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Q: Maven package An Ant BuildException has occured: Invalid license info I am attempting to create a fat jar for a plugin in order to use it locally (since I am behind corporate network and don't always have access to the open internet).
Unfortunately the packaging process fails due to:
    Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-antrun-plugin:1.6:run (check-license-header) on project jacoco-maven-plugin:
An Ant BuildException has occured:
Invalid license info in: D:\jacoco-master\jacoco-maven-plugin\META-INF\m2e\lifecycle-mapping-metadata.xml;D:\jacoco-master\jacoco-maven-plugin\pom.xml;D:\jacoco-master\jacoco-maven-plugin\src\org\jacoco\maven\AbstractAgentMojo.java;D:\jacoco-master\jacoco-maven-plugin\src\org\jacoco\maven\AbstractJacocoMojo.java;D:\jacoco-master\jacoco-maven-plugin\src\org\jacoco\maven\AbstractReportMojo.java;D:\jacoco-master\jacoco-maven-plugin\src\org\jacoco\maven\AgentITMojo.java;D:\jacoco-master\jacoco-maven-plugin\src\org\jacoco\maven\AgentMojo.java;D:\jacoco-master\jacoco-maven-plugin\src\org\jacoco\maven\CheckMojo.java;D:\jacoco-master\jacoco-maven-plugin\src\org\jacoco\maven\DumpMojo.java;D:\jacoco-master\jacoco-maven-plugin\src\org\jacoco\maven\FileFilter.java;D:\jacoco-master\jacoco-maven-plugin\src\org\jacoco\maven\InstrumentMojo.java;D:\jacoco-master\jacoco-maven-plugin\src\org\jacoco\maven\MergeMojo.java;D:\jacoco-master\jacoco-maven-plugin\src\org\jacoco\maven\ReportAggregateMojo.java;D:\jacoco-master\jacoco-maven-plugin\src\org\jacoco\maven\ReportITMojo.java;D:\jacoco-master\jacoco-maven-plugin\src\org\jacoco\maven\ReportMojo.java;D:\jacoco-master\jacoco-maven-plugin\src\org\jacoco\maven\ReportSupport.java;D:\jacoco-master\jacoco-maven-plugin\src\org\jacoco\maven\RestoreMojo.java;D:\jacoco-master\jacoco-maven-plugin\src\org\jacoco\maven\RuleConfiguration.java

I used the maven-license-plugin to add licenses on top of these files, but the output is still the same!
here is the pom.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!--
  #%L
  JaCoCo :: Maven Plugin
  %%
  Copyright (C) 2009 - 2020 Mountainminds GmbH & Co. KG
  %%
  This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
  it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
  the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
  (at your option) any later version.

  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  GNU General Public License for more details.

  You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
  along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
  #L%
  -->

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

  <parent>
    <groupId>org.jacoco</groupId>
    <artifactId>org.jacoco.build</artifactId>
    <version>0.8.5</version>
    <relativePath>../org.jacoco.build</relativePath>
  </parent>

  <artifactId>jacoco-maven-plugin</artifactId>
  <packaging>maven-plugin</packaging>

  <name>JaCoCo :: Maven Plugin</name>
  <description>The JaCoCo Maven Plugin provides the JaCoCo runtime agent to your tests and allows basic report creation.</description>

  <prerequisites>
    <maven>3.0</maven>
  </prerequisites>
<!--
    <licenses>
        <license>
            <name>Apache 2.0</name>
            <url>http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt</url>
            <distribution>repo</distribution>
            <comments>A business-friendly OSS license</comments>
        </license>
    </licenses>

    <organization>
        <name>My Corp.</name>
        <url>http://www.mycorp.org/</url>
    </organization>

    <inceptionYear>2014</inceptionYear>
    -->
  <dependencyManagement>
    <dependencies>
      <!-- maven-reporting-impl and slight update of version of its transitive dependency on commons-collections -->
      <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.reporting</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-reporting-impl</artifactId>
        <version>2.1</version>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
        <groupId>commons-collections</groupId>
        <artifactId>commons-collections</artifactId>
        <version>3.2.2</version>
      </dependency>
    </dependencies>
  </dependencyManagement>

  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>
      <artifactId>maven-plugin-api</artifactId>
      <version>${project.prerequisites.maven}</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>
      <artifactId>maven-core</artifactId>
      <version>${project.prerequisites.maven}</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.codehaus.plexus</groupId>
      <artifactId>plexus-utils</artifactId>
      <version>3.0.22</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.apache.maven.shared</groupId>
      <artifactId>file-management</artifactId>
      <version>1.2.1</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.apache.maven.reporting</groupId>
      <artifactId>maven-reporting-api</artifactId>
      <version>${project.prerequisites.maven}</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.apache.maven.reporting</groupId>
      <artifactId>maven-reporting-impl</artifactId>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
      <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
      <artifactId>org.jacoco.agent</artifactId>
      <classifier>runtime</classifier>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
      <artifactId>org.jacoco.core</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
      <artifactId>org.jacoco.report</artifactId>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugin-tools</groupId>
      <artifactId>maven-plugin-annotations</artifactId>
      <version>3.4</version>
      <!-- annotations are needed only to build the plugin: -->
      <scope>provided</scope>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>

  <build>
    <sourceDirectory>src</sourceDirectory>
    <resources>
      <resource>
        <directory>META-INF</directory>
        <targetPath>META-INF</targetPath>
      </resource>
    </resources>

    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>3.2.0</version>
            <configuration>
                <descriptorRefs>
                    <descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef>
                </descriptorRefs>
            </configuration>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <id>assemble-all</id>
                    <phase>package</phase>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>single</goal>
                    </goals>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-plugin-plugin</artifactId>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <id>default-descriptor</id>
            <phase>process-classes</phase>
          </execution>
          <execution>
            <id>help-goal</id>
            <goals>
              <goal>helpmojo</goal>
            </goals>
          </execution>
          <execution>
            <id>report</id>
            <phase>package</phase>
            <goals>
              <goal>report</goal>
            </goals>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
</project>

Does anyone have a clue regarding the subject?
I already tried running as mvn package -Dlicense.skipAddThirdParty=true but that did not seem to have ANY affect regarding the issue.
Thanks in advance.

A: You can solve it by using 0.8.6-SNAPSHOT as parent.
Or replace "2009, 2020" with "2009, 2019" in files.


