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Enormous sinkhole swallows an SUV whole in car park in Rostov-on-Don, Russia
George Martin
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Tue, 10 Apr 2018 18:23 UTC
Daily Mail
Tue, 10 Apr 2018 18:23 UTC
The incident occurred in the city of Rostov-on-Don close to the border with Ukraine and was caught on camera by flabbergasted onlookers eager to get a closer look.
In the bizarre footage, filmed on a smartphone, the car can be seen lying on its side in the gigantic cavity in the road.
As the camera moves around the site the true scale of the sinkhole becomes apparent as it appears to be wider and longer than the stricken vehicle.
People can be seen standing just metres away from the wreck - coolly discussing and observing the phenomenon without fear for their own safety.
Luckily for the owner, no-one was in the car when the road collapsed and there were no other injuries to people in the nearby area.
According to local media, the local water company later managed to winch the vehicle out of the hole - although it had sustained some damage.
It is not yet known what caused the ground to collapse under the car but local authority officials have launched an investigation.
'I wonder who will be covering the expenses for the car repairs?' Alexander Kingson wrote.
While Vladimir Rostovskiy joked: 'An alternative entrance to Narnia.'
Another online commentator, Aleksey Kalashnikov, commented: 'I feel really sorry for the car owner'
While another user said: 'Elon Musk is sending cars into outer space, and we are sending cars to the underground.'
Rostov-on-Don is a major port city which will also be one of the host cities for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
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This was not an answer they'd hoped to hear. "I would think you'd be sure."
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Consider blackmail. Say I open a book to a folded piece of paper and find it is a highly spicy note from Sylvia to Joe. This is useless for blackmailing anyone unless I know who at least one them is. A book with a long inscription full of mush from Joe to Sylvia might be something given as a wedding present, or might have been used as evidence in the divorce. The same goes for the scandalous pictures I almost never find inside donated books. The picture might embarrass someone out there, but unless I know who's in the picture, it's just a picture.
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Suppose you pick up a book and find that it has been inscribed to your great-grandmother by a friend named Red. Big deal. Unless, say, it's a book by Sinclair Lewis, who was one of several writers who gloried in this nickname. P.G. Wodehouse was known to his friends as Plum (His first name was Pelham, you see, and the closest he could come to this as a child was Plum. It's not that he had purple hair.)
Of course, some people wrote books under another name. If you pick up a copy of Alice in Wonderland inscribed to someone by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, you ought to check into this a little more thoroughly, as that's who Lewis Carroll was when he was at home. Ed McBain, author of the 87th Precinct police novels, and Evan Hunter, author of The Blackboard Jungle, once wrote a book together, and there are copies signed by both of them, though they were in fact the same person. So if you see a copy of The Blackboard Jungle signed by Ed McBain…well, it's probably phony, but it's worthy of a little research. (Evan Hunter was his legal name, so there's no reason he'd sign a book by the other name with his real name if…his birth name was Salvatore Lombino. If you ever find something signed by all three of these…that's probably a phony, too.)
Them, of course, you have the people who really made it complicated. You might know enough to save a copy of The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas whether it was signed by Alice B. Toklas (who didn't write it) or Gertrude Stein (who did.) But then there's Marilyn Monroe's autobiography signed by Chicago icon Ben Hecht (who wrote it. I think it was published before she even had a chance to read it, in fact.) I have here at my elbow a tall stack of books written, and signed by, a no longer especially famous Chicago author a hundred years ago. It includes an early book he wrote under another name, but the previous owner had them all rebound to look glorious, so this was a good hint that the book was indeed written by the man who signed it, even if the name Henry Kitchell Webster doesn't appear on the title page.
And then there was that copy of the first illustrated edition of The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, which had all the pictures torn out. I nearly tossed it into HB Literature A-L at a couple of bucks, but decided to look it up just to find out what it was worth if a copy with illustrations ever came in. Turns out the copies without pictures are more valuable: he disliked the illustrations, said the catalog, and every time he inscribed a copy to a friend, he ripped out the offending illustrations. Turned out this copy was inscribed by him to another icon of nineteenth century literature, and this book is now on a shelf at the Newberry. (The catalog notes "missing 8 pages of plates".) What makes a thing valuable may be in plain sight and still not obvious.
As for the blackmail thing, it's getting to be obsolete anyhow. Indiscreet notes and photos aren't left in books these days. They're on Facebook.


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Day #2 - Rangitoto
I had booked us tickets on the Rangitoto Island Explorer quite some time before the day we went.
Auckland and Northland were officially in drought. It hadn't rained in a couple of months. So of course the day we had booked to go to Rangitoto Island was the first rainy day. And it was very wet.
But we weren't going to let the weather ruin our experience. None of us had been to Rangitoto Island before so there was excitement all round.
The kids were pretty excited about just the Ferry ride!
When we got to the Island we had a quick toilet stop and then jumped onto our transport for the day.
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So when we reached the part where we got to get out and climb to the summit it was a relief for them to get to stretch their legs.
There were 300ish stairs to the Summit, which happens to be higher than the 2nd observation deck on the Sky Tower. About 3/4 of the way up there is a lookout to the volcano crater. This was where Mum, Aunty Val and the kids decided they had had enough of the rain and the stairs so they decided to head back down to the tractor. I decided that since I had made it this far I would head to the summit on my own.
|Looking down into the volcano crater
So a few more stairs up, I got a lot more drenched and tired but I got to the top where there was a magnificent viewing platform where I got to see the spectacular summit view .....
Well I would have if the top of the mountain wasn't surrounded by rain clouds! I am really glad I went right to the top though.
So I trekked back to the bottom of the stairs where I found my family huddled in their seats having snacks and keeping as dry as they could.
|300ish stairs!!
The next stop was the Lava Field. This is pretty much unchanged from when the volcano formed Rangitoto about 600 years ago. It was amazing. If the weather was better I would have liked to have explored this more but it was just a quick jump out, look around and then back into the transport for the shelter.
Then around the last part of the track and back to the dock to wait for the ferry to arrive to take us home.
