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"He Was Lying About the HIV Test"
Ann Silver* isn't easily swept off her feet. A tough-talking, darkly funny woman, Silver, 45, dated plenty of men in her 20s and 30s, but took none of them seriously, until six years ago when she met Wesley. He was smart, sexy, and well-read, and seemed to savor her flaws as well as her fire. They watched the sunset together almost every night, strolled through San Diego's Balboa Park on weekends, played golf, or simply lay entwined on her couch. At 190 pounds with a strapping build, Wesley "was the healthiest man I knew," says Silver, who works as a corporate manager. "And he made me feel loved, unconditionally. I'd never felt that before."
Still, she was no pushover. Before they went to bed for the first time, Silver was characteristically blunt: She'd been checked for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) during a routine physical exam and had tested negative, she told him. Then she asked, "What about you?"
Wesley smiled and caressed Silver's dark, shoulder-length hair. "I get tested every year," he said. "I just had one, and I'm fine." They didn't bother with condoms because neither liked using them, and Silver, then 39, wasn't worried about getting pregnant; Wesley said he'd had a vasectomy.
That part was true. But he was lying about the HIV test.
On Valentine's Day 2006, nearly three years into what Silver had assumed was a monogamous relationship, Wesley lay near death in a hospital — gaunt, unable to breathe, and in a coma his doctors had induced in order to stop his organs from shutting down. He'd suddenly taken ill a few weeks earlier, and Silver had no idea what was wrong with him. When she bombarded the doctors with questions, they were strangely evasive.
At home later, she typed Wesley's symptoms into her computer browser: diarrhea, fatigue, no appetite, difficulty breathing. "HIV kept coming up," Silver says. She stayed on the Internet for two sleepless nights, frantically researching the disease. Then it struck her: The previous month, she'd come down with what had seemed like the flu — high fever and a sore throat so painful it felt as if she'd swallowed glass. Antibiotics made her feel better. But two weeks later, hives had erupted on her legs and stomach. Now, cold with fear, Silver realized that many of her maladies matched the symptoms people sometimes develop a few weeks to a month after contracting HIV.
Early the next morning, she walked into a neighborhood clinic and asked for an HIV test, her first in over a year. A nurse took a blood sample and returned 10 minutes later. "You tested positive for the virus," she said. "But the test is only 99.6 percent accurate. You'll need to get a confirmatory test."
"I'd go to Vegas with those odds," Silver replied.
Returning to the hospital, she stared at the man lying comatose on the bed, as if seeing him for the first time. "He had AIDS," she says. "How had I missed it? He looked like Tom Hanks in Philadelphia." From the decimated state of Wesley's immune system, doctors estimated that he had been carrying the virus, untreated, for nearly a decade. (Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is the final, full-blown stage of infection, when the body can no longer fight the disease on its own.)
Back in the 1990s, that diagnosis might have sealed both their fates. But Wesley — who, it turned out, had been cheating on Silver with five other women, all of whom he had lied to — survived. Silver nursed him back from the brink and then broke up with him. Today she is a woman in her prime, asymptomatic, who expects to live fully and die old. But she is still incredulous at her fate. "I am the girl next door," she says. "I look like everybody else. My only crime was to have unprotected sex with the man I loved."
HIV is on the move again — and this time it is climbing the social ladder, reaching into the ranks of middle-aged, well-educated professional women who have long assumed they live comfortably beyond its grip. Unaware of the danger, most over-40 women are, like Silver, making a deadly gamble: They are trusting the men in their lives and doing little to protect themselves from the virus.
* Some names have been changed.
Risky Business
The rate of new HIV infection among women in the United States has stabilized since the early 1990s at about 15,000 a year. Yet because of improved treatment, more American women are living with HIV/AIDS than before, constituting over a quarter of the nation's estimated 1.1 million-person case load (up from eight percent of the total in 1985). The disease continues to hit low-income African-American and Latina women the hardest; black women of any income level are 21 times more likely than white women to contract AIDS. But there is one new and frightening trend, and it is epitomized by Ann Silver, a 45-year-old heterosexual woman: Today, one in three women newly infected with HIV is over 40 years old; one in four is between ages 40 and 49. "We are the hidden epidemic," she says.
How these women get the disease is no mystery. In 2006, eight in 10 newly infected women were exposed to the virus the old-fashioned way: by having unprotected sex with their husbands, boyfriends, or casual flings. Over-40 women may be particularly at risk because, unconcerned about getting pregnant, they often don't use condoms, the best available safeguard against HIV transmission. (One recent British study found that only 29 percent of women ages 35 to 44 used a condom with a new partner, compared with 67 percent of women ages 16 to 19.) This blind spot about AIDS is particularly dangerous for midlife women who are dating again after divorce. "You're relying on the rules from 20 or 30 years ago, but the rules have changed," says Susan Cu-Uvin, MD, director of the Immunology Center at Miriam Hospital, at Brown University, and an expert on midlife women with the virus. "You have to realize that HIV is one of the perils of living in this age and wanting to have sex." And that includes married sex.
"Mature women assume their partners are monogamous, and that gives them a false sense of security," says Kimberly Workowski, MD, professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Emory University. "They're very shocked when they find out that their partner was having sexual contact with other women or with men."
There are no reliable numbers on how many married men — or women — are unfaithful to their spouses. But recent studies suggest that at least 22 percent of married men and 13 percent of married women engage in extramarital sex at one time or another during their relationship. (Some experts think the numbers, particularly for men, are much higher.) Is a straying husband more likely to use a condom? The story of former New York governor Eliot Spitzer suggests that wives shouldn't bet on it: He reportedly refused to use condoms with prostitutes, putting his wife at risk for the disease. "Men are willing to take the chance of infecting their wives, because he can't come home after 25 years of marriage and say, 'Honey, I think we should start using condoms,'" says Donna Gallagher, a nurse practitioner who directs the New England AIDS Education and Training Center, in Boston. "That's going to give it away. Married women may actually be at higher risk of getting the disease, because they're having unprotected sex."
Back in 1989, Carole, then 42, started suffering from a strange assortment of ailments that her doctors couldn't account for: chronic yeast infections, swollen lymph nodes, inflammatory pelvic infections, painful numbing in her feet and drastic weight loss. At the time, Carole had just quit her job as a marketing executive and was taking classes to become a radiologist. One night as she lay in bed studying for a test on the immune system, she noticed that the symptoms associated with AIDS matched her own. She says, "I pointed to the section in my textbook and said to my husband, 'Hey, do you think there's any chance I could have this?' That was my way of asking him, politely, 'Is there anything I need to know about what you've done?' And he turned to me and said, 'Of course not!'"
She wouldn't learn the truth until almost four years later, in 1993, when a rheumatoid arthritis doctor, unable to find any other explanation for Carole's collection of symptoms, finally asked if there were any chance she could be at risk for HIV. As Carole remembers it, she laughed and said, "Gee, I don't think so. But go ahead, test me, and let's eliminate that possibility." When she brought the results home, her husband broke down. He had cheated on her with another man, he admitted, and he hadn't used condoms.
Men who have sex with both men and women — sometimes referred to as men on the down low — "are a significant bridge for HIV transmission to women," says CDC researcher Linda Valleroy, who conducted a 2003 study on the subject. About one in 10 men who have sex with men have also had sex with women in the past year, often without condoms. Furthermore, experts estimate that two-thirds of women involved with actively bisexual men don't know it.
Today, Carole and her husband are still together. He's asymptomatic; she has full-blown AIDS. "People ask me how I could forgive him," she says. "I have to tell you: Initially, I was pretty goddamn mad at him. I had a rocker in my bedroom, and I used to sit in it and think, hmm, should I kill him?" But Carole loves her husband, raised two children with him, and sees no point in ditching their comfortable life together. He also promised he wouldn't have sex with anyone else, and she believes he hasn't. Plus, she admits, she needs his financial support: Her medication alone runs $1,000 a month. No longer able to work full time, she couldn't afford the expensive treatment without her husband's income and insurance. "He never set out to give me this disease," she says. "I can forgive the infidelity. What hurt me the most was that he didn't protect me."
