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ZF-405: Empty items array when parsing rss1.0/RDF feed
When trying to parse an RSS1.0 / RDF feed (rdf namespace), items array is empty.
Example : http://www.php.net/news.rss (-;
Produce : [title] => PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor [link] => http://www.php.net/ [description] => The PHP scripting language web site [items] => Array ( )
the XML dump of zend_feed is :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" rdf:about="http://www.php.net/"> PHP: Hypertext Preprocessorhttp://www.php.net/ The PHP scripting language web sitewww.zendcon.com"/> .../...
<rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.php.net/archive/index.php"/>
I did a quick review of Zend_Feed, finding that there is a namespace registration which seems to be in trouble, but not sure, and it need probaly to switch the item tag of entryRSS class, or add a new entryRDF class.
It's not a matter, but as this the www.php.net feed, it's humoristic (-;
Thanks for all you job.
Extracting this into your zend directory will get RDF feeds to work.
The attached zip doesn't work. It makes a major error (blank page). Will investigate on the error.
It's because of: $success = @$doc->loadXML(Zend_Feed::utf8ToUnicodeEntities($string)); in Feed.php
The utf8ToUnicodeEntities function doesn't exist (wrong code version?)
In the previous version it was: $success = @$doc->loadXML($string); That works!
Changing fix version to 0.6.0.
I have the exact same issue. Any idea when this will be resolved? I've used PEAR's RSS class, no good. I've used Magpie/simplepie, no good. This one was able to parse all of the new feeds but cannot parse the 1.0 rdf feeds. So it's the best so far!
This bug depends on ZF-26. RSS 1.0 lists items outside channel node and Zend_Feed actually can't handle this situation.
Rather than fixing the behavior, I would suggest to add a new RDF class, as proposed in the description of this issue. RSS 1.0 is completely an other branch compared with RSS 2.0.
The main difference between RSS 0.91 branch (created by Dave Winer) and RSS 1.0 branch (managed by RSS-DEV Working Group) is that the latter is RDF based while RDF architecture has been completely removed in RSS 0.91, RSS 0.92, RSS 2.0.
Additionally, I would suggest to add a new class property to return feed type/version. The following seems to be a list of formats currently supported by Zend feed: * Atom 0.3 * Atom 0.5 * Atom 1.0 * RSS 0.91 * RSS 0.92 * RSS 2.0 The following formats should be supported but they are not, right now: * RSS 1.0 Perhaps a new ticket is the better solution for a new proposal, rather than a comment.
I forgot to say that my previous comment has been inspired by http://nabble.com/zend-feed-issue--tf4928553s16154…
The only difference between RSS 1.0 and other versions that is related to this issue is that item elements are not contained within the channel element. The attached file patch.diff modifies Zend_Feed_Rss to check for this and also patches the appropriate test in the test suite so that, without the patch to Zend_Feed_Rss, RSS 1.0 feed tests will fail.
Hi Matthew, I gave a look at the patch you submitted a few days ago.
The following line doesn't really makes sense to me.
{quote} $this->assertTrue($feed->count() > 0); {quote}
_importRssValid method is an utility method and we cannot assume in advance the file he's going to fetch is not a valid empty feed. I would create some valid RSS 1.0 unit tests instead.
The other part of the patch, the code fragment that should introduce RSS 1.0 compatibility it's fine, but I think it's incomplete. Zend_Feed doesn't handle only feed import but it's able to create and edit a feed as well.
Did you think about how an imported RSS 1.0 feed will be printed out? I assume it would be handled by Zend_Feed_Rss class but this library, as underlined by ZF-44, always returns an RSS 2.0 instance. It means, an RSS 1.0 come in and an RSS 2.0 come out... I suppose this is not a good workflow.
What do you propose to fix this consequential issue?
For the sake of completeness, I'd like to share an additional though. http://www.feedparser.org/ is, so far, the best feed parser written in python and probably one of the best feed parsers in the world. Zend_Feed should probably learn something from this library! :)
Any news on this feature? I would suggest to change status to unassigned if work is not in progress.
I am resolving then reoping this bug, since its occupied over a year now.
Please raise your voice Matthew if this a no go by me :-)
Reopened issue
any news on this bug? i think its just including the patch?
As far as I'm aware, no conflicting changes have been made to Zend_Feed_Rss since this patch was suggested, so the patch should work. Note that only the portion of the patch for library/Zend/Feed/Rss.php is really needed.
In terms of the portion that patches tests, it may be a better design decision to create an additional supporting method that first calls _importRssValid and then applies a non-empty check, and have all tests with non-empty test data files call that instead of _importRssValid, so that cases where data is expected to be empty can continue to function as normal.
Thoughts anyone?
Matthew, could you please evaluate the proposed solution and determine what we need to do to get this fixed? According to the votes, there seems to be a lot of interest in this issue.
I've considered Simone's point and have updated my patch accordingly. _importRssValid no longer checks the feed item count in this new patch. Instead, it modifies _importRssValid to return the $feed object it creates to be used by the calling method and modifies the two existing RSS 1.0 test methods to check their respective feed item counts.
I've applied my patch to Zend_Feed_Rss in a current SVN checkout to confirm that it still works. If I run the modified unit tests on the unpatched version of this class file, I get this output:
$ phpunit Zend_Feed_ImportTest tests/Zend/Feed/ImportTest.php PHPUnit 3.3.8 by Sebastian Bergmann. ..............FF.......... Time: 3 seconds There were 2 failures: 1) testRss100Sample1(Zend_Feed_ImportTest) Failed asserting that
Resolved issue, i have verified and applied Matthews Testcases and Bugfixes. Thanks! Two very old bugs gone now :-)
Sorry, not in 1.7.4. I think it may be released in next minor.
