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The biggest combined commercial-residential development ever undertaken in central Albury has been given the final tick of approval to start. More than a year ago, the $39 million eight-storey commercial offices and residential project with accompanying five-storey car park on the corner of Smollett and Townsend streets was first proposed by Lavington developer Garry Zauner. Final go ahead was given in recent days by the Southern Regional Planning Panel with an estimated 100 jobs to be created in the initial construction phase. It will be located behind the seven-storey Gardens Medical Centre which was also built by Zauner Construction. The Australian Taxation Office headquarters further along Smollett Street was the biggest commercial project in Albury in recent times, but 4414 squares of commercial office space will be created along with 25 residential apartments on the one site. It's bigger than The Hamilton, a six-storey building with apartments and ground level medical facilities, recently completed on the former Hungry Jacks site on corner of Hume and David streets. It will also be linked by the 457 space car park which can also be used by those attending the Gardens Medical Centre. Also, as part of the works all existing lifts in the medical centre will be replaced by high speed, larger sized lifts. The project was designed by award-winning Leffler Simes Architects, which also designed the Gardens Medical Centre and Northpoint Tower in Lavington. IN OTHER NEWS The apartments on offer can be developed as self occupied home offices. "They are a new concept for Albury-Wodonga," Mr Zauner said. "It's the type of initiative where you might be a lawyer or specialist surgeon and want to keep consulting, but also want a highly specced apartment in town you can consult out of and still be part of a health precinct. "We expect construction of a project of this size to generate 100 jobs on this site alone. "But with a multiplier effect through the allied health and increased commercial opportunities to flow from it you would expect there would be hundreds more." Planning consultant James Laycock from Blueprint Planning said the project would be another economic boost for the region post COVID-19. "It's great to have another significant $30 million plus, multi-storey building project approved in the Albury CBD," he said. "Additional high-rise CBD development strengthens Albury-Wodonga as a regional city and further supports initiatives of both councils to attract investment and economic growth for the betterment of the community. "The development will greatly benefit the long-awaited infill renewal of the former NSW Department of Health site. "It also improves the streetscape with activated street frontages." Our journalists work hard to provide local, up-to-date news to the community. This is how you can continue to access our trusted content:
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The biggest combined commercial-residential development ever undertaken in central Albury has been given the final tick of approval to start.
More than a year ago, the $39 million eight-storey commercial offices and residential project with accompanying five-storey car park on the corner of Smollett and Townsend streets was first proposed by Lavington developer Garry Zauner.
Final go ahead was given in recent days by the Southern Regional Planning Panel with an estimated 100 jobs to be created in the initial construction phase.
It will be located behind the seven-storey Gardens Medical Centre which was also built by Zauner Construction.
The Australian Taxation Office headquarters further along Smollett Street was the biggest commercial project in Albury in recent times, but 4414 squares of commercial office space will be created along with 25 residential apartments on the one site.
It's bigger than The Hamilton, a six-storey building with apartments and ground level medical facilities, recently completed on the former Hungry Jacks site on corner of Hume and David streets.
It will also be linked by the 457 space car park which can also be used by those attending the Gardens Medical Centre.
Also, as part of the works all existing lifts in the medical centre will be replaced by high speed, larger sized lifts.
The project was designed by award-winning Leffler Simes Architects, which also designed the Gardens Medical Centre and Northpoint Tower in Lavington.
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The apartments on offer can be developed as self occupied home offices.
"They are a new concept for Albury-Wodonga," Mr Zauner said.
"It's the type of initiative where you might be a lawyer or specialist surgeon and want to keep consulting, but also want a highly specced apartment in town you can consult out of and still be part of a health precinct.
"We expect construction of a project of this size to generate 100 jobs on this site alone.
"But with a multiplier effect through the allied health and increased commercial opportunities to flow from it you would expect there would be hundreds more."
Planning consultant James Laycock from Blueprint Planning said the project would be another economic boost for the region post COVID-19.
"It's great to have another significant $30 million plus, multi-storey building project approved in the Albury CBD," he said.
"Additional high-rise CBD development strengthens Albury-Wodonga as a regional city and further supports initiatives of both councils to attract investment and economic growth for the betterment of the community.
"The development will greatly benefit the long-awaited infill renewal of the former NSW Department of Health site.
"It also improves the streetscape with activated street frontages."
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I'd like to take another run at this review after doc/manifest-tool-guide.md is updated to match. Then I can exercise the process. Fair?
number, validator public key, and master secret key.
number, validation public key, and master public key.
The validation_public_key. Also called the "ephemeral public key".
The validation_seed. Also called the "ephemeral secret key".
If we can limit ourselves to those 6 names and always use the same spelling (in both C++ and Python, especially in the UI visible text, and please don't replace _ with - or a space) I think we'll end up way ahead.
I totally overlooked doc/manifest-tool-guide.md. Sorry about that.
I currently have the manifest tool using validation_private_key instead of validation_seed primarily because I wasn't having success deriving the ecdsa keypair from the seed in python.
No problem. The only reason I knew the manifest-tool-guide was there was from my previous puzzlement and fumbling with manifests. And whichever key you need to use is fine with me. We just need to be able to keep the names straight enough that a user can follow the instructions once every 9 months to 3 years when they need to change the ephemeral key. Thanks for your understanding.
I took a stab at cleaning up Sign.py. I replaced private key with sk, for secret key, and public key with pk. I also always prefixed these keys with either validator for the ephemeral keys or master for the master keys. I also added python docs to two of the functions. We should start adding those docs when we change code.
\h? Something is wrong here.
So I noticed that mustBeFullyCanonical is unused. We should just remove it. You can cherry-pick 2480301 if you want. Or I can do a separate pull request, after this is merged. Up to you.
Since manifest signing now requires the ephemeral validation private key, I'm thinking we can simplify this and ditch step 2. bin/manifest sign <seq> <master_secret> could generate the ephemeral signing keys and then output both [validation_seed] and [validation_manifest] (the two fields that need to be added to the config).
The problem is I don't think we currently have our ecdsa keypair generation implemented in Python (and I'm not comfortable writing it), and rippled currently assumes [validation_seed] is for a secp256k1 key.
A possible solution is to have the manifest tool generate ed25519 ephemeral keys. Then rippled can check the ephemeral public key's key type in [validation_manifest] to determine if [validation_seed] is for ed25519 keys.
Hrm, STValidation::isValid() calls verifyDigest which only supports secp256k1 signatures. So more changes in rippled would be required to support ed25519 ephemeral validation keys.
I have a couple of hair-brained ideas; I'm not sure they fully qualify as thoughts.
When I was generating manifests (about a year ago) I found the process felt hacked together and disorganized. Some parts came from rippled. Other parts came from this python script. I had to build myself a detailed check list and follow my list closely to get the process right.
Anything we can do to simplify the process (without compromising security) seems like a good idea. This is an activity that our customers will have to perform either when initially setting up a server or under times of churn (when changing the ephemeral key). In particular if we could have a single tool that does the whole job then the process would be simpler. However, I believe there's also a drive to keep extraneous helper facilities out of rippled. I suspect that's how the python manifest tool came into existence in the first place.
It sounds like Python doesn't (right now) support some of the crypto that we'd like to use in the manifest tool.
This leads me to wonder if the manifest tool would be a good internal consumer of the C++ rippled support library that @ximinez is putting together. I suspect the library provides the right crypto interfaces. And this way the library could, at least in part, be designed against an internal tool.
I don't know the current state of the library. I also can't say positively that it makes huge sense to re-write the manifest tool in C++. But I thought it made sense to at least broach the subject.
I'm thinking we'll keep our hacky manifest generation process for now but open a ticket to use ripple-libpp for manifest key generation and signing.
Can we either check that the master public key pairs with the master secret key, or derive the public key from the secret key and not pass the public key?
Those are good ideas, however I'm not having success getting either to work.
I also like the idea of using rippled as a lib.
This needs to be tested with Scott S's testing scripts to test updating ephemeral keys.
I don't see any transition from the old manifests to this new manifests. It appears once this is activated, all validators that used ephemeral keys become untrusted. Can we have a transition period where: 1) Both new and old manifests are accepted; 2) Give anyone running a validator warning that they must update their ephemeral keys to the new scheme; 3) Transition to the new scheme after either an amendment or date (probably amendment) and no longer accept the old manifests.
@seelabs I don't know that amendments is the right way to do this, because the gossip protocol is not strictly part of the consensus protocol. There's nothing in the ledger having to do with manifests.
I think our data collection can give us an idea if manifests are being used outside the altnet.
If they are, we could encourage validator operators to upgrade promptly and restart with a manifest in the new format using the same ephemeral keys. The only ones who would have an issue are rippleds who upgrade before any manifest-using validators they trust.
This feels like its getting better. Nice work with manifest-tool-guide.md.
Do we believe manifests are being used nowhere other than the AltNet? If that's true that would make the transition easier. But, still, we should probably have an official transition plan written up since people other than you, Brandon, will have to implement the transition.
Verify hex-encoded manifest signature with master public key.
The sentence following the list of arguments doesn't look right. Shouldn't the "master public key" be "master secret"? We could either fix the list in the sentence or change the sentence to something like "Create a new signed manifest based on the passed arguments." I'm not convinced that listing the arguments twice adds value.
-> Create a new signed manifest with the given sequence number and keys.
You didn't introduce this, but I suggest removing the commas from the number on line 112. If they use commas in the sign sequence argument they will get an invalid literal error from Python.
The _not_ is probably useful, but it would be even better to note what the encoding actually is. Perhaps this is true: "(binary encoded, not BASE58)"? Whatever is the correct statement for that clause could probably replace the other places in this file that specify "(not BASE58 encoded)". I found 5 of 'em.
Perhaps we need to document how to run the tests? Or did I miss something blindingly obvious?
There's a README.md in the python directory. The incantation is python -m unittest discover. Point taken though about making that more obvious.
Thanks for the pointer @seelabs. I tried it and all of the python unit tests passed. There's not a lot of output from passing tests (probably a design feature) so I'll have to take your word that running python -m unittest discover exercises the test_Sign.py test.
Great suggestion @seelabs. I hacked test_sign_manifest and it did indeed fail. Comforting.
@wilsonianb Can you add a note in the python README.md documenting how to run an individual test and documenting the verbose flag with discover?
Nicely done with manifest-tool-guide.md. I was able to successfully follow the instructions from start to finish.
Thanks for getting rid of the mustBeFullyCanonical bool. Those flags always give me the creeps, since I'm never quite sure when they should be true or false.
We get the AltNet and Scott D's validators running your software, but without manifests. I'm under the vague impression that will require restarting the AltNet and giving all of the validators new keys? Or is there a less drastic approach to taking the AltNet off of validator manifests?
For testing we add manifests to the AltNet validators. We probably don't have to repeat all of the testing I did. Simply putting manifests on the validators one-at-a-time and watching them re-sync should be sufficient. And we should probably successfully roll the ephemeral key on one AltNet validator.
Once the AltNet testing is done, we release the new code onto the part of the network we control -- all of our client handlers and validators.
Then we give folks running rippled servers a heads up that we're going the switch our validators over to running with manifests. We give them a reasonable amount of time to switch to the appropriate software version.
One at a time, we switch all of our validators over to running manifests.
1-3 sound good. I think we can just upgrade altnet validators one at a time and give each a new manifest with the same ephemeral keys.
👍 I'm good with this too, though we should make sure Vinnie is OK with the upgrade plan before we mark this passed.
Yup. Both Vinnie and Warren.
Nik's requested changes have been addressed, and Vinnie has approved the plan.
Merged to develop as b55edfa and 027b289.
I just realized the transition to the new manifests could be a lot simpler if we keep the master key signature in sfSignature and add the new ephemeral key signature to the new field (probably with a different name than sfMasterSignature). I think this would make the new manifests backwards compatible since older versions of rippled would only verify the manifest key signature in sfSignature and wouldn't care about the added signature field (I could be wrong there).
We're probably fine as is, but this is an option if we realize we're not.
Naively, backward compatibility seems like a good thing since it would require less coordination across the network to deploy the feature, since we can't use an amendment. And very old versions of rippled will become amendment blocked by some other feature, so they will eventually be forced to upgrade. Does that make sense?
Unfortunately, switching the signature fields might not actually make the new manifests backward compatible. I just tried putting a new manifest (with the master key signature in sfSignature) in the config of a rippled without the new functionality (pre-0.40.0-b8), and it failed to load the manifest.


