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Americans today can take more than inspiration from the struggles against plutocracy that progressives waged years ago. They can take a host of still relevant — and cutting-edge — policy proposals.
By Sam Pizzigati
Our contemporary billionaires, most Americans would likely agree, are exploiting our labor and polluting our politics. Can we shrink our super rich down to a much less powerful — and more democratic — size? Of course we can. We Americans, after all, have already done that shrinking once before.
Between 1900 and the 1950s, average Americans beat down plutocrats every bit as dominant as ours. A century that began with huge private fortunes and most Americans living in poverty would come to see a mass middle class and suburban developments where grand estates and mansions once stood.
Most of us today, unfortunately, have no inkling that this huge transformation even took place, mainly because that exuberantly middle class America of the mid 20th century has disappeared. Those grand mansions have come back.
Does this super-rich resurgence make failures out of our progressive forebears, the men and women who fought so hard and so long to limit the wealth and power of America's wealthiest? Our forebears didn't fail, suggests a new book I've just done. They just didn't go far enough.
Those progressives accomplished incredible feats, relates the just-published The Rich Don't Always Win: The Forgotten Triumph over Plutocracy that Created the American Middle Class. They "soaked the rich" at tax time. They built a union movement that acted as a real check on corporate arrogance and greed.
But these great victories have long since faded away. How can we get back on a plutocracy-busting track? We could start by revisiting those struggles of years past that came up short, those proposals that, had they become law, might have lastingly leveled down our super rich. How can we get back on a plutocracy-busting track? We could start by revisiting those struggles of years past that came up short.
How can we get back on a plutocracy-busting track? We could start by revisiting those struggles of years past that came up short.
The Rich Don't Always Win explores a host of these proposals. Here we spotlight just five.
One: Require the rich to annually disclose the income they're reporting to the IRS and how much of that income they actually pay in taxes.
Eighty years ago, just like today, America's rich were routinely and massively avoiding and evading taxes.
If wealthy taxpayers knew their returns would be open to public inspection, reformers argued, they would be far less audacious with their tax games. Disclosure would also help lawmakers identify the tax loopholes that most needed plugging.
In 1934, progressives actually added a disclosure provision to the tax code. But the super rich counterattacked with a media blitz that tied disclosure to the infamous Lindbergh baby kidnapping. If all rich Americans had to disclose their incomes, the argument went, kidnappers would gain a wider pool of targets.
This PR juggernaut carried the day. Congress repealed the disclosure mandate. But the basic idea behind income disclosure remains as promising as ever.
Two: Leverage the power of the public purse against excessive corporate executive pay. Congress couldn't directly set limits on private corporate executive pay, yesterday's progressives understood. But Congress could impose limits indirectly by denying federal government contracts and subsidies to corporations that lavished rewards on top executives. Congress once set an indirect limit on CEO pay by denying certain federal contracts to corporations that lavished rewards on their top execs.
Congress once set an indirect limit on CEO pay by denying certain federal contracts to corporations that lavished rewards on their top execs.
In 1933, then-senator and later Supreme Court justice Hugo Black won congressional approval for legislation that denied federal air- and ocean-mail contracts to companies that paid their execs over $17,500, about $300,000 in today's dollars.
But the New Deal never fully embraced the Hugo Black perspective. We could now, by denying federal contracts and tax breaks to any companies that pay their CEOs over 25 times what their workers are making.
Three: Give Americans a safe alternative to private banks. For Louis Brandeis, a reform giant who also became a Supreme Court justice, prohibiting financial institutions from speculating with the savings of average Americans always remained a top priority.
In the early 1930s, Brandeis advocated the expansion of postal savings banks, a system — in effect since 1911 — that paid 2 percent interest on modest savings accounts maintained with the post office. That expansion never took place, and postal savings banks withered away. They deserve a second shot.
Four: Tax undistributed corporate profits. America's biggest corporations are currently sitting on stashes of cash that have hit mega-billion levels. Money that could be invested in creating jobs sits instead in income-generating financial assets that only sweeten corporate bottom lines and executive paychecks.
A similar problem plagued the nation back during the Great Depression, and progressives pushed for a stiff tax on these "retained earnings." In 1936, Congress passed a watered-down version of this tax that didn't last and didn't make much of an impact. A stronger tax today just might. In 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt proposed a 100 percent tax on all individual income over what today would equal $355,000.
In 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt proposed a 100 percent tax on all individual income over what today would equal $355,000.
Five: Cap income at America's economic summit. In 1942, in the midst of a war-time fiscal squeeze, President Franklin Roosevelt proposed a 100 percent tax on all individual income over $25,000, the equivalent of about $355,000 today.
Congress didn't go along. But lawmakers did set the top tax rate at 94 percent on income over $200,000, and federal income tax top rates hovered around 90 percent for most of the next two decades, years of unprecedented prosperity.
America's rich fought relentlessly to curb those rates. They saw no other way to hang on to more of their income. But what if we restructured the top tax rate of America's postwar years to give the rich a new incentive.
We could, for instance, set the entry threshold for a new 90 percent top rate as a multiple of our nation's minimum wage. The higher the minimum wage, the higher the threshold, the softer the total tax bite out of the nation's highest incomes.
Our nation's wealthiest and most powerful, under this approach, would suddenly have a vested interest in enhancing the well-being of our poorest and weakest.
Years ago, progressives yearned to create an America that encouraged just that sort of social solidarity. They couldn't finish the job. We still can.
Veteran labor journalist Sam Pizzigati, an Institute for Policy Studies associate fellow, writes widely about inequality. His latest book, The Rich Don't Always Win: The Forgotten Triumph over Plutocracy that Created the American Middle Class, has just been published by Seven Stories Press.


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Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Gather...Deanna's Eclectic Collections
17 comments:
- Sherry at The Rusty Pearl said...
I just opended my shop this past weekend...SOOOOOOOOOOOO I loved your inspiration .. Thanks for posting this beautiful POST of pics .. Just love everything ...and I just love it all......Stop by The Rusty Pearl BLOG would love to have ya
- December 11, 2012 at 8:46 PM
- Unknown said...
No question about it a road trip is in order...looking at all of your beautiful pics Gather is just calling me!
- December 11, 2012 at 9:07 PM
- Sea Witch said...
all of it. I want all of it. LOL What pretty items.
- December 11, 2012 at 9:24 PM
- ThiftedBliss said...
I love Gather-such a beautiful shop and Deanna is so nice. I spent a long time browsing, so hard to choose among all the treasures! Karen from CT
- December 11, 2012 at 9:53 PM
- Roxanne Reinhart said...
Oh. I love that shop! Could get lost in there happily for hours.
- December 11, 2012 at 10:12 PM
- Kate said...
You are like the most wonderful tour guide Laura. So neat to see all that you share with us. Hope that you holidays are filled with love and many blessings for your family!
- December 11, 2012 at 11:14 PM
- Kristie said...
So sorry to hear about your uncle. It is especially hard to hear of a death around the holidays.
Your faBulous tours are a joy to view! So many lovely things. I love using the tool box for displaying ornaments! :)
- December 11, 2012 at 11:23 PM
- Karena said...
Laura I an sorry about your uncle as well. The shop visit was a good respite for you. I love her darling little ornaments and special finds!
2012 Artists Series,
- December 11, 2012 at 11:44 PM
- Burlap Luxe said...
Thank you Laura, such a beautiful surprise visit from you. Thank you for your support it means a lot to me coming from you:)
Wish I could have been shopping this shop with you, I see a piece I would have liked to have taken a closer look, tempting a purchase.
See you soon friend.
Before I go how is your lake house coming along ? :)
Blessings into the new year.
