Catching Light alluded to a number of components within the development of new works in the realm of new media, pairing artists from different generations within the new media movement who have chosen analogue and digital technologies as the most appropriate channel of enquiry for their current work, or have a practice reliant on engagement. Catching Light aims to draw on conversation, participation and interaction as means of informing us, the audience, as to how we communicate, or respond to art. Interesting questions can be raised as to how artists engage with new media now, and how new media was perceived at a time when these technologies were groundbreaking, analysing the technical and theoretical discoveries and foundation knowledge surrounding video synthesis and robotics. The panel discussion between collaborating artists Troy Innocent & Ben Kolaitis, and Stephen Jones & Pia van Gelder, will respond to these ideas with reference to their new works, their collaborative practice and their roles within the new media community.
Play Parameters is an experimental sonic and performative excursion into the art of gameplay. In this imaginative and inventive arts project, Troy Innocent and Benjamin Kolaitis have designed an interactive installation that meshes visual and compositional gameplay elements with the structural elements of musical instrumentation.
The concept was inspired by Moholy-Nagy's Light-Space Modulator, Gysin and Burrough's Dreamachine and 1970s analog generative art systems, with close inspection of the sonic components by expanding upon the early work of Reed Ghazala and David Tudor. Sonic Arts Union, 1970s artists Alvin Lucier and Gordon Mumma are also a point of reference, while Jon Rose and Alan Lamb have notably influenced the scope and direction of this project.
This paper looks at the video synthesiser as a primary visual/audio source of abstract images in International and Australian video art. Video synthesisers are mostly analogue or hybrid devices having an analogue video signal as their output; they are not computer imaging systems, although several were controlled and patched by using a microprocessor. They can be played live, and are more like musical instruments than computers in their usage.
The presentation begins by examining the variety of devices that were built and the techniques used in most video synthesisers, and looks briefly at some of the earliest video synthesisers from the U.S. and Britain. Video synthesisers began as colourisers; e.g. Eric Siegal's device of 1968 – or manipulators of the colours of an existing image; e.g. the Paik/Abe video synthesiser of 1970. As audio synthesisers became more readily available they, or oscillator packages derived from them, began to be used as pattern generators; e.g. the EMS Spectre, of 1975, which also used digital shape storage devices in read only memory. Pattern storage using digital memory was also a feature of the Beck Video Weaver, of 1973, which used writable memory to store shapes and read them out to the screen.
The presentation then follows up with more detail on a variety of video synthesisers built and used in Australia. These include John Hansen's hybrid analogue and digital microprocessor-controlled video synthesiser that eventually became a fully-fledged 2D Computer drawing package, Peter Vogel's specially designed collection of oscillators that he used to produce an enhanced Musicolour device, the EMS Spectre used at La Trobe University by Warren Burt, David Chesworth and other students of Burt, and finally the series of video synthesisers built in Sydney by Stephen Jones over the period from 1978 to 1982. The presentation will include short video excerpts from many of these machines.


Over 1600M ON the Meydan dirt surface, the $1.5 million Group 2 Godolphin Mile produced a thrilling finish with Heavy Metal looking set to defend his title only to be caught in the dying strides by Coal Front. Trained by Todd Pletcher for Robert LaPenta and Head of Plains Partners, the 5yo rig was drawn wide in 12 and not able to get to the front under Jose Ortiz, who had hoped to do so, but forced to track Heavy Metal, Muntazah and Good Curry. The last named was the first to crack with Muntazah looming large alongside Heavy Metal at the top of the straight before weakening with 300m to run. That left Heavy Metal clear with a seemingly insurmountable advantage but Ortiz had a willing partner who finished off his race in style to put his head in front where it mattered.
The winning verdict was three parts of a length with Ortiz making his first UAE mount a winning one as well as supplying Pletcher his maiden local success with his 17th runner. The trainer said: "He had a fantastic run and was given a great ride. Our whole team is very proud of him." Co-owner, Sol Kumin, added: "He has had some health issues, on and off but always had a ton of talent. And Todd Pletcher has done a great job with him. We thought we would come back to the mile trip and everything worked out well. It was worth the trip. "We were lucky enough to own a part of Mind Your Biscuits a few years ago.


Thoughts from Brahma Kumaris: To have the right discrimination is to save time.
Projection: When we find someone doing something wrong, we immediately start giving corrections and directions. Yet we find that the other person is not in a position to listen to us. In the process of explaining to others we find our time getting wasted.
Solution: When we give directions to others we have to first see if they will understand what we are trying to say. We need to understand the other person before we speak. Then our words will make their full impact on others.
In the same way, the Supreme Being, who is a permanent resident of the soul world, has seen from that world, each soul right from the time when it was completely bare or bodiless residing in the soul world with Him, to the time when it took its first physical costume or body on earth and then changed many costumes in the process of birth and rebirth. He not only knows the soul's original sanskaras, which were there in the soul in the soul world, but also each and every costume that the soul wore. He also knows every soul's different relationships while wearing each and every costume; every thought, word or action created while wearing each and every costume and the different personality traits or sanskaras of the soul while wearing each and every costume. That is on an unlimited level. On a limited level, there is no doubt that the Supreme Soul who is the Supreme Parent of all human souls and is said to possess a thousand eyes; very well knows the mental, emotional and physical activity of the complete day of each soul. Thus, there is nothing that is hidden about the soul from this Parent.


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Daily review: little agreement at NATO-Russia talks; 80 Ukrainian soldiers perished in 2021; Day of Political Prisoner
2022/01/13 - 01:15 • Daily review
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Past 24 hours in the war zone
Ukraine's JFO command reported one attack by Russian-hybrid forces on Ukrainian positions in the Donbas region, namely near Novotoshkivske, one Ukrainian soldier was killed.
As of 19:30 Jan 10, OSCE's Special Monitoring Mission recorded 133 violations, including 7 explosions in Donetsk Oblast; 5 violations, including 2 explosions in Luhansk Oblast.
Moscow has prepared a plan for the internal destabilization of Ukraine, US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland said at a briefing on 11 January. According to her, the US and its European allies are preparing 'very painful' sanctions against Russia in case it launches its further military escalation in Ukraine.
Russia launched large-scale live-fire drills next to Ukraine's border. The exercises involve tanks and IFVs, and take place in Voronezh, Belgorod, Bryansk, Smolensk oblasts. The United States expects explanations from Russia regarding the drills.
Ukraine's partners are coordinating on a united stance against Russian provocations, assured Canadian PM Justin Trudeau.
NATO-Russia talks in Brussels
On 12 January 2022, NATO headquarters in Brussels hosted security talks over Ukraine between envoys of Russia and NATO member countries. The only confirmed result of the negotiations seems to be the agreed point that the sides should meet again in the future. The meeting took place amid tensions over Moscow's military build-up near Ukrainian borders, still ongoing since mid-fall 2021.
NATO and Russia agreed to talk more at Brussels talks
80 Ukrainian soldiers laid down their lives for Ukraine in 2021
Euromaidan Press honors the Ukrainian soldiers who perished in the Russo-Ukrainian war in 2021, 80 names, 80 faces (in 2020 there were 55).
Honouring and remembering the Ukrainian soldiers killed in the Russo-Ukrainian war in 2021
Ukrainian army reservists train amid border tensions with Russia
Watch Euronews' video on the training of Ukrainian reservists amid the Russian military buildup near Ukrainian borders:
Ukrainians call on US Senate to sanction Putin's pipeline weapon
Representatives of Ukrainian civil society call on the US Senate to back the new bill sanctioning the Nord Stream 2 pipeline and encourage the Biden Administration to swiftly provide Ukraine with defensive weapons, according to a document published by the Atlantic Council. US senators are expected to vote in the coming days on a Nord Stream 2 pipeline sanction bill.
"Russian aggression against Ukraine is part of a mounting global confrontation between democracy and a resurgent brand of authoritarianism championed by Vladimir Putin. Nord Stream 2 is one of Putin's most important geopolitical weapons. By blocking this pipeline, the US can make an important contribution to protecting Ukrainian sovereignty and safeguarding European security while defending America's own national interests," reads the document.
But will the US Congress vote for sanctions against Nord Stream 2? Read Euromaidan Press' explainer:
Will the US Congress vote for sanctions against Nord Stream 2? | Explainer
US ready to increase defense aid to Ukraine – Blinken assures Ukrainian FM
US Secretary of State Antony Bliken assured his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba of America's readiness to strengthen defense support for Ukraine, as well as to take other resolute steps to deter Russia should the latter resort to another act of aggression against its neighbor. This is according to an official statement of the US Department of State, released on 11 January after a phone call of the two top diplomats.
