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|Pre Meeting workshop: Hyper-acute therapies
Chairs: Anna Ranta, Alan Barber
| Pre Meeting workshop: Rehabilitation
Chairs: Anna McRae, Erin Godecke
|Pre session tea and coffee
|NZ stroke rehabilitation improvement initiatives
Anna McRae
Anna Ranta, Alan Barber
|Rapid fire rehab trials
8 trials
|New Zealand national registry data
Anna Ranta
|Morning tea
|Australian stroke clinical registry data
Dominique Cadilhac
| 11.30am
|Research in practice - How to get started: insights from early career researchers
Liam Johnson
|New Zealand telestroke
Anna Ranta
|Victorian telestroke
Chris Bladin
|Increasing physical activity and intensity of practice after stroke
Nada Signal and the ACTivity to Improve Outcome after Stroke (ACTIOnS) collaboration (Coralie English, Suzanne Kuys, Sandy Brauer, Niru Mahendran, Lis Preston)
|New Zealand clot retrieval implementation
Alan Barber
|Therapy dose, intensity and integrity: current challenges in stroke recovery
Panel discussion: Nada Signal (lead), Catherine Lang, Coralie English, Erin Godecke
|South Australia clot retrieval implementation Timothy Kleinig
|Afternoon tea
|Queensland clot retrieval implementation
Andrew Wong
|Stroke rehabilitation CRE: network, goals and progress
Erin Godecke
|Panel discussion
Anna Ranta, Chris Bladin, Alan Barber, Timothy Kleinig, Andrew Wong
|Workshop close
|Procedural aspects of clot retrieval
Stefan Brew
|Patient selection for clot retrieval
Bruce Campbell
|Cases 1
Bruce Campbell
|Afternoon tea
|DAWN trial
Bernard Yan
|Cases 2
Alan Barber
|Workshop close
|Mihi Whakatau
|Plenary 1
Chairs: Anna Ranta, Helen Dewey
|Latest advances, opportunities, and challenges in acute stroke management
Jeff Saver
|Bridging acute stroke to neurorehabilitation: molecular mechanisms of brain repair
S. Thomas Carmichael
|Current evidence for stroke rehabilitation: what we know now and where we go next
Catherine Lang
|Morning tea
|1A ASNEN/Stroke nursing
Chairs: Caleb Ferguson, Skye Coote
|1B Acute stroke update
Chairs: Henry Ma, Clare Muller
|1C Increasing activity
Chair: Erin Godecke, Naomi Hopwood
|The Melbourne stroke ambulance experience – a nursing perspective
Skye Coote
|Advances in endovascular clot retrieval therapy and implications of the DAWN trial
Bruce Campbell
|How much and how hard? Exploring intensity and dose in stroke rehabilitation
Nada Signal
|Nurses' role in thrombolysis administration in Australia and UK
Helen Hamilton
|Advances in thrombolytic therapy
Helen Dewey
|Patient and clinician perspectives of intensity and dose in stroke rehabilitation
Nada Signal
|The role of the stroke nurse practitioner in acute stroke
Meaghan Osborne
|Advances in acute stroke imaging
Thanh Phan
|Patient activity levels during rehabilitation: control cohort results from AREISSA - A phase II trial for Environmental Enrichment post-stroke
Heidi Janssen
|Acute Stroke Care (QASC) Europe Project
Simeon Dale, Sandy Middelton
|Advances in intracranial haemorrhage management
Steve Davis
|Patient and staff perceived barriers to activity during rehabilitation: control cohort results from AREISSA- A phase II trial for Environmental Enrichment post-stroke
Heidi Janssen
|Panel discussion
|Panel discussion
|Panel discussion
|Early career stroke clinican/scientist luncheon
|My key tips for establishing a career in stroke research
Jeff Saver
|My key tips for establishing a career in stroke research
Catherine Lang
|My key tips for writing successful papers and grants
Helen Dewey
|Emerging stroke clinician and scientist special interest group – a proposal
Nawaf Yassi
|Panel discussion
Jeff, Saver, Catherine Lang, Helen Dewey, Alan Barber, Nawaf Yassi
|2A Acute stroke, ICH and intervention (free papers)
Chairs: Darshan Ghia, Craig Anderson
|2B Epidemiology and risk factors (free papers)
Chairs: Teddy Wu, Suzanne Kuys
|2C Nursing, community care and public health (free papers)
Chairs: Candice Delcourt, Julian Waller
|2D Rehabilitation 1 (free papers)
Chairs: Liz Williams, Geoff Green
|The association of penumbral imaging and outcome of endovascular stent thrombectomy: a pooled analysis of seven randomized trials
Bruce Campbell
|Stroke awareness in the NZ community
Rita Krishnamurthi
|An mHealth intervention to improve nurses' atrial fibrillation and anticoagulation knowledge and practice: the EVICOAG study
Caleb Ferguson
|Increasing the amount of usual rehabilitation improves activity after stroke: a systematic review
Louise Ada
|Real-world outcomes of endovascular coiling and neurosurgical clipping for acute subarachnoid haemorrhage: a population-based data linkage study
John Worthington
|Epidemiology of atrial fibrillation in ischaemic stroke patients: a population-based study in Auckland, New Zealand
Claudia Zagreanu
|Nursing on-board a mobile stroke unit
Skye Coote
|Go home, sit less. The effect of home versus rehabilitation environment on activity levels of stroke survivors
Dawn Simpson
|Feasibility of transbrachial carotid cannulation of a particular long guide-sheath in emergency thrombectomy for acute ischaemic stroke in the anterior cerebral circulation
Kazuhiro Yoshioka
| New-onset atrial fibrillation after CAGS and long-term risk of stroke
Matthew Megens
|Health-related quality of life of working-age adults in the australian stroke clinical registry
Joosup Kim
|Circuit class therapy improves walking ability and may reduce length of stay after stroke: an updated cochrane review
Elizabeth Lynch
|Endovascular thrombectomy in stroke of unknown onset, wake-up stroke and late presentations: outcomes in a "real world" study
Khalid Alsahli
|Excessive stroke incidence in Aboriginal people in urban and rural South Australia: results from two population-based studies
Anna Balabanski
|The Benefits of community drumming as a form of neurological rehabilitation for stroke survivors: the story of heart beat
Abby Mathewson
|Are the effects of an enriched environment on patient activity sustained over time in an acute stroke unit?
Ingrid Rosbergen
|Identification of occult anterograde flow using dynamic CT angiography derived from CT perfusion
Simon Li
|Does breaking up sitting time after stroke improve glucose control? (BUST-STROKE)
Coralie English
|Addressing the recruitment barrier: the establishment of the Hunter stroke research volunteer register (HSRVR)
Gillian Mason
|Staff perspective of working in an enriched environment embedded in the acute stroke unit
Ingrid Rosbergen
|Ischaemic stroke patients without a visible acute vessel occlusion may not benefit from alteplase therapy
Huiqiao Tian
|Breaking up sitting time after stroke improves blood pressure (BUST-STROKE)
Coralie English
|Reflection on stroke deaths – the need for advanced care directives to improve end-of-life stroke care
Syed Quadri
|Stroke in-patient activity early after stroke: individual and environmental barriers and facilitators to communication
Sarah D'souza
|Clinical and radiological findings in ICH associated with cerebral amyloid angiopathy
Harrison McKenna
|Incident stroke epidemiology and outcomes in New South Wales: findings from the Home to Outcomes (H20) study reporting state-wide incidence, mortality and functional status
Melina Gattellari
|Update of the clinical guidelines for stroke management highlighted numerous research gaps, so....??
