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A DESIGN student from Burton has secured an investment to launch her own studio.
Stephanie Bonner entered a Dragons' Den-style competition to bid for funding from venture capitalists from Trent & Dove Housing and the Business Enterprise Support Agency.
After impressing with her idea, the 21-year-old has walked away with £8,000 which will be used to turn her ideas into a fully operational company.
Stephanie says the money will be used to buy equipment to help her students gain valuable experience needed for a career in graphic design. She is also planning to rent an office in the town centre.
She said: "I am over the moon to have won the Building Futures competition as I have always wanted to set up my own graphics studio. This really is a dream come true for me."


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What a week — actually, a couple of months — it's been for Bret Michaels. Late last week, he had to go back to the hospital due to a "warning stroke," where he discovered he had a hole in his heart. Chances were he wouldn't be well enough to make it for Sunday's finale of The Celebrity Apprentice. He managed to soldier on, though, and his rep Janna Elias said, "Bret is a very passionate person and refuses to live his life curled up in a ball wondering if or when something else might happen." She added, "As his friends and staff we are all making sure that he is not taking any undue risks and we are certainly taking every precaution possible to insure his health and well being. If and when something else occurs we will deal with it at that time."
Spoiler Alert! If you didn't watch the episode… stop reading now!
Through sheer willpower, Bret made it to the finale, where he faced off against Holly Robinson Peete. He even hadtrouble on the flight from Arizona to New York City. His plane had to touch down in Nashville as sources say he was "complaining of a headache, lower back pain and some cramping in his legs." However, his flight got back on course soon after and even though he was walking with a slight limp, he looked fit and ready during the show. Holly Robinson Peete was incredibly happy to see him and cried when he arrived. Before the show, she tweeted, "I know the whole country is pulling for Bret. In many ways I am too!"
The final task had the two assigned to create a new Snapple tea flavor. They each, also had to put together an ad campaign to promote it. Michaels did a diet Trop-a-Rocka blend, while Robinson Pete did Compassionberry tea.
In the end, in what was an emotional moment, Bret Michaels won, earning the American Diabetes Association a cool $250,000! Robinson Peete didn't go empty handed, though; Donald Trump also awarded her $250,000 for her HollyRod Foundation.
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Given the historic stigma around making, circulating, and possessing overtly homoerotic images, the visual arts have been especially important for providing a socially sanctioned arena for depicting the naked male body and suggesting homoerotic desire.
Independent films that aggressively assert homosexual identity and queer culture, the New Queer Cinema can be seen as the culmination of several developments in American cinema.
Renowned photographer, teacher, critic, editor, and curator, Minor White created some of the most interesting photographs of male nudes of the second half of the twentieth century, but did not exhibit them for fear of scandal.
The first international fashion superstar, Halston dressed and befriended some of America's most glamorous women.
An artistic movement that grew out of Dadaism and flourished in Europe shortly after World War I, Surrealism embraced the idea that art was an expression of the subconscious.
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Congratulations to actress Meredith Baxter and building contractor Nancy Locke on their engagement. The women have reportedly secured a marriage license and sent out invitations to their wedding.
The entertainment website TMZ reported on November 11, 2013 that Baxter, who is best known for her role in the 1980s sitcom Family Ties, and Locke, who owns a construction company, applied for a marriage license at a courthouse in Beverly Hills on November 8.
As Linda Rapp reports in her glbtq.com entry on Baxter, the women entered into a committed relationship in 2005. At that time, Baxter introduced Locke not only to her own family but also to some people in the entertainment industry, notably the cast members from Family Ties, who held a reunion dinner in 2008. All of them responded favorably, but Baxter remained reluctant to acknowledge her lesbianism publicly then, fearful that it might cost her opportunities to work.
In April 2009 Baxter and Locke attended the Dinah Shore women's golf tournament, an annual event that attracts massive numbers of lesbian fans. Baxter told Tracy E. Gilchrist of The Advocate that friends helped them "slide in" essentially unnoticed because her "goal was to stay under the radar" since she "wasn't prepared for anything at the time."
Later that year the couple took a Caribbean cruise on the lesbian-centered Sweet line. Baxter was moved by a call from stand-up comedian Suzanne Westenhoefer, who was on the voyage as an entertainer, for everyone who was not out to come out, both for the good of the community and for their own peace of mind.
Although inspired to take action, Baxter also found her hand somewhat forced: before the ship even returned to New Orleans, word of the couple's presence on the cruise was spreading.
She did not want to be outed by the tabloid press and was, with the help of her business manager and a publicist, able to come out on her own terms in a dignified manner through an article in People Weekly and an interview with Matt Lauer of the Today show in December 2009.
Baxter admitted to some trepidation about coming out, but that was quickly succeeded by a feeling of relief. "If somebody's gonna say something, I don't care," she declared to Zuckerman. "For the first time, I'm where I want to be."
In the video below, Baxter discusses her 2011 autobiography Untied with QTV's Jian Ghomeshi.
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Seventeen days later, I had the beginnings of a fantasy novel. After I made the "mistake" of telling my relatives and friends I was writing, I decided to self-publish Eldala in 2007 through Lulu.com. Since then, the stories have poured out of me like an Arizona flashflood during monsoon season.
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Found: The perfect blouse for all those holiday parties you've been invited to, from the casual cookie potluck at your BFF's to the semi-formal cocktail hour for work. Just switch up the rest of the outfit (jeans and ankle boots for casual, black skirt, stilettos and red lipstick for formal), and this black-gold sequined blouse will do the hard work for you.
