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The game is won on the field. Some bits of advice are impossible to follow to fruition. "The game is won on the field, Mallman." This is the kind of hodge-podge rhetoric that makes so much sense, you end up feeling like shit about yourself because you can never live up to it. Life is not won. If anything, death wins.
I first heard the saying when I was editing sports at the TV station nine years earlier. Mr. B came into my office. "Mark, I'm having troubles. I want to meet women, you seem to do well for yourself. Can you help me? I'm lonely." He was a stout man, and the stars were not kind to him. "I can't help you with loneliness, Mr B.," I said, and just that minute hit play on my tape machine. It was a sound byte from then Green Bay Packers quarterback, Brett Favre. "Well, you know, the game is won on the field," he said. I stopped the deck, turned my chair towards Mr. B, and just looked at him. "I guess Brett is telling you to start going to some nightclubs." But I couldn't help him with the loneliness.
I hadn't truly been alone, ever. Until now. Years of rock tours strung together into a ball of rubber bands. Dense. Coiled. I kept spacing that this might be a one way trip instead. My cousin, who is not actually my cousin, agreed to roll from Milwaukee to L.A. I met her eight years ago on account of her last name. "Hey, I have a cousin who is not actually my cousin, are you related?" And she said, "Yes, he is my cousin." So, when I mentioned to my friends we'd be stopping in Vegas, nobody asked if we had a thing, cause we're cousins -- but not actually. Either way, we didn't have a thing, which is why I asked her.
We split south through Des Moines for dinner. Then to Kansas City, and stayed up to the untold hour of sunrise drinking gas station boxed wine. I put a lampshade on my head. She deleted the pictures. Even though this wasn't a rock tour, I didn't know any other way to behave. I took to the highway without even a map, where late checkouts and wicked hangovers are commonplace. We put in a good 12 hours through Oklahoma rest areas and Texas truck stop buffets. Certain Econolodges are thumping on Saturday nights in Amarillo. I kept one eye out the window on the van. I quoted Laurence Olivier, "Is it safe? Is it safe?" My non-cousin insisted, "It's safe. It's safe." But it, and all the contents within, was everything I owned in the world. "Nothing is safe." I said under my breath. She rolled her eyes and read a New Yorker, I channel surfed. "What? It's true. We are an awful, malformed evolution. A mutation. Ooh, dirty cartoons!" She shut out the light.
Sunday, we stopped in Albuquerque for lunch with Little Bobby, a musician and Trekkie who speaks to his dogs in Klingon. For 10 years I'd shared New Mexico stages with Bobby's reckless, acid-induced bands. He has a studio in his living room. I gave a monologue about time travel. "We walked through the time door but it was to no avail. No, this time travel machine was calibrated precisely parallel to the same trajectory of time we were already on. It wasn't science fiction, it was science real." Bobby raised his eyebrows in disappointment. "It's not weird enough, Mallman." Was I losing my creative edge? On the way out, I passed a poster of my own face from 2005. It felt like the real me was dead forever years ago, and I was now the clone who killed him looking back.
The desert was a milestone of stones, and we didn't even need the air conditioning we didn't even have. At 8 p.m. I checked into the Luxor, Las Vegas. Snickering, "Two queens." Did I mean the beds, or us? We went downtown for steaks. Under the neon awning of Fremont street, a hair metal band was shredding "Round and Round" by RATT. Women in bikinis danced outside on bars and tables. The gin was overpriced, but the night was worth at least 13 dollars. A man dressed like a supermodel from a Robert Palmer video was half bent over near a garbage can. We decided to stay an extra day. I'd said before that rock and roll had taken me everywhere. But on the way to everywhere, I'd stopped in Niagara Falls, the Grand Canyon, Death Valley, Times Square, Beale Street, Bourbon Street, and so on. No rock musician has the balls to be a trucker, no matter how bad ass they look in a CAT hat. Every rock band is a tourist. My non-cousin and I drank blueberry somethings in the hotel and lost all our nickels. I won't go into greater detail; just recount your own vacation and put me in there as well.
My non-cousin drove all Tuesday, I ate fried zucchini and read through scripts. We penetrated the Orange County line in the dark. Mr. B handed me the keys to the Santa Monica studio. My one-key life wasn't even a week long. We loaded into the large concrete loft, and I dropped the non-cousin at an airport Holiday Inn. "Good luck out here." Hug, but no kiss -- just shrinks away in the rear view mirror. I would spend my first night on a folding couch alone. And the next night. And the next night. Each day was a deeper solitude. And now I had windows, unlike the church basement. Already there was much work to be done. The studio needed to be set up with two composing stations because I would be working cross-platform. I blinked, and the sun was down. I scribbled "make it a point to catch the sunset."
