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Thomas Girtin (English, 1775–1802), A Wooded Landscape, c. 1790s. Watercolor over graphite with scratching out on wove paper, 6 x 4 7/8 in. (15.2 x 12.4 cm). Gift of the Manton Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton. The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, 2007.8.88
Romantic Nature: British and French Landscapes
January 30, 2011 - November 1, 2011
In 1802, John Constable wrote that he championed what he called "a natural painture," an approach to landscape painting that rejected many principles of traditional art instruction and relied instead upon the artist's intuitive response to the observable world. By 1824, the year that Constable's paintings were featured at the Paris Salon, younger generations of artists in Britain and France were equally entrenched in the belief that "pure" landscape paintings held the same emotive power once believed to be the exclusive domain of historical or religious art. French artists such as Théodore Rousseau, Jules Dupré, and Constant Troyon looked to the achievements of Constable and other leading British artists as transformative alternatives to the classical conventions that had long defined
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Such ideas about the interplay between art, nature, and subjectivity predominated among European writers, artists, and composers in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This phenomenon, known as Romanticism, was not necessarily a cohesive movement, but was generally marked by creative explorations of emotion, irrational thought, and personal experience. The works on view in this gallery explore the Romantic sensibilities shared by British and French artists in the early nineteenth century, particularly their imaginative approach to representing nature.
Many of the paintings and drawings on display in this gallery were assembled by business leader and arts patron Sir Edwin A. G. Manton (1909–2005) and his wife Florence, Lady Manton. The collection, a gift of the Manton Foundation in 2007, includes works of art by Constable, J. M. W. Turner, and Thomas Gainsborough, among other leading British artists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.


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StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm was originally expected to be released in 2011, or early 2012 at the latest. However, during development, it was continually delayed, until it was announced that it would be released on March 12, 2013. This announcement was soon followed by an gorgeously-rendered opening cinematic from the game:
Dorkly has discovered that this incredible cinematic was the reason for the delay. Here is a full transcript of the cinematic's director, presenting his original rough draft to the executives at Blizzard:
Okay. Wow. Something something just occurred to me.
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That game you guys are working on Starsomething 2? Craft? Ah, that's it. StarCraft 2. Right. Anyways, StarCraft 2 you know how you asked me and the rest of the cinematic team to create an elaborate, gorgeously-rendered 3 minute opening cinematic for the next chapter of StarCraft 2, Heart of the Swarm? Well there's a slight snag. We did produce an elaborate, gorgeously-rendered 3 minute opening cinematic. The scale of the thing is unbelievable staggering, even. The effects are mind-blowingly realistic. Truly, this is our masterpiece. It's really a thing of beauty. We screwed up just one minor detail, though.
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This randomized phase II trial is studying esomeprazole magnesium and aspirin to see how well they work compared with esomeprazole and placebo in preventing esophageal cancer in patients with Barrett esophagus. Chemoprevention is the use of certain drugs to keep cancer from forming. The use of esomeprazole magnesium with or without aspirin may prevent esophageal cancer in patients with Barrett esophagus.
Barrett Esophagus
Esophageal Cancer
Drug: acetylsalicylic acid
Drug: esomeprazole magnesium
Other: placebo
Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Investigator)
Primary Purpose: Prevention
|Official Title:
|Randomized, Double-Blinded Phase II Trial of Esomeprazole Versus Esomeprazole + Two Doses of Aspirin in Barrett's Esophagus Patients
- Change in mean tissue PGE2 concentration as determined from Barrett's research mucosal biopsy samples [ Time Frame: Baseline to 30 days after completion of study treatment ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Compared between arms.
- Change in mean PGE2 concentration in the aspirin, placebo, and esomeprazole magnesium arm [ Time Frame: From baseline up to 30 days after completion of study treatment ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Determined using a two-sided one-sample t-test.
- Comparison of the change in mean and individual tissue PGE2 concentration between the two active intervention arms [ Time Frame: From baseline up to 30 days after completion of study treatment ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Effects of treatment on proliferation (Ki-67), apoptosis (caspase-3 expression), cyclooxygenase-2 expression, and p16 methylation [ Time Frame: Up to 30 days after completion of study treatment ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Assessed using Fisher's exact tests, Wilcoxon rank sum tests, and two-sample t-tests. Differences within each arm are assessed using McNemar's tests, Wilcoxon signed rank tests, and paired sample t-tests.
