I'm now representing the Artists Marlana and Sienna !!!! They may be the next Pollack or Rothko or Jasper Johns???
Marlana signs her art sometimes the way DiVinci wrote..mirror image..blows me away!
Kids Are Installation Artists
Marlana one of my daughters did an 'installation' last week. 'Dinosaur...with pink hand bag' ...it must be in the genes... I'm going to send you a picture..I think you'll love it....Donnell was pleading with me to drop everything and capture it.....
Steve
Played golf with a friend last Monday while we were on holiday...named 'Steve'..... He is actually one of my best mates. He put me on the plane to America when I flew out to meet Donnell all those years ago. I let the girls know the night before why I wouldn't be with them the following morning...Marlana says...'Steve's a bush!..........And indeed he is....a hedge in the Disney movie...'over the hedge'.....
Although it's sort of against my nature to tease...I'm getting good mileage out of this one!
Eamon Cleary's Pencarrow Purchace
Eamon Cleary paid $300,000 for a Pencarrow chestnut filly at Karaka. A price that could be considered superb value given the recent success of the chestnut’s immediate family. This filly has a direct line back to a mare that sold for the world record price of US$14 million dollars at auction in Kentucky last November. The filly is from Silver and Roses (Sadler’s Wells), a half-sister to reigning US Broodmare-Of-The-Year Better Than Honour (Deputy Minister – Blush With Pride (Blushing Groom)).
Silver and Roses’ sisters have performed admirably, Better Than Honour leaving the Champion USA 3YO Filly of 2007 in Rags to Riches (A.P. Indy), while Maryinsky (Sadler’s Wells), a full sister to Silver and Roses, left the 2007 Champion European 3YO filly Peeping Fawn (Danehill).
Furthermore the sisters are from the Group 1 Kentucky Oaks winner Blush with Pride (Blushing Groom), while delving even deeper into their pedigrees you will find the likes of top sires Redoute’s Choice, El Gran Senor, and Try My Best.
Cleary spotted the filly’s classic breeding lines because he was at the Lexington sale and purchased her on his own account with the view to racing her in New Zealand in the stable of Roger James at Cambridge.
“Both sides of the filly’s family have the genetics that go to create a Blue Hen mare,” Mr Cleary says.
A Blue Hen is a brood mare that produces high-quality foals regardless of the sire’s pedigree.
It may also interest some of our Polo loving clients to hear that Eamon Cleary is considering investing in a state-of the-art thoroughbred and polo pony stud near Buenos Aires in Argentina.
Congratulations Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck
Congratulations Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck on the birth of your second daughter.
Benji
Sergey Brin and Anne Wojcicki are PARENTS! Welcome to life Benji Brin. Congratulations Sergey and Anne.
Congratulations to Rick DeVos and Melissa Goris
Congratulations to Rick DeVos and Melissa Goris on starting their journey together today as a married couple. Coming from such a great family with so many successful marriages, you look set to create a beautiful life.
Phantom of the Opera
Took Sienna and Marlana to the Phantom of the Opera yesterday Totally intoxicating for them...it was beautiful ! They had masquerade masks I'd got them from Venice!!!
Two days ago I won a few industry awards -Gold! Ten years ago this would've been a really big deal for us PR etc.....but it is neat to let the families evolved know that their pictures have been judged 'outstanding' by a panel of 5 judges!
A Buckingham Palace shot you can see on my portfolio www.mahlon.com is fun...and no, the police would never allow this shot to be taken as you see it! The little guy has a really big 'thing' for the soldiers..so the family love this picture.
I had a big busy blast of a summer; All over the States, then over to UK, back to N.Y. and all over the States again.....my girls were very glad to see me back home.
