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Julia Lambert is a true diva: beautiful, talented, weathly and famous. She has it all – including a devoted husband who has mastermined her brilliant career – but after years…
Country: Canada, Hungary, UK, USA
Members (Danny Dyer, Laura Harris, Tim McInnerny) of the Palisades Defense Corp. sales group arrive in Europe for a team-building exercise. A fallen tree blocks the route, and they must…
Country: Germany, Hungary, UK
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
The Secret of Moonacre
When 13 year old Maria Merryweather's father dies, leaving her orphaned and homeless, she is forced to leave her luxurious London life to go and live with Sir Benjamin, an…
Country: Australia, France, Hungary, New Zealand, UK, USA
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance, Science Fiction
Edge of Sanity
When Henry Jekyll's experiments with cocaine have gotten out of control, he transforms into the hideous Jack Hyde. As Hyde he searches the London streets at night for his prey…
Country: France, Hungary, UK, USA
Bathory: Countess of Blood
Bathory is based on the legends surrounding the life and deeds of Countess Elizabeth Bathory known as the greatest murderess in the history of mankind. Contrary to popular belief, Elizabeth…
Country: Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Slovakia, UK
And suddenly, overnight, the world came to a halt. Two men, two survivors, one kid, and hatred that separates them. A place forgotten by everyone, including the creatures that inhabit…
Country: France, Hungary, Spain, USA
Genre: Drama, Horror, Science Fiction
In 1860s Paris, a young woman, Therese, is trapped in a loveless marriage to the sickly Camille by her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin. She spends her days behind the counter…
Country: Hungary, Serbia, USA
A darker version of the classic Gaston Leroux novel. A young soprano becomes the obsession of a horribly disfigured composer who has plans for those oppose himself or the young…
Country: Hungary, UK, USA
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance
Two men reaching middle age with not much to show but disappointment embark on a week-long road trip through California's wine country, just as one is about to take a…
Country: Hungary, USA
In his homeland of Alagaesia, a farm boy happens upon a dragon's egg — a discovery that leads him on a predestined journey where he realizes he's the one person…
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Womb
A woman's consuming love forces her to bear the clone of her dead beloved. From his infancy to manhood, she faces the unavoidable complexities of her controversial decision.
Country: France, Germany, Hungary
Genre: Romance, Science Fiction
The Debt
In 1965, three Mossad agents cross into East Berlin to apprehend a notorious Nazi war criminal. Thirty years later, the secrets the agents share come back to haunt them.
Country: Hungary, Israel, UK, USA
The Rite
An American seminary student travels to Italy to take an exorcism course.
Country: Hungary, Italy, USA
Set in Budapest in 1913, when the city was considered to be at the heart of Europe. 20-year-old Irisz Leiter, arrives in the Hungarian capital after spending her younger years…
Country: France, Hungary
Psychotherapist Ruben Brandt becomes the most wanted criminal in the world when he and four of his patients steal paintings from the world's most renowned museums and art collections.
Genre: Action, Animation, Crime, Thriller
Ghost trains and ghostly characters, figuratively speaking of course, are what run through the perpetual night of this underground metro system. Bulcsú's (Sándor Csányi) life that once was, on the…
Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia
Asterix crosses the channel to help second-cousin Anticlimax face down Julius Caesar and invading Romans.
Country: France, Hungary, Italy, Spain
A fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, in which the poet is in pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in the writer's…
Country: Hungary, Serbia, Spain, USA
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
The Inguri River forms a natural border dividing Georgia from Abkhazia. One of the spring floods has created a little island in the middle of the river, as if made…
Country: Czech Republic, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Kazakhstan
Dear Elza!
Walking with the Enemy
Regent Horthy is the leader of Hungary and a German ally, but his favorable standing with Hitler changes as the war comes to an end. Forced to cede Hungary's power…
Country: Canada, Hungary, Romania, USA
Central London, today; Dee is an anarchic street-artist confronting the system, Marcus is an armed robber on a jewellery store crime-wave. For the two brothers, being Anti-Social is a way…
Country: Hungary, UK
Genre: Crime
An old Jewish baker struggles to keep his business afloat until his young Muslim apprentice accidentally drops cannabis in the dough and sends sales sky high.
The White King
Djata is a care-free 12-year-old growing up in a brutal dictatorship shut off from the outside world. When the government imprisons his father, Peter, and Djata and his mother Hannah…
Country: Germany, Hungary, Sweden, UK
Based on real-life events, this psycho-thriller is set in the provincial Hungary of the 1960s, when a series of atrocious murders shock the small town of Martfü. A psychotic killer…
The Man Who Was Thursday
THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY is inspired by the existentialist novel of the same name by G.K. Chesterton (1908). The novel is considered a metaphysical thriller, and our film could…
Country: Hungary, Italy, Romania, USA
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Kincsem
The new owner of a brilliant race horse finds love while carrying out his revenge on the man who murdered his father.
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
Moleman 4: Longplay
It is the year 2546. Corporations rule the world, and an agent is on a secret mission to explore the untold stories of the past. His journey leads him into…
Genre: Animation, Documentary, History, Science Fiction
Two introverted people find out by pure chance that they share the same dream every night. They are puzzled, incredulous, a bit frightened. As they hesitantly accept this strange coincidence,…
The Whiskey Bandit
Between 1993 and 1999, one man robbed 29 financial institutions in Budapest. Banks, post offices and even travel agencies fell victim to his crime spree. The police had no leads…
Set in 15th century Italy at the height of the Renaissance, The Borgias chronicles the corrupt rise of patriarch Rodrigo Borgia to the papacy, where he proceeds to commit every…
Country: Canada, Hungary, Ireland, USA
15-year-old Mia faces an overwhelming transformation which puts her entire existence into question. Her body is changing radically, and despite desperate attempts to halt the process, Mia is soon forced…
Country: Hungary, Switzerland
An unsettling feeling overwhelms a small Hungarian town when two orthodox Jews arrive with a mysterious trunk. As residents begin to speculate on the purpose of the visit of these…
After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is transplanted from her childhood home in rural France to the intellectual and artistic splendor of Paris. Soon…
Country: France, Hungary, Netherlands, UK, USA
Jupiter's Moon
A young immigrant is shot down while illegally crossing the border. Terrified and in shock, wounded Aryan can now mysteriously levitate at will. Thrown into a refugee camp, he is…
The Last King
Year 1206. Norway is ravaged by civil war. The King's illegitimate son is guarded in deep secret. A boy that half of the kingdom wants to kill and two men…
Country: Denmark, Hungary, Ireland, Norway, Sweden
A group of international students explores a basement that has been abandoned for years. But what starts off as an exploratory séance ends in bloody mayhem when a malicious entity…
A young blade runner's discovery of a long-buried secret leads him to track down former blade runner Rick Deckard, who's been missing for thirty years.
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller
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Self-Portrait: Renaissance to Contemporary
National Portrait Gallery, London
20 October 2005 – 29 January 2006
Self-Portrait: Renaissance to Contemporary explores self-portraits over 500 years. It includes 56 self-portraits in oil by 56 artists
The historic development is mapped in terms of the artists' perceptions of themselves as well as the development in naturalism through the use of oil paint, invented in the 15th century. The paintings assembled include some very fine and valuable works on loan from major collections around the world. Seven paintings, for example, have come from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, which houses the finest self-portrait collection in the world; started by the Medici family, it has continued in recent times to collect fine and original works. Other important loans have been negotiated from the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid, The National Gallery of Art in Washington, The Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.