- Toxicities, defined as adverse events that are classified as either possibly, probably, or definitely related to the interventional agent, graded using the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Common Toxicity Criteria (CTC) version 3.0 [ Time Frame: Up to 30 days after completion of study treatment ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]The number and severity of adverse events (overall and by intervention group) will be tabulated and summarized.
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|Study Start Date:
|April 2007
|Primary Completion Date:
|March 2011 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Active Comparator: Arm I (placebo, esomeprazole magnesium)
Patients receive two oral placebos once daily and oral esomeprazole magnesium twice daily.
Drug: esomeprazole magnesium
Given orallyOther: placebo
Given orally
Experimental: Arm II (aspirin, esomeprazole magnesium, placebo)
Patients receive oral acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin) and oral placebo once daily and oral esomeprazole magnesium twice daily.
Drug: acetylsalicylic acid
Given orallyDrug: esomeprazole magnesium
Given orallyOther: placebo
Given orally
Experimental: Arm III (aspirin, esomeprazole magnesium, placebo)
Patients receive a higher-dose of oral aspirin (higher than in arm II) and a lower-dose of oral placebo (lower than in arm II) once daily and oral esomeprazole magnesium twice daily.
Drug: acetylsalicylic acid
Given orallyDrug: esomeprazole magnesium
Given orallyOther: placebo
Given orally
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
Histologically confirmed Barrett esophagus, meeting all of the following criteria:
- Presence of specialized columnar epithelium anywhere in the tubular esophagus with ≥ 2 cm of circumferential involvement
- No evidence of high-grade dysplasia or cancer by esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD)
- No prior histologically confirmed esophageal dysplasia, including cancer
- Adequate Barrett mucosa, defined as ≥ 4 of 8 research samples with≥ 50% intestinal metaplasia in research biopsies
- No ulcer, erosion, plaque, nodule, stricture, or other luminal irregularity within the Barrett's segment or erosive esophagitis (Los Angeles classification > grade A) detected at pre-intervention EGD exam
- ECOG performance status 0-2
- Hemoglobin normal
- Platelet count ≥ 100,000/mm³
- AST ≤ 2.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN)
- Alkaline phosphatase ≤ 2.5 times ULN
- Bilirubin ≤ 2.5 times ULN
- Creatinine ≤ 2.5 times ULN
- Not pregnant or nursing
- Negative pregnancy test
- Fertile patients must use effective contraception
- No nasal polyps associated with asthma or induced or exacerbated by aspirin
- No malignancy within the past 5 years except for nonmelanoma skin cancer
- No history of allergic reactions attributed to compounds of similar chemical or biologic composition to the study agents or rescue medication
- No history of endoscopically or radiographically diagnosed peptic ulcer disease (bleeding or nonbleeding)
No other uncontrolled illness including, but not limited to, any of the following:
- Ongoing or active infection
- Symptomatic congestive heart failure
- Unstable angina pectoris
- Cardiac arrhythmia
- Bleeding disorder
- Vitamin K deficiency
- Alcohol abuse (defined as ingestion of ≥ 3 drinks per day)
- Psychiatric illness or social situations that would limit study compliance
- At least 3 months since prior chronic use (defined as ≥ 7 days during the 3 months preceding the beginning of the Run-in phase) of acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin), NSAIDs, or selective cyclooxygenase (COX-2) inhibitors
- At least 3 months since prior investigational agents except innocuous agents with no known interaction with the study agents (e.g., standard dose multivitamins or topical agents for limited skin conditions)
No prior fundoplication, bariatric surgery, or any other major upper gastrointestinal surgery
- Prior cholecystectomy allowed
- No other concurrent NSAIDs (including aspirin) or selective COX-2 inhibitor therapy
No concurrent anticoagulant drugs including, but not limited to, any of the following:
- Warfarin
- Heparin
- Low-molecular weight heparin
- Clopidogrel bisulfate
- Extended-release dipyridamole
|United States, Minnesota
|Mayo Clinic
|Rochester, Minnesota, United States, 55905
|Principal Investigator:
|Paul Limburg
|Mayo Clinic
No publications provided by National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Additional publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
|Responsible Party:
|National Cancer Institute (NCI)
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00474903 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|May 16, 2007
|Last Updated:
|October 7, 2013
|Health Authority:
|United States: Food and Drug Administration
United States: Federal Government
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Barrett Esophagus
Esophageal Neoplasms
Digestive System Abnormalities
Digestive System Diseases
Esophageal Diseases
Gastrointestinal Diseases
Gastrointestinal Neoplasms
Digestive System Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Head and Neck Neoplasms
Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal
Analgesics, Non-Narcotic
Sensory System Agents
Peripheral Nervous System Agents
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Pharmacologic Actions
Anti-Inflammatory Agents
Therapeutic Uses
Antirheumatic Agents
Fibrinolytic Agents
Fibrin Modulating Agents
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Cardiovascular Agents
Hematologic Agents
Platelet Aggregation Inhibitors
Cyclooxygenase Inhibitors
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If you want to get an earful, just ask David Stess how he feels about cultivated blueberries.