During its busy 2016-2017 fiscal year, ITS Communication Technologies worked on many high-profile, high-impact projects. The division finished a 3.5-year project to provide pervasive wireless on the main campus, upgraded network coverage in 45 buildings and boosted Wi-Fi in the residence halls. Communication Technologies also continued to build upon critical collaborations with agencies across Orange County to jointly improve high-speed connections and began installing fiber on campus that will enable the Athletics department to provide live video and data for the ACC Digital Network that ESPN and the Atlantic Coast Conference are launching in 2019.
Please keep reading for all of Communication Technologies' highlights and key statistics from the 2016-2017 fiscal year.
ITS finished adding Wi-Fi coverage in the Kenan Stadium Concourse during the 2017 summer break.
ITS Communication Technologies has wrapped up a 3.5-year project to provide pervasive wireless coverage within all remaining campus buildings.
When ITS launched the project in 2014, less than 35 percent of campus within-building space had appropriate Wi-Fi coverage. In this significant effort, ITS deployed new cabling throughout most buildings and more than 4,000 new access points.
ITS first upgraded general-purpose classrooms to ensure good Wi-Fi coverage. Three years later the equipment was not obsolete. However, ITS wants to keep the best-performing and latest technology in the large lecture halls that seat 200-plus students. In those classrooms, most students bring with them at least two Wi-Fi-hungry devices, meaning some 400 devices can be simultaneously demanding wireless access.
For that reason, Communication Technologies again began installing new technology and access points in the largest classrooms during the 2017 summer break. Before the start of the Fall 2017 semester, ITS had upgraded 64 access points and finished the uplift for large classrooms.
During the 2016-2017 fiscal year, ITS Communication Technologies was able to completely upgrade network coverage in 45 buildings without sacrificing day-to-day network operations and support, bringing the campus network coverage up to more than 300 buildings.
This was possible because of a clearly defined lifecycle refresh budget. Several years ago ITS defined a schedule for providing network lifecycle equipment refreshes by instituting the Communication Technologies Funding Model.
Under this schedule, the lifespan for within-building "access layer" network hardware was projected at seven to 10 years; ideally, closer to seven than to 10, but with the expectation that it might have to be 10 years.
However, network hardware vendors are increasingly ending support for their devices within seven years or less as technology continues to advance.
Communication Technologies had a goal of upgrading as many buildings as possible during the 2016-2017 fiscal year. With the rate of refresh that Communication Technologies achieved — those 45 buildings — the division is on target to reach that seven-year lifespan on an ongoing basis.
As part of life cycling efforts, Communications Technologies has been actively "right-sizing" the network by reducing the total equipment count (points for failure) to account for the ongoing transition from wired ports to wireless. The division also been removing, at a rapid pace, all the really old generation switches that only support 10/100 Mbit to the edge. Communications Technologies reduced those switches to around 250 by the end of the 2016-2017 fiscal year from around 1,000 a year earlier. The division expects to have the rest of the switches removed and replaced by the end of the 2017 calendar year.
The town of Carrboro was a crucial collaborator in assisting ITS with directly connecting the UNC Horizons Program's new Carrboro facility to main campus IT services.
Over the past year, UNC-Chapel Hill has continued to build upon critical collaborations with agencies across Orange County to jointly improve high-speed connections as demand and prices for bandwidth skyrocket.
Jim Gogan, Assistant Vice Chancellor of ITS Communication Technologies and ITS Engineering Manager Craig Baker have been instrumental in efforts to unite Orange County public agencies to collectively enhance network connectivity.
The need and urgency are greater than ever for these collaborations transpiring through the Orange Public & Education Network, a 1.5-year-old group that is made up of UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Hillsborough, Orange County, Orange Water and Sewer Authority, UNC Health Care and Orange County Schools.
Each agency is working on fiber projects, is planning projects or needs to expand bandwidth but first has to find a way to pay for it.
Many schools within Orange County rely heavily on the big, private companies to provide internet service. One high school that is paying month-to-month after its contract expired is forking out 300 percent more than it did a year ago, Baker said.
Some three-fourths of school campuses within the county, he said, are seeking interconnections with local government fiber because they can't afford private providers' skyrocketing prices and, in some cases, also because service is not available in remote areas.
By building these trust relationships, generating goodwill and opening the floodgates of creative ideas, UNC-Chapel Hill and these other agencies have found that they're able to achieve things together that they wouldn't have been able to singularly. They're solving connectivity problems by exchanging bandwidth resources.
Over the last three years, collaborations with Chapel Hill and Carrboro enabled ITS to get to remote sites without ITS spending a lot of money or having to go to commercial services. Through an arrangement with the town of Carrboro, ITS dropped its fiber lease with AT&T for Carr Mill Mall in early 2016 after connecting to the mall via a blend of ITS' and Carrboro's fiber networks. The project will pay for itself in two to three years, as is often the case with such projects.
By cancelling monthly paid service from a private provider and moving the stream of funds to capital expenditures, agencies invest in working with one another to extend and interconnect their fiber networks.
ITS started fiber installation work on the early morning of June 6, 2017.
In June 2017, ITS began installing a couple miles of fiber on campus that will enable the Athletics department to provide live video and data for the ACC Digital Network that ESPN and the Atlantic Coast Conference are launching in 2019.
"No one will be on this fiber but Athletics," said Chad Ray, Manager of Transport Operations, a group within ITS Communication Technologies.
This is the first project in which ITS has installed an entire fiber backbone for use solely by one campus entity. When ITS lays additional fiber, its customer is usually the University for fiber that the entire campus will use. For this sports network project, Athletics is ITS' customer. Athletics is buying the fiber. ITS is installing it and will maintain the fiber for Athletics. For more than a decade, Athletics has leased fiber from ITS for video production.
Athletics needs 48 strands of single-mode, long-haul fiber between the Dean Smith Center and Carmichael Arena and spur cables to the athletic venues.
Athletics will transmit more than 200 athletic events per year from the sports venues to the production studios and main hubs at the Smith Center and Carmichael and then on to the ACC DN linear channel that the ACC and ESPN are launching.
Currently, there are only two pairs of fiber to each arena. Considering Athletics would have to share that fiber capacity with all of the University's networking needs and for the Distributed Antenna System, those two pairs are not sufficient.
In addition, video needs to have a lot fewer splices and bends in the fiber than data requires. Remember, light is shooting through these fiber-optic lines. Like a flashlight, the farther away it is, the dimmer it gets. Attenuation, the amount of signal or power lost from one end to another, depends on the equipment. To work properly, video needs to have lower attenuation. To limit the amount of attenuation for this project, Transport Operations has to pull longer runs of fiber, Ray said.
The first phase of this project for Athletics, Transport Operations consists of installing fiber to link the Smith Center, Carmichael, the football and baseball stadiums, and planned indoor and outdoor facilities for football, soccer and lacrosse.
Additional fiber could be installed in a possible second phase at the University's outlying athletic venues for golf, tennis and softball.
For the project, some 40,000 AT&T phone numbers needed to be ported out and roughly 20,000 actual devices needed to be replaced.
ITS Communication Technologies ported out 9,000 numbers in early 2017 to Verizon Business, and is gearing up to close out the year with an additional 6,000 numbers in December.
This brings the total for numbers ported out this year alone from the legacy AT&T phone system to an estimated 17,000. By year end, ITS will have ported more than 35,000 phone numbers from AT&T to the current Voice-over-IP phone system, a hosted system provided by Verizon Business.
Although there's still this clean-up work, Communication Technologies' officially finished its roughly five-year VoIP project to migrate the University's phone system over to VoIP in fiscal 2016-2017.
"Porting will remain a significant activity within Comm Tech for many years to come, in particular as we evaluate and execute options for the next evolution of voice services," said Cheri Beasley, Manager of Voice Services and Remote Connectivity.
During the five years of the VoIP project, ITS replaced phones on desks and ported out the bulk of the working phone numbers to the new service provider, thereby positioning UNC-Chapel Hill for changes in telecommunications technologies and services. For the project, some 40,000 AT&T phone numbers needed to be ported out and roughly 20,000 actual devices needed to be replaced.
ITS focused in the 2016-2017 fiscal year on introducing the capability for delivering new services from Voice Services as well as closing the gap on any remaining phone numbers to be ported out.
Going into the fiscal year, ITS had about 18,000 remaining AT&T phone numbers to transfer. The numbers consisted mostly of spare or non-working numbers and UNC Health Care numbers. During the first half of 2017, ITS ported 9,000 phone numbers and cleaned up and removed some legacy phone systems that had been left in place to work behind the new VoIP phones lines.
RAM Village buildings 1-5 were among the locations that received additional wireless access points.
As Carolina students opt to use their smartphones for an increasing amount of their online needs, the Wi-Fi access points in the hallways of the University's residence halls haven't been able to keep up. The wireless system that ITS finished installing in the dorms three years ago was designed for the laptops of that time, which had a pretty robust ability to transmit and receive Wi-Fi power.
Since then, as a way to increase battery life, manufacturers reduced the transmitting and receiving power of their devices. Meanwhile, the number of wireless-dependent devices each student brings to campus has proliferated, escalating demand on the system. As a result, those hallway signals couldn't always reach all the way back into the corners of the bedrooms.
To satisfy students' wireless needs, ITS Communication Technologies installed a denser Wi-Fi system in the residence halls, in coordination with ITS ResNET and the Department of Housing & Residential Education. Each room or suite received a connection. ITS started with the locations that had the most feedback about trouble spots. Work on Baity Hill apartments, which were the first priority, ran from February to April 2017. ITS installed 400 additional wireless access points in Baity Hill.
Installation in the second priority locations started on May 30, 2017. Priority two locations were Craige North, Hardin, Horton, Koury and Ram Village buildings 1-5. ITS installed 535 additional wireless access points in these buildings and completed this project before the start of Fall semester.
ITS staffers install a new Cisco Nexus at ITS Franklin.
ITS Communication Technologies has begun upgrading the University's networking core to provide better redundancy, more flexibility and much higher bandwidth.
ITS selected Cisco System as the vendor for the upgraded core routers in May, and started the upgrade in July. The work will be broken into phases over eight months, said Danny Shue, Network Architect with Network Operations, a group within Communication Technologies.
The purpose of the core is to provide reliable and fast transport for traffic between different parts of campus, such as between classrooms, departments and the data center.
Since 2006, the current network core has provided bandwidth of 20 Gbps (billions of bits per second). Campus demand, however, has escalated with the upsurge in use of mobile devices, video and big-data applications.
The new core will support 160 Gbps bandwidth for future campus network usage growth.
To understand the difference that additional bandwidth can make, one only needs to compare download speeds of a video. Downloading a 5 GB movie over a 20 Gbps link takes 2,000 milliseconds. With the bandwidth capacity of 160 Gbps, the time shrinks to 250 milliseconds.
The network core also needs more flexibility. Currently, it's difficult to gain visibility for traffic through campus border Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) security devices.
If needed, ITS also will be able to carve out portions of the main core for a new school or department, for example. This ability to virtualize the network can also save University money.
"It creates that flexibility for us to architect our network," Shue said.
In addition, ITS will be able to create redundancies in the networking core. For redundancy, each core router will consist of a pair of chassis. They are physically located in two different data centers for geographical redundancy.
"Now everything is double and separated in two different locations," which provides a backup if something happens to one of the data centers, he said.
ITS is pursuing a new tool to replace the in-house applications that run the University's Domain Name System (DNS) and IP address management.
DNS is a critical service that has a huge impact on the campus community's day-to-day life. As with some other services on campus, when the existing DNS service works well, the campus community don't know it exists or at least they don't think about it.
For example, when you type a URL like 'www.unc.edu' in a browser, DNS tells the application which server to go to. A URL is easy to remember for humans, but the real address is a complex string of numbers called an IP address that computers and network equipment use to direct network traffic to the correct destination.
Since the service began, ITS has used in-house applications to run its DNS and IP address management system.
Demby and Will Whitaker, DDI Architect with Network Operations, are the service owners. In March 2017, they were tasked with finding a replacement tool.
"We want to have a solution in place by the end of the year," Whitaker said.
The existing tool is primarily manual and has few checks and balances. Also, the campus wide DNS is fragmented, with departmental groups using different tools or manual approaches.
By purchasing a vendor-provided solution for DNS, DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) and IP address management, ITS plans to modernize the University's system. Because an application programming interface (API) is available, ITS will have the opportunity to build new capability, such as for business processes, security and virtualization. With a new system, ITS also can create configuration efficiencies and reduce human error. In addition, this service would provide other campus groups with an easier way to manage DNS, Whitaker said. DNS will also begin serving an increasing role in providing protection from online threats from malicious sites and sources of malware.
"We definitely want to improve on what we've got and what we can offer others," he said.
The campus switched to an all-digital TV system in December 2016.
Because Direct TV phased out its standard-definition service, ITS Communication Technologies and ResNET switched campus cable TV over to the new all-digital system on December 21, 2016.
Formerly a unit within ITS User Support & Engagement, the University Operators group became part of ITS Communication Technologies in October 2016.
The University Operators group answer calls to the main number of UNC-Chapel Hill 919-962-2211, providing directory assistance and general campus information to the public and the University community.