Ukraine seeks to launch eight satellites into orbit by 2025
Ukraine's National Targeted Scientific and Technical Space Program for 2021-2025 has been drafted to launch eight Ukrainian satellites into the low Earth orbit, according to the chief of the State Space Agency, Volodymyr Taftay, Ukrinform reports. According to the official, the production of heavy-class rocket and space complexes (Zenith-7H), medium-range (Cyclone-4M), and light (Cyclone 1) launch vehicles are also in the works, as well as developing an ultralight complex. Additionally, the space program lays down plans to put in mass production components for ESA's Antares and Vega launch vehicles.
IEA chief accuses Russia of worsening Europe's gas crisis
The head of the International Energy Agency, Fatih Birol, has accused Russia of throttling gas supplies to Europe at a time "of heightened geopolitical tensions" implying Moscow has manufactured an energy crisis for political ends, according to FT.
"We believe there are strong elements of tightness in the European gas market due to Russia's behavior," Birol said. "I would note that today's low Russian gas flows to Europe coincide with heightened geopolitical tensions over Ukraine."
Day of the Ukrainian Political Prisoner
Today, January 12, marks the Day of the Ukrainian Political Prisoner. On this day in 1972, the KGB began massively arresting Ukrainian Shistdesyatnyky (Sixtiers), a literary movement that arose in protest to the Soviet Union's destruction of everything Ukrainian.
Carols against the USSR: the tragic 1972 Vertep and KGB's mass arrests of Ukrainian dissidents (photos)
Nothing much has changed… Today, there are over 120 Ukrainian political prisoners of the Kremlin held in Russia and occupied Crimea and about 300 Ukrainians imprisoned in dark, damp basements in Russian-occupied Donbas.
In fact, Ukrainian dissidents jailed in the USSR and today's Ukrainian political prisoners of the Kremlin have a common denominator: Russian imperialism.
How Russian imperialism jailed Ukrainian dissidents 50 years ago and today
Center for Civil Liberties together with Euromaidan Press have launched their traditional 2022 Winter Letter Marathon for Ukrainian political prisoners of the Kremlin. If you're wondering how to go about it, just follow the instructions here.
Schismatic bishop of Russian Orthodox Church died on church's patriarch birthday
The former Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) bishop of Chukotka, Diomid, who was stripped of his rank by the Moscow Patriarchate, died in an automobile accident near St. Petersburg on 20 November 2021, ROC Patriarch Kirill's birthday. Commentator Paul Goble highlights that some of Diomid's followers are likely to suspect foul play as many Russians did when journalist Anna Politkovskaya was killed on Putin's birthday in 2006.
Bishop Diomid, who led church opposition to ROC MP, dies in car accident on Patriarch Kirill's birthday
Maria Prymachenko's 113th anniversary
Ukrainian naïve art genius Maria Prymachenko, a Ukrainian village folk art painter, was born 113 years ago on 12 January in Bolotnia, Kyiv Oblast.
Maria Prymachenko
She didn't have any artistic education and lived a quiet life in her native village. Maria was involved with drawing, embroidery, and painting on ceramics. You can find her works in Ukrainian Folk Art Museum in Kyiv.
Maria Prymachenko's painting
We made her paintings come to life here.
Paintings of Ukrainian Naïve Art icon Prymachenko come to life
Serhii Koroliov's birthday
Prominent Ukrainian, space exploration pioneer Serhii Korolev (more widely known by the version of his name transliterated from Russian as Sergei Korolev) was born 115 years ago on 12 January in Zhytomyr. Stalin put Korolev behind bars in a politically motivated case. But Korolev prevailed, made a remarkable career, sent the first human to space and expanded space exploration horizons.
Soviet secret police NKVD's mugshot of prisoner Koroliov in 1940 – 18 months into his imprisonment, taken in the Butyrka prison in Moscow.
Tags: NATO, Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, Prymachenko, Russia, Russo-Ukrainian War (2014-present)
Yuri Zoria
A philologist by education, in 2003-2007 Yuri worked as a journalist in a Luhansk online media. He was born and lived all his life in the peaceful provincial city of Luhansk, where nothing serious happened. Until 2014. Now he is an IDP. Follow Yuri on twitter: @loogunda
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Differential Callosal Contributions to Bimanual Control in Young and Older Adults
Brett W. Fling, Christine M. Walsh, Ashley S. Bangert, Patricia A. Reuter-Lorenz, Robert C. Welsh ...
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2010.21600
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Our recent work has shown that older adults are disproportionately impaired at bimanual tasks when the two hands are moving out of phase with each other [Bangert, A. S., Reuter-Lorenz, P. A., Walsh, C. M., Schachter, A. B., & Seidler, R. D. Bimanual coordination and aging: Neurobehavioral implications. Neuropsychologia, 48, 1165–1170, 2010]. Interhemispheric interactions play a key role during such bimanual movements to prevent interference from the opposite hemisphere. Declines in corpus callosum (CC) size and microstructure with advancing age have been well documented, but their contributions to age deficits in bimanual function have not been identified. In the current study, we used structural magnetic resonance and diffusion tensor imaging to investigate age-related changes in the relationships between callosal macrostructure, microstructure, and motor performance on tapping tasks requiring differing degrees of interhemispheric interaction. We found that older adults demonstrated disproportionately poorer performance on out-of-phase bimanual control, replicating our previous results. In addition, older adults had smaller anterior CC size and poorer white matter integrity in the callosal midbody than their younger counterparts. Surprisingly, larger CC size and better integrity of callosal microstructure in regions connecting sensorimotor cortices were associated with poorer motor performance on tasks requiring high levels of interhemispheric interaction in young adults. Conversely, in older adults, better performance on these tasks was associated with larger size and better CC microstructure integrity within the same callosal regions. These findings implicate age-related declines in callosal size and integrity as a key contributor to bimanual control deficits. Further, the differential age-related involvement of transcallosal pathways reported here raises new questions about the role of the CC in bimanual control.
Failure to Engage Spatial Working Memory Contributes to Age-related Declines in Visuomotor Learning
Joaquin A. Anguera, Patricia A. Reuter-Lorenz, Daniel T. Willingham, Rachael D. Seidler
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (2011) 23 (1): 11–25.
It is well documented that both cognitive and motor learning abilities decline with normative aging. Given that cognitive processes such as working memory are engaged during the early stages of motor learning [Anguera, J., Reuter-Lorenz, P., Willingham, D., & Seidler, R. Contributions of spatial working memory to visuomotor learning. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22(9), 1917–1930, 2010], age-related declines in motor learning may be due in part to reductions in cognitive ability. The present study examined whether age-related declines in spatial working memory (SWM) contribute to deficits in visuomotor adaptation. Young and older adult participants performed a visuomotor adaptation task that involved adapting manual aiming movements to a 30° rotation of the visual feedback display as well as an SWM task in an fMRI scanner. Young adults showed a steeper learning curve than older adults during the early adaptation period. The rate of early adaptation was correlated with SWM performance for the young, but not older, adults. Both groups showed similar brain activation patterns for the SWM task, including engagement of the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and bilateral inferior parietal lobules. However, when the SWM activation was used as a limiting mask, younger adults showed neural activation that overlapped with the early adaptation period, whereas older adults did not. A partial correlation controlling for age revealed that the rate of early adaptation correlated with the amount of activation at the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. These findings suggest that a failure to effectively engage SWM processes during learning contributes to age-related deficits in visuomotor adaptation.
Contributions of Spatial Working Memory to Visuomotor Learning
Previous studies of motor learning have described the importance of cognitive processes during the early stages of learning; however, the precise nature of these processes and their neural correlates remains unclear. The present study investigated whether spatial working memory (SWM) contributes to visuomotor adaptation depending on the stage of learning. We tested the hypothesis that SWM would contribute early in the adaptation process by measuring (i) the correlation between SWM tasks and the rate of adaptation, and (ii) the overlap between the neural substrates of a SWM mental rotation task and visuomotor adaptation. Participants completed a battery of neuropsychological tests, a visuomotor adaptation task, and an SWM task involving mental rotation, with the latter two tasks performed in a 3.0-T MRI scanner. Performance on a neuropsychological test of SWM (two-dimensional mental rotation) correlated with the rate of early, but not late, visuomotor adaptation. During the early, but not late, adaptation period, participants showed overlapping brain activation with the SWM mental rotation task, in right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and the bilateral inferior parietal lobules. These findings suggest that the early, but not late, phase of visuomotor adaptation engages SWM processes.
