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TitoElSpicco
more power to ya man. you fly through the turns with the e-brake up and get back to me on how those flat spots on your tires work out.
coyote-x
I would try gravel roads if you're interested in sliding. You can have loads of fun on them. With minimal wear to your tires... Just drive out in the country somewhere and find one... or a paved road with loose pebbles and such on it...
Or, if you lack gravel roads, do it in the rain. I find that works decently well. Unless you have a pair of cheap'o hard rear tires (like mine) you're likely to get flat spots if you do it on dry pavement (as Tito said...) or stretch out your E-brake and have to tighten it...
Even with a RWD car, drifting wears out your tires pretty fast...
'97 LX Sport, 5 spd, 122k miles.
TitoElSpicco said:
Do you seriously believe you can't spin a fwd car out??? I mean yeah you're right, it's a LOT LOT LOT easier to do in a RWD car, but you can spin a FWD car without using the ebrake.
Say you're drifting into a left corner, ok before the corner, speed up, go into the corner, steer away from it and then into it real quick, that will get the rear end to swing wide and it'll slide around JUST like a car w/ rwd, the only difference is you'd have to stay off the throttle unlike w/ a rwd where you can gun it to the exact position and then let off to straighten it out.
It's all about technique. FWD cars are safer on the road because they're harder to fishtail and slide, but done right you can do it...without leaving huge bald spots on the tires.
*baps james* (you weren't supposed to say how!!) It takes a lot of practice though. The first few times I tried it I ended up in my neighbors' yards and had to buy them new grass... After which I went somewhere else... Then after that I decided it wasn't worth it and gave up on drifting and went back to driving it around corners at the edge of the tire grip... Which is why I didn't bother saying how to do it because... Unless you're on gravel, so far as I've found, it just wastes the speed... I dunno... I'm probably doing it wrong tho... Hum...
siragan
yeah, james is describing what is known as a "scandinavian flick".
Only tough part is getting the speed. At first, it feels like you're gonna crash and die, but start slowly, with a small fishtail, then bump up the speed. Before you know it, you'll be flyin at 40mph through dirt roads drifting the turns. It's really fun and it ACTUALLY WORKS.
Just don't be suprised if you fk up your paintjob... don't do it with a car that you pamper.
You should see my car's paint...
Rock chips /all/ over it... But you can only see if you look real close.
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siragan said:
The funniest part about this thread siragan, is that you described that exact same maneuver like 2 weeks ago, yet no one noticed it. :?
I'll get around to trying it one of these days myself, now that I know the basics on how to do it...
Have you actually seen my car though? paint is pink with brown spots all over the rear fenders/quarters... i parked next to a lady today who said she parked where she did because she needed to open her door all the way and I said go ahead and scratch it, I could care less about this paint. (totally serious btw) but she didn't believe it. my drivers door has two small dents in it anyway from before i bought the car.
Okay so maybe my car is not that bad. It's mostly around the bottom of the door panels because whenever I see gravel I cannot resist spinning my wheels and shooting rocks everywhere and I also cannot resist using the e-brake to spin out or going way too fast and being stupid.
coyote-x Jun 28, 2003


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It's a hands on commitment.
Hei Hei Kindergarten opened on the 22nd of May 1961. Above, is some of the children at Hei Hei getting their hands dirty with paper mache.
Kidsfirst has always encouraged a hands on approach to learning, but when kindergartens like Hei Hei were first setting up, that concept had a whole new meaning for teachers and parents alike.
Carol Eggleston who taught in the 1950s, remembers being taught in teacher training, to make toys and equipment for the kindergarten.
"We needed to have practical experience and also we made things. In our training we made puzzles, posting boxes, we made wall posters, because none of this was commercially available."
Woodwork was a standard part of teacher training back then, but even with the teachers' creative endeavors, crafty fathers were often called on to help boost the kindergarten's toy box.
Below is an exert from the 1956 Kindergarten Handbook which emphasised how important home-made toys and father help was in creating the tools and toys that was used in kindergartens in the past.
"Home-made toys (big carts, strong boxes on strong axles and wheels, trucks etc. for two or three children to play in, several dolls' beds etc) are strongly advised and could be made by a capable local tradesman or by interested fathers. This method of obtaining toys is strongly advocated by the Free Kindergarten Union to save expense and to provide variety, individuality and stimulation among Kindergartens."
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I want to read the rules-- yet I think reading them straight through will surely put me to sleep.
My own idea: I could start with finding the same rules in Solar Starfire as in the QSRs and use them as a jumping-off point.
Do my new friends here have suggestions?
It depends on what you're interested in. Personally, I'm having fun with the strategic side but you might start with section A-D to get most of the tactical rules. Individual systems are back in AA.
Those are scenarios designed to be used with the full set of Solar Starfire TACTICAL RULES (A-G), but limited to early technologies. It should give you a starting point for learning the tactical rules without having to learn how to design ships first.
As for the strategic rules, I'd recommend setting up as if you are going to play a full-on game (homeworld and 3 warp point), then just sandbox those four systems. Set up your economy and research infrastructure and get the hang of ship building and colonization without the worry of NPRs.
Yeah... hey nukesnipe. Do you think it would be neat to have a QSR for the strategic rules? It would have more than 3 pages (obviously), but it might make a neat stepping stone for new players to get into the strategy part of the game. What do ya'll think?
Cralis wrote: Yeah... hey nukesnipe. Do you think it would be neat to have a QSR for the strategic rules? It would have more than 3 pages (obviously), but it might make a neat stepping stone for new players to get into the strategy part of the game. What do ya'll think?
I've been playing/studying (more study than play) Starfire since 1981. Individually, I love each part of Ultra/Solar Starfire. The simplicity of the tactical game; the flexibility of ship generation; the detail of star system generation, and by extension NPR creation; the exploration of those systems; the R&D rules.
But when put together in a 400 page rule book, it's scary as hell. Even to someone whose played every edition for 35 years.
So, yes, a set of QSRs or perhaps even tutorials. The rules have great examples, but they involve flipping through the aforementioned 400 page book. Something that walks a player through the initial setup of his home system, and then perhaps a bit of expansion and contact with an NPR would let someone see all the pieces in motion as they were intended. I think that could be very beneficial.
Someone - Lomn, I think - put together an excellent tutorial for the first few turns off a Solar game, actually.
Yep I thought about Lomn's tutorial this morning, but I only just now got a chance to find it.
That's a super-nice tutorial. Lots to read!
I like the idea of a QSR for the Empires portion. I will be glad to playtest it.


