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Years of late-night brainstorming, so many amazing experiences of sharing ideas across the world, and countless hours of refining, has brought us all to this one very exciting point: the launch of stillmotion's app, SMAPP .
SMAPP was designed to not only make the filmmaking process easier, but also to help the filmmaker really understand the decisions they are making. Learning this craft can be intimidating and there are so many tools that we often don't even realize we have, or we don't fully understand how to best use to tell our story effectively. SMAPP was created to make all of filmmaking more approachable and to empower the filmmaker to tell relevant and meaningful stories, their stories, with more confidence than ever before.
SMAPP is a tool for filmmakers created by a team of artists that are filmmakers, photographers, designers, and educators. It features tutorials, filmmaking tools, reviews, and more.
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SMAPP is the stillmotion APP. We're a band of filmmakers who, as a rule, always let our curiosity get the better of us. Frankly, we believe that the process of discovery is as important as what goes on the screen. we tell stories, big, small and anywhere in between.
We started in weddings, but we never let that confine or restrict us. Instead, weddings taught us so much about what we know today while also directly leading to our work with NFL, Callaway, and Apple. This past year we completed our first feature length documentary with CBS, A Game of Honor, which was just nominated for 5 emmy's including best camera work and best sports documentary. Throughout this crazy journey we've tried to share what we've learned along the way and SMAPP represents the culmination of all of those efforts.


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Cosy apartment block "Alpenland". 600 m from the centre, in a quiet, sunny position, 400 m from the ski-run. For shared use: garden, lawn sunning area, indoor pool heated (10 x 15 m). Children's playground. In the house: reception, lounge, Wireless LAN [WLAN], sauna, solarium (extra). Lift, store for bicycles, ski storage, central heating. Motor access to the house. Parking by the house. Grocers 350 m, restaurant 30 m, outdoor swimming pool 1 km, indoor swimming pool 1 km, public bathing area 1.5 km, bathing lake "Wildsee" 1.2 km. Golf course 1.5 km, tennis club 1 km, sports centre 1 km, skisport facilities 400 m, ski bus stop 30 m. Please note: free of charge ski bus. There are more similar properties for rent in this same residence. Bar. Games area. 1 Home trainer. Small public park nearby. The indoor swimming pool is closed for cleaning between 15/4 - 15/05 approx. 1-room apartment 32 m2, comfortable and tasteful furnishings: living/sleeping room with 1 double fold-away bed, dining corner and cable-TV. Kitchenette in the entrance (2 hotplates, micro wave). Bath/WC. Small balcony. Balcony furniture. Please note: non-smokers only. Only 1 dog accepted 1 pet/ dog allowed. The photographs are only a typical example. All these apartment types will be soon renovated and will be fully equipped.
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when you select all objects but forgot to label the projection objects during the dialog box, afterwards is there a way to label all at once rather than one at a time with "ADDPROJECTIONLABEL"?
doing 3dpolyline projections. not i didn't pick the label there is just no way of doing all at once. label style in the projection dialogbox is not selectable.
Does select similar>> properties give any relief?
tried that before. the command says please select one object at a time.
Not sure why you cant get that to work. It works fine for me. either way you could change one and use match properties on the rest.
i am talking about when the label is not created on the projection objects. or deleted. how do you go by bringing them back without deleting all the projection objects and recreate?
Thats messed up. Looks like your option are
1. label one at a time
2. Erase and re-project
I would use option 2.
yeah. good enough lol. just be careful it's created next time.
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Northeast Alberta Street, Portland, OR 97211Ranked #22 overall in Portland things to doDistance: 0.8 mi9 reviewsCheck this place out on the last Thursday of the month all through out the summer! They have an evening street fair that goes on for block after block of... more
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Wonder Ballroom
128 Northeast Russell Street, Portland, OR, United StatesDistance: 0.8 mi3 reviewsRivaling both Crystal ballroom and the Roseland in size, Wonder ballroom is hands down the best large venue in Portland. Unlike the Roseland and the Crystal, the Wonder ballroom does... more
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Townshend's Alberta Street Teahouse
2223 NE Alberta Street, Portland, ORRanked #53 overall in Portland things to doDistance: 0.9 mi3 reviewsTownshend's is a teahouse and is unique in coffee-obsessed Portland. Tea connoisseurs will appreciate the options which abound at Townshend's. They even serve bubble tea, but I would avoid it.... more
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Two Greenville residents were killed Tuesday afternoon when the motorcycle they were riding collided with a truck at state routes 7 and 82 in Brookfield.
Ohio Highway Patrol said the 12:33 p.m. crash killed the driver of the motorcycle, Daniel H. Minchoff, 54 and his passenger, 50-year-old Debora L. Roberts. Both were pronounced dead at the scene.
Minchoff was driving a red 2002 Harley Davidson Ultra Classic motorcycle when, police said, he ran through the red light while traveling west on Route 82 and struck a tractor-trailer traveling south on Route 7. The motorcycle appeared to strike the gas tank area of the truck. Hazmat crews were called to clean up the fuel spill.
The tractor-trailer was driven by Daniel Hopkins, 57, of Orwell, Ohio. He was not injured.
Brookfield firefighters and emergency medical crews were on scene for several hours before both victims were removed.
A woman who identified herself only as Hopkins' ex-wife, said he called her right after the accident happened. "He was pretty shook up. He's been driving for a long time and nothing like this ever happened," she said.
A crowd gathered outside the Brookfield Diner to watch as police reconstructed the scene as part of the investigation. Several other motorcyclists stopped to ask what happened when they saw the bike on the flatbed.
It has been a deadly riding season for area motorcyclists. Minchoff and Roberts were the sixth and seventh people killed in motorcycle crashes in the last two months in the Mercer County area.
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Woman admits to burning down daughter's home
A Fenelton woman has been charged with arson for burning down her daughter's Slippery Rock Township rental home Feb. 13 – a crime she admitted to while under psychiatric care, claiming she did it because the living conditions weren't fit for the family.
Honoring the boys of war
During World War II, they did all the jobs that had to be done. They did the fighting on land and sea.
Project architect hired, superintendent deadline set
Slippery Rock Area School District officials on Monday hired an architectural firm to oversee the stadium project and announced details for their search for a new superintendent.
Fire destroys mobile home
A mobile home with an addition was burned almost to the ground Friday night when firefighters arrived.
Directors still mulling harassment policy
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Driver who crashed into house was drunk, police say
The driver of a car that crashed into a house Feb. 27 in Hermitage, has been charged with drunken driving and other offenses.
