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App Review: FLIP
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If Tetris and Bejeweled were to have a child, they would give birth to FLIP. This is a puzzle game of flipping and tilting your iPhone around to manipulate gems. There are 3 very distinct game modes: standard, puzzle, and speed.
In standard mode, gems fall one at a time from the top and the objective is to mach like-colored gems by having them touch. Tilting the iPhone left and right moves the falling gems appropriately. These controls are fairly sensitive and it's easy to move a gem farther than intended. I found that the more vertical I hold the iPhone, the less sensitive the controls tend to be. If you flip the iPhone 90 degrees, all the gems will fall to the new bottom. This is what makes standard mode a true puzzle in my opinion. For example, in the above screenshot, it initially looks like there's no way to match 4 gems. But if I flip to the right, I will get 4 red gems to match up. This makes the dynamics of the game interesting and challenging. As you progress, the falling speed and the amount of gems you need to match increases. You get bonus points for multiple matches at once called "link combos" and for matching more gems than required for that level. The game ends when a gem is unable to enter the game because the stack is too high.
Puzzle Mode
In this mode, you play through a series of what eBattalion calls "think-puzzles". Each level begins with multiple distinctly colored gems in a specific location. On the grid, there is a colored square for each gem. The goal is to get the gems to their matching square. When you get a match, the square eats up the gem and turns white like the rest of the grid. You're given a certain number of allowed flips to complete each level. If you finish without using all the allotted flips, you earn extra points. If you do not complete the puzzle with the allowed flips, you lose a life. The game ends when you lose all your lives. You are also given a certain amount of continues. Using a continue lets you continue from the current level, but erases your points.
To control the gems, you must (of course) flip your iPhone around. Moving gems square by square is not an option; they all fall in the direction that you tilt your iPhone. Again, the controls are pretty sensitive and it's easy to accidently make unintended moves. I found it easiest to play this mode with my iPhone as flat as possible looking down on it.
The object of this mode is to match up all the like-colored gems in each level before you run out of time. What makes this mode challenging is that you must have all the gems of one color matched up before they clear. The controls and layout is exactly like puzzle mode. The quicker you complete the level, the more points you get. The game is over if you do not complete the puzzle in time. Unlike puzzle mode, you do not have any lives. You can use continues, however, but this erases your points.
If you exit the application while in the middle of game, FLIP returns to exactly where you left off when you relaunch.
Can disable the music and listen to your own
Easy directions to include your scores on the global scoreboard (must visit their website)
FLIP is a great little game (actually, three games), especially at only $0.99. I find myself playing when I have a few minutes to kill as well as when I have time to obsess over it for awhile. I would love it if a future update had an option to adjust the sensitivity of the controls. I often find myself losing a life or game because the game reacts when I barely move. I was initially disappointed that there wasn't an option to disable the accelerometer and have gesture controls, but it didn't take long to realize that the game wouldn't be the same with gestures... besides, its name is FLIP for a reason!
3 game modes
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FLIP is available for $0.99 from the iTunes App Store.

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Sweden hustled into military pact with US
The US and NATO assumed that it would be easy to convince Turkey to let Sweden enter NATO. However, Erdoğan kept shifting the goal post and refined his conditions
January 12, 2023 by M.K. Bhadrakumar
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (right) meets Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson in Ankara, on Nov. 8, 2022. Photo by Mustafa: Kaya/Xinhua
The Biden administration's efforts to put on fast track Sweden's accession as a NATO member petered out as Turkey balked, exercising its prerogative to withhold approval unless its conditions regarding Stockholm's past dalliance with Kurdish separatist elements is fully addressed.
President Biden was bullish and insisted publicly that Sweden's NATO membership was a foregone conclusion. He underestimated President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's tenacity and overlooked the geopolitical ramifications.
Biden and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg assumed that all that was needed was a face-saving formula to pander Erdoğan's vanity — ie., a few Kurdish militants in Sweden would be extradited and Ankara and Stockholm would thereupon kiss and make up.
However, as time passed, Erdoğan kept shifting the goal post and refined his conditions to include issues such as Sweden lifting its arms embargo against Turkey, joining Ankara's fight against banned Kurdish militants as well as extradition of people linked to US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gülen, whom the Turkish government accuses of masterminding the 2016 failed coup attempt, reportedly with US backing.
Evidently, Swedes didn't realize that Turkey had such deep knowledge of the covert activities of their intelligence.
To cut the story short, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson finally took the exit route saying on Sunday in exasperation that "Turkey has confirmed that we have done what we said we would do, but it also says that it wants things that we can't, that we don't want to, give it."
"We are convinced that Turkey will make a decision, we just don't know when," he said, adding that it will depend on internal politics inside Turkey as well as "Sweden's capacity to show its seriousness."
Stoltenberg has reacted stoically, saying, "I am confident that Sweden will become a member of NATO. I do not want to give a precise date for when that happens. So far, it has been a rare, unusual and fast membership process. Normally, it takes several years."
Meanwhile, Sweden's Defense Ministry announced on Monday that negotiations have begun for a bilateral security pact with Washington — so-called Defense Cooperation Agreement — which makes it possible for US troops to operate in Sweden.
As Defence Minister Pal Jonson put it, "It could entail storage of military supplies, investments in infrastructure to enable support and the legal status of American troops in Sweden. The negotiations are started because Sweden is on its way of becoming an ally of the United States, through the NATO membership."
That is to say, the US is no longer waiting for the formalization of Sweden's accession as a NATO member but will simply assume it is a de facto NATO ally!
A press release on Monday by the US State Department said the bilateral security pact will "deepen our close security partnership, enhance our cooperation in multilateral security operations, and, together, strengthen transatlantic security." It referred to US commitment to "strengthening and reinvigorating America's partnerships to meet common security challenges while protecting shared interests and values."
The crux of the matter is that security will provide the necessary underpinning for US deployment to Sweden on an immediate basis, which is not possible otherwise without Stockholm formally jettisoning its decades-old policy of military non-alignment.
