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On a sultry day in April 2011, Denise Thomas, the owner of Home Instead, a franchise business in Austin, Texas, drives to the home of an elderly client. Ninety-one-year-old Emily Lake moved into her comfortable single-story house five years ago and plans to stay there, thanks to Home Instead's caregivers, who help her bathe, pay bills, shop, track medications and generally maintain her independence. For Thomas, visits to satisfied clients are the best part of her job.
"This is what it's all about," she says. "The fact that Emily can live here, with her things around her, playing her piano, being able to visit the supper club she's gone to for decades, seeing the friends who live nearby: That's why I got into this business in the first place."On this visit, Thomas, a gregarious woman with a wide smile, chats easily with the elegant older woman. Their conversation eddies around subjects like cats, classical composers and Lake's memories of hobnobbing with Austin politicos in the 1950s. "You were friends with Dick Cheney, weren't you?" asks Thomas. Well," drawls Lake, "I wouldn't say friends. I'm friends with George W. and Laura. I love the Bushes, father and son.&rdquoAn hour later, Thomas says good-bye, confident that the caregivers she's selected to look after Lake have been doing a good job. For Thomas, the rewards of running an at-home senior-care business are personal as well as professional. "What I love about working with the elderly is that it forces you to slow down," she says. "They're going to talk slow, so you're going to talk slow. It's not a bad thing to be forced to do." She savors her conversations with clients and their families, getting to know each person's biography and then figuring out the right person to fill his or her needs: someone who can prepare meals and help create a family scrapbook? Attend concerts? Discuss the Bible? Clean the cat's litter box? "Our relationship with clients is very intimate," says Thomas. "We are matchmakers in a way, putting together people with similar interests, personalities, backgrounds. Nothing is more satisfying than when it clicks."
All of her Home Instead staffers are specially trained to help clients struggling with memory loss and dementia. "People with memory loss have a better chance of staying engaged if they're in familiar surroundings," says Thomas. "In general, most seniors—about 90 percent—want to stay in their own homes as they age." She's not against assisted-living communities. "If a house is falling apart, then it's not suitable for an aging person," she says. "My mission is to respect the senior's wishes. For some, a move can be good. But if they don't want to move, that's where I see a problem."
Since launching her business in 2003, Thomas has expanded from 30 caregivers and zero office staff to her current team of 150 caregivers and eight administrators, with annual gross earnings of $2 million. Her success has proved recession-proof; those who care for the elderly and ill constitute the fastest-growing segment of the workforce, according to PHI, a health care advocacy group, and by 2018 home-based workers are expected to outnumber nursing home workers two to one. The Home Instead parent company, which launched with one office in 1994, has expanded to 900 locations worldwide. The franchises now employ more than 65,000 caregivers and serve nearly one million clients.
Thomas got into the business after rising up through the corporate ranks at IBM and then becoming a marketing executive for the Discovery Channel's international development arm. "I wanted to see the world," she says. In the 1990s, her globe-trotting work took her to cities in Europe, South America and Asia. She met and married a Japanese man, and the couple lived in Japan while Thomas learned the language and taught at a business school for Japanese nationals preparing for careers with American companies. The couple were also trying to have a baby. Then, in 2001, her husband, a venture capitalist, was transferred to Austin, where neither of them had lived before.
Thomas felt ready to come back to the U.S. Unsuccessful fertility treatments had left her emotionally fragile, and she wanted a fresh career challenge. At the same time, her grandmother, who lived halfway across the country in New York State, was afflicted with Alzheimer's and in decline. What unfolded next, says Thomas, echoes the story she now hears over and over from families that seek her help. "My mom decided to move Grandma into her house and take care of her," she says. But the stress on all concerned was too much, and the family had to transfer Thomas's grandmother to a senior living community. "It was a beautiful place, but she hated it," says Thomas. She suffered from leaving the home she'd lived in for 50 years, the church she'd attended, the lifelong friends she'd spent time with. "My grandmother had been an outgoing person, but when she got to the facility, she kind of shut down," says Thomas. Her decline accelerated; she had a stroke and passed away soon afterward.
Back home in Austin after her grandmother's funeral, Thomas hit bottom, mourning the loss, despairing about her infertility and fretting about finding a next step for her career. One day, while listening to a tape by the motivational speaker Marianne Williamson, Thomas burst into tears. "Williamson was talking about focusing on what you can give to others rather than on what you want to get back for yourself," says Thomas. Right after the tape ended, as she idly flipped through a business magazine, she came upon an article about the Home Instead Senior Care franchise.
"It was magical," Thomas recalls. "It hit me: This is what I'm supposed to be doing. I had wanted to be a doctor when I was young, and I volunteered as a candy striper at a hospital in my teens. I wanted to help care for other people—especially seniors." She started researching the franchise and talking to her close friend Ariel Miller about it, and that's when the second piece fell into place. Miller, a neighbor with two young children, offered to partner with Thomas, sharing the work and the $50,000 start-up cost.
In April 2003, Thomas and Miller flew to Omaha for a week of intensive training at the company's headquarters. It was on the plane that Thomas turned to Miller and asked, offhandedly, "Do you ever think of having more children?" The two women had discussed Thomas's struggle with infertility, so Miller knew the details: that the problem was not Thomas's eggs, which were viable, but some unknown factor that prevented her from carrying a pregnancy to term. Miller, a petite, birdlike woman who describes herself as intuitive and spiritual, suddenly felt called to help. "I'm going to have your child!" Miller blurted out. "This is how it will happen: You've got great eggs, and I've got a great uterus, so I'll carry it. This baby wants to be born." Three months later, fertilized embryos from Thomas and her husband were implanted into Miller's uterus, and on May 11, 2004, Maya came into the world.