Multiple Motor Learning Experiences Enhance Motor Adaptability
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/089892904322755566
Traditional motor learning theory emphasizes that skill learning is specific to the context and task performed. Recent data suggest, however, that subjects exposed to a variety of motor learning paradigms may be able to acquire general, transferable knowledge about skill learning processes. I tested this idea by having subjects learn five different motor tasks, three that were similar to each other and two that were not related. A group of experimental subjects first performed a joystick-aiming task requiring adaptation to three different visuomotor rotations, with a return to the null conditions between each exposure. They then performed the same joystick-aiming task but had to adapt to a change in display gain instead of rotation. Lastly, the subjects used the joystickaiming task to learn a repeating sequence of movements. Two groups of control subjects performed the same number of trials, but learned only the gain change or the movement sequence. Experimental subjects showed generalization of learning across the three visuomotor rotations. Experimental subjects also exhibited transfer of learning ability to the gain change and the movement sequence, resulting in faster learning than that seen in the control subjects. However, transient perturbations affected the movements of the experimental subjects to a greater extent than those of the control subjects. These data demonstrate that humans can acquire a general enhancement in motor skill learning capacity through experience, but it comes with a cost. Although movement becomes more adaptable following multiple learning experiences, it also becomes less stable to external perturbation.


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Charles stands in the bathroom mirror, just staring at the reflection but not recognizing the tired, run-down shell of a man looking back at him. He is replaying Claire's words repeatedly in his mind, "I no longer want to be married to you. I am leaving and taking the boys with me." He remembered the pain he felt in that moment. Charles couldn't breathe and felt like a cement cinder block had just fallen on his chest. Charles was attempting to be strong in the face of those words slicing through his body like swords. But his eyes stung from trying to hold back the waterfall that was sure to come if he moved even an inch. People always said when they had a near-death experience their lives flashed before their eyes. Charles now understood that feeling. His mind was racing, reliving the last 15 years with Claire in those 30 seconds after she'd dropped this bomb on him. In those memories, they seemed so happy, to him at least. He saw the first moment that he'd laid eyes on Claire. How beautiful she was. He remembered her gliding down the aisle at their wedding. The birth of their first son, and then their second, when he looked into his sons' eyes and saw all the love he did not know he could have for another human. The picnics in the park. The snowmen they built in the front yard of their family home. Every memory brought a sharp, rapidly increasing pain directly to his heart, as though electricity was flowing directly to this vital organ.
Yes, there were times when Claire asked him to spend more time at home and less at work, but Charles felt that he was doing what a man was supposed to do…providing for his family. Their dates nights became few and far between but each summer he took her and the boys on a wonderful vacation to a different destination each year. Could there have been a clue to this impending doom? Would him helping Claire more with the cooking and cleaning have made her want to stay married to him? Would them having conversations after putting the boys to bed instead of him perched in front of another sports show have made a difference? Did Claire really want to take those trips with her girlfriends on the weekends when Charles was having his fishing trips? Didn't all the gifts make up for his absences and lack of attention?
Now here he was, standing in the bathroom of his two-month-old apartment, trying to coax himself to let go of the past and understand that the future was going to look so different. But he just couldn't do it. How could he? How could he let go of his family, his life, his American dream? How could he move on from this, from this pain? Everywhere he turned, everything reminded him of the life he had with Claire and the boys and of the sad, pathetic life he was no destined for. He would be alone, with no wife or daily contact with his boys. Charles loved his boys; how could he go each day without seeing, spending time with, and raising them.
Today Charles was going to spend some father/son time with his boys. He got dressed, grabbed his jacket, and got in his car. He would drive to the house that he was still paying the mortgage on to pick them up. When he pulled up to the house and got out, he rang the doorbell, as though he were a stranger trying to sell a state-of-the-art vacuum cleaner. Claire answered the door, not looking 100% like herself, but not looking as worn as he felt. She did not smile or engage in eye contact with Charles. "May I come in," he asked. "I would rather you did not come in," Claire replied to him solemnly. "This is still my house. My name is still on it, and I still pay the mortgage," Charles told Claire, trying to control the anger and frustration that was welling up inside of him. He also was feeling so humiliated because he could see the neighbor, who was walking his beautiful Doberman by the house, slow down his pace and furtively glance over at them. Charles recognized him from the block party they had two years ago – he talked incessantly about his dog. Now the dog lover from the block party was standing in front of our house, pretending to let his dog relieve himself on a tree, looking at me with a puzzled look. Charles could only imagine the thoughts going through the man's mind: "why is Charles on the outside of the house ringing the bell."
Climbing back into his car with his sons, Charles wanted to enjoy this time with them, but the little voice in the back of his head was whispering, "you have become a drive-by dad." He just wanted his life back. Charles and the boys had lunch and then grabbed a movie. He wanted to have equal time with the boys, but he didn't have furniture or beds for them to sleep in because Claire wouldn't let him have any of the furniture from the residence. He tried to discuss a 50/50 custody agreement with Claire, but that did not go well. She immediately said no and told Charles he could get the boys every other weekend, once he had a living arrangement that was suitable. She also told him he would need to pay her some money for her support and the children's before she would agree with overnight visitation. He was ashamed that he had to beg for time with the children that he helped create and raise, and basically pay for it.
Charles finally accepts that he would not get to keep his marriage, but he doesn't want to lose his boys. He also does not want to have the wealth he amassed hijacked by his wife. Charles wants to spend just as much time with his boys as he did before (and that was a lot). He wants to continue taking them to school in the morning and having outdoor activities with them on the weekends. Charles wants to continue playing a large part in his boys' lives, such as coaching their soccer teams, as he had previously done. "How will I ever survive this situation?" is Charles's constant thought these days.
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I have seen Ginseng UP at most of the organic grocers that I have visited so far (and even some of the Asian markets), and have always wondered about it as I chose something else from the shelf. I finally decided to give one a try this past week, and although my curiosity has been satiated, I am starting to feel that ginseng really just does not make for a good beverage.
To start off positive, the flavor of the ginseng used in the beverage is very natural. It has a very dry, earthy ginseng taste, and it is clear that it is derived from organic ingredients. That, however, is about where the appeal stops. Ginseng UP is sweetened with fructose, which is fairly sweet and syrupy and doesn't really mix very well with the mild bitterness of the ginseng. The drink also has a bit of a thick taste, likely due to the heavier nature of the fructose (as opposed to sucrose). This thickness also causes the flavor to hang around in the aftertaste for quite some time, making the all around experience relatively unpleasant. Also, Ginseng UP promotes itself as a "100% Natural Soda," but it was barely carbonated at all. I will admit that I am a bit biased, as I tend to prefer my carbonated drinks as bubbly as possible (I like it to "bite" my mouth a little on the way down), but I don't think that anyone would consider this as carbonated as a soda should be. There is a chance that I may have somehow gotten one that had gone flat, but expecting carbonation and not really getting any is always a disappointing experience.
I like ginseng, and I couldn't finish this drink. That's not to say that nobody is going to like it, but I could not stomach the flavor and aftertaste for more than a few drinks. Ginseng UP is offered in a variety of other flavors, and perhaps some of the others are better, but based on my experience with this one, I think that it will probably be a while before I "try again." I think that if this drink had been unsweetened, it would have been a lot better. Ginseng has a very particular flavor that is only muddled by sweetening, and ginseng-based beverages are most often used as nutritional supplements, anyway. I don't know that sweetening is strictly necessary, and I think that a drink that simply emphasizes the very organic and earthy taste of the ginseng would be much easier to recommend.
The Original flavour has always been a bit intense. The flavours that are more fruit oriented are on the more sweeter side. My favourites are Orange and Lemon-Lime. Grape is good too.
I have seen the fruit flavors in stores before, but my experience with this one kind of put me off to the others, originally. Thanks for your recommendation, though. I'll have to give the flavored ones another try sometime. Grape sounds like it might be especially good.
I don't know what you had but the ginseng up is the best! You need the grape or cola. I started off with the grape and moved to the original make sure the ingredients say citric acid and cane sugar it makes the drink more palpable. Ginseng is the ultimate in health! if you want to stop something stop soda's and alcohol!
even more hair, and this could come to be a source of severe depression and anxiety.
chosen because it matches the totality of the patient.
Stress reliever: Ginseng is known to reduce the levels of stress and acts as a stimulant. It also regulates metabolism and increases energy levels.
Anti-aging benefit: Ginseng helps slow the signs of aging as it is a significant source of antioxidants which halt the formation of free radicals and another anti-aging substance called maltol.