This ingenuous route signifies a monumental shift for Sweden which has a long history of wartime neutrality. Put differently, Russia strongly opposes Sweden's NATO membership, but Washington is reaching its objective anyway.
Interestingly though, Finland, which also had thrown its hand in the NATO ring under US pressure, doesn't seem to be in a tearing hurry to negotiate a pact with Washington, although it has a 1,340km border with Russia. Finland's stance is that it would join NATO at the same time as Sweden.
Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto told reporters on Sunday, "Finland is not in such a rush to join NATO that we can't wait until Sweden gets the green light." Former Finnish President Tarja Halonen had once said that Finland and Sweden are "sisters but not twins." They have commonalities, but their motivations are not the same.
Unlike Sweden which was all along in the Western orbit and provided secret intelligence to Western powers throughout the Cold War, both bilaterally and through NATO, Finland had a unique relationship with Russia, which was a result of its history.
Finland positioned itself as a neutral country during the Cold War maintaining good relations with the Soviet Union, riveted on the doctrine enabled by the Agreement of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance (1948) with Moscow, which served well as the main instrument in Finnish-Soviet relations all the way until 1992 when the Soviet Union got disbanded.
For sure, the 1948 pact granted Finland enough freedom to become a prosperous democracy, while, in comparison, despite Sweden's public posture of neutrality throughout much of the Cold War, behind closed doors it had become a key partner of NATO in Northern Europe.
Conceivably, neutrality still could remain an appealing alternative for Finland. Of course, it is a different matter if the balance of power in the region changes dramatically in the event of a large-scale conflict in Europe.
Sweden's (or Finland's) NATO membership isn't exactly round the corner. Sweden is either unable or unwilling to fulfil Turkey's demands. Besides, there are other variables at work here.
Most important, the trajectory of the current Russian-brokered rapprochement between Ankara and Damascus will profoundly impact the fate of the Kurdish groups in the region — and the Kurdish-US axis in Syria. Washington has warned Erdoğan against seeking rapprochement with President Bashar Al-Assad.
What complicates matters further is that presidential and parliamentary elections are due in Turkey in June and Erdoğan's political compass is set. Any change in his calculus can only happen in the second half of 2023 at the earliest.
Now, six months is a long time in West Asian politics. Meanwhile, the Ukraine war will also have phenomenally changed by summer.
Finland is ready to wait till summer, but Sweden (and the US) cannot. The heart of the matter is that Sweden's NATO membership is not really about the war in Ukraine but is about containing the Russian presence and strategy in the Arctic and North Pole. There is a massive economic dimension to it, too.
Thanks to climate change, the Arctic is increasingly becoming a navigable sea route. The expert opinion is that nations bordering the Arctic (eg., Sweden) will have an enormous stake in who has access to and control of the resources of this energy- and mineral-rich region as well as the new sea routes for global commerce the melt-off is creating.
It is estimated that 43 of the nearly 60 large oil and natural-gas fields that have been discovered in the Arctic are in Russian territory, while 11 are in Canada, six in Alaska [US] and one in Norway. Simply put, the specter that is haunting the US is: "The Arctic is Russian."
Just look at the map above. Sweden can bring quite a bit to the table to secure the Arctic through NATO. Finland may have a strong icebreaker-ship building industry, but it is Sweden's highly effective submarine fleet that will be crucial — both for polar defense and for blocking Russia's access to the world oceans.
MK Bhadrakumar is a former diplomat. He was India's ambassador to Uzbekistan and Turkey. The views are personal.
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One of the most pressing issues menacing our ecosystems is the extraordinary amount of plastic materials that end up in nature. It is interesting to confront our present situation, the way our societies have pushed our ressources and environnement, to their limits with the vision of Elisée Reclus, a french geographer of the 19th century (see below), who foresaw the impact of humanity on climate. The installation looks like plastic, the very waste we should be avoiding, but it is in fact made of a fully biodegradable baterian biopolymer.
The short text of Elisée Reclus was engraved on a wooden panel, that served as a mold for the biopolymer. The perishable nature of the material – it can be composted in a few weeks – offers a strong contrast to the engraved message, which, even if it is 150 years old, still remains contemporary.
Elisée Reclus (1830-1905) was, a french geographer, teacher, writer and anarchist. 150 years ago he wrote the two volumes of "La Terre: Description des Phénomènes de la Vie du Globe". The views he exposes in these very little known books makes him a pioneer of ecology and social geography. One of the reasons his work has been almost forgotten is his political engagement as an anarchist. He was banned from France for 10 years for having taken part in the Commune uprising in Paris in 1971. He lived for a time in Lugano and near Montreux, before settling in Belgium, where he died in 1905.
" The issue of understanding in man's work what embellishes or instead contributes to hurt nature can seem futile to so-called positive minds: but it is still a primordial issue to address. The development of humanity is intimately linked to the surrounding nature. A secret harmony is established between earth and the peoples she feeds, and when careless societies allow themselves to lay hands on what makes the beauty of their realm, they always eventually regret and seek repentance. Where the soil has become ugly, where poetry has disappeared from the landscape, imaginaries dwindle, minds shrink, quotidian and servitude take over the souls and bring torpor and death. Among the causes which, in the history of humanity, have already led to the disappearance of so many civilisations, one would have to take into account the brutal violence with which most of nations treated the nourishing land. They would bring down forests, dry up sources and overflow rivers, corrupt climates, surround cities with pestilential swamps; then, when nature, violated by them, had become hostile, they would start hating her, and, with no possiblity to go back like a savage to a life in the forests, they would been dazed by the despotism of priests and kings."
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Shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with SK Shipping, Intel, Microsoft, the Ulsan Center for Creative Economy & Innovation (UCCEI) and the Daejeon Center for Creative Economy & Innovation (DCCEI), which aims to create a new 'Eco System' for the development of smart ships.
ESA launches satellite IoT tender
The European Space Agency (ESA) is making an Invitation to Tender for its ARTES Advanced Technology project, which aims to drive prototyping of low data rate satellite communications concepts that would be suitable for M2M and IoT applications.
Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker to be modernised
A 38-year old Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker, the Pierre Radisson, is to gain a new lease of life with the installation of a range of new hardware and software systems by ABB, including a remote monitoring system that will allow shore based teams to directly diagnose problems on the vessel from shore.
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IoT to boost beer freshness in shipping
The Internet of Things is finally being put to practical use in the maritime industry, with Globalstar announcing that its STX3 chipset is to form the basis for the first Internet of Things (IoT) system for monitoring craft beer while it is shipped around the world.
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Kongsberg has established a new subsidiary called Kongsberg Digital, to focus on advanced data, software and simulation products and hold group responsibility for developing new digital solutions and related technology alliances.
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Inmarsat has joined the LoRa Alliance, a group dedicated to developing a global standard for the Internet of Things (IoT), and says it will provide the LoRa ecosystem with satellite connectivity to enable the deployment of solutions.
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Joey Fauerso: Moving Image New York
Thu, Mar 5, 2015 → Sun, Mar 8, 2015
Opening reception: Thu, Mar 5, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Joey Fauerso
For information: http://www.moving-image.info/new-york/
Moving Image will take place March 5-8, 2015. Located in the Waterfront Tunnel event space between 27th and 28th Streets with an entrance on 11th Avenue in Chelsea. Moving Image will be free to the public and open Thursday – Saturday, March 5-7, 11–8 PM and on Sunday, March 8, 11-4 PM. An opening reception will take place Thursday, March 5, 6–8 PM.
Moving Image was conceived to offer a viewing experience with the excitement and vitality of a fair, while allowing moving image-based artworks to be understood and appreciated on their own terms. Participation is by invitation only. The newly formed Moving Image Curatorial Advisory Committee for New York 2014 is inviting a selection of international commercial galleries and non-profit institutions to present single-channel videos, single-channel projections, video sculptures, and other larger video installations.
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Guadalupe – After Images, 2014
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A central theme of Guadalupe – After Images is movement: moving through something, away from something, out and into something new, transcending a certain set of physical and narrative conditions towards something more abstract and intuitive. The piece reflects an evolving understanding of the nature of painting–what a painting can be, and the ways a painting can be made.
Fauerso initiated the project with an exploration of a regional landscape. Many of her paintings and videos begin with extensive documentation of an experience or performance through video and photography. In this case she chose to use video footage taken from a boat ride on the Guadalupe River. At a certain point the boat moved through the trees, the perspective changed, and the image abstracted. What interested her was the physicality of the sequence, and a sense of one space opening onto another.
From this footage she created a series of 198 paintings. In Repetition and Difference, Gilles Deleuze wrote that "repetition is best understood in terms of discovery and experimentation; it allows new experiences, affects, and expressions to emerge. To repeat is to begin again; to affirm the power of the new and the unforeseeable." Making the 198 paintings enabled Fauerso to further immerse herself into the original experience, and to create a structured space for descriptive innovation.
The original paintings were then photographed and reprinted a total of four times. With each round of documentation and printing, the images became more abstract, symbolic, in a sense more painterly. This was largely due to the ways in which the printer's ink levels affected the image. This element of chance and mechanical gesture became an important part of the language of the piece. She began to realize that the project was really about creating the conditions for the painting to be generated. Much of the 'painting' occurred through this subtractive mechanical process, whereby it became as much about finding the image as making the image.
Brian Eno stated that "with a generative piece you set a machine going and it makes itself, and you as the composer are also the listener. The act of listening is the act of composing." While the first part of the project involved a labor intensive and largely traditional approach to making a painting, the process quickly moved towards a generative approach to image making that was mostly independent of the hand.


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One Stop Taco Shop
Local restaurateurs bring flavor to new taqueria
by Emily Patton / photos by Daniel Knight, Studio B
Dr. Mark Logan and Jayson Munoz opened City Taco, a gourmet taqueria, in June in Evansville.
Taquerias are among the fastest growing restaurant concepts in the U.S. Accomplished restaurateurs Jayson Munoz and Dr. Mark Logan are up to the task with bringing that experience to Evansville.
In 2012, Munoz, the owner of Kanpai Sushi & Asian Bistro, and Logan, an ear, nose, and throat physician in Evansville, formed a strong friendship from a shared passion of destination dining. In fall of 2012, Logan traveled to the Libertine Bar in Dallas, a relaxed gastropub known for its sophisticated bar setting, and it inspired their joint creation of Commonwealth Kitchen + Bar, which opened in January 2013 in Henderson, Kentucky.
The success of CKB spurred another idea from the partners in early 2014. Munoz consistently traveled to Nashville and Louisville tasting and trying local taquerias, which is a Spanish word for taco shop.
"We try to bring something to the community that isn't already here," says Logan. "When we opened CKB, there wasn't a gastropub, there wasn't a restaurant doing small plates, and along those same lines, we were trying to think of if we were going to expand, what would we offer to the community? There are a lot of places serving tacos, such as Taco Bell or Taco John's, but those aren't the places we're driving to Nashville for. The taco is the vehicle."
On June 18, Munoz and Logan opened City Taco, a gourmet taco restaurant, at 2403 Washington Ave., at the corner of Washington and Boeke, in the Ross Center.
"People walk through the door, and they ask if it's a Mexican restaurant," says Munoz. "We are trying to bring a unique experience to Evansville as a gourmet taco restaurant with delicious sides."
"You wouldn't call our Chicken Pesto Taco a Mexican dish, because it's Mediterranean. No one was really doing gourmet tacos in Evansville. That really is what sets us apart," says Logan.
While the concept of a gourmet taco shop is still relatively new, City Taco has been refining its menu to hammer home the idea to those who frequent it. The restaurant has recently introduced new tacos such as the Breakfast Taco, made with chorizo, scrambled egg, potatoes, Chihuahua cheese, and green onions, and the Marinated Steak Taco, which has pickled red onions, cilantro, lime juice, cotija cheese, and salsa on a flour tortilla.
