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Food that tastes good lingers in the memory for all time: such things as good, homemade soups, my mother's meat-and-potato pie, Bury black puddings, a well-made Bloody Mary, prosciutto and melon, native English oysters with Tabasco, hot salted ox tongue with coleslaw, a dozen snails at Chez L'Ami Louis in Paris, the apéritif maison at L'Oustau de Baumanière at Les Baux in Provence, and the homemade bresaola of Franco Taruschio at The Walnut Tree in Wales.
I have written this book, not because I am a chef, but because I like to cook and I enjoy eating good food. A novelist I know once said to me, on hearing that I had decided to embark on a cookbook, that cooks should cook and writers should write. Well, fair enough. (He is, actually, a very good cook.) I am not a professional writer, nor am I good at writing recipes on a regular basis. This is particularly so when I have to think about listing the ingredients in the right order for each recipe, or giving metric and imperial measurements, or stating exact oven temperatures and precise timings. I have had to learn to do that, and it has been interesting and beneficial to be so restricted.
Deep down in the mind of a good cook are endless recipes. It is a matter of knowing what goes with what; knowing when to stop and where to start, and with what ingredients. Thinking how a dish is going to taste, before you start to cook it, may seem an obvious instruction, but it is not necessarily common practice. It is important to cook in the right frame of mind (we are not talking everyday chores here) and to do things in the right order.
Ergo: feel hungry; go out shopping (with pen and paper and money). See good things, buy them. Write down further items that will accompany previous purchases. Buy wine to go with food. Come home. Have a glass of wine. Cook the food and eat with more of the wine. More importantly, do make sure that the food you have bought is the sort that you like to eat and know how to cook.
It is also a question of sympathy between the cook and the cooked-for; is there a worryingly large proportion of people, I wonder, who cook to impress rather than to please?
It's really a question of confidence. It is far better to cook food for your friends that you enjoy eating yourself. Familiar dishes are comforting; carefully prepared and simple dishes are an asset to a good lunch or dinner party. The food should not dominate the proceedings. Rather, it should enhance and enliven the occasion. There is nothing more tedious than an evening spent discussing every dish eaten in minute detail. "Oh Daphne, how did you manage to insert those carrots in your hollowed-out zucchini?" What's wrong with egg salad or leeks vinaigrette? Or a simple rabbit stew, or some grilled lamb cutlets? And, of course, roast chicken.
The title of this book, Roast Chicken and Other Stories, was chosen simply because it had a friendly ring to it, and I hope that it sounds inviting and uncomplicated. I also happen to enjoy roasting a chicken almost more than anything. It is very satisfying to look upon a fine chicken turning crisp and golden as it cooks. Even the sound of it causes salivation, and the smell of it jolts the tummy into gear.
I would like to think that this collection of recipes will appeal to all who like to cook; those who gain immense pleasure from being in their kitchens with good produce around them purchased from favorite sources — markets, butchers and fishmongers, grocers and greengrocers, delicatessens and wine shops. I would also like to imagine that everybody could become a good cook and have a healthy interest in the bountiful ingredients that are available in such quantity on our doorsteps.
Good food relies on good ingredients, but it has always been my belief that a good cook can turn the proverbial sow's ear into a silk purse. It takes a little knowledge and expertise, but whereas an ignorant and uncaring chef can ruin the finest free-range chicken, a sympathetic and enthusiastic cook can work wonders, even with an old boiling fowl.
My favorite food memory is the casserole we had once a week growing up. My mother made creamed tuna, rice, and peas, and I just couldn't get enough of it. It doesn't even sound that great, yet it was such comfort food. I think I'll call her and ask her to make some for me. :)
Oh that book sounds sooo good.!!!!
I can't agree that cooks should cook and others should do whatever they do. Eating is essential, and cooking is fundamental to human eating. In theory, then, shouldn't everyone be a "cook" of some degree of competence?
Looking forward to checking out the book!
My strongest food memories are my parents' attempts to introduce us to "good cooking," which usually involved something from Julia Child's MAFC, vols. 1 & 2. They'd had her sign them at Savenor's in Cambridge, and were the first people they knew who drank wine at home.
I still remember the fruity taste of the red wine they used for boeuf bournignon, and the pain that helping to make all those mushroom caps was. But I also remember the gravy, with its visible thickness and body, the flecks of fat on top of the sauce, and the way it coated the tongue.
The other memory is lobster thermidor, made for my 16th birthday, because "you're old enough to appreciate it." It was a two day project, and oiling the shells before they were filled again for the final broil was my job, along with grating the (seemingly enormous) pile of swiss cheese that would go on top for the final serving. I can still taste it, and the only thing that comes close since is Lydia Shire's version of the lobster stew at Locke Ober.
This cook book tells it right. To cook you must enjoy eating.
I remember the meal I learned to cook. I would cook scrambled eggs and toast for my sister and parents every Saturday morning. I loved being able to provide a good meal to my family. That's part of the reason why I still love to cook today. I love knowing that I am giving my family food and love at the same time.
Hope your book is a best seller like my favorite A Cook's Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal
I've had this book for years, and have always thought it a little disappointing. I was very surprised when a British food magazine survey said it was the best British cookery book. I got it off my shelf then, looked at it again, and still found it disappointing. And yet, reading this extract, I found myself thinking, yesss. Maybe I can't separate the book from the man's extraordinary obsession with salt, the "right" amount to put in food, as if it's not down to personal taste. Give me Jane Grigson's quiet authority every day. But I'll get that book down off my shelf this week and give it another try.
Thanks ...
My Dad used to get up early to go to work, long before the rest of the family was awake.
When I was nine years old, I decided one day that Dad shouldn't go off to work without breakfast, so I set my alarm clock and got up to surprise him with a nice, hot breakfast of fried eggs, toast and coffee.
Mind you, I'd never in my nine years made fried eggs, toast or coffee, but it never occurred to me that things wouldn't come out perfect.
I put the coffee on to brew in the stove-top percolator, popped a slice of bread in the toaster and fried an egg in butter. The coffee boiled over (was it supposed to do that? I wondered). The egg turned brown on the edges (I figured that meant it was done). Lucky for Dad, I couldn't hurt the toast since the toaster was automatic.
I put everything on the table and waited for Dad to come out to the kitchen.
Bless his heart, he sat there and drank the coffee (with the floating coffee grounds), ate the cold, burnt egg and cold, soggy toast and proclaimed over and over how delicious it was! I told him I'd be getting up every day to make him breakfast!
Later that dad, Mom told me I was too little to get up that early every day, and beginning that weekend, she started to teach me how to cook.
I haven't thought of that memory in many years. Thanks for the contest that brought it back to me.
Although they live in an oceanfront home, I am the only one in my family that eats fish. My father said he was scarred for life after being force-fed smelts every Friday. My mother, while a decent cook, often proclaimed she could live on Caesar salad alone.
Every year on my birthday, my mother would make me fried scallops. She would complain of the smell throughout the entire process. My father and my brother would make faces at me as I dipped each golden morsel into the tartare sauce and gobbled them up. It was the only day of the year that seafood of any kind entered that house.
Fish was also the only thing my paternal grandmother didn't burn to a cinder. I was invited over for Friday fish dinners and it was truly an honor. My grandparents weren't particularly fond of having young children in the house and to have dinner in their small kitchen with them was virtually unheard of.
I have to say everytime I think of a cookbook I have to chuckle to myself as when I was younger and just learning to cook I thought I could cook without a cookbook. And Low and behold I made a meatloaf that could not be broken. It was almost as hard as a brick..I laugh when I think of it and cookbooks now have a favorite spot in my memory because if I would have looked I would have known not to use breat croutons in the recipe.. Thanks for the contest.
Cooking came easy to me, but I still love a good cookbook.