For Thomas, it was a miracle—but the business was having a harder time being born. Miller, who'd developed debilitating morning sickness, had pulled out of the franchise, and by the time Maya arrived, Thomas was overwhelmed by work. She called Pamela Mitchell, a friend from her days at the Discovery Channel who is also a career coach. "I told Pamela I was ready to quit," Thomas says. "I felt guilty about having to leave Maya, and I had to do everything—scheduling, even filling in for caregivers if they couldn't make it." Mitchell advised her to read The E Myth, a book about entrepreneurship subtitled Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It. Thomas already owned a copy: The Home Instead founders had given one to each new franchisee, but she hadn't found the time to read it. Now she did. "It summarized all my mistakes," she says. The biggest one: trying to do everything herself. She stepped back and started trusting her staff to make decisions.
Being part of a franchise meant that Thomas had a ready-made "kit" that included website templates, computer programs and hiring guidelines. "Franchisees don't have to reinvent the wheel," says Carol Roth, a business strategist and the author of The Entrepreneur Equation. They generally don't have to figure out procedures or marketing strategies on their own. In exchange for giving the parent company a percentage of the gross revenue, they get to operate under the aegis of a known brand and to benefit from the experience of other franchisees. Although it's tough to get figures on whether franchises have a higher success rate than independent start-ups, Roth adds, most experts think they do.
The downsides of a franchise: the fees you continue to pay to the parent company and a lack of creative control (the founders decide how you will present the brand, in marketing, logos and so on). If the parent company gets bad publicity, you may be affected as well. For instance, when an outbreak of E. coli was linked to several Taco Bell outlets in 2006, other franchisees experienced a temporary downturn; the same thing happened at Domino's Pizza in 2009 when a video on YouTube showed one franchise's employees fouling pizza with unsanitary "ingredients."
A few years ago, two Home Instead franchise offices in Maryland were accused of race discrimination, with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging that they'd let clients specify the race of the caregivers assigned to them. Home Instead settled the lawsuit in December 2010. Complaints about some Home Instead offices have also popped up on consumer websites.
Thomas says her business was unaffected by these dustups. To maintain excellent client relations at her own franchise, she relies on careful quality control: finding caregivers who have a genuine sympathy for the elderly (many of Thomas's hires got into the business because they'd cared for their own relatives and found the work rewarding) and doing rigorous background checks. In the end, she takes on only about 20 of the 300 people who apply for jobs each month. The next step is training her workers to handle sensitive situations; for example, how to respond if a client doesn't want help getting out of a chair but may hurt herself if she tries to do it on her own. And Thomas monitors caregivers by making surprise visits to her clients' homes.
For a first-class experience, however, matching a client with a caregiver who has a similar background is key. "We set up one elderly gentleman, a retired executive, with a male caretaker who was a retired IBM executive, and that worked out very well," she says. "I love my clients dearly, and I have a real affinity for them. It feels good to know that I'm helping to make their last years comfortable. That's why I'm in this business." ❦
Running the numbers
103Age of oldest client (and her caregiver was 74—the family requested an older attendant so the two would have more in common)
120 to 140Number of clients Thomas has at any given time
$70,000Total start-up costs for Thomas's first year in business ($50,000 for the franchise kit plus $20,000 for cash flow)
$18Average hourly rate paid by clients, depending on their requirements
$9 to $14Hourly wage that Thomas pays her home-care workers (nationwide, the average hourly wage is about $9.50, and nursing aides earn about $11.50 an hour)
This story first appeared in More magazine's December 2011/January 2012 issue.
Michelle Stacey is the author of The Fasting Girl. She blogs at the-food-bitch.blogspot.com.
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First of all, the PLASMA_dgetrf and PLASMA_dgels functions, that performs the LU factorization. In PLASMA_dgetrf and PLASMA_dgels documentation says that the A matrix arguments stores at output the TILE factors L and U from the factorization. In my wrapper these factors should be returned as a Lapack matrix. So how could I transform the tiled A matrix from PLASMA to the correct Lapack format? I know the function PLASMA_Tile_to_Lapack(PLASMA_desc *A,void *Af77,int LDA), but I'm a bit confused about the PLASMA_desc argument. The A matrix returned by PLASMA_dgetrf and PLASMA_dgels are of type double* and is tiled, but the A argument of PLASMA_Tile_to_Lapack is of type PLASMA_desc*. Should I use this function to convert A to Lapack format?
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Solo Travel Hang-Ups and How to Fix Them
Traveling solo is one of those experiences that can be rewarding and life changing, but it can also be full of scary adjustments, even to the most seasoned traveler.
Evelyn Hannon, solo traveling expert and editor of journeywoman.com, knows all too well how challenging it can be. In the 80's, fresh from an amicable divorce with her partner of over 20 years, Hannon decided it was time to push herself further as a traveler.
"I thought I could die at home or I could die traveling."
So traveling she went. She packed her bags for 35 days and just left. There was a lot of public crying involved, but in the end Hannon learned how wonderful it can be to be on your own. And she's been traveling solo and sharing her advice ever since.
But solo traveling is more than bucking up and being brave, there are a few hurdles unique to the solo traveling experience that often trip up first timers. Here are four of the most common issues, and some tips and tricks to fix them.
One of the major hurdles of traveling on your own is undoubtedly fear. Fear of forgetting the important details, fear of exploring things on your own or even the more general fear of the unknown.
And although it might seem like a good idea to throw yourself into the deep end, Hannon, advises wading into the kiddie pool first. "Don't jump into a hot bathtub," she says. "Gradually ease yourself into new situations."
Do a day trip to a local tourist destination and explore like you would in any other country. Take the train to a nearby city, even if it's one you're already familiar with, and stay the night. Then ease yourself into weekend trips a little bit further away from home. Then take four day trip a bit further than that… etc.