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So anyone who installs NodeJs > 8 will most likely be upgrading to npm v5. (Let's face it most of us don't wait excitedly for its latest incarnation and explicitly upgrade to it).
Whilst this new release won't fix all the issues one might have, it does go a long way to fixing many of the perceived deficiencies with it.
Here are just a few of the recent improvements.
Firstly installs are just noticeably faster. In fact, the first time I used NVM to install I actually had to check what was going on the difference was so great (hence this article!).
Apparently, it can be up to 3 to 5 times faster. Whilst I have not tested this in any scientific manner the install time is certainly more "Yarn" like, which is another way of saying faster. Some of this performance comes from improvements made to the caching mechanism. Apparently retrieving packages from the cache was in some instances not much better than retrieving the same package over the network. This kind of defeats the purpose of storing something close by due to the assumption that you're going to need it often so it's obvious to see why this would improve performance.
The npm API endpoint has also been upgraded. Newer clients will benefit from a reduction in response size which again speeds up the install times.
By default an npm install will generate a lock file called package.lock.json. Entries in this file use a SHA 512 hash to match packages. Whilst npm shrinkwrap has been available for a while it was never the default. Without some kind of file to deterministically lockdown the dependency graph the default package.json entry of a dependency leaves one open to a semver range. Which means that you are reliant on the contributors of every package dependency to not release breaking changes when releasing non-major versions. Lets face it with the best will in the world there are always going to be instances where this or some other unforeseen circumstances cause issues.
Even if a developer manually changes every dependency in the package.json to use an explicit version, the packages themselves will most likely declare their dependencies using semver ranges.
This can be turned off though most project teams would want the deterministic behaviour that this provides. As an added bonus this can further improve install times as there is no check based on the range of the package version. The cache either has that version or it is downloaded from the registry.
The feedback screen has also been enhanced to be far more succinct. I would pretty much ignore the feedback on a successful install as there was always just too much info in previous versions and found the scrolling through the verbosity of the feedback in the terminal often more of a hindrance than an assistance on failed installs.
The above is the output from an install of the angular CLI which is a non-trivial package to install. Gone is the massive tree of dependencies that no-one probably ever read and in its place is a terse summary of the number of packages added. (An install of typescript yielded a total of 2 lines!).
Npm 5 brings a lot of common sense improvements to the tool. Whilst I haven't experienced the 3 to 5 times improvement in speed that some people report (my very basic testing of an Angular CLI install resulted in 19.383s in v5 versus 34.562 in v4) this is still pretty impressive and I must admit after all the hype I have never found Yarn to be quite as fast as its own publicity promises (though is was a lot faster than older versions of npm).
I think that the lock file is a great addition that the majority of projects will benefit from. SemVer ranges are useful on an initial install as they stop massive duplication by allowing the download of a package once when it's version will satisfy multiple nodes in the dependency graph given the SemVer range expressed in their respective package.json files. However, after that they become a potential problem and now the default behavior of npm protects us from that.
All in all Node's default package manager just became faster, more helpful and more reliable everything a developer would want from a package manager.