Deadly Delays
Whether married, dating, or single, midlife women who are sexually active in the age of AIDS are caught in a perfect epidemiological storm. Their very biology makes women twice as likely as men to contract the virus from heterosexual sex: The vagina has a much larger area of exposed skin and tissue than the penis. Infected semen contains a far higher concentration of the virus than do vaginal secretions, and semen transmits HIV eight times more efficiently. Yet physicians, by their own admission in numerous interviews for this story, often don't consider HIV when they examine women past their reproductive years and may be unlikely to offer a routine test. Even classic symptoms of the virus — chronic yeast infections, extreme fatigue, night sweats — are sometimes mistaken for menopause or other signs of aging. "It is amazing how badly we doctors do this," says Cu-Uvin, who directs a clinic in Providence, Rhode Island, that provides special services for menopausal women with HIV. "We seem to think there is an age when women stop having sex. You see a 54-year-old woman, and you will blame everything else for her symptoms before you think of HIV."
It took Carole three and a half years to be diagnosed, during which time at least 10 specialists suggested she might have lupus, chronic fatigue syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, or even a rare infection picked up overseas. One doctor said the problem might be in her head and prescribed a tranquilizer. "I had all the classic symptoms that should have screamed 'Test this woman for HIV!'" Carole says. "But not one doctor asked me about my sex life, which I find insulting."
By the time they are diagnosed, many midlife women are, like Carole, already very sick, sometimes with AIDS, the cluster of life-threatening conditions and cancers caused by long-term infection with the virus. In surveying her roughly 100 midlife patients, Gallagher found that many had been infected for four to five years before doctors thought to test them. "The more you look like their wife or mother or daughter, the less the doctor wants to talk about HIV," she says. Today, more than one-third of American women with HIV are tested so late that they are diagnosed with AIDS within a year. Midlife women have even less breathing room: In Massachusetts, 38 percent of women over 50 who've just been diagnosed with HIV progress to AIDS within a mere two months. Half of Gallagher's newly diagnosed patients, ages 50 and older, already had AIDS when they were tested; the rate was only slightly lower for women in their 40s.
Many doctors now recommend that women ask for an HIV test as a matter of routine during their yearly physical or ob-gyn checkup. "Your chances are better the earlier the disease is caught," says Judy Currier, MD, a professor of medicine at the University of California at Los Angeles and a pioneer researcher into women and HIV/AIDS. Even women with late-stage infections can benefit from using anti-HIV drugs, called anti retrovirals, which can reduce the blood level of the virus and boost immune response. But after years of carrying the virus, women may have any number of serious infections or diseases that make treatment more difficult, side effects more pronounced, and recovery less likely. "If you treat somebody early, before her immune system has failed, she may live to be as old as your grandparents," says Gallagher, who has cared for people with HIV since 1982. "That's what's taken away from women when they're diagnosed late. Even women who are still here are much more frail."
Surviving the Social — and Sexual — Stigma
Learning you have HIV is only the beginning of a strange, uncharted journey, women say, one with repercussions for every relationship. "All my friends walked away from me," Carole says. "My best friend just couldn't deal with seeing me sick, couldn't deal with the changes in me. But I said, goddamn it, I'm Irish. They're not going to kill me that easily." Carole roared into gear. She spoke widely about her experience and for a time ran an HIV-education program. But, despite all that high-profile activism, Carole isn't using her last name for this story because she doesn't want to hurt her husband or lose any more friends who might avoid her if they knew she had AIDS. "Women with this disease tend to hide in the shadows," she says. "And I can understand why, judging from the reaction of family and friends."
Delores, 48, an elegant African-American woman with closely cropped white hair, also chose to come out fighting, only to become a bit more circumspect about whom she tells. (She, too, chose to use only her first name for this article.) Eight years ago she had a well-paying job at a pharmaceutical firm, a great apartment, a tight bond with her children, and a new boyfriend she really liked. "I was taking life by storm," she says. "My older daughter was getting ready to go to college. I finally felt that I had done something, and I was happy." She didn't ask her boyfriend to use a condom when they had sex because she'd had her tubes tied. As for HIV, it never crossed her mind. "I can honestly say the message was there, but it wasn't a message I heard often in my circle of life," she says. "Never did I dream this guy was infected. He had a good job, took care of himself, and lived well. I don't think he thought he was infected."
The first glimmer of awareness came when Delores's boyfriend told her that he had come down with hepatitis C, a virus that can, though rarely, be spread through unprotected sex. When Delores went to get tested, her doctor suggested an HIV check as well. "Why not?" Delores agreed. The results showed she didn't have hepatitis. But her HIV test said, in red letters, "positive."
When Delores told her boyfriend about the diagnosis, he promptly dropped out of her life. She also told her mother, her three sisters and her entire church. "I got up in front of 500 people," she says, sounding as if she still can't quite believe she did it. But talking about HIV to her children, especially her younger daughter, was a different story; she didn't want her kids to know until she could talk to them without falling apart. "I hid it very well," she says. "I cried in the shower, where no one would hear me. I took more showers! I was the cleanest person walking around."
She bustled her older daughter, then 18, off to college, and broke the news to her six months later. But her younger daughter, then 9, found out on her own. Delores had been taking her every month to their local health center, where the girl played in the children's area and Delores attended a support group for women with HIV that met in a room nearby. Delores hadn't noticed the poster in the waiting area, displaying a typical array of anti-HIV medication. But the little girl saw it. One night on the way home, she started to cry. "Those are the drugs you take," Delores remembers her saying. "Those are the drugs you have in your cabinet. You have AIDS, and you're going to die."
From that day on, every night before bed, Delores read to her daughter about people living fully, despite the disease. "We would read stories and testimonies," she says. "What I learned, she learned." And part of what Delores learned was to wrap some privacy around her family. "If I didn't have children, I would come out, full-fledged," she says. "But I need to protect my youngest child, because kids can be cruel."
Some women never tell their children that they're infected. One of Gallagher's patients, a dignified African-American woman in Boston, went to her grave without revealing it. "Her five children to this day do not know that she died of AIDS," Gallagher says. "Or that their father, who infected her after seeing prostitutes for years, also died of it."
But that wasn't Delores's style. Getting HIV was a turning point for her — and not all of what happened next was bad: She quit her job, started giving talks about the virus in schools and prisons, and now coordinates a program for youths and families dealing with the disease. "This is my life calling," she says. "This I learned raw." Then, a few years ago, without really looking, Dolores met a gentle, thoughtful man who felt right. Telling him about her condition was hard. "I was at his house, and it was getting hot and heavy. I said, 'I have something to tell you. I'm HIV-positive. Now you can take me home.'"
"He just stood there and looked at me," Delores says. "And then he cried."
Today they're married, and their only nod to the disease is that Delores's husband uses condoms and gets annual HIV screenings. "But we're not too sexually active," Delores admits. "The medications do tap into that. Plus, I'm going through the changes. So sex isn't the biggest thing on my list."
Don't tell that to Ann Silver. She loves sex and misses it terribly — particularly kissing. But forging new relationships, romantic or otherwise, has been a challenge since her diagnosis. Desperate for an opportunity to talk about Lola, her nickname for the virus, Silver went to Christie's Place (christiesplace.org), a lovely Victorian house in San Diego where HIV-positive women and their children come for a wide array of social services, healthcare, computer training, and even food and a haircut when they need it. Irene, the counseling group's no-nonsense leader, saw right through Silver's bravado. "You need to cry," she said.
"I wanted her to be my mommy for a minute," Silver admits. She still hasn't told her own mother that she has HIV. "I'm her baby, and she'd be so proud of how I'm handling this," Silver says. "But I'm afraid she'll think that I'm going to die." That's one reason why she isn't using her real name in this story. The other is that she's afraid of losing her job.
Silver soon gravitated to the Web, where her acidly funny blog on POZ, a magazine and Web site for HIV-positive men and women, drew raves from readers. "It was a safe place where everyone was just like me," she says. But finding a new love was hard. Two years ago, she got up the courage and responded to an ad for a "man seeking woman" on Craigslist. She confided, right away, that she had HIV; he wrote back that he wasn't worried. They met at a bar. "He was a total roughneck, tattoos everywhere, piercings, shaved head," Silver says. "Not my typical date."
They had chemistry, though. After one drink and some light banter, Tattoo Man (Silver's term) leaned over and kissed her. "Oh my god that felt good," Silver wrote on her blog. "I love kissing. But, more important, he was negative and kissing me. Woohoo! I'm normal again." They made out like teenagers in a parking lot (Silver says she can never go to that bar again), then promised to see each other very soon.