The problem is reproducable with some feeds like http://ranking.goo.ne.jp/rss/keyword/…
The source of that feed begins with <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <?xml-stylesheet href="/rss/user.xsl" type="text/xsl" media="screen" ?> www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xml:lang="ja">
Zend_Feed_Rss#__wakeup() checks if the feed is rdf or not with the following code but the firstChild of that feed is "xml-stylesheet" and so it is not treated as rdf. Please improve the check routine. if ($this->_element->firstChild->nodeName == 'rdf:RDF') { $this->_element = $this->_element->firstChild; } else { $this->_element = $this->_element->getElementsByTagName('channel')->item(0); }
Quick fix for the client user: Replace $feed = Zend_Feed::import($url); with something like $string = file_get_contents($url); $string = str_replace('<?xml-stylesheet href="/rss/user.xsl" type="text/xsl" media="screen" ?>', '', $string); // or whatever between <?xml ?> and <rdf:RDF $feed = Zend_Feed::importString($string);
To fix the problem, replace the following in Zend_Feed_Rss#__wakeup() // Find the base channel element and create an alias to it. if ($this->_element->firstChild->nodeName == 'rdf:RDF') { $this->_element = $this->_element->firstChild; } else { with // Find the base channel element and create an alias to it. $rdf = $this->_element->getElementsByTagNameNS('http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#', 'RDF')->item(0); if ($rdf) { $this->_element = $rdf; } else {
Assigning to Alex.
Was this added to 1.8.1? I don't see a Zend_Feed_Rdf class...
I don't see this resolved :( A feed which was linked in ZF-6516 is not accessible, neither this one from a german computer-magazine: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/heise.rdf
Sorry, please forget my last comment - I used an old version of ZF... shame on me...


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Tune Out Negative Chatter. It's easy to get sucked into the black hole of what other people believe success should look like for you. Perhaps they envision you earning a certain salary, sitting in the corner office, or at home with kids and not in the career world at all. You need to be in charge of what's important to you. Turn off the self-doubt and change the negative chatter channel to focus on what's working for you. Surround yourself with positive people who will help you dream big and develop a plan so you can achieve the success that really defines what you want.
It's a Woman's Prerogative to Change Her Mind. The beauty of success is that it should be constantly changing. You always have an opportunity to redirect and reinvent your career and personal life. You have the power to show up, stand up, and speak up to assert your unique definition of success. It's all about taking a seat at the table and declaring your intentions. Enjoy this power, use it often, and don't be afraid to change your mind!
Love Yourself. Once you give yourself permission to really love yourself - success, satisfaction, and peace of mind will come more readily. This New Year try not to focus on what's wrong with you but rather focus on what's right. Instead of lofty resolutions that are difficult to keep, consider a new way of thinking that honors your strengths and plays to your passions.
Success is yours for the taking but don't let anyone else define it for you. Honor your values and design your own career and life destiny so it doesn't happen by default. The New Year is a fresh start and I wish you great success defined just the way you like it!


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A proposal to close Gillett Elementary School has tentatively been pushed back to appear on the August agenda of the Arkansas State Board of Education. The DeWitt Public Schools is requesting the closure following a 5-2 vote by its school board.
Seth Blomeley, Arkansas Department of Education director of communications, said the Gillett Elementary School closure is required to go before the state because it did not receive a unanimous vote from the DeWitt School Board in early June.
DeWitt Superintendent Gary Wayman said the decision to close the Gillett campus after the 2012-2013 school year was based on revenue and expenditures. The school district has revenue listed as $557,232 based on the enrollment of 78 students, foundation money and extra isolated funds.
In expenses, the campus spends $591,221.77 in salaries for 16 employees, matching retirement and social security as well as an additional $87,772.82 for a year's average of basic utilities.
"With all that calculated, we are $138,580.56 in the hole before you have anything else happening that year," Wayman said.
The DeWitt School District has 1,270 students. It includes students from the surrounding communities of St. Charles, Humphrey and Gillett through consolidation of Arkansas County's southern district public schools. The St. Charles School District was consolidated with DeWitt School District effective July 1, 1985, while Gillett and Humphrey were both consolidated on July 1, 2004, after the district fell below the state required 350 student population.
The Humphrey Elementary School and Gillett High School remained opened after the consolidations, however, both were closed starting the 2009-2010 school year.
If the state approves, the 78 Gillett elementary students would be transferred to the DeWitt Elementary School. The school has about 485 students, which Wayman said would increase class size by about 10 students per grade. The teachers and staff would be relocated.
"That will play itself out over next year," Wayman said. "They will have that opportunity, but hopefully with retirements and some other things we'll have places for everybody. But that's not an issue right now."
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We have so many Roos for you too see here at the Zoo. We have Bennett's Wallabies, Dama Wallabies, Swamp Wallabies, Agile Wallabies, Eastern Gray Kangaroos, Red Kangaroos, Red Wallaroos, and Wallaroos.
When born, roos are about the size of a jellybean. Roos-N-More Zoo is one of the only places where you can see inside the pouch of a kangaroo. We don't show every tour that comes around, but if you come on a private tour or party event, we promise to share.
A roos mom's milk changes as baby roos grow up and they only drink from the one nipple that the mom assigns them, to make sure they get the right nutrients. The time they take to come out of the pouch depends on the species they are.


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The Last Baby
By Catherine Newman
In the back seat of the car, the baby is crying. Like most babies, he quiets down a little when we're moving, then starts up again when we hit a red light. Instead of coming to a full stop, I jerk the car back and forth—accelerator to brake—hoping to jiggle him from his misery, just as I did with the two babies before him.
