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In 2016, I read over 23 books and still have my nose in a bunch of others. I have a goal to read more books in 2017, but I think some time should definitely be spent on the books that I am still thinking about months later 🙂 . These are my 8 favorite books in 2016.
- Blackmoore by Julianne Donaldson
I have absolutely loved every book I have read by Donaldson and I'm hoping to look for more. This is great if you love family friendly regency novels! 🙂
- The Secret to Hummingbird Cake by Celeste Fletcher McHale
This is McHale's debut novel and it had me both laughing and crying within minutes. I'm looking forward to reading more from McHale in the future!
- Without You, There Is No Us by Suki Kim
I only rated this as a 4 star book on my list and I think it is because the ethical issues I had with it. However, this book is really eye opening into North Korea.
- Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children Boxed Set (1-3) by Ransom Riggs
This book series is so awesome! I've yet to see the movie yet, but the series is so unique and different from anything else I've read. I was completely glued to the series while it rendered me non-functioning and read it in less than a week.
- A Fifty-Year Silence: Love, War, and a Ruined House in France by Miranda Richmond Mouillot
I love WW2 history and this was a really interesting insight to the granddaughter of a Nuremberg trial translator. She weaves through past and present to figure out family estrangement and has a really beautiful writing style.
- One Hundred Birds Taught Me to Fly: The Art of Seeking God by Ashley Mae Hoiland
This is my favorite LDS book that I read this year. Hoiland has a very unique way of looking at the world and documenting it through essays. I would definitely give this as a gift.
- The Actor and the Housewife: A Novel by Shannon Hale
As much as this made me scratch my head, I absolutely could not put it down. I know for a fact that I'll be re-reading this one once I have forgotten details.
- Midnight in Austenland by Shannon Hale
Hale is one of my favorite authors for both her humor and her writing style. I'd love to re-read this ones to pick up details I missed the first time around.
There were a few books that I ranked as 5 stars, but I wouldn't want to read again because the topic was too intense. However, I'm pretty impressed with how many great books I read!


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""It's not the soil itself—it's the soil life that is the most important element." – Geoff Lawton" 30 October 2010 Factual 97 mins
We've all seen environmental problems highlighted everyday on the media. Now comes the solution. From the man who said, "You can solve all the world's problems in a garden" comes Geoff Lawton's Permaculture Soils DVD. 137 minutes of Permaculture soil creation strategies that really work! Even if you have never built a garden or got your hands dirty before, you will learn the secrets of real soil creation – partnering with the life in the Soil! Geoff will take you through every step of the process and explain in detail how to do it yourself. From Compost creation to larger Kitchen Gardens and then to broad acre farming – this is the future of biological agriculture.
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Bhale Manchi Roju Movie Review and Rating: Super Star Mahesh Babu's brother-in-law Sudheer Babu's new movie Bhale Manchi Roju Movie is all set to release on December 25th on the eve of Christmas Festival 2015. Bhale Manchi Roju / Bale Manchi Roju film directed by Sriram Adittya.T and produced by Vijay kumar reddy and Shashidhar reddy under 70MM entertainments. Sudheer Babu is playing the lead role in this film. Wamiqa Gabbi, Saikumar and Dhanya Balakrishna are playing major roles. The Music & Trailer of the film got superb response from the audience. The story of the film takes place in a span of 12 hours — from morning to evening. Check out the "Bhale Manchi Roju" Telugu Movie Genuine review, rating, story line, plus points, minus points & verdict from below.
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Sudheer's Bhale Manchi Roju Movie Cast and Crew (Credits):
Release Date: December 25, 2015
Language: Telugu.
Star Cast: Sudheer babu, Wamiqa Gabbi, Dhanya balakrishna, Saikumar, Posani krishnamurali Paruchuri etc.
Director: Sriram adittya T.
Producers: Vijay kumar reddy, Shashidhar reddy.
Cinematographer: Shamdat Sainudeen.
Editor: M.R.Varma.
Music Director: Sunny M.R.
Bhale Manchi Roju Movie Story:
Ramu (Sudheer Babu) is a happy guy and son of a car mechanic (Paruchuri Gopala Krishna) who works as a car drive in Benze Showroom. After watching the beauty of Maaya (Dhanya Balakrishnan) he gets attracted toward her but she started to create problem for him. Finally Ramu decides to teach lesson to Maaya. The twist arises in the movie, when his car collides with other and he falls in trouble. Nartanasala theater owner (Saikumar) started to threaten him to kidnap Seetha (Wamiqa Gabbi) for him who escaped during the accident. What will Ramu do now? Will he find Seetha? To get these answers one should watch the movie on silver screen.
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Bhale Manchi Roju Movie Highlights:
- Sudheer Babu Performance.
- 30 Years Prudhvi.
- Interval block.
Bhale Manchi Roju Movie Drawbacks:
- Predictable story line.
- Second Half.
- Editing.
- Slow Narration.
Over all Bhale Manchi Roju Movie is an average flick. The first half of the movie is more interesting than the second half. The entertainment level goes down as the movie moves towards end. Even though this film gets a bit slow and is devoid of the regular commercial formula, it entertains you to the best of its capabilities and makes up for a good watch this weekend.
Bhale Manchi Roju Movie Rating:
- Critics Rating: 2/5
- Audience Rating: 2.5/5
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"Their orders don't come from them. 2 items ordered received from 2 other companies. One was a third party billing . 2 different customer service representatives with 2 reasons why 1 item wasn't shipped until the same day after I called them - 3 days after shipping label was created. It was a furehaven pet bed received in two plastic bags shipping address from a furehaven address. Buyer beware!!"
Poor shipping tracking and expensive return.
"They said it was shipped by DHL, the tracking number was no good and I finally found it in my US Postal mail box area in a parcel box. Nice looking watch but I could see while still in the box without using it that the watch date window was too small for me to read even with my glasses on. I got a return authorization label but they deducted over $10 return shipping charge, which would have cost me $7+ to return via the USPS. After I returned the watch I found it at Amazon for $16 less (33% off). Not impressive customer service and I will not buy from Overstock in the future. "
Ordered vanity oct 6 2017. Was shipped still havent recieved it smh
"horrible...Ordered a 72" vinnova gela vanity oct 6 2017. Was shipped 15 days later still haven't received it smh...stay away....what happened to the old overstock???"
"I purchased an item. Oversized. on 8/22. 30 min. later attempted canx. Rep said he would work it. No results. Only halfhearted listening. Item has not shipped. They could careless about you or any customer. I am at wits end. I have offered to pay restocking fee, and still no progress. This is not rocket science. They are unreasonable. I do not expect they will see this, but maybe. I warn you and everyone. STAY AWAY. I plan on finding every avenue possible to steer people away. Tried facebook, but seems you cannot just make comments. OK I will find a way
Beware - Overstock.com is stealing customer's bitcoin
"Unfortunately Overstock.com is doing bitcoin, and all cryptocurrencies they accept, a huge disservice. I love bitcoin and all that it stands for. I also love how secure it is, however, unfortunately there will always be scammers, like Overstock.com They are scamming customers out of their bitcoin (keeping the bitcoin and not sending the products). I recently placed an order with Overstock.com and opted to pay with bitcoin from a wallet I control. After checking out, Overstock sent me a public address to send the bitcoin to, along with a 15 minute countdown timer. I sent the bitcoin, and then watched as the countdown timer eventually went to zero, and was then presented with a screen saying my order has now expired and I should start a new order. I checked the blockchain, and sure enough, my payment went through ($58 or so of bitcoin as of this writing - 8/19/2017) as expected. I contacted Overstock via online chat and e-mail, and after a lot of back and forth, was finally told to (and I quote): "In this case, I would recommend you contact bitcoin and have them help you sort this out." At first I laughed at the ignorance, but then after checking the blockchain again, I see there was another transaction only 30 minutes or so later, in which the bitcoin was sent to a different address. So, they're definitely actively monitoring this address. So, to me, it looks like they're playing dumb and stealing people's bitcoin. Here is the blockchain address I sent the bitcoin to: https[colon]//blockchain[dot]info/address/1NrHACk3VupDFBwCFCH4iYLtvP3KpACQqP"
Horrible price fear for B2B
"We are dealing with these people B2B relation since 2012 but from last 2 weeks they are changing the price very sudden, sometimes they are giving us a catalog with the price which they are selling on price on B2C. We planned to change and make a purchase from some other website. We have tried with macys.com, Nordstrom, brandcruz.com such website. So far doing better than overstock."