Somewhere in the studio, a fire alarm chirped every seven minutes: "need batteries." I showered, then drove to Grauman's Chinese Theatre. W.W. was working on the latest Ryan Gosling/Rubin Fleischer flick, "Gangster Squad" there. The scene was a bunch of mobsters shooting fantastic blanks at extras. Highland and Orange were blocked off with caution tape. A crowd of women in painted-on dresses drooled for a far away glimpse of the heartthrob, Gosling. We were told to cover our ears. Kaplow, kaplam, kerplunk. The crew broke for lunch. W.W. and I went to the roof of the theater where some lights were rigged. He wanted to get some overhead shots of the set. I was standing on the most famous movie theater in the world with my fantastic friend of 20 years. Music had once again taken me to Los Angeles, but friendship gave it purpose. Woody Harrelson was visiting the set seven stories down, and Hollywood went on as planned. Drunk tourists swayed like palm trees at a bus top. A homeless caveman screamed "What's anybody's name!?" through the window of a pizza shop. Blocks away, the passenger door of a parked car flew open and an inflatable sex doll popped out. I passed it on my walk back to the van. A couple made out under the streetlamp. It was 1 a.m. "Should I go to a bar? Maybe I could fall in love for a couple hours?" I drove through Jack in the Box and ordered a breakfast burrito instead. I-10 East felt more like a schizophrenic synchronized swimming event than a freeway. I kept thinking of zombie movies. Possibly the only sober car in a 500 foot radius, it wasn't a virus at all the started the zombie apocalypse, it was flavored vodkas. Cake eaters will eat anything, but brain eaters are picky. Santa Monica would confuse them. Zombies. California drunk drivers aren't discreet.
When I pulled into the parking garage, a Siamese street cat was sleeping in a fat ball on the convertible top of a 2011 Porsche. The van was so very out of place amidst the luxury sedans of 17th and Broadway. He pranced out through a gate, and I thought "You and me cat, we're both pulling off this huge scam." All night, the fire alarm needed batteries. If I sleep through the fire, blame it on earplugs. "His body was burned beyond recognition, but once his earplugs melted out, he could hear the ambulance coming with the keen ear of a police dog."
Every morning I paged through a stack of mounting notes: "High string tremolo. Low buzz. Drone/Echo. Reverse?" I mixed cold pressed carrot juice and with Diet Mountain Dew. I ran the ocean to Venice Beach and turned around. Christmas music hummed from restaurant speakers fixed to palm trees. Along the shoreline past the Santa Monica pier, a man in a parking lot was training his dog to skateboard. It smelled like funnel cakes and the sea. To my right lapped the swollen tide. The sea! The sea! It was fucking holiness. But mostly, these days were music making. I massaged drum tracks behind frosted glass. The unringing phone had begun to ring again, but with new sensations. Each tone from the keyboard sounded more than just another note in a motif, but a reclaiming. Some days I spoke less than monks, and watched horror movies in my rolling chair. I'd come and go back from the co-op, making jokes to myself about the palm trees. I wanted say to someone on the street, "There's coconuts up there," pointing up. I remembered Miss R telling me, "Be as alone as you can be, until your hunger is replaced by calm. Then you are truly free. The only way to conquer loneliness is to be alone." People told me Miss R slept around, but at least I knew it was not because she was lonely.
One night, I had a meeting. Accountants have meetings in offices; rock musicians hold them in bars. On Sunset Boulevard I saw a man with purple hair and a woman in a three-piece suit. Parking attendants yelled in song waving orange swords toward the backs of office buildings. Tourists leered into the front doors of Hustler Hollywood as wet bums pushed shopping carts full of rain. I met M.G. and J.F. at the Rainbow Room. In a sleeveless skull vest and white sunglasses, I felt at home. We watched a speed metal band on the third floor as a medical supply salesman from Bakersfield asked if I was the singer of the Wombats. "No man, I'm just a dude, man." The room was drunk with eyeliner and guilty stockings. A woman was celebrating her birthday with an X-rated cake without a head. Her jeans zipped up the back. The bad speed metal vibrated an inner peace just above our red chakras. These days, I felt inner peace even filling the gas tank. I felt inner peace stuck in traffic. I felt inner peace buying chicken at Ralph's. What was it that felt so damn good? I hadn't had a doughnut in two weeks, so it wasn't that. It might very well be Ralph's grocery on Cloverfield, because they have an aisle for Scotch. We ended up in the Beverly Hills Hyatt Regency bar eating wasabi crackers, talking about how M.G. knows both Wayne Coyne and Wayne Newton. "Oh, I forgot to give you this." He handed me a picture of Wayne Newton autographed to me. "Thanks!" The speakers in the hotel lobby played the Nutcracker Suite. It was something out of "The Shining: Beverly Hills." I paid 18 dollars for 90 minutes of parking. Palm trees made Dr. Seuss silhouettes up and down Santa Monica Boulevard. I laughed to myself, "There's coconuts up there." When I pulled into the garage, that same cat rushed off the Porsche, just as it had the previous 21 nights. It stood in the plainly lit corner; the worst job of hiding I'd ever seen. I had a nightmare about a roller coaster flying off the tracks and everyone dying. I woke up thrilled. I hadn't lost my creative edge; my creativity was as edgy as ever.