In the five months, Munoz says he has learned what's a hit and what to replace with new additions. The restaurant bid farewell to the Barbacoa Taco and introduced the taco that has become its No. 1 seller — the Pow Pow Shrimp Taco. The Pow Pow Shrimp has breaded shrimp, green onions, shredded cabbage, layered with pow pow sauce on a flour tortilla, which is the same recipe used at Kanpai Sushi & Asian Bistro.
City Taco also introduced new additions to the starters, sides, dips, and desserts; each we tried was to-die-for-delicious. Patrons can enjoy two gourmet tacos, normally marked at $3.50 each, and a side priced at $2.95 for $8.95. Sides range from the new Queso Mac & Cheese to the Chorizo Chili, which is a no-bean chili, but with all the traditional Mexican flavors.
A popular new dip, the owners say, is the Seven Layer Dip, a blend of queso, black beans, chorizo, guacamole, Pico de Gallo, and Chihuahua and cotija cheeses. Blink and your table will have devoured it too soon. The inspiration for this addition came from El Taco Loco, a restaurant in Brighton, Colorado, the state Munoz is a native of. The dip originally had five layers and Munoz tasted and said, "I can do this, too." City Taco also offers the Plain Ol' Taco for those less adventurous in their tastes.
Every Tuesday, City Taco offers $2 Plain Ol' Tacos and $2 Mexican beer. With its proximity to the University of Evansville, Munoz and Logan feel the fast and casual restaurant concept and the affordable prices strongly appeal to students.
"When talking with University of Evansville students, they felt they didn't have 'that' college bar or hangout. They felt like they have been missing that in Evansville, and we want to fill that void," says Munoz.
City Taco has a covered patio, indoor/outdoor space, and a party room with stadium seating and televisions perfect for watching sports or birthday parties. Hanging on the walls is a collection of pop art ranging from Warhol and Lichtenstein to street art by Banksy.
"We are a taqueria, but we do not really consider ourselves truly Mexican and so we did not want to have Mexican décor. We wanted some bright, visual interest that was new and different to the Tri-State," says Logan.
The restaurant's covered patio is perfect for a late night wine or beer for those leaving the office on a Friday night and not quite ready to go home. City Taco has five house wines available by glass and an excellent reserve wine list. Many of the reserves also come in splits or half bottles, so guests can enjoy great wine buying a half bottle at a time. The restaurant offers regular bottles and splits of finer wines such as Cakebread Chardonnay, Duckhorn Sauvignon Blanc, Veuve Clicquot Champagne, Silver Oak Cabernet, and Clos du Val Cabernet.
"Even though we are a fast and casual restaurant, the wine list stands up against anyone in the Tri-State," says Logan. "It is superb. We also would love to see people think of us on Friday and Saturday night as a place where they can sit on a patio and have a great bottle or half-bottle of wine."
Location: 2403 Washington Ave.
Dining and Bar Hours: 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sun.
Website: citytaco.com
Adult Beverages: Yes
Prices: $2-$10
Payment: All major credit cards accepted.
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The Soul of Kindness by Elizabeth Taylor
We all know someone like Flora, popular, attractive, without insight or self-awareness, but still everybody's favourite. Perhaps we even want to be her friend, because some of her lustre rubs off on us. Elizabeth Taylor shows us the damage such a creature can create. The title sounds a warning – the soul of kindness?
As usual the first paragraph reveals much of what Elizabeth Taylor's ninth novel will explore.
Towards the end of the bridegroom's speech, the bride turned aside and began to throw crumbs of the wedding cake through an opening in the marquee to the doves outside. She did so with gentle absorption, and more doves came down from their wooden house above the stables. Although she caused a little rustle of amusement among the guests, she did not know it: her husband was embarrassed by her behaviour and thought it early in their married life to be so; but she did not know that either. (p7)
Thus we meet Flora on her wedding day. In the 1960s (this book was published in 1964) the wedding day would have been the culmination of the story for the heroine of many novels. But in The Soul of Kindness we follow Flora's life after this event. She assumed that she would marry and continue to receive the adulation and attention of her friends, her husband and her mother.
And so she does. They are always on call to keep her company, to look after her, to protect her, and ultimately to rescue her from the consequences of her misplaced encouragement and Kit's failed ambition. It was Flora who had planted and nurtured it in Kit.
Here is the moment when she receives an anonymous letter following Kit's suicide attempt.
'Let me read it again!' She took the letter and stared at it with revulsion. It was scribbled in pencil on a piece of paper torn roughly from a sketching-pad. 'My interference!' she said in horrified amazement. 'Why do they blame me? I've tried and tried to do all I could for Kit. There's no one I've tried more over. I'm so fond of him. I love him as if he were my brother not just Meg's. And I know he wouldn't do anything like that. Why should he? Why, I saw him only the other day. And who in the world hates me so much as to send me this dreadful …' She dropped the letter, put her face in her hands and began to weep – with long, shocked gasping sobs. Richard sat on the edge of the bed and put his arms round her. 'On my birthday, too,' she wept. (p209)
Her husband comforts her, assures her that no one is kinder than she. But we have noticed that her concern is all for herself, none for Kit (notice the emphases). And we readers are already aware that Flora is as flawed as Angel in Elizabeth Taylor's seventh novel, but perhaps Flora is the more harmful as she lives more sociably than Angel. There are more people to harm.
The list of people who get hurt is long:
She encourages her father-in-law, Percy, to marry his mistress, despite both being happy living separately. (One of the best scenes in the novel concerns Percy, who, when on his own, conducted very loud music, played on the gramophone. The Ride of the Valkyries and the last movement of Brahms' First Symphony are two of his favourites. Everyone's favourites.)
Flora's mother, finding her life empty after Flora's marriage, took in a housekeeper, but the women are locked together as neither can admit to the other what she has written or read. It is Flora's husband Richard who helps her see that her life is not over because her daughter has left home.
Kit is the brother of her school friend Meg. He is taken up by Flora and consistently fails to live up to her ambitions for him. He feels a failure.