On the occasion of the first anniversary of 9/11, Rajiv Vora's editorial in the journal Gandhi Marg brought out the other side of it- the most revealing coincidence, birth of Satyagraha on the same day in 1906 in Johannesburg of South Africa which showed the world the path of deliverance from the rationale of violence and counter-violence. It is a most unique story. Muslims were on the forefront of the birth of Satyagraha under Gandhi's leadership. Birth of Satyagraha symbolizes what the unity between Hindus and Muslim in higher vision of life can give to the world. This started Swaraj Peeth's interface with Muslim community, some of their leading lights like Late Maulana Anjar Shah Kashmiri and Janab Sayed Hameed- two of the most respected noncontroversial names among Indian Muslims; their youth in Western UP, who got interested in the great legacy they must own up and act upon to present an answer to their post "nine eleven" demonization.


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What is the proper term for someone who is taking the bar exam?
I was going to suggest barista but I re-thought the thought after realizing that law graduates might take offense at being associated with slinging lattés, which are scrumptious, at a Starbucks. Not to denigrate those who work at Starbucks or cafés in general—they always seem happy and pleased to serve, unlike lawyers who can be arrogant and pompous and whose service always presage nothing good. An almost-similar word, barrister, is likewise unacceptable because it is what all law graduates aspire to be only after passing the bar—a full-fledged lawyer. The only other word that pops to mind is "underbar." I don't think it's a word because I tried using it in Scrabble once but nobody could find it in a dictionary and I couldn't argue my way out of that one, but still, "underbar" remains popular among those waiting for the results of the bar exams as a self-referential term.
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As we speak, 8,701 law graduates are devoting their four Sundays this November to the bar exams. The bar exams are a bigger deal than they deserve to be; touted as the most difficult set of test questions, it is a quaint claim perpetuated by people who have obviously never taken a finals in tensor calculus, which even Albert Einstein could perform only during moments of extreme mental clarity. Rocket science the bar exams is not, so where does the hype come from?
As a veteran of the bar exams, I speak with some authority when I say that its reputation stems partly from the amount of studying involved. First is the study involved just to get through four years of law school, and second is the studying involved in preparation for the bar. One cannot exist without the other, but if pressed to answer which is more important, I would say the first. That's because those four years of study are not designed to fill one's head of legal minutiae, which are legion and incapable of total mastery, but rather, are intended to supply one with stock knowledge, and more importantly, the logical skills to argue even a weak position. Without that stock knowledge or logic, no amount of review will guarantee passing the bar.
There is also the length. The bar exams take place over four Sundays and there are eight practice areas covered: political law, civil law, commercial law and remedial law are tackled in the morning sessions, taking four hours each; labor law, taxation, criminal law and ethics are taken up in the afternoons and take three hours. Everybody talks about the studying and thinking involved, but nobody talks about the amount of writing that needs to be done. The physical act of writing one's answers to the exam questions is itself exhausting and at the end of each Sunday, each examinee—there, I said it—is absolutely knackered.
And then there\s the myth. Much of the mystique associated with the bar exams is that only a few percent manage to pass. Back in the day, the passing rate used to hover at 10 percent or below; today, it's more like 20-25 percent. That's a huge difference, explainable probably because the Supreme Court feels that the Philippines could use more lawyers, a notion that Shakespeare will probably row with. I tend to side with the playwright.
That said, I will argue that the bar exams, difficult they already are, should be made even more difficult. Is that even possible? In a word, yes. One of our law professors was infamous for his right-minus-wrong tests. Nobody ever managed to pass those: most got negative scores, and if you scored a zero, you'd be over-the-moon with that. Another professor held open-book exams, which sounds peachy until you realize that the answers will not be found in the texts. A third, I heard, would pose only one to two questions; it's up to you to identify the issues and proceed to answer all of them. The issues are interdependent and if you mess up one, you mess up the rest.
The how, however, is not as important as the why. The bar exams are supposed to winnow out the unfit, but has it been successful at that? I will not name names, but there are those who have managed to pass the bar and take their oaths as lawyers but whose legal reasoning, not to mention their ethics, is execrable, and some of those lawyers hold positions of consequence in government. I know who they are and many colleagues know who they are, but the question of interest is: do they know who they are?
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If it's flooded or frozen where you are, you can play Ice Frosty, one of the first computer games I ever made (back when I used to write the code as well as doing the graphics). Recently unachieved while I was looking for something else. Game is here.
I've been asked to write a fishing game for the iPhone, so if anyone has any ideas stick them in the comments. Something as simple and addictive as Stick Cricket or Stick Tennis... I'll make sure you're credited if we go with your idea.
How about something like US Bass lure fishing, with different kinds of surface lures (fish, frogs, mice, flies,...), different kinds of rods and reels (baitcasting or spinning, flyfishing…) to choose from, fishing from the bank, or in a boat? To catch a fish you need to i) cast close to the fish; ii) reel it in skilfully (neither too fast, nor too slow, or line will break). Points awarded according to fish species and (trophy) size/weight…. Maybe also angling matches (against other fishermen – played by the computer?) a possibility, as well as different environments (freshwater, sea, tropical,…) with different species of fish.
I like the idea of competition between all the players, not sure about bass tournament idea though - been done and I'd quite like the new game to be quite British / European.
I like the idea of a smooth cast, using the tilt of the iPhone to cast. The longer the line the slower and smoother the action needs to be.
Bigger fish can be further out and more easily spooked.
But I also like the idea of a daily challenge; Today's challenge is to catch the biggest carp... Competitors then have all day to compete for the Specimen Cup (which they then keep on their phone's trophy cabinet).
Probably need to work out the mechanics of the game before the details.
I like the idea of a float fishing game, watching the float dive under next to some lily pads might be good. Loose feeding maggots or groundbait when things go quiet.
Yeah, was thinking match fishing or fly-fishing, need to keep the game quite short though - app generation, like me, has no attention span!


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Victory Point est un cap du Nunavut au Canada.

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Francis McClintock y découvre en 1859 un sextant marqué des initiales de Frederick John Hornby, un des maîtres d'équipage de l'expédition Franklin. Ce sextant est conservé depuis 1982 au Greenwich museum.

Un message dit Victory Point Note, y est aussi trouvé en mai 1859 par William Robert Hobson (lieutenant de l'expédition McClintock) placé dans un cairn sur la côte nord-ouest de l'ile du Roi-Guillaume. Il se compose de deux parties écrites sur un formulaire pré-imprimé de l'Amirauté. La première partie a été écrite après le premier hivernage en 1847 et la deuxième partie a été ajoutée un an plus tard. De la deuxième partie, on peut déduire que le document a été déposé pour la première fois dans un autre cairn précédemment érigé par James Clark Ross en 1830 lors de la deuxième expédition arctique de John Ross.

Le premier message est écrit dans le corps du formulaire et date du 28 mai 1847 :

La deuxième et dernière partie est écrite sur les marges du formulaire faute d'espace restant sur le document. Il a vraisemblablement été écrit le 25 avril 1848 :

Hobson trouve un deuxième document utilisant le même formulaire de l'Amirauté contenant un double presque identique du premier message de 1847 dans un cairn à quelques kilomètres au sud-ouest de Gore Point. Ce document ne contient pas le second message. D'après l'écriture manuscrite, il est supposé que tous les messages ont été écrits par le commandant James Fitzjames. Comme il n'a pas participé à l'équipe de débarquement qui a déposé les notes à l'origine en 1847, il en est déduit que les deux documents ont été initialement remplis par Fitzjames à bord des navires, le lieutenant Graham Gore et Charles Frederick Des Voeux ajoutant leurs signatures en tant que membres du groupe de débarquement. Ceci est en outre étayé par le fait que les deux documents contiennent les mêmes erreurs factuelles - à savoir la mauvaise date de l'hivernage sur l'île Beechey. En 1848, après l'abandon des navires et la récupération ultérieure du document du cairn de Victory Point, Fitzjames ajoute le deuxième message signé par lui et Crozier et dépose la note dans le cairn trouvé par Hobson onze ans plus tard.