W.W. and I met up in Venice and loaded his luggage in my van. Earlier in the week, he introduced me to six-time Academy Award winner Rick Baker. It was life changing. Rick gave us a two-hour private tour of his creature effects studio in Glendale. He showed us the masks he made for American Werewolf in London, a walking alien for M.I.B. 3 in his animatronics studio, and a plaster cast of James Spader's face. "James Spader is one of the best looking plaster casts ever," he said. Baker's been nominated for 11 Oscars. What I learned that day was that there were parts of me for years that I wasn't letting shine. I never started my career thinking, "Oh, the radio station will give me a trophy for being so weird one day." Though I wasn't disappointed when they did, I've always felt my ideas were valuable. Whether I hung from the ceiling, wore a pink gorilla costume, or performed non-stop for days at a time, it has not been some ploy for attention. It's always been simply an expression of how I see the world. Just because something is hilarious, doesn't mean it isn't valid or sincere. Rick Baker built an empire by following his own dark heart. The doorway to his personal studio is a secret wall. What touched me deepest about this visit, and the total of Hollywood, was I'd arrived at a place in America where pure imagination is rewarded, not mocked or pushed in a strange corner. W.W. was going back to Minnesota. Gangster Squad had wrapped and he was looking forward to sleeping in his own bed that night. "Hey, I know you got all this soundtrack stuff for the zombie thing keeping you busy. Just don't forget you gotta finish the album, Mark." "I will, but first the zombie thing. It will all work out somehow." "Here's a bottle of wine, I can't bring it on the plane." "Thanks, love ya." "See you at the New Year's show."
The 90-minute rush hour drive home from the airport was punched up by Jerry Goldsmith's soundtrack to Poltergeist. Lightning was zipping across the horizon in clouds darker than the sea below. (The sea! The sea! I've longed for you so!) The needle scratched. She called. (She called! She called! I've longed for her like the Sea!) I won't say more. I put the car in the garage, and walked to a pet store to look around and clear my head. I like to call pet stores "The Free Zoo." What caught my attention this time at the free zoo were three little feeder mice, jumping and playing in their cage. These buddies would at some point in the near future be eaten by a snake. I thought to myself, "Whoever lives the longest must watch his best friends die. Of all the problems in the world." So I made a new mantra. At night, tucked in, I would line up all my problems. Then, I would think about getting eaten by a snake, and this would lessen the weight. It worked. For the first time in a while, my life was met with an achievable peace. While watching senior citizens of Wilshire Boulevard attempt the crosswalk toward IHOP down the street, I quite enjoyed my little break from the hipster apocalypse. Suddenly a sentence flashed in my head, something that would perhaps read nicely on a gravestone one day: "I never would have predicted this moment, yet it happened."
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With the development of globalization and regional market integration, regional markets with common currency emerge. We develop a heterogeneous agents model based on the frameworks of Day and Huang (1990) as well as Westerhoff and Dieci (2006). Two markets using same currency are populated by chartists and fundamentalists. Market linkage is established by allowing investors to trade in both markets. One of the consequences of market linkage is market pooling, in which investors from each market interact with each other and determine the price movements of the market system. The market that is more stable initially exerts stabilizing force on the market system while itself might su¤er from destabilizing effect. Market system based on the model demonstrates the capability to generate important stylized facts of financial markets, in particular the significant cross-correlation between two markets.
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Upgrading from 1.2 to 1.5; I followed Podz's instructions to the letter (fantastic guide, Podz!). But when I go to upgrade.php, I receive the following error:
"Fatal error: Call to undefined function: timer_start() in /home/kdefilip/public_html/wp-admin/upgrade.php on line 5"
Also, if I try to view the site, I get a 403 screen, but I suspect that's because my index.php is in my carrots folder instead of at the root of public_html (which is where it used to be).
Any thoughts? I searched, but couldn't find anything to enlighten me.


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I've recently obtained a Samsung EVO 840 1TB SSD as a hard disk replacement for my laptop (Lenovo X220t, core-i5-2520m, 8GB RAM). So far, I'm not impressed with the resulting performance and request some hints on what to try.
I've formatted the drive to have a 1GB boot partition and another partition taking the rest.
Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
96 heads, 32 sectors/track, 635913 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xf3e3717f
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 3072 2101247 1049088 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 2101248 1953524735 975711744 83 Linux
The second disk is encrypted using luks and aes-xts-plain64.
