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Scott's triumph may hasten the end of anchored putters
Victory completes 'Grand Slam' of Majors won with controversial clubs
Adam Scott of Australia celebrates after he sinks a birdie putt on the 18th during the fourth round of the 77th Masters golf tournament at Augusta National. Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images
The issue of anchoring of belly- and long-putters – and the proposed banning of what Arnold Palmer calls "contraptions" – won't go away, and Adam Scott's success in the US Masters, despite being hugely popular for him as a person, has only served to stir up the debate even further.
What Scott did was to achieve a long-awaited breakthrough win in the Majors.
But, more than that, he completed a Grand Slam of Majors for proponents of anchored putters: Scott's win in the Masters, together with those of Keegan Bradley (2011 US PGA), Webb Simpson (2012 US Open) and Ernie Els (2012 British Open) meant the last of the four boxes was ticked off.
In terms of timing, Scott's win couldn't have been better planned, with the R&A and the USGA, the two governing bodies of the sport, set to make an announcement – possibly next month – on their proposal to implement a ban on anchoring from January 2016.
The R&A and the USGA allowed consultations on the debate from interested parties and that period concluded last month. The two governing bodies are currently reviewing matters, with an announcement due shortly.
The PGA Tour in the United States and the PGA of America have stated their opposition, whilst the European Tour and the Ladies European Tour have said they will go along with whatever ruling is made.
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The manner in which Scott boldly holed out critical putts down the stretch to take the green jacket will, ironically, probably hurt the cause of those seeking to allow such an anchoring method to continue.
Just over two years ago, the affable Aussie was in the throes of despair with the short putter but, since moving to the boomhandle putter in February of 2011, he has been transformed.
Since moving from the conventional short putter, Scott has won the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational (2011) and finished runner-up in the Masters (2011) and contended in the British Open at Lytham.
Where once he couldn't be trusted to hole a putt, Scott's play of Augusta National's famously slick greens under the utmost of pressure on Sunday probably sealed the fate of the anchored method of putting.
Asked in the aftermath of his win here in Augusta how his putting feat with the putter would reshape or further the long putter debate, Scott responded: "I don't know what it's going to do. We are all waiting to hear what's going to happen. I don't know that this is going to impact any decisions at all. You know my feeling on it all; that it was inevitable that big tournaments would be won with this equipment, because these are the best players in the world and they practice thousands of hours. They are going to get good with whatever they are using. It's inevitable. I don't know that is going to have any impact on any decisions upcoming."
The putter which Scott used was a Scotty Cameron for Titleist Futura X prototype with a 52-inch long shaft.
"I've worked pretty hard with Scotty Cameron on a putter this year. I had a kind of backyard garage prototype in my bag for a couple of tournaments but now it looks more like a production model," said Scott of the new putter which guided him to a green jacket.
In fairness to Angel Cabrera, the man on the other end of Scott's wizardry with the long putter, there was no sense of suffering any injustice. "I don't think there is any advantage. If it really is an advantage, why doesn't everybody play with it?" asked Cabrera.
Although the consultation period is over, the debate has continued to rage on with the US Tour – where players like Tim Clark and Keegan Bradley have been most vociferous in their right to use the anchoring method – even alluding to a bifurcation of the rules, which would allow them to make their own rule on tour to allow the method.
Interestingly, Jack Nicklaus – the all-time record holder of Majors, with 18 – voiced his concern that the PGA Tour would even consider such an option.
"To have that happen . . . . would set a bad precedent. I hope that doesn't happen. If the USGA and the R&A say, 'No, we're going forward with it', I Hope the (PGA) tour says, 'OK, we've always played by the USGA rules, we will continue to play by the USGA rules'."
His objection
Palmer, for his part, set forth his objection to anchored putters in a recent interview at his tournament in Bay Hill where he said he hoped golf would continue to be unified under one set of rules and those rules would ban a long putter that is "hooked" to the body.
With four of the last six Majors having been won by players who anchor the longer putters to their bodies, be it to the stomach, sternum or chin, Scott's win has put a super-trooper spotlight on the issue.
Ironically, in winning, he has probably sealed the fate of the anchored putters.


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There once lived, in a sequestered part of the county of Devonshire, one Mr Godfrey Nickleby: a worthy gentleman, who, taking it into his head rather late in life that he must get married, and not being young enough or rich enough to aspire to the hand of a lady of fortune, had wedded an old flame out of mere attachment, who in her turn had taken him for the same reason. Thus two people who cannot afford to play cards for money, sometimes sit down to a quiet game for love.
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There are people enough in the world, Heaven knows! and even in London (where Mr Nickleby dwelt in those days) but few complaints prevail, of the population being scanty. It is extraordinary how long a man may look among the crowd without discovering the face of a friend, but it is no less true. Mr Nickleby looked, and looked, till his eyes became sore as his heart, but no friend appeared; and when, growing tired of the search, he turned his eyes homeward, he saw very little there to relieve his weary vision. A painter who has gazed too long upon some glaring colour, refreshes his dazzled sight by looking upon a darker and more sombre tint; but everything that met Mr Nickleby's gaze wore so black and gloomy a hue, that he would have been beyond description refreshed by the very reverse of the contrast.
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COMMENT As I work closely with NGOs and relevant bodies in Sarawak to register new voters, I found something unique in their goodwill and sincerity to change Sarawak's political landscape.
When we knocked from one door to another to ask whoever was 21 years old and above to register themselves as voters, I said to one of the volunteers that "it is so fortunate that we come to force the people to make a change". And we all laughed.
In the Dayak Bidayuh areas, I found it difficult to change the mindset of the youths toward change. I have yet to find a relevant statistic and report on the number young voters and their trend in Sarawak, but what I've found in the electoral roll from the Election Commission is that there are only 10 to 20 registered young voters in the Tarat constituency.
That is only the average compared to thousands of youths in Tarat. The number of newly-registered voters is discouraging, while the current affairs of Malaysian politics is getting severe.
From my experience, along my political cause for almost three years now, the scenario of youth involvement in Sarawak's politics indicates two assumptions.
Firstly, youths do not participate in voting and politics because politics is to them about corruption and that whoever takes power will do the same in governance.
To vote is to participate in corruption and to be in politics is a waste of time. Almost six out of 10 youths gave the same verbal feedback during my visits and social media conversations.
Should they believe in such a mentality and escape from their obligations for a better country? Shall we let corruption and bad governance take place and continue on?
I see that it is failure in the system of the politics and government that has caused corrupt politicians to be in power. Somehow, I cannot blame those who are in power but I look at myself closely as a medium of change as per one singe vote to decide over my country's fate.
Not changing is fatal
Secondly, fear is is greater than dreams for a better future. As we knock on the doors and speak to the youngsters about the importance of voting and why they have to register, I see fear in them.
The worst case would be if their houses are nearby to the village head's house and their parents are working as government servants.