The fact that this particular baby is feline rather than human is turning out to be a surprisingly minor detail. (You can buy a new china pattern, but hey, it's still a plate.) I am filled with dotty, nearly heartbreaking devotion and also something like despair. What have we done? I think, just as I did when our son was born 10 years ago, and again when our daughter was born three years later. Life was sailing along so nicely—why did we rock the boat? At night, the kitten sleeps on my chest with his whiskery face pressed into my neck and his needly little claws kneading the tender skin there. If I try to dislodge him, he whimpers pitifully, and I can only imagine how bereft he feels—missing his cat mom and all his furry little brothers and sisters—so I let him stay. He purrs if I cough or sneeze. He purrs if I whisper in his ear or stroke his cheek or scratch under his chin. He purrs and purrs like a tractor engine, and come daylight, I am exhausted. But his paws smell like taco chips, his ears are as big as satellite dishes, and he is ours.
"They sleep most of the time," everyone had said about the babies—and this was true but also not true. The cumulative hours of awakeness were not long, but they were surreally packed with many lifetimes of nursing and spitting up and pooping and crying. And here we are again: The kitten is like the corny calendar pictures of a kitten—a gentle ball of fur asleep in a basket, on the couch, in a salad bowl, inside a shopping bag. So how he finds time to eat all the plants, poop on the kids' wizard hat and shred a bag of bagels is a mystery. But there is no turning back. We are exhausted and also sick with love. Plus, he brings out, in the kids, something like the opposite of sibling rivalry: They love him as much as we do, and love each other more for the shared experience of devotion. They lie on the bed to watch him sleep, and every time he stirs, there's a collective chorus of squealing admiration. "Oh, did you see him yawn?" "He's breathing so cutely!" "Did you hear that little snore?" It reminds me of the videos we made of our baby son, grunting and inert on his changing table. When he bats once at his mobile, you hear me whisper to my husband, "Oh my God—did you get that on film?"
At night the kitten has what we call the bedtime crazies and tears around the house like a maniac, careening into chair legs, his claws scrabbling against the hardwood. He cries over his shots at the vet, and I say consolingly, as I have said so many times to my kids, "Poor, poor baby." He falls down the stairs and chokes on his food and falls asleep while he's playing, a felt mouse still clasped in his small, fierce jaws. He tumbles into the empty bathtub, pees on the carpet and chews an elaborate pattern of teeth marks into my leather belt. And how I feel is healed.
I have two children and too many blessings to count, and yet I have longed for one last cottony little baby to hold. I didn't always; two had seemed like plenty. But then there was an unplanned pregnancy that ended almost before it started: a moment of a two-lined stick, then three or four days of breathless expectation that left, in its small wake, a vast longing. My obstetrician showed me the ultrasound image of my uterus, collapsed on the floor of my pelvis like a deflated party balloon. "I'm not saying you couldn't try again," she said, but I felt old already. I didn't want to start all over again. At least not exactly.
I didn't imagine that a kitten would pull me through the last dregs of this unexpected grief—we were getting him "for the kids," after all—but that's what happened. He is a baby, plain and simple: He sleeps on my chest, and I am trapped and happy beneath him, woozy with love. His breath reminds me of my daughter Birdy's milky exhalations; the smell of his newly washed fur reminds me of the sucked-on aroma of my son Ben's thumb. I think of how my parents got a dog when their last baby, me, left for college, and I get it, even though my own nest is far from empty. If a loss of any kind has left an empty space, I think a pet can fill it perfectly, without the long-term complications of raising a human. The stakes of the kitten's bad behavior are pretty low. We don't care if he's smart; he will never grow up and leave us or even, really, grow up at all. He will die: As Carol Anshaw puts it in one dog lovers' novel, "Taking on a pet is a contract with sorrow." But the sorrow is for a later day. For now, the kitten rolls on his back to get his belly rubbed. He closes his eyes, and my own fill with tears of what you might call joy.
CATHERINE NEWMANis the author of the (human) parenting memoir Waiting for Birdy. She lives with her family in western Massachusetts.
Middle-Aged Horsepower
By Lauren Slater
There she goes, my girl. She squeezes the horse's sides, then gives a swift kick, and the animal begins to canter. I stand outside the riding ring and watch as she flies by—no helmet today, so her hair is a single stream—her hands holding the reins in the correct position, thumbs up, her body moving with the gait, which starts slow and rocking and then, as she goes round, picks up speed, the hooves hitting the dust harder, and harder still, until both girl and horse become a blur I can no longer really see but feel, through my feet, and smell, the huge horse pungent, his tail lifted high in a proud plume.
My daughter is 10 and loves horses, each and every one: the Appaloosas and the Arabians, the Abyssinians and the Camarillos, breeds distinct in their markings and temperament but majestic mammals all, 1,000 pounds on average, with teeth large and sharp enough to take a finger or even a whole hand, although horses won't, they don't; even the stallions, the wild ones, the cranks, have only rarely harmed a human. One of the grandest animals in the kingdom and yet easy prey, the horse has eyes set far apart so he can see the edges, the places where predators hide.
