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Lush dunes give way to sugar sands and turquoise waters in the idyllic setting of this custom-built island-inspired residence, one of a select number of direct oceanfront estates in the sought-after Orchid Island Golf & Beach Club. Designed with a main home and companion guest house surrounding a gorgeous pool courtyard, this impressive six-bedroom residence was constructed in 2007 by The Hill Group, a high-end Vero Beach builder with a 30-year record of quality and integrity.
Conducive to an effortless indoor/outdoor lifestyle, the great room joins the main living and dining areas together in one large open space, anchored by a fireplace, flowing outdoors to a relaxing oceanfront loggia. Ocean views are shared by the light, airy family room as well as the guest master suite on the main level and the full-floor master suite upstairs. A den/game room accompanies two bedroom suites on the lower level. Opening from the west side of the residence, loggias with a summer kitchen and fireplace connect to the separate self-contained two-bedroom guest house. Thoughtfully planned for sizeable groups of family and guests to enjoy maximum privacy and comfort, this stunning oceanfront estate creates its own private world within the serene resort community of Orchid Island Golf & Beach Club.
Beachside Drive, Vero Beach, Florida. A Treasure Coast paradise, Orchid Island Golf and Beach Club resides on a barrier island between the Atlantic Ocean, Indian River Lagoon, and Intracoastal Waterway. Centered on an award-winning 18-hole Arnold Palmer-designed golf course with stately clubhouse, this resort community has as its crown jewel a luxurious British West Indies-inspired Beach Club. A new tennis and wellness center is also featured. Orchid Island's designation as a certified Audubon Sanctuary is a testament to its unspoiled natural beauty. Only a 15 +/- minute drive, Vero Beach's charming seaside village offers fine boutiques and restaurants along with noted cultural attractions including the Vero Beach Museum of Art and Riverside Theatre.
Directly fronting 125 +/- feet on the Atlantic Ocean, this idyllic estate sits on 1.48 +/- acres of sweeping grounds with groomed landscaping and a private dune walkway to the beach. Spanning the east side of the residence, double-tiered loggias overlook the ocean. To the west, manicured lawns surround the elegant pool by a fountained spa in the midst of lush greenery. A lounge terrace, loggia with summer kitchen and fireplace, and colonnaded walkways create a beautiful courtyard setting around the pool.
This timeless island-inspired residence provides comfortably sized rooms in a generous overall floor-plan totaling 13,448 +/- square feet - including the guest house - with six bedrooms, nine and a half baths, an elevator serving all three levels, and a three-bay garage. Traditional architectural millwork is featured throughout. Beautiful tile floors carry through the main living areas.
First Floor: Inside the double-door entry, ocean views are the focus of the bright open-plan living/dining room glassed with floor-to-ceiling transomed French doors across the east loggia. An elegant gas fireplace adds the finishing touch. Connecting through a full-service butler's pantry/wet bar, the inviting chef's kitchen has antique white Wood-Mode cabinetry, white marble counters, a menu-planning desk, a Sub-Zero refrigerator/freezer, five-burner Thermador gas range, Thermador double ovens, KitchenAid microwave, and Bosch dishwasher. Ocean views open through the breakfast area with built-in bench seating to the light-filled beam-ceilinged family room which opens to the loggia. Also opening to the loggia, the guest master suite features a walk-in closet and two separate baths, one doubling as the cabana bath.
Second Floor: This level is dedicated to the spacious private master suite and an office. The master suite's peak-ceiling bedroom opens to a romantic oceanfront balcony with endless views. Luxuries of the large master bath include an oceanview soaking tub, walk-in shower, and two separate water closets. Two wardrobe rooms are also featured. Opening to another oceanfront balcony, the handsome custom-fitted office has warm wood floors and its own full bath.
Walk-Out Lower Level: Adorned with a charming beach-themed mural, the den/game room is perfect for casual entertaining with a media center and pool table. A full bath is off the hall. Two bedrooms both have en-suite baths.
Guest House: Opening to its own loggia by the pool, the separate guest house hosts two bedroom suites in addition to a sitting room complete with a kitchenette and four built-in bunk beds.
- List Price
- $7,950,000
- 151596
- Property Type
- Single Family
- Bedrooms
- 6
- Bathrooms
- 9 full / 1 half
- Total Square Feet
- 13,448
- AC Square Feet
- 9,929
- Garage Spaces
- 3
- Year Built
- 2007
- Taxes
- $61,247
- Tax Year
- 2018
- New Construction
- No
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Lenovo's New Hybrid Computers Fold Every Which Way
Above: Lenovo SVP Peter Hortensius and the IdeaPad Yoga
What impressed me the most at Lenovo's rollout of its new hybrid machines—which can act as either Windows tablets or notebooks—is the diversity of the designs. Since CES in January and Computex in June, we've seen lots of different concepts for what a hybrid tablet/notebook could look like. Still, I was a bit surprised to see a single company planning to ship three completely different concepts (in a total of five hybrids, four of which were announced last night) in a bid to cover all the bases.
The most innovative is the Yoga concept, first shown at CES, which features an innovative hinge that swings the screen around 360 degrees. It can be used in four different forms: a conventional laptop; a tablet; a "stand," where the screen is standing up on a base; or a "tent," where the machine is flipped over essentially providing a different kind of stand. These look to be high-end, consumer-oriented machines, providing a great deal of flexibility. This is certainly the most innovative of designs. The open question is whether consumers will adjust to carrying a tablet that has a keyboard on the back. To me, it actually doesn't feel uncomfortable to carry, but it is certainly unusual.
There are two versions of the Yoga concept. The IdeaPad Yoga 13 runs on the Intel 3rd Generation Core family (Ivy Bridge) with a 13.3-inch, 1600-by-900 IPS screen and runs Windows 8. It's 16.9mm thick, weighs 3.4 pounds, and qualifies as an Ultrabook under Intel's definition. It can have up to 256GB of SSD storage and up to 8GB of RAM. Lenovo claims it will provide eight hours of battery life, though take that as you will. Unlike the other hybrids, the touch screen allows for ten points of touch, so that when flat, it is more suited for certain games. (The other machines have five points of touch.) This is a high-end hybrid, starting at $1,099.
The IdeaPad Yoga 11 runs Windows RT and is based on a quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 chip with an 11.6-inch, 1366-by-768 screen.
Above: IdeaPad Yoga 11
Because it runs Windows RT, it doesn't run traditional legacy Windows apps, but will come with the basic Microsoft Office tools, like versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote with most, but not all, of the features of the full Windows product. The Tegra 3 can run a single core at up to 1.4GHz and up to four cores at up to 1.3GHz. This, along with the smaller screen, allows the product to be have much better battery life—up to 13 hours, according to Lenovo's claims. Pricing will start at $799 and will include 2GB of RAM and 32 or 64GB of flash storage space, so it seems to be positioned as a premium product within the RT space.
The IdeaTab Lynx follows the more popular design of a tablet that can snap into a keyboard, thus turning into a notebook.
Above: IdeaTab Lynx
This is based on the 1.8GHz Intel Atom Z2760 (Clover Trail) platform, again with 2GB of RAM and 32 or 64GB of flash storage space. Like the Yoga 11, it has an 11.6-inch, 1366-by-768 display. The tablet alone is about 9mm thick and weighs 1.4 pounds, so it's quite comparable to the typical tablets. It is said to get eight hours of battery life. The keyboard dock weighs another 1.5 pounds and is said to add another eight hours of battery life, along with a pair of full-sized USB 2.0 ports. At $599 for the tablet and $149 for the dock, it's not as high-end as the Yoga series, but looks to be more of the budget entry in the hybrid class.
For the ThinkPad Edge series typically aimed at small businesses or workgroups, the company showed the ThinkPad Twist.
Above: ThinkPad Twist
The device has a screen that twists around and can lie on top of the keyboard, similar to what many convertible tablet PCs have offered for years. But compared to Lenovo's current ThinkPad X230 Tablet, which is 31mm thick, the ThinkPad Twist is thinner (only 20mm), again meeting Intel's hybrid Ultrabook specification. While it's thinner, lighter, and easier to carry, the tradeoff is in battery life, though Lenovo says it can last up to seven hours.
It is based on the 3rd Generation Intel Core processors (Ivy Bridge); has a 12.5–inch, 1366-by-768 display IPS display with Gorilla Glass; allows up to 8GB of RAM; and either has a 320 or 500GB hard drive or an 128GB SSD. It will start at $849, which sounds reasonable for an Ultrabook convertible. It does include business-friendly features such as a Trusted Platform Module and remote management, but is not vPro compatible and will not have the global footprint of the main ThinkPad series, so it's not strictly designed for the largest enterprise customers. It weighs 3.5 pounds, which makes it a bit heavier than a standard Ultrabook, but looks like a great alternative if you want an Ultrabook that also becomes a tablet.
