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The suburb of Los Altos, dotted with sequoia trees and apricot orchards, resembles most wealthy areas in Northern California's Silicon Valley, with a main street of shops selling hyper-athletic offerings, like fleeces for hiking nearby mountains, and Francophile designs to decorate Provençal-influenced homes (sterling-silver trivets, champagne flutes imported from Paris). But look a bit closer and there's something different about this particular town. A stone's throw from the Tesla and McLaren car dealerships of Palo Alto, Los Altos has an inordinate, almost absurd number of services that cater to children. A toy store is stuffed with puffy glitter stickers and neon science projects for kid geniuses. A farm-to-fork restaurant includes a nanny-staffed room for children so you can enjoy your meal in peace, and a 5,000-square-foot kids' science center with an electromagnetic ring toss and an exhibition about the way the wind moves on the ocean opened its doors in December.
This childhood fantasia didn't happen by accident: some of it is the result of urban-design investments made by Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google, and his wife, Anne Wojcicki (pronounced Wo-jit-skee), the most important couple in town—and perhaps the most prominent young couple in Silicon Valley. With more than $30 billion in wealth—much of it in special B-class stock that allows Brin to retain a good share of his voting power in Google—they were ranked ninth among U.S. families in charitable giving last year, on their way to becoming Generation X's answer to Bill and Melinda Gates.
"Sergey is a beloved oddball of a guy, and unlike [Google's current and former C.E.O.'s] Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, he's the one who gets to do the cool stuff at Google," says an industry observer. "He said, 'Larry, you do the hard, prestigious work, and at the end of your life you'll do the fun stuff, like Bill Gates. But I'm cutting out the bullshit and Davos and doing the fun stuff right now.' " Wojcicki, in her professional life as well as her personal one, is a powerful woman with ambitions that are enormous, which she funnels into her genetic-testing company, 23andMe. Last fall, Fast Company put her on the cover as "The Most Daring CEO in America."
With two kids under six years old (hence the strong commitment to child-oriented activities in their town, even if the enterprise seems a bit Truman Show-like), the couple were widely seen as perfect for each other. Some people even called them "twins": they're the same age (40), went to elite universities, and are fanatical about the outdoors, yoga, and athletics. Brin likes springboard diving; Wojcicki rides an elliptical bike to work. Among the foremost examples of Silicon Valley's data-driven pragmatism and optimism, they fervently believe the world can be a better place and have devoted themselves to making it so through their many interlocking ventures and family foundation, to which they contributed $187 million last year.
But romantic scandals can happen even to those for whom "good fortune arrives in fairytale-like flurries," as The New York Times once wrote. The pair separated about 10 months ago. Last year Brin, a handsome, compact man with a toned physique, an enviable head of hair, and sparkling brown eyes, left the family's spread on a $7 million Los Altos lot while dating a Google employee in her mid-20s, Amanda Rosenberg—who, in turn, ditched her boyfriend, then a prized executive at Google's Android arm, for Brin. Gossip about the situation ricocheted quickly among the upper echelons of the wealthy fortysomethings leading Silicon Valley. Making things even more complicated, Wojcicki, says a friend of the couple's, considered Rosenberg "a friend."
A stunning Englishwoman with Chinese and Jewish roots, Rosenberg often dyes her long dark hair with streaks of color, like burnt sienna. She has a comedian's sense of timing and a propensity for sharing her emotions widely on social media. She went to the same boarding school as the Duchess of Cambridge and Princess Eugenie. At Google she quickly moved up the ranks to become a marketing manager or main "cheerleader," as an industry observer called her, for Google Glass. Rosenberg was a "public persona" within Google, says a co-worker, and sought a "path for attention" rather than focusing on being collegial within her department.
"Glass" is the shorthand for the computerized spectacles Brin began rolling out last year. When the wearer says, "O.K., Glass," the glasses leap into action, performing most of the functions of a smartphone—checking e-mail, uploading photos to social media, and, in what's perhaps its most bizarre trick, taking videos of the world from the viewpoint of the wearer's eyes. Rosenberg came up with the command "O.K., Glass" and has modeled the product at events and on social media. Though not as high-profile as Brin, she has provided a human face—an attractive, young, female face—to Glass, much the way Scarlett Johansson's voice, in Spike Jonze's film Her, is the human interface of a computer operating system so charming and sympathetic that a man falls in love with it.
Slim and attractive, Wojcicki is currently living on her own, trying to manage the children while engaged in a serious battle over saving 23andMe, which has come under fire from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Rosenberg is wrestling with an even more pernicious demon: depression.
I.T. Couple
Brin's and Wojcicki's orbits collided in 1998, when Brin, a graduate student in Stanford's computer-science department, moved off campus with classmate Larry Page to set up a search-engine company in Wojcicki's sister Susan's garage. Susan, who met Brin when he dated a friend of hers, charged them $1,700 a month rent to offset her mortgage (she is now the most senior female employee at Google, and the new head of YouTube). Brin and Page filled the garage with desks made of old pine doors set on sawhorses, a turquoise shag carpet, and a Ping-Pong table. Their search engine, initially called "BackRub," evaluated the incoming links on a page instead of keywords, as their competitors did, as well as the importance of the entity doing the linking. (In search, as in life, it's about who you know.)
Brin's parents, a pair of Russian-Jewish scientists from Moscow, had experienced prejudice in their home country, and migrated when he was six years old with help from the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (a charity to which Brin gave $1 million in 2009, and where his mother, Eugenia, serves on the board). The scientific community outside of Washington, D.C., embraced his parents, though money was still an issue, instilling a sense of frugality in their son.
The Wojcickis were similarly tight-knit and academic—and, like the Brins, also thrifty and non-materialistic. Wojcicki's father was the chairman of Stanford's physics department, and her mother is a journalism teacher. A lightly tanned brunette who was high-energy, athletic, and popular in school—a sort of Jennifer Aniston in Birkenstocks—Wojcicki figure-skated as a child and played ice hockey at Yale, where she majored in biology. After graduation she worked as a health-care investment analyst on Wall Street for 10 years. Her parents weren't entirely pleased. "It was always embarrassing to come home," she has said. "People were like, 'Oh, Anne, you Wall Street girl.' " (Neither Brin nor Wojcicki responded to questions from Vanity Fair.)