These baby steps, especially the first few trips, are great because you'll not only explore all the great locales in your backyard, but the progression will help you test your comfort level. Each new excursion should be pushing your comfort zone judge a smidgen wider. So experiment with different solo trips until you feel ready to move onto the next one and soon you'll find yourself in Paris for a month!
Another great way to quell the fear is to do your homework! Researching a location is a good idea for traveling anyway, but it's even more integral to the solo travel process. Wikipedia and the CIA Factbook are great places to start, but don't let your fact finding mission end there. GoNOMAD has thousands of travel stories from around the world you can read through.
Check out your location's tourism board, the transportation systems, the hours of operations for your top destinations, research every minut detail of your excursion that might cause you anxiety. Even embassy and consulate information is important to have on you, just in case.
The more you know about your destination and all the possibilities it entails, the more confident you will feel about going there by your onesies.
Safety is another one of those universal issues for travelers in general, but again, it's an even more important consideration for the solo traveler.
Before you leave, you should take note of any districts that are known to be dangerous and try to avoid them the best you can. You should also let friends and family know where you are going and for how long. Also be sure to carry with you details on the nearest US embassy and any other emergency tourist information. Scanning your passport and drivers license and emailing them to yourself just in case can save yourself a lot of trouble if you ever lose your ID.
Do your best to not advertise yourself as a tourist. Or as Hannon advises, "travel to observe, not to be observed." Wear neutral colored dress, and if you can help it, clothes that are current and on the conservative side for your locale.
And for goodness sake stash the map and camera, and anything else that's considered a sign of affluence, they're dead give aways that you're an easy target for pickpockets and other scam artists.
It's best to avoid traveling after dark if you can. But if you must, be sure to look like you're walking with a purpose.
If you're being followed, go to the nearest crowded intersection or plaza then turn around and yell at them in English. Point, scream, what have you, just make sure to publicly shame them. Nine times out of ten this will be enough to scare them away.
If you're being followed in a less crowded area, duck into the nearest bar, home, or open establishment you can find, then ask for help.
Solo travel safety comes down to this: be aware of your surroundings at all times, plain and simple. So take out the ear buds and pay attention.
The Single Supplement
If you're more of a guided tour traveler, or even if you're planning on working with a customizable tour group company, there's another common hurdle to deal with: the dreaded single supplement.
"The single supplement is a fee that a single traveler must pay to obtain their own hotel room," Diana Ferro, Product Manager from Perillo Tours explains.
Perillo Tours, a New Jersey and Italy based guided tour company, offers a selection of itinerary based to fully customizable tours through out Italy, Hawaii, and Israel. And according to Ferro, unfortunately most trips do include some sort of single supplement. "This is not our company policy – this is standard policy for most hotels in Europe."
The logic behind the fee, according to industry insiders, is that the cost of the room upkeep between single and double occupancy are practically the same, so often times hotels will charge the going rate for a double regardless.
And even more frustrating is that some companies, depending on the tour, don't offer the single supplement as an option. Instead you'll get paired up with someone of the same gender, oftentimes based on a simple roommate survey.
But it's not completely a bust. If you shop smart, sometimes you can get the supplement waived, depending on when you book. Generally, booking really early or really late, and during the off season of your location is the best bet in avoiding a single supplement. And as always, don't be afraid to ask.
Super early birds will sometimes get their single supplements waived and other bonus discounts for snagging a spot, especially during the off season. Latecomers have a harder time of it, but if serendipity is on your side you can find your fee waived as well, as the staff of tour groups will bend over backwards to send off a full tour rather than an incomplete one.
Singles Travel International has a worldwide Solo Super Savers program that offers low to no single supplement deals. It's best to check this resource early, though, dates can be flexible depending on the tour, but usually are in the earlier part of the year and tend to favor river cruises over land excursions. And of course, there's a limited amount of these Super Saver deals, about five per trip, so search early.
Another great solo travel resource is Connecting: Solo Travel Network, a non-profit international organization focused on sharing great solo travel tips and tricks. Founded by veteren solo traveler Diane Redfern in 1990, the Canada based group does charge a one time registration fee. The fee varies between $25-30 depending on your location, but it allows you to browse all of CSTN's content, including three e-publications: the Single-Friendly Travel Directory,Going Solo Tales, and Going Solo Tips. However, CSTN also tracks single tours and cruises, worldwide. Calendars are available to the public with single occupancy tours marked.
Another common hang up to the solo traveler is loneliness. It can be very freeing to be the master of your daily itinerary (or lack there of) but traveling alone can get isolating pretty quick too.
Signing up for a walking tour is a great way to meet fellow travelers. You'll get a great view of the city and potential lunch and dinner partners too. So sign up for a walking tour your first day in a new place and try to initiate conversation with your fellow tourists. You never know, they might be interested in the same destinations as you are and you could find yourself some fast friends.
Context Travel does some great informational walking tours in select cities like London, Paris and Boston. Read more about Context Travel on GoNOMAD.
If you're feeling adventurous, eating at the corner spot at the the local bar can be a good idea as well. "Bartenders are pros at conversation," one travel editor at GoNOMAD explains. "Don't sit at a table. No one will try to talk to you at the table!" And he's right, sitting at the corner lets you talk to everyone else at the bar.
Stay away from the giant hotel megaplex too. They're impersonal and you end up feeling like a tiny ant in giant colony. Opt for a bed and breakfast instead. Usually B & B's are run by the locals, who can give you some unique recommendations of things to do in the area, and your more likely to get to know the counter staff here than at a large tourist hotel over the course of your stay.
Any smaller establishment, like a restaurants etc, are a good place to visit over and over again throughout your stay. Establishing yourself as a regular is a good solid foundation to get some friendly banter in, and who knows? Maybe the staff has some good tips to the local goings-ons.