One of my greatest food memories from the past is the Halloween my mom tried to make Pumpkin Soup. It was AWFUL. She wouldn't let us go out to get Candy until we finished the soup. We were the last kids on the block to go out. The good thing was that we got all the candy left from the neighbors dumped in our sacks. My mom tried the soup while we were out, and admitted to us years later, that it tasted really bad!
I love my mother, but she considered cooking a chore that had to be done. Her "recipe" for spaghetti sauce consisted of meatballs (This meant ground beef rolled into balls and fried. Who knew you were supposed to season then or add breadcrumbs? I though meatballs were supposed to be hard.) packaged spaghetti sauce mix from the spice aisle (I'm avoiding using brand names here. Just pick the cheapest) and CANNED TOMATO SOUP! (It was, after all, cheaper than tomato sauce. They're basically the same thing, right?) Even though garlic grew wild in our yard (!), she never added anything else to the sauce.
So as you might imagine, when we learned that I liked to cook, I was allowed to do it a lot! I got my first cookbook when I was nine. I still cook by book, and always love adding a new one to my collection.
One of my favorite food memories is the wonderful wild raspberry pie that my grandmother would make when we were at our cabin in the north woods for the summer. She would recruit anyone she could to pick the raspberries, which grew in abundance. We happily picked for hours...wild raspberries are so tiny......when we finished, we waited impatiently for the results. Her pie was always heavenly. It tasted like summer!
My mother made stuffed cabbage. As a child i didn't like them but as an adult I like them. So I tried to make them and matched my mother's recipie from memory.
I always enjoyed my fathers dinners the most who has passed on years ago. My sister helped herself to all the recipes.
can't wait to try all the recipes
One of my favorite food memories is making my own birthday cake as a child of about 6/7. My mom hovered, but let me do everything on my own, even down to adding blue food coloring to both the cake and icing (I was in a blue phase then). The cake was quite edible, and I have a photo of myself on that day, in front of the cake with a huge grin...I was hooked on cooking at that point. Thanks, all, for the cute stories!
This sounds like a wonderful book. My family teases me because I curl up with cookbooks the way most folks enjoy novels. At least this one would meet their standards for a "normal" book with stories, but I would get my recipe fix!
One of my favorite food memories is spending the afternoon with my Husband's Grandmother, learning to make traditional foods.
I love roast chicken :) The excerpt and photo make me hungry!
chicken is my favorite dinner
My favorite food memory was having everyone from my and my boyfriends family together for a big birthday dinner. All of our family is scattered across the country but getting them all together for a big traditional spaghetti dinner squished in my kitchen was amazing.
When I was about 10 I decided that I was going to bake my mom a cake for her birthday. I used olive oil instead of corn oil. It was horrible but my wonderful mom choked down every bite. She probably got sick afterwards.
Thanksgiving at my grandparents house. I think the food tasted all the more delicious surrounded by family we didn't see all year. Sadly my grandparents have passed away and Thanksgiving has never been the same
My favorite food memory would be evenings out at Newton Circus when I was a child. We would wander around, looking at all the choices, and pick something we hadn't tried, in addition to the traditional 4 dozen satay (one of each type) and jealously guard our portion. My brother and I would look at all the exotic fruit at the juice stand and pick which one we wanted for our drink. It was un-air conditioned, noisy and fun.
My favorite food memory was when my mom made something called Roman Supper. It was spaghetti, meat sauce, cottage cheese, mozzarella cheese and parmesan cheese layered like lasagna is. It is such a feel good food for me.
i love to cook and this looks like it could keep me busy!
A book for the soul and stomach.
We primarly eat chicken more than any other meat for dinner
A favorite food memory is my Grandmother's spaghetti soup she made with leftover pinto beans, always with french bread, butter and salami on the table.
My favorite food memory is when my father used to make us Denver Omelets in the morning!
Chicken is my boyfriend's favorite food. We joke around that the ultimate compliment is he loves me more than chicken...
Meals at restaurants long-gone and never to be duplicated, make up some of my favorite food memories.
Great food is one of my guilty pleasures! I love it simple and plentiful! Thanks so much for the cool contest!
this sounds like fun
I love to eat with abandon and passion! My best food memories involve being with people who are truly joyful about what they are putting in their mouth.
I remember sitting at the table on Saturday nights with my younger sister and two younger brothers and my mom would give us each a plastic mug full of pop and a serving of pretzels and cheese puffs. We called the event pop, pretzels, and shapies and it was the best part of the week for us!
One of my favorite food memories was eating oysters on the half shell with my (now deceased) dad. As a teenager I loved it that no one else in the family liked the food but us.
i really enjoy cooking.
What an awesome way to start the holiday season! I'd love to win ANYTHING that helps me with holiday cooking. Thanks for the chance to win!
One of my favorite food memories is my after school snack. We were only allowed to have 2 cookies and a glass of milk but I couldn't have appreciated those 2 cookies any more than I did.
Traveling across country in the car with my mother to greet my father at his new duty station, we stopped for a meal at a roadside restaurant and I ordered pork chops for some reason. I was only 10 or 11. But I remember the stuffed pork chops were so good that I wanted the recipe from the cook. My mother laughed about that for years.
My favorite memorite was me and my dad picking a whole chicken clean with our fingers for dinner, we never did it that way before but it was fun
looks good to me!
My favorite food memory is my grandson eating his first bit of cotton candy
And roast chicken is a healthy meal.
HOW AWESOME! I would love to be able to share such a GREAT prize with my family! Thanks for the chance to win!
Sounds like a great book! Thank you for the opportunity to win it.
My husband loves to smoke and roast chicken on his rotissary or on pop cans in his ever expanding outdoor kitchen. He is always working on new rubs and marinages, nd would love to have this book!
I am a foodaholic. I couldn't cook a meal when I was first married. I made awesome pies and cakes, but a main dish was beyond me. I promptly started using the one cookbook I was given as a wedding gift and found that I loved to cook. With more experience I began to try ethnic recipes and my children found some were far to exotic for their tastes.
I enjoy going to restaurants and trying to determine which spices were used for a particular dish.
Fortunately my love of cooking has been passed down. My adult children and grandchildren are all excellent cooks.
I would love to add this cookbook to my library.
My favorite food memories are of all the weird foods I've tried, like alligator sausage, frog's legs, escargot, burger made of ground snake meat, ostrich meat, shark meat.
A lot of our disgust with exotic foods is just a mental block. Once you actually try these meats, they're no weirder than any other animal that you cook and eat.
My wife can't cook so maybe if she read your book she would learn some pointers.
My favorite food memory is helping my Mom cook spaghetti every Saturday as a kid. It became a tradition.
I remember on Sundays my mom would always cook a roast or something and she would set the oven timer to cook it while we were at church. Inevitably, it never worked and my dad would have to go buy a bucket of fried chicken and we would have that. I was always happy because I hated roast beef!
My favorite food memory is the fried bread my brothers and sisters made over a campfire in the back yard. It was God awful tasting and resembled something of a overgrown hockey puck. But it was our first venture into making our own food, in "the wild". It was also when I realized my mom's homemade strawberry preserves could make anything taste better. I've made many a yummy yeast roll since then, but nothing elevates them like my mom's strawberry preserves.
Any time our family gets together, it ALWAYS involves food and making good memories. Food and good memories just go hand in hand. Thanks so much for the cool contest!
Sunday after church we had a big spaghetti dinner every weeek w/ homemade meatballs and sausage
A chef after my own heart. Go shopping: "If you see good things, buy them". Best advise I ever heard. I have to have this book.
At our table sit many authors: cooks, critics, journalists, memoirists, humorists, and more. Join us here for excerpts from their work.
Want more? Comb the archives.
