It's not quite what was intended, but the first thing most people notice about it is the noise: a high-pitched, deafening whine more suited to a particularly conscientious fire alarm than to a large loading-bay door. But a loading-bay door it is, and a quite special one: it has just earned its designer, Chris Knight, a nomination for the Jerwood applied arts prize for metal, worth £30,000. When I first find it, round the back of Basingstoke's huge new mall, Festival Place, this high-achieving door is open, and all I can see is a large square hole in a wall made of that depressing mustard-yellow brick that designers of new shopping centres seem unaccountably to favour. But then there's that whine, and the door begins to slide, slowly, across the opening. The contrast with the brick could not be greater: it's made of gleaming stainless steel, divided into rectangles, which in turn are broken up by laser-cut triangles folded outwards; a perforated effect, notes Knight, not unlike a spiky egg carton. Or a medieval portcullis, which was his initial idea.

"It's aggressive. You're both repelled and intrigued. The public is not allowed through - but they're tempted to touch. From a distance it looks like it has quite a subtle texture, but when you get close it's quite dangerous." Much public art is site-specific - the artist goes to the site, spends a lot of time there, talks to locals about how they see their own surroundings - and Knight has done that with other pieces of work, but this is not a piece that comments on the location, he says - "It comments on function." And that function is to keep people out. Certainly a couple of giggling girls are so alarmed by the way it announces itself on opening that they break into a run. But all that appears is a modest lorry, Tommy Tucker Light Haulage.

Edmund Hubbard, a public art consultant who worked on Festival Place (or, as he calls it, "the scheme"), says that he saw that the loading bay was central in the architectural plans - it's next to the bus station, the taxi rank, just down the way from a main entrance - and rather ugly, so it was simply a case of "taking the least promising bit of the scheme and making it the most interesting." And how have people reacted? "We've had a great reception. It's effectively a kinetic sculpture, so people stand and watch it. Some people don't notice it, of course, but those that notice, notice."

I put this to the test, nobbling various passers-by. "You'd have to be blind, deaf or dumb not to notice it one way or another," says Elaine Miller, a South African who works as a waitress just round the corner and paints in her spare time. Interesting enough to be nominated for a £30,000 prize? A silence while she thinks this over. Then a slow smile. "That's cool. That's really cool." In England, she says, people tend to register their disapproval by defacing things, but "nobody's tried to do anything to it. So they must like it one way or another." Adam Green, who works in the Festival Centre and often walks past, hadn't really noticed it at all, and is simply puzzled. "I'm a bit surprised. I suppose it doesn't look too bad, as doors go."

It's not a reaction that would surprise Knight. A sculpture called Desire that he made for Blackpool - a comment, according to him, on the "English dirty weekend" - consists of two rusting slabs of steel with holes cut through them, festooned with spikes that make it look like a medieval torture implement. (Its shadow, however, is heart-shaped.) It attracted pages and pages of press commentary, only three lines of which were complimentary. And they, he says, were from "an 11-year-old schoolgirl who liked art".

He points out that Desire is made of corten steel, the same material that Antony Gormley used to make the Angel of the North, and that regardless of all the predictable carping, one towering figure has done more for public art than years of good intentions. He too has work in Gateshead - large-leaf-shaped structures applied to the outside of a large car park, again partly of corten steel - and, he says, "they get it up there, that the publicity and excitement that art produces are priceless." Not to mention its effect on property values. Everyone on Gates-head council, he says, "needs a knighthood".

Knight, who is now 40, grew up in Bishop's Stortford, the son of a builder. From the age of 14 he spent all his time outside school hours helping his father to sink holes in the ground and fill them with concrete, but in school hours he discovered metalwork, and thus an obsession. A foundation course, and metalwork at Sheffield Poly (now Sheffield Hallam University, where he is a part-time senior lecturer), followed. His parents are proud of him, he says, impressed that he has a piece in the V&A's collection, though sometimes he's aware, from the indulgent tone of an "oh, that's interesting", that they don't necessarily like some of it much.

For a while he was a jeweller, working in gold (Hubbard is obviously rather tickled by this, pleased that asking a jeweller to design a loading bay is as unusual a move as having a designer loading bay in the first place), but he got bored simply doing decorative work, and, via a developing interest in conceptual jewellery, decided that what he really wanted to do was combine that interest with functionality. He re-specialised in silver at the Royal College of Art, where he met his wife, conceptual jeweller Maria Hanson, and began producing pieces that "question domestic, real-life rituals" such as tea sets and communion sets, chalices, patens, candelabras that look like a cross between spaceships and plants and which are, in some ways, the works of which he is most proud. His influences, he says, are Michael Rowe, Alessi and Daniel Liebeskind.

The Crafts Council, which organises the Jerwood prize, is setting up an exhibition of the work of the eight finalists in its central London headquarters. There are tables scattered with tools all over the place, Post-It notes, wiring. Both strands of Knight's work are on show. Knight enjoys upsetting people's assumptions about how things should be, producing work that exploits tensions between how things look and what they're actually like to use. So his communion set - this is a speculative piece; usually he designs for a priest in New York - takes the form of a circle of burnished silver cups, set around a flat bowl, the whole on a tray that rocks, in turn, on a rounded base which is meant to invoke Virgin Mary's breast. "The church gets very defensive about outsiders questioning how they do things," he says. "But I'm not questioning the religion; I'm just questioning how humans interact with that religion." His tea sets also rock; he makes tequila glasses festooned with scary spikes - but in fact, "When you hold them, they're more massaging than anything. I like exploring the dichotomy between visual language and functional nature."

None of it comes cheap. A Knight tea set will set you back £6,000; laser-cutting the Basingstoke loading bay required multi-million-pound machinery and had to be outsourced to a company of engineers. Knight bemoans the fact that even though Britain "leads the world" in metalwork - only three of the eight nominees for the prize are British, but all trained in Britain - this isn't matched by public awareness, so there isn't a competitive market. Perhaps commissions such as his Basingstoke door will help. "It's subtle and elegant, not overpowering," says Elaine Miller, standing beside the loading bay, "almost as if it's not there. I think that's perfect art."

Summary: When it's a Jerwood prize-nominated work of art, of course. Aida Edemariam talks to Chris Knight, the metalworker who turned a Basingstoke mall into a tourist attraction.


More than 120 world leaders gathered at the United Nations Tuesday to call for an international agreement to cap greenhouse gas emissions.

The leaders used the one-day summit to announce plans by governments, investors and financial institutions to mobilize more than $200 billion to finance clean energy and support resilience among vulnerable nations.

Opening the session alongside Vice President Al Gore and a bearded Leonardo DiCaprio, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned that time was running out for the world to agree on a legally-binding deal that would force nations to set emissions targets by 2020 in a bid to keep temperatures at 2 degrees Celsius.

The summit is seen as the beginning year-long negotiations that should culminate with a deal in Paris next year. But negotiations for the past seven years have been fraught with clashes between rich and poor nations, symbolized in part Tuesday by the absence of leaders from China and India.

“We need a clear vision, anchored in domestic and multinational actions, for keeping global temperature rise below 2 Degrees Celsius,” Ban told delegates. “The world needs to see what opportunities there are to cut greenhouse gas emissions and provide sustainable energy sources. By seeing what is possible, others can find inspiration and follow suit.”

Ban said he was especially heartened by the climate march that drew upwards of 300,000 on Sunday in New York and the promises of financial help. The $200 billion would be available at the end of 2015. It includes pledges by donor — several billion of dollars expected Tuesday — and developing countries to capitalize on the Green Climate Fund, which was set up 2010 to help facilitate climate funding from developed to developing nations.

“I am very impressed by the financing mobilized at the Summit by both the public and private sector. This will serve as a catalyst in finalizing a universal and meaningful agreement at Paris on climate change in 2015.” “The Summit has created a platform for new coalitions and has brought leaders from both public and private sectors across the globe to not only recognize climate risks, but to agree to work together.”

The financing reflects the growing clout of the private sector in the negotiations. Long sidelined over their perceived indifference the talks, the U.N. has sought them out and it appears to be paying off. Along with the financing, more than 100 CEOs are expected to get time later in the day with Ban to illustrate what they are doing on climate and some 30 are expected to announce plans to internalize the price of carbon in their operations and advocate for the setting a price on carbon emissions.

Of the $200 billion, about half comes from institutional investors who have committed to expediently decarbonize and to measure and disclose the carbon footprint of at least US$500 billion in assets under management. Another $30 billion comes from commercial banks providing climate finance by the end of 2025 while the insurance industry has agreed to double its green investments to $82 billion by the end of 2015.

Meanwhile, a group calling itself free Divest-Invest movement said it has now has over 800 global investors representing $50 billion in total assets to agreement to divest from their holdings in fossil fuels over the next five years. Those making the commitment include foundations, individuals, faith groups, health care organizations, cities and universities around the world.

“John D. Rockefeller, the founder of Standard Oil, moved America out of whale oil and into petroleum,” said Stephen Heintz, president of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

“We are quite convinced that if he were alive today, as an astute businessman looking out to the future, he would be moving out of fossil fuels and investing in clean, renewable energy.”

Summary: U.N. Secretary General warns that time is running out for the world to agree on a legally-binding deal on emissions targets.


Naked truth ... Lucian Freud's Small Naked Portrait (1974). Photograph: Lucian Freud/The Ashmolean Museum

The Naked Portrait Compton Verney, Warwickshire, until 9 Dec

Walter Sickert: The Camden Town Nudes Courtauld Gallery, London WC2, until 20 Jan

The naked truth, the naked ape - we never talk of them as nude, just as we don't go nude into the conference chamber. That is because naked means stripped bare, exposed, helplessly or forcibly revealed, whereas nude implies something more carefree or defiant. A baby is naked because it is innocent of volition; a woman is nude when she slips off her clothes. Nude is assertive, nude is purposeful, nude has nothing to hide.