Justine Watkins
|Therapy fidelity and trial progress in the Very Early Rehabilitation in SpEech (VERSE) trial
Erin Godecke
|Mismatch between disability scale and perception of well-being in intracerebral haemorrhage survivors: the INTERACT studies
Danni Zheng
|Sex differences in survival, functional outcomes and health-related quality of life are mostly due to women's greater age, more severe stroke and pre-stroke health compared to men: the INternational STRoke oUtComes sTudy (INSTRUCT)
Seana Gall
|Acute stroke patients not meeting their nutrition requirements: investigating the effect of an enriched environment on nutrition
Samantha Robertson
|SENSe Implement: changing clinical practice in sensory rehabilitation of the arm after stroke
Leeanne Carey
|Cerebral microbleeds and their association with intracerebral haemorrhage volume and aetiology
Olivia Galante
|Relationship between glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) and acute stroke risk: a systematic review and meta-analysis
John Mitsios
|Monumental effort! Updating the clinical guidelines for stroke management: what was involved
Justine Watkins
|Assessment of fluoxetine in stroke recovery (AFFINITY) trial: rationale, design and progress
Maree Hackett
|Afternoon tea
|Plenary 2
Chair: Neil Spratt, Seana Gall
|Stimulating recovery after stroke: smart mice to smarter humans
S. Thomas Carmichael
|Excitability changes post-stroke – optimal windows for therapeutic intervention
Andrew Clarkson
|Cellular and molecular therapies for neurorestoration post-stroke
Simon Koblar
|Motor recovery after stroke is better predicted by corticospinal tract integrity than therapy dose
Cathy Stinear
|Clinical Guidelines for Stroke Management 2017 – the new and improved version!
Bruce Campbell, Coralie English, Justine Watkins
|5.30 - 7.30pm
|Welcome reception
Venue: Copthorne Hotel
|Fun run (for the very tough)
|Plenary 3
Chairs: Julia Slark, Alan Barber
|Stroke outcome measures
Jeff Saver
|Excellence in stroke oration
Amanda Thrift
|TIPS trial
Chris Levi
|T3 trial
Sandy Middleton
|Morning tea
|3A Health service delivery and telehealth (free papers)
Chairs: Martin Krause, Dominique Cadilhac
|3B Acute stroke, TIA and secondary prevention (free papers)
Chairs: Jeremy Lanford, Beata Bajorek
|3C Basic science and imaging (free papers)
Chairs: Andrew Bivard, Neil Spratt
|3D Rehabilitation 2 (free papers)
Chairs: Bronwen Pepperell, Shaloo Singhal
|Prestroke hospital admissions for ICH: linked AuSCR registry and national hospital data
Dominique Cadilhac
|Differentiating central and peripheral causes of acute vertigo: importance of vestibular function test findings
Zeljka Calic
|Does tonic inhibition in the sub-acute period after stroke alter the trajectory of upper limb recovery?
Winston Byblow
|Adherence to the national rehabilitation framework influences quality of care and patient outcomes: the Australian experience
Tara Purvis
|Stroke severity is an important covariate to explain variability in stroke risk adjusted mortality rates: linked AuSCR registry and national hospital data
Monique Kilkenny
|NIHSS cut-off points to predict unfavourable outcome in NIHSS cut-off points for predicting poor outcome in supra- versus infra-tentorial ischaemic stroke in the ENCHANTED trial
Sohei Yoshimura
|Exercise-induced neurogenesis improves recovery in learning after an endothelin-1-induced hippocampal stroke in adult mouse
Lavinia Codd
|How is inpatient rehabilitation experienced by carers of people with stroke? A systematic review of qualitative studies
Elizabeth Lynch
|Length of time in a stroke unit is associated with better outcomes for patients with stroke in Australia
Tara Purvis
|Temporal trends in presentations to Victorian EDs for stroke and TIAs –the impact of public awareness campaigns
Janet Bray
|Modulation of resting-state networks in stroke survivors with severe post-stroke fatigue
Milanka Visser
|Determinants of rehabilitation assessment and referral following acute stroke: early results from Building Efficient and Effective Pathways to and through Rehabilitation after Stroke (BEEPRS)
Rohan Grimley
|Failure to provide risk-factor modification advice to vulnerable patients after acute stroke: opportunities for improvement identified from a national audit
Steven Mcphail
|Identifying the first medical contact in acute stroke and TIA - a population-based study
Bronwyn Tunnage
|Correlated resting-state activity of frontostriatal and cerebellar brain regions differentiates stroke survivors with high compared to low depressive symptom scores
Leeanne Carey
|Analysis of comprehensive stroke unit (CSU) treatment and outcomes at Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital
Tai-Hsiang (Ted) Huang
|Off-site and in situ simulation to improve performance and process for "Code Stroke"
Eva Windle
|Factors associated with completion of stroke-specific screening in emergency departments among people with acute stroke: which patients are missed?
Steven Mcphail
|Altered functional connectivity differs in stroke survivors with tactile impairment following left and right hemisphere lesions
Leeanne Carey
|Three days of monitoring is sufficient to accurately measure physical activity levels in stroke survivors: evidence based guidelines
Coralie English
|New investigator 1 (free papers)
|Impact and implementation of a sustainable regional telestroke network
Anna Ranta
|Transient ischemic attack results in delayed brain atrophy and cognitive change
Andrew Bivard
|Is self-reported anxiety or depression between 90 -180 days post-stroke associated with patient factors or quality of acute care received?
Tharshanah Thayabaranathan
|Is interactive, motion-capture rehabilitation effective on functional outcomes in an inpatient stroke population: a randomised control trial
Emelyn Jovic
|Emergency department staff attitudes to stroke thrombolysis and thrombectomy
Skye Coote
|Effectiveness of Motivational Interviewing for Secondary Stroke Prevention
Rita Krishnamurthi
|Impact and presence of persistent pain in stroke survivors: does region of pain affect overall impact?
Brendon Haslam
|Investigating post-stroke fatigue: an individual participant data meta-analysis
Coralie English
|The influence of non-professional others on the help-seeking behaviours of people with TIA or minor stroke
Gary Crowfoot
|The effect of including elevated CRP as a criterion on the diagnostic accuracy of algorithmic diagnosis of Stroke Associated Pneumonia
Lalit Kalra
| Cognitive profiles of ischaemic stroke patients one year after stroke: findings from the Cognitive And Neocortical Volume After Stroke (CANVAS) study
Emilio Werden
| The Wangi (talking) project: a feasibility study of a culturally sensitive rehabilitation model for Aboriginal people with acquired communication disorders after stroke
Natalie Ciccone
|Streamlining multi-disciplinary communication to improve acute stroke treatment times: Preliminary pilot results for Pulsara App
Joosup Kim
|Hyperthermia and outcome from acute intracerebral haemorrhage: the INTERACT2 study
Alejandra Malavera
|Proportional recovery from lower limb motor impairment after stroke
Marie-Claire Smith
|Slow walking speed is associated with high sitting time in stroke survivors: a data pooling study
Coralie English
|4A Implementation and evaluation in rehabilitation
Chairs: Anna McRae, Heidi Janssen
|4B Embolic stroke
Chairs: Caleb Ferguson, Timothy Kleinig
|4C New investigators 2 (free papers)
Chairs: Andrew Wong, Ben Clissold
|Implementation of the PREP algorithm for predicting upper limb outcome after stroke
Cathy Stinear
|Controversies in antithrombotic decision-making
John Fink
|Implementation of an acute care bundle for intracerebral haemorrhage: Experience at a UK Comprehensive Stroke Centre and associated reduction in 30-day case fatality
BASP Warlow prize winner Adrian Parry-Jones
| Mapping the Australian stroke research landscape: a scoping study for the new Australian stroke research network
Karen Borschmann
| Left atrial appendage occlusion and PFO closure: a cardiologist's perspective
Alexander Sasse
|Via therapy app
Cathy Stinear, Clare Jamieson
| Sex differences in clinical characteristics and outcome after stroke: the HeadPoST trial
Cheryl Carcel
|Persistent hyperglycaemia is independently associated with increased mortality after intracerebral haemorrhage
Teddy Wu
|A clinical algorithm for predicting when patients will walk independently after stroke
Marie-Claire Smith
|Mini debate - Loop recorders: to record or not record
Pro: Vincent Thijs, Con: Timothy Kleinig
|Larger comorbidity and risk factor burden before stroke is associated with readmissions: linked AuSCR registry and national hospital data
Monique Kilkenny
|A CTA - triaged non-next day TIA and minor stroke clinic is safe and effective
Edmund Cheong
|Implementation science driving best practice in stroke rehabilitation - lessons learned and future opportunities
Elizabeth Lynch
|Mini debate - LAAO: to occlude or not occlude
Pro: Alexander Sasse, Con: Claire Muller
|Differences in stroke care and outcomes after stroke for women compared to men: Australian Stroke Clinical Registry (AuSCR)
Seana Gall
|Excessive stroke incidence in Aboriginal people in central Australia: a retrospective population-based study
Anna Balabanski
|Panel discussion
|Panel discussion
|ACT-FAST Algorithm: a paramedic validated clinical triage tool for cerebral large vessel occlusion
Henry Zhao
|5.00 - 10.00pm
|Gala dinner and luging
Venue: Skyline
|7.30am - 8.45am
|Breakfast symposia
|Plenary 4
Chairs: Tim Kleining, Coralie English
|Where to next with thrombectomy?