Mental stimulant: Ginseng tea helps stimulate brain cells thereby improving concentration, thinking ability and memory.
Aids in erectile dysfunction: Ginseng acts as a potent aphrodisiac and is believe to help those men with erectile dysfunction.
Helps control weight: Ginseng tea is a natural appetite suppressant and helps in fighting obesity.
Blood sugar control: Studies show that ginseng may help diabetics to control blood sugar levels as it creates sugar-lowering effects in fasting and after-meal blood sugar levels.
Menstrual problems: American ginseng tea helps reduce the pain of menstrual cramps.
Precaution: However, like all health supplements, it must be used under medical supervision as it can cause allergy, headaches, gastrointestinal and sleep problems. Pregnant and breastfeeding women and those who are under medication should avoid using ginseng.


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SL Founder/Leader Discovers
8 August 2003 letter to Workers Vanguard.
In the 1 August Workers Vanguard (WV) you announce that the discussion on the Kurdish question initiated by comrade Bruce André's polemic two issues earlier is no longer a "legitimate political dispute in the workers movement." It apparently lost its "legitimacy" when it became clear that you were not going to come out on top. In that connection, we note that your 4 July rejoinder (WV No. 806) to our 12 June letter dropped André's entire line of argument, while reiterating his conclusion. We take this as a tacit concession that his allegations were indeed nothing more than a "crude textual sleight-of-hand."
Your 4 July piece used entirely different, but equally specious, allegations to smear us as chauvinists. You claim that, "the IBT is against the call for an independent Kurdistan," that we advocate "the chauvinist status quo," fail to give "unambiguous support for the national aspirations of the oppressed" in Kurdistan, and are "opposed" to any attempt by the Kurds to exercise their right to self-determination. These allegations are all completely false. As we have made clear repeatedly, we unconditionally defend the right of the Kurdish people to self-determination, which includes supporting any attempts they make to win their independence and establish a separate state.
We do not, however, currently advocate the slogan of an independent (bourgeois) Kurdistan. Neither, in fact, do you. This is because of the profound difficulties given present circumstances that would beset any attempt to realize such a goal, as we noted a decade ago:
"One of the peculiarities of the Kurdish national question is that it is intertwined with the social question in the states with Kurdish minorities and, through them, in all the states of the Near East. The fight for the freedom of the Kurds requires a common struggle with the Turkish, Persian and Arab working masses. Any serious threat to capitalist rule in Turkey, for example, must inevitably pose the question of the Kurds. The Kurdish struggle for national liberation, on the other hand, could easily spark a wave of upheavals that would shatter the brittle regimes of the region."
—1917, No. 12, 1993
As we noted in our 12 June letter, you use even more categorical formulations than we do to rule out the possibility of independence for Kurdistan short of a series of regional revolutionary uprisings. We fully support the perspective of a Kurdish workers' state as part of a Socialist Federation of the Middle East, and see this as the most likely means for the Kurdish people to realize their national aspirations. But, as we have stated before, this is something that will ultimately be decided by the Kurds themselves.
In an article entitled "Kurdish Workers in the Iraqi Revolution of 1958-59" (WV No. 370, 11 January 1985) [see Appendix B on page 35], comrade Reuben Samuels recounted how, in 1959 in response to a rightist coup: "The ICP [Iraqi Communist Party which was 'run from Kurdistan rather than Baghdad'] was able to unite Kurd and Arab soldiers against their officers…." If the experience of common class struggle were to result in a dramatic increase in mutual trust among workers on all sides, it seems conceivable that the Kurdish people might wish to modify aspects of the perspective we presently project. The essential point for revolutionaries is that the Kurds have the right to determine their own future.
The public slapdown of the editorial board in connection with its handling of our 12 June letter (WV No. 807, 1 August) rather caught us by surprise. The recantation confirms our assessment that the publication of a truncated version of our letter constituted an unprecedented (if only implicit) criticism of James Robertson, the group's peerless leader. When comrade Robertson realized what was going on, WV's errant scribes were subjected to a little of the criticism/self-criticism described in the "Obedience Training in the SL" section of "The Road to Jimstown," our 1985 account of how the SL came to be the way it is.
A chastened ed board now feigns outrage that: "The BT smears Robertson with the scurrilous claim that he characterized Kurds as 'turds'." Being false in little things, as in big ones, WV decided not to capitalize "Turds" as it was in the original, to avoid lending credence to what they now claim is a "lying smear" about the SL lider maximo.
For those not present at the time, it may be useful to sketch in a bit of the background to Robertson's remark. In early 1978 the Spartacist League/Britain (SL/B) recruited two Turkish comrades (E and F) as part of a major regroupment from Alan Thornett's Workers Socialist League (WSL). The first issue of Spartacist Britain (April 1978) contained a document reprinted from the WSL's internal bulletin entitled "Enough of opportunism, adventurism, Bundism—For a Trotskyist perspective in Turkey," signed by "E and F." [See Appendix A on page 31.] Their recruitment presented an important opportunity for the international Spartacist tendency (iSt), but there were concerns about their sensitivity on the Kurdish question, so the SL/B leadership (then headed by Bill Logan) scheduled an educational on Kurdistan. Reuben Samuels, the iSt's expert on the national question and the Middle East, was assigned to make the main presentation.
Samuels' talk, scheduled for the first weekend of October 1978, was preempted by more dramatic developments. James Robertson, who had decided to topple the Logan regime, used the projected educational weekend as a cover for flying to London, along with various hand-picked associates, to organize a coup. A week after successfully deposing Logan, Robertson was regaling the SL's New York branch with an account of his triumph. In the course of his remarks, which soon appeared in an iSt internal bulletin, Robertson teased Samuels for having been left out of the loop and missing the excitement:
"So, then, the factional opposition started. We hit the meeting on Friday night; it was a plenum of the Central Committee. Too big. It was half the membership. Because the membership was coming in for an educational weekend. Criticism of Reuben: the whole time, where was Reuben? He was off in the library, studying about the Turds for his class. Right? He wasn't playing any role. George and I looked at each other and we said, 'We don't think it's going to be exactly the kind of educational weekend that we had in mind…'. We're going back next month to have the educational. Good educational."
—International Discussion Bulletin No. 10, Part I, p 60
The WV article concedes that Robertson made the remark, but steers clear of any hint as to what it was supposed to mean. WV notes that: "Reuben Samuels, a leading cadre of our international…was in London at the time," but does not mention that he had flown in from Toronto specifically to give his talk on the Kurds. Our explanation of what Reuben was studying in the library, previously too hot to touch, is now denounced as both a "contemptible lie" and a demonstration of our supposed chauvinism:
"The BT cries that is a 'piggish' reference to the Kurds. Only in the minds of those genuinely inspired by chauvinism could 'turds' be seen as referring to Kurds!"
— Workers Vanguard No. 807, 1 August
No one can accuse the SL of lacking chutzpah! But members of the International Communist League (ICL) and those WV readers whose minds are not "genuinely inspired by chauvinism" are left to work out for themselves what Reuben's class could have been about. The SL leaders wisely avoid the subject, knowing that with every new lie they dig themselves into a deeper hole.
On 6 August, a former SL/B member sent us the following unsolicited comment:
"Who indeed would think that Robertson was referring to the Kurds, when Reuben was away preparing his talk instead of taking part in the defence of the oppressed?
"Well, we all did. Why? Because Reuben's talk was on — the Kurds. And if not to the Kurds, to whom, or what, did Robertson's remark refer?
"In a normal organisation, the other senior leaders would say, comrade, apologize…. But in the SL, every whim, every drunken sally of the Leader must be defended. Thus the abject 'apology' that accompanies the article."
As if anticipating that the attempted cover-up may fail, the WV article hints at a second, fallback defense:
"Yet he [Robertson] was never sent a copy of the BT letter including the 'P.S.' Beyond stupid, arrogant and uncomradely, this break in collaboration was an attack on our own revolutionary continuity. The Spartacist League is, and has been from its inception, an organization that says what is, without bowing to petty-bourgeois sensibilities. The actions of the Editorial Board could be borrowed from the practices of centrism, i.e., a divergence between what we stand for and what we do."
Does this mean that not wanting to defend Robertson's grossly offensive comment meant "bowing to petty-bourgeois sensibilities"? We can't say for sure, but we are curious to find out what the SL claims "studying about the Turds" in the British Museum was supposed to mean.