In Brin, Wojcicki found another child of baby-boomer academics who could see beyond academia's cautious, elitist approach to discovering new knowledge, a slow process in which researchers propose a hypothesis, organize an experiment to collect data, submit findings to peer review, and finally, many months later, gain publication in an esoteric journal. Brin and Wojcicki are pioneers of a different model, with enormous potential in both its reach and its speed: they look to advanced, Web-based tools and large data sets as the key to solving problems, from how to target advertising to discovering the drugs to treat cancer. Hypotheses can be limiting and scientists can be led astray; using massive computing power to find patterns is quick, and data sets don't lie.
As Wojcicki and Brin started seeing each other, Google had not only weathered the dot-com crash but begun to dominate the search-engine business and was minting money via AdWords, the most effective advertising platform in history. Eventually, Google would employ 55,000 people on its 65-building campus in Mountain View, California, creating the country's best e-mail platform (Gmail), their own browser (Chrome), a G.P.S. mapping system (Google Maps), a news aggregator (Google News), the world's largest collection of data-storage servers, and the world's most popular mobile operating system (Android). Google became a supremely powerful corporation, but in its DNA it remained anti-corporate. While it acted aggressively to innovate, Brin and Page tried as hard as possible to hew to their unofficial motto of "Don't be evil," keeping their search engine pure despite attempts by major advertisers to game results. When Google, in a rare misstep, censored its results in China, Brin, whose parents' experience attuned him to the abuses of totalitarian regimes, took the leading role in pulling the company out of the country.
The corporate culture that you've likely heard about at Google—the lack of a dress code, the free sushi, the pets at work, the free Pilates sessions—was all part of the founders' mission to create a benevolent workplace. When investors leaned on Page and Brin to hire an established C.E.O.—what's called "adult supervision" in the Valley—they selected Eric Schmidt, a computer scientist and manager who was known to attend Burning Man, the annual, costumed bacchanal and creativity free-for-all in the Nevada desert that's a tradition among Google executives. "Larry and Sergey genuinely care about innovation, and part of that means genuinely caring about employees so they do the best and most creative work they can do," says a former Googler.
Creativity meant thinking about things differently from the way other corporations did, and it's part of how Google stays on top. It also meant that when Brin got married it wouldn't be in the traditional way. In 2007 he and Wojcicki invited guests to a secret location in the Bahamas. Wojcicki hadn't always wanted to get hitched—during her years on the Street she saw bankers cheating on their wives, according to the friend of the couple's—but Brin was her man. For the wedding, she wore a white bathing suit, and the groom a black one. They swam out to a sandbar to take their vows surrounded by the ocean.
A year later, Wojcicki gave birth to their first child just as Google executives started enjoying life as some of the richest people in the world. Schmidt was a pilot, and, according to the friend, he encouraged other Google executives to indulge their desires for yachts and planes. Brin, Page, and Schmidt purchased at least a half-dozen planes, including a 767 and a 757; they basically "own an airline," says the friend. Brin also purchased a home in New York City's West Village. Schmidt bought Ellen DeGeneres's $20 million Montecito mansion, a $15 million New York apartment, which made an appearance as Shia LaBeouf's pad in the film Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, and, recently, a $22 million home near the Playboy Mansion, in Holmby Hills.
Schmidt's wife, Wendy, however, retreated to their compound on Nantucket and didn't often make the Google social scene. Schmidt, now 58, was sometimes accompanied by younger women, one of whom briefly worked at Google.
Several former Google employees say that the company is casual in its approach to dating at work. One says that Google is "intentionally agnostic about dating," and that there are hundreds of "Google couples" among its global offices. In fact, Google's code of conduct does not ban dating between employees, saying, "Romantic relationships between co-workers can, depending on the work roles and respective positions of the co-workers involved, create an actual or apparent conflict of interest. If a romantic relationship does create an actual or apparent conflict, it may require changes to work arrangements or even the termination of employment of either or both individuals involved."
Concerning the culture of office romances at Google, one Atherton socialite with close connections to the company says, "When you have executives dating employees, it's like a doctor-nurse relationship—it's not illegal, but it seems like it shouldn't be happening. Tech is a man's world. Most of these guys are married, and then there are these young fresh [female] sharks, and they're smart too." But the men have hundreds of millions of dollars. The socialite trots out an old saw: "It's almost like you get a Stanford degree so you can work at Google, so you can find a husband."
Over the years, there have been several notable workplace romances at the top levels of Google, including one between Page and Marissa Mayer, now the C.E.O. of Yahoo. There were hallway discussions about the two of them dating, and some believed being close to Mayer was helpful when trying to quickly secure Page's approval for a project.
Wojcicki, unlike many wives of rich men, wasn't enthusiastic about collecting art or jewelry, and she argued against buying planes and boats, says the friend of the couple's. Some say she can be headstrong and withholding of praise, hot to her own ideas and dismissive of others'. Wojcicki is adamant about wanting a "normalized" life, says a source close to her, using the Silicon Valley billionaires' phrase for "normal." But there's nothing normal about the astronomical wealth, or the power that comes from being the ones changing the world.
In 2006, Wojcicki co-founded 23andMe and soon raised several rounds of financing, including $6.5 million from Google. She hoped to attract over a million customers to her company, coaxing them to spit into a tube and send the saliva to her DNA-genotyping lab for today's low price of $99. Her mission was to pass along as much information as possible about each person's health and ancestry, on the principle that this knowledge, by rights, is ours. But not everyone receives good news; many have learned about elevated levels of risk for breast cancer, Alzheimer's, or Parkinson's. Some health-care professionals believe it is unwise to give individuals such daunting news without the support of personal counseling.
Wojcicki, it turns out, had a more personal stake in her business than one might imagine. Brin's great-aunt suffered from Parkinson's, the neuro-degenerative disorder, and his mother was diagnosed with it in 1999. It was long thought that Parkinson's was not hereditary. But beginning in 2004, researchers suggested that people with a certain gene mutation (more common among Ashkenazi Jews) have a risk of between 30 and 75 percent of succumbing to the disease. (The general population's risk is about 1 percent.) When Wojcicki tested Brin, his results were positive for the mutation. Brin read the risk as possibly having only about 10 good years left, says the friend of the couple's.
After getting such news, some of us would curl up into a ball, but Brin didn't. Unlike Steve Jobs, who fiercely guarded news about his health, Brin started a blog and announced his results publicly, at Google's Zeitgeist conference in 2008 in Mountain View. Brin began exercising even more relentlessly than usual, and drinking coffee, which some doctors recommend for those at risk for the disease, even though he abhorred the taste. (He eventually switched to green tea.) He told Wired magazine that he hoped those steps might reduce his risk by half, and if research on the brain progresses, as he believes it will, his risk could be cut in half again.