Despite the obvious (three are people, two are geographic locations, three are the law of the land, one is a corporation and one is the second largest religion in the world), what do these enumerated ten have in common? The answer is simple -- they all have the instant ability to polarize and divide us.
Unless you have recently emerged from a coma, you most likely have a strong opinion on all ten and on a moments notice can distinguish your opinion on each from opposing "wrong" opinions. Such is the nature of the world we now live in.
This is not merely a polarized nation, but instead a polarized world. Never before have more people had access to more information and the opportunity to communicate with ease... and simultaneously I would submit to you, never have people been more polarized, isolated and perhaps alone.
Our world in 2014 provides us with seemingly infinite opportunities for homophily (the tendency to affiliate and bond with those who possess similar preferences) and consequently, the concomitant tendency to distinguish others who are not like us, isolate them and demonize them.
Depending on your ideological preference, you can watch Fox News, or MSNBC. You can listen to Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity for nine hours each day without changing your radio station.
Whether through our use of the Internet, our smartphone/tablet, cable television station or social media, we can insulate and isolate ourselves, surrounding our persona in a virtual womb of intellectual comfort... a womb which will not nourish growth however, but rather enhance the familiar world we find so comforting.
Rachael Maddow destroys Sarah Palin, not face to face, but rather by arguing against selected sound bites and video.
Ann Coulter attacks President Obama, not in person, but through the misleading formula of arguing against statements he has made, all too often unartfully redacted.
There is safety in selective, detached isolation. But intellectual growth does not often occur in the presence of comfort.
To grow intellectually we must leave that which we find comfortable and explore unfamiliar people, places and thoughts. Only then can we position ourselves to know the strengths of our own convictions and gain insights into alternatives presented by opposing points of view.
Along the way, in the past few years, I would submit, we have lost the art of enlightened civil discourse. We have forgotten the eloquent beauty of reflective verbal exchanges. The style once exercised weekly by William F. Buckley on Firing Line.
I never agreed with a single political position Buckley espoused or an article he wrote (with perhaps the exception of one on sailing), but I watched and read him faithfully. I grew as a result of his making me feel uncomfortable with his precise erudition (and along the way I learned the proper use of the word "salubrious").
So what is the difference between the approach of Ann Coulter and the late William F. Buckley? Both were highly educated and conservative. The answer is simple -- Coulter seeks to take advantage of our homophilic nature and divide us; Buckley sought to expose the weakness in opposing points of view and educate us.
Sometime find the YouTube video clips of arguments between Buckley and Noam Chomsky or even the more vitriolic exchange between Buckley and Gore Vidal at the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention. The discourse is sharp, witty, and eloquent.
One cannot watch the one hour program with Chomsky and not gain insight into the positions of both men. Buckley never harbored the thought that he would convert Chomsky nor visa versa. One comedic threat aside, Buckley attacked the opposing point of view, not the personal vehicle which brought it to him.
Ann Coulter seeks to shock and divide. She is the storm trooper for her homophilous audience and presents her arguments from behind the safety of the host's kill switch, the call screener, and the seven-second delay. Exposure to her rants leaves one not feeling enriched but rather feeling the need for a long, hot shower.
By contrast, tonight marks the start of another season of Currently Speaking.
Currently Speaking is an absolute regional institution and treasure. It is a gift we should more fully utilize and value. It is far different than the scripted, formulaic, repetitive clones we find literally by the dozens on endless cable television channels, radio talk shows, and web sites limited only in number by the ability to create another .com domain.
Currently Speaking is a live program (rare these days) with real potential for viewer participation. In this simple electronic town hall format we can challenge one another and take issue with opposing points of view.
Once each week on Tuesday evenings we have the opportunity to spend an hour hopefully not scoring points by sharpening our differences but by sharing opposing points of view.
Let's strive to identify new sources of information and draw upon the factors which mutually interest us rather than the shallow surface issues which divide us. Let us agree to educate one another not alienate. I can aggressively attack your point of view without attacking you personally. Such is the domain of reasoned civil discourse.
Amid the cacophony of divisive forces clamoring for our time and attention, let's resolve to meet here once each week and explore the diversity which makes us rich. If done correctly, we can find ourselves at 9:00 pm each Tuesday evening, longing for another hour and not a long, hot shower.
Jim Johnson is an adjunct professor of political science at Northwood University.


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Adolfson & Peterson Construction and Billingsley Company Break Ground on Office Building at International Business Park In Plano
Five-story, 250,000-SF building will supply new office product to recovering sector
Rendering of new office building at International Business Park in Plano, Texas. Credit: GFF Architects
PLANO, Texas – (Dec. 14, 2021) – Adolfson & Peterson Construction, a national construction management firm, general contractor and Engineering News-Record Top 100 Contractor, and Billingsley Company, a leading developer, have broken ground on an office building in an additional phase of Billingsley's International Business Park.
The new five-story, 250,000-square-foot building will be located within the business park, northwest of President George Bush Turnpike (SH 190) and one block from the Dallas North Tollway in Plano, Texas. AP will manage construction on the tilt-wall core/shell office building; a three-level, 180,000-square-foot parking garage with 584 spaces; and various site improvements including landscaping and site paving.
"While Dallas' office market has been slow to recover, absorption and demand ticked upward for the third quarter. We believe this trend positions Billingsley's award-winning business park – as well as this new office building – well in the coming years," said Will Pender, president of AP Gulf States. "We're excited to get to work on our fourth major office project with Billingsley and help them take another step forward in completing this state-of-the-art development."
Rendering of new office building interior at International Business Park in Plano, Texas. Credit: GFF Architects
The office building site will be adjacent to another four-story, 187,100-square-foot office building and 9,000-square-foot amenity center with a large fitness center, conference center, and tenant lounge with a curated mini-market, that was completed by AP in June 2020. GFF Architects is the planning architect for the project, and Trevor Franke and Gini Rounsaville with JLL are coordinating the building leasing for Billingsley.
"The way offices are being used is evolving and we constantly strive to meet the ever-changing needs of our customers," said Lucy Burns, partner at Billingsley Company. "There will be a first-floor coffee lounge with café-style seating, soaring windows, and large art installations indoors and out. We've added patios to the first floor and balconies on several floors – all of which will overlook a large park with meeting areas and wi-fi – giving employees the option to work outdoors."
International Business Park is a 300-acre, master-planned campus with 11 buildings and 1.4 million square feet of developed office space in Dallas' Platinum Corridor, America's fastest-growing suburban office district. The park is currently home to more than 100 businesses and more than 4,000 employees.
Notable AP Gulf States projects include PGA of America's new headquarters in Frisco; VariSpace Coppell and Vari's headquarters in Coppell; the Arlington ISD Arts and Athletics Complex in Arlington; several education facilities for the University of Texas and Fort Worth ISD; and Park Cities Presbyterian Church in Dallas. In addition, AP's Midland-based West Texas office is currently working on Texas Tech's Health Science Center project and Potter County's District Courts Building in Amarillo, while the Central Texas office is working with Northside ISD on several projects.
AP & Acadia Healthcare break ground on Rio Vista Behavioral Health Expansion Project In El Paso
Dallas Morning News Article: PGA of America's new Frisco headquarters still on track for opening next year
AP and America Development & Investments break ground on Reunion Rehabilitation Hospital in Plano

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Early boxart of the game features Mario in his sombrero outfit from the Sand Kingdom in the bottom left corner instead of his snorkling outfit from the Seaside Kingdom. This was likely changed in response to a backlash about the outfit, to help avoid offending any potential customers.
According to producer Yoshiaki Kazumi, in an interview with Polygon, the reason why Pauline made a comeback in this game was because they wanted to give players something familiar to focus on in a strange place.
According to producer Yoshiaki Koizumi. Pauline was originally conceived as the princess of New Donk City, but the idea was later scrapped and she became the mayor of New Donk City instead.
According to Yoshiaki Koizumi, the song 'Jump up, Super Star!', came from developing Pauline as a character.
"As we were developing Pauline more as a character, we know that she was going to be interested in jazz. It was interesting for us to have the first song in a Mario game with vocals. Have you guys been finding yourself singing it?"
During the "Jump Up, Super Star!" song sung by Pauline, the mayor of New Donk City, the 25m theme from Donkey Kong can be heard when she sings "Odyssey, ya see". Also whilst she sings, her dance mimics her sprite movements in Donkey Kong.
Inside the map that Hint Toad is seen holding, if you're able to look close at it you can make out the layout of the level Bob-omb Battlefield from Super Mario 64.


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True North Records Debuts Musician-Focused Fine Art Gallery
WATERDOWN, Ontario (CelebrityAccess) — Mabruka and Geoff Kulawick, proprietors of Canadian independent record label True North Records, are launching a new art gallery that will showcase the visual artwork of a veritable who's who of modern music.
Named the True North Gallery – The Music Gallery of Fine Art in Waterdown, Ontario, the gallery houses more than 100 works by artists including Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Miles Davis, Jerry Garcia, Patti Smith, Tony Bennett, Grace Slick (Jefferson Airplane), Andy Warhol (producer of Lou Reed & The Velvet Underground), Graham Nash, Joseph Arthur, Louie Perez (Los Lobos), Rich Robinson (Black Crowes), Ron Wood (Rolling Stones), Janis Joplin, and Canadians Will Millar (Irish Rovers), Terry Watkinson (Max Webster), Martin Tielli (Rheostatics), Marc Jordan, and dozens of others.
"There are millions of people who are connected to music artists in a deeply emotional way. I believe many of them want to possess a one of a kind, original work by their favourite artists, not a replicated audio file or compact disc, or a one night concert experience, but something that nobody else has, with a lasting – and incremental – value. This is our target market – music fans – and as music people with successful labels and an artist marketing background we have become experts at marketing to music fans," says Geoff of their art gallery enterprise. "Brooke and I are extremely excited by the business prospects for the gallery, we love music, and we love art – it is so great in so many ways."
The gallery already held a private opening on March 25th, with special guests Buffy Sainte-Marie and Murray McLauchlan on hand to discuss the intersection of their music and visual art. But for the plebs, the gallery will be open daily from June 15 – September 15, and by appointment only at other times.
For more information, check them out online at www.themusic.gallery – Staff Writers
Penske Media Eldridge Acquires Dick Clark Productions – The Company Behind Golden Globes, ACM, Billboard, & American Music Awards
Longtime Chicago Radio Personality Lin Brehmer, Dead At 68
VenuWorks Names Lynn Cannon Executive Director At The North Shore Center for the Performing Arts And Lori Smith-Schollmeyer As GM Of The Capital Region MU Health Care Amphitheater
Live Entertainment & Concert Promotion Company Décibels Productions Acquires French Talent Agency Les Visiteurs du Soir


