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Bullet For My Valentine originally formed in 1998 under the guise of Jeff Killed John, and proceeded to play cover versions of Nirvana and Metallica in and around their hometown of Bridgend, Wales. The four-piece – Mike 'Padge' Padget (guitar), Matt Tuck (vocals, guitar), Michael 'Moose' Thomas (drums) and Jason James (bass) – soon began writing their own material, and changed their name in 2002 after attracting label interest.
The band's hugely successful debut, The Poison (review), was released in 2005, selling in its hundreds of thousands. The record has since been re-released with various bonus content a number of times. Its follow-up, Scream Aim Fire (review), was released earlier this year to a mixed critical reception, some writers highly vocal about the band's cliché-riddled heavy rock, seeped in traditional metal twists and lacking any shred of creativity (despite its most excellent shredding). DiS certainly didn't trip over its faint praise, stating "where you would have liked them to open a few new doors in the search to find a sound that was distinctly their own, they appear to have just piled on more Maiden, more Metallica, more Slayer, and a dash of Slipknot drumming".
Not that the band's thousands of fans worldwide cared much for what critics had to say; Scream Aim Fire reached number five on the UK albums chart, and number four in the US and Australia; it reached the top spot in Japan, too. They've over 15 million – that's 15 million – MySpace page views. That: wow.
So why DiSband? We don't wholly understand the appeal, that's why. Padge kindly fills DiS in on why his band is so very, very popular.
Video: 'Waking The Demon' (released June 16)
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You started out as a covers band - do you think this grounding has had an impression on the music you play now, as it's quite resolutely in the vein of metal acts that've come before you?
Every musician has influences; fortunately for us ours were classic metal bands. I don't think playing covers had an impression, really. It's just the music we love and have grown up with, so that's what comes out when writing our own material.
The name Bullet For My Valentine was arrived at in 2002 - it seems fairly 'emo' for want of a better way of describing it. Does the name leave any listeners expecting something a little softer, do you think?
Our band had just got signed, so we needed a better band name than the one we were using (Jeff Killed John), which was pretty crap! We just wrote a bunch of names on some paper and Moose came up with Violence For My Valentine, and we just changed the first word. It just fitted with what we were doing at that time, and kinda fitted the lyrics. We didn't even consider if we were emo, or if that name was emo. It's just a band name. We liked it! I don't think people expect anything lighter than what we do; we are all about mixing it up, heavy and mellow.
Do you regard it as a potentially 'classic' name at all, a la metal acts past: Metallica, Black Sabbath, Slayer, Iron Maiden... all defiantly classic, no?
I don't regard the name as 'classic', but did past acts consider their name classic until they became classic?
Are you so bold as to think Bullet can be categorised alongside said acts, if not now then eventually? In terms of output, that is - do you think your records possess the necessary longevity? Would you agree that they're not in keeping with modern fashions/trends, so in that respect they will have a longer shelf life?
Maybe, in time. All we can do is hope for a long career out of this. We want a long career; however, with the state of the music scene today and how fast trends and genres come and go, who knows? I believe we put our heart and soul into the records, we tour the ass out of them and we are just a hard-working band building our army.
You've enjoyed success stateside, commercially, breaking the Billboard top ten with your latest album - do you find metal fans any different there to the ones that you find in Britain? Can you spot a metaller from afar, regardless of their dress or hair... something about the crick in the neck...?
You will always get the standard metal fan: long hair, black t-shirt, jeans or combat shorts, goatee beard et cetera. But as for a difference, not really. Everyone who comes to a show just wants to rock and have fun really, wherever you are in the world.
A number of versions of The Poison were released - was this solely with thoughts of newcomers in mind, or were you also interested to see if you could 're-sell' the same record to existing owners? Be honest now! As I'm assuming these revised/repackaged versions were the label's idea primarily, were you entirely happy with every decision made?
It's a label thing really, because of the internet and record sales going down usually there is a campaign to re-release, so that attention to the band and their album keeps going. I believe it's great for the existing fans, because they get bonus materiel. It's good for sales of the record and it does attract new fans. It's all positive man, of course we were happy to re-release.
'Suffocating Under Words Of Sorrow' was used on the soundtrack to a feature film, Saw III. What do you make of the relationship between movies like the threequel in question and hard 'n' fast metal/hardcore? It seems that 'silly' or 'dumb' films full of mindless gore always seem to gravitate towards metal bands for the soundtrack… a shared audience, perhaps?
I have no idea. Perhaps they want 'silly' or 'dumb' bands on the soundtrack to the 'silly' or 'dumb' films?
How do you find coming home, now you're globetrotters? Is there any resentment in Bridgend - old friends/bands who've not been kind to you since your breaking though?
It's always good to come home, especially after long tours. It does get difficult at times 'cause we are humans with homes, bills and lives. I wouldn't say there is resentment here, as most people are really supportive of us.
How have you dealt with critical negativity - does it trouble you at all if a writer, especially one who knows their stuff, gives your record a poor write-up?
Regarding negativity, I mostly find this on the internet, on forums and comments boards. But I've learned to laugh it off. We did have a bad write-up from Kerrang! magazine which we were totally gutted about, because they had always been very supportive of Bullet. Who knows why (they published the review)? I wouldn't say it worried us, but we were let down a little.
Does it bother you that you're not regarded as especially original?
Making comments during the 2006 Rob Zombie tour (details) saw you removed from it - does that experience mean that you never take your own support acts for granted, and treat them with respect? Do you worry when/if you catch yourself exhibiting 'rock star' behaviour? Would you say you felt like 'rock stars' in a traditional sense, or merely jobbing musicians who've established a fanbase?
We just play music, drink beer and have a good time. We take care of our support bands, and always have. The trouble with the 'rock star' tag these days is that nothing is traditional or original; it's all been done in some way or another. To be original is very difficult. People try, but they try too hard.
Do you think your music videos mostly play up to established rock clichés - the muddle of performance shots and a semi-realised narrative involving some pretty girl, etc...? Is this knowingly done - after all, a band's gotta get their music on TV as much as they do radio - or do you take a backseat on shoots and ultimately leave the matter in the hands of the chosen director?
I take a back seat. I'm really not that bothered about videos.
Are you interested, at all, in developing your present sound into something truly identifiable as Bullet For My Valentine on album three? Do you think a shift, however slight, would alienate your fans? How does the band keep the songs feeling fresh when you must play them hundreds of times per year?
I believe we have our sound already. You can never please everybody, as even a slight change will stir up a lot of people. We learned this on our new album, Scream Aim Fire. The trouble is that nobody wants to write the same record over and over again, it would get really boring and repetitive. I wouldn't want to drastically change our sound between records – that wouldn't make sense – but a slight change or tweak is just interesting and fresh.
Video: 'Hearts Burst Into Fire'
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Bullet For My Valentine's Scream Aim Fire album and 'Hearts Burst Into Fire' single are available now, with their new single 'Waking The Demon' released on June 16. The band play the following live shows in the UK and Ireland (full dates available at MySpace).
2 Belfast Spring & Airbrake
3 Dublin Ambassador
14 Download Festival @ Donnington Park
22 Reading Festival
24 Leeds Festival
Previous DiSband features:
#5 The Subways
#4 The Hives
#3 The Horrors
#2 Land of Talk
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LOS ANGELES, Calif., September 16, 2010 – Top Cow Productions, Inc. proudly announced today that first title off of the 2010 Pilot Season slate will arrive in stores next week on September 22nd, 2010. Pilot Season 2010 debuts a new format consisting of five new concepts and five different creative teams released in a span of five weeks. In support of Pilot Season 2010, stateside creators will be embarking on a signing tour coinciding with their pilot's release.
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Pilot Season: 39 Minutes' William Harms and Jerry Lando will kick off the launch of Pilot Season 2010 next week in Las Vegas and Philadelphia, respectively.