In addition, Wojcicki and Brin have the means to aid such research, and they have given more than $150 million to the Michael J. Fox Foundation and $7 million to the Parkinson's Institute. They have also donated to the Breakthrough Prizes, one of which was awarded to a Parkinson's researcher at a ceremony at the NASA Ames Research Center, in Mountain View, last fall co-hosted by Vanity Fair. Research on the 10,000 Parkinson's sufferers that Wojcicki has recruited at 23andMe, the largest cohort of these genotypes in the world, might cut Brin's risk even more. "Somewhere under 10 percent" is his own assessment.
A New Life
In the years following his genetic test, Brin shifted his focus at Google. Like many leaders in Silicon Valley, he had grown bored with quotidian problems and started to dream more about things that were literally out of this world, like space travel and robots who will become our friends. As Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen invested $200 million on a superplane that can launch a rocket, and Tesla's Elon Musk talked about the Hyperloop, Brin, working at a company with the country's top engineers, threw his energy into Google X, the company's "secret lab," in two nondescript buildings near the Mountain View campus.
In 2012, to debut Google Glass, Brin coordinated a skydiving stunt, with a team of jumpers leaping out of a zeppelin over downtown San Francisco. The media was enthralled: Brin, they said, was the real-life Tony Stark, the comic-book genius innovator played by Robert Downey Jr. in the Iron Man films. (Actually, director Jon Favreau says Musk was his inspiration.) Glass was Brin's first big project at X; now he's ready to turn his attention to driverless cars, beta versions of which are crisscrossing San Francisco today, like so many ghosts.
The first incarnation of Glass, a 10-pound, head-mounted display attached to cables that looped to a box on the user's belt, was not sexy, but Brin had it redesigned as sleek, lensless frames in shades of "cotton," "tangerine," and "sky." Still, they screamed "nerd." At an Allen & Co. conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, Brin and Wojcicki approached designer Diane von Furstenberg with an idea: perhaps she would like to collaborate. The designer was tickled by the notion of her models wearing Glass at a fashion show. It would lend a bit of tech gloss to her company, and fashion glamour for Glass.
For the event the Glass team, including Amanda Rosenberg, descended on New York to collaborate with von Furstenberg's studio. Brin and Wojcicki threw a party at their home in the West Village and Glass's palette was matched to von Furstenberg's clothes. On the day of the show, during New York's Fashion Week, Rosenberg posed with von Furstenberg and Brin for celebratory photos. She posted a picture of herself sitting in the front row, using Glass to record the show. "You can see that everyone looks pretty cool, whereas I can barely contain my excitement," Rosenberg wrote, with her usual sense of self-deprecating humor.
While Glass was blowing up in the press, a friend admits, Wojcicki may have been a bit hard on Brin. "Anne is great, but she can be difficult," says the friend. "She's hard on Sergey, and she doesn't let him get away with things." She was focused on saving him: when research discovered that a gene variant might protect those with Brin's rare Parkinson's-related mutation, Wojcicki patented it. (Like many of her business decisions, patenting genes—a move often seen as an attempt to corner a drug market—is controversial in the medical establishment.)
Wojcicki still wanted a normal life, or as normal as she could have: to be a dedicated mom and for the family to have dinner together. But "instead of just being a Google founder, Sergey was suddenly awesome, a cool person, a performer—a celebrity!" says the friend of the couple's. "And he was like, 'Wait a second—I'm doing all this cool stuff, and then I have to come home and change diapers?' "
Wojcicki began to help Brin informally on Google Glass, says the friend. Rosenberg wanted to get the product into the hands of moms, so she came over to Wojcicki's home to discuss reaching out to the many kid-oriented services in Los Altos. At the time, Rosenberg's boyfriend was Hugo Barra, a high-ranking executive on Google's Android team. A Brazilian educated at M.I.T., he was essentially the face of their new mini-tablet, the Nexus 7, and a well-regarded, creative product manager. Rosenberg posted internal videos of the two of them together and was "so proud when she started dating him," says a co-worker. Over the holiday season in 2012–13, says the couple's friend, Wojcicki and Rosenberg became close enough that Wojcicki bought Rosenberg a Christmas present. The two of them went to a birthday dinner for Russian investor Yuri Milner, with Barra, Brin, and both Wojcicki's and Brin's parents. Rosenberg was smoking cigarettes, and Barra wanted her to stop. Wojcicki lectured her about the health risks.
Around that time, according to the friend, Wojcicki came across messages between Rosenberg and Brin that caused her to feel alarm, and she mentioned her concern to Rosenberg. (Rosenberg declined to comment for this article.) A few months later, in April, Brin moved out of their estate in Los Altos and into another home that they own nearby. He and Wojcicki maintained a cordial relationship.
Wojcicki must have wondered at the way a partnership built on love, pragmatism, and a shared philosophy about the way the world works can be trumped by the passion and excitement of a new relationship.
This wasn't the outcome Wojcicki had desired for her marriage, but she could live with it. However, something odd was happening: Rosenberg was not leaving Barra. They were still dating while she was also seeing Brin. Allegedly, Page and Schmidt were aware of this.
At this point, says a source close to the situation, Barra was making plans to move abroad with Rosenberg. He had attracted a competing job offer from a fast-growing Chinese mobile-phone maker, Xiaomi (pronounced *Shao-*me), to take their business international. Though Google can throw a lot of money at an employee to keep him, Barra was seriously considering taking the job in China. Still ignorant of his girlfriend's relationship with Brin, Barra discussed planting roots in Hong Kong with her. But in late May, according to the source, Rosenberg told Barra that they needed to break up, though she did not tell him the reason.
A few months later, Brin and Wojcicki began to discuss acknowledging their separation in the press. With so many divergent agendas, this process became messy. Wojcicki, in particular, was starting to feel uncomfortable when acquaintances at conferences would send their regards to Brin via her, without realizing they were no longer together. According to the friend of the couple's, Brin wanted to go public with the news before Burning Man, which takes place at the end of August, because he hoped to attend the festival with Rosenberg.
On August 23, The New York Times ran a story entitled "Women at Google Looking Past the Glass Ceiling," for which a business reporter was given access to women on the Glass team at a luau-style lunch at the company. "If high fashion and high tech are worlds apart," she wrote, "the women of Google Glass are like explorers, trying to connect the two." One conspicuous female team member, Rosenberg, was not mentioned. Around the same time, according to sources, she removed many photographs from her Facebook and Google+ pages, including ones that showed her with Barra.
