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The Kings Road, the misogynist John Osborne and the women in his life
"Will you marry me? It's risky, but you'll get fucked regularly".
The angry young playwright in Chelsea 1958
Four months before the Suez crisis, the moment in history when a begrudging, drizzly and grey Britain belatedly realised it wasn't a super-power any more, the newly re-opened Royal Court Theatre, situated on the east side of Sloane Square in Chelsea, premiered the first play by a 26 year old actor called John Osborne.
Look Back In Anger was written in seventeen days while sitting in a deckchair on Morecambe pier . The legend is, of course, that Osborne's play was an immediate success and in a flash British theatre was changed forever. Replaced by plays set in drab working working class northern bed-sits, the posh drawing-room dramas from playrights like Terrence Rattigan and Noel Coward, were seemingly banished overnight.
Indeed on the first night of Look Back In Anger the first glance of Alison Porter's ironing board on stage drew actual loud gasps from the audience. Rattigan himself, although persuaded not to leave at the interval by a friend, said on leaving the theatre,
"I think the writer is trying to say: 'Look how unlike Terence Rattigan I am, Ma!".
Terence Rattigan in 1955
In actuality, after the first night the Guardian wrote: "The author and actors do not persuade us that they 'speak for' a new generation." The London Evening Standard called the play "a self-pitying snivel".
The next day the director of the play Tony Richardson and Osborne sat in the little coffee shop next to the Royal Court theatre utterly depressed. Richardson broke the silence, and said:
"But what on earth did you expect? You didn't expect them to like it, did you?"
Although the play was generally initially dismissed by most of the critics, a prescient 39 year old Kenneth Tynan wrote in the Observer -
"All the qualities are there, qualities one had despaired of ever seeing on the stage … I doubt if I could love anyone who did not wish to see Look Back in Anger."
Kenneth Tynan with Claire Bloom
Kenneth Haigh and Osborne 1956
Kenneth Haigh and Mary Ure in the last scene of Look Back In Anger
Tony Richardson and Vanessa Redgrave
'Anger', as luvvies are apt to call the play, initially took very little money and the production was seen pretty much as a miserable failure. However, a few weeks into the run, the BBC decided to broadcast a short excerpt of the play one evening. The listeners liked what they heard, decided to go and see the play for themselves and takings immediately doubled at the box office. The effect snowballed and the play eventually transferred to the West End, subsequently to Broadway and was made into a film in 1958 starring Richard Burton. It certainly wasn't overnight but Osborne had now become a very famous angry young man indeed.
Richard Burton and Claire Bloom during the making of the film
Richard Burton at the opening night of the film 1958
Osborne in 1971
Osborne went on to write successful plays such as The Entertainer (starring Sir Laurence Olivier), Luther and A Patriot For Me. He also won an oscar for his adaptation of Tom Jones in 1963. He occasionally continued acting and his acting role in the 1971 film Get Carter was highly regarded and indeed was a brilliant menacing performance.
By the early seventies, however, depression and alcoholism set in. Bad reviews of his latest unfashionable plays didn't help and were woundingly taken to heart. For instance the Financial Times' BA Young's review of his play Sense of Attachment which was put on in 1972 – "This must surely be an end to his career in the theatre".
Writers, and artists in general, are often excused character defects and bad behaviour, for the sake of their art, but the treatment Osborne dealt out to most of the women in his life (and surprisingly, considering his behaviour, there were a lot of them with five wives and numerous affairs) was often extremely vile and misogynistic.
He left his first wife shortly before the opening of Look Back In Anger, and subsequently married Mary Ure the leading actress in the play and the film. They lived in a house in Woodfall Street just off the Kings Road a few hundred yards from The Royal Court Theatre. It was a marriage that would only last five years and his love life was, by the early sixties, extremely complicated. He was on holiday in the South of France with his mistress the beautiful flame-haired dress designer Jocelyn Rickard in 1961, while at home Mary Ure was giving birth to a son (to be fair it probably wasn't Osborne's). At the same time, in Italy, the journalist Penelope Gilliatt, and future mother of his daughter, received a charming marriage proposal by letter;
Osborne and his bride and leading lady Mary Ure, August 1957
Osborne, Mary Ure, Vivien Leigh and Olivier
Osborne, the moustache and Jill Bennett at their wedding in 1968
John Osborne and Jill Bennett in 1969
The letter worked (one day I will understand women) and a year later he married Gilliatt with whom he had a daughter. As usual the marriage was a relatively short-lived affair, and he married the actress Jill Bennett in 1968. Again the marriage soon became unhappy and the couple, both drinking extremely heavily, ended up viciously trying to put each other down. At a party she once shouted;
"Look at him, the poofter can't even get it up."
Jill Bennett committed suicide in 1990, two years after their divorce. Osborne decided to add a spiteful extra chapter to his memoirs – expressing pity that he hadn't been able to look into her open coffin and "drop a good, large mess in her eye". Peggy Lee's 'Is That All There Is?' was played at her funeral.
When Gilliatt also fell in to irreversible alcoholism, their daughter Nolan, who had been brought up in New York with her mother, came to live with Osborne and his fifth wife Helen, then both living in Kent. It was a chance for him to make amends for his own unhappy childhood (his father died of TB when Osborne was 10, for which, some reason, he always blamed his mother) but after just three years Osborne threw Nolan out of his house, removing her from school for good measure. She was just seventeen. Her only crime seems to have been typical teenage sullen behaviour and a lack of interest in her father's hard-drinking thespian friends. He once shouted at her;
"There is not one of them who is not worth a dozen low lifes like you."
She went to stay with the family of a schoolfriend and Osborne never saw her again. "Nolan's birthday," he wrote in his diary when she turned 22, "God rot her."
Likewise when his mother died in 1993, he wrote an article for the Sunday Times which included a first line, 'A year in which my mother died can't be all bad.'
Osborne, who by this time had long left Chelsea's Kings Road and started to act the country gent in Shropshire with his fifth wife Helen, died on Christmas Eve in 1994, 12 days after his 65th birthday. For once their marriage was a relatively devoted and private relationship. The last words that he wrote, found by his wife scrawled on a cigarette pack beside his deathbed in the hospital, were, "Sorry, I have sinned."
Osborne more sleepy than angry towards the end of his life
Peggy Lee – Is That All There Is?
Tags: depression, drinking, drunk, fifties, Kings Road, Look Back In Anger, sex, sixties
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20 Responses to "The Kings Road, the misogynist John Osborne and the women in his life"
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Profoundly Superficial says:
John Osbourne is wonderfully fey and sinister as the gangland boss in 'Get Carter'. The film is also memorable for a scene in a Newcastle pub. The camera pans across a row of drinkers including one, clutching his beer, who has six fingers.
Terrific post! I didn't know Osborne was so vile and I wrote a short Internet bio on the bloke!
Jimmy Brown says:
Great site and what a playwright he was they say to be a genius you must be mad, well he was madder than anyone. Hope he rests in peace and his daughter Nolan has a better life.
Where did you find the biographical info on Osbourne. I'm researching him, would love to know your sources…
This is very interesting as a few years ago I was able to look around his home in Shropshire which was empty as Helen had just died and they were waiting for his library to be catalogued. The house was just as they left it. Fascinating!