And as in life, so in art. Take two examples from The Naked Portrait, an enthralling show. Bert Stern's famous photographs of Marilyn Monroe, taken just before she died, show her unclothed behind a diaphanous veil. But she is not an anonymous model, posing naked as required, she is Marilyn appearing in the nude - or rather Marilyn clothed, of course, in her own luminous beauty.

The girl in Lucian Freud's Small Naked Portrait, by contrast, is precisely naked: a poor, bare forked animal with bruises and freckles and reddened hands laid on a bed with nowhere to hide. She may even be trying to shield herself with one arm from the artist's all-seeing eyes. And this nakedness is her central condition to Freud. He looks at, and he paints, her face with the same degree of interest as the sole of her foot. His eye travels over her living figure, top to toe, as if it were all of equal importance, as if she were a landscape, or, less generously, a corpse.

We know the difference between naked and nude but what happens when they apply to portraits? Can Freud's painting even be described as a portrait at all? A great aspect of this exhibition of a hundred or so images is that it puts both nudity and portraiture to the test. Is there such a thing as a nude portrait? Is there an artist who can paint a person naked (as opposed to nude) at their own request?

Ivan Massow, just to take a sensational case, commissioned Jonathan Yeo to paint him undressed before and after losing three stones in weight. Sure enough, Massow goes from slightly pudgy to being a fine figure of a man, although Yeo, super-smooth portraitist to the stars, paints him just as politely in both cases. But with one subtle shift - having Massow turn sideways and glance sharply back at us in the second painting - he throws the emphasis from haplessly naked to proudly nude.

Why would anyone want to be depicted without their clothes? Artists did it all the time in the 20th century, and for very different reasons: Egon Schiele to show himself as an emaciated martyr, Edvard Munch as a naked soul in hell, Robert Mapplethorpe as a saucy devil. A long line of women, well represented here, have done it to raise consciousness: Jo Spence and Hannah Wilkie as witnesses to cancer, Alice Neel flaunting old age, Jemima Stehli giving you an eyeful in return as she performs a worrying striptease.

One of the most shattering paintings, from 1920, shows the Scottish artist Cecile Walton naked after the birth of her second child. It is extremely hard to read the tone of it - cold exhaustion and a kind of daze in the mother's face, the body just a vessel the nurse is briskly washing. And how new the picture, too, must have seemed in its day: revolutionary for 1920.

For the naked portrait is mainly a 20th-century phenomenon. There are plenty of naked people in the art of the past, and we may even know their names. But nobody thinks of Botticelli's Venus as a portrait of Simonetta Vespucci or Manet's Olympia as a portrait of Victorine Meurent. Voltaire was sculpted bare (though not by choice); Charles James Fox is exposed almost to the waist in his portly bust. And there are others who wished to appear as embodiments of the naked truth, particularly during the Enlightenment.

But Bacon's lovers naked and harrowed, Stanley Spencer popping up like a little glove puppet beside his vast bare wife, Bonnard shirtless and decrepit in his bathroom mirror - this is truly modern art. And what it shows is just how uncommon the naked - and not the nude - portrait is. Spencer's meagre self, like a featherless bird, is a portrait; a shot of Linford Christie, his body a gleaming prototype, is no such thing.

And looking at the so-called Camden Town Nudes of Walter Sickert, one senses that the idea of the nude itself was in question at the turn of that century. In these dark and knotted paintings the figures of women lie undressed on beds, awake or sleeping but always with their faces averted and the viewer positioned as though watching or inspecting. You see them and yet you don't know them.

They are not nudes - or portraits - because Sickert doesn't allow you to view them that way. The artist is still in charge, whereas in The Naked Portrait, you see a certain reversal. The actor Erwin Osen turns himself into a skeletal marionette (very aptly) for Schiele. Madonna presents herself (very foolishly) as Olympia to Peter Howson.

Nudity becomes a performance, sometimes erotic; nakedness rarely does. And it is a strange fact of this show that although it provokes many of the responses we might have in life - curiosity, empathy, embarrassment, admiration - attraction is rarely among them. For naked people in portraits have to make themselves known by unusual and arresting means. By resisting the fact of nakedness, like plucky old Alice Neel, by gloating over it like Gilbert and George, by turning themselves back into babies like John Lennon huddling up to Yoko Ono. Identity emerges without clothes, and sometimes even without faces. Whatever we are as human beings, we are infinitely more than our bodies.

Summary: Art: From glamour to squalor, human flesh continues to fascinate artists, as two new exhibitions illustrate


The Reddit user was quickly smacked down by the CEO after his post went up. (Reddit)

A former Reddit employee has been shamed by the company's CEO about why he was fired while hosting a question-and-answer session on the website.

The disgruntled ex-worker, who now reportedly works for Spotify and posted under the name 'dehrmann', started an ask-me-anything (AMA) thread on the website yesterday.

Under the title 'I am a former reddit employee. AMA', he claimed he was let go for "no reason".

"I vaguely know how [Californian] employment law works and that you limit your liability by not stating a reason. It’s also really hard to work through in your mind," he said.

"The best theory I have is that, two weeks earlier, I raised concerns about donating 10 percent of ad revenue to charity. Some management likes getting feedback, some doesn’t (sic)."

Reddit CEO, Yishan Wong, weighed into the debate, saying he wanted to clear up any 'fear, uncertainty and disinformation' on the thread, and proceeded to dismantle the user's claims in point form.

Reddit CEO Yishan Wong. (Twitter)

"You were fired for the following reasons:

1. Incompetence and not getting much work done.

2. Inappropriate or irrelevant comments/questions when interviewing candidates

3. Making incorrect comments in public about reddit’s systems that you had very little knowledge of, even after having these errors pointed out by your peers and manager.

4. Not taking feedback from your manager or other engineers about any of these when given to you, continuing to do #2 until we removed you from interviewing, and never improving at #1.

"Criticising any decision about this program … had nothing to do with it. Feedback and criticism, even troublemaking, are things that we actively tolerate (encourage, even) — but above all you need to get your work done, and you did not even come close to doing that," Mr Wong said.

One user then commented: "oh s—t".

"I guess the AMA is over," said another.

The site is well-known for its AMA sessions, which have previously featured heavyweights from the entertainment and political world, including US President Barack Obama.

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FORTUNE — If you’re not aware already, we’re living in a new retail world, where there isn’t so much one large consumer base, but two divided by economic status. The well-off are buying bigtime, the worse-off are just trying to survive.

The bifurcation trend is present in apparel and home appliances, and it’s holding true in the land of lipstick, mascara, and moisturizer too. When it comes to beauty product sales, the rich are puckering up, while the poor are pulling away.

Beauty and personal care sales overall in the United States have been sluggish of late. The market grew 1.8% last year, a slowdown from the 3.2% and 4.3% growth it recorded in 2012 and 2011, respectively, according to Euromonitor.

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But a look at the sales of premium beauty and personal care products (priced $21 and up) tells a slightly different story. In that sector, sales grew 3.3% last year, and there was an increase in sales of 16.9% in the period between 2008 and 2013. On the flip side, sales of mass beauty products (priced $20 and under) grew just 1.3% in 2013 and 8.3% in the past five years.

The higher sales of luxury beauty products that are typically sold at a department store or stand-alone beauty stores such as Sephora, MAC, or Shiseido reflect the economic recovery that’s confined to the upper echelon of consumers. As of September 2013, 95% of the income gains since 2009 have gone to the top 1%. As a result, spending by the top 5% of earners has risen 17%; it’s risen just 1% among the bottom 95% of earners.

“With the good stock market performance and the recovery in housing prices, affluent customers feel comfortable spending on premium products” says Virginia Lee, a senior research analyst at Euromonitor. With food stamp cuts and uncertainty over health care, lower income customers don’t have that same confidence, she says, and cheaper beauty products for sale at drugstores have struggled as a result.

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The rich vs. poor divide is obvious when comparing sales of premium and mass brands that sell similar beauty products. Sally Hansen, which sells nail polish that costs between $4 and $6, saw sales decrease by 7.3% in 2013. Sales at Essie, meanwhile, where a bottle of nail polish will run you $8 to $8.50, grew 13.6%. Cover Girl, with its inexpensive line of makeup you can find in any Walgreens WAG or CVS CVS , saw 1.9% growth in 2013. Compare that to MAC’s more expensive makeup, whose sales grew 7.2%. Neutrogena, whose 4 oz. bottle of facial moisturizer costs $12.99, saw sales increase 1.3% last year. Clinique, which sells a $27 4.2 oz bottle of moisturizing lotion, saw a 6% bump.

The sales figures don’t only reflect consumer sentiment, of course, but also point to retailers’ strategies. One influence that’s totally separate from the economic inequality debate is the proliferation of specialty beauty stores Sephora and Ulta, which bring prestige brands out from behind the department store counter and into the hands of consumers, who now feel more comfortable purchasing a pricey product since they can test it first. Subscription box company Birchbox gives customers a similar experience at home.

And then there’s the case of retailers buying into the theory that poorer people don’t want discretionary items. In the third quarter of 2013, mass retailers did what’s called a “de-stocking,” according to Javier Escalante, an executive director at Consumer Edge Research who covers the household and personal care sectors. The stores removed beauty items from aisle endcap displays — retail real estate known to prompt impulse buys — and replaced them with more practical items, which helped depress mass beauty sales. “Retailers made the decision that people aren’t into mascara, they’re into sponges,” Escalante says. “In a way, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.”