The company had earlier announced the ThinkPad Tablet 2, a 1.3-pound tablet based on the Atom chip that looks like a higher-end, more corporate version of the IdeaPad Lynx, but with more IT management and security features and an optional digitizer and pen. This starts at $649 and also has an optional dock. The Yoga 13 and ThinkPad Twist are slated to ship on October 26, when Windows 8 launches. The ThinkPad tablet will ship in November and the Yoga 11 and IdeaTab Lynx will follow in December.
So in short, there are two Yogas; one Twist; and two plug-in keyboard dock designs, the Twist and the ThinkPad Tablet 2. Which will do best in the market? In my discussions with the Lenovo staff, they wouldn't even hazard a guess. That's because we really don't know what people will like or how they will use hybrid machines. And of course, pricing will play a big role.
The Yoga systems look like strong high-end entries, and I do think that Windows RT has a place in the market, but I'm skeptical that people will want to pay $799 and up for it, at least not until more Windows RT apps ship. While I like the Yoga concept, the Twist looks more like my kind of design.


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The lights are back on but the investigation into Southern California Edison's response to last week's powerful wind storms that knocked out power to thousands of residents is just beginning.
More than 434,000 customer accounts -- representing businesses, schools or residences -- were blacked out in Edison's service territory, and it took the utility more than a week to restore full service.
Now officials are demanding to know why.
"We had a very large wind event. It was basically hurricane force winds in Southern California in access of 100mph," said Ronald Litzinger, President of Southern California Edison. "We went absolutely as fast as we could. It took much longer than we expected. We understand that customers were very frustrated by that."
Litzinger said the utility struggled to come up with an accurate restoration times and many customers who called were either stuck on hold or were frustrated by a complicated computerized phone system and could not reach service representatives.
"I think the communications we had with customers keeping them informed and appraised of where we were in the restoration effort needs improvement and we understood their inconvenience and their frustration," Litzinger said.
Litzinger sent out an apology letter to Edison customers earlier this week over the ordeal.
"The main thing we have to do now moving forward is review all of our procedures and figure out how we're going to do better next time," he said.


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LONDON (MarketWatch)—Euro-zone purchasing managers' indexes out on Thursday indicated the region got off to a strong start in the third quarter of the year, sending stock markets higher. Spanish stocks outperformed the broader European market after encouraging labor-market data.
PMIs: Private-sector activity in the euro-zone expanded faster than expected in July, according to the flash PMI reading from Markit. The composite PMI for the currency bloc rose to a three-month high of 54, beating forecasts of a 52.9 print.
Germany's figures also came in better than expected, with the manufacturing PMI rising to a three-month high of 52.9. The composite PMI climbed to 55.9, also a three-month high. In France, the composite reading indicated that the economy weakened at a slower pace than in July, with the services sector returning to growth while manufacturing fell further into contraction.
Spain data: The unemployment rate in Spain dropped to 24.5% in the second quarter from 25.9% in the first three-months of the year. Additionally, the number of jobless people dropped by just over 300,000. The improvement in the labor market comes as the Spanish economy is recovering from a six-year slump. On Wednesday, the central bank said it anticipates that the economy may grow 1.3% for 2014 as a whole.
Market reaction: The Stoxx Europe 600 index SXXP, +1.11% erased losses after the upbeat German and euro-area readings, and closed up 0.4% at 343.33. Germany's DAX 30 index DAX, +1.15% rose 0.4% to 9,794.06, while France's CAC 40 index PX1, +1.04% climbed 0.8% to 4,410.65. The U.K.'s FTSE 100 UKX, -0.03% turned positive and ended up 0.3% at 6,821.46. Read: Kingfisher leads losers in London after trading update
Spain's IBEX 35 index IBEX, +1.19% rallied 1.9% to 10,860.70, its highest close in more than two weeks.
The euro EURUSD, +0.0363% also rose, trading at $1.3468, up from $1.3460 on Wednesday.
Comments: Analysts were broadly encouraged by the PMI data, with Howard Archer, chief U.K. and European economist at IHS Global Insight calling it "some much needed and welcome good news for the euro-zone economy."
He said heightened geopolitical risks are clearly a risk to the already-fragile economic recovery in the currency bloc, but the July PMIs "lift hopes that the euro-zone economy can gradually gain traction over the second half of the year after a disappointing and lackluster first half."
At Danske Bank, senior analyst Pernille Bomholdt Nielsen, noted that the data point to better domestic demand in the second half of the year. Coupled with an outlook for stronger global growth, the euro-zone economy should be able to grow by a quarterly rate of around 0.5%, she said.
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OH Yeah!!!! It turns out that Adobe hasn't caught up with Leopard. When configuring the install of Coldfusion 8 on OS X 10.5 and up (as self contained server for development only)... You have to start Coldfusion in the Terminal manually:
type: sudo /Applications/ColdFusion8/bin/ColdFusion start
Then enter system password.
Then open the CF Launcher and Run the Webserver Connector Utility.
Setup Apache:
config dir = /etc/Apache2
Advanced --> binary = /usr/sbin/httpd
Advanced --> server control script = /usr/sbin/apachectl
After these settings are saved.... you have to manually stop Coldfusion in the Terminal:
type: sudo /Applications/ColdFusion8/bin/ColdFusion stop
Then replace the mod_jrun22.so file in /Applications/ColdFusion8/runtime/lib/wsconfig/1
you can download the appropriately compiled mod file here: http://www.scottpink...d_jrun22_64.zip
Now Apache needs to be restarted. I did this by going into system preferences/file sharing/ uncheck and then recheck web sharing.
Restart coldfusion.
And That Is It!!! localhost:8500 is on and I am now running coldfusion!
There were a couple of threads on this in several different places. Different people got around this issue differently according to the configuration desires... but this is how it worked for me. I reinstalled and dumped the program sooooo many times over the past two days that I really could not stand it anymore... the thought of someone being able to get around it really drove me to this one. I am sure Adobe will come out with a fix soon... but if this helps anybody out there... Here is my journal / contribution.
Now it is time to fix all the other things I am having problems with in learning Coldfusion.
Michael Parenteau
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29 May 2015
Rinehart – Trusting in Bianca to take control
Another chapter was written yesterday in the ongoing Rinehart family dispute. The New South Wales Supreme Court appointed Bianca Rinehart as trustee of the Hope Margaret Hancock Trust, giving her control of the trust fund with an estimated value of $5 billion dollars. In giving his judgment, Justice Brereton commented that Gina Rinehart has gone to extraordinary lengths to maintain control of the trust and had exerted 'enormous pressure and great influence to do so'.
Court considerations in appointing a trustee
When appointing a trustee, the Court is required to take into account whether the trustee is suitable having regard to the interests of the beneficiaries and the circumstances of the case.
The welfare of the beneficiaries is the dominant consideration of the Court.
Who to appoint?
During the hearing, the Court was presented with a number of propositions. Mrs Rinehart, who previously resigned as trustee in November 2013, proposed a licensed trustee company be appointed to manage the trust. Justice Brereton commented that this option did not provide 'adequate assurance of independence'.
Justice Brereton appointed Bianca Rinehart, commenting that she was 'better suited than any of the alternatives to administer this trust in the prevailing circumstances'.
Change in trustees
As part of the changing of the guard, a timetable has been set down for a number of steps to take place, including Mrs Rinehart providing the trust documents to Bianca Rinehart, and a sworn statement of account of all funds received by the trust and distributed by the trust. Bianca Rinehart then has a right to apply to the Court to examine Mrs Rinehart regarding the accounts.
Is this the end?
Gina has not indicated whether she will appeal the New South Wales Supreme Court decision. There are also separate Federal Court proceedings that return to Court in June between John and Bianca, and Gina, regarding profits from iron ore projects.
A famous politician once said 'Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning'. Those words may be the best way to describe the ongoing family dispute. Time will tell.
The takeaway…
This decision serves as a reminder that the Court will focus on what is in the best interests of the beneficiaries of a trust when there is a dispute regarding the trustee of a trust.
While the Rinehart dispute continues to capture headlines, we see and advise on these circumstances on a regular basis. Our experience in working with families is that being proactive and planning for succession helps to reduce family disputes, and also manages expectations of the family members involved.