The hardest thing to change in people's minds is to ask them to live and struggle for what tomorrow could bring. They reply: "My father (or my mother) is a teacher/a nurse/a clerk/a village head. I don't dare to let them down and make them lose their jobs if we support the opposition."
We then ask them to register as voters and not support the opposition parties if they don't want to. But I see people start to 'fear' me, including my family members and relatives.
Not because I look like a monster or angel but because of my political views and whom am I working with. Things changed within the family circle tremendously after I told them about my political struggle.
And so it happens in every village whenever I and the team come to for a visit. I don't have any idea how people look at me with the political party shirt or uniform that I wear whenever we moving around.
This is the obvious political mindset that influences the way of life in Sarawak and even a family relationship, which should be above the political mindset, is not.
Change is difficult, not changing is fatal. We cannot change the country by having street protests. We cannot change the country by killing the president. We cannot change the country by keyboard and keypad.
We can change the country with the vote and that is the fundamental element in saving the future of a dying country from the a tyrannical, corrupt government with an obsolete political agenda.
Change the system. Vote for your future. You can make a difference.
MUSA ANAK NGOG describes himself as potential candidate for the Tarat constituency in the forthcoming Sarawak elections.
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Written by James E. Kamis on 27APR2015
The eruption of Calbuco, one of Chile's 500 active volcanoes, has captured the world's attention with strikingly beautiful images and stories of hasty evacuations. However, the really important story behind this eruption is even subtler: it is a vivid illustration of Earth's awesome natural geological forces. It's a rare glimpse into the powers that can move mountains, rip continents apart, and more importantly, alter our climate.
The Calbuco eruption is a wake-up call for "consensus" global warming theory climate scientists; it shows that geologic forces eclipse man-made global warming, adding another layer to the climate debate.
It's time for climate scientists to include the affects of these natural forces into computer models and climate pattern predictions. Calbuco is releasing massive amounts of particulate matter, carbon dioxide (CO2), methane, and sulfur dioxide into the upper and lower atmosphere, and in turn altering our climate. The degree to which this eruption changes earth's climate will be seen in months to come. But make no mistake, it will alter our climate.
Geological forces have had and are still are having an underappreciated but very important effect on our climate and climate-related events. The theory of plate climatology contends that periods of active Earth tectonics and volcanism can be correlated to periods of active climate change and climate-related events.
Simply put, increased tectonic activity, either locally or globally, equates to more faulting and volcanic activity, which leads to more heat and fluid release from these active geological features into both the oceans and atmosphere. Altered heat and fluid input equates to climate change.
It is extremely important to note that volcanic eruptions are not rare events. They vary in magnitude, but volcanic eruptions occur daily all over the world. Ninety percent of all active volcanoes are located in the deep ocean. They are largely unmonitored, save for the fact that recent research indicates that they emit vast amounts of heat, CO2, and methane.
Research by MIT shows that large numbers of smaller and moderately active land-based volcanoes, which had been unmonitored, also emit significant amounts of sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere. MIT notes that these sulfur dioxide emissions have acted to alter our climate by reducing atmospheric temperatures.
Climate scientists who support the global warming theory have for many years contended that climate variations, primarily increases in atmospheric temperature, were all controlled by emission of man-made CO2. Their recent admission that atmospheric CO2 content has continued to rise and that atmospheric temperatures have not risen in 18 years has forced them to reassess this notion.
So why did widely heralded computer models and the Global Warming Theory miss the prediction of the 18 year warming pause?
The short answer is that climate scientists failed to predict/model the "pause" because they were, and still are atmospherically biased. For many years climate science has been stuck in a "it's all about the atmosphere" mindset. This bias has blinded them. They have improperly interpreted or in some cases ignored mountains of compelling non-atmospheric data, much of it geological in nature, which would have aided in the prediction of the pause. Often there rationalization was that geologic forces, as per the Calbuco eruption, are rare and unpredictable. Not true. They are common and can be correctly included into models once adequate data is collected.
Scientific bias is more common than you might imagine. Formulating correct answers to well-defined scientific questions can only be made when in possession of three elements: an open mind, sufficiently accurate data, and most importantly, a diverse data set of proper resolution.
Amazingly, when lacking any of these elements, many of us, including scientists, still charge full speed ahead to what we deem are compelling answers. These answers then form the basis of how we perceive and judge the validity of the relevant scientific theory. Sadly, and not to surprisingly hastily and ill-formed answers are often proven incorrect. It then becomes necessary to alter our perception of, and confidence in, the relevant scientific theory. This is exactly what occurred when climate scientists prematurely pronounced that the theory of man-made global warming was fact.
During the last five years, scientists have amassed better data sets with increased accuracy, tighter spatial distribution, more diverse parameters, and representing a longer time period. This new information has clearly demonstrated that geological forces have a very strong impact on climate and climate-related events including the relative influence of man-made CO2, warming of the oceans, selective melting of glaciers by sub-glacial and fault-induced hot springs, mega-droughts, alteration of deep ocean currents, Tsunami's, El Niños, and so on.
Two newly released and independent studies (here and here) both conclude that natural forces in the form of unusually strong and persistent trade winds are the cause of the 18.5 year global warming hiatus. It is here contended that these altered trade winds are a side effect of a geologically warmed ocean. This geological heat emanates from a volcanically and tectonically active area in a deep ocean portion of the western Pacific. This warmed ocean cell has acted to alter trade winds. When this new research is considered in the context of the MIT study, it is possible to conclude the following.
- Natural geological forces have overridden / trumped the effect of all man-made CO2 released into the atmosphere during the 18.5 warming pause.
- "Consensus" climate scientists now admit that the 18.5 years of no increase in atmospheric warming is real, not a fabrication of global warming skeptics.
- Atmospheric temperatures have remained relatively constant for 18.5 years. Climate scientists have essentially admitted that an important element of our climate hasn't significantly changed during this period. So the phrase "climate change" is not well supported by actual climate data, and some might argue misleading.
- Implementation of pending carbon taxes should be tabled until a more accurate measure of the impact man-made CO2 has on our climate can be established. This can only be accomplished by studying and then include the effect of geological forces into climate models and research.
- Political arguing concerning climate trends and solutions should be put aside, giving scientists room to do unimpaired and diverse research?
Images of the Calbuco eruption are indeed awe-inspiring and strikingly beautiful. However, looking closely we can see something else, a need to alter our mindset from believing in "climate change" to believing in the need to change the "climate theory." It's time to consider an alternate climate theory, one that properly includes all relevant natural forces, the plate climatology theory.
This is the real story behind the Calbuco eruption.


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EmptyOscar-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow and three companions are setting off today on a real-life road trip around Spain in "Spain: On the Road Again," produced by Charles Pinsky's Frappe Prods. for PBS.
Chef and TV personality Mario Batali, New York Times dining and travel columnist Mark Bittman and Spanish TV actress Claudia Bassols will round out the foursome that will travel to unidentified destinations around Spain, "showcasing the country as it has never been seen before," Pinsky said.