Summary: Upscale beauty products are beating drugstore brands.


Television has been awash with the creepy-crawlies for a while, including the otherworldly baddies of the long-running “Supernatural,” the bloodsuckers of “The Vampire Diaries” and “The Originals,” and the rotting, not-quite zombies of “The Walking Dead,” among others. It also has its share of comic book-spawned heroes — “Arrow,” “The Flash” — as well as the comic book adjacent characters of “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” and “Gotham.”

NBC’s new drama “Constantine,” premiering Friday at 10 p.m. after the demonically simpatico “Grimm,” combines the two with the latest iteration of Vertigo/DC Comics creation John Constantine, of the “Hellblazer” series.

Among the factors distinguishing this version of the “exorcist, demon hunter, and Master of the Dark Arts” from the one played by Keanu Reeves in the 2005 film of the same name are the fact that he doesn’t smoke as much — network TV — and he’s Welsh, a nod to star Matt Ryan.

There have been several versions of his back story, but in “Constantine” we are told — but rarely shown, a recurring problem — that he had a tragic childhood, is handy when it comes to the matters of the occult, and has been damned to hell. (There is also a side story about a young girl he failed to save from similar damnation.)

There have also been a couple of versions of the TV series’ first episode, with tweaks to the story and changes to its original direction.

Essentially, each week Constantine will, reluctantly and with a steady supply of world-weary witticisms, face down supernatural threats in order to save his soul. His helpers in this journey include the snarky angel Manny (Harold Perrineau, “Lost”) who possesses the ability to inhabit other people’s bodies, and right-hand man Chas (Charles Halford, “True Detective”), who has yet-to-be-explained special powers of his own. Following a revamping of the pilot, Angelica Celaya (“Dallas”) will join the gang going forward as psychic Zed Martin.

The plot in the first episode was originally meant to set up Lucy Griffiths as Constantine’s partner. But executive producers David S. Goyer (“Batman Begins,” “The Dark Knight Rises”) and Daniel Cerone (“The Mentalist,” “Dexter”), in recalibrating the show, are eliminating her character. So the story works out simply as a prelude to how the procedural will likely operate week to week: Constantine goes to a city, finds someone plagued by demons, vanquishes demons, says funny stuff, feels tortured.

That said, the series looks and feels appropriately ghoulish with a couple of good gotcha moments and excellently rendered scary creatures prowling the shadows, in between clunky expository passages.

Perrineau, rocking a righteous set of wings and funky contact lenses, seems to be having a good time needling Constantine. Hopefully, his former “Lost” costar Jeremy Davies will survive the show’s revamping to recur as metaphysics professor Ritchie Simpson, since his trademark portrayal of a twitchy genius gave the first episode a different boost of energy.

With his bedhead, stubble, constant low-grade aura of comic annoyance, and immediate sense of self-possession, Ryan makes a solid Constantine. And with the explanation-heavy first episode behind him, perhaps he can do less yelling and whining about his tortured past and get on with kicking demon butt.

Summary: NBC’s new supernatural drama “Constantine” is based on the popular DC comic “Hellblazer.” It premieres Friday at 10 p.m.


FORTUNE — Gordon Moore has been present at the creation of three legendary companies of Silicon Valley. You could call him one of the founding fathers of the place. Yet he calls himself the ultimate “accidental entrepreneur.”

At 27, not long out of Caltech, he was recruited in 1957 by William Shockley, who was creating Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory. Shockley — he won the Nobel Prize for co-inventing the transistor but was a pariah by the end of his life because of his strident views on eugenics — had put together a dream team of young technical talent that included 28-year-old Bob Noyce. But Shockley’s stars couldn’t stand their boss, and before the year was out, Moore, Noyce, and six others — the “Traitorous Eight,” Shockley supposedly branded them — left. They launched Fairchild Semiconductor, which itself became a company to leave, in turn begetting dozens of companies. A decade after founding Fairchild, frustrated again by corporate inertia, Moore and Noyce themselves bolted Fairchild. Their next startup, in 1968: Intel, a leader of the microprocessor industry.

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Moore, now 83, retired in 1998 to devote his energies to the multibillion-dollar Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, which focuses on conservation, science, patient care, and life in the Bay Area. In his 30 years at Intel INTC , he served as CEO for more than a decade. Along the way he came up with what’s widely known as Moore’s law, which states that the number of transistors the industry can place on a computer chip will double every 18 to 24 months.

Born near Silicon Valley in a small village by the Pacific, Moore now spends most of his time on Hawaii. He and his wife of 62 years, Betty, do keep a stately home in Silicon Valley. There, in his study — surrounded by books, fishing photos, awards, and a giant floor-mounted globe — Moore recently spoke to Fortune’s David A. Kaplan. Moore reflected on a life well-lived in science, entrepreneurship, serendipity, fishing for deep-sea marlin, and philanthropy, and on joining Bill Gates and Warren Buffett’s The Giving Pledge (in which the super-wealthy agree to give away half their wealth).

He talked about Noyce, Shockley, Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs — and that while he surely was unassuming, he was as fiercely competitive as any other early Valley rebel. Edited excerpts:

Q: As you look back on more than 60 years in the Valley, what surprises you?

A: Oh, no — we planned it all from the beginning! Well, I was initially surprised that people wanted the transistors we built back in the Fairchild days. And the development of the technology is so far beyond anything we could have imagined.

Was that something you stopped worrying about?

I had to worry a bit about it. I remember once giving a talk describing all the large increases in capacity we were putting in place and scaring the analysts, who wondered who was going to use all that stuff.

I’m not close enough to it. I see the same things outsiders see: Intel putting in tremendous capacity, and the market is growing in portable devices, where Intel hasn’t had a very strong position. I read that there are more of those portable devices than people in the world. That’s unbelievable.

When you observe the Valley today, do you still recognize its culture, its values, its ethos?

I think so. It continues to evolve, but basically it’s still a place to do startups. A few become very successful.

They have generally different skill sets now. Software applications are where all the big deals seem to be. I don’t understand why things like Facebook FB and other social media deals get the attention they do — not being on Facebook myself, I guess.

When you are on the Internet, what are you looking at?

Usually my e-mail … I’m also great at solitaire. The computer is really a useful gadget for consuming time. I go to the New York Times fairly regularly. I read what they give me free.

I tried to be, but I couldn’t seem to get through their system, so I said, “To hell with it.”

You grew up in Silicon Valley long before it was even called that, right?

Yes, in Pescadero on the coast, and then we moved to Redwood City.

After Berkeley undergraduate and a Ph.D. from Caltech, you went east after World War II?

There were no decent jobs in California. The aerospace industry, principally Hughes, and the oil refineries were about the only industries that were hiring technical people.

If it weren’t for Shockley, would you have wound up back here?

I was trying to get back. I was out for interviews at several places, like Shell Development and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (to take spectra of exploding nuclear bombs). In fact, that’s where Shockley got my name. I didn’t want to do what they wanted me to do, so he got my name as somebody that had rejected their offer and gave me a call one night.

What was Shockley like on the phone?

He says, “This is Shockley,” like everybody would know who Shockley was.

You didn’t get a sense that Shockley would be impossible to work with?

No. I didn’t do a background check on Shockley — he may have done one on me … After a while, his less attractive traits came out. He sent all of us to spend a day with a psychologist.

Shockley let Noyce and me see each other’s report. Both of us were good technically, high IQs, but “no managerial capability.” Right, as it turned out. When we got Andy Grove [at Fairchild and then at Intel], he picked up the detailed management of things.

How planned was your group exit from Shockley?

It was Gene Kleiner [who would go on to be a co-founder of Kleiner Perkins, the celebrated venture capital firm] who wrote a letter to his father’s investment house saying, “A lot of us like working together. Do you think there’s a company that would hire the whole group?” The investment house was Hayden Stone. And they sent two people out, one of whom was Arthur Rock. And they decided that rather than find a company that wanted to hire us, we ought to set up our own company and they’d find us financing — in those days, there was no venture capital.

And that led to the industrialist Sherman Fairchild [at the time IBM’s IBM largest individual shareholder]?

We took the Wall Street Journal, went down the list of all the companies in the stock exchange, and identified about 30 companies that might have an interest. None were interested. Then Rock ran into Sherman Fairchild, who was willing to take a flier. He wanted some nondefense business [for Fairchild Camera & Instrument].

So, had it not been for Shockley being the place nobody wanted to be at, and had it not been for Hayden Stone and Fairchild, you and the rest would never have birthed the culture of countless spinoffs that you did?

If it hadn’t been for a couple of particular events, I would have been off working for some other company or become a professor somewhere.

You weren’t chomping at the bit to start your own company, like so many entrepreneurs today are?

No, no. I define myself as the accidental entrepreneur.

Without Fairchild and its spinoffs, would Silicon Valley have still happened?

Insofar as you’re looking at the semiconductor industry, it’s much more likely to have grown in a place like Dallas, around TI [Texas Instruments TXN ].

Why didn’t things work out for you at Fairchild?

Noyce was the issue. I’ll put it that way. Fairchild fired two CEOs within six months. Noyce was the logical internal candidate, but they passed him over. I thought if they’re looking for somebody on the outside, things were going to change, so my job will change too. I’d rather do it before than after. So Bob and I decided to set up Intel.

You were 39 when you started Intel. You had relatively young children. Was it hard to leave?

I was pretty well off at that point. And Bob and I put in the initial money into Intel — a quarter of a million each. Arthur Rock put in $10,000 as well.

I thought Rock got a lot more early on.

That was all we’d let him in at that price!

How important was Caltech for you? I assume a lot, since you gave the school $600 million [the largest gift ever to an institution of higher education].