> cryptsetup status cryptoroot
/dev/mapper/cryptoroot is active and is in use.
type: LUKS1
cipher: aes-xts-plain64
keysize: 512 bits
device: /dev/sda2
offset: 6144 sectors
size: 1951417344 sectors
mode: read/write
flags: discards
On top of that, there is LVM with the logical partitions.
> vgs
VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree
ssd 1 6 0 wz--n- 930.50g 639.00g
> pvs
PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree
/dev/dm-0 ssd lvm2 a-- 930.50g 639.00g
> lvs
LV VG Attr LSize Pool Origin Data% Move Log Copy% Convert
home ssd -wi-ao--- 250.00g
root ssd -wi-ao--- 2.50g
swap ssd -wi-ao--- 10.00g
tmp ssd -wi-ao--- 4.50g
usr ssd -wi-ao--- 20.00g
var ssd -wi-ao--- 4.50g
AES-NI is active and "cryptsetup benchmark" delivers 900-1000MB/s for aes-xts-512 in both directions.
The system is not a fresh install but the old system was migrated using "cp -a", so there was no image-copy of the old filesystems. Now everything does feel a little faster but so far I'm not impressed. Opening iceweasel still takes 4-5 seconds, pycharm with a relatively small project requires about 20 seconds to startup.
I was running bonnie++ to see the raw performance on the filesystem itself with the following results:
Version 1.97 ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
-Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP /sec %CP
laptop 16000M 511 99 464061 50 212554 20 3191 99 646813 20 +++++ +++
Latency 39861us 688ms 647ms 3317us 2593us 2161us
------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
-Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
files:max:min /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP
laptop 128 81349 87 +++++ +++ 71014 63 83195 85 +++++ +++ 59378 56
Latency 81014us 505us 111ms 79458us 14us 114ms
The values for block-wise read and writes look great with 450MB/s and 650MB/s. However, per-character seem really slow with just 0,5MB/s and 3MB/s.
However, I lack a reference to really judge these values. I've seen other machines with a SSD where opening a browser basically happened instantly, similar thing with eclipse of pycharm and I'm wondering why my system does not 'fly' like this. Did I accidentially introduce a huge performance hog somewhere? Or are the numbers fine and my problem lies elsewhere?


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The Last Honorable Man
By Vickie Taylor
Harlequin Enterprises Ltd.Copyright © 2003 Harlequin Enterprises Ltd.
All right reserved.
Chapter OneMine honour is my life; both grow in one;
Take honour from me, and my life is done.
- Shakespeare, King Richard II Act 1, sc. 1
Silence gathered in the wake of gunfire.
Sergeant Del Cooper straightened from his shooting crouch, tugged his Stetson low on his forehead to block the glare of the August sun and hitched the stock of his shotgun up tight under his damp armpit.
So much for Sunday being the day of peace.
Squaring his shoulders, he rose from behind the old Buick he'd used as cover. One by one the others appeared from the shadows of shallow doorways and behind the stoops of dull gray industrial buildings, stepping into sunlight so bright their silhouettes blurred in a hazy glow. The four of them met in the middle of the road and strode forward together, their booted heels scuffing the long shadows cast on the blacktop in front of them. A crimson stain slashed across Hayes's sleeve, but at least they were all on their feet. Del doubted the men in the warehouse at the other end of the road could say the same.
Overhead, an outraged shriek broke the quiet. Del tipped his head back. Squinting against the sun's brilliance, he watched a blackbird circle between the crisp, blue sky and the pewter clouds of gun smoke hanging low over the street, their sulfurous fumes burning his nose and throat. The bird offered another raucous challenge, swooping to defend his territory.
"Sorry, fella," Del said. "The fightin's all over."
A bead of sweat squeezed past his hatband and rolled toward the corner of his eye. He wiped it away with the sleeve of his duster. The cowboy coat's long hem swished and swirled around his calves. It was too hot for any kind of jacket this time of year in Dallas, but the long coat covered the shotgun when Del snugged the barrel up against his thigh, and Del hadn't wanted the weapon to draw attention to himself or his teammates.
Huh. As if anyone with half a mind wouldn't take one look at them and see trouble coming.
From his position on the end, he glanced down the line at the others. At an imposing six foot four and nearly two hundred lean pounds, Captain "Bull" Matheson set the pace from the right-center spot in the row, his left hand resting on the butt of the Colt holstered at his hip. To the captain's right, with handgun still drawn, dangling loose but ready at his side, wiry-bodied Clint Hayes kept pace, somber faced and silent. Only Solomon, the diminutive new kid next to Del, with her six-shooter stretched in front of her in a white-knuckled grip, had the wild-eyed look of the untried.
"Some of 'em got away," she said, breathless.