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Matthew Smith
Matthew joined Hall & Wilcox on 1 July 2017, after almost 30 years at Harris Wheeler, most recently as managing partner of the firm and supervising partner of the firm's Commercial practice.More about Matthew
Kelli Stallard
Kelli has extensive experience in insurance, product liability, public liability and workers' compensation having acted for more than 30 years on behalf of insurers (both domestic and international), corporations, government bodies and instrumentalities.More about Kelli
Andrew Stamp
Andrew practices in personal injury litigation on behalf of self insurers, employers, and WorkSafe Victoria and its agents, managing claims brought under the Accident Compensation Act 1985 (Vic) and the Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2013 (Vic).More about Andrew
Daniel Stoddart
Daniel is an experienced insurance lawyer with close to 20 years advising clients on insurance litigation...More about Daniel
Ilona Strong
Ilona has more than 15 years' experience with her practice focusing on both statutory and common law claims across both Victorian and Tasmanian workcover legislationMore about Ilona
Nicholas Studdert
Nicholas is a highly experienced lawyer who has concentrated on insurance law, particularly claims under the NSW statutory classes of insurance, for more than 20 years...More about Nicholas
Joanna Turnbull
Joanna has extensive experience advising and representing employers, self-insurers, NSW workers' compensation managed fund scheme agents, treasury managed fund agents and the Workers' Compensation Nominal Insurer (icare).More about Joanna
Jacob Uljans
Jacob is a member of Hall & Wilcox's commercial dispute resolution team, practising predominantly in general commercial litigation.More about Jacob
Adrian Verdnik
Adrian's financial services law practice covers superannuation, managed funds, insurance, and financial advice...More about Adrian
Ahranee Vijayaseelan
Ahranee advises insurers and corporates in the defence of public and product liability claims, both personal injury and property damage, as well as policy advice...More about Ahranee
Kitty Vo
Kitty advises on complex commercial, industrial and retail leases and licences, including pre-commitment documentation and long-term leasing arrangements...More about Kitty
Anton Vucak
Anton practices in all areas of insurance with a focus on workers' compensation, medical treatment and public/property liability.More about Anton
Hector West
Hector is a Partner in the Hall & Wilcox Litigation and dispute resolution team based in Perth. Hector has been practicing in the area of insolvency and dispute resolution since 1997...More about Hector
James Whiley
James specialises in estate and succession planning for ultra-high and high net worth clients. He also has experience in estate and trust disputes including cross-border succession issues and conflicts, tax planning and related advice to trust structures for Australian and UK non-residents and probate and estate administration.More about James
Emma Woolley
Emma has extensive experience in advising clients in estate planning and estate administration, trust establishment, and ongoing administration, trust estate disputes and structuring for succession of ownership and control of private and family businesses...More about Emma
Noel Batrouney
Noel advises his clients on commercial disputes and related matters including banking and finance, insolvency, the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth), ASIC and other regulatory issues.More about Noel
John Coldham
John's practice focuses on personal injury litigation management. He acts primarily for WorkSafe Victoria and is responsible for managing the delivery of quality common law and statutory benefits service and outcomes.More about John
Andrew Fairley AM
Andrew has more than 35 years' experience in superannuation, trusts, estate and succession planning...More about Andrew
Keith James
Keith is a key figure in tax advisory, having been in significant roles within the profession for over 20 years...More about Keith
Andrew Lyle
Andrew has extensive experience in the provision of advice and conduct of litigation for insurers.More about Andrew
Eileen Meehan
Eileen's practice includes personal and business succession planning, probate and estate administration, trusts and self-managed superannuation funds and tax and related strategies related to estate and succession planning.More about Eileen
Steve Aitchison
Special Counsel
In over 33 years in the profession, Steve has accumulated a wide range of skills and extensive experience in commercial law and in particular, in all aspects of real estate and property development.More about Steve
Nikki Akhurst-Rasa
Special Counsel
Nikki is an experienced litigator who advises CTP insurers, with her practice focused on helping clients defend CTP and major claims.More about Nikki
Melinda Andrew
Special Counsel
Melinda is an experienced insurance litigator who helps insurers resolve CTP claims involving complex liability and quantum issues.More about Melinda
Emma Baker
Special Counsel
Emma is a specialist insurance lawyer. She has over 10 years' experience in insurance litigation with a specific focus on professional indemnity and medical liability claims.More about Emma
John Bassilios
Special Counsel
Fluent in Arabic - Conversational
John has broad experience in financial services, funds management, blockchain, corporate and commercial law, with a particular emphasis on funds management related matters.More about John
Vince Battaglia
Special Counsel
Vince Battaglia is an experienced funds management and financial services practitioner. He has worked in global and national law firms, as well as at ASIC.More about Vince
Melinda Bell
Special Counsel
Melinda provides strategic and practical advice on a range of employment and industrial relations law issues...More about Melinda
Stacey Boulton
Special Counsel
Bree Lawrence
Special Counsel
Bree has worked almost exclusively in Insurance and Risk since being admitted to the Supreme Court of Western Australia in 2004...More about Bree
Matthew Bridges
Special Counsel
Matthew is a general commercial lawyer with more than 18 years' experience covering a range of areas of practice including private M&A, general commercial and corporate transactions, projects and advisory work, family succession arrangements, non-contentious employment matters, property, contracts and governancMore about Matthew
David Catanese
Special Counsel
Sauming Chan
Special Counsel
Sauming is a specialist insurance lawyer with over 11 years' civil litigation experience in personal injury and property damage.More about Sauming
Rosena De Freitas
Special Counsel
Rosena practices in insurance litigation: state compensation and liability claims (personal injury and property damage)...More about Rosena
Michael Dent
Special Counsel
Michael is an experienced insurance litigator who helps insurers resolve CTP claims involving complex issues including liability issues, multi-defendant issues and detailed quantum assessments as well as relatives' claims.More about Michael
David Dickens
Special Counsel
David is a commercial litigator with extensive insolvency and reconstruction experience, and expertise in property disputes.More about David
Nik Dragojlovic
Special Counsel
Nik advises on a broad range of property related transactions and disputes. With over 17 years legal experience, he has acted for a variety of financial institutions, finance and investment companies, joint venture partners, property developers, private and public companies, government agencies and local councils.More about Nik
Iona Goodwin
Special Counsel
Iona has experience in assisting clients with both litigious and non-litigious employment and workplace relations matters.More about Iona
Lauren Haygarth
Special Counsel
Lauren has extensive experience representing employers, insurers and self-insured entities in the management and defence of workers' compensation claims.More about Lauren
Jillian Howard
Special Counsel
Jillian provides practical and commercially-minded advice to private and public sector employers on a wide range of labour and employment and privacy matters.More about Jillian
Peter Jenkin
Special Counsel
With over 20 years' experience in property law, Peter is one of the senior members of the firm's Property & Projects team...More about Peter
Kirrilee Kennedy
Special Counsel
Kirrilee has more than 15 years' legal experience and acts on behalf of insurers in relation to catastrophic and complex personal injury claims...More about Kirrilee
Vicky Kossaris
Special Counsel
With more than 20 years of legal experience, Vicky specialises in representing clients in a wide range of commercial disputes across Australia...More about Vicky
Jim Koutsokostas
Special Counsel
Jim has over 10 years' experience providing taxation advice on a broad range of corporate and trust tax matters, with a particular focus on the banking and finance, government and property and construction sectors.More about Jim
Kristopher Kunasingam
Special Counsel
Kristopher advises on all aspects of migration to Australia, with particular emphasis on employment-related migration...More about Kristopher
Emily Kyriacou
Special Counsel
Emily specialises in property and leasing law, acting for a variety of clients in property, real estate and leasing transactions...More about Emily
Amber Mahoney
Special Counsel
Amber is an experienced insurance litigator who helps insurers resolve CTP claims involving complex liability issues, catastrophic injuries, multi-defendant issues and detailed quantum assessments as well as compensation to relative claims.More about Amber
Scott Meacock
Special Counsel
Scott advises on a wide variety of corporate and commercial disputes and insolvency matters. His clients include those in a range of industry sectors, including insolvency practitioners, energy and resources, commercial property, financial services and intellectual property and technology.More about Scott
Carl Newton
Special Counsel
Carl is an experienced insurance litigator who helps insurers resolve CTP and major claims involving complex liability issues, dual insurance, detailed quantum assessments and fraud...More about Carl