Within Britain, works have come from the Royal Collection, The National Gallery in London, The Tate, and English Heritage. Sponsored by Channel 4, 'Self-Portrait' is jointly curated by the National Gallery (Joanna Woodall) and the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney (Anthony Bond). As the curators point out, 'The exhibition draws attention to the figure of the painter as a distinctive member of society, worthy of representation and considered to be somehow present in the works that he or she makes. As well as demonstrating the inventiveness, wit and skill of individual artists, the exhibition reveals themes and continuities that emerge from a long view. These include various uses of the mirror and the playing of various roles by the artist'.
It was Michelangelo who coined the adage that 'every painter paints himself' - although this was in contrast to his view that a human form had to be perfected by art: 'Painting bore transparent witness to the artist's personal and quasi-divine capacity to create ideal faces and bodies that expressed the vital, enduring character of the subject. In the justification of a self-generating, self-sustaining individual, a direct, personal relationship with an omnipotent God was preferred to imitation of divine creation manifest in fertile Nature. In this view, naturalistic self-portraiture as a means of figuring artistic creativity is a contradiction in terms'.1
Issues that pertain to portraiture continue to exert influence over artists when they turn to themselves for subject matter. Renaissance self-portraits, like all portraits of the age, presented the sitter/subject in noble attire. However, self-portraits always assume an insight into the artist, beyond physical likeness.
The penetrating gaze of self-portraiture, often emanating from a single eye situated at the core of the work, can be understood as a metaphor for the artist's creative power. Historically, self-portraiture has spoken of the artist's claims to virtue, a word derived from the Latin vir (man) and originally connoting manliness, manhood, strength, vigour, courage and excellence. This enduring quality, assumed to link Man with God, justified fame, commemoration and a noble title in the social world, and promised immortality in heaven. It distinguished named, honourable subjects worthy of permanent representation from the anonymous, transient, ignoble multitude.2
However physical the actual process of making art was, the Renaissance self-portrait elevated the artist to well-dressed gentleman or lady. Sofonisba Anguissola (c.1532-1625) in the mid-16th century presents herself as a hands-on artist, surrounded by the paraphernalia of the studio: easel, palette and brushes. Self-portraits by William Hogarth (1697-1764) are intimate, intense works, where the artist reveals the relationship, not only with a finished work (with its various connotations) but also with the process of painting, the creative act.
Self-portraiture came about for many artists, not for intentional psychological insight or expression of ego, but for the practicality of not requiring a model. Vincent Van Gogh (1853-90) whose drawings formed the subject of a remarkable exhibition at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, and recently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, produced scores of self-portraits. Many were made when he was too poor to afford to pay models. Subsequently, they became most compelling and intriguing examples of the artist's principal preoccupations, both in technical and emotional terms.
Van Gogh's self-portraits (like Rembrandt's before him) hide private concerns as often as they mirror them: his face a painted mask, pierced by red-rimmed, green-flecked eyes. The vibrant 'halo' of energy pulsing around him betokens his persistent faith in the exceptional destiny of artists and his conviction that a portrait can penetrate the soul where the camera cannot reach. He said he wanted to give his portraits 'that something of the eternal, which the halo used to symbolise'.3
The young Rembrandt (1606-69) used his own face to record a range of emotional states. Staggeringly, he made over 70 self-portraits. His well-known earth palette is used with supreme skill. Drawing on the achievements of Raphael and Titian, Rembrandt fashioned his own image with great care. 'Rembrandt the self-portrait becomes a performative space where the self is consciously created through reflection of and on another'.4 Self-portraiture was ideal for artists wishing to create a mythological persona or mask. Essentially a fantastical creation, the artist could dramatise aspects of character that could not be respectably expressed outside the studio.
Hogarth used an apparently modest self-portrait as a stage on which to present his work, The Analysis of Beauty (1753). 'The picture is, in fact, a work of high artifice in which the elements of painting - artist, palette, canvas - are represented in the manner best calculated to display them to the viewer. The proportions of the composition are planned according to mathematical rules and the sinuous curve of the chair arm is reminiscent of the serpentine line advocated in The Analysis of Beauty. Even the priority given to red and white on the palette seems to allude to Hogarth's aesthetic principles.'5
Women artists were often forced to use their own faces when the logistics or social ramifications of obtaining a commission clashed with appropriate protocol for respectable women. Certain classical concepts of creativity cast man as inventor and maker, and woman as nurturer and domestic. In the Renaissance, it was practically inconceivable that women should become artists:
Aristotle's account of sexual reproduction, in which the man was regarded as the sole efficient cause, was a paradigm for the creative process. It was believed that as inert matter, woman lacked an inherent capacity to generate form in life and in art. If a woman did enter the realm of painting, female portraiture was considered an appropriate genre, as it was domestic in scale, compatible with a life of feminine refinement and virtue and regarded by some as an act of mindless reproduction.6
This is not the first exhibition at the National Gallery that addresses issues pertaining to female self-portraits, including a quarter of the works by women; 'Mirror, Mirror: Self-Portraits by Women Artists' was presented in 2001-02. In the catalogue, Whitney Chadwick wrote:
No single model of self-portraiture can stand for the experiences of women generally, or fully express the rich interplay that exists between the examination of the reflected image, and the exploration of the social dimensions of lived experience, but self-representation remains critical to self-understanding and it plays a particularly important role in women's creative lives.7
To resolve the apparent contradiction in being both a woman and an artist, women artists have often turned to self-portraiture to exemplify their skills and advertise their talent. Self-representation has been absolutely central to the work of artists as diverse and historically separated as Sofonisba Anguissola and Frida Kahlo (1907-54). In Anguissola's beautiful painting, 'Self-Portrait at the Easel Painting a Devotional Panel' (1556), she is dressed discreetly in black with modest lace collar and cuffs but no jewellery. Her hairstyle is simple and her demeanour modest. In this work she presents herself in the act of painting a work normally outside female constraints, the legend of St Luke the Evangelist, both as subject and object, author and model. 'Balancing social expectations, humanist wit and artistic skill, this painting is simultaneously a discreet portrait of a virtuous noblewoman and a fundamental challenge to the contemporary belief that women lacked an inherent capacity to create'.8
Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1652) was one of the first women artists in Europe to paint large-scale narrative scenes rather than limit herself to portraiture. She is represented in this exhibition by 'Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting' (1638-39). As La Pittura, the female personification of painting, she adhered to an established iconography (cf. Vasari) by wearing 'garments of changing colours, a golden chain with a pendant mask ... and unruly locks of hair symbolising the divine frenzy of the artistic temperament'.9 This is a physical, energetic figure: her sleeves are up to reveal strong arms, and the focus is on the hand, as opposed to a spiritual, feminine gaze.