Woman protests man's plea, sentence
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Testimony heard on billboard appeal
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This cool soup is the perfect things to serve with hot and spicy foods.
Ramen noodle soup gets a major upgrade at D.C.'s Toki Underground.
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Examining the generic Socks version 5 proxy protocol
Socks is a universal proxy protocol for TCP and UDP that allows internal hosts to securely pass the firewall and authenticates users. This article describes the latest version of the Socks proxy protocol and shows how to implement it.
Many firewall admins allow direct access to the Web from the internal network but are more restrictive with other services such as FTP or SMTP. They rightfully argue that filter rules that allow a minimum of services and ports are easier to track and manage. Application Level Gateways (ALGs) provide even more granular control and are typically implemented as proxies (Figure 1a). However, the application firewall needs a proxy for each service. The Socks protocol [2] (RFC 1928, Figure 1b) treads a path between the stateful packet filter and the ALG. Socks is implemented in the Dante package [1], for example. The generic Socks proxy technology leaves the firewall in control of applications, separating networks in the Transport Layer and giving clients a fixed request port (typically 1080).
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The UN Human Rights Council
How the Human Rights Council came about
On 15 March 2006 the United Nations General Assembly voted by a large majority to replace the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) with a new Human Rights Council (Resolution 60/251). The replacement of the CHR was one of the key reform recommendations made by the then UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to strengthen the United Nations' protection of human rights (In Larger Freedom).
The Human Rights Council, which comprises 47 elected member states, has the same status as the UN General Assembly committees and reports directly to the General Assembly. The new Human Rights Council convened for the first time from 19 to 30 June 2006.
With the adoption of Resolution 5/1 on 19 June 2007, the Human Rights Council largely completed its organizational development.
external link, opens in new windowHuman Rights Council website
What is new about the Human Rights Council?
- The Council meets for ten weeks per year spread over three sessions. So in future there will be considerably more time to deal with human rights issues in the UN.
- The Human Rights Council has been given a comprehensive mandate to deal with human rights abuses in individual countries and to submit recommendations.
- The Human Rights Council can hold special sessions in order to respond very quickly to serious human rights violations.
- The Human Rights Council now has an Advisory Committee consisting of 18 experts.
- With the Universal Periodic Review, the Human Rights Council has established a procedure under which all UN member states will in future have to submit to a periodic review mechanism to ensure that they are meeting their human rights obligations.
The UN Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR)
The United Nations logo for the first session of the Human Rights Council in 2006
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Under this new procedure, the Human Rights Council examines the human rights situation in each UN member state at four yearly intervals. The UPR is based on a national country report of 20 pages, a compilation of documents on the implementation of international human rights commitments prepared by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and a summary of statements submitted by civil society on the country. The country in question presents its own report and, in a three hour interactive dialogue before the Human Rights Council, responds to the questions and recommendations of other states. After the dialogue meeting, the reviewed state has the opportunity within a fixed period to react to the recommendations and accept or reject them.
All UN member states underwent this procedure for the first time between April 2008 and November 2011. The second cycle began in May 2012. The states now have to declare whether and how they have implemented the recommendations from the first round.
The human rights situation in Germany was first reviewed by the Human Rights Council on 2 February 2009. Germany was reviewed for a second time on 25 April 2013. In preparation for this, Federal Government Human Rights Commissioner Markus Löning had submitted Germany's National Report in Preparation for the 2nd Hearing of Germany under the Universal Periodic Review (PDF, 376 KB) to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in January.
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Germany as a member of the Human Rights Council
Election to the UN Human Rights Council
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Germany was one of the first members of the newly created Human Rights Council from 2006 to 2009.
From 2013 to 2015, Germany is again a member. On 12 November 2012 it received 127 votes in the General Assembly, thereby winning one of the three available seats in the Western European and Other States Group.
Foreign Minister Westerwelle praised the election as a "show of confidence in our country and a tribute to our consistent stand on human rights around the world". He said that during its membership Germany would strive to give the Human Rights Council a higher profile as the leading international institution concerned with human rights protection and would endeavour to set new global standards.
The priorities of Germany's membership
As one of the priorities, he named economic and social human rights, which – he went on to say – should be given as much attention as political and civil rights. He added that "only people who do not live in fear of hunger, thirst or illness can enjoy true freedom and take responsibility for their lives."
Likewise, Germanywould work hard to ensure that children all over the world were better protected. Having campaigned particularly for the rights of children in situations of armed conflict during its membership of the UN Security Council in 2011 and 2012, Germany intended to carry on this work in the Human Rights Council, stated Westerwelle.
Members of the Human Rights Council and distribution of seats
Elections to the Human Rights Council take place every year, with one third of its members being elected for a three-year term. From 1 January to 31 December 2013, the Council is composed as follows:
African Group – 13 seats:
Angola (till 2013), Benin (till 2014), Botswana (till 2014), Burkina Faso (till 2014), the Congo (till 2014), Côte d'Ivoire (till 2015), Ethiopia (till 2015), Gabon (till 2015), Kenya (till 2015), Libya (till 2013, membership suspended for a while), Mauritania (till 2013), Sierra Leone (till 2015), Uganda (till 2013).
Asian Group – 13 seats:
India (till 2014), Indonesia (till 2014), Japan (till 2015), Kazakhstan (till 2015), Korea (till 2015), Kuwait (till 2014), Malaysia (till 2013), Maldives (till 2013), Pakistan (till 2015), the Philippines (till 2014), Qatar (till 2013), Thailand (till 2013), United Arab Emirates (till 2015).
Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC) – 8 seats:
Argentina (till 2015), Brazil(till 2015), Chile (till 2014), Costa Rica (till 2014), Ecuador(till 2013), Guatemala (till 2013), Peru(till 2014), Venezuela (till 2015).
Eastern European Group (EEG) – 6 seats:
the Czech Republic (till 2014), Estonia (till 2015), Moldova(till 2013), Montenegro(till 2015), Poland(till 2013), Romania(till 2014).
Western European and Others Group (WEOG) – 7 seats:
Austria (till 2014), Germany(till 2015), Ireland (till 2015), Italy(till 2014), Spain (till 2013), Switzerland (till 2013), United States (till 2015).
Nine EU member states are thus currently serving on the UN Human Rights Council.
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Steve Merfeld admits to a pang or two of apprehension when Creighton coach Greg McDermott approached him about a month ago with a job proposal.
With Creighton moving to the new Big East next season, McDermott was looking to possibly add an assistant with eastern recruiting ties. At the same time, he didn't want to lose any of his current assistants — Merfeld, Steve Lutz and Darian DeVries.