I had to get a photo with our awesome Tour Guide and he even let the kids jump up and have a turn pretending to drive in his tractor.
Because it was raining the scheduled stops weren't as long as they would have been had the weather been nicer. No one really wanted to have extended exploring time in the miserable weather. So we had about 45 minutes to wait before the next ferry arrived to take us back. Poor Abbey was soaked through, tired and cold. She was pretty much over it and just wanted to go home.
Once we were back on the ferry we ordered Hot chocolates (and a lemonade for the fussy boy) so everyone got warmed up and rejuvenated for the trip home.
Back to the car for dry clothes (thank goodness we packed some!) Then back to Aunty Val's for hot showers!!
Riley said that Rangitoto was his favourite part of the weekend and I would have to agree with him. Regardless of the weather it was an amazing adventure and I would love to go back again some other time in better weather!!! I would highly recommend the Explorer tour to anyone interested in going over.
Stay tuned for tomorrows installment ... the ending!
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2 Samuel 7: 18
I feel so blessed. I often find myself speaking those same words uttered from the mouth of King David so many years ago. I stand in amazement of all the joy and miracles God has allowed me to experience in this life. Three of which are my children. All three have been gifts, miracles, but even more than that I can see His hand move with precision like a great chess play as He placed each one in our family. I am so excited that each of my children can proudly proclaim "I am a miracle!" and each will have a great story of truth to share.
I started the blog at the beginning of the first miracle. The night the Holy Spirit intervened in my life in a way I had yet to experience. Over four years ago as I sat at the computer, on the verge of 10 years of marriage, desperately wanting children but trying to accept the fact that I had none, I searched online for a spectacular vacation Joey and I could take to celebrate our marriage milestone. Within minutes, I discovered God not only had different plans for my evening but for my life.
Having never researched or considered an international adoption.......I found my fingers typing it in, and then specifically Russia. Now Joey and I had considered maybe someday adopting after we had children of our own. "Someday" and from the good old US of A. But RUSSIA? And NOW? NEVER. In fact I had always been kind of scared of Russia if I am going to honest and never had a desire to travel there. (I think it might have to do with some of the wars and armies and threats I had learned about in school.)
This story would not be complete without me also mentioning that Joey and I were actually pursuing the VERY beginning of fertility treatments & testing at the time. Because of my trouble switching blood thinners (I will take for life) that I need to prevent clotting (a disorder I have had since the age of 14) we decided to take a little break. This is the time God chose to bring the dream.
Back to the story (the short version actually) ... so I typed in "Russian adoption" and all of a sudden began sobbing as my body began to shake and shiver. I felt the Holy Spirit fall upon me and all through me in the most powerful way and immediately I felt "pregnant." I knew I wasn't physically but I experienced every emotion and thought my physically pregnant friends had ever described. And I knew "beyond a shadow of a doubt" that this WAS HAPPENING. I knew that all was already being orchestrated before I even made a move. All I knew was at this time and this way......my heart said yes. God's ways are perfect by the way. When I could compose myself, I called Joey upstairs to talk, and without a second of hesitation he was on board!
Long story made extremely short........9 months exactly to that evening.......our adoption was final. Amazing. As time moved on I just had a hunch it would land on that day....God is so good and clever like that. What took place during that nine months you can read about WAY back in this blog....lots of paperwork, money we didn't have, time, frustration, roller coaster of emotions, the kindness of friends and family, LOTS of travel and long lengths of stays in Russia. The conclusion.....we came home to America as a relieved family of four on 7/7/07 a day I will never forget.
I love reminding Jones and Mollie of their story. Of how much God loves them. Of how He watched over them and how his plan was for them to be in THIS very specific family. Of how without Him, we would have never found them. We would have never even known of their existence. And now that they are here in our arms.......how could we have ever lived without them?
This leads us to the present time. Although I continued to pray and cry out to God asking him to expand our family and to experience pregnancy and childbirth I began to wonder. After three more years of "trying" but "not trying" and feeling as though maybe God saw our family complete and maybe having a biological child wasn't a part of His plan.....we became pregnant for the first time in thirteen years. We were almost in disbelief, so amazed but couldn't believe it was happening. But just surprising as that little life came, it was gone. My heart did not know how to feel. What? Was? That? About? In the end I chose to accept that sweet little life as two things....number one: hope, it is possible that our two bodies can create life, number two: I asked for a child, I now have a child, safe in heaven being raised by the best Father of all. And with that..........came PEACE.
One more year passed and now two 33rd birthdays and a 13th year anniversary and then just before Christmas (the same time as the year before....) PREGNANT! Again! I can't say that there wasn't fear in the beginning especially having experienced the previous year and loss of our sweet child we decided to name "Zayin Raye." At the same time however there was excitement, confidence, and peace! There have been MANY odds to fight in this pregnancy (you can read the previous blog posts) but through it all, faith and healing have prevailed! And now two 34th birthdays, a 14th year anniversary, 9 healthy pregnant months, with a 5 1/2-year-old and "almost" 9-year-old in tow, we are just days from bringing our third little miracle with a story into our family! Nola Grace will also have a foundation of faith and a story of truth not only of how her siblings came to be in this family but how she herself was placed here as an answer to her Mommy's prayers in God's perfect timing.
We are so blessed which is why I will forever say "Who am I, Sovereign Lord, and who is my family that you have brought me this far?"


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As an integrative counsellor, I work in a flexible way, drawing on a wide range of therapeutic approaches, but always taking into account your individual needs and preferences. I am happy to see clients for both short term counselling, often focused on a specific issue, and for psychotherapy where a longer timescale allows for deeper engagement.
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I studied at The Minster Centre, London, completing a Diploma in Integrative Counselling in 2011 and an M.A. in Integrative Psychotherapy in 2013.
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Analysing market reaction on non-farm payrolls day can be a challenging process at the best of times but it has become even more so in recent months now that the Federal Reserve has pulled the trigger on its first rate rise in seven years at the end of last year.
Their actions at the end of last year were expected to precipitate a succession of rate rises, however the recent slowdown in the global economy, and the weakness in commodity prices has prompted a reassessment of that expectation in so far as there remains a great deal of uncertainty about whether the Federal Reserve will be able to implement any move on rates at all.