William Luther says:
Fascinating stuff as always! Who knew Osborne was such a cad? Hairy faced git indeed!
Ralph Benner says:
For some unknown reason I'm finding myself getting deeper into Penelope Gilliatt's life, and to come across Osborne's marriage proposal is both today's best laugh and unsettling. Why are intelligent women so attracted to misogynists? Has anyone read his original teleplay for the Burtons entitled "Divorce His; Divorce Hers"?
Didn't know Osborne was such an asshole. Very good article. Thanx!
Reading a bit more, I think I could write a bit more about his misogynistic ways. I live half a mile from where Chaplin was born by the way.
This was a prejudiced and inaccurate article. Osborne had sixteen years of happy marriage with his final wife: in your article you say he divorced Jill Bennett in 1988 instead of 1976. The proposal he sent to Gilliatt is wildly out of context, since they were having a fairly wild affair at the time. You have produced no evidence of misogyny, apart from the fact he had several wives. His first two wives had affairs, his third was an alcoholic, and his fourth openly called him a homosexual. There is no question that he hated Bennett, but outside of this you have done nothing to prove he was misogynistic, and I would point to his very happy final marriage to directly contradict this.
Sammy – you make some good points; however, with all due respect, how can you effectively explain what appears to be Osbourne's sheer hatred of his own flesh and blood and the way in which he showed it? Nolan did not ask to be born, nor to have parents who were both, obviously, very ill. I hope that she is not irreparably damaged.
Skinny Agnus says:
Hmm, rather simplistic to suggest that hating Nolan (even given hating Bennett and being deeply embarrassed by Nellie Beatrice) equates to hating all women. It's probably more accurate to suggest that Osborne was a tormented creature desperately in need of his father and in possession of a lot of fame and money for which he had little time to prepare.
Oh, and that's 'Osborne' by the way — there's no u ('non-u', perhaps appropriate?)
hi, who is this Bennett you talk of that he hated so much? and why? one of Nolan's friends? I am researching his plays and interested in his influences, i wonder why he hated his own daughter so much?
Carole Heath says:
I have read Osborne's book Damn you England. Which I found very interesting stuff. I have wondered why Osborne was said to be so nasty to his wives. If he disliked women so much why did he marry so many times. I saw a drama once about him on TV and he really disliked his mother perhaps it stems from that relationship who knows. I knew about Jill Bennett her time with Osborne but not much about his other wives so this article has given me more insight into Jon Osborne and his life. Look back in Anger to my mind has the women has victims bullied and verbally abused by the main character Jimmy Porter I think he's called. Why Osborne was so nasty to his daughter I have no idea. But Look back in Anger isn't just about that type of thing it is also about I think what Osborne thought was wrong with post war Britain in the 1950′s and he used the his medium as a playwright to convey this the the theatre going public at the time. I wonder how he got on with the likes of Laurence Olivier who I think Osborne wrote the Entertainer for. Olivier said once in an interview that Osborne and himself had a good relationship with. I think Osborne was a heavy drinker at times maybe this made his behaviour worse towards others.
It is obvious that Osborne suffered from intense self-loathing. That is really what made him so angry, not the establishment, not the status quo in 50′s Britain. He did not really hate the women in his life, but he absolutely hated himself, and being so acutely aware of that fact made him very angry. Men who self-loathe often find a kind of release in the abuse of the women closest to them, their wives, daughters, and girlfriends, either by physically beating them, or as in Osborne's case, using his gift of language to cruelly taunt them and put them down. I cannot understand why he is so highly regarded, if in fact he still is. His career was relatively short, and his success was based on one play, which became notorious and then famous for its shock value. The most overrated playwright of the 20th century.
Jim Boxley says:
I've never found Osborne to be terribly interesting, or that significant a playwrite, still this is exactly the sort of trifle that made my- "Why don't people realize my importance?"- Father lived on. The dry, urbane wit of Coward, et al, fascinated and compelled him. The only time he ever said "Thank You" to me was when I bought him tickets to "OH, COWARD" when it appeared at The Los Angeles Music Center in 1974. I can't remember ever being told "I love you". Of course, a true dilettante would never stoop to such mish mash, now would he? Didn't work for Osborne, did it? Yes, I'm making a direct reference, in relation to dilettante. Dad was a frustrated, longing to be, Edwardian. Complete with tawdry, backstairs affairs with a Footman or three. All in his overly done, Rococo decorated mind. He died one afternoon in 1983, seemingly on command. I'm not sure how much of his death was simply medical or willed by he, himself, but there was a decidedly wry half smirk, half smile on his very dead face. Who knows? Maybe his reward was waiting and made clear to him seconds before the last beat of his under-appreciated, seldom exercised heart. I wonder what kinds of deals he had to strike with Old Lucifer to warrant that final expression. I can guarantee, however, Lucifer got rooked! (I'm 59 now, and a bit less self absorbed. Hope it helps…)
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Don Reed says:
Splendid article, thank you. Penelope Gilliatt ended up getting nailed at the New Yorker magazine for plagiarism (back when the magazine had standards, this was objectionable0, to add one more happy twist to this story.


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Has any pitcher ever pitched both games in a double header?
Yes. In the early days of baseball this was a common thing to have hapen. There was even a pitcher that pitched a double header and won both by shutout. His name was Ed Reulbach.
How many games per season does a pro pitcher pitch?
That would depend on whether the pitcher is a starter or reliever. A starting pitcher generally pitches 1 game every 5 days because they pitch a lot of innings each game. Over an MLB season this would mean the #1 starter on a team, over the course of a season where they did not miss a start, would pitch 33-35 games per season. The #1 might get an extra start or two in a season in situations where the team had a day off and the manager decided to go with the #1 starter in a game as opposed to the #5 starter since the #1 had his required number of days of rest. Two of the best starting pitchers in MLB in 2010, Roy Halladay and C.C. Sabathia, pitched in 33 and 34 games, respectively. A relief pitcher, especially a closer or pitcher that is brought to pitch to only one batter, could pitch in many more games than a starting pitcher because they don't pitch as many innings as a starting pitcher. Two of the best closers in MLB in 2010, Brian Wilson and Rafael Soriano, pitched in 70 and 64 games, respectively. Generally, they pitched only one inning per game. Two of the best situation pitchers in MLB in 2010, Pedro Feliciano and Randy Choate, pitched in 92 and 85 games, respectively. Feliciano pitched in 62 2/3 innings and Choate pitched in 44 2/3 innings. In many games these guys, both left handers, were brought in to face only one or two hitters who were left handed.
What was the last scheduled doubleheader in ML baseball history?
Sept 6, 2008 O's @ A's that was not scheduled double header, was a make up game cause of rain out, and there have been many more doubleheaders since? including today (june 8,2009 tigers/whitesox) the question is when was the last "scheduled" doubleheader (beginning of season) and i have been looking into, but cant find exact year they stopped doing them? going by memory i belive selig and mlb stop scheduling them in the mid 90`s?? (remember ernie banks being saddened and outspoken on the matter)) doubleheaders were fans could attend both games! (good old days) fans have to pay twice to attend these makeup doulbeheaders and take 2 to 3 hours between games so they can clear out fans and clean up
What is a common baseball number?
