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'Black Lightning' Isn't in the Arrowverse, for Now
By Eric Francisco
Filed Under Entertainment, DC Universe, Superheroes & TV Shows
The CW network is packed to the brim with superheroes, and later this month, one more will join the ranks: Black Lightning, featuring DC's first African-American superhero as played by Cress Williams. But it won't be part of the interconnected "Arrowverse," a shared television universe comprised of Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, and Legends of Tomorrow (and retroactively, Constantine). Now, Black Lightning's producers have explained why the new series is standalone.
At the Television Critics Association press tour on Sunday, co-executive producers Salim and Mara Brock Akil said Black Lightning is on its own simply because the producers were allowed to make it as such.
"This idea of why they're not in this universe or why they're not in the Justice League [cinematic universe] is because … [the studio told us] 'You've got to do this the way you want to do this. You're going to live and die by that, and we support you.' That's what you're seeing," Akil said.
Salim Akil also added that the other "Arrowverse" shows don't completely mesh well with their vision for Black Lightning. "I say this with all due respect, but they're not really relevant to the show that we're doing," he said.
Unlike the other DC TV shows, which focus on millennial-aged vigilantes and misfit freaks, Black Lightning is a family-centric saga starring a middle-aged superhero struggling to keep his family together while fighting crime. In Black Lightning, Williams stars as Jefferson Pierce, a school principal who returns to life as a superhero when gang activity spikes in his neighborhood and school district. Joining Pierce is his eldest daughter, Anissa (Nafessa Williams), who also suits up as the superhero Thunder.
Left: Cress Williams as the superhero Black Lightning. Right: Nafessa Williams, suited up as Thunder.
So Black Lightning will be on its own, but could things change for the super-charged superhero? There's precedent for live-action DC TV to eventually cross paths with the other capes and hoods.
In 2015, Supergirl premiered and was also billed as being independent from the other DC shows, but eventually, Kara Zor-El met Barry Allen (of The Flash) and now they're best friends. The two series technically take place in different universes, but those two worlds cross-over fairly often. Thanks to the established "multiverse" continuity, any new superhero show like Black Lightning can be included, no problemo. Akil even left the possibility open, saying: "We really wanted folks to get to know this family before we started branching out."
Perhaps it's only a matter of time before Black Lightning joins the Green Arrow and The Flash to fight more aliens and Nazi doppelgängers.
Black Lightning will air January 16 at 9 p.m. Eastern on The CW.
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A man walks past the building of the headquarters of the Russian General Staff's Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) in Moscow on Dec. 30, 2016.
The same Russian intelligence agency charged with hacking Democrats' emails in 2016 has targeted at least three candidates running for election in 2018, a Microsoft executive said.
Speaking on a panel at the Aspen Security Forum on Thursday, Tom Burt, Microsoft's vice president for customer security and trust, said that his team had discovered a spear-phishing campaign targeting three candidates running for election in 2018. Analysts traced them to a group Microsoft has nicknamed Strontium, which is closely tracked by every major threat intelligence company and is widely accepted to be run by the GRU, Russia's military intelligence agency.
"They were all people who, because of their positions, might have been interesting targets from an espionage standpoint, as well as an election disruption standpoint," Burt said.
On Friday, special counsel Robert Mueller's office announced charges against 12 GRU officers it accused of conducting a months-long campaign to hack Democrats in 2016, particularly those working to elect Hillary Clinton, and leaking what it found in an effort to hurt her candidacy. Those same hackers attacked the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee that year, using the fictitious persona Guccifer 2.0 to release assessments of candidates in various House races.
The GRU's tactics have rankled Western intelligence agencies, which view hacking politicians as standard spycraft, but leaking that information to be a major violation of norms. A hacker group from a second Russian intelligence agency had penetrated the DNC as early as 2015, but didn't spread that information, and has avoided the kind of international condemnation aimed at the GRU.
GRU hackers are believed to be behind a number of global hack-and-leak operations aimed at entities adversarial to Russia, including French President Emmanuel Macron's 2017 campaign and the World Anti-Doping Agency, whose reports led to Russia's ban from the 2018 Olympics over its massive doping program.
In recent weeks, officials from the Department of Homeland Security have insisted that though they're watchful of potential Russian hacking, they've seen no sustained campaign against election systems.
DHS has considered election equipment and voter registration databases critical infrastructure, and thus under its umbrella of protection, since the beginning of 2017. But while the tech industry has provided campaigns with some free tools, there is no such overarching body or regulation specifically protecting them. A number of Democratic campaigns told BuzzFeed News in March that they had received no cybersecurity advice in 2018.
When asked by BuzzFeed News, Microsoft also declined to address which parties it had seen targeted. A representative from the Republican National Committee didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.


The Minister of Power, Works, and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has described Nigeria's electricity reform law — the Electric Powers Sector Reform Act (EPSRA) — which was passed in 2005 by the National Assembly, as almost perfect and one of the best in the world.
Speaking during his opening remarks at the 2017 edition of the annual Power Africa Nigeria conference on Thursday in Abuja, Fashola said that there was nothing wrong with the law in its entirety but maybe its implementation by the government.
According to him, members of the National Assembly, who passed the law in 2005, did it with a great deal of commitment, recognising Nigeria's need for a refrom in the power sector.
He also said that with the law, the business of power generation, transmission and distribution has been democratised and was now within the remits of both the federal and state governments to consider investing in.
"The EPSRA is a great piece of legislation that is comparable to any other in the world, and that law was put together by members of the National Assembly whom Nigerians elected as their representatives, and who committed to giving Nigeria a law to enable us develop our power sector," said Fashola.