"Their pricing is extremely high and they take at least ten days to deliver - TERRIBLE - just terrible"
Overstock.com using a scheme to ship (or not ship)
"Ordered a rug from Overstock.com, paid for it and received what we thought was a UPS tracking number. We paid for overnight shipping but didn't receive it.
So far it's been 2 1/2 weeks since we ordered the rug and it still hasn't shown up. Remember me telling you we received a UPS tracking number? Right about now, you're asking yourself, "Why didn't he just check the tracking number to see where the package was?" Well, life lesson here. The "UPS Tracking Number" they give you is nothing more than a UPS "Batch Number" that's used for mass shipping. The problem with it is that there is no way for you to track your product. It never updates, it never changes. Instead, you get fed up, call them and they apologize saying that this kind of thing never happens. Problem with that is, I learned about this same exact problem by researching and finding that numerous people have had the same problem with Overstock.com. Customer service will lie to you and say that UPS lost the shipment. It's hard to lose something you never got in the first place.
So the next step in this scam is for Overstock to apologize profusely, let you know that UPS lost the rug (or whatever it is you are ordering), that they will send another one out right away and to expect it in 2 - 3 business days. Well... over a week and a half now and I have a new UPS Batch number that is useless.
Another question... How do you ship something to a customer that pays for overnight as BATCH SHIPPING? It doesn't make sense.
Don't take my word for it. Just use google and search for "Overstock.com" and "Complaint". You'll start to see the pattern pretty quick.
Finally, I told them that if they did not resolve this issue within a week (I thought that was reasonable), I would begin my crusade to find as many places online as I could to let other potential victims know about their way of conducting business. This is my third stop.
Hope this helps someone."
"Overstock wasted no time charging my credit card but took five days for my item to be packed and shipped via UPS. The shipping took eight days. So, from the time I ordered and the time I got my purchase was a total of 13 days, almost two weeks. I give Overstock a ONE star rating for charging my charge card immediately and taking 5 days to leave their warehouse. The Chat feature was very easy to use and the person very friendly and knowledgeable, but that doesn't raise my rating of Overstock. I do not recommend this vendor as there are other stores where you will get your items much faster."
This company has gone down the tubes since 2000
"I had issues with an order in 2000 and they were exceptional in all regards - from picking up the damaged item, and reshipping immediately a new item. Shipping was pretty fast as well. Now, I can't recommend them at all. Don't even think about editing an order or adding to it, even if the order shows as processing - ain't gonna happen. The item ordered took forever to see a ship status and even when I did, it just meant the label was made and it wasn't enroute at all. Arrival dates have changed 3 times, pushing it off later and later. Now, I know this isn't Amazon, but really, 12 days to arrive? Not really worth the savings, if any. It will now be my last "go to" shopping spot."
very disappointed
"We purchase from Overstock the Samsun Washer Dryer (Gas Dryer). After 2 weeks was deliver all wrapped so you cannot see what inside The driver refused to wait to open and inspect, he told us the package not damage very little English speaking driver. So we open and recognize it is the totally different items what Overstock show in his website on the pictures. We called Customer service the agent also recognize the differences also the pedestal's was missing. She told us need to transfer us to the Electrical department. she get back on the phone and told us someone will call us back after 3-5 Business days. We receive the phone call and the gentleman recognize the differences he ask to send the pictures from the delivered items. he told us he will call on Monday - nobody called we saw on the website the RA # initiated and the re -deliver start to process- but after 1 days the re-deliver was cancelled and when we called was told us it is out of stock no info when going to have this style again. so I here with no Washer Dryer I paid for the scheduled installation and take 2 days off from work to wait for the deliver and the next day installations. It is totally unacceptable we understand mistakes but should find the solutions but do not want to try anything. I do not recommend to buy anything from Overstock
Horrible company to deal with, dishonest, ripoff
"I bought a Gracy Transitional Dining Set on Overstock which is listed at $877.49. It is a total piece of junk, very flimsy with chairs that wobble terribly and the legs are off by at least two inches. I looked for reviews and could find none on Overstock so I looked on the box that the item came it. It turns out the item is a Shasta dining set by Coaster which is sold many other places for less than 1/2 the price. In fact I found it as low as $319. Overstock has been giving me a total run around about returning this set even telling me it is between me and the over size delivery company. What? Don't think so. The over size delivery company did not falsely advertise a product and rip me off. Overstock says I need to disassemble the chairs and table and fit them back in the boxes. Hell no. We have already spent hours on this crappy furniture. I can't get a manager on the phone and they are neither apologetic nor helpful. Do not buy furniture from this company!"
Don't shop with Overstock.com
"I ordered two rugs on Monday. I used my name and billing address but somehow used my boyfriends credit card number, which was on file. I called and explained that I needed to cancel that order and reorder with my card. I reorder then check online to make sure the first order was cancelled but it showed as being processed. So I live chat with a lady that again says she'll resolve the problem. Today ( two days later) I receive an email saying that they shipped both orders. They ship and order with my name and my boyfriends credit card number after being cancelled twice. This is the worst company ever."
Order Cancellations Not Accepted
"I placed a high dollar order and within a couple of hours, I called to cancel one of the items. The only order for the cancellation was that I had found the exact same item for $100 less with free shipping.
I was informed that their warehouse does not accept cancellations, the item would need to be delivered and then returned. That typically would not be an issue for me, however, the item weighs a 126 pounds! Anyhow, they were not willing to price match or offer any other solutions.
I will NEVER order from Overstock again! Thank goodness for AMAZON!!!"
Stuck with Damaged Product - Terrible Customer Service
"I ordered a sofa from them online since it had high ratings. However, when I received it, it was used and damaged in the corners most likely from transit since they did not package it well. I contacted them on Friday and they did not respond until Monday. They have tried to offer money to keep the damaged item rather than immediately get me a return label and a UPS pickup for this package. Then they said that the carrier will be contacting me within 10 days like I have time to wait around and have $700 sitting there charged and have yet to get me a label to return this damaged/defective product. So I am out $700 while they **** around with the carrier. This whole experience has left me with a bad taste in my mouth and I never want to order here again. If they do not get me a label and pickup soon I am going to have to file a chargeback."