Jeff Saver
|Prescription of motor therapy: issues of dosing and timing
Catherine Lang
|Debate: Stroke patients should be put to bed
Pro: Candice Delcourt, Con: Rohan Grimley
|Morning tea
|5A Australian stroke trial network
Chairs: Henry Ma, Vincent Thijs
|5B Health delivery optimisation
Chairs: Alan Davis, Teresa Cheetham
|Optimising primary prevention
Valery Feigin
|Hyper-acute stroke management optimisation part 1: urban perspective
Alan Davis
|Hyper-acute stroke management optimisation part 2: regional perspective
Anna Ranta
|Rehab data to drive outcomes
Catherine Lang
|Maori considerations in stroke care
Matire Harwood
|Achieving effective consumer engagement
Kylie Head
|Panel discussion
|Move to plenary room
|Meeting awards and close
|From 1.30pm
|Optional activities


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Sunday Marked 11th Anniversary of War in Afghanistan
(KABUL, Afghanistan) -- With virtually no fanfare, Sunday marked the 11th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan on Oct. 7, 2001, that was launched to destroy al Qaeda training camps and oust the Taliban regime that supported the terrorist group behind the deadliest terrorist attacks on American soil.
While the major missions of the war were accomplished, including the death of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, the U.S. and its coalition still have over 100,000 troops in Afghanistan with no plans to withdraw most of them until 2014.
The Taliban has proven a resilient enemy, which has vowed to never surrender in its goal to destroy the still fragile democratic government, which remains beset by corruption and an unstable security force.
Indeed, the Taliban issued a statement on Sunday to say that "With the help of Allah, the valiant Afghans under the Jihadi leadership of Islamic Emirate defeated the military might and numerous strategies of America and NATO alliance."
It went on to say, "And now after 11 years of unceasing terror, tyranny, crimes and savagery, they are fleeing Afghanistan with such humiliation and disgrace that they are struggling to provide an explanation."
In a sign that the U.S. and its coalition allies are stepping back from the fight, fatalities of Afghans security forces are running five times higher than those of their allies this year.
However, so-called "insider attacks" on U.S. and NATO troops have also increased, with at least 53 soldiers having died so far in 2012.
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From a series of color photos of mornings spent enjoying the sunrise at Ashbridges Bay and surrounding areas in Toronto Canada.
Original photography using a Canon EOS T1i body. Hand painted in Photoshop.
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Original photography from 2012 using a Canon EOS T1i body with a Canon EF-S 17-85mm f4-5.6 IS USM lens. Reprocessed in 2016 using Silver EFEX Pro as a Lightroom plugin for the Black and White conversion.
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Last year, a small hobbyist photo-sharing website decided to fight back against a lawsuit alleging that it infringed on a bizarre patent covering virtually the entire concept of online voting. The patent-holder plaintiff subsequently dropped the case after a heavy-hitting advocacy organization got involved, but the court has ordered the plaintiff to fork over thousands of dollars in legal fees for its �unreasonable� conduct.
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Free agents 2014: Padres take a chance on Josh Johnson
The San Diego Padres are hoping that Josh Johnson can remain healthy for a full season.
The club agreed to a one-year contract with the free-agent right-hander on Tueday night, ESPN.com's Jerry Crasnick reported. The deal includes $8 million in guaranteed money as well as performance bonuses.
PHOTOS: SN's ranking of the top 25 free agents
Reports earlier in the day said Johnson's decision was down to several National League teams, mainly ones on the West Coast.
Johnson, 29, agreed with San Diego exactly one year after he was traded by the Miami Marlins to the Toronto Blue Jays in a controversial blockbuster deal. He was limited to 16 starts with the Jays because of injuries and posted a 6.20 ERA in 81 1/3 innings. For his career, he has a 3.40 ERA and 1.27 WHIP and averages 8.25 strikeouts per nine innings.
Johnson has been on the disabled list six times in the past seven seasons with various arm and elbow ailments.
San Diego will add Johnson to a rotation that also includes Ian Kennedy, Andrew Cashner and Eric Stults.


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After two terms as Dallas mayor and another on the city council, Laura Miller has earned a break from life in the fishbowl. So has her husband, Steve Wolens, a lawyer who served the state of Texas as a legislator for 24 years. Home is where they relax, raise their three children, and recharge for the next worthy cause. (Hers is clean coal and a healthier environment.) Their home is also a sanctuary where they shake off the scrutiny of the press and the public and cherish time just being themselves. "I think because we have both been in public office, we need our home to be our refuge," explains Laura, who completed her last term as mayor of the ninth largest city in America in 2007.
Design: Julio Quiñones, Julio Quiñones & Assoc., 2525 Butler St., Dallas, TX 75235; 214/350-6437.
Photography: Emily Minton-Redfield
Produced by Diane Carroll
Wallpaper ("Silvergate'' #BP827): Farrow & Ball, 888/511-1121, farrow-ball.com. Installed by Robert Turner Assoc., 214/351-4870.
Rug (wool): Karastan, Karastan, 800/234-1120, karastan.com.
Red armchairs ("Elizabeth Loose-Back Chair'' #1113-36, Dapha Collection): Baker, 800/592-2537, kohlerinteriors.com.
Armchair fabric: Rogers & Goffigon, 203/532-8068, trade only.
Piano (antique Steinway, refurbished): North Texas Piano Service, 800/870-2172.
Yellow sofa to right of fireplace ("Versailles," custom, Cameron Collection): George Cameron Nash, 214/744-1544, trade only.
Sofa fabric (by Rose Cumming): Dessin Fournir, 785/434-2777,
dessinfournir.com, trade only.
Geometric pillows on sofa; russet pillows on sofa: Clarence House Inc., 800/803-2850, clarencehouse.com, trade only.
Floor lamps behind sofa: Vaughan Designs, 212/319-7070, trade only.
Sofa table (antique); mirror above mantel: Joseph Minton Antiques, 214/744-3111, josephmintonantiques.com.
Stools below sofa table (antique, Chinese); chairs flanking fireplace (antique); candlesticks on mantel (antique, bronze); coffee table in front of settee (French, 1940s bronze, with antique mirror): Nick Brock Antiques, 214/828-0624.
