exceptional community this is. It has been a true gift to have found so many friends, support, motivation and fun along the way. Something I am always truly thankful of.
Today, What's For Lunch, Honey? has become a means for me to express thoughts, share my crazy ideas, experiment, muse, ramble and discover. I strive to share my passion and record them for myself to refer to later on in life. In the progress, I am learning something new almost everyday.
Quality Seal
Being a food blog the main ingredient of this blog is food. For me the first step to good food is knowing where it comes from. The quality of my ingredients is very important to me. I make sure that 90-95% of all my fresh produce, dairy, meat and several other products are organic. These not only taste better but it also fits into my bigger picture of being careful about the environment I live in and leave behind for my child (or children). I pay close attention to obtaining my ingredients from the local Farmer's Market or ordering them from my Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) organization. Each week I get a delivery of fresh fruit, vegetables, eggs, bread and other products which come from local, regional or national farmers.
Buying sensibly is important to me and I am willing to pay an extra cent or two when I know that the product is worth it. It makes cooking with such quality ingredients a lot more fun. Although this is important to me and I do support eating organic, seasonally and locally grown food where ever and whenever I can, I will not preach about it or shove it down peoples throats.
Several posts, regularly include a section about a specific product, which takes a closer look at the product from a health and nutrition point of view and gives helpful tips on selecting and storing. You will find many fresh products in my Ingredient and Food Know-Hows category.
More reading about my thoughts on organic food:
Organic Food - What is it?
Is Organic Food healthier?
The recipes you find on my blog are all put together with love, care and a lot of passion. The sources of my recipes are various - a newspaper or magazine, the Internet, a cookbook, my parents, grandparents, other family or friends, my own creations and experiments. I will never copy a recipe verbatim. Many a time I have altered or modified a recipe and almost always post my version of it. If I prepared the recipe from a cookbook or online food service I will most certainly recommend the book it came from or link to the online source. I do take time to post these recipes and often my experimentations are a matter of taste - ours. However, if you find something not quite right about a recipe please do let me know. I will certainly look into it.
Posting & Commenting
Maintaining a blog is a difficult job - no doubt about it. When I sit down to create a post it is a process of many steps, to describe them all here would blow this post out of proportion. But basically after a dish has been cooked, I carefully skim enough of it away and hide it in the fridge to photograph at a later time. Photographing as soon as a dish was prepared, as I did in the earlier days, was proving to be to stressful on myself and the tummies of my family and friends. Once the shots have been taken, I sit down to work out a rough sketch of what I want to discuss in the post. Thoughts, dreams, memories, venting or informative - whatever the nature of the post, I ponder on it for a while. Finally, all aspects of my post come together and in the two-three hour period it takes to finish a post I always feel elated when it is finally published. I publish about two to three posts a week.
Commenting is the most important feedback and a way for me to know which nerve I have hit with my readers. I appreciate all your comments and make sure to read every single one of them. Unfortunately, I am unable to always reply to every single one individually. Although, I do try when time allows, I am not as good as I would like to be. So I try to address the feedback in bundles. Unless, there is a very important comment or a question, I tend to reply to comments about a day or 2 after it has been published, however even here depending on time, it might take longer.
While I appreciate all feedback, opinions and arguments from both sides and do not delete comments that take on a different point of view, I am irritated when the comments are insulting, rude or personal attacks. If these type of comments cross my threshold of patience, I will delete them without any kind of acknowledgment. Promotional type comments and advertisements will also be swiftly deleted.
I also get annoyed when people leave anonymous comments. Please stand up to your views, thoughts and opinions. If you are a coward then do not post here in the first place. If you still feel the need to attack me or my views, do not be surprised if my replies, if I see fit to acknowledge it, is on the sarcastic side.
I do not appreciate people using my space to promote their own sites. Long post-like comments to publicize their own websites or blogs are uncoil and I find them suspicious. Do not be surprised if I delete them too. I do not mind links if the content of your post applies to what I wrote about and will be generally helpful to both our readers.