"Winnowing," circa 1991, gelatin silver print.
Photo courtesy of VoxPhotographs and Portland Museum of Art/© David Brooks Stess
"Caledonia," circa 2000, gelatin silver print.
Photo courtesy of VoxPhotographs and Portland Museum of Art/© David Brooks Stess
They're "big and tasteless," he rants. "All water." "A joke."
"I wouldn't want to make pies from those," Stess said. "I wouldn't want to make jam. I wouldn't want to do anything with them."
It's April, not August, so why are we talking about wild blueberries?
Stess, a 51-year-old photographer from New York City, has an exhibition opening Saturday at the Portland Museum of Art featuring his photographs of blueberry rakers on Maine's wild blueberry barrens. He is intimately familiar with the differences between wild and cultivated blueberries (although not everyone would agree with his complete disdain of cultivated berries) because he has hand-raked wild berries himself every year for the past 25 years.
Stess passed through Portland last week on his way Down East to pick up 50 pounds of wild blueberries so he could, among other things, bake 10 blueberry pies over Easter weekend. He was looking to get his "pie technique" back before he has to bake one in front of the cameras to promote his exhibit.
"It's like spring training for pies," he quipped.
Stess has always loved berries. When he was a child in New Jersey, he picked blackberries, raspberries and strawberries in the woods near his home. When his family moved to Florida, he frequented the pick-your-own strawberry farms out on the edge of the Everglades.
Stess learned to cook at age 7 or 8 by helping his parents throw dinner parties for their friends. When he was 12 or 13, a cousin gave him a copy of Julia Child's "Mastering the Art of French Cooking," and now he makes a mean coq au vin.
"I'm a very good amateur cook," he said. "I'm pretty confident. I can do pretty much anything in the kitchen."
Stess' attention turned back to berries in his 20s, when he first started photographing Maine blueberry rakers, and now some of his specialties are the wild blueberry pies and low-sugar jams he makes with the Maine blueberries he harvests every summer.
"They go right from the field to the jam jar in a matter of hours," he said.
The Portland Museum of Art decided to enhance Stess' exhibit, "Blueberry Rakers: Photographs by David Brooks Stess," by asking local chefs to share some of their favorite blueberry recipes, which will be sold in packets with the exhibit's brochure/poster for $4.50 in the museum store. Each card includes the recipe on one side and one of Stess' images on the other.
In addition to the recipes re-printed here from Sam Hayward (Fore Street), Steve Corry (Five Fifty-Five) and Stacy Begin (Two Fat Cats Bakery), Marika Kuzma will share Aurora Provisions' recipe for blueberry barbecue sauce and Helen's Restaurant in Machias offered its blueberry muffin recipe.
All those images of wild blueberries will probably make visitors hungry, so the museum's cafe will be serving blueberry pie, blueberry brownies and blueberry-lemon tea bread for the duration of the exhibit.
Stess fell in love with documentary photography at the University of Miami, where he developed an appreciation for the work of Joseph Koudelka, who lived with nomadic gypsies in Europe, and Eugene Smith, who documented the ravages of Minamata disease in Japan -- "these incredible guys who were weaving some of this world that they were photographing into their own life."
"I really wanted to find a project that I could weave into my life and shoot it from the inside," Stess said.
In the summer of 1988, on a road trip to Maine, Stess and a friend stumbled across a crew of migrant workers raking blueberry fields near Milbridge, and he found his project.
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"Off Hours," gelatin silver print, circa 1994.