En 1994, David C. Woodman, un écrivain qui s'intéresse à John Franklin, organise et dirige une recherche sur terre dans la région de la baie de Collinson à Victory Point pour chercher une « voûte », désormais enterrée, dont parle le témoignage d'un chasseur inuit Supunger. Une équipe de dix personnes passe dix jours à sa recherche, parrainée par la Société géographique du Canada, et filmée pour l'émission télévisée Focus North de la CBC. Aucune trace de la voûte n'est trouvée.

Une nouvelle expédition est organisée l'année suivante conjointement par Woodman, George Hobson, et l'aventurier américain Steven Trafton, chaque groupe planifiant une recherche distincte. Le groupe de Trafton se rend sur l'île Clarence pour enquêter sur une histoire inuite d'un « cairn d'homme blanc », mais ils ne trouvent rien. Le groupe de Hobson, accompagné par l'archéologue Margaret Bertulli, enquête sur le « camp d'été » situé à quelques kilomètres au sud du cap Felix, où quelques vestiges de l'expédition Franklin sont trouvés. Woodman, avec deux compagnons, se rend au sud de la baie de Wall à Victory Point et examine tous les points le long de la côte susceptibles d'avoir accueilli un camp. Il trouve des boîtes de conserve rouillées sur un lieu de campement inconnu, près du cap Maria Louisa.

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Bug ID: JDK-8027756 assert(!hr->isHumongous()) failed: code root in humongous region?
JDK-8027756 : assert(!hr->isHumongous()) failed: code root in humongous region?
#  assert(!hr->isHumongous()) failed: code root in humongous region?
Regression test with this bugid included in the changeset. A "noreg" Label is not needed.
Thomas, it's a jtreg test 'closed/runtime/4827353' from hotspot/test.
I believe this assert (and another one with the same condition/text) is simply incorrect. While it is unlikely (that's probably the reason for adding this assert) that code may embed a reference to a large object, it is possible.
@Igor: could you please add information about the failed test case for reproduction purposes?


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Alex Gaskarth Biography
Facts of Alex Gaskarth
1987 , December-14
Alex Gaskarth
Alexander William Gaskarth
Peter Gaskarth
Isobel Gaskarth
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Essex, United Kingdom
Singer ,songwriter, guitarist, musician
$1.5 million as of June 2016
Lisa Ruocco (9th of April 2016)
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Quick Timeline of Alex Gaskarth
1987 Born in Essex, England
1994 Moved to United States
2003 Formed an American pop punk band, All Time Low
2005 All Time Low's debut album, The Party Scene
2007 Released their second album, So Wrong, It's Right
2016 Married to Lisa Ruocco
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December 14 , 1987
Born in Essex, England
Alex Gaskarth, who is also known by the name Lex, was born as Alexander William Gaskarth in the late 1980s in Essex, England, United Kingdom to Peter Gaskarth and Isobel Gaskarth. He grew up with his two half sisters and a half brother.
Moved to United States
Though Alex was born in Essex, England, he has been living in Baltimore, Maryland since he was six. He also attended some elementary school there where he met his close friend Jack Barakat. As both of them were interested in music, they expressed their desire to form a musical band.
Formed an American pop punk band, All Time Low
He and his friend, Jack Barakat joined with Zack Merrick and Rian Dawson and together they formed an American pop punk band All Time Low in 2003. He served as their lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist.
July 19 , 2005
All Time Low's debut album, The Party Scene
They signed a recording deal with Emerald Moon in 2004 and their debut EP The Three Words to Remember in Dealing with the End was released in 2004. Their album The Party Scene was finally released on 19th of July 2005.
September 25 , 2007
Released their second album, So Wrong, It's Right
Alex Gaskarth is popular in the world for being one of the members of an American pop punk All Time Low. With the release of their debut album, they began recording their second album and their second album So Wrong, It's Right was finally released on 25th of September 2007.
April 6 , 2016
Married to Lisa Ruocco
While Alex was in his high school, he met love of his life Lisa Ruocco. They became close friends from that time on. He proposed her in 2015 and they got married on 9th of April 2016. They also had on and off relationship when they were in high school
While Alex was in his high school, he met love of his life Lisa Ruocco. They became close friends from that time on. He proposed her in 2015 and they got married on 9th of April 2016. They also had on and off relationship when they were in high school. His wedding was held in United States. His nationality American and British and he is of white ethnicity. He is now aged 28 years old and his height is six feet tall. He also loves to spend his days with his parents.
Though Alex was born in Essex, England, he has been living in Baltimore, Maryland since he was six. He also attended some elementary school there where he met his close friend Jack Barakat. As both of them were interested in music, they expressed their desire to form a musical band. They joined with Zack Merrick and Rian Dawson and together they formed an American pop punk band All Time Low in 2003. They signed a recording deal with Emerald Moon in 2004 and their debut album The Party Scene was finally released on 19th of July 2005. Their second album So Wrong, It's Right was released on 25th of September 2007.