Joyeux Noël
- December 11, 2012 at 11:52 PM
- manon 21 said...
j'adore ces veilles lettres...
Belle fin d'année ma chère Laura
- December 12, 2012 at 2:16 AM
- 1 said...
Such pretty things! I love the stamp set....I hope you snapped that up.
I'm sorry to hear of your uncle's passing. You are in my thoughts.
My nose is straight, thank goodness....and all the treasures are safely in the house and waiting on me to work with them today.
I hope that you are having a good holiday season!!!!
- December 12, 2012 at 2:50 AM
- TinaA said...
I love the small collection of vintage ornaments!
- December 12, 2012 at 5:11 AM
- trash talk said...
All your store tours have been wonderful. Have you ever thought of being a shopping guide? Hey...if it works for white water rafting...I'm just saying! Shopping uncharted territories can be just as thrilling and having someone along who knows the lay of the land is always a plus.
My prayers are with you and yours this holiday season.
- December 12, 2012 at 6:44 AM
- LizlovesVintage said...
This shop is grand!! One day I need to visit. I have the exact stamping set complete. So, much eye candy to see. Thanks for stopping by my place and leaving me a comment.
Have a great day!
xxx Liz
- December 12, 2012 at 7:24 AM
- Andy's Attic said...
I am sorry to hear about your uncle Don. It must be difficult for your dad and your family.
Thank you for the Gather tour. Maybe someday I will get out that way and venture in.
Wishing you a wonderful Christmas, Laura.
- December 12, 2012 at 12:00 PM
- SHUG IN BOOTS {Beth} said...
loooooooooooove the wood tool tote! I think i would want to just decorate with some ornaments in it as part of my christmas decor! :)
- December 12, 2012 at 6:51 PM
- Sandi~A Cottage Muse said...
So sorry for your family's loss Laura, keeping you in my thoughts.
This shop is fabulous, I love the big old sign and the red florentine jewelry box is wonderful!!
- December 13, 2012 at 1:04 PM

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For music lovers, some melodies may seem priceless. But if you ever wondered what music is really worth — like the original manuscript to Maurice Ravel's Bolero? That score and about 200 more, which reside at New York's Morgan Library, are on sale for $135 million. They are part of the esteemed Lehman Collection — a group of nearly 200 scores that reads like a greatest hits of classical music. Christoph Wolff, a professor of music history at Harvard, calls it "the trophy collection."
"If you look at the list, you have Bach manuscripts, you have Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, you have Chopin, you have Debussy, Strauss, Bartok and Schoenberg. You know, there isn't anything like it, especially when it comes to the selected items that are really major works in the history of music," Wolff says.
The trove belongs to Robert Owen Lehman, a member of the famed Lehman banking family. He has collected original music manuscripts for decades, and he keeps many of them on deposit at the Morgan Library. Now he's looking to sell this collection. The $135 million price tag would make it, by one estimate, the most valuable private music manuscript collection ever sold. Much of the value is in the distinctive marks on the documents: side notes and scratch-outs from the greatest musical minds. For scholars like Anne Schreffler, chair of Harvard's music department, nothing compares to studying an original.
"Just the way a composer notates music can be significant," she says. "So even if they don't make changes, just seeing how they beam notes — whether the beam goes up or down, whether the notes are connected or separated, those kinds of things can give you insight into the musical structure. And when these pieces are published and printed, publishers have their own guidelines and rules, just as with printing of books. So certain aspects of the notation are always standardized. But in a manuscript, you can see a composer's idiosyncratic notation."
Lehman has two conditions: The collection cannot be broken up, and it must remain on display in a public institution. Thomas Venning, the director of manuscripts at Christie's in London, says it could be hard to keep the collection intact, adding that it's easier to realize value for one manuscript at a time than it is for an entire collection at a time.
Individual manuscripts have sold for large sums. Beethoven's 9th Symphony sold in 2003 for $3.4 million. Mendelssohn's "Hebrides Overture" fetched nearly $1 million at auction. But an asking price of $135 million makes the Lehman Collection a tough purchase for any one individual — or institution. So John Lubrano, the man in charge of finding the collection a new home, is pursuing a group of buyers. He's hoping they'll go in on the sale together and then donate it to a museum, library or other public institution.
Lehman hasn't announced anything, but a letter circulated to a group of wealthy New Yorkers suggests that he may use money from selling these music manuscripts to set up an organization dedicated to music education and performance.
Caroline Cooper (National Public Radio) / June 30, 2011
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Acarian Systems Alón Circe loudspeaker
Who knows not Circe,
The daughter of the Sun, whose charmed cup
Whoever tasted, lost his upright shape,
And downward fell into a groveling swine?
—John Milton, Comus
Evolution is a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity, to a definite coherent heterogeneity.
The daughter of the Sun, whose charmed cup
Whoever tasted, lost his upright shape,
And downward fell into a groveling swine?
—John Milton, Comus
Actually, maybe you know not Circe, so here's a refresher: When Odysseus landed on Aeaea, Circe placed an enchantment upon his crew, turning them into swine. Odysseus was unaffected because he was protected by an herb called Moly, a gift of Hermes, and he forced Circe to restore his crew's human forms. Odysseus then hung out with her for a year (fathering Telegonus, among other pastimes) before she dispatched him and his shipmates off to the underworld to consult Tiresias. Circe was the daughter of the sun god Helios and the ocean nymph Perse. As Aetes' sister and Medea's aunt, she figures prominently in Apollonius' Argonautica, cleansing Jason and Medea for their treacherous murder of Absyrtus. Tough broad—busy, too.
What's the audio connection? No clues here—unless it's that this Circe, from Alón by Acarian Systems, also is capable of casting a spell. Certainly that seemed the case at HI-FI '98 last June, where the sound in the Acarian Systems/Cary room was the talk of the Show. Didn't see 'em change anyone into a swine, though—anybody who left the room a pig had probably walked in that way.
Evolution is a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity, to a definite coherent heterogeneity.
The Circe is a floorstanding three-way system with an external passive crossover. Designer Carl Marchisotto explains, "We use an external crossover to reduce degradation caused by the crossover components being vibrated or modulated by magnetic fields within the speaker. Obviously, inside the speaker is not the best place to mount a sensitive electronic device." The crossover contains three separate boards—one for each driver—and has a hard-wired harness of Alón's own Black Orpheus cable connecting it to the Circe's three sets of binding posts. It also has three pairs of posts, which accept the speaker wire from the amplifier. Marchisotto recommends triwiring the crossover to the amplifier, thus keeping the signal paths discrete all the way back to the amp.
Reacting to complaints that triwiring a speaker can lead to cable costs higher than that of the speaker itself, Marchisotto developed his own speaker cable, Black Orpheus, and offers a 10' triwired harness for $500. The bass cable uses coaxial construction, with a solid inner core and a braided outer layer made of silver-plated copper, both metals oxygen-free. The midrange and HF cables are uni-axial, using silver-clad strands and OFC in the same bundle. The cable is roughly equivalent to 13 AWG. "We take some flak over our use of a very thin insulation," Marchisotto notes; "some people equate a thick cable with a good cable. But in audio we're not dealing with high voltages, and thick dielectrics load up the [inductance], which causes losses."
Marchisotto is not exactly forthcoming concerning the crossover technology. "It's not a classical crossover. The slopes are sharper than a first-order but not as sharp as a second-order."
"So what does that make it?" I asked.
"A good crossover."
The Circe itself is reasonably understated in a Vandersteen sort of way. The whole unit is clad in black fabric, with a cherrywood top cap. The sealed bass enclosure houses a 10" long-throw pulp-cone woofer. On top of this cabinet is a small slanted baffle that houses a 5.5" pulp-cone midrange unit and a 1" aluminum-alloy dome tweeter. The two upper-range drivers are set into the baffle, which is open to the rear, so that they perform as dipoles. Wooden dowels support the decorative top-plate above the baffle board and provide a framework for the speaker cloth.