Single digit numbers are very common in baseball. 3, 5, and 7 are typically taken on most professional baseball teams. However, there are no common boaseball numbers and no specific numbers for position players today. In the early days of baseball the players simply wore the number of their position, i.e. shortstop - 6, pitcher - 1, 1st base - 3, etc. Hence the terms 6-4-3 double play and so on.
How much is a 1980 Michael Jordan high school card be worth?
Nothing...Cards aren't worth dog poo on my shoe these days...Whether it be baseball, basketball, football, hockey, tenns, fencing, lacrosse, etc... SORRY
How may days are in 162 baseball season games?
Baseball teams play 162 games in 181 to 183 days.
How many days are in a baseball season?
There are no set number of days but each team plays 162 games
When do playoffs start MLB?
The 2010 playoffs will begin within a couple of days after the regular season ends on October 3.
How much time off do major league baseball players get?
Spring training for MLB begins in the middle of February and the regular season ends in the beginning of October so time off comes during the fall and winter months. Some players will play winter ball during the off time and some players won't. All players will keep a training regiment to stay in shape during the off season. During the season, the contract the players have with management states they can play as many as twenty days in a row without a day off. The regular season lasts around 6 months, 180 days, and the regular season is 162 games long. So one can guess that an MLB player gets about 3 days off per month during the regular season.
How many games does an umpire work per season?
There are only 68 major league umpires, so they work pretty consistently. The work 31 weeks with spring training and the regular season. They get four weeks off during that season, and approx two days a month, and they are working all the others. The average umpire in the pros, during spring training and the regular season, can do as many as 180 games without brinking an eye!!
Why do NBA teams play games on back to back days during the regular season but not in the playoffs?
My guess would be in the Playoffs the players need their rest, so they can peform their best when they play.
How many months long is the NBA regular season?
The NBA regular season is 82 games per team. It usually starts on the last few days of October or very beginning of November. It ends in the middle of April. Then the NBA playoffs starts soon after. The playoffs last until beginning of June.
What days are baseball games played on?
Baseball games are played on every day of the week. Everyday is a good day for baseball.
What days do the Red Wings play?
"The Detroit Red Wings play several games a week. The regular season runs from October to April. When they are playing at home, you can get tickets for any night of the week."
Do you have days off as a pro baseball player?
There are about 2 off days every 2-3 weeks as a team, but as a pro player you might sit out maybe 6-12 games a season barring injury.
How many days till the New York Giants football season begins?
They begin the regular season on 9/05/2012 against the Cowboys.


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I don't see that happening on Lauren's side. I really hope he does counseling or lots of introspection before getting into another serious relationship.
What an annoying answer from Ben IMO. He nor Lauren have no interest in reuniting, but Ben's non-answer pushes the annoying trolls to harass Lauren again to contact him and to reunite with him. Imo.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] wrote: What an annoying answer from Ben IMO. He nor Lauren have no interest in reuniting, but Ben's non-answer pushes the annoying trolls to harass Lauren again to contact him and to reunite with him. Imo.
He didn't really do much to protect her from haters even when they were engaged, so I don't expect him to start now. He is all about himself and his image.
Ben had Ashley Spivey on the Almost Famous podcast today following their brief Twitter argument last week or the week prior (which was resolved in a phone call where Ashley reached out to him to apologize). It was actually both a heartbreaking and heartwarming exchange between Ben and Ashley S. regarding sexual assault. I cried during Ashley's story. I would recommend listening to it, if you have the time.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] I cried too. I'm always worried about how men will discuss r*pe, but thought Ben came off really kind, respectful, empathetic, and someone who's trying very, very hard to do good and understand and be an ally for sexual assault victims. And I really felt for Ashley, especially when she was talking about how she's consumed by the darkness. I think there are so many women struggling to heal and I hope this helped many of them feel less alone.
I found Ashley's story to be very sad, and I am sorry that it has affected her in such a way.
I copied the above [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] post to Becca & Garrett's discussion thread.
Please keep this thread to Ben, and Ashley Spivey only as it pertains to him.
Who's the girl in flannel pjs setting up Ben's Xmas tree on his IG story? Is it his mom or did he finally trade in Lindsay for a new girl!?
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] Thanks for the recommendation on the podcast. One thing I learned is how much Ben HATES being called vanilla (the equivalent of boring)!
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] which is why over the years he has had his friends say how vanilla he is not, how spicy he really is. Obviously it really gets to him. And I still think he's vanilla.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] wrote: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] which is why over the years he has had his friends say how vanilla he is not, how spicy he really is. Obviously it really gets to him. And I still think he's vanilla.
Nothing he has ever said or done has made me think he is anything but bland and boring and oh, so vanilla. He should love Colton who I suspect will turn out to be even more bland, boring and vanilla.
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I do find it so hilarious that he's so offended by that . It's the truth. He's vanilla af.


Anyone on here from this area / country? Where do you get your products from, any meets etc?
No one at all ??
If you can't find anyone local then most online retailers will ship to Portugal for not too much money which gives you access to all the brands in the UK.
Cheers buddy but I live in a small remote village, its a nightmare to get stuff delivered here as the house is so hard to find.
Maybe if you find some products your interested in, drop the seller a message first and see what their individual delivery is like.


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When I opened it, it had to be stirred for a few minutes, but after that it was ready to go! I love grays, so it was the perfect color. I had this bookshelf that was previously painted coral, and I wanted something more neutral. Gray fits into more color schemes and styles then coral does, although coral is a beautiful color.
I put two coats of paint on, and I LOVED the color. The paint took no time at all to dry and felt great after it dried. I am a touchy geeky kind of blogger, so I dislike paint that is gritty. Although the color looked great, I felt it needed a 'lil something extra.
I added some stripes in the back beadboard by using the dark wax. It was pretty easy to use as well. I couldn't get a great picture of how it looked though. I'm still working on my photography skills!
I took this last picture to show how it looks in my space. Hopefully it will find a new home in someone's home soon!
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Writer Chris Sebela shifts gear from the heart-pounding action of Dead Letters #1 to begin to shape the world of Here. The reader is exposed to a short history lesson of what Here is, how it was supposed to function, and how it all went wrong, mainly underestimating people and their ability for free will.
Beryl's path eventually leads Sam to a club and her former husband. The setting is perfect for a nice shoot 'em up sequence. Chris Visions' art during the action sequence again is great; he includes the fine details of the shot glass being splattered by the bullets to the alcohol running off the bar into Sam's hair. Jones' big thug is especially terrifying in his red suit and yellow shirt with his evil smile screaming "I'm evil and I'm going to hurt you." One of the best panels in the book is when Jones is recounting his life before he arrived in Here. Visions combines Sebela's narrative with a fantastic visual of Jones' past being shown in his sunglasses from the barn where he was raised to the tools he used.
Following the initial world-building process and an enjoyable action sequence, Sebela gets back to character development and discovering more of Sam's hidden talents: specifically his resourcefulness, street smarts, and most importantly his talented tongue. Sam is a masterful politician playing Jones and Ma off each other as he continues to dig up more information about Beryl and what happened to her.