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Cornelia Guest Satchel
A go-with-everything bag is totally worth the investment, and we strongly endorse the satchel bag from Cornelia Guest. We love this bronze-toned, luxurious-looking tote, but fear not, animal lovers- this roomy handbag is sneakily made from reptile-impersonating PVC. Durable, snake-friendly and stylish. What's not to love?
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Look closer at this wool blend trench coat, and you'll see that the pattern is actually a subtle teal and black ikat print. The wide collar can be flipped up for extra warmth, and the belted waist ensures you'll never look like the Michelin Man, even with your heaviest sweater on underneath.
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A scoopneck on a winter coat is totally unexpected but looks lovely framing your face. Why didn't someone think of this sooner? Land's End is known for their tough outerwear, but they are winning style kudos with this wool coat that features delicate details such as princess seams and an envelope closure. A blend of recycled cashmere adds some seriously luxurious warmth, too.
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If it isn't already, we decree that there is a fashion law which states that, at some point in her life, every woman must own a frivolous leopard-print coat. Haven't met your purr-fect match yet? Try this retro silhouetted swing coat that may look busy, but will actually go nicely with everything in your closet. Mrowrr!
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Chelsea Leather Tech Wallet
Phone, cash and cards- what more do you need? Zip it all up in bright leather to keep the essentials in one convenient and stylish place. A detachable wrist strap makes this wallet an easy stand-in for a night-out clutch, too.
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Bernardo Lightweight Down Walking Coat
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French Connection Wonderland Wool Coat
Prefer a more tailored approach to winter outerwear? Stand out in a sea of navy and camel pea coats in this mod crimson number. The wool and cashmere blend fabric is soft, not scratchy, and clean lines make for an uncluttered silhouette perfect for jazzing up with a colorful scarf and sleek leather gloves.
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Jack Carrian Coat
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Dot Pullover Sweater
Get dotty in this soft polka dot pullover from the Gap, who always knows how to make our favorite sweaters. This v-neck is also available in solids, but we're partial to getting spotty.09 Oct, 2012 in Fashion for women
Vince Camuto Sequin Stripe Sweater
Your favorite comfy sweater gets glammed up for an autumn night on the town with bold sequined stripes. Pair this soft sparkler with black skinnies and your dancing shoes to party in warm and chic style.05 Oct, 2012 in Fashion for women
Cashmere Color Block Easy V Sweater
Color-blocked cashmere is the best of both worlds; you look great and you feel really great. An infusion of color keeps this classic sweater current, and did we mention the cashmere part? Cashmere is always the right choice.
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Spun Straw Lace Sweater
Traditional cable knit gets a twist thanks to a sweetly unexpected lace hem. This sweater gives you the layered look, minus the extra layer. Rock this yellowy-straw pullover at your favorite fall outing for an easy, comfortable and pulled-together look.
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Aztec Dolman Cardigan Sweater
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The naked mole rat, Heterocephalus glaber, is fleshy, furless, buck-toothed and brazenly ugly. Yet what these small East African rodents lack in terms of good looks, they make up with an impressive array of biological quirks. These misnamed mammals are neither moles nor rats, and in terms of their social behaviour are actually closer to bees, wasps, ants, and termites than to other backboned animals.
They live in underground cooperative colonies of up to 300 individuals with a dominant breeding "queen" and celibate soldier and worker castes. Biologists have identified only one other vertebrate--the closely related Damaraland mole rat--that uses this rigid reproductive and social structure. Until the late 1970s scientists believed that this trait, known as eusociality, was confined to insects.
Naked mole rats deploy several impressive feats of physiology, including an apparent imperviousness to pain, a casual disregard for low-oxygen environments, and resistance to cancer. Indeed, these unsightly creatures both baffle and buttress Darwin's Theory of Evolution in multiple remarkable and apparently self-contradictory ways.
Naked mole rats live almost their entire existence in teeming subterranean tunnels. About the size of a large mouse or a small hamster, they are nearly blind and almost completely hairless. They sport prominent incisors that protrude outside their lips, making effective digging tools. Their tubular, wrinkled body is well formed for moving through narrow passages, and unlike similarly sized animals they can scamper backwards just as easily as they can scurry forwards.
The social structure of a naked mole rat colony mirrors that of a beehive or ant nest, with a single breeding female at its head. Ninety eight percent of the members of a colony will be infertile, with between one and three lucky/exhausted males providing sperm for the sex-obsessed queen. Initially, zoologists believed that the queen curtailed unauthorized reproduction in her subjects by chemical methods, using pheromones in her urine to suppress ovulation in subordinate females. Although odours do play an important friend-or-foe identification role in a mole rat colony, researchers now believe that the queen maintains her breeding monopoly by more direct means: physical abuse. The queen firmly establishes the social hierarchy by head-shoving and clambering over her subordinates. Junior mole rats respond with a physiological stress reaction that effectively suppresses sperm production or ovulation.
Freed of the demands of reproduction, celibate workers can devote their energies to tending to the queen's young--their siblings, nieces, or nephews--or collecting underground plant tubers to feed the rest of the colony. Meanwhile, higher status rodents form a "soldier caste" that defends the burrow from predatory snakes or foul-smelling foreigner mole rats.
When an old queen dies, the female soldiers engage in blind battle. After much head-butting and clambering, a single victor becomes the new queen and the most powerful males become her royal consorts. Then the young queen grows noticeably larger and longer than her workers, as the vertebrae in her spine spread to accommodate an almost continuous state of pregnancy. To date, researchers have noted neither flickers of lightning nor a stirring Queen soundtrack alongside this surprising physiological process. Relieved of pupcare duties by her celibate minions, she can concentrate on breeding rather than nursing. Almost uniquely among mammals, naked mole rat queens can therefore have litter sizes larger than the number of nipples available for suckling.