She wrote him the next day, but heard nothing back. Two weeks passed. Finally, after Silver fired off another e-mail, Tattoo Man responded: "Hey, sorry I haven't gotten back to you. After you and I made out so intensely, I got really freaked out. I ended up going to Urgent Care the next day because I thought you might have given it to me."
The next time she met a good-looking man at a bar and he asked for her phone number, Silver froze. You do not want to know me, dude, she thought to herself. What I've got to tell you, you can't handle.
But dating only men with HIV, as many positive women do, didn't feel right either. Stephen*, whom she met through Christie's Place, was handsome, sweet, and very interested. They went out a couple of times. But there was a problem that Silver just couldn't get over. "It was so obvious he had HIV," she says, aware of how that sounds. "He took meds and had some facial wasting. I'm just not ready for that. "It turns out HIV is not a bonding agent," she adds wryly. "I wish it was, but it's just not."
Silver hasn't given up. "Hopefully this new year will bring love back into my life," she says. "I'm hoping the stigma associated with this virus has lost its momentum." Silver recently posted her own singles ad on Craigslist. "I am ready to rejoin the dating world," she wrote.
How to Protect Yourself
Using a latex barrier such as a condom is an extremely effective way to prevent the transmission of the AIDS virus during sex, and only you can decide if it seems wise to ask your husband or partner to use one. Mary Gwynn, an HIV educator on Cape Cod, in Massachusetts, uses a simple rule of thumb when she counsels women: If there's even a little chink, a little waver in my trust, I need to back it up with some latex.
Even if condoms don't seem necessary, every sexually active woman should have an HIV test every year. Make a habit of asking for one at your physical or gynecological exam. (It is covered by most insurance companies; check with yours first to be sure.) Your husband or partner should get checked too. Many states also provide free, anonymous testing through their departments of health (Google "free anonymous AIDS test" and the name of your state). The process is surprisingly easy: The so-called rapid test costs just $10 and provides a result in only 10 minutes (you'll need to get a confirmatory test if yours comes back positive). Some don't even require giving blood; doctors can swab the inside of your mouth or use a urine sample.
Removing the stigma of HIV testing will go a long way toward defeating this disease, experts say. Health officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are urging doctors to integrate testing so seamlessly into healthcare that any time a person between the ages of 13 and 64 enters a clinic, doctor's office or hospital, they'll be given one, unless they specifically decline. As Carole puts it, "It's always better to know. And if you're diagnosed, don't give up or hide. Hope and health are the two most important things."
Helping Women Live Longer
The newest generation of anti-HIV drugs — a multi-drug combination called highly active antiretroviral therapy — may in some cases reduce AIDS deaths by 80 percent, if treatment begins before there is major damage to the immune system and if the medications are taken diligently. "Folks who have HIV disease today can anticipate a normal lifespan," says Kevin Cranston, director of the HIV/AIDS Bureau for the Massachusetts Department of Health. "That's something I could never have dreamed of at the beginning of this epidemic."
Another big plus: The multi-drug regimen appears to be less toxic to women than older drugs were. Tested almost exclusively on men, some of the earliest anti-HIV drugs were later found to hurt women's livers or cause birth defects. One powerful drug that Carole took for years eventually caused lipodystrophy, a sometimes disfiguring shift of body fat. "I used to be beautiful," Carole says. "But now my face is sucked in. And with my high cheekbones, it's really pronounced." Oddly, lipodystrophy melts fat away in the face, arms and legs while adding it to the abdomen, breasts and back. "I have skinny little arms, no ass and big boobies," Carole admits. "It's a real chore to find clothes."
The newest medications don't seem to have those effects, says UCLA's Judy Currier. However, not everyone can tolerate them, and the jury is still out on their long-term safety: There's evidence that the regimen, combined with the underlying HIV, may increase the risk of heart attack, diabetes, high cholesterol, and poor bone density. Nonetheless, Currier is pleased at the progress. "We lost so many people because we didn't have effective drugs," she says. "It's difficult to live with HIV, but, ultimately, treatment is what keeps people alive."
Alexis Jetter teaches journalism at Dartmouth. Her last piece for MORE was a profile of Janet Napolitano, in March 2008.
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Utah's State Drinking Water Board had demanded that Logan city officials up reservoir capacity by 1.5 million gallons to keep up with rapid population growth. The city's existing reservoirs were ancient and leaking badly. Rather than buy land for a new reservoir, the city opted to revamp the existing one. Unfortunately, the public works staff didn't have the time or expertise to perform the work themselves.
The city's request for proposals outlined three principal challenges:
Muscatine, Iowa-based Stanley Consultants presented a plan that boosted capacity, saved space and money, resulted in virtually no downtime, and beautified the site.
The design team minimized the footprint by incorporating turbulent jet mixing in the reservoir's four tank cells, minimizing "dead spots" where sediments and chlorine concentrations could accumulate and increasing the cells' flexibility. Designed by Stanley Consultants project manager Jeff Masters, the mixing system includes a nozzle at the end of inlet piping to create turbulent flow, allowing for turnover of stored water, reducing chlorine requirements, and improving water quality. A newly designed pipe system connects all four cells so operators can use one cell, all four at once, or any of the cells in combination. Throughout construction and installation, the existing cells had to remain in service.
Opting for precast double-T concrete beams to support the roofing structure eliminated the need for about 50 support columns. Also, by deciding against pour-in-place concrete, they avoided having to take time to erect support scaffolding and wait for the material to cure.
The city also placed a great deal of importance on aesthetics. Reservoirs are not known for their overwhelming beauty, and the proximity to both a trail and a golf course dictated that the structure be as "pretty" as possible. Stanley's design team incorporated a green-roof structure on the reservoir's deck. The roof consists of a 60-mil ethylene propylene diene monomer membrane from Indianapolis-based Firestone Building Products; protection board; geotextile fabric from Fullterton, Calif.-based Triumph Geo-Synthetics Inc.; topsoil; and wildflowers. Also, the west face of the concrete structure features a patterned, textured surface to better complement the natural surroundings.
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Any concerns about the project's success disappeared as soon as the old water tanks were disconnected from the new structures. The amount of water delivered by the springs to the tank site compared to the amount of water in the system, known as "delivery efficiency," jumped from 54% to 89%. This proved that the old tanks had been leaking an astounding 3 mgd.
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There is something about a shipwreck that catches the interest of people. Maybe, as in the case of the Papa's Boys in today's post, it is because we are seeing a vessel out of it's element. The stark image of a boat stranded on a beach after the tide has receded is a haunting one whether you are looking at a ship from the age of sail or this modern scalloper. In other wrecks, ones where the vessel actually slips beneath the waves, it is entering a part of our planet that is ostensibly foreign to humans. With the exception of submariners and divers, most people will spend very little time under the water. Perhaps it is because we have something familiar in an unfamiliar setting that these wrecks hold so much interest. Why else would there be so much interest in the Titanic almost a century after the fateful night? In all cases, the potential loss of life from a shipwreck is a sobering reality.
Shipwrecks are probably an instance where we, as humans, can feel a bit of humility. Despite the fact that our species has been going to sea for millennia, we have still not been able to tame nature. The waves and wind continue to be their own master. A few moments of inattention can be the difference between a safe return to port and disaster. This is a chance to reflect that despite our best efforts that there are some things that are absolutely outside of human control. Truthfully, a bit of humility in the face of nature is probably a very good thing.
The Papa's Boys washed up on the shore of the Bay of Fundy just east of Parker's Cove, Nova Scotia last night. While it may not appear so from the spot I was taking pictures, the boat is stranded at practically a 90 degree angle from the shore. When the tide retreated (we have nearly 30 feet of tide on our part of the Bay of Fundy) she keeled over to starboard and has been sitting there ever since. An attempt to get the boat floating again was going to be made at high tide tonight. Hopefully they managed to get it floating since the tides are supposed to be a bit smaller for the next month. Whether it is floating or not I will eventually give an update of some form. If it gets free it will probably be making its way to the boat slip in Annapolis Royal for repairs. If it does not, it will be posing for pictures on the beach for a while longer.
As with all good rumors, I have heard a couple of stories of how this happened. The common element in all of the stories was that the crew was asleep. Despite the cause, it does not appear that anyone was seriously injured. A couple members of the crew actually thought that it was quite funny that I was taking pictures for the archives. I am sure that they did not think that their misadventure was going to be recorded for people to see generations from now.