He spared her a glance. Katherine "Kat" Solomon's eyes were bright, jumpy. "Some of 'em didn't."
"You got one."
"Yeah." He shifted the Remington twelve-gauge so that the barrel rested in the crook of his arm and concentrated on keeping his legs steady beneath him. All of a sudden his knees felt as if they had more joints than they ought. "I got one."
It was days like this - days when the adrenaline rushed through his veins like a swollen river one moment, then dried up like bones in a desert the next, leaving him shaky and perspiring - that he felt the full weight of the badge on his chest. The silver circle and star carried a responsibility. A tradition. A code of honor that demanded he right wrongs, defend the defenseless. And sometimes that he take a life.
But never that he take satisfaction in it.
He knew the kid hadn't meant anything. She just hadn't learned yet that they didn't talk about it afterward. Those demons were to be faced later, in private. It was part of the code. Besides, this wasn't over yet; they still had to clear that warehouse.
They'd nearly reached the front of the building, and still no sign of life. Del doubted there would be. A loose piece of tin on the roof creaked in the hot breeze. A scrap of litter kicked up from the street, swirled and danced in front of them, then skittered out of their path.
Captain Matheson motioned to Hayes. "Side entrance." Then he looked at Del. "Back door."
"I'll take the back door," Solomon chirped, her voice tight as a high wire.
She was already moving when Matheson scowled and called her back. "Hold on there, Johnette Wayne. You're on the front, with me."
Solomon's expression soured to downright mutinous, but she didn't argue. At least not out loud.
Del watched curiously as the two of them measured each other. "Bull" Matheson was always hard on the new kids at first, but Solomon had been with them nearly a month now, and the sparks between her and the Bull showed no signs of letting up. If Del didn't know better, he'd think it was something personal between them.
Matheson turned to Del. "Take the big gun to the back door," he said. "We'll flush, you catch."
Unlike Solomon, Del didn't even think about arguing. Hefting the shotgun to his shoulder, he trotted around the building, careful to stay low and out of the line of fire from the windows. He didn't think anything - anyone - was still alive in there, but it never hurt to be cautious, especially since the angle of the sun on this side of the building cast a glare on the grimy glass, making it more difficult to spot movement inside.
He'd taken position behind a stack of wooden pallets at the rear of the warehouse when he caught a flash of color behind him and to his right. He wasn't sure what it was, but it shouldn't be there.
His throat dried up as another shot of adrenaline hit his system. He needed to focus on what might be coming out that back door, but he didn't like the thought of one of them behind him. He caught another flash of movement among the stacks of pallets. Just a shadow this time, but something nonetheless - and coming his way.
With a glance at the warehouse, seeing nothing moving inside, he made his decision. Matheson might have his hide for leaving his position, but if one of the shooters was out here, Del couldn't let him get away.
He crept along the concrete walls of the docks, searching. Listening. He was crouching beneath a rusted iron staircase, about to poke his head up and look around when a whirlwind descended on him from above. Caught in a vortex of colors - vibrant red and orange, warm brown and stormy blue - he thrashed. Gauzy fabric snarled around him, hemmed him in, and he rolled, trying to get free and hold onto the shotgun at the same time.
He twisted for better leverage, his body molded around a warm and solid human form, struggling mightily. He turned again until he was on top of the bucking body, and his hands let go of the gauze and twisted in something long and soft before he opened his eyes -
- and found himself staring down at one of the most naturally beautiful women he'd ever seen. Earthy, yet exotic, her complexion was the color of toasted almond, smooth and perfect, except for charcoal smudges under her lashes that said it had been too long since she'd slept. Perfectly pitched eyebrows arched over eyes the color of sweet, dark chocolate and her hair ... It was long and smooth and black as coffee - a rich, Colombian roast - and felt like pure silk wrapped in his fists.
He jerked his hands away.
Excerpted from The Last Honorable Man by Vickie Taylor Copyright © 2003 by Harlequin Enterprises Ltd.
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|Reviews for barricade
| Guest chapter 1 . 3/6
love it, always love a story that chooses to make little sense and yet burdens with emotion, your language use is beautiful and your story captivating, please keep writing
| PrettyGirl07 chapter 1 . 6/15/2014
I really like wartime fics like this where they're all just running together and barely have time for anything because everything comes out like a conscience, I also like the disjointed flow of it, it's still very coherent even though it is out of order. This was stunning. Seriously.
| vivafiction chapter 1 . 12/9/2013
i can't sleep so feel my wrath in your inbox. i really like wartime fics like this where they're all just running together and barely have time for anything because everything comes out like a conscience, like they don't even realize it until it's too late, and i love it. and i also like the disjointed flow of it, it's still very coherent even though it is out of order.
| BiblioMatsuri chapter 1 . 7/1/2012
It does feel broken. It's supposed to.
| underlings chapter 1 . 4/29/2012
This was stunning. Seriously. The descriptions were amazing, and I actually really liked the nonlinear-ness (is that a word?) of it. Beautiful writing.
| Little Miss Novella chapter 1 . 1/13/2012
Beautiful! So tragic, but it's written so beautifully and well-written. I love your writing style!
| PenonPaperFingersonKeys chapter 1 . 10/30/2011
Interesting concept you've got here! I really enjoyed it; though perhaps at times difficult to understand I rather enjoyed it for that reason.
| chandelure chapter 1 . 8/4/2011
I really enjoyed reading this—it's very well done. The descriptions and order all add to the theme of war and desperation. I really really liked it.