In the character of Patrick Elizabeth Taylor was ahead of the time, for she makes it clear that he was gay, and she makes it clear that Flora has no idea, and no understanding of homosexuality. Homosexuality was illegal until 1967.
Richard, her husband, understands that his role is to protect Flora. He is also a force for good in the novel, as it turns out. But her demands mean that he cannot pursue a friendship with a lonely neighbour.
Flora's school friend Meg is forever in her shadow, and perhaps suffers most from Flora's actions. It is she who must deal with Kit's disappointment associated with Flora's inflated beliefs about his acting talents. Meg is in love with Patrick, and Flora is provoked by her failure to get it together with him, as she would approve the match. Meg blames Flora for Kit's suicide attempt. When Flora is upset by the anonymous letter and craves reassurance from everyone only Meg withholds it. She sees clearly how Flora operates.
'Other people have to live with the truth about themselves… She'll go on and on until we rally round and build up the image again.' (p215)
In the end … well you might know, or might guess what happens.
Elizabeth Taylor was at the height of her skill as a novelist when she wrote The Soul of Kindness, creating a central character who is attractive to the reader even as she reveals her flaws. Many of the other characters are studies in loneliness, almost Elizabeth Taylor's trademark. The idea that she wrote about small, insignificant and cosy lives is unjust given that she is able to conjure up suffering, affection, and, in this novel, human failings.
I've picked two other blog reviews you might like to read:
Vulpes Libris in which the reviewer suggests that Flora is like Jane Austen's Emma without her wisdom.
Heavenali considers the relationships in the novel and finds much to admire.
The next novel Elizabeth Taylor wrote (published in 1968) was The Wedding Group. It was her tenth. I will be rereading it in January.
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10 things to do when you don't know what to write.
'I don't know how to start.' How many times have I heard that? When I was working with my students on their written assessments they would often wail (or email) in frustration.
Or, 'I don't know where to start,' they might say.
Or (if they had launched out and begun to work on the essay or dissertation, but ground to a halt) 'I don't' know what to do'. Their writing wasn't working for them.
I had a range of suggestions I would give them, subsequently brought together in a hand-out for a writing summer school. I am indebted to colleagues for many of these ideas. They were originally intended for academic writers, but they have been adjusted to be relevant to writers of all genres.
1. WRITE 2000 WORDS. Write anything. One advantage of word processing is that you can discard any rubbish, even 2000 words of rubbish. But this tactic gets you writing. (Thank you, Professor Dennis Lawton, former director of the Institute of Education, in the University of London).
2. BRAINSTORM to gather as many good and bad ideas, suggestions, examples, sentences, false starts etc, as you can. Include material you are sure you will throw out.
3. FIND A FRESH METAPHOR OR ANALOGY for your main theme in order to open up a fresh set of ideas, using the word LIKE: for example, if you are writing about violence on TV you might develop the idea that it is like clowns fighting in a circus act (that is, we know that no one is really getting hurt).
4. TELL someone (even the cat) in three or four sentences what you are writing about. Then write it.
5. Write a 200 word (MAX) SUMMARY or description of your story, poem, book, blog … Try including why it's important to you and why it should be important to anyone else.
6. DO A WIRMI if you can't find the right word or you are getting lost in what you are writing. A WIRMI is when you look away from the text and keyboard and say (out loud if it helps) What I Really Mean Is … (Thanks Chris Watkins! See CARNELL, E., MACDONALD, J., MCCALLUM, B. & SCOTT, M. (2008) Passion and Politics: academics reflect on writing for publication, London, Institute of Education, University of London).
7. READ ALOUD – to the cat again if necessary – to see where you need to improve a draft. It is better if there is an audience who will respond, but not essential. I know of people who have read to their dog, their new-born baby, their teddy bear, a mirror, a tape recorder. They all helped!
8. USE A CRITICAL FRIEND. Show a draft to a friend and hear their responses and questions. It is probably not a good idea to give a raw first draft to comment on. Use your friend when you have got as far as you can and your writing might first benefit from a pause.
9. REMEMBER that just about everyone finds writing hard, including published and experienced writers. It usually involves head scratching, deleting, false starts, lightbulb moments, redrafting, polishing, checking … Who said 'writing is rewriting'?
10. READ A LOT AND WRITE A LOT. "If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut." ( KING, S. (2000) On Writing, London, Hodder & Stoughton.) p164
This suggestion might also work for you: How to battle the blank page, defeat distraction and get started writing. It's from from Kathryn Heyman, of the Faber Academy, and author of the delightful Captain Starlight's Apprentice.
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A Reckoning by May Sarton
The story of this novel about an older woman who is dying of cancer may have put you off. The situation is not a comfortable one: Laura Spelman has been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer and told she has a year or two to live. She wants to make the best of the final stage of life, to choose whether to have treatment or not, how she lives, with whom she keeps company and to make some kind of reckoning of her life.
Safely inside [her car] she sat there for a few moments sorting out the jumble of feelings her interview with Dr. Goodwin had set whirling. The overwhelming one was a strange excitement, as though she was more than usually alive, awake, and in command: I am to have my own death. I can play it my own way. … I've got to do it well. (p7)
We follow her through her final months and learn about the compromises she had to make. It turns out not to be possible 'to have my own death'. Nor can she manage to play it her 'own way'. But she starts out well. Laura tells people in her own time. And at first she rejects dependency upon others, but soon has to allow others to help her, especially her housekeeper and her doctor, and comes to appreciate their professional care. She also finds that other people have demands to make of her: her children and sisters in particular.
Reckoning can means several allied but distinct things:
A computation
A statement of an amount due, a bill
An account for things due or received
An appraisal or judgement
Retribution (as in Day of …)
And in nautical use 'dead reckoning' means finding your position through a calculation on direction and distance (rather than on astrological computation).