Your Emails
I often receive emails asking me questions and advice on many subjects. I do take the time and do my best to answer every mail I receive to my best knowledge. I admit, some are answered quickly others are tardy. It simply depends on the amount of stress and lack of time I am currently experiencing. There are also times that a certain email lands in my spam folder and your question ends up in nirvana. If I have not answered your mail within a week please do send me a reminder.
Once I have replied to your mail a short thank you would be great.
Reviews & Advertising
I never recommend anything on this blog that I am not convinced about or do not like personally. Most of my recommendations are of items I have personally tried and thought it is worth mentioning to inform my readers. I do accept products and cookbooks for review from publishers and if I think it is something worth mentioning and will appeal to my readers I may post about it. I am an honest and straight-forward person and that is what can be expected from my reviews. If I like the item, I will say so. If I do not, I will say that too.
I decided to run some ads on my blog to support a few minor costs the blog generates. I am not getting rich from it but it helps to cover a percentage of the costs for supplies and material.
I also link to websites I am an affiliate of, like Amazon.com, for the same reason. So, if you follow those links you will be supporting this blog. A tiny percentage of the purchases come my way - and I mean really tiny. But I do thank you for the support.
If you would like to advertise or sponsor this blog please drop me an email.
All content on this blog, including the photography, is my work, which means it is copyrighted with All Rights Reserved, unless otherwise noted. Please ask first before republishing or distributing any of my work! If you are interested in using my texts or photographs please contact me. You may not use my work for commercial purposes without my permission. You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work in any form.
The photos you see on my blog are not free for the picking to be republished in any form. A short email asking me to use them would save you a lot of trouble and harassment.
Freelance Work
I am available for freelance work as a food writer and photographer. Contact me for further information.
In the meantime I hope you all have a great time browsing through my blog and I hope it offers you a chance to "Experience Your Senses" like never before!
Warm regards,
*Please note that this post is subject to additions and changes as it grows and develops.
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Are Opponents Of The Death Penalty Contributing To Its Problems?
Kevin Cooper was convicted of murdering a married couple and two children, and was sentenced to die.
That was back in 1985. Cooper is still awaiting execution on California's death row.
San Bernardino County District Attorney Michael Ramos, who is handling the case, blames the long delay on Cooper's multiple appeals in state and federal courts.
"This is all a big strategic plan to really manipulate the system to attack capital punishment, not just in California, but in the United States," Ramos says.
The death penalty is under considerable pressure, both from court decisions and a series of problematic executions, including one this week in Arizona. Six states have abolished the death penalty over the past seven years.
Death penalty supporters such as Ramos say this is no accident. They believe opponents intentionally toss sand in the gears of the execution process, and then complain that the system doesn't work.
"It's a delaying tactic that then allows them to scream it's unconstitutional because it's been delayed too long," Ramos says.
Defense attorneys dismiss this as nonsense. The problems with the death penalty, they say, were not created by its opponents.
"It's not the defense attorneys who are holding executions up," says Deborah Denno, a law professor at Fordham University. "Not by a long shot."
Blame For Delays
Last week, U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney found California's system of capital punishment unconstitutional because executions are delayed for too long and are "arbitrary" in terms of which condemned prisoners are ever actually executed.
Death penalty supporters argue that it's the killers — and their attorneys — causing most of the delays.
"Having done everything they can to cause the problem, they decry the problem," says Kent Scheidegger, legal director of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation in Sacramento, which defends victims' rights.
But many of the delays aren't caused by defense attorneys, rather the very lack of them, Denno says. In California, it can take years for a condemned prisoner even to be appointed counsel, and years more to wait for what is known as a post-conviction hearing.
"Even before a case gets to federal court, there's often more than 10 years of delays built into the system that don't have anything to do with what's brought from the defense," says Joseph Luby, an attorney with the Death Penalty Litigation Clinic in Kansas City, Mo., which defends the condemned.
In the California case, Carney specifically looked at delays that were the fault of the state, not of the prisoner.
"What the judge expressly said, and what the defendant assumed as his burden of proof, was that the specific delays weren't this defendant's fault," says Franklin Zimring, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley. "That was something the condemned man had to prove before he could get a remedy based on the delays."