The subterranean environment of a mole rat colony helps to explain some of their other notable physiological adaptations. The air inside a crowded mole rat burrow has stuffily high levels of carbon dioxide and suffocatingly low levels of oxygen. The high ambient carbon dioxide concentration increases acid in the rodents' tissue fluid to levels that would leave most mammals writhing in agony. Researchers discovered that a mutation in a single gene has switched off this response in mole rats, allowing them to adapt to what would otherwise be an extremely uncomfortable environment--and incidentally, giving them a superhero-like resistance to pain. This capability has piqued the interest of medical scientists looking to develop new classes of human painkillers.
Naked mole rats' tolerance of low oxygen levels also holds promise for improving human health. In most mammals, brain tissue is very sensitive to low oxygen levels, yet a mole rat neuron can survive in conditions of oxygen deprivation, or hypoxia, six times as long as a corresponding mouse neuron--clearly a useful feature in poorly ventilated burrows. Although the mechanisms for this are unclear, it is believed that naked mole rat brain cells retain features of immature but hypoxia-tolerant foetal neurons. Stroke researchers are keen to harness these insights for the treatment of human hypoxic brain injury.
Naked mole rats can live up to 30 years, which is an astonishingly long lifespan for a small rodent— as any hamster or guinea pig enthusiast can attest. Scientists do not fully understand the reasons behind this rodent endurance, although having a low metabolic rate--which may also contribute to their hypoxia tolerance--no doubt helps. In any case, their longevity makes some sense from an evolutionary point of view. Having outsourced reproduction to the queen and her harem, a short lifespan among workers isn't necessary to keep the genetic pool fresh. Task-specialization seems to promote long life, and old age is particularly common among creatures that care for their young communally. These include mole rats, social insects, cave-roosting bats, and humans--which all live much longer than would be expected on the basis of their body mass alone. Furthermore, over-frequent death becomes inconvenient, wasteful, and unsanitary in a crowded burrow. Colony hygiene is paramount when mortality finally asserts itself, and--unusually among non-human mammals--naked mole rats will fastidiously bury their dead.
Mole rat Methusalehs also benefit from a further biological boon: resistance to cancer. Despite intense scrutiny, scientists have never seen malignant tumours in living Heterocephalus glaber. All attempts to induce tumour growth in unaltered mole rat tissue have failed, despite repeated exposure of mole rat cells to chemical cocktails of potent cancer-causing mutagens. Early studies indicate that mole rats cells may exhibit a form of 'early contact inhibition', in which replicating cells recognise their neighbours and cease dividing particularly promptly. This acts as a fail-safe to stop potentially cancerous cells from multiplying beyond a critical density. Researchers are uncertain which evolutionary pressures prompted this improvement, but they are keen to find a way to capitalize on it for humanity.
Despite all these super-rodent powers, not everything goes the mole rats' way. Thanks in part to their low metabolic rate, they have lost the almost universal mammalian characteristic of individual thermoregulation, and readily catch chills or swoon if temperature in the burrow moves outside of a narrow range. When ambient temperature falls towards 15 degrees centigrade, naked mole rats become sluggish and their body fat starts to solidify. Below 15 degrees, they die. Evolutionarily speaking, this reptilian reversion reflects the "use it or lose it" principle: within the constant 29-30 degree microclimate of their burrow, temperature fluxes are minimal and mole rats have no need for energy-expensive individual temperature regulation.
Leaving their diverse array of unusual physiological features aside, naked mole rats' unorthodox social and reproductive habits pose some difficult questions for scientists. Until the mid 1960s, the existence of social insects, such as bees and ants, posed a strong challenge to the emerging 'neo-Darwinian synthesis', which describes the spectacularly neat marriage of Darwin's theory of evolution with the rapidly expanding field of molecular genetics. The 'altruistic' behaviour of sterile worker bees or ants was puzzling. They sacrifice themselves to defend and feed their colony, but with no hope of passing their genes to the next generation. In 1964 a British biologist named William D Hamilton formulated a mathematical rule that appeared to resolve the conundrum.
'Hamilton's rule' is a particularly clear expression of a theory known as kin selection, which states that individuals will sacrifice themselves for others, but only to the extent that those others share their genes. The idea is expressed neatly in the words of another twentieth century biologist, JBS Haldane: "I would lay down my life for two brothers or eight cousins".
Although the majority of evolutionary theorists embrace kin selection, some scientists have offered another idea: that animals can undergo natural selection as a group. 'Group selection' theories propose that the same basic evolutionary processes of selection that act on individuals, or their genes, can also act at higher levels of organisation. In other words, the evolutionary 'unit of selection' may not always be the gene. Individuals, groups of organisms such as bee or mole rat colonies, or even groups composed of different species could potentially undergo selection collectively. Different versions of group selection theory consider selection at these different levels, and the broader term 'multilevel selection' is sometimes used to encompass the full range of possibilities. Such ideas could potentially account for the altruism of social insects and mole rats without needing to invoke kin selection: it is the overall fitness of the group that ultimately determines its survival and transmission of its characteristics to subsequent generations, irrespective of whether individuals within the group share the same genes. In essence, the colony behaves as a single organism from an evolutionary perspective, in much the same way that individual animal cells will readily sacrifice themselves to defend their parent organism.
Group selection remains greatly contested among biologists: many believe that William Hamilton's description of kin selection will prove both necessary and sufficient to explain altruism. A Swiss study published in 2011 appears to support their view. A collection of 2 centimeter-high robots were programmed to seek out coloured discs, which represented an analogue for 'food'. Their randomly configured artificial nervous systems then underwent a simulated form of natural selection, with 'fitter' robots more likely to pass their enhanced disc gathering skills to the next generation. Disc-sharing between robots was one of many potential behaviours allowed by the experiment. Over many simulated robot generations, patterns of food sharing emerged akin to the altruism seen in biological systems. Critically, the strength of this altruistic behaviour varied according to the degree of shared 'inheritance' between robots, exactly as predicted by Hamilton's rule.