As traders we first need to understand what the market is focussed on, as on the basis of the jobs numbers under previous guidance the Federal Reserve would probably have raised rates more than once by now.
This is where the importance of their dual mandate comes in so much as they also have a mandate on inflation and like most global central banks they have been missing this one on a consistent basis for over five years.
Knowing this and the tone of the rhetoric of a number of Fed policymakers the attention of the markets has shifted to wages and price data, none of which has been particularly encouraging.
This has made the process of pulling together the narrative of various Fed policymakers, and the importance of prices data that much more difficult
In this context it is therefore advisable to look at the various data points and decide on what the market might do in the event they either beat expectations, which come in better than expected, or miss expectations, by coming up short.
The current expectation is that markets think it unlikely that the Fed will raise rates in June so what we are looking for from Friday's payrolls report is evidence to either support that belief or undermine it.
With that in mind as traders we therefore have to decide what type of data we would want to see to shift the odds in favour of a possible rate rise in June. This shouldn't be difficult but on occasions the markets can react in entirely unpredictable ways.
A decent jobs number on its own is unlikely to move the dial much with an expectation of 200k new jobs in April, with a number 50k either side of that unlikely to be viewed as particularly US dollar positive or negative.
If the unemployment rate were to rise from its current 5% that wouldn't necessarily be viewed as negative if it were accompanied by a rise in the Labour participation rate, which is near multi year lows. This would simply mean that more people had returned to the workforce and were looking for work, which in a perverse kind of way could be argued as being positive.
As stated previously the jobs numbers are of secondary importance here when set against wages data, which despite a spike in January have remained stubbornly weak.
A bigger than expected rise in average hourly earnings for April towards 2.5% on annualised basis, or 0.5% month on month, could well illicit a sharp rise in the US dollar, even if the jobs data disappoints, or there are some negative revisions.
This is because the market assigns a greater probability of the Federal Reserve shifting position on rates if prices or wages start to show signs of rising than if the jobs data starts to slow down.
If, on the other hand all data points come in weaker than expected then expect to see the prospect of a June rate rise recede even further into the distance. In the event this happens we can probably expect to see the strongest reaction in USDJPY, gold and EURUSD, as the US dollar weakens further.
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text: January 06, 2014 NYSUT's Kathleen Donahue - longtime Rochester-area educator - named to Gov. Cuomo's Anti-Hunger Task Force Source: NYSUT Media Relations ALBANY, NY Jan. 6, 2014 - New York State United Teachers Vice President Kathleen Donahue - who spent more than 30 years in the classroom as an elementary and secondary teacher - has been appointed to Gov. Cuomo's newly established anti-hunger task force. Donahue, a past president of the Hilton Teachers Association who was elected a NYSUT vice president in 2005, oversees the statewide union's Program Services arm, which includes the monitoring of workplace safety and health-care trends. She also promotes the union's "24/7 Let's Go!" program, which encourages children statewide to lead healthy lifestyles by educating them about nutrition and exercise. Used by schools and health providers, the program has been endorsed by the American Cancer Society. "Teachers and school professionals on a daily basis see, firsthand, the impact that poverty and hunger have on our children, and without question, there is a clear and distinct correlation between those issues and our students' readiness and ability to learn," said Donahue. "NYSUT has been a leader in the fight to level the playing field for students in high-needs districts, and the union is eager to join the governor's effort in combating these serious problems." According to the governor's office, the New York State Anti-Hunger Task Force will bring together experts, advocates and state and local officials who will develop and implement recommendations to fight hunger and improve access to locally grown fresh foods. The panel will also be charged with increasing participation in federally funded programs like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and using public-private partnerships to increase outreach to those in need. New York state ranks fourth nationwide in the number of people living at, or below, the poverty line - which is defined by the federal government as living in a household with an annual income of $23,283 or less for a family of four. Among New York state's poor are 959,000 children, age 18 or younger. Ten percent of those children are living in "extreme" poverty, which is defined as having an annual family income below $11,641 - less than half the amount of the federal poverty level. A recent study by the New York State Community Action Association found that 86 percent of the children in the Rochester City School District qualify for free or reduced lunch. The agency also reported that 50 percent of children under the age of 18 in the city, totaling 25,505, live in poverty. In a report released last month by the Rochester Area Community Foundation, the group found that Rochester was the fifth poorest city in the nation among the 75 largest metro areas. The foundation also determined that Rochester had the third-highest concentration of poverty among the country's top 100 metro areas. "All children, no matter their socioeconomic status, deserve an equal opportunity to succeed," said Donahue. "At a time when standards are being raised in our classrooms, it is incumbent upon the state to focus, not only on the academic challenges faced by our students, but the social challenges as well. The state's anti-hunger task force aims to do just that, and as NYSUT's representative, I look forward to continuing the union's work in combating the poverty and hunger that afflicts too many of our communities." New York State United Teachers is a statewide union with more than 600,000 members. Members are pre-K-12 teachers; school-related professionals; higher education faculty; other professionals in education, human services and health care; and retirees. NYSUT is affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers, the National Education Association and the AFL-CIO. - 30 -


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Thursday, July 19, 2007
President Bush named a longtime career prosecutor yesterday as acting deputy attorney general, filling a key Justice Department position at a time of widespread tumult over the U.S. attorney firings scandal.
Craig S. Morford, the interim U.S. attorney in Nashville since fall, will replace Paul J. McNulty, one of more than a half-dozen senior Justice officials who have announced their departures this year.
The job usually requires Senate confirmation, but Bush administration officials did not indicate yesterday whether Morford would be officially nominated or would hold the job temporarily.
A 20-year veteran of the Justice Department, Morford has spent most of his career pursuing public-corruption and organized-crime cases in Cleveland. He was the lead prosecutor in the case of former congressman James A. Traficant Jr., an Ohio Democrat convicted of bribery and racketeering in 2002.