Any focus on older women in fiction is going to explore living in the shadow of death, ask questions about what it is to be an older woman. In everyday use 'reckoning' refers to both accounting and a sense of some payment being due. Is this, then, what the final stage of life should be: a computation about how much one owes and is owed? Laura Spellman offers us an approach that is admirable. As her doctor says, she is not dying while still alive, rather living until she dies.
I chose this book as the 4th in the series exploring older women in fiction. But it barely qualifies as Laura Spelman is only 60. The novel was first published in 1978, and things have changed in thirty-five years. People live longer and few would accept that they have lived their full term at 60 as Laura appears to. This novel is also of its time in the way she writes about lesbian and gay love as forbidden and dangerous, and in the way she needs to explain feminism. If I had read it then I would probably have been more impressed by it.
Credit is due to May Sarton, who wrote a great number of books: fiction (20), non-fiction (12 including her journals), poetry (17) about women's lives. She had a 13-year relationship with a woman, but refused to allow her writing to be described as lesbian. She preferred to be known as a lesbian woman who wrote. In A Reckoning I think Sarton draws on the nautical meaning for Laura's analysis of her life, she is considering her position, based on direction and distance travelled. May Sarton's own life is less celebrated these days, but she made a huge contribution to feminism.
This is not literary writing, not polished, not every word counts. I have read so much Elizabeth Taylor recently that I notice when writers spell everything out, as May Sarton does. In A Reckoning I found too much eggnog, sleeping and dozing, listening to Haydn, reading Herbert's poems, and not enough about her thoughts and responses to her physical decline.
There is an episode in the hospital that seems to serve the author by showing us how infantalising hospitals can be for the sick and dying. But medically it appeared to offer nothing to Laura; the doctor said he wanted x-rays to check on progress of cancer. She died more or less on her return home.
The strength of this book is in the reckoning of Laura's relationships, with her husband, her mother and sisters, her adult children, friends and the strangers who provide necessary services for her as her health disintegrates. But in the end, the most significant reckoning is with being a woman, and having loved a young woman very intensely. This collection of explorations both works and doesn't. The reunion with her friend of her youth seems too late and to add nothing to her life, only allows her to die.
I don't think this is an especially good read. But it certainly adds to the canon of strong older women in fiction. Thanks to whoever recommended that we added it to our list.
The next Readalong in the Strong Older Women in Fiction group will be The Summer Book by Tove Jansson. I will post in February. Yes, Tove Jansson is the Finnish author of the Moomin books. But this novel for adults contains a life-affirming character in the grandmother. You should read it if you haven't.
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Tagged as A Reckoning, feminism, May Sarton, Older women in fiction
Who or what are literary prizes for?
What purposes do literary prizes serve for readers? It's clear that they provide writers with recognition and publicity that leads to sales. And for publishers it provides publicity that leads to sales. And for sponsors I guess it adds to their good image (which I assume is designed to boost sales somewhere along the line). So there is a pattern here.
There are prizes for first novels, for biographies, a Samuel Johnson award for non-fiction, American prizes such as the National Book Award, and international prizes such as the Nobel Prize for Literature (for a body of work), the Man Booker Prize, the International Man Booker Prize and several awards for different genres (such as crime, sci-fi, children's literature etc). For all I know there is a prize for last novels.
Zadie Smith is sure that winning a prize is essential for new writers to get noticed. Not everyone is convinced of their value. In the New York Times last month, Daniel Mendelsohn asked
What purposes do these prizes serve? Are the values they promote aesthetic or commercial? And how on earth do the judges arrive at their decisions?
Jennifer Szalai recalled what is said when things go wrong:
The complaints are as common as they are contradictory: Prizes are awarded to tepid, undemanding best sellers everyone reads; prizes are awarded to obscure, abstruse books no one reads. They are awarded to the right authors, but for the wrong work (Hemingway for "The Old Man and the Sea," Faulkner for "A Fable"). They are awarded to the wrong authors for the wrong work (Margaret Mitchell for "Gone With the Wind"). They are withheld from the right authors for the right work ("Gravity's Rainbow," by Thomas Pynchon, won jury approval for the Pulitzer in 1974 but was overruled by a board that deemed the novel "turgid" and "obscene"). Sometimes the grousing has the whiff of sour grapes. "Prize X has never been awarded to Philip Roth," "Prize Y has never ben awarded to me."
She concludes that literary prizes should honour good books. Mendelsohn claims that prizes show what is prized and that as a result the real winner is culture itself.
But what about the reader? What do we get from these awards? I used to think that prizes were normative, restricting readers' choices, operating a bit like the 2for1 tables at Waterstone's, or reality tv competitions (the Great British Write Off?) or the bestseller lists in the weekend papers. And it is true that plenty of good books miss the awards: the slow burners, books that are idiosyncratic, specialist, appeal to small scale interests, and especially non-fiction and translated books. But we shouldn't expect the awards to do everything for the book trade.
Awards do draw attention to some books, especially through their long- and shortlists. I admit to being very interested in long- and shortlists, and not much interested in which book or author wins (especially when the press starts speculating about muggin's turn, as they did Jim Crace for the MBP this year and Julian Barnes in the past).
Here are some awards that have added to my reading pleasure:
IMPAC prize, especially for its longlist, because it is the outcome of nominations for high literary merit by public libraries across the world. Consequently some less prestigious, less artsfartsy books get identified, and frequently the shortlist (and winner) includes novels in translation. Per Petterson, Out Stealing Horses (2007) and Gerbrand Bakker, The Twin (2010) are two examples. The list this year is very long – 152 titles. Great! Lots to discover.
Women's Prize for Fiction because it promotes women writers and women are still less published, less reviewed and the literary scene benefits from positive discrimination. See the blogpost in praise of the Women's Prize for Fiction for a fuller discussion. This year I read and enjoyed all six of the shortlisted titles.
The title of this next one deserves a prize of its own: Not the Man Booker Prize, a list nominated by readers of the Guardian and although readers vote in an arcane system that can only be likened to the rules of Mornington Crescent (see BBC Radio4 show I'm Sorry I haven't a Clue) the panel make a final judgement. I was pleased to see that Magda by Meike Ziervogel lead the readers' voting, even if Kate Atkinson's Life after Life actually won.