It is unclear exactly where the decidedly fleshy naked mole rat stands in this controversy. Although individuals within a colony are closely related, they do not share genes as tightly as 'haplodiploid' social insects such as bees and wasps, despite showing the same highly developed altruistic behaviour. Whether mole rat eusociality can be explained solely by current interpretations of kin selection or some yet-to-be-fully-developed form of multilevel selection remains to be seen. Nor is it clear that these ideas are mutually exclusive, as they tackle the problem of altruism from very different directions. Either way, the existence of mole rats' social structure and unique mammalian "reproductive specialization" suggests that eusociality reaches much further into the natural world than first believed— whatever the precise evolutionary mechanisms involved.
Naked mole rats have nevertheless already made an important contribution to validating the basic tenets of evolution--those that no serious biologist would contest--by being successfully 'predicted' to exist. Although mounds of observational evidence and logic support Darwin's theory of evolution, one nagging question has been its perceived lack of predictive power, often cited as an important feature of any sound scientific theory. An American biologist named Richard Alexander managed to furnish the theory with such predictive proof. Having read William Hamilton's 1964 description of kin selection as an explanation for insect eusociality, he wondered why the phenomenon was not more widespread, particularly among "higher" vertebrate organisms such as mammals and birds. He believed that 'subsociality', or the ability to provide parental care, was an essential feature of eusociality.
Given that strong parental impulses are common among mammals, it seemed possible--perhaps even likely--that a set of circumstances could exist in which selective pressures would act to promote eusociality. It just needed a sufficiently harsh and appropriately constrained environment. By applying increasing dollops of deductive logic and well-established Darwinian principles, he was able to identify his hypothesised creatures' likely location, appearance and behaviour.
Like larger versions of social insects, Alexander speculated that these eusocial mammals would live in nests that were safe, expandable, and close to a localized, easily exploitable supply of food. This suggested an underground colony, as the logs or trees favoured by ants and bees would be too small to accommodate large groups of vertebrates. With the search narrowed down to small burrowing mammals, a rodent species seemed likely.
He reasoned that cooperative animals would be better able to exploit concentrated food sources, such as underground plant tubers, rather than dispersed food sources, like the worms favoured by moles and other lone-ranger rodents. Such tubers are common in regions with wet-dry seasons, where plants need a method of storing nutrients and water for use in the dry season. Alexander identified East Africa, with its arid scrub and open woodland, as a promising area with the right type of habitat, climate, and soil to support underground colonies. In such settings, snakes are common predators--and so he expected to see a caste of specialized soldier rodents defending the colony, analogous to soldier ants or termites.
Alexander presented his description in a series of well-attended lectures in the mid-1970s. In 1975, an audience member approached him after the show, and asked if he was aware of the early mole rat research being led by a South African named Jennifer Jarvis. He was not. At that time, Heterocephalus glaber were known as burrowing underground rodents that lived in big groups in East African scrubland, that fed on tubers, and were predated on by snakes. While Jarvis and others had already realised that there was something decidedly unusual about them, the unique reproductive role of the "queen" was not recognized, and nor was the extreme extent of their division of labour. Indeed, Jarvis had become increasingly puzzled and frustrated that only one female would ever breed in her experimental lab colonies. When Alexander contacted her and explained his hypothesis, she finally understood why. Darwin, Hamilton, and Jarvis all played their part in evolving the surprising eusocial answer, and Alexander had successfully predicted a rather unpredictable variety of rodents.
While not unique as an example of evolution's predictive power, naked mole rats must rank as one of the most curious. Given their record of scientific surprises to date, it seems quite possible that, with further investigation, they may yet offer deeper insights into the exact mechanisms of evolution. In the meantime, it seems equally plausible that Heterocephalus glaber could help a fellow species of African-evolved social mammal discover the secrets of long life, find cures for cancer, protect brains during strokes, resist pain, and--at the very least--develop strategies for efficient nipple use. These remarkable rodents are noteworthy for having challenged and stimulated biologists working in almost every field--from biochemical, physiological, and behavioural science, up to overarching evolutionary theory. These hairless, oddly-reproducing outliers stand as one of evolution's most unlikely products. The naked mole rats, that is.


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John Stevens Henslow is known for his formative influence on Charles Darwin, who described their meeting as the one circumstance "which influenced my career more than any other." A Professor of Botany at Cambridge University, Henslow was Darwin's teacher and eventual life-long friend, but what of the man himself? In this new biography, much previously unpublished material has been carefully gathered to produce a rounded picture of a remarkable academic and Victorian philanthropist. The time in 1829-31, when Darwin "walked with Henslow" in and around Cambridge, was followed directly by Darwin's voyage around the world. The gradually changing relationship between teacher and pupil over the course of time is revealed through their correspondence, illuminating a remarkable friendship that persisted, in spite of Darwin's eventual atheism and Henslow's never-failing liberal Christian belief, to the end of Henslow's life.


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Why Los Angeles Times Can't Keep an Editor
James O'Shea found out two weeks ago at lunch in Union Station that he'd be the second editor in 14 months to part with Los Angeles Times Publisher David Hiller in a fight over budget cuts.
Mr. Hiller had asked for what would amount to $7 million in reductions: $3 million in newsprint costs and about $4 million from other parts of the budget, so that the paper would be able to devote news coverage to this year's political elections and the Olympics. In a memo sent to Mr. Hiller the previous week, Mr. O'Shea protested, not just against the cuts but the underlying strategy.