Lamps on sofa table (Baker Signature Lighting, discontinued): Baker, 800/592-2537.
Fire screen (custom): Rusty Buffalo Co., 214/324-5115.
Console table on right side of doorway to foyer (antique folding game table): The Gathering Antiques, 214/741-4888, thegatheringantiques.com.
Floor lamps (vintage Bagues): 1st Dibs, 1stdibs.com.
Lampshades (custom): Yangs Double Happiness, 214/651-1917.
Wallpaper: through Julio Quiñones & Assoc., 214/350-6437.
Trim paint ("Creamy'' #SW 7012): Sherwin-Williams, 800/474-3794, sherwinwilliams.com.
After buying their 1940s Tudor-style home two years ago, Laura and Steve gave young interior designer Julio Quiñones only one directive. "They wanted me to create a comfortable, traditional family home," says Quiñones, who left another design firm to start his own business, with Laura and Steve as his first clients.
A limestone portico with finials and quoins complements the intricate masonry of the house in Dallas's Preston Hollow.
To start this project, Quiñones took his cues from Laura -- calm and collected -- and extended her personal style to the style of her and Steve's home. "They wanted an understated but very traditional style, nothing fussy or flashy. And they wanted to be able to use family heirlooms, pieces from their other house, and the art that they've become passionate about collecting," says the designer.
His gift for the great find is evidenced by the green silk settee with exaggerated high, scrolled arms. "I found it at an estate sale," says Quiñones. "It has a beautiful back and sides -- nice, feminine lines -- and is very whimsical. Sometimes you have to buy something and trust that it will work, because you could never find it again."
Green settee (antique): owner's collection.
Settee fabric: Nancy Corzine, 212/223-8340, trade only.
Geometric pillow on settee: Clarence House Inc., 800/803-2850, trade only.
Coffee table (French, 1940s bronze, with antique mirror): Nick Brock Antiques, 214/828-0624.
Lamps (Baker Signature Lighting, discontinued): Baker, 800/592-2537.
Tray table beside settee (antique): owner's collection.
Foyer in background -- Pedestal table (Colombo USA): Baker, Knapp & Tubbs, 800/592-2537, trade only.
Sculpture on table (Reclining Woman, by Alex Wheeler): owner's collection.
An antique English mirror and 19th-century French candlesticks adorn the mantel.
Mirror above mantel: Joseph Minton Antiques, 214/744-3111, josephmintonantiques.com.
Candlesticks on mantel (antique, bronze): Nick Brock Antiques, 214/828-0624.
Designer Quiñones's sharp and independent eye doesn't rely on tony showrooms or pricey antiques shops to know what's good. One of the living room's most interesting upholstered pieces is its Chippendale-style camelback sofa. "Julio found it in a used furniture store, liked it, completely gutted it, and made it fabulous," Laura praises.
Unusual detailing is a critical component of Quiñones's approach. "Instead of using welting, I finished the edges of the camelback sofa with a kind of pleat that I'd never done before and haven't done since," he says. The pleats terminate at the corners with tiny rosette-like blooms, so subtle they become apparent only on close inspection. "I just thought it would look kind of neat here," the designer adds modestly.
Sofa (English Chippendale): owner's collection.
Sofa fabric: F. Schumacher & Co., fschumacher.com, trade only.
Pillows on sofa (antique Japanese silk): Nick Brock Antiques, 214/828-0624.
Coffee table: East & Orient Co., 214/741-1191, trade only.
Custom tooled leather on coffee table: Larru Leathers Inc., 214/760-7003, larruleathers.com, trade only.
Sculpture on coffee table (Old Man, by Alex Wheeler); painting behind piano (Le Jardin, by Robert Antoine Pinchon): owner's collection.
Side tables flanking sofa: Brendan Bass, 214/747-3386, trade only.
Lamps on side tables: Vaughan Designs, 212/319-7070, vaughandesigns.com, trade only.
Drapery fabric: Calvin Fabrics, 888/732-1996, henrycalvin.com, trade only.
Drapery tiebacks (antique): Nick Brock Antiques, 214/828-0624.
Rug (wool): Karastan, Karastan, 800/234-1120, karastan.com.
Red armchair ("Elizabeth Loose-Back Chair'' #1113-36, Dapha Collection): Baker, 800/592-2537, kohlerinteriors.com.
Armchair fabric: Rogers & Goffigon, 203/532-8068, trade only.
As practical as he is creative, Quiñones is always concerned with his clients' comfort. He furnished Laura and Steve's dining room with an 18th-century English sideboard and an antique wine cabinet but added a new Baker table and chairs. "It was important to incorporate a few antiques -- otherwise the house feels too new -- but it was just as important to have pieces that are comfortable and practical for today. That's especially important with dining room chairs. Plus, it's hard to find 12 or 24 matching antique chairs," he says.
"Laura did not want a crystal chandelier," notes Quiñones of the 1940s Empire-style bronze chandelier. "This one is grand but light. And it has the kind of detailing that sets it apart." Sensuous textures and an unstudied shapeliness -- as found on the silk draperies -- create a "sexy feel for a traditional style," says the designer.
Table (Historic Charleston Collection): Baker, 800/592-2537.
Chairs (Regency-style "Square-Back Side Chair'' #621-64-62, and "Square-Back Arm Chair'' #621-63-62, Kings Row Collection): Hickory White, 828/322-8624, hickorywhite.com.
Chair fabric: Christopher Hyland Inc., 212/688-6121,
christopherhyland.com, trade only.
Chandelier: Donald J. Embree Antiques Inc., 214/760-9141, embreeart.com, trade only.
Side table near window (antique): Milton Kent Antiques, 214/826-7553.
Rug: Edward Fields Inc., 214/741-4215, edwardfieldsinc.com, trade only.
Wall upholstery: Christopher Norman Collection, 212/644-5301,
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Accessories: owner's collection.
A 1940s gold-leaf French mirror crowns an 18th-century English sideboard.
Sideboard: The Gathering Antiques, 214/741-4888, thegatheringantiques.com.
Mirror: The Mews, 214/748-9070, themewsantiques.com.
Sconces: Ceylon et Cie, 214/742-7632, ceylonetcie.com.
Wall upholstery: Christopher Norman Collection, 212/644-5301, christophernorman.com., trade only.
Accessories: owner's collection.
Quiñones stripped paint from the banister to reveal a beautiful mix of textures and materials. The red runner introduces drama in the entry.
Antique Fortuny fabric on the decorative pillows joins custom Schumacher bedding. Carving on the Louis XVI bench at the foot of the bed visually partners with the decoration on the fireplace, flanked by vintage Robsjohn-Gibbings chairs, to unify the room.
Bed; bedding: owner's collection.
Pillows (antique Fortuny fabric); bench: Nick Brock Antiques, 214/828-0624.
Bench fabric: Holly Hunt, 312/661-1900, hollyhunt.com, trade only.
Swing-arm lamps: Phoenix Day Lighting, phoenixday.com, trade only.
Chairs flanking fireplace (vintage Robsjohn-Gibbings): JF Chen, 323/466-9700.
Paint ("Swiss Coffee''#OC-45): Benjamin Moore, 888/236-6667, benjaminmoore.com.
"The pulse of the home is the kitchen," Laura says. That's where she and Steve gather for family dinners with all three children -- daughters Alex, 18, and Lily, 16, and their 13-year-old son, Max. "Even when I was mayor, I insisted on family dinner. If I had to do a reception, we had our family dinner either before or after it."
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On weekends, the sunroom is Laura and Steve's favorite retreat, a place to sip coffee and read the papers.
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Paint color ("Swiss Coffee'' #OC-45): Benjamin Moore & Co., 888/236-6667.