Morford led an internal department probe into a bungled terrorism case in Detroit, concluding in a 2004 report that prosecutors did not turn over dozens of pieces of evidence to defense attorneys. The prosecutor in that case -- the first major terrorism trial after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks -- was later indicted on obstruction and conspiracy charges.
"With 20 years of experience as a Justice Department prosecutor, I am pleased to have a person of Mr. Morford's exemplary character and integrity in this critical position at this time," Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales said in a statement.
Nearly all of Gonzales's senior aides have left amid widening probes by Congress and the Justice Department into the prosecutor firings and related allegations of improper political influence on personnel decisions. Many potential candidates for McNulty's job were not interested, in light of the morale problems, according to sources who asked for anonymity because they were discussing personnel matters.
As deputy attorney general, Morford will be responsible for many day-to-day operations at the department.
Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), who is one of Gonzales's sharpest critics on Capitol Hill, said in a statement that he is heartened by Morford's background as a career prosecutor. McNulty spent most of his career as a Republican aide on Capitol Hill before becoming U.S. attorney in Alexandria.
"Mr. Morford starts out with one thing going for him: He's a career prosecutor and not a politician," Schumer said. "We'll be watching closely to make sure that the rule of law comes first and foremost under his watch."
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), who knows Morford from his work in Nashville, called him "a well-respected veteran" of the Justice Department.
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Sandra Cisneros' Eleven is a powerful piece about the struggle of a young girl named Rachel on her eleventh birthday.
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What they don't understand about birthdays and what they never tell you is that when you're eleven, you're also ten, and nine, and eight, and seven, and six, and five, and four, and three, and two and one. And when you wake up on your eleventh birthday you expect to feel eleven, but you don't. You open your eyes and everything's just like yesterday, only it's today. And you are--underneath the year that makes you eleven. Like some days you might say something stupid, and that's the part of you that's still ten. Or maybe some days you might need to sit on your mama's lap because you're scared, and that's the part of you that's five. And maybe one day when you're all grown up maybe you will need to cry like if you're three, and that's okay. That's what I tell Mama when she's sad and needs to cry. Maybe she's feeling three. Because the way you grow old is kind of like an onion or like the rings inside a tree trunk or like my little wooden dolls that fit one inside the other, each year inside the next one. That's how being eleven years old is. You don't feel eleven. Not right away. It takes a few days, weeks even, sometimes even months before you say Eleven when they ask you. And you don't even feel smart eleven, not until you're almost twelve. That's the way it is. Only today I wish I didn't have only eleven years rattling inside me like pennies in a tin Band-Aid box. Today I wish I was one hundred and two instead of eleven because if I was one hundred and two I'd have known what to say when Mrs. Price put the red sweater on my desk. I would've known how to tell her it wasn't mine instead of just sitting there with that look on my face and nothing coming out of my mouth. "Whose is this?" Mrs. Price says, and she holds the red sweater up in the air for all the class to see. "Whose? It's been sitting in the coat room for a month." "Not mine," says everybody. "Not me." "It has to belong to somebody," Mrs. Price keeps saying, but nobody can remember. It's an ugly sweater with red plastic buttons and a collar and sleeves all stretched out like you could use it for a jump rope. It's maybe a thousand years old and even if it belonged to me I wouldn't say so. Maybe because I'm skinny, maybe because she doesn't like me, that stupid Sylvia says, I think it belongs to Rachel." An ugly sweater like that, all raggedy and old, but Mrs. Price believes her. Mrs. Price takes the sweater and puts it right on my desk, but when I open my mouth nothing comes out. "That's not, I don't, you're not . . . Not mine," I finally say in a little voice that was maybe me when I was four. "Of course it's yours," Mrs. Price says, "I remember you wearing it once." Because she's older and she's the teacher, she's right and I'm not. Not mine, not mine, not mine, but Mrs. Price is already turning to page thirty-two, and math problem number four. I don't know why but all of a sudden I'm feeling sick inside, like the part of me that's three wants to come out of my eyes, only I squeeze them shut tight and bite down on my teeth real hard and try to remember today I am eleven, eleven. Mama is making a cake for me tonight, and when Papa comes home everybody will sing Happy Birthday, happy birthday to you. But when the sick feeling goes away and I open my eyes, the red sweater's still sitting there like a big red mountain. I move the red sweater to the corner of my desk with my ruler. I move my pencil and books and eraser as far from it as possible. I even move me chair a little to the right. Not mine, not mine, not mine. In my head I'm thinking how long till lunchtime, how long till I can take the red sweater and throw it over the schoolyard fence, or leave it hanging on a parking meter, or bunch it up into a little ball and toss it in the alley. Except when math period ends Mrs. Price says loud and in front of everybody, "Now, Rachel, that's enough," because she sees I've shoved the red sweater to the tippy-tip corner of my desk and it's hanging all over the edge, like a waterfall, but I don't care. "Rachel," Mrs. Price says. She says it like she's getting mad. "You put that sweater on right now and no more nonsense." "But it's not--" "Now!" Mrs. Price says. This is when I wish I wasn't eleven, because all the years inside me--ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one--are pushing at the back of my eyes when I put one arm through one sleeve of the sweater that smells like cottage cheese, and then the other arm through the other and stand there with my arms apart like if the sweater hurts me and it does, all itchy and full of germs that aren't even mine. That's when everything I've been holding in since this morning, since when Mrs. Price put the sweater on my desk, finally lets go, and all of a sudden I'm crying in front of everybody. I wish I was invisible but I'm not. I'm eleven and it's my birthday today and I'm crying like I'm three in front of everybody. I put my head down on the desk and bury my face in the stupid clown-sweater arms. My face all hot and spit coming out of my mouth because I can't stop the little animal noises from coming out of me, until there aren't any more tears left in my eyes, and it's just my body shaking like when you have the hiccups, and my whole head hurts like when you drink milk too fast. But the worst part is right before the bell rings for lunch. That stupid Phyllis Lopez, who is even dumber than Sylvia Saldivar says she remembers the red sweater is hers! I take it off right away and give it to her, only Mrs. Price pretends like everything's okay. Today I'm eleven. There's a cake Mama's making for tonight, and when Papa comes home from work we'll eat it. There'll be candles and presents and everybody will sing Happy Birthday, happy birthday to you, Rachel, only it's too late. I'm eleven today. I'm eleven, ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, and one, but I wish I was one hundred and two. I wish I was anything but eleven, because I want today to be far away already, far away like a runaway balloon, like a tiny o in the sky, so tiny-tiny you have to close your eyes to see it.