The ed board's mea culpa, which reads like something the peerless leader dictated, fails to explain why the full text of our letter was withheld from him. Was he thought to be too tired and emotional to handle a trip down memory lane? Did the ed board agree among themselves that his remark was so indefensible that it was best simply ignored? Would the founder/leader ever have found out had we not distributed our leaflet at the Socialist Workers Party's (SWP) "Marxism" event in London? We do not know, but if comrade Robertson learns to log on to the internet for himself, in future he will be able to check our website like everyone else.
Unwilling, or perhaps unable, to provide any explanation for Robertson's remark, WV fills two and a half pages with recycled material from "What is the IBT?," a 1995 "own goal" polemic so lame that even Jan Norden and his Internationalist Group, who like to pretend the SL had a faultless record prior to their own excommunication in 1996, have little enthusiasm for it. WV readers who plow through the pastiche of stock slanders against the IBT in general, and comrade Logan in particular, can find a detailed, documented refutation in our Trotskyist Bulletin No. 5.
The hysterical tone of the WV article may well be seen by readers unfamiliar with the SL as evidence that it does indeed operate in a cultish manner—i.e., that the central organizing principle is that founder/leader Robertson can never be wrong (unless he says so). The conclusion of the screed recalls the 1973 pronouncements of Lyndon LaRouche (then known as Lynn Marcus) when he was winding up his devotees for their "Operation Mop Up" vendetta against the Communist Party:
"But the BT is also something else altogether: a vicious gang of crazed 'god that failed' renegades, eager to serve the purposes of those who would like to destroy us. Lies and slanders are their weapons of choice, as they are the first recourse for the bosses when they want to break strikes and for the defenders of the racist status quo when they seek to destroy fighters for black liberation.
"From the time of Marx on, Marxists have always been committed to elementary sanitation in the workers movement. We do not know whether the BT is motivated simply by its obsessive malice or by something even more sinister. But in seeking to destroy the nucleus of the indispensable Leninist vanguard, they serve the interests of all the enemies of the revolutionary proletariat."
—WV, No. 807, 1 August
Having failed to pin the charge of chauvinism on us, the SL tops now squeal that by revealing one moment in the decline of the Spartacist tendency, we are seeking to "destroy the nucleus of the indispensable Leninist vanguard" (i.e., Robertson's claim to infallibility).
This is not the first time the ICL leadership has sought to seal off its members from our Trotskyist criticism by slander and hysteria. In the SL's very first polemic against us, "Notes on the 'External Tendency'," published in SL Internal Bulletin No. 40, August 1983, Al Nelson, Robertson's longest-serving lieutenant, wrote, "The ETs ought to inspire fanatical hatred in iSt members…."
During the first "fanatical hatred" campaign, the SL returned our donations to their defense campaigns, and generally treated us as Gerry Healy used to treat his leftist opponents. (See 1917 No. 3 "Defend Workers Democracy!") But this policy ultimately proved counterproductive, and after a few years, the ICL leadership quietly shelved it, and once again accepted our money, contributed to an IBT defense campaign, and generally opted for a more political approach. We have had two organized debates with the ICL (one in New Zealand in 1994 and one in Canada in 1999) and have occasionally cooperated on issues of common interest: the IBT endorsed the SL's 1999 anti-Nazi demonstration in New York City, and last year ICL comrades in Toronto participated in a united front for Mumia Abu-Jamal that we initiated.
WV's absurd suggestion that our leaflet of congratulations for not attempting to defend Robertson's piggish comment somehow set the SL up for persecution by "the goons and censors of the [British] SWP" in London is refuted by the fact that our comrades on the spot vigorously opposed the Cliffites' exclusion policy and defended the ICL, as we have in every other case when they, or other member of the workers' movement, have faced exclusion. WV also denounces us for trying to initiate discussions with members of the Communist Party of Great Britain, and for being seen talking to Al Richardson, the editor of Revolutionary History. Unlike the ICL, we do not make a principle of only talking to people we already agree with.
While the SL leaders think little of branding opponents as cultists and chauvinists, or even scabs and Nazi-lovers, they themselves are exquisitely sensitive to criticism. WV complains that displaying this particular skeleton from Robertson's closet somehow sets up the ICL for "state repression":
"Slanders against leaders of the communist movement are nothing new. They are the stock in trade of opponents of revolutionary Marxism to set up entire organizations for hostile attack and state repression. The method is: kill an organization by chopping off its head."
— WV No. 807, 1 August
We will always defend the SL against false accusations, as we did recently in our 30 May letter to the League for the Revolutionary Party when they alleged "the Spartacists [have a] chauvinist position on immigrants." As for killing an organization by chopping off heads, we can only observe that Robertson has done most of that himself in the ICL, which is why no one, including the future members of the IBT, was bold enough to denounce his "Turds" remark when he made it.
There is something comical about WV pretending to be so indignant that we dare cite an instance of the SL's leader indulging in "self-satisfied great-power chauvinism," the very charge originally tossed at us. The only difference is that we had some proof. If making such an allegation were, in itself, a set-up for repression, as WV now alleges, why did the SL make it in the first place? Our letter stung because it is true, and, as Robertson can attest, the truth can hurt.
There is a profound contradiction between the ICL's revolutionary facade and its actual political record. Serious youth attracted to the hard-edged, Marxist-sounding line in the press are often surprised when they learn of the group's record of wild swings between craven opportunism and absurd sectarianism. Spartacus Youth members are also frequently disturbed by the apolitical hysterics which many long-term residents of "Jimstown" use to avoid serious political discussion with opponents. The better ICL members also feel uncomfortable about the group's tendency to produce polemics full of exaggerations and distortions, and, sometimes, outright fabrications.
The ICL tops have a dilemma—applying too much pressure risks losing talented young recruits before they are assimilated, but attempting to win them politically, particularly if they have been exposed to our critique, makes it necessary to justify positions that are obviously wrong. For example, today even the most mindless SL hacks have trouble rationalizing their infallible leader's 1982 decision to name an SL contingent after Yuri Andropov, the Stalinist butcher of the 1956 Hungarian workers' political revolution. (See Trotskyist Bulletin No. 1: "Only Trotskyism Can Defend the Gains of October.") The adulation of Andropov, in turn, obviously conflicts with the ICL's refusal to militarily side with the Stalinist conservatives in the August 1991 showdown with Boris Yeltsin and the forces of capitalist counterrevolution. (See 1917 No. 11: "Soviet Rubicon & the Left.")
And then there was the SL's absurd refusal to attend, or even sell papers, at the massive 1999 Seattle demonstration that WV denounced in advance as a festival of chauvinism, racism and counterrevolution. (See 1917 No. 22: "Seattle & the Left.") The SL leadership's 2001 announcement that it was not calling for the military defeat of the U.S. aggressors in Afghanistan (see 1917 No. 24: "Where is the ICL Going?") also created enormous confusion among younger members of the group. (Regrettably most of the older ones are too depoliticized and cynical to worry about such things.) As we noted in our 12 June letter, the flinch on Afghanistan paralleled the earlier social-patriotic call by the SL to save U.S. Marines in the Middle East and its solicitousness for the Reaganite Star Warriors aboard the ill-fated Challenger mission. (See Trotskyist Bulletin No. 2: "Marxism vs. Social Patriotism" and 1917 No. 2: "Challenger: No Disaster for the Working Class.")
The threats and bluster WV employs to defend the inexcusable publicly, will inevitably be accompanied by increased bullying and administrative pressure internally. While the public humiliation of the WV staffers signals that Robertson can still get his way, the very fact that his hand-picked successors and obedient scribes thought they might get away with putting one over on him, suggests that his grip has slipped.
Most intelligent ICL members will already have noted their leadership's inability to explain Robertson's remark, and some are doubtless aware that the new turn toward intimidation and agent-baiting is, at bottom, an attempt to avoid political debate. So what to do? As comrade Robertson himself observed in 1978, a "bad regime":
"always takes two. It takes those who are insecure, become brutal or sadistic or pretentious, little Stalins. It also takes victims. And the victimization comes, generally, out of the playing upon internal insecurities and fear."
In a 31 December 1978 postscript to his saga of "cauterizing" the Logan regime in London, Robertson posed the question of "who cauterizes the cauterizers?" It is a good question, and he provided a good answer from James P. Cannon:
"We had better hope that we create a sufficiently committed and involved communist organization so that when its founding cadre inevitably departs from the stage of revolutionary history, by revisionist default or otherwise, we have generated within our ranks a viable split, i.e., the combative, restorative forces to go forward to lead the new political generations."