Putting family first was imperative to the design's success. "Our kids tell us their very best memories are from our previous house, where the girls shared a bedroom and all five of us shared a bath," says Laura, shown here with Lily (left), Alex, and Max. "So beware when you dream of owning a larger home." The challenge for Quiñones was to create the same sense of ease and opportunity for memory-making, but in a much larger house. His solution was a design that's "pretty, airy, and not formal," sums up Laura.
Family, in fact, was why she did not seek a third term as mayor. "No one has served three terms as Dallas mayor, so that little bit of ego was tempting, but it would've been completely narcissistic," Laura explains. "Our 18-year-old sat me down and said, 'If you run for reelection, you're throwing the towel in on our family.' She wanted me present for her senior year. The past 11 months have been great because I've gotten to spend so much time with my kids" -- in a home they all love.


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Quote from: Brian on February 12, 2011, 05:33 PMthat thing can't be cheap to ship (or maybe put online at all). I would not hold my breath hoping for the mega-box set to get to HTS. The mega-box will be strictly limited to the actual show and will even be limited in number (they were still working out the edition size). Also, klike someone else said, the Salacious Crumb and Mouse Droid mini-carded figures will only be available in the mega-box death star set.The "Revenge" card figures themselves will be pretty much the same as the usual UGH idea, like the foil cards last year. The single cards will be mixed into the waves 2-3 at a time - hard to find, but not impossible to find.So, if you want the cards, you can buy them singly in the Fall. If you want the mega-deathstar-package-box-set, make sure you get to SDCC early.
that thing can't be cheap to ship (or maybe put online at all).
They are really banking some love in advance of that Q&A period, should be entertaining.
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I like this book because it has cats in it, and they are pretty funny. My favorite part was when Holly counted cats because she was always finding cats. When I read the book I got so into it that I almost thought I had cats. It reminded me about my old cat because she was always scratching somebody like one of the cats in the book.
I would recommend this book. In fact, I would give it 3 - out of 5 stars. I like this book because it has cats in it, and I like cats. This book is for 1st through 4th graders. I think the part they would like is where Holly was scared to go on the slide. That part of the story makes sense. I think kids would like this book a lot.


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In a post on DIPNOTE, The U.S. Department of State's Official blog, Ashley Bommer, Special Advisor to Special Representative to Afghanistan & Pakistan Richard Holbrooke gave some great insight into the people of Pakistan and the conflict in the nation. In the changing face of the nation, she discusses the current needs of the people and what the State Department is doing to help the people and give them hope.
Ms. Bommer recounts an email from The Director of Wireless at the Ministry of Information and Technology, writing, " Social Connection can transform society and in Pakistan there is immense opportunity for using technology to deploy citizen centric services, that can help bring about socio economic change for the Pakistani people. Active involvement of Pakistani stakeholders both in the public and private sectors will be crucial to achieve optimal results.
The efforts of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are also discussed along with her support of Humari Awaz ("Our Voice"), Pakistan's first mobile social network. Clinton says that Humari Awaz is, "a service you can use on your cell phone to distribute news stories, to invite people to an event, to share your thoughts and opinions, to report problems that you see, to call for actions to solve those problems."
Humari Awaz enables Pakistanis to build mobile-based networks around shared interests and themes. Users can register for keywords to send alerts and subscribe to text message alerts all through the mobile device. The U.S. State Department is supporting the program and is covering the costs of the first 24 million Humari Awaz messages.
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Last Saturday marked a year since Ellie died, a day I remember like it was yesterday but a year which has undoubtedly been the longest of my life. Despite this I've been hugely touched by all the people who have contacted me via the charity and written lovely things about Ellie and how inspiring she was, and still is, and we're very proud to have established a registered charity in her name and memory.
We received our charity number last week and, as you may already have seen, we have a logo for Ellie's Friends, so our main focus now is to develop the website of that name. It will enable people living with cancer to search by location and category for the services and support available to them and we will also continue to build a national network of service providers who wish to offer their skills or products for free or at a discounted rate.
As well as the many kind offers of help, many people have also enquired about donating to the charity and we have finally set up a donation page, which you can visit at https://mydonate.bt.com/charities/theeleanorrosefoundation.
We are hoping that we can find web developers who are willing to help us build Ellie's Friends free of charge or at a significantly reduced rate and there will obviously be running costs of the site as we keep it up to date and approach service providers to grow the network. Whatever we do, we aim to make any donations stretch as far as possible and anyone who knows me will know that this is a particular skill of mine! Thank you to anyone and everyone who takes the time to donate.
In the meantime I would like to post a short piece that 'Professor Hope', Justin Stebbing, kindly wrote about Ellie and how she touched his life. Ellie wrote a lot about him and how his positivity motivated her, so it was interesting to me to get his perspective on a patient whose situation clearly affected him just as much.
Ellie and Me
I still read writtenoff.net. There's just something about it. I shouldn't but I do. It's hard not to use glib words that sound clichéd, but it simply transcends any descriptions of who we are and what we may, or may not be. Making the big C smaller is my own life's dream, but Ellie captured being on the receiving end of the big C better than anyone I have ever encountered with overwhelming power, energy, simplicity, humility and beauty. Everyone is special, and the more one knows someone the more special they are and can be, but as a hardened oncologist Ellie's story, her love for life, and what ultimately happened, is enough to make one cry, laugh and for me anyway feel unbelievably privileged and blessed to have looked after Ellie, and know her in the way I did. Whenever I think we are getting somewhere and we're getting good at oncology, reducing the death rate, I think of Ellie and that for all our successes, she died 3 weeks before she was due to marry Tom. If that's not failure, I don't know what is.
I remember first meeting Ellie and Tom. It's worth mentioning that no two patients are ever the same which is a problem for trials of the latest therapy or diagnostic test, in which patients are grouped by necessity. We first met on Harley Street but then straight away I started caring for her on the NHS. She had an aggressive cancer – anyone's cancer can be rapidly proliferative and divide quickly, but younger people's tumours often are. One shouldn't get involved, and one should remain detached – by whatever mechanism (my favourite one being busy, running a large research team and burying my head in the sand). It's important to provide choices, not to judge people and do one's utmost to prolong both quantity and quality of life and that's all I wanted to do. I didn't realise until a few months into Ellie's treatment that she was describing our consultations on her blog.
On reading it one was immediately struck by the intense quality of the writing, and an ability to bring humour into a very dark area. It was accurate and precise but more than this for the first time in my experience and career described the quiet unwritten communication that occurs between a doctor and a patient, their friends or relatives. That's not easy – it can't be by definition – because I have never seen or read it before. I don't know if it's a good thing or not that I found out because once a doctor knows about it, it introduces a different dynamic into a consultation. Here though, it worked beautifully, and even though Ellie was a journalist, it wasn't trained and she was clearly an amazing writer and chronicler of human dynamics. I don't think one can teach communications skills and Ellie had those with overflowing abundance.
From an oncologist's perspective her illness was doubly cruel. Not only was she very young, but the second whammy was that it was a very difficult type of cancer to treat, with a lack of targeted therapies available. We tried hard to enable Ellie to receive a targeted new experimental drug, called a fibroblast growth factor receptor antibody and the great news here was that we biopsied her tumour and it had high expression of the receptor on the cancer cells, which one needed to be included in the trial (high expression or high levels of the receptor was uncommon). But, Ellie was excluded from it due to a problem with the back of one of her eyes – damn small print, there to protect patients but sometimes a little anti-inclusive.