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Of all the things to spend a couple hours figuring out... All I wanted to do was to have certain shares mount upon login. Who knew that it would be so complicated in Mac OS X?
Here are a few methods I investigated:
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I harrassed Victor A. for a long time, and he suggested this one. Unfortunately, it doesn't work.
2. NetInfo entry
I tried following some directions I found online, but I had no luck mounting my AFP share. A dynamically mounted share sounds ideal because I would really much rather have the share mount itself only when accessed... but the point was moot because I couldn't get anything to work.
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I created shell scripts like this:
#!/bin/tcsh -f
# mount afp volume mkdir /Volumes/sharename mount -t afp afp://username:firstname.lastname@example.com/sharename /Volumes/sharename
# mount smb volume mkdir /Volumes/sharename2 mount_smbfs //myserver/sharename2 /Volumes/sharename2
# mount 2nd smb volume mkdir /Volumes/sharename3 mount_smbfs //myserver/sharename3 /Volumes/sharename3
I then used LoginWindow Manager to get the shell script to run upon login and logout, and the following is what happened:
- The AFP volume mounted, and the first SMB volume mounted. The second SMB volume did not mount.
- I got the dreaded "mount_afp: the mount flags are 0000 the altflags are 0020" message upon mounting the AFP volume. Yippee.
- All volumes were mounted with root:unknown ownership, which was also the ownership of every file and folder within.
- The AFP volume was read-only even to my user account, despite the bizarre root:unknown ownership. SMB volumes were unreadable without sudo.
Lame, and not useful.
4. fstab
I am an fstab moron, and couldn 't find any examples of configuring it to mount AFP/SMB. I'm not sure if it's even possible.
5. Jean-Michel Marino's AutomountMaker program (it works!!)
This just worked, and I wish I had tried it first instead of trying to be fancy. I created scripts with AutomountMaker and dumped them into my Login Items list in the Accounts system prefs.
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EiffelStudio 6.3 Releases
Below are not the release notes of EiffelStudio. It is the change log of EiffelStudio intermediate releases and the most important changes are highlighted in green or in red (for breaking changes). The release notes of EiffelStudio can be found at the following URL. You can also download the latest revision here. Information about other version can be found under Category:Releases.
EiffelStudio 6.3.x Releases
220.127.116.1170 (Final Release, December 5th 2008)
Bug fixes
- debugger/watch: fixed issue with missing "..." in watch tool's grid.
- debugger: fixed bug#15065: Crash when picking a feature name in object tool
- compiler: fixed an incorrect evaluation of the invariant of the root class in finalize mode (it was checked before where it should only be done after the completion of the creation procedure).
- eiffelstudio: fixed broken accelerator for object viewer tool
- eiffelstudio: fixed bug in refactoring where use of transitional/standard syntax would not parse the class text correctly.
220.127.116.1163 (Release Candidate 2, November 24th 2008)
New features
- Updated to Gobo 3.9 release.
- Debugger: added a basic way to export/import to/from file the expressions of the watch tool
Feature removed
- removed generation of "Once in generic" and "verbatim strings" warnings as they were made for much old version of EiffelStudio when breaking changes were introduced.
Bug fixes
- diagram: fixed dialog positioning when adding client/supplier link
- runtime: fixed a dead lock in a multithreaded application when a store operation fails to store data to a stream.
- compiler: fixed a bug in the creation of manifest tuple which were given a wrong type when code is compiled in Void safe mode.
- base: Fixed eweasel test#tuple015 by ensuring that the `valid_type_for_index' follows the new attachment rules.
- debugger: fixed display of agent's details
- debugger: when adding an action to a breakpoint, enable this action by default (avoid extra click)
- debugger: fixed bug#15017: Feature call on void target in {EV_GRID_ITEM_I}.deactivate in EiffelStudio
- debugger: add debugger support for self initialized attributes
- Diagram tool: fixed dialog positioning when adding client/supplier link
- examples: fixed various windows makefiles for cecil example (handle blank in path, and win64)
- vision2/Windows: fixed bug#15026: EV_PRINTER: feature call on void target while creating
User changes
- base: Allowed for void-safe keys in HASH_TABLE.
- debugger: added preferences for move up/down shortcuts in watch tools (default: Shift+Alt+[Up|Down])
- debugger: pasting a multiline text into the "..." cell of the watch tool, create multiple expressions.
- debugger: watch tool allows to move multiple expressions at the same time.
Developer changes
184.108.40.20660 (Release Candidate, November 17th 2008)
New features
- runtime: Implemented proper runtime conformance for attached types, that is to say A [!ANY] will conform to A [!ANY] or A [?ANY], but A [?ANY] will only conform to A [?ANY].
- compiler: Supported object tests in preconditions and check instructions so that the object test local is available only within the corresponding assertion.
Feature removed
Bug fixes
- debugger: fixed major issue of the dotnet debugger on Win32 (and potentially on Win64)
- debugger: fixed expression evaluation issue on XYZ_REF version of basic types (dotnet and classic)
- debugger: fixed expression evaluation issue on basic type (dotnet)
- debugger: fixed a call on void case when P&D from empty area of debugger's objects grid
- debugger: fixed bug#14946: Feature call on void target in [EB_EXEC_RESTART_DEBUG_CMD.internal_execute] in EiffelStudio (dotnet)
- debugger: fixed missing support for slices resizing in object viewer tool
- debugger: fixed bug#14961: Feature call on void target in {EV_GRID_ROW_I}.subrow in EiffelStudio
- debugger: fixed bug#14976: Failure after slice
- debugger: fixed bug#14502: Automatic (de)activtion of replay mode causes buttons to flicker
- debugger: fix bug#14993: Catcall message incorrect for attached catcalls
User changes
Developer changes
22.214.171.12403 (November 3rd 2008)
New features
- net: Added a new library net_ipv6 which is a slightly modified version of EiffelNet that supports IPv6. Due to some internal changes this new library is almost compatible with EiffelNet but not quite. The main change is the deprecation of HOST_ADDRESS in favor of something that can cope with IPv6 addresses.