The rest of the exhibition reads like a role call of pivotal characters from the history of art, however, there are, inevitably, notable gaps and absences. Represented are: Gustave Courbet, (1819-77), Edgar Degas, (1834-1917), Paul Cézanne, (1839-1906), Vincent Van Gogh, James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), André Derain (1880-1954), Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978), Edward Hopper (1882-1967), Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947), Lucian Freud (b.1922), Francis Bacon (1909-92), Andy Warhol (1928-87), Gerhard Richter (b.1932) and Chuck Close (b.1940). Of the more recent women artists, Suzanne Valadon, Frida Kahlo, Marlene Dumas (b.1953) and Jenny Saville (b.1970) are represented.
Beyond the exhibition, in terms of press coverage, the nine images available have focused attention on a narrow slice of the works on show, and, in certain instances, this is disappointing. The Leon Kossoff, 'Self-Portrait with Christchurch' (1989), for example, is masterly but not available, although much reproduced is Suzanne Valadon's 'The Blue Room' (1923), and deservedly so. Breaking convention on numerous levels (she was the illegitimate daughter of a domestic labourer who became a well-known model of artists in Montmartre in the 1880s), she was independent, intelligent and forceful. 'Dissatisfied with the passive role of model, Valadon was determined to be an artist, learning her craft by observing male artists at work in the studios where she posed'.10
Combining various roles in her own life: model, painter, a mother at 18 (of an illegitimate son, Maurice Utrillo), her marvellous self-portrait is theatrical and a challenge to Manet's 'Olympia' (1865), painted in the tradition of reclining nude from Ingres to Matisse. Valadon exhibited in the 1894 Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where Degas bought some of her drawings. Her inclusion in this exhibition was remarkable, for not only was she a woman, but she had no formal training; at that time no respectable bourgeois woman painted the female nude. In 'The Blue Room', Valadon depicts herself as independent, with decoratively placed books on the bed – art over marriage – and sporting not typical feminine attire but stripy trousers and a cigarette: 'Valadon shows herself to be interested in a decorative aesthetic but definitely in a decorative femininity'.11
Self-portraiture has been addressed (and reviewed on the Studio International website here) in a number of exhibitions during the past year: Frida Kahlo at Tate Modern, Francis Bacon and Andy Warhol at the National Galleries of Scotland. All have explored issues of self, gender politics, and the creative process. Frida Kahlo is certainly one of the most important women artists of the 20th century in terms of the force her paintings have created for feminist causes. Kahlo's painting confronted the previously taboo subjects of childbirth, female subjugation and the process of transformation from victim to survivor using revolutionary politics and sexual prowess. In 'Mirror, Mirror, Self-Portraits by Women', Frances Borzello pointed out:
The feminist revolution gave women permission to value their own lives, feelings and ideas as highly as men did theirs, and though the subjects often caused outrage, particularly when taboo subjects such as menstruation appeared in women's works, they were impossible to ignore. The new subject matter, the artistic arm of the feminist slogan that the personal is the political, has led to the most exciting developments in self-portraiture today: the extended self-portrait, an elaborate idea expressed through the self.12
A theatrical use of costume played an important part in Kahlo's images of self, referring to issues beyond her own experience. Kahlo dressed as a man to draw attention to issues of gender. She also wore costumes that conveyed cultural statements, such as the Mexican Tehuana costume, and flowers in her hair. She extended her imagery into the use of Mexican folk art that represented aspects of death and prayers for healing or relief from suffering.
In Andy Warhol's self-portraits there is an ambiguity, 'in whether they are, in fact, accurate representations of the real Andrew Warhola, or simply a means of deception – an act in pursuit of privacy. [His self-portraits] project both a vacancy and an allure, but essentially a superficiality that appears to betray no clear feeling ... Warhol was aware of the absurdity of celebrity, of Hollywood ... proven by his own place in it. He was both the prima donna and Pierrot of Pop Art, tragic-comic in essence. Only through his ability to ridicule the art world ... could he gain liberation from the masquerade in which he was trapped. Only by acting like a clown could he be an artist'.13 In 'Self-Portrait (Strangulation)' (1978), Warhol connect images of self with images of mortality, addressed through his dramatic traffic accident and electric chair images, that portray the darker side of American society.
The range of artists in 'Self-Portraits: Renaissance to Contemporary' is necessarily incomplete; indeed, a comprehensive study of self-portraiture is probably impossible. It is a curious fact that after an exhibition such as this, one continues to have a dialogue with a number of the artists involved. There is an intimate directness about all self-portraits, even those where the gaze has been averted. It is an extension of meeting a group of extremely interesting people at a gathering, having been told quite a bit about them in advance, though a small number are not much known and possibly remain unnoticed against the line-up of celebrities. It is not about being a voyeur, but engaging in extremely fascinating conversations with many, and wanting to continue the dialogue once the party is over.
Dr Janet McKenzie
1. Woodall J. Every Painter Paints Himself: Self-Portraiture and Creativity. In: Self-Portraits: Renaissance to Contemporary. London: National Portrait Gallery, 2005: 17.
2. Bond A, Woodall J. Preface. In: Ibid: 11.
3. Prunter U. Catalogue entry for Vincent Van Gogh. Ibid: 152.
4. Silvester F, Woodall J. Catalogue entry for Rembrandt. Ibid: 114.
5. Emerson E, Woodall J. Catalogue entry for William Hogarth. Ibid: 131.
6. French G, Woodall J. Catalogue entry for Sofonisba Anguissola. Ibid: 91.
7. Chadwick W. 'How do I look?' In: Mirror, Mirror, Self-Portraits by Women Artists. London: National Portrait Gallery, 2005: 21.
8. French G. Woodhall J. Catalogue entry on Sofonisba Anguissola. Op. cit.: 91.
9. Carr S, Woodall J. Catalogue entry on Artemisia Gentileschi. Ibid: 110.
10. Prunter U. Catalogue entry for Suzanne Valadon. Ibid: 164.
11. Ibid: 164.
12. Borzello F. Behind the Image. In: Mirror, Mirror, Self-Portraits by Women Artists. London: National Portrait Gallery, 2005: 31.
13. Spens C. Andy Warhol Self-Portraits (Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, 12 February-2 May 2005). Studio International, 2005 (last accessed 26/1/06)
Luiz Zerbini – interview: 'I treat a painting as an oracle'
Making Colour
Now, the National Gallery is hosting an exhibition dedicated to the history of making colour in western paintings, from the Middle Ages to the late 19th-century and beyond – a highlight is a fragment from Roger Hiorns's crystalline Seizure (2008), where he transformed an abandoned London flat into a shimmering blue cave. Science and art collide as this show looks at how artists overcame the technical challenges involved in creating colour, and the breakthroughs they achieved in their quest to capture ethereal and earthly beauty.
Cézanne and the Modern: Masterpieces of European Art from the Pearlman Collection
In 1958, the first public exhibition of the Pearlman Collection went on display at the Baltimore Museum of Art. It was titled Anonymous Collection. Notwithstanding its stated anonymity, one reviewer recognised that, "like the Cone Collection, these works constitute a highly personal view of modern French art and, like the Cones, the anonymous lender has proven himself a connoisseur of formidable discrimination".
William Kentridge: Fortuna
William Kentridge: Fortuna is the most comprehensive monograph on the South African artist to date. The new publication brings together almost 200 projects made by Kentridge since 1989 across a wide range of media, including film, animation, theatre, sculpture, drawing and printmaking.
Li Songsong: We Have Betrayed the Revolution
Li Songsong's paintings are imposing, strong and abstract, yet they are also images of group portraits, social activities and political scenes. He takes his subject matter from photographs in the media, looking back over the past century of Chinese history.
Impressionist Gardens. National Gallery Complex, Edinburgh, 2010
We review this outstanding exhibition, which moves on to Madrid imminently, able to report that visitor numbers amounted to some 90,000, a highly commendable success. Edinburgh of course is the capital of a nation of gardening enthusiasts at all levels.