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Opinion|Whose Message to Believe on Russia?
Far from the chaos and cacophony of Washington's unending debate over Russia policy, Vice President Mike Pence has been delivering a remarkably consistent message on a trip to Eastern Europe this week — praising old alliances and reaffirming America's commitment to defend democratic nations against those countries that would undermine them. Too bad these sentiments aren't as eagerly embraced and celebrated by the man he works for back in the White House.
The vice president's blunt analysis of the problem and robust alliance commitments reflect fairly traditional American thinking on Russia. In the face of increased Russian aggression, and worsening tensions between Moscow and Washington, his trip, as well as earlier visits to Ukraine and elsewhere in Europe by the secretaries of defense and state, is an important signal to allies and partners living in Russia's shadow.
Like Mr. Pence, most administration security officials view Russia as a leading adversary. Adding to their concerns are Russian plans to send as many as 100,000 troops to the eastern edge of NATO territory at the end of the summer, one of the biggest moves yet in the military buildup launched by President Vladimir Putin.
Mr. Pence repeatedly told his listeners that he was speaking for President Trump as well as for himself. But saying that doesn't make it so. Mr. Trump continues to undermine such reassurances by word and deed, the result being an incoherent policy that is bound to be read as weakness or uncertainty by Mr. Putin, as well as allies, and will not serve American interests. In Poland recently, Mr. Trump reaffirmed adherence to the mutual defense obligations enshrined in Article 5 of the NATO agreement. But can he be trusted on that score given that the words came only grudgingly, under pressure, after months of anti-NATO diatribes?
Mr. Pence told the Georgians that the United States stands by a 2008 NATO statement that their country would one day be a NATO member. But here, too, there are doubts about the strength of Washington's commitment and whether Mr. Trump would risk further undermining his relations with Mr. Putin by following through on the promise.
Suspicions about Mr. Trump's views on Russia began with his admiring comments about Mr. Putin and only grew when American intelligence agencies found that Moscow had hacked the 2016 campaign. Meanwhile, Mr. Trump has not so far responded to Mr. Putin's sweeping order on Friday that the United States shrink its embassy and consulate staff by 755 people, to 455, as well as Moscow's announcement that it was seizing two American diplomatic properties.
The tweeter in chief's failure to criticize Mr. Putin on this matter has raised obvious questions, as has his delay in signing legislation passed by Congress last week imposing tough but necessary economic sanctions on Russia for meddling in the election; the impending sanctions precipitated Mr. Putin's expulsions.
Mr. Trump came to office wanting to improve relations with Russia, a reasonable goal with such an important country. And even though Mr. Putin's interference in the election and other destabilizing behavior, including the annexation of Crimea, have narrowed the room for cooperation, it is in the interest of both sides to try. But to have any real hope of managing this complex and delicate relationship, Mr. Trump will have to put together a firm, consistent and credible approach that can persuade Mr. Putin, the allies and Americans that he knows what he is doing and that his team is on the same page.