Very important. I was only there as a grad student. If I’d gone as an undergrad, I probably would’ve flunked out. I think Caltech fills a unique role, and it’s not a cheap one. Their small size allows them to do interdisciplinary work a lot more effectively than anyplace else I know. The bigger universities get cast into silos.

Schools like Stanford and MIT?

Yes. At Caltech the biologists and the physicists have lunch together, which doesn’t happen elsewhere.

Didn’t you know the Apple lads early on, when Intel was young?

I helped Steve Wozniak. His father called me wanting to know if he could get some memory parts for his son, who had a project. His father worked at Lockheed LMT . So I dug up some of our very first 1103s, our first dynamic RAMs, which Steve ended up with.

The first time I met him was when he built a computer and brought it over to Intel to show it to us. We said, “That’s interesting.” But he had somebody else’s processor in the damn thing.

To the extent it didn’t have your processor in it, it wasn’t something that sounded commercially interesting?

It wasn’t clear what he was doing other than showing off his handiwork. You know, he wasn’t proposing any kind of an agreement with Intel.

How would he get a meeting?

We were pretty small then. Mike Markkula was one of our marketing guys who later became chairman of Apple AAPL . He put the first $100,000 into it.

So Intel is the father of Apple?

An uncle … I saw Jobs occasionally, but Noyce and Grove were both much closer to him than I was.

Noyce seemed to be a mentor to a lot of people.

He was the kind of person who you liked the moment you met him. He just had that charisma. I don’t have that. I’m much colder.

Can you describe in broad strokes the period when Intel became successful and the Valley came to be known as the Valley?

I have a very Intel-centric view of what was going on then. We were just getting started. Our first D-RAM hit the market in 1970, and the first microprocessor in 1971. We were a very small company, operating out of one small building in Mountain View. And then we got into the terrible recession of ’73 and ’74. Our business fell off a cliff. We didn’t yet have any enthusiasm for the personal computer.

So Intel’s embrace of microprocessors for PCs revolutionized the company?

You know about the oft-paraphrased conversation between Andy and me, when he asked the question, “What would you do if you came in from the outside?” And I think my answer was, “Get out of the D-RAM business.” It didn’t look like a good business for us — and we had the microprocessor thing going pretty well … It turns out to be more valuable to us than we would have imagined.

Venture capital and the market

You did well by Hayden Stone and Arthur Rock. But as venture capital proliferated and Sand Hill Road blossomed, did you have any reaction?

I had the feeling there was way too much money chasing deals. It really got way overblown for a while. Maybe it still is.

Your fellow “traitor,” Gene Kleiner, co-founded Kleiner Perkins. Were you let in as an investor to the early KP funds?

Yes. I think the only fund I missed was the one that invested in Google GOOG . I didn’t get my invitation or something, or was busy doing something else. A little ironic to miss out on that.

How did you feel about the bubble?

Intel was the most valuable company for a very short time.

When things were really frothy.

Those were the good ol’ days … [Laughs.] We were way overpriced.

What did you do with your stock then?

I didn’t rush out and sell. Financially, I should have. But it’s hard. I don’t think I’ve ever sold any Intel. I’ve given it away, but I’ve never sold any.

Moore’s Law, ambition, and legacy

You came up with Moore’s law at 35 for an article in a trade journal. How off the cuff was it?

I’ve discovered I was talking about it months before. It was amazingly predictive, not only on the rate of progress, but on the kind of products that were coming down the road. I mentioned home computers and phased-array radar. But I missed GPS.

Did you consider the article a big deal at the time?

It was one of those throwaway trade magazines.

And yet your obituary will mention Moore’s law in the first paragraph.

That’s right, and they’ll probably forget I was involved with Intel.

When will Moore’s law become obsolete?

No exponential goes on forever, and we’re approaching atomic dimensions. I’ve always said it will last two or three more generations [of chips], but the technologists have surprised me, so I guess they’ve still got some tricks up their sleeves.

You come across as more low-key, less ambitious than, say, Bill Gates or the Google guys. You wanted less to build an empire and more just to solve scientific problems and make products. Is that fair?

The low-key part is. But I’m probably more ambitious than I show. I’m still the longest-tenured CEO Intel has had — 12 years. I was longer than Noyce, longer than Grove, and longer than [Craig] Barrett. When Andy [Grove] got to the point where he looked like he could do the job better than me, I moved aside.

Marlin and trout and golf

You’ve got some wonderful photographs here in your study of you in a cowboy hat with some really big fish.

Here’s one of the biggest I ever killed [pointing]: a black marlin, 854 pounds, caught off Australia. I got the front couple of hundred pounds cut off. It’s out in the garage, actually.

Lots of business folks use golf as a metaphor for strategy, focus, competition. Does that work for fishing?

Why not? It’s better than golf for me. It was relaxing. I could forget about everything else. To me, golf would be an analogy for disaster.

Didn’t you once bring a rod and reel rather than a nine-iron to the most famous golf course in Ireland?

We went fishing in the pond on the course and caught a whole bunch of nice big trout. You’d hear a splash and you wouldn’t know if it was a fish or a golf ball.

I’m surprised you don’t do more fishing.

I damn near died two years ago. I spent three months in intensive care at Stanford, and it took a heck of a lot out of me. I used to go to some remote Pacific island for a week every year before I ran out of islands to visit. Now, I just don’t get around that easily.

Philanthropy, Bill Gates, and the road not taken

Why did you sign up for the Buffett/Gates Giving Pledge?

For me, it doesn’t actually change anything — I already gave away half.

How is your personal philanthropy different from the foundation’s?

The things I do personally are hard for the foundation to do. Education gets a lot of it, some science stuff. I pick up a bunch of screwy things.

Things like cataract surgery in Nepal — how does that strike you? I had cataract surgery a while back.

Mountain View. The person who did the surgery here was involved in the Himalayan Cataract Project. They’ve come up with low-cost ways of doing cataract surgery. They’re teaching local people. They give sight back to people who’ve been blind for 10 years. They can do several an hour. And from Nepal, they’re moving it into Africa. It’s just a humanitarian deal — I give a few hundred thousand dollars a year.

Is there much contact between your foundation and those of Gates, Packard, or Hewlett?

We work very closely with both Hewlett and Packard, and also have programs together with Gates. There are half-a-dozen foundations we have shared interests with.

Gates is known for wanting to measure results where it invests. It doesn’t want to be passive.

I feel that way, too, but it’s the hardest damn thing for a foundation to do. Most of the people who work in foundations don’t think that way. And Bill is a lot more hands-on with his foundation than I am with this one. You know, he’s quite a bit younger than I am, and also, I think, intrinsically has a greater propensity to be hands-on.

If you had a do over, would you start the foundation before you were 70?

I would have started it a little earlier because I transferred the Intel stock as the market was collapsing. If I’d set it up a year earlier, the foundation would be three times as big.

Isn’t it better now for the headline not to say THE RICHEST MAN IN CALIFORNIA?

Let Larry Ellison take the publicity.

You joke about missing the peak of the stock price, but I’ve heard you joke before. It sounds as if you’re smiling, but not completely.

Well, you know, that’s history. You win a few, you lose a few. On balance, I’ve come out okay.

This story is from the October 8, 2012 issue of Fortune.

Summary: The Silicon Valley legend talks about Intel, life before venture capital, and, of course, Moore's law.


Dublin-born artist Duncan Campbell is the favourite to win the 30th Turner prize, which is announced tonight.

Campbell’s work includes a 54-minute film featuring segments of a 1953 French film essay by Chris Marker and Alain Resnais on colonialism and African art, plus a dance routine choreographed by Michael Clark that interprets economic equations from Karl Marx’s Das Kapital.

Four artists – Campbell, Ciara Phillips, James Richards and Tris Vonna-Michell have been nominated for the prize, which is one of the most prestigious and controversial competitions in the art world. It returns to London for its 30th anniversary after last year’s excursion to Northern Ireland for Derry’s term as city of culture.

Campbell is currently favourite to win, according to the UK’s biggest bookmakers Ladbrokes and William Hill, which are both offering odds of 7/4. However, the prize is rarely bestowed upon its favourites, as seen when David Shrigley lost out to surprise winner Laure Prouvost last year.

Three of the four artists are showing film this year, which curator Lizzie Carey-Thomas says is a response to a “lack of fixed meaning” in the world around the artists and their work. The predominant use of film is a response to “how we navigate the world increasingly through images”, she said. “The internet changed the way that we interact with each other. It’s only natural that the artists respond to that.” In total, the film pieces add up to almost two hours of screen time.

Tris Vonna-Michell is this year’s bookies rank outsider. His work Finding Chopin: Dans l’Essex (2014) is inspired by a French sound poet who spent part of his life in Essex, close to where the 31-year-old artist grew up. His other work, Postscript II (Berlin) 2014, is a slide installation based on a story about the his mother’s childhood in post-war Germany.

Cardiff-born James Richards’ film Rosebud 2013 includes partially censored, erotic images from a book found in a Tokyo library, which prompted the Tate Britain gallery to warn visitors about the adult nature of the content.

Ciara Phillips is the only nominee not to use film in the exhibition. The Canadian-Irish artist is the first printer to make the shortlist. Her installation Things Shared (2014) features more than 400 individual hand-printed sheets of paper, and the giant three-dimensional letters OK.

Previous winners of the Turner prize have included Martin Creed’s installation featuring a light going on and off and Grayson Perry’s pottery tackling subjects such as death and child abuse.

Summary: The Dublin-born film artist is the favourite to win the art prize, which will be announced tonight – though nearly every year brings a surprise


WASHINGTON — A $5 billion Chinese chemical company backed by Morgan Stanley disputes that it overstated profits and says officials in China have agreed to change outdated records.