Photo courtesy of VoxPhotographs and Portland Museum of Art/© David Brooks Stess
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"Norman," circa 2002, gelatin silver print.
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"Raking Close Up, (John Boy)," circa 1999, gelatin silver print.
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David Stess, whose show of photographs of blueberry rakers on Maine barrens opens Saturday at the Portland Museum of Art.
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Cook Time: 15 minutes
1box Dreamfields Spaghetti
1pound boneless beef top sirloin steak, about 3/4 to 1 inch thick
2cloves garlic, minced
2tablespoons canola or vegetable oil, divided
3cups broccoli florets
1medium bell pepper, cut into 1/2-inch thick strips
1medium onion, cut into 8 wedges
2 to 3teaspoons minced fresh ginger
1serrano or other hot chili pepper, minced
1can (14 ounces) light coconut milk
1/4cup red curry chili pasteFinely chopped roasted peanuts (optional)
1. Cook pasta according to package directions. Drain; return to pan.
2. Meanwhile, cut steak in half lengthwise, then crosswise into 1/4-inch thick slices. Toss with garlic; set aside.
3. Heat 1-1/2 teaspoons oil in large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add half of beef; stir-fry 1 to 2 minutes or until outside of beef is no longer pink. Remove from skillet. Repeat with remaining beef and 1-1/2 teaspoons oil. Remove from skillet.
4. Add remaining 1 tablespoon oil to skillet. Add broccoli, bell pepper and onion. Cook and stir 1 minute. Add 1 to 2 tablespoons water; continue cooking and stirring 1 minute. Stir in ginger and chili pepper. Add combined coconut milk and curry paste to skillet. Bring to boil; reduce heat and simmer 3 to 5 minutes until vegetables are crisp-tender. Return beef to skillet; remove from heat.
5. Toss beef mixture with pasta. Garnish with peanuts, if desired.
Makes 6 to 8 servings.
Nutrition information (1/6 of recipe): 407 calories; 23 g protein; 13 g digestible carbohydrates*; 13 g total fat; 4 g saturated fat; 40 mg cholesterol; 483 mg sodium; 7 g total dietary fiber.
*If traditional pasta is used in this recipe there is a total of 53 g carbohydrate. For more information go to www.dreamfieldsfoods.com
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Zakaria focused on Afghanistan today on GPS. Among his guests were Steve Coll, president of New America Foundation, Rory Stewart, who once walked across Afghanistan, Barney Rubin, who was interviewed in December 2008 on Pakistan by Scott Horton. A part of that interview is above.
The debate about our role in Afghanistan, which must include an Af-Pak policy taking the countries together, will begin to intensify as Obama shifts resources and priorities. The Af-Pak region will be as important to Obama as the Middle East.
Re: the Gaza tunnels.
Laura Rozen on India gone missing from Holbrooke's brief.
Marc Lynch takes aim at HRC's likely choice to be Under-Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, which was reported by the Washington Post's Al Kamen.
Evidently, al Qaeda needs to read American nursery rhymes. You know, stick and stones, because trying to make Obama into Bush is a child's plan.
That was just a warm-up. In the weeks since, the terrorist group has unleashed a stream of verbal tirades against Barack Obama, each more venomous than the last. Obama has been called a "hypocrite," a "killer" of innocents, an "enemy of Muslims." He was even blamed for the Israeli military assault on Gaza, which began and ended before he took office.
"He kills your brothers and sisters in Gaza mercilessly and without affection," an al-Qaeda spokesman declared in a grainy Internet video this month. [...]
"They're highly uncertain about what they're getting in this new adversary," said Paul Pillar, a former CIA counterterrorism official who lectures on national security at Georgetown University. "For al-Qaeda, as a matter of image and tone, George W. Bush had been a near-perfect foil." …
Al Jazeera English was the network to watch during the latest war in Gaza, which for Americans was online:
American viewership of Al-Jazeera English rose dramatically during the Israel-Hamas war, partly because the channel had what CNN and other international networks didn't have: reporters inside Gaza. [...] Al-Jazeera had another draw: Its reporters were inside Gaza while international networks such as CNN were barred by Israel from sending reporters in throughout the entire war. Israeli TV focused mostly on Israeli casualty reports and Hamas rocket barrages. …
Another media story, The New York Times has a simple story of the Taliban using radio to terrorize.