Simon Reuben and David Reuben Gift Towards The Reuben Foundation Children’s Cancer Centre
Great Ormond Street Hospital has announced a multi-million pound contribution from the Reuben Foundation towards the construction of The Reuben Foundation Children’s Cancer Centre - a new children’s cancer centre at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London. The Reuben Foundation Children's Cancer Centre heralds the next step in world class cancer treatment for children at Great Ormond Street Hospital The Reuben Foundation Children’s Cancer Centre will enable Great Ormond Street Hospital to become the largest centre for paediatric cancer treatment in Europe and one of the top three largest centres in the world. This urgent need for expansion in cancer services at Great Ormond Street has been the direct result of a large number of paediatric referrals, including those from other cancer centres in London. Whilst Great Ormond Street Hospital now accommodates an additional 61% more referrals, the current facilities have not matched this fast-paced expansion. Today, resources at Great Ormond Street are operating over capacity in order to ensure that treatment is provided to the thousands of childhood cancer sufferers who come to the hospital each year.
This generous donation follows a recent visit to Great Ormond Street Hospital by the Reuben Foundation who recognise the urgent and important need to treat more children suffering with cancer in modern, state of the art facilities.
David and Simon Reuben are the Joint Chief Executives of Reuben Brothers, an international organisation involved in private equity investments and real estate ownership and development. The Reuben Foundation was established in October 2002 in order to make a substantial philanthropic impact in the areas of healthcare and education in the UK.
The Reuben Foundation Children’s Cancer Centre will provide a new Daycare Centre, Outpatient Department and three inpatient wards situated within Great Ormond Street Hospital. Construction will begin on the 15th January with the centre due to open in two phases, the first by June 2007 and the second by December 2007.
Dr Jane Collins, Great Ormond Street Hospital’s Chief Executive has paid to the support from the Reuben Foundation;
"" Over the course of our 150 year history Great Ormond Street Hospital has been fortunate to receive significant support from key individuals. This hugely generous gift from The Reuben Foundation represents another chapter in this history of philanthropy and will have a profound impact on the thousands of children suffering from cancer who are referred to us from London and across the country.
We are proud of our world class cancer programme, both in terms of the treatment we offer and our research to find new cures for childhood sufferers. The generosity of the Reuben Family will enable us to provide our patients and staff with the best facilities to treat their condition.""
The Reuben Foundation described the donation to Great Ormond Street as "one of the most important contributions we could make, although whilst our support will help towards the construction of the new centre, the hospital requires further support for children suffering with cancer. It is our hope that support from others will follow".
USET Foundation Celebrates Olympic Success at Signe Ostby and Scott Cook's Home
Signe Ostby and her husband Scott Cook, parents of successful junior/young rider show jumping athletes Karl and Annie Laurie Cook, graciously hosted approximately 50 guests at their Northern California home on September 9 to hear about the USET Foundation's role in helping this country's high-performance programs and to celebrate the success of the United States equestrian team at the 2008 Olympic Games. Upon entering the beautiful Woodside, CA, home, guests stopped along the winding hallway to the terrace to take in the stunning Olympic photography displayed with honor. At the end of this virtual Olympic journey, surrounded by vineyards, gardens, and stables, West Coast owners, riders, breeders, and equestrian supporters gathered on the stone terrace with USET Foundation President and CEO Jane Forbes Clark, USET Foundation Executive Director Bonnie Jenkins, and five Olympic stars—Beezie Madden, Gina Miles, George Morris, Steffen Peters and Will Simpson. The spectacular mountain views were a fitting backdrop for the Gold, Silver and Bronze medals inlaid with jade that the athletes proudly shared with each of the guests. The patriotism quotient was high.
Ostby welcomed the guests and noted how proud everyone was of the athletes' for delivering outstanding performances and for bringing home Team Gold and Individual Silver and Bronze medals.
Ostby pointed out that three of the Olympians had close ties to California—Gina Miles, Silver medalist in three-day eventing, trains, shows and coaches Pony Clubbers at the Horse Park in Woodside; Steffen Peters, who placed fourth individually in dressage aboard Ravel, who is owned by Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang of Woodside; and Will Simpson, a member of the show jumping Gold-medal team, is also a California resident.
Ostby praised the leadership of Show Jumping Chef d' Equipe George H. Morris, who has been on quite a roll lately, with the U.S. Olympic Show Jumping Team Gold and the recent Nations Cup win at Spruce Meadows.