The Samuel Johnson award for non-fiction, because there is some excellent writing and subject matter being written about every year and it's not all fiction. There is always biography in the list, and history and other books that might slip by. This year I have been interested to read reviews of David Crane's Empires of the Dead: How One Man's Vision Led to the Creation of WW1's War Graves. And Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain by Charlotte Higgins also looks very interesting.
And I will continue to rely on several other ways of finding good reading: reviews, end of year and holiday recommendations, word of mouth, gifts, browsing in bookshops, Twitter and my local library.
Meanwhile I have one and a half books left to read from the Man Booker Prize shortlist for 2013. So far I have read 19cms and still have 8cms to go, including the winner – Eleanor Caton's The Luminaries.
What do you think of Literary Prizes? Have you come across any good reads from a prize? What have literary prizes ever done for you?
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December 7, 2013 · 12:28 pm
Books change lives.
Want a good idea to solve your Christmas present problems? Reverse Book Tokens may be the answer. What are they? Read on.
Reading and books connect people in important ways. Reading and writing are two important activities that enable underprivileged people to counter the odds stacked against them: refugees, prisoners, the oppressed, children … A recent blog on reading with children referred to Neil Gaiman's October 2013 lecture in which he outlined our collective responsibility to help young people read. Here is the link again to the full text of his lecture on the Reading Agency site. In a spirited defence of all reading and of libraries he argued that individuals need literacy, but so does society.
The bigger picture of the importance of books and reading came vividly to me when I worked briefly in Africa, with teachers in Maputo, Mozambique. I have also visited schools in Zimbabwe and in Ethiopia. One thing I know is that resources we take for granted in our schools are in very short supply in some schools, especially in rural areas in sub-Saharan Africa. In particular – books. Not all schools can afford to provide books, and yet …
My mother put me in touch with Book Aid International and I have supported them ever since. Last year they provided more than half a million books to 3,300 libraries, mainly in sub-Saharan Africa. Their work is so important. It changes lives.
Rahmatu is a 13-year-old-girl from Cameroon who is at secondary school , a country where only one in 5 girls achieve this. Her family cannot afford to buy books. But thanks to Book Aid International her school library is full of books and she takes a book home every day, and reads to her siblings. Her favourite book is Gulliver's Travels. You can see her speaking on the website.
Before I started going to school and reading books I never had any plans for my future because in my tribe, young girls of my age grow up and just get married. But now that I'm in school I plan to become a lawyer.
Book are changing the aspirations of this young girl, at the same time as allowing her siblings access to books as well. The video shows Rahmatu reading aloud to children in her village. The essence of this story is repeated in Uganda, Zambia, Tanzania, DRC, for libraries in prison, in hospital, and in primary and secondary schools. The strap line for Book Aid International is BOOKS CHANGE LIVES.
Book Tokens are a great idea; you pay the money and someone else gets the books. Reverse Book Tokens are a great idea to support Book Aid International: you pay the money and someone else gets the books. For only £6 Book Aid International can send out three books. Money for this charity is also raised through donations, festive cards and World Book Day events. The next one will be on Thursday 6th March 2014. The charity is hoping to raise money through celebrating its 60th birthday in 2014.
Thinking of presents for readers this year? Give a Reverse Book Token and support Book Aid International. A reader will thank you.
If I were to meet the person who helped send books to our school, first of all I would say a big thank you! And plead with them to send many books to our school because children are in need of them, says Rahmatu.
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Tagged as Book Aid International, Books change lives, Neil Gaiman, Reading Agency, Reverse Book Tokens
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Segmentation and optimization are common characteristics of maturing technologies. As the microprocessor matured, computer systems that originally came only in large mainframes, split into dozens of varieties of mainframes, minis, servers, workstations and desktop platforms.
Machine vision systems are following suit, as revealed by a close look at one of the largest end-user markets for machine vision. Vision applications in the automotive industry are benefiting from several recent system advances, including slimmed-down versions of smart cameras, sometimes called 'smart gauges,' improvements in direct part marking for part traceability that is more powerful and robust than RFID tags, and advanced algorithm development for robot guidance applications.
Automotives' 'Big Three' Applications
Machine vision applications in automotive manufacturing fall in three broad categories, according to Frank Maslar of Ford Motor Company's Advanced Manufacturing Technology Development: part identification, inspection and gauging, and robot guidance.
Direct part marking (DPM) is driving vision deeper into identification, or part tracking applications in the automotive industry. This system, which typically uses a variety of 2D data matrix codes, contains both serialization numbers for tracking individual parts, but can also help lead to more flexible manufacturing lines by including process-related information.
''For example, when we machine engine blocks, there are bearings that go with the crank shaft,'' explains Ford's Maslar. ''We measure the sizes of the journals and the engine assembly and use that information to pick the right size bearing liners. If we make the parts in one plant and assemble in another plant, we have to transfer that information with the parts. We have done this with [radio frequency] RF tags, but you have to recycle the tags. They don't last forever; they get lost, etc., which leads to expense. So what we do now is take the size information and the measurement data for the bearing liner and encode that into a data matrix code and mark it directly on the part. When the part gets to assembly, we know exactly what part goes with what assembly.''
DPM allows each part to be individually identified for its lifetime, which may last up to 25 years or more, but also allows manufacturers like Ford Motor Company to be more flexible in their operations, since the car model number associated with a particular part can be encoded directly onto the part. ''DPM gives us portability as well as greater flexibility in utilizing our infrastructure,'' Maslar said.
DPM is among the hottest applications in automotive automation today, according to John Lewis, public relations specialist at Cognex Corp. (Natick, Massachusetts), ''Interest is driven in part by the need to comply with the TREAD or Transportation Recall, Enhancement, Accountability and Documentation Act, but also because part traceability plays a key role in error proofing initiatives.''