McDermott asked Merfeld if he would consider a position that would expand his overall duties in the program but would cost him on-court coaching and off-campus recruiting responsibilities.
"Initially, there was a great deal of concern, anxiety and uncertainty which obviously is brought forth with change," Merfeld said. "As time has evolved, I have mentally become more comfortable with this new and expanded role."
That role is as the program's director of player development. His acceptance of that position allowed McDermott to hire Patrick Sellers, who recruited some of the players who contributed to Connecticut's 2011 national championship.
Sellers spent the past two seasons at Hofstra and began work at Creighton on Thursday.
As excited as he is to add Sellers to his staff, McDermott is equally thrilled that Merfeld is taking on his new responsibilities. McDermott said he considers Merfeld his "right-hand man," and that Merfeld will play an expanded role in helping shape the direction of the program.
"We have great challenges as we move forward into the Big East," Merfeld said. "The opportunity to assist and be involved in the day-to-day operation and decision-making process is extremely appealing to me."
McDermott hired Merfeld shortly after taking the Creighton position in the spring of 2010. Merfeld's 27 years of Division I coaching experience includes 10 seasons as a head coach — five at Hampton, where he twice got the school to the NCAA tournament and engineered one of the biggest upsets in tournament history in a win against second-seeded Iowa State, and five at Evansville.
McDermott said Merfeld is the perfect fit for the position.
"For us, it will be like having two head coaches on staff," McDermott said. "He'll be involved with every decision that's made in the program, and we'll use his experience to help put together a plan for players to develop from a fundamental, social and academic standpoint.
"This was necessary for our program to move forward in the Big East."
Of course, one of the drawbacks is having to give up on-court coaching duties, but Merfeld thinks he can continue to impact the players in his new position.
"In the athletic field, we are all in the role of developing our future leaders," he said. "That responsibility will not change. My role and coaching responsibility will be shifted to include a program-wide focus.
"I will still go to work every morning with the intent of developing these young men and making Creighton basketball the best that it can be."
The latter provides Merfeld with plenty of drive.
"These years at Creighton have been the best three years of my coaching career," he said. "Being a part of 57 wins the past two years, winning back-to-back tournament championships and participating and winning in the NCAA tournament two straight years is like a dream come true.
"I am excited about the future of Creighton basketball. I certainly will always have what is in the best interest of the program as the driving force behind every professional decision that I make."
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- Jim Ross commented on his future as a WWE announced following Jerry Lawler's return.
"No..I'm NOT retired. No..I'm NOT finished broadcasting. Nx assignment awaits. #WWE."
- This week's episode of WWE Raw scored 253,251 in social media activity, which was up 53 percent compared to last week's pre-taped show according to Trendrr.TV.
Raw ranked #1 on cable TV and topped all broadcast TV shows, including top-ranked "The Voice" on NBC.
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Thirty contestants, both young and adults, drew cheers Tuesday from an enthusiastic audience at Ogdensburg Free Academys auditorium for the Seaway Festival karaoke contest.
The winners in the youth, junior, ladies and mens categories will meet in the finals at Library Park on Friday.
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Susan L. House led Suzie Q. and Linda Loo and Cathy Too in a spirited take of the Beatles 1965 hit Eight Days A Week, complete with guitars and Fab Four wigs and suits.
We have fun, said Linda A.N. Hurteau, 67. Were the Beatles!
The trio hones its act regularly at Wallace E. Rock Amvets Post 19 in Ogdensburg on Friday nights.
I enjoy singing, said Ms. House, 66.
Im a big ham, added Carol A. French, 61.
Seven-year-old Quinn O. Crosson, on the other hand, was a little nervous. It was her first karaoke, singing Tell Me Something I Dont Know by pop princess Selena Gomez.
My Dads like, You got to do this, she said. I said yeah.
Why not, said Dawn M. Merz, sales manager for sponsor Q102.9/Yes FM radio.
Its to have fun and to hone their craft, she said.
The winners were:
Youth: Sydney Morley, Hailey Weber and Connor Grenier.
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Suit (cards)
In playing cards, a suit is one of several categories into which the cards of a deck are divided. Most often, each card bears one of several symbols showing to which suit it belongs; the suit may alternatively or in addition be indicated by the color printed on the card. Most card decks also have a rank for each card and may include special cards in the deck that belong to no suit, often called jokers.
Traditional Western playing cards[edit]
Regional variations[edit]
Many different types of deck have been used in Europe since the introduction of playing cards around the 14th century, and several types of deck are still used in various regions for various games. Almost all of them have in common that there are exactly four suits, and numbers or other symbols indicate which cards within a suit are better, higher or more valuable than others, whereas there is no order between the suits unless defined in the rules of a specific game. There is exactly one card of any given rank in any given suit.[1]
The four standard international symbols were first used on the French deck, made in Rouen and Lyon in the 15th century, around the time that playing cards were first mass-produced by woodcuts.