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Pilot Season: 39 Minutes
· William Harms: Comic Oasis, Las Vegas, NV – September 22
· Jerry Lando: Atomic City Comics, Philadelphia, PA – September 25, 2-5pm
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· Filip Sablik: Earth 2 Comics, Los Angeles, CA – September 29
· Jenny Frison: Challengers 2.0, Chicago, IL – September 29, 5-7pm
· David Marquez: Austin Books and Comics, Austin, TX, October 13
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· Rob Levin: The Comic Bug, Long Beach, CA – October 23, 4 PM – 8 PM
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$32,709 Base Price MSRP
$36,760 As Tested MSRP
Model Lineup: 2WD LS ($32,709); 4WD LS ($35,475); 2WD LT ($36,130); 4WD LT ($38,896); 4WD Z71 ($38,601)
Standard Engine: 5.3-liter ohv V8
Engine Options: 4.8 liter ohv V8; 5.3 liter ohv V8
Standard Transmission: 4-speed automatic
Transmission Options: 4-speed automatic
Basic Warranty: 3 years/36,000 miles
Assembled In: Janesville, Wisconsin
Model Tested MSRP: Tahoe 4WD LS ($35,475)
Standard Equipment: (LS) front and rear air conditioning; custom cloth upholstery; programmable power door locks; AM/FM/CD with nine speakers; cargo cover and net; keless entry system; cruise control; eight-point compass and outside temperature display; leather-wrapped steering wheel; power windows; electric rear window defroster; deluxe chrome grille; luggage rack; heated power mirrors; cast aluminum wheels
Options As Tested: third seat ($1021); trailer package ($285); fog lights ($85); locking rear differential ($252)
Standard Safety Equipment: dual front air bags, front side-impact air bags, four-wheel ABS standardLayout: four-wheel drive
On the road, the Tahoe is smooth and stable, a rock. It has plenty of power and its brakes work well. Its cabin is comfortable and familiar, friendly and functional. Turn off the highway and the Tahoe handles gravel, rugged two-tracks, mud, and snow.
Three models are available for 2002: LS, LT, and Z71. (The base model has been discontinued, in part because of the popularity of the LS version.)
LS has been upgraded for 2002 with more standard equipment, including six-way power driver and passenger front seats, fog lamps, assist steps, heated outside mirrors with ground illumination, a rear heater and rear window defogger and Homelink universal transmitter for opening your garage door.
The LS 4X2, powered by a Vortec 4800 V8, retails for $32,709, or for $35,475 with four-wheel drive.
The more powerful and luxurious LT version comes with a Vortec 5300 V8 rated at 285 horsepower, 10 more than the 4800. The bigger difference between the engines is in torque (pulling power). The 4800 is rated at 290 foot-pounds-feet of torque, while the 5300 is rated at 325 foot-pounds-feet of torque.
The Z71 is powered by the 5300 engine. It is specially equipped for off-pavement driving and comes only as a 4X4.
For 2002, all Tahoes except the Z71 are equipped with a premium ride suspension system. Electronic climate controls are available if you order your Tahoe with a sunroof. The Vortec 5300 V8 can run on either gasoline or on fuel containing as much as 85 percent ethanol content. New preferred equipment option groups have been created in an effort to streamline the process of equipping your vehicle the way you want it.
Also new for the LT version is a Redfire Metallic exterior treatment that includes body-colored bumpers and trim.
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Conservative styling means the Tahoe doesn't stand out, but it is an attractive truck. It shares much in common with the Suburban and the Silverado pickup.
Pull door handles are easy to use.
At the rear, there's a choice of a traditional hatch with a flip-up window or panel doors, also known as barn doors or cargo doors. Choosing between them is a matter of lifestyle and personal preference. Cargo doors are standard on the base Tahoe and optional on the LS and LT models; cargo doors are more convenient when towing and for other truck chores, and they make it easier to control a dog. The traditional hatch is made of aluminum for light weight; being able to open just the glass is often more convenient when loading groceries or outdoor gear, especially since it can be operated with the keyless remote.
One annoyance on our Tahoe: The doors were programmed to lock every time we shifted into Drive; when we'd stop, get out, walk to the back and open the hatch, the alarm would sound. The automatic locking feature can be turned off by the dealer.
Tahoe's interior is comfortable, user-friendly, and attractive. Step-in height is lower than it is with pre-2000 models, making it easier to climb in and out. Controls are mounted within easy reach. Visibility is very good through big windows.
It's comfortable up front with nice cloth or leather seats, well-designed switchgear, and map lights that can be aimed. The cupholders are nicely designed and there's a place for a sunglasses case or wallet. Radio buttons are big with pre-set tone controls for each station, so you don't have to adjust the bass and treble response when you flip from an AM news station to rock, country & western or classical. Double visors with extenders keep the sun out of your eyes. Three power outlets in front and one in back deliver electricity for accessories.
It's also quite comfortable in the second row. Separate rear audio and heating and air conditioning controls are available. Cupholders are close by no matter where you're sitting in the Tahoe. A pair of map lights flanks each dome light on the second and third row, a great feature when traveling or accessing gear.
Folding the second-row seats down provides enormous cargo capacity, useful for outdoor activities and home-improvement weekends. Folding the second-row down is easy; headrests stay in place.
The Tahoe is most comfortable with four or five passengers, but it can seat seven with its third-row seat (available in the LS or LT versions, but not with the Z71 package).
Getting in and out of the third row isn't easy, and once back there, it's uncomfortable for an adult. The seat height is low relative to your feet, sort of like sitting on the floor. So if you think you'll be using that third row on a daily basis, then step over to the other side of the showroom and take a look at the Suburban. The Suburban is far more practical than the Tahoe for carrying six or seven people on a regular basis.
In terms of flexibility, however, the Tahoe's third-row seats comprise one of the best designs in the business. They can be quickly folded and flipped out of they way. Better yet, they're easy to remove: just fold down, flip up, grab the release handle, and roll them out on their wheels. They're not light, but one person can remove each of the two seats. Storing them in the garage is a good idea as it opens up more cargo space. This leaves room for five people and lots of cargo.
There's plenty of room back there for a big dog. Fold down one of the second-row seats and he can walk up and put his head on your shoulder. Throw a rubber mat over the cargo area and you have a serious cargo area. Reinstalling the third-row seats is a snap.
Driving Impressions
The Tahoe rides smoothly on the open road and it's stable and comfortable at higher speeds. It handles bumpy roads well. And it's much easier to park than a Suburban.
A Tahoe is relatively easy to park. It's 20 inches shorter than a Suburban with a 38.3-foot turning diameter, four feet smaller than the Suburban's turning circle. With its shorter wheelbase, shorter rear overhang and taller ground clearance, the Tahoe traverses gullies and other rugged terrain where the Suburban scrapes bottom. Likewise, the Tahoe is shorter and more maneuverable than the Ford Expedition. Even though the Tahoe is an inch wider than the Expedition, I find it easier to judge the distance between the Tahoe's right front corner and a tree. The Expedition's fenders seem taller and the Tahoe seems easier to manage off road.
The front suspension is conventional in design, except for the springs. To save space, the Tahoe uses torsion bars instead of coil springs. For 2002, Premium Ride, formerly a $366 option, is standard equipment and uses self-leveling rear shocks to maintain trim height for better handling when hauling heavy cargo or pulling a trailer.
Optional on the LT is Autoride, which electronically controls rear air shocks to provide real-time suspension damping. Autoride keeps your trailer from porpoising after running over railroad tracks. Press a button and GM's tow/haul mode, standard on these new SUVs, holds the transmission in gear longer and shifts more abruptly to keep the transmission cooler.
The Z71 package seems to improve the ride quality on gravel and washboard surfaces. The Z71 also has a locking rear differential, skid plates to protect vital underbody components and comes with the additional security of OnStar communications service.
The Tahoe's conventional ladder frame is fully boxed in the mid-section for maximum rigidity, while the front and rear portions are shaped by the same hydro-forming technique used to make Corvette frames. This design is a key to the Tahoe's excellent ride and handling. At the very front of the frame is a section that is designed to crush and absorb impacts in a crash.
The recirculating-ball steering provides good control and feedback, even if it falls short of the rack-and-pinion steering found on the Ford Explorer. Tahoe's power steering system is designed for durability by operating at a lower temperature range.