(Ugh, whenever I try to leave a meaningful review all that comes out is ajksflblahblahblah.)
| lips of poison and wine chapter 1 . 7/19/2011
While this lacked a solid plotline, I devoured it quickly and fount it to be quite decadent. Well done.
| Bookmarked Pages chapter 1 . 7/8/2011
Le-sigh. I think I'm in love with you right now. Or Dramione.
Or both, for that matter.
Either way, that was FANTASTIC and made my day.
Er-night, morning...thing. Whatever.
Still love your Dramione fics. Keep 'em comming?
| lupuslady chapter 1 . 7/3/2011
At first I was a bit confused, but then I figured it out. I really like this a lot.
| smileyfacebabe chapter 1 . 7/1/2011
I like how everything's scattered in the timeline. It's confusing and chaotic, like the war you're describing.
Also it kind of fits Hermione and Draco. :D
I really really like how the usually calm and collected Hermione's thoughts are crazy and unfinished and stuttering; it gives it more personality and life to the idea that they're stuck in a war.
By any chance have you read a Dramione fic were (as Head Boy and Head Girl) Hermione and Draco get stuck teaching a class on Sex Ed? It wasn't finished, but the chunk of it that was written is well written and a good read. I thought you might like it if you haven't read it before.:)
Take care, Sara, I love you 3
| the tomato chapter 1 . 7/1/2011
Darling you've outdone yourself! I love it!
Though I'm pretty much R/H all the way ...somthing about Draco and Hermione still sparks my intrest.
| shyclueless chapter 1 . 7/1/2011
It does lack a bit of sense in a few places, but it's still discernible that all are part of the same reality... Kinda?
Not as high in the list as "thirty one days in november" or one of the many one-shots of "a hundred drops of mercury" but it's good. In it's angsty kind of way.
| xfucktheglasses chapter 1 . 6/30/2011
This was so pretty and just... You make be want to write them. But there's no use in writing then if I don't know then. But stiiiiiill so pretty


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Govt Re-imposes Curfew in Srinagar After Tuesday ClashesGovernment on Wednesday re-imposed curfew in Srinagar parts on after protests erupted in Srinagar on Tuesday when curfew was lifted in the summer capital.4 hours ago
Mobs Rule Streets As Govt Lifts Curfew, Hurriyat HartalAfter remaining confined to their homes for 17 days without any break residents came out of their homes after authorities lifted curfew and separatist leadership announced a break in shutdown only to be forced back by groups of youth.20 hours ago
1 killed, 8 Injured on TuesdayEight persons including a 15 year old boy and a woman got injured after forces fired pellets on protestors on Tuesday in South Kashmir.A 61-year-old man died after he was caught in clashes at Eidgah in old city.Jul 26, 2016
War of Wits: Govt Bid to Outsmart Hurriyat FailsAfter facing widespread criticism for imposing curfew to counter the afternoon relaxation in shutdown announced by the separatists on July 21, the PDP-led ruling dispensation Tuesday came up with a new method to counter the separatist strike.Jul 26, 2016
Major reshuffle in police, administration on cardsAmid prevailing unrest in Kashmir, the State cabinet is likely to meet on Thursday evening where a major reshuffle in police and administration is on cards.Jul 26, 2016
4 militants killed, one apprehendedFour militants were killed and one was apprehended during a fierce gunfight in Kashmir on Tuesday morning, an Army official said.Earlier a soldier was killed in Nowgam Sector of North Kashmir's Kupwara districtJul 26, 2016
'Burhan Spoke To Me Before His Martyrdom,' Geelani SpeaksHurriyat leader Syed Ali Geelani on Tuesday revealed that slain popular militant commander Burhan Wani spoke to him before his killing.Speaking to a gathering of over 500 protestors outside his office-cum-residence at Hyderpora.Jul 26, 2016
Women helpline to give 200 jobs to Jammu, none to ValleyThere seems no end to alleged regional discrimination with Kashmir province even in the proposed establishment a countrywide 181 helpline for women. Reasons? The government has decided to establish the proposed facility in Jammu city.Jul 26, 2016
Kashmir Lawyers To Move Court On Mobile, Internet BanWith private mobile phone and internet services down for 17th consecutive day the J&K High Court Bar Association has decided to move court to challenge the ban which legal experts term illegal and unconstitutional.Jul 26, 2016
Govt. Foils Hurriyat's Anantnag MarchAuthorities Monday foiled 'Islamabad Challo' march, called by joint forum of two Hurriyat factions and the JKLF by imposing a strict curfew and sealing of all the entry points leading towards South Kashmir.Jul 26, 2016
Geelani, Mirwaiz Defy Curbs, HeldPolice detained two key leaders of the united Hurriyat Conference, Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Mirwaiz Umer Farooq on Monday when they tried to break free of cordon around their houses in a bid to lead march towards South Kashmir.Jul 26, 2016
Rajnath Rubbed Salt On Our Raw Wounds: KSCDSKashmir civil society pressure group, Kashmir Centre For Social and Developmental Studies, (KCSDS) deplored Home Minister's Srinagar visit saying it rubbed salt on the raw wounds of Kashmiris.Jul 25, 2016