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Lookit me, ain't I grand?
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And here's the genius part. DISENGAGE is certainly a moving target, a collective of amazing musicians pulled into the center, I suspect, of guitarist and founding member Konstantin Mochalov's orbit- the vision and the search for what lasts, has worth, endures, and how to confront the omnipresent idiocy of those who would heedlessly desecrate what they will stubbornly not see.
The vision includes cinema
The album art displays a provocative truth- one culture builds over another builds over another...and so on. The ancient must oftentimes be excavated, one seeming anachronism alongside another. One jarring detail that doesn't fit beside an entire feature.
In this album, the cinematic demonstrates this truth.
On one hand we hear what sounds like absurdist art music, and at another point, spaghetti western crazily spinning away into the distance.
We hear funhouse kaleidoscopes and calliopes, ominous classical chords from a grand piano introducing a theme, only to build...
And damned if nearly every track seems to be building to a fascinating finish only to abruptly end.
Genius I say!
Each musician certainly brings a lot to the table- polished, poised, pristine playing. (And how do you like that alliteration?) But listen! Hear the accordion in its wistful, sweet iterations, the tuba, the trumpets, strings, the jangling dissonances of clean guitar chords in various voicings...
Only to build into slabs of power, walls of sound and majesty, and then to devolve into chaos and clamor. Hmm, sounds a lot like civilizations rising, growing, developing, becoming arrogant, and with predictable hubris, over- reaching, and disappearing.
The instruments are often used in novel and wonderful ways. DISEN GAGE does not seem content to blend in, to copy, to follow trodden paths.
No, rather to innovate, to push, to explore, to grapple with newness, a sort of musical adventure of its own- one that does not desecrate and destroy with casual mindlessness, but instead builds upon the broad shoulders of those who went before.
The guitars will jangle, soar, squawk, and sing. The bass rumbles and harrumphs and wallows like an elephant in a cool pool on a hot day.
And those crisp drums accentuating, developing, massaging the sounds to deepen and broaden and widen the impact.
We hear the herky-jerky ballroom sounds, the ominous and dark space musings, surreal Dali-esque jazz shifting and morphing into lustrous chords only to become Romantic era and then of course a carnival.
Let's bring this to the FIN
Well, for me this is madcap genius writ large. I doubt it's for everyone- what art ever is?
My rating- 4.5 eternal etchings.
Posted Sunday, December 29, 2019 | Review this album | Report (Review #2302305)
Russian band DISEN GAGE have been an going entity for 20 years by now, and probably merits a description as a veteran band at this point. The band has 7 studio albums to their name so far, of which more than half have appeared within the last five years. "The Big Adventure" is the most recent of this, and was released through the nameless [addicted label] in Russia at the start of 2019.
Challenging, eclectic instrumental progressive rock isn't a variety of the music that will ever hit the top of the commercial popularity lists, nor will it ever be in danger of seguing over to a mainstream audience. But those who know and love the more eclectic and expressive variety of instrumental progressive rock should take note of this album, as I suspect many who recognize themselves in such a description will truly appreciate what Disen Gage have to offer on this latest album of theirs.
Posted Sunday, October 27, 2019 | Review this album | Report (Review #2275172)
Review by kev rowland
Special Collaborator Crossover Team
I have been a fan of this Moscow-based band for some time now, but this is the first time I have come across a physical release, as they have now signed to the Addicted label, who proudly state that without a name or logo, support all types of psychedelic music, formed in Moscow in 2011. They have set me quite a few albums to work though so they will be reviewed at some point in the future. But back to Disen Gage, and the first thing I noticed even before putting it on is that there have been some significant changes in the band, with only Konstantin Mochalov still there from 'Nature', which in itself was a change from the previous line-up with only Anton Efimov still involved with Kostya. This change has seen quite a dramatic change in the overall sound, as while they are back to a four-man line- up with Konstantin (guitar and sound engineering), Eugeny Kudryashov (drums), Nikolai Syrtsev (bass) and Sergei Bagin (guitar and synth), they have definitely shifted so some of their music sounds almost mainstream progressive rock, which is a long way from where they were previously.
But although the guitar is far more front and central in this instrumental album than it has been previously, and there are far more commercial elements in some of their music, Disen Gage are still mixing in left field influences and sounds when they feel the urge. There are a few guests involved to assist in pushing the envelope, adding in some jazz lounge piano to 'Carnival Escape', or including some brass sounds, and who else but Disen Gage would feel that a piano accordion would be the accompaniment at times? Twenty years on from when Konstantin started working under this name with Yuri Alaverdyan, Disen Gage continue to delight. It will be interesting to see if people finding this album for the first time then work back through the catalogue, as if they do, they may well find themselves in for quite a surprise as here is a band who continue to push musical boundaries. This is a major shift from 'Nature', and certainly surprised me, but is a wonderful way to find a band who continue to do whatever they like, whether that is bringing in Russian folk, RIO, or more commercial elements. They refuse to conform, and it is all the better for it. This is not as challenging as previous albums, so hopefully more will discover what a great band they really are.
Posted Tuesday, April 16, 2019 | Review this album | Report (Review #2183371)
Review by felonafan
This 46-minute release is not only a return to the Disen Gage prog-rock style, typical for the first four albums of the band (2004 - 2016), and not only a reminder that one of the best instrumental Russian ensembles continues to exist, although it does not play gigs.
'The Big Adventure' is one of the best releases in the entire 20-year history of this group. It is better than the two previous albums in the ambient / avant-garde style. Moreover, it is better than the very good 2016 'Snapshots' album which was based on the 'jam approach' (like the second album titled 'Libertage' (2006)). On the contrary, the newest release is characterized by a rigorous construction of compositions. In this aspect, it comes close to such landmark releases as 'The Screw-Loose Entertainment' (2004) and '... the Reverse May Be True' (2008). Each of the eight compositions of the album impresses with elaborate arrangements and thematic development, and each of them catches!
The best tracks are Chaos Point, Selfish Tango, Carnival Escape ' all these creatures are characterized by an unpredictable development and sharp changes in musical pictures. These compositions embody in the best possible way the main "principle" of the album: "from irony to sudden insights, from caustic irony to sudden grim frankness".
I would like to congratulate the group Disen Gage with undoubted creative success! The artistic level of her new album 'The Big Adventure' can be comparable with the level of the aforementioned '... the Reverse May Be True' release, which is deservedly considered as the 'essential highlight' of the band. 'The Bid Adventure' is one of the Albums of the Year.
Posted Wednesday, March 6, 2019 | Review this album | Report (Review #2152566)
Review by LearsFool
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Disen Gage is a band that has never been afraid to try completely different things to make fine prog. I last listened to "Hybrid State", which was a spaced out take on the band's sound. This time, the group has focused on a particularly heavy sound that features various different sounds and guest instruments meant to distill into a single album the course of Disen Gage's now twenty year career. These turns include folk style accordion on "Adventurers", piano on "Chaos Point" and "Fin", with the former collapsing into free jazz style improv, and cello on "Enough". The driving rock of the band themselves is the most satisfying part of the record, which refuses to relent for the extra instruments. Personal favorites include "Chaos Point" and the horror of "Carnival Escape". Altogether, this is a great album that deserves a listen from anyone who loves harder edged prog and unique eclecticism.
Posted Friday, February 15, 2019 | Review this album | Report (Review #2136639)
Review by TCat
Collaborator Eclectic Team
'Disen Gage' is a clever name for a Russian Eclectic Prog band that was formed in 1999. The original members were going to the university at the time and didn't have a lot of time for the music they wanted to play, however, and they could only play a gig every once in a while. Finally, in 2004, 'The Screw-Loose Entertainment' album was released, and since then, they have released 7 full length albums, concentrating mostly on instrumental music.
Their 7th album, 'The Big Adventure', was released in February, 2019. The album cover art is quite clever and makes you want to hear what it is all about. Konstantin Mochalov is on guitars, Eugeny Kudryashov on drums, Nikolai Syrtsev on bass, Sergei Bagin plays both guitars and keyboards. There are also other musicians playing other instruments featured on some of the tracks.
'Shiroyama' starts off the album with a clumping percussive sound with some metallic noises. Soon a solo guitar plays a sparse, yet dark introduction. 'Adventurers' begins with a guitar again, this time playing a more playful solo. This is soon joined by a whimsical rhythm which the rest of the band joins in. On the 2nd cycle of the theme, an accordion joins in to add to the jovial, yet chunky sound. It's all quite unique and interesting. Around 3 minutes things get a bit more serious as an atmospheric solo plays before the original rhythm takes a hold again as the guitar continues to play a really good solo.
'Chaos Point' enters in on a droning guitar that suddenly takes up a thumping rhythmic pattern with percussion. Later a trumpet joins in establishing a melodic theme which is later followed by piano, then things suddenly erupt into a chaotic section with the main instruments going into dissonant improvisation. Things switch from normal to chaos a few times, then the background gets heavier with a churning guitar and the piano playing along with it all. Later, things slip into a jazzy sound with the piano while the guitar continues to churn out dark chords. It's a rather interesting mix of styles. It almost gets into a circus-y feel when a few wordless vocals come growling along, but not for long. The Russian influence is felt in a sort of a traditional dance style, but the heavy guitar continues to churn along without ever overpowering the track.
'Enough' begins with a soft atmospheric sound as jangling effects echo around a soft guitar. There is a quick soft percussion added as things build a bit, then it settles in with a complex rhythmic pattern and Discipline-era KC guitar patterns. There is a guest celloist that adds another nice flavor to it all, and then a sudden heavy guitar solo comes in. 'All the Truth's Meeting' begins with a latin-dance style sound with a jazz flavor. A Spanish style guitar and brass effects from a synthesizer also give it a quasi-mariachi sound. At 3 minutes, an electric guitar plays a solo improvised off of the beat.
'Selfish Tango' has that tango beat, but sounds more like an island flair with the xylophone synth. Later however, it does sound more like a tango with a piano helping along with the guitar. The guitar is a little to metallic for a tango and gives it a clumsy feeling. The rhapsodic feel is a nice touch in some places. The last part of the track actually moves into a more boogie style which gives space for a rousing guitar solo.
'Carnival Escape' starts off with a bass guitar playing a spy-style solo with a mysterious feel. After a little while, you get that carnival style though, and a rather heavy guitar solo pushes things past the lounge jazz feel that threatens to take over. The carnival gets rather dark and dramatic in some places making you wonder if the title hints not about a carnival you might escape 'to' but one you want to escape 'from'. The synths perform an orchestral effect at one point before the guitars come back in and things actually become nicely dramatic. 'Fin' is the last track and begins with a soft piano solo. Later, an electric guitar contrasts with the simplicity of the piano. There is a little snippet of a ragtime jazz style at one point and a rhapsody at another. Then the band kicks in with a moderate rhythm for a short time before piano takes the lead again. Towards the end, the rhythm takes on a march style bringing the guitars back in for the big finish.
The album isn't too bad, in fact, there are a lot of nice surprises and touches of irony throughout the album. The unfortunate thing is the album at times seems a bit clumsy and I'm not sure that was on purpose. On the later tracks that utilize a synthesized brass section, things are a bit 'plastic' sounding because the effect is a bit overused. If there was going to be that much brass in it, it would have sounded much better to use a real brass section. It is a fun album at times however, and other times it is rather dark. The album is inconsistent in the mood it is trying to provoke, and its hard to tell if that is on purpose or not. But, the band is on the right track and maybe with a little more work, they can get the right sound and mix that they are shooting for.
Posted Thursday, February 14, 2019 | Review this album | Report (Review #2136421)
Review by Neu!mann
The latest-to-date curveball by the unpredictable Russian band Disen Gage is even more obscure than their 2017 live-in-the-science-lab soundtrack "Hybrid State", and easily earns my vote as the most difficult album of the year. But like all challenging music the effort needed to appreciate it makes the rewards more gratifying...especially to masochists.
This is a group (now just a duo) willing to sever all ties to conventional music-making and embrace more dangerous creative impulses: musique concrete, industrial noise, and all the environmental dissonance of their troubled homeland. The two remaining Disen Gagers - Konstantin Mochalov and Anton Efimov - are both listed as guitarists, but you'd be hard-pressed to hear anything resembling a traditional guitar anywhere over the album's three long sound-assemblies (you won't, under any circumstance, confuse them with 'songs').
The album opens with a shocking burst of interplanetary noise: the real thing, using documentary tapes from (according to the band) Iowa astronomers "converting strange signals coming from the orbit of Jupiter into audible sound palettes". Did they spot a mysterious black monolith circling the planet as well? The sense of cosmic disorientation would be no less startling...
The atonal cacophony lasts for 16+ minutes, at one point briefly incorporating background snippets of actual music (I hear a saxophone..!), credited to a "Zen Porno rock-band recorded in the vicinity of Jupiter" but possibly an outtake from an earlier Disen Gage session, back when the band was a legitimate group, performing on real musical instruments.
Next up is "Trains": a collage of metal-on-metal ambience recorded after hours at a Moscow railway station, the "fascinating sonic roulades emitted by the wagons" looped into a semblance of rhythm. There's really no comparison, but the harsh yet hypnotic effect recalls the uneasy slumber of Tangerine Dream's proto-ambient "Zeit", reduced to its elemental brain-wave basics.
"Animals" then combines the two preceding soundscapes into an unruly zoological sh!t-show, with a storm of bestial noises plundered from the natural world: check out the long, tongue-in-cheek guest list for the track. I'm reminded of something the early Residents might have spliced together, in their pre-eyeball mask adolescence...at least until it erupts suddenly into a raucous, Post-Everything rock loop, so over the top (when the wolves begin howling) that it's hard not to respond with astonished laughter.
In all, it's a unique and oddly compelling achievement, requiring yet another defense of the often misunderstood two-star ProgArchives grade. If five full stars acknowledge an essential masterpiece, two stars must be the connoisseur's rating: not a measure of relative quality, but a mark of distinction for albums aimed strictly at aficionados.
Posted Thursday, November 29, 2018 | Review this album | Report (Review #2079482)
The Moscow band Disen Gage entered a new phase of musical evolution with this year 2017 oddity, credited to the group in name but in truth more of a side-project by guitarist Konstantin Mochalov, joined here by Anton Efimov and Daria Solovyeva. Two of them are part-time musicians; all three are scientists at the Laboratory of Nano-Bioengineering Physics, a branch of the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhi).
The band now describes itself as a "musician association with a flexible participants crew". And the first recorded effort by the reduced ensemble is closer to R&D than to actual rock music, sounding very much like an extended improvisation by The Pink Floyd, circa 1967: drifting, untethered electric guitar drones, with Mochalov playing the (relatively) conventional notes and Efimov acting as the Interstellar Overdrive noisemaker.
In other words, the new album is a startling departure from the Eclectic Prog of previous Disen Gage albums. Initial listens didn't leave a strong impression: with little actual music to latch onto, the album can seem a trifle self-indulgent, and not in a good way. But subsequent replays are proving me wrong. These sinister ambient dioramas, so far removed from anyone's comfort zone (not least the nominal band itself) are like anti-matter twins of a Robert Fripp soundscape installation, trading the often symphonic beauty of the Crimson King's solo guitar mantras for a darker, more claustrophobic Russian aesthetic.
The album is divided into nine discrete tracks. But it's really a single, sustained performance, improvised by the guitar duo in the Moscow science lab where Ms. Solovyeva was at the same time calibrating "a novel design of a scanning probe microscope integrated with an ultramicrotome for serial block-face nanotomography" (quoting one of the academic papers about her research, and no: I don't understand a word of it either).
I only hope the MEPhi laboratory directors didn't catch them in the act. From the documentary evidence, accessible directly from the album's bar-code 'cover art', Mochalov and Efimov might be accused of goofing around with their electric guitars while Solovyeva did all the actual science. The experimental procedure, whatever its nanotomographic aims, looks very esoteric, and the soundtrack to the event is even more so. Despite the album's abbreviated length (barely 33-minutes), it can present a challenge to unwary listeners. But shouldn't that be the goal of all so-called progressive music?