All three drivers employ alnico magnets, which Marchisotto prefers for their "better fidelity, lower distortion, better low-level resolution, and more stable magnetic field, which translates into a more musical (more authentic, I think) harmonic structure. Alnico magnets also provide a more realistic sense of dynamics."
The midrange and woofer cones are made of pulp-based materials: long-fiber wool is used for the woofer, while the midrange driver has a double treatment layering two different plastics over a pulp base. Marchisotto is adamant: "We prefer the low-level resolution and more natural sound of pulp-based drivers because we have found that alloy and higher-tech materials have colorations that cannot be totally compensated for in the crossover in the midrange. The HF driver is an aluminum-magnesium alloy. We don't mind using a metal dome for this frequency range because the resonance is above 25kHz, which is outside the range of hearing."


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Macrowski, James W D.D.S.
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When you decide to have crowns done, especially if they involve your front teeth, you will want to be able to give your input regarding how the final crowns will look. One way to do this is with temporary dental crowns. When your teeth are prepared for crowns, the dentist will place temporary dental crowns for you to wear while the final crowns are being made.
There are some differences between temporary dental crowns and final crowns that you should be aware of. Temporary dental crowns are made of a different material, usually some sort of a plastic or acrylic. Since these materials are not as strong as your own teeth, you will have to be careful of what you eat. You should avoid hard foods such as nuts, and tough foods such as bagels or French bread.
Another difference is that temporary dental crowns are cemented on with a dental cement. The reason for this is that the cosmetic dentist will need to be able to remove the temporary dental crowns when it is time to cement the permanent ones. Since the cement is not as strong, sticky foods may cause them to come loose.
If your temporary dental crowns come off or are loose, you should call your dentist so that they can be re-cemented. It is important not to wait, as the tooth may be sensitive, it may move, or, if a long enough period of time passes, the tooth may get decay. As far as home care, your temporary dental crowns should be cleaned with a toothbrush, just like your own teeth. When flossing, though, it is important to floss towards the gums and then slide the floss out by one end rather than lifting it back up through the teeth. This will help ensure that your temporary dental crowns do not come off while flossing.
By Greggory Kinzer, DDS, MSD
Advanced dental techniques now provide consumers with exciting, new options for enhancing their smiles. Revolutionary methods are now available for teeth bleaching to make smiles sparkle!
Teeth bleaching or tooth whitening lightens the color of teeth whether darkened from age, coffee, tea or tobacco. Its brightening effects can last up to five years after the treatment depending on your personal habits.
Tooth bleaching has a higher than 90% success rate. It is tough on stains but gentle on your teeth! Results vary depending on whether or not your teeth are stained from smoking, from taking certain medications such as tetracycline during tooth development, or from fluorosis, a condition occurring when too much fluoride is used.
Teeth Bleaching will not lighten fillings or artificial materials used in dental repair such as dental crowns, porcelain veneers, etc. Your dentist may discourage treatment if you have sensitive teeth, periodontal disease, teeth with worn enamel or if you are pregnant or breast-feeding.
Some teeth bleaching treatments are performed in the dental office using an in-office tooth bleaching system, such as laser bleaching. This method lightens teeth instantly.
The same results may be obtained more economically through dentist-supervised, at-home teeth bleaching, but takes longer to achieve. Some tooth bleaching systems, which bleach your teeth while you sleep, work in 10 to 14 days (or more accurately nights)! Others bleach your teeth from two to four hours a day requiring three to six weeks to complete.
It's important to know that certain types of stains respond better to different types of teeth whitening materials. In such cases, your dentist may recommend one method over another.
Research over the last five years has proven tooth whitening products to be both safe and effective. The American Dental Association's seal of approval has been given to a wide range of teeth bleaching products. Generally, the only side effect from treatment may be some sensitivity to hot and cold foods. If this occurs, sensitivity normally disappears within 48 hours.
By Brian J. Gray, DDS, MAGD, FICO


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Phillylacrosse.com, Posted 3/10/14
From Press Release
Matt Sawyer scored a career-high six goals, and Nikko Pontrello (St. Augustine Prep) added five, as No. 5 Loyola University Maryland defeated fourth-ranked Duke University, 14-7, in front of 3,912 fans at Ridley Athletic Complex and a national television audience on CBS Sports Network Sunday night.
The Greyhounds (5-1 overall) trailed, 4-3, after the first quarter, but they scored 11 of the final 14 goals in the victory.
Sawyer scored three of his goals during a 5-0 Loyola run that started the second quarter, and his four in the first half matched half of his eight career goals entering the game. Pontrello scored in each quarter and had the first two of the third quarter.
Jordan Wolf's (Lower Merion) goal with 2:50 left in the first quarter gave Duke (4-2) a 4-3 advantage that it would hold for the remainder of the period, but Sawyer face-dodged a defender and came free down the left alley to score his second of the game 56 ticks into the second quarter.
That goal sparked five unanswered goals that would stretch into a 7-1 Greyhounds run.
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Pontrello backed down a defender on the left side of the crease and scored from close in to put Loyola in front, ultimately for good. Sawyer scored just under four minutes later, recording his second man-up goal of the night off a Justin Ward assist, and Brian Schultz was the recipient of a Ward cross-field pass at 8:14, and the senior ripped a hard shot inside the opposite post.
Ward's assist on the Schultz goal was the 85th of his collegiate career, moving him into first-place in Loyola's NCAA Division I history (since 1982) and passing the previous best by Jim Blanding. Ward fiished the game with five points on a goal and four assists.
Schultz's goal at 8:14 made it a 7-4 Loyola advantage, and Sawyer tacked on another goal, unassisted after a long dodge to push the lead to four with 2:49 left in the first half.
Christian Walsh snapped Duke's scoreless stretch at 16 minutes, 18 seconds, hitting a high-to-low shot from 12 yards out off a Dionne assist, bring the Blue Devils within three, 8-5, at halftime.
Loyola started the third quarter two men up after three penalties were called on a Duke player, and another was whistled on another. Pontrello tallied a goal for the Greyhounds on the extra-man opportunity at 13:14, his first of two-straight goals in the third quarter.
Duke got a goal back as Deemer Class scored on a Myles Jones assist with 4:14 left in the third quarter, but Loyola did not allow a Blue Devils goal for more than 11 minutes.
By that time, Sawyer, Pontrello and Ward had all scored in the fourth quarter, and Loyola was up 13-7 after Jones tallied one for the Blue Devils with 8:11 left.
Sawyer tacked on his sixth goal with 3:40 left in the game. It marked the second time this season that a Loyola player has scored six in a game (Pontrello at Holy Cross). It is also the second time a member of the Sawyer family has scored six against Duke at Ridley Athletic Complex. His older brother, three-time All-American Mike, tallied six goals and two assists in a 13-8 Loyola win on March 10, 2012.
Defensively, the Greyhounds held Duke's two leading goal-scorers, Jordan Wolf (12 goals, 10 assists entering the game) and Dionne (12, 2) to one goal each.
Henry Lobb (Malvern Prep) had two groundballs for Duke on defense and LSM Brian Dailey (Conestoga) added a groundball and a caused turnover.
Jack Runkel made nine saves on 16 shots on goal, while Loyola outshot the Blue Devils, 39-31.
Duke won 13-of-23 faceoffs in the game, but Loyola won the ground ball category, 35-34. Joe Fletcher led the Greyhounds with seven ground balls, while Pontrello, Runkel, Brian Sherlock, Graham Savio and Jason Crane each had three.