Problems With Lethal Injection
In addition to traditional questions regarding innocence and adequacy of counsel, defense attorneys now will typically challenge a state's method of execution. Lethal injections, which for years had a more anodyne reputation than gas chambers or the electric chair, have become problematic in and of themselves.
"Botched lethal injection executions have offered the same kind of negative publicity as other methods," Zimring says.
Scheidegger, the foundation attorney, says death penalty opponents, having successfully promoted lethal injections at the expense of older methods by portraying it as more humane, are now undermining states' use of drugs through their legal challenges.
Drugmakers in European countries that have abolished the death penalty are also blocking U.S. states from using their products in executions.
"There is an inherent tension here," NPR's legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg said on All Things Considered. "The more pressure there is to do this the right way from anti-death penalty lawyers, the more secretive states get because they can't actually carry out their mandate in the most humane way anymore."
But Denno, the Fordham professor, says there were problems with lethal injections long before states ran out of their preferred barbiturates.
"Botched executions have existed from the very beginning [of the use of lethal injection], since 1982," she says.
Scrambling For A Solution
Denno notes that the dosage of the sedative midazolam, which many states are now using for executions, has ranged from 10 milligrams to 500 milligrams.
"One state has a botched execution, so they use more or less of the drug because they don't know what's causing the problems," she says. "Every time there's a problem, states have a little bit more of a challenge saying why they would ever use midazolam again, when it has such a bad record."
But if states seem to be improvising in terms of method — and doing their best to keep the sources of their drugs secret — that's at least in part because they know they're almost certain to face a legal challenge, suggests Robert Blecker, a professor at New York Law School.
"I've been at national and international conferences, as the lone death penalty supporter, where devout abolitionists openly exhort each other to gum up the works and delay," he says.
Luby says defense appeals aren't frivolous but rather serious attempts at making sure the irrevocable death penalty is carried out justly and properly. He notes that many sentences are vacated on appeal and contends that challenges against lethal injection have been vindicated by the many problems seen just this year.
In the Arizona case, the Supreme Court had lifted the stay of execution granted by an appellate court based on death row inmate Joseph Wood's right to know more the state's drug sources and methodology.
"One can only hope that the courts, including the Supreme Court, will have a bit of buyer's remorse about having accepted the state's argument, based on what we've seen," Luby says.


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In practically every one of its major press conferences since last year's GPU Technology Conference, Nvidia has reminded us that they want to virtualize the graphics processor. The company wants to take it out of the computer on your lap or on your desk and put it into a server somewhere without you noticing the difference. It introduced the concept at GTC 2012. Then over the course of the next year, Nvidia unveiled the actual graphics cards that would enable this tech, started selling them to partners, and also stuck them in Nvidia Grid-branded servers aimed at both gamers and businesses.
The difference between Nvidia's initiatives and more traditional virtualization is that the company's products support relatively few users for the hardware they require. The Grid gaming server supports 24 users per server box and the Visual Computing Appliance (VCA) only supports eight or 16 depending on the model. Most virtualization is all about dynamically allocating resources like CPU cycles and RAM to give as many users as possible the bare minimum amount of power they need. Instead, Nvidia's is about providing a fixed number of users with a pretty specific amount of computing power, thus attempting to recreate the experience of using a regular old computer.
There are situations where this makes sense. Given the cost of buying and maintaining workstation hardware, Nvidia's argument for the VCA seems more or less convincing. But I'm slightly less optimistic about the prospect for the Grid gaming server, or any cloud gaming service, really—call it leftover skepticism from OnLive's meltdown earlier this year.
That doesn't mean the technology behind cloud gaming servers is bad, or that the problem they want to solve—that not all devices have high-end graphics hardware in them—doesn't exist. In fact, after logging some extended playtime with an Nvidia Project Shield console at this year's GTC, I'm convinced cloud gaming has a future. I just think it looks less like OnLive or the Grid gaming server, and more like what the Shield does—streaming all of the games you already own from a gaming PC already connected to your other, less powerful devices. Let's walk through the biggest issues with a service like OnLive or something based on Grid, then consider how moving the same technology on to your home network solves them.