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Asia Art Week – Transforming Tradition: Japanese and Korean Contemporary Craft Part I
In honor of of Asia Art Week 2020 this March, browngrotta arts has collated contemporary works by 12 artists born in Japan and Korea for an online exhibition, Transforming Tradition: Japanese and Korean Contemporary Craft. The works include ceramics, weavings, baskets and sculptures made of paper and silk.
55nk Untitled, Naomi Kobayashi, , Naomi Kobayashi, kayori thread, paper, 99″ x 54″ x 5″ (x2), 2006
22mk Sound Collage N99, Masakazu Kobayashi, silk, rayon, and aluminum, 55" x 115" x 5", 1999
Notable in the exhibition are paper sculptures by Naomi Kobayashi and an elegant silk thread assemblage by her late husband, Masakazu Kobayashi. The couple often collaborated, working on installations that combined elements created by each of them. "These works express a shared vision and such common themes as the tranquility of nature, the infinity of the universe and the Japanese spirit," Masakuzu once explained. "Naomi and I work in fiber because natural materials have integrity, are gentle and flexible. In my own work, I search for an equilibrium between my capacity as a creator and the energy of the world around me."
25kn The Seashore, Keiji Nio, polyester, aramid fiber 48" x 48," 2019
Keiji Nio's interlaced wall work is inspired by a haiku, Rough Sea of Sado, from Japanese haiku master Matsuo Basho's haiku series. In it, Basho describes the deep blue waves of the Sea of Japan as they are reflected in the night sky and the light blue waves hitting the beach. The work incorporates ribbons on which Nio has screened images from the sea and tiny pebbles from the shore. Nio is a faculty member at the Kyoto University of Art & Design, who combines industrial and natural materials in his works to make statements about nature and man's relationship to the world.
You can view Transforming Tradition: Japanaese and Korean Contemporary Contemporary Craft Online by visiting browngrotta arts' You Tube channel at: https://youtu.be/uPzR-5EXyGI . You can see each individual work in the exhibition on Artsy: https://www.artsy.net/show/browngrotta-arts-transforming-tradition-japanese-and-korean-contemporary-craft and learn more about the artists included by visiting arttextstyle http://arttextstyle.com and browngrotta arts' website: http://www.browngrotta.com
Artists included:
Masakazu Kobayshi (Japan)
Kiyomi Iwata (Japan/US)
Jin-Sook So (Korea)
about browngrotta arts
browngrotta arts represents the work of more than 100 international contemporary textile and fiber artists. The firm has published 49 art catalogs and placed art work in dozens of private and corporate collections in the US and abroad, as well as in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Arts and Design, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Museum. browngrotta arts' website, http://www.browngrotta.com, and its blog, http://arttextstyle.com, are destination sites for art consultants, interior designers, collectors and practitioners.
The Grotta Collection Opens at bga November 2nd: Who's New
Our Fall exhibition, Artists from the Grotta Collection: exhibition and book launch opens at browngrotta arts in Wilton, CT on November 2nd. The exhibition highlights significant works of fiber and dimensional art by more than 40 artists collected by Sandy and Louis Grotta.
Thomas Hucker, Ledge Table, black palm wood with Holly inlay (gloss laquer finish), split oak, stained black (oil finih), egg shell lacquer, 201517″ x 42″ x 42″
The Grotta Collection represents nearly 70 years of arts patronage and a unique kinship fostered by the Grottas among pioneering contemporary craft makers in the fields of textile art, sculpture, furniture and jewelry. The Grottas are long-time patrons of Museum of Arts and Design and the American Craft Museum in New York. The private collection is housed in an architecturally significant home designed by Richard Meier in the 1980s known as The Grotta House. Among the 40 artists whose work is included in the exhibition, browngrotta will showcase five artists, new to browngrotta arts — Thomas Hucker, Dominic DiMare, William Wyman, Bill Accorsi and Toshiko Takeazu. These artists work in various craft media and their work is showcased in the Grotta collection. Here's a preview:
Thomas Hucker is a studio furniture maker in Jersey City, NJ. He trained with fifth-generation German cabinetmaker Leonard Hilgner and also Jere Osgood at Boston University's Program in Artisanry. In 1990, he studied product design at the Domus Academy in Milan, Italy. Hucker's work is in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum, the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. In 2016, he received the Furniture Society's Award of Distinction. In 2018, he became a Fellow of the American Craft Council.
Fetish Box , Dominic Di Mare , (a memorial to his father, the wand symbolizes an oar) paper, paint, Hawthrone wood, Golden Pheasant feathers, silk, bird bone, bone ring and fish, gold and gold leaf, quote by Robert Merrick, 13″ x 3.5″ x 2″, 2003
Dominic Di Mare received acclaim for pioneering dimensional weaving in the 1960s, cast paper in the 1970s, and mixed-media sculpture from the 1970s through the 1990s. "Among his most alluring sculptures are carved hawthorn branches with delicate feathers, beads, paper, and horsehair," wrote the San Francisco's Museum of Craft and Design in his 2018 retrospective. These are simple materials, but in Di Mare's hands they were transformed into intensely poetic works." The son of a Sicilian-American fisherman who grew up on the water in Monterey, California, Di Mare's work features related symbols, fish and hooks and lines and water. He is an American Craft Council Gold Medal recipient. His work is represented in numerous museum collections, ranging from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
1ww Plate with daughter Lisa, William Wyman, ceramic, 8" diamter, 1961,
William Wyman began his career as a professional potter in 1953. He established Herring Run Pottery in 1962, with fellow potter, Michael Cohen. Wyman is known for a series of stoneware slab built vessels. In the 1960s Wyman dipped his smaller slab vessels in multiple glazes creating patterns of flowing colors. In 1965, after time spent in Honduras, he began to create undecorated, unglazed geometric-driven structures inspired by Mayan ruins which he called "Temples." His work is in a number of museum collections, including the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New Hampshire, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PennsylvaniaSmithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C. and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England.
Bill Accorsi was a college athlete, planning to become a football coach, when on a class trip he saw a Matisse exhibit. He says that was his first exposure to art, and it started him on a different journey, as he eventually became an largely self-taught artist himself. Now, at age 88, he can look back on a lifetime of creating outsider art and folk art. His sculptures—some in metal using wire, buttons and beads, others in wood—show people and animals in poses that are whimsical and fun. Often his figures merge into each other as jigsaw puzzles. Bright and pastel colors are an important feature of his work. He is an award-winning author/illustrator of 10 books, including Apple, Apple, Alligator; 10 Button Book; 10 Color Book; Friendship's First Thanksgiving and a book on Rachel Carson.
1tt Undulating Moon Pot, Toshiko Takeazu, ceramic vase with blue and black highlights, signed with double T mark on bottom (partially covered by glaze), 15" x 5" x 5" , c. 1960
Toshiko Takaezu was born to Japanese immigrant parents in Pepeekeo, Hawaii, on 17 June 1922. She moved to Honolulu in 1940, where she worked at the Hawaii Potter's Guild creating identical pieces and practicing glazing. She attended Saturday classes at the Honolulu Museum of Art School (1947–1949)[5] and attended the University of Hawaii. From 1951 to 1954, she continued her studies at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (1951), where she befriended Finnish ceramist Maija Grotell, who became her mentor. Takaezu earned an award after her first year of study, acknowledging her as an outstanding student in the clay department. In 1955, Takaezu traveled to Japan, where she studied Zen Buddhism, tea ceremony and the techniques of traditional Japanese pottery, which influenced her work. While studying in Japan, she visited Shoji Hamada, an influential Japanese potters. She taught at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin; Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio; Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii; and Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey for 25 years. Her work is part of the permanent collections at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, among many others. She is a recipient of the Gold Metal of the American Craft Council and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation grant.
Additional artists included in Artists from the Grotta Collection: exhibition and book launch are Naomi Kobayashi, Norma Minkowitz, Sara Brennan, Stéphanie Jacques, Axel Russmeyer and Mariette Rousseau-Vermette. See the full artist list here: http://www.browngrotta.com/Pages/calendar.php. The exhibition at browngrotta arts runs from November 2nd through November 10th, 276 Ridgefield Road, Wilton, CT. The Artists Reception and Opening is November 2nd from 1 pm to 6 pm. The hours November 3rd – 10th are 10 am to 5 pm.
HeArt-ists: Creative Couples
Power couples in the art world abound: Pablo Picasso and François Gilot, Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, Georgia O'Keefe and Alfred Steiglitz. Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Joseph and Anni Albers among them (see the In Good Taste, blog post, "12 Prolific Artist Couples," for more: https://www.invaluable.com/blog/12-prolific-creative-couples/?utm_source=brand&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weeklyblog&utm_content=blog020818). At browngrotta arts we've worked with several such couples or with one of such a pair. In honor of Valentine's Day, a toast to them:
Masakazu and Naomi Kobayashi installing Cosmos 98 at browngrotta arts for the opening of Tradition Transformed: Contemporary Japanese textile art & fiber sculpture
Masakazu/Naomi Kobayashi:
Masakazu and Naomi often collaborated on projects in the years before his death. In their collaborations, in the US, Israel, Singapore, France and JapanMasa and Naomi, generally created individual works that were installed together. Masa once explained the impetus behind their cooperative works: "These works express a shared vision and such common themes as the tranquility of nature, the infinity of the universe and the Japanese spirit. Naomi and I work in fiber because natural materials have integrity, are gentle and flexible. In my own work, I search for an equilibrium between my capacity as a creator and the energy of the world around me."