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Steve Harvey Suggests He'll Leave Talk Show After Kelly Clarkson's New Deal With NBC
By Libby Birk - January 10, 2019 08:39 am EST
Will Steve Harvey be saying goodbye to the talk show world once Kelly Clarkson's talk show takes over in the fall? He implied as much on Wednesday at the Variety Entertainment Summit.
The 61-year-old comedian, a headline speaker at the event, said he didn't know if he was going to stay at NBC once Clarkson and her much talked-about talk show arrived.
"I thought I was, until they made an announcement a couple weeks ago that they wanted to give Kelly Clarkson the owned-and-operated NBC networks — that's my slot," Harvey said. "I don't know if it sold, it's not selling like they thought, but I thought it would have been nice of them to come to me — as the only dude who's survived [in daytime TV] for seven years — about it."
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"So when you do that, I gotta make announcements too," he continued. " ... I'm working. It will be something real cute."
The Family Feud host hinted that he's not happy with the way things were handled regarding the future of his show.
"You know, I'm an honorable guy," he said. "I'm just an old school guy, and I just thought that you're supposed to just talk to people and just go, 'Look, you've been good business for us. This is what we're thinking of doing, are you OK with that?' No, you just don't put something in the paper and say, 'I'm just going to make this move right here,' because it's crazy."
Steve has been renewed for the 2018-2019 season, but he said that daytime TV is "dying."
"My show, Steve, is the only show in the last seven years in syndication that has stuck," he said.
Mentioning his good friend, Ellen DeGeneres, and her recent comments to The New York Times, Harvey said he, too, has wondered how long he should continue working.
"She's the most popular person on television," he said, before joking, "I'm second."
"I want her to do what's best for her health, and to do what's best for that, because sometimes, man, you have to consider what's best for your health — even I," he noted. "It's extreme. My doctors have told me, 'Hey, how long do you think you're gonna do this?'"
But he seemed undeterred. "I worked at Ford Motor Company, man. I used to put eight spark plugs in 1,800 engines a day — that's stressful. Telling jokes? That's pretty cool."
Clarkson filmed a pilot episode at NBC Universal Studios in Los Angeles in August. In September, it was announced that The Kelly Clarkson Show would premiere in fall 2019 on NBC.
When it debuts, The Kelly Clarkson Show will reportedly serve as the lead-in to Ellen, which is renewed through 2020 — but there's no telling what will happen if DeGeneres decides to put an end to her long running show.
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Go no further, these chocolate chip cookies will ruin your life.
I can only assume something must have gone horribly wrong to bring you here today.
Amidst a cherry-picked Pinterest Sea of "perfect chocolate chip cookies" a Google Forest of "best ever chocolate chip cookies", and dog-eared cookbooks of "award-winning" and family favorite chocolate chip cookie recipes, you have somehow found yourself here, face-to-cookie with the "worst" chocolate chip cookies.
I know what you're probably thinking: It's just a cookie, right? I mean, they look innocent enough, golden with melty chocolate chips, crinkled edges and melt-in-your-mouth interiors… but one bite and you're ruined for life.
These cookies will consume your life, shrink your jeans, and steal your boyfriend (I wouldn't put it past them, anyway).
They even contain a secret ingredient.
How obnoxiously cliché, and, even more obnoxiously, intriguing.
I won't drag it out, the secret ingredient is maple syrup. Sure, pure maple syrup (priced per ounce nearly the same as gold) would be just wonderful. But, if you have a sticky bottle of Aunt Jemima in your cabinet (as I did), that will work just fine, too.
What kind of self-respecting cookie doesn't demand purity and quality? Only the worst kind.
I credit this "secret ingredient" for being the greatest offender in this recipe. It gives the cookies a subtle, caramelized flavor, as well as long-lasting chewiness and softness (these cookies stay soft for days, the cornstarch also helps with that significantly), and the flavor is to die for.
And while anyone who takes a bite will be able to detect the extra richness of flavor, no one who I shared these cookies with was able to identify any sort of secret ingredient. Just "really, really, good cookies".
OK, so what's so bad about really really good cookies?
How about the fact that they will consume you as you consume them. I'm not kidding about them wrecking your relationships.
Mom's favorite chocolate chip cookie? Ditch it. You will snub your nose at every "favorite" cookie of the past and struggle to hold back scornful laughs at anyone who comments on a "delicious cookie". Nobody likes a cookie snob, but you will become one.
Here comes that girl again, the one who's too good for Chips Ahoy.
Be prepared for weight gain. It creeps up slowly, the cookies gently embracing you at first, then clinging to your thighs, your stomach, tighter and tighter until yoga pants are your only way out of the house. If you're worried about your significant other noticing, don't bother. They don't notice anything anymore, only whether or not there are more cookies readily available for consumption.
Perhaps worst of all is that these chocolate chip cookies can be made so easily. There's no KitchenAid or any sort of electric hand mixer required to make these cookies. They can be stirred by hand, dirtying only two bowls.
They do need to chill for 30 minutes, which would only serve as a deterrent if 25 of those minutes weren't spent sneaking copious chunks of dough from the refrigerator.
If you've made it this far, I fear it might already be too late for you.
It's too late for me, unfortunately, and I've made these cookies nearly a dozen times in the past two weeks. I'm swapping gym time for cookie time to keep my fridge well-stocked with dough, and the photo shoot for this post took three times as long as it should have because I kept eating the subjects.
If you can, stick to the "best ever" cookies, stick to Grandma's chocolate chip cookies and the family favorites. Those cookies are safe, they are your friends, made to be consumed by you.
These cookies will consume you, instead.
More Cookie Recipes You May Enjoy!
Are they the worst or are they the best chocolate chip cookies in existence? Either way, this easy, soft chocolate chip cookie recipe is insanely addictive.
Recipe now includes a new step-by-step VIDEO and new tips in the NOTES section (below) to prevent your cookies from spreading too much or not spreading enough!
In a large bowl, stir together melted butter and sugars.
Add eggs, one at a time, stirring until combined.
In a separate bowl, whisk together flour, cornstarch, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
Gradually add flour mixture to wet ingredients, stirring until completely combined.
While the dough is chilling, preheat oven to 350F (175C) and prepare cookie sheets by lining with parchment paper (if you don't have parchment paper, you can bake directly on an ungreased cookie sheet).
Scoop about 2-2 1/2 Tablespoons of cookie dough and roll into balls, making them slightly taller than they are wide. Place them at least 2 inches apart on prepared cookie sheet.
Bake about 13 minutes (cookies will appear to be a bit underdone, but edges should be just beginning to turn golden brown).
Allow cookies to cool completely on cookie sheet. If desired, gently press a few chocolate chips on top of the hot cookies.
Keep unbaked cookie dough in fridge while waiting to put the next batch in the oven, and do not place cookie dough on a hot cookie sheet.
*You do not want your butter to be too hot or it may melt the sugar and you'll have a very runny dough. Best practice would be to cut the butter into about Tablespoon-sized pieces, microwave in 10-second increments (stirring after each) until it is just completely melted, and then allow it to sit for 5 minutes.
Why Did My Chocolate Chip Cookies Spread Too Much?
The butter was too hot when you added your sugar, causing the sugar to melt and creating a greasy cookie dough that never stood a chance.
You didn't add enough flour. If the flour was under-measured, your cookies could spread when baking.
Your baking powder/baking soda was bad. These need to be stored properly and often will expire after 6 months, if yours is old, that could be the problem.
The dough didn't chill long enough. If your dough is still very sticky after 30 minutes, let it chill longer.
You put your cookie dough on a hot cookie sheet. It actually starts to melt before it can even begin baking.
Your oven temperature is incorrect. Make sure the oven is fully preheated and at the correct temperature before baking your cookies. Many ovens do not report their temperatures correctly and run hotter or colder than they indicate. I purchased two inexpensive oven thermometers that I keep in my oven to make sure the temperature is right.
Why Did My Chocolate Chip Cookies Not Spread In the Oven?
Flour was over-measured. It's so easy to over-measure flour, especially when using cups rather than weight measurements. Never scoop your flour directly into your measuring cup, it packs the flour into the cup and you end up with way more than the recipe actually calls for. Instead, use a scale (this is the scale that I use) or use a spoon to pour the flour into your measuring cup and then level off the top with a straightedge (like the back of a knife).
Your oven temperature could be incorrect. See above note, just as it can cause your cookies to spread too much, it can cause them to not spread enough!
I originally published this chocolate chip cookie recipe 3/21/16. I am re-sharing it today with a new photo and a new video and some additional notes that I'm hoping will be helpful. While I'd like to update all of my photos, they've become so well-known that I have chosen not to replace all of them at this time.
Omigerd! These are so insanely good. Just got the first batch cooled and had to eat one…..okay, maybe it was still a little warm. Now I'm trying to decide whether to share them, or tell my hubby that I "accidentally" put salt in instead of sugar so I can have them all to myself. LOL. These are absolutely the BEST chocolate chip cookies. I didn't have quite enough semi-sweet chips, but had a few butterscotch left over from another recipe, so the 1/2 cup I used those, then used 1 1/2 cups of the semi-sweet. Beautiful!
Sam, thank you for this recipe! These are truly the best chocolate chip cookies. I've been searching for the best recipe for so long and your tips are so helpful. Thank you!
I made these today and substituted Trivia for both the white and the brown sugar (just cut the sugar measurements in half) and they turned out soooo good!
This will be my new "go to" recipe.
These cookies look so yummy and I'd love to bake em! But the problem is that I don't have enough butter in my fridge. So, will these cookies still have the same lusciousness if I halve the recipe??
My cookies didn't spread in the oven after following all the ingredients and the measurements. I used gluten free flour though coz my husband is a celiac. Could that be the reason?
Hi Joan! I would guess that must be the reason if everything else was done precisely.
can you double it ?
Made these for my wife, and we loved 'em!! That hint of maple kept them moist, and was a tasty lil subtlety, enjoyed by both of us!! Thanks!!
I love your receipes, my problem is that we don't have all purpose flour, we have cake floannd self raising flour, can the all purpose flour be sustituted for cake flour as i and how much would I need to use?
Hi Charlene! I would not recommend using cake flour or self rising flour. There would be some different substitutions that would need to be made here and I haven't tested it so I don't know what they would be.
Exactly as advertised. Crunchy on the edges, divinely chewy in the middle. Home run.
These. Are. Amazing. I followed the recipe exactly. Not substitutes and no shortcuts. They baked so perfectly. This is now my go – to recipe! I brought them to a meeting for my husbands work and they were gone so fast. THIS IS THE BEST.
I try to always weigh my ingredients but my flour says it is 120g per cup which only comes to 390 grams. Should I use 390 grams or 415 grams (which would be almost 3 ½ cups)? Thank you for your help.
I tried this recipe substituting butter 1:1 with Earth Balance Buttery Sticks and also 2 eggs swapped out for 2 flax eggs.
The chocolate chips were organic dark (on clearance!) but not vegan.
Followed the instructions AND watched the video and my cookies turned out great! "Just like the picture!" Nice recipe.
The batch I made tasted a little too oily, may have been the substitute. Roommate has requested dairy butter for next batch!