An Associated Press investigation revealed discrepancies between financial records and what Tianhe Chemicals Group told investors as part of its $654 million public offering. Tianhe now said the records were out of date. The AP has been unable to reach government clerks responsible for making the changes.

Tianhe’s statement, filed with the Hong Kong’s stock exchange, is the company’s response to the AP. It assured investors the AP’s findings had ‘‘no material impact on our business and operations.’’

Tianhe said the AP report mostly repeated claims by the investment research group Anonymous Analytics, and said it already had made what it described as ‘‘a full and clear rebuttal to each and every of the false allegations.’’

Summary: A $5 billion Chinese chemical company backed by Morgan Stanley disputed overstating its profits, saying that local officials in China have agreed to change outdated records.


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updated 11/15/2014 AT 12:05 PM EST

•originally published 11/14/2014 AT 12:10 PM EST

What do you do when your dog escapes from your New York City hotel room?

On Thursday, Heigl was in her hotel getting prepped for a day of press.

"I had to use the facilities, so I went to my mom's room because a lot of people were in my room," the

Gertie, one of the actress's many dogs, who comes with her everywhere, "gets really upset and nervous if she can't see me or hear me. So she must have snuck out of my room."

While Heigl was, ahem, indisposed, "We heard this voice from the hallway, 'Whose dog is this? Somebody lost their dog!' " she recalled. "So my mom goes out and it's Jennifer Lawrence who has my dog."

Heigl was thrilled that her pup was safe and sound, if not slightly disappointed that the rescue happened so swiftly. "I was like, wait, I love her," Heigl said, "and I didn't get to meet her!"

Summary: The Hunger Games star just happened to be on hand when Heigl's beloved pooch escaped from her hotel room


FORTUNE — Just how lucrative has Apple’s iPad become? Let’s put it this way: if the tablet were spun off into a standalone business, it would be the 11th largest U.S. tech company.

According to a recent report from Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi, the iPad line brought in $32 billion in sales last year — accounting for just over 60% of all tablet sales — and will grow 75% in 2013 to $46 billion. With numbers like those, Sacconaghi estimates that would make the iPad business, on its own, the 11th largest tech company.

MORE: 9 CES trends that (mostly) haven’t panned out

Even more impressive, it would make the Fortune 500, slotting in at No. 98, above long-established companies like McDonald’s MCD (No. 107, $27 billion), Macy’s M (No. 110, $26.4 billion), and Nike NKE (No. 136, $20.9 billion). Put another way, the iPad business handily makes more money than Gap GPS (No. 185, $14.5 billion) and Toys “R” Us (No. 194, $13.9 billion) combined. Not too shabby for a device launched just shy of three years ago.

Looking ahead, although Sacconaghi projects healthy sales growth over the next two years, he sees adoption flattening out in 2015 due to a heavily saturated market. In other words? By then, many consumers — even your mom — will likely be tapping, swiping, and pinching around a tablet of their own.

Summary: Measured in revenue, Apple's iPad would rank No. 11. On the Fortune 500? No. 98.


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01/21/2015 AT 10:10 AM EST

Five Florida high school football players have been charged in an alleged gang rape that occurred last November.

State Attorney Phil Archer announced on Tuesday that the five juveniles from Winter Springs High School will be charged in the Nov. 13 incident, according to a

from the state attorney's office.

The alleged attack, which involved a 16-year-old victim, took place off campus. The victim recorded part of the attack on her iPhone, which she showed to investigators, the

Two of the juveniles, 17-year-olds Marquis Pierre and Deoante Stewart, were charged as adults for one count each of sexual battery multiple perpetrators.

Charges were filed against an additional three alleged perpetrators, who are being treated as juveniles. All five students are between the ages of 16 and 17.

There is a sixth student, 18-year-old Torreano Batton – the only legal adult in the case – involved as well, but charges remain pending against him.

Prosecutors conducted interviews and reviewed lab results and other evidence before filing.

The students pleaded not guilty.

Summary: Charges remain pending against a sixth suspect, the only adult in the attack


Australians Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan will face an Indonesian firing squad together unless an extraordinary court appeal or diplomatic efforts succeed.

Bali court officials on Thursday confirmed presidential clemency had been denied to Chan, two weeks after his fellow Bali Nine ringleader, Sukumaran, received the same news.

It extinguishes his last hope of being spared the death penalty for the 2005 heroin trafficking plot.

Denpasar District Court spokesman Hasoloan Sianturi said the letter arrived at 1.20pm local time on Thursday.

"The letter's content is Presidential Decree Number 9/G year 2015 regarding clemency rejection for Andrew Chan," he said.

"The head of the district court then told me to register and make a disposition, and tell the convicted.

Andrew Chan at a holding cell at Denpasar District Court in Bali in 2010. (AAP)

"The presidential decree was for only one convict, Andrew Chan."

Lawyers for the Sydney pair are preparing an application for a judicial review, an extraordinary appeal to re-consider their case.

Earlier on Thursday, Jakarta-based lawyer Todung Mulya Lubis and Melbourne-based barrister Julian McMahon met Chan and Sukumaran at Kerobokan prison.

Mr Lubis told reporters they had discussed plans for a judicial review, a mechanism that's in dispute among Indonesia's courts.

Australian death-row prisoners Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran. (AAP)

The constitutional court has allowed for prisoners to request more than one judicial review to re-examine their circumstances, but the supreme court argues the reviews should only be considered once.

Mr Lubis says the move is about ensuring all avenues available to Sukumaran and Chan are explored.

"The constitutional court realises the courts must give the maximum ... effort to ensure all convicted people receive justice," he said.

Chan, 31, and Sukumaran, 33, desperately want a second chance to use their lives for good, he said.

"I believe there have been lots of changes within them and I had truly hoped that their clemency requests would be granted by the president," he said.

While the judicial review submission is being prepared, Bali's courts are also considering whether the pair could personally front the court for the hearing.

Mr Lubis says the petitioner is usually required to front the courts, but in this case, the prisoners are from the super-maximum section and would require additional security.

The courts will make a decision next week.

On Sunday, an Indonesian and five foreigners were executed by firing squad despite pleas for clemency.

Ahead of the executions, Indonesia's attorney-general said Sukumaran's execution was on hold until Chan's clemency decision because they would be executed together.

President Joko Widodo argues Indonesia is in the grips of a drug crisis that needs the "shock therapy" of enacting the death penalty.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has urged Mr Joko to show mercy to the two "well and truly reformed" Australians.

Federal opposition leader Bill Shorten said Labor would continue to support government representations for both Chan and Sukumaran.

"We urge clemency for anyone facing the death penalty, whoever and wherever they may be," he said.

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Summary: Bali's courts are discussing whether Myuran Sukumaran can appear in person to make a last-ditch bid to be spared from execution.


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Tom Ford made a bold move when he brought his fall 2015 runway show to Los Angeles—and on Oscars weekend. InStyle’s fashion news director Eric Wilson sat down with Ford post-show, where the designer shared the details on what it takes to bring a high-fashion soirée to the streets of Tinseltown.

RELATED: All the Details on Tom Ford’s Star-Studded L.A. Runway Show

Arguably the most star-studded Fashion Week event thus far, Ford’s front row at Milk Studios was flanked with famous faces like Scarlett Johansson, Beyoncé, Sir Elton John, Amy Adams, Miley Cyrus, Jennifer Lopez, Fergie, Nicole Richie, Rita Ora,Julianne Moore, Gwyneth Paltrow, Naomi Campbell, Cody Horn, Anjelica Huston, Olivia Munn, Reese Witherspoon, and more.

So, why did Tom Ford move his runway show to Los Angeles from London? Watch the video above to find out, and browse InStyle’s exclusive behind-the-scenes photos from the night in our gallery.

PHOTOS: Go Inside Tom Ford’s Fall 2015 Runway Show

Summary: The designer tells InStyle's Eric Wilson why he went Hollywood.


Supermodel Kate Upton has been donning armor these last few months as the spokeswoman for the mobile title Game of War: Fire Age. In a Bloomberg feature published Thursday, it’s reported that the title’s parent company, Machine Zone, set aside $40 million for the four-month campaign featuring Upton.

Upton featured in an advertisement played during the Super Bowl, which saw downloads for the mobile game surge and pass its main competitor, Clash of Clans, in the Apple App Store rankings. (Check out the 30-second spot here, which has since garnered over 7 million views on the Game of War’s YouTube page.) Since then, however, Clash of Clans remains more popular at No. 31 for top free apps in the App Store. Game of War is No. 77.

Game of War is raking in cash, too. In fact, Bloomberg reported it is collecting more than $1 million per day, double the amount last spring. The reason? Though the game is free to download, in-app purchases that add up quickly.

Upton tweeted about her involvement”

Game of War’s success comes as spending for mobile video games is quickly rising. In fact, the Wall Street Journal reported last summer that Machine Zone expected to earn over $600 million in 2014. There were also talks with JPMorgan Chase of fundraising at a $3 billion valuation, Bloomberg reported.

Summary: There's a reason you're seeing the ads everywhere


Pears become sugary sweet when baked, and crispy bacon makes for an incredibly savory kick. Use slightly unripe pears so they don’t turn to mush in the oven. Take this snack a step further and wrap pears in prosciutto, which has similar savory notes as bacon, but a much more delicate flavor.

Summary:
By Julie Ruggirello
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When it comes to bacon-wrapped foods, the sky is the limit.