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New technology created by IU researchers could halt drug cravings through non-invasive brain stimulation
Joshua Brown, professor in IU psychological and brain sciences, discusses his work to potentially develop a device that would safely suppress cravings and support individuals in overcoming addiction.
Description of the video:
For decades, researchers have known that addiction creates a certain amount of activity in parts deep inside the brain. But what if we could temporarily disrupt the function of these areas, allowing cravings to be halted via painless, non-invasive brain stimulation?
With the help of a recently developed technology called "temporal interference neurostimulation," we are working to develop a device that would influence specific regions of brain that involve addiction, without surgery and without affecting other areas of the brain.
If this technology works the way we anticipate, this may allow us to suppress cravings in those with addiction with small, inexpensive technology worn on the head.
Through IU's Responding to the Addictions Grand Challenge, our hope is to develop a safe and non-invasive treatment option for addiction, bettering the lives of people in Indiana and beyond.
Can drug cravings be halted through painless, non-invasive brain stimulation?
Joshua Brown, professor in IU Psychological and Brain Sciences, is testing this theory as part of his research for the Responding to the Addictions Crisis Grand Challenge. Taking advantage of recent breakthroughs in deep-brain stimulation techniques, as well as findings from his innovative brain imaging work at IU, Brown hopes his research leads to the development of an inexpensive headband device that would safely suppress cravings and support individuals in overcoming addiction.
"This technology opens up a whole new set of possibilities for treating addiction," Brown said. "We envision a lightweight headband that can be worn to generate precise electrical signals that block cravings and help people avoid relapse to drug use."
Brown's background in both mechanical engineering and neuroscience informs his approach to the problem of addiction. The experimental technology works by applying a harmless, high-frequency current of electricity (powered by a 9-volt battery) at four specific points on the scalp.
"This type of therapy is common for stimulating changes to brain activity in outer portions of the brain (near the skull), but until recently it has not been possible to use this method to target deeper portions of the brain (closer to its center)," Brown said. "The problem we are trying to overcome is how to stimulate these interior areas without disrupting brain activity in the outer regions through which the current must pass when it is applied to the skull."
Left: The area the temporal interference, non-invasive deep brain stimulation method will target. Right: The technology's computer chip.
Brown's project will test a new technique developed by researchers at MIT that uses higher-frequency currents to isolate these deeper brain regions. The technique works by setting the currents at two slightly different frequencies, which produces a new wave pattern when the currents are combined. On its own, either electrical frequency would be too high to affect brain activity, but the combined pattern is at a low enough frequency to produce brain stimulation.
The positioning of the electrodes on the skull will determine the specific area where the electrical fields intersect within the interior of the brain, where the lower-frequency pattern will appear. In this way, deeper regions of the brain can be targeted for non-invasive stimulation without affecting the brain's outer regions.
Based on previous neuroscience research showing the cessation of drug cravings in response to disruptions in specific regions of brain activity, this low-frequency zone of electrical interference could potentially be effective in suppressing cravings and withdrawal.
Brown's prior research at IU helps to indicate which brain regions should be targeted and provides a means to directly observe the effect of the treatment -- on both the brain and behavior -- in real time. Using a programmable e-cigarette his team developed for use inside a magnetic resonance imaging facility, Brown has pioneered a method for mapping brain activity related to decision-making regarding drug use. His research aimed to observe which portions of the brain were active when subjects experienced cravings and when they considered different options for obtaining the drug.
Brown looks at brain scans on his computer.
Nicotine-dependent individuals in his study who had abstained from smoking the day of the experiment were given the opportunity to make these decisions by choosing either a guaranteed small amount of nicotine or an uncertain chance of receiving a larger amount (or none at all).
This approach enabled Brown to pinpoint parts of the brain that were active both in drug craving and in weighing the risks and benefits of different drug-seeking strategies, adding to a growing body of neuroscience identifying specific sites of brain activity common across all types of drug addiction.
Brown's Grand Challenges study will use this approach to test whether the new deep-brain stimulation technique alters brain activity in these specific regions and whether this disruption changes subjects' experience of and response to drug cravings. As with any new potential treatment, the study will first confirm the safety of the method and the absence of unacceptable side effects and will conclude by comparing the effectiveness of the new approach with that of existing treatments.
"If successful, this type of approach could allow for safe and inexpensive interventions to address a range of disorders associated with the brain's interior regions, such as chronic pain and schizophrenia," Brown said.


Here is my advice about asthma in a series of short notes about asthma.
This year – 2018 – I am 75 years of age and still very fit and strong.
Every day I have asthma and take asthma medication.
I find the most powerful medication is Foradile, available in Australia but not available in Thailand.
I am, and always have been an asthmatic, my condition changes from mild to severe at any time for little reason.
I owe my strength to my genes and the hard physical work that I enjoy, and also to the doctors and nurses that have pulled me through many seemingly irreversible asthma attacks.
Of course the asthma drugs are my final savoir.
Here is my advice about asthma that I wish to convey to those who have asthma and those whose children have asthma.
PLEASE NOTE: – my advice is from my personal experiences and my observations.
I am not a doctor – you must use your doctor's advice.
Some people including so called faith healers etc.. will try to tell you how to control and cure asthma, do listen, but by no means use their advice rather than consulting a doctor.
A strong healthy normally breathing person can be dead within 45 minutes of the onslaught of a massive asthma attack.
Most asthma attacks are mild.
Most asthma attacks start out mild and go away with simple treatment (a puffer) or go away with relaxation, or just hang around until treated.
Children should be treated as soon as symptoms arise.
Wheezing is often the first symptom.
If a childs asthma attack does not respond to treatment within a few minutes then it is off to the hospital.
A mild asthma attack might go away on the way to hospital or at hospital due to the change of environment.
The best is cold dry air when I am having an asthma attack.
The cold air from a car air conditioner can sometimes stop an asthma attack.
I sometimes go for a ride on my motor bike to get fresh air and stop an asthma attack.
Asthma is not the same every day, some days almost nothing is a trigger and other days almost everything is a trigger.
Important:- If you are taking a person to hospital who is having an asthma attack, encourage but do not force them to hurry or get changed into street clothes or wear a seat belt etc., just get them there as fast as possible without hassling them.
Try not to put an asthmatic in a car where someone has smoked a cigarette, even if it was smoked yesterday.
When you get to the hospital send someone ahead to tell the nurse to prepare for an asthma patient who is slowly walking into the emergency ward.
If a person is having a server asthma attack or a long asthma attack they might appear very relaxed and not wanting to cause a disturbance – this could be lack of oxygen to the brain.
These notes apply to adults and children.
Some people have only one attach of asthma in their lifetime.
Some people have asthma constantly.
Some people grow out of their asthma.
Growing out of asthma might take 2 to 20 years.
Things that start an attack are called triggers.
Some common asthma triggers are physical exercise, excitement, worry or a fright, a quick change in the weather, cigarettes, other peoples cigarette smoke, perfume, hair spray, shampoo, smelly soap, laundry detergent smell on bedding, diesel exhaust fumes, petrol exhaust fumes, fresh cut grass, jasmine in flower, honey suckle in flower, horse smells, dogs, cats, dust, hay, oil paint, mould, vacuum cleaning, and some foods like MSG and pickled onions.
Not everybody have the same triggers.
People with asthma automatically hold their breath and shallow breathe when they detect an asthma trigger.
When a person is asleep they breathe normally and do not smell the asthma triggers, this can be dangerous if a trigger e.g. cigarette smoke comes into the room.
Not everybody with asthma respond to the same medication.
Asthma can be embarrassing especially for children.
Asthma can be extremely embarrassing for shy children.
Children may try to hide an asthma attack if they are embarrassed.
Asthma is not caused by hot humid weather.
Asthma becomes more severe during hot humid weather.
Attacks often occur around 3am during hot humid weather.
Wheezing is a first sign of a possible severe attack.
Itchy face neck and chest often accompanies an attack.
Sometimes coughing during an attack can remove fluid and open the lungs, thus relieving the asthma.
Dry coughing can make asthma worse.
Most annoying for an asthmatic is the ignorance that many people have about asthma.
This ignorance can be a grave danger to asthmatic children.
Some typical things that ignorant people do and say are, I will just have a few puffs on my cigarette and put it out, or they smoke it just outside the door or even if they go well away, they come back stinking of cigarette smoke.
One little whiff of cigarette smoke can sometimes trigger a massive asthma attack.
One little whiff of cigarette smoke can trigger an asthma attack that lingers for a month.
Another annoying thing is when a parent or friend insists on wearing perfume and the asthmatic must constantly shallow breath to avoid an attack.
Asthma triggers are triggers and it does not take much to set off a trigger which may have a devastating reaction.