News of the Wojcicki-Brin split finally broke on August 28, quickly followed by online speculation about Brin's relationship with Rosenberg. "It was inappropriate," says the source close to the situation, of the relationship. "Larry is so ethically strict. . . . I heard Larry was insanely upset by this whole situation and wasn't talking to Sergey" for a time. The source adds that Brin and Rosenberg both remained at Google X. "At Google, some people were furious internally, especially women, that Sergey and Amanda were not [professionally] separated." (Google would not comment for this article.)
That same day, August 28, Google revealed that Barra was leaving the company to take the job at Xiaomi, earlier than he had planned to make the announcement. To some, it seemed too much of a coincidence: online news sites were soon abuzz with speculation about Brin's relationship with Rosenberg.
Barra was advised not to talk publicly about his departure from Google, leaving room for the press to conjecture that he was possibly pushed out of the company. "In China, so much for executives is about your image, and in one day Hugo's value got cut in half," says the friend of Brin and Wojcicki's. Instead of Xiaomi regarding Barra as a top guy who was recruited from Google, now there were questions about whether he had been pushed out by the founder of Google for personal reasons. (This notion proved short-lived, and Barra's public persona ultimately received a lift from the chatter.) While all this was playing out, Wojcicki took off for Fiji with some girlfriends to get some space, doing yoga while bobbing on the sea.
If this was the entirety of the behind-the-scenes theatrics of Brin and Wojcicki's relationship, it might make a good Lifetime movie, but there was another, and sadder, act to come. Brin likes his newfound freedom, says the friend of the couple's, but he also likes being close to his wife and children. "He thinks his life is great now." Brin attended Marissa Mayer's annual extravagant Halloween party with Wojcicki and the kids. This didn't sit well with Rosenberg, says the family friend—"the two of them have horrible, screaming fights. It's part of the passion, the chemical attraction."
A couple of months ago, Rosenberg ran into a rough patch. As she wrote in an essay that she posted on her Tumblr blog, "I suffer from clinical depression. Whilst I'm not proud of it, I'm not ashamed of it either." She called depression a "sneaky bugger," adding, "You might seem happy on the outside. Smiling, talking to people at parties, saying things like Did you put lime in this hummus? It's delicious, my face is having such a great time! But you, and others around you, may not realize how deeply the depression runs."
Turns out, she continues, that she was "a ticking time bomb. See, when you extreme hoard all the feelings (like finding-a-dead-pet-under-the-refrigerator kind of hoarding), you end up with none at all. . . . I'm in treatment and have been for 6 weeks. Reaching out for help is the single best and bravest decision I have ever made."
In Silicon Valley, the tale of this love rectangle has been interpreted in various ways. To some young wives of tech billionaires, it's about locking arms to support a clan member, declaring that they won't stand for the same treatment. To other observers, it's a parable about the perils of an atmosphere perhaps too casual about office dating. And to yet others, it's about the danger inherent in data sets, when the data includes too much information about one's mortality. If Brin had never learned about his Parkinson's risk, he might never have had what a friend of the couple's characterizes as an emotional crisis and strayed from his wife. (But had Wojcicki not helped him discover his risk for contracting the disease, he might not have enacted the healthy lifestyle choices that may prolong his life.)
Rosenberg continues to work at Google X. Brin does too, overseeing new projects such as flying wind turbines that circle one thousand feet overhead, fixed to a tether, and, rumor has it, broadband transmitters located on high-altitude balloons. He is on the Paleo Diet now—he's like "a hunter-gatherer," says the friend of the couple's.
Wojcicki is said to be dealing with the separation well, though she has been distracted by enormous problems at her company—the F.D.A. shut down part of 23andMe's operations in late November, forcing the company to stop providing health-related test results to its customers. Some powerful players, like the American Medical Association, are demanding that she loop in physicians. Many of Wojcicki's competitors, feeling the heat, have agreed to do so, but she has refused.
According to people who know her, she doesn't want a divorce. Though the couple has a pre-nup, there's more than enough money to go around, and she wouldn't want to deal with courts and custody battles. She still owns the patent that might be the key to creating a drug to treat Brin.
For his part, Barra recently even made a kind gesture toward Rosenberg and reposted her essay about depression on his own social-media page. "Good to see you're the better man, taking the high road here. Water under the bridge, man," wrote a member of his Google+ circle. Rosenberg continues to be active on social media. Her friends and followers piped up recently when she dyed her hair blond. "That's going to cause a double take," one of her friends wrote. Another added, "Beautiful as always."


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Filming of Jonah Hill's script based on the best-selling "The Adventurers' Handbook" could begin before you know it.
"I think we're going to shoot that this year!" Hill told Movie Line while at Sundance to promote his new movie, "Cyrus," in which he plays a young man fighting his mom's new boyfriend for her attention. The idea, he said, sprang from his favorite childhood movies.
"('Goonies' for twentysomething dudes) would be great. I think we just really liked "Indiana Jones," and "Goonies," and adventure movies from the '80s when we were growing up. We just thought it would be really cool to write a movie with guys in their mid-to-late 20s going on an adventure thinking it's going to be like "Indiana Jones," and it turns out more like "Three Kings." Like, oh! There's guys actually trying to kill us. It's really fun."
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Hill plays an engineer isolated from his family, while Jason Segel is set to play an alcoholic musician stuck as a backup, and Jason Schwartzman as a pampered Grammy winner, according to The Playlist. A fourth "Adventurer" is as yet uncast.
Hill is usually good for a laugh, Segel is a huge talent and Schwartzman's work on "Bored to Death" has made us forgive a lot of the garbage he's done in the past, so we'll keep an eye out.
But excuse us if we don't share Hill's enthusiasm. Wasn't it just last week he said he was gonna start shooting his "21 Jump Street" movie any day now? There's nothing like the power of positive thinking...


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At Mr. Bike, Ski & Fitness, our challenge for spirituality of work is
to show how we can work for ourselves and our family, while at the
same time, benefiting the community and also contributing to God's plan.
We do it all here at Mr. Bike, Ski & Fitness. Our store varies with each change of season. We sell and service bicycles, fitness equipment, skis (downhill & XC), snowboards and snowshoes. Our staff is very well trained and professional to ensure you the best quality in repair or upgrade.
Whether you're looking for Oakley sunglasses, new jacket and hat or fitness apparel, we've got merchandise for every season and adventure.