Disen Gage continue to be, at least for me, one of the most exciting bands coming out of Russia at the moment. They are determined to push the boundaries of music, and this is very much the case again with their 2017 release, 'Hybrid'. Here, the music itself has been created in a rather unusual manner, with this album actually being the soundtrack to a self-titled documentary where scientists make music in the course of an experimental procedure, and directly in the lab. Disen Gage feel that it requires from the participants a specific hybrid state of mind, and the result is hybridization of the two rather wide-apart aesthetics of art and science. The artwork is a QR code, which when scanned takes the listener/viewer to the documentary on YouTube.
This is Art Zoyd combined with Can, RIO and Krautrock being thrown together and then taken into new directions, eclectic in the extreme. But, there is also a New Age and Space Rock feel to proceedings, with a delicacy and other worldliness which is incredibly compelling and engaging. Disen Gage continue to make music that I find drawn to, even though I don't really have the words to describe it, with a strange music of electronics, guitar and bass. I find it completely enthralling, being taken on a journey in space and time, to a destination unknown. This release is currently available on their Bandcamp page for just $3 USD, and I urge anyone who wants to discover music at the cutting edge to discover more about the strange and unusual world of Disen Gage
Posted Saturday, August 4, 2018 | Review this album | Report (Review #1955266)
When Kostya contacted me to let me know that there was a new Disen Gage album available I was of course excited as they are one of my favourite Russian bands, but I was also intrigued as this is what it said in the email. "This story started a long time ago, when the participants of Disen Gage scoured in the night in the dangerous vicinity of the Moscow railroad station "Sortirovochnaya" trying to capture fascinating sonic roulades emitted by the wagons. At the same time, on the other side of the globe, in the State of Iowa, astronomers succeed in converting strange signals coming from the orbit of Jupiter into audible sound palettes. Later, in an Australian swamp, Mrs. Toad said to Mr. Crocodile: "Dude, why not concoct a Tops-of-the-Pops album of all those ingredients, one on which we would sing all together?" "I'll call Mr. Bear, my Siberian friend. He knows how to mix all stuff with a beat", answered Mr. Crocodile. Finally, the Nature, crafted from sounds of planets, trains and animals including higher primates, is now in your hands. Still we wonder how the human ear will take this?"
I know how most people would take this, they would listen to ten seconds, scratch their head as if trying to make sense of it, then discard it, probably with extreme prejudice. Me? I'm made of sterner stuff than most, and will happily branch into areas of RIO and progressive rock that are more commonly referred to as noise (yes, it's a genre). This album isn't meant to be easy to listen to, it's not meant to be something that will ever be played on the radio or to be hummed under breath while driving, this is all about challenging the very term "music" and wondering just how far that boundary can be stretched while still making it something that people, at least some people, will want to listen to. I find this music enthralling, almost hypnotic in the way that it drags me in, using sounds that are industrial, mechanical, other worldly and not even created by the band, twisting them into something that is not recognisable in its original form
There are very few bands who can say to be actually progressing in the truest sense, as opposed to the regressing that many seem all too fond of, but Disen Gage are creating a path that only the brave will follow. Are you one of them?
Posted Saturday, June 2, 2018 | Review this album | Report (Review #1936784)
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This morning as the world is celebrating Resurrection, my thoughts are spiraling on the women of Nigeria, the heroes of Ireland's Easter Rising and the role of art in elevating our world, our everyday existance. Art's transformative power has never been more needed.
The Netherlands hosted a Van Gogh parade last September, but these floats are still turning up all over Twitter. Click for the full Slate Magazine image gallery.
The Easter Rebellion's heroes were booed and attacked by bystanders. Click to read their declaration. Thanks Wikimedia!
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Grenfell Tower fire: 255 people believed to have escaped blaze, police say
Around 255 people escaped the Grenfell Tower inferno, police revealed today.
Scotland Yard said they had estimated that around 350 people should have been living in the tower but about 14 were not at home on the night.
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Tiffany in Bloom: Stained Glass Lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany
Liu Wei: Invisible Cities
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Julia and Larry Pollock Focus Gallery | Gallery 010
Focusing on Louis Comfort Tiffany's passion for stained glass as a way to bring nature's splendid color into the home, this exhibition explores Tiffany's vivid designs in relation to emerging artistic and craft movements at the turn of the 20th century. Through the dynamic, illuminated display of 20 of the designer's finest stained glass table and floor lamps and featuring the iconic Hinds House stained glass window, Tiffany in Bloom introduces visitors to the magic that Tiffany created with thousands of shards of glass and the "newfangled" power of electric light. Period photographs and accounts of his artisans also provide a glimpse into Tiffany's shop and studio. His method of design, production, and marketing; his reliance on women designers, such as Ohio native Clara Driscoll; and his alliances with both his father's firm (Tiffany & Co.) and his European counterpart Siegfried Bing (Maison de l'Art Nouveau) lift the curtain on Tiffany's special brand of artistic creation and success.
Rare masterworks such as the Wisteria, Peacock, Bamboo, and Peony lamps highlight important thematic groups that focus on Tiffany's many stylistic influences, from Asian to Art Nouveau. The stained glass techniques used by Tiffany's artisans reveal the firm's unparalleled standard of quality and the designer's love for the infinite possibilities of iridescence, texture, and color in manipulating light. Most of the works in this exhibition recently joined the museum's collection through the generous bequest of Charles Maurer, a Cleveland industrialist and renowned collector of works by Louis Comfort Tiffany. Tiffany in Bloom celebrates this extraordinary gift by providing an unprecedented opportunity to view so many of Tiffany's great lamps together in a veritable bouquet of splendor.
Margaret and Loyal Wilson
Julia and Larry Pollock
Sun, 10/13/2019 to Sun, 02/16/2020
Mark Schwartz and Bettina Katz Photography Gallery | Gallery 230
The Cleveland Museum of Art collaborates with the Museum of Contemporary Art (moCa) Cleveland to mount the first solo US museum exhibition by internationally renowned artist Liu Wei (Chinese, b. 1972). Works by Liu Wei will be presented concurrently at both institutions, offering an expansive view of the artist's diverse artistic practice.
The CMA's presentation centers on Panorama No. 2 (2015–16), a recent gift to the museum by Mr. Richard Jeschelnig and Mrs. Michelle Shan Jeschelnig. The monumental diptych exemplifies a technical shift the artist introduced into his work in 2010, when he began using computer software to generate patterns of pixels that are converted onto canvas and subsequently filled with color. The semiabstract imagery of Panorama No. 2 recalls the vast skylines of megacities like Beijing. At the same time, the oscillating pattern of gray, orange, purple, and yellow generated by the software removes the work from functioning primarily as a social or political commentary. Instead, the painting's abstract quality is so strong that it becomes unclear whether the viewer is looking at a landscape or a purely abstract pattern. Its complex architectural imagery comes off the wall into real space through a series of large-scale representations of architectural monuments made from animal edibles, primarily oxhide.
Liu Wei is among China's most well-known contemporary artists, but his work has not been thoroughly contextualized for Western audiences. As part of a generation of artists whose careers emerged during a period of rapidly accelerating urbanization, his work explores the rigidly controlled social and political contradictions of modern Chinese society. Working with ready-made objects as well as a range of diverse media including photography, painting, sculpture, and installation, Liu Wei is known for crystallizing the visual and intellectual chaos of China's myriad transformations. He frequently uses geometric and architectural forms in his work as a reference to his urban surroundings. These themes will be on view as part of moCa's focused presentation of the artist's oeuvre, which includes existing and new work.
Liu Wei lives and works in Beijing and graduated in 1996 from the National Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, China. His work has been in numerous exhibitions at international venues including: PLATEAU, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul (2016); Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2015); Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands (2014); and Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai (2011).
Organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland in collaboration with the Cleveland Museum of Art, Liu Wei: Invisible Cities is presented with the generous support of Richard and Michelle Jeschelnig
The exhibition is made possible through a partnership of the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland with the artist's studio; Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, and Seoul; Long March Space, Beijing; White Cube; and the Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation.
James and Hanna Bartlett Prints and Drawings Gallery | Gallery 101
Michelangelo's sculptures, paintings, and architectural projects have been the subject of artistic admiration for more than 500 years. As a companion to Michelangelo: Mind of the Master, on view in the Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Exhibition Hall from September 22, 2019, to January 5, 2020, Master/Apprentice: Imitation and Inspiration in the Renaissance surveys the impact of Michelangelo—his practice, his projects, and his biography—on artists working in the Renaissance and beyond. The works on view examine how Florentine artists modeled their approach to the human form and their working methods on those of Michelangelo, as well as how artists further afield emulated and reinterpreted his work. The exhibition features prints reproducing and quoting Michelangelo's major projects alongside works that document his architectural impact on the city of Rome. Drawn entirely from the Cleveland Museum of Art's collection, the prints, drawings, and sculpted plaques on view explore a range of responses to Michelangelo and his work.
Organized in collaboration with graduate students in the course After Michelangelo, taught by Dr. Emily Peters and associate professor Erin Benay in the CMA-CWRU Joint Program
Color and Comfort: Swedish Modern Design
Arlene M. and Arthur S. Holden Textile Gallery | Gallery 234
Color and Comfort: Swedish Modern Design will present the modern styling of mid-twentieth-century Swedish design, featuring textiles, ceramics, and glass from the CMA's collection. Iconic work by Josef Frank will be shown together with work by artisans such as Viola Gråsten, sisters Gocken and Lisbet Jobs, Stig Lindberg, Sven Markelius, and Elizabeth Ulrick, in an exhibition featuring themes of Nature and Pattern, Color and Contrast, Nostalgia for the Past, and Finding Modernity.
This dynamic installation will explore the idea of comfort and affordability in the modern Swedish home both before and after the Second World War. The introduction of bold, colorful patterning during the 1920s, the national nostalgia for Swedish cultural heritage during the 1930s, and the sparse lines of abstraction in the 1950s and '60s will come together to reveal a particularly Swedish sensibility in modern design—one that has often been used to define a broader modern Scandinavian style.
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Where Catholics Stand on Bishops, Pope, Birth Control
Posted by richbrewers in Uncategorized
By the Numbers: Catholics in America
By SARAH PARNASS
By the Numbers: Catholics in America – ABC News.
With Pope Benedict XVI's departure, Catholics will soon have a new leader, who will no doubt hold sway over a good chunk of American voters.
Catholics have made up a significant portion of the United States since the end of the 19th century, when Irish Catholics set sail for America to escape famine, according to the National Humanities Center. Around that same time, more than a quarter of Italy's population left its native land to find work in America, the "vast majority" of whom were Catholic, according to the American Immigration Law Foundation. Today, Catholics make up about a quarter of the U.S. population.
Current political leadership includes several prominent Catholics: Vice President Joe Biden, House Speaker John Boehner, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Senate President Pro Tempore Patrick Leahy and Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin.
But it's impossible to predict how Catholics will vote, and where they'll vary on what their church leader decrees. Read on to see how America's Catholics break down, by the numbers.
Self-identified Catholics in America, about a quarter of the country's population (Georgetown University, 2012).
About 2 million
Number of children in Catholic schools in the U.S. (Georgetown University, 2012).
American Catholics satisfied with nuns and sisters (Pew, November 2012).
American Catholics who said birth control was "morally acceptable" (Gallup, May 2012).
American Catholics satisfied with Pope Benedict XVI (Pew, November 2012).
White American Catholics who support repealing the ban against gays joining the Boy Scouts of America (Quinnipiac University, February 2013).
American Catholics who favor stricter gun laws (Public Religion Research Institute, August 2012).
Catholics who voted for President Obama in 2012, compared with 48 percent for Mitt Romney (Pew, November 2012).
White American Catholics who support same-sex marriage, compared with 43 percent who oppose it (Quinnipiac University, December 2012).
One-third
Catholics who wished their pastor or bishops would blog (Georgetown University, November 2012).
Catholics who own guns in America (Public Religion Research Institute, August 2012).
Number of Supreme Court Justices who are Catholic. The other three Justices are Jewish.
Number of American presidents who have identified as Catholic – John F. Kennedy. Also number of Catholic American vice presidents – Joe Biden.
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Digital Edition – February 14, 2013
Catholic Spirit
Link to the Digital Edition of the Catholic Spirit – February 14, 2013.
The Catholic Spirit (a publication of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis) had several great articles in its most recent publication about Pope Benedict, Mary Jo Copeland and her amazing ministry to the poor in the Twin Cities and Glenn Caruso, head coach of the St. Thomas football team. Eventhough I am a Johnnie, and St. Thomas was our arch rival, it is an excellent article.
'Heavy heart but complete understanding': Pope's resignation stuns church leadership – World News
'Heavy heart but complete understanding': Pope's resignation stuns church leadership – World News.
Dear Brothers:
I have convoked you to this Consistory, not only for the three canonizations, but also to communicate to you a decision of great importance for the life of the Church. After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry. I am well aware that this ministry, due to its essential spiritual nature, must be carried out not only with words and deeds, but no less with prayer and suffering. However, in today's world, subject to so many rapid changes and shaken by questions of deep relevance for the life of faith, in order to govern the bark of Saint Peter and proclaim the Gospel, both strength of mind and body are necessary, strength which in the last few months, has deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me. For this reason, and well aware of the seriousness of this act, with full freedom I declare that I renounce the ministry of Bishop of Rome, Successor of Saint Peter, entrusted to me by the Cardinals on 19 April 2005, in such a way, that as from 28 February 2013, at 20:00 hours, the See of Rome, the See of Saint Peter, will be vacant and a Conclave to elect the new Supreme Pontiff will have to be convoked by those whose competence it is.
Dear Brothers, I thank you most sincerely for all the love and work with which you have supported me in my ministry and I ask pardon for all my defects. And now, let us entrust the Holy Church to the care of Our Supreme Pastor, Our Lord Jesus Christ, and implore his holy Mother Mary, so that she may assist the Cardinal Fathers with her maternal solicitude, in electing a new Supreme Pontiff. With regard to myself, I wish to also devotedly serve the Holy Church of God in the future through a life dedicated to prayer.
From the Vatican, 10 February 2013
BENEDICTUS PP XVI
Initial Post: As we approach Lent
Reposted, original by Damon Owens
As we approach the first week of Lent, the idea that we must abandon ourselves into the hands of God, that we must die in order to live, is a particularly appropriate idea to reflect on. When you think about it, the idea of dying in order to live is not unique to religion—Christian or any other. Every world-class athlete, virtuoso, artist, or master of a craft sets himself or herself apart by the deliberate decision to sacrifice personal desires and comforts in the pursuit of perfection. Strict diets, long study, endless practice, injury, pain, successes, and failures are the tried-and-true marks of a master-in-training. These countless "deaths" are the price of being able to "live" the extraordinary life.
Without exception, there is also a master—a coach, teacher, trainer, mentor—who is chosen to lead, drive, guide, encourage, and form us through these "deaths." Perfection cannot be achieved alone. There are no self-made masters—not in athletics, the arts, or any trade or craft. This is just as true in spiritual matters.
The first step to perfection is opening our hearts—our deepest selves—to the gift of the Holy Spirit. We must be willing to surrender every part of ourselves: our intellect, our will, our memory, and our sins. In these encounters, God will reveal to us the truth about who he is and what we must do to "become who we are." He will also bring us spiritual directors as personal trainers—strength coaches, skills specialists, conditioning coaches, and nutritionists. Like any other master-in-training, our chance for victory lies in the quality of the coaches and their training plan and our submission to that plan.
God is perfect. His plan is perfect. Will Christ the Bridegroom find us faithful to that plan when he returns for his Bride?