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The Russian language front
M. R. D. Foot
SECRET CLASSROOMS: AN UNTOLD STORY OF THE COLD WAR Geoffrey Elliott and Harold Shukman
St Ermin's Press, pp.246, 18.99
During the war against Hitler, secret services recruited on the old boy net: there was no other way of being sure that recruits were not duds, and even on the old boy net bad mistakes could be made – Philby and Maclean were only the most notable examples. All that was supposed to vanish with Ernest Bevin's arrival at the Foreign Office and the Attlee government's clearing away of old boy values for ever.
Not a bit of it. Here is a vivacious account of how in the 1950s, under Eden and Lloyd at the Foreign Office, some 5,000 young men doing national service were quietly siphoned off from their units, secluded in Cornwall and Fifeshire, or, more boldly, next door to the Guards depot at Coulsdon in Surrey, and put through crash courses in Russian till they could speak it fluently. The luckiest of them were up at Cambridge or London universities, but again kept a sort of purdah. The kursanty, as they called themselves – those who were on the Russian course, officially known as the Joint Services School of Linguists (JSSL) – formed a caste apart, exactly as Etonians and Wykehamists had done in the 1920s and 1930s. Either they had been there together and therefore joined in the intense peer pressure to do well; or they had common instructors, and had picked up common turns of phrase, common ways of holding a cigarette, common anecdotes, a common outlook on life.
Of those of them who were promoted into the really secret parts of the state, Elliott and Shukman can of course say nothing; though we are told that the JSSL trained at least one unnamed head of GCHQ, as well as a bishop, numerous professors and a governor of the Bank of England. There are enough references to smoke-filled, windowless rooms full of intercept equipment to give one some idea of where many of the students went. The rest were allowed out into the wider, normal world, where many of them became famous. Their files all bore – the survivors still bear – a tag: 'this one can do Russian', and so they provided an invaluable latent resource for the armed forces, if the Cold War ever turned hot and we needed interrogators and radio interceptors in quantity. Elliott himself, having made his pile as an investment banker, retired to Bermuda, where the local police once picked up his tag, and called him in to help some monoglot policemen from Russia try to unravel a crime.
Most of the kursanty found that JSSL was both intensely hard work and a liberating experience; because, once they were launched, the intricacies of the Russian language and the splendours of Russian literature opened up parts of their minds that they had never known about, and gave them wider horizons than they had dreamed of. The contrast between army (or navy or air force) basic training and classroom slog was sharp; Elliott and Shukman, like the rest of kursanty, have not much use for the rigidities of regular service life and thinking, and they keep up a steady run of digs against officers and NCOs – especially NCOs – who seem to them to have had ivory solid from ear to ear. Over every JSSL pupil's head there hung a sword like Damocles': if they failed an exam, they would be RTU – returned to unit: back to the starting horrors that they trusted they had escaped.
No one interested in late 20th-century theatre or literature can afford to ignore this book; Sir Peter Hall, Alan Bennett, Michael Frayn, Sir Martin Gilbert and many of their friends are among its contributors. D. M. Thomas writes an affectionate foreword; Christine Thomas was an invaluable help to the authors while they wrote. Patrick Proctor's drawings, in colour, add grace to it; and the way with words that JSSL inculcated makes sure that there is no sentence anyone needs to read twice to understand. It is also a highly entertaining read; suitably for a body that has so much sustained the entertainment industry.
On the front line of feminism: Claire Tomalin's memoir reviewed
Hilary Spurling
Far beyond the call of duty
The still unwithered laurel wreath
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While Windows XP will soon be going away, Patch Tuesday had a nostalgic feel to it as Microsoft plugged a critical vulnerability in its XP operating system.
The Windows XP patch related to a critical vulnerability in the operating system's DirectShow service that attackers could theoretically use to remotely execute code. Microsoft downplayed the significance of the vulnerability, confirming they received word privately about the issue and it only affects Windows XP.
However, the flaw is troubling as Microsoft is due to officially cease support for Windows XP April 8. The cut-off has led to concerns within the security community.
Microsoft also released a permanent fix for a critical flaw in Internet Explorer (IE). FireEye discovered the flaw February 14 and attackers have used it to mount a sophisticated hacking campaign, codenamed Operation SnowMan.
Microsoft Trustworthy Computing (TwC) group manager of response communications Dustin Childs listed the fix as critical and called for IT managers to install it as soon as possible. "Our top deployment priority this month is MS14-012, which address 18 issues in Internet Explorer," he said.
The March Patch Tuesday also included a fix for a previously undisclosed vulnerability in Microsoft Silverlight.
"MS14-014 provides an update to address a security feature bypass in Silverlight. The issue wasn't publicly known and it isn't under active attack, however it can impact your security in ways that aren't always obvious," said Childs.
The update also features patches for flaws in Microsoft's Windows Kernel-Mode Driver and Security Account Manager Remote (SAMR) Protocol. Both vulnerabilities rank as important.