Once a week we come to this stable for my daughter's lesson. Once a week I stand off to one side and watch her fly right by me, something in me aching, some shout that won't come out, words like wait, like hey, like once upon a time. And then, when the words compel me, I turn from her and head up the hill, the barn before me blazing red, its insides darker than a closet until my eyes adjust, the long aisle, the meaty beams, the stalls with the horses still in them, turning in slow circles or hanging their heads over the doors, their names inscribed on silver plates affixed below. There's Pride's Starlight Tanya and Sweet Revenge; there's A.M. White Night and Milky Way, a horse with a swirl of stars on his rump, big white blurs that spiral into themselves. I sometimes whisper the names, or even, if no one is around, utter them out loud, each name pure poetry to me. Perhaps I'm a sap; I'm certainly nostalgic, seeing in my daughter and the horses she rides a much younger me, the girl who once jumped four-foot fences and galloped through the woods, holding on hard to the bristly mane as my mount cleared a stream, a stack of wood, coming fast around the corners in a forest packed with birch.
Recently we have moved from the city, where I've lived out all of my adulthood, to the country, where we have five and a half acres, meadows flecked with flowers and sudden pools in waterlogged earth. Watching my daughter ride and realizing that some remnant passion still stirs inside me, I consider the suddenly reasonable possibility that we might buy a pony, something small enough for my young son yet with enough verve and power to satisfy my daughter and her need for speed. As for me, any horse would do—portals, all of them, into a past I thought I'd left behind, only to find, in my middle years, that I want once more to sit astride, to gallop backward toward a time when I spent every spare minute on a broad saddled back. Or perhaps there's some need to show off for my girl, as in Look what I can do or I can do it, too! But I'm too quick to call my longings sentimental or even silly; maybe my desire to have horses again in my life, as I near the end of my fifth decade, has to do with a need now for majesty, which I crave as I age, as my body changes, as my bones thin, as my hair goes gray. I'm still strong, and I can see my strength reflected in the large pools of the equine's eyes, in my desire to rise and gallop, fusing my body with the horse's as we wend our way. I have recently read that horse-loving girls often return to their passion in their forties, in their fifties, finding both solace and strength in the barreled body and the whiskered muzzle that searches the outstretched palm for fruit. Down the hill, I can hear my daughter's speed, her instructor calling out commands as she races around the ring, "Heels down, chin up," and I think yes. Chin up. One should age with spunk. One should find for herself a new grand name, a name as big as the sun, the solar system, the penetrable yet impenetrable space beyond the moon; it is time to redefine. It is the horse who brings me here, to this new space inside my mind where my increasing frailty goes head to head with a sedimented strength built up over decades of experience. Later on, I walk with my daughter to the car. Her lesson has ended. Not mine. I feel infused. I breathe big. Anything is possible.
LAUREN SLATER's work has been translated into more than 17 languages.Her most recent book is The $60,000 Dog: My Life with Animals.
Love in the Time of Spiders
By Mira Bartók
I have a secret. I used to see spiders when they weren't really there.
In that elusive place between sleep and waking, some frightened part of my brain conjured visions of them. I saw spiders only when my schizophrenic mother was at her worst. Every few weeks, after one of her psychotic episodes, my waking dreams returned.
It was always the same: In the dim light of early morning, a spider the size of my hand would creep down from the ceiling and hover above me. I'd scream and switch on the lamp, but the little monster would still be there, its legs reaching for my face. Then, moments later, the image would evaporate into thin air.
Sometime in my late twenties, I saw a neurologist for my secret affliction. Secret, because I didn't want people to think I was sick like my mother. I knew I wasn't mentally ill, but something was certainly wrong. After I explained to the doctor my difficult childhood, my mother's increasing violence and my fears of her suddenly showing up at my apartment, he told me my hallucinations were probably trauma-induced seizures. People were beginning to talk about post-traumatic stress disorder in the mid-1980s, but it was still a relatively new diagnosis. The doctor suggested seizure medication, but I said no. Then, in 1990, when my mother broke off contact with me, the spiders suddenly disappeared.
A year and a half later, I began working at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo. Part of my job was to teach groups of visitors about the behavior and adaptation of small mammals, reptiles, birds and invertebrates. I enjoyed this immensely, but there was a problem: the dreaded tarantula. I had to sit with his little aquarium on my lap and pretend to crowds of children that the dangerous, hairy spider and I were the best of friends. "Tarantulas are cool!" I'd say. "Did you know that there are approximately 900 different kinds in the world?" "Wow!" the kids would shout. "Can we pet him?" Thankfully, petting tarantulas was not allowed at the zoo. "Sorry, you can't, but you can pet his exoskeleton, the shell he sloughs off. I have it right here!" I would then offer amazing little facts about spiders while inside I was terrified that the tarantula would escape, crawl under my shirt and sink his fangs into my neck.
A few weeks into my job, the inevitable occurred. A small girl, about five, looked up at me with her big brown eyes and sweetly asked, "What's his name?" The first thing that popped out of my mouth was, "Murray. His name is Murray." I didn't even know if the tarantula was a girl or a boy, but Murray it was from then on. I'd begin my nature talks with, "This is Murray the tarantula. Come closer. Don't be afraid."
Something happens when you give a name to fear. Showing "Murray" to the visitors at the zoo was different from showing "the big hairy spider." I started reading more about spiders, talking to keepers and zoologists and studying Murray as he moved around his tiny, singular world. Eventually, I grew fond of him—with his four pairs of legs, his retractable claws, his spinnerets and his eight, count them, eight beady black eyes. And just as I used to save the beautiful snakeskins and feathers I found behind the scenes at the zoo, I started saving Murray's soft brown exoskeletons whenever he shed them.
When my mother and I eventually reconnected tentatively through the mail, my spider hallucinations didn't return. And when I finally reunited with her at the end of her life many years later, the spiders still kept their distance. It has now been five years since my mother passed away, and it looks as if those spiders aren't ever coming back. Just the other day, while out walking my dog in the woods, I marched right into a giant web. My face was covered with sticky silk, baby spiders and dead bugs. I didn't scream or feel the slightest tinge of fear. I simply wiped the mess off my face, laughed at myself and kept going.