The ending of the book gets a little bit confusing attempting to follow the panels, although that might be because what is happening in the panels is chaos. At one point Sam slips away and appears to find what he has been looking for. Yet it is not clear exactly what he has found – whether he is peering into the past using an advanced relic or has actually found hard files. After finding the information, the story jumps to one of sheer terror and one thing is for sure Sam's talents might not be able to get him out of the mess he has found himself in.
The book starts off a little slow as Sebela and Visions build the world of Here, but ramps up the action, mystery and sheer terror towards the end.
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Critical and Historical Essays, Vol. 2
Essays by Macaulay in the Edinburgh Review published between 1832 and 1839 on Horace Walpole, the War of Spanish Succession, William Pitt, Sir James Mackintosh, Lord Bacon, and Gladstone.
Critical and Historical Essays contributed to the Edinburgh Review, 5th ed. in 3 vols. (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1848). Vol. 2.
Author: Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay
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CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME.
CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL ESSAYS CONTRIBUTED TO THE EDINBURGH REVIEW.
BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES. (April, 1832.)
WAR OF THE SUCCESSION IN SPAIN. (January, 1833.)
HORACE WALPOLE. (October, 1833.)
WILLIAM PITT, EARL OF CHATHAM. (January, 1834.)
SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH. (July, 1835.)
LORD BACON. (July, 1837.)
GLADSTONE ON CHURCH AND STATE. (April, 1839.)


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Caroline "Cea" Higgins
Cea@coastwalk.org
Cea joined Coastwalk California as Executive Director in August of 2017. Born in Silverspring, Maryland and educated in the US, Europe, and Asia, Cea has always been devoted to helping the underserved and underrepresented. That devotion inspired her to pursue a career in special education and spend her time volunteering for organizations that worked for environmental protection & social justice. To that end, she earned a BS in Education from the University of Virginia and a Masters in Science in Curriculum Design & Atypical Learning from the University of Wisconsin. To improve her ability to advocate for coastal preservation, she earned a Juris Doctorate with honors from Concord Law School. Throughout her career in education, Cea also focused on environmental advocacy through her decades-long involvement with the Sonoma Coast Chapter of Surfrider Foundation, a grassroots non-profit organization that focuses on coastal preservation and protection.
As Policy Coordinator for the chapter, she monitors proposed coastal development projects, reviews drafts of proposed legislation, coordinates local outreach to inform the public on critical coastal issues through social media or public comment, and fosters relationships with affected communities, NGOs, and governmental agencies at the local, state and national levels in order to influence policy change to benefit the coast. In these roles, she consistently demonstrates the ability to persuade divergent parties and stakeholders to reach consensus for the common good of protecting the ocean, public access, and the California coastline. An avid surfer, hiker, and trained in marine mammal and sea bird rescue, Cea believes in giving back to the ocean that she cherishes and attributes her success in advocacy to her skills in diplomacy and willingness to actively listen to the concerns of all involved parties.
Connie White
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With more than 25 years of varied administrative experience in "Creating Order Out of Chaos" Connie has found her niche in helping small organizations succeed. She is a long-time environmental advocate and is passionate about coastal access, clean water and youth engagement. Connie is really excited to begin a new chapter in her life at Coastwalk.
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Linda Hanes
Linda Hanes has been a Coastwalk volunteer since, 1993, in office and on summer Coastwalk trips. She has been a Walk Coordinator, Onsite Coordinator, cook and chuckwagon wrangler for some 30 Coastwalk trips during that time, and has led several day hikes. She has been a member of the Coastwalk board since 1995, and has been President, Vice President and currently Secretary of the Board. Linda was a member of the team that walked the entire California coast, along the California Coastal Trail, in 2003.
She retired in 1999 from 20 years as a Children's Reference Librarian within the Sonoma County Library system.
Linda has lived in the Santa Rosa/Sebastopol area since 1969, but was born and raised in Michigan.


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Vitamin D as a Nutritional Neoadjuvant During Photodynamic Therapy of Basal Cell Carcinoma
Conditions: Basal Cell Carcinoma; Basal Cell Nevus Syndrome
Interventions: Dietary Supplement: Vitamin D3 prior to first visit; Dietary Supplement: Vitamin D3 prior to second visit; Radiation: Photodynamic therapy; Dietary Supplement: Maintenance Vitamin D3
Sponsors: Case Comprehensive Cancer Center; National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Vitamin D and Photodynamic Therapy for Treatment of BCC in BCNS
Conditions: Basal Cell Nevus Syndrome; Basal Cell Carcinoma
Interventions: Other: Placebo pill; Dietary Supplement: Vitamin D; Drug: PDT
Sponsors: The Cleveland Clinic; University of Arizona; Harvard Medical School
Familial Investigations of Childhood Cancer Predisposition
Conditions: Acute Leukemia; Adenomatous Polyposis; Adrenocortical Carcinoma; AML; BAP1 Tumor Predisposition Syndrome; Carney Complex; Choroid Plexus Carcinoma; Constitutional Mismatch Repair Deficiency Syndrome; Diamond-Blackfan Anemia; DICER1 Syndrome; Dyskeratosis Congenita; Emberger Syndrome; Familial Acute Myeloid Leukemia; Familial Adenomatous Polyposis; Fanconi Anemia; Familial Cancer; Familial Wilms Tumor; Familial Neuroblastoma; GIST; Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer; Hereditary Paraganglioma-Pheochromocytoma Syndrome; Hodgkin Lymphoma; Juvenile Polyposis; Li-Fraumeni Syndrome; Lynch Syndrome; MDS; Melanoma Syndrome; Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1; Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 2; Neuroblastoma; Neurofibromatosis Type 1; Neurofibromatosis Type II; Nevoid Basal Cell Carcinoma Syndrome; Non Hodgkin Lymphoma; Noonan Syndrome and Other Rasopathy; Overgrowth Syndromes; Pancreatic Cancer; Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome; Pheochromocytoma/Paraganglioma; PTEN Hamartoma Tumor Syndrome; Retinoblastoma; Rhabdoid Tumor Predisposition Syndrome; Rhabdomyosarcoma; Rothmund-Thomson Syndrome; Tuberous Sclerosis; Von Hippel-Lindau Disease
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Using the exclusive photographs and first hand testimony of former U.S. Marine Captain Brian Steidle, the film goes on an emotionally charged journey into the heart of Darfur, Sudan, where in 2004, Steidle became witness to a genocide that to-date has claimed over 400,000 lives. As an official military observer, Steidle had access to parts of the country that no journalist could penetrate. Unprepared for what he would witness and experience, Steidle returned to the U.S. armed with his photographs, intent on exposing the images and stories of lives systematically destroyed.
A 2007 world premiere at the the Sundance Film Festival, this astonishingly propulsive and dramatic film from award-winning filmmakers Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern (The Trials of Darryl Hunt) is a heartfelt account of what this particular American witness saw and, just as important, what he did afterward.
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Every Country in the World is Racing Towards a Nation with 100% Renewable Energy. What About the Philippines?
All over the world, the race for clean, safe, renewable energy is on.