      5 Things You Should Be Wrapping With...


updated 03/16/2015 AT 04:25 PM EDT

•originally published 03/16/2015 AT 01:20 PM EDT

It's no secret that the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in Austin, Texas, is a hotbed of marketing tricks. From stunts like

, the annual festival draws any number of innovative, occasionally insane ideas companies use to promote their products.

reports, this year's top prize will likely go to A24, the company distributing Alex Garland's new film,

, which premieres during SXSW.

Tinder users in Austin have been swiping right on "Ava," an attractive 25-year-old whose bio simply reads, "I like to draw. And busy intersections in cities." If you don't immediately notice that Ava bears a striking resemblance to

's Swedish star, Alicia Vikander, and happen to strike up a conversation with her, she'll begin asking you a series of questions like, "Have you ever been in love?" and "What makes you human?"

, which is – womp womp – some promotional stills and a brief clip from the film. Sorry, guys, that wasn't a lonely Swede who wants to meet up for some of Austin's famous tacos – that was a marketing ploy.

It's genius and only a little bit diabolical:

's plot concerns an artificial intelligence trying to know what it's like to be human, and what is Tinder if not a terrible tiny microcosm of human behavior? Of course, there are real humans at the other end of these Tinder interactions, and whatever your stance on the app, these hapless dudes are still being manipulated to get publicity for a movie. At least they didn't have to dig anyone's car out of a blizzard, though.

Summary: Alex Garland's film focuses on a robot trying to discover what it means to be human


MPW Insider is an online community where the biggest names in business and beyond answer timely career and leadership questions. Today’s answer for: How should every successful woman deal with rejection? is written by Beth Fisher-Yoshida, director of Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Program at Columbia University.

Let’s face it – dealing with rejection isn’t fun for anyone. It’s always disappointing to hear, “you are not good enough,” after you’ve invested so much of yourself in pursuing a goal, endeavor, or project. These may not be the exact words being spoken, but they’re the words you hear. Believe me, I speak from experience! However, there are several techniques that make dealing with rejection easier. My pattern follows, to some degree, Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’s Five Stage Model of Grief, which links rejection to the death of an aspiration. Here are the stages that you might encounter when facing rejection, and most importantly how to move forward:

1. Denial: Perhaps I did not hear this right or maybe I misread the email. I look again because I was so sure I was “in the right” and everything was going to work out.

2. Anger: They did reject me! Whoa. That was harsh and there wasn’t even a satisfactory explanation for why or how I could improve the situation.

3. Bargaining: Maybe it is not straight out rejection, maybe it is just not a good fit. I should really be happy to know this now and not after it is too late.

4. Depression: Is there any place for me? Is this the result of all my hard work and effort?

5. Acceptance: Okay, you’re allotted 20-minutes for self-pity. Then, it’s time to move on.

When I get to the acceptance stage, I am recharged and motivated. I’m ready to explore other opportunities and set new goals and targets — first reflect, then react. That being said, it’s still easy to get stuck in one of the above stages; practice is the only way to move through the stages more fluidly. Until the practice becomes habitual, I recommend setting a timeline for how long you will allow each phase to continue before moving onto the next. After all, rejection is inevitable — learning how to deal is the only way to come out feeling stronger than you did before.

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Summary: Accept your mistake and be willing to move forward.


03/29/2015 AT 12:40 AM EDT

was released from the hospital after suffering critical injuries from a

A source tells PEOPLE that Ford was spotted driving in Los Angeles on Saturday.

Ford, 72, was rushed to UCLA Medical Center on March 5 after crashing his vintage World War II plane on a

, leaving him with a

, broken bones in his pelvis and ankle.

"She [would] drop Liam off in the morning and then spend hours with Harrison," a source tells PEOPLE. "She [brought] him food and reading material."

While he may be resting now in the comfort of his own home, the actor is most likely still undergoing therapy to

"The therapy is primarily stabilization exercises and also gait training, like actually getting the patient up and moving again – pretty much just leaving how to walk while minimizing the main," says Dr. Beny Charchian, Founder of the Joint and Spine Institute in Beverly Hills, who has not treated Ford.

Summary: The actor has been released from UCLA Medical Center after suffering critical injuries from a plane crash on March 5


04/04/2015 AT 12:40 AM EDT

might get most of the attention, but

believes that her breasts are really something out of the ordinary.

on Instagram Wednesday that showed her calming a crying fan by simply pressing his head against her ample cleavage.

"I've been dreaming of this moment for so long," sobbed the fan, named Donnie.

But his expression as he laid his head against Minaj's décolletage is priceless.

"Get your life from the little boy in this video pls," wrote Minaj, 32, who's currently on tour in Ireland. "Look at how he stopped crying wen he laid his head on dem thangz. They have real power beaming out of them that can cure the sick."

We don't doubt the "Anaconda" singer's powers – but in case you need convincing, the next day she

that compared her pose to The Madonna and Child.

A photo posted by Nicki Minaj (@nickiminaj) on Apr 2, 2015 at 2:00pm PDT

Summary: The rapper claimed on Instagram on Wednesday that "dem thangz" have healing powers


FORTUNE — We want so badly to believe in superheroes. When it comes to business leaders, that can quickly turn into a liability. Many chief execs control so much money, and we pay them so handsomely, so we treat them — and want to believe they deserve to be treated — like stars.

In business, “the culture of celebrity is maybe as strong as it’s ever been,” says Zachary First, managing director of The Drucker Institute.

Several forces create a star CEO. For one, high-profile leaders tend to know how to work a room, and many may have learned to like the limelight. But also, employees, the market and the media want strong leaders, and sometimes strength becomes conflated with infallibility. Star CEOs are not inherently bad for business, though they can be. J.C. Penney JCP CEO Ron Johnson, for example, is dealing with a particularly tight margin of error at the struggling retailer partly because of his especially impressive performance as senior VP of retail operations at Apple aapl .

A couple of organizations have tried to mitigate dependence on one central leader. W.L Gore and Associates, the company behind the high-tech, waterproof fabric GORE-TEX has what is called a “flat lattice” leadership scheme. They’ve created an entire language around this: they call bosses “sponsors,” and have no employees, but “associates.” The company holds that leaders will naturally emerge when groups form to accomplish certain tasks.

MORE: Super-talented employee driving you crazy? How to deal.

But a non-hierarchical structure requires a tremendous amount of work, says First, and even functional flat companies have founders and CEOs. “To look up the social hierarchy and not see anyone at the top is an extremely stressful position for companies to be in. We want to know that somebody’s in charge, that there is an authority.”

It takes a village to make those authorities stars. “They’re only celebrities because a lot of people choose to go and sit in the audience to hear them,” First says.

Celebrity can become a crippling distraction from good leadership, but it doesn’t have to play out that way. Leaders can be both self-obsessed and humble, claims David Waldman, a management professor at Arizona State University. His research suggests that some capable business leaders are what he calls “softer” narcissists. “Okay yeah, they like to be the subject of the limelight, they have high self-regard, and a degree of hubris. But they also recognize that other people around them deserve a lot of praise.”

It’s an idea he first read about in Michael Maccoby’s 2000 Harvard Business Review article about the pros and cons of narcissistic leaders. “Throughout history, narcissists have always emerged to inspire people and to shape the future,” Maccoby writes in the piece. The ones who lead companies to greatness, he suggests, are those who can recognize their own limitations.

There are a couple of ways to keep a clear head in the face of CEO stardom. Pay is one. In a study of Waldman’s that he is currently submitting to peer-reviewed journals, he found that in the United States, CEOs with salaries close to those of their next top managers tend to be more humble than CEOs at companies with large pay gaps. Those management teams tend to be more effective, he says. “[They] engage in exploration and new learning and also exploit existing knowledge quite well.”

Star CEOs can also stay humble by creating less physical distance between themselves and employees. One example is Alfred Sloan, who was CEO of General Motors from 1923 to 1956. “Sloan was the first celebrity CEO,” said David Farber, author of the biography Sloan Rules, in an interview with the University of Chicago Press. Sloan certainly believed he was destined for greatness. But he also worked with employees in the field. In a 1992 book called Managing for the Future, management scholar Peter Drucker wrote that Sloan would leave headquarters every three months and work openly as a salesman at GM gm dealerships across the U.S. Seeing the CEO hawking Buicks probably humanized him for his employees, First suggests.

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Solid succession planning can also temper star power. “If you believe that you are superman, there’s no need to wonder who is going to fill your shoes,” First says. CEOs with a good grip on their limitations will think about a successor early on in their tenure. Humble CEOs can also see the benefits of choosing a successor who has different strengths. It takes a degree of healthy perspective to see that companies need different things from leaders at different times in their history. “The question is not great leadership period,” First says, “it’s always great leadership by whom for what.”

And there is the crux. Star CEOs grow dangerous when they see their success as destiny, their place at the head of the pack as the only path possible, rendering all of their choices justified. The best leaders might enjoy the red carpet, that’s fine, as long as they understand that being the best fit for the CEO job is a relative status — relative to the needs of the rest of the people in an organization at a specific moment in time.

And fame, no matter how great it may feel, does not equal infallibility. “There is no superman,” First says. “Those people are not there. Everybody’s making tradeoffs.”

Summary: Because many chief execs control so much money and we pay them so handsomely, we want to believe they deserve to be treated like stars. Most of the time, we are building ourselves up for disappointment. How to break the cycle.


ALBANY, July 9— A package of five taxes to subsidize mass transit and in particular the operating deficit of the troubled Metropolitan Transportation Authority was narrowly approved today by the New York State Legislature.

Debate had been delayed repeatedly throughout the previous night as legisla- Roll-calls on tax package, page B2. tive leaders scoured the Assembly and the State Senate for votes to approve a package they had endorsed last week.