"We want to do a show where we show what Spain is all about, both food and culturewise," Pinsky said. "We're looking for the most real and wonderful Spain."
Split into couples and traveling in cars, Paltrow, Bittman, Batali and Bassols will explore Spanish food, fashion, hotels, spas, nightlife, music and art.
According to Pinsky, Batali and Bittman are more focused on food and wine, while Paltrow and Bassols are expected to pursue fashion, spas, museums and shopping.
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TROY, N.Y.-- Astrophysicist Heidi Newberg at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and her colleagues suggest that a "highway" of dark matter from another galaxy may be showering down on Earth. The findings may change the way astronomers look for mysterious cosmic particles, long suspected to outweigh known atomic matter.
The findings of Newberg and researchers at the University of Michigan and the University of Utah have been published in the March 19 issue of Physical Review Letters.
Scientists believe that about 90 percent of the mass in the universe is made up of particles called "dark matter." This belief is based on an unseen gravitational pull on the stars, but observations to directly detect dark matter have been sketchy. One Italy-based research group, called DAMA (for DArk MAtter), has made steady claims to have detected particles of dark matter, but so far the results have not been confirmed.
But, the disruption of a dwarf galaxy called Sagittarius, which is being torn apart and consumed by the much larger gravitational pull of the Milky Way, may be the key to reconciling the results of dark matter experiments of DAMA and other research groups.
The dwarf galaxy's entrails of stars and dust, like a long piece of ribbon, are entangled around and within our galaxy. The so-called "trailing tidal tail" can be seen to extend from Sagittarius' center and arcs across and below the plane of the Milky Way. The leading part of the tail extends northward above our galaxy where it then turns and appears to be showering shredded galaxy debris down directly on our solar system, Newberg and colleagues say.
"As the Milky Way consumes Sagittarius, it not only rips the stars from the smaller galaxy, but also tears away some of the dark-matter particles from that galaxy. We may be able to directly observe that in the form of a dark-matter highway streaming in one direction through the Earth," says Newberg, who has recently identified stars near the sun that could be part of this leading tidal tail.
WIMPs, or Weakly Interacting Massive Particles, are the most likely form of dark matter. Astrophysicists measure the possibility of WIMP detection based on calculations that the particles are coming from the Milky Way's galactic halo.
As Earth orbits around the center of the galaxy, the planet flies through this cloud of dark matter. As that happens, billions of these weakly interacting (and therefore difficult to detect) particles could be passing through each of our bodies every second.
As a result of the new findings, scientists now have another source in which to look for these dark-matter particles, says Katherine Freese, University of Michigan researcher and co-author of the Physical Review Letters paper. Freese, her graduate student Matthew Lewis, and Paolo Gondolo from the University of Utah have calculated the effects that the tidal stream would have on dark-matter detection experiments.
"If you expect to see only halo WIMPs, there will be an extra set of particles streaming through the Earth that were not accounted for," Freese says. "Scientists will need to adjust their calculations to look for this. Finding this stream would represent a smoking gun for dark-matter detection."
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Information is power. In some cases more literally than others. The most valuable commodity in the galaxy is technology, in the form of Universal Template Construction schematic-cores which allow standard manufacturing technologies to produce the most powerful and advanced cutting edge ships and modules Maelstrom has ever seen.
It will come as no surprise of course that the data in these files are also some of the known-universe's most closely guarded secrets. Obscured by deep encryption, segmented and stored in distributed archives, the desire to secure it has driven generations of revolution in software engineering and hardware security alike.
Acquiring BlueprintsEdit
The acquisition of blueprints would be simple if not for the extraordinary security measures employed to protect them. Q-String based encryption renders them all but impossible to simply copy and at the same time all but impossible to destroy, forcing those who would acquire these technologies to physically capture them from their enemies.
Players have a chance to acquire a blueprint fragment whenever they win a battle, though the chance of finding one is reduced (to as little as zero) if the winning fleet has a significantly higher rating than the losing base or fleet. When attacking a base, players can increase their chance of finding blueprints by destroying their base completely, with each length of bubble granting a slightly higher chance. Each research lab also grants an additional bonus. Getting an enemy base below 25% and destroying all of their labs grants the highest chance.
Some blueprints are more common than others - the Advanced, Uncommon, Rare, Epic, and Legendary rarities are routinely color coded throughout the game for your convenience - and players are significantly more likely to find fragments of more common designs. Owing to their complexity, rarer designs are also composed of more parts, and rarer parts can only be found on more advanced bases and fleets:
- Advanced Tech I items have two parts and may be found on enemies rated 0-9
- Advanced Tech II items have two parts and may be found on enemies rated 10-19
- Advanced Tech III items have two parts and may be found on enemies rated 20-29
- Uncommon items have four parts and may be found on enemies rated 20+
- Rare items have eight parts and may be found on enemies rated 30+
- Epic items have twelve parts and may be found on enemies rated 40+
- Legendary items have sixteen parts and may be found on enemies rated 50+
Players can have a maximum of eight partially complete blueprints at any given time, and once they reach that limit they will receive only fragments of those already in progress. Though some parts are rarer than others, this will not affect the overall chance of finding a fragment however, it only influences which fragment will be recovered when one is found.
Additionally, once a player has acquired one or more fragments of a particular blueprint, they can tap their palladium reserves to acquire the parts they're missing, one at a time or all in a batch. Acquiring all the remaining parts of a blueprint as a batch offers a modest discount as compared to buying them individually.
Using BlueprintsEdit
Once acquired, blueprints work much like the technology you research in your labs, and like research, they may require you to complete other, related upgrades to use, but once you've acquired the parts and met the prerequisites, you're all set. They don't require any research time, so once you qualify you can immediately start using them to outfit your ships and base.
Your progress on any given blueprint can be tracked in your lab's research windows, where they are listed with the standard modules they derive from. Once unlocked, your new ship hulls will automatically appear in the ship selection screen, and new modules will show up on the appropriate module selection lists in the ship fitting view. A filter has also been added, for your convenience, allowing you to show or hide your blueprint tech.
Blueprint RequirementsEdit
Each rarity of blueprint requires a player to research a specific level of that blueprint's base item class. A player is not required to have the research already completed to acquire the blueprint, only to use it. They are as follows:
- Advanced Tech I blueprints require completed Level 1 research of that item class
- Advanced Tech II blueprints require completed Level 3 research of that item class
- Advanced Tech III blueprints require completed Level 5 research of that item class
- Uncommon blueprints require completed Level 2 research of that item class.
- Rare blueprints require completed Level 3 research of that item class.
- Epic blueprints require completed Level 4 research of that item class.
- Legendary blueprints require completed Level 5 research of that item class.
For example, Duraweave Armor (Uncommon) requires Level 2 Dispersion Armor before it can be equipped on a ship.
In addition, each blueprint has a lab requirement. Unlike the research requirement, the lab requirement must be met before the blueprint can be acquired. The lab requirement is one level higher than the lab requirement for the prerequisite item.