Don't hesitate to ask- for restaurant recommendations, for directions, for tips, etc. Especially if you're shy, push yourself to talk to people and soon it will come naturally.
Evelyn Hannon's "Grandmother Tips"
Trade in your backpack for a shopping bag from the local super market. Backpacks are like tourist targets on your back to all those pickpockets. You'll blend in better with a shopping bag and it'll keep you from over packing.
Bring the front page of your local English and Chinese newspapers. Take out the Chinese front page for when you don't want to be bothered on public transit, which unless you're in China, works pretty well. When you're dining alone at lunch pull out the English front page and lay it on the table as a conversation starter.
Before you leave home, ask friends and family to audio record personal messages, whether its on a tape recorder or an .mp3 on your iPod. This way, when you're feeling a bit lonely, you'll have the sound of your love ones voices right there with you.
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First a designer, then an art director, both in advertising and publishing, now a painter. My books are currently a way of publishing to my friends the stuff they never get to see, and paintings they can't afford. Current books are themes that occur in my paintings, Erik for instance was from a set produced in Crete. Inspired buy the writings and characters of Linear A and B I have woven them into a myth story of a lost god. The travel books expose my love of photography. I hope they provide a valuable insight to places, cultures and people that expand our understanding of others.
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TUCSON, Ariz. - Colorado found a hint of offense on Saturday with a couple of new quarterbacks but didn't have a clue as to how to cope with Arizona's Ka'Deem Carey.
The sophomore running back slashed through the Buffaloes 25 times for a Pac-12 Conference record 366 yards and five touchdowns to push the Wildcats to a 56-31 victory and into the postseason in Rich Rodriguez's first season as head coach.
Arizona improved to 6-4 overall and 3-4 in the Pac-12, while CU lost its sixth consecutive game and fell to 1-9, 1-6. The Buffs finish with home games against Washington (Nov. 17) and Utah (Nov. 23). They have not won at Folsom Field yet this season.
Carey's rushing total broke the previous Pac-12/10 mark of 357 set by Washington State's Rueben Mayes in 1984 against Oregon. It also was the most ever against CU, surpassing the 268 by Kansas' David Winbush in 1998. Through three quarters, the 5-10, 197-pound Carey had rushed for 293 yards on 21 carries, with a career-long run of 71 yards. He entered the afternoon averaging 112.8 yards a game, with 13 TDs.
Asked by a reporter how Carey stacked up against other backs the Buffs have seen this season, CU coach Jon Embree said, "I don't believe you compare guys like that. Everybody's unique and different."
Both teams started new quarterbacks - B.J. Decker replacing injured Matt Scott for Arizona and Nick Hirschman replacing benched Jordan Webb for CU. Hirschman left the game in the third quarter with a head injury having completed 12 of 13 passes for 123 yards with one interception.
Embree said Hirschman "did a good job of managing the game - it was night and day (difference) from his last start at Arizona State (last season). He's really matured and come along."
Hirschman was spelled by Connor Wood, who guided the Buffs on fourth-quarter scoring drives of 64 and 75 yards. Freshman tailback Donta Abron scored his first college TD on a 10-yard run to cap the first march, and junior tight end Scott Fernandez's first career reception resulted in a 71-yard TD catch that also was Wood's first career scoring pass.
"We had some fight today," Wood said. "Some plays didn't go our way, but we've still got a lot in us. We were sure we were going to win this game . . . I know these next two games we want to finish real strong; we're focused to end it well."
Wood was "overall happy" about his performance and happier still about Fernandez's scoring reception. "He deserves it; he works hard," Wood said, adding he believed he proved something to the CU coaches. "I think I moved the chains well in the opportunities I had."
Wood's final passing stats: four-of-seven for 90 yards and one touchdown. Walk-on QB John Schrock took one snap on CU's final possession, marking his first career action.
The two TD marches directed by Wood only brought the Buffs to within 49-31 on an afternoon that was ruled by Carey running mostly unchecked through an overmatched, undermanned CU defense. The Wildcats finished with 574 yards in total offense, including 438 yards rushing.
CU finished with a season-best 225 yards rushing, with freshman tailback Christian Powell carrying 32 times for 137 yards and two TDs. Abron carried 13 times for 83 yards - both career highs - and one TD.
Powell said the Buffs "knew from structure of their defense we could have success running the ball . . . we were working on that all week."
Saturday marked Powell's third 100-yard rushing game this season. He said he simply was trying to follow his coaches' advice: "Our coaches tell us to come out and have fun, that's what I'm trying to do. You'd like to win, but when you're out there with all your boys and stuff . . . you try to make the most of these opportunities."
Abron, who played tailback while Powell was at fullback last year at Upland (Calif.) High School, got more work Saturday than in any previous game. He said it "felt great to get out on the field and show what I got." He credited "great blocking" from CU's line and receivers and said the offense as a whole was "better and more focused."
The Buffs got the game's first break - a fumble recovery by linebacker Derrick Webb - and took their first lead since the final seconds of their 35-34 win in the conference opener at Washington State. That was on Sept. 22, and since then CU's offense had gone into hibernation.
Need proof? The Buffs defeated the Wildcats 49-28 last season in Boulder, and in their five straight defeats since the win at Wazzu they had totaled 51 points.
But Saturday's start appeared promising. On the first play after Webb's recovery of a botched Decker handoff at the Arizona 7-yard line, Powell ran in for the touchdown and after Will Oliver's PAT, the Buffs led 7-0.
Of course, the euphoria was short-lived. Arizona zipped 80 yards in nine plays to tie the score at 7-7 on Carey's 10-yard run and John Bonano's extra point.
After submitted their longest possession of the season - 8:18 - but getting only an 18-yard field goal by Oliver out of it, the Buffs went back up 10-7. After that, they went into catch-up mode for the rest of the first half.