Провели презентацию программы для студентов Университета Инха в Ташкенте.
Одни из самых активных девушек в технологических сферах — именно в Инха. Благодарим Университет за поддержку Technovation!
Студенты первых курсов становятся участниками, студенты старших курсов пробуют себя в роли менторов. Очень полезный опыт для молодежи.
Inha University in Tashkent (IUT) hosted a presentation of technological contest Technovation for girls.
Organizers of the contest Saida Yusupova and Elena Selezneva met with the female students of IUT and briefed them about the contest, which is held for the first time in Uzbekistan.
During the meeting, it was noted that mission of Technovation is to inspire and train girls to solve real problems of society with help of information technologies and entrepreneurship skills. The participation in the contest is free.
The contest is aimed at developing critical thinking, entrepreneurship and programming skills among girls. The contest will increase the interest of the participants and all parties involved in the technical areas, increase the percentage of women in technical professions.
In opinion of the organizers, knowledge, obtained within the contest, will help the girls to adapt in the society and provide opportunity to take a worthy place in the competitive labor market.
Entrepreneurship and programming skills will allow to combine part-time work with family responsibilities in the future.
IUT student Dilnurakhon Tokhirova said: "First of all, I would like to thank the organizers for the opportunity to participate in the contest. This contest will give all girls the opportunity to prove themselves in IT, and also we will gain a lot of experience."


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This must set out the process for handling complaints about management, and the process for mediating disputes between residents.
standard steps the manager will take in attempting to resolve complaints and disputes and, where possible, the expected timeframes.
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Па́вел Ильи́ч Ку́рсов (5 декабря 1908, д. Кутюк-Кинер, Царевококшайский уезд, Казанская губерния, Российская империя, ныне , Республика Марий Эл, Россия — 5 марта 2006, Рига, Латвия) — марийский советский военачальник, герой Великой Отечественной войны. В годы Великой Отечественной войны — начальник штаба 129-й Орловской Краснознамённой ордена Кутузова стрелковой дивизии, гвардии полковник (1945). Почётный гражданин Залегощенского района Орловской области (1969).

Биография
Из многодетной марийской крестьянской семьи. После окончания начальной школы в 1917 году и школы колхозной молодёжи работал в хозяйстве родителей. Летом 1924 года вступил в РКСМ, возглавлял комсомольскую ячейку Кожлаерского сельсовета родного района. С 1928 года — бригадир лесорубов Мушмаринского леспромхоза, лесной приказчик и заведующий лесным складом на ст. Суслонгер Казанской железной дороги.

Осенью 1930 года был призван в ряды в РККА. Закончил полковую школу младших командиров в городе Ростов Ярославской области, затем в 1935 году — Киевскую объединённую военную школу им. С. Каменева. В звании лейтенанта был направлен в город Бердичев, где в 100-й стрелковой дивизии стал командиром учебного взвода полковой школы 300-го стрелкового полка.

В 1939 году стал членом КПСС. С 1939 года — слушатель Военной академии им. М. В. Фрунзе, с июля 1941 года — в штабе 32-й армии по организации ополчения, сооружению Можайской линии обороны. С октября 1941 года — начальник оперативного отделения 2-ой Московской коммунистической стрелковой дивизии (с 1942 года — 129 дивизия, с 1943 года — Орловская Краснознамённая стрелковая дивизия). Участник парада 7 ноября 1941 года на Красной площади в Москве. В июне 1941 года, являясь слушателем 3-го курса академии, находился на стажировке в городе Ковель Западной Украины. Всю войну находился на фронте: защищал Москву, сражался на Северо-Западном фронте, освобождал от немецко-фашистских захватчиков Орловщину, Белоруссию, Польшу, громил врага на территории фашистской Германии. Дослужился до гвардии полковника (1945). Встречался с Г. К. Жуковым, К. К. Рокоссовским, И. Д. Черняховским, И. Х. Баграмяном и др.

В послевоенный период проживал в Риге (Латвийская ССР), где после окончания Военной академии им. Фрунзе с 1949 года служил сначала начальником штаба гвардейского соединения, а потом начальником объединённых курсов усовершенствования офицерского состава Прибалтийского военного округа. В 1958 году вышел в отставку.

Часто приезжал на малую Родину, в д. Кутюк-Кинер ныне Моркинского района Марий Эл, занимался военно-патриотическим воспитанием молодого поколения, проводя встречи с детьми и молодёжью.

Решением Залегощенского исполкома райсовета депутатов трудящихся от 7 марта 1969 года Курсову Павлу Ильичу присвоено звание «Почётный гражданин Залегощенского района».

Был автором мемуаров «За тебя, крылатый город!» (1969), «От Москвы до Эльбы» (1973), «Потомкам в наследство» (1982), «Память сердца» (1998). Его статьи часто публиковались в газетах Латвии, Марийской АССР, Орловской и других областей, в центральных изданиях страны. Также издал 7 буклетов об участии его дивизии в основных стратегических операциях советских войск в годы Великой Отечественной войны.

Умер 5 марта 2006 года в Риге, похоронен там же.

Награды и звания
 Орден Ленина (30.12.1956)
 Орден Красной Звезды (16.07.1942; 06.11.1945)
 Орден Красного Знамени (20.07.1944; 15.02.1945; 15.11.1950)
 Орден Отечественной войны I степени (01.09.1943; 1985)
 Орден «Крест Храбрых» (Польша)
 Медаль «За боевые заслуги» (03.11.1944)
 Медаль «За оборону Москвы» (01.05.1944)
 Медаль «За освобождение Варшавы»
 Медаль «За Победу над Германией в Великой Отечественной войне 1941—1945 гг.» (09.05.1945)
 Гвардии полковник (1945)
 Почётный гражданин Залегощенского района Орловской области (1969)
 Согласно некоторым источникам, являлся также почётным гражданином Белостока (Польша), однако, по состоянию на 2020 год, имя Павла Курсова отсутствует в официальном списке почётных граждан города.

Память
 В память о Герое с 2003 года в Моркинской средней школе № 6 Республики Марий Эл работает школьный краеведческий музей им. П. И. Курсова и зал Боевой Славы.
 В 2005 году имя П. И. Курсова присвоено кадетам Моркинской средней школы № 6.
 В 2010 году на здании Моркинской средней школы № 6 открыта мемориальная доска.
 Его имя — в Книгах Почёта колхозов «Рассвет» и «Победа» ныне Моркинского района Марий Эл.

Примечания

Литература

Ссылки

 Память народа. Курсов Павел Ильич 1908 г. р.

 Марийское региональное отделение политической партии «Единая Россия». В память о земляке. 07.12.2018

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Zheng-de: Year 3, Month 10, Day 11
Wang Xi, a senior interpreter and assistant commander in the Embroidered-Uniform Guard, and others, memorialized: "The commissioner and other officials of the Interpreters Institute are unable to restrain the Institute attendants. It is requested that the interpreter-ushers for the various countries and other such officials be allowed to control the rituals on the new moon and on the 15th day of the month. It is also desired that the officials and clerks of that Institute be required to follow the orders which have already been issued." The memorial was sent to the Ministry of War which deliberated and advised: "Previously, the Ministry of Rites established a post of secretary to handle all matters in the Institute. The various interpreters were also to be subject to his orders. The task of interpreters is solely to translate the meaning of the yi language, and they must not interfere with the duties of the officials of the Ministry of Rites...."
Wu-zong: juan 43.3a-b
Zhong-yang Yan-jiu yuan Ming Shi-lu, volume 63, page 991
Geoff Wade, translator, Southeast Asia in the Ming Shi-lu: an open access resource, Singapore: Asia Research Institute and the Singapore E-Press, National University of Singapore, http://epress.nus.edu.sg/msl/reign/zheng-de/year-3-month-10-day-11-0, accessed January 17, 2021


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Q: Hadoop starter project suggestions I would love to find a few topics, thanks.