First Person
The secret sharer
A father's legacy
The Culinate Interview
Mollie Katzen
The vegetarian-cooking pioneer
Down South
Barbecue, tamales, cocktails, and more
Local Flavors
A winter romesco sauce
Good on everything


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A Chattanooga-area startup is facing the prospect of dramatic growth as part of Walmart's effort to use Internet opinion to determine which promising new products will earn a place in its virtual shelves.
Walmart's "Get on the Shelf" contest, which runs in concert with an online-only reality show, will pit the Chattanooga-based NODE Wireless Sensor Platform, invented by local businessman George Yu, against the Eraselet, a bracelet that also serves as a pencil eraser. The Eraselet is is based in Goodlettsville, Tenn.
After the episode, which airs tomorrow at 1 p.m., viewers will have 72 hours to vote for the product they think belongs on Walmart shelves. The winner will earn a spot on the retail giant's website, with a chance to earn an actual spot on Walmart's shelves, depending on sales.
NODE, which currently employs 15 workers in Chattanooga, reported about $500,000 in revenue last year on the sale of thousands of devices, said Alex Lavidge, business development manager at the company.
The NODE is a bluetooth-enabled sensor that can monitor weather, track motion, test impacts or any one of a number of scientific tests, and requires only a iOS or Android device to run.
The company plans to keep producing its product in Chattanooga, even if it wins a contract to supply Walmart, Lavidge said.
"The Southeast is one of the fastest-growing manufacturing spaces, and Chattanooga is in a great spot because of the low cost of living and other incentives for manufacturing," he said. "Regardless of the outcome, I don't foresee any changes regarding where we continue to do production in the future."
Read more in tomorrow's Times Free Press.
Ellis Smith joined the Chattanooga Times Free Press in January 2010 as a business reporter. His beat includes the flooring industry, Chattem, Unum, Krystal, the automobile market, real estate and technology. Ellis is from Marietta, Ga., and has a bachelor's degree in mass communication at the University of West Georgia. He previously worked at UTV-13 News, Carrollton, Ga., as a producer; at the The West Georgian, Carrollton, Ga., as editor; and at the Times-Georgian, Carrollton, ...


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Anna Jane of See Jane is on The Everygirl today. She did an amazing job styling these three looks which were photographed by the talented Cecilia Austin.
Need a little fashion help? Check out Anna Jane's feature on The Everygirl!
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In her stage debut (The Village Bike), Greta Gerwig tours new realms of female desire.
The Village Voice presented its 59th annual Obie Awards, celebrating achievement in the Off-Broadway and off-off Broadway theater, at a ceremony earlier tonight at Webster Hall in Greenwich Village. The festivities were co-hosted by Tamara Tunie and Hamish Linklater. Among the presenters: Betsy Aide ... More >>
Home is where the art is
Will Eno heads to the country
Alison Bechdel's Fun House musical
Two plays make introductions
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Everyone in William Inge's Pulitzer winning 1953 play Picnic seems to be yearning, striving, or regretting (which is really just another form of yearning). No-nonsense Flo Owens is still wounded by lost love; her husband--who wasn't all he was cracked up to be--left years ago. Meanwhile, her comely ... More >>
Three of New York's best talents sit down with the Voice to talk Edward Albee, bad actor traits, and why Shaw will have to wait
Sam Gold and Annie Baker team up to stage an intimate Chekhov
Dan LeFranc dishes up some multi-generational family fare
John Osborne's British classic faces an American audience again
Alan Rickman stars in Theresa Rebeck's new Broadway comedy
Playwrights Horizons mounts a drama by Bathsheba Doran
Two new plays from Lincoln Center Theater
If he only had the nerve
Kim Rosenstock's dramedy is the latest from Roundabout Underground
New plays at Playwrights Horizons and the Atlantic
In New York theater today, what's not imported is what's underrated
A recap of the 55th annual Village Voice Off-Broadway awards celebration
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Theater's most off-beat talents have a big night
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Written by Brian "Condo" Neice Thursday, 06 June 2013 00:00
On Sunday, May 19, the Glen Cove third and fourth graders took to a rainy Connolly School field against a tough Mineola team. The numbers were there for Glen Cove, unfortunately, the goals were not. The "Wee Knights" showed flashes of brilliance throughout the game, but had trouble putting it all together. Lukasz Dubicki jumped in goal to start the game and made several nice saves. Victor Scarmato, Dominic Williams, Nicholas Kodis, Mike Mattern and Nicholas Caparella gave it their all. The offense was generated by midfielders Ryan Houghton, Andrew Epifania, Charlie Benazzi, Ciaran Greene, Jayden Thom and Will Feldmann. On attack Jacob Bruce, Jacen Braja, Christian Maiorana, Joseph Thom and Micah Stone kept busy chasing ground balls, backing up shots on goal and trying their best. Mineola was too skilled at throwing and catching for the Glen Cove defense to keep up.
The fifth and sixth grade "Mid Knights" took on Hempstead at rain-soaked Condo Stadium and battled the elements as well as a bigger and tougher opponent, suffering a 5 – 2 loss. It was a back-and-forth high-energy battle with the team in better physical shape and condition taking the contest. Providing the offense for Glen Cove was Christian Klimasewski scoring on a breakaway pass from defenseman Jack Coyle. Sal Guastella added the other goal on a nice dodge from his midfield position. Once again the goalie platoon of Patrick Fallon and Felipe Delafuente played their best but it was not enough to hold off Hempstead.
The final home game of the 2013 season was played Sunday, June 2 at at the Connolly School field. The Mid Knights took on local rivals Jericho. Look for the results in next week's paper.


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When Vicky Linko was growing up in her family's two-room home in Weslaco, Texas, she never thought she'd be a chief executive officer.
In fact, the CEO of Funk Linko Inc., a steel fabricator that's a survivor in American manufacturing, started out cleaning the company's bathrooms and pulling weeds from the yard.
"You can never forget where you came from," she said. "I grew up in a house with dirt floors and took showers outside with a hose."
Today Linko, 61, runs this Chicago Heights company that builds steel sign poles and rail industry products. It's one of the last small businesses in an old manufacturing concentration called the Electric District.
"This area has become very depressed," she said. "This used to be a very, very busy place. I had 32 employees. Now I'm down to 10."
Nevertheless, Linko is certain the family business will recover from the recession. After all, they've been through many years of economic highs and lows—85 to be exact.
Her husband Pat's grandfather, James Powers, bought Funk Forging Co. from the two Funk brothers in 1925. After being in the Linko family for four generations, the company took on the family name in 2004. And, at 92 years old, Pat Linko's grandmother Hazel is still working in the office. Pat himself runs the sales and marketing.
The company didn't always make 100-foot Home Depot poles and locomotive components though. It started with much smaller signs, the ones you'd find swinging at an old gas station.
As years progressed, Linko explained, the U.S. Army and Navy were stationed next door to the company during World War II. "Back then, everything that was done in the steel industry was devoted to the war efforts," she said.
It was at that time Funk Linko began manufacturing signs for Cities Service Co., now CITGO Petroleum Corp. "Their signs were a green color and had a clover leaf," she said. "But because it was the same pigment used for all the military stuff during the war, they had to change their sign orders with us to black."
The company received five Army-Navy "E" awards for excellence in the production of war equipment, such as parts for ships. One of the plaques still hangs in Linko's office.
"The history of our company is just so interesting," she said, pointing out the large company scrapbook of old awards, receipts and newspaper articles dating back to the '20s.
When she married into the Linko family in 1967, she had been working at a nursing home. She recalls a day she showed up a little late for work, and her supervisor said to her, "Well, you know you're late. If you really want to not worry about showing up on time, then you might as well have your own business."
Linko still laughs at the irony of the comment. And so, after leaving the nursing home, she told her husband she wanted to help out at the family business, cleaning the office and taking care of the yard.
"That's how I got started," she said. "Then I started getting my nose in things. I'd listen to when they were making phone calls, and I'd start pitching ideas."