For example, Duraweave Armor (Uncommon) requires a Defense Lab of level 4 where the Level 2 Dispersion Armor (the prerequisite item) requires a Defense Lab of level 3.
In regards to ships, a player must have the base ship hull researched to unlock the blueprint initially. Also, a player will not acquire pieces to the next rarity of a ship hull until they have fully completed the rarity below it. For instance, a player will not receive any pieces to the Rare Heavy Fighter until they have completed the Uncommon for it. This requirement is unique to ships.
Deep ScansEdit
When a player finishes a battle that meets the criteria for a blueprint drop chance, they will be presented with a Deep Scan option on the battle report screen. This contains one of two options:
- If the player qualified for a blueprint drop but did not win one, they can pay 1 Palladium for a second chance at a blueprint. This re-scan has identical odds to the battle before it with no penalty. It does not guarantee a blueprint.
- If the player did win a blueprint but wants a different piece, they will have the option to spend 5 Palladium to be granted another blueprint (sacrificing the initial piece won) of the same rarity. This method will always grant another blueprint.
One of these two options will be provided after qualifying battles, and can be done only once per attack. If the option is not shown, the battle did not meet the criteria for a blueprint.
In the event a player skips the battle report screen, they can participate in a Deep Scan for a duration of five minutes after completion of the battle. Pending Scans can be viewed through the button on the utility bar to the right of chat.
Blueprints ListEdit
For a complete list of blueprints, their respective item classes and bonuses, visit the related article: Blueprints List.


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I recently wrote a piece at Law & Liberty on the Senate's power to expel Roy Moore in the event he wins the Alabama Senate special election. He has been accused of sexual misconduct, and calls for him to resign have not been heeded. Some have wondered about whether the Senate might refuse to seat him; I explain in the piece why that is inconsistent with the constitutional understanding set forth in Powell v. McCormack.
But what about the power to expel a member once seated? The Constitution says this:
Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly Behavior, and, with the Concurrence of two-thirds, expel a Member.
I explain in the piece that there are few contours to the power to expel, except that it must occur by a two-thirds vote. That's mostly a procedural check, and the substance has largely been left to the Senate to flesh out. (Professor Brian Kalt shares similar thoughts in a Wall Street Journal opinion.)
I identify a couple of precedents that would limit the Senate's power to expel Mr. Moore. First, the Senate has typically wondered whether it has the power to expel members for conduct that arose prior to the candidate taking office. (Some earlier debates actually focused on whether it had to arise during that existing term in office and not from a preceding term, but recent Senate investigations have moved away from that view.) Second, the Senate has generally refused to expel a member for conduct known to the voters at the time of the election, the notion being that it's not for the Senate to expel a member with such baggange sent by the voters.
The Senate has not expelled a member since the Civil War, but it has investigated members who resigned before facing an expulsion vote, like Senator Bob Packwood in 1995.
New allegations have arise in recent weeks. Representative John Conyers and Senator Al Franken have been accused of sexual misconduct, and campaigns arose to urge their resignations.
Mr. Conyers heeded such calls this week and resigned, rather than face an ethics investigation and, perhaps, subsequent expulsion vote. His conduct arose during his terms in office (as he has been in the House for several decades).
Mr. Franken is facing new calls from a number of his fellow Senators to resign. Some allegations of his sexual misconduct arose from events prior to taking office, but certainly were not widely known to voters. He is also facing an ethics investigation.
It is worth noting how the rather underdefined precedents shaping Congress's practices under the Expulsion Clause may be experiencing a rather significant change right before our eyes. Ethics investigations and calls for resignation for (at least some) conduct arising prior to taking office suggest that a good number of Senators would apply the Clause in a way that the Senate has been reluctant to do in the past.
This is not to say that this is a wrong view, just to say that the Senate is, as is within its authority, deciding the proper scope of its authority under the Clause. It may be using informal means, like social media campaigns, political calls for resignations, and political party threats (perhaps offering primary challengers, withholding campaign funding, or revoking committee assignments), in ways that do not impact the Expulsion Clause.
But in the event Mr. Moore is seated, and the Senate begins to look at these recent precedents involving allegations of sexual misconduct prior to a candidate taking office, it may be moving toward a new understanding of its own power under the Clause.
That may not be the case, of course. Expulsion is an understandably extraordinary remedy, requiring significant consensus, and we have seen the Senate bluster recently and fail to carry through. These other tools at the disposal of the parties and the Senate may make the Senate reluctant to carry through with expulsion of Mr. Franken (if he does not resign in the next several hours) or Mr. Moore (if he is elected). But it is worth considering how recent weeks may be shaping, before our very eyes, a renewed attention to the Senate reconsidering its past practices and reinvigorating the Expulsion Clause.


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It's the summer of 2016, and the gig economy has commodified everything, including intimacy. Brad, a sportswriter struggling with social anxiety, retains the services of Molly, a professional cuddler with a wry bedside manner. As the two form a fragile bond over the course of their sessions, they begin to struggle with their self-imposed boundaries and their preconceived ideas about what a friendship really is. A meditation on loneliness, recovery, and trust, spoons takes a deep dive into the chaos of seeking companionship in a disconnected age.
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I love this idea from the introduction to Mark Blyth's book Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea:
Part of what academics do is generate ideas and teach. The other, perhaps more important part, is to play the role of "the Bu*l*hit Police." Our job is to look at the ideas and plans interested parties put forward to solve our collective problems and see whether or not they pass the sniff test. Austerity as a route to growth and as the correct response to the aftermath of a financial crisis does not pass the sniff test. The arguments given for why we all must be austere do not pass the sniff test.
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text: December 14, 2017 Donna Benedetto From The Studio..... December 14, 2017 Donna Benedetto Artwork is one of the most difficult things I find to source for clients as it is so personal. With art I've always felt that instant reaction you have when seeing a piece is immediately a love / hate thing. It either appeals to you or it doesn't. I am currently sourcing some artwork for clients but at the same time painting some of my own.I started in this industry selling antiques and as a decorative artist. I painted walls for many clients and fellow designers throughout Connecticut and New York. I'm making time to get back to some creative outlets that I have missed over the years. This piece will be available soon! Donna Benedetto


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Problem of the Day #392: Brandon the Bee April 14, 2012Posted by Saketh in : potd , trackback
Brandon the Bee is keeping watch over his hive, which is laid out in a hexagonal grid. Being a very busy bee, he has some very strict guidelines that he follows whenever he takes a tour of the grid:
- Brandon never steps outside the boundaries of the hive.
- He can only travel between adjacent cells.
- He must visit each cell exactly once.
- Cells are grouped in clusters, and he must enter and exit each one exactly once.
- Some cell borders are blocked off by dried honey. He cannot cross these.
- Brandon must start at the specified starting position.
Consider, for example, the hive shown below. Note that there are no blocked borders in this example.
