Merricks Home ? Sarah Quin and Family | The Design Files

The Merricks holiday home of Sarah Quin and Family. ?Photo ? Brooke Holm, production ? Lucy Feagins / The Design Files.

The Merricks holiday home of Sarah Quin and Family. ?All cushions / soft furnishings from Sarah?s business, Canvas Home. ?Photo -?Brooke Holm, production ? Lucy Feagins / The Design Files.

The garden! ?Looking to vineyards beyond. ?Photo -?Brooke Holm, production ? Lucy Feagins / The Design Files.

Incredible garden at the Merricks holiday home of Sarah Quin and Family. ?Photo -?Brooke Holm, production ? Lucy Feagins / The Design Files.

Today?s stunning home in Merricks on the Mornington Peninsula is a much loved weekender for Melbourne-based designer Sarah Quin, her husband John, and their three kids, Charlie (9), Max (7) and Ruby (5).

Sarah and John bought the property 4 years ago, and set about transforming it both inside and out. ??We renovated about a year after moving in, ?generally working within the existing structure? says Sarah. ?A large workshop used by the previous owner for his furniture restoration business was turned into a fantastic kids rumpus room and two extra bedrooms, whilst the bathrooms and kitchen were updated, and the home brightened throughout with the addition of larger windows and French doors. ??Our favourite ?picture window? in the living room was originally a small, low sliding door? says Sarah. ?It now creates a beautiful frame of the garden and Westernport Bay beyond?.

The rambling grounds, which are SERIOUSLY impressive, also presented an enormous challenge. ?When Sarah and John first took on the property, the garden was very??English? ? thus very thirsty and labour intensive, so Sarah has slowly changed this, adding more coastal and drought tolerant plants. ?The family also now have a fantastic vegie garden and orchard starting to produce lots of fresh fruit and vegetables.

Sarah has worked in the furniture and homewares industry for many years, and so of course her home also presents the perfect testing ground for new pieces from her textiles and soft furnishings label, Canvas Home.

After studying Textiles and Interior Design, and working for over twenty years in the homewares industry for various retail and wholesale brands in Australia, Sarah launched her wholesale business as an outlet for her love of unique textiles, colour and pattern. ??My vision has been to create collections of soft furnishings for the home utilising unique traditional hand block printing by artisans in India? says Sarah. ??I love travelling and sourcing beautiful things for the home, and the business now allows me to take off on adventures to some really amazing and inspiring places?. Canvas Home was born from the idea that even when starting with a blank canvas, textiles can transform any environment.

?This home will always be a work in progress, but we love arriving after a busy week at work and school on a Friday night, and opening all the doors and going for a walk in the garden with a glass of wine? says Sarah. ??We especially enjoy inviting friends down for weekends and having long lunches and not having to rush off anywhere else. You really feel a million miles away from anywhere here?.?It also helps that our neighbour has a lovely vineyard and cellar door if we run out of wine!?.

Ahhh is all sounds too blissful doesn?t it!? ?I get the feeling that despite running her own business, travelling regularly to India, and being Mum to three busy kids, Sarah has the work / life balance thing seriously sorted. ?Something to aspire to!

Loungeroom details. ?Photo -?Brooke Holm, production ? Lucy Feagins / The Design Files.

Loungeroom details. ?Photo -?Brooke Holm, production ? Lucy Feagins / The Design Files.

?The Albert Namatjira watercolours were a gift from John?s father, they take pride and place in the living room, and have lots of sentimental value? ? Sarah. ?white timber louvre buffet in the lounge room from Sasson Home. ?Cushion and chair cover by Canvas Home.??Photo -?Brooke Holm, production ? Lucy Feagins / The Design Files.

Light filled kitchen. ?Photo -?Brooke Holm, production ? Lucy Feagins / The Design Files.

Master bedroom. ?Bedlinen and cushion by Sarah?s business, Canvas Home.??Photo -?Brooke Holm, production ? Lucy Feagins / The Design Files.