All for now,
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
On the Rocks in Parker's Cove
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- AnonymousMarch 25, 2010 at 9:16 PM
Thanks so much for the post on the boat running aground .Yesterday the herald ran a little blurb online on it but I couldn't find anymore info until I came across you site.I grew up in Parker's Cove and always hungry for news and other articles on the Annapolis area. I really enjoyed reading the other articles on your site as well .I will be sure to bookmarkReplyDelete
so thanks again
- AnonymousApril 2, 2010 at 6:56 AM
hmm, no mention of the "rumoured" alcohol involved ... that's ok .. only a rumour!ReplyDelete
As the story has developed, I have also heard the rumors of alcohol. Since I have no way to either prove or disprove the story, it can remain as a rumour. Thanks for noticing though.ReplyDelete
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Editor: Aug. 18, Hair Biz Salon, 35 Talbert Blvd., held a community service event. The salon offered free cuts for school children, gave each child a package of school supplies and fed the families. We saw 37 children that day. We were so blessed to have such a great turnout.
Many people helped to make this event a huge success. Friends of the salon came to cook and serve hot dogs and pizza. Several businesses donated items to the event. Special thanks to Lexington Barbecue, Henry James Barbecue, Southmont Diner, Fancy Pastry, Papa John's and Speedy's Barbecue. We continued our service of giving by donating the extra food to Crisis Ministry and the school supplies to Southwest Elementary.
Thank you to the countless clients who donated generously for the purchase of the school supplies. We truly appreciate your support of this worthwhile event.
The team of Hair Biz Salon, Sharon Charles, Marsha Myers, Sabrina Conrad and Sherri DeBusk, dedicate this event in memory of our loved ones, especially William Blankenship, Raddie Charles, John Conrad Sr., Pheobe Foster, Bryant Gibson, Margaret Ruth Keaton, Charles Moody and Melvin Myers Sr.
Thank you again to all the people who made this event a complete success, including the families who brought their children and the friends who entertained them and gave out school supplies. We could not have succeeded without you.
Sharon Charles
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As the world's leading museum of art and design, the V&A enriches people's lives by promoting the practice of design and increasing knowledge, understanding and enjoyment of the designed world.
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London Underground (The Tube): The V&A is a five minute walk from South Kensington underground station (on the Piccadilly, Circle and District Line). South Kensington is a five minute tube journey from Victoria, ten minutes from Covent Garden and Leicester Square and 15 minutes from King's Cross St Pancras.
The V&A is a ten minute walk from Knightsbridge underground station (on the Piccadilly Line). Knightsbridge is a ten minute tube journey from Covent Garden and Leicester Square and 15 minutes from Kings Cross St Pancras.
Bus: Buses C1, 14, 74 and 414 stop outside the Cromwell Road entrance. The Open Tour stop outside the Museum as part of their Double Decker Bus site-seeing tour of London.
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The Victoria and Albert Museum's collections span two thousand years of art in virtually every medium, from many parts of the world, and visitors to the museum encounter a treasure house of amazing and beautiful objects. The Museum was established in 1852, following the enormous success of the Great Exhibition the previous year. Its founding principle was to make works of art available to all, to educate working people and to inspire British designers and manufacturers.
The Museum's ceramics, glass, textiles, dress, silver, ironwork, jewellery, furniture, sculpture, paintings, prints and photographs now span the cultures of Europe, North America, Asia and North Africa, and date from ancient times to the present day.
Although the V&A's collections are international in their scope, they contain many particularly important British works - especially British silver, ceramics, textiles and furniture.
Part of the RIBA Trust's British Architecture Library, a Designated Collection of national importance, is on display at this museum.
The collection provides comprehensive coverage of all aspects of architecture. It is fundamental to the study of architecture in Britain and is nationally and internationally significant.
Items from this collection
Collection details
World Cultures, Weapons and War, Toys and Hobbies, Social History, Photography, Personalities, Performing Arts, Music, Fine Art, Design, Decorative and Applied Art, Costume and Textiles, Archives, Architecture, Archaeology
Key artists and exhibits
- The British Galleries 1500-1900 tell the story of British design from the Tudor age to the Victorian era. Fifteen completely refurbished galleries are filled with exhibits reflecting all of the top British designers of the times. The galleries are enhanced by computer interactives, objects to handle, video screens and audio programmes. Highlights include the gigantic Great Bed of Ware (mentioned in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night) and the wedding suit worn by James II. Inspirational, beautiful and unmatched in scope, the British Galleries offer an entirely new visitor experience in a stunning and innovative setting.
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DISPLAY: Exhibition Road Building
- 27 November 2014 — 15 October 2016 *on now
The V&A Exhibition Road Building Project will create a beautifully designed new entrance, gallery, courtyard, shop and café. The display includes models, visualisations, sketches and mock ups that trace the process of this innovative scheme from the early history of the 'boiler house yard' site, through the design competition and the development of AL_A's winning scheme, to the build itself.
Displays complement our permanent collections; there are many free temporary displays around the V&A. They range in size from a single case to a room.
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Botticelli Reimagined
- 5 March — 3 July 2016 *on now
This innovative exhibition has been jointly organised by the V&A in partnership with Staatliche Museen zu Berlin to explore the enduring impact of the Florentine painter Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) from the Pre-Raphaelites to today.
Botticelli is now celebrated as one of the greatest artists of all time, but was largely forgotten after his death, only to be rediscovered around 1800. It will include around 40 original works by Botticelli from great collections across the world shown alongside more recent masterpieces of art and design including work by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones, René Magritte, Elsa Schiaparelli and Andy Warhol.
Paul Strand: Photography and Film for the 20th Century
- 19 March — 3 July 2016 *on now
A major retrospective of the work of American photographer and film maker, Paul Strand (1890-1976), and the first in the UK since the artist's death.
Strand was one of the greatest and most influential photographers of the 20th century whose images have defined the way fine art and documentary photography is understood and practiced today.
Undressed: A Brief History of Underwear
- 16 April 2016 — 12 March 2017 *on now
This exhibition will address the practicalities of underwear and its role in the fashionable wardrobe whilst highlighting its sensual, sexual appeal.
The exhibition will explore dress reformers and designers who argued for the beauty of the natural body, as well as entrepreneurs, inventors and innovators who have played a critical role in the development of increasingly more effective and comfortable underwear.
You Say You Want a Revolution: Records & Rebels 1966-70
- 10 September 2016 — 26 February 2017
This major exhibition will examine the late 1960s as a moment when youth culture drove an optimistic idealism, and motivated people to come together to question the established power structures across every area of society. Through objects relating to music, fashion, film, design and politics, an immersive soundtrack and theatrical three dimensional design, it will investigate the cultural upheavals and the changes within the law that took place during those five revolutionary years.
The spine of the exhibition will be a musical odyssey through some of the greatest music and performances of the 20th century, from Sam Cooke's 'A Change is Gonna Come', to The Who's 'My Generation', to Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock; and will focus on particular moments or environments that defined the cultural and social vanguard of the period, including clubs and counterculture, the Paris protests of May 1968, World Fairs, the Woodstock Festival of 1969 and communes on the West Coast of America. The exhibition considers how the finished and unfinished revolutions of the 1960s changed the way we live today and affect the way we think about the future.
Opus Anglicanum: Masterpieces of English Medieval Embroidery
- 1 October 2016 — 5 February 2017
From the 12th to the 15th centuries, England was internationally famous mainly for one type of artistic product – elaborate luxury embroideries.
These objects, were sought after by Kings, Popes and Cardinals, and often bear elaborate imagery. This exhibition will highlight the exquisite craftsmanship of the pieces and explore the world in which they were created.
Alongside the magnificent embroideries, many from the V&A's own collection, will be related material in other media such as paintings, manuscripts, metalwork and sculpture.
Architectural Style
Website with pictures and descriptions of a broad range of architectural styles, historical and contemporary Western, Asian and Islamic. There is also an interactive Style Quiz.
Design Your Own Arts and Crafts Tile
Drop-in Design
Hunt for ideas in the gallery then have a go at your own designs, using a design challenge. Creative sessions in the V&A's Sackler Centre on Sundays between 10.30 and 17.00, for all ages.