Game library
Most of the problems we'll talk about here are going to be technical, but this one's all about business. No matter what technology you're using, a company like OnLive or one of Nvidia's Grid customers is going to have to cut deals with publishers and independent game developers to make those games available on the service. While the way Grid is implemented suggests that developers won't have to do any extra work to make games compatible, that won't be the case for all implementations. This whole process takes time and money, and in the end you're not guaranteed to get all of the games you want in any one service.
Streaming from your local Steam library neatly circumvents this limitation. Not only are all the games you own already paid for and available, but future games from most developers and publishers are practically guaranteed to come to Steam. There are, of course, notable exceptions—but they're exceptions and not the rule. Any new cloud gaming service would need to have a critical mass of customers to be able to provide a big game library, but there's no easy way to achieve critical mass of customers without a big game library.
Latency and responsiveness
No matter how fast your Internet connection is or how near you are to the server room actually rendering your game, Grid just won't be 100 percent as smooth as local rendering all of the time. There are too many variables in play—your own home network, your ISP's equipment and wiring, the load on your ISP's network, your distance from the server, and any number of other issues that could impact your experience negatively. Unlike something like Netflix, which can buffer video to mask these issues, cloud gaming needs to be streaming in real time all the time.
Now, move the computer doing the rendering from someone else's server room into your own home. The only limiting factor is going to be your own home network. The most unpredictable elements have been removed, and you'll have a much faster connection between your PC and your tablet than you'd be able to get through most Internet service providers.
Rendering performance
Each one of Nvidia's Grid servers can support up to two dozen users at a time, and each one of those users can only have so much GPU horsepower assigned to them at once. Measured in FLOPS, the amount is roughly equivalent to one of the company's mid-range GeForce GT 640 cards. Especially as games get better-looking and this technology moves beyond the 1366×768 display of the Shield console (and it seems reasonable that it will), you're going to need more graphics horsepower to make these games look as good as they can.
Granted, turning all of the settings in a given game all the way up is more of a "nice to have" than a "need to have." But there are plenty of gamers who game on a PC precisely because they want to crank the settings up beyond what a laptop or game console is capable of.
The main problem with the Grid gaming server from the perspective of a potential service provider is that it just doesn't seem like it would scale particularly well. It might be difficult to turn a profit between the initial hardware investment (which is made all the larger by the relatively low number of simultaneous connections each box supports), the need to cut and maintain software licensing deals with publishers, and the space and power required to keep all of the servers up and running. Keeping streaming local passes that cost on to gamers, of course, but if your Grid-powered gaming service can't turn a profit and had to shut down, they're going to be left out in the cold anyway.
Not a perfect solution, but a more realistic one
Despite all the potential upside, there are still drawbacks to streaming stuff locally as opposed to through a server like Grid. The first is that you have to own and maintain your own gaming PC. This probably isn't too onerous a task for the people interested in this sort of thing, but you'll have to pay for the cost of the hardware, the games, and the power usage rather than offloading it to some third party.
The second issue is that it becomes more difficult to leave the home with your PC game library. Even if you run your own VPN server at home (or if you otherwise modify your network connection to allow access to your game "server" from outside of your network), you're likely to encounter some of the same connectivity and bandwidth issues you'd get with a Grid server.
What we need now is a chance to spend a few days streaming games from our PC to the Shield or a Shield-like tablet. The streaming functionality seemed to work well enough in Nvidia's demo, but real-world testing is always warranted. If it works as intended, you can keep your cloud gaming service to yourself—my "private cloud" will be more than good enough.
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Good morning.
Our early headlines:
-- Dozens Killed By Suicide Bomber In Yemen.
-- Pakistan Threatens To Overshadow NATO Summit.
-- Eclipse Of The Sun: Did You Fall Into The Ring Of Fire's Path?
-- Let's Remember Robin Gibb By Saying It: Bee Gees' Disco Years Were Great.
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-- "White House Visitor Logs Provide Window Into Lobbying Industry," Lobbyists Are "Regular Presence." (The Washington Post)
-- "Lockerbie Bomber To Be Buried, Controversy Lives On." (Agence France Presse)
-- "Strauss-Kahn Faces 'Gang Rape' Inquiry." (BBC News)
-- "Chen Guangcheng's Family And Friends 'Still At Risk' In China." (The Guardian)
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Forced to decide on his future, T.C. Williams athletic director Bob McKeag chose retirement over termination in the wake of eligibility offenses that led the school's boys basketball team to forfeit 12 wins, McKeag said Tuesday.