Four-wheel disc brakes with dual-piston brake calipers deliver good stopping performance. We towed a heavily laden horse trailer without trailer brakes connected and were impressed with its braking ability. A dynamic proportioning system continuously balances the front and rear brakes for maximum braking without activating the ABS.
Chevy's small-block overhead-valve V8s are excellent. They rival competitors' overhead-cam engines for smoothness and efficiency, and deliver strong torque for towing. The 4.8-liter version cranks out 275 horsepower, yet it is quite efficient; the 2WD, 4.8-liter version, for example, earns 20 mpg on the EPA's highway mileage test.
A better choice, and the one you'll probably end up with, is the 5.3-liter engine rated at 285 horsepower. It delivers strong acceleration performance and burns regular unleaded fuel; the 5.3-liter engine earns an EPA-estimated 14/17 mpg city/highway.
The Tahoe doesn't offer the off-road capability of a Jeep Grand Cherokee, Toyota Land Cruiser, or Land Rover Discovery. The Tahoe will, however, get to most of the places most of us want to go. Its four-wheel-drive system provides four driving modes controlled by buttons on the dash to the left of the instrument panel. Two-wheel drive offers the best fuel economy on streets and highways. Press the Auto 4WD button for inconsistent road conditions. Power will only be sent to the rear wheels when there's good grip, but any loss of traction will cause power to be directed to the front wheels. This works well when patches of snow and ice are on the road.
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Chevrolet's Tahoe makes a lot of sense for someone who wants a big sport-utility, but doesn't want to manhandle a Suburban every day. We think the Tahoe delivers a better driving experience than the Ford Expedition and some of its cargo-carrying ergonomics seem to have the edge. For many people, it's the ideal SUV.
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If you're having problems getting builders to push the statue when it is on the top bend in the path, watch the 'task comment.' Some people will be walking away and it will still say "pushing the statue". Let them walk away. They will go to the beach, swim out and around to the left. You won't be able to see them, but if you click around the back/top right part of the statue, you'll find them. I assume that the idea is that they swim around and climb the cliff to push from the back.
I have purchased level 2 faction in magic, but I have not yet found the berries. Do my villagers need to do something to find them? I have dragged scientists, builders, doctors and farmers all over the map to see if they "see" anything that could be the 6th herb, but to no avail. Please help!
Deanna - I haven't played with the magic faction yet, but this image will show you where the nature faction plant is...
You might try just dropping a villager on a plant in that area (didn't anything new appear for you?). It won't say there's something new when you hold a villager over top of it, but when you drop them there it should tell you they are harvesting the herb.
Another use I found for the children in this version of the game is that A child can also be the chief. My youngest chief was 8 yrs old so it is possible to "save" one of the adults to have around to build and farm and research. Especially in the beginning when you need all the adult workers you can get!
i think the best way to have them live til 90 or older is simply once they are 50 year ol, let them do their own thing
if they wanna bath elt them if they wanna do nothing at all let them, since you alreado got everything theres no need to boss em around
they are usually elders or have all mastered by this time
always have 2 master doctors at least so they automatically heal sick villagers
leave the game on slow so u dont miss anything
and i think thats pretty much all that u can do
Hi cameron.. if your females are in their early 50's
they can still mate
if not then the only thing you can do is hope that some more people arrive :)
I got a new islander today who just came along in a canoe from another island LOL AND he was a trainee builder :)
Thats me completed all the puzzles now so all thats left is to complete the awards and two of my collections :(
does anyone know why
the ghosts appear periodically? and is there a reason?
Would appreciate any ideas
Hey Ali..
u have to have all levels of restoration and all levels of leadership.. then when u have these drop a master builder on the chalkboard :)
hope this helps
oh dear cameron :( all u can do now is hope for a barrelful of toddlers to come along or a canoe from another island with a fertile woman... good luck!
Tricia x
Hi Anonymous.. when ur chief was concerned for the sick did u try and put him bk on the statue? I didnt I just left him to it as my workers kept on pushing and everything was ok... don't know how u can fix it tho :O/ unless u just keep trying to put him bk
sorry couldn't b any help.. am curious tho to know if thats what happens when u 'disturb' the chief during that puzzle...
Hi mary beth.. I've completed all 16 puzzles and the 16th one shows as completed and i'm still waiting on 2 tablet pieces.. what i did do tho is..
when I got into the room I put 3 skilled workers in the circle.. all at different places.. (like it shows on the puzzle screen) I don't know if this is why I got it really.. but its worth a try eh?
I hope this helps.. let me know if it does :)
Tricia x
Okay I think I may have found a major glitch...
I was running low on food, I had no honey and and only one mature tree. Well I exited and changed the date on my computer to about 3 months ago... And when I came back I had 3000 honey in my hive, both of my recently planted trees were mature, and all three trees had 1000 fruit on them each. And no time had passed, all villagers were the same age as when I left them moments before. Weird...
I kept trying to get the villagers, including my master scientist, to get a bowl of water to put out the fire in the fire pit and all they did was to get a drink. I even just let the fire die out. No diamond in the ashes, and no one would get a bowl of water to cool off the ashes either. I have lvl one faction and lvl 2 on everything else except Science, again lvl one. Anything particular I need to do to get the diamond?
Hi all,
I, too found that possible glitch(?). What I did was minimize the game, move my computer clock up 3 hours (from 8:33 pm to 11:33pm), went back to my game. Only got about 500 food and no other changes. Minimized again at 9:47pm, changed clock ahead 3 hours again, this time tho, it rolled it over to 12:47am....(could that be the reason?) when I went back to the game I had 3000 in honey, and all 3 trees were fully matured with 1000 fruit each...... no other effects that I have seen so far.... If this is a glitch, I like it! :)
I need help with Puzzle 14!
I have at least the second level in everything and my alchemy lab is working fine. I make the potion, someone drinks it, the bottom of the screen says "So and so feels light and springy!" so I know my potion is correct, but, when I drop them under the ledge, the won't jump. I've tried it about 50 times to no avail. What's up?
rose rose berry that will keep the sharks away:)
in puzzle 9 to.. my chief was consurned about the sick..
and when i tried to put him back he would'nt direct work anymore... please help.
i already tried to put the time back so i could start over puzzle 9 again but that does'nt work
also tried to put him back on the statue a lot off times.. that did'nt work and i tried to put all my builders on the statue and than the chief wth them but that does'nt help to
hope someone can help me:(
BTW sorry can't right english very good...
greetz Romani
Jeff - are you putting them on the correct table? Drop a villager on the long narrow one near the middle of the right side of the alchemy lab.
blueprincess - when your chief lectures, the children listening will improve at a random skill. This is helpful for when they grow old enough to work they will already be somewhat skilled.
Romani - make sure you drop your chief and builders on the correct spot of the statue. If it doesn't work where you're dropping them, try in a different area. Keep trying and you'll find the right spot. :)
Donna and Ali - I've got an email into the developers, I'll let you know something as soon as I find out about it.
When the chief lectures:
it gives the children some skill so they will automatically be able to work at age 14.
If statue gets stuck:
If your chief leaves the statue work site because of illness, or a worker leaves and you cannot get them to return, try dragging to different places not just the statue, for example the base of the statue and the path leading to the statue. even if the chief is interruped he/she can direct work again, and the chief is needed to finish the work.
If the robe doesn't fit anyone:
One of your villagers is definitely the chief, if the robe does not fit, it is either a nursing mother or the nursing baby and you must wait for the child to be 2 years old.
Fast tech points:
Set as many villagers to do research as you can spare. Remember that master builders accumulate points faster. Also, by purchashing science or magic faction 1 it helps scientists accumulate tech points faster.
Trouble healing villagers:
Doctors can only heal villagers that are sick. If they are weakened because of starvation or a potion that blew up, doctors cannot heal that. They either need food or use the healing potion. A quick way to help doctors gain skill is to make the potion that causes villagers to get sick, then use the doctors to heal them.