Guests then made their way out to the courtyard and were seated at tables draped in gold damask and identified with Olympic equine partners' names on the placards—Authentic, Carlsson Vom Dach, Ravel, McKinlaigh and Sinjon. With an Olympic athlete and a member of the USET Foundation seated at each table, the intimate setting was an opportunity for guests to engage in conversations that will not soon be forgotten.
As the evening fog rolled in over the mountains, Jane Forbes Clark took to the podium to address the gathering. Clark recognized the stars present from Hong Kong—Madden, Simpson, Peters, Miles and Morris, and their contributions as "incredible athletes, and amazing ambassadors." Clark went on to say, "watching them ride, watching them coach, reminds all of us why we are here tonight, why we support the Foundation, and why the United States Equestrian Team is a force in the international equestrian world."
Clark thanked guests Lou and Eva Gonda, owners of Will Simpson's Olympic mount Carlsson vom Dach, and Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang, owners of Steffen Peter's mount Ravel, noting, "Without the owners of these horses, the medals would not be possible."
Clark explained the role of the USET Foundation in supporting the competition, the training, the coaching, and the travel of America's elite and developing international high-performance horses and athletes in conjunction with the United States Equestrian Federation. Clark pointed out that each year the Foundation provides the Federation with a grant that covers approximately 60% of all high-performance program support. Unlike many other countries, the United States Equestrian Team does not receive any government funding. Funding for the athletes to be competitive and stay at the top level comes primarily from individuals.
Travelin Man
I've just come in (2weeks early) from all over USA then to London then all over USA and then home. Sienna and Marlana had me weeping..."Finish work, bring presents and come home!"
Marlana mostly wouldn't talk to me...I'm zooming past Stone Henge...wizzing down 3 feet wide roads in Trowbridge.....Cold play's blasting from the amazing Volvo's sound system..life's kinda good....
On the phone Home; Marlana; 'Tell daddy to come home then I'll talk to him'!...gototop...2weeks early!!!!!!!
Congratulations Brad and Angelina
On the birth of healthy twins, Knox Leon and girl Vivienne Marcheline.
Kids Fashion
I did a full day fashion shoot at a beach resort yesterday for an international girls fashion label.... The designer/founder Trelise Cooper 'wanted' a frozen embryo of Marlana....My girls have never been print models before and might never be again..however..they were brilliant..really!
As soon a we arrived Sienna, a mini Claudia Schiffer, was sick all over the floor..from car sickness we think...I could write volumes about the day......sorry its 2 in the morning..I'm on London time at the moment!
Congratulations to Jessica Alba and Cash Warren
Congratulations to Jessica Alba and Cash Warren on the birth of a healthy baby girl.
A Conversation with Charles Munger
Charles T. Munger, vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., is the business partner of Warren Buffett and a major contributor to Berkshire Hathaway's legendary performance record. Forbes lists the self-made Munger as one of the 400 richest people in the United States. At todays DuBridge lecture, Mr. Munger will be joined on stage in conversation by Dr. Thomas A. Tombrello, Chairman of the Division of Physics, Math and Astronomy, the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor and Professor of Physics at Caltech.
Charlie Munger is the founding partner of the Los Angeles law firm Munger, Tolles & Olson, which he left in 1965 to focus on investing. He has been Berkshire Hathaway's vice chairman since 1979, and is also chairman and CEO of Berkshire subsidiary Wesco Financial Corp., based in Pasadena.
Munger is known for mixing advice with humor. In the book Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger, edited by Peter D. Kaufman, Munger comments on his business, the stock market, philanthropy, psychology, money management, technology and other topics. He also provides tips on finding happiness: "A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc." The book takes its title from Poor Richard's Almanack, published by Benjamin Franklin, who has served as an inspiration to Munger.
We would love a copy but it runs between $50 and $200 on Amazon.com. Charlie - please re-publish.