Rachel O'Donnell
Special Counsel
Rachel has over 15 years of experience advising on tax law and specialises in stamp duties, land tax and other tax issues in all Australian states and territories.More about Rachel
Katherine Payne
Special Counsel
Katherine is a commercial litigation specialist with a focus on insolvency, contract litigation, construction disputes and the Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (PPSA).More about Katherine
Elisabeth Pickthall
Special Counsel
Elisabeth advises her clients on commercial litigation, international arbitration, corporate insolvency, claims arising from contraventions of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth), financial product disputes, tax litigation, business crime and fraud.More about Elisabeth
Albert Ponte
Special Counsel
Since arriving in Australia Albert has worked on various types of commercial disputes, for a range of clients including the Greater Building Society, Newcastle Airport, Port Stephens Council and various engineering companies based in Newcastle and the Hunter Valley.More about Albert
Vanessa Porter
Special Counsel
Vanessa has worked in the area of insurance law, with a specific focus on workers compensation and personal injury insurance litigation since beginning her career as a paralegal in 1996...More about Vanessa
Mark Richards
Special Counsel
Mark has more than 16 years' experience in advising on construction and infrastructure projects. He has acted for public and private organisations on social infrastructure projects including housing, schools, hospitals, primary care facilities and specialist disability care homes.More about Mark
Louise Ridley
Special Counsel
Louise has provided advice in personal injuries law for over 20 years, to both plaintiffs and defendants...More about Louise
Graeme Scott
Special Counsel
Graeme has a broad practice in commercial dispute resolution, conducting small to complex litigation in the Supreme and Federal Courts, and mediation.More about Graeme
Megan Scott
Special Counsel
Megan specialises in corporate litigation, bankruptcy and insolvency, shareholder disputes, partnership disputes, contractual disputes, breach of confidence and restraint of trade, banking matters, and Australian Consumer Law.More about Megan
Rebecca Shelley
Special Counsel
Rebecca has been working in the legal profession since 1998. Her practice has focussed on insurance litigation, predominantly workers' compensation claims.More about Rebecca
Tanya Smart
Special Counsel
Tanya is an insurance specialist and an Accredited Specialist in personal injury. For close to 20 years, she has worked with insurers and self-insured corporations to resolve CTP and public liability claims, including major claims.More about Tanya
Conrad Smith
Special Counsel
Conrad has a broad range of commercial experience, particularly in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, restructures and business succession, insolvency, and Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) compliance.More about Conrad
Bettina Sorbello
Special Counsel
Bettina is a highly experienced insurance lawyer who defends claims on behalf of domestic and international insurers and corporations...More about Bettina
Sean Sullivan
Special Counsel
Sean has practised in insurance litigation since 1992, acting on behalf of defendant insurers and self insured across the CTP, workers compensation and public liability regimes...More about Sean
Chris West
Special Counsel
Chris has 20 years of experience in health and medical law, delivering solutions to clients in the insurance and health sectors...More about Chris
Lauren Armstrong
Senior Associate
Lauren has over 12 years' experience, specialising in insurance litigation and practicing in the areas of workers compensation, compulsory third party and public liability claims...More about Lauren
Anna Bailey
Senior Associate
Anna has 10 years' experience practising in property and projects. She has particular expertise in managing large volumes of conveyancing work for developers.More about Anna
Thomas Baker
Senior Associate
Thomas is an experienced litigation lawyer with knowledge across a diverse range of litigation practice areas...More about Thomas
Sam Baring
Senior Associate
Sam's practice focuses on estate and succession planning...More about Sam
Krisha Bennett
Senior Associate
Krisha has 19 years' workers compensation and common law experience with a particular focus on section 151Z indemnity claims.More about Krisha
Taleen Bertolini
Senior Associate
Taleen has significant experience in insurance litigation and advice in workers' compensation and public liability matters in Western Australia and the Northern Territory...More about Taleen
Amy Bilich
Senior Associate
Amy practices in insurance litigation and personal injury law.More about Amy
Marisa Black
Senior Associate
Marisa's practice focuses on common law and statutory benefits claims brought pursuant to the Accident Compensation Act 1985 (Vic) and the Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2013 (Vic).More about Marisa
Catherine Blair
Senior Associate
Catherine is an experienced insurance lawyer who focuses on public liability and property damage claims.More about Catherine
Jacinta Bolzonello
Senior Associate
Fluent in Italian - Conversational
Jacinta's current practice includes direct and indirect taxes, business transactions, corporate restructuring, taxation disputes (including pre-audit, audit and litigation), the not-for-profit sector and trusts.More about Jacinta
James Bull
Senior Associate
James has more than 8 years of experience working across a broad range of general commercial transactions and arrangements, including acting in mergers, acquisitions and restructures and drafting general commercial agreements.More about James
David Burnton
Senior Associate
David is an experienced employment and industrial relations lawyer. He acts for a range of local and global clients across a wide range of industries.More about David
Glenn Bushett
Senior Associate
Glenn is an experienced litigator practicing predominately in commercial litigation with a focus on corporate and personal insolvency...More about Glenn
Candice Carrasco
Senior Associate
Barbara Casado
Senior Associate
Barbara works with insurers on CTP and public liability insurance claims involving sensitive and complex matters, often involving multi-defendant and medical causation issues.More about Barbara
Jessica Cheo
Senior Associate
Jessica's practice concentrates on personal injury litigation management. Jessica focuses on achieving quality outcomes for her clients in worker's compensation matters, including statutory benefits and common law claims under the Accident Compensation Act and the Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Act...More about Jessica
Ben Cotter
Senior Associate
Ben has a broad knowledge across all disciplines of property, planning and construction and currently acts for clients in a wide range of matters in the firm's Property & Projects practice.More about Ben
Elise Crowe
Senior Associate
Elise's practice focuses on common law and statutory benefits claims brought pursuant to the Accident Compensation Act 1985 (Vic) and the Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2013 (Vic) and common law claims brought pursuant to the Transport Accident Act 1986 (Vic).More about Elise
Anthony Crowe
Senior Associate
Fluent in Bahasa Indonesia - Conversational
Anthony assists insurers to resolve CTP claims involving complex liability and quantum issues, fraud, catastrophic injuries, nervous shock, multi-defendant matters and administrative law challenges.More about Anthony
Jane-Elise Delis
Senior Associate
Jane-Elise is an experienced insurance lawyer whose practise focuses on general liability. Her clients include international insurers and large self-insured corporations.More about Jane-Elise
Adam Dimac
Senior Associate
Adam is an experienced tax lawyer, and advises clients on a range of matters including tax planning and structuring, Division 7A, the small business CGT concessions, corporate restructuring, professional firm structures, trust taxation, the taxation of settlements and cryptocurrency taxation.More about Adam
Elizabeth Docker
Senior Associate
Fluent in French - Conversational | German - Conversational
Elizabeth is a commercial litigation lawyer who specialises in corporate and commercial dispute resolution, with a particular focus on contractual disputes, consumer law, corporations and equity, real property disputes and insolvency.More about Elizabeth
Jennifer Douglass
Senior Associate
Jennifer has over 10 years' experience in the insurance industry and has worked in both private practice and in house defending claims under the Personal Injuries Proceedings Act 2002 and the Workers Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003.More about Jennifer
Natasha Farr
Senior Associate
Natasha acts for a variety of professionals in the defence of professional negligence and other claims arising out of purely economic loss, property damage, defamation, and alleged breaches of the Australian Consumer Law.More about Natasha
Felicity Ford
Senior Associate
Felicity is an experienced energy and resources and corporate lawyer, who specialises in general corporate and commercial matters, rail, infrastructure and energy and resources...More about Felicity
Catherine Freeman
Senior Associate
Catherine's expertise include compulsory third party (CTP) and public liability claims, including major claims, section 151z recovery matters and defendant insurance litigation.More about Catherine
Belinda Furse
Senior Associate
Belinda's practice focuses on the litigation of common law claims brought pursuant to the Transport Accident Act 1986 (Vic) and common law and statutory benefits claims brought pursuant to the Accident Compensation Act 1985 (Vic) and the Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2013 (Vic).More about Belinda
Alexandra Gallagher
Senior Associate
Alexandra has experience acting on behalf of and advising both public and private sector clients in a broad range of industries including in the tertiary education, apprenticeship training and retail sectors.More about Alexandra
Sarah Gelbart
Senior Associate