The Greyhounds move back into Patriot League play on Saturday, March 15, when they host the U.S. Military Academy at 1 p.m.


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Novgorodian easel - painting has a long and complex history. Its origins go back to the eleventh century. Its first flourishing was in the twelfth - thirteenth centuries, and the second, the greatest, in the late fourteenth and throughout the fifteenth centuries. Afterwards, the art gradually began to decline, and though individual icons of excellent quality continued to be produced on Novgorodian soil, they nevertheless fell short of the earlier work.This is understandable, for the loss of Novgorod's independence and privileges led to the gradual disappearance of the factors which had brought about the great flourishing of its art.
Present-day historians like to stress the fact that Novgorod was a boyar republic ruled by a boyar oligarchy which had skilfully exploited the Council of Citizens (Veche) to further its own interests. What is much more important,however, is that before its annexation by Muscovy, Novgorod was a free city which had its own republican way of life, its own economic structure, its own great cultural traditions. A large territory, fertile soil, abundant natural wealth and skilful economic management - all these factors had contributed to the prosperity of "Gospodin Velikiy Novgorod" (Lord Novgorod the Great), which was famed through out Eastern Europe for its wealth and business acumen.
If we compare the art of Novgorod as a whole with that of Kievan Rus', the Principality of Vladimir - Suzdal' and the Grand Duchy of Moscow, we are immediately impressed by its full-blooded nature, its strong affinity with life, its close kinship with the people. It is striking in its freshness and spontaneity. Novgorodian painting is keynoted by the spelling force of its images, achieved through an original colour scheme, vivid and glowing. The artists of Novgorod did not favour complicated, intricate subjects. The involved symbolism of both Byzantine theologians and West European scholastics was alien to them. They preferred to depict the most venerated local saints (Florus and Laurus, Elijah, Anastasia, Paraskeva Pyatnitsa and others) who werecounted on to help them in their farming and their trade. Lining the saints upin a row, beneath the image of the Virgin of the Sign, which came to be regarded as the city's emblem, Novgorodians treated the icon without undue ceremony, as an old friend. They confided their innermost thoughts to it, and they fully expected it to help them in everything that they regarded as important and urgent. This approach to icon-painting tended to bring it closer to life. It would be wrong, however, to underestimate the visionary element in Novgorodian icon-painting. Like all medieval art it contains muchthat is abstract, conventional, much that transplants all images onto a different plane where the action takes place in a setting that is outside timeand space. This original combination of seemingly irreconcilable elements is the source of the Novgorodian icon's unfading charm: though the Novgorodian artist stands foursquare on the ground, his thought soars up into the sky. Even there, however, he does not lose the gift of lending to his visions an extremely vivid and concrete form.
Sts. Peter and Paul
Only one example of eleventh-century Novgorodian icon-painting has come down to us. It is a monumental icon of Sts. Peter and Paul from the Cathedral of St. Sophia (now in the Novgorod Museum of History and Architecture). Unfortunately, only fragments of vestments and the background survive from the initial painting: the original faces, hands and feet are all lost (here no paint layer earlier than the fifteenth century has been found). Because of this poor state of preservation, it is virtually impossible to establish whether the icon was painted by an immigrant Greek master, a Kievan artist invited to Novgorod or a local painter. As all early Novgorod icons, it has much in common with Byzantine panels, though it differs from them in size (2.36 X 1.47 m), which is unusually large for Greek icons. This in itself indicates that the icon was origin of local and not imported. Northern Rus', with its abundant forests, supplied the architects and artists with all the wood they needed, so that they did not have to skimp on the material. This, indeed, was one of the reasons for the rapid development of multi-tiered wooden iconostases in Novgorod, on which, beginning with the thirteenth - fourteenth centuries, the icon-painters lavished most of their attention.
The icon of Sts. Peter and Paul adorned the Cathedral of St. Sophia which had remained unpainted for nearly sixty years (1050 - 1109). Most likely it was a "pillar" icon decorating the temple's cruciform pillars along with the fresco icons.
St. George
The oldest among these icons, it would seem, are two images of St. George, one full - length (Tretyakov Gallery), and the other half-length (Cathedral of the Dormition in the Moscow Kremlin). The former came from the Cathedral of St. George at the Yur'yev Monastery in Novgorod, which was begun in 1019 and was consecrated, according to the fairly reliable Third Novgorod Chronicle, on June 29, 1140. The other icon was apparently brought to Moscow from the same cathedral. The full-length icon of St. George was undoubtedly the principal church icon, and must have been a "pillar" image, as indicated by its dimensions (2.30 X 1.42 m) which do not fit into the original altar screen either in shape or size. The powerful figure of the warrior - saint stood out boldly against the gold background now lost. In his right hand he holds a spear while his left clutches a sword hanging by his side. A small round shield, suspended on a belt, is visible behind the shoulder. Unfortunately, the numerous lacunae in the original painting, which were filled in by overpainting in the fourteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, make it impossible to reconstruct with any accuracy the type of face or the details of the armour. But the original silhouette of the figure and its strong, rather squat proportions have remained unchanged. The majestic, solemn figure of St. George is the epitome of strength and military valour, and has much in common with the heroic characters of Russian war epics. It has about it an aura of indomitable staunchness, that same staunchness that enabled Russian warriors to score victories over enemies vastly superior in numbers.
The icon from the Cathedral of the Dormition has come down to us in a good state of preservation, with little lost of the original painting. St. George is shown half length. His figure fills the entire space of the panel so that the arms almost touch the edge. In his right hand is a spear, and in his left a sword, which he holds forth like a precious relic. It will be recalled that the sword played a special role with the Slavs. It was regarded as the military emblem of Russia as it were, as the symbol of sovereignty, notably princely sovereignty. The icon was apparently commissioned by some Novgorod prince as an icon of his name saint, who is depicted as the prince's patron and who holds the sword as the symbol of his princely state. The most likely version is that the prince in question was Georgiy Andreyevich, the youngest son of Andrey Bogolyubsky. If the icon was really commissioned by him, it should pertain to the early seventies of the twelfth century, and not later than the above-mentioned year 1174.
The icon from the Cathedral of the Dormition shows St. George as a brave and staunch warrior, a patron of fighting men. Especially expressive is his face, in which the freshness of youth is combined with manly strength. The even oval of the face is framed by thick brown hair. The eyes, peering intently at the onlooker, the dark, beautifully arched eyebrows, the straight nose and full lips are all treated in such a way that they produce an almost architectural effect. The skin is of a very light hue, with a faint flush of colour on the cheeks. The proximity of dense olive green shadows and the vigorous red lining of the nose lend a special transparency to this whitish hue of the skin and make the face glow as it were. Looking at St. George one is forcefully reminded of the beautiful lines from the "Tale of Saints Boris and Gleb" describing Boris as "tall and handsome, his face round, his shoulders broad... kind eyes, cheerful of mien... princely appearance, strong of body, beautifully adorned, like a flower in bloom..." The icon, like the ancient tale, gives a poetic picture of a handsome youth in the full flower of his strength.


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First we hear that George Lucas won't be scripting the next Indiana Jones movie. And now, producer Frank Marshall says Indiana Jones 4 was the "last hurrah" of the series, at least as far as he's concerned.
In an interview with Collider Marshall explained everyone's stance on making one last Indiana Jones movie. And it sounds like he's already made his mind up:
"I say, for me, [Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is] the last hurrah. I know that yes, we talk about it, but there's no idea, there's no MacGuffin... [Lucas] isn't [hungry to do another Indiana Jones]."
Lucas recently stepped away from his own company Lucasfilm, handing his role over to Marshall's wife, Kathleen Kennedy.