Via the Arab Times comes the news story of the day: Gender equality pivotal to social development, says Kuwait delegate. The article cites the recent Israeli – Hamas war, making the point that it is women and children who sustain the most harm in these situations.
"The Kuwaiti government is making continuous efforts in cooperation with civil society institutions to enhance women's empowerment which bore fruit and led to an apparent positive transformation in the last few years," he said. "Kuwaiti women have been able to assert themselves in politics after gaining their full political rights in an effective way. They had the access to elections and leading political posts including ministerial portfolios," Al-Najem poited out. Kuwait pursues its determined efforts to achieve gender equality and women's empowerment in political decision-making in a bid to enhance social peace and stability. [...]
"All of us have to help Palestinian women play their due roles in the development of their society. Dealing with the Arab Economic, Social and Development Summit, hosted by Kuwait on January 19-20 in the presence of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Al-Najem said His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah announced during the summit a financial initiative to bail out the private sector and small and medium -size industries in the Arab countries.
"Kuwait pledged to offer $500 million to the total funds of dollar two billion of the initiative which has the ultimate goal of achieving socio-economic development," he pointed out, voicing hope that the initiative would promote empowerment for women. Kicked off on Jan 21 under the theme of " Empowerment of Women", NAM's second ministerial conference will come to a close later Saturday.
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Superstar to superstar. To Paul Newman, Elizabeth Taylor was "a functioning voluptuary … a courageous survivor, a helluva actress and someone I am extremely proud to know."
Even in the sanitized 1958 MGM version of Tennessee Williams's potent drama in which they costarred, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – with the sultry Newman as the drunkard ex-athlete Brick and an indelible Taylor as his neglected wife, Maggie the Cat – the two sent audiences' pulses racing. But they were more than simply sex symbols. Both proved themselves Academy Award-level actors and world-class humanitarians.
Now, sadly, they are both gone. Newman died at age 83, in 2008, and Taylor, at 79, early Wednesday morning.
Fortunately, their performances remain – as does a tribute Newman paid Taylor on behalf of Turner Classic Movies. (See the video below.)
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It's an honor bestowed on America's best-loved entertainers who've passed away – a commemorative U.S. postage stamp.
Elvis has one – the most popular U.S. stamp of all time, in fact. So do Marilyn Monroe and James Dean. As of Wednesday, Katharine Hepburn, who died in 2003, has one too.
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Julia Roberts, Jerry Seinfeld, Robert Redford, Bill Clinton, Harry Connick Jr. and Kristin Chenoweth helped deliver some serious star power to Monday's Lincoln Center gala in New York on behalf of Paul Newman's Hole in the Wall Camps and honor the beloved, late founder of the charity benefiting children with life-threatening medical conditions.
Among what they had to say about Newman, who died last year, was:
"We've done a lot of these galas," Julia Roberts said, after doing a dancing kick line with kids who have attended the camps. "And I've never stood up without my buddy Paul Newman. It seems so much easier to sing and dance and make a fool of yourself when he's right next to you. He encourages fun, more than any person I've ever met. "
"I went up to the camp and Paul had me eat my first oyster," Jerry Seinfeld said during a sidesplitting stand-up routine. "I had never had an oyster in my life. And he convinced me to eat one. And it was horrible and it was exciting. And I thought, this will be gross and I'll have a story: I had my first oyster with Paul Newman."
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Move over, Kevin Bacon. John Mayer has his own celebrity name game – and Paul Newman is the undisputed champ.
The singer-songwriter recently took to his blog to explain the game and, more importantly, to honor the late screen legend.
"I used to play this game with my friends where we'd try and figure out who the 'heaviest' legend was in terms of having the clout to bump another superstar from a reservation at a packed restaurant on a Saturday night," Mayer wrote. "It starts to get fun when ... [you're] bickering about whether Robert De Niro bumps Bob Dylan, or Springsteen bumps Bono."
But the game "quickly runs out of steam," he noted, "when you realize that nobody can top Paul Newman."
Mayer, who turns 31 in two weeks, signed off with an emphatic salute to the blue-eyed icon: "Nobody will ever be that cool again."
Originally posted 09/30/2008 05:15PM
Tom Hanks released a statement Tuesday remembering his Road to Perdition costar Paul Newman, who died at age 83:
"Paul Newman told me his hotel in Chicago was a room at the YMCA, which was not hard to imagine. He considered himself just another member of the acting company, who would call his wife during breaks and confess to feeling self-conscious on the first day of shooting. But he was Paul Newman, and could not mask the fact he was simply – yet elegantly – an extraordinary artist and man. How lucky we all have been."