- autotest: The autotest tool has been integrated to EiffelStudio.
Feature removed
Bug fixes
- compiler: Fixed an issue with the DLL specification which would not allow hyphen in the name of a DLL.
- compiler: Fixed eweasel test#exec287 where if you assigned a basic type (INTEGER, CHARACTER, ...) to a TUPLE entry expecting a reference type and that you were assigning it via its assigner (t.field := value) then it would generate incorrect code causing a crash at runtime.
- compiler: Fixed eweasel test#syntax050 where the compiler incorrectly valid code using an assigner where the target is a parenthesized expression (e.g. (create {A}).item := b).
- compiler: Fixed eweasel test#agent005 where some large agent signature would cause a crash in the compiler.
- compiler: Fixed eweasel test#term163 where we tried to analyze an incorrect feature signature and causing a crash in the compiler because we continued the analyzis instead of stopping an reporting an error.
- dotnet: Fixed a .NET compilation issue which was introduced in rev#75278 preventing any .NET compilation.
- debugger: fixed bug#14924: Feature call on void target in [DEBUGGER_COMPILER_UTILITIES.feature_from_runtime_data] ...
- debugger: fixed bug#14853: Wheel page by page scrolling preference not taken into account in the call stack tool
- debugger: fixed bug#14890: Objects tool shows wrong class/feature for agent objects (it was related to precompiled lib)
- debugger: fixed bug#14916: Feature call on void target in {DBG_EVALUATOR}.evaluate_attribute in EiffelStudio (it was mainly for dotnet debugging, when exception occurs)
- studio: Fixed refactoring issue when renaming an uncompiled class of the project's target.
- studio: Fixed adding a require ; when licensing a class for the first time and the last feature of the class is an attribute.
User changes
- UI: added foreground and background colors preferences for the grid related to debugger's tools.
Developer changes
18.104.22.16878 (October 27th 2008)
New features
- studio: When an invariant is violated, we know show the proper stack trace making invariant debugging much better.
Feature removed
Bug fixes
- compiler: Fixed C compilation error when using CECIL on system using gcc 3.4 or greater as the later generated an abort sequence rather than calling a feature. Partially improves eweasel test#ccomp063 behavior.
- dotnet: made sure that C++ external code is compiled in C++ mode and the same for C code. The issue was that some C code does not compile well if compiled by a C++ compiler and before as soon as you had one C++ external, all your C externals would be compiled in C++ mode.
- studio: improved the browsing of .NET external classes and features. Made the scroll to feature works for .NET classes. Avoid loading the same .NET class each time a different feature of that class is selected.
- debugger: fixed retrieving of stack value when invariant is violated (now a _invariant stack will appear in the call stack to help debugging)
- debugger: implemented request #14903: Display all constant attributes of an object
User changes
Developer changes
- studio: Added a wrapper for Eiffel parsers to handle and ignore error cases and to set up a parse based off a configuration option object. The code modification API now utilizes this.
126.96.36.19986 (October 19th 2008)
New features
- studio: Integrated automatic class licenser when saving a document. Read ISE_EIFFEL/studio/templates/licenses/README for more details.
- runtime: reduced memory usage of Eiffel applications using a lot of generic classes. For example EiffelStudio used to allocate 132MB of memory when starting, and now 101MB. This also translates into a more efficient runtime execution. On the compiler it went from taking 111s down to 107s.
Feature removed
Bug fixes
- studio: The Features Tool now refreshes corrected after a save or a compilation.
- windows: The installers now precompile correctly without the Dll Failure message appearing.
- .net: The Eiffel Metadata Consumer now correctly registers itself during install.
- compiler: Fixed some inlining problem of routines that may return an expanded type (fixes eweasel test#final065 and test#exec147).
- compiler: Fixed eweasel test#dotnet112 and test#term162 where compiler would crash in .NET code generation when generating various generic derivation of a class.
- compiler: Fixed eweasel test#agent007, test#term143 and test#term161 where recent changes to improve type of manifest arrays/tuples and agents would cause the compile to crash in .NET code generation.
- base: Fixed eweasel test#list012 which showed an invariant violation after twining a SORTED_TWO_WAY_LIST and then modifying the copy by adding an element. This introduces a breaking change in all descendants of SORTED_TWO_WAY_LIST.
- studio: Launching help through a new browser process no longer has ES waiting for the browser process to exit, when no browser was previously opened.
- studio: Fixed bug in completion caused by referencing feature names in comments were treated a regular text and caused invalid evaluations.
User changes
Developer changes
220.127.116.1170 (October 12th 2008)
New features
- compiler: now the compiler properly reports the VREG and VRFT errors for labels of names tuples, thus some of your code might be broken since the compiler failed to check this before.
Feature removed
Bug fixes
- windows: Fixed non-precompile issue with the GPL installer. Precompilation should proceed as normal now.
- studio: Fixed editor tab resurrection between loaded project sessions.
- compiler: Fixed missing detection of VREG and VRFT errors for labels of a named tuples which is used as an actual generic parameter of a type (fixes eweasel test#tuple012 and test#tuple013).
- compiler: Fixed improper runtime semantics for creation of manifest tuples, arrays and agents (see eweasel test#tuple011, test#tuple014 and test#agent006)
- compiler: Fixed eweasel test#term159 where the compiler would crash if there is a conversion for one of the closed argument of an agent creation.
- compiler: Fixed bug#14856 and test#final064 where if before generating the agent call/item routine we generated a call to a deferred routine without implementation we would not generate the arguments of the agent causing a C compilation error in finalized mode.
User changes
Developer changes
- studio: Class license and new class templates now use NOTE_KEYWORD token to respect configuration syntax options.