GoI has always been reactionary than responsive: PDP MPSenior PDP leader and Member Parliament Tariq Hameed Karra Monday said that the visit of Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh in the backdrop of the ongoing unrest could be termed as "exercise in futility" as no concrete steps on ground were tJul 25, 2016
Only Kashmiris Can Decide About Kashmir: PakInsisting on its right to comment on developments in Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan today said only people of Kashmir could deliver a verdict on the future of the state and not Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj.Jul 25, 2016
Roohi Nazki's Remarks Irk MehboobaChief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti has taken serious note of the remarks made by Finance Minister, Dr Haseeb Drabu's wife, Roohi Nazki who recently took to social media to express her outrage and angst over the situation in Kashmir.Jul 25, 2016


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Community Food Connections seeks to improve the nutrition and health of all Phoenix, AZ residents and make fresh foods available to those who typically have limited access. They source all their food locally, providing a market for small growers and have enabled over 100 small businesses to flourish with very minor startup costs. Additionally they are active in the Farm to School program for AZ as well as in low income communities around the Phoenix area where they educate people on how to grow food in a sustainable way in a dryland environment
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I purchase produce and dairy exclusively from CFC's outdoor market. It's local, it's delicious and it supports not only CFC but all the small business owners who gather there. I've also sold excess produce at their Community Exchange Table.
If I had to make changes to this organization, I would...
Grow it's many beneficial programs so that it could reach even more people. They need more volunteers and more unrestricted funding in order to make sure they continue to grow.
What I've enjoyed the most about my experience with this nonprofit is...
the festive environment and the feeling of local community.
The kinds of staff and volunteers that I met were...
diverse, exceptional and always having a good time.
If this organization had 10 million bucks, it could...
spread it's mission around the city more effectively and build community around healthy eating and support of the local economy.
Ways to make it better...
....it doesn't get any better!
In my opinion, the biggest challenges facing this organization are...
lack of unrestricted funding to make sure that key staff are adequately paid and to hire a few more helpers.
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Cindy Gentry rocks!
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Compact 7 litre watering can complete with rose.
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About Us
One Vision Housing is a Registered Provider of Social Housing with approximately 13,000 homes across Sefton, Liverpool and Wirral.
We were formed in October 2006, following a successful stock transfer from Sefton Council and are a not-for-profit organisation, regulated by the Homes and Communities Agency.
One Vision Housing is part of the Sovini Group which was formed in December 2011 and also includes Pine Court Housing Association, Sovini Property Services, Sovini Trade Supplies and Sovini Homes.
We aim to continuously improve services for the benefit of our customers.
We are recognised as one of the best organisations to work for in the UK, having claimed top spot in The Sunday Times Top 100 List and UK Great Workplaces.
In 2014 EFQM named us as the best organisation in Europe for adding value to customers.


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I have a very strange problem. When a search is performed and if it comes up with more than 2 pages, when on the second page the sidebar disappears. Page 1, 3 and 4, etc. Will still show the sidebar.
My website is http://www.peterahrens.com.au, the site isn't finished yet and only has filler content for articles but if you search the term "in the 30" it will come up with 4 pages.
Hope this makes sense?


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Male polar bear Yogli, just recently arrived from Italy, plays with a ball at the zoo in Munich, southern Germany, Thursday, May 24, 2007. The zoo hopes for offspring, once a matching partner is found. (AP Photo/Diether Endlicher)
Cathay, 10-month-old tiger cub, a highly endangered Chinese tiger, chases after a chicken which became her first kill at Pretoria Zoo's Game Breeding Centre at Mokopane December 11, 2003. Cathay is one of two Chinese tiger cubs brought to South Africa to learn how to hunt. The plan is to eventually release them or their offspring back into the wild in China. SOUTH AFRICA OUT REUTERS/ Patricial Hagen


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No hurry....just suggestions. :-) Keep up the good work!