Originally posted 09/30/2008 11:45AM
As fans continue to mourn the death of revered icon Paul Newman, one of the people closest to him – his older brother Arthur – is paying tribute to him.
"Beyond his place as a world famous 'super star,' his reputation as a top international racecar driver and rightful recognition as a most generous global philanthropist, Paul was my loyal and supportive brother for the past 83 years," Arthur said in a statement.
Since the actor's death last Friday, several stars and family members have offered condolences and recalled their fondest memories of the legendary actor.
Originally posted 09/29/2008 11:35AM
To honor Paul Newman's charitable spirit, some of Hollywood's biggest stars are lending their talent in support of one of his favorite projects.
Many of the late actor's famous friends – including Julia Roberts, Jack Nicholson, Tom Hanks, Warren Beatty and others – will stage a special benefit reading of The World of Nick Adams Monday, Oct. 27 at the Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco.
The event was planned before Newman's death, and will continue as planned, with proceeds benefiting The Painted Turtle, Newman's California camp for seriously ill children. The camp is part of Newman's many Hole in the Wall Camps. The participating stars will dedicate their performances to his memory.
Originally posted 09/28/2008 05:00PM
Friends for 41 years, legendary race-car driver Mario Andretti says one of the things he'll miss most about Paul Newman is his pal's sense of humor. The two were known to cook up bets and competitions just to amuse each other.
Originally posted 09/28/2008 11:00AM
In Hollywood, Paul Newman was royalty. But in Westport, Conn., where he
lived with his wife of 50 years, Joanne Woodward, he was just "a regular guy," says AJ
Izzo, part owner of Crossroads Hardware on Main Street, where Newman had
been a customer for more than 20 years.
"He'd walk in and say, 'How are you, AJ?' And I'd say, 'Hey, Paul.' He probably gave more than he took in life, and you don't find many people like that."
Newman, who will be remembered in town as upbeat, generous, and down-to-earth, often popped into the store to buy supplies to fix common household problems.
"He was a gadget guy in many ways,"" says Izzo. "He'd buy light bulbs or a new screw for a hinge just like an average guy would do."
Originally posted 09/27/2008 03:00PM
Paul Newman's lasting impact in Hollywood was more than evident Saturday, a day after the Oscar winner succumbed to cancer, as stars and pals alike expressed their sadness over his death.
"There is a point where feelings go beyond words," two-time costar Robert Redford said in a statement. "I have lost a real friend. My life – and this country – is better for his being in it."
The pair, who shared heartthrob status in their heyday, starred together in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in 1969 and again in The Sting, in 1973. A testament to their easygoing friendship: Redford famously gave Newman a dented, engine-less Porsche as a joke for his birthday one year. Newman repaid the favor by having the car crushed and sent back to the actor.
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I have been working at Quidel full-time for more than 3 years
Pros – Great culture, understanding middle managers, great products, excellent outlook.
Cons – Not much growth unless you are one of the "favorites".
Advice to Senior Management – Be more proactive with rewarding top talent.
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company
I have been working at Quidel
Pros – I rarely had to work overtime as a scientist which was a perk. Other than that it sucked.
Cons – Corporate does not care about its employees. Very hard to climb the corporate ladder.
Advice to Senior Management – Give more incentive to work here.
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend
I have been working at Quidel full-time for more than 5 years
Pros – My peers are fabulous and hardworking as long as management is not pitting us against each other.
Cons – No clear picture of the future and too many "chefs" in the kitchen. Instead of departments working together they all bad mouth one another and don't help each other. Quidel is a mid size company run as a small company with many people performing multiple functions. If they all played nicely and worked together it would be a fantastic company.
Advice to Senior Management – Give your employees some job security. Everyone is afraid of being the next Santa Clara and having their entire department or all of manufacturing not just all of SPG being moved to Ohio where labor is cheaper and doesn't ask so many questions.
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company
I have been working at Quidel
Pros – Some truly excellent people work for Quidel. The diversity of backgrounds and experiences people have before they come to this company is amazing; you will definitely gain valuable work experience here, and that is all.