The blog describes in pragmatic detail Ellie's journey from her 'current oncologist' to me. One of the problems with British medicine is doctors can feel like they own patients in their own parochial manner. Surely when one has a young patient or anyone for that matter with a difficult cancer there's no harm asking for help. Ellie's previous consultant who I don't know from Adam, was wrong to say I'd charge her a fortune for an expensive cancer drug if she came to see me. It's extraordinary to say such a thing to a patient. I hadn't charged Ellie and Tom when I saw them privately let alone even think for one second about charging them for medicines which could cost a fortune but I am embarrassed as a medical professional that some of my erstwhile colleagues can treat people this way – to destroy hope. This is one aspect of patient care the blog describes with a reality that's almost too present, and it is present on many occasions throughout the blog. I am not sure how Ellie wrote with such clarity, often describing little minutiae while keeping it big picture.
As Ellie's illness progressed and we tried different treatments with varying degrees of success, I felt so proud that at least Ellie was likely to make her long planned wedding to Tom. How wrong I was. I felt so lucky that Ellie was raising money for my charity (a sponsored shave headed day!), Action Against Cancer, to help fund PhD students and laboratory work aiming for a cure for this dreadful illness – with the biggest risk that we don't take enough risks. My heroes are people like Ellie, and those students working their guts out to make a difference. The work of these scientists is distilled into manuscripts frozen in place and time, presenting data devoid of feeling and emotion. This missive and the blog are different. The blog just makes you stop and think, about what's important in life, where we are and where we should go, from how to treat people when we meet them to how do we start to cure this disease.
The Eleanor Rose Foundation which has now been established aims to simply help people with cancer have a better life – a fitting testament to Ellie. I am hugely honoured to be a patron of this. We can't just focus on new drugs and clever molecules without realising the very human cost and humanity behind an illness that affects 1 in 3 people with 1 in 4 people dying from cancer.
Nice people and not nice people, young and old, good and not good, men and women, right, left, gay, straight, tall, short, fat, thin…anyone…can develop cancer. I was recently told that as oncologists we only have a certain number of patients in us and once we've exceeded that we have to give up. Ellie was truly amazing, a light in the world, and The Eleanor Rose Foundation is ensuring her legacy will outlast all of our lives, which is the most fitting tribute to a most beautiful young woman, who I will never forget. The world is a much better place for having had Ellie in it, and a worse one for losing her but maybe one day we can cure this illness, and Ellie will have helped with this.
Justin Stebbing


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|SPARQL Quick Reference, SPARQL W3C Definition
We will now take a look at how to perform queries against the Nepomuk data repository.
|The queries presented here a pretty low-level. Only use this approach if the Nepomuk Query API does not fulfill your needs.
Nepomuk uses one main Soprano model which is accessed through the ResourceManager:
Soprano::Model* model = Nepomuk::ResourceManager::instance()->mainModel();
Basically performing a query with Nepomuk/Soprano always looks as follows (More details on using the iterator in the Soprano API documentation.):
QString query = getFancyQueryString();
Soprano::QueryResultIterator it
= model->executeQuery( query,
Soprano::Query::QueryLanguageSparql );
while( it.next() ) {
Soprano::Node value = it.binding( "someVariableName" );
Soprano::BindingSet allBindings = *it;
Let us have a look at how a query can be constructed. As an example we will query for all resources that are tagged with a certain tag. Let's imagine that we have a reference to this tag stored in myTag. (Please ignore the fact that Nepomuk::Tag::tagOf essentially returns the same information. After all, we are here to learn how it works.)
#include <Soprano/Model>
#include <Soprano/QueryResultIterator>
#include <Soprano/Vocabulary/NAO>
Nepomuk::Tag myTag = getOurFancyTag();
QString query
= QString("select distinct ?r where { ?r %1 %2 . }")
.arg( Soprano::Node::resourceToN3(Soprano::Vocabulary::NAO::hasTag()) )
.arg( Soprano::Node::resourceToN3(myTag.resourceUri()) );
Soprano::QueryResultIterator it
= model->executeQuery( query,
Soprano::Query::QueryLanguageSparql );
while( it.next() ) {
myResourceList << Nepomuk::Resource( it.binding( "r" ).uri() );
We begin by constructing the SPARQL query string. It is a simple query and if you know SQL it should be easy to understand. Basically we select resources that match the patterns in the where statement. In this case the resource needs to have the hasTag property with object myTag. As we can see, Soprano already provides a set of standard URIs as static instances in the Soprano::Vocabulary namespace. And since we have the Nepomuk resource object for the tag we can simply use its unique URI to directly access the tagged resources.
But what if we do not have the tag URI but only its label, i.e. the name given by the user?
Also no problem with SPARQL:
QString myTagLabel = getFancytagLabel();
QString query
= QString("select distinct ?r where { "
"?r %1 ?tag . "
"?tag %2 %3 . }")
.arg( Soprano::Node::resourceToN3(Soprano::Vocabulary::NAO::hasTag()) )
.arg( Soprano::Node::resourceToN3(Soprano::Vocabulary::RDFS::label()) )
.arg( Soprano::Node(myTagLabel).toN3() );
This already looks a lot more confusing as the previous example but that is mainly due to the QString argument paramters. Let's clean it up w bit by using SPARQL prefix declarations:
QString query
= QString("PREFIX nao: %1 "
"PREFIX rdfs: %2 "
"PREFIX xls: %3 "
"select distinct ?r where { "
"?r nao:hasTag ?tag . "
"?tag rdfs:label \"%4\"^^xls:string . }")
.arg( Soprano::Node::resourceToN3(Soprano::Vocabulary::NAO::naoNamespace()) )
.arg( Soprano::Node::resourceToN3(Soprano::Vocabulary::RDFS::rdfsNamespace()) )
.arg( Soprano::Node::resourceToN3(Soprano::Vocabulary::XMLSchema::xsdNamespace()) )
.arg( myTagLabel );
Both queries are the same and it is up to the query writer to decide which version he or she prefers. We are just presenting both versions here for demonstration purposes.
Now let us analyse what is happening here. Instead of just matching a single graph pattern, we match two where the first one introduces another variable which is then reused in the second one. rdfs:label has a string literal range, meaning that each object related to a resource via the rdfs:label property is a string literal. And in this case we want to select the tag that has myTagLabel as its label.
In Introduction to RDF and Ontologies we briefly learned about named graphs or context which make up the fourth part of each statement in Nepomuk. We can now use this information to filter our results based on creation dates. Imagine for example that we want to retrieve all resources tagged before the first of January 2008. We do this by introducing some more complex SPARQL syntax. For simplicity we go back to our first example of matching the tag URI directly to keep the query from getting too unreadable. But of course both can be combined. (Keep in mind that we only use the prefix syntax here for readability. In actual code it may be better to directly add the URIs from Soprano::Vocabulary to prevent typing errors in property and class names.)
QDateTime firstOfJanuary = getFirstOfJanuary();
QString query
= QString("PREFIX nao: <%1> "
"PREFIX rdfs: <%2> "
"select distinct ?r where { "
"graph ?g { ?r nao:hasTag <%3> . } "
"?g nao:created ?time . "
"FILTER(?time < %4) . }")
.arg( Soprano::Vocabulary::NAO::naoNamespace().toString() )
.arg( Soprano::Vocabulary::RDFS::rdfsNamespace().toString() )
.arg( myTag.resourceUri().toString() )
.arg( Soprano::Node::literalToN3( firstOfJanuary ) );
This query contains three new concepts:
With KDE 4.4 Nepomuk depends on Virtuoso for data storage. Virtuoso brings a lot of nice extensions to SPARQL. Most importantly the full text search which is used through the artificial bif:contains property.
This allows to combine graph queries with full text queries in a nice way:
select ?r where { ?r nao:prefLabel ?label .
?label bif:contains 'nepomuk' . }
The query above will find any resources that contain nepomuk in their label.