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Allison Payne Husband, Children, Wedding, Married, Cause of Death, Net Worth, Wiki, Age, Health Issues, Obituary
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Allison Payne Biography – Allison Payne Wiki
Allison Payne was a former news anchor, who anchored newscasts on WGN Channel 9 from 1990 to 2011. She was a 21-year veteran of WGN-TV, who was hired in 1990 as a 25-year-old out of Saginaw, Michigan. She went on to cover numerous important stories across the globe, including tracing former President Barack Obama's roots in Kenya and traveling to the Ivory Coast alongside the Rev. Jesse Jackson.
Payne was a Detroit native who eventually called Chicago home for many years, playing an active role in the community by mentoring students and eventually establishing a foundation for students looking to enter the journalism field.
After a series of unfortunate health events, Payne and WGN parted ways in September 2011 as she returned to her hometown of Detroit, WGN-TV reported. The daughter of an educator, Payne loved sharing her wealth of knowledge so much so that she looked into becoming a journalism professor at a community college in the Motor City after she left Chicago.
A native of Richmond, Virginia, Payne grew up in Detroit and graduated from the University of Detroit and Bowling Green State University. She began as an intern and reporter at WNWO, the ABC affiliate in Toledo, Ohio. In 1988, she was hired as news anchor at WNEM, the NBC affiliate in Saginaw, Michigan.
Her big break came two years later when she was discovered by WGN news director Paul Davis and she moved to Chicago to replace Pat Harvey alongside Rick Rosenthal on the 9 p.m. Monday-through-Friday newscast. Payne later co-anchored with Steve Sanders and Mark Suppelsa.
Allison Payne Age
She was born on February 12, 1964, in Richmond, Virginia, United States. She died on September 1, 2021, in Detroit, Michigan. She was 57 years old.
Allison Payne Husband – Allison Payne Husband Bobby Richardson
Was Allison Payne married? It is unclear if she was ever married. However, she had an encounter with Bobby Richardson in 2004, according to WDW.
Allison Payne Children
Allison Payne never had any children.
Allison Payne Health Issues
In January and August 2008, Payne went on medical leave after suffering from a series of mini-strokes. In November 2008 WGN-TV announced that Payne would take an indefinite leave of absence because of ongoing health issues. Payne admitted in an interview with Chicago Tribune media columnist Phil Rosenthal that she sought treatment for depression during her absence months earlier. In January 2010, Payne publicly admitted that she was a recovering alcoholic, after having previously battled alcoholism for 20 years. In late December 2010, Payne took a leave of absence from WGN-TV to rest her vocal cords.
Allison Payne Death
Former WGN-TV anchor Allison Payne died on September 1, 2021, at the age of 57. She passed away at her home in Detroit, according to a WGN press release.
"WGN-TV is mourning the loss of longtime former news anchor Allison Payne, who died at the age of 57…Allison Payne was a monumental contributor to the history of WGN-TV, and we mourn her loss greatly," WGN-TV in Chicago said in a statement.
Dean Richards, WGN-TV's Emmy Award-winning entertainment reporter and critic, wrote on Twitter: "I'm so sad to report the death of former WGN TV anchor, Allison Payne in her hometown of Detroit. She co-anchored WGN News for 21 years earning 9 Emmys. Allison suffered a series of health issues although a cause of death has not been released. She was 57. RIP my friend."
"Allison Payne was a one-of-a-kind talent who quickly became one of Chicago's Very Own. We are grateful for the many contributions she made to WGN-TV and to Chicago. Talented and much admired, she will be greatly missed," said Paul Rennie, Vice President General Manager, WGN-TV.
"Allison was young, vibrant, sharp, articulate. She was amazing. You looked at Allison and thought here is a young journalist who has the world before her. One could only speculate where that incredible career was going to go," said Tom Skilling, WGN-TV Chief Meteorologist, and longtime co-worker. "She was a delight, a kind human being… so sweet."
"While so many journalists worry about the list of questions they want to ask, she taught me the most important part of an interview, is the listening. That even if you don't ask the right questions, if you listen well enough, the story will reveal itself," said WGN-TV producer Tyra Martin.
Fellow Chicagoland journalist Afuna Owusu tweeted: "I am heartbroken over the death of Allison Payne. For 21 years she was theee face of @WGNNews for me, a little black girl living in Bolingbrook, IL. My parents moved my bedtime to 9:30p so that I could watch the nightly news with @AllisonPayneTV & Steve Sanders.
"A decade+ later, I started working at WGN. @allisonsnews took me under her wing. She was kind, gracious and an incredibly talented journalist. Allison Payne understood the importance of lifting others up so they too could have an opportunity to shine.
"I'd be a fool to not acknowledge, now, that I am who I am today because Allison Payne knocked down the doors and made room in the halls that me and so many other young black journalist walk through."
Allison Payne Cause of Death
Allison Payne's cause of death was not revealed. She battled addictions and other health issues during her later years in Chicago.
Allison Payne Net Worth
Allison Payne's net worth was estimated to be $1 million.
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Barbara Ann Scott, 76, of Lake of the Woods, Locust Grove, VA, passed peacefully into the arms of her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ with her family at her side on Sunday, November 29 in Culpeper Regional Hospital, Culpeper, VA.
Born in New York City on February 13, 1933, Barbara became a dedicated housewife successfully raising five children in Alexandria, VA. Upon her husband's retirement from the government she moved to one of her favorite places, Jekyll Island, GA for 10 years where she could walk the beaches and practice her crafts and handiwork. In recent years the Scotts moved back to Virginia, settling in Lake of the Woods, to be closer to family and enjoy an active community.
She is survived by her husband of 59 years, Haag; five children, Susan Weiford and her husband Doug, Harry Scott and his wife Cathy, Matthew Scott and his wife Jean, Debbie Rubino and her husband Chris and Beth Shealy and her husband Bryan; seven grandchildren; three great-grandsons; her sister Joan Cuomo; nephew Joseph Cuomo and his wife Heather and great-niece; and niece Michelle Kerrigan and her husband Bob.
Barbara is best remembered for her faith and considered healthy eating her ministry believing in "Jehovah God's Healing Diet" (Genesis 1:29). She enjoyed all of nature and found great peace in sunrise walks on the beach. She enjoyed traveling around the States and overseas, particularly her visit to Israel. Barbara loved her family and found great joy in visits with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren and was eagerly looking forward to the birth of another great-grandson in the Spring.
A Memorial Service is planned for Saturday, December 5 at 11:00 at Johnson Funeral Home, Locust Grove, VA, with Rev. Robert Regan officiating.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Family Care Home Health & Hospice, 610 Laurel St., Suite 2, Culpeper, VA 22701.
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Will Electric Cars Replace Conventional Automobiles?
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When electric cars first emerged, they seemed like an escape from our constant dependency on fossil fuels, and a way towards a more environmentally friendly means of powering our transportation.
We may be able to eliminate our gas-guzzling conventional vehicles in the upcoming years, but we will only be able to do so by finding a way to charge those cars with clean, renewable energy.
Yet higher costs and lower battery performance often discourage people from transitioning towards these gas-free wonders. This pleads the question everyone's asking – can electric cars replace the gas-guzzling automobiles of today's generations?
Electric vehicles have already started to take the place of gasoline cars for an increasing number of people, and as technology continues to improve, so does their popularity.
Electric cars have been one of the most successfully adopted alternatively powered vehicles due to a number of factors. One of biggest determinants is the electricity cost, which is competitive with the price of gasoline. Not to mention almost everyone has one (or numerous) power outlets in their home, making recharging these convenient vehicles effortless.
When they first joined the market, electric cars struggled to succeed. This was mostly attributed to high costs and a lack of familiarity with the product, as well as an initial resistance from the major automakers to produce these vehicles.
As we continue to add more electric vehicles to the market, we also need a way to power them. Today, most of our power comes from coal power plants. These are often counterproductive, as they produce (and pollute) just as much gasoline as they try to eliminate.
As costs have come down over the years, more consumers have begun to purchase electric vehicles more than ever before. Battery technology is also improving, which makes these cars all the more desirable for people with long distance drives in their daily commutes.
Not only are electric vehicles less costly to own, but they are also often inexpensive to buy. The Nissan Leaf, for example, starts at a price of $30,000, which may sound expensive. However, when you factor in the available tax credits, this can add up to as high as a $7,500 federal income tax credit. Many states offer tax credits as well.
In the last ten years, a lot has changed. Nowadays, electric cars are common in both the United States and Europe, increasing in popularity every day. But can electric cars fully take the place of gasoline vehicles as the predominant form of transportation in our constantly evolving world? Or will they always fall second to their forerunner? That is the question everybody is asking.
E for Electric and Efficiency!
According to Autos Cheat Sheet, electric cars also use their energy 40% more efficiently than gas-powered cars. An electric vehicle will typically use 59% to 62% of energy to power their car, while gasoline cars only use 17% to 21% of their energy to power the vehicle, making electric vehicles 41% to 45% more efficient. For individuals who have shorter commutes (less than 50 miles per day), an electric car can actually provide significant savings.
Another plus – since these vehicles are fully electric, they no longer require oil to lubricate the engine. This means oil changes will become outdated. Brakes will not wear as quickly, so you will not have to worry about replacing pads as often.
Another benefit of the electric car is that police radars typically do not follow electric cars as much as conventional cars for speeding tickets since they are not known to be speedy. Yet if you do get a ticket, you can still take a defensive driving course to reduce your fine and have points taken off your record, keeping your record as clean as your environmentally friendly vehicle!
Overall, electric cars may become the norm when it comes to modes of transportation sooner than we think, replacing the once-considered "perfect" conventional automobiles of today in the upcoming decades.
About the Author: Robert Cordray is a freelance writer and expert in business and finance. With over 20 years of business experience, Robert is now retired and hopes others can benefit from his writing.