That's when she suggested tapping into work with the oil and hospitality companies, a move that launched Funk Linko into thousands of jobs making sign poles for big names like Marathon Oil Corp., BP PLC and Royal Dutch Shell PLC.
"Then we got involved with the fast foods, the hospitalities, the airports. And work really took off," she said.
Later, in fact just three years ago, Funk Linko was asked by Illinois-based National Railway Equipment Co., whose customers include CSX Corp., Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp., Union Pacific Corp. and the U.S. Army, whether the small company could build steel locomotive and freight train frames.
"I looked at the prints and said, 'Oh my God, there's no way we can do that,'" Linko recalled. But after sleeping on it, she decided to take the chance and build the massive train frame.
"It was a nightmare," she said, laughing. They had lost the camber, a barely noticeable but very important hump in the base of the frame that keeps it from collapsing.
"Then we found a unique way of doing the cambers, and the rest is history," she said. Since then, the company has built more than 200 locomotive and train frames, some of which have been shipped overseas to the Caribbean Islands, South America and Saudi Arabia.
Mike Zerafa of National Railway Equipment said Funk Linko helped it get out of a jam initially, and then a strong business relationship was formed. "I find that if you want a complex project handled properly, they take it from start to finish," Zerafa said. "It's a family business so they treat you like part of the family."
Since sustaining U.S. manufacturing is important to Linko, she said about 85 percent to 90 percent of the steel the company buys is U.S.-made. And even during the recession when Funk Linko's sales fell about 40 percent from 2007 to 2009, she said it continued to buy American-made materials.
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UltraViolet: Hollywood's giant digital gamble is here
Hollywood's big plan to update the industry for the digital era - UltraViolet - comes to the UK on 26 December, the consortium behind it has revealed. It will be an inauspicious start, represented by just one new movie release, but there's no mistaking the ambition of the project. Three years in the planning, UV is Hollywood's …
Got wrong which part was wrong
The music industry eventually got it right when they ditched DRM. History is full of DRM scams that quit working because hardware changed, a database was abandoned, or a rights manager went out of business. I won't touch DRM unless the media is so cheap that I'm fine with it playing only once.
It's a compromise.. you heard of those?
DRM is necessary. Otherwise one malicious customer can, without any technical knowledge, flood the net with un-paid-for copies of the work. In that environment, no producer will release digital copies at all. When you purchase work, you're entering into a contract with its producer, and in any contract, there is compromise.
If the DRM is open to use on a wide range of devices, I'm okay with it. Previous attempts have been manufacturer-locked (Apple) or with unreasonable restrictions, or have required users to compromise their PC (Sony). This is a good balance between users' rights and producers'. The rolling cache of 12 authorised systems is plenty: it allows you to play a movie you own at a mate's house, or in multiple rooms in your house, but it prevents you farming your keys out on the internet.
Personally, I don't give a shit if it doesn't run on desktop Linux, as long as it runs on the Linux on my TV or Set-Top-Box. I'll pay the thirty or forty quid and buy an embedded player, because what I want is a viable, legal, alternative to video rental or cable/satellite VOD services. UV looks like being it, in the way that AppleTV most definitely wasn't.
In parallel to this, I hope they're also pushing for a unified licensing model across Europe. There's supposed to be a Single Market, but it's still impossible to legally download content from one EU member state if you live in another, even though there's no such restriction on physical-media copies of the same content.
Yes. It sounds like another way of selling-without-selling to me. Another way of have their cake and eating it. Essentially they want you to buy something but after you have bought it you don't own it and you can't sell it. If anything about the industry or media changes in the future only the consumer can lose.
re: kevin
While I agree with the sentiment that DRM is evil, I think it is the only way to get the content out there in the first place with DRM initially. Once everyone is used to the idea that digital distribution is commonplace a big player (non content producer) needs to step in and set up a distribution system that get the DRM stripped out.
Similar to what happened with iTunes.
Of course the risk is that it all remains in the hands of the production companies in which case everyone fires up torrents like they do currently.
If I buy the UV 'lifetime licence' on a work...
...does that make one legal to enjoy the DRM-stripped version one pulls off a torrent?
There are a good number of titles I would be happy to pay a reasonable price to licence so long as I was free to consume them without the DRM inconvenience factor.
Devil in the details
The difference here is that the DRM isn't used as a stick to make "the consumer" behave exactly as he is told to by "the provider". It's still DRM, and as such it's no surprise you're leery --I know I am too-- but there appears to be much more customer-centric thinking behind its use; less "you can't haave it" but more "here's the deal", and some parts of it are quite unprecedented for the telco-thinking* entertainment industry.
And with all but one of the big ones in the industry behind it, you run a bit less risk of some server having a hiccup or someone going titsup depriving you of all the content locked in the format. It's still there, of course, but less looming.
Maybe the DRM will make the scheme collapse again, yet maybe it'll be a showcase of "DRM done right", or maybe something else again. We'll see how it pans out. In fact some of us will have a whale of a time figuring out the limitations. Can you still play those DVDs with uv branding and codes without uv support, without going online at all? That sort of thing.
Or maybe the scheme will prove untenable on its own. We might find, for example, that they'll have to price their "digital showings" low enough for view-once because that's where the value perception is, while they're locking themselves into "lifetime" streaming availability guarantees. Banking on digital delivery costs falling until imperceptible, may or may not work on the scale they're dealing with.
The real kicker isn't so much the DRM, but the fact the scale just might make it appear to work, at which point the whole thing is back on the table. And the way to kill it might turn out to be to make as much use of the "lifetime" rights the scheme gives you as you possibly can. Welcome to the brave new digital world.
* You know, how they're becoming really just ISP-like data pipes, and they resent the notion of not "owning the consumer" any longer, which they've been doing much less than they'd like to believe anyway.
On the other hand, Steam in the gaming industry is proof positive that DRM, when applied in the right manner, can be something people will turn out strongly in favor of. I understand the concept of DRM-free, but sometimes people don't care that there are fences if the field is large enough. That's what UV is shooting for, and we'll see if it hits its target.
It probably needs more advertising if it's going to survive, though. As is, if it crashes and fails, I can't imagine Hollywood trying again anytime soon. Which may be the point.
Almost right...
I believe the thinking here is that if the DRM scheme on your down loaded copy isn't compatible with your new device, you can just log in and download a copy that is.
You are not restricted to just one download. This is the big change.
That said, does it work on Linux? No? Well, it'll get cracked then.
I can see the DRM getting dropped eventually, just with mp3s.
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Ever signed up to a OD2-run music shop that collapsed and lost all the music you had a 'lifetime' right to listen to? After the MSN music store shut down their DRM servers in 2008 I swore I'd never trust another service like that again because such promises are utterly meaningless. I'll just buy the discs and rip them thanks, then they'll work on devices whose manufacturers haven't paid a huge licence fee to the studios.
I'm generally with you (Kevin) on DRM. The one time I bought a DRM'd audio book I regretted it, and buying Kindle ebooks as Christmas gifts is fairly impossible.
However this scheme seems to avoid the bad points of both. I can buy a DVD as a gift and the recipient can convert it to digital form. And if the DRM'd version I have goes obsolete, I have a lifetime license to download a new copy.
That assumes that UV itself has a long life, of course.
Tux, because we can always hope that UV supports it, but it probably wont.
The issue with DRM has always been WAAAAY too much lockdown. If it's 'light' enough and smart enough to not interfere with legitimate users it won't even be noticed. 5 users and 12 devices, all of which can be rotated, seems pretty good to me.
The real key to all this is:
"a universal, lifetime right to watch a movie in any format they want; it may be streamed to any device from the cloud, or downloaded to any device".
This is basically what the vast majority of consumers have been asking for, and it sure as hell beats the 'walled garden' Apple/Disney concept
"DRM is necessary. Otherwise one malicious customer can, without any technical knowledge, flood the net with un-paid-for copies of the work."