Separately, in an interview with Crave, Marshall sounded slightly more upbeat, saying that everybody would "love to keep the series going," but only if they could come up with a "really good story. They're hard to do." He reiterated that Lucas isn't working on a new Indy script at all.
It sounds like nobody is particularly anxious to make one more Indiana film — which might be for the best, after the last contribution. Although it's a mite generous to call Kingdom of the Crystal Skull a "hurrah," last or otherwise.


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This April, Japanese illustrator Mao Sugiyama offered to cook a special meal: the illustrator's surgically removed genitals. The following month, five diners paid the equivalent of US$250 to eat Sugiyama's bait and tackle, served with Italian parsley and garnished with button mushrooms.
Approximately 70 people attended the event in Tokyo's Suginami Ward on May 18 to watch five individuals chow down on Sugiyama's cooked privates.
While cannibalism is not illegal in Japan per se, health officials in Tokyo are now investigating the event. According to The Mainichi, health officials are investigating to see if any food hygiene laws were broken during the event; however, the event sponsor said that no laws were broken in eating a human body part that was legally removed by a medical institution.
The Mainichi does not point out that, like in most countries, it's illegal to sell one's organs in Japan, which puts this meal in gray legal territory. You cannot even sell your own blood (blood donors get free drinks, instead). But, hey, charging people to eat your body parts is cool as long as you don't break hygiene laws? Sounds like a legal cock-up.
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Last week I asked Speaker Pelosi this question:
Dave Johnson (of Seeing the Forest): We seem to be at a historic time right now with an administration that is starting to frankly assert that they are above the rule of law, and I'm wondering if you as Speaker can give us a short statement on this issue and what Congress is prepared to do to re-assert the rule of law of the people of the country.
(Follow the links to read her response.) Then Mike Stark asked about impeachment. In the response she said,
I made a decision a few years ago, or at least one year ago, that impeachment was something that we could not be successful with and that would take up the time we needed to do some positive things to establish a record of our priorities and their short-comings, and the President is… ya know what I say? The President isn't worth it… he's not worth impeaching. We've got important work to do… If he were at the beginning of his term, people may think of it differently, but he's at the end of his terms. The first two years of his term, if we came in as the majority, there might be time to do it all…
Mike, of course, responded,
Mike Stark: Respectfully, that's not the question. Respectfully, the question is whether or not the Constitution is worth it.
Many argue that impeachment will distract the Congress from passing a progressive agenda. That is a pipe dream. The Republicans in the Senate are blocking everything. The President will veto anything that passes. And if something somehow manages to become law the Republicans and the President will just ignore it anyway.
And now there is yet another action against the Rule of Law. Not long after that conversation the President used his power to keep a convicted and sentenced crony out of jail – also removing any incentive to testify against the President and Vice President.
And here we are. We are at a moment in our history where we can choose to restore ourselves as a nation of laws, or we can let yet another incident pass without taking action.
Is the Constitution worth it or not?
If Bush and the Republicans can support the absolute politicization of our system of law and justice – and our Department of Justice – what won't they do? What aren't they capable of? The key question that this behavior brings up for me is: what about 2008? Will they let the people vote them out? Will they leave office or will they just put an official stamp on what has already occurred?
I don't know of a country that has gone as far down the path to authoritarianism as we have already gone and recovered. Can anyone come up with an example?


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|Extensible exceptions, except for multiple handlers.
|The Exception type
|Throwing exceptions
A variant of throw that can only be used within the IO monad.
Although throwIO has a type that is an instance of the type of throw, the two functions are subtly different:
throw e `seq` x ===> throw e throwIO e `seq` x ===> x
The first example will cause the exception e to be raised, whereas the second one won't. In fact, throwIO will only cause an exception to be raised when it is used within the IO monad. The throwIO variant should be used in preference to throw to raise an exception within the IO monad because it guarantees ordering with respect to other IO operations, whereas throw does not.
|Throw an exception. Exceptions may be thrown from purely functional code, but may only be caught within the IO monad.
|Raise an IOError in the IO monad.
throwTo raises an arbitrary exception in the target thread (GHC only).
throwTo does not return until the exception has been raised in the target thread. The calling thread can thus be certain that the target thread has received the exception. This is a useful property to know when dealing with race conditions: eg. if there are two threads that can kill each other, it is guaranteed that only one of the threads will get to kill the other.
If the target thread is currently making a foreign call, then the exception will not be raised (and hence throwTo will not return) until the call has completed. This is the case regardless of whether the call is inside a block or not.
Important note: the behaviour of throwTo differs from that described in the paper "Asynchronous exceptions in Haskell" (http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/Papers/asynch-exns.htm). In the paper, throwTo is non-blocking; but the library implementation adopts a more synchronous design in which throwTo does not return until the exception is received by the target thread. The trade-off is discussed in Section 9 of the paper. Like any blocking operation, throwTo is therefore interruptible (see Section 5.3 of the paper).
There is currently no guarantee that the exception delivered by throwTo will be delivered at the first possible opportunity. In particular, a thread may unblock and then re-block exceptions (using unblock and block) without receiving a pending throwTo. This is arguably undesirable behaviour.
|Catching Exceptions
|The catch functions
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|The try functions
Similar to catch, but returns an Either result which is (Right a) if no exception of type e was raised, or (Left ex) if an exception of type e was raised and its value is ex. If any other type of exception is raised than it will be propogated up to the next enclosing exception handler.
try a = catch (Right `liftM` a) (return . Left)
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|A variant of try that takes an exception predicate to select which exceptions are caught (c.f. catchJust). If the exception does not match the predicate, it is re-thrown.
|Like finally, but only performs the final action if there was an exception raised by the computation.
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Forces its argument to be evaluated to weak head normal form when the resultant IO action is executed. It can be used to order evaluation with respect to other IO operations; its semantics are given by
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Threads created by Control.Concurrent.forkIO inherit the blocked state from the parent; that is, to start a thread in blocked mode, use block $ forkIO .... This is particularly useful if you need to establish an exception handler in the forked thread before any asynchronous exceptions are received.
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Today's BirthdayRichard Nixon
1913–1994, 37th United States President.
Born in Yorba Linda, Calif.
Political Career to 1968
A graduate of Whittier College and Duke Univ. law school, he practiced law in Whittier, Calif., from 1937 to 1942, was briefly with the Office of Emergency Management, and served during World War II with the navy in the South Pacific. In 1946 he was elected to Congress as a Republican. In the House of Representatives he became nationally known for his work on the House Committee on Un-American Activities, where he was credited with forcing the famous confrontation between Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers, thus precipitating the perjury case against Hiss. In 1950 he was elected to the U.S. Senate after a particularly bitter electoral campaign. In the Senate, Nixon denounced President Truman's policy in Asia, supported Gen. Douglas MacArthur's proposal to expand the Korean War, and attacked the Democratic administration as favorable to socialism.
He was elected to the vice presidency on the Republican ticket with Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952. He made frequent official trips abroad, notably in 1958 to South America, where he faced a hostile demonstration in Venezuela, and in 1959 to the USSR, where he engaged in a much-publicized informal debate with Premier Nikita Khrushchev. Nixon received the Republican presidential nomination in 1960 with only a minimum of opposition and campaigned in support of the Eisenhower administration policies. He was defeated but gained almost as much of the popular vote as the successful John F. Kennedy. Nixon returned to politics in 1962, winning the Republican nomination for governor of California. After losing the election he returned to the practice of law.
First Term
In 1968 Nixon again won the Republican nomination for president; Spiro T. Agnew was his running mate. In a low-key campaign, Nixon promised to bring peace with honor in Vietnam and to unite a nation deeply divided by the Vietnam War and the racial crisis. He defeated his two opponents, Hubert H. Humphrey and George C. Wallace, but won only a plurality of the popular vote.