Devise an efficient algorithm for finding a valid route for Brandon to take.
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State Police: Concealed carry will cost $25 million
March 04, 2013 at 08:02 AM
SPRINGFIELD — As the state of Illinois continues to pile up unpaid bills, the agency responsible for creating Illinois' first process to issue concealed-carry permits estimates startup costs will be $25 million.
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The figure is based on the assumption that 300,000 people will apply for concealed-carry permits within the first year. Roughly 150,000 people applied for permits the first year after Wisconsin legalized concealed carry in 2011, and Illinois has double the population, said Illinois State Police Lt. Darrin Clark.
"We don't have the manpower or money right now. ... It's really not going to be possible when we're already facing a backlog of FOID cards," Clark said.
A federal appellate court has ordered Illinois to enact legislation by June 8 that allows qualified people to carry concealed weapons.
Applicants would pay $80 each for their initial permits under a concealed-carry bill proposed by state Rep. Brandon Phelps, D-Harrisburg, although Phelps said that amount is subject to negotiation.
"One hundred dollars is a little more realistic for what we're going to be required to do ... but this depends on how provisions are written" in the final bill, Clark said.
Of the $80, $5 would go to the Department of Human Services to make sure agencies keep track of people who are disqualified from owning or possessing firearms because of mental health issues.
Clark said state police discussed an increase with the National Rifle Association because officials don't want a repeat of delays already happening with the state's firearm owner's identification card system.
State police also will need to upgrade the agency's computer systems when concealed carry goes into effect, Clark said.
Of the $25 million sought for startup expenses, $6 million would be spent to design the database that would host the concealed-carry permit system and another $10 million to upgrade the agency's LEADS data-delivery system so the two are compatible. The remainder would be spent to hire employees to process applications
Todd Vandermyde, Illinois lobbyist for the National Rifle Association, said the NRA thinks the agency is inflating the cost associated with creating the system.
"The state police keep talking about (needing) $10 million just to rewrite the LEADS system," he said. "They want to charge us to update their antiquated computer system that we generally don't use."
However, he agreed it would be hard to set up the new process without adequate fees.
"We're trying to be reasonable in those discussions," Vandermyde said. "A year or two down the road, we will revisit and see what the revenues are. If this turns into a windfall for the state police, then we will look into reducing the fee."
Meanwhile, the number of applications for FOID cards is thought to have set another record in February, following a record-setting 70,000 applications in January. State police are supposed to approve or deny permits within 30 days, but some applicants could be waiting up to 75 days because of the backlog, said Jessica Trame, state police chief of staff.
Eight people are responsible for processing a backlog of 71,000 FOID card applications, Trame said. They also handle rejected applications, appeals, and writing denial and acceptance letters, she said.
Another eight employees handle background checks conducted when people seek to buy guns through gun dealers, she said. In 2012, nearly 360,000 transactions were phoned into the agency, a 30 percent increase from 2011.
Vandermyde said the NRA is considering suing state police over the FOID backlog.
Trame said state police also want to hire 17 law enforcement officers to deal with revoking FOID cards, confiscating weapons and handling cases of fraud. Only one officer is working with local police agencies to confiscate weapons in cases where a person is deemed a clear and present danger, Trame said.
Other people can revoke FOID cards, she said, but the agency hopes to expand the officers' roles to also investigate fraud, among other things.
Though legislation is yet to be finalized, a FOID card will essentially be a requirement for anyone who wants to carry a concealed weapon in Illinois. There are nearly 1.5 million active FOID card holders in the state.
In 2012, 338,614 people applied for cards, a 5 percent increase over 2011 and 50 percent increase over 2002. Only 6,352 applicants were denied in 2012, and 4,811 FOID cards were revoked.
A FOID card costs $10 and is valid for 10 years. Only $4 of the fee finds its way to state police. The Department of Natural Resources uses the rest for safety programs.
The fee has not increased since the FOID card was created in 1968, even though it now costs the agency $12 for each card processed. To break even, Clark said the FOID fee would need to be increased to $18.
"We want to keep the costs down, but we also don't want to be subsidizing the production of cards through taxpayer money. The higher the fee, the better off we'd be," Clark said.
However, during a House committee meeting Thursday, Vandermyde said the NRA isn't willing to negotiate a FOID fee increase. He said he sees that as a tax on a fundamental constitutional right.
If the state of Illinois believes the FOID system is a public safety effort, "then they should pay for it," he said.
Lauren Leone-Cross can be reached at (217) 782-6292.


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Nobel Prizes and Laureates Timeline Visualization
Nobel Prizes and Laureates is great visualization from the Milanese design firm Accurat. From 1901-2012 this information design breaks down the winners by category, age, principal university affiliates and even hometowns.
The high-resolution version is available on Visualizing.org
The visualization explores Nobel Prizes and Laureates from 1901 to 2012 analyzing the age of recipients at the time prices were awarded, average age evolution through time and distribution among categories, grade level, main affiliation universities and principal hometowns of the laureates.
Designed as a part of an ongoing series for the Milanese newspaper Corrierre della Sera, La Lettura is a culture supplement. You can see this design and the rest of the series in the collection on Visualizing.org.
The timeline takes a lot of information, and makes it easy to understand for the readers. I especially appreciate the transition from line chart of ages to the bar chart of education grade levels to the sankey diagram of universities at the right end of the timeline. Beautifully done.
Each dot represents a Nobel laureate, each recipient is positioned according to the year the prize was awarded (x axis) and age of the person at the time of the award (y axis).
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Metallics are BIG this Spring / Summer and although I have always loved silver and golden shoes, I never really went for metallic clothing. The photo above of the model wearing the rose gold biker jacket, convinced me that metallic jackets can look very glamorous yet casual all at the same time. For LFWEnd I wore one of my press samples and received a ton of compliments for the jacket. I am now determined to add it to my collection of Muubaa Leathers and I think you should consider it, too!


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Every entrepreneur should have some accountability, regardless if it is with a another person or if it is system that you have in place. Some people think a business plan is a good way to stay accountable, especially if you review it periodically, others like writing a status report or making a list of goals and checking them off. Perhaps going to a retreat, conference, or seminar is a way to stay accountable and continue your educational needs. The MASTERMIND groups that I facilitate are another way to stay accountable. Whatever system you choose, accountability can take on many forms to help you keep track of what you have done, what you are doing and/or what you plan to do.
I like the kind that is with another person, because it gives you kind of a two punch system. One, I have to take the time to stop and think about what I want to accomplish, and then I have to communicate that out loud or in an email to another person. They know what I am trying to accomplish and are there to cheer me on or gently remind me to get my rear end in gear!
Accountability helps to make sure you are improving and moving forward with your goals. You can set up any parameters you wish, whether it be a call every day, twice a week, or once a month. Whatever works for you and your partner. It helps if you have some guidelines like what you expect from each other and set up a regular time to call or email each time. Keeping the accountability session confined to a very short amount of time helps you to stay focused and not get off track.