MIRA BARTÓK is the author of The Memory Palace, winner of the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography.
The Dogs Who Saved Me
By Jo Ann Beard
His name is Luigi, and they say he turned himself in. It isn't unusual for the shelter workers to find a dog (or two) tied to the fence in the morning, but Luigi was just sitting quietly at the gate, no rope, no collar, nothing but a look of serious resignation on his grizzled face. They put him in a run and named him after someone's grandpa, and that's where he's been ever since, staring out but rarely barking like the rest of them, licking a hand but rarely taking the treat. Next to him is Cookie, who has been at the shelter for six years now, a brindle pit in an enormous, cacophonous shelter where there might as well be brindle-pit wallpaper. She takes a treat with great delicacy, circling a couple of times and then lying down to eat it, crunch, crunch, before coming back for another. It's how she fills her time, stretching out every good thing as long as possible.
Down the row is Daisy, who barks like a maniac until she's let out of her run, whereupon she immediately drops to the pavement and rolls. I walk her to my car, and she falls asleep in the quiet of the backseat for an hour or so while I'm doing other things. Walking dogs, bathing dogs, peering into dark runs to see what new resident is cowering in the shadows; whatever it is, from the moment I arrive until the moment I leave, I do not think about anything else. I don't care what my hair is doing, I don't care what my phone says, I don't care that there's something more or less unspeakable on my shoe.
Less than five minutes away is my real job, as a teacher at a private college, a bastion of evergreen and ivy and hope. One day a year ago, as I left campus, I followed a sign at the intersection, turning right instead of going straight, and found myself in this world of cracked concrete and chain link, as far from the ivy and reaching oak trees of our campus as any place could be. I wandered the runs outside the shelter with my hands over my ears. How long has he been here? I asked about one of the dogs. Five years, the worker told me. Wait, no, he corrected himself: I've been here five years. He was here when I came.
A low-kill shelter has its disadvantages—sometimes death is the kinder alternative—but it would be hard to explain that to Rufo, who was positioning himself lengthwise along the wire, to make as much of himself available for petting as possible. I stuck my fingers through the wire and scratched him for a while and then left. The next day I followed the sign again.
When it's time to go back to her run, Daisy immediately lies down on the pavement and won't get up. I fashion a halter and tug her along on her back, which from her wiggling I can tell she likes, though eventually she accepts the truth and gets to her feet, shakes and walks slowly, more slowly than you can imagine, back to the row of kennels. Once, safely out of the horrible cacophony of the shelter and at home in my own bed, I had a dream that instead of getting Daisy out of my car, I got in and drove her into the country and opened the door. In the dream, she climbed down and stood like Luigi, just staring at me, until I let her back in and drove her back to the city and the dark run she inhabits next to Spanky, who is next to Babyface, who is next to one of the several Tysons, who is next to Monty, who is next to Tara, who is next to her twin, Michele, who is next to Lexi. And on and on it goes until all 110 are accounted for.
Because the shelter is crowded to the point of overcrowded, about half of the dogs live in stainless steel cages stacked floor to ceiling in cinder block rooms. Whenever someone walks into one of these rooms, each dog instantly whirls and lunges and makes a terrible barking racket, creating an overwhelming sensation of, well, hell. The first time I went in, I had to turn around and go directly back out. I stood in the cold with an orange leash around my neck and a pocketful of treats, trying not to cry, until another volunteer walked by. He took one look at me, undraped the leash from my neck and asked me which dog I wanted.
"All of them," I said.
When he returned, there was someone small and black at the end of my leash, with tall ears and a visible rib cage. "One dog at a time," the volunteer murmured, and went on his way.
I could barely move, so instead of walking, Duchess and I sat on the curb and watched traffic go by. As she relaxed, she leaned against me ever so slightly, a black dog indistinguishable from all the other black dogs in the shelter except that now I knew her.
One dog at a time.
So I used my pocketful of treats to teach her a trick—not how to sit or shake but how to wave hello, like an old friend. Like so many of them, she proved to be ridiculously smart, watching my face intently and repeating the lesson over and over, for the attention and the treats and because she—again, like so many of them—was desperate to please. In 30 minutes she went from generic to specific, a dog able to distinguish herself from the crowd if the opportunity should ever arise.
Because sometimes it does. Just this week, between the beginning part of the story and this ending part, a couple came to the shelter and saw Daisy rolling in sad ecstasy at my feet. They were grieving for their old dog and just beginning to look, but they came back the next day and the day after, and the day after that she went home with them. So last night Daisy slept on a cushion in a warm house, and this morning she woke to love and toast in a bright kitchen.
Think about the joy you felt when you read that, and think about how much more elated you would feel if you knew her and met the wonderful couple, and if you knew all the other dogs and had walked them and talked to them and let them lean up against you, and if you were there to see Rufo with his head out the window the day he was driven north to his new home in Massachusetts. Because it's not about how to stand the grimness; it's about how to stand the joy.
JO ANN BEARD teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and is a volunteer at the Yonkers Animal Shelter. Her latest book is the novel In Zanesville.
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Cleveland (July 28, 2008) - Beat the Dog Days of Summer and high gas prices and ride your Harley to the "Better Bolder Biker Bash" at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum for a FREE concert with the "Motor City Madman" himself, Ted Nugent, on Saturday August 16, 2008 from 6 p.m.-10 p.m. This event is sponsored by Miller Lite.
Cleveland's Burnt River Band will take the stage at 7 p.m. and Ted Nugent will headline at 8:30 p.m. The event will take place rain or shine.