Bathroom. ?Photo -?Brooke Holm, production ? Lucy Feagins / The Design Files.

Entrance hall. ?Photo -?Brooke Holm, production ? Lucy Feagins / The Design Files.

Kids rumpus room. ?All cushions by Sarah?s business, Canvas Home.?Photo -?Brooke Holm, production ? Lucy Feagins / The Design Files.

Kids rumpus room looking to bedroom. Photo -?Brooke Holm, production ? Lucy Feagins / The Design Files.

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Pool, with amazing enormous trees beyond. ??The hardest part of our renovation was persuading the builder to make the unique pool fence from recycled timber and copper pipe!? says Sarah. ?I had seen it done at an ?Open Garden? I had visited years before, and had waited a long time to replicate it in the right spot! It was worth the wait and fits in perfectly with the surrounding plantings? ? Sarah.??Photo -?Brooke Holm, production ? Lucy Feagins / The Design Files.

Off the beaten track, on our way home from Sarah?s home in Merricks. Photo -?Brooke Holm, production ? Lucy Feagins / The Design Files.

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Portland poet B.T. Shaw wins $25,000 NEA creative writing ...

Portland poet B.T. Shaw, about to move to Vietnam with her husband, received a surprise parting gift from the National Endowment for the Arts -- a $25,000 creative writing fellowship. Shaw was a leader in the local poetry scene for the last decade and was a longtime contributor to The Oregonian. Her previous book is "This Dirty Little Heart."

Numerous other arts organizations in Portland and around the state received grants from the NEA, including the Oregon Shakespeare Festival ($100,000 for the world premiere of a play) to the Portland Playhouse ($10,000 for a new adaptation of "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin).

-- Jeff Baker, on Twitter

Source: http://www.oregonlive.com/books/index.ssf/2012/11/portland_poet_bt_shaw_wins_250.html

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Tampa socialite fighting back in Petraeus scandal

FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2012, file photo, Jill Kelley leaves her home in Tampa, Fla. South Korea will revoke an honorary title given to the American socialite tied to the scandal involving former CIA director David Petraeus, officials said Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, File)

FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2012, file photo, Jill Kelley leaves her home in Tampa, Fla. South Korea will revoke an honorary title given to the American socialite tied to the scandal involving former CIA director David Petraeus, officials said Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, File)

FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2012 file photo, Jill Kelley leaves her home Tuesday, Nov 13, 2012 in Tampa, Fla. South Korea will revoke an honorary title given to the American socialite tied to the scandal involving former CIA director David Petraeus, officials said Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) ? A Tampa socialite embroiled in the scandal that cost CIA Director David Petraeus his job fought back Tuesday after more than two weeks of silence as her attorneys released emails, telephone recordings and other material that they say show she never tried to exploit her friendship with Petraeus.

Jill Kelley, through her attorneys, went on the attack against a New York businessman who accused her of incompetence in her work trying to set up a deal he was negotiating with South Korean companies; an attorney who accused her of name-dropping and of being a social climber; and the FBI agent who first leaked her name in connection with the Petraeus scandal.

Kelley, 37, became the focus of national media attention earlier this month after it was revealed that she was the recipient of anonymous emails from Paula Broadwell, Petraeus' biographer and mistress.

Broadwell allegedly told Kelley she should stay away from the former general and Gen. John Allen, who had replaced Petraeus as leader of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Petraeus and Allen had become friends with Kelley and her husband, Scott Kelley, a noted cancer surgeon, when the generals served at U.S. Central Command, which is headquartered at Tampa's MacDill Air Force Base. Kelley became an unofficial social ambassador for the base, hosting numerous parties for the officers.

The scandal this week cost Kelley her appointment as an honorary consul for the South Korean government, which she had gotten because of her friendship with Petraeus. The Koreans said she had misused the title in her personal business dealings.