text: News Boosted: Ford F-150 EcoBoost Sales Top 200,000 Units Christian Seabaugh writerAugust 23, 2012 Christian Seabaugh writerAugust 23, 2012 Share this article in: Facebook Twitter Google Plus Email Free Price Quote From a Local Dealer View Special Offers No Obligation, Fast & Simple Free New Car Quote Change Car Select Make Acura Alfa Romeo Aston Martin Audi Bentley BMW Buick Cadillac Chevrolet Chrysler Dodge Ferrari FIAT Ford Genesis GMC Honda Hyundai Infiniti Jaguar Jeep Karma Kia Lamborghini Land Rover Lexus Lincoln Lotus Maserati Mazda McLaren Mercedes-Benz MINI Mitsubishi Nissan Porsche Ram Rolls-Royce Scion smart Subaru Tesla Toyota Volkswagen Volvo Select Model Aerostar Aspire Bronco C-MAX C-MAX Energi C-MAX Hybrid Contour Crown Victoria E-150 E-150 Econoline E-250 E-250 Econoline E-350 E-350 Econoline EcoSport Edge Escape Escort Excursion Expedition Explorer Explorer Sport Explorer Sport Trac F-150 F-250 F-350 F-450 Fiesta Five Hundred Flex Focus Focus BEV Focus Electric Freestar Freestyle Fusion Fusion Energi Fusion Hybrid GT Mustang Probe Ranger Shelby GT500 Taurus Taurus X Thunderbird Transit Transit Connect Windstar ZX2 GO 1. Vehicle Option Trim Exterior Color No Preference Black Blue Brown Gold Green Orange Red Silver White Yellow Interior Color No Preference Beige Black Blue Gray Green Other Red White Buying Time Frame Within 48 hours Within a week Within two weeks Within a month More than a month Payment Method Undecided Loan Lease Cash Trade In? Yes No 2. Contact Info First Name Last Name Address City State -- AL AK AZ AR CA CO CT DE DC FL GA HI ID IL IN IA KS KY LA ME MD MA MI MN MS MO MT NE NV NH NJ NM NY NC ND OH OK OR PA RI SC SD TN TX UT VT VA WA WV WI WY Zip Code Phone Email 3. Dealer Selection Receive your free dealer pricing information by completing your contact information! Ford made big waves in the pickup truck market when it announced the full-size F-150 would offer a 3.5-liter twin-turbo V-6 under the hood as a more efficient V-8 alternative. Many were skeptical but the market has spoken, as Ford has now sold its 200,000th EcoBoost-powered F-150.Not only has Ford sold over 200,000 EcoBoost F-150s since the engine's introduction, but as of July, EcoBoost V-6s accounted for 43 percent of F-150 sales. In fact, Ford now sells more V-6-powered F-150s than V-8-powered ones; the base 3.7-liter V-6 accounted for 11 percent of all F-150 sales, pushing the total V-6 take rate to 54 percent. Although Ford doesn't split 5.0-liter and 6.2-liter V-8 sales, the two eight-cylinder engines together account for 46 percent of F-150 sales. Given that the 6.2-liter V-8 is the F-150's premium engine, we're inclined to believe that most of that 46 percent is dominated by the 5.0-liter Coyote V-8.While Ford sells EcoBoost-equipped F-150s, the 2013 Ram 1500 is debuting with an available eight-speed automatic transmission and 3.6-liter V-6 while the redesigned 2014 Chevrolet Silverado will likely have updated powertrains to challenge Ford's V-6s and V-8s, as well.So where are most EcoBoost-equipped F-150s being sold? Truck-loving Texas is swallowing them up. Break the figure down by sales mix and the top region is Denver, followed by Minneapolis-St. Paul, Seattle, and New York. What does the success of the EcoBoost V-6 in the F-150 mean for future trucks? Ford spokesman Mike Levine would only tell us that EcoBoost engines will "be even more integral to our F-Series strategy of delivering the capability, power, and efficiency our customers are looking for." Here's hoping for an EcoBoost Coyote V-8, or an EcoBoost Raptor.Source: Ford Share this article in: Facebook Twitter Google Plus Email Boosted: Ford F-150 EcoBoost Sales Top 200,000 Units /8 Advertisement to Skip 1 | 8 2 | 8 3 | 8 4 | 8 5 | 8 6 | 8 7 | 8 8 | 8


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AUSTIN (KXAN) — A well-placed source close to Houston police says Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo is a name they keep hearing, even though Austin's chief himself confirms he has not applied for the Chief's job there, open now since last February.
"It's inaccurate," Chief Acevedo responded to KXAN's Robert Maxwell in a text message reply to the question of whether the Chief had put in for the job and if the whispers were true.
In September 2015, Chief Acevedo turned down San Antonio and came away with a pay raise. There's been chatter about Dallas for months. The topic even came up this week at city hall.
Interim City Manager Elaine Hart said off camera, "I talked with him yesterday. He told me he did not apply for that position."
Austin Police Association President Ken Casaday said yes, he's heard Acevedo is headed to Houston. The president of the Houston Police Officers Association, Ray Hunt, says he knows Chief Acevedo personally. Acevedo told Hunt just two months ago he was under contract and not applying for another job, but Hunt suggests offers are in the air.
"He's a very high-profile person, he's been in a major city for 10 years, it would surprise me if he's not being looked at by major cities… including Houston," Hunt told NBC affiliate KPRC.
The chatter comes at a time when Acevedo has been publicly criticized for his firing of Officer Geoffrey Freeman, who fatally shot an unarmed, naked teenager, as well as controversial arrests that have led to internal inquiries into the department's use-of-force.
Austin police responded to KXAN's request for comment with this statement: "Currently several major cities have potential openings for Chief of Police. Questions have been raised as to whether Chief Art Acevedo is being considered a top contender for one or more of these positions. The department does not have any information regarding these recruitment processes."
Hunt says he would be very surprised if someone of Acevedo's caliber is being courted only by Texas cities, but perhaps for a federal job too. The union head tells us he knows of four internal candidates applying for the Houston Chief job — one of whom is Interim Chief Martha Montalvo.
A final decision will be up to Houston's mayor, Sylvester Turner. He told the union he's confident he'd have a decision by December. Last spring, the city hired an outside firm to help in the search, according to reports. A spokesperson for Turner's office tells KXAN there is no short list as of now.


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LAS VEGAS — Selection Sunday won't be as relaxed as the Saint Mary's College men's basketball team had hoped.
That's because Gonzaga claimed the West Coast Conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament by beating the Gaels 75-63 in the championship game Monday at the Orleans Arena.
Saint Mary's (24-8) still has a good chance to earn an at-large bid, but a win over the Bulldogs would have eliminated any trepidation the Gaels might have had.
"It is what it is. You can't control it," Saint Mary's coach Randy Bennett said. "The only thing we can control is how we play Friday (against Weber State), so that's the only thing I'm worried about."
In the rubber match of a heated series this season, No. 2 seed Gonzaga (24-9) pulled away late, thanks to good free throw shooting, tight defense and foul trouble for the No. 1 Gaels.
Mitchell Young was the first to foul out, exiting at the 6:03 mark. At that point, Gonzaga led 58-53. Rob Jones had to leave soon thereafter, picking up his fifth foul with 5:27 left.
All the fouls put Gonzaga into the bonus early, and the Bulldogs made Saint Mary's pay from the line. They scored 10 of their last 12 from the stripe, burying the Gaels down the stretch.
Offensively, Mickey McConnell and Matthew Dellavedova delivered typically outstanding performances, but there wasn't much else to draw from as the Gaels tried to stay in it. McConnell finished with 24 points, and had an ice pack on his left knee after the game to show for it. Dellavedova had 21, but no other Gael had more than six points.
"I'm not sure what changed offensively for us," Bennett said. "Obviously, playing without Jones is a pretty key part of our deal. Foul trouble affected us, again. Second time in that game it's been a factor. We needed to get stops and we couldn't get enough stops. I think that's the bottom line."
The lack of another option especially reared its head late, and the Bulldogs were able to focus their defensive efforts on McConnell and Dellavedova almost exclusively.
"We've really been doing a nice job of playing defense down the stretch of these games," Gonzaga coach Mark Few said. "We made it tough to score, and then we finally got a little bit of rhythm on the offensive end."
Gonzaga achieved that balance, with four players finishing in double figures. Steven Gray led the way with 15 points, and Robert Sacre (12), tournament MVP Marquise Carter (11) and Sam Dower (10) all contributed as well.
One pivotal play came early in the game. Jones picked up his second foul with 10:31 left in the first half, called for a block instead of the charge he was trying to take. He argued the call, though, and seconds later was hit with a technical foul and, subsequently, his third personal.
Gonzaga lost Gray for a stretch as well, as he had to head to the locker room with a cut above his left eye. In true Las Vegas fashion, though, Gray got four stitches in the locker room, covered it up and returned with 7:30 left in the half.