They join LL Cool J and members of Rufus and Rage Against the Machine on the new list of prospective inductees of color.
Janet Jackson attends the Black Girls Rock! 2018 Red Carpet at NJPAC on August 26, 2018 in Newark, New Jersey.
Black and Latinx musicians spanning the last four decades of R&B, hip hop and metal music earned nominations for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame today (October 9).
They were all previously nominated but not inducted. The Hall of Fame will announce the inductees in December, then honor them via a televised ceremony on March 29.
See the full list of 2019 contenders and cast your vote for the fan favorite at RockHall.com.


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This can get very annoying. Start the game off with the following phrase "I went to the party and took a bottle of wine, but I didn't take a pink panther" or something as ridiculous. Play follows around the table to your left and each player must make a correct statement.
The Secret Rule
There are strict rules regarding what you can and can't "take to the party". Those who know, know. Those who don't, get very frustrated, until they guess the secret rule.
The secret rule is that you may only take to the party an item containing double letters, such as:
- "A green hat"
- "A daffodil"
- "A mammoth"
The items you can't take obviously don't contain double letters. Those who get it wrong can do a forfeit. Play continues until everyone has got it. A favourite!
Other rules you can use instead of the double letters are:
1. Words starting with the initials of the player to the left, so if it's John Smith, you could take a "Jar of Sweets", or a "Jam Sandwich". You could make this harder by choosing the player opposite, or three to the left.
2. Words preceded with an "Ummm" or throat clearing.
3. Words said whilst the player is performing a specific action, such as a scratch of the back, or stroking of the chin. The lead player must define what this secret action is. Others who pick up on the theme must be discreet!
4. Items which are actually visible in the room.
I've played this many a time (often around a camp-fire). We got very sophisticated with our rules - for example, the word had to have a specific number of letters in it, or it had to finish with a vowel. It kept us guessing for hours.
I played a similar game with my sister where you went shopping and you said what you wanted to buy from the shop
If you did it right then you were allowed in and if it was wrong you weren't
When I said to my sis she wasn't allowed in the shop about 5 times she got really frustrated and thought I was just trying to annoy her
I found it so funny!:D:D:D:D:D
Lol this can is so fun:) I played this at girl scout camp and we got so frustrated :)
This game is really fun! My friends and I played it at a birthday party awhile back, around a camp fire, usually the starting person says "yes you can come", or "no you cant come." But instead we said "I am going camping, I am going to bring..." & We started by saying "My name is Gavin, I am going to camping and bring a green sleeping bag.""What are you going to bring and I'll tell u if u can come or not." It was halarious! :)No one could figure it out, and was SO UPSET if they couldn't come.
agh played this game using the "ummm..." rule and it was muchoo frustrating!! funthough. we called it the umbrella game
funfunfun
this is the most irritating game ever....if you can't figure it out
my softball team likes it too
no offense, but it is a weird game
its rlly fun and i play it with my softball team whenever we have a sleepover
its a rwally fun game!


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Fawley Power Station I, Hampshire.
The Hythe Pier train clatters empty at 6am preparing for the first passengers. My legs are having difficulty bending this morning after the previous days exertions. On leaving the street lights I attach a torch to my backpack chest strap so I can see the path as it's inky black in this wooded area. The ancient track slopes up on both sides feeling like it would have been the perfect place for highwayman to pounce from.
It's a beautiful thing to walk as dawn emerges, something I started on this walk out of necessity in order to cover the distance and now come to relish. The dark misty sky glows orange with the lights of the Fawley Oil Refinery. Emerging from the forest past a depot of fuel trucks a large crucifix glows outside of Hardley Methodist Church.
The dawn sky streaks with orange and violet but the screen of trees around the refinery prevents me getting a photo of chimneys silhouetted against this spectacle. One of Europe's largest oil refineries denies it presence to the public throughout its five kilometre wooded perimeter fence. Lost tortoise notice handwritten on a telegraph pole.
I boil water for coffee and eat breakfast as the sun rises over Southampton water in the tranquility of Ashlett quay. Later, brown horses startle me suddenly appearing at close quarters in the woods by the marsh.
Fawley Power Station II, Hampshire.
Tanker, Fawley Oli Refinery, Hampshire.
Fawley Power Station III, Hampshire.
Climbing Wall, Calshot Activities centre housed in former Short Sunderland flying boat hangar, Hampshire.
Mesmerising view of tankers passing by at Calshot. The historic flying boat hangars now contain a ski slope, climbing wall and velodrome.
Fawley Power Station IV, Hampshire.
40 40, Stanswood, New Forest, Hampshire.
Turning Bracken, New Forest, Hampshire.
Stopped at the shore near Lepe to trim toenails, change socks, tape toes and apply Body Glide to the sore spots on my feet, which at this moment in time is all over them!
Turning Beech, New Forest, Hampshire.
At Exbury gardens, the car park is full as is the ultramarine miniature steam railway replete with silver haired clientele slowing taking their seats. Sweet chestnuts fall to the ground and golden autumn leaves arch over Summer Lane.
The wild horses of Beaulieu Heath seem to have the happiest expressions and I can't help but smile back in return. This could be Exmoor if it wasn't for the refinery chimney flaring in the distance.
Approaching Beaulieu many building signs carry three red diamonds denoting the Montague coat of arms. At the store I enquire if the big house I'd just passed is where the estate is run from,"Oh you can't go there that's where Lord Montague lives… though he died two months ago, now it's his son".
Outside the Montague Arms a truck with the Montague crest is parked, I open a gate into woodland carved with the same crest. This is all starting too feel a little too Downton Abbey for my comfort. The ultra-managed environment having the feel of an elite public school.
Liked too many of these images to narrow down to comment on just one or two. Best set posted from the last few days that's for sure.