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London Underground (The Tube): The V&A is a five minute walk from South Kensington underground station (on the Piccadilly, Circle and District Line). South Kensington is a five minute tube journey from Victoria, ten minutes from Covent Garden and Leicester Square and 15 minutes from King's Cross St Pancras.
The V&A is a ten minute walk from Knightsbridge underground station (on the Piccadilly Line). Knightsbridge is a ten minute tube journey from Covent Garden and Leicester Square and 15 minutes from Kings Cross St Pancras.
Bus: Buses C1, 14, 74 and 414 stop outside the Cromwell Road entrance. The Open Tour stop outside the Museum as part of their Double Decker Bus site-seeing tour of London.
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Baia Castle - Phlegraean Fields - Naples
The History
Just on the ruins of the Imperial Palace, according to many authoritative scholars, it rises the Castle of Baia.
And indeed traces of communication trenches, "opus reticolatum", thermal rooms and structures of different nature are today still visible.
The fortress of Baia expands on a surface of 45,000 square metres and reaches the height of 94 metres above the sea-level.
Today it looks like a whole of architectonic superimpositions realized during the centuries, between which the most important are those by Don Pedro Alvarez de Toledo, don Emanuele Fonseca and Ferdinand IV.
It dominates the whole gulf of Pozzuoli and represented, together with the fortifications of "Borgo Marinaro" (Maritime Village) in Pozzuoli (Rione Terra) and Nisida, a real impassable limit for anybody who tried to land on those shores: the most remote traces concerning the construction of the Castle of Baia date back to 1490, when, by order of the king Alfonso II d'Aragona, it was built a Castle on the ruins of the villa of the Caesars, in order to defend the Phlegraean coast from the Saracen raids.
On the 29th September 1538 the terrible eruption which in only one night gave birth to the crater of Monte Nuovo and provoked the sinking of the coastal line, in a more evident way in the tract from Lucrino to Baia, with devastating effects for all the Phlegraean Fields, caused serious damage to the Castle of Baia too.
It is thanks to the sapient and tenacious work of the viceroy don Pedro Alvarez de Toledo that the fortress of Baia was restored and enlarged, because, according to his plans, it had to become the last defensive rampart against the privateering invasions.
But the Castle of Baia was not only a military structure, it represented also a place of political and society meetings.
It gave hospitality to many personages.
In 1506 the King Ferdinand III, also called "the Catholic", came on a visit; in 1576 Giovanni of Austria met there the Venetian ambassador Girolamo Lippomano to discuss secretly delicate political questions; in February 1582 it was welcomed the duke of Ossuna.
The Castle became also centre of studies and researches.
It was for will of the viceroy don Pietro d'Aragona, approved by the secretary of the reign Julius Caesar Bonito and by the physicians Vincenzo Crisconio and Sebastiano Bartoli, that it started a large operation of revaluation of the Phlegraean thermalism and particularly of the one of Baia flegreo, resuming that tradition already known in Roman age.
But the Castle was also place of suffering and of execution of the most barbarous sentences of condemnation.
In fact, people say that some prisoners, enchained in the narrow cells which were real sepulchres, were abandoned to their fate, so that death was invocated as a real relief.
At nightfall of the 6th October 1860, for the first time, the Italian flag waved on the Castle of Baia.
Some years later, the general Garibaldi asked the Mayor of Pozzuoli to find a place where he could spend his vacations in Baia.
On 18th August 1883, fourteen war ships preceded by a yacht arrived at the port of Baia: "the Savoyard", who gave hospitality to the King of Italy, Umberto I, the Prince of Prussia, the Prince of Naples and the Minister of the Navy.
But with the unity of Italy also the defensive demands of the country changed, in fact after four centuries of continuous defensive effort, with Royal Decree of 1887,the Castle of Baia was considered no more a building of fortification of the State.
In 1927 in the Castle of Baia it installed the organization of the "Military Orphanage" which gave hospitality to the children of the dead of the "Great War", a fate which unfortunately fell also to many of them, who died during the second world conflict.
In the meantime, sheltered by the Castle of Baia, they raised first the "Naval Yards" and then the "Torpedo-factory", where the Duce Benito Mussolini went on a visit.
From the 17th October 1993, the Archaeological Superintendence, to which the building was entrusted, instituted the first nucleus of the Museum of the Phlegraean Fields with the statues of the Sacellum of the Augustales found in Miseno and the plasters of Baia.
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Baia, Via Castello 39 (location Bacoli - Naples)
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From the Piazza Amedeo Station take line 2 on the subway, in the direction of Gianturco, and get off in Montesanto (fist stop); proceed by Cumana train (Naples-Torregaveta line) from terminus in Piazza Montesanto (at 100 metres from the subway Station) and get off at Baia stop; proceed by S.E.P.S.A Lucrino-Torregaveta bus and get off at Baia Castle stop: the Castle of Baia in Via Castello 39.
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The following people were arrested on felony charges by law enforcement agencies in Davidson County, and, unless noted otherwise, were either placed in the Davidson County Detention Center or released from custody and are scheduled to appear in Lexington District Court on the date given:
• Laqueisha Chentelle Pompey, 20, of 30 Jamaica Drive, was charged with felony obtaining property by false pretense, $1,000 secured bond, Aug. 22.
The following larcenies more than $1,000 were reported to the Davidson County Sheriff's Office and the Lexington Police Department:
• Miscellaneous compressor parts valued at $3,500 were reported stolen from a parking lot/area in the 12000 block of Old U.S. Highway 52 between 7 p.m. Tuesday and 8:14 a.m. Wednesday.
• A copper pipe and wiring valued at $2,000 were reported stolen form a home on W. 4th Ave. Ext. between July 10 and 5:12 p.m. Wednesday.
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Tessie Liddick died on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012.
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Summer in the Parks Kicks Off at Elbert-Palmer Elementary School
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Mayor Dennis P. Williams and The Grand Opera House kicked off Summer in the Parks, an eight-week program of free arts and cultural activities in eight parks and public spaces across the City of Wilmington, at Elbert-Palmer Elementary School.
Pieces of a Dream, a Delaware-based modern dance company, taught a modern dance class and shared a professional performance for young children in the Elbert-Palmer summer camp program. The Pieces of a Dream dancers helped the students stretch, dance, and move throughout the elementary school's playground.
"Summer in the Parks brings arts and cultural into our City's neighborhoods and communities," said Mayor Williams. "Our partnership with The Grand represents the City's commitment to the arts and the fundamental role arts and cultural play in the community and lives of young people."
The first day of Summer in the Parks also featured a lesson on how to "Discover the artist in YOU" taught by Eunice Lafate, a local Wilmington artist. The LaFate Gallery was displayed at Holloway Park.
The Summer in the Parks program will be based in Prices Run and Haynes (Northeast), Holloway (Eastside), Helen Chambers (West Center City), and Tilton, Kosciusko, and Judy Johnson Parks (Westside). In addition to the parks, cultural activities will also take place at the Elbert-Palmer Elementary School Playground (Southbridge) and some on the grounds of Woodlawn Library.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Sept. 15, 2009) - The U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) released its 2009 preseason regional rankings on Monday, and the ETSU men's cross country team was tabbed seventh in the NCAA South Regional.
The Bucs, who finished seventh a year ago at the regional race in
"It's a compliment the voters selected us as the seventh best team in the region," commented head ETSU cross country coach David Walker. "We compete in one of the toughest regions, and our guys will need to work hard each week to stay in the top-10."
Last season's regional champion,
ETSU will get an up-close look at the top teams in the regional this Friday afternoon, as the Bucs compete at the 21st Annual Crimson Classic in Tuscaloosa, Ala. The 8K race will be held at the
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The national average price of gasoline last year was $3.60 a gallon, which is the most expensive annual average on record. The highest daily national average of the year was $3.94 a gallon on April 5 and 6, while the lowest daily national average was $3.22 a gallon on Dec. 20.
Although a fiscal cliff deal has been passed, predictions about gas prices this year remain uncertain. AAA predicts that gas prices will remain high, but are likely to be cheaper than in 2012 due to increased domestic crude oil production. Today's national average price of gasoline is $3.29 per gallon, which is 4.4 cents more than a week ago and 1.2 cents more than a year ago.
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Published: Friday, September 6, 2013 at 12:30 a.m.