Of course wildcards are supported, too. However, be aware that when using wildcards the expression itself needs to be enclosed in quotes as follows:
select ?r where { ?r nao:prefLabel ?label .
?label bif:contains "'nepomuk*'" . }
For most simple queries (simple queries do not use any back-referencing for example) the Nepomuk desktop query API should be sufficient.


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Wednesday, 23 January 2008
Macbeth graphic novel by Classical Comics.
My good friend Jon Haward's new graphic novel of Macbeth is due to be released next month. It is a stunning piece of work with a script by John McDonald and beautiful colours by Nigel Dobbyn. Jon has been working on this for over a year and it is his best work to date. Have a look over at the Classical Comics site and see what publisher Clive Bryant has to offer. A great selection of books including more Shakespeare plays and other literary classics.
Jon's next book is The Tempest and I have already seen pages from it. It promises to be as good as Macbeth with more imaginative and creative visuals and sumptious vistas. Clive's approach is to produce good looking graphic novels with great stories by established artists and the classic literature of Shakespeare is beyond reproach. Cleverly, he has produced three text versions of each play; one for schools with the original text, a standard edition in plain English and a 'quick text' version for the nervous, first time reader. Having tackled Shakespeare at school myself I think this is a good decision as it allows people of varying interests to enjoy the series and hopefully the 'quick text' readers will venture further into the world of the Bard with this helpful introduction?
You will find plenty of sample pages up online and a free download of the 2008 Key Stage 3 English Text for schools. It clearly shows what Classical Comics is trying to do with the series and highlights the other classic authors to be published later this year. John M Burns and Mike Collins are also part of the team and new talent Declan Shalvey is shining on Frankenstein. Will Volley is another name to look out for on his wonderful Romeo and Juliet. Enjoy the site!
Posted by Gary Erskine at 03:08
4 comments:
- jamie said...
hi gary,
great to see you online,and we're really enjoying reading your blog.
is there any chance you could dig out that old ukcac cover you did years ago,of wolverine and the punisher?
that's one of my all time favourite bits of art,of all time,ever!
cheerio for now,
- 24 January 2008 at 14:56
- Gary Erskine said...
Thanks for the kind words. The UKCAC cover was given to Dougie Braithwaite as a page swap. I still have a slide of it somewhere. A favourite page of mine too and one of the few colour pieces I have done!
- 24 January 2008 at 15:58
- Dec said...
Wow! Thanks for the kind mention Gary, i had no idea you'd seen any of my Frankenstein pages. Very flattered that you like them.
Hope to see you at Hi-Ex, if you ain't too busy that is.
All the best,
- 29 January 2008 at 18:08
- lenbot said...
I LOVE this. Any Shakespeare nut would.
tres cool...
- 6 February 2008 at 13:03
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The first time I tried Anthony Myint's food was inside Duc Loi supermarket, an Asian/Hispanic market in San Francisco's Mission District. In a small corner, behind the meat counter, he turned out fried chicken sandwiches and Heston Blumenthal burgers that were simply amazing. A year later, I ate at his and Danny Bowien's Mission Chinese Food, a restaurant-within-a-restaurant that, to me, represents the best of San Francisco—not just for the food but also for its scrappy entrepreneurialism. (GQ would later name this restaurant as one of 2011's best new restaurants.)
Anthony Myint and all his projects, from food truck to pop-up restaurant (back before anyone knew what such a thing was) to Mission Burger and Mission Chinese and Commonwealth, was and still is an inspiration to me and to chefs and pop-up restaurants around the country. Restaurants are an old business, run largely the same way for decades, often requiring a large investment upfront; Myint and his partner chefs have shown how young chefs can make a name for themselves without a lot of money. And they've managed to do this all while keeping menu prices low and donating a chunk of profits to the food bank.
Next Monday, Mission Street Food and Interisland Terminal are teaming up for a pop-up dinner at The Whole Ox. On the menu, served family style (subject to change):
- Fish and Chips Two Ways - Yellowtail & Tarragon; Pickled Mussels and Cucumbers
- Fried Chicken Salad - Watermelon, Chicories, Fromage Ranch
- Pork and Beans - Pork Belly, Lentils, Wild Rice, Charred Scallion
- Marrow Braised Beef Cheek - With Roasted Beet, Burrata, Dill
- Sauterne Shave Ice, Honeydew Cream
In addition to the dinner, Anthony Myint and Karen Leibowitz, wife and business partner, will also give a book talk on their memoir/cookbook Mission Street Food, published by McSweeneys and a New York Times Notable Cookbook.
Book talk: $5, Sunday, September 9 at 3 p.m., R&D, 691 Auahi St.
Dinner: $50, Monday, September 10 at 6 or 8:30 p.m., The Whole Ox, 327 Keawe St.
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|2007-05-28, 18:27
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~Nanchatte Renai
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Australia
Age: 25
I'm not sure who tought me this but I don't think the tut was posted her so I''m going to have a go at explain how to do this.
Some of you might of seen my avatars like these
Ok well find the image you'd like to practise on this tut. I choose mine as this one
Well open in Imageready/Photoshop crop and resize it to 100X100 or whatever resoultions you want.
Now pick the square Marquee tool and zoom in on your avatar after resizing it. I usually zoom in alot so I know what I'm doing
Now that you've zoomed in get the square marquee tool and don't highlight then edge bring it away from the edge so start it off a bit near the edge. Sometimes you have to start near the middle edge.
Now that you've done the press ctrl+shift+i
When you get it highlighted (the the picture will have the square in it the outside and the desired place you want to stay the same colour it is) Go to Image-Adjustments-Brightness Contrast.
When the Brightness and Contrast come up I make the brightness 100 percent bright or you can do -100 so it goes dark.
After you've done that and selected ok go ctrl+shift+i again till it has the place you started off with. Now find a light colour in the picture, pick that colour and go to Edit-Stroke-1 or 2px of that colour.
Then after that just select the whole picture with the square marquee tool and pic the darker colour in the picture and do another stroke.
If you want to add text I usually add it near the edge on the right hand side.
Save as a Png24. and Volia here you have it
I'm really sorry I couldn't supply pictures. This sounds stupid but some keys on my keyboard aren't working PrtScn is one of them I'm really sorry!
But other then that I hope you enjoyed this tut
|2007-05-29, 07:55
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I'm in the processing of making another signature tutorial using CS3 now, you guys want me to upload it on different sites or would you rather me make it into a torrent
[rather upload to different sites as i can then use the same tut on another forum]
|2007-05-29, 11:14
|Link #425
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: event horizon
Happy tutorial making.
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|2007-05-30, 01:43
|Link #428
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: event horizon
I think it's more of an issue with optimizing it when saving.
See this tutorial. (it has pictured)
The check list is like primer for the optimization.
It's meant to get you the highest quality, but you still might need to tweak it down when saving it as .gif.
|2007-06-03, 22:16
|Link #429
~Nanchatte Renai
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Australia
Age: 25
Hallo again!
Today I'm going to show you how to earse text off something. People who have alot of experince just vector. I do it the begginer way and kinda hard with the clone stamp.
I'll be using this picture
Firstly after you've opened it. zoom in twice where the text is. Next you should select the eraser tool * make sure it is a bold dark circle* and erase all the text on the image. Now after you've done that select the clone stamp tool and press alt+click *click with your mouse of course* and select an area that is close to were the text was.
Contuine doing this till every space is fill in. Now there wil lbe spaces were there was text and no lines. You can either do the pen or line tool for this and estimate how long to make it.
Volia here is the *cough* bad result. Sorry about it, doing my French assignment
Again keys aren't working on my keyboard so no screenshots again!