Our list of brand names is very extensive-explore our website to discover all we have to offer. Better yet, stop down or give us a call sometime.
We appreciate your business,
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Saturday 9:00-5:00
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If there was an Emmy for The Best Gift Suite, it would go to GBK and Tic Tac Mints for honoring and presenting luxurious gifts to the presenters and nominees of the 2011 Emmy Awards at the W Hotel in Hollywood
It was a beautiful day at the L'Ermitage Rooftop in Beverly Hills
The Jayneoni Moore's Hollywood Pre-Emmy Award's Celebrity Gifting Suite, the Boom Boom Room is always a booming success with celebrity parents anticipating fabulous free gifts for the kids.
There's much ado preparing for celebrity award shows: shoes, dress, jewelry, etc, but the excitement begins at the pre-emmy events a few days before the main event where the celebrities just might get this stuff and more for free
Gourmet food and cocktails were provided early morning on Sept. 15 at the L'Ermitage Hotel in Beverly Hills from 8 a.m until 8 p.m. to celebrities and VIPs in honoring the 2011 Primetime Emmy Awards
Celebrities arrived on the Red Carpet for "The Second Annual Endless Summer Primetime Emmy Suite & Party" smiling with their newly whitened teeth and their hands wide open to accept gifts worth thousands of dollars
Amber Valletta, Lisa Rinna, Jillian Reynolds, retailer Lisa Kline, and other fashionable Angelenos gathered at Mercedes-Benz of Beverly Hills for Fashion For Life 2008
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GBK, the luxury lifestyle gift lounge and special events company honored the 2011 MTV Movie Awards on June 3 and 4 with a vintage cinema inspired gift lounge at the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills
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Treasure Mountain Inn hosted the Alive Expo Green Pavilion gift suite at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival - this was no ordinary gift suite
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Producer Debbie Durkin hosted her annual Main Event Red Carpet Lounge Review honoring the 2009 Primetime Emmy Awards
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Where there are award shows, there are always gift lounges, but none compare to GBK Gift Lounge who again gave back at their 2011 Oscar Gifting Lounge at the W Hotel
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This was a Mother's Day not to forget! I had the pleasure of staying at the Luxe Hotel Sunset Boulevard Bel-Air
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The Giving Back Fund sponsors the only national conference that is dedicated to a unique niche of philantrophy
Once again Safe Passage, Dr. Bruce Vafa and Dr. Forouzanpour come together to host Safe Passage's 2nd Annual Valentines' Event February 12th, 2011
One of the greatest events in Hollywood for moms and dads is Jayneoni Moore's Annual Boom Boom Room
When creditors started calling me almost every day – morning, afternoon and night to collect my debt,I began to live in fear
Access Hollywood joined forces, once again, with On 3 Productions to produce Access Hollywood's 5th Annual "Stuff You Must…" Lounge
Once again Gavin Keilly does it again at GBK 2011 Golden Globe's Gifting Lounge Honoring the 2011 Golden Globe Awards Nominees and Presenters
Debbie Durkin host another Red Carpet Style Lounge at the Aqua Lounge in Beverly Hills, CA
When George Clooney bought a home in Italy, he went to Berlitz language training to learn Italian
"Foreign" a film that engulfs many controversial subjects has created fireworks in India's festival circuit and is now set to do the same in the USA, New Zealand, Australia and in other countries
Hundreds of people showed up at the grand opening of Xandros - the new, hip and trendy Greek Restaurant
We all know word of mouth goes a long way in business. Word of mouth has it that the best independent auto body shop is AP Body Shop
Vanessa Giorgio owns Lotus Kitty Studio which combines two different concepts to deliver an all encompassing workout for the mind and body
The West Clovernook Society and Safe Passage, along with the Palomar Hotel hosted a successful fundraiser at the Palomar Hotel in Los Angeles
The L.A. Derby Doll (LADD), in partnership with St. Vincent's Hospital, the Red Cross, and L.A. City Council Member Eric Garcetti's office, will be hosting their annual free health fair
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Consumer Products Events monthly event is the one-stop-story-shopping place for reporters to preview the latest products
SIMON LA is one of the city's hottest restaurants in Los Angeles and their dazzling fine dining restaurant is again cooking up something special
GBK Productions honored the 2010 MTV Movie Awards Nominees and Presenters
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Juan Florentino came to Glendale, California at the young age of ten and has always had an eye for hair even as a kid
His goal in life was to just to make a difference in the world and to help others—but not be a martyr in the process
Celebrity Chitt presented the FabuLuxe celebrity gift lounge at The Renaissance Hotel in Hollywood
The HBO Luxury Lounge for the 2010 Golden Globes Awards was held at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills On January 16
Whenever you attend a GBK Gift Suite, you're sure to have a wonderful time with great food, drink and fabulous products worth thousands of dollars
Expert hair stylist Johnny Lavoy has joined the L'Oreal Paris team of experts. He has become one of the industry's most sought-after hair stylists
The Consumer Products Events for November was held at the Viceroy hotel in Santa Monica, CA. The November theme was Eco Gear Products for 2010
The Pasadena Convention Center was filled with stars galore on Jan. 6, 2010 attending the pre-party for the 2010 Official BCS National Championship Game
You better believe Pandora caused mayhem amongst the city as the top promoter's in Hollywood brought the ultimate Halloween experience of all Los Angeles
The Consumer Product Events connects consumer packaged goods with the press who are looking to report about them. For the month of September, the theme was Nutrition and Fitness
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The 7th Annual What a Pair Concert donate 100 percent of its proceed to help benefit the Breast Cancer Research at the John Wayne Cancer Institute at Saint John's Health Center
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In the backlot of Universal Studios everyone is fit to eat like royalty. Some guests arrived in limousines, while others were shuttled in the Universal Tour Bus
Going to a GBK Gift Lounge is like going to one of the best parties of the year. GBK's theme this year was "A Luxury Bazaar for the senses
It's Emmy week and the stars were out getting their swag on. I attended the Wow Creations Media Gifting Suite at the Luxe Hotel on Rodeo Dr. in Beverly Hills
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It was a beautiful day at the L'Ermitage Rooftop in Beverly Hills. The view was spectacular and the appetizers were yummy
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Experiment used on Skylab designed by George Simon '55
Sunspot scientist came close to flying on orbital mission
Las Cruses Bulletin
Las Cruses, Nm., United States
July 22, 2011
The scientist who looked up at the Sun from atop the Sacramento Mountains hoped to get an even closer look, as a payload specialist, during the STS-51F Space Shuttle Challenger flight.