Ed Rossbach and Katherine Westphal in their apartment in Berkley California
Ed Rossbach/Katherine Westphal: Ed Rossbach and Katherine Westphal were both innovators — he a maker of nonfunctional art baskets; she in her work with xerography and art quilts. The pair loved to travel and images and influences from those visits appear in their work in various ways. Images from the American West, including bison and feathers, appear in both Rossbach's baskets and drawings and in Westphal's wall hangings of tapas bark. Westphal made color photocopies of photos she took on their travels through Europe, Asia and the Middle East, and with a heat transfer process, inserted these images into her quilts and wearable art. Rossbach took photo images and reconstructed them with stitching and pins.
Marriage in Form Set
Bob Stocksdale/Kay Sekimachi, Pistashio wood and Japanese paper with fibers, 1999
Kay Sekimachi/Bob Stocksdale: Kay Sekimachi and her late husband, woodturner Bob Stocksdale, collaborated to create an entire series of work, exhibited across the US as Marriage in Form. Sekimachi used his turned wood vessels as a form to shape her own ber vessels from hornet's nest paper. Sekimachi applies a base layer of Kozo paper to a wood form, then laminates the hornet's nest paper. The resulting objects appears delicate and ethereal but is actually stiff and stable.
Claude Vermette and Mariette Rousseau-Vermette, painting and tapestry
Claude Vermette/Mariette Rousseau-Vermette: For several decades, this couple worked in separate studios, in different media, in different ways. Yet, as the Museum of Contemporary Art in Baie St. Paul, Quebec noted when mounting a posthumous retrospective of Vermette's paintings, ceramics and sculpture and Rousseau-Vermette's tapestries, they shared "a common spirit, strong affinities and correspondences, links of course emotional and intellectual, the same historical and sociological context and the crossing of an important period of time."
Debra Sach's/Marilyn Keating's joint exhibition, Going Solo & Tandem at the Stockton College Art Gallery, NJ 2014
Debra Sachs/Marilyn Keating: Sachs and Keatings met in the early 1970s when they were students at the Moore College of Art in Philadelphia. They were married in 2014. Their works — made spearately and together are showcased at The South Jersey Museum of Curiosities — not a physical location but a website they share (http://www.sjmoc.com/index.htm). Their individual works take different directions. Keating's is more narrative, including depistions of fish, birds, bugs and dogs. Sachs describes herself as more design oriented. When they collaborate as they have in public commissions like Waders and Flockers 2011 at Stockton College, they divide the work — Keating builds the structure; Sachs completes the designs and paints the surface.
John McQueen/Margo Mensing: This couple, he a sculpture and basketmaker, she a poet and artist whose multimedia installations incorporate sculpture, ceramic and textiles, have exhibited together in New York, Massachusetts and New Zealand. In New Zealand, Mensing carved words into tree trunks. "Marks made here," she carved, "are no more than scars on these upstart upstanding trees – as brief as grass."
Leon/Sharon Niehues: Leon and Sharon Niehues have created baskets together, including a basket-in-a-basket woven for the White House Collection of Contemporary Crafts created during the Clinton Administration. The couple moved from Kansas to the Ozarks in the 70s and learned basketmaking from by a book by the Arkansas Extension Service that explained how to make a white-oak basket from a tree. In his individual work over the last several years, Leon has focused on reinterpretingclassical and traditional forms.
Dispatches: Los Angeles for The Box Project Exhibition at the Fowler Museum
September 18, 2016	arttextstyle0 Comment
In the 2000s, collector Lloyd Cotsen and his then-curator the late Mary Kahelberg began what would become The Box Project: Uncommon Threads, commissioning 36 international, contemporary artists to work within a given set of parameters. They were challenged to work within the confines of an archival box—to create one-of-a-kind works of art. What followed were years of fascinating correspondence with the artists who would participate in the project. As expected, each interpreted the challenge in his or her own way, resulting in an exceedingly diverse collection of works that reflects the artists' skill and creativity. Most of the pieces in the show are presented in their accompanying 23″ by 14″ by 3" or 14" by 14″ by 3″ boxes.
The Box Project Exhibition at the Fowler Museum Opening
The exhibition showcases these skilled artists' ingenious use—and often-expansive definitions—of fiber, while exploring the collector/artist relationship. The exhibition couples the box commissions with other examples of the participating artists' larger works. Also included are some of the letters and drawings and maquettes for the exhibition — a fascinating glimpse of the creative process.
Helena Hernmarck's "box" installation and one of her larger tapestries. Photo by Tom Grotta
The 36 artists whose work appears in this exhibition are Masae Bamba, James Bassler, Mary Bero, Zane Berzina, N. Dash, Virginia Davis, Carson Fox, Shigeki Fukumoto, John Garrett, Ana Lisa Hedstrom, Helena Hernmarck, Pat Hodson, Kiyomi Iwata, Gere Kavanaugh, Ai Kijima, Hideaki Kizaki, Lewis Knauss, Nancy Koenigsberg, Gerhardt Knodel, Naomi Kobayashi, Gyöngy Laky, Paola Moreno, Jun Mitsuhashi, Kyoko Nitta, Hisako Sekijima, Barbara Murak, Cynthia Schira, Heidrun Schimmel, Carol Shinn, Sherri Smith, Hadi Tabatabai, Koji Takaki, Aune Taamal, Richard Tuttle, and Peter Weber. Work by 10 of those included is available through browngrotta arts.
Artists' panel. Photo by Tom Grotta
On September 10th, three of the artists involved, Gere Kavanaugh, Gyöngy Laky, and Hisako Sekijima joined the curator of the Cotsen Collection, Lyssa C. Stapleton, in a conversation about their respective processes and resulting "boxes." We were fortunate to attend their talk and to catch up with a number of artist, collector and curator friends.
Hisako Sekijima in front of her box project. Photo by Tom Grotta
"The box is a technical tool and also a spatial construct," Sekijima told the audience, "which gave me freedom." The artist used the box, she explained, as a mold in which multiple baskets were integrated whole." Kavanaugh spoke at length of her work as a designer for Lloyd Cotsen, including her design of the brightly colored Neutrogena headquarters.
Laky talked about her work and the influence of the environment and feminism on her work — including her free-standing word sculpture, Slowly, composed of letters that can be read as LAG or GAL, and which was motivated by Laky's efforts in improve gender equity in hiring in the University of California system.
Gyongy Laky with her box project to the right and a larger work above. Photo by Tom Grotta
On October 14th, in Culture Fix, Lacy Simkowitz, curatorial assistant at the Cotsen Collection, who worked closely with artists featured in The Box Project, will discuss how the exhibition developed. From mining the archives to decisions about the exhibition checklist, Simkowitz played a key role in the development of the traveling exhibition. In this gallery talk, she will discuss case studies by James Bassler, Ai Kijima and Cynthia Schira and she share behind-the-scenes stories about the exhibition planning process.
Crowds lining up for the opening reception of The Box Project at the Fowler Museum. Photo by Tom Grotta
The Box Project: Uncommon Threads is at the Fowler through January 15, 2017. The Fowler is located on the UCLA campus, 308 Charles E. Young Drive, North, Los Angeles, California 90024; 310.825.4361.
Contemporary Art Influenced by Korea and Japan: An Unexpected Approach
Opens September 16th in Greenwich, Connecticut
Mariyo Yagi preparing her outdoor sculpture "A cycle- Infinity" for the upcoming exhibit in the US. Photo by Yuna Yagi
From September 16th to November 4, 2016, the Bendheim Gallery of the Greenwich Arts Council in Greenwich, Connecticut will present Contemporary Art Influenced by Korea and Japan: An Unexpected Approach, curated by browngrotta arts. The exhibition includes select works of ceramics, textiles, baskets and sculptures by artists from Japan, Korea and the United States that each reflect an Asian sensibility.
Weaving by Chiyoko Tanaka, Ceramic by Yasuhisa Kohyama. Photo by Tom Grotta
Varied materials and techniques
The 23 artists in this exhibit have a close relationship to a traditional craft aesthetic, manifested in a contemporary manner. They have chosen conventionally Asian materials and/or techniques (dyes, papers, gold leaf, persimmon tannin, kategami) used in both time-honored and unconventional ways. Examples include studies by Hiroyuki Shindo of the vanishing art of natural indigo dyeing and by Jun Tomita on ikat dyeing. Jennifer Linssen's innovative sculptures of katagami and Keiji Nio's Interlacing-R, which references complex Japanese sumihimo braiding reimagine conventional techniques. Masakazu and Naomi Kobayashi, Naoko Serino and Kyoko Kumai also create new relationships among disparate material and techniques.
Auric Grid Fold, Kiyomi Iwata, aluminum mesh, french embroidery knots, gold leaf, silk organza, 19″ x 18″ x 10″, 2013. Photo by Tom Grotta
In other works, like Kiyomi Iwata's Auric Gold Fold, Glen Kaufman's Shimogamo Scrolls: Studio View II and Jin-Sook So, Pojagi Constructions I and II, gold and silver leaf play a role, their luster and longevity suggesting immortality, power, divinity. The artists share a concern for surface and material interaction, evident in Chiyoko Tanaka's Grinded Fabric-Three Squares Blue Threads and Blue #689, of linen distressed with earth and stones, Hideho Tanaka's Vanishing and Emerging series of stainless steel and singed paper and Mariyo Yagi's twisted rope sculpture, A cycle-Infinity. The artists in Contemporary Art Influenced by Korea and Japan: An Unexpected Approach create work that is formal and contained while visibly involving the hand of the artist. This exhibition is a collaboration between the Greenwich Arts Council and browngrotta Arts.
The complete list of artists participating in this exhibition is:
Nancy Moore Bess (United States); Pat Campbell (United States); Kiyomi Iwata (Japan); Glen Kaufman (United States); Masakazu Kobayashi (Japan); Naomi Kobayashi (Japan); Yasuhisa Kohyama (Japan); Kyoko Kumai (Japan); Jennifer Falck Linssen (United States); Keiji Nio (Japan); Toshio Sekiji (Japan); Hisako Sekijima (Japan); Naoko Serino (Japan); Hiroyuki Shindo (Japan); Jin-Sook So (Korea/Sweden); Norkiko Takamiya (Japan); Chiyoko Tanaka (Japan); Hideho Tanaka (Japan); Takaaki Tanaka (Japan); Jun Tomita (Japan); Mariyo Yagi (Japan); Chang Yeonsoon (Korea); Jiro Yonezawa (Japan); Shin Young-ok (Korea).