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Yay! Congratulations Andrea. Enjoy! And if you need more more convincing to check out this book. Go visit Daisy's blog where she has some fabulous Mockingbird videos up - sure to intrigue!
In other news Disney was magical.
I don't mind a world where trolley buses pull up and people leap out and perform a song for you. I could do with more of it.
Also the DREAM song is everywhere (not sure if that is what it's called but I'm sure you know it) . I think I may make it my NaNoWriMo anthem. Cheesy? Yes, but oddly inspiring too.
Magical as Disney was it was nothing compared to Harry Potter's Wizarding World.
Look Hogwarts!
and mummm butterbeer.
Harry, I have missed you!
The SCBWI conference was also pretty amazing. I adored Lisa Yee's speech and must find some of her books. The other panel's were fabulous too. And Emily Van Beek was there, she is Erin Bow's agent. I think I've mentioned my complete love of Erin's debut Plain Kate (read it, read it!) and through I knew the story of it's publication it was lovely to hear form Sarah's point of view.
The best thing I heard at the conference "Paranormal IS huge, but we're still selling contemporary" PHEW!
Anyway, this is getting epic ! So have a fabulous weekend everyone. Those doing NaNoWriMo hope you have a good rest before the insanity begins. Myself I shall be rallying
Then watching my husband run the Marine Core Marathon.
Running 26.3 miles makes writing 50,000 words in a month look like a perfectly sensible thing to do.


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Glen Campbell: Southern Nights + Basic CD Track Listing
Glen Campbell
Southern Nights + Basic (1977)
This Compilation Released August 12, 2003\n'Southern Nights' Originally Released 1977\n'Basic' Originally Released 1978\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: (This Compilation) Following Raven's exemplary 2002 reissue of Rhinestone Cowboy/Bloodlines by a year, the label's 2003 two-fer of 1977's Southern Nights and 1978's Basic isn't as thematically linked as its predecessor, which were both written and produced in large part by Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter. These two records share a similar sound -- the high-gloss, professional production common to most soft rock and country-pop crossovers of the late '70s -- but they're different in approach. Southern Nights contains the work of a number of frequently incompatible songwriters, so it's an album of moments. Granted, those moments -- including the singles "Southern Nights" and "Sunflower," a cover of "God Only Knows," and two songs from Jimmy Webb -- are very good, but the inconsistency of the album is put into sharp relief by its pairing with Basic, an album devoted to the songs of Michael Smotherman, a mellow singer/songwriter (and former Captain Beefheart sideman) who has been forgotten but was a good, sturdy writer within the conventions of '70s soft rock. Basic may not have had hits outside of "Can You Fool" (which wasn't all that big anyway), but it stands as the more satisfying of the two records on this two-fer -- and it likely wouldn't have gotten a reissue if it wasn't paired with the bigger hit Southern Nights. In addition to good notes from Keith Glass, Raven expanded this release with three bonus tracks: "Another Fine Mess" (a small gem from the soundtrack to the Burt Reynolds film The End, written by Paul Williams, and originally released as the B-side to "Can You Fool"), and two rarities from the 1975 compilation album Arkansas -- a 1967 cover of Leon Payne's "You've Still Got a Place in my Heart" and the 1969 "Arkansas," a good, if slightly dated, country-pop song that would have fit well onto any of Glen Campbell's late-'60s albums. These help elevate an already fine package into something that is necessary for any serious Campbell fan. -- Stephen Thomas Erlewine\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: ('Southern Nights') Following two excellent records made with producers Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter, Glen Campbell turned to Gary Klein for 1977's Southern Nights, a record that retains some of the feel of Rhinestone Cowboy and Bloodline but is simultaneously too streamlined and diffuse, never developing the unified sound of either of its predecessors. That hardly means it's a bad album, of course; but it does mean that it's a record of moments, individual bright spots that stand alone and never quite gel into something cohesive. Part of the problem is that the best moments have different, not necessarily complimentary, moods. There are the two big singles, Allen Toussaint's "Southern Nights" and Neil Diamond's "Sunflower," both sharing a cheerful catchiness and a bright, colorful feel. Then, there is a pair of songs from Jimmy Webb, "This Is Sarah's Song" and "Early Morning Song." While not on the level of the fine Reunion, they both offer further proof that Campbell is Webb's best interpreter. Along with a good, albeit slightly maudlin, reading of Brian Wilson's "God Only Knows," the other highlights are two songs from Michael Smotherman, a singer/songwriter who would be given a greater showcase on Campbell's next effort, Basic. Although now a forgotten songwriter, Smotherman was a solid tunesmith, firmly within the '70s sensitive singer/songwriter tradition, and his songs bring out the best in Campbell. The rest of the record -- "Guide Me," "Let Go," "How High Did We Go" -- are also from forgotten writers, and they're entirely too generic soft rock, emphasizing that Smotherman had some true skills (something that Basic confirmed). So Southern Nights is a bit of a mixed bag, but those three separate sets of highlights are excellent and help elevate the record to one of Campbell's better ones, no matter how flawed it ultimately is. -- Stephen Thomas Erlewine\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: ('Basic') If 1977's Southern Nights was scattered, containing too many incompatible songwriters, Glen Campbell solved that problem with 1978's Basic, relying only on Michael Smotherman for material. The only other writer given that kind of showcase by Campbell was Jimmy Webb While Smotherman is hardly on the same par with Webb -- to begin with, he's not nearly as idiosyncratic or have as personal a viewpoint -- he is, nevertheless, a good, sturdy writer, working within the '70s singer/songwriter tradition with a fondness for mellow, catchy soft rock. He may be a little generic in some senses, but in the best sense. The songs on Basic work well according to the conventions of MOR soft rock and they're very ingratiating without a down moment on the record. Campbell responds to this strong set of songs with a committed, convincing vocal performance and, along with producer Thom Thacker (the team behind all but one cut on this record -- "Can You Fool" was recorded with Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter), has constructed an appealingly high-glossy professional pop record that glides along easily from beginning to end (although it does stumble slightly on its closer, "Grafhaidh Me Thu," a bagpipe-driven instrumental that is out of place with the rest of the record). If there are no classic moments -- as there were even on Southern Nights -- Basic makes up for it through its sheer consistency, since Campbell always had trouble delivering records that held their own from start to finish (even his classic '60s records could be uneven). Given its lack of big hits, this is not one for the casual listener. But most serious fans will likely concede that Basic is his last great album. -- Stephen Thomas Erlewine\n\nHalf.com Album Notes\n2 LPs on 1 CD: SOUTHERN NIGHTS (1977)/BASIC (1978).\n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nNot as good as his Rhinestone Cowboy/Bloodline cd, September 10, 2003 \nReviewer: rickv01 from Casselberry, Florida USA \nThis is the second of cds released by Raven Records featuring a duo of Glen's albums from the 1970s. The previous one, "Rhinestone Cowboy/Bloodline", is a must have. This one, featuring the albums "Southern Nights" from 1977 and "Basic" from 1978, doesn't quite compare. The "Southern Nights" album was a little bit of a let down for me when it first came out, following the solidly great albums of "Reunion", "Rhinestsone Cowboy" and "Bloodline" from '74, '75, and '76 respectively. Engineering wise, it is exceptional with clear, pristine sound. The two hit singles from the album - Allen Toussaint's "Southern Nights" and Neil Diamond's "Sunflower", would give the impression it is an album of rythmic, upbeat songs. Alas it isn't. Most of songs are slow ballads, three excellent - the Beach Boys hit "God Only Knows", and the Jimmy Webb tunes - "This is Sarah's Song" and (really great) "Early Morning Song". Three others - "Guide Me", "I'm Getting Used to the Crying" and "How High did We Go" were perhaps the blandest songs Glen ever recorded. "For Cryin' out Loud", a decent, uptempo tune, was the first song Glen recorded by Michael Smotherman, who would write/co-write all of the songs on the follow up album - "Basic". Lastly, "Let Go", a hit previously for the writer Brian Cadd, seems out of place on the album, though not a bad song. The second album on the cd - "Basic", holds its own, though it was probably a mistake to rely exclusively on Smotherman's songwriting, as it didn't fare near as well as "Southern Nights". "Can you fool", "I'm gonna love you", "You've got to Sing it Nice and Loud", "Let's all Sing a Song About It", "California", "Never Tell You no Lies" are the best songs from the album, though I personally like them all. Two bonus tracks on the cd - "Arkansas" and "You've Still Got a Place in My Heart" are good, but obscure songs he did in the Sixties and don't belong here. The other bonus track, Paul Williams "Another Fine Mess", from the 1978 Burt Reynolds movie "The End", was released only as a single just before the release of "Basic", and is a good, strong song, as one would expect from Williams. Overall, I recommend this duo cd. \n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nIf for no other reason, buy this album for the cover photo!!, September 12, 2003 \nReviewer: Mitch from Beaumont, TX \nThe photo of Glen on the porch in the leisure suit is a classic, isn't it? No, seriously, though, "Southern Nights" continues to be my favorite Glen Campbell song, and one of my favorite songs of all time. It has a very very addictive beat and tune to it that can have you humming or singing it to yourself all day long, once it gets in your head. I basically bought this album to commemorate that one song. However, there are other good songs here, namely "Sunflower" and "Early Morning Song". It is my belief that "Early Morning Song" is, without a doubt, Glen Campbell's finest song that never made it onto the charts. Outstanding vocal performance that compares with his classic "By the Time I Get to Phoenix". Other good songs from the Basic album are "Can You Fool" and "Stranger in the Mirror". Overall a good pair of albums that is nice to add to the collection. They'll have you "whistlin' tunes that you know and love so." \n\nAmazon.com Album Description\nOne of Glen Campbell's most important & biggest selling 70s albums, 'Southern Nights' (1977), along with the intriguing & elusive, 'Basic' (1978), both are unavailable domestically. This Aussie exclusive twofer includes three bonus tracks, 'Another Fine Mess' (from the film The End), 'Arkansas', & 'You've Still Got A Place In My Heart'. 24 tracks. Raven. 2003 YEAR: 1977
This country cd contains 24 tracks and runs 71min 47sec.