As opposed to anyone being able to download a copy already ripped and DRM removed?
Even without DRM most DVD watchers wouldn't know how to rip it to an AVI file. Hardly a flooded market.
Another advantage of the lack of DRM is being able to skip all the crap on a disk. The other half bought a film the other day. We had to sit through the anti-piracy warning and trailers for other films (which might not even be popular the next time we ever watch it). If I had downloaded it instead, we could have skipped all that and started watching the film when we wanted, not 15 minutes later.
Entering into a contract?
Where is the paperwork with my signature? When I buy something, I buy something. No paper work, no contract.
And your user with no technical knowledge would need some to flood the internet. How many people know how to create and publish a torrent?
I wish you a long and happy life with your love of DRM. The industry needs more people like you.
@King Jack - buying something *is* a contract
A contract is not a piece of paper, it's a set of obligations. When you buy a Big Mac, you are agreeing to an obligation to give a valid payment to McDonalds, in exchange for which they become obliged to give you a Big Mac that matches your expectations of what a Big Mac is.
A quick search for "Contract Law" will give you more information, and it's useful to know if you ever get into a dispute with a retailer or service provider.
The contract you entered into when you "bought" a CD or DVD is that, in exchange for the money you handed over, the producer granted you the right to replay their work as many times as you wanted for the length of time you owned the media. If you sell on the media, you lose this right. A right you were never given was to make additional copies and give them away.
Copying always happened, but as long as it was only among a circle of friends, there wasn't any real issue: copies couldn't spread far, so the loss of income was limited. However, thanks to the net, users with no technical knowledge can use ripping software, upload sites and web forums. Once it's up there, the peer-to-peer networks get it quick enough, and one ripped movie can be distributed to thousands of people. And the excuse that these thousands wouldn't have bought it anyway is bogus - do you wait to see how a football match ends before deciding to buy a ticket? Do people who actually *enjoyed* a fileshared movie really go and buy it legitimately? The figures say they don't. That's why we're in this position.
I don't have a particular love of DRM, but, unlike many people here, I recognise it as a necessary evil - the producers of the content require some protection from widespread piracy. The DRM proposed by UltraViolet allows sharing, as opposed to copying, of media.
There seems to be an unquestioning black-and-white view on this issue, that DRM is evil, full stop. It isn't. There are degrees of rights, and degrees of DRM, and this system gives the customer as good a deal as they get from purchasing the physical media, without the hassle of ripping and re-coding it. Like a book, I can share this, but not redistribute copies.
I hear lots of arguments against DRM, but they boil down to wanting something without having to pay for it. Well, I want a Maserati Quattroporte, but it doesn't mean I'm going to get one. If you can come up with an adequate reason why you require the right to make an unlimited number of copies of a copyrighted work that doesn't involve profiting from someone else's efforts, then fire away, I'm all ears.
And yes, the industry does need more people like me: customers who want the convenience of downloads and are willing to pay for them -- provided the deal I'm getting is fair. Where you and I differ is on what constitutes "fair"...
Whats lifetime mean
My lifetime, the lifetime of the last person living in my cosy group, or an arbitrary period set by the publishers?
I play my music on many devices. Having bought the CD or LP I'm not going to jump through hoops to play my music on those devices. Same goes to a lesser extent movies. I don't want to put my trust in a company only for it to pull out and leave me high and dry. Remember "plays for sure?" There was also some crap put on CDs recently which meant some CD players could not play them. 10 minutes of hacking and I had freed the music from it's shackles. More fun than listening to it. On that occasion the disc went back. So sue me.
I do not give free copies to anyone so I'm not profiteering. I'm just using my legally purchased content in anyway I see fit. Once money has changed hands, it's mine and I'll make a 1000 copies if it entertains me to do so. Nowhere does it say that I can only 'listen' to my music. I may want to make mobiles from the cds. I'll do that if the fancy takes me. I won't be asking a remote server for any permission.
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The one UV title I've tried has monumentally failed to play off anything but the BluRay disk. I had high hopes but Im not going to hold my breath.
It's a good start.
The music industry, however, seems to be inhabited by people of limited foresight. This solution is exactly what they are screaming for, but the choose to just be.
I suppose time will tell, but if the UV tag only costs a few beans more, I'd be happy.
I'm not willing to pay extra for it
At least, not on top of a DVD or BluRay. However, if I could pay a little extra on a cinema ticket and get UV access then I'd probably do that, even if it's a case of redeeming now and being given access only once the home versions become available.
It sounds generally OK
This actually seems like a sensible plan, so I must have misunderstood something.
Currently I haven't really messed about with downloads and have stuck with my own version on dvd. I have ripped one or two of these for convenience sake but actually don't pass around to other people as that would be a bit naughty.
If the price is right then I might well consider the ease and convenience (and it had better be easy and convenient !) worth looking into and possibly spending a bit of money on kit if needed.
Dis'nae like it
Disney's business model is to sell the same old crap to each new generation of mother-and-toddler. They even do cinema releases of old stuff every so often.
Licence for life doesn't at first appear to be compatible with that.
Does ultraviolet have subtitles on downloads and streaming?
Think about the deaf and hard of hearing people!
Defective by design
"The whole idea is not to use DRM to force you to pay each time, but to reward you for paying with lots of options."
How about rewarding customers for paying with DRM-free downloads, so you are imposing no restrictions on their options?
Yes, I can see why movie studios would want DRM, but if they're going to have it, I wish they'd have the integrity to admit that the DRM is purely for their benefit, rather than trying to pretend that software which is designed solely to prevent the purchaser doing things somehow helps consumers.
"How about rewarding customers for paying with DRM-free downloads"
I can see the studio's point of view in this. Instead of saying - here's your DRM-free download, you can do with it everything you like, they are now saying - here's your DRM-lite download, you can do everything you like with it EXCEPT make it available as a torrent to the general public.
That seems pretty fair to me.
In theory, theory is the same as practice, but in practice, it isn't
That wold be a reasonable thing for a copyright holder to require, and, indeed, they do require it with their licence. Unfortunately, that's just not how DRM works. The very nature of DRM requires that it prevent you from doing *everything* that you're not explicitly allowed by the provider to do (even if such things are permitted by the law, for instance making a backup copy), and furthermore from doing it on platforms and devices a DRM client hasn't been provided for. Far too many people are seduced by the idea of what DRM *should* do, and ignore that in reality what it actually does falls far short of that.
The alternative is to say "well, you've shown evidence of your bona-fides by ponying up some cash, here's your DRM-free version to do what you wish with; we'll trust you to abide by the licence". This is more or less what iTunes is doing now. Yes, some people will have it on the Pirate Bay before they've finished watching it, but most of those people would cheerfully crack the DRM if it had it, too. In short, all DRM does is make it more difficult for people to make legitimate use of things they've bought, while being little more than a speed bump for the pirates.
Re: In theory, theory is the same as practice, but in practice, it isn't
That's not a useful generalisation, DRM is contingent on the rights granted, these vary in each instance in practice. The proposition in its entirety is what is judged.
I never bought DRM digital music, the convenience of the instant purchase was outweighed by 1) the ecosystem lock-in and lack of portability, and 2) my political disapproval of DRM.
Neither the ecosystem lock-in nor political views stopped lots of people buying DRM music. Once DRM was lifted I bought lots of digital music online.
In UV the ecosystem issue does not apply. A consumer gains more "rights" than they have today. So you are left with the political issue. Which is something most people don't have, and has to be measured against the convenience.
It's all fun and games
until your email address provider goes under.
How many people will automatically use their work address? How many people will use their ISP address and then move ISPs?
I hope there's a way of recovering from dead email addresses and I hope the same mechanism can't be used to nick other people's film viewing rights.