Sarah is an experienced employment and industrial relations lawyer. Sarah acts for a range of local and global clients across a wide range of industries in both litigious and non-litigious employment and industrial relations matters.More about Sarah
Diana Germanoski
Senior Associate
Fluent in Macedonian
Diana specialises in personal injury law and insurance litigation.More about Diana
Kate Gould
Senior Associate
Kate has close to 10 years' experience specialising in succession law including wills, testamentary and discretionary trusts, protective trusts, powers of attorney, appointments of guardian advanced health directives and probate and letters of administration.More about Kate
Joshua Haddad
Senior Associate
Julian Hammond
Senior Associate
Julian is an experienced senior litigator who has acted in high profile, complex and fiercely contested commercial litigation, public inquiries and investigations on behalf of companies, individuals (including members of parliament) and Government entities...More about Julian
Sarah Hartney
Senior Associate
Sarah has over 10 years' experience in workers' compensation and personal injuries claims. She has worked predominately on workers' compensation matters in Queensland and more recently in the Western Australian jurisdictionMore about Sarah
Terri Hirbod-Bassi
Senior Associate
Terri is an experienced insurance and litigation lawyer who has defended claims on behalf of domestic and international insurers for a decade...More about Terri
Katherine Horne
Senior Associate
Katherine's practice is predominantly in the area of general commercial dispute resolution and litigation and includes tax litigation and tax audit, contractual disputes, leasing disputes, restraint of trade injunctions, debt recovery, and insolvency and corporations matters.More about Katherine
George Ioannidis
Senior Associate
George has particular expertise in representing and advising insurers in relation to large scale litigation including class actions, indemnity disputes and insurance fraud claims, as well as public and product liability and professional indemnity claims.More about George
William Keating
Senior Associate
William specialises in private M&A and general commercial transactions and provides strategic advice on acquisitions, restructures and exits...More about William
Sheridan Keller
Senior Associate
Sheridan specialises in insurance litigation, with particular experience in complex claims and fraud...More about Sheridan
Ben Kelly
Senior Associate
Ben's practice focuses on common law and statutory benefits claims brought pursuant to the Accident Compensation Act 1985 (Vic) and the Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2013 (Vic).More about Ben
Clare Kerley
Senior Associate
Clare is passionate, practical and results-oriented employment lawyer who takes pride in providing commercially-minded advice, exceptional communication and effective problem-solving skills to all types of employment, industrial and safety issues.More about Clare
Jennifer Kildea
Senior Associate
Jennifer has significant experience in general insurance litigation. Her experience includes public and product liability, property damage and compulsory third party insurance...More about Jennifer
Jamie Kulczycki
Senior Associate
Jamie is an experienced lawyer with her practice focusing primarily on CTP claims, in particular non-meritorious claims.More about Jamie
Daniella LaVeglia
Senior Associate
Daniella's practice focuses on common law and statutory benefit claims in all jurisdictions, where she continuously delivers quality results.More about Daniella
Rachel Law
Senior Associate
Rachel is a tax lawyer specialising in direct taxes and tax disputes. Rachel's areas of experience include advising on a variety of domestic and international tax laws...More about Rachel
Kate Lawford
Senior Associate
Kate has a broad practice, having experience in public and product liability, professional indemnity, fraud and policy interpretation...More about Kate
Holly Lawson
Senior Associate
Holly provides advice and acts on behalf of insurers in a variety of CTP claims including advising on complex quantum and liability issues and representing insurers in the Local and District Courts and the Claims Assessment and Resolution Service.More about Holly
Mark Lebbon
Senior Associate
Mark has a broad range of experience in corporate and commercial practice areas, with a particular focus on the sports and media industries.More about Mark
Joey Liu
Senior Associate
Joey's practice focuses on property acquisitions and sales, property due diligence, contract negotiations, commercial leasing, and foreign investments.More about Joey
Jeanette Lui
Senior Associate
Jeanette has over 10 years' experience working in the Asia-Pacific region. She specialises in advising borrowers and financial institutions on bilateral and syndicated financing, as well as cross-border project financing.More about Jeanette
Tina Lung
Senior Associate
Fluent in Mandarin - conversational
Tina is experienced in defending public and product liability claims in New South Wales and Queensland on behalf of domestic and international insurers.More about Tina
William Madani
Senior Associate
William is an experienced litigator with over 11 years' experience in both Australia and overseas and currently practices in multiple Australian jurisdictions...More about William
Stacey Marino
Senior Associate
Stacey has over 6 years' experience in workers' compensation law. In addition to her workers' compensation practice, Stacey has specialised expertise in common law, public liability and asbestos claims.More about Stacey
David Markham
Senior Associate
David's practice is predominantly in commercial litigation and insolvency...More about David
Donna Marsh
Senior Associate
Donna has approximately 20 years' experience in alternative dispute resolution through her previous roles in the insurance and legal industry...More about Donna
Bianca McCormack
Senior Associate
Bianca's commercial dispute resolution and litigation practice extends to include acting for entities and individuals in contractual disputes, high quantum intellectual property disputes, breach of confidence and restraint of trade matters, shareholder oppression claims, partnership disputes, estate disputes and large equitable disputes.More about Bianca
Nina McLaughlin
Senior Associate
Nina has 11 years' broad experience as a commercial lawyer with a specialty in intellectual property and information technology law, and related areas of practice including privacy, data security and competition law.More about Nina
Amber McMillan
Senior Associate
Amber has more than 12 years of experience in the legal insurance sphere, and has covered the field, working in State and Federal Government legal practices, private practice and in-house at WorkCover in 2011.More about Amber
Hamish McNair
Senior Associate
Hamish is a commercial dispute resolution lawyer. His experience extends to applications for urgent relief, appellate matters and defence of class actions.More about Hamish
Victoria Ng
Senior Associate
Victoria's practice focuses on the common law and statutory benefits claims brought pursuant to the Accident Compensation Act 1985 (Vic) and Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2013 (Vic).More about Victoria
Jenny Nichols
Senior Associate
With over fourteen years' experience working in the NSW workers compensation area, Jenny is a highly skilled and proficient lawyer who defends statutory and common law workers compensation claims.More about Jenny
Toniel Paton
Senior Associate
Toniel's practice focuses on general insurance advice and litigation. She manages complex and varied matters for a number of high profile insurers and private clients.More about Toniel
Elisa Paxton
Senior Associate
Elisa's practice focuses on common law and statutory benefits claims brought pursuant to the Accident Compensation Act 1985 (Vic) and the Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2014 (Vic).More about Elisa
Hannah Peddie
Senior Associate
Hannah practices in general insurance litigation with a particular focus on claims and risk...More about Hannah
Rebecca Pickering
Senior Associate
Rebecca's areas of expertise include the preparation of design and construction documents, and construction dispute advice and litigation...More about Rebecca
Jessica Pratt
Senior Associate
Jessica practices in employment and workplace relations law and provides strategic advice to clients across a range of industries.More about Jessica
Peta Rapson
Senior Associate
Pia Rossignuolo
Senior Associate
Fluent in French - Conversational | Italian - Conversational | Mandarin - conversational
Pia is a Senior Associate in the Commercial Dispute Resolution team with experience across general commercial litigation, banking enforcement and insolvency...More about Pia
Markus Saltups
Senior Associate
Markus' practice focuses on statutory benefits claims brought pursuant to the Accident Compensation Act 1985 (Vic) and Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2013 (Vic).More about Markus
Martin Samyia
Senior Associate
Martin specialises in insurance litigation, working with insurers on defending compulsory third party claims...More about Martin
Liz Seggie
Senior Associate
Liz's practice focuses on state compensation and liability claims. She has developed particular expertise in identifying and managing complex and technical liability and state compensation claims, considering, analysing and providing commercial advice to both insurers and self-insured employers...More about Liz
Lauren Separovich
Senior Associate
Lauren specialises in resolving disputes, and works collaboratively with her team and with clients to provide strategic advice and success for the client...More about Lauren
Kathryn Sharpe
Senior Associate
Fluent in Japanese - Conversational
Kathryn advises and represents clients in a wide range of matters, including general commercial litigation, banking and finance litigation involving mortgages, guarantees and loan agreements, debt recovery and enforcement and corporate insolvency advice.More about Kathryn
Brandon Silva
Senior Associate
Brandon is an experienced insurance litigator specialising in workers' compensation, medical treatment liability and public liability claims.More about Brandon