The differences between European decks are mostly in the number of cards in each suit; for example,
- 13 in the commonly-known French deck,[2]
- 14 in the French Tarot game,[3]
- 12 in Spain,[4]
- 10 in Italy and in some games in Spain,[5]
- 9 in Switzerland for the Jass,[6]
- 8 in some games in Germany and Austria, e.g. Skat,[7]
- 8 for Belote in France,[3]
- 5 in Hungarian Illustrated Tarock,[8]
and in the inclusion or exclusion of an extra series of (usually) 21 numbered cards known as tarocks or trumps, sometimes considered as a fifth suit, but more properly regarded as a group of special suitless cards, to form what is known as a Tarot deck.[1]
Correspondence table[edit]
Traditional Western Playing Cards | ||||
Culture | Suit | |||
French suits [9][10] [note 1] [note 2] [note 3] [note 4] | Hearts French: Cœurs (hearts) |
Diamonds French: Carreaux (tiles) |
Clubs French: Trèfles (clovers) |
Spades French: Piques (pikes) |
German suits[note 5] | Hearts German: Herz (heart), Rot (red) |
Bells German: Schellen (bells) |
Acorns German: Eichel (acorn), Ecker (beechnut) |
Leaves German: Laub (leaves), Grün (green), Gras (grass), Blatt (leaf) |
Swiss-German suits[note 6][11][12][13] | Roses Swiss-German: Rosen |
Bells Swiss-German: Schellen |
Acorns Swiss-German: Eichel |
Shields Swiss-German: Schilten |
Italo-Spanish or Latin suits [14] [15] [16]:207 [17]:15,155,224 [note 7] [note 8] (Symbols shown: Piacentine, Napoletane, Spagnole, and Bergamasche sets.)[note 9] |
Cups Italian: Coppe Spanish: Copas |
Coins Italian: Denari Spanish: Oros |
Clubs Italian: Bastoni Spanish: Bastos |
Swords Italian: Spade Spanish: Espadas |
Italian-suited Tarot (Playing tarot decks use Italian suits or French suits. The cards shown here are the Minor Arcana aces from the Italian-suited Rider-Waite Tarot, an esoteric tarot deck.) |
Cups |
Pentacles, Coins, Rings or Discs |
Wands, Clubs, Batons or Staves |
Swords |
Feudal Class (French suits)[note 10][9][17]:18 |
Clergy | Merchants | Peasants | Nobility |
Feudal Class (German suits)[note 11][9] |
Clergy | Nobility | Peasants | Burghers (middle class) |
Feudal Class (Italian suits)[note 12][9][16]:50[18] |
Clergy | Merchants | Peasants | Nobility |
Symbolism in cartomancy (French suits)[19] |
love, joy, happiness | money, risk, excitement | work, effort, achievements | problems, disappointments, sickness |
Symbolism in cartomancy (German suits)[20][21][22] |
love, friendship, happiness | money, lottery winnings, carefree life | trouble, loss, sickness | hope, pleasant events and activities |
Element (Tarot)[note 13][17]:62[23][24][25][26][27][28] | Water | Earth | Fire | Air |
Number (French suits)[note 14][29] | 2 (two lobes) | 4 (four points) | 3 (three lobes) | 1 (one point) |
Unicode black French suit symbols (with HTML names) |
Unicode white French suit symbols | ♡ U+2661 | ♢ U+2662 | ♧ U+2667 | ♤ U+2664 |
Suits in games with traditional decks[edit]
In a large and popular category of trick-taking games, traditionally called whist-style games although the best-known example may now be bridge, one suit may be designated in each hand of play to be trump and all cards of the trump suit rank above all non-trump cards, and automatically prevail over them, losing only to a higher trump if one is played to the same trick.
Special suits[edit]
Some games treat one or more suits as being special or different from the others. A simple example is Spades, which uses spades as a permanent trump suit. A less simple example is Hearts, which is a kind of point trick game in which the object is to avoid taking tricks containing hearts. With typical rules for Hearts (rules vary slightly) the queen of spades and the two of clubs (sometimes also the jack of diamonds) have special effects, with the result that all four suits have different strategic value.
Ranking of suits[edit]
Whist-style rules generally preclude the necessity of determining which of two cards of different suits has higher rank, because a card played on a card of a different suit either automatically wins or automatically loses depending on whether the new card is a trump. However, some card games also need to define relative suit rank. An example of this is in auction games such as bridge, where if one player wishes to bid to make some number of heart tricks and another to make the same number of diamond tricks, there must be a mechanism to determine which takes precedence in the bidding order.
As there is no truly standard way to order the four suits, each game that needs to do so has its own convention; however, the ubiquity of bridge has gone some way to make its ordering a de facto standard. Typical orderings of suits include (from highest to lowest):
- Bridge (for bidding and scoring) and occasionally poker: spades, hearts, diamonds, clubs; 'notrump' ranks above all the suits
- Preferans: hearts, diamonds, clubs, spades. Only used for bidding, and No Trump is considered higher than hearts.
- Five Hundred: hearts, diamonds, clubs, spades (for bidding and scoring)
- Ninety-nine: clubs, hearts, spades, diamonds (supposedly mnemonic as they have respectively 3, 2, 1, 0 lobes; see article for how this scoring is used)
- Skat: clubs, spades, hearts, diamonds (for bidding and to determine which Jack beats which in play)
- Big Two: spades, hearts, clubs, diamonds
- Teen patti: In the case where two players have flushes with cards of the same value, the winning hand is based on suit color as ranked by clubs, hearts, spades, diamonds.
Pairing or ignoring suits[edit]
In some games, such as blackjack, suits are ignored. In other games, such as Canasta, only the color (red or black) is relevant. In yet others, such as bridge, each of the suit pairings are distinguished.
Fundamentally, there are three ways to divide four suits into pairs: by color, by rank and by shape resulting in six possible suit combinations.
- Color is used to denote the red suits (hearts and diamonds) and the black suits (spades and clubs).
- Rank is used to indicate the major (spades and hearts) versus minor (diamonds and clubs) suits.
- Shape is used to denote the pointed (diamonds and spades, which visually have a sharp point uppermost) versus rounded (hearts and clubs) suits.
In the event of widespread introduction of four-color decks, it has been suggested that the red/black distinction could be replaced by pointed bottoms (hearts and diamonds visually have a sharp point downwards, whereas spades and clubs have a blunt stem).
Four-color suits[edit]
Some decks, while using the French suits, give each suit a different color to make the suits more distinct from each other. In bridge, such decks are known as no-revoke decks, and the most common colors are black spades, red hearts, blue diamonds and green clubs, although in the past the diamond suit usually appeared in a golden yellow-orange. A related set occasionally used in Germany uses green spades (compare to leaves), red hearts, yellow diamonds (compare to bells) and black clubs (compare to acorns). This is a compromise deck devised to allow players from East Germany (who used German suits) and West Germany (who adopted the French suits) to be comfortable with the same deck when playing tournament Skat after the German reunification.[30]
Traditional Eastern suits and decks[edit]
Eastern cultures, particularly Japan, were introduced to playing cards with the arrival of Portuguese explorer Francisco Xavier in 1549 AD. With him and his sailors came a 48-card deck (12 ranks, four suits) that was popular for gambling games at the time. This 48-card deck was adopted by the Japanese for the same purpose. Increasing restrictions by the Tokugawa shogunate on gambling, card playing, and general foreign influence, resulted in the Hanafuda card deck that today is used most often for a matching-type game of the same name. The role of rank and suit in organizing cards became switched, so the hanafuda deck has 12 suits, each representing a month of the year, and each suit has 4 cards, most often two normal, one Ribbon and one Special (though August, November and December each differ uniquely from this convention).
In China and Southeast Asia, the game of Mahjong developed as the result of a similar introduction to playing cards and was combined with the Hindu-Chinese development of dominoes resulting in tiles instead of cards. These tiles are organized into the following groups: three major suits of nine unique values (Coins, Strings and Characters, derived from the ancient Chinese monetary system), plus four Honors (cardinal directions), four Flowers, four Seasons, and three Dragons (Red, Green and White). The full set has four copies of each value of each major suit, four of each Dragon and Honor tile value, and one of each Flower and Season tile, for 144 total tiles. They are used to play a game very similar to Rummy; players draw and discard in an attempt to form their entire hand into one or more groups of tiles. They are also used to play a solitaire game that is very popular in the United States in its electronic form. The Mahjong tileset is also available in the form of playing cards, making it more portable, but this is a relatively recent development.