In the Philippines, the Renewable Energy (RE) Act of 2008 has led to the development of more energy resources such as a solar panels priced in the Philippines. The law encourages the Philippines to increase energy sustainability and reduce its dependence on fossil fuels. The goal is to shift to using clean and renewable energy. However, ten years later, we are still lagging far behind from the rest of the world.
As renewable experts examined the globe in year 2017, they detected that renewable energy investment growth did not matriculate from Europe or North America. Surprisingly, the renewable energy leaders originated from developing nations, such as China, Brazil, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, and Argentina. Reports indicate China as the top of the list, with an increase in its investment from 17% to 36% globally, which equates to a whooping $126.6 Billion in renewable investment. China is, after all, the backyard to half of the world's solar energy capacity.
In California, the goal is clear and simple: all energy in the sunshine state should be from renewable sources by year 2045. Although initially ambitious, the state is fast approaching its goal, with 44% of its energy already from renewables.
Let us explore the sunshine state's strategy on their transition to the top of the list in renewable energy. How did California make that leap and become the leader and trendsetter in clean energy?
Well, the state clamored for clean, safe, renewable energy. California was the first state to require all new homes to have solar power. They brought solar power to mainstream and made it the trend, bringing sunshine into the limelight like never before.
Clean energy and solar power advocates emphasized that the reduction in power bills or electric bills actually made the investment wise and sound. What people do not realize is that a solar powered home is worth much, much more, because it represents two elements: lower energy bills and clean, safe, renewable energy. Perhaps the rest of the world should now embrace solar in the same way.
Well, Australia also launched a plan for its public housing pool, which involved the installation of solar panels and batteries in 50,000 homes within four years.
Solar panel prices in the Philippines and in other countries have dropped by 90% in the last decade and 50% in the last three years. With the rates of solar systems at an all-time low, homeowners are now making that household switch to solar, along with establishments such as schools, factories, malls, farms, and more. What makes the solar switch even better is the fact that homeowners can benefit from the net metering program, wherein they are credited for their excess power.
With solar power as the cheapest source of renewable energy, it only makes sense to harness this sunshine and turn on the sun – especially with today's low-cost solar panels and affordable solar power for homes. The investment is a win-win, for homeowners and entrepreneurs alike.


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Paramedic cuts $8K diamond ring off dead patient's finger: Police
Arkansas police arrested a paramedic on Monday, following allegations that she stole a diamond ring from a patient who died last month.
Lisa Glaze, 50, a paramedic at CHI St. Vincent Hot Springs, was jailed on felony theft charges. On October 16, the paramedic transported Gloria Robinson to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead, according to The Hot Springs Sentinel-Record.
Robinson's sister and husband received Robinson's belongings and reportedly noticed that three of her rings were missing. The sister confronted Glaze about the lost jewelry, and Glaze "did not answer her and walked away," according to the probable cause affidavit.
Two days later, Robinson's sister and husband reportedly received two of the missing rings at the Fuller Hale South Funeral Home. The Sentinel-Record reported that the third ring was described as a single marquis cut diamond ring with a gold band.
On October 24, Glaze allegedly sold Robinson's ring—which had a cut band—to Hot Springs Classic Guns and Pawn for $45. A subsequent appraisal reportedly revealed that the ring was worth $7,946.63.
Police visited the pawnshop on October 29. They took pictures of the ring and sent the images to Robinson's sister and husband, who both confirmed that it was Robinson's. A pawnshop employee also identified Glaze as the person who sold them the ring, according to the news outlet.
Glaze, who was released $4,500 bond, was also charged with a misdemeanor count of unlawful transfer of stolen property to a pawnshop. A court date is scheduled for November 26.
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Israeli Border police force stand in position during clashes between Israeli security forces and Palestinians near Damascus Gate by the entrance to Jerusalem's Old City April 3, 2022. (File photo: Reuters)
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Israeli forces kill Palestinian boy in West Bank: Ministry
AFP, Nablus
Published: 05 January ,2023: 10:11 AM GST Updated: 05 January ,2023: 11:02 AM GST
The Israeli army killed a Palestinian child Thursday in the West Bank city of Nablus, the Palestinian health ministry said, where armed clashes broke out between militants and Israeli forces.
The health ministry announced "Amer Abu Zeitoun, 16, was killed by a bullet in the head fired by the occupation (Israeli) soldiers during the aggression on Nablus at dawn today."
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The Israeli army did not immediately respond to a request by AFP to comment on the overnight operation.
In a statement the Lions' Den, a local Palestinian militant group, said its fighters had been involved in the overnight clashes in the Balata refugee camp in Nablus.
Zeitoun is the fourth Palestinian killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank since the start of the year.
On Tuesday, 15-year-old Adam Essam Shaker Ayyad was killed in Bethlehem as Israel said its forces fired on people throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails.
In December, the United Nations said 2022 had been the deadliest year in the West Bank since its records began in 2005 with more than 150 Palestinians killed.
The inauguration last week of the most right-wing government in Israel's history, led by Benjamin Netanyahu, has sparked fears of a military escalation in the Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since the 1967 Six-Day War.
Two of Netanyahu's extreme-right coalition partners, who have a history of inflammatory remarks about Palestinians, have taken charge of critical powers regarding the West Bank.
Bezalel Smotrich holds the portfolio for Israeli settlement policy in the territory, while Itamar Ben-Gvir serves as national security minister with powers over the border police force which operate there.
They took office at the end of a year which saw at least 26 Israelis and 230 Palestinians killed across Israel and the Palestinian territories, according to an AFP tally.
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Born in 1967, Markus Hechtle studied composition with Wolfgang Rihm at the University of Music Karlsruhe after completing high school and community service. Studies with Heiner Goebbels, Mathias Spahlinger, Thomas A. Troge and Walter Zimmermann complemented his education. After completing his studies, he worked as a freelance composer with the Ensemble Intermodulation Budapest, the Aleph Guitar Quartet, Klangforum Wien, Ensemble 13, the Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg, the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Contemporary Music Ensemble SORI/Seoul, the German Radio Philharmonic Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, the German National Youth Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Austrian Ensemble for New Music, the Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart and the Ensemble Modern. His music includes works for soloist and ensemble, orchestral ensemble, and musical theater.
Markus Hechtle received a scholarship from the Heinrich Strobel Foundation of the Südwestfunk (1995) as well as the Arts Foundation Baden-Württemberg (1998) and was awarded the Music Sponsorship Award of the Academy of Arts, Berlin (2002), the Music Sponsorship Prize of the International Lake Constance Conference (2003) and the International Ernst von Siemens Music Prize (2007).
In addition to his compositions, Markus Hechtle was freelance editor for the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. He is the author of broadcasts for Deutschlandradio Kultur and the SWR, gives lectures, writes texts and articles (A selection: Memoirs - Records of a live sampler, MusikTexte 156 (2018); Redemption of Art, MusikTexte 145 (2015); My writing as Tor, in: Touches, Publication of the Institute for New Music and Music Education Darmstadt, Volume 52, Schott (2012); I have no idea, but ...!, Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 03/2011, Schott; and in Popular vs. Elitist, Edition New Journal of Music, Schott (2013); Lazy Apple, Fake Beard, or Philosophy as a Disease to Art?, in Hearing & Thinking, Edition New Journal of Music, Schott (2011); ... How the day goes by, melos online 01/2008, Schott, and in MusikTexte 134 (2012), composing after Rihm and Spahlinger, MusikTexte 110 (2006) and in Orientations, Publication of the Institute for New Music and Music Education Darmstadt, Volume 47, Schott (2007); 198 Windows to an Imagined World - V, in pursuit of the fundamental work of Mathias Spahlinger in his orchestral composition passage/paysage - book publication with CD, Pfau-Verlag, Saarbrücken (2005).