At the lunch at Traxx restaurant not far from the paper's squat moderne headquarters in downtown Los Angeles, Mr. Hiller said, "This paper just has to get smaller and smaller," Mr. O'Shea recalled in an interview. "I said, 'If that is the kind of paper you want, if that is the future that you see for the paper, then maybe you need an editor who believes in that, because I don't.'"
It seemed to Mr. Hiller that Mr. O'Shea was "unable to make the hard choices" by asking that the newsroom budget increase to about $123 million from $120 million. "They were proposing an increase in a year when, like all newspapers, revenue was down dramatically," the publisher said in an interview yesterday. "The idea that a newsroom budget would be increased was regrettably totally unrealistic."
Like Mr. Hiller, Mr. O'Shea came from the Chicago Tribune, where he had been managing editor and had been known as a dutiful manager of the shrinking budgets plaguing all newspapers today. He was expected to be less confrontational than his two predecessors at the Los Angeles Times, John Carroll and Dean Baquet, who had departed over budget cuts from Tribune Co., which acquired the Times in 2000.
"I could get $7 million out of the budget, that wasn't the problem. It was the process," Mr. O'Shea said. What he couldn't stomach any longer was the company's repeated calls for expense cuts to balance the budget. He believes the way to stop the downward spiral at the Los Angeles Times is about raising revenue, which could come about with a combination of cuts and careful investments in journalism.
"The way out of this problem is not retrenchment. If you don't invest in good, solid, accurate, fundamental journalism, you are going to just continue the decline and fall. You'll get to a point where you won't be able to reverse it."
Mr. Hiller, however, said the paper had invested judiciously. "We're looking to grow revenue or to improve the revenue picture everywhere we can...That is a very important part of the answer. But fundamentally the idea that you can increase spending in the newsroom, and spend your way out of the problem of declining revenue is wishful thinking."
While Mr. O'Shea insists that he was fired, Mr. Hiller said it was a mutual decision, but he said that "at some point it is more semantic. The fact is we didn't see eye-to-eye." Mr. Hiller said even before their disagreements he had expected Mr. O'Shea to be a transitional editor at the paper, serving only a year or two. "It was a question of whether we do it now or six months from now," he said, adding that he expects to soon make additional changes at the paper.
The latest drama at the Los Angeles Times is the story facing the broader newspaper industry. As circulation drops and ad revenues deteriorate, newspaper companies are struggling to figure out how to stay afloat. Third-quarter net income at Tribune Co., for instance, declined 7% as newspaper advertising revenue fell sharply. At the company's newspapers, which also include the Chicago Tribune, Long Island's Newsday and the Baltimore Sun, revenue declined 7% to $871 million. Ad revenue fell 9%, reflecting declines of 6% in retail ad revenue and 18% in classified revenue. Print ad revenue was down at the Times about 10% last year, or about $80 million, Mr. Hiller said.
"We need to change course and try something different because we've been cutting and cutting little by little over the last five years, and it hasn't done a damn bit of good," Mr. O'Shea said. "This paper at one time had 1,190 full-time employees. Now it is in the 800s. It has cut 6,000 pages of newsprint on the paper over the last several years."
Mr. Hiller countered that last year, the newsroom added more than 100 new people, about 50 to the online staff. Between attrition and a buyout, more than 130 employees left the newsroom. While the overall staff size decreased, he said, "at the end of the day, you have 100 new passionate, terrific people to the newsroom. This in an era of supposed cut, cut, cut."
Mr. O'Shea's exit comes little more than a month after Tribune Co. was taken private in an $8.2 billion buyout. Chicago real-estate magnate Sam Zell won effective control in the buyout and became chairman and chief executive of Tribune. The Chicago-based company owns a chain of TV stations, as well as newspapers.
As he takes control of the company, Mr. Zell is decentralizing it and giving more autonomy to each of the units to operate as they see fit, a move that gave Mr. Hiller more latitude in Los Angeles. Mr. Hiller says he didn't consult Mr. Zell about Mr. O'Shea's departure but that he told him about the decision.
"I've said loud and clear that I am returning control of our businesses to the people who run them. That means David Hiller has my full support. He carries direct responsibility for the staffing and financial success of the L.A. Times," Mr. Zell wrote in an email to employees Monday morning.
On the subject of cuts, Mr. O'Shea said Mr. Hiller told him, "'This is the number, and expenses cannot, cannot, cannot go up.' The funny thing about that is Sam Zell sent out this [earlier] email and said he didn't want people using the word can't."
Both Mr. Hiller and Mr. O'Shea said the paper was improving in some areas. After a string of circulation declines, the newspaper was one of only two of the top 10 U.S. dailies that reported growth in average weekday circulation during the most recent reporting period. Weekday circulation at the Los Angeles Times, the nation's fourth-largest paper, increased 0.5% to 779,682 for the six months ending Sept. 30, 2007 compared with 775,765 during the same period last year, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Traffic to its Web site also grew. The site, latimes.com, had 2.6 million U.S. unique visitors in December, up 10% from 2.4 million during December 2006, according to comScore Media Metrix.
During his talks with Mr. Hiller, Mr. O'Shea pointed to some examples of revenue growth from the past year: The launch of a new Image fashion section, which drew an additional $6 million in ad revenues in 2007. Mr. O'Shea wanted to go through the newspaper section by section and devise business strategies to replicate the success with Image -- not rely solely on budget cuts. For instance, he says the paper could have looked at the Home section to see if revenues could be doubled. If that wasn't possible, then eliminating the section was an option.
"The method that David and the financial people want is they want to put you in a straitjacket. I think it is a sign of something that troubles the Tribune Company deeper. That is, they really don't have any faith in journalists to make these decisions. They treat you like you are budgetary adolescents that can't be trusted," Mr. O'Shea said.