Mitch Stein
Senior Associate
Mitch is an experienced insurance and litigation lawyer who has defended claims on behalf of insurer and private clients as well as state government departments.More about Mitch
Zoe Taylor
Senior Associate
Zoe acts predominately for corporate clients and company directors in cases involving contractual disputes, fraud, corporations and equity matters, competition and consumer law...More about Zoe
Bridget Wall
Senior Associate
Bridget is an experienced insurance and litigation lawyer who has acted for leading Australian and international insurers and underwriters...More about Bridget
Shane Wallace
Senior Associate
Shane has a broad commercial and regulatory litigation practice, encompassing investment fund and trustee disputes, banking and company law, financial services, civil and commercial fraud, aviation, construction and infrastructure disputes.More about Shane
Belinda Walsh
Senior Associate
Belinda is an insurance lawyer with decades of experience over a range of jurisdictions. Belinda is an Accredited Specialist in Personal Injury Law...More about Belinda
Daisy Whyte
Senior Associate
Daisy has extensive experience within the Common Law Workers' Compensation area. She has also acted in public liability, product liability, medical negligence and CTP cases...More about Daisy
Ebonie Willcox
Senior Associate
Ebonie has worked in the area of insurance law since 2011. She has a specific interest in representing employers in workers compensation claims, with her practice encompassing both physical injury and psychological injury claims in both litigated and non-litigated advice matters.More about Ebonie
Melissa Zen
Senior Associate
Melissa is an experienced insurance lawyer who focuses on advising major national insurers on CTP and public liability claims ranging from homeowners to small businesses.More about Melissa
Joel Benjamin
Geoff Benson
Todd Bromwich
Louise Chen
Harry Croft
Natasha Curry
Nhu-Thuy Dinh
Fluent in Vietnamese - Conversational
More about Nhu-Thuy
Erin Doyle
James Fisher
Chris Forder
Will Francis
Fluent in French - Conversational
More about Will
Alicia Haesslein
Fluent in Bahasa Indonesia - Conversational | French - Conversational | German - Conversational | Spanish - Conversational
More about Alicia
Gemma Hallett
David Holland
Jasmine Koh
Fluent in Malaysian
More about Jasmine
Jordon Lee
Kai Liu
Lucy Lu
Fluent in Mandarin - conversational
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Ellie McGrory
David Mummery
Vanessa Murphy
Aisling Murray
Juliet O'Brien
Stephanie Rocca
Fluent in Italian - Conversational
More about Stephanie
Ante Sentic
Fluent in Bosnian - Conversational | Croatian - Conversational | Serbian
More about Ante
Ella Simmons
Paul Simos
Sam Tempone
Karli Thomas
Paul Todd
Holly Turner
Lucy Wilcox
Dr Wolfgang Babeck
European Counsel
Fluent in German
Dr Wolfgang Babeck has more than 20 years' experience as a corporate and commercial lawyer and is admitted in New South Wales, England & Wales and as Rechtsanwalt in Germany...More about Wolfgang
Sumith Perera
Chief Operating Officer
Sumith is the Chief Operating Officer and the national Head of Corporate Services at Hall & Wilcox. He has over 20 years' experience in leading and managing teams at professional services firms.More about Sumith
Peter Campbell
Peter is the Client Solutions Director at Hall & Wilcox where he drives their Smarter Law program and fosters innovation at the firm...More about Peter
Dean Cartwright
Dean is the Head of Hall & Wilcox's Finance team. He has over 15 years' experience in finance within professional services firms.More about Dean
Katie McKenzie
Katie is the Director of People & Culture for Hall & Wilcox. She has over 20 years' experience in the legal industry.More about Katie
Melanie Smith
Melanie is the national head of Hall & Wilcox's Business Development, Marketing & Communications team...More about Melanie
Mike Brookes
General Counsel
Mike manages the Legal Excellence & Risk team at Hall & Wilcox and is responsible for the firm's precedents, risk management and general counsel/company secretarial functions.More about Mike
Raelene Brown
Samantha Hooper
Melanie James
Janneke Maisey
Fluent in Dutch - Conversational
Janneke is the operations manager and head of operations nationally at Hall & Wilcox. She has over 15 years' experience in human resources and project management across a variety of industries, including professional services, IT, banking and utilities...More about Janneke
Pious Thomas
Fluent in Hindi
Pious is the IT manager and head of IT nationally at Hall & Wilcox. He has over 18 years' experience as a senior IT executive with a proven track record in legal and government technology management sectors.More about Pious
Melinda Woledge
Melinda is the national marketing and communications manager at Hall & Wilcox. She has more than 20 years' experience as a journalist, content creator and marketing communications specialist at professional services firms.More about Melinda
Miranda Cawse
Lauren Parrant
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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama, who recently lamented that he couldn't sleep in his own bed during the NATO summit in Chicago, will have the chance Friday when he returns for three fundraisers.
The first event is a 5 p.m. reception at the Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St., where tickets are $1,000 and $2,500 and hosts will contribute $15,000 each. A campaign official said 350 people are expected.
Obama will move to a 6 p.m. dinner at the home of Chaka and Tracey Patterson, then a 7:30 p.m. dinner-reception at the home of Paula and Jim Crown. Admission to each dinner is $35,800 per person.
Fifty-five people are expected at the first dinner and 60 at the second, the official said.
Lawyer Chaka Patterson is with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, and Tracey Patterson is with Accenture. The Crowns are wealthy business executives and longtime Obama donors. All four are on the campaign's national finance committee.
Obama, at the end of the NATO meetings May 20-21, said even though the sessions were 15 minutes from his home he was advised it would worsen traffic if he slept there.
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A White House official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Obama will stay at his Kenwood home this Friday night. He is scheduled to leave town Saturday.
Meantime, Vice President Joe Biden is due in for a Chicago fundraiser June 18.
Biden will attend a fundraising lunch in the River North area. Admission is $5,000 for the lunch and $10,000 to host the lunch, an invitation said.
All four events will benefit the Obama Victory Fund, a campaign official said.


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Not every theatre will be showing Peter Jackson's The Hobbit in its native 48 frames-per-second. But for those that will, Warner Bros. has created this handy FAQ that explains why the HFR 3D (high frame rate) technology could make the film look like a TV soap opera.
Because nothing guarantees box office success like having to justify a film's look well before it even hits theatres, right?
As we've already explained, films are typically shot at 24 fps which is partly what is responsible for that 'film look' that sitcoms and soap operas are lacking. Peter Jackson has justified his decision to shoot at the even higher 48 fps to make the 3D seem even more real and to be gentler on the eyes with less strobing and flicker. But early showings already indicate it will take audiences a while to get used to the new format, and if Warner Bros. feels they need to go so far as to educate theaters so they can respond to complaints, it might be a good idea just to stick with a 24 fps showing. [Regal Theaters via First Showing]


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Thursday, May 13, 2010
somethin' fishy is going on
As it turned out though, I ended up deciding to keep her home at the last minute because we are smack dab in the middle of the dreaded potty training and I don't want to break our momentum. So at lunchtime I got to see her reaction to her lunch, which was very adorable. A very dramatic intake of air and her squeaky little girl voice squealing "did you make this fishy lunch for MEEEE, mama? Did you? I lub it!". Ah, such cuteness. :)
Packed in a Sassy box, my cute girl had a sandwich (tuna, of course!) on whole grain bread cut with the fish/dolphin sandwich cutter from The Lunch Punch "Critter Cutters" set, a little silicone cup of Goldfish crackers. And on the left she has a fish-shaped hard boiled egg, clementine orange segments, and in the little dish is kiwi fruit and strawberries.
Did you notice that the fish-shaped egg doesn't quite look like the regular fish boiled egg shape you have seen before from the egg mold?
Hmmmm. There is definitely something fishy going on here. ;-)
I actually made this shaped egg by using a mini onigiri shaper! Onigiri actually means "rice ball" and usually refers to rice compacted into shapes for bento boxes. But by using a smaller sized egg and gently (very gently!) guiding it into the mold while it was very hot I was able to use it for an egg shaper. Some of the details around the mid section and face didn't conform fully, so I used a paring knife to bring out those details. The indents making the fishy eyes and tail creases were part of the mold press already.
9 comments:
- mrs. fuzz said... [Reply to comment]
LOVE this one! My egg molds are too big! It's like I have to have giant eggs to make them. That's a great idea to use the onigiri shaper.
- May 13, 2010 at 3:12 PM
- Melissa said... [Reply to comment]
That's really cute. I don't think I'd ever have the patience to do the eggs!
I bought noah's ark cookie cutters today at Michaels - I think they are the same ones you have. I'm very excited about them!
- May 13, 2010 at 5:20 PM
- Susan B. said... [Reply to comment]
I love that dolphin sandwich! I can see I'm going to have to break down and get some of those cutters.
- May 13, 2010 at 7:51 PM
- kris in larryville said... [Reply to comment]
Audrey might actually consider tuna fish sandwich if I had a fish punch. I will have to look for one of those.