David and Cheryl Duffield's Maddie's Fund Gift to Purdue University's School of Veterinary Medicine
David and Cheryl Duffield's Maddie's Fund® has awarded $1.1 M over the next three years to support the development of a comprehensive shelter medicine program at Purdue University's School of Veterinary Medicine. Maddie's Shelter Medicine Program will focus on three areas: research, shelter medicine education, and training future leaders in the field. The program will provide graduate and residency training in shelter management, applied behavior, and preventive medicine, and offer critical experience to students through externships and clinical rotations in shelters. The grant will fund the development of programs including:
A doctoral graduate program in shelter-based population medicine A combined residency and Masters degree program in Animal Behavior A post-DVM fellowship in shelter medicine Shelter externships for veterinary students and veterinary technology students with clinical rotations in shelters Research in shelter medicine and pet homelessness for graduate and veterinary students
"With an emphasis on research and graduate training, Purdue is adding its own unique strength to the field of shelter medicine," said Maddie's Fund Veterinary Director, Laurie Peek, DVM. "Maddie's Fund is proud to support this program which will add a wealth of new knowledge to the field and educate the leaders who will impact shelter medicine for many years to come."
Maddie's Shelter Medicine Program will work with two collaborating shelters in major metropolitan areas: the adoption guarantee PAWS Chicago and the Humane Society of Indianapolis.
"The students and clinicians we educate at the Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine should understand the importance of pet homelessness," said Annette Litster of the School of Veterinary Medicine's Veterinary Clinical Sciences department, "and graduate from here with a commitment to make a difference."
Congratulations to Larry Page and Lucinda Lucinda Southworth
Congratulations to Larry Page and Lucinda Lucinda Southworth on saying "I do" today. May you find in each other your best friend, comfort, fun, family, and a team mate for life.
Marc Andreessen and Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Gift To Stanford
He’s the technology guru, the Silicon Valley wunderkind who built two billion-dollar companies. She’s the philanthropy academic, who created one of the country’s most successful venture philanthropy partnerships. Together, Marc Andreessen and Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen are making their first major philanthropic commitment as a married couple, a $27.5 million gift to Stanford Hospital & Clinics to build a state-of-the-art Emergency Department for both adults and children in the community. The facility will be called the Marc and Laura Andreessen Emergency Department. The couple, who began discussing their first major gift literally the day they got engaged in 2006, say they chose to support emergency services because these programs are essential and often life-saving, yet are traditionally under-funded.
“Everybody walks into the Emergency Department at some point, and it may be 2 a.m. It could be you or someone in your family,” said Andreessen, who has been there himself. “This means we could have a big impact. The opportunity to build a new emergency services department that is world-class is enormous.”
The gift will enable the hospital to build a department more than double the size of current facilities and expand its services and technologies to meet rapidly growing demand from patients. Stanford Hospital provides the only level-1 trauma center between San Francisco and San Jose. The hospital is planning to build an entirely new emergency facility to be located within Stanford Medical Center near the existing site.
“This extraordinary leadership gift assures that our Emergency Department will have the capacity to care for our community when they need us most,” said Stanford Hospital President and CEO Martha Marsh. “We know that having access to Stanford specialists when every minute counts can make a life-saving or life-changing difference to patients and we are tremendously appreciative of Marc and Laura’s generous support.”
Andreessen, 36, who grew up in Wisconsin, is a software engineer and entrepreneur best known for developing Mosaic, the first widely used Web browser. In 1994, at age 23, he co-founded Netscape Communications Corp., which was bought out four years later by America Online for $4.2 billion in stock. He also founded Opsware, a data center automation company, which was acquired in 2007 by Hewlett-Packard Corp. for more than $1.6 billion in cash. He’s now onto his latest venture, Ning, a next-generation platform for social networking.
Andreessen made his first foray into community service when he joined the Stanford Hospital & Clinics board of directors a year ago. He said he routinely works 90-hour weeks and, like many of Silicon Valley’s newly minted millionaires, has had little time to give careful thought to how best to give back to a community that has been so good to him and his wife.
Arrillaga-Andreessen, 37, has helped in that regard, making a career of practicing venture philanthropy and creating an academic field of philanthropy. Laura is a graduate of Stanford with master’s degrees in business (1997), education (1998) and art history (1999). Since 2000, she has been a faculty member at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and at the university, where she has created and teaches Stanford’s first courses on strategic philanthropy. She is writing two books on the philanthropic sector and living a giving life, and is the founder and chairman of SV2: Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund, which invests financial, intellectual and human capital into nonprofit organizational capacity building.