Insufficient Housing:
The village will reach its maximum population unless you build the huts for them. The first hut you can start building from the beginning of the game, but later you need to purchase Restoration.
When you place the chief at the top of the path near the door, once in 24 hours a small rainbow will appear above his/her head, which is a signal that there is a rare collectible somewhere in Isola. You need to scroll around the screen to find it.
Hey folks, I have the answer for the problem with the statue puzzle. See insert below from the Last Day of Work website.
We have updated Virtual Villagers - The Secret City to version 1.00.04.
Fixed in this version:
- The statue puzzle issues are all fixed.
- The chief stays on-task now even when the game is off for extended periods.
- Some children were not accepting their clothing purchases, now that is fixed.
- The orchard trees give a bit more food/hour now.
- Final puzzle always correctly registers as 'complete' now.
- Completed collections now produce a small decoration in the alchemy lab.
On the main menu, in the bottom-left corner, you can see your version number. If it is already 1.00.04, you DO NOT NEED THIS VERSION.
Also note that we have delivered this version to all the other distributors (Big Fish Games, Real, Yahoo, etc), so if you got the game there you are already up-to-date and DO NOT NEED THIS VERSION.
We have tested this with several users and you should have no problems installing this over your existing version. Your tribe should be fine.
If you have the Mac FULL version 1.00.03 or earlier and want the latest version, email me at email@example.com with your order refernce number in the subject line, and I'll refresh your download with the latest version. Again, you should be fine just installing this over your current version.
Mac demo versions are not affected by any of this.
I hope this helps!!!
Kay, I posted this up earlier in the comments. Here is the location of the Pitcher plant (Nature faction)...
After removing all of the rubble from the pile
you can drag one of the villagers over the hole that appears. They then go down into a cave.
According to the storyline, there needs to be a balance between nature and science. Does that mean I can now begin purchasing the magic faction with my tech points (I have nature)? I am trying to figure out the purpose of the story.
Hi Angie
I am having problems with identifying exactly what is my order reference number, and or where can i find it? I am emailing you because i have version 1.00.02 LDW, I initially was having problems with the statue puzzle and need a way to get it started again, please help
[cion: From your version number, it appears that you purchased the game from Last Day of Work (LDW). You need to contact LDW, not Angie, at email@example.com, the same email address indicated above in Angie's comment. -Jay]
this is a great glitch for keeping track of your kids...
If you haven't done the shark puzzle, try dragging a kid to the top right corner of your screen. after a bit, the kid will fall into the water, and wont be able to move. they get out of the water when you exit or go to the main menu. an adult will just swim out of the water at a normal pace, and won't say "Sharks, eek!"
please check out this glitch, it is really interesting. Reply if you wish :)
also, our tribe was wiped out by a tsunami, taking all our males :( the tribe died a week later.
Glitchguy - one symptom of an imminent tsunami is an unusually low tide. Although this may seem like a boon for the villagers to collect lots of fish, it is also a potentially dangerous situation for them if they don't get to high ground immediately.
I had a similar event occur and I chose the path to higher ground, and suffered no ill effect.
how do you train builders?
because all my houses are done.. the leaves, cleared.. the bath, done and the rocks, cleared..
they are all old already about 70+.. so they are about to die.. i think i wont be able to finish the statue...
i do the exercise potion to gauin building skills.. but its too slow.. how do i do this?
thanks, Jimboy
I saw on here once before a potion that gives them energy and makes then work "better" but I having trouble finding it again. You get it after a strange bird comes by with a note on him and he is interruping research. I got it, wrote it down and now can't find the paper I wrote it on. It isn't listed on the full potions sheet available above. Can someone help me out here?
ALSO: did you know a chief can be a child of any age? I have one that is 4 yrs old who is chief.
The chief can also get pregnant if it is a woman, course, she won't do anything but take care of the baby until it is weaned but will help if you only have one female and she is the chief.
Great site and thanks in advance for any help.
Hey... just a random thing: in one of my tribes the sharks are still in the water even after having used the potion and i can fish... the sharks just have white sparks over them... I just found it fun....
One of my villagers just found a tablet that gave me a level of alchemy - so now it's fully researhed :D, it just cost me 1000tech points, but that isn't mush comparing to what level 3 normally cost ;)
Couple of things about the chiefs...
I have female cheifs who can still have babies, just give them the fertility potion.
My 13 yo chief can also practice alchemy - so it is not a completely wasted title. I'm not that far along but I don't know what else she can do besides magic food (awesome) and lecture (a waste as far as I can see, she just gets the whole village not working together in the ampitheather. Maybe this will benefit me later one.
A few things - some questions, some random thoughts.
1. I had one guy take the potion to get the sharks gone. They left for a minute, then came back. Do they always come back, or do I need to take more potion to the ocean?
2. Is there any relevance to the people wanting to go to the ocean to look at the fishes, or are they just wasting time?
3. I noticed for the first time today a little door opening behind the bee hive. Did that happen or am I on drugs?
Random thoughts:
1. Have you ever thought you saw something new in the ocean only to realize it was your hand?
2. Don't you just know when you get a glimpse of someone walking away from a job site exactly who it is, because the same lazy bums are always trying to get out of work?
3. I think the birds flying in and out and eating in the orchard are cool. I wish the game would let you do something with them - like catch them or have them drop something "magical" behind. There is no correlation between them leaving and the feathers being found.
4. I don't like it that the game makers allow the characters to feel "a little lonely" but won't allow any interaction for other characters, even playing with other children, to ease their loneliness. I get it that this is just a game and I am willing to suspend disbelief, but I don't think you can have it both ways. Either they have emotions that are connected with the interaction of other characters or they don't. There are many other feelings they can have. However, loneliness is one that is completely and solely dependent upon other "human" contact. So, either have it or not. If you aren't going to allow the characters any interaction whatsoever, other than humping like rabbits as adults, just have them feel something else.
Glitch/Cheat/Spoiler for food and Farming skill:
Once you have at least one tree ready to harvest, you can collect food and advance the Farming skill for your villagers very quickly. As soon as fruit is picked, it is immediately added to your food bin count - you don't have to wait for them to walk it all of the way to the food bin. Just pick the villager up, they will drop the food and it will disappear (but you already got credit for it), and drop the villager right back on the tree. They also get credit immediately for the skill improvements, so this speeds up the time it takes to get a villager from nothing to Trainee, Trainee to Adept, and Adept to Master.


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However, I can see this attracting a certain subset of society, one that usually ends up behind bars doing multiple life sentences after a long manhunt and several trips to secluded areas to identify dental records. The thought of someone steering towards PETA's proprietary blend of eroticism and animal torture by choice is more than a little disturbing. One can almost picture the "enthusiast" down in his basement, shouting "IT PUTS THE 'NOT APPROVED FOR COMMERCIAL SALE' LOTION ON THE SKIN" in the general direction of the petting zoo imprisoned at the bottom of a 6-foot-hole while dancing around to Moby's latest, making "Herbal Essence" noises and trying on a new prom dress made from the skin of last year's prom queen.
Most people view torturing animals as the first sign of a "troubled youth who always kept to himself until one day his house was swarmed by the SWAT team, at which point we all realized that the smell wasn't a backed-up sump pump, but dozens of decaying corpses." Somehow, combining porn and tortured animals seems like the sort of thing that someone should be monitoring (from an unmarked van) rather than using to "raise awareness."
Maybe it will all be just fine. PETA's spokesperson seems upbeat:
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When browsing through blogs the other day, I noticed that Melissa from The Inspired Room used canning jars to make arrangements for fall. I really liked the casual, informal look she created with the jars.
I decided to 'shop' my cabinets and see if I had any and I ran across this wire container and milk jug looking containers I hadn't used in years.
My original plan was to buy some fresh flowers in fall colors to put in the vases, but I saw somewhere (sorry I can't remember-probably on someone's blog) a suggestion for using Nandina berries in fall arrangements. I have Nandina shrubs, but the berries aren't ready yet.