Kelley's attorneys sent a cease-and-desist letter to New York businessman Adam Victor; a complaint to the Florida bar against Tampa attorney Barry Cohen, and a letter to the U.S. Attorney's Office demanding that it investigate to find out who in the FBI leaked her name to the news media. Representatives of attorney Abbe Lowell emailed copies of the letters to The Associated Press.

In one of the letters, Lowell asks W. Stephen Muldrow, the assistant U.S. Attorney in Tampa, why Jill and Scott Kelley's names were released in the course of the FBI's investigation of Petraeus and Broadwell. Lowell said federal privacy laws could be applicable to the couple's information.

"As you know, there are several rules and laws that seek to protect United States citizens against such leaks," Lowell wrote.

He also wanted to know whether the U.S. Attorney's Office was investigating the source of the leaks.

"You no doubt have seen the tremendous attention that the Kelleys have received in the media," wrote Lowell. "All they did to receive this attention was to let law enforcement know that they had been the subjects of inappropriate and potentially threatening behavior by someone else."

Another letter spoke of a business deal that Kelley tried to broker with South Korea.

Kelley met Victor in late August at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, where they discussed having Kelley represent Victor's company on a coal-gasification deal being negotiated with South Korean companies.

On Aug. 30, according to the documents provided by Lowell's office, Victor sent Kelley an email saying his company was seeking bids from four major Korean firms ? Samsung, Hyundai, GS and GK ? and that he expected the bidding to potentially reach $3 billion.

There are several back-and-forth emails through mid-September as Victor and Kelley tried to negotiate a fee for her work, with Kelley saying she was seeking 2 percent of the deal and Victor trying to clarify what she meant.

There were no other emails until Victor sent one Nov. 9, when Kelley's name surfaced in the Petraeus scandal. He wrote two more times after that before she responded.

When she finally did, he sent back another email in which he remarked, "When I heard about Petraeus, I thought of you." In a follow-up email, he asked if she was still in a position to help with Korea. She didn't respond.

In a Nov. 14 interview with the AP, Victor said it had become clear that Kelley was not a skilled negotiator and that he had wasted his time dealing with her.

In a letter released Tuesday and dated Nov. 21, Lowell accused Victor of seeking his "15 minutes of fame" by talking to the news media about his client. Lowell said Victor had defamed Kelley with his clients and misstated her desire for 2 percent of the profits by saying she wanted 2 percent of the entire deal. Lowell also accused Victor of unspecified inappropriate behavior toward Kelley.

"If you want to continue seeking publicity for yourself, that is one thing," Lowell wrote to Victor. "However, if you do that by maligning a person, that is something else." He then accused Victor of casting Kelley in a false light and suggested his attorney contact Lowell to discuss the matter.

Victor told the AP late Tuesday that he never accused Kelley of wrongdoing, only that she was naive and not an experienced negotiator. He also said his female assistant was present every time he met with Kelley.

"It's not a crime to be a novice," Victor said. "I don't know why they are talking to me."

The third letter was sent from Kelley's attorney Tuesday to the Attorney Consumer Assistance Program, which handles complaints about lawyers on behalf of the Florida Bar. In that letter, Lowell accused Cohen of breaking attorney-client privilege by publicly speaking about conversations he had with Kelley in 2009 while representing her in a dispute she had with a tenant. In those conversations, Lowell said, they discussed her friendships with various military personnel.

Kelley's sister, Natalie Khawam, once worked as an attorney in Cohen's firm and later sued him for sexual harassment and breach of contract. In court responses, Cohen said Khawam "has a judicially documented recent history and continuing propensity for the commission of perjury."

Cohen said Tuesday evening that he had not seen Lowell's complaint letter and that Kelley had "lost the battle in the court of public opinion."

"No matter how many high-priced lawyers and publicists she employs, she has been exposed for what she is," he said.