WNCX 98.5 FM will have a free drawing for a brand new VRSCD Night Rod motorcycle - valued at $15,000. There will be dedicated motorcycle parking adjacent to the Museum.
For nearly 40 years Ted Nugent has been a guitar wildman known for his unbridled live shows. Throughout his lengthy career, released more than 31 recordings, including "Cat Scratch Fever" and "Stranglehold," and has sold more than 35 million albums. His talent on the six-string guitar and knack for composing arena rock songs has kept him in the rock and roll limelight for nearly four decades.
The Burnt River Band started out in Cleveland the late 70s like any other blues band playing in neighborhood bars, but grew to share the stage with groups including Lynyrd Skynyrd, Steppenwolf, The Doobie Brothers and David Crosby. Many of their concert performances are at motorcycle events - including Sturgis and the American Motorcycle Jamboree in upstate New York.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum's Biker Barbeque will have hamburgers, hot dogs, brats, snacks, ice cream novelties and a selection of beverages including Miller Brewing Company products available for purchase.
About the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is the nonprofit organization that exists to educate visitors, fans and scholars from around the world about the history and continuing significance of rock and roll music. It carries out this mission both through its operation of a world-class museum that collects, preserves, exhibits and interprets this art form and through its library and archives as well as its educational programs.
The Museum is open seven days a week from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. On Wednesdays, the Museum is open until 9 p.m. Museum admission is $22 for adults, $17 for seniors (65+), $13 for youth (9-12), $18 for adult residents of Greater Cleveland. Children under 8 and Museum members are free. The Museum is generously funded by Cuyahoga County residents through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture. When you become a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, the world of rock and roll becomes yours to explore. Call 216.515.1939 for information on becoming a member. For general inquiries, please call 216.781.ROCK or visit http://www.rockhall.com .


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No. 2 Lights Top Navy For Murtaugh Cup; Video Shows Columbia Wins Thriller
How close was the finish between Columbia and Princeton? The teams needed to use the video at the finish line to determine that the Lions won by .1 of a second; Columbia took the win in 6:03.2, while Princeton topped Navy by 10.1 seconds in 6:03.3.
"Columbia did a much better job in the first 1000, using better water conditions to their advantage," said Princeton head coach Marty Crotty. "When the water and winds really picked up in the second 1000, I thought we came into our own and started making good progress."
"Off the line, it became clear very quickly that we lacked the same aggression that our competitors were willing to start with," said sophomore Ed Northrop. "I think that through the 1000m, conditions clearly played into our favor as we showed that we were more adept at handling the tough weather that all crews had to deal with."
The Tigers trailed by a length going into the second half of the race, but they continued to cut into that deficit until they ultimately drew even. The final sprint, however, belonged to Columbia, which left the Tigers at 2-1 on the young season.
"In the course of the regular season, I hope a race like that emboldens us," Crotty said. "It was a good, mature race, but we know we need to do a better job in the beginning."
The second varsity race had similar dramatics, though a different result. Once again, the Lions navigated the first half of their home course to gain a length lead; this time, Princeton would fully complete the comeback and earn the win by 4.4 seconds in 6:15.0.
Early results seem to indicate that this will be yet another tight pack for lightweight supremacy at both Sprints and the IRA Championships. Last season, Princeton topped Columbia in the regular season, then fell to the Lions in the postseason; the Tigers would love to flip that script this year. They understand the work that needs to be done first, though.
"The biggest implication of being in such a competitive league is the fact that the margin between a good result and a disappointing result is so miniscule," Northrop said. "This provides enormous motivation to make the most out of every session. Coupled with being part of a team that already has the kind of mentality of always moving forward, competitive pressure is really exciting as every training session provides even more improvement in boat speed. And going fast is of course the best thing about rowing."
Princeton will remain home for the next two weekends, starting April 12 when it welcomes Cornell in the annual Platt Cup regatta.
Varsity Eight
Columbia 6:03.2
Princeton 6:03.3
Navy 6:13.4
Second Varsity Eight
Princeton 6:15.0
Columbia 6:19.4
Navy 6:28.0
Third Varsity
Princeton 6:29.1
Columbia 6:31.8
Navy 6:41.4
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Navy 6:45.3
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Wagon Wheel project breaks ground
By Michael Sullivan 03/13/2013
To say it's been a long time coming would be an understatement.
After arduous court battles to preserve the historic Wagon Wheel Motel and Restaurant as well as civil litigation regarding contractual obligations with former developers and, of course, the topsy-turvy economy, Forrest Lucas and Carl Renezeder of Oxnard CRFL Partners are finally ready to get things moving. Lucas and Renezeder bought the property in 2010, but other developers had plans for the property dating back to 2005.
On March 20, the developers will break ground on the first phase of the project — the Wagon Wheel Family Apartments, which will be located at the corner of Cactus Drive and Buckaroo Avenue. Over the next 18 months, a total of 120 apartments, ranging from one- to four-bedroom affordable housing units, will be constructed on the four-acre site. The residents of the Wagon Wheel Trailer Lodge, the nearby mobile home park, will get the first chance to rent apartments in the complex.
The entire development, on 63 acres, which will include the demolition of the bowling alley and the ice-skating rink in the years to come, will comprise 1,500 apartments and single-family homes, 50,000 square feet of commercial space, and 7.4 acres of parks, recreation and open space.
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Hotline was first climbed in '73 by Mark Chapman and Jim Bridwell, two of my free-climbing inspirations. In the early '70s I was in high school sitting in the back of the class reading Bridwell's article "Brave New World" in Mountain Magazine. The photos of Chapman attempting The Owl Roof were so impressive to me. This was the beginning of a real push of opening up free climbing in Yosemite.