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Editor: Nonprofit businesses sometimes rely on volunteers for their day-to-day operations. Volunteers may serve for decades without their background being questioned. Traveling entertainment or historical events may be a major source of fundraising, and those companies may require an authorization for release of information from volunteers to protect their own interest. They claim it is to protect the children in attendance. Employees and public also attend these events without background checks.
I participated on five of the six available days last year for one such event without having to submit to any sort of background check. This year, however, the volunteers are required to submit to a specific legal agreement that states "… may include a check of my identity, work history, education history, credit history, driving records, any criminal history which may be in the files of any federal, state or local criminal agency, and a post offer search of workers' compensation claim history. … to inquire into my character, general reputation, personal characteristics, and mode of living. I further agree that should I accept an offer of employment, the company may need to update this information or conduct subsequent investigations from time to time during my employment and expressly authorize such acts."
We are volunteers. We are not employees. We are helping hands, not hired hands.
I think the required authorization for release is overly intrusive. A check of the BBB for the investigative company who is checking us out rated them a D on a scale of A+ to F. The score of D was a result of them failing to respond to a complaint.
Because of the "great number" of children who attend a decision was made to require the authorization for release to "protect the children" from the volunteers. I keyed in the city for this event on the National Sex Offender Registry and saw there are 90 registered offenders where this event is to take place. Who knows about the risks of the people off the grid?
To volunteer you are required to sign your name to the document as it is written. The nonprofit organization claims the investigative form is generic, and they are not allowed to tailor it to their specific need for probable risk for the event. The event is geared toward preschoolers with ticket costs of $24 for people over 2 years of age. That suggests an adult will accompany the child. Parents are our first line of protection.
So, as volunteers, how much of our own privacy and risk of the accuracy of such reports and the safekeeping of all this information are we willing to allow so we can have the "privilege" of serving?
If you don't mind the overly intrusive background checks for a six-day event and are satisfied with the safekeeping of the information gleaned, be thankful. If you do mind the intrusion and risks to your private information, it might be time to find a more fulfilling volunteer opportunity.
Jackie Taylor
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ZF-7254: Create your project - first page of tutorial documentation has me going, huh?
Trying to get started with zend, I downloaded it and began with your tutorial. It didn't take long to find some problems. This is the first.
Not really a problem necessarily, but it is to someone new and unfamiliar.
Right out of the box, if you test the error handling (by putting in an erroneous url for example) you get a nonsensical error message. Why? Because code like "
<?= $this->message ?>
" is going to output "
->message ?>
" because a default php installation isn't going to know what the heck <?= means. Changing it to "<?php echo $this->message ?>" of course results in what the user would expect.
I'm just beginning. Maybe in the (very near) future it will become obvious why <?= is outputted but step 1 tutorial should result in step 1 success. Not "huh"?
Suggestion: either change the code to something that will work immediately, or explain to the user that it will work later (if something is configured later) or how to configure their php to recognize that kind of output (if not).
Cake and Symfony both also suffer from step 1 tutorial failure. None give much confidence. Before you laugh and call this extremely minor... think who the tutorial is for and look at it from their point of view.
We have already made a decision to standardize all documentation and tutorials to use normal, long tags; unfortunately, the output from Zend_Tool and the QuickStart are out-of-date. Both are fixed in SVN currently, and you will see the changes with the next release.


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Naomi Watts, one of the stars of "Two Mothers," acknowledged that she had the same visceral reaction to the film's love story as many in the audience.
"I was shocked on the first reading of the script," Watts said at a question-and-answer session following the films first screening Saturday at the Sundance Film Festival.
The plot, in short, of what is one of the more controversial (and perhaps will be the most successful) films at this year's festival is, briefly: Two life-long best friends, Lil (Watts) and Roz (Robin Wright) have love affairs with each other's 20-year-old sons. The film was one cited by a conservative Utah group that asked the state of Utah to cut funding to the festival because its movies have questionable family values.
At one point in the Q and A, Watts explained the challenge of presenting the material — which at its core a tale of the friendship between two women— in a way that shifts the audience's reaction from judgement to forgiveness: "I've had relationships like that," before catching herself, "Well, not completely like that. " Still flustered, Watts added, "You know what I mean."
Considering the close friendship of Roz and Lil, the relationships are practically oedipal and Watts refers to the dual affairs as the "unspeakable thing."
"It's a secret that binds them. It's a drug they can't give up," she said.
Director Anne Fontaine made the story into a beautiful movie, which might rob the flim of its power. It's too lovely. The two most beautiful moms in Australia have the continent's two hunkiest surfer sons and live in two beautiful homes overlooking a breathtaking bay—complete with dolphins— (for fun, let's just call it Blue Lagoon). Did I mention that Roz runs an art gallery and Lil works for a yacht designer?
But it's not as if we haven't seen plenty of movies about love between older men and young girls, passed off as adorable or at least acceptable. Even seeing Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn matched up in "Funny Face" is a bit uncomfortable.
"Two Mothers" could be easily parodied as "MILFs Down Under" or "Cougars in Paradise" or "Mommys' Mid-life Fantasy." But the basic story, from a novella by Doris Lessing, explores the travails of inconvenient love that, as Watts explained, fills the voids of loneliness and fear felt by two women about to see their sons move on to adulthood.
Fontaine may have answered the family values critics about as well as she could, when she explained: "It's a very strange love story. But it is a love story. Not a sex story."


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ZF-6373: Google CDN base path for jQuery UI is wrong
Currently ZendX_JQuery uses {{http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/}} as the base path for jQuery as well as for jQuery UI. This wrong according to {{http://code.google.com/intl/de-DE/…}}. The correct base path for jQueryUI is {{http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/}}.
It seems that Google changed the path for UI 1.7, i had it working before with older versions.
Inclusion from new path is fixed in SVN now.


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ZF-10836: ZLAutoloader_Resource should check its constructors params order to make sure "namespace" is handled before "resourceTypes"
Assuming such a completely valid code :
$data = array('basePath' => '/foo', 'resourceTypes' => array(/* my stuff */), 'namespace' => 'Foo');
new Zend_Loader_Autoloader_Resource($data);
That wont work as you could imagine. The constructor invoke setters, but in $data input, setResourceTypes() will be treated before setNamespace(). The fact is that resourceTypes make use of the namespace, not set yet; the behavior is not what expected as resourceTypes will use a completly wrong namespace and autoloading will fail
A simple ksort() on the input array could sort the keys such that 'namespace' is beeing handled before 'resourceTypes'
Interesting find! I've attached a patch which reproduces the issue, and a possible fix. Essentially I updated Zend_Loader_Autoloader_Resource::setOptions to shift the 'namespace' key to the beginning of the array, so that it is processed first. This should be a more robust solution than sorting the keys. Comments?
// If namespace key exists, shift it to be beginning of the options array
// so that it is processed first
// @see ZF-10836
$namespaceIndex = array_search('namespace', array_keys($options));
if ( $namespaceIndex !== false )
$namespace = $options['namespace'];
$options = array('namespace'=>$namespace) + $options;
@Adam I think that could be but simple
if (array_key_exists('namespace', $options)) {
Thanks advance
@Ramon Thanks! That is much simpler. I've updated my patch with your code.
Removed @ from @see comment in patch, as it wasn't in a docblock. Changed array_key_exists to isset (namespace can't be null, and isset is faster)
Fixed a typo
Applied to trunk in r23567, merged to release branch 1.11 in r23568.


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erlotinib, Tarceva
Pharmacy Author:
Omudhome Ogbru, PharmD
Omudhome Ogbru, PharmD
Dr. Ogbru received his Doctorate in Pharmacy from the University of the Pacific School of Pharmacy in 1995. He completed a Pharmacy Practice Residency at the University of Arizona/University Medical Center in 1996. He was a Professor of Pharmacy Practice and a Regional Clerkship Coordinator for the University of the Pacific School of Pharmacy from 1996-99.
Medical Editor:
Jay W. Marks, MD
Jay W. Marks, MD
Jay W. Marks, MD, is a board-certified internist and gastroenterologist. He graduated from Yale University School of Medicine and trained in internal medicine and gastroenterology at UCLA/Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
GENERIC NAME: erlotinib
BRAND NAME: Tarceva
DRUG CLASS AND MECHANISM: Erlotinib is a synthetic (man-made) oral drug that is used for treating cancer. It is approved for treatment of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
There are more than 1.2 million cases worldwide of lung cancer each year, causing one death every 3 seconds. According to the National Cancer Institute, lung cancer is responsible for nearly 30% of cancer deaths in the US. NSCLC is the most common form of lung cancer and accounts for almost 80% of all the cases.