"My options were to be terminated or to resign," McKeag explained.
Hired at the start of the 2008 school year, he left T.C. Wednesday.
An investigation into the ineligible players found no evidence of "malicious behavior or any intent to deceive" and "human error combined with procedural errors" resulted in the players' place on the team, according to a report dated February 24.
However, after accepting responsibility for the discovery of two fifth-year seniors on the basketball team in early February and since taking steps to fix the system that led to the errors, McKeag said that by late February the tone had changed from constructive to consequential.
According to McKeag, Superintendent Morton Sherman told him the School Board decided in closed session not to renew his contract at the end of the year and wanted him out as soon as possible.
Sherman, reached by phone Wednesday, declined to comment on personnel matters that go on in closed session.
The root of the problem predated McKeag's tenure. The two ineligible players, Billy Rowland and Darrius Porter, transferred to T.C. before he filled the position that had been vacant since Kerry Donley, the previous athletic director, left the post that summer.
"The fact that they wanted me out immediately, first of all, makes no sense, and puts a great burden on the people in this office" for the rest of the spring sports season, McKeag said.
The procedural errors that led to the discovery two years later were predicated upon a lack of communication between the guidance office and the athletic department, worsening an already "atrocious" athlete registration process, McKeag said.
"Even if [guidance] wanted to communicate, there wasn't anybody here to communicate to," McKeag said. "They didn't communicate with me after I got here, either. I'm not blaming them we're all busy.
"Holding me responsible for this situation, to me, is [comparable] to holding Dr. Sherman responsible for the fact that T.C. Williams is a poorly performing school," he said. "That's not fair. He's been here two years. This has been developing for a while."
Ten years ago, the school's football team had to forfeit two games because of ineligible players. John Porter, the principal at the time, did not recall any personnel changes taking place after that incident, saying those ineligibility issues happen across the state.
Three weeks after the T.C. basketball forfeitures, Hayfield Secondary School in Fairfax forfeited a crucial playoff game after learning an academically ineligible student took part in their opening round win.
For Mark Martino, athletic director at Lake Braddock in Fairfax and a longtime colleague of McKeag, the idea that the T.C. athletic director would be forced to leave was a surprise.
"All I can say right now is that there's a lot of us who have had issues like this and most of us are still working," Martino said.
"For me, there's nobody I have more respect for as a professional administrator in the athletic field than Bob McKeag," he said.
After more than 34 years in Virginia high school athletics, McKeag, who planned to stay at T.C. for another three years, was unsure what would come next.
"All I can say is that it's apparent that Alexandria and I were not a good match, because I've been successful pretty much everywhere I've been and I came here and I'm not worthy enough to even finish the year," McKeag said. "So that's pretty odd."
Sherman said the search for a new athletic director would begin as soon as a successor is found for T.C. principal Bill Clendaniel who has announced his plans to retire at the end of the school year.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — A government report Monday criticized the U.S. Treasury Department for approving "excessive" salaries and raises at firms that received taxpayer-funded bailouts during the financial crisis.
The Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program said Treasury approved all 18 requests it received last year to raise pay for executives at American International Group Inc., General Motors Corp. and Ally Financial Inc. Of those requests, 14 were for $100,000 or more; the largest raise was $1 million.
Treasury also allowed pay packages totaling $5 million or more for nearly a quarter of the executives at those firms, the report says.
Also noted: A $200,000 raise was approved for an executive of Ally's mortgage-lending subsidiary Residential Capital LLC just weeks before ResCap filed for bankruptcy protection. Ally was GM's financial arm until it was taken over by the government in the bailout.
"We ... expect Treasury to look out for taxpayers who funded the bailout of these companies by holding the line on excessive pay," said Christy Romero, the special inspector general for TARP. "Treasury cannot look out for taxpayers' interests if it continues to rely to a great extent on the pay proposed by companies that have historically pushed back on pay limits."