The Bendheim Gallery is located at 299 Greenwich Avenue, Greenwich, Connecticut; 203.862.6750; info@greenwicharts.org.
Art Update: April Openings and Closings Here and Abroad
April 20, 2016	arttextstyle0 Comment
Beyond the Trees: Dona Look and Dorothy Gill Barnes. Photo courtesy of the Wood Turning Center
It's a Spring chock full of interesting exhibitions in the US and abroad. You've have just a few days remaining to see Beyond the Trees: Dona Look and Dorothy Gill Barnes http://centerfor
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Photo by Tom Grotta, Green From the Get Go, Morris Museum
Their work can also be seen through June 26th at the Morris Museum in Morristown, New Jersey in Green From the Get Go: Contemporary International Basketmakers, curated by browngrotta arts. In New York, New York, the Experiments in Art & Digital Technologies includes innovative bga artist Lia Cook, http://www.liacook.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/EADT-Press.pdf who will lecture in New York on May 5th https://creativetechweek2016.sched.org/event/6DN5/weaving-and-digital-innovation.
12 of 32 Lia Cook Su Series Tapestries
Work by Lia Cook is also front and center in a San Francisco, California exhibition, Lines that Tie: Carol Beadle and Lia Cook http://sfmcd.org/press-release-lines-that-tie/ the exhibition is curated by bga artist, Deborah Valoma. Cook will lecture there tomorrow, April 21st. Identify Yourself, in Honolulu, Hawaii http://honolulumuseum
.org/art/exhibitions/
15320-identify_yourself/, which closes this week, on April 24th, also features work by Lia Cook. Two events in Wilton, Connecticut to attend. Hickory, Ash and Reed: Traditional Baskets, Contemporary Makersat the Wilton Historical Society, http://www.wiltonhistorical.
org/exhibitions.html, Includes several baskets by the late Marian Hildebrandt, whose work is represented by browngrotta arts and whose work is also currently on exhibit in Green from the Get: International Contemporary Basketmakers at the Morris Museum.
Detail of Nordic Gold by Birgit Birkkjaer. Photo by Tom Grotta
Artboom: Celebrating Artists Mide-Century, Mid-Career is open at browngrotta arts for just 10 days, from April 30th-May 8th http://arttextstyle.com/
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Mer Lumineuse and J'ai Ma La Mer S'illuminer
by Mariette Rousseau-Vermette. Photo by Tom Grotta
In the halls of the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne, Switzerland, Nomadic tapestries, an exhibition of some of the extensive contemporary collection of the Toms Pauli Foundation, traces in the evolution of textile art from the 1960s to 2000s,
http://www.musees.vd.ch/en/museem-beaux-arts/exhibition/past-exhibitions/tapisseries-nomades-fondation-toms-pauli-collection-xxe-siecle/. browngrotta arts has work available by twelve of the artists included in this very significant international survey of art textiles — Magadalena Abakanowicz, Lia Cook, Sheila Hicks, Jan Hladik, Ritzi Jacobi, Naomi Kobayashi, Maria Laszkiewicz, Jolanta Owidzka, Mariette Rousseau-Vermette, Wojciech Sadley, Sherri Smith and Hideho Tanaka. The exhibition will be on view through May 29th. In Tilburg, the Netherlands the Textile Museum is hosting a major retrospective of American artist and textile pioneer Sheila Hicks, born 1934 http://www.textielmuseum.nl. Internationally renowned, thanks to her participation in numerous large solo and group exhibitions, this is her first appearance in the Netherlands for many years. The exhibition extends through June 5, 2016.
browngrotta arts Returns to SOFA Chicago, November 5-8th
627mr PapelionIidae, Mariette Rousseau-Vermette
wool, steel, 54" x 54" x 16", 2000
After a few-year hiatus, browngrotta arts will return to the Sculpture, Objects, and Functional Art Exposition at the Navy Pier in Chicago next month. We'll be reprising our most recent exhibition, Influence and Evolution: Fiber Sculpture…then and now, with different works for a number of artists, including Naoko Serino, Kay Sekimachi, Anda Klancic, Ritzi Jacobi, Randy Walker, Mariette Rousseau-Vermette, Carolina Yrarrázaval and Lenore Tawney. Other artists whose work will be featured in browngrotta arts' exhibit are Magdalena Abakanowicz, Adela Akers, Lia Cook, Sheila Hicks, Masakazu Kobayashi, Naomi Kobayashi, Luba Krejci, Jolanta Owidzka, Ed Rossbach, Sherri Smith, Carole Fréve, Susie Gillespie, Stéphanie Jacques, Tim Johnson, Marianne Kemp, Federica Luzzi, Rachel Max, Eduardo Portillo & Mariá Eugenia Dávila, Michael Radyk and Gizella K Warburton. SOFA will publish a related essay, Fiber Art Pioneers: Pushing the Pliable Plane by Jo Ann C. Stabb,
on the origins of the contemporary fiber movement.
1cy AZUL Y NEGR
Carolina Yrarrázaval
rayon, cotton
116″ x 40.5", 2003
Now in its 22nd year, SOFA CHICAGO is a must-attend art fair, attracting more than 36,000 collectors, museum groups, curators and art patrons to view museum-quality works of art from 70+ international galleries. After a nationwide competition, SOFA CHICAGO recently placed #7 in the USA Today Reader's Choice 10 Best Art Events.New this year, SOFA CHICAGO will unveil a revamped floorplan created by Chicago architects Cheryl Noel and Ravi Ricker of Wrap Architecture. The re-envisioned design will create a more open and cohesive show layout, allowing visitors to explore the fair in a more engaging way. Changes include a new, centrally located main entrance where browngrotta arts' booth, 921, will be located. Cheryl Noel of Wrap Architecture adds, "The most effective urban contexts contain distinct places within the larger space, corridors with visual interest and clear paths with fluid circulation. We believe this new floorplan will capture the spirit of the art and be an expression of the work itself, exploring form and materiality, with the same level of design rigor applied."
1rw SAW PIECE NO.4 (AUTUMN)
Randy Walker, salvaged bucksaw, steel rod, nylon thread
42″ x 96″ x 26″, 2006, Photo by Tom Grotta
On Friday, November 6th, from 12:30 to 2:30, Michael Radyk will be at browngrotta arts' booth to discuss his Swan Point series, Jacquard textiles created to be cut and manipulated after being taken off the loom, in which Radyk was trying "to bring the artist's hand back into the industrial Jacquard weaving process." SOFA opens with a VIP preview on Thursday, November 5th, from 5 pm to 9 pm. The hours for Friday and Saturday are 11 am – 7 pm; and 12 to 6 pm on Sunday the 8th. SOFA is in the Festival Hall, Navy Pier, 600 East Grand Avenue Chicago, IL 60611. Hope to see you there!
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Select something for more than $50 before January 15th and we'll pay to upgrade your shipping and send a donation to the International Child Art Foundation!!
Fiber Sculpture 1960 – Present By Jenelle Porter
Notes to Self, Gyöngy Laky, wood and paint, 29.5" x 21.5", 2012
Sauvages Dyptch, Stephanie Jacques willow, 51″ x 18″ x 12″, 2014
Eye, Jiro Yonezawa, bamboo, steel, urushi lacquer, 20" x 20" x 20", 2014
Large Shallow Bowl, Karyl Sisson, wood clothspins and wire, 5" x 21" x 21", 1987
Gathering, Mary Giles, galvanized steel wire, paint, wood, 30" x 30″, 2012
Cube Red, Naomi Kobayashi, Japanese paper, paper thread, mirror, 2.5" x 10.5" x 10.5", 2014
In the Realm of Nature: Bob Stocksdale & Kay Sekimachi By Signe Mayfield
At Long Last Love: Fiber: Sculpture 1960–present Opens at ICA, Boston
Fiber: Sculpture 1960 — present opening, photo by Tom Grotta
It looks as if 2014 will be the year that contemporary fiber art finally gets the recognition and respect it deserves. For us, it kicked off at the Whitney Biennial in May which gave pride of place to Sheila Hicks' massive cascade, Pillar of Inquiry/Supple Column. Last month saw the opening of the influential Thread Lines, at The Drawing Center in New York featuring work by 16 artists who sew, stitch and weave. Now at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the development of abstraction and dimensionality in fiber art from the mid-twentieth century through to the present is examined in Fiber: Sculpture 1960–present from October 1st through January 4, 2015. The exhibition features 50 works by 34 artists, who crisscross generations, nationalities, processes and aesthetics. It is accompanied by an attractive companion volume, Fiber: Sculpture 1960-present available at browngrotta.com.
There are some standout works in the exhibition — we were thrilled to see Naomi Kobayashi's Ito wa Ito (1980) and Elsi Giauque's Spatial Element (1989), on loan from European museums, in person after admiring them in photographs. Anne Wilson's Blonde is exceptional and Ritzi Jacobi and Françoise Grossen are represented by strong works, too, White Exotica (1978, created with Peter Jacobi) and Inchworm, respectively.
Françoise Grossen and Kathleen Mangan in front of Grossen's Inchworm sculpture at the opeing of Fiber: Sculpture 1960–present opening at the ICEA
Fiber: Sculpture 1960–present will tour nationally to the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio (January 30 – April 5, 2015), the Des Moines Art Center, Iowa (May 8, 2015 – August 2, 2015) and the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (August 22, 2015 — November 29, 2015). You can also see Innovators and Legends, which has traveled across the country in the last two years, at 108 Contemporary, Tulsa Oklahoma in January 2015. And not to be outdone, browngrotta arts will open Influence and Evolution next April 24, 2015 in Wilton, Connecticut. Influence and Evolution will also celebrate experimenters in fiber while exploring how the use of textile materials and techniques has evolved, showing early works — from the 60s, 70s and 80s — by Sheila Hicks, Ed Rossbach, Magdalena Abakanowicz and Françoise Grossen, alongside work created after 2000 by both influencers like Ritzi Jacobi, Naomi Kobayashi and Ferne Jacobs and by a later generation of artists, including Stéphanie Jacques, Gizella Warburton and Naoko Serino. Influence and Evolution, will run through May 3, 2015 and will be accompanied by a full-color catalog.
ICA Mannion Family Senior Curator Jenelle Porter explained in the conversation with Glenn Adamson, Director, Musuem of Arts and Design, photo by Tom Grotta
Fiber: Sculpture 1960–present aims to create a sculptural dialogue, an art dialogue — not one about craft, ICA Mannion Family Senior Curator Jenelle Porter explained in an opening-night conversation with Glenn Adamson, Director, Museum of Arts and Design. On that score, we think it succeeds — go and see for yourself. Let us know what you think.
And watch this space for more about Influence and Evolution.
ICA Mannion Family Senior Curator Jenelle Porter in front of Ed Rossbach weaving photo by Tom Grotta