A: MergeSort is a fantastic/easy one to start with. You could also go with generating word counts for all words in a file. A good source of data is the Project Gutenberg library of public domain books (you could always concatenate a few of them together).
If you want something more advanced but in the same vein as word count, you could write a very simple distributed spell checker. Peter Norvig as an awesome simple demonstration of a spell checker written in Python. A good exercise would be extending this algorithm to operate on a file in a distributed fashion.

A: You have a few projects here
There is a few nice and interesting examples of small hadoop projects. Everything is described very well, additionally you can find the source code and all needed theory.

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		public override TextureLoader<Texture> CreateTextureLoader(Texture Texture) {
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Present: Leah K., Lew, John J., Bob H., Stan D., Steve G., Don R., Mary O.
Leah opened by requesting suggestions out of concern for the future of WNCPSR.
Bob Howarth said an occasional evening meeting might bring out more members.
Stan Dienst offered that a topical DVD at an evening meeting might help.
Bob felt that regularly scheduled meeting with legislators would get attention to our survival issues.
Mary thought that Dot Sulock might agree to be chair, Lew, having expressed interest in a roll change and a reprieve from his interminable sentence, after some 13 years leading the chapter. Others could also be candidates: Terry Clark, Don & of course there could be others.
Leah suggested partnering with like-minded organizations like Veterans For Peace to expand our reach.
A committee to work on reorganization was one idea, and it was agreed to try this with Don, Steve and Bob to meet before the next monthly meeting, possibly at the Arboretum for a central location, time and date to be arranged via phone calls from Don, at a time before the Holiday Party chez Patries.
11/11 Lester Brown talk at Warren Wilson. Lew pinned Lester down on nuclear energy and got the right answer: "not financially viable." Don got in line for the signing of Lester's masterpiece book PLAN B: 4.0 and was able to give Lester a signed copy of his novel, "based on your (Lester's) work."
11/12 Lew hosted Mike Boehm's presentation at UUCA, "Rising From The Ashes of My Lai."
11/13 Lew was praised by National (Barbara Gottlieb) for his recent excellent LTE in Asheville Citizen-Times promoting Senate approval of START Treaty.
11/17 Lew was on Public Access TV from 8-9 PM as interviewee of Veterans For Peace, on PSR priorities.
4/26/11 is the date for the upcoming Global Action Day, celebrating 25 years since Chernobyl, a follow-up on the recent 9/25/10 International Radioactive Waste Action Day, the first of a series of coordinated actions.
Bob Howarth (see addenda 1A & B) has penned an excellent essay on the desperate need for public funding of elections (PFE), formerly known as Campaign Finance Reform, a concept introduced by Common Cause in 1970.
Mary pointed out that in these 40 years things have only gotten worse, especially after the horrible Supreme Court Decision (Citizens United) in which they equated money with speech. Every schoolchild knows that money is property. Maybe we should pay out taxes with an essay, speech thereby being money. Today, billionaires have speech. The public at large is deaf mute, which makes for excellent spouses.
Lew brought up Alliance For NC $aves Energy, see addendum 2 in today's agenda.
Stan has a copy of Nuclear Tipping Point, a DVD which eloquently tells the dangers of nukes. Borrowed by Don for showing in Brevard. Also awaiting Pax Americana for similar showing.
Mary announced significant victories over cancellation of Maryland's Calvert Cliff's nuclear reactor and successful challenge of 2 Florida Progress Energy reactors plans; WNC-FM program with Ned Doyle last Sunday on nuclear waste. She and Brita Clark are also promoting a Jan. 6th or 7th chartered bus day-trip opportunity for WNC folks to testify re Blue Ribbon Commission proposal about nuclear waste management/. Cost will be $20 per person; WNCPSR allocated $100 to help provide scholarships.
The December meeting will be our Holiday Potluck Party at Lew and Jean's, 4 PM. Bring song sheets to brighten up the event. For directions contact Lew at 273-2249 or patrie.wncpsr@main.nc.us ... (more on this later).
The January meeting is likely to be 1-21-11 at noon, NIRS office, 35 Riverview Dr.
Meeting adjourned at 2 PM.
Through my near 80 years I have formed some conclusions as to the way things are and as to the way I think they should be. I share some of this with you in the hope that you may find some merit here that may serve to help you and others you deal with in your daily life.
I have concluded that the influence of special interest money, especially corporate money, has so skewed our election process that many if not most legislators are overly influenced by and in too many cases addicted to these monies for campaign funds for their next election. The result of this unhealthy situation is that our elected representatives too often see things, act, and vote with more concern for the wants of corporations rather than for the needs of their own constituents. This condition is fed and supported by many well paid and experienced full-time lobbyists (about 5 for every Congressman ) that daily ply the halls of our government office buildings to "update and inform" our legislators. Couple this with the scarcity of inputs from we constituents (largely due to a diminishing trust in government and a "what's the use" attitude ) results in the unhealthy and dysfunctional state of many of our governing bodies.
To "un-skew" this unhealthy dependency requires attacking and greatly reducing the addiction. I see public funding of elections (PFE) as the best remedy. This has been recognized and is utilized in 5 states ( Arizona, Connecticut, Maine, New Mexico, Oregon) and in other countries (Australia for one). North Carolina has enacted PFE for judicial offices, State Auditor, Superintendent of Public Instruction and Insurance Commissioner. Good legislation is available and functional..
How to implement enough PFE to be effective is the challenge. It will not happen without great demand from us voters; Congress won't do it on its own - it can't, it's addicted. Most state legislatures (slightly less addicted) are reluctant to act without prodding by voters. It will require significant efforts, phone calls, letters, visits to offices, public meetings, demonstrations, marches and talking it up among our peers to make this happen. It's not going to happen at the current abysmal level of awareness. Most citizens are ignorant of the merits and potential of PFE, so a good deal of AWARENESS RAISING is essential. More voters and any group or organization engaged in social justice, environmental sustainability, civil rights, poverty mitigation , etc. must come to realize that with PFE they will get better representation and much greater success for their efforts.
One important step in this AWARENESS RAISING would be you to ask any group or committee you are member of to better familiarize itself as to the need for and benefits of PFE for its work and for all facets of society 1. Succeeding in that, I propose that those groups endorse PFE and join in spreading the word as opportunities arise.
We cannot seriously address the budget deficit without cutting the military budget, which takes up 59 percent of the discretionary budget – and that doesn't account for overruns, including $300 billion above what Congress authorized for various weapons systems in the last five years.
We cannot seriously address the unacknowledged climate changes caused by our nation's military operations without addressing the terrible assault on our environment caused by our continuous preparation for, waging of and dealing with the aftermath of wars.
The military, industrial, governmental complex is out of control. The best place to find relief is for our elected officials to frustrate that massive lobbying group which has contributed so many millions of dollars to ensure their billions in return.
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In April 2008, the Lawyers' Committee and its partners filed suit, on behalf of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) and St. Louis resident Dionne O'Neal, charging widespread violations of the federal National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) by the State of Missouri.
In July 2009, the Lawyers' Committee and its partners presented evidence at a preliminary injunction hearing indicating that, for years, the Missouri Department of Social Services had failed to provide tens of thousands of low-income Missourians with the opportunity to register to vote, as required by Section 7 of the NVRA.
The federal court agreed and, on July 15, 2008, United States District Judge Nanette K. Laughrey issued an order directing the Missouri Department of Social Services to immediately comply with Section 7. Plaintiffs and the Department of Social Services settled upon an interim remedial plan, which resulted in thousands of additional public assistance clients being able to submit voter registration applications. During the six months under the plan, for example, the number of registration applications increased by 2000% over the pre-lawsuit rate.
On June 25, 2009, the parties entered into a final settlement of the lawsuit. The agreement specifies the procedures to be used in distributing voter registration applications to public assistance clients, and requires training and monitoring to ensure that individual offices continue to comply with the law. The agreement will remain in effect for four years. Pursuant to the agreement, Missouri files monthly reports detailing the number of voter registration applications received from public assistance clients, and these reports continue to show the outstanding progress that was achieved with the interim remedial plan.
The NVRA, most commonly known for its "motor voter" component, requires that states offer voter registration at public assistance offices, as well as at motor vehicle offices. In enacting this statute , Congress expressly recognized that the right to vote "is a fundamental right," and took note of the disproportionate harm to voter participation by racial minorities caused by discriminatory and unfair registration laws and procedures. The NVRA's public assistance component is particularly important since low-income citizens are less likely to own a car and thus are among the least likely to register to vote at motor vehicle offices.
This lawsuit against the State of Missouri is part of an ongoing coalitional effort by the Lawyers' Committee, Demos, and Project Vote to ensure that states fully carry out their responsibility under the NVRA to offer voter registration at public assistance offices.
Click here for our motion for preliminary injunction.
Click here for the reply brief in support of our motion for preliminary injunction.
Click here for Judge Laughrey's order.
Click here for the interim remedial plan.
Click here for the June 25, 2009 settlement agreement.