It seems like a step in the right direction, but if I own the blu-ray disk, why would I want to stream across the internet from some other source, or why would I watch it on Sky or from Tescos? I might want to stream locally, so why not just add ethernet and streaming-enable the blu-ray player?
It would seem to be much easier to just make any retailer who streams for sale (rather than rentals) send you a DVD/BR disk in the post so you have physical media too.
If you think you can create an uncrackable video client, you have another think coming! You may as well just be nice to your customers.
lifetime ?
Lifetime. Let me guess that'll be some strange usage of the word like:
Free, a phone that costs you only fifty pounds a month subscription.
Unlimited, unless you actually try to use any of the bandwidth.
Yes, it isn't your lifetime, it's the product's lifetime which has now expired. Buy another copy!
That kind of lifetime.
Agreed, Bob ...
... especially when the companies don't see the leap in revenue that they believe is being lost to pirating (but is actually mainly down to not producing that much that that many people want to spend money on).
Just wait - two years, and the restrictions will tighten because the inflated forecasts based on the wrong assumptions haven't been met.
nice image
A human head, stripped of flesh and nailed down. What a lovely image with which to set up store. Is it a metaphor?
Looks like a decent system, though for the pirate demographic probably still not more attractive than rips.
People will pirate. This is unavoidable.
A small number will pirate anything they get their hands on. This is inevitable. They will never stop.
The majority can, but can't be bothered. And the lower the barrier to getting what they want, how they want, the less piracy.
It's a nice little step in the right direction. How important a step is yet to be seen.
great, how could they be blind for so long. this was the obvious solution since the times of napster!
now what happens if this property is bought while in a marriage, after divorce?
Sounds like it might pass the test...
...of letting me see the digital copy before my DVD ripper of choice has done the same job.
Every other "digital locker" system I've tried has failed this test up to now (yes, that's a whole integer greater than zero...)
Film, this will probably go the same way.
...But it was a fine TV series; so who's to say...
Fine TV series
that was canned after one season....just when it was geting realy good!
The film and the series were not connected in any way.
Isn't that Final Destination picture banned?
Well that all looks and sounds fine to me!
So I have to wonder: (A) What's wrong with me? (B) What am I not seeing?
As far as the "it's got DRM it must be bad" argument, well, one universal code, 12 devices allowed at any one time, several simultaneous streams, a seemingly huge mix of supporters for the format, yes I think I can live with that. Yes Disney/Apple are the wolf in the room, but how long can they stand to stay out of this? A year? Two? It seems to me that a year from now if I was in the market for a film from Disney and a film from a studio that supported this I would be tempted to go for the one that supported this. Based on what I know now.
All in all I actually feel like I want this to work.
But is a film tied to my account for ever or can I sell it on to someone else?
I was wondering this too...
Actually I was wondering what happens if I buy the DVD and register the code, then sell on the DVD.
Am I still able to watch the online version of the film? I suppose so as I've licenced the thing forever.
Is the next owner of the physical disc unable to register for the online version? I guess the can watch the disc.
Worth a go...
If this works as described in the article then I'm willing to give it a shot. If all the major studios and Tech companies are on-board so that this is all seemless then why not give it a go.
I would still very closely check the licencing agreement to be sure I'm covered if they decided to discontinue the service, but if I'm buying it on DVD/Blu-ray and getting the stream/cloud copy 'for free' (assuming no markup) then I still have the physical copy anyway.
As long as the cost and licencing is right then I'll be all on board - when it finally hits Oz that is.
It all sounds great, but...
It all sounds great, but there must be a catch (call me cynical), and I'm disappointed that this article hasn't raised any questions about it.
Anything with DRM means it takes time to be adopted by various platforms, and a download with DRM will have numerous restrictions as to what you can do with it.
What's the quality of the download?
Will a DVD UV cloud copy be the same quality as a Blu-Ray purchased one?
Will there be regional restrictions (buy in the UK, can't watch in the Middle East)?
Will UV require software programmers to pay for a licence for the DRM system (who will pass the cost on to us)?
Will a UV film cost more than a non-UV film?
What quality will this 'lifetime licence' be (sound, resolution etc)? What about in 10 years time when we might have 4K films? I'm sure the film industry is making a reasonable amount of cash because we 'upgrade' from DVD to Blu-Ray; are they really going to pass up on the revenue at the next update? If they will provide 'free' upgrades, can you really see the studios bothering to update older films if there's no money in it?
It's a good direction to go in, but too many unknowns about the future mean people might be hesitant to pay extra for it (if UV is more expensive). If they marketed it as cloud storage for your films, then they might make more headway.
Anyway, we shall see.
It'll be cracked within a year, don't worry about it.
It's not clear to me
how the "digital file" works.
Am I only going to be able to play a movie if I'm connected to the Internet?
No playing movies on flights then?
If that is the case then it is a big fat fail.
Re: It's not clear to me
"No playing movies on flights then?"
Download a copy or take the disc with you.
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Despite the bitter cold, over 150 constituents, community leaders, and elected and appointed officials gathered for a luncheon hosted by the League of Women Voters (LWV) of Port Washington-Manhasset at the George Washington Manor to hear North Hempstead Supervisor Jon Kaiman deliver his second State of the Town address. In summary, Supervisor Kaiman said, "The state of the Town of North Hempstead is good. In fact, it is great and getting better all the time."
Nassau County Executive Thomas R. Suozzi, joined by Deputy County Executive of Parks, Public Works and Partnerships Michael Klein and members of the Nassau County Legislature, recently outlined a $18 million "Nassau County Parks Are Making a Come Back" Campaign detailing his plans to rehabilitate, reorganize and restructure the Nassau County Parks System, which had suffered from more than a decade of neglect and mismanagement.
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Surgeons are replacing a major organ to cure a cancer that attacks the digestive systems of thousands of Americans every year.
Robert Gehle loves classic cars, but recently his life was turned upside down.
Doctors diagnosed him with bile duct cancer. A tumor was blocking the tube that carries bile from the liver to the intestines for digestion. Chemotherapy and radiation wouldn't work. Surgery to remove the tumor was out of the question too. So, Gehle was selected to try something new that could cure him.
The University of Michigan is one of a handful of U.S. transplant centers studying liver transplantation as a cure for bile duct cancer.
Dr. Chris Sonnenday says for patients to be considered, doctors have to be sure the cancer has not spread. "If someone has microscopic cancer anywhere, the anti-rejection drugs are like gasoline to that fire," he said.
When a new liver became available, doctors removed Gehle's liver and the cancerous bile ducts, replacing it all with the healthy organ.
Sonnenday says the three to five year survival rate is believed to be 60 to 70-percent, which is about the same for people who get liver transplants for other medical reasons.
As for Gehle, he's completely cancer-free and looking forward to a long life with his new liver. "Just in general, I'm pretty lucky," he said.
Doctors say, because of the scarcity of organs and the need that already exists, transplantation is only used when bile duct cancer patients do not have the option to have their tumor removed surgically.


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These pages will provide a brief history of the city and
some of its most notable residents, whose contributions to
sciences, the arts or society are still celebrated today.
The Archive Service now holds digital copies of the Worcester
City Charters owned by the city council.
Download the Worcester City
Charters (PDF 109 KB).
With the exception of Dancox, all the essays marked were written
by WASP volunteers.
The council had a diverse range of responsibilities including
finances (monies owed or loaned, distribution of municipal funds),
property (maintenance, leases of municipal property), trade
(regulation of markets and quality of goods) welfare (charities,
poor, the city gaol) and governing procedures (succession of
councillors, officials and Parliamentary representatives,
negotiation of charters).