In a farewell speech yesterday in the L.A. Times newsroom, Mr. O'Shea said to employees: "I disagree completely with the way that this company allocates resources to its newsrooms, not just here but at Tribune newspapers all around the country. That system is at the core of my disagreements with David."
Mr. O'Shea, who has been commuting for the past 14 months, says he is returning to Chicago.
Mr. Hiller said being the editor of the Los Angeles Times is still one of journalism's premier jobs, and there are several candidates he is considering to replace Mr. O'Shea, including some from inside the paper. He confirmed that managing editor John Arthur along with innovation editor Russ Stanton both are on the short list.
"We've got to pick up the pace of change," Mr. Hiller said. " We need to rapidly complete the transition to a multimedia-integrated newsroom. We also need to continue to make significant changes to the print paper to make it relevant, interesting and, even, fun."
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I was under the impression that an employee was already suffering from depression, not that it was a direct result of the workload?
"And us, the consumers should show that we don't want people to be depressed or have "suicidal tendencies" because of making a fucking video game."
To be honest I think that having worked on this project for so long, having put their blood sweat and tears into making the game as awesome as possible, the last thing they want is for you to not buy it and enjoy it.
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The importance of teaching about standards
The WSC (World Standards Cooperation), which is a high-level group with representatives from the three world-leading standardization organizations IEC, ISO (International Organization for Standardization) and ITU (International Telecommunication Union), is holding an Academic Day aimed at facilitating contact among academics, industrial leaders and experts and SDOs (Standards Development Organizations).
Industrial leaders often ignore the benefits of International Standards
It can be difficult to involve industrial leaders in international standardization activities. Many managers have little notion of the positive impact that participating in standards development can have. That's why they often see the cost of experts participating in the standardization process as an expenditure, an unnecessary financial cost that can easily be cut.
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One of the theories as to why leaders react in such a way is that during their business school education they rarely, if ever, received training or information on the subject. They are not familiar with business cases presenting the competitive advantages of standards development. As a result, they have generally no concept of the global business benefits of being involved in standardization activities right from the onset.
There are many advantages to participating in standardization, and academia is a key way for making this better known.
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WSC representatives have organized an Academic Day during which they are to analyse needs and material in order to make better provision for university lecturers and those carrying out research in universities on standards development and so on. The 2011 Academic Day is to take place on 29 June in Hangzhou, China, under the banner, Cooperation between Standards Development Organizations and Academic Institutions.
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This program includes four courses within the Infrastructure Protection Program with TEEX, that promotes a culture of readiness and disaster preparedness that support national policy to strengthen and maintain secure, functioning and resilient critical infrastructures. They address topics such as threat and risk assessment, risk mitigation, resource investment, preparedness planning, and other disaster management subjects preparing personnel at all levels of emergency and public services operations and critical infrastructure sectors. Security and Disaster Management courses are designed to provide individuals and organizations from both the private and public sectors with the necessary skills to improve and enhance, safety, security, and community resilience in the event of a disaster or emergency situation.
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This 1 day course will introduce you to the roles of the Incident Command System (ICS) and Emergency Operations Centers (EOCs) during emergency operations, and discuss ways to develop an ICS/EOC interface implementation strategy or action plan for your community. The target audience includes personnel associated with on-scene Incident Command, and EOCs and Multiagency Coordination (MAC) System entities. Registration is required on TEMA's application: TEMA Training Course Application. Please forward all applications to Heidi Mariscal.
This course, provided by TEEX, examines the role of public information in managing an all-hazards incident and provides practical training in crisis communication techniques. In such an incident, it is imperative that community leaders, incident managers, and public information officers are prepared to communicate with the public through the news and social media. The course focuses on the role of public information in incident management, the information needs of the public in a crisis, and the various means of effectively communicating through the news and social media. Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to manage the major elements associated with public information in a WMD, terrorism and all-hazards incident.
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This course provides training on use of multiple resources for personnel who require application of the Incident Command System (ICS) during expanding incidents. This course expands upon information covered in the ICS-100 and ICS-200 courses. Registration is required on TEMA's application: TEMA Training Course Application. Please forward all applications and copies of successfully completed prerequisites to Heidi Mariscal.
Prerequisites: IS-100, 200, 700, 800
This 2 day course provides training on the resources for personnel who require advanced application of the ICS. This course expands upon information covered in ICS-100 through ICS 300 Courses. These earlier courses are prerequisites for ICS-400. ICS-400 explains how major incidents engender special management challenges; describe the circumstances in which an Area Command is established; and describe the circumstances in which multi-agency coordination systems are established. Registration is required on TEMA's application: TEMA Training Course Application. Please forward all applications and copies of successfully completed prerequisites to Heidi Mariscal.
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The confrontations between police and demonstrators at the Stonewall Inn in New York City the weekend of June 27-29, 1969 mark the beginning of the modern glbtq movement for equal rights.
Formed soon after the Stonewall Riots of 1969, the short-lived but influential Gay Liberation Front brought a new militancy to the movement that became known as gay liberation.
The sexual revolution of post-World War II America changed sexual and gender roles profoundly.
"Leather" is a blanket term for a large array of sexual preferences, identities, relationship structures, and social organizations loosely tied together by the thread of what is conventionally understood as sadomasochistic sex.
Although best known for her crusade for women's suffrage, Susan B. Anthony spoke out on a range of feminist issues.
With reports from hundreds of sub-Saharan African locales of male-male sexual relations and from about fifty of female-female sexual relations, it is clear that same-sex sexual relations existed in traditional African societies, though varying in forms and in the degree of public acceptance
Androgyny, a psychological blending of gender traits, has long been embraced by strong women, soft men, members of queer communities, and others who do not easily fit into traditionally defined gender categories.