Cons – Employees with bachelor's degrees in molecular biology and chemistry are making less on the hour than local cashiers at Kroger. The pay is substandard when compared to any other biotech company. Raises, when given, are laughable unless you happen to be employed in senior management.
If salary weren't already an issue, employees may find a reason to go elsewhere anyway. Quidel does not care about their employees. People live in fear of being fired at a moment's notice. I have heard several employees referring to their work lives by saying, "You just never know about this place," and "We're always walking on eggshells." Employees will not talk about their salaries to one another because it is a known fact that employees with comparable education and experience are hired at differing rates of pay. Quidel has fired employees for discussing salary with one another.
Recently, they "released" scientists in the research and development department (who had been stellar employees for 5 years) without so much as a day's notice while keeping an employee in the manufacturing department on in spite of a write up for harassment, even with a history of harassment allegations and after referral to anger management counseling.
Advice to Senior Management – If Quidel ever hopes to keep the talent they initially attract, this culture of totalitarianism, insecurity and favoritism cannot continue. With a business model based on respect and loyalty to employees as well as customers, the company could be one of the most promising in the world today. As it stands, the environment for employees in the manufacturing, research, and quality control departments, where the actual work is done, is shameful.
I have been working at Quidel full-time for more than 3 years
Pros – The people are the best asset the company has. Very easy to work with most other employees. Plenty of opportunities to grow as long as you apply yourself and work hard; don't expect advancement to be handed to you. Pay is comparable to other biotechs.
Cons – Some empoloyees are very difficult to work with: sacrificing practicality for pride/ego, ignoring/deflecting responsibilities, being disruptive with petty problems, etc.
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend
I worked at Quidel
Pros – A little hard to think of pros. I guess that some of the people that work at Quidel are nice.
Cons – As a temp, you will be treated completely second class. You won't be included in anything. The accounting and finance departments have horrible management and everyone knows it, but nothing is done about it. High turnover. It's more of a "cover yourself and help no one else" type environment.
Advice to Senior Management – Bring on new management.
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend
I have been working at Quidel full-time for more than 8 years
Pros – Good people do work here and make some good products. There are a few exceptional people who hold this place together.
Cons – Senior Management continues to blatantly communicate that the "haves" play by different rules than the "have nots."
Organization is top heavy more often than not.
Internal advancement is available so long as you are willing to be grossly underpaid.
HR is NOT looking out for you. Questionable tact in difficult situations.
"The help" feels the effects of leadership team mistakes.
Actual quote from CEO when informing company of no bonus payout a few years ago: "...I told my wife she's not getting a new BMW this year." Right. That makes it ok then.
Advice to Senior Management – Doug, you are a very sharp guy, and I do think the vision for the company is solid. However, there needs to be more focus given to restoring a positive culture. People do not like coming to work here anymore. You can only go to the whip so many times without positive feedback.
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend
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I worked at Quidel full-time for more than 3 years
Pros – There are opportunities to learn new things with a lot of work they had. Sometimes it was a bit too much.
Cons – They were unable to provide adequate training during the first few months. Managers played favorites with employees and my colleagues felt sorry for me.
Advice to Senior Management – Personality helps much more than you realize.
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company
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I worked at Quidel
Pros – They offer fair pay, and Interesting projects. There are many great people, and Quidel enjoys a solid reputation in the industry. If you are coming from R and D, and woud like to learn how a clinical diagnostics firm is run, they put a priority on getting new employees up to speed on regulatory issues.
Cons – Job security and lack of advancement may be an issue in some departments. Many companies in the biotech and diagnostics industry are having to re-assess priorities and direction as the corporate landscape changes. Quidel is no exception. As usual, some projects and divisions are seen as having growth potential. These are given priority when it comes to R and D and marketing expenditures. Other product lines and divisions are used to generate quick money with little emphasis on the future.
Advice to Senior Management – If a division or product line does not fit well with the current business model, it might be better for all involved to sell it off, rather than let it die.
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I worked at Quidel
Pros – Swine flu has truly expanded the awareness and importance of testing for influenza
Cons – Growing pains - moving from small company feel to corporate America
Advice to Senior Management – None
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A trip to the beach, because Indian Ocean!
When: Tuesday evening, also Friday evening
Where: Meet at bus stop 10388 (half way between St George's and Trinity colleges), travelling away from the city. To Cottesloe Beach, one of the best beaches in Perth.