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The inevitability of Kirby Smart
From Gentry Estes, who's covered both Georgia and Alabama previously:
This was one of the most predictable head coaching hires SEC football has ever seen, rumored and whispered about for years around Alabama's and Georgia's programs while Smart – a Bulldogs defensive back in the 1990s – earned national attention as an 11-year Nick Saban staffer on the rise (eight of them as the Tide's defensive coordinator). Mark Richt's long run finally played out, ultimately ending with an unsatisfying 9-3 regular season in 2015 and a painful divorce, with 15 years being tossed aside in Richt's firing.
Many understandably scoffed at Georgia's decision to cut loose Richt, a successful head coach – amid a season that ended in 10 wins. But it was the way losses played out and the way the program continued to fall short of annual expectations in the SEC East (particularly with back-to-back embarrassing losses to a less-than-stellar Florida) that spawned a growing feeling among those who make such decisions that it was time. Things had gotten stale, and after all, there was an obvious replacement about four hours to the West.
It wasn't a long search. Smart was the only candidate.
And looking back, the whole chain of events seemed more inevitable as time passed, speaking to the unique dilemma of a proud program like Georgia that had become consistently good but rarely great, being too often compared – like others in the SEC – with envy for what has been happening in Tuscaloosa.
Looking back now, it does indeed seem predictable, but — mea culpa! — a year or two ago, it didn't seem so to me. I obviously underestimated Kirby's ability to remain in good graces in certain quarters after shunning Richt's offer to return as defensive coordinator. I also underestimated the degree to which Saban envy consumed a number of influential parties involved in the firing/hiring process.
The reality is that if you're going to remake the program into Alabama East, Smart really is the perfect candidate to sell that, by virtue of where he's spent the last decade and by virtue of where he spent the latter part of the nineties.
It's a plan. Let's hope it works.
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43 responses to "The inevitability of Kirby Smart"
dawgtired
I sure hope the Bama-wanta-be's are not disappointed when the smoke settles. So far KS has shown the detailed-oriented focus that it will take to be Saban-esk. And if all things being equal or close on the coaching front…Georgia has the talent-bed to give that extra nudge. UGA is already good, it won't take too much more to be great. The current recruiting class is a good start to building onto what we have.
Speak for yourself on the painful part….
Got that right. I'm sure the 4mil CMR is receiving is anything but painful.
DawgFlan
As a former Richt "apologist" who was weary of discarding a known and sometimes underwhelming commodity for an unknown, yet high potential commodity, I have turned the page and fully support Kirby.
I suppose it was inevitable, but I think it was the abruptness of how it happened that caught most off guard. I guess we have USCe to thank for that.
Kirby is certainly GATA on the recruiting trail, but lets hope he learned enough gameday prep and management from his master of 11 years to translate that into Ws. With the talent he's pulling in, I'm really looking forward to year 2 and 3 for results.
I know they are many that supported CMR and understandably so, but I don't think anyone could argue that it was time for a change. I think what concerned so many was going after an unproven coach, which incidentally is exactly what we did when hiring CMR 15 years ago. We were lucky he panned out and took us to the next level in UGA football. Let's hope we are even more lucky this time around. So far all indications look good. Let's hope game day reveals a great choice in Kirby.
Thank you for your respectful and thoughtful post. I am one of those that supported Richt and did not think it was a time for a change in head coaches (I believe his track record, and the historic ebb and flow of the records of other successful long term coaches such as Osborne and Bowden, and even Bryant in 1969 & 1970, were grounds fro belief he could win championships again. ) I am the "anyone" arguing it was not time for a change. That said, debating whether I am right or wrong is a pointless waste of time. The change happened and we are not going to rewind to November 28, 2015.
I am a two-time alumnus of the University. I have been a season ticket holder since 1972. My love of my alma mater is much deeper than my respect for Richt, and I fully support Kirby Smart's efforts to win every game. I hope he does. I go to the games to see us win, not to hope we lose to prove some meaningless point. If Kirby Smart cannot deliver better results then I will have no problem with supporting a change.
Thank you for the tone and content of your post. I fully agree with your comment that, "Let's hope we are even more lucky this time around. So far all indications look good. Let's hope game day reveals a great choice in Kirby."
go cry me a river. get over yourself already
Does your comment mean that i should not support Smart?
Sorry, if that is your point it was not persuasive.
yup, spurrier probably hates that his abrupt retirement last year gifted uga w/Kirby.
92 grad
I will never be okay with how it went down. The appearance of the whole situation is ugly. Mcgoofy handled it horribly with complete lack of respect to all parties, especially the team. I don't have a problem with the idea that it was time for a change but I think CMR and the team were treated horribly when you consider the significant commitment and honor CMR brought to us. I really feel strongly attached to the university so I'm a lifelong fan but I do question the integrity of the buttsmear building.
@gatriguy
There is no "classy" way to fire someone that is beloved and who won't resign. It was awkward because firings are awkward.
Siskey
Senator, I, too did not foresee Richt being fired barring another 2010 season but what made me feel like it could happen soon was comments that you made last year regarding McGarity giving Richt more of what he wanted ( extra staffers, coaches compensation, etc.). Not to say in anyway that you called for it (or that you calling for it would make it happen) but rather that maybe even a sensible Georgia football blog like this one was a kind of canary in the coal mine barometer for the feelings of many of the fan base. I realize that that may be an overstatement given the reaction to Richt's firing and the subsequent replacement by Smart but the feelings around here regarding Richt were certainly much different the last few years than they were five years ago.
I would really love to hear the inside story on Pruitt, McGarity and what happened to make McGarity make the decision to fire Richt after what was a disappointing season but not an absolute disaster like what we have seen Auburn, Tennessee, Tech, Florida, even Bama have since 2001.
No One Knows You're a Dawg
My understanding is that McGarity wanted to fire Richt after the 2014 season but was overruled by Jere Morehead who instructed McGarity to instead increase the support Richt was receiving.
Several issues to unpack from that, but assuming it's accurate it raises one big question with me: If as president of the university you don't trust the your athletic director with regard to the most important decision he can make, why do you continue to have him in that position?
Morehead was likely looking at the situation from a political angle. 2015 was a far more unsatisfying season than 2014, which raised far more questions about whether Richt's laid-back nature had lead to him having no control of his own program.
I realize this is meant to be a criticism of McG, but I could make this opposite argument: he saw a change was needed a year before everyone else.
Ultimately, I find it impossible to believe that McG didn't have a preconceived opinion of Richt from his time at UF-aloof, passive, reactive, not detail oriented, etc. Richt probably never convinced McG that he was wrong.
dawgman3000
This∆∆∆Exactly∆∆∆This
The Bd of Regents gave McG his marching orders concerning Richt before McG ever set foot into his office. The opportunity never presented itself well-defined to support Richt's resultant demise and the issue was forced at not such an opportune time (after beating GT). It stinks from top to bottom and Richt would continue on the same winning path if retained; so says B-M. They worked for an excuse to bring Kirby onboard, none presented itself so they just pulled the trigger as if the horse was injured beyond repair and had to be put down. B-M's perception that the horse was irreversibly injured is what moved the Bd and McG.
Always keep your eye on the real perps in a crime committed on a person's professional life. The "Good Ole Boys" called this one against the fan base and should experience our ire, not their lackey, McG.
Roy Orbison expresses it well in "It's Over" and "Crying", songs I've listened to often lately..
The desire to mimic Alabama was certainly predictable, what wasn't so predictable was that we would totally misunderstand how to do it.
Particularly when you already have a coach of Richt's caliber, copying Alabama means opening up the checkbook and getting the best proven winner on the market (which is what Bama actually did in 2007). It doesn't mean hiring the help.
Amen. It also means an institutional and community commitment to football success that the Board of Regents, the Athletic Board and the Athens/Clarke County government has not indicated a willingness to make.
AuditDawg
what wasn't so predictable was that we would totally misunderstand how to do it.
That part not going full Alabama was totally predictable and that's what everybody means when they say "the Georgia Way". I may very well be proven wrong, but I just sincerely doubt that the battleship is going to turn around and a the years of a certain culture (going back to the Dooley days) from the Board of Regents on down are all of a sudden just going to change because Richt was fired and a Saban acolyte was hired.
Debby Balcer
Amen and it certainly does not mean handicapping your head coach and then acting like it had nothing to do with the results he achieved. I support Kirby and hope he is very successful.
With all due respect, Richt handicapped himself with the coordinators he hired and the way he mismanaged the roster. Thank goodness Pruitt came aboard corrected the roster management or things would have really been bad.
the recruiting stuff was turning around before Pruitt got here.
When you hire an apple engineer, you get an apple engineer, you dont get the iphone.
Pruitt made it even better
Right now Kirby is still a pure football coach so everything is BamaEast. The powers that be are OK with it for now. If at any point he has to stray from that to appease the Georgia Way 10 win underachieving seasons will remain the norm. I like the pure coach approach and Kirby is the only hire that could have gotten away with it.
birddawg91
under the knowledge that is was a matter of when not if CMR got let go Kirby made a very sound decision in staying put in bama for a few more years.
I still really wish they had taken a serious look at Tom Herman, but my feeling is that politically after firing Richt, it had to be Kirby.
I honestly think both Richt, Kirby, and UGA are going to be better for it.
Certainly agree that Smart got one of his dream jobs, but I am not sure if he will find it to be as Alabama -like as he would like. If Smart wins big at UGA it will be amazing for Smart – – the returning football letterman leading UGA to greatness, just as the other end to Don Hutson answered "Mama's Call" to return to Alabama. Or, he may wind up UGA's Mike Dubose or Mike Shula. Either way, his player conduct issues show he isn't in Alabama anymore.
Richt is certainly better off having an AD who supports him and is not trying to get rid of him.
UGA better? I damn sure hope so. I do not have many more years worth of attending games in my old body and I sure enjoy seeing us win.
That's where I am. Once the decision to make a change was done, I honestly just felt underwhelmed with the entire "search." It really irked me that we never made serious overtures to ANYBODY else. At a minimum, making Herman tell us no before setting the sights on Kirby would have been a much more palatable scenario from my end.
None of this to say that I think Kirby is going to be a bust (for all I know, he could be the next coming of Bear Bryant), but if the program is what a lot of the people that demanded a change believe it is, we could have (and should have) swung a little higher instead of putting all the chips in on a first time coach to be the guy that elevates the program even higher.
They could have made a run at Chip Kelly. Or basically anyone else at all, but they didnt.
I think it was telling that the first comment from the SEC panel when Kirby appeared was how does it feel to get to talk to the media more than twice a year. Kirby did great but Saban had nothing to do with that. He gags his assistants because of his one voice concept. Kirby has done the same thing, much to the chagrin of the always pampered UGA media hacks.
I liked Kirby as a player, he was an overachiever given his physical talents. I hope he does well. The thing that bothers me is the little voice in the back of my head that thinks Alabama's players could make most any coach look good. I think most of our fans are putting too much emphasis on Kirby's coaching ability taking us immediately to the promise land. I've watched quite a few Alabama games, Saban is not the greatest on field coach in college football but he is the best at taking a Process and producing a winner. I've said it before and I'll say it until proven wrong Coach Pruitt is a better position coach than either Tucker or Kirby. He took a position group that was considered a liability and made them great. Alabama is not going to miss a defensive beat with him as DC. The jury is out on whether Tucker and Kirby can coach up the guys they have in house. We will get better as the seasons come, especially with Kirby's recruiting, but this instant success thing may not happen. Given my age I hope it comes sooner rather than later.
QuoteLight Dashboards
I wish we could have kept Pruitt.
W Cobb Dawg
Agree Pruitt is a superior DC. But we have a solid staff with Kirby, Tucker, Sherrer, Rocker (& Schuman – being a work in progress). I don't see us falling off a cliff with this D staff. The push to land better talent will make a huge difference.
Pruitt may very well be a better position coach than Kirby, but I wonder if he will ultimately be willing to sublimate himself to The Process. At Bama, it's process uber alles, and that goes for coaches as well as players. I just have a feeling that there's a little too much of an ego on Pruitt (in an ego-driven field) to peacefully coexist. Then again, Kiffykens has been kept in line thus far, so maybe they never skip a beat.
Um, Pruitt was an assistant under saban for 3 years before taking the fsu job. If anything, I'd say Pruitt is very comfortable with 'the process'. And just like saban, I'm sure Pruitt doesn't suffer fools like McGarity and Schotty very well.
I don't go for the trashing of Pruitt and the 'ego' thing is a load of b.s. The guy worked his a$$ off for UGA – harder than any other assistant AND CMR. And he got results – on the field and recruiting. I understand the players loved playing for him. Every Pruitt interview I saw he was humble, grateful and focused on the team goals.
Let's not forget Pruitt has 3 championship rings at two different schools – in this decade. If that's ego, we could do with a helluva lot more of it in Athens.
I don't necessarily disagree, but something unsavory went down last year and it appears that Pruitt was at the center of it.
WCobb, I've always believed you to be a reasonable poster here, and still do. I peppered my comments with words like "wonder, feeling, and then again." In no way was I claiming to know hard facts. I do think being an assistant at a place and being the D-Coordinator are different levels of ego, as the salary will often do that to a man. Pruitt knows his football, though, no question about that. And I don't think Saban will allow any slimming down of defensive linemen, so they shouldn't butt heads too badly over that. That was one thing I questioned about his time here, although perhaps Georgia's d-linemen had the wrong kind of size and needed to slim down.
UGA85
I completely agree. We had a great defensive staff last year (led by Pruitt), and an offensive staff that was really poor. Then, with Pruitt unhappy and dissatisfied, what could CMR possible have done to turn things around? CBS, among others, was a disaster, and I don't think a complete staff overhaul/re-start was in the cards without a change at the top.
If Richt hadn't been fired, Pruitt was willing to stay.
considering the current 247 recruiting rankings [1. OSU 2. UGA 3. Bama] I think Kirby is off to a good start on making use BamaEast. http://247sports.com/Season/2017-Football/CompositeTeamRankings
Several of our recruits would be Bama commits without the Kirby process.
It's INEVITABLE that I have a growing man-love on Mr. Kirby, LOL.
OdontoDawg
Senator, I agree with you. I assumed Kirby had burned bridges with UGA by using our program's interest in him at DC as an opportunity for a nice raise with Bama. But those bridges appear, in retrospect, to be intact.
fred russo
For the first time in 8 years i have hope. CMR would never have built a contender he just could not have conveyed how to win to a team!