“Both of us feel so strongly that, being part of the new generation in Silicon Valley, we have a responsibility to hopefully inspire other people in our age range to make significant philanthropic commitments,” said Arrillaga-Andreessen, who grew up in Palo Alto. “We are both deeply committed to this amazing community, and we saw a key market need for this particular social change.”
In making the gift, she said she and Andreessen are taking their first step in following the example of her father, real estate developer John Arrillaga, who has provided significant support for many buildings on the Stanford University campus.
The couple’s gift will fund the upgrading of the Emergency Department facility in the current hospital, plus the building of the Emergency Department planned for the new Stanford Hospital. The new hospital project is now making its way through the City of Palo Alto review process. If approved, the hospital would break ground in 2010, with estimated completion in 2015.
With the support from Andreessen and Arrillaga-Andreessen, the Emergency Department will be equipped with a wide array of new technologies, including digital X-rays, ultrasound and other equipment for bedside diagnosis, new cardiac monitors and advanced methods for freeing up blocked airways. In addition, the department will acquire systems that will allow the medical team to rapidly communicate on critical patient issues and make it possible to track patients as they progress through the Emergency Department.
“Marc and Laura’s extraordinary support will allow us to provide state-of-the-art as well as cutting-edge technology for the benefit of our patients,” said Paul Auerbach, MD, clinical professor of surgery and director of special projects for emergency medicine.
The gift also will support new staffing for programs to improve efficiency and customer service. These include patient advocates to assist patients and families through the care process, a nurse call-back program to follow up with patients after discharge and an expansion of the residency program to boost physician coverage at all times. In addition, it will support injury and illness prevention programs in the community, such as the Farewell to Falls program, which has a goal of preventing dangerous falls among older adults.
“I look to this gift as being a means for us to usher in a time when we provide absolutely the best emergency care in the entire region, as we should be,” said Bob Norris, chief of emergency services and an associate professor of surgery in the School of Medicine.
The gift also will support research in such key areas as wound care, heart attack and stroke, as well additional staff in major programs such as bioterrorism and disaster preparedness. Through the gift, the department will create a newly endowed position of Medical Director for Disaster Preparedness.
“If someone has bird flu, the hospital needs to have the capability to handle that,” Andreessen said. “Or what happens in a major earthquake? What if the hospital has 10,000 or 30,000 people coming in? We need to be able to deal with that.”
Arrillaga-Andreessen adds, “Stanford can provide leading-edge research and practice in emergency services, and the knowledge and experiential capital that this enhanced department creates can be a model and resource for emergency medicine provision nationally.”
David Koch Gives $18 Million to M. D. Anderson
David Koch, executive vice president and one of the principals of Koch Industries, Inc., has given The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Under the direction of Christopher Logothetis, M.D., chair of the Department of Genitourinary Medical Oncology, the Koch Center will bring together basic, translational and clinical scientists to rapidly move scientific findings to patients with diseases such as prostate cancer, which Mr. Koch himself has battled for many years.
"The time between an initial discovery and the final approval of a marker or drug can be decades," says Logothetis. "The idea behind the Koch Center is to create a unique infrastructure that enables us to take abundant discovery and move it more efficiently and more reliably into human studies. The Koch Center will create a shared environment where researchers in basic science, applied science and all the fields with which we interact, will be able to obtain and analyze data the same way, use the same scientific language, establish strict project management deadlines and stay goal-oriented."
This approach also allows the Koch Center to create a "memory."
"Each time we do a study in humans or in animals, it will be recorded in such a way that allows us to retrieve the data to see how it relates to the next study," explains Logothetis. "And, if a scientist leaves the institution, his or her work will be preserved in a format so it will remain useable and available to investigators world wide."
Koch attributes his passion for supporting prostate cancer research to his own experience with the disease.
"I have been living with prostate cancer for 15 years and am under the care of Dr. Logothetis," says Koch. "I am a survivor and I have tremendous sympathy for others who have this disease. When you are up close and personal with prostate cancer, you become a crusader. My wife and I have three young children, and I have great aspirations to live long enough to see all of them graduate from college. My children are tremendous incentives."