— The First Ten Years of American Communism, quoted in iSt International Discussion Bulletin
No. 10, Part II, p 44
Forty years ago Robertson played a critical role in preserving the thread of revolutionary continuity after the degeneration of Cannon's party. Today the International Bolshevik Tendency is committed to ensuring that authentic Trotskyism survives the SL's terminal descent into political banditry.
Bolshevik Greetings,
Tom Riley,
for the International Bolshevik Tendency
Kurdistan and the National Question
Free Öcalan! Defend the PKK!
The Kurdish People and the U.S. Occupation of Iraq
A Bogus Polemic
BT Doth Whine Too Much
Robertson's 'Vulgar Chauvinism'
BT: Renegades for Hire
BT: A Walking Provocation
The Emperor Has No Clothes
For a Trotskyist perspective in Turkey
Kurdish Workers in the Iraqi Revolution of 1958-59
Lenin on 'Crudity' and 'Jest'
iSt International Discussion Bulletin No. 10, Parts I & II, January 1979, excerpts
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Multikino to merge with Silver Screen in Poland
FNE Staff 2008-02-19
Polish media and entertainment group ITI Holdings SA has reached agreement with the owners of Silver Screen World Cinemas to merge its operations with those of its Multikino network of multiplex cinemas. As a result of the acquisition, Multikino will operate 19 movie theaters with 174 screens in 13 Polish cities and will enter the Ukrainian market.
"The acquisition presents us with the unique opportunity to enlarge our footprint in Poland as well as to enter the Ukrainian market," Wojciech Kostrzewa, president and CEO of the ITI Group, said in a statement on Feb. 14.
Silver Screen is controlled by Apollo Real Estate Advisors LP, international real estate investors with offices in the UK and the United States. The deal is contingent on approval by the Polish antitrust agency, the Consumer and Competition Protection Office.
According to estimates by Boxoffice.pl, Multikino controls 22.1% of the Polish cinema market, while Silver Screen has 10.9%. The leader is the listed Cinema City International with a 43.7% market share.
ITI (www.iti.pl) previously announced plans for Multikino's debut on the Warsaw bourse, probably by the end of the year.


The following inscriptions were painstakingly transcribed and interpreted over many long years, and are preserved here for all time.
Av molag anyammis, av latta magicka.
"From fire, life; from light, magic."
Barra agea ry sou karan.
Agea haelia ne jorane emero laloria.
Nou aldmeris mathmeldi admia aurane gandra sepredia av relleis ye brelyeis ye varlais.
Va garlas agea, gravia ye goria, lattia mallari av malatu.
Vabria frensca, sa belle, sa baune, amaraldane aldmeris adonai.
"The foaming wave, so thunderous, so mighty, heralds the lordly Elves."


The Kepong KTM Komuter station is a commuter train station located in the northern area of Kuala Lumpur along the KTM Komuter's Rawang – Seremban Route.
As there are no other train systems that operate here other than KTM Komuter, this station can be packed at certain times.
The Kepong station serves the Rawang-Seremban Route of the KTM Komuter service. It was built to cater increasing traffic in a suburban area with the similar name called Kepong.
The Kepong Sentral Komuter station, which also serves the same locality, is located 1 km away.
The main access roads to Kepong are Damansara-Puchong Expressway, Jalan Kuching, Middle Ring Road II and Jalan Ipoh. RapidKL bus and Metro bus provides transport here.
The Kepong station is a Malaysian commuter train station located in the northern area of Kuala Lumpur along the Port Klang Line. The station is located along Jalan 32, Kepong Garden.


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Auburn Softball Player And Florida Coach In Altercation (Video)
After a softball game between Auburn and Florida on March 27, Haley Fagan, a senior at Auburn, refused to shake hands with Florida coach Tim Walton (video below).
Walton gave Fagan what appeared to be a minor shove, and she responded by giving Walton a small shove back, notes Sports Illustrated.
They exchanged words, and Walton appeared to tell Fagan, "I didn't hit you. No, I didn't."
Fagan was so upset and fired up by the interaction that her teammates had to hold her back.
Walton issued an apology on March 28, reports ESPN:
I apologize to Haley. I just wanted to congratulate Auburn on the win -- it was a good series. My intent was to give a high-five to each opposing player as we do after every game.
Apparently, her hand wasn't up as I said "good game" and I touched her shoulder. I should have paid closer attention and did not intend to upset her. I regret that this has taken attention away from the effort and sportsmanship both teams displayed all weekend.
The tension between Fagan and Walton may go back to when Walton kicked her sisters Kasey and Sami and another player, Cheyenne Coyle, off the Florida team hours prior a 2012 NCAA tournament game.
Sami wrote on Facebook at the time that she and her sister were not booted off the team because of rumored "racism or bullying."
The girls' dad, Kevin Fagan, told The Gainesville Sun that his daughters' dismissal was related to "an altercation on the team":
My two girls and Cheyenne Coyle have been released from the team. They're free to go anywhere they want. We've already got several calls from teams that are interested. The team sort of divided and Walton felt like it was in his best interest to get rid of those three.
At the time, Walton said the girls were "suspended indefinitely until the end of the season," but Kevin made it clear his daughters were not coming back.
"I've scheduled an appointment with the athletic director, but yes, they're done there," Kevin stated. "They won't play there anymore."
Sami had a .378 batting average, Kasey's was .261 and Coyle hit .232. Coyle was considered the team's best defensive player at the time.
Sami ended up going to Missouri, and Kasey transferred to Arkansas. Kasey and Coyle later became graduate assistants at Auburn, reports Sports Illustrated.
Auburn coach Clint Myers did not comment about the altercation between Fagan and Watson, notes ESPN.
Auburn defeated Florida 1-0 on March 27 in a three-game series; Florida won the first two games.
Sources: Sports Illustrated, The Gainesville Sun, ESPN / Photo Credit: University Athletic Association, Inc./Wikimedia Commons
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When Chef Carl Casper suddenly quits his job at a prominent Los Angeles restaurant after refusing to compromise his creative integrity for its controlling owner, he is left to figure out what's next. Finding himself in Miami, he teams up with his ex-wife, his friend and his son to launch a food truck. Taking to the road, Chef Carl goes back to his roots to reignite his passion for the kitchen - and zest for life and love.


Currently, working as a school counsellor for Adults and Young People in a Specialist Music School and school counsellor in a local Primary School for the under 11's.
Worked in Torbay CAMHS during Family Therapy training with families.
who struggled with family/friend/school worries.
Rewind therapy for PTSD - please enquire for more information.
both in front and behind the cameras if anybody needs particular support in that area.
I have also had experience of living as a minority and understand what it can be like to live away from our own countries for long periods of time.


Every writer gets them before acceptance comes along. Numbers of rejection letters vary – 60, 100, enough to paper the office. One wonders about the sanity of entering a profession with so much guaranteed gloom.
These actually aren't letters at all. They fall in the category of "Don't call us. We'll call you." Think some version of, "Due to the enormous volume of submissions we receive, we no longer respond to or return submissions in which we are not interested. If you haven't heard from us in three months-six months-a year, feel free to send your manuscript somewhere else." Zero response gets zero points.
A card, letter, or email with nothing handwritten on it that begins, "Dear Author," "Dear Friend," or "Dear Contributor" and fails to leave me feeling "dear." In the old days, this letter's disfavor might be compounded by the realization they were trying to run one more copy before refilling the ink on the print drum. Today, it may be a copy-and-paste to an email.
A checklist with something marked on it indicates that someone somewhere gave the manuscript at least a little attention. Here I get a clue about why the editor didn't accept it and an opportunity to decide whether to include the suggestion into a rewrite before sending it out again.
An improvement on the checklist has something written by a human hand – a sentence, a short comment, or a signature. My favorite sentence so far is: Sorry, we just didn't love it enough. A real person on the other end…who would have thought?
Even better is the checklist with a meaningful note mentioning something in the writing that lets me know the manuscript was read. Maybe there's a reference to a character, the setting, or a plot twist. With a real person on the other end who realizes there is a real person on this end, the rejection can almost be forgiven.
Moving up the scale is a personal letter addressed "Dear Mrs. Butler" or "Dear Virginia." Somehow, I feel the "dear" when they use my name, probably much like the editors do. Aren't they always telling writers to use their names and spell them correctly?


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NOTRE CUISINE
Tiré de "Il Tempo."
At "Cesare" there is a speciality for every day of the week.
This famous restaurant in the Prati area offers a Tuscan "Ribollito" on Tuesday, spelt with kidney beans on Wednesday and gnocchi are di rigeur on Thursday.