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Q: php error message affecting height of textboxes I'm using php to display an error message to the user. The code is sitting at the top of the page and once the error message displays, it affects the height of my textboxes. I coded the height in a style sheet. Also, my error message is sitting inside of a div. I tried using the span tag but that isn't working either since its still sitting at the top line of the page. This is the error message in php:
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    border-radius: 20px;
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I was thinking that maybe its the font size that's the issue but regardless...a white line also appears at the bottom of the page:

Please have patience with me. I'm a student and new to php. Thank you

A: i can tell you how to rectify the error (though i am still looking for the reason because of which it happens).
what i did is that i inserted the php code inside body tag and it work fine no change in Textbox dimensions.Below is the code i wrote  to prove the same
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The Demonstration Forest trail is an interpretive trail with signage discussing modern forestry management. The Ballyshannon Fund assisted us with the creation of this trail that details sustainable forestry and its benefits for recreation and wildlife. The Demonstration Forest trail is linked with the Landmark Forest trail and is one mile in length.


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Landscape Sublime by Anastasia Samoylova
In the In-Between Editions, Vol. II
Landscape Sublime
by Anastasia Samoylova
with an essay by Stephanie Amon
Landscape Sublime is the debut book-work by Anastasia Samoylova, and the second volume of In the In-Between Editions, a limited edition book series that pairs exceptional photographic projects with essays by emerging arts writers. Vol. I, Emergence by Mark Dorf, was published in October 2015.
Anastasia Samoylova (b.1984) was born and raised in Moscow, received an MA in interior design from Russian State University, and an MFA from Bradley University. By utilizing tools and strategies related to digital media and commercial photography, her work interrogates notions of environmentalism, consumerism and the picturesque. Samoylova's work participates in the landscape photography tradition while scrutinizing the consumable products it generates. www.anastasiasamoylova.com
Stephanie Amon (b.1989) is a writer and gallerist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work addresses visual literacy and cultural violence. She received her B.A. in anthropology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She was a curatorial research assistant in nineteenth-century photography at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, where she delivered numerous tours and talks as a docent. She is a frequent contributor to Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism. www.stephanieamon.com
"The sublime is colonial in its central conflict about the appropriation of beauty and the conquering of nature, but also in its orientation toward the mother market. The picturesque lubricates consumerism, disseminated in the modern period on paper media, flat and shiny, and in plastics of mass appeal. The formally elaborate installations in Landscape Sublime are a material reminder that photographic saturation means contending with all that the image takes and leaves for dead."
From Ecoterminal Aesthetics: 7 Premises, by Stephanie Amon
In the In-Between Editions, Vol. II is limited to 200 copies in its first edition, and each copy is individually signed and numbered by the artist. In the In-Between Editions represents the next evolution of our platform, and continues our mission to represent and disseminate photographic artists working at the intersections of photography and digital media.
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Jacob & Josef Kohn (Яков и Iосиф Конъ) — фирма по выделке гнутой венской мебели, основанная во второй половине XIX века в Австро-Венгрии Якобом Коном и его сыном Йозефом.

Фирма «Кон» являлась основным конкурентом фирмы «Братья Тонет» (фр.).

В конце XIX — начале XX века Акционерное Общество «Яков и Иосифа Конъ» поставляло в Царскую Россию около полутора тысяч моделей гнутой венской мебели. Имело в России свои фабрики, представительства и магазины.

Фирма основана Якобом Коном в 1849 году. В 1878 году она была создана под именем Якоб и Йозеф Кон. На парижской выставке первое место получило салонное кресло за конструкцию ножек. Позже в Киеве в начале XX века данное кресло сбрасывали со второго этажа в рекламных целях соревнуясь с подобными изделиями конкурентов и победили.

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Литература

 Jacob & Josef Kohn. Memorandum of the firm Jacob & Josef Kohn, Wsetin, (Austria, Moravia) for the centennial exhibition in Philadelphia 1876. Philadelphia Museum of Art. Museum Library. [NK2545 .K64m PDF].
 Julio Vives Chillida, Jacob & Josef Kohn. Una mirada desde Barcelona. La casa de muebles Kohn en la Exposición Universal de Barcelona de 1888: madera curvada, historicismo y modernismo, Barcelona, Editorial La Plana, 2006, ISBN 978-84-934664-8-0.
 Julio Vives Chillida, Josef Hoffmann y Jacob & Josef Kohn en la Kunstschau Wien de 1908. La pequeña casa de campo: una efímera obra de arte total, 2008 Editorial Lulu.com (print on demand), ISBN 978-1-4092-0239-4.
 Генрих Гацура, Jacob & Josef Kohn Furniture. J & J Kohn on the Furniture market of Imperial Russia 2008, ISBN 5-7071-0372-4.
 Генрих Гацура. «Мебель Тонета». Каталог мебели, 2001;

Ссылки
 КАТАЛОГ мебели Якоб и Йозеф Кон (указана не вся мебель)
 КРЕСЛО ФИРМЫ КОНН - 1-Е МЕСТО В ПАРИЖЕ
 надпись 1850-е до 1878 (основания фирмы Я и Й Кон)

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How the Generosity of Yu Yin-Shih Has Benefited 30 Young Scholars
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Hailed as the greatest Chinese intellectual historian of his generation, internationally renowned scholar Yu Ying-Shih won the Tang Prize in Sinology in 2014, a well-deserved honor that matches his significant academic accomplishments. Humble and generous, Prof. Yu decided to use the NT$10 million (approx. US$0.35 million) research grant offered by the Tang Prize Foundation to set up a fellowship the next generation of researchers. It has been run for five years, awarded 30 young scholars with a scholarship ranging between NT$240,000 and NT$360,000, and continued to provide the study of Chinese culture with renewed impetus.
Established in December 2012, the Tang Prize awards major achievements in four fields, namely Sustainable Development, Biopharmaceutical Science, Sinology and Rule of Law. Apart from a cash prize of NT$40 million (approx. US$1.40 million), a medal, and a diploma, a research grant of NT$10 million is also allocated to each award category to help laureates nurture promising young talent.
To fulfill Prof. Yu's wish, in 2015, the Tang Prize Foundation entrusted the Institute of History and Philology of Academia Sinica with running the "Yu Ying-Shih Fellowship for the Humanities." From then until May 2019, in total 198 applications were submitted and 30 PhD candidates and young scholars were rigorously selected to be the recipients. After getting their degrees, many of them either became postdoctoral fellows in the humanities or obtained a lectureship in universities. Tu Feng-en, one of the recipients of the 2016 Dissertation Scholarship, got his PhD from Columbia University's Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and was appointed editor-in-chief of Linking Publishing Company in June 2020.
To cultivate the talents of up-and-coming young researchers in the humanities, each year, Dr. Huang Chin-shing of the Institute of History and Philology would invite experts and scholars around the world to select people with great potential and under the age of 45 to receive the Yu Ying-Shish Fellowship. Three of them for the Academic Publication Scholarship, each getting NT$ 360,000, and three of them for the Dissertation Scholarship, each getting NT$ 240,000. Over the course of five years, as much as NT$1.8 million has been awarded annually. Without doubt, the fellowship has helped senior humanities scholars pass the torch onto their most gifted successors.