In both Japan and continental Asia, the 52-card French-suited deck is also popular as are some of the games played with them.
Adding extra suits to the French deck[edit]
Numerous variations of the 52-card French deck have existed over the years. Most notably, the tarot deck has a separate trump series in addition to the four suits; however this fifth suit is a series of cards of a different number and style than the suited cards. Various people have independently suggested expanding the French deck to five, six or even more suits where the additional suits have the same number and style of cards as the French suits, and have proposed rules for expanded versions of popular games such as rummy, hearts, bridge, and poker that could be played with such a deck.
If commercially-made decks are not readily available, a deck with up to eight suits can be made from two identical decks by altering the suit symbols throughout one of them with a non-fading marker. R. Wayne Schmittberger in New Rules for Classic Games originated the idea of drawing an arrow through each heart to create valentines and a cross through each diamond to create kites. Clubs would have their stem rounded to create cloverleaves and spades would have horns and tail added to become devils.
Five-suit decks[edit]
Historical decks[edit]
In the mid to late 1930s there was an increase in the popularity of Bridge. Thought up one summer night by Austrian gamester Walther Marseille, Ph.D., rules were first devised for a fifth suit based on a green or invulnerable suit. In 1937, a book for rules using the fifth suit was written in Vienna, Austria, and patented for this set of rules. This fifth suit was produced by a number of companies. In 1935, De La Rue of Great Britain created a Bridge deck called De La Rue's Five Suit Contract Bridge Playing Cards. This deck contained cards using grey-blue colored crowns called Royals as a fifth suit. According to the rules published by Parker Brothers, credit is given to Ammiel F. Decker for the rules in 1933. The fifth suit of Greens was called Blätter, or leaves. In 1937 and 1938, Waddington's of London created a fifth suit of more detailed crowns also called Royals, which respectively featured light blue and dark green crowns. In the same year there were three American decks that included a green Eagle as a fifth suit in similar Bridge decks of playing cards. The deck published by United States Playing Card Company used the Eagle in a medium green and the pips in the corners were inside green circles. The second deck was by Russell Playing Cards (owned by the United States Playing Card Company) used the same Eagle but in a darker shade and the pips in the corners were devoid of the circle. The third deck was by Arrco in 1938 and used an Eagle as well. At least five other bridge books were subsequently published to support playing Bridge with rules for this fifth suit, including one by Arrco in 1938. It is more than likely the book that Arrco published was for their own deck. Parker Brothers created a fifth-suit Bridge deck in 1938 called Castle Bridge, in which the fifth suit of Castles looked like a Rook chess piece and was colored green. After 1938, the popularity of this fifth suit fell off and the decks were no longer produced for Bridge. The title of a science-fiction novel by James Blish, Jack of Eagles, refers to the main character being different.
A number of the following out-of-print decks may be found, especially through on-line auctions. Previously, Five Star Playing Cards poker sized, was manufactured by Five Star Games, which had a gold colored fifth suit of five pointed stars. The court cards are almost identical to the diamond suit in a Gemaco Five-Star deck. Five-suit decks using the Star suit are still in print in differing designs through vendors such as Stardeck[31] and Newton's Novelties.[32] Cadaco manufactured a game Tripoley Wild with a fifth suit, (and other Wild Cards,) which contain pips of all four standard suits (hearts, diamonds, spades, and clubs) on one card. That poker sized deck is not sold separately, but as part of boxed game. Five suited decks include Cinco-Loco Poker Playing Cards, produced by the USA Playing Card Company (not the United States Playing Card Company,) which introduces a new suit design. The Cinco-Loco fifth suit uses a complicated pattern, with color designs in a repeating circular series of pentagrams with four traditional suits in a four color pattern, inner circles get increasingly smaller, the fifth symbol in the circle of pentagrams is a yellow pentagram. There are then a total of ten symbols in each of the outer and repeated in inner circles. The other suits use a four-color design.
Commercial decks[edit]
A commercially available five-suit poker (65-card) deck is Stardeck, which introduces stars as a fifth suit. In the Stardeck cards, the fifth suit is colored a mixture of black and red. This fifth suit can be counted as either a Red or a Black suit dependent upon the game being played.
Another five suited deck is Don't Quote Me, with single quotations as the fifth suit. The cards are pentagonal.
Five Crowns[33] is yet another five-suited deck, with no-revoke suits and stars as the fifth suit. The deck does not contain aces or twos.
5° Dimension,[34] is an 80-card deck introduced in 2007. The five suits are Hearts (red), Spades (black), Clubs (green), Diamonds (yellow) and Stars (blue). Each suit has 16 cards: 1 to 10, King, Queen, Jack, Princess, Ace (distinct from 1) and a Joker.
Five-suited decks find some use in cartomancy. In these contexts, the fifth suit is used for its association with the classical element Aether, also called Void or Sky.
Six-suit decks[edit]
Historical decks[edit]
In America in 1895, Hiram Jones created a deck called International Playing Cards and it had two additional suits, a red suit with crosses and a black suit of bullets. (The bullets of that period were round, hence the pip was a circle.) Other attempts over the years experimented with either suit substitutions or additional suits added to decks of playing cards. Most of these did not last long, but some such as Civil War era card decks enjoyed limited success and are reprinted today.
Out of print is the Sextet Bridge Deck (copyright Ralph E. Peterson 1964, 1966), produced for Secobra Cards by the United States Playing Card Company. Two blue suits are added to the standard four: Rackets being a pair of crossed tennis rackets, and Wheels from a ship's steering wheel design.
Commercial decks[edit]
A commercially available six-suited (78-card) deck of poker sized playing cards is the Empire Deck. It has three red suits and three black suits, introducing crowns in red and anchors in black as in the dice game Crown and Anchor.
Eight-suit decks[edit]
Commercial decks[edit]
8 Suits Playing Cards,[35] conceived in the late 1970s and manufactured through BrienmarK Products Inc., adds red Moons, black Stars, red four-leaved Clovers and black Tears. This deck was originally created to allow more players in a game of euchre.
The Fat Pack[36] adds red Roses, black Axes, black Tridents and red Doves to the standard deck.
Toss™ Double Deluxe Decks[37] looks very similar to two 52 pack decks and has 111 total cards. Besides the traditional Club, Spade, Heart and Diamond suits, it adds the Cross, Oracle, Castle and Shield suits. These combined eight suits offer suit colors of red, black gold and blue. The cards are Ace through King with a distinct Joker for each pair of suit colors, a Boss Joker overall and Null cards.