- May 13, 2010 at 10:58 PM
- Jon and Jennifer said... [Reply to comment]
ADORABLE LOVE IT!! Especially the fish egg!
- May 14, 2010 at 7:43 AM
- Mommyof2girlz said... [Reply to comment]
Love the egg shapers! I was hoping to get some while shopping at the local Marukai but couldn't find them. I want them even more now..guess I buy online :)
- May 17, 2010 at 9:31 PM
- Jenn @ Delicious Ambiguity said... [Reply to comment]
Great blog you have here! I host a link up party every Tuesday called Tot Tuesdays where you can link up crafts, activities, teaching resources, parenting stories or tips, recipes and things you've made for your toddler. I'd love it if you'd stop by sometime & link up!
- May 29, 2010 at 6:51 AM
- Rachelle said... [Reply to comment]
Love your blog! Adding it to my favorites!!
- June 1, 2010 at 9:53 AM
- Jeff & Denise said... [Reply to comment]
I love these egg molds, how creative!
- September 12, 2010 at 1:26 PM


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Hall lauded for Broadway debut in 'Machinal'
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[January 18, 2014]
By Patricia Reaney
NEW YORK (Reuters) — It was written
in the late 1920s, hasn't been staged on Broadway in more than 80
years and isn't a sexy musical, but critics praised the revival of "Machinal"
and its star Rebecca Hall, saying it is a "must-see" production.
The stylized drama by playwright Sophie Treadwell that opened
on Thursday at the American Airlines Theater was inspired by the
true story of Ruth Snyder, a New York woman who was executed in
the electric chair for the murder of her husband in January 1928
at the age of 33.
"'Machinal' is a vivid, bracing portrait of a woman pushed to
the edge, but it doesn't involve any weepy psychologizing," said
the New York Post.
"What makes the show so fascinating is the contrast between its
cerebral approach and Hall's compassionate performance."
With its modernist prose style and dark theme it is not an easy
play, but the Post said its director Lyndsey Turner and Hall, in
her Broadway debut, "have made it a must see."
"'Machinal' is one of those lost ahead-of-its-time plays that
gets found by successive generations," said the Independent
newspaper of London, adding it has been greatly staged in New
The Hollywood Reporter described the production as a "bristling
revival" with an enduring intensity and committed actors.
"But it's Hall who rivets attention, holding nothing back in her
tortured portrayal of this everywoman's dehumanizing downward
spiral as she's failed by her own survival skills and by
everyone around her," it added.
Hall, the 31-year-old star of films such as Woody Allen's 2008
romance "Vicky, Cristina, Barcelona" and 2013's Disney-Marvel
blockbuster superhero series "Iron Man 3," plays a woman trapped
in a loveless marriage in a mechanized, male-dominated world.
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Morgan Spector, of the HBO television series "Boardwalk Empire,"
is her lover, a role first played by a young Clark Gable when
the play premiered on Broadway in September 1928.
British actor Michael Cumpsty, 53, who appeared in a
Broadway revival of "The Winslow Boy," last year is the husband who
loves but doesn't understand her.
The New York Times praised Hall's performance but
said she had an overbearing co-star in stage designer Es Devlin's
box set. The Times said Hall holds her own against the "scene
stealing" set which keeps the play moving seamlessly as characters
walk from one situation to the next.
"Ms. Devlin's revolving set turns as inexorably as the earth to
reveal our heroine amid a series of inhospitable vistas, from the
office to the bedroom," it said.
"Every design detail — like the immense, sickly colored curtains
that cover windows — seems to confirm and mock her feelings of
confinement," it added.
The Times found the ensemble acting diffuse, which made the lead
character seem less a victim of the society in which she lived than
of her own mental illness.
"Still, it's a thrill to have as illuminating a guide as Ms. Hall to
take us through the twisting corridors of derangement," it said.
(Editing by Eric Kelsey and Andrew Hay)
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Washington continues to be a feckless, impotent, self-serving, out of control bureaucracy. The 'fiscal cliff'/ sequestration debacle is a glaring example. Sequestration, or automatic Draconian spending cuts were to take effect Jan. 1 should lawmakers fail to address the mounting fiscal problems by then. Of course nothing happened. They were too occupied with the elections, as they will always be and opted for a three-month reprieve. The electorate voted for status quo and that is precisely what it's getting. The federal government is and will remain the source of most of America's major problems. It cranks out mountains of legislation that encroach on our lives while abandoning its true responsibilities to the nation.
The salvation of America lies with recapturing much of the autonomy the federal government has usurped from the states through fiscal intimidation and bad policy over the decades and reverting to home rule. Myriad policies including the environment, education, health care, energy and yes, gun ownership among others should be determined at the state level. Washington wants us to forget that the states created the federal government, not the reverse.
Perhaps hope is in the offing. Governors, primarily Republicans, are pushing back by addressing federally abandoned illegal immigration problems, standing up to Obama supported public sector unions, refusing participation in mandated health exchanges and exercising more effective fiscal policies. Let's hope they have the tenacity to continue and expand the battle. They will if we keep the pressure on them.
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By Staff Writer | December 4, 2013
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The U.S. Army Contracting Command has granted a $46.9-million agreement to Sikorsky Aircraft to convert 26 UH-60M Black Hawks. The arrangement is part of the foreign military sales (FMS) program, with the helicopters in operation with the Taiwan Army and National Airborne Service Corps.
Work will take place at Sikorsky's facility in Stratford, Conn. The contract runs through Aug. 30, 2016.
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- Who should pay for fixes/bugs? [closed] 7 answers
We are working with a group of developers on a project. The project is still in progress (not completed) and these developers charge us for time spent on fixing bugs on codes that were not written valid in the first place. I understand that we should pay for changes/new requests if any, but not bugs fixes for a work in progress. We also understand that once the assignment is being deployed to the live site, we may be liable for bugs fixes that may arise after a support period is being exhausted.
The question now is, is it appropriate for such charges to be levied upon us while the project is still in progress?


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I had mentioned a few posting ago how my father was a pack rat and kept everything but the old Christmas decoration and aluminum tree, but, he kept a plethora of paper documentation from both his and my mothers family.
These were things I had never known existed until after his death. What I found was a rudimentary family tree
He had started with his mothers family, O'Rourke. He has listed his grandmother Ellen. On many of their children it had listed her maiden name as Martel, and Martin. After researching I found that Martel was French and although there were some French in Ireland, they were Protestant. A man on the Limerick suggested that the name might be Mortell or Mortel, and these names were frequent in County Limerick. Indeed, that is where I found information. But the census of 1851 showed the family was living in England. Poverty and the famine had forced them to migrate.
Ellen's fathers name was Patrick and Catholic. I found the Patrick Mortel family in the 1851 census with Ellen 6 months old. I am 99.9% sure that they are my ancestors.
He had his grandfather listed as Patrick and a brother John, one one of the childrens Baptismal Certificate it was listed as a brother James.
It took me a while to figure out the sister Reagan. About one year ago a fellow researcher sent me an obit of Mary O'ROURKE Rogan, which listed her brother Patrick in Pittsburgh, parents Denis and Mary O'Rourke of Limerick, and a sister Mrs.William Collins of Limerick Ireland too.
With that little tidbit I found out the parents name, where they lived and two sisters. What I am still searching is my 2x grandmother Mary last name, and the given name of Patricks sister Mrs. Collins.
My father would have been vey interested in my discoveries.


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Your English seems pretty fluent (though capitalized "I" should be used). There are many sites on English grammar [ apart from this one ]- a google search will turn up hundreds. However, you could start with these:
Learn English - British Council
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A couple of days ago, Chris Bosh told Fox Sports that he feels good about his chances of making the Hall of Fame:
"Hell, yeah, of course. I've been a Hall of Famer like four years ago," the Miami Heat center told FOX Sports Florida after Friday's 110-88 win over Detroit. "And I say that very serious, though. I've talked about it before with my friends."
Is this, like Joe Flacco calling himself "top five" or Stephon Marbury calling himself "the best point guard to play basketball," just another overconfident athlete prematurely categorizing himself among the greats? Chris Bosh is notably weird and generally understood to be the Catwoman to LeBron James and Dwyane Wade's Batman and Robin, so his estimation of his own legacy would seem to reveal a lack of self-awareness...were he not basically correct.