A cultural crossroads between Asia and Europe, Russia has a long, rich, and often violent heritage of varied influences and stark confrontations in regard to its patterns of same-sex love.
Oscar Wilde.
After Wilde died penniless and scorned on November 30, 1900, he was buried in the Cimetière de Bagneux outside Paris. In 1909, his remains were moved to the more prestigious Père Lachaise Cemetery inside the city.
Wilde's tomb in Père Lachaise was commissioned by his faithful friend Robert Ross and designed by Sir Jacob Epstein. It was completed in 1914. Ross asked Epstein to include a small compartment in the tomb for his own ashes, which were duly transferred in 1950.
Epstein's design features a modernist angel as a relief on the tomb. Originally, the angel was depicted with male genitalia, but they were vandalized. In 2000, artist Leon Johnson installed a silver prosthesis to replace them.
The tomb also includes as an epitaph a verse from Wilde's "The Ballad of Reading Gaol": "And alien tears will fill for him / Pity's long-broken urn, / For his mourners will be outcast men, / And outcasts always mourn."
Wilde's tomb quickly became a site of pilgrimage for Wilde's admirers, especially those who identified with his status as gay martyr. It is the most-visited grave in Paris's most famous cemetery.
The tomb is designated by France as a historic monument, but decades of graffiti and lipstick kisses had degraded the stone and left it close to being irreparably damaged.
Oscar Wilde's tomb before renovation. Photograph by Wikimedia Commons contributor Phaeton1 (cc by-sa 3.0).
The renovation, which was funded by the Irish State, included a thorough cleaning of the tombstone, and the installation of a discreet glass screen to separate visitors from the stone itself to prevent further damage.
The unveiling ceremony was presided over by Dinny McGinley, Irish Minister of State for the Arts, who led tributes to "a very great Irishman" and "one of the world's most celebrated writers."
McGinley also paid homage to Paris: "This magnificent city welcomed and sheltered the Irish through the centuries, but especially our writers and artists. We in Ireland do not forget these things. As many of you know, we have long memories."
At the unveiling, Everett, who has appeared in stage and film productions of Wilde's plays and is currently writing about Wilde's later years, spoke of Wilde's "force" and the "amazing trajectory of his life."
He declared, "Oscar is my patron saint and someone who has been with me all my life. For me, he has the perfect blend of brilliance and silliness, pride and humility . . . From the dress circle to the drains, his life was his greatest work of art and an inspiration to anyone who has ever felt outcast."
Holland said that his grandfather "would be incredibly touched by all the attention. After all he was sent out of England in 1897 a bankrupt, a homosexual, and a convict . . . and the French took him to their hearts."
Here is a link to a brief clip of Everett's remarks at the unveiling: Video: Oscar Wilde's tomb gets a makeover.
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Easter Sunday Celebration will be held at 6:30, 8:30 and 11 a.m. today, March 31 at St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Route 118, Dallas. Easter breakfast will be served from 7:30 to 10:30 a.m. A free will offering will be taken.
An old-time outdoor Easter sunrise service will be held at 6:30 a.m. today, March 31 at Emmuel Church, Church Road, Harveys Lake. A coffee hour and light breakfast will follow.
For more information, call Rev. L.D. Reed at 639-5858.
In the event of inclement weather, the service will be held in the church sanctuary.
Easter morning worship services will be held a 10:45 a.m. today, March 31 at Emmuel Church, Church Road, Harveys Lake.
The annual Spring Rummage Sale of the Lehman-Idetown United Methodist Church Women will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday, April 12 and from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, April 13 at the church, 1011 Mountainview Drive, Lehman.
There will be a snack bar and bake sale on Friday and Saturday will be Bag Day.
Homemade vegetable soup will be sold for $5 per quart. Orders can be given to Sabrina Major. Items in usable condition will be accepted for donation from April 1 to 10.
The deacons of Trinity Presbyterian Church in Dallas have set May 31 and June 1 for their gigantic rummage sale in the fellowship hall of the church, 105 Irem Road, Dallas, across from the Country Club Shopping Center.
The sale will take place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Friday, May 31 and from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, June 1. Saturday will be Bag Day - all you can stuff into a large brown grocery bag for only $2. Items available are clothing in good condition for men, women and children, costume jewelry, household items, knickknacks, collectibles, toys, books, holiday items and more.
Members of the Men's Club of Trinity Presbyterian Church, 105 Irem Road, Dallas will sponsor a chicken and biscuit dinner, including homemade desserts and beverages, from 5 to 7 p.m. on Saturday, April 6 in the fellowship hall at the rear of the church. Takeouts will be available at 4 p.m.
Cost is $8 for adults and $4 for children. Tickets may be purchased in advance by calling the church office at 675-3131 or at the door.
The Lutheran Brotherhood and St. Paul's Lutheran Church of Dallas will hold their first roast beef supper for the spring from 4 to 6:30 p.m. on April 13 at St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Route 118, Dallas.
Dinner will be served family style with takeouts available from 3:30 p.m. Cost is $9 for adults and $4 for children. Reservations are encouraged by calling 675-3859. Tickets will also be available at the door.
St. Paul's Lutheran Church is wheelchair accessible.
A Fisherman's Breakfast will be held from 6 to 11 a.m. on April 13 at Alderson United Methodist Church, Lakeside Drive, Harveys Lake.
The menu include eggs, sausage, all-you-can-eat pancakes, coffee, tea and juice. Cost is $7 for adults and $3 for children and tickets are available at the door.