So when visiting my mom on Sunday, we went in the back yard and checked out her Pyracanthia shrubs. They were loaded with these reddish orange berries! So I cut a few and used them in my fall arrangement.
The arrangement was almost free! I already had all the materials on hand except the mini Tiger Pumpkins I bought from Walmart, and they had been purchased a few days before. The only cost occured at the time would be the gas to drive to Mom's house, and I would have visited her anyway!
I really liked the way the arrangement turned out. Thanks Mama!
Hope you have a great day, and thanks for stopping by!
For more Fall decor visit lemonannie!
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
A Free Arrangement (Almost)!
When browsing through blogs the other day, I noticed that Melissa from The Inspired Room used canning jars to make arrangements for fall. I really liked the casual, informal look she created with the jars.
41 comments:
- Gone said...
Great arrangement, Diane!!! I like the casualness, too of the bottles (just like the canning jars)!
- October 1, 2008 at 7:43 AM
- Anonymous said...
That arrangement turned out so pretty! Sometimes the most simple things are the most beautiful.
- October 1, 2008 at 7:55 AM
- Nancy Rosalina said...
OOOOH Diane, What a beautiful arrangement!!! I love the bottles and the berries!!! Nancy
- October 1, 2008 at 7:55 AM
- Jerri Lynn @ Southern Sassyness said...
That is really so pretty, Diane! I love how it turned out and what a great idea to use those jars...
- October 1, 2008 at 8:10 AM
- Grandma Faith said...
Oh my, that arrangement is spectacular. I love those jars. You are so talented. Happy first day of October. Great way to usher it in. Take care.
- October 1, 2008 at 8:16 AM
- Darlene said...
Morning Diane,
I LOVE that arrangement...simple yet really beautiful...LOVE those bottles and berries!!
- October 1, 2008 at 8:32 AM
- Georgia Girl said...
Love your arangement. I know all to well about those shrubs. My parents had them at their home when I was younger. There were about 5 down the front of the house close to the road. Well I get on my bike to go across the street and those darn bushes were so big I did not see the car coming and bang I got hit and broke my leg. So I know all to well about those bushes. Even though I got hurt they do make some pretty fall foilage. Love your decor!
- October 1, 2008 at 8:33 AM
- Missy Wertz said...
Diane, that is so pretty! and all natural and so simple! It is amazing at how beautiful they can be. I love it.
- October 1, 2008 at 8:43 AM
- Nola said...
Beautiful arrangement! I love using Nandina, and anything else I have on hand as fillers to add a little punch to my arrangements. I love fall berries, but none are red yet, here.
- October 1, 2008 at 9:08 AM
- SmilingSally said...
Ah, you put me to shame. How spectacular that is. You even put the perfect placemat underneath to ground it too.
- October 1, 2008 at 9:14 AM
- Christie said...
This arrangement is so unique and beautiful! What a great idea....I love it! Hope you have a great day!
- October 1, 2008 at 9:23 AM
- Bo said...
Morning Diane...Those milk bottles in the carrier are so NEAT!...and I've always liked Pyracanthia thorns and all...such a pretty fall idea... ;-) Bo
- October 1, 2008 at 9:28 AM
- Sue said...
Oh, Diane, this turned out so pretty. I may have to copy-cat (don't have milk bottles but plenty of canning jars). I guess these bushes with berries will have to be our southern bittersweet!
- October 1, 2008 at 9:32 AM
- Anonymous said...
Diane, you are so clever. I love the festive arrangement. I want some of that orange stuff. smile. Bitter sweet would be good too. I need to put my thinking cap on. Now, where is it?
- October 1, 2008 at 9:40 AM
- The Quintessential Magpie said...
Oh, Diane... these are beautiful! What a great idea, and the colors are perfect for fall. My mother had a large pyracantha in her yard and loved to decorate with them. This reminds me so much of her. Thanks for sharing.
Sheila :-)
- October 1, 2008 at 10:47 AM
- Picket said...
Ohhhh weee that is me...that is me!!!! You couldn't have made a better arrangement to fit me to a tea..ok...check or money order!!! lol I am not kidding you girl..if I saw that in a store I would be running to grab it so quick my big hiney would be taking out everything on the counters as I flew by! lol This needs to be your Fall header picture...it is gorgeous girl...I am gonna try and save it in my favorites just to look at it any time...seriously girl this is my favorite centerpiece inspiration..hands down! Thanks for lifting my spirts so high this morning!
- October 1, 2008 at 11:16 AM
- Lamp Tramp said...
That is sooo pretty. You inspired me to go out and find some pretty fall wildflowers, minus the spiders and bugs, of course!
- October 1, 2008 at 11:46 AM
- FrenchGardenHouse said...
LOVE this! I love to clip things from the yard and have them as a fresh arrangement. Even just green stuff looks great.
This is just beautiful.
xo lidy
- October 1, 2008 at 12:50 PM
- Sarah said...
beautiful arrangement. I love how the berries pop out at you.
- October 1, 2008 at 1:11 PM
- Melissa @ The Inspired Room said...
Diane, BEAUTIFUL! I love it. I'm so glad you shared your creative project! Very inspiring.
You should share it here for the Seasonal Nesters group at Blissfully Domestic (you are a member, right? If not sign up!!)
- October 1, 2008 at 1:20 PM
- Laura @ the shorehouse. said...
Stunning! AND simple! I couldn't love that more.
It really is amazing how the cuttings a handful of mini pumpkins made such a big impact. You have a great eye!
- October 1, 2008 at 2:24 PM
- Gone said...
I'm doing so much better today, Diane...thanks!!!
From what I'm able to get from the different news sources, helicopter tours of the area and a new on-foot tour of the IKE damage in Galveston...from the seawall to at least Broadway...there is severe water damage. Most buildings are still standing and have suffered little structural damage...but SEVERE water damage just seems to have devastated the buildings and homes in Shelia's area. There still is no electricity or phone service in most of the area.
I don't know if Shelia has a cell phone...only have her land-line phone #.
Hopefully, we'll hear from her soon.
- October 1, 2008 at 2:48 PM
- Southern Lady said...
Beautiful arrangement, Diane ... I love its simplicity and the colors are gorgeous. The old-fashioned looking jars and olive green placemat were nice touches.
You just can't beat natural materials in arrangements and there's an abundance of them available in the fall.
- October 1, 2008 at 2:51 PM
- The Berry's Patch said...
That turned out very cute Diane! Great job.
- October 1, 2008 at 3:18 PM
- bloggin' Chrystal said...
This is a beautiful arrangement! love, love, love IT!
- October 1, 2008 at 3:24 PM
- Dawn said...
Diane it looks great. I have bittersweet that that doesn't have berries yet. I can't decide if I want to cut them out of my rose bushes or wait until later in the fall to see if they will produce berries.
You did great for a free arrangement. Those are the best kind!
take care,
- October 1, 2008 at 3:29 PM
- said...
Diane, the centerpiece is gorgeous!
Please email me at email@example.com with your address as you have won my little 50th post giveaway. :o)
- October 1, 2008 at 4:35 PM
- Mya said...
I love it! The berries are one of my favorites and the pumpkins are just too cute. I haven't done my fall decorating yet but I will. Hope things are well with you.
- October 1, 2008 at 5:20 PM
- Scooterblu's Whimsy~Rhonda said...
Gorgeous!!! ~Rhonda :)
- October 1, 2008 at 6:10 PM
- Terrie's Lil' Piece of Serenity said...
Diane, That's as sweet as can be!! I love it!! And I loved that you used what you had!!!
- October 1, 2008 at 6:44 PM
- nikkicrumpet said...
Gosh...that is really beautiful! I love the combination and those jugs are way cuter than a vase!
- October 1, 2008 at 7:03 PM
- Anonymous said...
Wonderful Fall arrangement, Diane! I need to look around for containers, in the basement.
- October 1, 2008 at 7:13 PM
- Ramona said...
Diane ~ thanks looks so beautiful. Good job. Don't you just love pulling something simple together and having it turn out just as you imagined? I love it.
Smiles ~ Ramona
- October 1, 2008 at 10:05 PM
- The Dillon 6 said...