Whatever method you choose, stay consistent, and keep the momentum going. It will pay off in performance, productivity, and success.
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Trillion Dollar Coins: The Ultimate Debt Ceiling End-Around?
(WASHINGTON) -- With President Obama having kicked off debt ceiling negotiations by vowing not to negotiate over the debt ceiling, a new option for paying off the nation's considerable tab is gaining some momentum.
It goes like this: Should Congress fail to extend the U.S. debt limit -- reached again on Dec. 31 -- the president could ask the Treasury to begin printing trillion dollar coins, a number of which could then be put toward fulfilling debt obligations in the event new legislation stalls in Congress.
While there are laws in place to regulate how much paper, gold, silver or copper currency can be circulated by the government, there is nothing so clearly stated when it comes to platinum. That door open, the Treasury could have the U.S. Mint melt and mold a few trillion dollars of it, then ship it over to the Federal Reserve for safekeeping until the time comes to pay the bills.
The more difficult part comes sometime after the decision is made to coin the platinum and before the Mint gets to work in sculpting the pieces.
At that point, the American people must decide whose face will adorn the trillion dollar trinket. The process to determine the "specs" of the coin, U.S. Mint Public Affairs Specialist Genevieve Billia warns, must be "determined by legislation," creating the potential for another congressional impasse.
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MONDAY I started this online course.
I have been following Pip Lincolne's blog Meet Me At Mikes for quite some time and love her style so when she offered an online course on blogging I signed up to do it. Fortunately it is a 'work at your own pace' course because other stuff has been taking up my time over the last week. I have been following most on the posts on the Facebook page and have watch a couple of Pip's video tutorials which are really helpful. I'm hoping to get stuck into it this week. If you're interested in starting a blog or feel like you need to learn more Pip is running a another course in July.
MONDAY EVENING & TUESDAY I did some Raw Food workshops with Cat Canizzaro from Wildraw. Cat is one of Australia's leading raw(as in uncooked) food gourmet chefs and just happened to grow up with one of my best friends, Marita. We were very lucky that Marita was able to organise for Cat do the workshops in Corryong while she was in Victoria.
On the Monday evening we made chocolates
Healthy, good for you, delicious chocolates, salted caramels and peppermint creams. Lucky for me Ross doesn't like dark chocolate so I don't have to share. I have been rationing myself to only a couple a day to make them last but I think I only have one left. I have bought the ingredients to make some more when I have time
On Tuesday morning we made Puttenesca Zucchini Pasta and Mushroom Kelp Noodles.
The Puttenesca was beautiful and apart from not being hot, tasted just like the real thing. I don't like mushrooms so I tried the kelp noodles with just some tamari & sesame oil. They were nice too & very good for you so I think I will start substituting them from rice noodles.
Tuesday afternoon was desserts and other sweet treats, my favourite part.
We made Banana Avocado Mousse with Coconut Cream, Chia Pudding, Chocolate tart and Chocolate Nut Balls from the leftover tart base. Everything was soooooo yummy,especially the tart, it was hard to believe they were good for you as well.
Cat was great fun and so full of information about nutrition as well as chefy stuff. She will be back in Victoria for more workshops/classes in later in the year, so if you're interested keep an eye on her website Wildraw or you can 'Like' her on Facebook. The recipes are available on the website too and Pete Evans' new cook book 'Healthy Every Day' includes Cat recipe for Lemon Lime Cheesecake and she has inspired a couple of others recipes in the book as well.
WEDNESDAY wasn't quite so full on but we did have a farewell lunch at the local Neighbourhood Centre for one our committee members who is moving to Wangaratta. I am the self appointed cake/dessert maker for these events so having been inspired by the healthy nutritious food from previous 2 days I decided to bake my Innocent Chocolate Almond Cake (no, it isn't raw)and to go with it, a Raspberry Sauce & Coconut Cream.
Forgive the inelegant foodie photo but you get the idea. I came up with this cake recipe (which I will share in another post) about 12 months ago even before I found out I have a wheat allergy. There is no sugar, dairy or flour in it but it is delish and has become a family favourite. The raspberry sauce and coconut cream added a nice touch of healthy decadence and went down a treat.
THURSDAY this arrived.
Those of you who live in Australia know what a horrid summer we had. It was very hot for a long time and here in North East Victoria we had an unusual lack of spring and autumn rain (until about 6 weeks ago). We are on town water but we don't have great pressure and we have an acre of garden to keep alive. 5 years ago we cleaned out our dam, made it a bit bigger and diverted all our rainwater from the house and shed into it so that we could use it on the garden through the summer. This has served us well up until this year when we were pumping water for the garden twice a day for most of January. The dam got fairly low (we like to keep some water in reserve in case of bush fire) and we ended up with a scary water bill as well. At the end of summer Ross and I had tossed around the idea of putting in a bore for more water.
At the football on Saturday a week ago Ross found out the drillers were going to be in town. A phone call & an internet application on the Monday and they arrived 7am Thursday to start drilling. Ross is a "get things done' kinda fella but this was ridiculous.
They were set up and drilling by 8.30am and hit water at 25 metres in the afternoon.
We were left with a muddy mess to clean up and a bit of polypipe sticking out of the ground. Not much to show for the money but the garden will be ever so grateful in the years to come & so will I.
I had to include this photo of our little lady, Lulu, who spent the whole time wandering between the house and the drilling site for the 2 days. The autumn leaves are so pretty on the ground too.
SATURDAY was spent at the football/netball where I assist the netball coach and umpire the 'A' grade game.
SATURDAY EVENING Ross & I went to his High School class reunion.
|The photos were taken in individual classes. This is the 'C' class, Ross is hidden up the back on left.
It was a great night. Even though I wasn't in this class at school I was friends with most them so it was great to catch up, reminisce, have a few laughs and dance the night away. Fell into bed at 2am.
SUNDAY I woke at 6. Technically that's a sleep in for me but 4 hours isn't really enough sleep so I declared it a 'sloth day'. A do nothing day, a bit of TV and a 2 hour 'nanna nap' in the afternoon.
There you go a great week don't you think? The only draw back with such a full week is that Bernina is feeling a bit neglected and I am missing working with her. Well, we will be back together pumping out some good crafty stuff pretty soon.
I hope to be back in the next couple of days with some recipes so stay tuned. Until then
PS. I found this amusing; I was spell checking my blog post and it doesn't recognise blog or blogging as a word. Hehe.
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A. Lange & Söhne Glashütte B/Dresden, Movement No. 33274, Case No. 33274, Cal. 41, 51 mm, 106 g, circa 1896
An exquisite Glashuette pocket watch with chronograph and 30 min. counter, manufactured in quality 1A and sold to watchmaker Richard Tüllmann, Dresden, Gluckstraße 2 for 804 marks on August 20th, 1896 - with Lange extract from the archives
Case: 18k pink gold, engraved and engine-turnde monogram with blue enamel inlay. Dial: enamel. Movm.: 3/4 plate movement, gold screw compensation balance.