The report says Treasury bypassed rules under the 2008 bailout that limited pay. Treasury approved raises that exceeded pay limits and in some cases failed to link compensation to performance, it notes.
Romero said the guidelines say compensation should not exceed the 50th percentile of pay for executives in similar positions at other financially distressed companies.
But pay surpassed that level for 63 percent of the executives whose pay was approved, according to the report.
The report also said Treasury officials had been warned a year ago that the department needed to reform its procedures to ensure that the pay guidelines are followed.
Patricia Geoghegan, the Treasury official who approved the raises, disputed the findings of the report.
In a letter to Romero, Geoghegan said it's unfair to call the pay excessive. She said Treasury must strike a balance between limiting compensation and approving pay packages that are consistent with executives in similar jobs.
Geoghegan called the 50th percentile "a benchmark." She noted that some pay packages at the three companies exceeded that level in 2012. But she said more than half at AIG were at or below that level, while nearly half at GM and Ally were below it.
A Treasury Department spokesman had no additional comment Monday and referred to Geoghegan's letter.
The three companies received a total $248.7 billion in the financial bailout in 2008. AIG has repaid the $182 billion it received; GM still owes $21.5 billion on the $49.5 billion it received and Ally owes $11.4 billion on $17.2 billion in aid.
In a statement, AIG said it has overhauled its compensation practices to align pay with the company's goal of balancing profit and risk. The company also is reviewing pay policies to ensure that compensation is tied to performance, AIG said.
GM and Ally said they are complying with all pay restrictions under the bailout rules.


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Even though that nights lacrosse playoff game was firmly on his mind last Thursday, Jay Whitmire had no choice but to think of his senior football season to come this fall.
Thats because two U.S. Army sergeants made official the 6-foot-6, 290-pound offensive linemans nomination for next Januarys All-American Bowl, a showcase for 90 of the nations top college football prospects.
Although T.C. football coach Dennis Randolph told him about the news three days earlier, the offensive tackle still appeared a bit overwhelmed at the accolade one of many that have been piling up since last year.
Its an honor, Whitmire said, after being given his nomination paperwork at T.C. last Thursday. I always liked to watch it on TV and its cool that Ill have a chance to do that too. Its awesome.
As one of 400 nominees, Whitmire will find out in the coming months if he will be the first-ever T.C. Titan to play in the game when it kicks off next January in San Antonio. The announcement simply reaffirmed his status as one of the countrys top linemen.
Last fall, Whitmire was the only Titan on the Washington Posts talent-rich All-Met first team. This spring, hes on the ESPN.com watch list for the top 150 college prospects. Scout.com has him as the No. 26 high school lineman in the country.
According to Whitmire and Randolph, the junior has already received about 15 to 20 scholarship offers from top football colleges, including Big East and ACC schools. Whitmire said its all extra motivation for a successful senior year.
All this summer Im going to have to be just working out, working out, working out, he said.
Whether or not Whitmire makes the January date in the Alamodome lies in the balance of his final season in Titan blue.
Hes going to have to have a great senior season just like the other 89 that are going to be on there, Randolph said. Theyre going to have to produce and theyre going to have to play well.


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CNET reports electronics giant LG will acquire webOS from HP to use it for its smart televisions division. But there are no plans for webOS to be integrated into any mobile devices, as LG already has a thriving mobile division with its handsets and Android smartphones.
"It creates a new path for LG to offer an intuitive user experience and Internet services across a range of consumer electronics devices," said Skott Ahn, president and chief technology officer of LG Electronics Inc., as reported by CNET. The deal would give LG the rights to all of the source code for webOS, its documentation and engineers, and all of the related websites, as well as HP's licenses for use with webOS products and all of the patents HP inherited from Palm. However, HP will hold on to the webOS cloud services division, which includes the app catalog and the backend services that interact with the operating system.
This will be the third major company webOS has fallen under. Its first company, Palm, was bought out by HP for $1.2 billion. Then HP called it quits in August 2011 by discontinuing all webOS-related operations, including the HP TouchPad. The company said back then that it would "continue to explore options to optimize the value of webOS software going forward."