I sure wish I had bottles like that floating around in the back of my cabinets! :)
- October 1, 2008 at 10:41 PM
- Anonymous said...
Your fall arrangement is just spectacular! What a terrific grouping! I loved your birthday letter and photos for Connor and that sweet little one in the pumpkin outfit! Grandkids are the bestest gift ever! I get to see MY little red headed g. girl on Friday! Dana
- October 1, 2008 at 11:32 PM
- The Style Sisters said...
How fun to shop your cupboards and find treasures. Those bottles are fabulous. They look so nice all done up with the flowers. Very pretty.
- October 1, 2008 at 11:43 PM
- Cheryl said...
Hi Diane,
Love your arrangement! Just wanted to stop by check things out again and tell you I have tagged you.
- October 2, 2008 at 1:20 AM
- santamaker said...
LOVE It ! simply beautiful!
- October 2, 2008 at 12:08 PM
- Mrs. B said...
Very cute! I love those milk bottles. Hmmm, I think the vacant house next door has some of those bushes in the back yard, I may just have to "borrow" a few berries from them!
- October 2, 2008 at 1:31 PM
- Pat @ Mille Fiori Favoriti said...
Hello again Diane!
I officially caught up with your blog as I read all the posts between this and the last post to make sure I didn't miss anyhting. You always have good ideas and I'm soooo jealous of all the good buys you find at yard sales --no one ever has 5 cent prices on anything around here :-(
Love all your pumpkin and fall decor -- I have to catch up on that too!
Hugs, Pat
- October 8, 2008 at 6:55 PM
- Heidi Boos said...
So, so beautiful. The arrangement is perfect and I love how you used something you already had to create something so beautiful for Fall. I'm stopping by from Lemon Annie's fall decor roundup!
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Although these terms are often used interchangeably, they have different meanings.
Although some have claimed that organic foods have a higher concentration of some nutrients, the evidence is mixed. The nutritional content of foods also varies greatly according to when the food was harvested and how it has been stored or processed. Unless they are fresher, there is also no evidence that organic, natural, or health foods taste better than regular foods. However, taste is determined by plant genetics, rather than by whether the crop is organically or conventionally grown. Harvesting and handling also affect taste. A peach or tomato that is picked when it is too green will never develop the full taste of fruit that is allowed to ripen on the tree or the vine.
Although the type of fertilizer may not affect taste or nutrition, it does have an effect on the environment. Many people prefer to pay premium prices for organic foods because their production does not cause environmental damage from pesticides and herbicides, and composted fertilizers help restore soil and are not as damaging to the environment as artificial fertilizers. However, simply stating "organic" does not protect the food from being contaminated from field to market.


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Graphs as a New Way of Thinking
Faced with the need to generate ever-greater insight and end-user value, some of the world's most innovative companies — Google, Facebook, Twitter, Adobe and American Express among them — have turned to graph technologies to tackle the complexity at the heart of their data.
To understand how graphs address data complexity, we need first to understand the nature of the complexity itself. In practical terms, data gets more complex as it gets bigger, more semi-structured, and more densely connected.
We all know about big data. The volume of net new data being created each year is growing exponentially — a trend that is set to continue for the foreseeable future. But increased volume isn't the only force we have to contend with today: On top of this staggering growth in the volume of data, we are also seeing an increase in both the amount of semi-structure and the degree of connectedness present in that data.
Semi-structured data is messy data: data that doesn't fit into a uniform, one-size-fits-all, rigid relational schema. It is characterized by the presence of sparse tables and lots of null checking logic — all of it necessary to produce a solution that is fast enough and flexible enough to deal with the vagaries of real world data.
Increased semi-structure, then, is another force with which we have to contend, besides increased data volume. As data volumes grow, we trade insight for uniformity; the more data we gather about a group of entities, the more that data is likely to be semi-structured.
But insight and end-user value do not simply result from ramping up volume and variation in our data. Many of the more important questions we want to ask of our data require us to understand how things are connected. Insight depends on us understanding the relationships between entities — and often, the quality of those relationships.
Here are some examples, taken from different domains, of the kinds of important questions we ask of our data:
- Which friends and colleagues do we have in common?
- What's the quickest route between two stations on the metro?
- What do you recommend I buy based on my previous purchases?
- Which products, services and subscriptions do I have permission to access and modify? Conversely, given this particular subscription, who can modify or cancel it?
- What's the most efficient means of delivering a parcel from A to B?
- Who has been fraudulently claiming benefits?
- Who owns all the debt? Who is most at risk of poisoning the financial markets?
To answer each of these questions, we need to understand how the entities in our domain are connected. In other words, these are graph problems.
Why are these graph problems? Because graphs are the best abstraction we have for modeling and querying connectedness. Moreover, the malleability of the graph structure makes it ideal for creating high-fidelity representations of a semi-structured domain. Traditionally relegated to the more obscure applications of computer science, graph data models are today proving to be a powerful way of modeling and interrogating a wide range of common use cases. Put simply, graphs are everywhere.
Graph Databases
Today, if you've got a graph data problem, you can tackle it using a graph database — an online transactional system that allows you to store, manage and query your data in the form of a graph. A graph database enables you to represent any kind of data in a highly accessible, elegant way using nodes and relationships, both of which may host properties:
- Nodes are containers for properties, which are key-value pairs that capture an entity's attributes. In a graph model of a domain, nodes tend to be used to represent the things in the domain. The connections between these things are expressed using relationships.
- A relationship has a name and a direction, which together lend semantic clarity and context to the nodes connected by the relationship. Like nodes, relationships can also contain properties: Attaching one or more properties to a relationship allows us to weight that relationship, or describe its quality, or otherwise qualify its applicability for a particular query.
The key thing about such a model is that it makes relations first-class citizens of the data, rather than treating them as metadata. As real data points, they can be queried and understood in their variety, weight and quality: Important capabilities in a world of increasing connectedness.
Graph Databases in Practice
Today, the most innovative organizations are leveraging graph databases as a way to solve the challenges around their connected data. These include major names such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, Adobe and American Express. Graph databases are also being used by organizations in a range of fields including finance, education, web, ISV and telecom and data communications.
The following examples offer use case scenarios of graph databases in practice.
- Adobe Systems currently leverages a graph database to provide social capabilities to its Creative Cloud — a new array of services to media enthusiasts and professionals. A graph offers clear advantages in capturing Adobe's rich data model fully, while still allowing for high performance queries that range from simple reads to advanced analytics. It also enables Adobe to store large amounts of connected data across three continents, all while maintaining high query performance.
- Europe's No. 1 professional network, Viadeo, has integrated a graph database to store all of its users and relationships. Viadeo currently has 40 million professionals in its network and requires a solution that is easy to use and capable of handling major expansion. Upon integrating a graph model, Viadeo has accelerated its system performance by more than 200 percent.
- Telenor Group is one of the top ten wireless Telco companies in the world, and uses a graph database to manage its customer organizational structures. The ability to model and query complex data such as customer and account structures with high performance has proven to be critical to Telenor's ongoing success.
- Deutsche Telekom leverages a graph database for its highly scalable social soccer fan website attracting tens of thousands of visitors during each soccer match, where it provides painless data modeling, seamless data model extendibility, and high performance and reliability.
- Squidoo is the popular social publishing platform where users share their passions. They recently created a product called Postcards, which are single-page, beautifully designed recommendations of books, movies, music albums, quotes and other products and media types. A graph database ensures that users have an awesome experience as it provides a primary data store for the Postcards taxonomy and the recommendation engine for what people should be doing next.
Such examples prove the pervasiveness of connections within data and the power of a graph model to optimally map relationships. A graph database allows you to further query and analyze such connections to provide greater insight and end-user value. In short, graphs are poised to deliver true competitive advantage by offering deeper perspective into data as well as a new framework to power today's revolutionary applications.