In the early 1870's Richard Lange (1845-1932) started designing a new chronograph which had the mechanism above the train, so that the mechanism could be attached to a "normal" watch movement. The upper seconds bearing received a new bridge and acted as the bearing for the clutch lever. A central chrono wheel with an upper steel bridge was fed through the minute wheel and all levers and springs were highly ground and bevelled. The mechanism was operated by a pusher in the crown, with the sequence being start, stop and reset. The most basic version only had one chronograph hand, chronographs with minute counters were much more complicated.
Source: Reinhard Meis "A. Lange & Söhne" Edition Callwey, page 242.
This watch is recorded in "Die Lange-Liste" by Martin Huber, Munich 2000, p. 145.
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Magnolia Sew Along Day 1
Jana Harcus
Welcome to Day 1 of the Magnolia sew along!
We are so excited that you decided to join us this week! The Magnolia is made out of knit fabric and if you have never sewn with knit before, this pattern is a great one to start with. It is a quick sew with stunning results!
Let's have a quick run down of the things that we will be completing each day. We will be following the Ladies and Girls Magnolia patterns, so if you have not yet purchased whichever version you are doing, please be sure to get it here and here. This week, I will also be demonstrating how to create a sleeveless version and an unlined bodice using neck binding. These will both be nice options for making the magnolia a little bit cooler to wear in the hot summer.
Here is the schedule for the week:
Day 1:
Decisions, decisions, decisions. Day 1 is all about making decisions.
First decision you will need to make is which option you will be doing. You could make either a top, tunic, knee length dress, or maxi dress. For this sew along, I will be making a tunic version so that is what I will be showing in the photos.
Next decision for the ladies version is whether or not you would like a curved or straight bodice. Here are some photos of the bodice differences. The skirt will be attached the same way no matter which bodice option you choose. It is all a matter of personal preference. I will be making the curved bodice option.
Next, let's talk sleeves...the pattern includes three different sleeve lengths, short, ¾, and long. Additionally, for this sew along I will be giving instructions on how to create a sleeveless version. Many people have asked how to do it, so the lucky ladies joining this sew along will get some photos and instructions on it. Yay!
After you have decided on the Magnolia style you would like, the next (and usually the hardest) decision to make is the fabric. There are lots of great online and local resources for knit fabric. This blog post had a list of recommended places to purchase your fabric. The best knit for this pattern is something with good stretch and recovery. What is recovery? When you stretch it, does it easily go back to original shape or does it remain slightly stretch out? If it goes back nicely, then it has good recovery. That's what you want. Without good stretch and recovery your garment will get misshapen over time and what a disappointment that would be. For this sew along, I will be using some beautiful Art Gallery Garden Dreamer knit from Threads and Stitches, the lovely sponsor for this sew along. Once you have picked out your fabric, be sure to give it a quick wash. Knit fabric shrinks a lot, so prewashing is always a good idea!
Ok, phew, all of your decisions are made! Let's print out the pattern pieces and cut that freshly washed fabric. Look at the measurement chart included in the pattern to determine the best size for you. Little Lizard King patterns include layers, which means that you can print out only the size that you need. Printing instructions are included in the pattern so follow those when printing out your pieces. Because all women and girls are shaped differently, there may be a need to mash sizes (i.e., use one size for chest and a different for waist). When doing that, include both of those sizes in the layers to print and grade the lines as needed. This just means drawing a straight line from one size to the other. (See picture below) Also, the pattern is designed for women who are 5' 5" in height. If you are tall, like me you may want to add length to your dress or tunic.
All of your pattern pieces are cut and ready to go, but before we start sewing tomorrow let's get all of the rest of our supplies gathered. When sewing with knits, it is recommended that you use a stretch or ball point needle. A few other supplies you may want are ⅜" clear elastic (sometimes called swimsuit elastic), and wash away hem tape. Additionally, you may choose to use a serger to sew all seams, but it is not necessary. The entire garment can be sewn on your regular sewing machine using a stretch stitch or whatever stitch your machine recommends for sewing stretchy fabrics.
Even though we didn't get any sewing done, day 1 was a big one! A large part of sewing any garment is doing the prep work. There is something so satisfying about having everything all ready and set to start sewing. If you are sewing a lined bodice, as described in the pattern instructions, join me tomorrow. If you are doing an unlined bodice with neck binding then you get a day off tomorrow, and can join us back here on day 3 where we will go over instructions on how to do that!
Make sure to share your photos in our Facebook group each day as you make progress. We can't wait to see all your lovely Magnolias!


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Fri, 26 May 2017
A farewell to Roger Moore, Our time machine takes us back to 1980 and Barry recalls the first days of CNN while we share some lauughs with a young Paul Reiser. Her here. :
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Wed, 10 May 2017
Stuck in the 70'S! It's 1975 and we're looking back at the making of the movie Jaws! Plus a visit with Robert Redford and memories of SNL Season One.
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Thu, 4 May 2017
We travel back to 1971! All In the Family, The Odd Couple, a chat with Jack Klugman, Classic moments from The Ed Sullivan Show.
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[Listen] Beastie Boys – "Make Some Noise" (For Realzies This Time!)
Okay, so we totally got some of you guys on Friday with our super special April Fools post, courtesy of the girl more hated than Ke$ha, Rebecca Black, but this time we are not foolin' around.
After years in the making, we finally can feast our ears upon the Beastie Boys single, "Make Some Noise". The single is due to drop on April 12th (along with a zillion other great releases that day), while Hot Sauce Committee Pt. 2 will be hitting stores May 3rd courtesy of Capitol Records.
Beastie Boys - "Make Some Noise" by Some Kind of Awesome
So what do we think? Was it worth the wait? Tell us whatchu think bbgurl!


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Biggest advertising fails in 2017 so far
In the age of ad-blocking and three-second attention spam, marketers find it more difficult than ever to capture their audience's attention. Understandably, with the hustle getting harder brands try to get more creative and push out strong messages that would grab people's attention and get them talking about it.
Caution - this comes with the risk of getting it awfully wrong! Inevitably, some brands do… And here we get the pleasure to look at some of the worst advertising campaigns in 2017.
With probably no surprise to anyone, Pepsi's campaign with Kendall Jenner is the first thing that pops to my mind when I think "2017's ad fails". I appreciate that Pepsi is a massive and long-lived brand, so creating something new, but meaningful, timely and slightly provocative, can be a pickle, but damn they got it oh-so-wrong… Political messages, which aren't often well received in advertising anyway, didn't resonate with anyone and Pepsi's attempt to promote their brand using sensitive social movement like Black Lives Matter, received strong backlash.