No hurry....just suggestions. :-) Keep up the good work!
I'm getting the following error on these:
Warning: fopen(/public/html/griffey/wp/backup/02032004wordpress.sql): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /public/html/griffey/wp/wp-admin/backupRestore.php on line 217
Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /public/html/griffey/wp/wp-admin/backupRestore.php on line 218
Backup Successful.
It says its successful, but of course, I get no files in the backup folder
any ideas?
@griffey: Thats a permission problem. Please make sure the backup folder you created has the requierd write permissions by the web server.
I couldn't get this wp_backup working, but wp_backup11 worked perfectly first time. Thanks!
Better late than never:
LL, the 1.1 version of the hack works perfectly. I really appreciate your work.
Now, maybe, I'll dare an upgrade :-)
Permission error? I've CHMOD'd the "backup" folder to 766, and still getting errors.
Is there some possibility that the actual folder path is wrong? Where does the script pull the folder path from?
Again, the errors:
Warning: fopen(/public/html/griffey/wp/backup/02032004wordpress.sql): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /public/html/griffey/wp/wp-admin/backupRestore.php on line 217
Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /public/html/griffey/wp/wp-admin/backupRestore.php on line 218
Backup Successful.
Ok, that said:
I found the $path variable setting in the bvars.php file, but am unsure about how exactly that's pulling the info. That _might_ be where this is messing up for me.
A "permission denied" in line 217 can mean a couple of different things.
1) Permissions for the backup folder are incorrect (but you have said that those are set to be 766)
2) The backup folder is in the wrong path. It has to be in the root of your WordPress folder.
3) Your webserver does not have the right (even with 766) to write to the backup directory you have setup. In this case, you will either have to try a 777 or ask your system admin to make some changes.
If these do not solve the issue, please email me outside this thread and I will try to help you out as much as I can.
Well...for some reason, I went back, tried to 777 the folder in order to try it out. The 777 didn't "stick" (I assume that my provider doesn't allow a 777 folder in the html area, for good reason). BUT, when I checked, the folder was 766 again, and it worked.
No idea what was going on, but it's working now. Completely excellent hack! Thanks so much for helping as well...great stuff. Makes me happy I picked WordPress to use for my blogging efforts.
Well, your latest version of the WP backup hack seems to work just fine on my W2K system. I am not going to try the restore unless I have to ;-) Berry simple, berry easy - thanks!
I've found a small problem with 1.1. Very small actually. The link to view your site after you do a restore points to the wp-admin/ directory. Other than that, it works great!
By the way, where does WP store all posts?
WP stores everything in your database.
Just installed the backup11 - worked a treat first time :)
Thanks LL !
I've just installed the script from the zip file wp_backup.zip, and got it to work once I assigned permissions of chmod 777 (chmod 766 resulted in no backup file being created).
When I look at the resulting SQL file, there are lots of drop and create tables, but no inserts other than into the wp_users table, so it looks like it is backing up the structure of the tables, but not the data contained therein.
I am using WordPress 1.02. Any suggestions?
Sorry for the late reply. This backup was written for the 1.0.1 and 1.0.2 versions and the backups that I have performed with this script contain the data.
Did you download the updated version from
http://dinki.mine.nu/word/b2-img/wp_backup11.zip ?
Thank you for your help guys. I downloaded the wp_backup11.zip and it now works a treat.
New question: In order to get it to work, I needed to set the chmod file attributes of the backup folder to 777. Are there security implications for my site because of this?
I've removed the backup files from the server. Could you elaborate on your response please, as I'm not sure what you mean by create a password file. I'm not an expert on unix servers/.htaccess files etc.
I really appreciate your help.
For now, a less secure measure would be to drop an index file in the directory and then someone would need to "guess" the sql file name in order to view it.
Or restrict access through .htaccess
Does this still work with wp 1.2?
but I think that menu.txt doesn't work anymore you have to edit the menu.php
I have implemented this updated version and nothing happens when I try to create a backup. No file is created. Any ideas on what could be causing this?
Hmm, I redownloaded the updated version and backuprestore.php is different than the one I am using. I am on a Windows/Apache setup so I don't know if that will make a difference to you. Does your version of backuprestore have the function make_sql($table)?
I was just wondering if there was any advantage to using this plugin rather than doing a full cPanel backup every which I currently do.
I actually got it to work finally. I had to change my permissions. Thanks! And I'd like to know the advantage of this backup vs the Cpanel backup as well.
Backup is backup. As I mentioned before I just kept this hack to test as I also backup using phpmyadmin. For some I guess it is a matter of convenience but I visit phpmyadmin often so it is six of one, half a dozen of the other for me.
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- Official Description (provided by the hotel):
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