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Posted 23 August 2012 - 07:07 AM ( #241 )
Y U SO HARD? And why do I keep procrastinating and posting random stuff on TamaTalk instead of doing you? Oh, I know, because U SO HARD! Please be easier and not require a printer.
Posted 23 August 2012 - 07:40 AM ( #242 )
That letter sounds... kinda wrong...
Posted 24 August 2012 - 02:54 AM ( #246 )
Yeah, my letter is weird...
Dear everyone in TamaTalk,
Do you want to know my real name? Not sure if I'm going to tell you though...
Dear Bandai,
Please make an english colored tamagotchi that's available wherever there are tamafans so no one gets left out. (to find out where there are tamafans just conduct a survey)
Posted 24 August 2012 - 01:17 PM ( #247 )
You can practice whatever religion you want. Really, I couldn't give less of a *bleep!*. But please stop getting into arguments about religion on Flyleaf videos. I go on there and pretty much all the comments are either "OH MY GOD THIS SONG IS ABOUT CHRIST YOU MUST WORSHIP HIM BLAH BLAH BLAH" or "OH MY GOD THIS SONG ISN'T ABOUT GOD SO STFU". Atheism is a religion, as well. The definition of religion:
1. a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.
Believing that science is the cause for this all, is a religion by this definition.
Anyways, please stop the religious arguments on everything. It gets a tad annoying after the 100th time.
Dear Dad:
My brother will decide when to man up and tell me to be quiet, okay? You don't have to do it for him. He's almost eighteen now.
Dear Savy:
Get on chat or so help me I will go over to Savy Town and do any means necessary to make you get on TamaCHAT. >:O
Dear Kukai:
You're about to make me just roll around on the floor and fanboy until I die of loss of breath. Stop being so cute please- OH WAIT WHAT AM I SAYING URGH NO YOU MUST STAY CUTE DON'T WORRY ABOUT ME I'LL JUST SIT OVER HERE AND FANBOY UNTIL THE END OF TIME but no i can't if i do i will loose everyone and everything BUT DAT FACE OKAY I CHOOSE KUKAI but no i can't loose my friends I'LL HAVE KUKAI I'LL BE FINE but he's too sexy for me BUT HE DOESN'T HAVE TO CONSENT MUAHAHAHA oh wait i'll get arrested if he doesn't PLASTIC SURGERY TIME C YALL LATER
Posted 24 August 2012 - 08:40 PM ( #248 )
I'm really really sorry the one I sew isn't as nice as everyone else's and that it's messed up and probably won't last a long time THE SEWING MACHINE HATES ME, but I did my best and I hope it helped.
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Posted 24 August 2012 - 10:20 PM ( #249 )
If you can explain why I have been listening to my ABBA CD for the past idefk how long, I would greatly appreciate it.
Posted 24 August 2012 - 10:28 PM ( #250 )
no matter how stoned buttnugget is
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Posted 25 August 2012 - 01:49 AM ( #252 )
So you think anything past gen 1 isn't pokemon? Well, I do agree that SOME of them are horrible but don't go hatin' everything.
Edited by bluegreen, 25 August 2012 - 01:49 AM.
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YOU ARE THE DANCING QUEEN YOUNG AND SWEET ONLY SE- wait, are you seventeen? I don't know. You're not, are you?
Posted 25 August 2012 - 03:38 AM ( #254 )
No, I'm not seventeen. But I will be in a few years.
Posted 25 August 2012 - 08:43 AM ( #255 )
But you see,
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Posted 25 August 2012 - 04:03 PM ( #257 )
You're not a gangster, your real names Clarence
Dear people that keep saying that Saudi Arabia is part of Africa,
Saudi Arabia is located in Asia, look at your map nowww
- Some girl
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Posted 01 September 2012 - 01:52 AM ( #258 )
There is a difference between 'hipster bloggers' and people who just like to blog about pretty things, or things that catch their eye. Learn it.
And while you're at it, look up the definition for hipsters, as contrary to popular belief, they are not teenage girls going around in little denim shorts and half tops, using the expression YOLO.
Posted 01 September 2012 - 11:49 PM ( #260 )
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The landscape changed and soon I was approaching Duluth. One rider I talked to had come up the bottom side of Lake Superior on his way to, where else? Sturgess and said it was cold. As I passed Duluth I found out he was right. But even more so were the winds
Even tho I had said I had said that the cold would be a welcome change, I have to admit. It was nippy. Not uncomfortable. I just had to climb into more gear.
As it was getting late I bagged a room at a cool little inn in Cornucopia. Yep, you heard me, Cornucopia. Sort of like a little Hippy community with boats. The bar even had it line up of aging regulars. Perfect!
Next day I carried on along past the chin and throat of the Wolf. By this time the Scorpion Trail rear was really starting to show its age.
I found one of the few Guzzi dealers in Manitowoc and made an arrangement for a tire swap. They haven't sold or even had a new NTX in stock yet so I was informed they could not do a service because they couldn't get a filter. So, that will wait.
It also meant that this will wait.
The ol disappearing signal lens. Prolly means a whole mirror replacement but who's got one of those? I am opting for the Mph Cycle replacement kit which supplies you with mirrors that don't shake and puts the signals back to where they are supposed to be. I'll be saving the bill for Guzzi becaause this really should be a warrenty issue.
Manitowoc works for me because I get to do a cool ferry ride across the lake at that point.
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Q&A with 2014 Lone Mountain Fellow Frank Wolak.
For every $100 billion that the United States centrally directs to clean energy, GDP may decrease by over 0.4%, says Dino Falaschetti.
Andrew Morriss 01/14/2013
For more than two decades, special interests have persuaded Congress to mandate Americans buy ethanol whether they want to or not. As a result, 40 percent of the U.S. corn crop is now used for ethanol rather than food.