Musical collaboration and live participation of theatrical productions of Max Black by Heiner Goebbels led Markus Hechtle to many guest appearances at theaters in Europe and beyond.
Since 2009, Markus Hechtle has taught composition at the Cologne University of Music and Dance and has been professor of composition at the Karlsruhe University of Music since 2013.
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I haven't blogged in awhile because I was busy preparing for the Victorian Stitchery Retreat that I host each year. It was truly a year to remember! We had the best Show and Share night ever! Gerry Krueger is pictured above with one of her beautiful blocks. Can't you just see the joy in her face? She also came to teach a wonderful Miniature Painting class.
Lougene Geary showed off a jacket that she was wearing. We all had a good laugh when she admitted that she didn't make it! It was beautiful either way.
We had a crazy quilt contest and the only rules were that it had to be crazy quilted and something you could wear. Bonnie Hargrove won first prize with her to die for crazy quilted vest. Georgia McVicar won 2nd and 3rd prize with her purse and vest.
Here is a close up of Bonnie's vest, it was just awesome.
We had an ice cream social to celebrate the 12 year anniversary of Carole Sample's book and the fact that she is 69 1/2 years old!
I gave my best friend Dixie her Christmas present early, an out of print copy of Candace Kling's book. When I took the picture, I told her to smile like it was Christmas morning! Candace looks pleased too!
The best part of the retreat for me was reuniting with old friends and the making of new ones.
oh wow Miss Samples and Miss Kling as well ohhh heaven indeed!
the clothing on display looks absolutely gorjus.


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Borexino measures the Sun's energy in real time
A total of 2212 8-inch photomultipliers mounted on a 13.7-m diameter stainless-steel sphere detect the scintillator light produced in Borexino.
Image credit: Borexino Collaboration.
The Borexino experiment at the INFN Gran Sasso National Laboratories has measured the energy of the Sun in real time, showing for the first time that the energy released today at its centre is exactly the same as that produced 100,000 years ago. This has been possible through the experiment's direct detection of the low-energy neutrinos produced in the initial nuclear reactions occurring in the solar core.
Previous measurements of solar energy have always been made on the radiation (photons) that currently illuminate and heat the Earth. The energy of this radiation originates in the Sun's nuclear reactions, but, on average, has taken 100,000 years to travel through the dense solar matter and reach the surface. Neutrinos produced by the same nuclear reactions, on the other hand, take only a few seconds to escape from the Sun before making the eight-minute journey to Earth. The comparison between the neutrino measurement now published by the Borexino collaboration and the previous measurements on the emission of radiant energy from the Sun shows that solar activity has not changed during the past 100,000 years.
Energy spectra for all of the solar neutrino and radioactive background components. All components are obtained from analytical expressions, validated by Monte Carlo simulations, with the exception of the synthetic pile-up, which is constructed from data.
Image credit: Borexino 2014.
Borexino is an ultra-sensitive liquid-scintillator detector designed to detect low-energy neutrino events in real time at a high rate, in contrast to earlier radioachemical experiments such as Homestake, GALLEX and SAGE (CERN Courier October 1998 p12). The experiment previously has focussed on measurements of neutrinos from 7Be and 8B – nuclei formed in certain branches of the principal chain of reactions that converts hydrogen to helium at the heart of the Sun. The 7Be neutrinos constitute only 7% of the neutrino flux from the Sun and the 8B neutrinos even less, but they have been key to the discovery and study of the phenomenon of neutrino oscillations, most recently by Borexino (CERN Courier June 2009 p13). In contrast in this latest work, Borexino has focused on the neutrinos from the fusion of two hydrogen nuclei (protons) to form deuterium – the seed reaction of the nuclear-fusion cycle that produces about 99% of the solar power, some 3.84 × 1033 ergs/s.
The difficulty of the new measurement lies in the extremely low energy of these so-called pp neutrinos, which is smaller than that of the others emitted by the Sun. The capability to do this successfully makes the Borexino detector unique, and has also allowed the study of neutrinos produced by the Earth (CERN Courier May 2013 p8).
The Borexino experiment is the result of a collaboration between European countries (Italy, Germany, France, Poland), the US and Russia, and it will take data for at least another four years, improving the accuracy of measurements already made and addressing others of great importance, for both particle physics as well as astrophysics.
Borexino Collaboration 2014 Nature 512 383.
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SPEY whisky to be toast of the Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival 2016
SPEY single malt is set to be the toast of this year's Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival – thanks to an exclusive, limited edition bottling being produced for the famous drams fest.
An expression of SPEY from Speyside Distillery single malt has been selected for an exclusive festival bottling ahead of the annual whisky extravaganza.
A SPEY from Speyside Distillery 2007 single malt cask sherry butt has been specially selected and is being bottled at cask strength, non-coloured, to be sold in limited bottle numbers.
Each bottle will have a 2016 festival labelling which will include the cask and bottle number, and being limited to a single cask they are expected to become highly collectible.
Speyside Distillers Co Ltd managing director Patricia Dillon is delighted with the collaboration.
She says, "What better way to celebrate our support of the Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival 2016 than with a unique single malt cask strength expression?
"We got involved with the festival for the first time last year when our global brand ambassador Michael Owen surprised visitors by calling in on one of our distillery tours.
"This time round, we are working with the organisers to produce a limited edition bottling of SPEY. It strengthens our links with this fabulous event that brings thousands of visitors to Speyside in celebration of the area's most famous export – whisky.
"As well as releasing this limited edition SPEY malt, we also look forward to meeting with whisky lovers from all over the world and welcoming them to the events at our boutique distillery, which is not normally open to the public."
James Campbell, chairman of the Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival, expects the whisky to go down very well with this year's visitors and whisky collectors.
Mr Campbell adds, "When Speyside Distillery came to us with the idea of a festival bottling, we knew right away that this would be of great interest and appeal to visitors.
"Naturally, there are many whiskies to take home from Speyside, but a festival bottling makes a very special souvenir of the 2016 event and with its limited availability and special labelling, it is likely to be highly in demand and much sought after."
Each individually numbered bottle will be hand finished with specially designed 2016 festival packaging stating the cask and limited bottle number.
The expression is cask strength and will be priced at £95 plus postage and packing. It is available to pre-order from karenann@speysidedistillers.co.uk for direct dispatch or can be collected from Speyside Distillery during the festival.
The Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival takes place from April 28th –May 2nd with a programme that features whisky trains, masterclasses, cocktails, music, trails, books and the opportunity to meet whisky distillers, writers and other celebrities.
As part of the programme, Speyside Distillery is offering a rare chance for the public to tour the small picturesque distillery near Kingussie, home of the SPEY brand of malt whisky, and enjoy specially selected tastings, in the company of distillery manager Sandy Jamieson.