Prostate cancer is the most common type of cancer found in American men, other than skin cancer. The American Cancer Society estimates about 218,890 new cases of prostate cancer in the United States in 2007. About 27,050 men will die of the disease this year. Prostate cancer is the second only to lung cancer as the leading cause of cancer death in men.
"We are humbled by the trust that our patients, such as David Koch, place in us for their care and with their gifts to the institution and we feel especially compelled to deliver results," says Logothetis. "They drive us and give us a sense of responsibility just as much as a peer-reviewed grant."
Koch has supported M. D. Anderson for many years, having served on institution's advisory board - the University Cancer Foundation's Board of Visitors - since 1999. He and his wife, Julia, also have given financially to the institution for more than a decade. Koch is an executive vice president and board member of Koch Industries, Inc., which owns a diverse group of companies with about $90 billion in revenues, 80,000 employees and a presence in nearly 60 countries. Familiar Koch company brands include STAINMASTER® carpet, LYCRA® spandex, Quilted Northern® tissue and Dixie® cups.
"I feel extraordinarily blessed to be one of the principals of Koch Industries," says Koch. "The outstanding growth of my family company has been largely due to the heroic efforts of our executives and employees and has enabled me to be very generous to many worthwhile institutions."
Koch has contributed more than $500 million over his lifetime to a wide variety of organizations and programs that further cancer research, enhance medical centers and support educational institutions, as well as programs that sustain arts and cultural institutions. In 2004, Koch received a presidential appointment to the National Cancer Advisory Board of the National Cancer Institute. He serves on more than 20 nonprofit boards. 11/07/07
USC Gift From Trustee Mark A. Stevens and Wife Mary Stevens
In a move that demonstrates the University of Southern California's strengthened commitment to advancing breakthrough research in the biosciences, the USC Stevens Institute for Innovation announced today the opening of an office in the new Harlyne Norris Tower at USC's Health Sciences Campus (HSC). Functioning as a satellite office, USC Stevens at HSC will specifically service the HSC community of innovators through community-building events, showcase opportunities, and tech transfer activities, and will unify innovation advancement activities throughout the University. Just a short walk from most HSC laboratories, this office will enable the growing USC Stevens HSC team to more effectively and efficiently service the faculty members and researchers in the HSC schools including the Keck School of Medicine, USC School of Pharmacy, and USC School of Dentistry. The USC Stevens HSC team includes five full-time staff, growing to nearly 10 by year's end. Additionally, USC Stevens Director of Licensing, Joe Koepnick, will split his time between the two campuses.
Noting that 42 percent of the University's licensing revenue comes from inventions and patents developed at the Keck School of Medicine at USC, Provost C.L. Max Nikias called the satellite office "a strategic development in line with the University's mission to enhance and foster innovation across all disciplines for maximum societal impact."
"By opening a USC Stevens office on the Health Sciences Campus, USC further demonstrates its intention to provide leadership in the medical and biological sciences revolution that will reshape our society in coming decades," Nikias added. "We are creating a model that will strengthen Southern California's biotech industry. Faculty and researchers at HSC now have seasoned staff available at their doorstep, ready and able to address their needs and help get their life-enhancing and life-saving inventions out to the market."
"It's a big move for the university, and clearly demonstrates a strong commitment to the growth of both the USC Health Sciences Campus and the life science industry here in Los Angeles," said Krisztina Holly, Vice Provost and Executive Director for USC Stevens. "The Los Angeles market is bursting with entrepreneurial talent and culture. As a university, we're in the right place at the right time to significantly impact the life science industry in Los Angeles, now and in the future."
According to the Southern California Biomedical Council (SoCalBio), the Los Angeles/Orange County metro area has a 36% higher concentration of biosciences employment than other metro areas in the U.S. Most notably, the LA region is first among U.S. metropolitan areas in medical device sector employment and second in bioscience research, testing and labs. According to the PricewaterhouseCoopers MoneyTree Report, LA/Orange County is 10th in the nation for Biotechnology Venture Capital funding, the highest since 2001.