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- Glen Campbell - Southern Nights (A.Toussaint) (02:59)
- Glen Campbell - This Is Sarah's Song (Jimmy Webb) (02:36)
- Glen Campbell - For Cryin' Out Loud (M.Smotherman) (03:06)
- Glen Campbell - God Only Knows (Wilson-Asher) (03:22)
- Glen Campbell - Sunflower (N.Diamond) (02:52)
- Glen Campbell - Guide Me (J.Jennings) (02:27)
- Glen Campbell - Early Morning Song (Jimmy Webb) (03:35)
- Glen Campbell - (i'm Getting) Used To The Crying (Miller-Smotherman) (02:50)
- Glen Campbell - Let Go (Brian Cadd) (03:32)
- Glen Campbell - How High Did We Go (Medlin-Allbright) (03:07)
- Glen Campbell - (you've Got To) Sing It Nice And Loud For Me Sonny (Smotherman-Durham) (02:48)
- Glen Campbell - Stranger In The Mirror (Smotherman) (03:47)
- Glen Campbell - Can You Fool (Smotherman) (03:11)
- Glen Campbell - I See Love (Smotherman) (02:16)
- Glen Campbell - (when I Feel Like) I Got No Love In Me (Smotherman) (03:27)
- Glen Campbell - Love Takes You Higher (Smotherman) (02:43)
- Glen Campbell - Never Tell You No Lies (Smotherman) (02:22)
- Glen Campbell - I'm Gonna Love You (Smotherman) (03:24)
- Glen Campbell - California (Smotherman) (03:35)
- Glen Campbell - Let's All Sing About It (Smotherman-Burnette) (03:16)
- Glen Campbell - Grafhaidh Me Thu (Smotherman) (02:41)
- Glen Campbell - Another Fine Mess (Bonus Track - From The Film 'the End') (Williams) (02:32)
- Glen Campbell - (bonus Track) Arkansas (Torok-Redd) (1969) (02:40)
- Glen Campbell - (bonus Track) You've Still Got A Place In My Heart (Leon Payne) (1967) (02:28)


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Category: MAGA and Brexit
How Trump is Taking on the Refugee Industrial Complex
The mainstream media have been very quiet about the fact that President Trump spent some time recently on the phone to King Salman of Saudi Arabia, and the upshot of the conversation was that the Saudis would support the setting up of safe zones in Syria and Yemen, for the refugees to be housed on their own land and in a secure way. By 'support', and knowing a little of this president's methods, I would hazard a guess that it means the Saudis are paying for it, and that Trump will have it up and ready-to-go soon, and under budget. Continue reading
The media rushes to attack Trump over his claim that Big Pharma have been 'getting away with murder'
By Dr Mercola
Only nine days away from his swearing-in as president, Donald Trump held his first press conference since the election and announced that the pharmaceutical industry was "getting away with murder" and that during his presidency he would do something about high drug prices with more competitive bidding for federal contracts. His remarks sent drug stocks into a sudden nosedive. Continue reading
President Trump kills TPP-TTIP with an executive order
By JD Heyes
With the exception of a few donor interests, former President Barack Obama never entered into international agreements that were going to be of any real benefit to the United States. Whether it be the Iran nuclear deal, the Paris Climate Change Accords or globalist trade deals, the lie was always that such deals would benefit "ordinary Americans" and "American business interests" while doing exactly the opposite.
Tens of millions of Americans knew that already, and one of them was just inaugurated as our 45th president. Continue reading
Shingles vaccines can transform vaccinated people into "carriers" who spread infectious disease
By Vicki Batts
Shingles, also known as "zoster" or "herpes zoster," will affect roughly 1 out of every 3 American adults during their lifetime. Estimates suggest that there are upwards of one million cases of shingles each year in the United States. The disease is caused by dormant varicella zoster virus — the same virus that causes chicken pox. It is fairly well known that a history of having had chicken pox puts you at risk of developing shingles in your elder years.
But did you know that the shingles vaccine could raise the risk of someone else getting chicken pox?
Trump signals his intention to drain the Big Pharma swamp
By Mike Adams of Natural News
In a welcome announcement during a press conference yesterday, President-elect Donald Trump announced a plan to shatter the monopolistic pricing of Big Pharma that has been draining literally trillions of dollars from the government for the past two decades.
"Pharma has a lot of lobbyists and a lot of power," said Trump. "There's very little bidding on drugs. We're the largest drug buyer in the world, and we're going to start bidding. We're going to start saving billions of dollars on drugs." Continue reading
TTIP with Mussolini – cancelled
by Annie Dieu-Le-Veut
The good news is that the fightback against globalism has managed to snarl up the passages of both the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) in Europe, and the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) in the United States. And depending upon who wins the presidential election in November, both could be stalled permanently. Continue reading
Turkey is 'flabbergasted' at David Cameron's lies
by Annie Dieu-Le-Veut
President of Turkey Erdogan's chief adviser, Ilnur Cevik, confesses to being flabbergasted at the lies that David Cameron has told the Turks about them joining the European Union. He should try living in Britain for a while – you just get used to it. So much so, that it's difficult to be sure about to whom Cameron is lying when he insists that Turkey will not join the EU until at least the year 3000. Is he lying to us, or is he lying to the Turks, to whom he'd promised to pave the way from Ankara to Brussels?