Arizona regained the lead (14-10) on a 13-yard run by Carey, then CU turned the ball over on a Hirschman interception - it was his first incompletion after hitting seven straight - by defensive back Tra'Mayne Bondurant, killing a promising Buffs drive at the Wildcats' 30.
Two plays later, Carey sprinted 30 yards through the CU defense, Bonano hit the PAT and Arizona was up 21-10 with 10:30 left before intermission.
The Buffs answered with another time-consuming drive - 7:46 - and this time got a touchdown out of it on Powell's 1-yard plunge to cap a 75-yard march. Oliver's extra point pulled CU to within 21-17, but the Buffs' problem was becoming obvious: Finding a semblance of offense was offset by their bend-and-break defense.
In contrast to CU's clock-chewing efforts, the Wildcats preferred chewing on the Buffs. Arizona answered CU's long drive by scoring in 1:28, scoring on a 21-yard Decker to Dan Buckner pass that completed a quick 79-yard, six-play possession. The Wildcats went up 28-17 and took that lead into the third quarter.
At halftime, CU was in the statistical battle, trailing Arizona 272-228 in total yardage and 13-12 in first downs. The possession time was a lopsided 22:53-7:07 in favor of the Buffs, who could only lament that minutes on offense can't be translated into points.
Needing a stop to open the second half, CU didn't come close to getting it. Arizona needed 1:53 and six plays to go 73 yards - 61 of it on three runs by Carey - and take a commanding 35-17 lead. Decker hit Buckner with a 9-yard pass for the TD, Bonano kicked the PAT and the Wildcats wondered if the Buffs would respond - and how long it might take.
No response this time; CU kept the ball for six plays before Darragh O'Neill was brought on to punt. One play before, Hirschman was sacked, spun to the turf and left the game with a head injury. The Buffs were penalized three times on that possession - a delay of game, a false start, interfering with a fair catch - and the Wildcats were awarded a short field for a 49-yard drive that would put the game away and send them into the postseason.
Carey added to his career day with an 8-yard scoring run - his fourth of the game - and Arizona was in command, 42-17, midway through the third quarter. Wood replaced Hirschman with 6:38 left in the period and stayed in for the rest of the game.
Carey and the Wildcats were from done. After Wood's first series, Carey broke free for a 71-yard run - his career long - to set up a 10-yard scoring run by Decker. That drive's vital stats: Two plays, 81 yards, 28 seconds. Even more vital: Arizona 49, CU 17 with a quarter to play.
Carey and the 'Cats kept on running and running - and the Buffs never caught up.
BUFF BITS: CU started six freshmen Saturday - five on defense and Powell. The six on defense: corners Kenneth Crawley and Yuri Wright, safety Marques Mosley, and defensive linemen Josh Tupou and Samson Kafovalu . . . . Junior defensive back Parker Orms (concussion symptoms) did not play, which left CU shorthanded in the secondary after Wright went to the sidelines in the second quarter with an ankle injury . . . . CU also lost senior tight end Nick Kasa in the first half after he experienced concussion symptoms . . . . If a first-quarter Hirschman-to-Abron screen pass would have held up, it would have given the Buffs one less yard than they gained all game (76) last week against Stanford. The pass-run play covered 75 yards, but was nullified by a holding call on guard Eric Richter.
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ZF-7423: Inexisting property _config in class Zend_Queue_Adapter_Db
In the receive function of the Db adapter, a call to $this->_config is done in the receive method whereas it should be $this->_options Patch:
Index: library/Zend/Queue/Adapter/Db.php
--- library/Zend/Queue/Adapter/Db.php (revision 17310)
+++ library/Zend/Queue/Adapter/Db.php (working copy)
@@ -349,7 +349,7 @@
$query = $db->select();
- if ($this->_config['options'][Zend_Db_Select::FOR_UPDATE]) {
+ if ($this->_options['options'][Zend_Db_Select::FOR_UPDATE]) {
// turn on forUpdate
Patch file added
Solved in SVN r17318 in trunk. It will be release at 1.9.1
Maybe a good idea to add/update the appropriate unittests?
Do you have nice idea to check difference of results whether lacks of [Zend_Db_Select::FOR_UPDATE] ?
Sorry, I suck at unittests. For the moment I'm reopening this issue until there's someone who knows how to add tests for this (or someone who says it's impossible to add tests for this).
The 2nd comment (Satoru Yoshida - 30/Jul/09 07:17 PM) states the fix would be released with 1.9.1. I can confirm the bug is still present in 1.9.2.
Thanks confirm, Antonio. Sorry. I forgot to merge into 1.9 branch. :-( So, I change the Fix Version to Next Minor.
I just saw that 1.9.3 is tagged. Regarding the previous comment, will this fix be included in 2.0? Because it's not included in the 1.9.3 release.
Jeroen - Once merged to the 1.9 release branch, we can release it. Satoru -- if you could please merge it ASAP, we can include it in 1.9.4 in early October.
(BTW, next minor release will be 1.10, and is some months away; we have twice-monthly maintenance releases between minor releases.)
Thanks for the heads up! And sorry for the misconception about minor-releases... of course 1.10 and not 2.0!
Hi, Jeroen and Matthew, I just merged into 1.9 branch at SVN r18384 from trunk 17318.