As President, Nixon began the phased withdrawal of U.S. troops from South Vietnam. He achieved (1973) a cease-fire accord with North Vietnam, but only after he had ordered invasions of Cambodia (1970) and Laos (1971) and the saturation bombing of North Vietnam. In other areas of foreign policy, Nixon eased cold war tensions. He initiated strategic arms limitation talks with the Soviet Union in 1969 and visited (1972) the People's Republic of China.
At home, Nixon reversed many of the social and economic welfare policies of President Lyndon B. Johnson. He vetoed much new health, education, and welfare legislation and impounded congressionally approved funds for domestic programs that he opposed. Nixon's Southern strategy, through which he hoped to woo the South into the Republican party, led him to weaken the Federal government's commitment to racial equality and to sponsor antibusing legislation in Congress. Nixon's first term in office was also beset by economic troubles. A severe recession and serious inflation brought about the imposition (1971) of a wide-reaching system of wage and price controls.
Despite these problems, Nixon and Agnew easily won reelection in 1972. Widespread popular distrust of his Democratic opponent, Senator George S. McGovern, brought Nixon a landslide victory. (Agnew was forced to resign in 1973, however, on charges of corruption that dated to when he was Baltimore co. executive, and Gerald R. Ford was nominated by Nixon and confirmed by Congress to succeed Agnew.)
Second Term: The Watergate Affair
Soon after his reelection Nixon's popularity plummeted as the growing revelations of the Watergate affair indicated pervasive corruption in his administration, and there was widespread criticism of the amount of government money spent on his private residences. Further problems ensued when the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) found that Nixon's donation of papers to the Federal government, which had been taken as a deduction on his Federal income tax returns, had been made after a law went into effect disallowing such deductions. The IRS assessed (1974) Nixon for the back taxes plus interest.
Many public officials and private citizens questioned Nixon's fitness to remain in office, and in 1974 the House of Representatives initiated impeachment proceedings. The House Committee on the Judiciary, which conducted the impeachment inquiry, subpoenaed Nixon's tape-recorded conversations relating to the Watergate affair and finally received (April 30) transcripts of most, but not all, of the tapes. Nixon also released transcripts of these conversations to the public, continuing to profess noninvolvement in the Watergate coverup despite growing evidence to the contrary. Meanwhile, Watergate special prosecutor Leon Jaworski subpoenaed tapes that had been previously requested but that were not among those included in the transcripts. Nixon refused to relinquish these, basing his refusal on claims of "executive privilege," i.e., the confidentiality of executive communications whose release might endanger national security. On July 24, 1974, the Supreme Court ruled that President Nixon must surrender these tapes to Jaworski.
The House Judiciary Committee had already completed its investigations and subsequently recommended (July 27–30) three articles of impeachment against the President. These charged him with obstruction of justice in the investigation of the break-in at the Democratic national headquarters in the Watergate apartment complex; abuse of power through misuse of the Internal Revenue Service for political purposes, illegal wiretapping, establishment of a private investigative unit that engaged in unlawful activities, and interference with the lawful activities of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Central Intelligence Agency, the Dept. of Justice, and other government bodies; and failure to comply with subpoenas issued by the House Judiciary Committee.
On Aug. 5, Nixon made public the transcripts of three conversations covered by the Supreme Court ruling, and the tapes indicated that he had, six days after the Watergate break-in, ordered the FBI to halt its investigation of the burglary. Nixon's revelation provoked widespread calls for his resignation; finally, responding to pressure from his closest advisers, he resigned on Aug. 9, the first U.S. President ever to do so. He left the White House immediately and returned to his estate in San Clemente, Calif. His successor, Gerald Ford, granted him a full pardon for any illegal acts that he might have committed while President, thus quashing the possibility of criminal proceedings against the former President. Subsequently, four of his close associates, including John Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman, and John Ehrlichman, were convicted (Jan. 1, 1975) on charges arising from the affair.
See his Six Crises (1962); biographies by Frank Mankiewicz (1973), Stephen Ambrose (1987), and C. L. Sulzberger (1987); Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, The Final Days (1987); Franz Schurmann, The Foreign Politics of Richard Nixon: The Grand Design (1987); Joe McGinnis, The Selling of the President (1988).
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Within a 5-minute walk of the hotel, you'll find The Book Bug and City of Miner Convention Center. Sikeston Depot Museum and Boot Heel Golf Club are also within 6 miles (10 km).
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This hotel features an outdoor pool and an indoor pool. Traveling on business? Take advantage of the business center and free WiFi in public areas. Enjoy the gym and free daily breakfast.
Pear Tree Inn Sikeston offers its guests an indoor pool, an outdoor pool, a spa tub, and a fitness center. WiFi is free in public spaces. You'll find a business center on site. Free breakfast is served daily, and guests can also enjoy a free manager's reception. The business-friendly Pear Tree Inn Sikeston also features a vending machine, coffee/tea in a common area, and laundry facilities. Smoking is allowed in designated areas at this Sikeston hotel.
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Pear Tree Inn Sikeston offers 80 accommodations with coffee/tea makers and hair dryers. 32-inch LCD televisions come with cable channels. Guests can make use of the in-room refrigerators and microwaves. Bathrooms include shower/tub combinations and complimentary toiletries. This Sikeston hotel provides complimentary wireless Internet access. Business-friendly amenities include desks and phones; free local calls are provided (restrictions may apply). Additionally, rooms include irons/ironing boards and blackout drapes/curtains. Housekeeping is offered daily and hair dryers can be requested.
Guests are served free breakfast on weekdays from 6:00 AM to 9:00 AM and on weekends from 7:00 AM to 10:00 AM. The hotel hosts a free manager's reception on select days.
An indoor pool, an outdoor pool, and a spa tub are on site. Other recreational amenities include a fitness center.
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TechRadar Verdict
A great package, with just as much to offer as the competition
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Easy to use combination of PVR and on-demand
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Free BBC catch-up
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Three tuners
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Can't watch recordings until they're complete
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Picture quality extremely variable
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Tiscali - formerly Homechoice - had been hitherto an exclusively broadband-based service, but it's now offering a combined Freeview and broadband PVR, with on-demand channels as well.
It's partly practical; you can't get more than one broadband TV channel over Britain's lousy broadband connections, but Freeview covers most areas.
A more comprehensive service
So Tiscali+ can offer three tuners, with reservations: you can't record more than one broadband channel at once, or watch on-demand while recording from a broadband channel.
On the bright side,Tiscali's basic TV package is considerably better than Freeview, and the minimum £20/month package includes unlimited weekend phone calls and up to 8MB broadband.
Unlike Virgin or BT Vision, you can get channels like Sky One, and there are even special on-demand channels from the likes of Discovery. It's also pretty cheap for a PVR - £50 up front or £5 a month competes very well with all the competition.
Simple design
We've seen minimalist boxes before, but this really takes the biscuit. The matt black exterior with no display is a designer's dream, but if you haven't got the TV on you'll have no idea what it's doing.
The only control is a power switch on the back and, since Tiscali+ has to be turned on 24/7, you'll only use this to reboot if the box crashes (which ours hasn't yet done).
The large green light is either on or off, so it doesn't indicate anything useful. You'll only know if there's a recording in progress by the sound of the hard disc/fan - ours is well-ventilated but still noticeable.
Plenty of connections
The highlight of the back panel should be the HDMI port, labelled here as 'Digital AV', but it's not operational and my installer hadn't been briefed to use it.
Instead, you get an RGB Scart and optical digital audio output, plus analogue stereo audio, a composite video VCR Scart, Ethernet port from your router and two USB ports. These aren't active either, and at least one would be more useful if front-mounted.