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Chelsea striker to leave with two Premier League clubs interested?
Loic Remy is to leave Chelsea before the transfer window closes with both Crystal Palace and Newcastle looking to sign him. After his per...
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Loic Remy is to leave Chelsea before the transfer window closes with both Crystal Palace and Newcastle looking to sign him. After his performance on Sunday I think it's a good deal for everyone.
Some will argue that Remy has not had enough chances at the club and some would even state that he should have been given a regular start earlier in the season when we were struggling to score goals. I do agree with the latter point but he was always coming here to be a backup striker, an alternative option to the main man we have at the club in Diego Costa.
Remy is a natural finisher and has scored goals wherever he has played and I am sure he will continue to do so. The question is whether or not you believe that he is good enough for Chelsea? I know it sounds pompus or even ridiculous but it should be taken into consideration seriously. The same was said of Demba Ba!
His performance on Sunday, having replaced Diego Costa with around twenty minutes to go, gives you an explanation or at least an example of what I am trying to say here. Whether this is down to match fitness or just confidence I don't know. He was caught offside at least five times within that period when it was simple enough (with the pace he has) to look across the line and then make his move.
In addition, on two occasions late on when Chelsea broke with the ball into the Arsenal half, he stopped the move, tried to cut back inside to where the ball had come from and made it easy for the Arsenal defenders to make their tackle and win the ball back!
Prime example of this is when in the dying minutes Eden Hazard broke with the ball into the Arsenal half. We found ourselves with a two-on-one situation as Arsenal had pushed men forward. Hazard waited for the right moment and played the ball to his right in the path of Remy. All Remy had to do was to allow the ball to come across his body, take a touch forward and fire his shot off towards goal. It really was the only option and would have guaranteed a shot on target and something for Petr Cech to think about as the Arsenal defenders tried to track back without any real hope of getting back in time.
What did he do? As above, he stopped the ball and looked to come back inside which allowed the defenders tracking back time to win it back. It was almost as if he lacked total confidence, agility and seemed almost laboured to the point where he was at a total loss of what to do. It was such a wasted opportunity it really was and for someone who hasn't featured much of late, a genuine chance to get on the score sheet to force himself upon Guus Hiddink for selection this weekend against the MK Dons!
So to this week and it looks as though he is leaving which as I said is the best result for everyone concerned. Crystal Palace have just signed Emmanual Adebayor which is a fabulous signing for them and I wonder if they will now follow up on Remy? A pairing of those two up top could be exciting for the South Londoners.
What about Newcastle? He has played there before and would be almost guaranteed a regular start week in, week out. He is just what they need at the moment as they fight for their Premier League survival.
We are now into 2016 and the European Championships are almost upon us. Loic Remy needs to be playing regular football to have a chance of making the French squad. He isn't going to get that here and expect a deal with someone to be announced shortly.
What do you think of Remy at Chelsea?