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Q: Jenkins Build Log for every stage in Pipeline Everyone, I am looking for build log for every stage that I have executed in the pipeline.
Below is my build stage.
Stage('Build'){
 bat 'mvn -f workspace/pom.xml clean install'
 emailtext body: '', subect:'build is done', to:'xxxx'

}
I have configured emailing in the stage but it is just giving the normal email. But our requirement is we need to get a complete build. Could you please let me know what can be done to get complete build log.

A: You need mainly two things.
First, to log somehow which stages have run already. Then, you can use post actions to notify, whatever the way you want to do it.
This is just one way.
If you need to log the stages in error you need to catch the steps and set the right build log. Otherwise you can just skip the try catches, and send the completed stages.
def buildLog = "Stages Completed:"
def failedStageLog = ""

pipeline {

   agent any

   stages {
      stage('Hello 1') {
         steps {
            script {
                try{ //catch errors
                    echo 'Hello World 1'
                }catch(e){ //define your message
                    failedStageLog = "Hello 1"
                    error("Failing pipeline") //force to exit on  failed stage caught
                }
                buildLog = buildLog+" Hello 1"
            }
         }
      }
      stage('Hello 2') {
         steps {
            script{
                try{ //catch errors
                    echo 'Hello World 2'
                }catch(e){ //define your message
                    failedStageLog = "Hello 2"
                    error("Failing pipeline") //force to exit on  failed stage caught
                }
                buildLog = buildLog+", Hello 2"
            }
         }
      }
   }
   post{
       success{
           println buildLog // parse and send email
       }
       unsuccessful{
           println "Error on pipeline stage: $failedStageLog. $buildLog " // parse and send email
       }
   }
}

Output example
Success Message: Pipeline status: SUCESS. Stages Completed: Hello 1, Hello 2
Error Message: Pipeline status: UNSUCESSFUL. Failed stage: Hello 2. Stages Completed: Hello 1