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Cornett Honored as Fellow
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Kimberly K. Cornett, P.E., F.ASCE, a project manager with Jacobs and an ambassador for civil engineering, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Cornett has served ASCE in several positions over the past 18 years. Her career in both engineering and the Society began in the San Antonio Community, where she started serving the ASCE San Antonio Branch as treasurer and finished as the Branch President in 2009. During her time there, she discovered a passion for engaging young people with the hope that they would become interested in the sciences. She participated in career fairs, presentations and many E-week events encouraging students from kindergarten through high school to get involved in STEM-related careers.
The most memorable experience was the Engineering Design Challenge at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where she coordinated high school–level students participating in engineering challenges, the top award being a scholarship to UTSA to study engineering.
Having moved to the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex, Cornett began attending ASCE meetings in both cities for networking, but quickly joined ASCE's Fort Worth Branch, stepping into the Section Director position. While in this role for four years, she concurrently served as the Outreach chair for the branch. She started working with branch members and local schools to coordinate activities such as career fairs, presentations and local community STEM events.
From her role coordinating Outreach, she transitioned to serve the Texas Section as student activity chair. There she coordinated with university students, assisting them with planning the Texas ASCE Student Symposium where the Texas-Mexico Region hold their annual ASCE competitions. She continued serving as Vice President of Educational Affairs and continues to oversee the symposium along with expanding oversight of the STEM and Younger members committees.
Cornett's passion for engaging students starts with kindergarten-age children, steering them into STEM activities with the hope they too will learn to love the sciences. She has grown this passion from mainly local events to statewide events. She often says, "I am here to make sure that others know the 'E' in STEM stands for Engineering." She was awarded the ASCE Texas Section Professional Service award in 2018 for her continuing and dedicated service to the organization at all levels.
Akhtar elevated to ASCE fellow
Anwar Saeed Akhtar, P.E., F.ASCE, chief engineer in Houston for Fugro, a multidiscipline international firm, has been named a fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Society welcomes Tripp as new fellow
Russell E. Tripp, P.E., F.ASCE, senior aviation engineer at CH2M Hill (now part of Jacobs), has been named a fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Hashimoto welcomed as fellow
Philip S. Hashimoto, P.E., F.ASCE, a senior principal with Simpson Gumpertz & Heger, has been named a fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Ashford becomes newest ASCE fellow
Scott A. Ashford, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, the Kearney Dean of Engineering at Oregon State University, has been named a fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.


Reserve now at top Los Angeles restaurants, read reviews, explore menus& photos. is the best ever. More. OpenTable Diner. cooking and believes in making food. The Best Los Angeles Restaurants Open on Christmas 2016. here are our top recommendations for restaurants that are open on either Christmas Eve or Christmas Day—or both—in Los Angeles.
A list of restaurants open on Christmas in Los Angeles, CA. Los Angeles restaurants on Foodio54. com. Add a Restaurant;. Restaurants open on Christmas Day in Los. Some of America's best restaurants from New York City to Los Angeles to Chicago are ready to make your dream come true with Christmas Day brunch buffets, luxe prix-fixe menus, and more relaxed.
Los Angeles' favorite Brazilian all you can eat restaurant is a top option on Christmas Day. With a huge selection of fire-roasted meats and plenty of sides, this eatery is perfect to dine out. This Christmas Eve, enjoy dinner with friends and family at one of our picks for the best restaurants in LA.
Dec 8, 2017. Eight LA restaurants perfect for your Christmas Eve dinner. of the restaurants we think are best for a Christmas Eve dinner in Los Angeles.
Open every day of the year, the two Pacific Dining Car locations offer the kind of velvet-curtained elegance that seems just right for Christmas. 1310 W. 6th St.Los Angeles; (213) 483-6000, and 2700 Wilshire Blvd.Santa Monica; (310) 453-4000; 5. Find the best restaurants, food, and dining in Los Angeles, CA, make a reservation, or order delivery on Yelp: search reviews of 9304 Los Angeles restaurants by price, type, or location. Reviews on Vegan restaurants open christmas day in Los Angeles, CA, United States - Crossroads, Sage Plant Based Bistro and Brewery, Little Pine, Doomie's Home Cookin My Vegan Gold, shojin, Sage Plant Based Bistro, Vegan Glory, Au Lac, Real Food.
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Palm Restaurant - Los Angeles - Downtown, Steakhouses business in Los Angeles. Restaurants, Traditional American. Chef's Fresh Fish Special of the Day. Filet. Nov 30, 2017. Hmm. Now, what to make for Christmas dinner. Our suggestion? Reservations. That's right. Many Southland restaurants are open and happy to. Share Where to Eat Chinese Food on Christmas Day in LA. Open 5: 30-10: 30 on Christmas Day.
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It's tricky. Fortunately, Hollywood's Brit gastropub is serving a traditional English Christmas Day dinner at a fair price. On the menu: ham or goose breast with chestnut bread sauce, sausage-stuffed onions, roast potatoes, chestnuts and stuffed cabbage. Christmas Day in SoCal: What's Open January 5, 2018 | Filed Under: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA If you're in Los Angeles, Orange County, or San Diego on Christmas Day (December 25), you might be looking for something to do or someplace to go.
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Habayit Restaurant offers the best Kosher Jewish, Mediterranean, and American-Israeli food in all of Los Angeles. Los Angeles, CA (213) 217-4445 Located in Downtown L.
A.Le Petit Paris is a stunning French brasserie that is perfect to celebrate with family and friends on Christmas Day. They will be offering a brunch from 10: 30am to 2: 45pm, where guests can enjoy items from a seafood station including oysters, shrimp, and king crab. Share Where to Eat on Christmas Day in Los Angeles, 2017 tweet share Pocket Flipboard Email There's no better way to put a damper on holiday cheer than by aimlessly driving around the city in search of a restaurant that's actually open on Christmas Day.


Excellence in today's world of education requires the student to be immersed in technology. Every student at Covenant has the opportunity to learn how to function effectively, efficiently and intelligently within that ever-changing technological society.
From fundamentals and research to creating and designing, we realize that technology is not only a powerful tool for knowledge, but an art that is to be appreciated as well.
Below are directions for printing on Covenant's network.
Canvas is Covenant's Learning Management System (LMS). It is the school's curricular hub. It is where students obtain homework, participate in discussion groups, take quizzes/tests, turn in projects and participate in group activities. In addition, grades are entered and tracked here.
To start, use the current username and password created for use in the NetCommunity. Please note, if a NetCommunity password changes the Canvas password will not change. Currently, a request for a password change in Canvas must be emailed to Brad Spencer (bradspencer@covenantchristian.org).
Below is a link to the Covenant created parent user guide. We hope this gets you up and running in no time!
2-hour delay Wednesday, February 20.