In 1975, John Bachar and I crossed the Merced River and headed up to Elephant Rock with our dream to free climb the tension traverse on the second pitch of Hotline. We knew we had a chance to help push free climbing forward. We freed Hotline and it became the first 5.12 in Yosemite. We reveled in the seven-pitch route with its spectacular 130-foot hand crack on the third pitch, the overhanging 5.10 flaring chimney on the sixth pitch, and the bouldering face climbing moves that top out on one of the most amazing formations in the Valley – a 600-foot pillar leaning against the main wall of Elephant Rock.
For thirty years I've admired this climb from across the valley while climbing at the Cookie. It's a rare occasion to see anyone on Hotline, as it's so close, yet so far away. It has always held itself in that deep-rooted mystery of what I believe is a Cult Classic.


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Washougal police have released a composite sketch of a suspect in a home invasion in which an elderly woman was attacked, bound with duct tape and robbed.
The attack was reported by a neighbor at 8:44 p.m. Jan. 22 after two men forced their way into the woman's house in the 3200 block of 37th Court.
The 74-year-old woman told police she was home alone when she answered the door to a man who asked if she had seen his dog, according to Washougal police. Then, police say another man appeared and knocked the woman to the ground.
The two men used duct tape to bound the woman's hands, feet and mouth and dragged her by her hair to another room of the house, said Cmdr. Allen Cook.
After not hearing either man for several minutes, the woman worked herself loose and ran to a neighbor's house, where the neighbor called 911, Cook said.
The first man at the door is described as a "clean cut" white man, possibly a teenager or in his early 20s. The woman told police she could not describe the second man because he was wearing a hood and possibly a mask. She told officers that both men spoke English and also a Slavic language, possibly Russian, according to a bulletin from the Washougal Police Department.
Cook said the apparent motive in the home invasion robbery was theft and the suspects targeted the bedroom. Cook did not indicate what was stolen.
The woman worked with police to make the composite drawing of the first man who showed up at her door.
Anyone who recognizes the person in the composite drawing, or anyone with information about the incident, is asked to call Washougal police at 360-835-8701.


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I'm in love. I've been in love before, but not like this.
I constantly tell the woman I'm in love with how beautiful, smart, funny, talented, insightful, sexy and nice she is, as well as many other things that I can't say here, and she nervously laughs for a moment before kissing me and saying thank you.
"If you told me any of those things a few years ago," she said a few nights ago, "I wouldn't have been able to take them in. I probably would've run for the hills."
"Don't worry," I said. "A few years ago, I wouldn't have been able to tell you any of those things."
We agreed that we couldn't have been in love with each other at any other time in our lives except right now, that we're lucky to have found each other when we did.
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It may have taken us a while, but we know who we are and what we've been waiting for, and we see it all in each other and that fills us up like nothing has ever done before. I know we're still in the wild-thing beginning of love, which is always intoxicating and thrilling to the bone. But what's different for us, something that I've never experienced, is a kind of shorthand we share that cuts to an incredible depth of feeling that can only be achieved by people who have, as they say, been around the block. Which is the circuitous way of saying that it rocks to be this old. And that, in a nutshell, is why middle age is the best time to fall in love.
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ZF-5520: Failing to get location header from PHP script hosted on Windows IIS 6
Ok, this one took me ages to track down.
On IIS running PHP 5.2.8 (also believe the problem exists when using 5.2.2) with FastCGI or ISAPI Module... using the following causes Zend Framework to miss the Location header:
header('Location:http://www.google.com/'); exit();
The above will work when served from an Apache PHP server but not on IIS 6/PHP. The following quick fix will solve it:
header('Location: http://www.google.com/'); exit();
(Note the space)
I would suggest the following fix. In Http/Response.php line 500 of the extract header function, replace:
if (preg_match("|^([\w-]+):\s+(.+)|", $line, $m)) {
if (preg_match("|^([\w-]+):\s*(.+)|", $line, $m)) {
(Making the space optional)
Thanks Tom
I notice this has still not been fixed in the latest version of Zend.
adjusted regex to add ability to find headers like 'Location:http://www.google.com' (no space after colon) in addition to the current 'Location: http://www.google.com'. Includes 1 unit test with two assertions.
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Via San Gregorio Armeno in Naples - Nativity Scenes for all
As always, the Neapolitan Christmas festivities and events revolve around the Nativity Scene.
A very popular street in this period is Via San Gregorio Armeno, in the heart of Ancient City centre of Naples.
There one can find a large concentration of workshops and stalls of the craftsmen who, according to a centuries old tradition, present the settings, figurines and anything else that might be necessary for setting up Nativity Scenes of large dimentions or even tiny Scenes that can beplaced under a glass bell...
Antique Nativity Scenes can be visited at the San Martino Museum (on the Vomero hill), at the Royal Palace (where there is the Bank of Naples' composition), at the Santa Chiara Complex (Piazza del Gesù) and in the following Churches: Gesù Vecchio (Via Paladino), Santa Maria in Portico (in the strett of the same name, off the Riviera by Chiaia) and San Nicola alla Carità (Via Toledo, near Piazza Carità).
From December 8 to January 16 in the monumental complex of the Church of Gesù Nuovo, in Piazza del Gesù, the Neapolitan Nativity Scenes Association exhibits its Nativity Scene artwork.
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From the Piazza Amedeo Station take line 2 on the subway, in the direction of Gianturco, and get off in Piazza Cavour (second stop). From Piazza Cavour enter in Via Duomo (or Via Santa Maria di Costantinopoli): the Ancient City centre of Naples is at about 200 metres.