Many cells, including cancer cells, have receptors on their surfaces for epidermal growth factor (EGF), a protein that is normally produced by the body and that promotes the growth and multiplication of cells. When EGF attaches to epidermal growth factor receptors (EGFRs), it causes an enzyme called tyrosine kinase to become active within the cells. Tyrosine kinase triggers chemical processes that cause the cells, including cancer cells, to grow, multiply, and spread. Erlotinib attaches to EGFRs, blocking the attachment of EGF and the activation of tyrosine kinase. This mechanism for stopping cancer cells from growing and multiplying is very different from the mechanisms of chemotherapy and hormonal therapy. Erlotinib was approved by the FDA in November of 2004.
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Now They're Making It Up As They Go
Bombs in dogs, bombs in hard drives, bombs surgically implanted in people, invisible underwear bombs! Be afraid; be very afraid.
The fearmongers in government are getting desperate. Thanks to the rise of alternative media, fewer and fewer people are buying the mainstream media's lies. They're rejecting the police state.
So the fearmongers are making it up as they go and getting more absurd by the day. We are told al-Qaida can now turn anything and everything into a bomb. Even 18-month-olds are now terror suspects. But never fear; government is here to protect us.
What you don't hear from the MSM is that the so-called terrorists are creations of the FBI and the CIA. Agents of our own government are the real terrorists.


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The Stuttgart City Council will meet Tuesday with two items on the agenda.
First the Council will need to decide on condemning a property at 702 W. Lincoln. The property, owned by New Bethel Lodge No. 301 Dixie, has been determined to be structurally unsound.
According to the resolution the city has tried to make contact with the owners, but the property remains in the same conditions. If the Council approves the resolution then the property owners will have 30 days to remove the structure.
If the owners do not comply then the city will tear down the building.
The Stuttgart Police Department is asking for competitive bidding to be waived to purchase Taser equipment.
"Competitive bidding is hereby waived as this is the only source of Taser equipment that meets police department specifications," the ordnance reads.
If approved the department will be spending $30,105.13.
The Stuttgart City Council meeting will be held at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at Stuttgart City Hall, located at 304 S. Maple St. Meetings are open to the public.
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Scouting the Sun Devils: Arizona State comes into Saturday's match with a bit of momentum on its side having reeled off six consecutive victories. The Sun Devils lone defeat of the season was a 4-3 loss to UCLA in its season opener. In four of its six victories this season, ASU has won all six singles and three doubles contests without dropping a set. Last year, the Sun Devils swept the series from the Wildcats (9-0, 8-1). Since 1985, Arizona State holds a 21-13 advantage over Arizona. ASU has won the past five meetings against the Wildcats dating back to April 18, 1998. UA's last victory over its in-state rival was Feb. 28, 1998 in Tempe, 5-4.
Projected Lineup:
Singles Pos. Player Pos.* Record 1. Michelle Gough 4-1 15-11 2. Debbie Larocque 4-1 17-5 3. Sophie Regnier 3-0 7-8 4. Laresa Marino 2-1 9-6 5. Perrine Pernin 3-0 9-10 6. Brooke Taylor 2-1 8-9 Doubles Pos. Players Pos.* Record 1. Gough/Regnier 3-0 6-1 2. Marino/Larocque 2-1 4-4 3. Pernin/Taylor 3-1 3-1 * Record at Position
Cats in the Polls: After winning three straight matches, the Wildcats moved up a spot to No. 23 in the Feb. 14 edition of the WingspanBank.com polls. UA senior Michelle Gough climbed back into the singles rankings at No. 47. A win over then ninth-ranked Jewel Peterson of Southern California, 6-4, 1-6, 6-4, and a 15-11 record highlights her resume. Arizona is also ranked fifth in its region heading into the spring campaign. In addition, three UA players find themselves in the singles poll: senior Michelle Gough (No. 3), freshman Debbie Larocque (No. 19) and junior Laresa Marino (No. 24).
On the doubles side, Larocque and Marino are ranked No. 12 in the poll.
Region VIII Top 5
1. Pepperdine
2. Arizona State
3. Southern California
5. Arizona
Time Change: The start time for the Arizona's match against Tulane on Tues., Feb. 27, has been moved up a half hour to 12:30 p.m. MST.
New Mexico (Feb. 10): Arizona improved to 12-0 against the Lobos since 1985 with a 6-1 victory at the Robson Tennis Center. The Wildcats earned singles victories at the top five positions. In doubles, UA captured the point winning two of the three contests.
Oregon (Feb. 9): The Wildcats earned their first conference win of the season defeating the Ducks, 6-1. UA swept the three doubles matches to capture the doubles point. In singles action, Arizona was victorious in five of the six matches. Wildcat senior Michelle Gough, juniors Brooke Taylor and Sophie Regnier, and freshmen Perrine Pernin and Debbie Larocque were triumphant in their singles contests.
Northern Arizona (Feb. 4): Arizona recorded its first win of the season defeating NAU, 7-0, in the Wildcats' home opener. UA did not drop a set in its six singles matches and swept the three doubles contests to earn the doubles point. Arizona junior Brooke Taylor snapped a five match losing streak with a victory over NAU's Michelle Mohr. Wildcat senior Michelle Gough got back in the win column after dropping her last three matches defeating Northern Arizona's Yvonne DeWaal, 6-2, 6-2.
NCAA Indoor Championships (Feb. 1-4): Arizona senior Michelle Gough was unable to get past the first round of the Indoor Championships in Dallas. Gough dropped her opening round match to Florida's Jessica Lenhoff, 6-2, 6-4.
at Southern California (Jan. 26): Wildcat senior Michelle Gough upset ninth-ranked Jewel Peterson, 6-4, 1-6, 6-4, in a 5-2 loss to the 12th-ranked Women of Troy. UA freshman Debbie Larocque secured Wildcats' second point with a three set victory over USC's Anita Loyola. The Trojans won all three doubles matches to secure the doubles point.
at UCLA (Jan. 28): Arizona freshman Perrine Pernin defeated UCLA's Zana Zlebnik, 6-1, 6-4, accounting for Arizona's lone point in a 6-1 defeat at the Los Angeles Tennis Center. In the five other singles matches, the Bruins did not drop a set. On the doubles side, UCLA swept all three matches earning the doubles point.
Pac-10 Indoor Championships (Jan. 12-14): Arizona junior Sophie Regnier rebounded from an opening round loss in the flight two bracket to earn a spot in the consolation finals. Regnier recorded victories over Washington State's Anna Dybicz and Arizona State's Celena McCoury to advance to the final match. Stanford's Lauren Barnikow defeated Regnier, 6-3, 6-3, to win the flight two back draw.
In other singles action, freshman Debbie Larocque saw her five match winning streak come to an end dropping her flight two quarterfinal round match to Oregon's Janice Nyland, 7-5, 6-3. Larocque outlasted Stanford's Lauren Barnikow in her opening round contest, 7-6(4), 3-6, 6-1.
On the doubles side, Regnier and teammate, freshman Perrine Pernin, cruised into the semifinals of the flight two bracket. The duo enjoyed a first round bye and topped UCLA's Chelsea Godbey and Mariko Fritz-Krockow in the quarterfinals, 8-1. In their semifinal round match, Pernin and Regnier narrowly fell short of gaining a spot in the finals falling to California's Sekita Grant and Raquel Kops-Jones, 9-7.
ITA Region VIII Tournament (Nov. 9-13): Arizona's doubles team of senior Michelle Gough and junior Lindsay Blau fell a match short from repeating as champions. The third-ranked duo reeled off four wins before falling to the No. 1 ranked team in the country, Ipek Senoglu and Paola Palencia of Pepperdine, 8-4.
On the singles side, Gough recorded five victories on the weekend to earn a berth in the championship match and a spot at the Indoor Championships, Feb. 2-4, in Dallas. Gough was defeated by the third seeded Jewel Peterson of Southern California, 6-4, 6-3.