A New Way of Thinking
Graphs are a new way of thinking for explicitly modeling the factors that make today's big data so complex: Semi-structure and connectedness. As more and more organizations recognize the value of modeling data with a graph, they are turning to the use of graph databases to extend this powerful modeling capability to the storage and querying of complex, densely connected structures. The result is the opening up of new opportunities for generating critical insight and end-user value, which can make all the difference in keeping up with today's competitive business environment.
Emil is the founder of the Neo4j open source graph database project, which is the most widely deployed graph database in the world. As a life-long compulsive programmer who started his first free software project in 1994, Emil has with horror witnessed his recent degradation into a VC-backed powerpoint engineer. As the CEO of Neo4j's commercial sponsor Neo Technology, Emil is now mainly focused on spreading the word about the powers of graphs and preaching the demise of tabular solutions everywhere. Emil presents regularly at conferences such as JAOO, JavaOne, QCon and OSCON.


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This distinctive, metal-clad single family house located in Nagoya was completed earlier last year by a Japanese practice Tomohiro Hata Architect and Associates. Featuring an angular, alternating roof, the two-storey residence comprises a number of small rooms on the upper floor while a living area and an enclosed patio are situated on the ground floor of the 100-square-meters house.
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Late at night, when I lie awake in bed
Your eyes finally meet mine
But you belong to someone else
So fantasy is all I find
Alive only in my mind
Oh but to, creep into your room
A little help from the silver moon
To silently fill your dreams
You'd take my hand and follow me to
Another time, a land unseen
Another woman's dream
Come with me, on a wild fantasy
Be one with earth, moon and sky
Then lie with me awhile
As we defy the hands of time!
Come see the haven, I have buried deep inside
Hear my secrets, dreams and fears
Will you recognize my soul, before we grow too old?
Late at night, in the darkness of my mind
These visions haunt my dreams
Of you and I searching silently apart
Is it as crazy as it seems?
I think I know what it means
To break through this hell
And cast a magic spell
To send you back in time
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Response to Joe Weisenthal's Critique of My Politico Opinion Piece
Yesterday I had an op-ed in Politico suggesting that U.S. lawmakers should consider not raising the federal debt limit (at least for now). I argued that freezing the ceiling would assure investors that the United States is serious about reducing its debt, and that it would serve as a commitment device for lawmakers and President Obama to forge and follow a serious debt-reduction strategy.
A financial website writer named Joe Weisenthal strongly disagreed with my column. He seems to misunderstand several of the points that I was making, and so I offer the following response to his comments:
From Weisenthal's post:
Another day, another economist advocating that the US default on its debt.
The latest is Jagadeesh Gokhale of the Cato Institute, who has a big piece advocating an immediate freeze of the debt ceiling.
It's so convoluted, we hardly know where to begin, but let's just address a few sloppy parts.
Many knowledgeable federal officials, like Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, as well as left-leaning lawmakers, insist that the answer lies in lifting the debt limit. They warn Congress about the dire consequences if it fails to do so. President Barack Obama has chimed in — though he voted against raising it when he was a senator.
They all assert that failing to increase the debt limit could sharply undermine the economic recovery.
But that view could be wrong. A temporarily frozen debt limit could instead signal U.S. lawmakers' resolve to get our fiscal house in order. It may even reassure investors about long-term U.S. economic prospects.
This line about "reassuring investors" is nonsense. Investors are already reassured, which is why interest rates have only fallen amidst all the squawking from the political class about this "crisis."
From the start, Weisenthal doesn't follow my argument. I am not concerned about the state of market confidence today, but what it would be if the debt limit were frozen. The contrarian view that I expressed in my op-ed is that participants would interpret a debt-limit freeze positively, just as they appear to have interpreted the recent downgrade of the U.S. economic outlook by Standard and Poor's positively — U.S. equities, U.S. treasuries, and the dollar are up less than 48 hours after S&P's downgrade announcement.
He also misunderstands why interest rates have declined. It is because of the Federal Reserve's sustained intervention in bond markets, not because there is little investor concern over the United States' long-term fiscal outlook.
Returning to Weisenthal's post:
He then gets to the discussion of a default.
...the current prospect of a technical default, from failing to increase the debt limit, would not be due to any real national insolvency. Given today's low interest rates, the federal government could easily raise the resources needed to meet today's contractual government obligations.
This doesn't make any sense. How do "low interest rates" matter to the government in a situation where it's legally unable to borrow?
Here, Weisenthal misunderstands what it means to freeze the debt limit. It does not mean, as he believes, that the government is "legally unable to borrow." It only means that the government cannot issue any additional debt beyond the limit. But the government can (and will) continue to roll over its existing debt, and must do so at current interest rates, which makes those rates relevant to the discussion.
More Weisenthal:
Anyway, here's the biggest whopper of them all:
How might investors really view this ersatz U.S. debt crisis? If some lawmakers' refusal to vote for increasing the debt limit without also passing prudential fiscal policies resulted in a technical U.S. default, it would demonstrate their significant political strength.
Might that not actually induce investors to buy long-term U.S. debt — reducing long-term interest rates and improving the U.S. investment climate?
Oy, where to begin? First of all, the notion that a "technical default" would induce investors to buy long-term U.S. debt is prima facie absurd.
Perhaps he knows something I don't, but I don't see this as absurd at all. I'd expect that a serious commitment by political leaders to get the nation's fiscal affairs in order would inspire investor confidence in U.S. securities. If anything, it's absurd to think that investors would be encouraged by Weisenthal's preferred policy of the nation continuing to expand its borrowing without a plan to manage its debt.
Back to his post:
Second, as we stated above, longterm US interest rates are at historical lows, so the idea of needing to reduce them further to improve the US investment climate is rubbish. And finally, why do we want people to buy more long-term US debt? Ideally we want people going out and actually investing in things with their money: companies, employees, lending to corporations, etc. Aren't debt hawks supposed to hate the idea of government borrowing crowding out private spending. [sic]
The problem with this comment is that today's historically low interest rates are not a reflection of freely operating market forces. They result from the Fed's massive interventions through its Quantitative Easing policy. The Fed has increased its portfolio of market assets — now approaching a staggering $2.7 trillion — in part by purchasing treasuries with longer maturity than it used to purchase before 2008. Without that injection of liquidity (note to Ben Bernanke: I didn't say the Fed is "printing money"), market rates would be much higher.
Weisenthal does rightly worry about the effect of U.S. government finance on other sectors of the financial market. Fortunately, investors are beginning to branch out beyond government securities. But even as the Fed has been purchasing so many Treasuries to keep interest rates artificially low and fund the government, it has also purchased private assets because investors have not been buying U.S. private assets as much as they used to. The Fed has been propping up particular U.S. sectors (e.g., securitized finance, insurance, auto, home, credit card loans) to keep them from failing. If you removed the Fed's $2.7 trillion liquidity injection from markets, interest rates would be much higher today. (How the Fed should conduct monetary policy is a different topic, beyond the scope of this post.)
Government officials are afraid that investor exits from Treasuries (and U.S. assets in general, both government and private) will accelerate if the debt limit is frozen, as I mentioned in the Politico article. I'm suggesting that view might be incorrect.
Weisenthal concludes:
Basically, Gokhale is just throwing a bunch of stuff at the wall, failing to produce an argument, and hoping you don't really get it. Sorry.
Respectfully, I think my argument is quite coherent, though I admit it's not the conventional view offered by many other commentators. Indeed, that's why I wrote the op-ed.


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Top Open Source JavaScript Libraries, Frameworks and Tools, Page 2
6. Easy JavaScript Testing with Jasmine
To learn more about Jasmine see this introduction, published on the Jasmine GitHub wiki. Additionally be sure to check out the series of example-based tutorials on the wiki.
7. Writing Less Code with Underscore.js
8. Avoiding JavaScript with CoffeeScript
Despite the increased availability of great JavaScript-based libraries and frameworks, a fair number of developers remain steadfast in their attempts to avoid the language at all costs. One enterprising programmer named Jeremy Ashkenas has even gone so far as to create an entirely new programming language which can be subsequently compiled into JavaScript, allowing developers to avoid writing JavaScript altogether.