So we could see it solved in next mini :-)
Commit r18384 has another change that is not in accordance with this patch, Saturo can you comment on the diff?
just saw this change is no problem. sorry for the buzz


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As you may know, Colorado is one of the most beautiful states in the US and south western Colorado is spectacular when it comes to a place to cycle. One day at my local bike shop – Campus Cycles in Denver, I picked up a book called "Road Biking Colorado The Statewide Guide" by Michael Seeberg. This is a great book and for anyone wanting the perfect guide for cycling in Colorado, I highly recommend it. In the book the rides are listed by level of difficulty – Easy –Moderate –Difficult – Very Difficult. Personally wanting to conquer the most difficult ride in Colorado, I found what is called the DEATH RIDE LOOP – page 232-233 – listed Very Difficult. This is a spectacular loop made up of several highways in southwestern Colorado called the San Juan Skyway including US Highway 550 known as the Million Dollar Highway which you will experience right away on Day One from Silverton to Ouray over Red Mountain Pass.


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Farina Mir is a historian of colonial and postcolonial South Asia, with a particular interest in the social, cultural, and religious history of late-colonial north India. Her first book, The Social Space of Language: Vernacular Culture in British Colonial Punjab (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010) is a study of the Punjabi language and its literature under colonialism (from 1849-1947), with a particular focus on qisse, or epic stories/romances. The book was awarded the 2011 John F. Richard Prize in South Asian History from the American Historical Association and the 2012 Bernard Cohn Prize from the Association of Asian Studies. Mir has published in Comparative Studies in Society and History and the Indian Economic and Social History Review, and has been the recipient of fellowships from the Social Science Research Council, the Ford Foundation, and the Whiting Foundation, among others. She has held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University, and has taught at Cornell and the University of Virginia in addition to the University of Michigan.
Mir is currently working on two on projects. The first, tentatively titled "Producing Modern Muslims: Everyday Ethics in Late Colonial North India," is a study of Muslim socio-religious reform in late-colonial India, focusing on the role of popular ethics in constituting modern Muslim subjectivity and history. The second is "A History of Islam in South Asia," a synthetic history that covers the period from the rise of Islam to contemporary times.
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The Social Space of Language: Vernacular Culture in British Colonial Punjab, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010).
Punjab Reconsidered: History, Culture, and Practice, ed. Anshu Malhotra and Farina Mir. (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2012).
"Genre and Devotion in Punjab's Popular Narratives: Rethinking Cultural and Religious Syncretism," Comparative Studies in Society and History 48.3, July, 2006: 727-758.
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ZF-5818: parse_url() warnings and headers already sent when debugging with Zend Studio
This may be a problem with ZF, or Zend Studio or both...but it's a blocker and something should be done.
I've been using ZF for a half year now, upgrading everytime a new release is out. I used all versions since 1.5, and now when reaching 1.7.3 I ran into trouble.
Since 1.7.3 Zend_Controller_Request_Http::setRequestUri() has been changed, and now uses parse_url() on the request uri. When debugging with Zend Studio, this line (see <== PROBLEMATIC LINE below) causes a number of Warnings, and causing the headers to be already sent. All new versions (1.7.4 and 1.7.5) also have the same problem.
The debugging URL Zend Studio constructs is the following:
bq. http://127.0.0.1/melzoo/public_html/…
And this fails on the parse_url() line.
As I said, this may not be a bug, but it's a blocker for me, being stuck at version 1.7.2, and not being able to upgrade.
h3. New problematic code:
public function setRequestUri($requestUri = null)
if ($requestUri === null) {
if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REWRITE_URL'])) { // check this first so IIS will catch
$requestUri = $_SERVER['HTTP_X_REWRITE_URL'];
} elseif (isset($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])) {
$requestUri = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']) && strstr($requestUri, $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'])) {
$pathInfo = parse_url($requestUri, PHP_URL_PATH); // <== PROBLEMATIC LINE
$queryString = parse_url($requestUri, PHP_URL_QUERY);
$requestUri = $pathInfo
. ((empty($queryString)) ? '' : '?' . $queryString);
} elseif (isset($_SERVER['ORIG_PATH_INFO'])) { // IIS 5.0, PHP as CGI
$requestUri = $_SERVER['ORIG_PATH_INFO'];
if (!empty($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])) {
$requestUri .= '?' . $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];
} else {
return $this;
} elseif (!is_string($requestUri)) {
return $this;
} else {
// Set GET items, if available
if (false !== ($pos = strpos($requestUri, '?'))) {
// Get key => value pairs and set $_GET
$query = substr($requestUri, $pos + 1);
parse_str($query, $vars);
$this->_requestUri = $requestUri;
return $this;
h3. Old working code:
public function setRequestUri($requestUri = null)
if ($requestUri === null) {
if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REWRITE_URL'])) { // check this first so IIS will catch
$requestUri = $_SERVER['HTTP_X_REWRITE_URL'];
} elseif (isset($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])) {
$requestUri = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']) && strstr($requestUri, $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'])) {
$requestUri = preg_replace('#^[^:]*://[^/]*/#', '/', $requestUri); // <== ORIGINAL LINE
} elseif (isset($_SERVER['ORIG_PATH_INFO'])) { // IIS 5.0, PHP as CGI
$requestUri = $_SERVER['ORIG_PATH_INFO'];
if (!empty($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])) {
$requestUri .= '?' . $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];
} else {
return $this;
} elseif (!is_string($requestUri)) {
return $this;
} else {
// Set GET items, if available
if (false !== ($pos = strpos($requestUri, '?'))) {
// Get key => value pairs and set $_GET
$query = substr($requestUri, $pos + 1);
parse_str($query, $vars);
$this->_requestUri = $requestUri;
return $this;
Is the debugging URL you provided the one that causes the failure, or some other URL?
The URL I provided is what Zend Studio creates when you click the "Debug" button. It takes the simple URL (in my case: http://127.0.0.1/melzoo/public_html/ ) and adds serveral values for debugging purposes. Surfing to the basic URL works fine, but I cannot debug this way. This is why I suggested that this may be a Zend Studio issue, and not a ZF issue.
However, it's a blocker for anyone using ZF on Zend Studio.