The Chamber was the governing body of the city of Worcester. The
council chamber actually consisted of two chambers; the 48 and the
more important 24 (which included the mayor), from whose ranks the
city's magistrates were also chosen. Membership was through
co-option, and members were largely well-off and literate merchants
or (more rarely) gentlemen who gave their service for no or nominal
wages. There was continuity of government as resignation without
good cause, absence from meetings or, from 1649, refusal to take up
a nominated position was punishable by a fine. Acceptance into the
48 and then the 24 was the standard career progression of a local
government official. Promotion was dependent on the death or
removal of other members, but some offices, such as bailiff or
mayor, could only be held for a fixed period or by someone who had
held a certain junior position. By the nineteenth century, this
structure had been superseded by just one council chamber.
From 1555 the reasons for dismissal (temporary or permanent)
from either chamber were for 'evil government', non-residence in
Worcester for a period of at least one year, failure to attend
meetings without good reason despite due warning, and occasionally
what could be termed as behaviour not befitting a councillor. The
frequency of meetings depended on the quantity and urgency of the
matters to be discussed. During the Civil War meetings were held
every few days, though for the rest of the seventeenth century it
was not unusual for meetings to be held at 6-8 week intervals.
Nineteenth century meetings were often monthly and incorporated the
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Thursday, 3 January 2013
Letter to Mothers of Priests and Seminarians
CARDINAL MAURO PIACENZA WRITES TO MOTHERS OF PRIESTS, SEMINARIANS Prefect for the Congregation for the Clergy Notes Role of Family in Forming Vocations Ann Schneible ROME, January 3, 2013 (Zenit.org). Writing on the occasion of the solemnity of Mary Mother of God (January 1), Prefect for the Congregation for the Clergy, Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, addressed a letter to mothers of priests and seminarians. "In welcoming the Eternal Word into her immaculate womb," he wrote, "Mary Most Holy gave birth to the Eternal High Priest, Jesus Christ, the only Savior of the world… By adhering to God's Will, Mary participated in a unique and unrepeatable way in the mystery of our redemption, thereby becoming the Mother of God, the Gate of Heaven and the Cause of our Joy." Cardinal Piacenza continued: "In a similar way, the entire Church looks with admiration and deep gratitude upon all mothers of priests and of those who, having received this lofty vocation, have embarked upon the path of formation." Cardinal Piacenza noted the role of the family in helping young men to be receptive to the call of the priesthood. In particular, he continued, "the participation given to mothers of priests is quite unique and special. For unique and special are the spiritual consolations which they derive from having carried in the womb one who has become Christ's minister. Indeed, every mother cannot but rejoice in seeing the life of her son not only fulfilled but also clothed with a most exceptional divine favor which embraces and transforms it for all eternity." Even though the separation between a mother and her son is more "radical than any other separation," he continued, "the Church's two thousand years of experience teaches us that when a man is ordained a priest, his mother 'receives' him an a completely new and unexpected way; so much so that she is called to see in the fruit of her own womb a "father" who by God's will is called to generate and accompany a multitude of brothers and sisters to eternal life. Every mother of a priest mysteriously becomes a 'daughter of her son.' Towards him, she may therefore also exercise a new motherhood through the discreet yet extremely efficacious and inestimably precious closeness of prayer, and by offering of her own life for the ministry of her son." "This new 'fatherhood' - for which the Seminarian is prepared, which the priest has been given, and which benefits all God's People - needs to be accompanied by assiduous prayer and personal sacrifice, in order that a priest's free adherence to the divine will may continually be renewed and strengthened, that he may never tire in the battle of faith, and that he may unite his own life ever more completely to the Sacrifice of Christ the Lord." Cardinal Piacenza concludes: "Mothers of priests and seminarians thus represent a true and veritable 'army,' which from earth offers prayers and sacrifice to heaven, and from heaven intercedes in even greater number so that every grace and blessing may be poured out upon the lives of the Church's sacred ministers."
Trust in God
Now that I know the big overall plan, I must trust in Divine Providence to work out the details. I do not have the ability to do such. First, I am called to intense daily prayer, specifically contemplative prayer. Contemplative prayer is a combination of struggling with one's humanity, the old man, and daily entering into the Love of God. This means living in strict simplicity, relying completely on Divine Providence and being not conforming. I have known this for a long time but could not see how it fit in the world.
So far, so good. Allowing God to take one deeper into prayer is usually the call of the contemplative nun, and all of us to a certain extent, as necessary for perfection a la my long series. But, here is the second part of this call of mine.....Hosea 4:6...My people are starving for want of knowledge. This is the real reason God sent me out, as He could have given me strength for the schedule, had it been His Will. I clearly discerned before the Blessed Sacrament....my people are starving, feed my lambs, feed my sheep. And, a stranger, a priest in Malta plus a writer, and the Holy Spirit, confirmed these inspirations. I must pray many hours of each day, write, and blog.
God will have to take care of the physical details, but at least now I can stop wasting time looking for the ministries God is not calling me to do. Prayers, please, dear readers. The where and how take great trust in God.
The Memorial of the Holy Name of Jesus
Today is the memorial of the Holy Name of Jesus. This day celebrates the Name given by the angel from God the Father.
The Word Made Flesh was given a sacred name meaning Saviour. The root is Joshua, the great warrior, strategist, leader, prophet and priest of his people.
He was a type of Christ. Christ has both a human and sacred name. And, when we love someone, is not that person's name numinous?
I remember being eighteen and writing the name of my favorite boyfriend over and over in calligraphy. Do we, for various rational and emotional reasons, for reasons of family, not love certain names?
Love the Name of Jesus. Love Him above all else.
Prayers and Winter in Iowa
Please pray for me, as a strange situation has occurred in my life here and it needs a positive resolution. Ah, but what is new?
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|PostgreSQL 9.3.5 Documentation
|Chapter 10. Type Conversion
SQL UNION constructs must match up
possibly dissimilar types to become a single result set. The
resolution algorithm is applied separately to each output column
of a union query. The INTERSECT and
EXCEPT constructs resolve dissimilar
types in the same way as UNION. The
GREATEST and
LEAST constructs use the identical algorithm to
match up their component expressions and select a result data
Type Resolution for UNION, CASE, and Related Constructs
If all inputs are of the same type, and it is not unknown, resolve as that type. Otherwise, replace any domain types in the list with their underlying base types.
If all inputs are of type unknown, resolve as type text (the preferred type of the string category). Otherwise, unknown inputs are ignored.
If the non-unknown inputs are not all of the same type category, fail.
Choose the first non-unknown input type which is a preferred type in that category, if there is one.
Otherwise, choose the last non-unknown input type that allows all the preceding non-unknown inputs to be implicitly converted to it. (There always is such a type, since at least the first type in the list must satisfy this condition.)
Convert all inputs to the selected type. Fail if there is not a conversion from a given input to the selected type.
Some examples follow.
Example 10-8. Type Resolution with Underspecified Types in a Union
SELECT text 'a' AS "text" UNION SELECT 'b'; text ------ a b (2 rows)
Here, the unknown-type literal 'b' will be resolved to type text.
Example 10-9. Type Resolution in a Simple Union
SELECT 1.2 AS "numeric" UNION SELECT 1; numeric --------- 1 1.2 (2 rows)
The literal 1.2 is of type numeric, and the integer value 1 can be cast implicitly to numeric, so that type is used.
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The men in white coats
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From the moment I picked up the white coat, I never imagined how my life would turn from being quiet and calm into a rollercoaster journey.
It has already been an unbelievable journey as I have gone from village green to TV screen, and then back to some of the most high profile matches taking place within our country.
This week has been no different as I was appointed to the MCC Under-13 Spirit of Cricket National Finals festival.
This festival was a prime opportunity for us young officials to show how we can make our mark and exceed in all expectations while showing that we are willing to take on board the exceptional advice from our more senior colleagues.
So, on Wednesday August 12 I decided that the best way for me to travel to Oakham School was going to be by train. This proved to be a mistake as just an hour into my journey, someone decided to take a nap on my shoulder.