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Judge rules that Spanish museum is rightful owner of looted Nazi painting
Photo: Everett - Art/Shutterstock
The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid will be allowed to keep a controversial painting after a 14-year legal battle. When Lilly Cassirer tried to flee Germany before World War II, she was forced to trade a valuable Camille Pissarro painting — the "Rue Saint-Honore in the Afternoon. Effects of Rain" — for her freedom. That painting has since ended up in the Spanish museum though the family of Cassirer staked a claim to the painting and hasn't stopped trying to recover it. Even though it was technically acquired through Nazi looting, the museum is not obligated to return the painting.
According to Spanish law, if a museum didn't know that an artwork was looted when they acquired it, they are legally entitled to keep it. That law is, however, at odds with the Washington Principles — an international agreement to return Nazi-looted art to the descendants of those from whom they were taken.
While the judge ruled in favor of the museum, he also said that Spain's insistence on keeping the painting was "inconsistent" with the agreement, which is found upon a moral principle that art confiscated from Holocaust victims ultimately belongs to their families.
The decision leaves open the possibility of an appeal though it's unclear whether the family will pursue that avenue. Steve Zack, the Cassirer family's lawyer, told AP, "We respectfully disagree that the court cannot force the kingdom of Spain to comply with its moral commitments."
H/T: BBC
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Carnival Breeze Construction Milestone Commemorated with Traditional Coin Ceremony, Initial Float Out
by Joyce Oliva September 19, 2011
In a time-honored maritime tradition, a ceremony was held aboard the Carnival Breeze on Friday at the Fincantieri shipyard in Monfalcone, Italy, during which a commemorative coin was welded to the ship's mast to mark a significant construction milestone.
Following the coin ceremony, the dry dock facility was filled with water and the Carnival Breeze was floated out and repositioned to another dock where she will undergo final interior outfitting in preparation for her June 3, 2012 debut.
Exclusive images and videos of the coin ceremony and float out, as well as the ship's many features, are available at the company's Facebook page (www.facebook.com/carnival) under the Carnival Breeze tab.
Carnival Breeze is scheduled to enter service June 3, 2012, with a special 12-day cruise from Venice to Barcelona, positioning the vessel for a summer schedule of 12-day Mediterranean cruises. Following its trans-Atlantic crossing, Carnival Breeze will launch year-round six- and eight-day Caribbean cruises from Miami November 24, 2012, becoming the largest Carnival ship to ever sail from that port.
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John Heald Named 'Best Cruise Blogger' at First-Ever Cruise International Awards in London