Prior to Tuesday, Kelley, her attorney and her publicist had only publicly addressed the situation once, in a statement to the news media when the scandal first broke.

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Spencer reported from Miami.

Associated Press

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Amber Tamblyn to make her Broadway debut next year

In this Friday, April 20, 2012 photo, cast member Amber Tamblyn arrives at the "House" series finale wrap party Los Angeles. Tamblyn, who stars in ?The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants? films and on TV in ?House? and ?Joan of Arcadia,? is heading to Broadway. Producers said Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012 that Tamblyn will make her Great White Way debut in Beth Henley's comedy ?The Miss Firecracker Contest? in the spring of 2013. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)

In this Friday, April 20, 2012 photo, cast member Amber Tamblyn arrives at the "House" series finale wrap party Los Angeles. Tamblyn, who stars in ?The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants? films and on TV in ?House? and ?Joan of Arcadia,? is heading to Broadway. Producers said Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012 that Tamblyn will make her Great White Way debut in Beth Henley's comedy ?The Miss Firecracker Contest? in the spring of 2013. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)

NEW YORK (AP) ? Amber Tamblyn, who stars in "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" films and on TV in "House" and "Joan of Arcadia," is heading to Broadway.

Producers said Tuesday that Tamblyn will make her Great White Way debut in Beth Henley's comedy "The Miss Firecracker Contest" in the spring of 2013. The theater, co-stars and dates will be announced later.

Judith Ivey, who is currently starring on Broadway in "The Heiress" opposite Jessica Chastain, will direct, marking her own directorial Broadway debut.

The comedy, about a young woman who hopes winning a local talent contest will restore her soiled reputation, first appeared in New York off-Broadway in 1984 and was made into a 1989 film starring Holly Hunter, Mary Steenburgen and Tim Robbins.

Associated Press

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Kate Middleton Topless Photo Scandal Forces Tabloid Editor's Resignation

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A Conversation With Roy Y. Calne: Organ Transplant Pioneer Talks About Risks and Rewards

Sir Roy Calne is a pioneer of organ transplants ? the surgeon who in the 1950s found ways to stop the human immune system from rejecting implanted hearts, livers and kidneys. In 1968 he performed Europe?s first liver transplant, and in 1987 the world?s first transplant of a liver, heart and lung.

This fall, along with Dr. Thomas E. Starzl of the University of Pittsburgh, he received a 2012 Lasker Award for ?the development of liver transplantation, which has restored normal life to thousands of patients with end-stage liver disease.?

We spoke for two hours immediately before the awards ceremony. An edited and condensed version of the interview follows.

When you were studying medicine in early-1950s Britain, what was the prevailing attitude toward organ transplantation?

It didn?t exist! While a medical student, I recall being presented with a young patient with kidney failure. I was told to make him as comfortable as possible because he would die in two weeks.

This troubled me. Some of our patients were very young, very deserving. Aside from their kidney disease, there was nothing else wrong with them. I wondered then if it might be possible to do organ transplants, because kidneys are fairly simple in terms of their plumbing. I thought in gardening terms. Might it not be possible to do an organ graft, replacing a malfunctioning organ with a healthy one? I was told, ?No, that?s impossible.?

Well, I?ve always tended to dislike being told that something can?t be done. I?ve always had a somewhat rebellious nature. Just ask my wife.

When did you first think it might be a real possibility?

Around 1957. I was teaching anatomy at Oxford. I attended a lecture there by the great biologist Sir Peter Medawar, who showed slides of successful skin grafts between white mice and black mice. Though he insisted that there was ?no clinical application whatsoever,? I wondered, ?Why couldn?t we do something like that with kidneys??

Afterwards, I began to devote myself to the two main obstacles to transplantation. One was surgical and the other immunological. In America, at that time, Tom Starzl, then at Colorado, and Francis Moore at Harvard were separately working on the surgical techniques. But I was in Britain, and there was no one there who could teach me. And so I worked out the surgical problem for myself. I taught myself how to transplant kidneys in dogs.