If it's in anyway possible, I'd like to see the old implementation back in the new versions. Not sure how this would effect everything else though.
Or if there's another way...
parse_url() was introduced for two reasons: 1) to fix another bug that was showing, and 2) because it did all the work we needed (i.e., why reinvent the wheel?)
I think this is likely a Studio problem, and I'll try and get somebody from the Studio team to look into why it fails.
I'm fairly certain this is one of two things:
- A bug with Studio
- A PHP version issue
The second argument to parse_url() was added in PHP 5.1.2; check to make sure that the PHP interpreter that you're using with Zend Studio is at least that version (better, yet, make sure it's at least our minimum supported version of 5.2.4).
Additionally, note this caveat in the documentation for parse_url: "On seriously malformed URLs, parse_url() may return FALSE and emit a E_WARNING." That said, I took the URL you provided above verbatim, and did the following:
error_reporting(E_ALL | E_STRICT);
ini_set('display_errors', true);
$url = 'http://127.0.0.1/melzoo/public_html/…';
echo parse_url($url, PHP_URL_PATH);
That code emitted no warnings, and returned the expected "/melzoo/public_html/" (run on PHP 5.2.8). This tells me that it's definitely environment related. Check the items I note above.
Thanks for getting into this on such short notice.
I have read your advice carefully, but could not find any issues with my environment. I do have 5.2.5, which should be OK. I also tested your code fragment, and that worked fine too, but I think ZF only runs the parse_url() function on a part of the URL, not the entire URL.
...and yes, I have checked it now and what really happens is this:
$pathInfo = parse_url("/buggy/public_html/?use_remote=1&debug_session_id=1004&start_debug=1&debug_start_session=1&debug_host=10.37.129.2%2C10.211.55.2%2C192.168.0.193%2C127.0.0.1&debug_no_cache=1234951691096&debug_fastfile=1&debug_port=10137&send_sess_end=1&original_url=http://127.0.0.1/", PHP_URL_PATH); // THIS LINE RETURNS FALSE AND CAUSES THE WARNING
Basically, the host part is left out.
I have also tried to recreate the problem in a small project, and was succesfull. The project runs, but throws a lot of these parse_url() warnings. In my original project, I get a "headers already sent" problem, caused by the warnings.
I'm attaching the project archive now.
Maybe you could look into this, or pass it along to the Zend Studio people. Either way, I'm stuck on 1.7.2 for the time being.
Zend Studio (Eclipse) Archive which should illustrate the problem. Simply import it into your workspace
I have posted more info and a test project
Daniel Freudenberger contacted me today with some more info. Since he can't post on the issue tracker, I'm posting his message. Maybe his insight can be of further use.
He wrote:
The line which causes the problem is not the line you've mentioned (the one with parse_url in it). The problem is caused by the if statement above.
if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']) && strstr($requestUri, $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'])) {
In some cases, $requestUri contains the complete URL (including protocol and hostname). In this case the if-statement should be triggered. You're case is different: $requestUri doesn't contain the protocol and hostname, but it contains the hostname as a get-parameter ($original_url). In this case the if statement should evaluate to false, but it doesn't.
A fix for this problem would be following:
$pos = strpos($requestUri, '://'); $str = substr($requestUri, $pos);
if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']) && strpos($requestUri, $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']) === 0) { ... }
Sorry for my bad english, but I hope you got the problem :)
I've come up against this problem as well. The issue is, as Daniel Freudenberger wrote, with the line:
if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']) && strstr($requestUri, $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'])) {
The issue is simple, the second part of that line checks for the existence of the server's hostname ANYWHERE in the request URI.
The issue only affects requests where the hostname of the server exists elsewhere in the request URI. For this reason it affects most OpenID callback requests causing them to fail!
I was going to fix this on our local copy, but I'd be more comfortable with an upstream fix.
Perhaps a solution would be to check that the first character isn't a slash (/) as well?
if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']) && strpos('/', $requestUri) !== 0 && strstr($requestUri, $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'])) {
This would also yeild better performance for the (more common) scenario where the REQUEST_URI is a relative path.
If you find a solution, can you post it here, please? For some strange reason I'm not experiencing this problem anymore.
I've upgraded Zend Studio to 6.1.1 (up from 6.1.0), maybe this has something to do with it...
I'm now successfully using ZF 1.7.5 instead of 1.7.2.
Typo in the fix, got the parameter ordering wrong. Should be: if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']) && strpos($requestUri, '/') !== 0 && strstr($requestUri, $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'])) {
I got hit with the same problem. This is the repro code.
echo parse_url("/path/to/?test=http://www.example.com", PHP_URL_PATH);
result: PHP Warning: parse_url(/path/to/?test=http://www.example.com): Unable to parse url in /root/- on line 2
This is unformed request's problem, not Zend Studio's.The one at fault is the bad request, But any client can request it.
I tested Nick's code. It works fine. By the way ,In this case, Doesn't it have to throw "Bad Request Exception" ?
It seems there's a solution available. Where do we go from here? I don't know how to publish the solution.
I may be showing my ignorance, but wouldn't the code in Zend_Controller_Request_Http::setRequestUri() be better as something like:
// Try to parse Url $pathInfo = @parse_url($requestUri, PHP_URL_PATH); if (!$pathInfo){ // We have an invalid url, that we need to handle here. }
Why can't ZF just suppress the error and handle the case where a URL is not passable if the result is false?
Rather than check if it starts with a / wouldn't it be much more accurate and less prone to future bugs if you did a regexp? Like:
if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']) && preg_match('/^https?:\/\/'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].'/', $requestUri)) {
OK, considering this bit of code happens on every request I made an effort to not have to use a regexp for performance sake. On top of that, I was able to get rid of the parse_url calls all together, using a simple substr and strlen, which is also gonna help performance some. And, I think I've also avoided future bugs by using the built in getScheme and getHttpHost methods, so now we'll make sure to check protocol and port. We were not checking either before.