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in anticipation of christmas projects, i wanted some painted paper that looks like fire. since it was k week, we started with red paint (in a ketchup bottle). this is almost as funny as this.
we added a new color each day: red, yellow, orange.
the yellow was glitter paint!
the first day we painted paper taped to the table. since i had to clean the table anyway, we switched to painting the actual table and making prints of their work.
I had never thought of putting paint in a ketchup bottle – that is such a cute and fun idea. What a fabulous mess everyone has made – Awesome!


Lauren and Richard got married this summer at the beautiful Le Petit Chateau in Northumberland surrounded by their close friends and family. The day was so relaxed, elegant and simply beautiful, exactly what I expected after meeting them both. Every little detail was thought about and oh so gorgeous!
One of the funniest moments that really sticks out to me is Lauren's dads speech where he proclaimed that his biggest lesson learned from this wedding was that Jimmy Choo is not a Chinese takeaway. Although, those shoes are damn beautiful!
We waited until after dinner to venture out for portraits, it was cloudy all morning but I had complete faith that we would get some of that lovely golden sun before sunset! The risk paid off and it was amazing!
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Discussion in 'Digital Photography' started by cube, Nov 15, 2006.
what do you mean by "coming soon to mac"?
wow. thats HUGE. other that for like an industrial billboard or ad, what in the world would you need an image that big for?
AutopanoPro is already "at" my Mac.
i believe the mac version has been out since late may of this year, so i'm still not sure what the OP meant by "coming to mac."
The Autopano site is outdated. It says coming soon to Linux and Mac.