While on its surface the idea of learning another language for the express purpose of avoiding JavaScript may sound strange, CoffeeScript has nonetheless gained quite a following, amassing almost 2,300 GitHub project followers and having recently been added to Rails 3.1 (with much ensuing controversy). One reason for such interest is CoffeeScript's concise code; for instance check out the following simple example:
hello = "1 + 1 = #{1 + 1}"
Once compiled, this CoffeeScript example will be converted into the following JavaScript:
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hello = "1 + 1 = " + (1 + 1);
To learn more about CoffeeScript, be sure to check out the official website and additionally my Developer.com tutorial on the topic, CoffeeScript: Create Optimized JavaScript Code Without Touching JavaScript.
9. Yahoo UI Library
The Yahoo UI Library (YUI) is an incredibly powerful JavaScript- and CSS-based solution for building Web applications which in my opinion come closer to resembling their desktop-based brethren than those created by any of the competing JavaScript toolkits. Not convinced? Check out the amazing set of YUI-based examples available via the YUI website. One of my favorite widgets is Dial, which provides users with the ability to finely tune a setting using a familiar knob-like interface.
YUI goes beyond what we've come to expect from a typical JavaScript library, providing a variety of readily available CSS grids which take much of the guesswork and frustration out of creating grid-based layouts. See this example, which demonstrates YUI's grid layout capabilities by recreating the interface similar to that made available to My Yahoo users.
An open source project, the YUI project is managed via GitHub, and has attracted a large community of contributors who have extended YUI in numerous ways. See the YUI 3 Gallery for a comprehensive list of what's available.
10. Easier Debugging with Firebug
Although not exclusively used for JavaScript-specific purposes, the Firebug Firefox extension has long been such an indispensable tool to JavaScript developers that I thought this article would be horribly incomplete without mentioning it. Offering a powerful JavaScript debugger and profiler, DOM explorer, and network monitor, it's possible to closely examine the behavior of your JavaScript code throughout the entire execution lifecycle, even when that behavior involves Ajax-based interaction with the Web server.
To learn more about Firebug, be sure to peruse the official website and additionally check out my Developer.com tutorial Firebug: Add Browser-based Debugging to Your Ajax Development.
While all 10 of the projects covered in this article are certainly prominent, they by no means represent the entirety of what's available to JavaScript developers. Are you using a JavaScript library, utility or other development tool not listed here? Tell us about it in the comments!
About the Author
Jason Gilmore -- Contributing Editor, PHP -- is the founder of EasyPHPWebsites.com, and author of the popular book, "Easy PHP Websites with the Zend Framework". Jason is a cofounder and speaker chair of CodeMash, a nonprofit organization tasked with hosting an annual namesake developer's conference, and was a member of the 2008 MySQL Conference speaker selection board.
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When I started experimenting with cooking in my early 20s, I was in the midst of my English-teaching experience in China. My little apartment was blazing hot in the summer and freezing in winter, so I didn't do much cooking in the summer, but made many pots of soup for warming lunches and dinners throughout the winter.
A pot of soup simmered on Sunday evening would easily see me through the week, and it never really occurred to me to get bored eating the same thing almost every day.
One winter, I was craving lasagna, but wasn't able to get some of the crucial ingredients in China, such as ricotta cheese (before I knew how to make it myself) and lasagna noodles. So I came up with a soup recipe that incorporated all the flavors of lasagna, in a thick, savory soup. Ground beef browned with onions, baby bella mushrooms and garlic, a rich tomato base, baby spinach, and lots of oregano and crushed red pepper.
I add the noodles at the end - this time we used a fun, trumpet-shaped noodle called Campanelle which Jamie picked out - and as soon as the pasta is cooked, the soup is ready. Of course, since lasagna isn't complete without cheese, we topped off our bowls with a sprinkling of mozzarella.
The other English teachers and I would all cram into one apartment - 10-12 people squeezed around a table intended for 6 - and we'd finish off every last bit of the soup, along with stacks of buttered garlic bread and bowls of salad.
I made this soup for dinner the other night, it was every bit as wonderful as I remembered from those cold winters in China. Instead of garlic bread toasted under the broiler, I tried a recipe for focaccia, adding minced garlic and chopped herbs to the dough, as well as a few sprinkled on top. The bread was very soft, and so good warm from the oven.
Those years oversees made me realize how spoiled I was in the US. In China, I learned how to make a comfy and inviting home in an apartment where the heat was regulated by the government, where I found icicles dripping out of my faucet one Christmas morning and ants inside my refrigerator, where I had no hot water in the kitchen for washing dishes. A two-burner propane cook-top, a microwave and an oven only large enough to bake 6 cookies at a time were my only pieces of kitchen equipment. These were the days when I didn't own a car or a cell phone, and neither seemed all that necessary at the time.
And yet, in spite of the lack of American comforts, we were treated much better than the Chinese teachers. Better pay, better apartment furnishings (we had carpeting, real beds and privacy; they got concrete, rickety cots and an apartment they shared with 2-3 other teachers). The longer I lived there, the more I embraced the culture and the less I had to complain about.
All of this makes me so thankful now that I have a cozy home, reminding me to be grateful for a beautiful condo when I find myself wishing we were in a house. Thankful for a home where I can turn the AC or heat up or down if I'm hot or cold, a home free of ants and mice, hot water in my kitchen, and someone to come home to every day...
Lasagna Soup
printable recipe
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 pound lean ground beef (93/7)
- 1 sweet yellow onion, diced
- 4 baby bella mushrooms, chopped
- salt and pepper
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 bay leaf
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1 29-ounce can tomato sauce
- 1 29-ounce can stewed tomatoes in Italian spices
- 5 ounces (about 2 cups) fresh baby spinach leaves
- 2 cups water
- 1/2 pound bite-sized pasta, such as Farfalle, Rotini, Penne, Shell, Campanelle, etc...
- 1 1/2 cups grated Mozzarella cheese
Heat the oil over medium heat in a large stock pot. Add the beef, using a wooden spoon to break it up; brown for about 5 minutes. Add the onions and mushrooms, with a good pinch of salt and pepper. Cook until the beef is completely browned and the vegetables are softened, 7-8 minutes. Stir in the garlic, spices and flour.
Add the tomato sauce, stewed tomatoes, spinach and water. Bring to a boil, then cover, reduce to medium low and simmer for 30 minutes, until the flavors have developed. Taste and adjust seasoning as you like.
Add the pasta and simmer uncovered, until the pasta is cooked al dente. Serve garnished with the mozzarella.
Note: This soup is fantastic leftover. Since the pasta will absorb moisture which will thicken the soup, you may need to add more water the following day when you reheat it, to return it to a "soupy" consistency.
Yields about 6 servings
Recipe from Curly Girl Kitchen
Herbed Garlic Focaccia Bread
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- 1/2 cup warm 2% milk (70° to 80°)
- 2 tablespoons warm water (70° to 80°)
- 1 teaspoon active dry yeast
- 1 2/3 cup bread flour
- 1/2 teaspoon coarse kosher salt
- 1 tablespoon granulated sugar
- 2 tablespoons butter, softened
- 1 egg
- 2 teaspoons minced fresh rosemary, sage and thyme, plus extra for sprinkling on top
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 teaspoons olive oil
- Cracked black pepper
Combine the milk, water and yeast in a mixing bowl – let stand for 5 minutes until foamy.
In a separate bowl, combine the flour, salt and sugar Add the flour mixture, butter, egg, herbs and garlic to the mixing bowl. Knead with the dough hook for approximately 5 minutes, until the dough is soft and elastic (it will be sticking to the bottom of the bowl and will not form a tight dough ball).
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and sprinkle lightly with flour. Turn the dough out onto the baking sheet and shape into an 8-inch circle. Cover with a towel and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 30-40 minutes.
Using the end of a wooden spoon handle, make 1/4-in. indentations in dough. Brush with oil, then sprinkle with additional chopped herbs and cracked black pepper.
Bake at 400° for 12-15 minutes or until golden brown. Cut or tear into 6 wedges.
Yields 6 servings.
Adapted from Taste of Home