Similarly to Pepsi, McDonald's faced a storm of criticism, after trying to emotionally appeal to their audience by creating a storyline where the main thing that united a child and his dead father, was their Filet-O-Fish. This one baffles me on so many levels, I don't even know where to start. Firstly, since when McD's brand voice is so eternally Northern? Secondly, on what planet is it OK to push a message that a bereaving child can find some piece in a burger?! I don't know… As a fellow marketer, I enjoy scrutinising and discussing others work, but this one just leaves me shrugging my shoulders and manically overusing the confused girl emoji.
To move away from all the blatantly controversial stuff, I invite you to look at the highly amusing advertising fail, of usually-getting-it-right Dove. Working on their "Real Beauty" message, Dove got creative on a whole another level and decided to launch a line where their body wash bottles resembled different body shapes and "illustrated the power of body diversity". I kind of get what they wanted to do there, but I'm still convinced that no sake-minded woman would like her figure to be compared to a bottle of body wash, and Dove should have clicked on that. Their attempt "to make every woman their very own limited edition" of the product, was nowhere near as appallingly inappropriate as Pepsi's or McD's campaigns, but the reaction it received on social media was strong enough for the campaign to make it to this ad-fails shortlist. My personal favourite was a tweet from a New York-based movies editor saying "@dove I have arms please advise". *giggles*
My last case can be debated. There may be people who don't dread the Trivagowoman, but in my personal view the travel website threw pots of money into a campaign that is boring, unoriginal and simply annoyingly 'ady'. A picture of a woman inviting you to find "ideal hotels at best prices" plastered everywhere you look simply doesn't cut it for me. Just because something is constantly in your face it doesn't mean it'll start resonating with you. However, it does mean it may start to haunt you and make you feel like the brand is intentionally trying to annoy you and inviting to blank any of their communications. No, Trivago, just no.
No holidays for me then. Back to the graft. Hopefully creating some more engaging and relevant campaigns.


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Here is a post written by Daniel Maidman, one of the artists exhibiting work in our current show HUNG.
Well, here's a bit of a format switch-up for you. I bumbled my way (with the generous help of Fedele Spadafora) into a group show of male nudes at Gitana Rosa Gallery in Brooklyn on September 10th, and the show opened last Friday, the 17th, at 7 p.m. I've somehow gotten a reputation as that one guy who can write words, so the gallery owner, Vanessa Liberati, asked if I would write a page of text about the show for the thing in the lobby where galleries tend to put a page of text about shows.
So this post, also at the request of the extremely clever, attractive, effective, charming, and well-dressed Vanessa, is that page of text. The show opened, as I said, at 7 p.m. on Friday. When did I get to see the pieces and sit down and write the text? 6:35 p.m. This bit of writing amounts to about 10 minutes; it doesn't have the extravagant 45 minutes I usually lavish on my well-thought-through blog posts, and I'm worried it might not be up to my standards. It's definitely more art-speaky.
Let me make a deal with you - if you can scrape off the art-speak and find there's something worthwhile in there, let me know, and I'll feel free to post this kind of thing once in a while if it comes up in the future. If, on the other hand, you feel I'm abusing, for self-promotion, the time you give this blog, let me know that too, and I will apologize to future gallery-owners under the heading the readers have spoken.
So here's the text, with the amusing name of the show first:
Daniel Maidman
Let's agree, for a minute, that we can see a point to the nude as a subject for art. Straight out of the gate, then, we will be biased toward the female nude. Naked, or nearly-naked, women surround us: in our advertising, our television, our Internet. Our perception of women and their bodies is extraordinarily integrated – or fragmented, depending on your point of view. Either way, this perception reflects constant exposure.
The male nude still produces a shock of the forbidden, of the unknown; in fact, it produces the same shock that the female nude produced a century ago. This is a surprising effect, but as you browse around HUNG: Checking Out the Contemporary Male, odds are better than even that you will find yourself thinking – Holy crap, this is a lot of penis in one room.
And this brings up an interesting question: just what is it that makes the male nude special and distinct, that makes it different from the female nude?
I would offer you two loci of difference, one physical and one pertaining to gender and the spirit. The physical difference is the penis and the hair. Hips and waists, asses and faces – all of these can make a transit between the sexes with their forms more or less intact. But when you spot the penis and the hairy chest, you can only be looking at a man. Body hair and penises dominate this show, denoting the specificity of male nudity and producing the initial sense of shock. They define the playing field – they piss on the tree, so to speak.
More subtly, the second locus of difference is the concept of masculinity. This is more elusive, more difficult to define. We know more or less what we mean by the feminine, but we have lost that clear sense of the masculine, the unselfconscious, swaggering, strong masculine, which characterizes, for instance, the men of Rubens and Velazquez.
It is in respect to identifying and expressing this sense of masculinity that I think that HUNG goes beyond being merely a stunt-show, a concept-album, and enters into the realm of artistic synthesis and progression. A variety of ideas and approaches to the problem is expressed here.
We have visions of girlish waifs, of S&M musclemen, of ambivalent hipsters. Several pieces ironically regurgitate old ideas of the overpowering masculine, and it seems the artists have surprised themselves with the sympathy they found with these ideas once they tried them on for size. Other pieces identify masculinity and homoeroticism, both as a lived experience and as a fantasy ideal. Some pieces see masculinity as a threat, others as a joke. And some of the pieces see masculinity as simply one part of a personality, a kind of background condition out of which individuality emerges.
All of these pieces, in tackling a subject that still makes us cringe, work hard to reclaim a lost territory, a part of our humanity which has gone wanting on the contemporary American scene. I hope that in exploring the show, you will find yourself reawakened to slumbering resonances, enriched in your appreciation of yourself and the people around you, men and women alike, without whose differences from one another, life would be much poorer and more boring.
These are, to me, preliminary notes, because I think there's a lot to be said about the category of the male nude, and also, I didn't really think this through when I wrote it.
Here are a few pieces from the show, mine first, because who's in charge here? That's right.
I can't seem to find Fedele's painting anywhere on the Web. Here are a couple of really mediocre snaps of the opening:
And finally, a happy ending to this little story - my piece sold! A couple came in, sat themselves down on a sofa facing my painting, looked at it for a good long while, chatted with me for a bit, and left. They seemed like pleasant folks, and I thought, "Well, you know, at least they're thinking about it." Then Vanessa came over and told me they had bought it. I had a chance to chat with the couple again - they came in at the end of the evening, and were very enthusiastic about the painting.
Let me tell you what this is like, a bit, from the perspective of an artist who is interested in selling work.
First of all, money is nice. My work is terribly expensive to make, and I'm glad to have it start to pay for itself. Getting the attention of Vanessa and my painter friends is nice too.
But what's really nice is to make something, out of nothing, which people you do not know would vote to make a part of their lives. And not with a vote that costs nothing; they had to work to make the money they are trading for my painting, and they like the painting enough that that's worth it for them. I kind of got teared up about it, as I do about all of my art sales. I think my work is beautiful, but who cares what I think? To have other people think it's beautiful enough (in whatever broad way you want to define beautiful) to live with, is very rewarding for me. This is why I am grateful to all of my collectors.
So those are my feelings.