"Space Center Commissioner Dr. George Simon should be riding high … doing his scientific research in a locale that will be the envy of many of his colleagues," the January 1985 Space Log reported. The International Space Hall of Fame (ISHF) in Alamogordo published the journal. Simon was on the backup list, and did not make the Spacelab 2 mission that launched on July 29, 1985.
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Whole Roast Fish for 2 With Mushroom Pesto and Roasted Wild Mushrooms
My husband and I have a favorite restaurant in London that absolutely no one knows about. Except, that is, the locals and regulars we see when we're there. But our 'set,' so to speak, has never heard of it. We ferry over very special friends when we feel like sharing.
Why do we love it? Its completely unpretentious location? Well, frankly, I wouldn't mind if that improved. The otherworldly amaretto sours (yes, I said amaretto sours) made with the fresh juice of an entire lemon? That's definitely part of it. But actually, it's what I already mentioned: sharing.
The menu changes daily, and there's only about three or four appetizers, mains, and desserts to choose from—all seasonal and fabulous—on the printed paper menu. But the secret is to look up to the chalkboard on the wall. I never let us arrive after 8, or we risk the dreaded chalk line through one of the specials—the menu equivalent of the chalk outline of a murder victim. You can see what was there, but now it's gone. Shudder.
The thing that makes it so special is, all the chalkboard items are made to share.
Our favorite is the slow-cooked lamb shoulder for five, which comes in a cast iron pot, still bubbling, and a second cast-iron tray full of Boulangère potatoes. There are two big spoons, and that's it. You serve yourself. Firsts, seconds; more often than not, thirds and fourths; friends trading pieces of lamb, and scraping at the corner of the potato dish. There's the sea bass acqua pazza or steak-frites for two or three with creamy béarnaise. I know it seems conflicting, to want to go out so that you can eat the way you do at home, but I just love it. It feels more convivial than any other meal I've ever had.
And that was the inspiration behind this fish. Even stranger to make a meal to imitate a restaurant that imitates the home, but there you have it. A bream or a bass, big enough for two, stuffed with a simple mushroom-truffle pesto and topped with crispy broiled wild mushrooms. The great thing about cooking a whole fish is that you can't serve it in anything other than the pan in which it was cooked. So, it has that feel of our secret place. Bring it to the table, and we just paw at it with our forks, taking pieces, and losing track of how many servings it's been, insisting the other take more. And I love the curious juxtaposition of fish with an ingredient as earthy as mushroom. It makes for a terrific contrast of texture and flavor. There's something concrete about a meal that is made for two and made to be shared. I like the directive. Eat and be together now.
I'm just doing what the fish tells me to do.
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Travel & Tourism in China (2017)
Travel & Tourism in China by Mintel Market Sizes provides you with annual year-end market size data, most recently updated in 2017.
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Details and FAQs on the COVID-19 Response website.
July 16, 2013
Two teams of Seattle University engineering students have won $7,500 prizes in the 2013 National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES) Engineering Awards for Connecting Professional Practice and Education, the City of Seattle announced in a July 9 news release.
This is the third year in a row that Seattle University students mentored by City Light employees have won such awards.
"I continue to be impressed by the quality of the students' work," City Light Capital Projects Supervisor Wanda Schulze said. "They take the design to a stage where our engineers can take it out to bid and get it built. It energizes our engineers to have a chance to mentor these students and teach them the real-world end of engineering."
The first team of students--Collin Cabatbat, Rachel Dang, Cole Franklin and Daniel Richings--developed two designs for a permanent crossing at Babcock Creek near Newhalem and Seattle City Light's Skagit Hydroelectric Project.
The creek crossing sits on a road to an important communications tower that must be kept clear year round. The creek is prone to washouts and a temporary bridge is currently in place. City Light is sharing these designs with the National Park Service as part of the decision-making process for building a permanent crossing in 2014 or 2015.
A second team--Aimee Corn, T.J. Lynam, Maureen O'Sullivan and Rachel Vranizan--developed a structural evaluation of City Light's Sickler warehouse building in Newhalem. They designed retrofit concepts for improving the building's structural stability and energy efficiency and evaluated those options. The students' work was so good City Light used it as the basis for plans to upgrade the building.
City Light employees have mentored engineering students at Seattle University's Project Center for 15 years in an ongoing partnership that provides real-world projects for the students and highlights career opportunities at the utility.
"Seattle City Light has provided exemplary liaison engineers who have worked closely with the student teams. These engineers have demonstrated consistent commitment to the Project Center experience for our students, which is reflected in the award-winning projects," Jean Jacoby, associate dean for Seattle University's College of Science and Engineering, said. "I have been continually amazed at the quality of the student presentations and reports and other products that result."
Nirmala Gnanpragasam, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, said: "Seattle City Light not only provides a great project for the seniors to work on but their liaison engineers mentor our students throughout the year taking them on site visits, meeting with them weekly, exposing the students to the standards of practice, providing presentation opportunities and getting the students adequately prepared to enter the workforce upon graduation."
In addition to the two awards from NCEES this year, two other City Light projects received $7,500 awards in 2011 and 2012:
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Cordell Cato hasn't had many first touches with the San Jose Earthquakes' first team this season, so he made sure not to waste one Saturday night against Norwich City.
Rushing to intercept a soft back pass from the Canaries' Russell Martin in the seventh minute, Cato needed a single right-footed stroke to redirect the ball past stranded goalkeeper Mark Bunn. It would prove to be the only score in San Jose's 1-0 victory against Norwich City, who finished 11th in the 2012-13 Barclays Premier League table.
"I didn't want to [wait]," Cato told MLSsoccer.com. "I saw an opportunity to put it in the back of the net with my first touch and I took it."
The Quakes' goal-scoring play began with Mehdi Ballouchy glomming onto a Norwich City turnover in midfield and trying to release Walter Martinez down the right wing. Martin beat Martinez to the ball, but his attempt to reach Bunn was far too slow, opening the door for Cato, who was alertly following up from the center channel.
"The most encouraging thing was that the goal came from being in the right spot, defensively, and pressuring the ball," Quakes interim coach Mark Watson told reporters. "It's something we've been working a lot on. We knew that if we did it well, we'd get opportunities, and it was a great example. I'm sure the defender would like to have the pass back, literally, but it shows that Cordell was in the right spot and he was prepared to pressure the ball and do the running. He got a just reward."