When: Meet 6pm, There is a 5:55pm 102 bus (map), or a 6:12pm.
How much: The bus will be $4.20 full fare/$1.70 concession each way, try to bring coins, or a SmartRider card. Plus money for dinner at Cottesloe.
What to bring: Swimsuit if you have it, goggles, towel, thongs, beachball!
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BIG FISH, a new musical based on the novel by Daniel Wallace and the 2003 Columbia Pictures film written by John August, will star Norbert Leo Butz as Edward Bloom, and have its pre-Broadway world premiere at Chicago's Oriental Theatre (24 West Randolph Street) in a limited 5-week engagement beginning performances Tuesday, April 2, 2013, opening Sunday, April 21, 2013, and playing through Sunday, May 5, 2013. Tickets on sale Monday, February 4, 2013.
BIG FISH is directed and choreographed by five-time Tony Award winner Susan Stroman, with music and lyrics by Grammy and Tony Award nominee Andrew Lippa, a book by Grammy and BAFTA Award nominee John August, scenic design by Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award winner Julian Crouch, costume design by five-time Tony Award winner William Ivey Long, lighting design by two-time Tony Award winner Donald Holder, sound design by Los Angeles Drama Critics Award winner Jon Weston, with projection design by Drama Desk Award winner Benjamin Pearcy for 59 Productions. Big Fish is produced by Dan Jinks, Bruce Cohen and Stage Entertainment with Roy Furman, The Nederlander Organization, John Domo and Broadway Across America.
A rollicking fantasy set in the American South, Big Fish centers on the charismatic Edward Bloom, whose impossible stories of his epic adventures frustrate his son Will. As Edward's final chapter approaches, Will embarks on his own journey to find out who his father really is, revealing the man behind the myth, the truth from the tall tales. Overflowing with heart, humor and inventive stagecraft, Big Fish is an inspirational tribute to the power of family, dreaming big and the unpredictable adventure of life itself.
"Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions" by Daniel Wallace was first printed in 1998. In December 2003, a critically acclaimed film of Big Fish was released by Columbia Pictures directed by Tim Burton, starring Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lang and Helena Bonham Carter. The film was nominated for an Academy Award, Grammy Award, 4 Golden Globe Awards and 7 BAFTA Awards.
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HP should have listened to its CFONovember 20, 2012: 3:12 PM ET
Hewlett Packard's beleaguered chief financial officer, Cathie Lesjak, went to great lengths to voice her opposition of the Autonomy acquisition.
By James Bandler
FORTUNE -- Inevitably, after a scandal of this proportion breaks out, finger-pointing and blame-ducking commence immediately. Hewlett Packard's announcement Tuesday that it's taking an $8.8 billion hit on its $11 billion purchase of Autonomy is no exception. HP says the lion's share of the charge was related to "serious accounting improprieties" and "outright misrepresentations" at Autonomy, the British software maker it acquired in October 2011. The alleged accounting misdeeds, which HP says occurred before the acquisition, are being investigated in the U.S. by the SEC.
But there's at least one senior person who shouldn't be singled out for condemnation in this mess: HP's (HPQ) beleaguered chief financial officer, Cathie Lesjak.
In the summer of 2011, Lesjak earned the wrath of then CEO Leo Apotheker when she forcibly opposed the Autonomy takeover -- not because she suspected fraud, but because she believed the valuation absurd. Unable to get Apotheker to see her way, she took her case to the boardroom in a highly unusual and dramatic plea to scotch the deal.
As Fortune wrote in its May cover story How Hewlett-Packard lost its way:
"...with no warning to Apotheker, Lesjak made an impassioned case
against the acquisition before the board. "I can't support it," she
told the directors, according to a person who was present. "I don't
think it's a good idea. I don't think we're ready. I think it's too
expensive. I'm putting a line down. This is not in the best interests
of the company." Directors were shaken. Lesjak was considered a voice
of sobriety, and here she was on the verge of insubordination,
directly resisting a key element of her boss' strategy."
Lesjak's move was shocking (and Apotheker never forgave her for it) -- but ultimately she didn't carry the day. In August 2011, the board, which included Whitman as a newly appointed director, approved the Autonomy deal unanimously. A month later, Apotheker was out as CEO and Whitman was in.
You can bet she and the rest of the board wish they'd listened to Lesjak, who remains CFO.


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