The journalists and collaborators working for "Il Tempo" visit bars and restaurants without announcing their arrival. We would like to warn the owners of these concerns not to trust those who appear in the name of the newspaper to try and get discounts or special treatment.
The restaurant "Cesare" is one of the most famous restaurants in the Prati area and is situated just a short distance from Piazza Cavour. The premises is available for every type of client, even those who are at work and want a good, quick and light lunch. There are various types of meal, from fresh fish to meat to pizza cooked in their wood burning oven and tasty soups.
It is the soups which are one of the restaurant's strong points it proposes a type of porridge every day, while the others are on the menu according to the day. For example, on Tuesday there is the Tuscan "Ribollita," spelt with kidney beans on Wednesday, barleycorn and lentils on Thursday and pasta and chick pea on Friday.
The menu suggests a number of dishes, as can already be seen by the hors d'oeuvres. You can choose meat based ones such as the Tuscan crostino, the sought after lard from Colonnata, or the venison ham.
Otherwise there are the Tuscan hors d'oeuvres based around fennel flavoured salami (finocchioni), Colonnata lard, salami made of the cured neck of wild boar. For anyone wishing to try the fish, there are marinated anchovies, mixed sea food, smoked swordfish with rocket and prawns, marinated baby octopus and sea truffles. There is ravioli stuffed with ricotta and salmon, and spaghetti with crustaceans are the first courses in syntony with the fish. For anyone seeking a gastronomic but different itinerary there are gnocchi but only on Thursday, fettuccini "Cesare" style, or with boletus mushrooms or white truffles. On a note apart, there is the pizzeria which proposes the most famous types of pizza from the margherita to the capricciosa, paying particular attention to the quality of the products with which they are made.
For the main course, it is worth mentioning the meat of the pure Chianina race grilled, which compete with the "saltimbocca alla romana", grilled lamb or the fried brains, artichoke and courgettes.
There is a wide selection of fish to choose from for the main course and apart from the usual sea bass or gilthead bream, you could try a turbot, sargo, or even a mixture of small fried fish and on Friday stockfish "livornese" style. On to the delicate vegetables such as boiled 'greens,' which flank those more substantial ones such as beans "all'ucelletto", with tomatoes, garlic and chilli peppers, chicory tips in oil with an anchovy sauce. The desserts are home made and fresh every day: the highly valued trifle together with the other home made sweets, crème caramel and baked cream served with wild fruit sauce.
The wine card offers a wide selection of red and white wines.
Tiré de "Il Tempo
In the heart of Prati meat and fish at "Cesare" "The premises has both an inside and outside area. Among the first courses we would like to recommend the Tuscan "crostino" and the cured raw beef from Piedmontese cattle."
The restaurant "Cesare" is in the heart of the area of Prati and is one of the most traditional restaurants in the whole zone, it deals with both local and international clientele.
The premises, has both an inside and outside seating area and lends itself both to quick lunches for people who are on their lunch breaks and don't have much time to spare but also for richer and more elaborate meals.
The cuisine is under the guidance of the chef Domenico Di Felice as far as first courses are concerned and Tonino Di Nizo for the main courses; the two chefs are assisted by the kitchen personnel.
Moreover, the restaurant also offers the possibility of ordering pizzas. Glancing through the dishes offered, one is really spoiled for choice and it is difficult to choose one rather than another.
The courses are presented painstakingly, and the personnel in the dining room are friendly and helpful.
The hors d'oeuvres are both meat and fish based.
Among the first courses we would like to point out the Tuscan "crostino," the venison ham, and the cured raw beef from Piedmontese cattle, with rocket and parmesan cheese. People who love fish on the other hand, can start with excellent marinated baby octopus, prawn cocktail, clams "marinara" style, smoked swordfish with rocket and prawns.
There is also a wide choice of first courses, both at lunch and dinner.
Straight from the chef's creative imagination fettuccini with salmon, ravioli filled with salmon and ricotta, spaghetti with crustaceans, are placed on the table or the more traditional spaghetti "alla amatriciana," "carbonara", or simply fettuccini with tomato sauce.
The meat is wonderful, and among the main courses we could like to point out the beef steak from the Chiana race, grilled, beef fillet, grilled lamb chops "scottadito" style, "saltimbocca alla romana" with venison ham, and roast boletus mushrooms.
The fish is always fresh and there are some dishes which must be tried: lobster, crustaceans, a mix of roast fish, turbot, cod, sea bass and gilthead bream are only a few of the many varieties available. Lastly, for a perfect ending to the meal, the desserts: baked cream with a wild fruits sauce, a selection of fruit, melon in port, crème caramel, lemon sorbet and many home made sweets.
Tiré de "VENERDI" a magazine produced by "REPUBBLICA
by Gianni e Paola Mura
"Substance, I will love you forever."
According to the "New York Times" –"a superb old-style restaurant." We say it's a place you can depend upon whether you eat fish or meat. A short distance from Piazza Cavour, it has a clientele that are very fond of it (many of whom work at the Palazzo di Giustizia).
Maybe it's because it is never without mushrooms and truffles when they are in season. Maybe it's because in the evening it makes good pizzas (in a wood burning oven, the same in which you can find suckling pig on a Sunday). But, most of all we think it may be because it is a place of substance and not appearance. I is substance, before quality that you can see in the size of the portions. Don't be misled by the sign (Hostaria pizzeria).
Know that the fish, taken from the Laziale coast, is delivered not once, but twice a day, that the Chianina meat is certificated, that the wine cellar has excellent wines and that the sommelier Fabio Maltese, knows both how to advise and serve wine. The restaurant, developed in depth, is vaguely liberty style, with an area outside in the summer, isn't particularly glamorous. Everything is concentrated on the primary products.
Cesare Arrigoni came here from Altopascio in the 1960's, and now his children Armando and Alessandro are at the helm. In the kitchen the chefs are Domenico De Felice and Tonino Di Nizo, one is from Abruzzo and the other almost – he's from Amatrice. The idea of a fixed dish has been kept, on Tuesday "Ribollita", Wednesday spelt with kidney beans, gnocchi and barleycorn with lentils on Thursday, Friday pasta and chick pea and porridge with Tuscan kale.
For those who love crude seafood (oysters and sea truffles), marinated anchovies, the tempting spicy spaghetti with octopus and pecorino cheese, roast turbot, and a crunchy mixture of fried fish. Caspian-sand smelt, fired anchovies, a wonderful stewed monkfish, grilled fish and crustaceans. For carnivores, there is a monumental Sirloin steak (Tuscans attach great importance to this, they codified it).
Or tagliata (sliced, grilled Sirloin steak), saltimbocca, but even before this the client can delight in the venison ham, salami made of the cured neck of wild boar, and Colonnata lard (the real thing).
The desserts are all home-made and don't aim at amazing us, but at pleasing us and they succeed. Trifle, an orange flavoured ice-cream cake, a black cherry tart, apple cake baked cream. There is no lack of good distilled wines and wine can be tasted by the glass with the desserts.
Thorough and inviting service, sometimes even a bit too much. The waiters who are not so young, pass frequently. Less of a pestering, at least during the evening, would permit one to appreciate the many virtues of this restaurant.
Two reviews by American newspapers
Tiré de "The New York Times" in data 23 Gennaio 2000
Rediscovering fine traditional cuisine near the city's great basilicas CESARE(St.Peter's)
For a meal worthy of a Renaissance pope, take a relatively short taxi ride from St.Peter's up Monte Mario to the Cavalieri Hilton Hotel and dine at La Pergola, probably the best restaurant in Rome (and one of the most expensive).
But those wishing to stay nearer the Vatican will do very well indeed at Cesare, a superb old-style restaurant serving Roman and Tuscan fare made from very fine ingredients.
A glass case filled with fresh fish greets diners as they enter, and the theme continues in the tastefully painted marine motifs in the long half-paneled dining room.Nevertheless, the menu offers a wide range of both meat and fish antipasti, pastas and soups and main courses.
We were served by an old-school walter, the kind who knows just what you want to eat even if you don't. Thus i accepted an antipasto of insalata di mare, one of the freshest, tenderest seafood salads ( containing shrimp, mussels, squid, cuttlefish and celey strips dressed with oil, lemon and parsley ) I have tasted. Octopus salad featured the superior polipo verace, distinguishable by two rows of suckers on the tentacles.
Spaghetti all'amatriciana, which followed, was tomato sauce with bits of guanciale (cured pork), hot pepper and pecorino cheese, the latter not brought to the table. The Tuscan bean and farro ( emmer ) soup equally hearty and delicious, served with good green oil, but we had to ask for the pepper mill.