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We are thrilled to announce a fantastic panel discussion at East Bay Mini Maker Faire: The 21st Century Shop Class: Developing the Creative and Critical Doers in Today's Schools. David Clifford of the East Bay School for Boys will lead the discussion along with a variety of "shop teachers" from around the Bay Area to discuss why learning with one's hands is critical in today's complex world.
Shop class?! Surely you remember shop class: Bookcase projects? Cutting boards? You might not know this, but those classes and projects have gone the way of home phone service and the decline in manufacturing jobs in the U.S. Shop class is pretty much gone. Lathes, band saws and routers liquidated.
Maybe those bookcase projects were one-dimensional. But in the vacuum of any hands-on learning opportunities in school, there is rising recognition that shop class might have purpose after all. There are studies to prove it: many people show improved comprehension of science and math principles when they get to MAKE something instead of read it in a book.
Clifford knows it from experience. He spent 13 years as a "shop teacher" at Lick Willmerding High School in San Francisco—part of that as the Director of the Technical Arts program (he is now Innovation and Outreach Director for the new East Bay School for Boys—check out the nice set of resources he has on design and building.)
Clifford and Lick's approach to Technical Arts is interdisciplinary in the best way: " Application objectives include cross-disciplinary and collaborative learning, skills for engineering, effective problem solving, creative expression, competency in the language of craft and design, and personal empowerment through self-confidence and self-esteem."
Clifford will be making a presentation on his findings and curriculum objectives for this kind of class, and then will moderate a panel discussion amongst "shop" teachers from across the Bay Area, including:
If you are a parent interested in bringing shop back to school, or if you are an educator working towards this, we encourage you to come participate in the discussion. Bring shop class back to school!


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We are specialists in the installation of uPVC windows to ensure that homeowners have secure windows that offer peace of mind. Traditional styles of windows that have wooden frames are becoming increasingly less popular and favoured by people throughout the nation.
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Monday, January 27
Paul (Doug Davidson) and Kevin (Greg Rikaart) discover the truth about Delia's hit and run; Billy (Billy Miller) pulls a gun on Adam (Michael Munhey); Chelsea's (Melissa Claire Egan) world is shaken up.
Tuesday, January 28
Chloe (Elizabeth Hendrickson) learns the truth about the hit and run; Sharon (Sharon Case) remembers Cassie (Camryn Grimes).
Wednesday, January 29
Dylan (Steve Burton) faces his father, Ian Ward (Ray Wise); Victor (Eric Braeden) and Victoria (Amelia Heinle) worry about Billy's plan for Adam.
Thursday, January 30
Nikki (Melody Thomas Scott) and Ian butt heads; the battle between Billy and Adam reaches a head.
Billy Miller airs for the last time as Billy Abbott. Michael Muhney airs for the final time as Adam Newman.
Friday, January 31
Jack (Peter Bergman) confronts Victor about his treatment of Billy and Adam; Michael (Christian LeBlanc) and Lauren (Tracey Bregman) try to help Fen (Max Ehrich).
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The idea of reconciliation between two men from opposite sides of a life-and-death struggle is perhaps impossible or even incredibly naïve. Five Minutes of Heaven, a film that tracks the lives of two men from the same town but different sides of the Irish political divide, is unlike any other on this subject. One man, Alistair, is a killer; the other, Joe, is the brother of the man he killed. One feels he dare not ask for forgiveness; the other feels incapable of giving it.
And so the scene is set in this masterfully conceived drama, written by Guy Hibbert (Omagh) and perfectly directed by German filmmaker Oliver Hirschbiegel. The leads are Liam Neeson and James Nesbitt, and they are both superb. But the film's careful construction is what transforms this from predictable to transcendent. This isn't a work of expiation or guilt; neither does it seek a simplistically dramatic finale. It is, like its subject, the portrait of a process; and the hatred and trauma that are its foundation are such that their genesis took years.
Five Minutes of Heaven is replete with an almost-exquisite sensitivity and quest for understanding. It is perhaps impossible to erase the past, but we are better off for encountering it with the kind of passion and insight emanating from a true work of art.


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