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There's no right way or wrong way... it's totally up to you. I myself like the magic eraser tool plus rendering manually. What ever way is easiest and the most efficient. Any over erasure and I apply the clone stamp tool to recover erased parts. Depending on the render, I can use the magnetic lasso tool and outline the whole render itself and cut it out one time... then do some maintenance on recovering cut out parts and what not... It's all up to the person doing the job.
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You can also use the Eyedropper tool to select the color and just go old fashioned brush tool and cover over the text
Hope I made myself clear
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Trying to make an avatar using an .mkv file. Followed the directions on the first page, but noticed that in the ffshow video decoder config there wasn't a format that supported .mkv. Has the code changed? Anything? Anything? Bueller?
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I don't know if this is a good thing or not. In many cases, I think this little blog can remove some of the excess and useless from my hand written journal. While I have become increasingly slack in hand writing, I find this is much more easy to type on my break at work or to throw out a few ideas from time to time. Perhaps the time consumption of writing useless ramblings and thought testing in the hard copy can be removed. I don't know if the posterity would have appreciated this maintained in the journal or not, but we will have to see. I could hope, but I don't think what I am writing now could last through the centuries as perhaps a book could. But by that time, the day to day concerns and mundane thoughts will not be of value anyhow. They will probably be so foreign to most that they would find it utterly boring. Unless of course, they are steeped in the traditions of our day and understand a glimmer of what it was I thought was somewhat important.
We never hear of the concerns or latest political ramblings of Rome. I have no idea if they ever passed a CAFTA of sorts, something that is taking up mega amounts of time for me here at work. Idaho does not want CAFTA. Minnesota does not want CAFTA. They both have the sugar beet industry to lose. Florida and Louisiana don't want it either for it causes blows to their sugar cane industry. However, I do not think that is enough to stall it in the House. While there are problems with tribunals in the pact, and other problems, I think it will end up going the way of a passing vote. It is always so interesting. I find myself in the midst of a terrible battle. One that is not just political, but goes further. It extends to the parts of the soul, and the age old questions of what is good and right. I know many people say that this is something that really doesn't matter in the long run, but it does. There is nothing temporal which is not also spiritual. Temporal is only an extention of spiritual. The principle behind these issues is still very real, and one that extends to the dawnings of time. The question is this. We are to be independent as far as we possibly can. In all things. Hence comes the conservative slant. We believe in being sustained as much as we can individually, then to help out our families and communities. After that, it extends to the state, and then to the whole world. Families are organized together into communities, and communities in this country into counties. However this order of things has been diminished and is now the state moreso. States (in the US) combine to form the United States, one large state. Nation seems to have the wrong definition, something I would apply more to the community or county. The culmination of all these creates the populace of the world and our interactions.
The market works purely in this form, trade breaks down barriers, and all things are governed according to need and the invisible hand. You can sense some of my political theory background coming out here. This would be considered the far right, the purist, and those who are basically libertarian. Everything is to work from the base up. The forming of a state, and of these united states are a social compact for the benefit of all. From my understanding, government is only to do for the people what they grant it power to do for them. Therefore, government is not to do something that the people are not willing to do for themselves. I would protect my life. Government has that capability to do that for me so I don't have to worry about it. I would protect my property, those things I can claim as my own. Therefore government may do that for me as well. There is always the sticky idea of defining property and regulating who gets what, but I think that was pretty well defined by the market and to some degree still is. That is the roll of government. To aid in those things, communication must be preserved, transportation enabled, and forces which would undermine the happy association with my peers. Everything beyond is out of the scope of government. I think most of the problems we are facing today deal with the overstepping of those bounds. That would be the ideal world. Yep, there would be inequality, but you know, it would be taken care of on the community level. If it is community wide, the counties or states would reach to help out neighboring and so forth. I do believe humans are naturally good. If there is greed, I believe the market would help remove it and if not, they would find themselves destitute and poor. However, our audacity to believe we understand things better than the laws of eternity have caused us to stick our fingers into the pots and undermine everything. Now the other side is that humans are not capable of taking care of themselves and need a big brother. I obviously am throwing the other side of the spectrum out. It is our job to reach out and make sure each are living their life to the fullest. It takes a few who are well learned and understanding to say what those things are because they know best. Therefore all must be told what to do, how to do it, how often, and in all the details. This is a very centralized theory, while the other is decentralized. One claims all understanding, the other claims each knows for themselves. One states that human kind is naturally ignorant, the other that humans have certain innate gifts of understanding. The poles are great and hard to mix. These two far opposites battle in the middle for the ground and neither is ever quite winning.
I believe in the conservative, free market, libertarian, decentralized mode of things. I think free trade is a great thing. Something to be lauded and heralded to the world. It will serve more to break down the barriers of culture and religion than anything else I can think of. Now where government has already become involved we have adapted and don't like drastic change. The market does provide constance and change is incremental and small. The authoritative approach brings drastic and painful changes. We have relied on government so much that the removal of these barriers will affect broad spectrums of our society. Where if we had not messed with these things, we would not be facing this issue. Nobody ever heard the wagon maker union calling for subsidies and high taxes on autos because it was ruining their way of life. Nobody ever heard the candle and lantern makers posing for special incentives and help of the government. New inventions, new ways of life, the future was bright and great opportunity awaited them. The wheel makers moved on to auto wheels or were left destitute. The market required a continuing education, and did not allow for stagnant individuals. You had to work or you had none. If you could not work, then those who could help if it was obvious reached out their hand. If you had no hope, many took their own lives or pined away in misery. Those who have faith and hope march forward ever into uncharted territory. Whether for themselves or for others. Electricity has revolutionized the world. Those who were destroyed by electricity either adapted or they were left behind. Yes, it might be painful, but life itself is painful. Learn to grab the bull by the horns and wrestle it to your benefit. Have a classic back yard bar-b-que when you have worked things in your favor. Yep, that bull might be big, it might be a mean one, but call on family and community. There is nothing that is too big that concerted effort cannot conquer.
Somehow the bull is always to be slaughtered by the community now. And when it is not, we cry foul. We avoid the pain of work and endure the pain of hunger. The pain of work is much less nagging and can actually be enjoyable, much more than the pains of hunger ever were. Yet somehow we cry and bring about our pity party. I did not have the opportunity to have first pick of the last killed calf.
So what about specialization. That is all great. I believe if someone else can kill the calf and butcher it better than me is more than allowed to do so. But to receive of their work and effort, there must be something I can be doing that would be of value to them. Now I understand money has made this bargain much more easily made, but there is something I can do. Whether I am good at it or not, maybe it is just something nobody else wants to do. There is always work to do, and that pain we might as well do. Whether it be low or high, it needs to be done, so why whine, get to it. If you are the best darn nose picker in the world and somebody else wants those ores, then you will be rewarded for your job. Do it well, and the better the reward.
So here we are, back in Idaho. Free trade will remove the old no longer useful or efficient occupations and require ingenuity for those who would like to work. In saying all that, I hate to see the complete uprooting of an entire way of life. Granted, it exists because of government, but it is my life. It is the way I grew up. It is how life is. My allowing CAFTA will destroy all I have ever known and break apart the communities and way of life. Some of my best friends will be left destitute and without hope of a future, partially because of their own unwillingness to adapt and learn.
If all this rambling on theory is not enough, this is what is worse. That we have the capability to determine these things. Our government and we as a people have allowed government to get to this stage. Yep, you and me. I suppose much more on our ancestors, but we allow and even perpetuate this way of life. Not just for ourselves, but in our government. What ever is to be done? Must we wait for great grievances or even the failure of our system before we make true amends? Anyhow my break is well over. Whatever shall we do. I am afraid most people don't care enough to worry about it, so I suppose those who believe we are dumb ride for the day. While those who believe in the independence of the individual either must be obvious or watch with a degree of terror. Perhaps we deserve to be ruled by the few and an elitest group, after all, we allowed it.