Other modern suited decks[edit]
Suit-and-value decks[edit]
A large number of games are based around a deck in which each card has a value and a suit (usually represented by a color), and for each suit there is exactly one card having each value, though in many cases the deck has various special cards as well. Examples include Mü und Mehr, Lost Cities, DUO, Sticheln, Rage, Schotten Totten, UNO, Phase 10, Oh-No!, Skip-Bo, and Rook.
Other suited decks[edit]
Decks for some games are divided into suits, but otherwise bear little relation to traditional games. An example would be the game Taj Mahal, in which each card has one of four background colors, the rule being that all the cards played by a single player in a single round must be the same color. The selection of cards in the deck of each color is approximately the same and the player's choice of which color to use is guided by the contents of their particular hand.
Roodles, a game published in 1912 by A.J. Patterson of Kalamazoo and later by Flinch Card Co., uses a deck with 14 cards in each of four suits (all black) – Wishbones, Horseshoes, 4-Leaf Clovers, and Swastikas – plus a joker labeled "Roodles". Roodles was described on its box cover as simple, instructive, scientific and entertaining.
In the trick-taking card game Flaschenteufel ("The Bottle Imp") players must follow the suit led, but if they are void in that suit they may play a card of another suit and this can still win the trick if its value is high enough. For this reason every card in the deck has a different number to prevent ties. A further strategic element is introduced since one suit contains mostly low cards and another, mostly high cards.
A special mention should be made of the card game Set. Whereas cards in a traditional deck have two classifications—suit and rank—and each combination is represented by one card, giving for example 4 suits × 13 ranks = 52 cards, each card in a Set deck has four classifications each into one of three categories, giving a total of 3 × 3 × 3 × 3 = 81 cards. Any one of these four classifications could be considered a suit, but this is not really enlightening in terms of the structure of the game.
Another special mention should be made of the 9-suit decks sold by TSR for use with the Dragonlance: Fifth Age roleplaying game. These decks, sold both separately and included in the game, also can be used for several card game uses. The deck has Shields, Arrows, Helms, Swords, Crescent Moons, Orbs, Hearts, and Crowns, each suit numbered 1-9, plus a suit of dragons numbered 1-10, providing an 82 card deck. The system was released in 1996.
Fictional decks[edit]
Several people have invented decks which are not meant to be seriously played. The Double Fanucci deck from Zork takes the most imaginative licence with the suits: it has no fewer than fifteen, with the names Mazes, Books, Rain, Bugs, Fromps, Inkblots, Scythes, Plungers, Faces, Time, Lamps, Hives, Ears, Zurfs, and Tops.
The Cripple Mr. Onion deck uses eight fictional suits, but may be simulated by combining the standard French suits with the traditional Latin suited ones or by using a modern 8-suited deck.
The Discordian deck is a parody of the Tarot deck, its five suits corresponding to the five Discordian elements.
The card game of sabacc from the Star Wars universe has the suits of staves, flasks, sabers, and coins (similar to Latin suits), with cards ranked one through fifteen, plus two each of eight other cards which have no suit.
The deck used in Firefly has suits of Plum, Peach, Orange, Apple, Apricot, and Banana.
In World of Warcraft, there are cards that randomly drop from humanoid enemies. If a player collected the entire suit, he/she could trade it for a trinket that would grant special abilities. Initially, this was limited to the ace through eight of the suits of Elementals, Beasts, Warlords, and Portals. A later content patch added the suits of Lunacy, Storms, Furies, and Blessings. The Inscription skill allowed the crafting of cards of the suits of Mages, Swords, Rogues, and Demons.
Uses of playing card suit symbols[edit]
Card suit symbols occur in places outside card playing:
- The four suits were famously employed by the 101st Airborne Division during World War II to distinguish its four constituent regiments:
- Clubs (♣) identified the 327th Glider Infantry Regiment; currently worn by the 1st Brigade Combat Team.
- Diamonds (♦) identified the 501st PIR. 1st Battalion, 501st Infantry Regiment is now part of the 4th Brigade (ABN), 25th Infantry Division in Alaska; the Diamond is currently used by the 101st Combat Aviation Brigade.
- Hearts (♥) identified the 502nd PIR; currently worn by the 2nd Brigade Combat Team.
- Spades (♠) identified the 506th PIR; currently worn by the 4th Brigade Combat Team.
- British Navy Fleet Air Arm search and rescue units (helicopters, etc.) sport an ace of clubs symbol.
- The United States Navy's Strike Fighter Squadron 41 (VFA-41) is nicknamed The Black Aces and their insignia is a playing card with the spade present and numbered 41. For fighter pilots, "ace" carries the meaning of flying ace.
- The Japanese television series Kamen Rider Blade uses the playing cards and their symbols as an overall motif for the series. Each of the four Kamen Riders derives his name from the Minor Arcana that parallels the four suits: Blade represents Spades, Garren (based on the word Galleon) represents Diamonds, Chalice represents Hearts, and Leangle (a type of Aborigine war-club) represents Clubs.
- The Bartle Test uses the four suits in order to distinguish different player personalities that arise typically in a video game:
- Clubs (Killers) (♣) enjoy competition and take pleasure in causing physical destruction in the virtual environment.
- Diamonds (Achievers) (♦) enjoy gaining points, levels, or any physical measure of their in-game achievement.
- Hearts (Socializers) (♥) enjoy playing games for the social aspect or by interacting with other players.
- Spades (Explorers) (♠) enjoy digging around, discovering new areas, or learning about easter eggs or glitches in the game.
- The webcomic Homestuck uses suits and card motifs as the symbols of four characters, as well as to represent romantic ideas (just as a heart commonly represents love).
Metaphorical uses[edit]
In some card games the card suits have a dominance order: club (lowest) - diamond - heart - spade (highest). That led to in spades being used to mean more than expected, in abundance, very much.[38]
Other expressions drawn from bridge and similar games include strong suit (used to refer to any area of personal strength) and following suit (in the sense of going along with the crowd).
See also[edit]
- ^ The French suits are also an international standard, even in countries with differing traditional suits. In Germany, Turnierbild (tournament-style) decks use four-color French symbols, with yellow Diamonds, green Spades and sometimes brown Clubs, as a compromise between French and German suits.
- ^ Clubs are also known as clovers, flowers and crosses. The French name for the suit is trèfles meaning clovers, the Italian name for the suit is fiori meaning flowers and the German name for the suit is Kreuz meaning cross.