There are further opportunities to visit the distillery to view its talented artist in residence Joanna Miller at work, while savouring dram of SPEY single malt.
Joanna, an ex-student of The Prince's School of Traditional Arts and artist for the SPEY brand, specialises in print making with particular interest in screen printing. Visitors will be able to meet Joanna before she retreats to work on her upcoming exhibitions at Eden Court, Inverness and Saatchi Gallery, London.
Speyside Distillers is also hosting mouth watering afternoon teas and SPEY whisky tastings on board the Strathspey Steam Train Railway, offering magnificent views of the Cairngorms.
For full details of Speyside Distillery's events and to order tickets, visit www.spiritofspeyside.com
Although not ususally open to the public, the distillery may look familiar to some as it featured (as Lagganmore distillery) in the popular BBC series 'Monarch Of The Glen'.


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Share this Story: New COVID variant designated 'omicron,' triggers global alarm
New COVID variant designated 'omicron,' triggers global alarm
A health worker prepares a dose of the COVID-19 booster vaccine, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, at Midland House in Derby, Britain, September 20, 2021. Photo by CARL RECINE /REUTERS
The discovery of a new coronavirus variant triggered global alarm on Friday as Europe rushed to suspend travel from southern Africa and stock markets on both sides of the Atlantic suffered their biggest falls in more than a year.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said it was designating the variant, named omicron, as being "of concern," a label only given to four variants to date.
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But it could take weeks for scientists to fully understand the variant's mutations. Health authorities are seeking to determine if omicron is more transmissible or infectious than other variants and if vaccines are effective against it.
Hours after Britain banned flights from South Africa – where the new mutation was discovered – and neighbouring countries and asked travellers returning from there to quarantine, the European Union said it would also suspend travel.
South Africa's Health Minister Joe Phaahla called the travel restrictions "unjustified," though he also said preliminary studies suggested the new variant may be more transmissible
"This new variant of the COVID-19 virus is very worrying. It is the most heavily mutated version of the virus we have seen to date," said Professor Lawrence Young, a virologist at Britain's Warwick university.
"Some of the mutations that are similar to changes we've seen in other variants of concern are associated with enhanced transmissibility and with partial resistance to immunity induced by vaccination or natural infection."
Those worries pummeled financial markets, especially stocks of airlines and others in the travel sector, and oil, which tumbled by about $10 a barrel.
Meanwhile, the scramble to ban air travel from southern Africa left hundreds of passengers on two KLM flights from Cape Town and Johannesburg stranded on the tarmac for hours at Amsterdam's Schipol Airport before they were transferred for testing.
"Bus to a hall to a huge queue. I can see COVID testers in bright blue PPE far on the distance. Still no snacks for the sad babies," tweeted New York Times journalist Stephanie Nolen, a passenger on the flight from Johannesburg.
'MOST SIGNIFICANT VARIANT'
Several other countries including India, Japan and Israel also toughened travel curbs.
In Washington, top U.S. infectious disease official Anthony Fauci said no decision had been made on a possible U.S. travel ban. There was no indication that omicron was in the United States, and it was unclear whether it was resistant to current vaccines, he told CNN.
In Geneva the WHO – whose experts on Friday discussed the risks that the variant, called B.1.1.529, presents – warned against travel curbs for now.
"It's really important that there are no knee-jerk responses here," said the WHO's emergencies director Mike Ryan, praising South Africa's public health institutions for picking up the new variant of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
"Because we've seen in the past, the minute that there is any mention of any kind of variation, then everyone is closing borders and restricting travel."
The variant has a spike protein that is dramatically different to the one in the original coronavirus that vaccines are based on, the UK Health Security Agency said, raising fears about how current vaccines will fare.
"As scientists have described, (this is) the most significant variant they've encountered to date," British Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told Sky News.
On Wall Street the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 2.5%, tracking its worst day since late October 2020, and European stocks had their worst day in 17 months as financial markets digested the news.
Cruise operators Carnival Corp, Royal Caribbean Cruises and Norwegian Cruise Line plunged more than 9% each, while shares in United Airlines, Delta Air Lines and American Airlines slumped almost 10%.
TOO LATE FOR TRAVEL CURBS?
The coronavirus has swept the world in the two years since it was first identified in central China, infecting almost 260 million people and killing 5.4 million.
One epidemiologist in Hong Kong said it may be too late to tighten travel curbs against the latest variant.
"Most likely this virus is already in other places. And so if we shut the door now, it's going to be probably too late," said Ben Cowling of the University of Hong Kong.
Belgium identified Europe's first case, adding to those in Botswana, Israel and Hong Kong.
Brazilian health regulator Anvisa recommended that travel be restricted from some African countries, but President Jair Bolsonaro appeared to dismiss such measures.
Bolsonaro has been widely criticized by public health experts for his management of the pandemic, railing against lockdowns and choosing not to get vaccinated. Brazil has the world's second-highest death toll from the virus, behind only the United States.
Discovery of the new variant comes as Europe and the United States enter winter, with more people gathering indoors in the run-up to Christmas, providing a breeding ground for infection.
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A considerable number of people seem to be drawn to the CGI industry by what they saw in modern movies and start learning CGI. What they don't seem to realize, though, is that it is NOT the CGI itself BUT the concept arts behind it that drew them. Without a good concept art, any CGI could end up boring and uninteresting. The winner of this week shows what a good concept art and CGI can accomplish.
So, it is with great pleasure that www.BlenderNews.org introduces to you the winner of the Render of the Week Award for the week of July 30, 2018: Aryadeep Saha.
My name is Aryadeep Saha and I am a 3rd Year B.sc student in Multimedia, Animation and Graphic Designing. I have been using Blender for almost a year now.
I was very much inspired by the "Ghost in the shell" movie, and this model is very much inspired by that genre. The name of the cyborg is cyb_0 because it is a first of its kind and I will be adding more characters following this as if they were manufactured by the same company.


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Public Safety Users Reveal Future Requirements from Communications
WEBWIRE – Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Research conducted by IDC for Motorola in EMEA indicates that TETRA will continue to address strong demand for fast, resilient communication
BASINGSTOKE, UK .- Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT), today unveils its "Future Tech" research into the future requirements that Europe's public safety agencies and major industrial users have for their communications systems. Analysis from interviews with 196 organizations, reveals the clear demand, expressed by 82 percent of respondents for fast, resilient communications, which improve the safety of users, extend the range of applications available in the field and simplify ease of use. These requirements underline the ongoing importance of TETRA technology.
The in-depth study, conducted by IDC on Motorola's behalf, canvassed the opinions of executives with a role in purchasing decisions across eight countries in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA)* from public safety, oil and gas and transport sectors. As well as articulating the overwhelming demand for faster and more resilient communication networks, organizations, as reported by 79 percent of respondents, are keen to see improvements to technology which improves existing systems.