184.108.40.20671 (October 6th 2008)
New features
- base: Added IMMUTABLE_STRING_8 and IMMUTABLE_STRING_32 which are immutable versions of STRING_8 and STRING_32.
- base: Added {READABLE_STRING_GENERAL}.same_string to compare any kind of strings together.
- windows: Updated the installers to notify users when attempting to use a deprecated MS C/C++ compiler.
Feature removed
- windows: Deprecated VC6.0, VS 2002/2003 MS C/C++ compilers.
Bug fixes
- compiler: Fixed various issues with the `full class checking' option that would not work for inherited code involving conversion or labeled tuples (see eweasel test#svalid001, test#svalid007, test#svalid009 and test#svalid010).
- net: Fixed on Unix improper handling of EWOULDBLOCK and EINPROGRESS error on Unix which would raise an exception instead of silently ignoring the error as it is done on Windows.
- studio: Fixed brace matching when using ENTER, SPACE or typing directly before a matching brace.
- studio: Fixed brace matching crash when removing lines.
- studio: Fixed integrated help launching on Unix where the xdg utilities are not present.
- studio: Fixed bogus error dialog when launching help on Windows.
- compiler: Fixed a crash when trying to precompile a system in .NET code generation.
- studio: Added scoping to completion, fixing issues with locals appearing in-line agents, object-test locals as well as many other problems.
- studio: Fixed completion to no longer require the is keyword when analyzing features.
- studio: Fixed completion to correctly analyzed feature signatures that span multiple lines.
- studio: Fixed a number of issues with braces matching, it should function fully now.
User changes
- base: Changed the default assigner for {TABLE}.item from put to force a new feature of TABLE. This allows the bracket operator on HASH_TABLE to work properly, that is to say hash_table [i] := j will indeed insert 'j' at key 'i' even if key 'i' is already present. Before it was silently doing nothing since it was using 'put'.
Developer changes
184.108.40.20657 (September 22nd 2008)
New features
- studio: implemented brace matching in editor.
Feature removed
Bug fixes
User changes
Developer changes
188.8.131.5244 (September 12th 2008)
New features
- studio: Added delete button to the Error list tool, to remove items explicitly.
- studio: The editor highlights brace matches.
- studio: Added keyboard shortcut (default CTRL+[) to locate matching braces in the editor.
- studio: Drastically improved naming and comprehension of the argument parser framework library, readying for library promotion.
Feature removed
Bug fixes
- Fixed bug#14762: Operating system signal in {ES_DOCKABLE_STONABLE_TOOL_PANEL}.synchronize
- Fixed bug#14738: Pick does not work in Error List tab
- Fixed issue with the Error Info button not disabling when no row is selected in the error list tool.
User changes
- studio: We only support VS 2005 or greater as a backend C++ compiler on Windows 32-bit. If you still use older version please upgrade your C compiler. Eiffel Software can still provide VC++ 6.0 compatible libraries on demand for customers under maintenance.
Developer changes
- studio: Started integrating cleaner means to managed default docking layouts, possibly with external persona files describing layouts before the release.
- studio: Added a exception handler utility class to ESF - EXCEPTION_HANDLER.
188.8.131.5254 (August 26th 2008)
New features
- base: Added the notion of read-only strings in EiffelBase. The goal is to also introduce the notion of immutable string before the final 6.3 release.
- base: Because READABLE_STRING_8 is deferred, some code using STRING + SYSTEM_STRING in .NET mode will not compile anymore. Instead one has to do STRING + create {STRING}.make_from_cil (SYSTEM_STRING).
- base: Added ability to stop and start the Eiffel tracing mechanism from code using the new TRACING_SETTING class.
- compiler: It now accepts the new syntax for variant in a loop (i.e. before the `end' keyword).
- studio: Added license file modifier to automatically license Eiffel source text from within EiffelStudio (ES debug menu option), with the hopes to automatically perform licensing when saving classes.
- studio: Supported the new standard syntax for the indexing clause with the
notekeyword in the clickable view.
- studio: Made
noteto be highlighted in the editor as a keyword.
- studio: Supported the new standard syntax in the clickable view for a loop variant that is shown just before the end of the loop.
- studio: Refactoring uncompiled classes now only looks at potential client classes instead of all classes.
- net: Made sure that EiffelNet can select on 256 ports at the same time.
Feature removed
Bug fixes
- studio: Fixed some memory leaks when opening and closing EiffelStudio over times.
- runtime: Fixed bug#14548 (eweasel#except031) where a stack trace only contained the stack trace up to the `rescue' clause which caught the exception. Now it shows the stack trace up to the root creation procedure.
- compiler: Fixed .NET code generation which was broken due to new STRING hierarchy.
- wel: Fixed a read after memory free in the internals of Window handling in WEL in multithreaded mode. This was actually mostly visible in .NET where the `dispose' routines are called in a different thread as very few have been using WEL windows in several threads (fixes bug#13413).
- Fixed all potential memory leaks cause by not iterating out of a Gobo cursor's bounds.
User changes
Developer changes
- compiler: you can now specifies several root class/procedure for one project. This functionality is currently hidden to the compiler and the new testing tool. It will be exposed in the project configuration file, debugger and UI in 6.4.
- compiler: there is syntactic support for new attribute keyword (no semantics yet). This can be enabled with the same project setting options use for `note' for backward compatibility reason.
220.127.116.1135 (August 4th 2008)
- studio: Improved the library choice dialog.
- studio: Fixed bug#14123, bug report dialog now takes information from original exception object as titles.
Bug fixes
- compiler: Fixed eweasel test#final061 and test#final063 where some kind of code could cause a crash of the compiler during degree -3 with inlining enabled.
- compiler: Fixed eweasel test#final063 which caused a C compiler error when your code uses an inline agent in an assertion and the routine in which it is defined is deferred.
- runtime: Fixed a buffer overflow that would occur on some Unix platforms when a signal was received by the application. Found while finding that test#execpt016 started to fail consistently on a run of eweasel. It actually fixes about 8 other eweasel tests on Unix.