Your TV aerial plugs in via a loopthrough socket, so you can also have Freeview - or conventional analogue TV - on your TV or VCR. There are two Freeview tuners inside Tiscali+, plus a single DSL broadband TV tuner.
Intelligent remote
The remote continues the box's black theme and although it looks nice the buttons are a little small and fiddly, and because they're all square you don't get any tactile feedback. I also found the square directional pad quite awkward and cramped.
There are dedicated buttons for Film, Kids, Music, All TV (the complete channel list), MyTV, the main TV Guide and a search facility - this doesn't do anything yet. The remote will also learn your TV's volume control command.
Unusually for almost any piece of electronic kit these days, Tiscali+ is made in Italy by Telsey. I know Italy used to have a proud electronics manufacturing industry, but I own a Fiat and I'm used to Italian electrics! Let's hope it bucks the trend.
Simple set up
Tiscali doesn't do self-installs with TV, but if they did it would be fairly easy. The free DSL modem/wireless router comes pre-configured and the connections are fairly straightforward.
There's an engineer's channel (999) where you can check the DSL video signal is coming in and select a video output mode.
For tuning in the Freeview channels Tiscali+ will first check whether there's a suitable signal for each channel, with a very clear onscreen strength and quality indicator.
It then tunes in all the Freeview channels quite rapidly if you've got a signal. If you don't have a signal it will default to access the channel via broadband from Tiscali.
Sluggish operation
It has only one DSL tuner - this means you can't record two channels at once, and not all of the Freeview channels are available via broadband.
On the bright side, the DSL video signal for some channels is better than the Freeview signal, giving high efficiency MPEG-4 another victory over old-fashioned, over-compressed MPEG-2.
It does, however, take quite a long time to turn on - well over 20 seconds until you're into the main channel menu. These days that's unacceptable.
Easy navigation
The mixing of DSL and off-air channels is invisible to the user, there are just channels and on-demand. Tiscali - in its former guise as Homechoice - was ahead of the pack at providing TV on-demand and already has iPlayer-style catch-up for the BBC and FX.
Channels with this Replay function are indicated by an onscreen 'r', although there's no dedicated Replay button on the remote. There's also a separate on-demand section, while live channels and on-demand are also grouped together by genre.
It's very easy to navigate and although you don't have the sheer number of channels you'd find on Sky, that's neglecting the depths of on-demand available if you subscribe to one of the specialist entertainment, music, kids' and movie packages.
Package options
In the basic package there are (including Freeview) 45 live TV channels, 19 radio channels and eight on-demand. You get an extra 15 live channels in the Entertainment mix, nine in the kids' mix and four in music, with each also offering more on-demand.
Only sports fans are really under-served by Tiscali. You get Eurosport, but Sky Sports is only available through Sky by Wire, which is very expensive compared with Sky's own service (ironically, Sky controls the price of this option). Setanta's not available either.
The My TV section lets you create a list of favourite channels, programme reminders, and programmes saved from the on-demand library for posterity, or just to finish later.
On-demand choices
The basic package offers eight on-demand channels: three of these are pretty much commercials for Disney holidays, Thomson Holidays, and What Car magazine, but Time For Bed, Taste V:MX, Taste C1, Take Two and 4oD as a flavour of what's on offer at a higher cost.
The entertainment on-demand package is aimed at a general adult audience and includes Discovery, National Geographic, HBO, 4oD, classic UK and US comedy and drama.
It's very easy to get stuck into just browsing through the selection, especially if you're looking for gems you might have missed in the past few years.
Music would be an essential purchase for anyone with teenage children, who will love the on-demand V:MX channels - each one dedicated to a different genre. The Easy and Retro sections cater to older tastes - only classical and jazz are missing.
Parents of young children will likewise gravitate to the children's section, particularly because of its special 'minimote', which restricts users to the children's channels.
Youngsters take to the four on-demand channels like ducks to water and will probably have trouble understanding typical listings when they grow older.
Movie rentals
There's a strong pay-per-view films selection, with very competitive release windows, and the full library runs to over 1,000 movies, which can be searched by title, actor or director. The Picture Box channel has 28 films at any time, with seven new arrivals every week.
Many of the libraries include whole series of shows, and you can choose to watch one episode or the full run, or you can copy episodes to your personal on-demand library to watch when you want. This doesn't take up space on your hard disc - it's just a set of bookmarks to the shows on Tiscali's servers.
Time-limited content like movies can't be stored this way but it is held in your 'My Rentals' list as long as you've got access.
There are also special libraries for favourite music and children's programmes.
PVR capability
There's no difference between the experience of watching recordings, paused live TV, or on-demand TV. You get the same forward and rewind menus: 30 seconds, 1 minute, 3 min and 10 min in each direction, plus jump to start.
The skip buttons can be used to jump to the next episode in a series of shows. The box responds quickly to commands, although there's only fast-forward/rewind speed, which corresponds roughly with 12x on Sky+.
The record button lets you set up a single or series recording, and you're told if there's a recording clash and how long remains to resolve it, although it doesn't offer an alternative recording time.
Paused TV can be turned into a full recording, with series link options.
Storing your recordings
Your recordings library has the benefit of showing not just how much of the disc has been used already, but how much will be used the current week's crop of recordings - the 160GB library should store around 80 hours of TV.
You can sort recordings by name or date, but not by genre or series. The scheduled recording list has similar functions and if you delete a forthcoming show it asks if you want to delete just one episode or the whole series.
One surprising drawback was that you can't watch a recording until it's complete. It was a common problem in the early days of PVRs, but today it's unacceptable.
Mixed picture quality
Picture quality varies tremendously across the different sources available on Tiscali+.
Not surprisingly, movie rentals are very high quality, with some of the best analogue RGB Scart pictures we've seen. Freeview is as variable as you'd expect, but generally a lot less than the equivalent channel via Freesat.
Most of the on-demand channels are pretty good, although you have to accept that some of the 'classic' TV is never going to look very good. Music videos are typically over-compressed and frequently show blocky artefacts and edge effects, which must be the price of having an extensive library to choose from.
Audio quality follows roughly the same hierarchy, though it never gets as bad as some of the pictures. Movies are encoded in Dolby Surround, which is a bit old-fashioned but still works pretty well.
Tiscali's promising PVR
Tiscali's service is easily as good for quality and value as Virgin or BT Vision.
It's also a pleasure to use and promises to get better. Tiscali+ is a good PVR, but with one or two annoying and unecessary flaws
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Storytelling Through Data: A New Inbound Marketing & SEO Report Structure
The author's views are entirely their own (excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis) and may not always reflect the views of Moz.
No matter what business you are in, it's a pretty sure thing that someone is going to want to monitor how efficiently and productively you are working. Being able to show these results over time is crucial to maintaining the health of the long-term relationship.
To us, reporting has become much less about the data, and more about the story you can tell with it. Not to say that data isn't important, but while a big spike in traffic is awesome, the drop that comes after it might not necessarily be a bad thing. It could be seasonal. Or maybe it's just leveling back after the brand was mentioned in a news report. To be totally honest, the same thing could apply to the spike itself, so hold off on those celebrations!
For the sake of transparency, this is something that we always felt we could improve on more at Kahena. We have tried it all, from email write ups, to using straight ranking reports (blerg, I know - so 2007), to a template-based Excel model (which is what we currently use), and even as far as planning a future web-based reporting platform for all of our clients to log in to and utilize as needed.
This whole project really started in the wake of Google blocking all keyword data and turning it all into [not provided]. This really forced us to break old and bad habits and redefine what important metrics and insights we were sharing with clients.
We had two goals in mind during this project which were to:
- Automate the report as much as possible so that we have more time to analyze the data and provide deeper, more valuable insights, both for our clients and our own internal strategies.