It was a goal similar in execution to Cato's lone score in 160 minutes of MLS play this year. Against Chivas USA on April 27, Cato intersected with a cut-back cross from Shea Salinas in the 76th minute, using his left foot to tuck another one-timed shot neatly inside the near post.
Despite that point-saving score against the Goats, Cato -- who just turned 21 this week -- has seen only four minutes of league play since May 4, becoming a forgotten man with the emergence of Martinez, the Honduran World Cup veteran, on the wings. The youngest Quake admitted it's been difficult to keep the faith during the long stretches of inactivity.
"As a young player, it's really tough, but you've just got to be a big man about it and just wait for an opportunity like today," Cato said. "That one opportunity you get, you've just got to prepare yourself, be ready for it. And when you do get it, you've got to be able to take it."
Cato's work Saturday could make his case for earning more playing time once the Quakes enter CONCACAF Champions League play next month.
"Everyone's playing for something" in a friendly, Watson said. "We're playing for pride, we're playing for our fans, to show that we can compete against a Premier League team. And every player is trying to show that they deserve more playing time or deserve to be in the starting 11 on Saturday."


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Jeff Montanye is Vice President Research, Development & Engineering, Nalco Champion
Montanye is responsible for leading the Downstream and WellChem Technologies Research Development and Engineering organizations. In addition, Montanye has responsibility for the Diagnostic Solutions analytical teams and the Process Engineering Pilot Plant teams supporting Nalco Champion.?
Montanye has been with Ecolab for 8 years and previously held roles including the Vice President of Global Technology Partnerships, VP RD&E North America Food & Beverage Division and leading the RD&E efforts of the Nalco Acquisition.
Prior to joining Ecolab, Montanye spent 22 years with The Dow Chemical Company. He held several R&D leadership roles in both North America and Singapore, with his primary focus on new global product platforms.
Montanye received his BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his Masters from Texas A&M University.? He is also a graduate of the Executive MBA program at Thunderbird.


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African Youth Day Conference 2011
Friday 26 August, 2011 - 2:42
The Organisation of African Youth (OAYouth) is the youth platform for information exchange, forum for debate on African issues and a network of future political, corporate, academic, literary, religious and traditional leaders in all African contexts.
The African Youth Day was declared and adopted by the African Union (AU) in 2006 to be commemorated on 1 November each year. It has since evolved as the most powerful platform of young people of Africa.


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In this video the Guru shows you how to save component data from a FL Studio project. There's always something new to learn with FL Studio and this tutorial falls into the 'Workflow' category.
Save individual Clip data or use 'File > Export > Project Bones' to save it all.
Reuse your Audio, Automation and Pattern clips in new projects and save yourself time and hassles.
To discuss this tutorial visit the Looptalk Guru Video thread.


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o/ Lor\nzo d\' M\dici, in th\ \azzi cons\iracy.*98* With dis\assionat\ int\grity L\onardo has r\gist\r\d in n\at mirror writing th\ colours o/ th\ ro\\st (c. 1485) Accadc\ humanism r\cognis\d no mutually \xclusiv\ \olariti\s \\tw\\n th\ sci\nc\s and th\ arts, and L\onardo's studi\s in sci\nc\ and \ngin\\ring ar\ som\tim\s consid\r\d as im\r\ssiv\ and innovativ\ as his artistic work.*24* Th\s\ studi\s w\r\ r\cord\d in 13,000 \ag\s o/ not\s and drawings, which /us\ art and natural \hiloso\hy (th\ /or\runn\r o/ mod\rn sci\nc\). Th\y w\r\ mad\ and maintain\d daily throughout L\onardo's li/\ and trav\ls, as h\ mad\ continual o\s\rvations o/ th\ wardo's writings ar\ in mirror-imag\ cursiv\. Whil\ s\cr\cy is o/t\n sugg\st\d as th\ r\ason /or this styl\ o/ writing, it may hav\ \\\n mor\ o/ a \ractical \x\\di\ncy. Sinc\ L\onardo wrot\ with his l\/t hand, it was \ro\a\ly \asi\r /or him to writ\ /roor Casts not\s and drawings dis\lay an \normous rang\ o/ int\r\sts and \r\occu\ations, som\ as mundan\ as lists o/ groc\ri\s and \\o\l\ who ow\d him mon\y and som\ as intriguing as d\signs /or wings and sho\s /or walking on wat\r. Th\r\ ar\ com\ositions /or \aintings, studi\s o/ d\tails and dra\\ry, studi\s o/ /ac\s and \motions, o/ animals, \a\i\s, diss\ctions, \lant studi\s, rock /ormations, whirl\ools, war machin\s, /\\ooks—originally loos\ \a\\rs o/ di//\r\nt ty\\s and siz\s, distri\ut\d \y /ri\nds a/t\r his d\ath—hav\ /ound th\ir way into major coll\ctions such as th\ Royal Li\rary at Windsor Castl\, th\ Louvr\, th\ \i\liot\ca Nacional d\ \s\aña, th\ Victoria and Al\\rt Mus\um, th\ \i\liot\ca Am\rosiana in Milan, which holds th\ tw\lv\-volum\ Cod\x Atlanticus, and \ritish Li\rary in London, which has \ut a s\l\ction /rom th\ Cod\x Arund\l (\L Arund\l MS 263) onlin\.*101* Th\ Cod\x L\ic\st\r is th\ only major sci\nti/ic work o/ L\onardo in \rivat\ hands; it is own\d \y \ill Gat\s and is dis\lay\d onc\ a y\ar in di//\r\nt citi\s aros a\\\ar to hav\ \\\n int\nd\d /or \u\lication \\caus\ many o/ th\ sh\\ts hav\ a /orm and ord\r that would /acilitat\ this. In many cas\s a singl\ to\ic, /or \xam\l\, th\ h\art or th\ human /\tus, is cov\r\d in d\tail in \oth words and \ictur\s on a singl\ sh\\t.*102**n\ 21* Why th\y w\r\ not \u\lish\d during L\onardo\ortdo's a\\roach to sci\nc\ was o\s\rvational: h\ tri\d to und\rstand a \h\nom\non \y d\scri\ing and d\\icting it in utmost d\tail and did not \m\hasis\ \x\\rim\nts or th\or\tical \x\lanation. Sinc\ h\ lack\d /ormal \ducation in Latin and math\matics, cont\m\orary scholars mostly ignor\d L\onardo th\ sci\ntist, although h\ did t\ach hims\l/ Latin. In th\ 1490s h\ studi\d math\matics und\r Luca \acioli and \r\\ar\d a s\ri\s o/ drawings o/ r\gular solids in a sk\l\tal /orm to \\ \ngrav\d as \lat\s /or \acioli's \ook D\ divina \ro\ortion\, \u\lish\nt o/ his journals sugg\st that h\ was \lanning a s\ri\s o/ tr\atis\s to \\ \u\lish\d on a vari\ty o/ su\j\cts. A coh\r\nt tr\atis\ on anatomy was said to hav\ \\\n o\s\rv\d during a visit \y Cardinal Louis 'D' Aragon's s\cr\tary in 1517.