Ilnur Cevik told Kirsty Walk on last night's Newsnight… Continue reading
Why we should all be putting Britain first
by Annie Dieu-Le-Veut
The terrible murder of the much-loved Labour MP, Jo Cox, on Thursday, has been distastefully and disgracefully hijacked by those desperately scrabbling for a link between her killer, Thomas Mair, and the Leave campaign in the EU referendum. Whether or not this shooting turns out to be a false flag, we don't yet know. But it can certainly be filed under the heading of "never let a good opportunity go to waste" for the Remain campaign, which has enormous governmental and media resources at its disposals, but which, nevertheless, has been floundering badly in the polls. Continue reading
The EU has dissolved British democracy. It is time for a counter revolution.
By The Sceptic Isle
In the last ITV debate, Nicola Sturgeon boldly claimed that European Union Member States are independent countries. Amber Rudd backed her up and presented the EU as a "pooling of sovereignty" while Angela Eagle said that we only give up a "little bit" of sovereignty for the benefits of membership. This is a fundamental dishonesty at the heart of the Remain campaign.
Continue reading
Economists for Brexit: the first truthful economic forecast for life after Brexit
by Annie Dieu-Le-Veut
"What does Leave look like, in economic terms," the Remaniacs keep asking, as if they had at any stage produced a real, truthful economic forecast.
Despite being reprimanded by his own Treasury for telling us that households would be worse off by around £4,000 if Great Britain leaves the EU, George Osborne is still trotting out that lie, even though he knows that he has been caught out cunningly conflating gross GDP with household GDP, which are two very different animals. And that wasn't the worst of it – because it also turned out that the £4,000 figure came from a very different Treasury-based scenario to the one he was broadcasting. The real story was that we would be a lot better off in the future, Remain or Leave, but if we left, we'd be better off by not quite so much, to the tune of £4,000. Hardly economic Armageddon, is it? Continue reading
Debunking the myth of the white demographic timebomb
By Annie Dieu-Le-Veut
One of the reasons that's being continually trotted out by those who wish us to stay in the EU and open our borders to increased migration is because "white people just aren't having children anymore and so there won't be anyone to pay the pensions of the elderly if we don't let in millions of migrants."
This has come to be known as "the demographic timebomb". But if you look at the actual birth rates figures, the demographic timebomb is about as real as the Millennium Bug, the hole in the ozone layer and the weapons of the mass destruction. Continue reading
The Green case for Brexit by Jenny Jones
The Green party is massively in favour of staying in the EU, despite seeing its many flaws as an organisation. The majority view of Greens is that its benefits far outweigh the problems. Personally, I disagree and when I stood for internal selection for the European parliament some years ago, I did so while making my doubts very clear.
Why do I disagree with so many of my colleagues, on this matter? Well, let me start by noting that I agree with the Green party's assessment that the EU is in need of wholesale reform; I just don't believe that it is reformable. Even if it is reformable, many of the reforms that others have made or are pushing for make it worse, as has been argued. So while I agree with the Green party's quite negative analysis of the EU as it is, I just can't support the idea that we must stay in to reform it.


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A game for 12/0 Comments/in Design & development admin /by Cath
This post falls into the category of should-have-blogged-earlier. I designed a board for 12 players.
It's not one for the faint-hearted. This game has four rounds rather than the usual three, and rating all the sembls would be a four-part marathon – note that in Round 1 you only fill one node, and you never rate the sembls you create:
(Round 1: 11 nodes x 1 connection =) 11 +
(Round 2: 11 players x 6 nodes x 2 connections =) 132 +
(Round 3: 11 players x 3 nodes x 3 connections =) 99 +
(Round 4: 11 players x 1 node x 4 connections =) 44 =
286 sembls to rate
Wow, in total, each game played with this board could generate 12 x (1 + 12 + 9 + 4) = 312 sembls created – 26 for each player.
So now this is the full suite of boards – including a double-quotes form, which could be non-competitive.
On access and use –> cultural material and Sembl/0 Comments/in Action & reflection, Design & development, Education admin /by Cath
A sample of images already in the Sembl system, and some notes on openness, of both cultural heritage material and of Sembl.
In selecting seed material for Sembl, I look in collections that are:
- openly licensed and
- available to download in high-resolution
with a preference for those that also provide:
- a persistent identifier – to link back from Sembl to the source image, and
- plenty of context – date, place, a description and notes on its significance
I choose images that appeal to me but I also seek out material that matches up with keywords – of people, places, events and concepts – extracted from the Australian Curriculum for History and Geography.
So far there are about 800 images in Sembl. Collections I have tapped are:
- State Library of Victoria (125) – photographs of colonial Victoria, product labels and other illustrations collected as part of the copyrighting process
- Getty Institute open content program (142) – objects, paintings, drawings and sculptures, photographs, botanical illustrations, Greek and Roman material
- National Gallery of Denmark (17) – mostly paintings
- Rijksmuseum (105) – artworks, photographs, objects, a 1635 map showing the edge of Australia, diverse other material
- Walters Art Museum via Stanford University (26) – illustrations from medieval manuscripts
- Wellcome Library, London (159) – World War I photographs, extraordinary illustrations and paintings on health-related topics, John Thomson photographs of 19th-century China, amazing maps, lithographs and engravings
- Wikimedia (3) – two Arcimboldo paintings and Rodin's The Thinker
- Te Papa Tongarewa Collections Online (52) – World War I photographs, landscape photography and art, some Europen art
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art (119) – Asian art and objects, portraits
No doubt, there is plenty more material available that could be in Sembl. Here are some that I have my eye on:
- material from the Biodiversity Heritage Library – eg Ernst Haeckel illustrations of microscopic organisms – as per the header of this blog
- Paul Gervais' 1844 Atlas of Zoology
- much, much more from Wikimedia
- more from Te Papa Tongarewa – the number of available images grows steadily
- the Library of Congress
As soon as the games themselves are available (and that will be soon!) the process of selecting material to include in games will also be open. Game hosts and players will be able to upload their own material in advance or as part of a game, so you really will be able to play on any subject or problem you care about. (I'm also very interested to hear of collections you would like to play with, so don't hold back from commenting or contacting me.)
Quite wonderfully, it seems like every week another museum opens the door to a collection to share its treasure. On a dimmer note, many collections are released with a non-commercial re-use licence, which means (I presume) I would have to seek permission to use them in Sembl. Suffice it to say, I will avoid those for now and hope that repositories find a way to become completely permissive as time goes by.
In the same spirit of optimal openness, I want to share the treasure of Sembl. Here are my thoughts on Sembl as an open platform:
- It will always be free to play against random opponents or at the invitation of a game host.
- The system should work on tablets as well as desktop, and meet AA or AAA accessibility requirements.
- Standard rates for game hosting will be flexible for educators and venues who lack the resources to pay them.
- Sembl data – resemblances between collection items – will be available to source repositories to use in their own databases and interfaces.
- Ultimately, my plan is to make Sembl source code available so that the system can be adapted, refined and extended for the benefit of all patrons.
Recap: on Sembl / HipBone Thinking/0 Comments/in Education, Further afield charles /by Charles
[ cross-posted from Zenpundit — briefly picking up a strand from an earlier ZP (religio-political) post & running with it ]
I just wanted to reiterate an Einstein quote that I slipped into the middle of a post on the Black Madonna and iconography recently, where some readers more interested in the Sembl / HipBone games and their applicability to analytic work and creative thinking may have missed it:
The words or the language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The psychical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images which can be "voluntarily" reproduced and combined. There is, of course, a certain connection between those elements and relevant logical concepts. It is also clear that the desire to arrive finally at logically connected concepts is the emotional basis of this rather vague play with the above mentioned elements. But taken from a psychological viewpoint, this combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought – before there is any connection with logical construction in words or other kinds of sign, which can be communicated to others.
The above mentioned elements are, in my case, of visual and some of muscular type. Conventional words or other signs have to be sought for laboriously only in a secondary stage, when the mentioned associative play is sufficiently established and can be reproduced at will.
According to what has been said, the play with the mentioned elements is aimed to be analogous to certain logical connections one is searching for.