- ^ The shape of the clubs symbol is believed to be an adaptation of the German suit of acorns.
- ^ In the Germanic countries the spade was the symbol associated with the blade of a spade. The English term spade originally did not refer to the tool but was derived from the Italian word spada meaning sword from the Italo-Spanish suit. Those symbols were later changed to resemble the digging tool instead to avoid confusion. In German and Dutch the suit is alternatively named Schippen and schoppen respectively, meaning shovels.
- ^ Popularity of these German suits depends on the region and the game involved; they are generally found only in 32-card decks for Skat or 48-card decks for Doppelkopf; German Bridge decks (with 52 cards) normally use the international/French suits. Skat and Doppelkopf decks are available in four-color French suits as well; see Note 1.
- ^ There does not appear to be a single universal system of correspondences between Swiss-German and French suits. Cards combining the two suit systems are manufactured in different versions with different combinations of suits.
- ^ In Spanish-speaking countries, the use of words varies, and the French suits are often used in Latin American countries.
- ^ Hearts are generally associated with the Italian cups suit and spades are generally associated with the Italian swords suit. The English names given to the standard French suit signs are not the same in meaning as the French names except for hearts, which could explain the popular belief that clubs (which were originally fleurs meaning flowers, later trèfles meaning clovers) were derived from Italian bastoni (batons). However, occult author Paul Huson and 18th century French cartomancers such as Antoine Court de Gébelin and Etteilla associate clubs with Italian coins (Tarot Pentacles) and diamonds with Italian batons (Tarot Wands). This association becomes more obvious when observing the Minor Arcana suit patterns of the Tarot of Marseilles, in particular the floral pattern inside the coins and the diamond shapes in the lattice made by the batons.
- ^ The symbols of the set from Piacenza are the most commonly used in Italy but the symbols vary greatly depending on the part of the country the cards are from. For an exhaustive overview, please see this entry on the Italian Wikipedia.
- ^ In 1704 Claude-François Ménestrier, a Jesuit antiquarian from Lyon, associated the French suits with the four major feudal classes: clergy (hearts/cœurs), nobility (spades/piques), merchants (diamonds/carreaux) and peasants (clubs/trèfles).
- ^ The German suits are said to have represented the four major feudal classes: clergy (hearts/Herz), middle class (leaves/Laub), nobility (bells/Schellen) and peasants (acorns/Eichel).
- ^ The Italian suits are said to have represented the four major feudal classes: clergy (cups/coppe), nobility (swords/spade), merchants (coins/denari) and peasants (clubs/bastoni).
- ^ The Tarot suits were first associated with elements by Eliphas Levi in The Doctrine of Transcendental Magic (1855). Levi associated Tarot Wands with fire, Tarot Cups with water, Tarot Swords with air and Tarot Pentacles with earth and this is the most common system of elemental correspondences used in divinatory Tarot today. Suit-element correspondences for playing card cartomancy systems vary, where applicable. In The Playing Card Oracles by Ana Cortez, diamonds are associated with fire, hearts are associated with water, spades are associated with earth and clubs are associated with air. In Cards of Your Destiny by Robert Camp, diamonds are associated with earth, hearts are associated with water, spades are associated with fire and clubs are associated with air.
- ^ This is one possible system of number associations for the French suits suggested by the points or lobes in the shapes of their symbols. Ranking of suits for gaming purposes depends on the rules of the game being played.
- ^ a b "National and regional card games". pagat.com. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
- ^ "Card games in the USA". pagat.com. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
- ^ a b "Card games in France". pagat.com. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
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- ^ "Illustrated Hungarian Tarokk". pagat.com. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
- ^ a b c d Barbara and David P Mikkelson (29 September 2007). "The Four King Truth". snopes.com. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
- ^ Webster's II New College Dictionary: Third Edition. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin. 2005. p. 1082. ISBN 9780618396016.
- ^ "App für Android: SwissJass Free" (in German). netzwelt. Retrieved 18 May 2013. "Das französische Blatt ist unter anderem vom Poker sehr bekannt und beinhaltet die 'Farben' Karo, Herz, Pik und Kreuz. Dem entsprechen die deutschschweizer Farben Schellen, Rosen, Schilten und Eichel."
- ^ "Schweiz" [Switzerland] (in German). Kartenhaus. Retrieved 18 May 2013.
- ^ "Jass" (in German). Spielanleitung.com. Retrieved 18 May 2013. "Die Übertragung dieser Farben auf die französische Karte ist von eigener Auslegung"
- ^ "Regole della Briscola" [Rules of Briscola] (in Italian). Sisal. Retrieved 16 May 2013.
- ^ "Cards for the game of Scopone by Figs". F.I.G.S. Retrieved 16 May 2013.
- ^ a b William Andrew Chatto (1848). Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards. London: John Russell Smith. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
- ^ a b c Paul Huson (2004). Mystical Origins of the Tarot. Rochester, Vermont: Destiny Books. ISBN 9780892811908.
- ^ Mary K Greer (2002). "Tarot History and Theory of Origins". Tarot for Your Self. Franklin Lakes, NJ: Career Press. p. 281. ISBN 9781564145888.
- ^ Buckland, Raymond (2004). The Fortune-Telling Book. Canton, MI: Visible Ink Press. pp. 88–90. ISBN 9781578591473.
- ^ Arzt-Wegman, Dita (2003). Nostradamus' Dream Interpretation Guide. Oakville, ON: Vasitha Publications. pp. 229–234. ISBN 9780968602218.
- ^ Johann Georg Theodor Gräße (1856). Die Wissenschaften im neunzehnten Jahrhundert: Zur Geschichte der Spielkarten (in German). Leipzig: Romberg's Verlag. p. 565.
- ^ Streicher, Hubert (1926). Das Wahrsagen (in German). Wien: Verlag Julius Springer.
- ^ Chevalier, Jean; Gheerbrant, Alain; Buchanan-Brown, John (1996). The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols. London: Penguin Books. p. 970. ISBN 9780140512540.
- ^ Thomson, Sandra A (2003). Pictures from the Heart: A Tarot Dictionary. New York: St Martin's Griffin. ISBN 9780312291280.
- ^ Williams, Paul (12 December 2007). "Meaning of the Tarot Suits". tarot-authentique.com. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
- ^ Duquette, Lon Milo (2003). Understanding Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot. Boston, MA: Weiser Books. p. 47. ISBN 9781578632763.
- ^ Cortez, Ana (2002). The Playing Card Oracles. Denver, CO: Two Sisters Press. pp. 12–24. ISBN 9780971986107.