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BERRY CAMPBELL GALLERY PRESENTS AN EXHIBITION OF REPRESENTED ARTISTS
Judith Godwin, Orbit, 1993-94, oil and mixed media on canvas, 54 3/16 x 66 3/16 inches.
Berry Campbell Gallery is pleased to announce its annual exhibition, Summer Selections, a presentation of work from each of the gallery's represented twenty-eight artists and estates. Also, included in the show will be additional works from the gallery's inventory by Sam Gilliam, Nancy Graves, Peter Halley, Paul Jenkins, Philip Pavia, and Larry Poons. This exhibition offers a chance to view a wide variety of paintings and works on paper by important mid-century and contemporary artists. Summer Selections will open August 6 and will continue through August 16, 2019.
EDWARD AVEDESIAN was born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1936 and attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. After moving to New York City in the early 1960s, he joined the dynamic art scene in Greenwich Village, frequenting the Cedar Tavern on Tenth Street, associating with the critic Clement Greenberg, and joining a new generation of abstract artists, such as Darby Bannard, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, and Larry Poons. Avedisian was among the leading figures to emerge in the New York art world during the 1960s. An artist who mixed the hot colors of Pop Art with the cool, more analytical qualities of Color Field painting, he was instrumental in the exploration of new abstract methods to examine the primacy of optical experience.
WALTER DARBY BANNARD, a leader in the development of Color Field Painting in the late 1950s, was committed to color-based and expressionist abstraction for over five decades. During his undergraduate years at Princeton University, he joined fellow students, the painter Frank Stella and the critic and art historian Michael Fried, in conversations that expanded aesthetic definitions and led to an emphasis on opticality as the defining feature of pictorial art. His early paintings were inspired by the art of William Baziotes and Clyfford Still, but by the late 1950s, Bannard abandoned this expressionist style embracing reductionism that advanced certain elements natural to painting – open space, continuous surface, symmetry, and affective color. His new paintings, from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s, contained few forms and insisted that relational design could be displaced by a kind of straightforward presentation of effect.
Throughout his four-decade-long career, STANLEY BOXER broke through the barriers that often divided the artists of his day. In the 1960s, he was deemed a Color Field painter, but at the time he was already moving toward the material specificity of process art, building dense surfaces with unexpected additives, such as sand, glitter, sawdust, wood shavings, and dressmaker's beads. However, Boxer stopped short of letting his materials speak for themselves. More interested in the end result than in his process or materials, in his art, he expressed his love for intense optical he sought to create new forms that could excite the eye. Boxer found a common ground among the competing ideologies of his time, while maintaining his distinctive artistic identity. His paintings, sculptures, and collages can be linked to contemporary currents, but throughout he maintained a commitment to creating surfaces characterized by intense radiance and nuance, designed with "a kind of choreography of material," as described in Arts Magazine by Judith Van Baron in 1974.
During his forty-year career, DAN CHRISTENSEN employed a painting method involving a considerable amount of improvisation and experimentation. However, his work had a logical and systematic evolution. Using the visual language of abstraction—from Abstract Expressionism through Color Field Painting and Minimalism—he pursued particular lines of inquiry until he felt he had exhausted them. He then changed the variables of his art to move in new directions. Yet, in doing so, he often doubled back, revisiting aspects of his earlier work to rework old themes and create new combinations. Like many artists before him—Picasso and Pollock come to mind—through such recycling, he gave layered resonance to his art.
Over the last decade, ERIC DEVER has pursued intensely focused investigations into methods and materials, evolving gradually with new, sensitively executed, intimate works of art. For several years, Dever limited his palette to white—Zinc and Titanium white—enabling him to uncover a white spectrum ranging from opacity to translucency. In the past, his compositions were largely geometric, including circles graded from dark to light, which included the introduction of black, widening the range and force of the work. Paintings are explorations through and beyond formal inquiry. His methods, while still conceptual, enable him to let the energetic qualities of color, line, and form emerge. Since the early 1990s, Dever's work has been included in numerous one-person and group exhibitions throughout New York, as well as in Chicago, Ohio, Texas, New Mexico, and France.
Committed to abstraction throughout a career that lasted fifty years, PERLE FINE maintained high ideals, never adopting a method to follow a trend or compromising when her work was outside the mainstream. Although she experienced the barriers that limited the opportunities for women artists in the era—especially those who entered into the macho milieu of Abstract Expressionism—she held to her belief that it was painting itself that mattered, not who had created it. However, Fine's achievement and that of other women of her time has recently been given serious attention, such as in the June–September 2016 exhibition, Women of Abstract Expressionism, held at the Denver Art Museum.
Abstract Expressionist, JUDITH GODWIN, uses a language of abstract form to respond with unbowed directness and passion to life and nature. For Judith Godwin, painting "is an act of freedom and a realization that images generated by the female experience can be a powerful and creative expression for all humanity."[i] Godwin's aim throughout her career has been to "emphasize what is important by painting the image of my feelings on canvas—to accept my feelings honestly, and not [to] falsify."[ii] Through her studies with Hans Hofmann, her long association with Martha Graham and Graham's expressive dance movements, her participation in the early burgeoning of Abstract Expressionism, and her love for Zen Buddhism and gardening, Godwin has forged a personal and unique career path.
In a career that spans more than six decades, JOHN GOODYEAR has utilized painting, drawing, light, optics, installation, and heat to engage his audience and recontextualize the viewer's present observation. These shifting views created throughout his career reveal a body of work that lends itself to both reflection on the inner self and discovery of the outside world. Goodyear said it simply and best: "Art makes one see, what one sees makes art."
BALCOMB GREENE was one of the leaders of the early American Modernist movement of the 1930s. In 1935, he was included in the ground-breaking exhibition, "Abstract Painting in America" at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Along with Ilya Bolotowsky, Charles Green Shaw and Burgoyne Diller, he founded the American Abstract Artists group in 1936. Balcomb Greene's pure geometric style of juxtaposing hard edge shapes and lines against planes of color made the 1930s one of the most important periods in American painting, thus leading the way for the Abstract Expressionist painters who followed in the 1950s.
GERTRUDE GREENE was born in New York City in 1904 and was known for her abstract wall reliefs and paintings. Along with her husband, Balcomb Greene, she was one of the founding members of the American Abstract Artists, where she worked to get abstract art accepted by the major New York museums. Many scholars have said that Greene was the first American artist to construct non-objective relief sculptures in the 1930s. These constructions showed a synthesis of Russian Constructivist and Cubist themes. By the 1940s her work was more influenced by artists like Piet Modrian and the Neo-Plasticist movement. By the late 1940s, she had abandoned sculpture in favor of paintings, although as Jacqulien Moss said in Arts Magazine in 1981, her canvases never lost a "sense of architectural structure."
An artist whose work is embedded in a philosophical and theoretical framework, KEN GREENLEAF is a committed modernist, working in the minimalist tradition. In recent years, his emphasis has been on creating streamlined paintings on shaped supports and paper collages, in which he continues the engagement with relations between shapes and materials that has been the central focus of his art. While comprised of geometric forms, Greenleaf's art has a freeform aspect, forcing us to mentally organize what we're seeing into "ideas." He perceives the edges of his shaped surfaces, the color of his raw canvases, and the borders of his painted areas as "direct essays in understanding how we apprehend what we see and how we recognize what is real." The tension between flatness and the feeling of desire for illusion in Greenleaf's art brings us to a place between raw sensation and the conceptual, which is ultimately a metaphysical one. Greenleaf's art has been shown widely at galleries and museums since the early 1970s.
A first-generation action painter, RAYMOND HENDLER started his career as an Abstract Expressionist in Paris, as early as 1949. In the years that followed, he played a significant role in the movement, both in New York, where he was the youngest voting member of the New York Artist's Club and a friend of Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Harold Rosenberg, and in Philadelphia, where he ran an avant-garde gallery between 1952 and 1954. Over the course of his career, his work evolved from abstract gestural works to jubilant, abstracted words and shapes, which revealed a freshness, vitality, and high-spiritedness unparalleled in the New York post-war art world.
In her reduction of painting to its physical essence, JILL NATHANSON belongs to the Color Field legacy, but her immersive and sensual paintings stand in a category of their own. Consisting of unusual hues of overlapping layers of variable translucency, they create emotionally nuanced experiences with yet enough tension to engage our contemplation. Eschewing the gestural impulsiveness of Abstract Expressionism, Nathanson employs a systematic, multistep process. She starts with sheets of translucent color—files she makes and prints from the computer—which she overlays to produce new colors, cutting and combining until she finds relationships that spark the visual responses she seeks. She then scales up her studies for transference to finished works. In her laser focus on the physical act of painting, and her employment of a wide array of uncommon hues, she brings to mind the work of Titian and glazing traditions.
Active as a painter for over six decades, JOHN OPPER was an early member of the New York School. Over the course of his career, he evolved from creating abstract gestural works, in which he drew inspiration from the natural world, to a pure form of abstraction. He stated in 1990: "I orchestrate color, line, and shape. My whole purpose is to produce an aesthetic response." He held the conviction that "art is its own experience. It bespeaks a sublime relationship between the artist and his work."
STEPHEN PACE is well known for two bodies of work: the dynamic abstract paintings he produced from 1949 to 1962 and the freely expressed figurative art, based in abstract principles that he created subsequently. Pace's inventive and exploratory work was created in the context of the New York art scene in the postwar period, a time when artists drew from the intellectual art movements of Europe while exploring new directions that redefined visual thinking. As art historian Martica Sawin noted of Pace's art of this time, "The brush dragged across rough underpainting, the strategic drip, the brusque cancellation of any suggestion of latent image or defined shape, the look of struggle built into the layers of paint, the breaking apart of anything that might hint at order—these are all hallmarks of the work of the younger Abstract Expressionists."
CHARLOTTE PARK graduated from the Yale School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut in 1939. Charlotte Park's important and distinct contribution to the Abstract Expressionist movement during its early years has received increased attention from art historians, critics, and collectors for her muscular and brilliantly colored canvases with thickly painted surfaces often achieved by scraping the paint with a palette knife. In the early 1950s, Park worked in a monochrome palette, which liberated her to focus on form. By the mid-1950s, she reintroduced color into her art, creating charged relationships with hot oranges, greens, and brilliant blues. Uniting painting and drawing, she formed a vocabulary featuring clustered loops, black curvilinear forms that both define and liberate. Figurative and still life elements and suggestions of the natural world seem to taunt and loom in her art but are either suppressed or diffused. Park was a naturalist and kept extensive and exhaustive journals and notes about various leaves, bird sightings, and changes to their grounds or nearby beaches.