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SyfyWire discusses the Moomins
"Stuff We Love: Moomins Are Not Your Average Trolls" / SyfyWire / Elizabeth Rayne / March 27, 2018
The creature you've just encountered may appear like a mashup of an aardvark and a hippo with huge, wondering eyes, but it's neither of those creatures nor the sum of their DNA. What you're looking at is a Moomin.
Moomins are a whimsical breed of troll (who said trolls have to be hideous?) that emerged from the imagination of Finnish-Swedish artist Tove Jansson. They've made their way into nine novels, a comic strip, several TV series, movies, museums, an opera, and a cult following in Japan. These cuddly creatures definitely aren't the hairy, menacing and sometimes three-headed things you'd expect to find terrorizing the northern wilds. If something is stalking you in the snow, it's definitely not a Moomin, because they hibernate in the winter.
As a little girl, Jansson would listen to her uncle's stories about the curious moo-oo-oomin trolls that lurked in the cupboard and behind the tile stove. These eventually morphed into the much less scary Moomintroll, who would never (purposely) frighten anyone. (Admit it, you probably would spook if you saw a round white thing with moon eyes staring at you in the middle of the woods.) He really only wants to be your friend. He and his family live in the three-story Moominhouse and are surrounded by a whole menagerie of weird and wonderful creatures in the Moominvalley. In case you didn't get it by now, the name of just about everything in the Moominverse starts with "Moomin."
Tove Jansson had a magical way of relating these creatures to fans of all ages. She wrote her first book, The Moomins and the Great Flood, as a reflection of how she felt all the color had drained from the world during World War II. It touches on themes of danger, fear, loss, and sorrow that were pervasive during the war and are still part of the human experience. Moomintroll is interested in getting to know and understand other inhabitants of the forest that would often be looked at as terrifying by outsiders. Moomins value respect for each other, tolerance, love, respect for nature, adventure, equality, friendship, freedom, and joy above all else. That sounds like something that adults need to be reminded of even more so than kids do these days.
You don't have to catch a plane to Finland to find all sorts of Moomin merch, from lamps that are basically light-up versions of the Moomins and their friends to Moomin-printed pillows and bedsheets to toys, candy, sweets, and just about everything else — I really mean everything else.
By the way, Gutsy Animations is creating the newest Moomin TV show coming out of Moominvalley after a successful IndieGogo campaign, and if that alone doesn't convince you to watch it, this video should.
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Anti-Cigarette Litter Program on North Broad
Cigarette butts dropped on the ground increase the need for sidewalk and street sweeping, and cleaning in parks, drains, and waterways. In fact, tobacco litter alone makes up more than 34 percent of all litter in outdoor recreation areas, from picnic pavilions to hiking trails, making these natural assets less attractive.
No matter where you are in Philly, one problem is constant: People leave cigarette butts everywhere. But thanks to microgrants from Keep Philadelphia Beautiful (KPB), community groups across the city are tackling the mess, and its causes.
KPB's national umbrella organization, Keep America Beautiful, helps explain why cigarette butts—which seem so small—are actually a big problem, both for a city's bottom line, and its environment.
Homeowners and businessowners bear the effort and costs of clearing their sidewalks and entrances, and that persistent litter makes the area less attractive to tourists, visitors, and potential residents, and decreases foot traffic, which hurts economic development (for example, the presence of litter in a community can lower the value of nearby properties by more than seven percent).
The natural environment suffers, too: 32 percent of litter at storm drains is tobacco products, and cigarette filters are almost entirely composed of a kind of plastic called cellulose acetate, which hangs around in waterways, hurting wildlife—especially land and marine animals who eat the filters by accident.
According to Shalimar Thomas, the executive director of KPB grant recipient North Broad Renaissance (NBR) they're starting with the basics, because many people don't realize that dropping a cigarette butt on the sidewalk is actually littering.
"That is surprising to people," she says. "They don't look at it the same as throwing garbage on the ground."
So NBR, in addition to an innovative program for increasing the number of cigarette receptacles in the neighborhood, distributes educational cards to local businesses, which help people understand that the butts are litter which decreases economic activity and property values, and even hurts local job prospects.
The KPB micro-grant program is now in its fourth year, and six other groups join North Broad Renaissance in the anti-cigarette litter effort. You can read more about the 2018 grantees' projects here.
Thomas says that NBR (a non-profit special service district covering the North Broad corridor from City Hall to Germantown Avenue) is focusing its $2,500 KPB grant on the 19140 Zip code. She calls this "one of the unhealthiest districts in Philadelphia," with high rates of chronic health problems like high blood pressure, heart disease, asthma, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
NBR already has a robust litter-collection and prevention program (you can read more about them in this story). But while there is improvement in the amounts of littered items like paper, plastic, and restaurant wrappings, Thomas says the amount of cigarette litter isn't budging.
NBR decided to adopt a program that saw significant success in the UK: "Ballot bins—they're actually cigarette receptacles where you can vote with your cigarette butt."
The original ballot bins across the pond posed yes or no questions to smokers, who could vote on answers by placing their butts in the corresponding bins. But NBR wanted to be sure it wasn't encouraging people to smoke with the questions, so Thomas says it's partnering with the Philadelphia Health Department to script "true or false" questions about the health effects of smoking.
And thanks to the glass-fronted bins, "this is not just people voting with cigarettes. We're getting information from this," Thomas notes. Before emptying each bin, they'll document the levels with photographs to get a better idea of where more education is needed.
NBR's inaugural two bins were already donated to the non-profit, and the KPB grant is going to help the organization track the result: "If it's good, we can purchase more," Thomas says. One bin is going in front of a recovery center on North Broad, and another is going in at Broad and Allegheny, a major transit hub suffering from lots of tobacco litter.
Thomas hopes the bins and education around them will be one more way to engage with the local community while also keeping them informed.
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Consumer Class Actions
Securities Fraud and Derivative Litigation
Robert M. Bramson
Alan R. Plutzik
Daniel E. Birkhaeuser
Jennifer S. Rosenberg
Paul F. Mahler, Of Counsel
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Daniel E. Birkhaeuser received his law degree from the University of California, Davis in 1988. While at Davis, he served as an Editor of the U.C. Davis Law Review.
Following graduation, Mr. Birkhaeuser joined the law firm of McCutchen, Doyle, Brown and Enersen. At the McCutchen firm, he represented plaintiffs and defendants in a wide variety of complex civil litigation matters including real estate, bankruptcy and environmental litigation. In 1991, Mr. Birkhaeuser co-chaired an eight-week trial in Quadrant Corporation v. First Interstate Bank, Contra Costa County Superior Court Action No. C90-03855 recovering for his client over $15 million which, at that time, was the largest jury verdict, in Contra Costa County history.
In 1992, Mr. Birkhaeuser began to focus his career on class action litigation at the trial and appellate levels. One such matter, Harris v. Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A. (1994) 34 Cal. App. 4th 1563, resulted in a favorable decision, the reasoning of which was affirmed by the California Supreme Court in a companion case entitled Smiley v. Citibank (1995) 11 Cal. 4th 138, and ultimately by the United States Supreme Court in the same case. Smiley v. Citibank (1996) 517 U.S. 735.
Mr. Birkhaeuser joined the firm in 1994 and became a partner in 1997. At the firm, he has prosecuted class action cases involving insurance, false nutritional labeling, price fixing and securities fraud. Mr. Birkhaeuser has held leadership positions in In Re Kansas Vitamin Antitrust Litigation and In re Wisconsin Vitamin Antitrust Litigation (coordinated through proceedings in the District of Columbia and consolidated with parens patriae actions brought by attorneys general in 23 jurisdictions); In Re Polyester Staple Indirect Purchaser Antitrust Litigation; and In Re DRAM Antitrust Litigation. He has also represented consumers in represent consumers in antitrust matters alleging price fixing in the "Flash Memory," Cathode Ray Tube, Automobile, and Paper industries.
Mr. Birkhaeuser has received Martindale-Hubble's highest rating of AV. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Warren Eukel Teacher Trust and the Contra Costa County Food From the Bar Committee. He has also served as a judge pro tem in the Contra Costa Superior Court.
Other Significant Cases:
Van Warmerdam v. Honey Hill Farms (arbitration) Honorable William Boone, presiding. Lead counsel in complex contract dispute resulting in verdict in client's favor on complaint and cross-complaint.
Meadow Wood Land Company v. Landmark Vineyards, Ltd, et. al., First Appellate District No. AO43692. Lead counsel for defendants and respondents in case that settled favorably after the filing of Respondents' brief on appeal.
Lesher Communications, Inc. v. City of Walnut Creek, 52 Cal. 3d 531 (1991). Landmark decision under California Environmental Quality Act addressing City's ability to amend general plan by voter initiative.
Acree v. General Motors, Inc., 92 Cal. App. 4th 385 (2001). Important decision defining scope of covenant of good faith and fair dealing and reasonableness of fee award after class action trial against tenacious defendant.
Morelli v. Weider Nutrition Group, Inc., 275 A.D.2d 607, 712 N.Y.S. 2d 551 (1st Dept. 2000). Case of first impression holding that the Nutritional Labeling and Education Act did not preempt plaintiffs claims for false nutritional labeling.
Figueroa v. Sharper Image Corp., 517 F. Supp. 2d 1292 (S.D. Fla. 2007)Lead counsel for objector/class member in state court action who, joined by attorneys general from 35 states, successfully defeated settlement of later-filed federal action on the ground that the settlement was unfair.
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