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MY BODY IN MY TWENTIES At 27, I weighed 97 pounds. I had a master's degree in exercise physiology and knew a lot about nutrition, but I also had the distorted vision of an anorexic. I looked in the mirror and saw someone who was fat. I restricted my daily calories to 450. I'd have black coffee for breakfast, a cup of cottage cheese for lunch and tuna salad for dinner. It was my way of retaining some control in a deeply troubled marriage. I also abused laxatives, taking up to 20 at a time until I passed out. I was hospitalized for 60 days. I got pregnant shortly thereafter and forced myself to eat enough to give birth to a healthy baby girl.
THE TURNING POINT When Sasha was six weeks old, I held her inside my bedroomcloset while my husbandshouted at us. It was then I realized I needed out of this demeaning relationship. So I sold my wedding and engagement rings to pay for airfare and flew home to my parents, who'd agreed to let us live in their basement.
With the help of a lot of therapy, I started to introduce more calories into my diet. When my weight hit 100 pounds, I didn't panic. My demonswere still there, but they were whispering, not screaming. I married again—a wonderful man this time—had a second child, and in 2006, after decades of working as a legal secretary, I became a fitness trainer.
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This is a bit of a rant. Well, actually, it's nothing but a rant. I just saw an ad for a novel about Isabelle of Castille that said:
"Determined to reign a nation with greatness."
Why would anyone want to buy, or even read, a book by an author who thinks
is a transitive verb? Did he just check a thesaurus for synonyms for
? Should I be grateful that he didn't use
Could the English language be given a little respect, please?
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You made me chuckle. Last night I finished what was otherwise a good mystery set in the horse racing world - except any illusion of the author's expertise was spoiled by the use of reigns for, you know, those things that the rider holds and uses to control the horse.
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I couldn't get over the delectable miasma of food in a recent book... but I wouldn't blame the author for an ad, unless it's a self-published book.
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Yep. Back cover copy is generally written by someone other than the author. The author can suggest changes, but the publisher is under no obligation to make them unless it's in her contract.
Ad copy depends. If the author does it herself, she has control over the content. But sometimes publishers put out ads that the author has no knowledge of. Let alone control over.
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I'm not sure how self-published it is. It's a random House Digital - What does that mean?
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I'm not sure how self-published it is. It's a random House Digital - What does that mean?
That means that it is an eBook published by Random House, so not self-published.
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Could it have been intended to read, "reign OVER a nation with greatness"? It reads like an omission to me. Still irritating, but unless the book is self-pubbed I'd hold back on blaming the author for an advertisement.
I see this sort of thing all the time. People stick in apostrophes anywhere they see an "s" at the end of word. They have not the least idea about the difference between their, there, and they're, either. I think we're pushing it to expect folks to understand reigns vs reins.
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I see this sort of thing all the time. People stick in apostrophes anywhere they see an "s" at the end of word. They have not the least idea about the difference between their, there, and they're, either. I think we're pushing it to expect folks to understand reigns vs reins.
Isn't that the truth, though? I've come to the point where I laugh now when I see misplaced apostrophes just because a word ends with an "s." And if that word is a true possessive, then where that apostrophe is placed (before of after the "s") seems to be more a random choice rather than thought out. And, really, it's a simple process that perhaps was not taught well enough (or enough attention paid to it by the pupil) at the appropriate time.
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Yeah, those homophones can trip all of us up: I just noticed I typed "there" for "their" in a prior post. Fingers take their own paths at times, paying little attention to the mind guiding them. But there you go.
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If no one at the publisher could be bothered to proofread a very short advertisement, what do you suppose the proofreading/copyediting of the book is going to be like?
Being that sloppy with an advertisement, which is something that is supposed to attract readers, not drive them away, demonstrates incredible stupidity on the part of whoever was responsible.
I'm still annoyed by it. Could you tell?
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I cannot fix this issue without a BC break. I have postponed it for now, until Matthew can tell me more.
Depends on ZF-3614.
BC break, will probably be addressed with the next release
Sorry... Wrong issue number... I meant ZF-3164
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Let $A = \mathbb N$ and let $B = \left\{n+\frac{1}{2n} :n\in \mathbb N\right\}$. Then A and B are closed and disjoint, but $$\inf \{|a−b|:a \in A,b \in B\} = \inf \left | \frac{1}{2n}\right| = 0$$
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ZF-8883: Mature change "added usage of registry local" (r17798) not merged into 1.9.7
Thomas, this change was made about half an year ago, why it is not present in 1.9.7? Maybe it was forgotten during merging trunk to 1.9.7...
We really like to see your great code improvements in relased code, not only in trunk :-)
@Piotr: most likely the change is considered a BC break or an addition to the API -- and, as such, can only occur in minor releases. As 1.9 has been out since early August, my guess (Thomas will verify) is that the change will be reflected in the 1.10 release (which will be out soon).
API additions are not allowed to be integrated within mini-releases.
Additionally this change introduces a change in behaviour. Even if not being a BC break, it could lead to misinterpretation when such a change is done in a bugfix-release. How it behaves depends on application settings.
This change was done 24.Aug. (timeframe from 1.9.3) You may also have noted that the issue which this change points to (ZF-7489) is marked as fixed for "the next minor release", which is ZF 1.10 ;-)
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High School: Kennewick
College: Washington (school history)
Drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in the 2nd round (18th overall) of the 1963 NFL Draft.
Drafted by the Denver Broncos in the 5th round (37th overall) of the 1963 AFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 57 (1086th overall since 1950)
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1969 Game Log: Regular Season · Playoffs · vs.