However, the day did start to improve as Fergus Guppy, Young Officials Development Officer, picked me up from the station and we watched the Under-15 County Cup final.
As I was introduced to my fellow young colleagues, Andrew and Ethan, I could not help but be completely mesmerised by some of the stories that they had to tell, particularly by the fact that Andrew had already gained ten years' experience and was only 19 but had only been full-time on a panel for two years.
Likewise, Ethan was only in his first year of officiating but had already gained a great knowledge and was keen to progress and learn from others.
While we all sat with the Yorkshire team awaiting to bat, they seemed just as interested and keen by some of the stories as we went from the subject of umpiring to how you would 'cow 'or 'moo' a ball when you were batting.
On Thursday morning we were introduced to more of our fellow colleagues who between them must have had over 80 years of experience between them.
The plan was that the three younger chaps would take to the field with the more senior boys and each one of us would be appointed to two of the 20-over matches.
The day could not have begun better as the three of us walked out to glorious sunshine and a finely cut outfield. The pitches were as flat as a road - heaven for any batsmen including me as a specialist number eleven.
Compared to the experience our seniors had wrapped up, the younger lads had roughly 19 years.
Nevertheless, this did not stop us sharing the valued field technique and man-management training that we had received.
My first assignment of the day was going to be one of the first matches of the day between Wolverhampton and Cambridge. The most amazing part of this match was that with Cambridge batting first, Warrington's bowlers were only responsible for one no ball and no wides.
As the evening progressed, it was time to retire and enjoy some of the finer moments of travelling away with cricket as we had the privilege of having dinner with Derek Underwood and Paul Bedford.
This unique occasion allowed us time to introduce ourselves as we learnt much about them. This was also the evening that we were introduced to the Greenhill Club that the senior members had founded a fair few years ago and we were told about the plate that they had awarded year after year, which was given to the person that had caused the most controversy that season.
Finally, as we look to promote younger officials, this festival has proven that we can move forward with officiating with positive assistance from our senior colleagues.


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Banana Muffins
Sunday night, I was putting away fruit and decided the bananas had gone too mushy. Before I went to bed, I mixed up the dry ingredients for Banana Bread Muffins for the next morning. It was smiles all around at breakfast and because I had done the"thinking" the night before, I was able to finish up and get them in the oven while I was still half asleep! Note the addition of oatmeal to add to the fiber content.
Mix these ingredients together the night before
2 cups flour
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup oats
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
ADD these ingredients just before baking. PREHEAT overn to 375 degrees
1 stick butter, softened overnight
2 eggs
3 ripened bananas
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I had posted about this Cupcake Cabernet Sauvignon a while back. I had just opened a bottle and thought it worthy of a revisit.
I had found this wine by Cupcake Vineyards quite a while ago. A friend & I came across this wonderful libation at, of all places, TGIFridays. Our server had enthusiastically recommended this Cupcake Cabernet Sauvignon. It turned out to be a very great choice.
The winery is located in Soledad, CA. Although they aren't set up for a tasting experience; you can taste their wines at their Concannon Vineyard Tasting Room property in Livermore, California. Cupcake Wines and Winery is part of The Wine Group an American alcoholic beverage company founded in 1981. The company is based in Livermore, California where it produces a variety of wines which includes brands such as Franzia, of course Cupcake Vineyards, Concannon, Almaden and FlipFlop to name a few. By 2008, when their Cupcakes Wines brand was first introduced, the company was considered to be one of the world's third-largest wine producer.
The gently rolling hills of the Livermore Valley Wine Region is less than an hour's drive east of San Francisco. It's considered to be one of California's oldest wine regions. Spanish missionaries were the first to plant wine grapes in the Livermore Valley in the 1760s. By 1840 Robert Livermore, the areas name sake, planted the first commercial grape vines in this area. He was quickly followed by many pioneer winemakers such as C. H. Wente, James Concannon, and Charles Wetmore who could see the area's future in its wine growing potential further establishing the Livermore Valley Area as a premier wine region.
Cupcake Cabernet Sauvignon
This is what the vintner had to say about this Cupcake Cabernet Sauvignon.
"Rich, smooth and elegantly textured, this full-bodied Cabernet Sauvignon shows fruit flavors of blackberry, dark cherry and cassis that melt with notes of cocoa and toasty oak. Linger over the soft tannins and the long, smooth and silky finish. We harvest grapes from California's premier Central Coast vineyards and use cool, slow fermentation to maintain the wine's aroma while heightening its complexity. Frequent pump-overs extract the soft tannins and color, which are preserved by pressing the skins and must just before the wine reaches complete dryness. Aging in premium American oak barrels adds richness and complexity."
You can find this Cupcake Cabernet Sauvignon at Wine.com, CostPlus World Market, BevMo.com, Target.com or any quality wine purveyor. Actually, you can find it pretty much everywhere.
My friend and I had a great time with this wine at dinner and we both felt we would go in search of Cupcake Cabernet Sauvignon. I have to say this is an excellent Cabernet Sauvignon at a very reasonable price. If you try one of the wines from Cupcake Winery we would love to hear your thoughts.
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Oct 20th 2012: MANIFEST on EUROPEAN TOUR 2012!
Led by Paul Speckmann since the beginning in 1983, MASTER is without doubt one of the most legendary and influential death metal bands in existence. MASTER is that kind of band that no real headbanger can ignore and if you have not picked up their latest album "The New Elite" then DO IT! Needless to say, MANIFEST looks forward to this tour bigtime!
Jun 20th 2012: 'Manufactured Lie' live from Trondheim Metal Fest 2011
Mar 22nd 2012: INFERNO METAL FESTIVAL COMING UP!
Only days left before hell is unleashed in Oslo! Unfortunately, Headspin will not be performing together with Manifest and Chton at the Morningstar Music Inferno Club Night. This held us all in a state of pure shock, afraid that everyone would not get their much needed fix of thrash metal at Inferno 2012. Luckily, the rescue came from the great Hellist Outcast...puh......!
Official press release from Morningstar Music:
***Morningstar Music Inferno Club night Lineup changes***
Because of reasons out of our control Headspin has to withdraw their appearance at Morningstar Music's Inferno Club Night on Wednesday April 4th.
Of course we're not leaving you without any thrash metal this night so we've found a great replacement in norwegian based Hellish Outcast.
Hellish Outcast play a mix of thrash, death and hardcore and has recently signed with UK based label Transcend Records for their upcoming debut album "Your god will bleed". So with this strong addition to our lineup there is no doubt where you should be during Inferno Club night!
Here's the full lineup:
Morningstar Music Inferno Club night
Time: Wednesday April 4th
Place: Blå, Oslo Norway
Chton (NO)
Manifest (NO)
Hellish Outcast (NO)
Written In Blood is released in Europe today 11/11/11! Here`s a review of the album. We don`t know German, but after using google translate, we know it`s a good one:
"...mettet og produserer tørr, MANIFEST tilbudet med "skrevet i blod", en tykk og tung biter av metall som ikke alltid lett å fordøye og så mye mer enn bare en snack i mellom!..."
And also; enjoy a treat for the weekend: 'Manufactured Lie' live from Tromdheim Metal Fest 2011. Cheers!
We have set 11/11/11 as the European release date for Written In Blood. The cd will be put out by Violent Media with distro from Indie Distribution. Vicisolum Productions are doing the promo work for us, so if you are looking for promotional copies, interviews, pictures etc, please contact Thomas Hörnkvist: firstname.lastname@example.com
Check out live footage of 'Savage' from Trondheim Metal Fest! DVD/Blu-ray featuring tracks from all bands from Trondheim Metal Fest 2011coming via Trøndercore Records late 2011!
Filmed by: J. P. Selbekk, B. G. Selbekk, Petter Hansen
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