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Travel to the Mediterranean Sea and visit majestic bordering counties Greece, Italy, and Spain. This region has some of the world's widest range of activities to enjoy. From an active night life to historic attractions & venues to shopping, a Mediterranean tour will cover every travelers checklist. In Greece visit famed Santorini, and enjoy a cruise through the island chain. When you arrive in Spain, visit the Gothic Quarter and explore Barcelona. While you stay in Italy, visit historic Athens and Corinth.
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I first arrived in Alaska in late September 2017 and told myself that I'd stay as long as it took me to see the northern lights. In this post you'll find everything I learned on a dozen or so aurora hunts out of Anchorage, Alaska between my arrival and early April 2018. I've been able to photograph the aurora a few times but I don't want you to get the wrong idea from these photos; the truth is the green glow you see in these aurora pictures appeared as a gray cloud dancing across the night sky on my self-guided Alaska aurora tour. The aurora borealis is caused by photons coming off of the sun during intense solar storms and everything I saw was a relatively mild solar storm which means I'll have to go hunting again next year! This photo has beautiful star trails with a faint green aurora from an 8-minute exposure. Scroll down for more!
Download My Aurora Forecast to check the forecast.
Check the KP and Cloud Coverage using My Aurora Forecast to find nights that might be good for an aurora hunt.
Reserve a room in Fairbanks, Talkeetna, Willow, or anywhere north of Anchorage.
Join Aurora Borealis Notifications Group on Facebook.
On the night of your hunt post in the Facebook Group to see if you can get a local update for where you're headed.
The best northern lights I've seen were in early April in Talkeetna but this post is about Aurora Chasing Alaska so I'll start from the beginning. If you're too impatient and just want to see my best aurora photos scroll down to the Hatcher Pass and Talkeetna sections at the bottom!
I moved to Alaska in late September and a few weeks later joined my brother and his friend Sam on a 2-night backpacking trip to Eklutna Lake. We didn't know much about the aurora borealis yet or even check out the aurora forecast but were excited to do some trekking anyway. It turns out we got a perfectly clear sky but there was no solar activity and I still came away with a gorgeous Alaskan night shot.
My parents were still visiting when I noticed it was a clear night and we Googled Aurora Forecast in mid-October. It seemed like there was a good chance to see the northern lights so we piled into the car and went for a drive.
We figured there's a good stretch of open sky with mountains and the sea nearby Beluga Point. Even though there was no aurora that night I enjoyed taking another starry night photo in Alaska! The glow of Anchorage made me realize that I needed to get further away from the city if I really wanted to find the best night skies in Alaska.
After 2 unsuccessful trips, I thought I'd learned enough to find the aurora when a friend told me about My Aurora Forecast. This awesome app predicts the aurora and will send you a notification when you might see the northern lights. Well that app was pushing notifications to both our phones so we asked some locals where to go and they recommended Hiland Road. We jumped into a car and went for a ride scouring the skies but once again we were rewarded with only a clear, starry night.
My Aurora Forecast sent me another notification one weeknight after Ben heard from a few coworkers that the lights were out so we jumped in his car and went for a quick drive. Both of us had to work early the next day so we didn't bring any camera gear but we DID see a faint glow! It looked like a strange cloud coming out of the Chugach Mountains to the east of us as a thick band waved along the sky. If we stretched our imagination it might have looked green and we could see it moving ever so slightly. But seeing as how we both had to be up early the next day we turned around shortly after spotting it and went back home. Now that I knew what to look for I was sure the next aurora hunt would be successful, or at least I hoped so!
My parents came back to visit for the holiday season when my aurora forecast sent me a notification again. By now a friend had told me about the Aurora Borealis Notification Group on Facebook and they suggested heading to Hillside for a chance to see the aurora. The only problem was the notification came around midnight so instead of a whole family outing this adventure was just for my dad and me. We still didn't really know where to go but I put "Hillside" in my GPS and we drove around until we found a good lookout. Now that I've been back to that area a few times it's funny to think how close we were to the Glen Alps Trailhead and what would have been a much better view. But alas we were still new to this.
At first, I thought the aurora hadn't shown her face yet so I began to take some night shots experimenting with different compositions. But then when I turned around I saw that same strange cloud I'd seen with Ben a few weeks earlier. I quickly turned my camera to face it and sure enough, the exposure turned out green, I had finally captured my first aurora!
Christmas is a good time for northern lights in Alaska because the nights are long and dark. My family and I drove up to Healy for a 2 day trip to Denali National Park over the holiday, specifically to look for aurora. A local told us to check out Otto Lake after dark and we were pleasantly surprised by the starry skies. When we arrived at Otto Lake we were staring over the frozen water to Mount Healy hoping to see some beautiful glow but settled for hundreds of stars.
Turning around I noticed the telltale gray glow on the horizon and quickly realized that the northern skies were filled with this light aurora. The Milky Way Galaxy sprouted vertically just past the edge of the aurora as an unnamed mountain loomed in the distance. On the previous Hillside Road venture, I captured an aurora but here in Otto Lake was the first aurora photo that I was happy with.
After Otto Lake I started to get a good feeling about aurora-chasing and knew that it was just a matter of time before I got another clear night. When that fateful notification came I was playing board games with some friends. Luckily it was already late and everyone else was heading to bed but instead, I jumped in my car and drove north to Hatcher Pass.
Halfway through my ride I saw a series of green flashes high up in the mountains and knew it would be a good night for some photos. Unfortunately, those flashes were more of a finale for the aurora show on this night. By the time I got to Hatcher Pass all that was left was a gorgeous night sky with the same green glow I was growing accustomed to. The photos come out brilliantly but if not for the camera this would have been a let down of an aurora hunt.
Shortly after my trip to Hatcher Pass, I began working more and then we had weeks of snowy weather. This meant there were fewer clear nights for the aurora to come out and I missed a few good nights because I had to teach the next day. A little over a month went by without me going on any aurora hunts and I started to think I wouldn't see them again until next year since I was leaving Alaska on April 18th. I checked the long-term forecast and it looked like there might be a good chance to see them just before I got on the plane.
I checked all my usual channels and a was given a few new suggestions for predicting the northern lights thanks to this awesome aurora facebook group. Someone said the skies were clear in Talkeetna but I didn't know if I wanted to make a 2.5-hour drive at 11 pm and decided I would drive up to Nancy Lakes Recreation area, just an hour away and recommended by friends as a good place to see the aurora borealis. I stopped in and searched for that telltale gray glow finding it faintly on the northern horizon. Without a good show here I checked the time and made the decision to keep driving up to Talkeetna.
It was after 1 am when I finally arrived at the Denali Overlook in Talkeetna but was immediately rewarded with my first aurora dance! The lights weren't especially bright but could clearly be seen dancing across the sky. Another band appeared low on the horizon while some lights dazzled their way across the skies.
Two experienced aurora photographers were already there and while I gasped with glee they told me this was a pretty mild showing! I guess that just means mother nature wants me to take it slow with my aurora experiences so each time I see a stronger showing I get a little more excited.