Dazed and exhausted, the members of the Legislature worked through the night until 7:29 this morning, when they finally embraced the transit tax package. (Page B2.)

The most distasteful tax for the legislators - three-quarters of 1 percent on the gross receipts of oil companies, which could be passed on to consumers -was approved by a single-vote margin in the Assembly just after 5 A.M., and by a three-vote margin in the Senate an hour later. Realty Transfer Tax Included

The five taxes, intended to raise $793 million, are the following:

- The gross-receipts tax on the oil companies.

- An increase in the state sales tax of a quarter of a cent on the dollar in the region served by the M.T.A. The tax would be computed by rounding up to the nearest whole cent for fractions of 0.5 cents or more and rounding down for fractions under 0.5 cents.

- A 10 percent tax on capital gains in real-estate transfers of more than $1 million within New York City.

- A tax based on the net income and capital of oil companies' outof-state and international operations.

- A corporate franchise tax of 0.75 percent on the gross returns from the in-state portion of interstate communications and commercial transport.

In denouncing the taxes on the Assembly floor, Assemblyman Armand P. D'Amato, Republican of Mineola, said: ''We're sending a message to business in this state that we don't want you. 'Go on the other side of the river; go to New Jersey.' '' Richard Ravitch, chairman of the Transportation Authority, said today that the passage of the tax package would allow him to recommend that the authority's board abandon a subway fare increase to $1, from 75 cents, that had been scheduled for July 17.

''I recognize that it takes a lot of courage to enact taxes in the United States in 1981,'' he said. ''I appreciate the fact that this is a massive commitment of support to transportation systems.''

But he said he could not guarantee that the new taxes would prevent another fare increase in the next two years. He said that three unknown factors - the extent of Federal operating assistance, the precise amount the taxes will produce and upcoming labor contract negotiations - prevented him from making such a guarantee.

The fragile vote in the Democratic-controlled Assembly came after strenuous lobbying among its members by the Assembly Speaker, Stanley Fink, who paced about the Capitol in the predawn hours, clutching five roll-call sheets marked with red ink. Around him were sleeping legislators who were sprawled on couches and chairs. Phone Calls From Koch

Mr. Fink, who needed a 76-vote majority, found the swing votes in four Republican members of the Assembly from New York City, two of whom had received telephone calls last night from Mayor Koch.

The last vote came from Florence M. Sullivan, Republican of Brooklyn, after New York City lobbyists argued that a $1 fare would injure her constituents more than a one-cent rise in gasoline prices. The New York State Automobile Association, which opposed the grossreceipts tax, predicted it would cause a 3.5-cent price increase at gas pumps.

The Senate majority leader, Warren M. Anderson, mustered the Republican margin necessary to add to a sizable but shifting Democratic bloc even as the votes were being taken on the Senate floor.

Mr. Anderson sauntered around the chamber, dropping a word here and there. Suddenly, Senator Abraham Bernstein, Democrat-Republican of the Bronx, who had denounced the entire package, switched his vote on the gross-receipts tax to, as he put it, give New York City ''one last chance.''

Senator H. Douglas Barclay, Republican of Pulaski, then rose to describe his new understanding of the bill and to vote ''yes.'' Mr. Barclay was joined quickly in his change of heart by Senators William T. Smith 2d of Big Flats and Ronald B. Stafford of Peru, two Republicans noted for their loyalty to Mr. Anderson.

Today Mayor Koch telephoned Mr. Fink, Mr. Anderson and the Senate minority leader, Manfred Ohrenstein, to congratulate them on passing the transit aid package. But the Mayor did not acknowledge any role by the Governor in the problem's resolution.

A number of debaters last night pointedly asked the whereabouts of the Governor. According to aides to Mr. Carey, the Governor was in Buffalo at the home of a cousin, Dr. George Collins, and attended a private dinner party held by Jeremy Jacobs, one of the principals in Sportsystems, a sports concession company formerly known as Emprise.

To mollify the complaints of some legislators who said there was no guarantee that the mass-transit systems would show any signs of improvement with the new funds, the Senate early this morning passed legislation creating four inspector-general offices with a $20.9 million appropriation.

The legislation provides one office each for Conrail, the Long Island Rail Road and the New York City Transit Authority and one to oversee the others. The inspectors general would investigate complaints about the system and could contract for emergency repairs.

The Assembly is expected to approve the legislation tomorrow. Another amendment - to the real-estate tax - would change its effective date from Aug. 1 to Oct. 1. The Senate passed the measure this morning and the Assembly was to take it up tonight.

The president of the Mobil Corporation, William Tavoulareas, sent a telegram to Governor Carey today asking him to veto the tax on outof-state and international oil operations.

In the telegram, Mr. Tavoulareas called the tax ''discriminatory and unconstitutional'' and said the costs of maintaining Mobil's current payroll of about 10,000 people in New York State would be ''increased prohibitively.'' Would End Tax Exemption

The so-called ''long lines'' tax would apply to transportation and transmission companies such as trucking, aviation, railroad, telegraph and telephone concerns.

Currently, businesses not incorporated in the state that have property in New York used exclusively for interstate or foreign commerce get a tax exemption on that capital stock. This legislation would end the exemption.

An earlier 2 percent gross-receipts tax on oil companies had been struck down by a Federal appeals court because of a provision that prohibited the oil companies from passing the costs through to customers. The bill approved this morning, which would apply to the current tax year, contains no such provision.

Illustrations: photo of members of Transport Workers Union picketing (page B2) photo of Senators Anderson, Marino, Daly and Stafford


Having whipped the Democrats without breaking a sweat, President Reagan must now look forward to coping with his hottest friends. This could be a heavy struggle. Coping with friends often is.

Lyndon Johnson had this problem back in the era when he ran the Senate for the Democrats. He could usually glue together enough Republican swing votes and enough Democratic regulars to have his way, but his bleakest moments were invariably provided by the liberals of his own party. ''The red-hots,'' Johnson called them.

They were ''red-hot'' for ideas that made Republicans and damp-cool Democrats climb the wall, bellow and snort. Liberal ideas. Ideas that they refused to compromise. They filled Johnson with sorrow and despair. His friends whose roots, like his, went back to the early New Deal - how could they make life so miserable for him? Didn't they understand?

They didn't understand. They enjoyed making life miserable for him. They pleasured themselves by tormenting him as a betrayer of New Deal dogma, as a friend who had sold out. It is hard and sad to wield power in Washington when your friends want you to stand by ancient friendships.

President Reagan also has some ''red-hots'' in the wings. In the political gibberish of the day, they are often called ''the extreme right,'' though the term is not very useful. There is an extreme right in domestic economics, and they are very cold-blooded cats indeed. This is the group that has carried the Stockman budget for the President. Politically, they are as cool as clabber in the icehouse.

They came to power on a national surge of desire for lower taxes, cheaper government and devil-take-the-hindmost -a desire so powerful that it pulled several million critical middle-of-the-highway voters over into Reagan conservatism. Barring an economic disaster, the President can probably prosper by holding this part of his coalition.

The danger is that the ''red-hots'' will drive it out of camp by demanding that Reagan carry through with a remaking of American society which brings the Government thundering into private lives. The symbol of the ''red-hots'' has become the Rev. Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority, but they go beyond that.

They are the people who want government to end the hedonism built into American life over the past generation. Their prime aim is to shut down the sexual carnival and make government use its muscle to establish the old-time religion.

There is a certain appeal in this aim even to the hardened sinner, but after the romance has been acknowledged, and the nostalgic yen for returning to the supposedly good old days has been enjoyed, there remains the reality of millions of voters who are likely to howl if government starts reorganizing their private lives.

The early attacks against abortions for low-income women and free exercise of homosexual rights have given only a hint of the political mischief to be stirred up. Low-income people and homosexuals are politically dispensable minorities. Mr. Reagan can flourish without them so long as he can hold the big middle-class, middle-of-the-road vote with tax cuts, shrunken government and a stable dollar. Start poking the government paw into their private lives, however, and you have trouble.

Middle-class and middle-income, if the 1980 census is anywhere near accurate, no longer means a husband and wife living with two-and-ahalf children in a split level with the parlor over a two-car garage. It is just as apt to mean two or three single people banded together to pay otherwise insupportable housing costs. Or a man and woman, both previously divorced, now married to each other, both of them possibly working. There are his children, her children and their children, and sometimes the children live with him and her, and sometimes some of them live with his former wife and some with her former husband.

These people are probably just as avid about tax cuts and chivying the pauper classes as the old-fashioned two-and-a-half-child family with mom and dad married 20 years, and there is no reason why Reagan cannot hold them in his coalition if the Laffer Curve proves out.

On the other hand, if he is forced to bring in the Government and cut off abortions for them, and sanitize their television, and improve their moral tone, rage could be quick to howl, and his coalition could come undone quickly.

The White House apparently recognizes the danger. Astutely, it persuaded the ''red-hots'' not to press their demands until the President had enacted his economic program. The ''red-hots'' waited like good sports. Now their turn is about to come. If they demand it all, they have the power to blow the Reagan coalition apart before it can be consolidated.

It would be wishful thinking for Democrats to anticipate this outcome. By now everyone must know it is suicidal to underrate the political skill of the Reagan group. Doubtless the White House will find a way to cool down its hottest friends when due bills are presented. It may cost the President a bit in friendship, as it cost Lyndon Johnson in his day, but the great question is how to maintain power. And as Johnson used to say, ''Where else are they going to go?''


THE race for Governor is a good demonstration of the difference between a primary and general election in New Jersey. In the primary, the candidate's objective is to separate himself or herself from the pack. In the general election, the idea is to get as close to the middle of the road, and therefore to the opposition, as possible.