- Keep the template intact so there was standardization across our reports.
Categorizing all the data
We held a brainstorm and decided to compartmentalize the data into 3 different categories:
- KPIs: These are the key performance indicators that we felt show bottom line progress from the campaign.
- Leading Indicators: These metrics add value to the story by exhibiting a correlation with the KPIs. These are all things that clients need to know to understand the KPI outcomes.
- Nice to know: These metrics don't necessarily make or break the campaign, but are notable and worth mentioning because they provide some insight into overall performance.
Here's what the brainstorm looked like after our meeting:
What this ultimately turned into is the following (click on the report for a full-sized version):
Now, let me be clear, this could have gone in lots of different directions, and in many cases it does depending on the client. We chose the metrics above for our template because we felt they provided the best high-level insight. Let me explain.
The KPI's we thought were most important were traffic and goals. That was a relatively simple one to decide since this is ultimately what clients hire us to improve.
Leading indicators were a bit more challenging to solidify. We decided that for the purposes of story-telling, landing page data would be able to explain to our clients the progress we were making around specific landing pages we were optimizing. It also would provide more data into which *groups* of keywords were doing well and which needed a bit more attention. We also put an emphasis on vertical rankings (we partner with Rank Ranger to get that data). We specifically did not want to focus on individual keywords, although there is still a section for specific changes which are chosen to highlight campaign progress.
The nice to know information is the one section that we didn't trend, and in the future we still might decide to do that. For now, we highlight user engagement data like pages per visit, bounce rate and average time on site. The one area we do trend here is site indexation, because that can have a major effect on a site's search engine health and provides an early warning to any index bloat issues
A bonus area we added to the report allows our account managers to think creatively regarding non-standard data highlights and observations. Interestingly, this is often the section that gets the most comments from clients.
The most time-consuming piece in this whole process was setting up the initial template. The report itself is actually quite simple after that. The client-facing portion is one tab, which allows us to PDF everything, and it pulls data from other data tabs.
Most of the tabs have a similar table which has the date and the metric you want to visualize. This is just copying and pasting numbers from Analytics - nothing fancy. But, if you're curious, the tables where we put this data look like this:
Pulling the data
Once set up, the only data we are pulling from Analytics is the number of:
- Total organic visits, broken down by the traffic source
- Goal conversions (transactions and revenue for e-commerce)
- Micro goal conversions (newsletter signups, or event tracking on important buttons)
- Total page views
- Bounce rate
- Time spent on site
The report basically does the rest since the data sources for all the graphs and charts have already been selected.
We also download landing page data from Google Analytics which includes two segments: organic and total traffic compared by current and previous month. Similarly, when added into the appropriate columns, the template populates the data into this section:
All this data pulling and automation helps a lot with the time element. The problem we found was with a 10 person team (let alone a team of significantly more people), everyone wanted some level of customization, which was completely understandable. Each client is going to have specific requests, and each account manager is going to want to tweak it to their liking. The problem with everyone customizing the template is that it often resulted in some elements displaying weirdly when we made it into a PDF, or worse, broke some of the formulas that caused the template to work.
When we investigated this, we found that 80% of our clients could use one of 2 templates:
- A conversion and micro conversion report which reported on a goal we had set up and included events and micro conversions we were targeting
- An e-commerce report which reported on transactions and revenue generated from organic search
Keeping the rest of the report intact involved some creativity. For this, if you are not familiar with offsets, then I suggest paying close attention.
The offset function creates magic
This is a little-used Excel function from what I have found, but it's super powerful. What it does is:
"Returns a reference to a range that is a specified number of rows and columns from a cell or range of cells. The reference that is returned can be a single cell or a range of cells. You can specify the number of rows and the number of columns to be returned." Source: Microsoft Excel Help
In other words, one cell could control pivoting the entire report between months. Every single table that you have in the report can be linked to one cell and change as that cell changes. Even better, if you can create a button that is connected to this cell, with the simple click of the button, it can adjust data in various parts of the template such as the date, the header, footer, and even provide a way for clients to navigate themselves through the data (if set up correctly).
Here is how it works for us:
In many ways, this serves as a database that holds historical data so it's saved for the future. Using this, we can show a trended analysis of the progress we have made over time without having to do a ton of data pulling, saving us a significant amount of time.
Given the amount of reports we, as an agency, run on a monthly basis, we need to find better ways of automation without the restrictions that come with third party tools. We have started developing an interactive web-based reporting tool built on the Microsoft Reporting framework. This will work by setting up scheduled jobs to collect data from various data sources (including Google Analytics) and automatically store them in our database so that we don't even have to pull the data. This will allow our team (and in the future - our clients) to access this data via pre-templated online reports and more time to tell stories and analyze trends.
For now, we are still using Excel, which our clients still love.
The real point that I want to stress is that no matter what method you use for reports, the story is key. The data is crucial, but the insight around the data is what management wants to see. They want to visually see what is happening with their business, and understand through our analysis why it's happening.
We have received an incredible amount of feedback from clients who have said things like "I really LOVE the format of having the charts or graphs, and then having your commentary/insights right next to it…TOTALLY works for me"
So they are happy. We are happy.
And that's our process – I hope you found something you can take away for your reports as well.
One final tip to build the report
This is not something that could be done alone. It really took the entire team's effort, ranging from junior associates up to the CEO, getting buy-in, agreeing on the metrics, and believing in the vision for what we were trying to accomplish with reporting. The ideas and feedback were invaluable and they should all be proud of what we accomplished together.
Download the template
To help you get started, we have made the template available for you to download. I am happy to answer any specific questions in the comments and help you as you set up your own report for you and your clients.


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The volunteers were killed Sunday in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Vaccination programs have been targeted by Islamic militants
Pakistan had 58 cases of polio in 2012
The CIA used a fake vaccine program to verify bin Laden's location
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari condemned the Sunday killings of two polio vaccination volunteers in the country's northwest, calling their slayings "cowardly and inhuman."
The workers were shot to death while visiting homes in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in northwestern Pakistan, police said. Islamic militants have targeted anti-polio campaigns since U.S. intelligence used a fake vaccination program to aid its hunt for al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
Pakistan is one of only three countries where polio remains endemic, with 58 cases reported in 2012, according to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. In a statement issued by his office, Zardari said the volunteers died in service of a "noble cause" and called for tighter security for the effort.
"While condemning the death of the two polio volunteers, the president said that such cowardly and inhuman acts of the militants and extremists can not deter the strong resolve of government to eradicate polio from the country," the statement said.
The CIA used a fake vaccine program to collect DNA from residents of bin Laden's compound to verify the al Qaeda leader's presence before a May 2011 raid that killed him. Bin Laden had been holed up in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad, about 60 miles north of the capital, Islamabad.
Sunday's killings capped a bloody weekend dominated by a bus bombing and hospital siege in Quetta, the capital of the southwestern province of Balochistan. Militants attacked a university bus carrying women, then struck the hospital where the survivors were taken for treatment, authorities said Saturday.
The 28 dead included 14 women killed on the bus, along with four nurses, four police officers and four militants, police said. At one point, the attackers held hundreds of patients, physicians and nurses hostage as they battled security forces.
Earlier Saturday, assailants bombed the home of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of the Pakistani state, in Balochistan, killing a police officer and wounding an employee, authorities said. Interior Minister Chaudry Nisar said Sunday that there was a "secret war" going on in the province, and the government had to work "with all the parties involved" to bring it to an end.
"The government is ready to hold talks with those that believe in dialogue," he said. "But the government will not hold talks with those that propagate and practice extremism."
CNN's Aliza Kassim contributed to this report.


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