Junior Brooke Taylor and freshman Perrine Pernin each advanced out of the 32-player qualifying draw to the 64-player main draw. Taylor continued her hot play winning a three set match over UC Irvine's Darian Chappell, 3-6, 6-4, 6-2.
Blau won her first two matches in the main draw, advancing to the quarterfinals. Victories over UC Santa Barbara's Cindy Ammann, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, and Southern California's Melissa Esmero, 6-2, 6-3, propelled her to the round of 16 where USC's Peterson got the better of Blau, defeating her in straight sets, 6-2, 6-3.
Arizona senior Joanna Buczkowska was the only Wildcat who did not compete in the tournament. Buczkowska was forced to withdraw due to a sore wrist that had hampered her for most of the fall season.
Wathen/Hancock Bulldog Classic (Oct. 27-29): Arizona's doubles team of senior Michelle Gough and junior Sophie Regnier earned three victories to earn a spot in the finals. The duo fell just short of capturing the tournament title dropping its final match to Fresno State's Kim Niggemeyer and Simone Jardim, 8-5. In other doubles play, junior Laresa Marino and freshman Debbie Larocque logged a pair of victories to advance to the semifinals. The duo then lost to Gough and Regnier, 8-4. On the singles side, Gough made noise running off two victories to move on to the semifinals. Gough dropped a straight sets match to Niggmeyer, 6-1, 6-4. Each Arizona player advanced to at least the second round and all three doubles teams stayed alive through the third round. Overall, the Wildcats recorded a 12-7 mark in singles and 7-3 record in doubles.
Riviera ITA All-American Tournament (Oct. 14-22): Arizona senior Michelle Gough, junior Lindsay Blau and freshman Debbie Larocque competed at the Riviera ITA All-American Tournament in Los Angeles.
In singles play, Gough dropped her opening round qualifying draw match to North Carolina's Julie Rotundi, 6-2, 7-5.
Blau also earned a spot in the qualifying draw and swept her first two matches over Stanford's Lauren Barnikow and California's Christina Fusano. Ohio State's Kristi Dascoli defeated Blau in the third round, 6-1, 6-0.
Despite the loss, Blau advanced to the main draw after Wake Forest's Bea Bielik withdrew from the tournament. Southern California's Jewel Peterson outlasted Blau in the opening round match, 7-5, 6-3.
Larocque began the tournament in the pre-qualifying draw and with three victories over Texas El-Paso's Elizabeth Stone, Northwestern's Shannon Duffy and Boise State's Renate Stoop advanced to the qualifying draw. She had her season long five-match winning streak snapped in the first round falling to Ole Miss' Alesia Ignatieva, 6-2, 6-4.
On the doubles side, Blau and Gough tallied a 1-1 record on the weekend, winning their main draw opening round match over South Carolina's duo of Jennifer Radman and Katarina Markovski, 6-3, 6-1. The pair then dropped a tighthly contested quarterfinal match to Texas' Vladka Uhlirova and Janet Walker, 6-1, 2-6, 6-4.
Larocque teamed up with freshman Sophie Regnier in qualifying draw action and dropped their first match to Texas-El Paso's Jana Perkova and Ana Brnas, 6-2, 6-2. For the tournament, the squad logged a 7-4 singles mark and a 1-2 doubles record.
Thunderbirds Invitational (Oct. 6-8): Junior Laresa Marino advanced to the semifinals of the consolation singles bracket in Tempe, Ariz., Oct. 7. Marino recorded a 2-2 mark, moving her overall record on the fall season to 5-3, a team best. Wildcat senior Michelle Gough, earned a spot in the quarterfinals of the main draw. For the weekend, she posted a 2-1 singles record. Gough and Marino represented the Cats in doubles and split two matches, winning the opening round match over California's duo of Christina Fusano and Nicole Havlicek, 8-4, and then dropped their quarterfinal match to Texas' Rebekah Forney and Ziva Grasic, 4-8.
Clay Court Championships (Sept. 18-24): Arizona Junior Lindsay Blau withdrew from the ITA T.Rowe Price National Intercollegiate Clay Court Championships, which took place Sept. 21-24, after suffering from excessive swelling in her right knee. Blau earned a berth in the main draw after enjoying a successful 2000 spring campaign. Thirty-two players rounded out the tournament field, eight of which were in the preseason top 25.
William & Mary Invitational (Sept. 15-17): Junior Laresa Marino's play highlighted what was otherwise a tough weekend for the Wildcats at the William & Mary Invitational.
Marino recorded a 3-1 mark and advanced to the championship match of her singles flight. Marino was outlasted by North Carolina's Caroline Hill, 4-6, 6-3, 7-5.
Arizona faced some of the toughest compettition in the country. Six of the 10 teams were ranked in the top 50 at the end of last season.
Overall, Arizona logged a 13-12 singles record and went winless in four doubles matches for the weekend.
Head Coach: Brad Dancer enters his second season as head coach at Arizona with a dual match record of 10-12 (.455). Dancer played No. 1 singles and doubles at Michigan State and graduated with a degree in business in 1993. In his time at MSU, Dancer was a four-time Academic All-Big Ten member and was selected to the All-Big Ten team his senior year. Dancer's professional coaching highlights include serving as an assistant for the 1996 Fed Cup team. This past summer, he coached the Delaware Smash to the World Team Tennis title match against the Sacramento Capitals.
Last Season: In Dancer's first year at the helm, the team won 10 matches and earned a top-25 ranking in the final poll of the season. The squad posted a 10-12 overall mark and a 3-5 record in the Pac-10, earning a tie for sixth in the conference. A 5-4 victory over sixth-ranked UCLA to start conference play highlighted a solid season for the Cats. For its efforts, Arizona earned a berth to the NCAA Tournament and advanced to the regional finals.


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ZF-2391: Values of Multi-Elements (select...) can be "out of range"
Zend_Form currently doesn't prevent bad guys from submitting forms filled with "bad" values (not being part of the available options).
Kind regards, Thomas Gelf
Quick & dirty patch.
A more elegant variant would be overriding getValidatorChain(), adding some kind of Zend_Validate_IsArrayKey(). As the latter doesn't exist (and as I'm really lazy) I have chosen the approach shown in the attached patch file.
Cheers, Thomas
Please post this to the mailing list email@example.com, and not the issue tracker. Zend_Form is in its very early stages, and not even approved as a proposal yet; sharing this on list will illicit maximum discussion during the development phase of this component.
Done, sent through gmane (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.php.zend.frame…). I hope it will find it's way to the right destination (Nabble??)...


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UW-Green Bay Downs Swimming & Diving
Jan. 15, 2005
Chicago, Ill.- The University of Illinois at Chicago men's and women's swimming and diving teams wrapped their home schedule with mixed emotions, dropping a dual meet to UW-Green Bay while saluting their seniors at the UIC Natatorium on Saturday.
The UIC women, fresh off some nice performances at Illinois State the night before, lost to the Phoenix by a 148-93 count. On the men's side, the Flames fell in close but disappointing fashion, 129-114.
"The women faced two very tough opponents this weekend," said UIC head coach Paul Moniak. "Overall I was very impressed with how they raced. Entering the championship part of the season, we are showing strong racing ability."
"On to the men, today we had a chance to take a step up against a Horizon League opponent and failed," continued Moniak. "We can't afford to make mistakes like this if we want to finish in the top three in the Horizon League. Hopefully this gives us fodder to finish well in the final weeks of the season."
For the women, Kelly Hyatt had another strong outing, winning the 50 free in 25.07 and the 100 free in 53.85. Hyatt edged out teammate Colleen Dougherty, who finished second in the 100 free for only the second time in eight tries, winning the other six times.
The men were led by another strong performance by Blake Booher, who swam to wins in the 50 free with a 21.17 and in the 100 free with a 47.33.
Dan Hare scored a 200 IM win with a 1:57.23, beating his previous career best by .01.
Sophomores Mark Pappalardo and Sarah Economides gave the Flames a clean sweep of the three-meter diving competition.
UIC honored ten of the team's graduating seniors as Christine Hare, Stephanie Murphy, Maria Ortiz, Alicia Perry, Vanessa Segovia, Mike Borge, Chris Kaczor, Brian Kroes, Stefan Staev and Rich Wolny were saluted as part of Senior Day.
UIC returns to action next weekend at the Bill Ritter Invitational in Milwaukee, Wis.