As a result, bold positions struck in the primary campaign become less certain and susceptible to modification as the general-election campaign progresses.

Both Thomas H. Kean, the Republican candidate for Governor, and Representative James J. Florio, his Democratic opponent, have shown that they understand these time-honored principles.

In the primary, Mr. Kean, a wealthy businessman from Livingston and a former Speaker of the State Assembly, outlined a plan for reviving the state's economy, a plan that he said would work hand-in-glove with the Reagan Administration's program of tax and budget cuts to stimulate the national economy and curb inflation.

The Kean proposal called for phasing out the corporate net-worth tax over four years, reducing the 9 percent corporate income tax by half and, in the third year of his administration, reducing the 5 percent sales tax to 4 percent.

The plan was accompanied by tables showing that anticipated taxrevenue shortfalls would be followed by revenue increases flowing from the stimulated state economy.

It was nothing, if not precise and unequivocal. As the general-election battle with Mr. Florio has progressed, and although the Reagan program has run into stormy weather, Mr. Kean has not abandoned his idea that business-tax cuts will stimulate renewed business vigor and new jobs. However, he rarely mentions the salestax cut, even when visiting poor city neighborhoods, as he did last week in Camden, the home territory of his opponent.

Mr. Kean also has said that, while he is sticking to his projected tax cuts, he is flexible about when he would initiate them. This means, perhaps, that he would not cut any taxes in his first year in office - or even in his first term - unless conditions for such a move were favorable.

The precision of Mr. Kean's primary-campaign position has been replaced by one that says: ''We'll have to wait and see before we do anything.''

This is certainly a reasonable stance, but it would not have separated Mr. Kean from the field in the primary or have attracted much press coverage.

Mr. Florio, who was physically separated from the 12 other Democrats in the primary - all the other candidates were from the northern half of the state - has attacked the Kean proposal. But last week, at an appearance before the annual meeting of the New Jersey Taxpayers Association, he said there was ''a tax-reduction component'' in his own economic strategy for the state.

Mr. Florio has been talking about targeting some small tax incentives for entrepreneurs who start up or expand businesses; however, in his latest way of stating it, he sounds more like Mr. Kean.

Mr. Kean charges Mr. Florio with plotting to raise the state income tax because the Democratic candidate refuses to pledge that will not do it, if elected, as Mr. Kean has.

Mr. Florio says he believes that he can balance the next state budget without any tax increases, but asserts that it would be irresponsible to pledge never to raise the income tax.

For his part, Mr. Florio pictures Mr. Kean as advancing a program that will increase local property taxes. He contends that the loss of revenue from the business-tax cuts will result in a loss of state aid that would have to be made up at the local level.

Mr. Kean says this is nonsense, and so it goes. The result of all this dialogue about an issue that many people believe will be decided in Washington - namely, the economy - appears to have turned off the electorate. A poll by The New York Times around the middle of the month showed that most people still knew little about the two candidates or their positions, and will base their voting decision on their own backgrounds or party affiliations.

The idea behind a candidate moderating his position in the general election is to be able to appeal to the large independent bloc of voters in the middle. These are the voters who, when properly motivated, swing slightly to the left or right in an election and decide the outcome.

The Times poll showed 43 percent of this group still undecided, and that means that neither candidate has a firm grip on the election. When the independents begin to move during the last few days of the contest, most of them will move toward one man or the other and the outcome probably will not be nearly as close as things look at present.

If either candidate knows what it will take to wake up the independents and motivate them, now would be a good time to use it.

Illustrations: photo of Thomas Kean with Anna Davila photo of James Florio with switchboard operator


Carrying bats and gloves, wearing multicolored uniforms from places like the Gomez Funeral Home and dreaming of pinstripes, about 100 aspiring baseball players turned out at Yankee Stadium yesterday for the first day of a four-day tryout camp.

In all, some 300 players will perform before half a dozen Yankee scouts. For three days, in two-a-day sessions, they will run, hit and field and, Thursday, 40 will be invited back to play in a game.

Few, if any, will be offered contracts, but that fact did not deter them. Like the young actresses who know that Lana Turner was discovered sitting on a stool at a Hollywood drugstore counter, many of the young men at the stadium yesterday knew that Phil Rizzuto, Whitey Ford and Joe Pepitone had been discovered at a similar camp.

The Yankees have held tryouts for local players for more than 20 years, mostly to generate good will in the community. Yesterday morning, 55 players were invited on the recommendation of the Yankee scouts. Yesterday afternoon, today and tomorrow the participants will be young men who wrote letters to the Yankees and were selected on a first-come-first-serve basis. The Yankees, according to Bob Kalef, the assistant director of the farm system, receive some 500 letters each year from the New York area and are able to accommodate half of the applicants in the yearly camp.

''It's a community thing for kids who usually don't get a chance,'' Kalef said. ''The majority are pretty good. Nobody we're likely to sign, but some that we'll follow for the next few years.''

In recent years, the Yankees have signed two players as a result of the tryout camp - Dell Alston in 1972 and Don Cooper in 1978. Alston played briefly for the Yankees and wound up in the Cleveland Indian farm system. Cooper, who played with the Yankees' Class AAA team in Columbus last year, is now a pitcher for the Minnesota Twins. A Couple of Speedsters

Yesterday's session began with the players pinning numbers on the backs of uniforms that read All-Hallows High School, Arnold Stores, Goya, Hawks and the like. They gathered in left field of the sundrenched stadium, waiting their turn to run the 60-yard dash, while the pitchers reported to the bullpen. ''Anybody who does it in less than seven seconds is very good,'' Kalef said.

Some needed almost nine seconds to run down the third-base line, but Sergio Vasquez recorded a 6.8 and Raul Clements a 6.9. ''That's a good one!'' one scout yelled as Vasquez, a student at Long Island University, crossed the finish line. ''Another one!'' the scout shouted as Clements, a shipping clerk from East 11th Street, crossed the line moments later.

Vasquez, a native of the Dominican Republic, is a .270 hitter and a second baseman at L.I.U. He also is a summertime member of a Spanish League team that plays in Central Park. Saturday he played in an All-Star game in Union City, N.J., in ''a pretty nice park,'' but had never been on a field as impressive as the one at Yankee Stadium.

Clements, a center fielder and shortstop, also plays in the Spanish League during the summer and has earned a living as a shipping clerk since he graduated from Seward Park High School. He was thrilled to hear that he had run an impressive 60-yard dash (''I did faster than seven?'' he asked. ''That's good, right?'') and hurried out to the infield to tell his friends. Face 75-M.P.H. Pitching

The scouts marked the times on their clipboards, then sent the players into the outfield, calling them up to the batting cage a few at a time for 10 swings each. The players swung at balls coming 75 miles an hour from a pitching machine, cursing like major leaguers when they failed to make contact. The scouts clustered around the cage, watching and making notes.

''We look for what kind of swing a boy has,'' said Bill Livsey, the Yankees' director of player development. ''We look for balance, hand-eye coordination, bat speed and power. On Thursday, against live pitching, we'll see if they can hit the breaking ball and the offspeed pitch.''

An effervescent young man in a Gomez Funeral Home uniform got two chances in the cage. ''Are you a switch-hitter, kid?'' asked Al Cuccinello, a local scout, before sending him back for a turn lefthanded. A Veteran of Tryout Camps

In the batting cage, nerves seemed to get the better of most of the aspirants, but Frank LaRosa got his bat on four straight pitches and earned the praise of the scouts. LaRosa, a catcher at L.I.U., has had more experience in a big-league atmosphere than most. He attended a California Angels tryout camp at Queens College two years ago and played a Met Conference championship game at Shea Stadium this spring.

''I hope they like me,'' LaRosa said, as he put on his catching gear and headed for the bullpen. LaRosa hit .280 last season as a sophomore. ''It could have been better,'' he said, ''but there's always next year.''

Players are not eligible to sign minor league contracts until their high school class has graduated, but that did not stop 15-year-old Jose Borrell from showing up at Yankee Stadium. A smooth-faced youngster, he answered in a whisper each time the scouts spoke to him. Borrell said he was 5 feet9 inches and weighed 120 pounds, but he looked much smaller. ''I think he's a little less than that,'' Kalef said, with a gentle chuckle.

''It's good exposure for a kid like that, good experience,'' Livsey said. ''When he's older and more mature physically, he can come back and put on a better show for us.'' His Class A Club Folded

At the other end of the spectrum was Dan Calise, a 21-year-old catcher from Deer Park, L.I., who has played one year of Class A ball with an unaffiliated minor league team in Salem, Ore. ''The team fell apart, folded,'' Calise said. ''I got my release papers and now I have to start over again. I thought I already had my break, but I guess those things happen.''

Livsey said the scouts look for five skills during the tryouts - hitting for contact, hitting for power, running, throwing and fielding. ''Right now, we're measuring basic tools,'' Livsey said. ''At this level, you almost never see a boy with all five skills. If he has a couple, you have to be interested. If he happens to have all five, you have to be super-interested.'' The Dream Lives On

While the tryouts continued on the field, the mail was being opened in the Yankee offices and already applications were being made for next year's sessions.

''For years I have dreamed about the idea of playing in the major leagues,'' said one letter that arrived yesterday from Henry Bramwell of Wheatley Heights, L.I. ''I was hoping that as I matured I would get over this, but I haven't. As a matter of fact, it has become more intense. I have to try out so once and for all I can settle this dream. I am 20 years old and I cannot allow myself to grow old and never know if I was good enough to play at the major league level. Could you please send me information about tryouts being held next year? I must put this obsession to rest.''

Illustrations: Photo of a Yankee hopeful, under the watchful eye of a Yankee scout (Page