Matthew, please checkout the patch files I attached here. I've included the bug fix in Http.php.patch and also made good improvements to the unit testing for this section of the code (HttpTest.php.patch). You had two different tests before, and one case was not covered, which is what this bug is. Furthermore, the tests were not even checking http over ssl and non-standard ports. As I said before though, considering the code didn't even support that, I guess we couldn't test for it ;) Anyway, now there is one test that tests all cases. BTW, the test I removed you had labeled it @group ZFI-233. Not even sure what that refers to (ZFI)? So, I left it in as an additional group for that new comprehensive test case.
Last but not least. This bug was actually introduced as a result of a request I made a long time ago (which you fixed):
Considering I didn't provide much help outside of reporting that bug, I guess I owe you and its only fitting that I provide a fix for this bug :)
I uploaded a new unit test patch file. I had a couple bugs in the other one and I think this is better with 3 separate tests anyway.
Fixed in trunk. The patched code was missing a '://' when building the host and scheme, but that was quickly found and detected; the tests worked perfectly as use cases - thanks!


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The ninth bi-annual 2012 Brewers Association World Beer Cup just announced the winners. An elite international panel of suds sippers slogged their way through 3,921 beers in 95 beer style categories from 54 countries.
And our own Squatters was the only Utah brand to bring home awards this year, bringing their total World Beer Cup award count to 12, that is more awards than Sierra Nevada, Widmer, Pyramid, New Belgium, Full Sail and Deschutes to name a few very recognizable breweries.
Big Cottonwood won GOLD American Style Amber or Red Ale 68 entries (this was one of 11 categories this year that had more than 68 entries)
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Patrick McGovern is the Scientific Director of the Biomolecular Archaeology Project for Cuisine, Fermented Beverages, and Health at the University of Pennsylvania Museum in Philadelphia, where he is also an Adjunct Professor of Anthropology. In the popular imagination, he is known as the "Indiana Jones of Ancient Ales, Wines, and Extreme Beverages." Read more
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May 25, 2016: New York Times: China's Craft Breweries Find They May Have a 5,000-Year-Old Relative , by Austin Ramzy.
May 24, 2016: NPR, The Salt: 5,000-year-old Chinese Beer Recipe Revealed, by Madeline K Sofia.
May 23, 2016, National Geographic: 5,000-Year-Old Microbrewery Found in China, by Adam Hoffman.
May 23, 2016, AFP: Ancient Chinese Pottery Reveals 5,000-yr-old Beer Brew, by Jean-Louis Santini.
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Dec., 2015: the.black.sheep: Origins of Alcohol, Part I: Jiahu, by D. J. Lewis.
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Sept. 30, 2015: Wine Spectator: Veni, Vidi, Vinum, by "Dr. Vinny."
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In July 2009 an amateur metal-detecting enthusiast made an astonishing find: 1,500 pieces of bejeweled gold and silver almost 1,500 years old, buried, lost, then forgotten. The treasure trove promises to shed unprecedented light on the most mysterious period of British history—the so-called "Dark Ages"—when the Saxons, Anglos, Celts, Picts, Jutes, and Vikings battled for control of the British Isles and a "mish mash of peoples evolved into a homogenous nation possessed with a strong cultural identity," according to New York Times bestselling author of the book, Caroline Alexander.
Alexander, author of the bestselling The Endurance and The Bounty, draws themes from the story of the spectacular treasure to explore the entire fascinating history of the Saxons in England; from the fall of Rome to the flourishing and seemingly incomprehensible spread of Saxon influence. Piece by piece, she draws readers into a world of near constant warfare guided by a unique understanding of Christianity, blended as it was with pagan traditions. Through heroic and epic literature that survives in poems such as Beowulf and the Legends of King Arthur, Alexander seeks to separate myth from reality and wonder, with readers, if the circumstances of the deposit of such a spectacular hoard have parallels in legendary tales. Peering through a millennia of mist and mystery, Alexander reveals a fascinating era—and a mesmerizing discovery—as never before, uncovering a dynamic period of history that would see its conclusion in the birth of the English nation.
Set in a landscape whose beauty endures, the story of the making of England emerges through a wealth of archaeological and written material. The story highlights the fluid nature of human societies and carries a surprisingly modern message of a successful, cohesive culture emerging from a diverse group of peoples.
Caroline Alexander is the bestselling author of The Endurance and The Bounty, and is widely recognized for her nonfiction writing. She is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, Granta, Conde Nast Traveler, and National Geographic magazine.
Dr. Kevin Leahy, National Adviser for the Portable Antiquities Scheme at the British Museum, specializes in Medieval metalwork and is the expert who has been studying the hoard.
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I bought this for my partner and myself after getting the DVD of the same name. It was really great to be able to sit and pore over the pictures of the more notable pieces at leisure. The detailed photos alone are worth perusing the book for, but it is also rich in text, adding alot of context and history to the background of this find. Excellent for someone avidly interested in Saxon history (like my partner) or for anyone interested in modern-day treasure finds. The book has lots of information, but is easy to understand.
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Online translation on the rise, changing lives
In this April 4, 2013 photograph, the Smith women, from left, mother Niki Smith, GiGi, 3, Macy Jade, 7 and Guan Ya, 14, use Google Translate on the family laptop to "speak" with their new daughter, Guan Ya, in their Rienzi, Miss., home. The Smiths and their children are using the Google Translate program to communicate almost exclusively with Guan Ya, who is deaf. The family uses iPhones, iPods and a laptop, all loaded with the program to write in either English that translates to Chinese or vice-a-versa. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)


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