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Here is an article I recently wrote for the Climate Psychology Alliance website, calling the climate psychology community to action.
I write this piece after my second week in my new job at the Technical Support Unit of IPCC Working Group II. The reflections I offer are from a personal perspective, and should not be read as representing the views of the IPCC. I take a look at the position of psychology and psychosocial research in IPCC reports, drawing particular attention to a special report on 1.5 degrees, which is in the early stages of development. This report offers an opportunity to bring psychological dimensions of climate change mitigation and adaptation decision-making into the global frame where it has to date been largely absent. As Swim et al (2011) point out, "Although psychologists have been investigating climate change and related subjects for decades… the value of psychological contributions is not yet widely accepted, nor are psychological insights and findings widely applied" (p246). My analysis of a section of the most recent IPCC Assessment Report (AR5) bears this claim out, and I find it disappointing that not much seems to have changed since the paper was published (see also Clayton et al 2015). But we now have new opportunities to address this situation. As I go on to discuss, there are positive aspects that the climate psychology community can build upon – but it must act fast.
From the perspective of climate psychology, the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) is a significant development on AR4. I have not analysed the entire report but in the 1150 pages of Part A of Working Group II (impacts, vulnerability & adaptation) contribution to AR5 (IPCC 2014), psychology is mentioned 36 times and has its own short subsection in the chapter on Contexts for Decision Making. Now the references are brief and undetailed with psychology largely listed as a factor in decision-making or mentioned in terms of impacts of climate change (namely psychological distress), but the value of psychology is acknowledged, as for example in this statement: "Decision support must recognize that human psychological dimensions play a crucial role in the way people perceive risks and make decisions" (p852).
As the climate psychology community is well aware, psychological dimensions interact with social factors and contextual forces in highly complex and often unconscious ways to shape cognition and behaviour. Developing understanding of the different types of psychosocial factors, how they influence mitigation and adaptation responses on cognitive, affective and behavioural levels, and how these factors can be strengthened (if adaptive) or inhibited/disrupted (if maladaptive) is vital for supporting adaptive action and for addressing social inertia. Simply informing people that these factors exist is an important first step just because so many psychosocial processes occur below the level of their conscious awareness. Making them visible by naming them enables people to make conscious adaptive changes to the way they respond to climate change and other aspects of ecological crisis, as well as enabling the design of more effective policy interventions. This is why it so important that psychology is included in the IPCC reports, and especially in the Summary for Policymakers (SPM) as that may be the only part of the report that policymakers actually read. However, in AR5 psychological/psychosocial dimensions are not mentioned in the SPM. I do not know the reasons for this, but the absence helps explain why the situation Swim et al identify is occurring: quite simply there is a self-reinforcing feedback loop in play – if psychology isn't included in the Summary for Policymakers it is less likely to be accepted and applied by policymakers.
Now the new cycle of work to produce the next assessment report (AR6) and a number of special reports presents us with new opportunity. This is within a broader context of a shift within IPCC to focus more on solutions, which is likely to bring more social sciences content in AR6 than previous assessment reports.
The next scheduled report relevant to climate psychology is on 1.5 degrees (SR1.5), which is due out in 2018. This interdisciplinary report was invited by the governments coming out of COP21 last December. The background document prepared for the recent scoping meeting on SR1.5 has much to be excited about. I admit to being surprised about this. Reading it I was particularly fired up by points made about challenging scientific understanding beyond empirical evidence and underlying assumptions, drawing on different knowledge systems including learning from practitioner communities (and although not mentioned explicitly here but it is in AR5 – indigenous knowledge), looking at multiple ways to think of transformation and development, the emphasis on equity and ethical dimensions, and a call to maintain a holistic integrative systems perspective in the writing of the report. It refers to 'psychological' underpinnings of human responses, and 'psychosocial' is included as an area of expertise sought in participants of the scoping meeting. These themes will resonant I'm sure with many in the climate psychology community. A key topic is transformative challenges, which I see as the main area of contribution of psychosocial and climate psychology research. This is a topic that will become even more pertinent as we approach 1.5 degrees warming within the timescale of production of SR1.5, based on current trajectories. A comprehensive discussion of the psychosocial dimensions of mitigation and adaptation decision-making particularly in relation to maladaptive responses, and identifying pathways for overcoming social inertia and resistance, seems an important contribution that climate psychology can make to this report.
The next stage is for governments to reach consensus about the content of SR1.5 and for experts to be nominated as authors for the report. Work on AR6 will also soon start; experts will be nominated to be participants in a scoping meeting.
Now is the time for the climate psychology community to step up and make its presence felt in order to ensure that psychosocial dimensions are represented in the main body of SR1.5 report and in the Summary for Policymakers, as well as in AR6. There is a small window of opportunity because the schedule for SR1.5 at least is quite tight. There are a number of ways to get involved: getting nominated as an author or review editor, or sign up as an expert reviewer of the report. You can also alert those who are selected as authors to your published work so it can be cited in the report. New papers must be submitted for publication by October 2017 and accepted by April 2018. Organisations can also apply to be listed as an 'observer organisation' with the IPCC. This status entitles the organisation to nominate authors. Due to the time it takes for organisations to be approved, organisations starting the process now would not be ready to nominate authors for the special reports but they could for AR6.
Another opportunity is the expert meeting on the science of science communication that is planned in 2018. This will bring new AR6 authors together with climate communications experts, to sensitise authors about the psychological and sociological aspects of climate communication.
To end I wish to mention a further positive development, which is the new post that has been created in the Technical Support Unit of WGII for a specialist in psychosocial research on climate change mitigation and adaptation decision-making. Through a most serendipitous route, I am now employed in this science officer post, where I can draw on the knowledge gained through doing my PhD research on psychosocial factors affecting enactment of pro-environmental values. It is a junior role with a limited sphere of direct influence and with no research or authoring remit but the fact that I am here at all I find quite amazing. Perhaps it is a sign of desperation of climate scientists that despite all the facts and figures they work so hard to produce, societal inertia is a still a major factor hindering our progress in responding adaptively to the life-threatening situation we have ourselves created.
In this article I have already mentioned disappointment, surprise, amazement and excitement in my new job; I think I would be wise to also expect frustration and despair. But for now I feel encouraged that psychological/psychosocial dimensions of human experience are being brought into the IPCC conversation. The challenge for the climate psychology community is to make sure these aspects are developed in ways that can support the design and implementation of ecologically adaptive policy and socially just decision-making.
For more information about the special report on 1.5 degrees and to view meeting documents visit http://www.ipcc.ch/report/sr15/. The form to apply for observer organisation status is at http://ipcc.ch/pdf/ipcc-principles/ipcc-principles-observer-org.pdf Information about IPCC process is on the main site.
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Congratulations on your new post Nadine and your insightful work – look forward to hearing more.


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Tracing generations of owners
Descendant is assisting in restoration
In my last column, Albert and Prudence Lyon had sold their Pleasants Valley property to the Long family, also early pioneers in the area, and moved to Sonoma where he purchased a land Grant on April 11, 1849.
Meanwhile, life went on at the Pena and Vaca ranchos. Local Indians served as vaqueros, household servants and personal attendants. Hard work, rodeos, fiestas and fandangos were all a part of a way of life for the families.
Juan Felipe Pena's third son, Jesus, married Maria Anastasia Vaca around 1847 at the Mission in Sonoma.
People from all over the state came to the nuptials and among them were General and Mrs. Mariano Vallejo, the Picos' from San Diego and Albert and Prudence Lyon and their son, John Patton Lyon.
After the wedding, approximately one hundred guests made their way to the Vaca Rancho where they feasted and watched a bull and bear fight.
The party is said to have lasted several days. From the marriage, two children were born: Maria Dolores, and Jose Jesus.
When John Patton Lyon was old enough to attend school he was sent to the college at Vacaville.
In a past article I mentioned a house that was once in the downtown parking lot at the end of Dobbins Street that had been built by Manual Vaca in 1854. It was in this very house that Maria Delores Pena and John Patton Lyon met while both attended the college.
John and Maria fell in love and later were married in the Catholic Church in Suisun on June 2, 1868. They spent most of their lives in Vacaville.
At various times John ran a cigar shop, a saloon, and had a fruit farm. In fact John shipped a carload of fruit to the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. John was a member of Pythias, foresters of America, Ancient Order of United Workmen and as of 1912 was the oldest member of The Native Sons of California.
John died in 1926 and Maria Delores Pena Lyon died in 1948.
They had raised eight children in Vacaville who are buried in the Elmira Cemetery along with most of their children, and many of their grandchildren.
But the Lyon family and Vacaville story has other chapters besides that of John and Maria.
In the 1890's John's mother, Prudence, and several of his brothers and sisters were living in Vacaville. After Albert G Lyon died in Sonoma in 1879, Prudence bought a fruit farm in Vacaville, and lived on Callen Street until her death on Oct 21, 1897.
Prudence was known to have business deals with Jesus Tapia Rivera and Nestora Pena, the aunt of Maria Delores Lyon, and resident of the Pena Adobe around 1900.
Nestora Pena Rivera passed the Pena Adobe over to Maria Delores Lyon upon her death.
Louisa J. Lyon Hill, the 3-year-old girl who had traveled overland with her parents in 1846 moved to Vacaville in the late 1880's or early 1890's with her family.
Louisa was in Vacaville as late as 1900.
A daughter, Mary Prudence Hill, married Ray Bennett who ran a well-known Saloon on Main Street in Vacaville and built a house on Buck Ave, which burned down in the 1940s.
Another sister of John's, Lillian A. Lyon Singletary, lived with her mother Prudence in Vacaville most of the 1890's.
Her young daughter Florence Agnes Singletary burned to death in Vacaville one day before her sixth birthday on July 24, 1899. She had been playing with a friend behind Blum's store, near today's Heritage House Cafe, when her dress, that had become covered with sulphur dust, caught fire.
Another brother of John's, Albert J. Lyon, was doing business in Vacaville around 1890 and 91 in real estate with a G. N. Platt for the Pacific Commercial Advertiser until he died in 1906 in Hawaii.
Three of John and Maria's children lived in Vacaville as late as 1959 and are buried in the Elmira Cemetery.
A few years before her death, Anita sold the Pena Adobe that she had inherited from her mother, Maria, and thru a chain of custody the Pena Adobe ended in the care of the City of Vacaville. Now, almost 50 years later, the Grandnephew of Anita, Richard John Lyon, is working with the City of Vacaville and Pena Adobe Historical Society to restore and eventually reopen the Pena Adobe on a regular basis.
In fact, he hopes eventually to become an on-site docent in the future when he retires.
How's that for 150 years of history coming full circle?


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Studies suggest one-third of people who turned 65 in 2010 will need at least three months of nursing home care, 24% more than a year, and 9% more than five years. But Medicare does not cover long-term care, and nursing home care averaged $80,000 a year, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. A home health aide is expensive as well; hiring one could cost more than $230 a day.
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Keep in mind that money isn't everything. Passing on ideals, such as ethics, morals, faith and religious beliefs, is 10 times more important to both baby boomers and their parents than the financial aspects of inheritance, according to the 2006 Allianz American Legacies Study.
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In addition to Social Security benefits, you probably have at least one IRA, 401(k), pension plan or other assets you're relying on now for income – or counting on later – to finance your retirement years. At this stage you should work with us to maximize the benefits you receive from any withdrawals you are making or plan to make.
Unless certain criteria are met, Roth IRA owners must be 59½ or older and have held the IRA for five years before tax-free withdrawals are permitted. Additionally, each converted amount may be subject to its own five-year holding period. Converting a traditional IRA into a Roth IRA has tax implications. Investors should consult a tax advisor before deciding to do a conversion.
*The longer you wait to tap these funds, the larger your monthly benefit will be when you do decide to take it. You are required to begin taking benefits at age 70.