- runtime: Fixed eweasel test#thread005 due to a recently added modification in the 6.3 runtime series which caused a potential memory corruptions when threads are exiting.
- runtime: Fixed eweasel test#thread006 where if many threads allocate small objects which are quickly dying then we could break the runtime synchronization and cause a crash.
- runtime: Fixed eweasel test#except030 trace was not correct for the first time an exception was raised in an once routine.
- runtime: Fixed bug#14578 and test#except029, where finalized code crashed when trace printing due to the original exception raised by invalid objects.
- studio: Fixed bug#14600 that many undoes crashed the editor.
- studio: Fixed a memory leak in EIS tool which prevented a second development window from collection.
- studio: Fixed bug#13251 that user without write permission crashed ES when opening an existing project.
- studio: Fixed bug#14526 that double clicking did not select a whole word.
- studio: Fixed bug#14350, a code completion crash when there were obsolete features.
Developer changes
- runtime: Exposed `ereturn' so that generated code can see it.
22.214.171.12423 (July 21st 2008)
New features
- base: Added `sleep' to EXECUTION_ENVIRONMENT and made `sleep' from THREAD_CONTROL obsolete.
- base: Added `read_xxx_thread_aware' in IO_MEDIUM so that reading a file is not blocking in a multithreaded context.
- editor: support Unicode.
- Optimized code generation for object test to avoid type evaluation when it is not used and to replace a full-fledged object test with a plain voidness test if an expression type is known to conform to the object test local type at compile time.
- runtime: Improved trace printing by using ellipses when names are too long to print.
Feature removed
Bug fixes
- process: Fixed an issue with the library when redirecting inputs/outputs of the child process. Sometime we would be missing some characters and cause a memory corruption at the same time.
- com/compiler: Renamed `eif_com.h' from the compiler delivery into `eif_com_exception.h' as it conflicts with `eif_com.h' from the EiffelCOM library.
- compiler: Fixed eweasel test#valid222 where compiler properly detects VDRS-4 errors when you redefine a repeatedly inherited routine in at least one but not all branches, but fail to provide a local definition.
- compiler: Fixed Makefile code generation issue on machine with many cores which could cause a C compilation error because some dependencies are missing in the Makefile targets.
- compiler: Fixed bug#13881 where if you have a VKCN error when using a routine whose return type is a like argument then it would crash instead of reporting the VKCN error. Improved VKCN error reporting by providing the instruction or expression which causes the problem.
- compiler: Fixed updated eweasel test#rdtp001 and test#term158 where if TUPLE is not written using upper case characters, then the compiler will crash when trying to analyze the type.
- compiler: Fixed the issue found with GCC 4.x series where an assignment of the form
*(a + x) = f()would first evaluate (a+x) and then `f' which could cause a memory corruption if `f' triggers a GC cycle. As far as we could tell, this kind of code generation was only done when `f' would return a basic type. See eweasel test#runtime007.
- compiler: Fixed eweasel test#ccomp076 where C/C++ inlines did not get the protected object if any, but only the unprotected one which could cause some issue if the C/C++ inline code uses `eif_access' or `eif_adopt'.
- runtime: When registering externally created threads, make sure that the runtime does not exit them when no more Eiffel code needs to be run as it must be done by the code that created it. Also made sure that the runtime per thread data are reset to 0 to ensure that we can register/unregister the external thread as many times as needed.
- runtime: Added a cast to ensure that `eif_globals' can compile properly in C++ mode.
- runtime: Fixed eweasel test#runtime008 where we have a leak on each created thread if invariants are monitored.
- runtime: Fixed eweasel test#runtime009 where an allocation in the free list does not always guarantee that the EO_NEW flag will be set. In some condition, when `moved_set' is full, we will clear the EO_NEW flag and set the object directly to EO_OLD. This is why in `sprealloc' we need to check for both `EO_NEW' and `EO_OLD' otherwise we will fail to update the content of the special after a GC cycle.
- runtime: Save `errno' for runtime io error exception, so that it is accessible in exception object.
- runtime: Free `ex_string.item' allocated for trace printing when disposing threads to avoid memory leak. Fixed bug#14472.
- runtime: This fixed bug#14465, that exception trace always printed "Exit" as Effect.
- runtime: Fixed test#except027 and bug#14450 that exception trace was not thread safe because of static buffers were used.
- runtime: Fixed test#except026 and bug#14477 that `sprintf' overflew buffer, which caused crash.
- runtime: Use per thread data as flags in `eif_panic' and `fatal_error' to avoid cascade. They were not thread safe.
- runtime: Fixed a bug that the actual trace building was done twice. This was due to unwise macro use.
- runtime: Use `eif_rt_xmalloc', `eif_rt_xfree' and `xrealloc' to process memory of `ex_string', so it is freed in `reclaim' automatically at the very end of process.
- runtime: Fixed bug#14543, where there was actually a runtime crash when raising an invariant violation. See test#except028.
- i18n: Corrected postcondition of `get_file_dictionary'. Use `get_file_dictionary' instead of `extract_dictionary' as `get_file_dictionary' handles `can_handle' properly.
- editor: Improved cursor rendering colors, so that in all background colors, it has good feedback. Fixed bug#10165.
- studio: Fixed bug#12220 that the action combo box on project startup dialog was too narrow to see full contents in it.
- studio: Fixed an unprotected usage of {CHARACTER}.is_space . This fixed bug#14274.
User changes
- runtime: changed the way files are opened on Windows by ensuring that they cannot be inherited by child processes. This was necessary since one would need to wait for the child process to exit to remove files owned by the parent process.
- runtime: renamed `eif_thr_sleep' into `eif_sleep'.
Developer changes
- encoding: Changed APIs of encoding library to be command/query. Added `last_converted_stream'.
- encoding: Added SYSTEM_ENCODINS in encoding library (abstracted from SHARED_LOCALE).
- encoding: Added abstract encoding detector in encoding library.
- compiler: Changed {CLASS_I}.text to STRING_32 that returns class text in Unicode. Added interface ENCODING_CONVERTER into the compiler. This interface can also be used later to handle encoding conversion without introducing the encoding library.