Once I?d done that, the big problem was to find some way to prevent the immune system from rejecting the transplanted organs. I sought some way to make the immune system temporarily malleable, as it is in the fetus. If you performed the transplant during a period of plasticity, the hope was that you could avoid rejection. In those days, the only described method for doing that was X-ray irradiation, shutting down the immune system by destroying it.

Well, that didn?t work. It just made the dogs desperately ill and it didn?t stop rejection. That led me to wonder if there wasn?t some other method of immunosuppression we could consider ? a drug perhaps?

How long did it take you to find something effective?

The first sign that we might have something came in 1959, when we tried the anti-leukemia drug 6-mercaptopurine with dogs who?d had kidney grafts. Some lived quite a long time. And this was a big step. It changed something that had been total failure to a partial success. Even Peter Medawar thought we were on to something.

But cyclosporine was the real watershed. We tested it in my laboratory at the University of Cambridge during the mid-1970s. By 1977, it had moved the success rate from 50 percent to 80 percent. That really changed attitudes. Before cyclosporine, you had only 10 centers around the world doing organ transplants. Afterwards, it was 1,000. And now we had a whole new problem: not enough donor organs to meet demand.

Is there any solution to the shortage of donor organs?

I think an ?opt out? program would work better than what you currently have in the United States. They are doing this in Spain, and it has worked very well. It offers the option for people to say ?no? to have their organs used after death. If they don?t take it, this is regarded as permission. This changes the atmosphere and the perception.

Are you intrigued by the ethical questions your discoveries have brought?

Well, one of the reasons we have them is that the results are so good. If we hadn?t had successes, we wouldn?t have ethical concerns.

Still, it?s one thing to transplant organs from deceased donors and another to pressure people to donate while alive. My profession has been very cavalier about taking organs from live donors ? especially livers. Sometimes adults are willing to donate half their livers because of tremendous pressure from their families. With half a liver, there?s a definite mortality rate, probably around 1 percent, maybe 2 percent, for the donor.

I?ve seen tremendous disruption in families where a wife said, ?My husband wants to give half his liver to his brother, but he?s the breadwinner in our family and I don?t want him to do it.?

What about the growth of ?transplant tourism,? where patients from wealthy countries travel to poorer ones to find organs?

That?s terrible ? verges on the criminal, really. We?ve heard stories where a well-respected surgeon is asked to go to a third world country, and he gets there and the recipient has cirrhosis and the donor is his ?cousin.? In fact, the donor is probably some poor peasant who is apparently being paid for it. One hears of disasters where the surgeon has to work in countries with poor facilities and both the donor and the recipient have died. The surgeon returns home to this horrible news.

These kinds of events can occur in countries where power is abused. We can just imagine what would have happened in Nazi Germany if organ transplantation had existed in the 1930s.

You did a lot of your early experiments on dogs and pigs. What do animal rights activists think of your work?

They once sent me a bomb. I was suspicious and phoned up the army ? who blew it up. This was right around the time cyclosporine was first being used. A BBC director did a program on a child who?d been saved with it. And after that, I had no more trouble with animal rights. Not because they loved me. But that they thought it wouldn?t do them any good if they killed someone treating children.

The Lasker prize, which you and Tom Starzl just won, is often called the Pre-Nobel. Were the Lasker judges saying to Stockholm, ?Hey, isn?t it time you honored this world-changing discovery??

Well, I don?t know how they work in Stockholm. If you look at the amount of good that resulted from organ transplantation it fits very much into what Alfred Nobel wanted the prize to be used for.

I get a lot of satisfaction a different way. I have a patient and it?s been 38 years since his transplant. He?s just come back from a 150-mile trek bicycling through the mountains. That?s my reward.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/27/science/organ-transplant-pioneer-talks-about-risks-and-rewards.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

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