Canadian Color Field painter, WILLIAM PEREHUDOFF has exhibited an Apollonian/Dionysian opposition in his work, reflected in his tendency toward the harmonious and rational that he then had the courage to subvert with "seductive, syncopated color." Many of his paintings evoke musical harmonies and reverberations, while they are suggestive of light flowing across the open Canadian plains. Recalled in 2013 by Timothy Long, head curator of Saskatchewan's Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery, as "one of the greatest colorists this province and Canada has produced," Perehudoff was a friend of and is regarded as the heir to Jack Bush, as Canada's most important Color Field painter. Perehudoff's diverse art, both vibrant and cerebral, continues to influence a younger generation of artists.
For ANN PURCELL, a nationally recognized artist, whose abstract work is represented in museums across the United States, process is a critical factor. The gestural and alive qualities of her paintings, collages, and works on paper reflect her use of process as a means of expression and exploration, as she works within tensions of paradox, ambiguity, duality, and contradiction. Her method is related to dance—an important form for her beginning in her childhood—as well as to music, while she draws on her thorough grounding in European and American Expressionist traditions. The breadth of art history is also an important source for Purcell; she states that "one of the things that is so wonderful about art is that art history is an endless resource—one cannot consume it all. There are thousands of years of art to mine and find a challenging and supportive foundation for the artist."
Through the years, MIKE SOLOMON has explored a range of subjects, styles, and concepts using various materials from traditional watercolors to roplex and acrylic gels to beeswax. A consistent through-line is his interest in transparency, which is foundational to his work. Solomon's exploration of the effects of light penetrating color continues in his recent work made with resin. While the finished objects appear to have only two dimensions, they are constructed three-dimensionally: composites of multiple layers of thin papers painted with watercolors. Each layer of tinted paper is infused with resin, resulting in a clear surface revealing the color submerged within the solid 'sheet' of resin. The chromatic development continues as the artist then paints another piece of paper and repeats the process of saturating it with resin and attaching it to the previous one. Each transparent layer reacts and builds from the one before it. This cycle is repeated up to a dozen times depending on the intensity of color and composition desired. The finished form is seen through a clear sleek surface of polished resin. Solomon's labor-intensive technique is as unique as its results. "For me, the attribute of transparency exists in both physical and in spiritual realities. Holding on to both, I seek to create a pictorial example; one in which actions are not covered over; "mistakes" are not painted out; one in which all things I've done in the process are visible."
Born near Uniontown, Pennsylvania in 1917, SYD SOLOMON had a long and varied training as an artist. After high school, Solomon was enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1935 to 1938. He soon joined the war effort prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, and he was able to hone his artistic skills by creating camouflage to disguise and protect the airfields being built by his battalion. Solomon often remarked that aerial reconnaissance during World War II influenced his ideas about abstract art. Solomon's work from the 1970s seek to evoke the forces of nature through abstract expressionist gestures, and he is best known for his challenging color, which—while including the palette of his peers—extended the range to teals, pinks, and sea greens, among others. This spectrum of color was owed to the "polaroid," a term he coined to describe the color he experienced working in natural environments on Long Island's East End and Florida's Gulf Coast. Solomon was known as visionary in his use of new mediums. Victor D'Amico, the first Director of Education for the Museum of Modern Art, recognized Solomon as the first artist to use acrylic paint in the 1950s. In addition, he was one of the first artists to use aerosol sprays and resists, a technical ability that allowed for groundbreaking achievements in abstract painting. Throughout Solomon's career his works were acclaimed for their visionary and romantic expression.
A leading figure in the rise of color abstraction in the mid-1960s, ALBERT STADLER addressed the nature of optical experience in his art. Creating both hard-edge and more ethereal paintings, Stadler united directions in Color Field and Minimalist art, often bridging the gap between the intellectual and sensual and the conceptual and spiritual. In 1967, Kermit Champa, then assistant professor of art history at Yale University, published a long article on Stadler in Artforum. To Champa, Stadler's ability to maintain individual components of color while creating a final effect that was one of absolute visual unity, constituted a breakthrough. Seeing Stadler as mediating between the emphasis of painters of the day on either surface (for example, in the work of Jules Olitski) or structure (for example, in the works of Walter Darby Bannard), Champa stated that his "work has become increasingly unique and important over the past few years, and on the basis of his most recent paintings it seems destined to become even more so."
Throughout a career lasting over fifty years, YVONNE THOMAS blended the intuitive freedom of Abstract Expressionism with the symbolic language of form and color. As she stated: "Variations on these two movements have continued and merged into a sense of adventure and invention." For Thomas color was the "strongest joy and enigma," and she used an expressive range of pigments in works that progressed logically in series, often conveying her emotional responses to the spirit of nature.[iii] Dedicated with serious focus to art from the late 1930s until her death at age 95, Thomas was one of few women to be part of the early generation of Abstract Expressionists. A member of the intimate inner circle of artists who were at the heart of the movement, she attended the historic Subjects of the Artist School (1948–49) and was invited to join the exclusive Artist's Club (known as "The Club"). She exhibited in prominent galleries of the day—including Stable, Tanager, and Betty Parsons—and was represented in all five of the New York Paintings and Sculpture Annuals (held in a temporary gallery on New York's 9th Street) as well as the seminal 9th Street Show of 1951. A distinctive aspect of Thomas's identity is that she spent her first twelve years in her native France and always felt a connection with the art and culture of Europe. This background gave her a special closeness with the other émigré artists of the time—Willem de Kooning and Marcel Duchamp were among her close friends—but she always considered herself American and saw her work as a manifestation of the place where she lived and worked.
SUSAN VECSEY was born in New Jersey and currently lives and works in both New York City and East Hampton, New York. She earned her Bachelor of Arts from Barnard College, Columbia University, New York and her Masters of Fine Art from the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, studying under Graham Nickson. A painter interested in creating lyrical and poetic themes, Susan Vecsey uses iconic imagery derived from nature. References to representational imagery are just a starting point however, and serve as a means to convey certain emotions and explore color, form, and shape. Vecsey's elegant and minimal abstract compositions are composed soft lines, ethereal atmospheres, and fields of raw linen and also includes works large in scale, distinguished through a heightened sense of drama characterized by bold geometric shapes, strong diagonals, and opulent color.
JAMES WALSH was born in 1954 in Newark, New Jersey. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from Rutgers University in New Brunswick and went on to earn his Masters of Fine Art from Syracuse University in New York. An abstract expressionist, he is known best for his paintings where he uses acrylic paint as his medium to create three-dimensional works of art pleasing to the eye. According to art critic Franklin Einspruch, "his palette has moved from smoky and dour to cheerful, even tart, and his painterly command, judgment and taste have become exceptionally refined. Somehow the paint sloshes over the canvases without looking incidental. They are as orderly and yet unpredictable as the sea". Walsh has been represented by Berry Campbell Gallery for 5 years.
A highly respected New York artist who has been in numerous national and international exhibitions, JOYCE WEINSTEIN creates dynamic works in which abstraction obscures hints of the natural world. Nature is most apparent in her use of light, which she creates using a combination of techniques: washes, impasto, and contrasts of texture and hue. Weinstein uncovers dynamic balances among these opposites, so that her work achieves a fine equilibrium of both spontaneity and control. Born in New York City in 1931, she studied at both the City College of New York and the Arts Students League. At the Arts Students League, she met Stanley Boxer, whom she would later marry. Her first solo exhibition was at the Perdalma Gallery, New York in 1953 and she would go on to have a series of solo exhibitions at the gallery throughout the 1950s. Weinstein has exhibited nationally and internationally in solo exhibitions in Houston, Chicago, Minneapolis, Naples, Florida, Canada, and Germany. Her work has been included in a number of exhibitions at institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, Steinhardt Conservatory; New York Cultural Center Museum; Pace University Art Gallery, New York; Queens College, New York; the Queens Museum, New York; the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York; the Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, New York; Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro; the Kresge Art Center, East Lansing, Michigan; the Edmonton Art Museum, Canada; the Centro de Creacio Contemporia, Barcelona; the Cologne Art Fair, Germany, among others.
Born in Pleasantville, New Jersey in 1926, abstract expressionist painter, FRANK WIMBERLEY attended Howard University and studied with James Porter, Lois Mailou Jones and James Wells. While a student, he also played jazz (a consistent theme in his work) and later became friends with musicians such as Miles Davis, Ron Carter, and Wayne Shorter. Frank currently lives and works from studios in New York City and in Sag Harbor, Long Island. Frank Wimberley has had numerous solo and group gallery and museum exhibitions, including June Kelly Gallery, New York; Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York; Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill; and the Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, New York.
LARRY ZOX, a painter who played an essential role in the Color Field discourse of the 1960s and 1970s, is best known for his intensely and brilliantly colored geometric abstractions that question and violate symmetry. Zox's robust paintings reveal a celebrated artist and master of composition who explored and challenged the possibilities of Post-Painterly Abstraction and Minimalist pictorial conventions. Zox began to receive attention in the 1960s when he was included in several groundbreaking exhibitions of Color Field and Minimalist art, including "Shape and Structure" (1965), organized by Henry Geldzahler and Frank Stella for Tibor de Nagy, New York, and "Systemic Painting" (1966), organized by Lawrence Alloway for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. In 1973–1974, the Whitney's solo exhibition of Zox's work gave recognition to his significance in the art scene of the preceding decade. In the following year, he was represented in the inaugural exhibition of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., which acquired fourteen of his works. His paintings have been exhibited and collected by major museums worldwide.
An artist for whom life and art were intertwined, EDWARD ZUTRAU worked with dedication, energy, and intensity throughout a long career-lasting from the 1940s through the early 1990s. While he resided mostly in Brooklyn and Manhattan, his travels had an important impact on his creative development, especially the five years he spent in Japan, where his art received a significant amount of appreciation and recognition. Blending precepts of the New York School with a strong physicality, Zutrau's works draw the viewer into both feeling and contemplation. His art was admired by his close friend Betty Parsons, who held three solo shows of his paintings at her renowned New York gallery from 1972 to 1980. As an art teacher, Zutrau inspired his many students with a love of materials and art as a means of self-expression rather than of technical virtuosity. He upheld the high ideals he conveyed in his teaching in his own work, which was always idea-driven, representing his constant search for clarity and concision.
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