The excellent saltimbocca alla romana was butter-tender slices of veal, topped with prosciutto and fresh sage, sautéed in white wine. Franco's abbacchio scottadito ( grilled baby lamb chops ), meant to be picked up and gnawed, were delicious as well. People often forget that Roman food also means extraordinary vegetables, such as carciofo (artichoke) alla romana, entirely edible and redolent of mentuccia (penny-royal), and tender green chicory leaves, boiled, then sautèed with olive oil, garlic and hot pepper. To close, a torta di mele, apples and custard in a pie crust, was appropriately homely.
Wanting a light red wine, we close vino novello Toscano IGT San Giocondo ( $11,75) in preference to the many big Italian reds and French labels. The house wines are also offered by the glass - a rarety.
Tiré de "National Geographics Traveler"
DA CESARE:
13 Via Crescenzio; 686-1227. Right behind Castel Sant'Angelo;always full because the food is consistenly excellent.
Rome's best carciofi alla Romana (Roman-style artichokes in season); also pasta e ceci (macaroni and chickpea soup) , tagliata (sliced, grilles florentine steack), fresh fish, homemade gelato (ice cream) whit fresh fruit, and, evenings only, pizza from a wood-burning oven.
Outdoor seating. Closed Sun. p.m. and Mon. AE,DC,MC, V.$31 for meat, 28 for fish.
Tiré de "Il Giorno"
At "CESAR" the atmosphere of the 1970's lives on by Fabio TURCHETTI
ROME – among the experiences that give comfort to the gastronomist on duty, who every so often has to eat for "his profession," is that of a tangible realisation of how the level of traditional, middle-class, quiet, consolidated, simply conservative restoration has improved over the last few years, thanks to a renewed interest in oeno-gastronomy by the average consumer.
Apart from culinary experimenters (with a mob of their bungling imitators) and climbing overall the current "fashion" of wine-bars, pizzeria's that are " a bit different", culture or ethnic fusions (which to tell the truth are sometimes very interesting), the thing that most leaps to the eyes is the desire, by a careful, keen restoration which has kept its roots in the 1970's, keeping firmly to traditional cuisine and the image it has always had, keeping up with the times with a good selection of primary products, with a keen but shrewd selection of wines, using cooking techniques that remove traditions that are almost outdated, adding waiters who are not so young, in livery, and who make politeness the best arm. It is like this at "Cesare" a short distance from Piazza Cavour, which began in 1965: with vaulted ceilings, lights on the walls and wood appliqués, where the meat comes from Tuscany (considering the origins of the owners), fish (hook and net!) arrive two or three times a day and a very polite sommelier presents a list of two hundred and fifty wines, many of which are poured into the glasses.
Sit calmly in the first long room or in the other two that follow and begin (if you don't opt for the sample Tuscan menu) with sea food, oysters and sea truffles, real octopus boiled with Tuscan beans, spaghetti with crustaceans or Greek clams (chosen deliberately for their meatiness), then fish of all types however you want it cooked.
If you should have a more terricolous appetite, don't worry. You can find; a selection of Tuscan salami, cured neck and wild boar ham, fettuccini with Colonnata sausages, "ribollita", spelt with beans, certified Florentine Chianian beef, tagliata (sliced, grilled Florentine beef), grilled lamb chops"scottadita" style, and "saltimbocca alla romana."
As an alternative the pizzas prepared in a wood burning oven are valid. To finish off the meal, some good cheeses and then desserts, homemade and simple, but very good.
DIVINE FOOD by Paolo Marchi
CESARE, ROME IS SERVED
Da Cesare, in the Roman quarter of Prati, has existed since 1965, but I only discovered it last Spring because I deal with products produced by Paolo Parisi, pork and chicken, in Lari(Pisa) Tel: 0587 685327. In a list of starred restaurants buying their products from him the names of Alessandro and Armando Arrigoni were highlighted by the lack of medals given by gastronomic guides. In particular, Alessandro wrote a friendly e-mail" We have been using Paolo Parisi' s products. Personally, I consider the eggs and chickens to be of an excellent quality. The chickens are a bit tough after roasting, a characteristic that exalts their quality. In fact, I only manage to eat real free-range chickens at my home in Tuscany, where my mother rears them as they used to be reared.
The same thing is valid for the eggs which have neither look nor taste the same as those sold in the shops. All Parisi's products have had a huge success in our restaurant, this means that in order to taste excellent products (we have many, from top fish taken with a hook, to real Chianian beef, to clams, from Greece) one doesn't have to spend a fortune."
I confirm this: this premises, where you can see the hors d'oeuvres when you go in, then three noisy rooms where the waiters walk around expertly, seems to be exactly like many other of those expensive places for professionals and middle-class families, places where whether you eat there or not it's the same thing, but here there is a more pure and genuine soul which is a winning factor. The Arrigoni's, both in the dining area, both young, Armando is 44, and took over from his father in 1980, and Alessandro, who at 32 arrived ten years later, propose a mixture of land and sea food between Tuscany (their roots are in Fucecchio and Altopascio) and Rome, with the wine cellar taken care of by Fabio Maltese.
There are dishes, perhaps too many, that don't hold any secrets because they are well-known , but they are given importance because of the quality of the primary products. At the end of November I ate, with Fabio Turchetti; marinated anchovies, spicy boiled octopus, seafood salad, a plate of sliced seasoned meats (ham, lard, cured meats and loin of pork) roman style artichokes, chicory tips, spaghetti "amatriciana" style with pecorino produced in a cavern, fried cinta senese pork sausages with herbs, and finally grilled lamb chops" scottadita" style. No light cuisine, even so I would love to find even more" ignorant" flavours in masterpieces such as the "amatriciana" next time I visit.
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Croatian dock workers strike again over late salary
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Workers at Croatia's largest shipbuilding group Uljanik on Monday held their second strike in less than two months, this time over unpaid salary for September.
In late August, the workers downed tools because of uncertainty over payments for July and August. Those two months' salaries were secured after the government reached a deal with a local bank.
Uljanik owns two docks, with some 4,000 workers, located in the northern Adriatic cities of Pula and Rijeka. Some 1,500 started a protest march on Monday through the streets of Pula.
Under European Union rules, no further state guarantees or direct payments from the budget are allowed.
Earlier this year, Uljanik chose local firm Kermas Energija as its strategic partner and submitted a restructuring plan, which the European Commission rejected as inadequate. Management has yet to complete another restructuring plan.
The chosen strategic partner reportedly aimed to convert part of the shipyard into a tourism business, drawing worker opposition. Economy Minister Darko Horvat said the government was also in contact with potential investors from Ukraine, Italy and the Netherlands.
Finance Minister Zdravko Maric said last week the state might have to pay 4.2 billion kuna ($651 million) for the costs of state guarantees extended to Uljanik in the past.
Workers control less than 50 percent of the company, with the state also being a minority shareholder. Other owners include several local banks and the country's top insurer, Croatia Osiguranje.
Croatia's once-prosperous shipbuilding industry has struggled to survive since independence from Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. It has lost business to Asian shipbuilders, such as those in South Korea, missing opportunities to modernise and produce more sophisticated vessels.
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Representatives Connolly and Bost Introduce Postal Supervisors and Managers Fairness Act
Today, Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) and Rep. Mike Bost (R-IL) introduced the Postal Supervisors and Managers Fairness Act (H.R. 6085). The legislation requires the timely start of the consultation process between postal supervisor organizations and the Postal Service over USPS-proposed changes in pay and benefits for postal supervisors and mid-level employees. It also provides finality to the decision and recommendations of a factfinding panel, appointed by the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, in the event of an impasse between a postal supervisor organization and the Postal Service over proposed changes in pay and benefits. Approximately 40,000 plus employees in the Executive Administrative Schedule (EAS) of the Postal Service are covered by the pay consultation process.
"NAPS is grateful to Representative Connolly, the chair of the House Subcommittee on Government Operations, and Representative Bost for their leadership in making the supervisor pay consultation process timelier and fairer," said Brian J. Wagner, NAPS National President.
"Our campaign to pass the Postal Supervisors and Managers Act will mark a new era of grassroots
advocacy for NAPS," said NAPS Executive Vice President Ivan Butts. "This would not be possible
without the assistance of legislative champions like Mr. Connelly and Mr. Bost. NAPS' advocacy will emphasize to Congress the important role that EAS supervisors and managers play in keeping America's mail system moving."
NAPS urges all EAS employees to contact their House member to request their co-sponsorship of H.R. 6085.