Basketball Reference has a couple of handy metrics that we can use to figure out whether Bosh is talking out of his ass. Similarity score confines itself to players at comparable positions and evaluates similarity based on years played, career arc, best years vs. worst, and win shares—in short, the formula finds careers that have a similar "quality and shape." Who's Bosh's best match? Channing Frye? Rik Smits? James Worthy. The numbers Bosh is putting up, and the way he's accruing them, correspond to one of the game's great third wheels, exactly what he should aspire to.
The second useful metric here, and perhaps the only one Bosh needs to back himself up, is Hall of Fame probability. Basketball Reference used (something totally over my head called) a logistic regression model to get a set of criteria by which Hall of Fame voters have historically chosen players. There are, according to B-R, seven factors:
height -0.1771
last season indicator 3.1498
NBA points per game 0.3433
NBA rebounds per game 0.4193
NBA assists per game 0.3327
NBA All-Star game selections 0.5626
NBA championships won 0.9151
Chris Bosh's Hall of Fame probability is currently 89%—on the active list, that puts him ahead of Carmelo Anthony, Dwight Howard, Kevin Durant, Pau Gasol and even Steve Nash, who is an actual lock.
Height is negatively correlated, so that isn't helping the 6-10 Bosh. Having finished one's career prior to 1960 (last season indicator) is up there, but that doesn't help Bosh either. His one title helps his case and his career line of 19.7 ppg, 9.0 rpg and 2.1 apg is fairly strong, but it's All-Star games that are tilting the odds in Bosh's favor. 2013's ASG will be his eighth, and his eighth straight. He's wrong that he was likely to make the Hall of Fame four years ago, but every All-Star game appearance makes him much more likely to get elected to the Hall of Fame. Wouldn't 10 straight make him a virtual lock? Well, eight straight and a championship gives him an 89% chance.
One reason Bosh's chances seem disproportionate to his reputation: Voters like All-Star selections, and Bosh has accrued them by being one of a very low number of effective big men in the Eastern Conference. 2004's Eastern Conference All-Star team boasted Jamaal Magloire at center. 2005's had Zydrunas Ilgauskas and Ben Wallace. Bosh was a savior in his first year there. That speaks to the dearth of quality big men, but also to the difficulty inherent in that job description. Bosh has been doing something very hard, very well, for a long time. Which, weird as it may be, means that we may as well get used to the sound of "Hall of Fame big man Chris Bosh." He's earned a better appellation than "Bosh Spice."
Chris Bosh Says He's A Lock For Hall Of Fame [Fox Sports]


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Chris Rock Is Hosting the Oscars
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Chris Rock will host the 2016 Oscars, ABC announced Wednesday. This will be Rock's second time hosting the awards show, which he previously emceed in 2005. "I'm so glad to be hosting the Oscars," the comedian said in a statement. "It's great to be ba… Read more


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Coppin State (6-12, 3-2 MEAC, 3-7 Road)
NCCU (12-5, 3-1 MEAC, 8-0 Home)
Jan. 25, 2014 – 4:00 p.m. (EST)
– McDougald-McLendon Gym (3,116) – Durham, N.C. –
Video/TV: NCCUEaglePride.com ($8.95)
North Carolina Central University enters the weekend winners of four straight looking for more as they welcome in the Eagles of Coppin State University for a Saturday MEAC doubleheader. The maroon and gray have won four of the last five in the series, including last season's 84-75 victory in Durham, N.C. on Jan. 26, 2013.
NCCU and Coppin State are meeting for the ninth time since 1976 with the maroon and gray holding on to a 5-3 advantage in the series. In fact, NCCU has won four of the last five meetings dating back to 2008.
-Coppin State enters the weekend 6-12 overall, 3-2 in conference play following an 83-71 loss to Norfolk State on the road on Monday, Jan. 20. In that contest, the Eagles shot 39.0 percent from-the-floor, including a 9-for-27 (33.3 percent) from beyond-the-arc. Senior guard Andre Armstrong led Coppin with 20 points on 6-of-13 shooting from-the-field that included four three-pointers, along with two rebounds and one assist. Sophomore guard Sterling Smith finished with 13 points despite going 1-for-7 from three-point range, while point guard Taariq Cephas added 10 points in the loss.
-CSU is headed by the legendary coach Ron "Fang" Mitchell who has compiled an illustrious record of 423-409 in 28 seasons at the helm in the Charm City. Mitchell has been in collegiate coaching for 36 years putting together an impressive mark of 650-456. During his time, CSU has made four NCAA Tournament appearances, two NIT appearances, 10 MEAC regular season titles, had 45 student-athletes on the All-MEAC team, along with seven Eagles that have earned MEAC Player of the year honors.
-Coppin State and NCCU have met eight previous times with the maroon and gray Eagles holding a 5-3 lead in the series, including four of the last five matchups.
1/26/13- vs. Coppin State- 84-75 W
1/21/12- at Coppin State- 57-77 L
2/14/11- vs. Coppin State- 77-75 W
1/15/11- at Coppin State- 77-71 W
1/30/08- at Coppin State- 67-65 W
1/16/08- vs. Coppin State- 66-62 L
-CSU has three student-athletes who average double-figures led by 6-5 senior forward Michael Murray who averages 15.0 points a game along with 5.9 rebounds per contest to sit 10th in the MEAC in scoring, and 12th in rebounding. The other two Eagles in double figures are Armstrong (12.6 points per game) and Smith (10.6 points per game), who is fifth in the MEAC in steals (1.6 steals per game) and three-point field goal percentage (38.8 percent, 31-for-80). Sitting fourth in the league in assists, Cephas, averages 3.9 helpers per game, while his teammate junior guard Daquan Brickhouse is tied for 14th dishing out 2.5 assists per game. Brickhouse is also the No. 1 free-throw shooter in the MEAC at 89.6 percent (43-for-48). His teammates, Armstrong (9th-81.4 percent) and Cephas (13th-78.7 percent) reside in the Top-15 in that category as well.
-As a team, Coppin State is currently sixth in the MEAC in scoring offense (69.4 points per game) while sitting 13th in the conference in scoring defense allowing 78.0 points a game. CSU is the league's top free-throw shooting team at 74.5 percent, just ahead of NCCU (72.0 percent). The Eagles have hit 120 threes this season to tie Florida A&M for second in the league, but sit ninth in the conference in three-point field goal percentage. The maroon and gray have made just 88 threes and have attempted 283, while Coppin State has attempted 388 shots from deep.
-The Eagles pulled off perhaps the biggest upset in the nonconference portion of the schedule as CSU upended the Pac-12 Beavers of Oregon State 78-73 on Nov. 10 in Corvallis, Ore.
Throughout NCCU's illustrious basketball history, the Eagles have taken on every team in the conference that it helped start back in 1970. NCCU is 286-264 against MEAC opponents all-time.
Bethune-Cookman- 5-4
Coppin State- 5-3
Delaware State- 18-13
Florida A&M- 8-2
Hampton- 45-31
Howard- 36-26
Md. Eastern Shore- 18-16
Morgan State- 45-40
Norfolk State- 8-27
North Carolina A&T- 68-75
Savannah State- 6-8
SC State- 24-19
In NCCU's 84-44 win over arch-rival North Carolina A&T, the Eagle defense slowed the Aggie attack, holding A&T to 10 field goals in the game, shooting 22.7 percent from the field. This was the second-least field goals for an opponent since the Eagles moved to the NCAA Division I level. Here's a list of the worst shooting performances by NCCU opponents.
9-48, 18.8%- Johnson & Wales (11/2/10)
11-38, 27.1%- Wagner (11/24/12)
12-52, 23.1%- Va. Univ. of Lynchburg (1/8/13)


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"As a surname Alexander is very common on the west coast, where, according to the authors of Clan Donald, some of the descendants of Godfrey, second son of Alastair Mor, appear to have settled in the Carrick district of Ayrshire. " [1]CITATION[CLOSE]
Smith, George (ed), Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1885-1900. Print
The Clan MacAllistair, Alisdair being the Gaelic for Alexander, are descended from the great King Somerled. Somerled had five sons, by his marriage to Ragnhildis, daughter of the Norwegian King of the Isles, Olaf Morsel. In the MacAllister line, Ranald had two sons, Ruari and Donald, and Donald had two sons, Angus and Alisdair. Alisdair living about 1230 to 1295 claimed the territory in South Knapdale, Kintyre, the ancient Clan seat was at Ard Phadraid (Patrick's Point) on the south side of Loch Tarbot. Alisdair (known as Alisdair Mor (the big)) is the recognized founder of the Clan. On his death, his estates were given to his brother and heir who was one of Bruce's supporters, Angus Mor.
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