- ^ Camp, Robert (2004). Cards of Your Destiny. Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks. p. 2. ISBN 9781402202483.
- ^ Doug Dyment. "On the Ordering of Playing Card Suits". deceptionary.com. Retrieved 3 December 2012.
- ^ "Kartenbilder" (in German). deutscherskatverband.de. 17 January 2012. Retrieved 12 December 2012.
- ^ Stardeck.com
- ^ Newton's Novelties
- ^ Five Crowns on Setgame.com
- ^ Jeudecartes5d.com
- ^ 8 Suits.com; deck includes extended rules for euchre
- ^ TheFatpackcards.com, Fat Pack Playing Card Company
- ^ Toss.4t.com Toss™ Double Deck Deluxe Playing Cards
- ^ Phrases.org
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Playing card suits. |
- Names of ranks of court cards and suits in various languages
- The Games Journal article on card decks
- Stardeck (with rules for 5-suited Poker and Spades)
- Empire Deck (with rules for 5- and 6-suited Rummy and Hearts)
- Super-Bridge A reprinted article by Time Magazine from 1938, describing origins of five-suited bridge decks
- the Discordian Tarot
- Five Crowns, a 5-suits deck
- 5°Dimension, a deck with 5 suits of 16 cards each


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Pierre Soulages (born 1919) Peinture 116 x 89 cm, 22 mai 1958, 1958 45 7/8 x 35 1/4in. (116.5 x 89.5cm)
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Pierre Soulages (born 1919)
Peinture 116 x 89 cm, 22 mai 1958, 1958
signed 'soulages' (lower left); signed 'SOULAGES' (on the stretcher bar), signed and dated 'SOULAGES 22/5/58' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
45 7/8 x 35 1/4in. (116.5 x 89.5cm)
Gimpel Fils Gallery, London.
Collection of Mrs. Walter Ferré Gage (acquired from the above in 1964) and thence by descent to the present owner.
P. Encrevé,
Soulages; L'oeuvre complet, peintures
, 1946-1959, Paris 1994, vol. I, no. 327 (illustrated in color, p. 258).
Pierre Soulages or the "painter of black" as he is often referred to, has rightfully become one of the key international figures of post-war abstraction. Since the 1940s, Soulages has been known as one of the leaders of what was then a new group of purely abstract painters known as the
Ecole de Paris
. For over seventy years now, Soulages has been systematically exploring the material properties of paint, pushing the boundaries of the power of expression contained within the medium. In his early work primarily dating from the early to late 1940s Soulages utilized a variety of media including walnut stain and tar which proved to be moderately successful for endeavors, however, it was not until the 1950s when he began painting with oil on canvas, and more specifically, black oil paint on canvas that he was really able to tackle his investigation with thorough execution. Soulages became transfixed with black paint, using it almost exclusively in the following decades of his career up until today. "I was always interested in black, even as a child," Soulages once stated, "I used black paint and when someone asked what I was painting I said 'snow'. I think with hindsight that I used black to make the paper look more white" (Claire Rosemberg. "Black is the new black for Pierre Soulages, France's best known living artist."
The Telegraph
[London] 14 October 2009). For Soulages, black is not only a color, but it is also and almost more importantly a non-color; meaning that unlike most other pigments, it contains all colors within it making it the most versatile hue that can change dramatically with light.
Along with his use of black paint, Soulages' almost poetic mark-making and the formal play he creates within his compositions, imbues his paintings with an ethereal and ultimately existential quality. The sweeping and almost forceful planar brushstrokes are evocative of an American counterpart, Franz Kline. Yet, unlike Kline, Soulages' initial application of paint and further manipulation of the surface work together to form his dramatic compositions. Often Soulages would make and use his own painting implements or tools, including homemade brushes and palette knives to his own invention, a flat rubber spatula type tool known as a
. With this these tools, Soulages would apply broad and dense layers of paint that he would then adjust by scraping, digging and etching into, resulting in a surface which brilliantly articulates a space of tension created by the play between light and dark, space and absence and the passing of time.
Peinture 116 x 89 cm, 22 mai 1958
dates from a period when the artist had truly come into his own; when his investigation of light and space had reached a certain apex. Here Soulages first applied a think tobacco brown wash over the expanse of the canvas before then applying the striking swatches of black in multiples layers. In between layering his applications of paint and again on the outermost surfaces, Soulages used his various scraping devices to subtract from the strokes, allowing some of the brown undertone to show through in specific places, in effect heightening both the luminosity and vividness of the black. Furthermore, his layering of perpendicular and parallel "lines" create an almost tangible space seemingly allowing the viewer to move three dimensionally through the painting. Perhaps one of his most successful experiments of the period,
Peinture 116 x 89 cm, 22 mai 1958
is a spectacular example of the artist in the prime of his career successfully conveying both the spatial and theoretical concerns that have occupied Soulages throughout his lifetime.
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Photograph by Dmitri Kessel/Getty Images
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Sleep apnea has been implicated as an independent risk factor for atherosclerotic coronary artery disease (CAD). An association between the severity of sleep apnea and total cholesterol levels has previously been reported. However, the association with small dense low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol concentration (subclass B), one of the strongest predictors of atherosclerosis, is unknown. We examined the relationship between sleep apnea and LDL subclass B, considering body size.
This is a cross-sectional observational cohort of participants enrolled in a cardiovascular health study. Sleep apnea was assessed with a validated portable monitor. Lipid panels included total cholesterol, triglycerides, high density lipoprotein cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, and LDL subclasses A, B, and A/B. Sleep apnea was analyzed categorically using the apnea hypopnea index (AHI).
A total of 519 participants were evaluated. Mean age was 58.7 ± 7.4 years; BMI was 29.6 ± 5.7; 65% were female; 59% were Caucasian, and 37% were African American. Among participants with abnormal waist circumference by ATP III criteria, moderate to severe sleep apnea (AHI ≥ 25) was not independently associated with LDL subclass B. In contrast, among participants with normal waist circumference, moderate to severe sleep apnea was associated with 4.5-fold odds of having LDL subclass B.
Sleep apnea is independently associated with an atherogenic phenotype (LDL subclass B) in non-obese individuals. The association between sleep apnea and LDL subclass B in those with normal waist circumference may account, in part, for the increased risk of atherosclerosis and subsequent vascular events.
Luyster FS; Kip KE; Drumheller OJ; Rice TB; Edmundowicz D; Matthews K; Reis SE; Strollo PJ. Sleep apnea is related to the atherogenic phenotype, lipoprotein subclass B. J Clin Sleep Med 2012;8(2):155-161.
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