Combinatory play … essential feature in productive thought … analogous to certain logical connections one is searching for — these three phrases sum up pretty exactly the congitive training function of the HipBone / Sembl games.
As I said earlier, I have to wonder how many of our analysts are deeply versed in this "combinatory play" of images and kinesthetic experiences, way below the threshold of conscious thought.
On the felicities of graph-based game-board design: two dazzlers/2 Comments/in Design & development, Further afield charles /by Charles
[ cross-posted from Zenpundit — completing a post that began with On the felicities of graph-based game-board design: preliminaries ]
Having shown you a variety of (node-and-edge) graphs in the previous part of this post —
— I'd now like to turn to the issue of board game design, in particular as it applies to the HipBone and Sembl games with which I'm associated.
Since the basic idea of these games is to see the links between one idea and another, graphs of this kind are the simplest and most elegant boards on which to represent game moves. Accordingly our games boards, from the simplest Hop, skip and a jump board that I'd use to introduce kids to the games —
— via my standard HipBone WaterBird board —
— to the complex and still only part-played Said Symphony board —
— and indeed beyond, to Cath Styles' elegant Lotus Board for the Australian Museum Game —
— all our boards are graphs — and any graphs that catch my eye are potential boards, waiting for me to figure out whether they'd actually work in play, or might suggest any new ideas for board design.
I therefore felt very lucky indeed one day this week, when I ran across two striking, indeed dazzling graphs in quick succession.
Artist Ellen van der Molen makes a speciality of mandalas — those circular and often highly symmetrical images, common in Hindu and Tibetan art, that Carl Jung viewed as "the psychological expression of the totality of the self" — but it was this particular one featuring "graph" imagery, which she titles Lotus Grid, that dazzled me:
There's an interesting and delicately balanced asymmetry to the graph in this mandala, and it makes me think of board design in less tightly controlled, more flowing ways.
More of Ellen's work can be found here [link]: my "next favorite" of her works features simple, elegant calligraphy in an unknown language — here.
So that's from the art side of the house — while on the science side I ran across this graph at about the same time.
I have snagged it from an academic paper by Andrew D. Foote et al, titled Ancient DNA reveals that bowhead whale lineages survived Late Pleistocene climate change and habitat shifts, in Nature Communications 4, Article number: 1677, doi:10.1038/ncomms2714, Figure 3: Survival of bowhead whale lineages during the Pleistocene–Holocene transition. I have removed only the words Late Pleistocene and early Holocene, which were relevant in the graph's scientific context, but would only have been confusing in terms of my game design discussion here:
And that, my friends, is stunning for a whole other set of reasons — it suggests what a three-dimensional HipBone or Sembl game board might be like, and frankly it leaves me fumbling for ideas.
What might the upper (blue) and lower (green) levels signifiy, in terms of play? What affordances would a 3-D board offer, that one of our simple 2-boards can't? Where can I take my thinking about graphical board design, once I have seen this, and allowed it to sink into my generative unconscious?
I don't know the answers, of course. I don't know what either of these two images will do to my own thought processes — but they're like two pebbles dropped fortuitiously and almost simultaneously into my mirroring pool, and their ripples are surely spreading.
My grateful thanks to both Ellen van der Molen and Andrew D. Foote and his co-authors.
One idea leaps to another, and so the games proceed.
On the felicities of graph-based game-board design: preliminaries/1 Comment/in Design & development, Further afield charles /by Charles
[ cross-posted from Zenpundit — on graph theory, and the background and history of HipBone / Sembl gameboards ]
First off, a graph — at least the way I'm using it here — is a diagram of linkages. The items linked, which may be people, places, phones, ideas, quantities, whatever, are represented by dots or circles, known as nodes, and the links between them by lines, known as edges.
Here's a simple graph diagram with four nodes and seven edges:
That diagram represents — elegantly, with topological accuracy — the seven bridges connecting the banks and islands of the city of Königsberg — which gavs rise to a famous math problem, which in turn gave rise to that branch of mathematics we now know as Graph Theory.
Graphs are thus pictures of networks, and networks are the non-linear, feedback-capable basis for an astonishing variety of interesting things such as the internet and your and my brains…
And they can get pretty complex. I'm a simple soul, and not a great network maven — but here's what my network in LinkedIn looks like as of today. It too is a graph, although it reminds me of broccoli, or of a fish…
Hey, that's a pretty small network — and graph — compared with, say, a graph of all the neurons in a single brain, all the brains on the world's computer networks, or all the neurons in all the brains on all the networks…
Graphs with concepts at the nodes and conceptual links along the edges have been used for centuries to convey mystical states, propositions in theology, and concepts in the natural sciences:
So you won't be too surprised to learn that my variants on the Glass Bead Game of Hermann Hesse, which are designed to build what he termed the "hundred-gated cathedral of Mind" by analogically connecting the great thoughts of human-kind across all the arts and scences, use graphs (in this sense) as their boards…
Here, for instance, is one possible board design, derived from the inner vaulting of an English cathedral roof:
Okay, past is prelude.
In the second part of this post I'll show you a series of boards actually used in HipBone / Sembl play, and then two dazzling works — one a work of art, the other a work of science — that leapt out at my in the course of my browsing a morning or two ago…
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[ cross-posted from Zenpundit — bragging on Cath Styles and our joint game project, Sembl, via the Taj Mahal ]
Okay, I cheated: the image on the left is a modification of the image on the right using GIMP, the GNU Image Manipulation Program — but you get the idea — printed images in newspapers used to be done in halftone dots, which when magnified looked like the image on the right, and when seen from regular viewing distance like that on the left. You get my point.
When there's talk of "solving analytic puzzles", though, the issue is often phrased in terms of "connecting the dots" to "see the big picture".
When the "dots" are nuggets of data, information, knowledge, or even god help us wisdom, however, the way to connect them for the most powerful overview is by means of a "creative leap" from one datum to the next — and such a leap, when you think of it, boils down to a primitive element of pattern recognition: this is like that, this sembles that.
In this introductory video on Sembl, Dr Cath Styles puts what we're up to nicely:
Sembl from Catherine Styles on Vimeo.
Key quote:
Sembl generates a trove of unique analogical data, and if that data is linked to logical data about concepts, people and places, Sembl will connect our intuitive understanding of how things are like each other with our rational knowledge of what things are. We're building a new kind of index to the global network, harnessing the associating capacity of humans and the processing power of machines. so we can surface useful, relevant information from masses of available data. It's browse and play in the service of find and resolve…
Let's bullet-point that. It's not the only way to describe Sembl, but it's a very concise and useful one. We are:
generating a trove of unique analogical data building a new kind of index to the global network connecting our intuitive understanding with our rational knowledge surfacing useful, relevant information from masses of available data harnessing the associating capacity of humans and the processing power of machines
And we're doing that in depth, in a style that calls forth artistry…
Isaac Bashevis Singer's artist's eye sees connections that are more mystical and less obviously practical than the ones you and I see — in his short story, A Piece of Advice, for instance:
Nowadays snow is a trifle: it falls for a day or two at most. But in those days! Often it snowed for a month without stopping! Huge snowdrifts piled up; houses were buried; and everyone had to dig their way out. Heaven and earth merged and became one. Why does the beard of an old man turn white? Such things are all related. — at night, we heard the howling of beasts . . . or perhaps it was only the sound of the wind.
— but then Isaac Bashevis Singer has a Nobel Prize for this sort of thing — while for almost all values of you and I, you and I don't as yet, and maybe never will.
Here's what an artist's eye makes of the Taj Mahal:
The virtual museum is not simply a museum in virtual space/1 Comment/in Further afield charles /by Charles
[ by Charles Cameron — on the infinite juxtaposition of similars, opposites and related modes of scholarship — in gallery and museum, catalog and library ]
Please note that what I term here the "virtual museum" is intended to cover both a physical museum or gallery space with available or built in digital affordances and the museum as a completely portable function of the digital network and its devices alone.