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Brussel sprouts and bacon is a match that I have grown to love. My friend Dixie turned me on to it. Of course, I had to add my own special twist!
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Cut the brussel sprouts and sweet peppers in halves. Cut the onions into large chunks. Slice the bacon into 1 inch pieces. In a large bowl, toss all of the brussel sprouts, peppers, onions, and bacon in the olive oil. Season with the Tony's Creole seasoning (or any seasoning of your choice).
Spread the mixture onto a baking pan (or cookie sheet) and bake for 30-40 minutes.


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Q: Probability to obtain more than X with 3 dice. This is a dice problem
1) I want to calculate the probability to have more than X throwing 3 dice of 6 faces. X = addition of the result of the 3 dice.
2) This is the first step but if you can also provide me a solution to calculate the probability to have more than X with Y dices of Z faces it would be really great.

A: Your concrete problem is already solved here: If we throw three dice.
The general problem is equivalent to counting the number of ways of distributing $X-Y$ balls into $Y$ bins with limited capacity $Z-1$. This problem is solved at Balls In Bins With Limited Capacity using inclusion-exclusion. The result is
$$
\sum_{t=0}^Y(-1)^t\binom Yt\binom{X-tZ-1}{Y-1}\;,
$$
where, contrary to convention, the binomial coefficient is taken to be zero for negative upper index.
This is the count of outcomes with sum exactly $X$; to get the probability of a sum of more than $X$, we need to sum from $X+1$ to $YZ$ and divide by the number $Z^Y$ of equiprobable outcomes:
$$
Z^{-Y}\sum_{x=X+1}^{YZ}\sum_{t=0}^Y(-1)^t\binom Yt\binom{x-tZ-1}{Y-1}=Z^{-Y}\sum_{t=0}^Y(-1)^t\binom Yt\left(\binom{YZ-tZ}Y-\binom{X-tZ}Y\right)\;.
$$
For $Y=3$, $Z=6$, this is
\begin{align}
&\frac1{216}\sum_{t=0}^3(-1)^t\binom 3t\left(\binom{18-6t}3-\binom{X-6t}3\right)\\
={}&\frac1{216}\left(\binom{18}3-\binom X3-3\left(\binom{12}3-\binom{X-6}3\right)+3\left(\binom63-\binom{X-12}3\right)\right)\\
={}&1-\frac1{216}\left(\binom X3-3\binom{X-6}3+3\binom{X-12}3\right)\;,
\end{align}
where again binomial coefficients with negative upper index are taken to be zero. Distinguishing the three cases, we can write this as
$$
\frac1{1296}\begin{cases}
-X^3+3X^2-2X+1296&3\le X\lt9\;,\\
2X^3-60X^2+436X+288&6\le X\lt15\;,\\
-X^3+57X^2-1082X+6840&12\le X\le18
\end{cases}
$$
(where I intentionally wrote the maximal overlapping ranges to exhibit the symmetry more clearly). As far as I checked, the results coincide with those of the concrete calculation linked to above.

A: In order to put @joriki's answer in a more "compact" and generalized way,
let's put
$$
\begin{gathered}
  N_{\,b} (s,\;r,\;m)\quad \left| {\;0 \leqslant \text{integers }s,m,r} \right.\quad  =  \hfill \\
   = \text{No}\text{.}\;\text{of}\;\text{solutions}\;\text{to}\;\left\{ \begin{gathered}
  0 \leqslant \text{integer}\;x_{\,j}  \leqslant r \hfill \\
  x_{\,1}  + x_{\,2}  + \; \cdots \; + x_{\,m}  = s \hfill \\
\end{gathered}  \right. =  \hfill \\
   = \sum\limits_{\left( {0\, \leqslant } \right)\,j\,\left( { \leqslant \,m} \right)} {\left( { - 1} \right)^j \left( \begin{gathered}
  m \hfill \\
  j \hfill \\
\end{gathered}  \right)\left( \begin{gathered}
  s + m - 1 - j\left( {r + 1} \right) \\
  s - j\left( {r + 1} \right) \\
\end{gathered}  \right)}  \hfill \\
\end{gathered}
$$
i.e., with the formula presented by @joriki but with the second binomial written in the symmetrical way, so that everything
is according to the binomial defined as:
$$
\left( \begin{gathered}
  x \\
  q \\
\end{gathered}  \right) = \left\{ \begin{gathered}
  \frac{{x^{\,\underline {\,q\,} } }}
{{q!}}\;\;0 \leqslant \text{integer}\;q \hfill \\
  0\quad \;\;\text{otherwise}\, \hfill \\
\end{gathered}  \right.\;\;
$$
Refer to Problem of rolling dice for further considerations.
Note that we have better and consider dice numbered $0$ to $r$, because that simplifies dealing with the above formula and its paramters ranges.
So, in the general case 2) you proposed we have:
$m=Y=$ number of dices,  $r=F-1$ because of considering the facets numbered $0$ to $r$, $s=X-m$ deducting $1$ from the value of each face.
Then:
$$
\begin{gathered}
  M_{\,b} (s,\;r,\;m)\quad \left| {\;0 \leqslant \text{integers }s,m,r} \right.\quad  =  \hfill \\
   = \sum\limits_{0\, \leqslant \,i\, \leqslant \,s} {N_{\,b} (i,\;r,\;m)}  =  \hfill \\
   = \sum\limits_{0\, \leqslant \,i\, \leqslant \,s} {\;\sum\limits_{\left( {0\, \leqslant } \right)\,j\,\left( { \leqslant \,m} \right)} {\left( { - 1} \right)^j \left( \begin{gathered}
  m \hfill \\
  j \hfill \\
\end{gathered}  \right)\left( \begin{gathered}
  i + m - 1 - j\left( {r + 1} \right) \\
  i - j\left( {r + 1} \right) \\
\end{gathered}  \right)} }  =  \hfill \\
   = \sum\limits_j {\left( { - 1} \right)^j \left( \begin{gathered}
  m \hfill \\
  j \hfill \\
\end{gathered}  \right)\left( \begin{gathered}
  s + m - j\left( {r + 1} \right) \\
  s - j\left( {r + 1} \right) \\
\end{gathered}  \right)}  \hfill \\
\end{gathered}
$$
(note that $N_{\,b}$ and $M_{\,b}$ differ by just a $1$ in the upper term of $2$nd bin.c.)
and
$$
N_{\,b} (mr < s,\;r,\;m) = 0\quad ,\quad M_{\,b} (mr \leqslant s,\;r,\;m) = \left( {r + 1} \right)^{\,m}
$$
From that, the number of ways of obtaining a sum >= $s$, will be of course:
$$
\sum\limits_{s\, \leqslant \,i\,\left( { \leqslant \,mr} \right)} {N_{\,b} (i,\;r,\;m)}  = \left( {r + 1} \right)^{\,m}  - \sum\limits_{0\, \leqslant \,i\, \leqslant \,s - 1} {N_{\,b} (i,\;r,\;m)}  = \left( {r + 1} \right)^{\,m}  - M_{\,b} (s - 1,\;r,\;m)
$$


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Q: Should we rephrase or clarify "subjective and argumentative"? IMHO this reason to close is used too often. Take What's wrong with C++ compared to other languages?. IMHO this question is entirely deliberate but I've seen other questions like this closed for the "subjective and argumentative" reason.
Perhaps we need to rename this reason "trolling"? That's what I think the standard is aimed at (and should be).

A: In the name of consolidation and simplifying the existing standard close reasons, we're changing this reason from "subjective and argumentative" to

not constructive
This question is not a good fit to our Q&A format. We expect answers to generally involve facts, references, or specific expertise; this question will likely solicit opinion, debate, arguments, polling, or extended discussion.

A: I think part of the problem is that subjective questions, when answered properly (and yes, it depends on the answer) might be actually helpful and shouldn't be closed. However, argumentative and loaded questions that don't provide a benefit should be closed, if not closed and deleted.
What really matters, at least in the more subjective questions, is that the answer doesn't just give a solution, but also explains why this is a good solution and what the drawbacks might be. If I take a question like "What's the best IDE?", I would expect a few things - (1) the question is in wiki mode, (2) every post is about one IDE and there is only one post per IDE, (2) people who support one IDE upvote and edit the post to add additional pros/cons of their favorite IDE.

A: Questions like "What's wrong with C++?" are actually not subjective in the literal dictionary sense. There are answers to the question - C++ has advantages and disadvantages - but "it depends". Usually it depends on the project you are working on, and often above all the people available. To quote Joel, who as usual said it beautifully:

How do you decide between C# and Java? The only real difference is which one you know better. If you have a serious Java guru on
  your team who has build several large
  systems successfully with Java, you're
  going to be a hell of a lot more
  successful with Java than with C#, not
  because Java is a better language
  (it's not, but the differences are too
  minor to matter) but because he knows
  it better. Etc.

There can be useful and informative answers: the answers to that "what's wrong with C++" question are interesting. Anyone willing to give a definite answer (other than "it depends") is probably argumentative and inexperienced - and the answers should be downvoted. IMHO these folks are aware that other people are more expert than them in technology they haven't used - C#/Java/Ruby/whatever - but they lack the confidence to be relaxed about it - it upsets them.
But the questioners might just be genuinely seeking guidance, and not argumentative at all. I'd give that "what's wrong with C++" krebstar fellow the benefit of the doubt. I guess if the argumentative answers get argumentatively upvoted, the question might have to be closed - but the answers and upvotes are the problem, not the question.