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Gliwice – castle and city defensive walls
reconstruction of Gliwice fortifications from the 17th century
plan of Gliwice fortifications: b-Black Gate, l-White Gate, m-castle (Zeitritz Manor), a,b,d,g,h,j,k,m,o,p,t-relics of city wall, f,n,s-relics of moat, e,r-relics misinterpreted as city walls
Gliwice was surrounded by defensive walls in the first half of the 14th century. During the Hussite wars, the Taborites captured and plundered Gliwice, making the city a starting point for their armed expeditions. In 1431 duke Konrad the White recapture the city, wherein a significant part of the inhabitants were murdered or imprisoned, and fortifications were destroyed to a large extent. After the Hussite wars, the fortification system required reconstruction. At the end of the 18th century and throughout the nineteenth century, their gradual demolition and liquidation took place.
Castle in Gliwice was most probably built along with the city walls in the mid-fourteenth century under the reign of Siemowit, the Bytom prince. It has not been located to this day. One can only assume that it was in the north – western corner of the city. The castle known today as Piast Castle in historical sources, has appeared in the 16th century as the Cetrycz Manor (Manor of Zetritzs), and for its construction a city wall and fortified towers were used. It was rebuilt in 1558-1561, by the then city's leaseholder, Fryderyk von Cetrycz.
In the second half of the eighteenth century, the defensive walls were reduced to about 7 meters, which allowed for further reconstruction of the building. In the mid-19th century, in place of the demolished medieval tower, the new eastern wing of the building was created, modeled on the west wing.
plan of the castle according to A.Kwiecień
reconstruction of the castle from the 16th century, so-called Zetritz Manor
Originally, the perimeter of the walls had 1125 meters, their height reached 8,5-9 meters, and the thickness was sometimes even up to 1,2 meter. The circumference was erected mostly in the opus emplectum technique with a brick face in the flemish bond. The foundations were erected mainly from glacial erratic stones. The use of different construction materials for building may suggest that walls were created in several stages.
Within the fortifications there were 29 (according to other sources 36) half towers and two four-story gate towers: White, also called Bytom Gate and Black, also called Racibórz Gate. The Black Gate from the outside was protected with an additional foregate. The towers had a rectangular shape with regular external dimensions of 2 x 8 meters and were originally mostly open from the inside. The exception was the towers absorbed by the castle and the tower at the Black Gate, which although built with the wall and clearly tied to it, were thicker by about 0.2 meter. Their height was probably slightly larger than the curtain and amounted to about 9 meters. The curtain had a porch for defenders. According to early modern urbariums in the seventeenth century, the fortifications consisted of a high earth embankment, acting as a bulwark, a moat away from the wall line about 7 – 12 meters and a slope with a wooden palisade behind which was a city wall.
The first stage of the castle construction consists of two towers connected with a curtain wall and a wooden gallery. In contrast to the majority of Gliwice towers created on the plan of the letter "U", the castle towers were built on a square plan. At that time, they probably played the role of an arsenal. In the middle of the 16th century, a two-storey brick building with five windows axes was built between the towers. The ground floor and first floor of the western tower were also adapted. Mono-pitched roof was adjacent to the defensive wall. In the 18th century, the western tower was lowered, but enlarged along the north-south axis and rebuilt on a rectangular plan. The new wing was covered with a gable roof, similar to the space between towers.
To this day, fragments of medieval fortifications have survived, among them a curtain with a tower, which was used in the construction of the castle, and a fragment of the wall near the parish church of All Saints. Currently, the renovated castle buildings house a museum.
castle in Gliwice, photo Wikimedia Commons
Piast castle in Gliwice or the Zetritz Manor from the 16th century created from the use of city fortifications
Leksykon zamków w Polsce, L.Kajzer, S.Kołodziejski, J.Salm, Warszawa 2003.
Sypek A., Sypek.R., Zamki i obiekty warowne od Opola do Żywca, Warszawa 2014.
Webpage skladnica gornoslaska.pl, Miasto Gliwice i mury obronne.


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Chrysanthemum indicum Linné (Compositae) has long been used in traditional Korean, Chinese, Japanese medicine to treat various immune-related diseases. Chrysanthemum indicum extract (CIE) has been used in various studies with promising results. A series of studies have demonstrated that Chrysanthemum indicum possesses antimicrobial, antiinflammatory, immunomodulatory, and neuroprotective effects. Recently, much attention has been devoted to the anticancer activity of Chrysanthemum indicum, especially in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).
The following study performed in rats with human cells showed CIE inhibited proliferation of human heptocellular carcinoma (HCC) cells in a time- and dose-dependent manner without cytotoxicity. CIE induced apoptosis which is cell death of human HCC in a concentration-dependent manner, as determined by flow cytometry. The cancer-specific selectivity shown in their study suggests that the Chrysanthemum Indicum plant extract could be a promising novel treatment for human cancer.
World J Gastroenterol. 2009 Sep 28;15(36):4538-46.
Induction of apoptosis and cell cycle arrest in human HCC MHCC97H cells with Chrysanthemum indicum extract.
AIM: To investigate the effects of Chrysanthemum indicum extract (CIE) on inhibition of proliferation and on apoptosis, and the underlying mechanisms, in a human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) MHCC97H cell line. METHODS: Viable rat hepatocytes and human endothelial ECV304 cells were examined by trypan blue exclusion and MTT assay, respectively, as normal controls. The proliferation of MHCC97H cells was determined by MTT assay. The cellular morphology of MHCC97H cells was observed by phase contrast microscopy. Flow cytometry was performed to analyze cell apoptosis with annexin V/propidium iodide (PI), mitochondrial membrane potential with rhodamine 123 and cell cycle with PI in MHCC97H cells. Apoptotic proteins such as cytochrome C, caspase-9, caspase-3 and cell cycle proteins, including P21 and CDK4, were measured by Western blotting. RESULTS: CIE inhibited proliferation of MHCC97H cells in a time- and dose-dependent manner without cytotoxicity in rat hepatocytes and human endothelial cells. CIE induced apoptosis of MHCC97H cells in a concentration-dependent manner, as determined by flow cytometry. The apoptosis was accompanied by a decrease in mitochondrial membrane potential, release of cytochrome C and activation of caspase-9 and caspase-3. CIE arrested the cell cycle in the S phase by increasing P21 and decreasing CDK4 protein expression. CONCLUSION: CIE exerted a significant apoptotic effect through a mitochondrial pathway and arrested the cell cycle by regulation of cell cycle-related proteins in MHCC97H cells without an effect on normal cells. The cancer-specific selectivity shown in this study suggests that the CI plant extract could be a promising novel treatment for human cancer.
This study showed CIE anti-inflammatory effects and examines the pathway.
J Ethnopharmacol. 2009 Apr 21;122(3):473-7. Epub 2009 Feb 3.
Chrysanthemum indicum Linné extract inhibits the inflammatory response by suppressing NF-kappaB and MAPKs activation in lipopolysaccharide-induced RAW 264.7 macrophages.
J Ethnopharmacol. 2005 Oct 3;101(1-3):334-7.
Anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory activities of the extracts from the inflorescence of Chrysanthemum indicum Linné.
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