I originally wrote this set of notes on February 10, 1997, and have made only tiny changes in the text as presented here — removing one paragraph that was left incomplete, switching the last two bullet points, and placing one "spare" sentence in a suitable context.
As I look back to those days of the Magister Ludi list, and forward to Cath's progress with Sembl, I have a sense that this document was prescient, the seed of much that is coming into being now, as we speak. Like all such visions, the manifestation has developed over time, but the idea of the ready, multiple comparison of museum or gallery objects, together with supporting documentation, is still fresh: over time the invisible becomes cutting-edge.
To set the scene, here is a quote from Sven Birkerts that had long inspired me:
There are tremendous opportunities, and we are probably on the brink of the birth of whole new genres of art which will work through electronic systems. These genres will likely be multi-media in ways we can't imagine. Digitalization, the idea that the same string of digits can bring image, music, or text, is a huge revolution in and of itself. When artists begin to grasp the creative possibilities of works that are neither literary, visual, or musical, but exist using all three forms in a synthetic collage fashion, an enormous artistic boom will occur.
With that insight in mind, here's a glimpse of my early thoughts about the glass bead game and the museum:
That's right — the virtual museum is not simply a museum in virtual space
What's going on here is that we're dealing with a multidimensional space rather than the flat space of a wall or the three dimensional space of a room.
- Walk-through "real-life" museums necessarily organize their collections in such a way that one work of art is sequentially related to the next. The visitor walks up a corridor, or through a room, and takes in each work in sequence, carrying a little of the previous work trailing in memory — and on occasion stepping back to view two works placed next to one another in a comparative way.
- In her hand or in his ear, a textual commentary is available: the catalogue. And this is typically consulted in a one-to-one relation, such that picture 63 is viewed and the text for picture 63 heard or read.
The museum is a collection of physical objects with stories which explain them: virtual space is a space of virtual objects with linkages between them.
- It follows that the virtual museum is a collection of virtual objects and the linkages between them.
- But what are those objects?
- We cannot assume the objects in the virtual museum are limited to the objects in the physical museum: if nothing else, the stories which explain those objects will themselves be objects in the virtual museum.
- Both "collection objects" and "catalogue entries" are represented in the same digital fashion. The catalogue entries, in other words, are objects in the virtual museum.
- We do not carry a catalog as we browse the virtual museum… "collection" and "catalog" merge.
The virtual museum is its own virtual catalog.
- And this is because the digital democratization of information which obtains on the web renders the "art object" and the "art-historical text" functionally equal.
- In fact, "digital democratization" allows for the expansion of presentable content to include not only visual and art historical materials on an equal footing, but also all manner of other texts, the world of literature and drama, architectural renderings, mathematical analogs and explanations, sounds and musical items…
- Thus the virtual museum need not and should not limit itself to physical objects [eg pictures, sculptures] and associated texts, but can and should contain linkages to other arts and modes of representation [eg musical, literary, historical, scientific and mathematical expressions].
- Furthermore, the virtual museum need not limit itself to the objects in its sponsor museum's holdings, but may also contain linkages to the holdings of other museums: indeed — and importantly — web-based "frames" make this possible without the viewer leaving the originating web site.
- Not just the museum catalogue and reference library, but also the world's other museums, private collections, text libraries, record libraries and databases are all available as reference points for the items in the collection.
- Linkage, in other words, is the "new" in our context, while objects and their stories are the given.
- We do not move from room to room but from link to link as we browse the virtual museum.
The virtual museum can be conceived as an ellipse with one focus in the originating collection and the other in world cultural history…
- The "virtual proximity" of other bodies of knowledge on the net and web invites the inclusion of multiple reference points outside the collection: effectively, the museum as we know it transforms into a repository of world culture whose special focus is the collection:
- The virtual museum is thus no longer archeologically or artistically based: it encompasses all forms of expression.
- The museum becomes an expression of cultural totality.
The floorplan of the virtual museum is an n-dimensional graph of nodes and links.
- The essence of the difference between the museum and the virtual museum is this: objects in the virtual museum are "next to" a far larger number of other objects than objects in the physical museum.
- The system of linkages inherent in the structure of the Internet and the World Wide Web expands our concept of the museum by making possible a bewildering variety of new "throughways" between and among the items displayed, and "outside" the museum: thus raising new problems and possibilities in sequencing the experience of the "visitor".
- What happens as a result is that linkage itself blossoms from a narrow and largely sequential business into a multiplex affair.
- The juxtaposition of one artefact with another explodes in an unimaginable freedom, and a system of constraints must therefore be imagined to limit and lead the viewer — through a "garden of forking paths" — to a desired and appropriate outcome.
To understand this is to make a virtue of the virtual … and a cathedral of the museum.
The virtual museum is not simply a museum in virtual space, but the virtual presentation of whatever the museum-as-archetype has been or will be in the labyrinth of human vision.
- The sequencing the visitor's experience in virtual space will thus inevitably reflect the topology not only of the collection, but also of the catalog and of the web itself.
- And this topography brings a new feature to the foreground: linkage. The links between items themselves begin to assume considerable esthetic importance.
- The museum and the library can no longer be separated, since their contents are intermingled: and the result is that the virtual museum, like the cathedral before it, becomes a speculum mundi or"mirror of the world".
We live in secular times, and the museum is our cathedral.
- This could mean, minimally, that the museum has replaced the cathedral as the central space where people congregate in a culturally rich environment. Maximally, and thus potentially, it means that whatever the cathedral was for us — master artwork of combined artworks in many media, ritual space, hub of the city, mirror of worlds — the museum can be.
- The secular does not lack for a sacred dimension, but offers access to it in a manner that does not demand a specific, local belief or practice.
- The virtual museum as secular cathedral is the place where all the world's imaginal trasures come together as offerings, and from which all the world departs imaginally enriched.
- The museum is thus heir to the phenomenology of shamans, saints and mystics, as well as of artists and their patrons, teachers and students — for it is visited by crowds in which each individual carries a different cultural inheritance, now Italian, now Congolese, now Navaho, now Santeria…
The test of the museum is its cathedral-effectiveness: its capacity to invoke wonder.
- The virtual museum is thus a special case of the "art form" described by Hermann Hesse in his novel The Glass Bead Game:
- The elevation of the virtual museum is a sacramental elevation.
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With some excitement, Cath shares the new video we made to introduce The Museum Game. One version for schools, another for adults. And a bloopers reel.
18 years, and what a difference!/0 Comments/in Design & development, Further afield charles /by Charles
Eighteen years ago, in 1996, we used to play HipBone Games by email ("PBEM"). The boards were literally typed out in ASCII characters — to give you the idea, here's the WaterBird Board as we played on it back then…
Eighteen years have passed, and the latest board in the genre, designed for the Museum Game, looks like this:
Simply beautiful, Cath!
We've come a long way… and I'm eager to see where we'll be heading next..


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It faces the still waters of the lagoon, the church of San Giorgio Maggiore and the walled monastery garden behind it. In the distance is the Lido, an island with luxury hotels on the beach. Not only is it a calming and delightful view, the food and the service are historic. There are only 14 tables.
The "proper" pool restaurant is set back in the main hotel. Another, Cipriani's posh one, reaches down to the lagoon from the front of the hotel. That's a silly place. You have to wear a jacket even in the extreme heat of summer. There's also one on a fixed raft facing St Mark's Square, an informal place called Cip's. I like that, but on my recent visit didn't bother…


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Perfect Radiance (パーフェクトラディアンス Pāfekuto Radiansu?) is a group attack performed with Cure Moon to purify Kiriritsuzens.
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Shevanthi Nayagam, from Imperial College London in the UK, and co-researchers developed a dynamic mathematical model incorporating data on the natural history of HBV infection, mortality, vaccine coverage, treatment availability, and demographics to estimate the impact on the global epidemic of existing interventions and also the effects of scaling up them up.
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