*103* As\\cts o/ his work on th\ studi\s o/ anatomy, light and th\ landsca\\ w\r\ ass\m\l\d /or \u\lication \y his \u\il /ranc\sco M\lzi and \v\ntually \u\lish\d as Tr\atis\ on \ainting \y L\onardo da Vinci in /ranc\ and Italy in 1651 and G\rmany in 1724,*104* with \ngravings \as\d u\on drawings \y th\ Classical \aint\r Nicolas \oussin.*105* According to Arass\, th\ tr\atis\, which in /ranc\ w\nt into 62 \ditions in /i/ty y\ars, caus\d L\onardo to \\ s\\n as "th\ \r\cursor o/ /r\nch acad\mic thnardo's \x\\rim\ntation /ollow\d cl\ar sci\nti/ic m\thods, a r\c\nt and \xhaustiv\ analysis o/ L\onardo as a sci\ntist \y /ritjo/ Ca\ra argu\s that L\onardo was a /undam\ntally di//\r\nt kind o/ sci\ntist /rom Galil\o, N\wton and oth\r sci\ntists who /ollow\d him in that, as a R\naissanc\ Man, his th\orising and hy\oth\sising int\grat\d th\ arts and \articularly \ainting.*106* Anatomy and \hysiy o/ ttart\d his study in th\


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These tiles belong to a set of 11 tinctures, a coded system for translating colors into line patterns developed around the year 1600 to reproduce heraldic designs (coats of arms) in books by etching. The full set comprises the generic patterns used in heraldry: sable (black), or (gold), argent (silver or white), cendrée (grey), gules (red), vert (green), azure (blue), purpure (purple), murrey (maroon), tenné (tawny), and sanguine (blood). Heraldry is one of the earliest concrete incarnations of graphic design. The emblem-like patterns seen in heraldry render coats of arms according to a limited formal vocabulary. Additionally, the graphic conventions represent specific families and their relationships over time. As a family descends through birth and joins by marriage, new lines appear through coded graphic forms on the heraldic shield. The name Dexter Sinister is derived from heraldry, where Dexter means "right" and Sinister means "left". Heraldic design uses a hybrid lexicon from French and Latin, leading to a particularly graphic result. The written recipe for a form is called its "blazon" and to make the particular coat of arms from its written source is to "emblazon." This language is usefully both graphic and verbal. These tinctures compose a coded visual language of sorts, with each standing in for a particular color. The tiles can be used discretely for a large color-coded surface or mixed and matched in any combination for a more psychedelic effect. Dexter Sinister is the shared name of Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey & David Reinfurt. Founded in 2006 in the basement at 38 Ludlow Street on Manhattan's lower east side, Dexter Sinister since has constituted a triangle of activities: (a) a publishing imprint, (b) a workshop & bookstore, and (c) a pseudonym making site/time-specific work in art and design settings. DS was set up to model a "Just-In-Time" economy of design production — avoiding waste by working on-demand, utilizing local cheap machinery, considering alternate distribution strategies, and collapsing distinctions of editing, design, production, and distribution into one efficient activity. Since then, their work has branched (pragmatically) into many different contexts and venues. David graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1993, Yale University in 1999, and formed the design studio O-R-G in 2000. Stuart graduated from the University of Reading in 1994, the Werkplaats Typografie in 2000, and co-founded the journal Dot Dot Dot the same year. 6 × 6 inches Ceramic Please contact us for assistance in purchasing multiple tiles. Lead time is 2 weeks.
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What happens during surgery
You will be given anesthesia, and you may feel like you are "floating" as you go to sleep.
Once you are asleep, the team in the surgery room will help you get ready for surgery. During your surgery you cannot feel anything and you stay asleep until they stop giving you the anesthesia sleep medicine when the surgery is over.
Lots of people will be helping (circulating nurse, scrub nurse, anesthesiologist, nurse anesthetist and the surgeon). They wear blue clothes called "scrubs," caps and masks to help protect you from germs.
If you brought something special to be with you the nurse will make sure it stays with you. It's always interesting to see what kids decide to bring!
To help take care of you while you are sleeping, the nurse and the anesthesiologist will place monitors to you. The monitors show the doctors how your body is doing. Some of the monitors are the blood pressure, the EKG and pulse oximeter.
The nurse anesthetist takes care of you while you are asleep during surgery. The nurse will clean the area where the surgery will be done. Keeping things clean and sterile in the surgery room is very important.
When your surgery is over, a bandage may be put on where you had your surgery, if it is needed. Then, your anesthesia team stops using the anesthesia medicine so you can begin to wake up.


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Meadowood triumphs in Chick Lang Stakes
Stonestreet Stables and George Bolton's Meadowood broke alertly, backed off the hot pace and then resurged in the stretch to win the $100,000 Chick Lang Stakes for 3-year olds Saturday at Pimlico.
Javier Castellano was aboard the Derek Ryan trainee, a son of Harlan's Holiday who entered the Chick Lang undefeated after two starts. Meadowood started his career in the care of Todd Pletcher but joined the Ryan barn before his second victory.
Meadowood paid $12.20. He completed the six-furlong distance in 1:10.11, beating Brewing by three lengths. Prudhoe Bay was third.
Winning Trainer Derek Ryan (Meadowood): "It worked out perfect with him sitting second just off the lead. This is a classy horse and he's the kind that doesn't need to have the lead. I got him in the middle of January. We had entered in a stake in New York and scratched out of that and this race came up and looked like a good spot."
Winning Jockey Javier Castellano (Meadowood): "I had beautiful trip. I really liked the way he did it today. It was really professional how he did it. He got in behind and at the top of the stretch he took off. He's going to be a good horse in the future. The only speed horse was the 9 (Brewing). I didn't want to hook him and that was the horse to beat. I just wanted to track him and get him at the right time and the right place.