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This is a review of the fourth book in a series, please check out the first three before reading this. As it could contain spoilers for those books.
For three books I have raved about how much I love this series. It is the depth to the characters, particularly Adrian, that makes it such a wonderful story. Typically I want zombie gore and more actions scenes than you can shake a stick at. This is not what you get from Philbrook in Adrian's Undead Diary. What you get is a heart wrenching, tense and adrenaline pumping chronicle of how one band of survivors eek out their day to day lives that just happens to involve zombies wandering about.
The Failed Coward seemed to suffer from what often happens in a series, you know the transitional book that has to written and read. Pretty much all character development. But if it were up to me, I might have skipped this fourth book and jump to the fifth.
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The best part, again it seemed to have been cut short and I hope it is revisited, was Adrian's feeling of failure to protect the ones that he loved the most, when he found his military buddy. Adrian is clearly damaged goods and I await the moment where this takes center stage.
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Discussion in 'Acronis True Image Product Line' started by NCARalph, Sep 27, 2008.
This is on a Dell Latitude 830 XP SP3 with SATA internal drive and USB external drive with the Acronis backup files. My original hard disk failed and I got a new one, these were both 7200 RPM SATA drives, the original 120GB, the new 160GB. I've done nightly incremental acronis backups and have a recovery bootable CD.
I reboot with the CD, select the Acronis TI full option, select the lastest backup, select restore the entire saved partition, expand the destination partition to include all free space, and start the restore. What happens is it starts, runs for several seconds with both the internal and USB disk active, then hangs. I've downloaded the latest version of the Acronis software, tried the quiet acpi=off noapic F11 option, tried earlier backup files from my USB all with the same result. I also attempted just restoring a single directory both the my internal drive and to a second USB drive. What happened is the copy ran for several seconds and copied most of the directory, then hung.
There are no other USB devices on the machine other than the disk.
I ran the DOS disk diagnostics which all passed, reinstalled windows and ran it with no problems, manually copied a bunch of files from the USB to the internal disk, all worked fine so I think the disks and controllers are OK.
Which version and build of True Image is this? If you don't have the latest build of your version you should download it and try again.
When the original backup was created (the one being used for the restore), did you checkmark the Disk option so that all your partitions (both hidden and diagnostic) would be included in the backup archive?
Hmm, don't remember but I believe I told it to back up everything available. There may be hidden options I didn't see, but everything that was available I asked for.
What is really the worst is that I checked this a long time ago by restoring some files and it worked. The problem is that it only works for a minute or so, then hangs after restoring only some of the files.
You say ATI hangs after several seconds. On my system it takes several minutes before any green bars appear, and the times to finish take even much longer and are never accurate.
What happens is it starts to do the restore, some of the files get transfered, then it stops. I let it sit for over an hour and a half and it didn't do anything. Hitting the cancel button had no effect. It was hung.
Could you please clarify, how is the USB drive powered? Please also clarify, does the problem also appears when restoring from archive located on internal drive to internal drive?


The high temperature of 12, and low of -3 recorded at O'Hare International Airport on Monday yielded an average of just 5 degrees, a reading 29 degrees below normal. Making these frigid temperatures even more remarkable for this late in the season, is that they were observed with no snow cover. Typically, our early March sunshine incident on bare ground is strong enough to effectively modify intrusions of polar air. Over snow covered areas of northwest Illinois and Wisconsin, daytime temperatures struggled to reach the mid and upper single digits. The core of most intense cold will begin to shift east of the Great lakes on Tuesday, allowing temperatures to moderate slightly. Slow warming is expected through Friday, but readings are still forecast to average about 14 degrees below normal. Deepening low pressure over the Plains on Saturday promises to bring a more substantial spike in temperature.


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Chris Sprowls' literacy initiative hits $50M private funding goal
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Sprowls said 135,000 Florida students have received books through the program.
House Speaker Chris Sprowls announced Wednesday that his statewide book delivery program is now fully funded thanks to $50 million in commitments from corporate sponsors
The "New Worlds Reading Initiative," a Sprowls priority, was approved by lawmakers in the 2021 Legislative Session. It aims to boost the literacy rate among elementary school students by providing struggling readers with physical books at their personal reading level. The program also provides parents with resources to help their child learn to read.
When the Legislature established the program, it created an avenue for corporate sponsors to receive a tax credit for donating to the program. The initial cap was $50 million, though lawmakers upped it to $60 million in the 2022 Legislative Session.
"It was an honor to stand beside our partners today as we celebrated the tremendous milestone of reaching $50 million in corporate sponsorships for the New Worlds Reading Initiative," Sprowls said during a news conference at Fairmont Park Elementary School in St. Petersburg.
Alongside the funding benchmark, the Palm Harbor Republican announced a slate of recent corporate donors, including Charter Communications, Duke Energy, Florida Power and Light, HCA, Southern Eagle Distributing, Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits, TD Synnex, TECO Energy, Tropical Shipping and Walmart.
During his tenure as House Speaker, Sprowls highlighted research showing the literacy rate is directly tied to future success — both for individual children and the state at large.
"Research shows us that 88% of high schoolers who don't graduate were struggling readers in third grade," Sprowls said earlier this year. "We looked at struggling K-5th grade readers in the state, and we found that many of them don't even own a book in their homes. We knew that was the pressure point — that is where we are failing our kids."
The Speaker has also launched a podcast, "Read, White & Blue," that features conversations with authors who have shaped his worldview. The first season recently wrapped with an episode featuring an in-depth discussion with Gilbert King, author of the Pulitzer-prize winning novel "Devil in the Grove."
The importance of reading proficiency — and the role physical books play in fostering it — was also highlighted by Gov. Ron DeSantis and exiting Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran in January, when they announced the New Worlds Reading Initiative had delivered books to more than 80,000 Florida students.
"This is something that will really bear fruit for years and years to come," DeSantis said.
On Wednesday, Sprowls noted that the number of children being served by NWRI has crossed the 135,000 mark.
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Peter Schorsch is the President of Extensive Enterprises and is the publisher of some of Florida's most influential new media websites, including Florida Politics and Sunburn, the morning read of what's hot in Florida politics. Schorsch is also the publisher of INFLUENCE Magazine. For several years, Peter's blog was ranked by the Washington Post as the best state-based blog in Florida. In addition to his publishing efforts, Peter is a political consultant to several of the state's largest governmental affairs and public relations firms. Peter lives in St. Petersburg with his wife, Michelle, and their daughter, Ella.
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Ok.. who is vetting these books? Can I sue the state if the book's content makes my child feel uncomfortable about their race, ethnicity or gender? What if there are CRT references in them? Coming from a fascist like Sprowls, I am shocked this initiative would just send books to kids with no oversight. Devil in the Grove? Uh oh… If we don't like the message of the books can we burn them? Ban them? 60 million taxpayer dollars to send questionable materials to our darling struggling readers? Who is grooming who now???


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