"Organizations are focused on optimizing their existing communications systems to support accelerated data speeds and advanced applications. For instance, 66 percent would like to see technology support the delivery of more information to field teams, while 61 percent demand that technology improves situational analysis – the facility to access video feeds or remote databases and file reports in the field, or even to access images and video feeds comes into this category," said Pim Bilderbeek, VP European Telecoms Consulting, IDC. "Also, 61 percent of organizations identify the need for GPS/mapping technologies; these applications are very important to enhancing the safety of field teams and the interest in them adds further weight to the strong consensus (indicated by 74 percent of the respondents) that safeguarding teams is central to investing in communications systems."
Public safety and industrial organizations are investing in TETRA networks to manage their communications. TETRA provides dedicated private networks which deliver exceptional reliability, interoperability (in a crisis situation teams from different organizations can be connected), are highly secure, and support both voice and data connectivity. The technology is evolving to address the customer expectations revealed by the research and extend the long-term returns of investments in TETRA.
"TETRA is meeting the demand for secure voice and data applications, is highly resilient, and includes safety features to safeguard users. For instance, GPS tracking is widely deployed to protect teams and we're working to further advance emergency features. The industry is also enhancing network performance with the imminent availability of TETRA 2 technology, expanding the array of services available to users, said Manuel Torres, vice president and general manager, Government Business, Motorola Enterprise Mobility Solutions, EMEA.
TETRA Release 2 includes TETRA Enhanced Data Services (TEDS) for higher data rates, a technology which is already being deployed in Norway's nationwide TETRA system, with more networks planning to invest in the technology over the next two years. At the TETRA World Congress (27-29 May, Munich), Motorola will demonstrate how accelerated data rates can be applied to support innovative applications such as video. Video has the potential to support a wide range of field services: Engineers can send a video of a damaged equipment back to the office to ask for guidance on fixing the problem, or, police officers can be sent video images of suspects or missing persons to aid investigations.
The research also revealed that 44 percent of organizations believe that technology must easily connect teams working in high-pressure environments with the information and communications they need to successfully and safely complete tasks.
Recognizing this requirement, Motorola's design team spends unprecedented time with working alongside end users in the field across the world. This research has led to the company's commitment to "Design for Use," a philosophy which ensures products are operated with second-nature ease. As part of its ongoing customer dialogue, the company has just finalized a year-long study into the device requirements of end users.
"Customers want 'more of the same' from TETRA – with faster data access building on the success of the technology to date. Where organizations need private, robust and wide area voice and data communications, TETRA is the optimum system. The improvements to its performance and refinements to device designs will ensure that teams working in the toughest of environments continue to have fast and simple access to the services they need to safely and efficiently complete their missions," concluded Manuel Torres.
*Research methodology
Interviews were carried out via telephone in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain and the United Kingdom. The questionnaire was generated by IDC analysts. Organizations were included from the following arenas: Public Safety – Police, Fire, Ambulance, Emergency Services; Transportation – Bus, Train, Tram, Metro, Airports, Harbours; and Oil/Gas – Extraction, Production, and Distribution of Oil, Gas, Electricity, and Water.


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University Alliance > News & Media > In the News > THE: Postgraduate loans welcomed, but what about mature students?
THE: Postgraduate loans welcomed, but what about mature students?
Today's Autumn Statement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer included plans to introduce postgraduate loans of up to £10,000. University Alliance had long campaigned for this proposal.
Our statement on the announcement was used in an article by THE following Mr Osborne's speech in the House.
Steve West, the University Alliance chair and University of the West of England vice-chancellor, said: "We strongly welcome the chancellor's announcement today to develop a government-backed postgraduate loan system. Postgraduate study is vital to ensure Britain develops and grows global talent, which will be key to our future success."
He added that the announcement "has the potential to create a fairer system for people who want to study a higher degree and transform their life chances".
You can read our full statement here.


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10 of 10, cuz it pwns!
hmmm...i give it nine out of ten cuz i like naruto!
I give it a 5 outta 10. Why? The comment's funny and because I'm using a school computer, I can't see the image therefore 5 marks is taken off ^,~ Soz Scorpio!
9.5/10 mainly cause the kittens are cute!


Pictured is one of the many strange road names on Long Island. Gingerbread Rd is located in Kings Park. Photo credit: Google Maps.
Taking a drive along Long Island is not only an adventure because of all the unique roadside attractions, but because there is so much to explore with the many villages and towns. Some villages and towns on Long Island have the strangest road names you'll ever come across. We're talking about road names like Claus Avenue, Mattituck's Love Lane, Prince Charming Rd and there's many more! As you discover Long Island, you'll also find it has several strange laws.
Discover all the oddities of Long Island through the the bizarre routes and road names on Long Island! There are some that are whimsical while others may play a part in defining the haunted history of real haunts on Long Island.
Pictured above is Honeysuckle Rd in Levittown. Photo credit: Google Maps.
Pictured above is an area of real haunts on Long Island. Mount Misery Drive is located in Sag Harbor. The path has had its share of ghostly tales. At its farthest point are thick woods. Many who have passed by have claimed to feel eeriness around the surrounding. Interestingly though, Mount Misery Drive was not named because of that. Back in the times, it was an area known to locals as unfarmable land and because of the steep hills, it made trekking across it "miserable," according to Weird U.S. Photo credit: Google Maps.
Pictured above is Prince Charming Rd in Nesconset. Photo credit: Google Maps.
Pictured above is the intersection of Race Lane and Railroad Ave in East Hampton. Photo credit: Google Maps.
Pictured above is Skunks Hollow Rd in St. James. Photo credit: Google Maps.
Pictured above is the intersection of Storyland Lane and Mark Twain Lane in Setauket. Photo credit: Google Maps.
Pictured above is a path down Sweet Hollow Rd in Huntington. On this road sits a haunted overpass, according to legend. There's stories of the school bus accident where everyone on the bus was killed when it skidded off the bridge. There's also the one where drivers who have dared to park their vehicle under the bridge have oddly felt movement. Additional legend and other real haunt stories are bountiful on Long Island. Photo credit: Google Maps.
Pictured above is Three Sisters Rd in St. James.There's no clear documentation as to how this road was names, however, there's several theories. One theory is that this very old road was occupied by a settler who had three daughters. The other theory was an Indian in the area had three daughters who would often be seen walking the path, according to Long Island Genealogy. Photo credit: Google Maps.
There are lots of Strange Laws here on Long Island - some at the State level, some at the County level, and even some unique laws that are specific to local cities & townships. For example - did you know in Nassau County that it's illegal to feed migratory waterfowl, such as geese? Head over to LongIsland.com's Strange Laws page for a look at some of the weirdest restrictions and rules that are currently on the books!
Visiting Roadside Attractions like the Iconic Big Duck located out in Flanders, the Montauk Lighthouse, or the Smithtown Bull is a beloved roadtrip tradition of locals and out of towners alike. Get the scoop on the best roadside pitstops you won't want to miss next time you're out and about from the edges of the boroughs all the way to the East End?
Love all things haunted? Then you won't want to miss out on LongIsland.com's Real Haunt Guide, featuring an in-depth look at all of the Island's most iconic haunted places, including the abandoned Kings Park Psychiatric Center, the Amityville Horror House, Lake Ronkonkoma, and many more!
If you enjoyed reviewing these strange road names on Long Island, you should also discover the many other great facts on Long Island.
Do you know any other strange road names on Long Island?