''DPM has moved past the early adoption phase,'' Lewis continued. ''In that phase of adoption, customers were marking parts for internal traceability projects (i.e. closed loop) and needed 'verifiers' for internal 'process control.' Now, auto makers are pushing their suppliers to comply, and these marks (primarily 2D codes) must be read throughout the supply chain. This is driving tremendous growth right now for ID readers and verification systems.''
Inspection and Gauging
Machine vision systems were first designed to automatically find features in an image and make objective measurements based on that visual information, essentially inspecting parts for the purpose of quality evaluation or closed-loop process control. Today, the maturing of vision systems is leading to a segmentation of these inspection and gauging systems, with particular emphasis on working in a three-dimensional (3D) world while offering more flexible, cost-effective solutions once handled by discreet sensors, also better known as error-proofing or 'go-no-go' applications.
According to Cognex's Lewis, absence/presence sensors are significantly expanding the number of vision supported operations throughout the automotive manufacturing chain. ''Automotive manufacturers have been replacing multiple photoelectric sensors and PLC logic with the recently released Checker sensor because it's more cost-effective. Checker has solved many error proofing applications throughout the automotive manufacturing process including verifying the presence of piston rings, weld nuts, threads in holes, correct buttons, clips on seats and many more.''
''You don't need a lot of image processing power for these 'go-no-go' applications,'' adds Ford's Maslar. ''You don't need a lot of filtering, or correlation…they're just straight forward absence/presence applications. When we need more power, we go with smart cameras for the most part, because the power of the smart camera is approaching the power of the traditional, PC-host vision system. And from a maintainability standpoint, many of the smart cameras are often easier to use. Many of the traditional systems are programmed in C or C++ and there aren't many maintenance people who are really comfortable doing that kind of thing. We found that the smart camera graphic interfaces are simple enough that maintenance technicians can go out and maintain the system, which is a big issue for us.''
A 3D World
According to Adil Shafi, president of Shafi Inc. (Brighton, Michigan), non-laser-scanning, passive camera systems for 3D measurements are helping to provide flexibility in assembly operations by operating as in-line coordinate measurement machines (CMM), offering the precision of CMM machines without the need to take the part to an offline CMM location.
''These systems look at various regions in a frame, and make 3D measurements based on the location of linkages, brackets, cross-members and such,'' Adil explained. This same capability also is greatly expanding the role of vision in robotic assembly workcells.
''The move from 2D to 3D robot applications is making vision very popular for robot guidance,'' explains Ford's Maslar. ''Today, companies like Fanuc (Rochester Hills, Michigan), ISRA (Lansing, Michigan), Shafi, Braintech (North Vancouver, BC, Canada), Adept (Livermore, California) and ABB (Zurich, Switzerland) all offer 3D vision systems of one type or another. What we're really looking forward to is vision guidance for moving objects.''
''As 3D vision technologies improve, these systems are going into body-in-white applications, which is very exciting because this is an area that rarely used a great deal of robot guidance,'' said ISRA's Kevin Taylor, sales manager for North America. ''Some of these stations are very complex because of all the tooling in them, and we're showing that vision systems and robots can do the tasks that end users thought were not possible just a few years ago.''
Sometimes called vision servoing, Maslar prefers the term object tracking because it implies fewer disciplines. Maslar expects object tracking to be particularly useful on retrofit applications, or the majority of vision-guided robot workcell applications because most manufacturing lines do not have encoders built into them, nor do they offer an easy place to install one. Other applications, such as truck assemblies, suspend the truck frame from hanging metal chains, so the frame is constantly moving, which poses a challenge for a vision guided robot workcell. ''Object tracking has already been demonstrated successfully in labs,'' Shafi added.
''This technology can also help us compensate for part-to-part variations,'' Maslar explained. ''The tools made here will go a long way to handling variations and improving tolerances in many other assembly operations, leading to more automation.''


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Khadim Hussain Rizvi-led TLP bags first ever provincial assembly seat
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04:42 PM | 26 Jul, 2018
KARACHI - Newly-emerged religious party, Tehreek Labaik Pakistan (TLP), has won the first-ever seat in the General Election 2018, making his way to Sindh Assembly.
According to unofficial results, TLP candidate Mufti Mohammad Qasim got 21,596 votes in PS-115 Karachi, while Muttahida Qaumi Movement Pakistan (MQM) candidate Faizan Mustafa stood at the second position with 16,404 votes.
The religious party, which is headed by Moulana Khadim Hussain Rizvi, shot to fame when it staged days-long sit-in in Islamabad against the amendment to Election Act 2017 pertaining to Khatam-e-Nabuwwat clause. Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), which was ruling Pakistan when the protests were held, had to succumb to pressure as it had to kick out its law minister Zahid Hamid.
Meanwhile, the elections results for National Assembly predict that Imran Khan, the chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf is all set to take over the reins of the country for a period of next five years.
Imran Khan set to captain Pakistan for next five ... 01:31 PM | 26 Jul, 2018
ISLAMABAD - Imran Khan, the chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf is all set to take over the reins of the country ...
As Pakistan concluded its 11th General Elections on Wednesday, with a single massive incident of violence, the vote counting is portraying PTI in a favorable light with Imran Khan visibly assuming the prime ministership of the country in just a few days.
Khan's party, founded some 22 years ago, has managed to bag 118 seats of the National Assembly according to unofficial results in the fraught elections that pitched him against the all-powerful Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz and Pakistan Peoples Party.


Dolce & Gabbana Sicily handbag in Dauphine leather is a very chic and sophisticated purse that has become very popular among women with a pronounced taste for style and fashion. Its understated elegance, elevated design and romantic details are signature elements of the well-known D&G brand, a designer that over the years has created some of the most chic accessories in fashion history.
The inspiration behind the Sicily handbag is representative for Dolce & Gabbana's heritage. The purse is a tribute to the stunning scenery and ambiance of Sicily, a place of endless beauty. This wonderful and picturesque Italian island is one of the most important sources of inspiration for the brand. Dolce & Gabbana Sicily handbag in Dauphine leather is one of its timeless and iconic purses, a product that embodies style, refinement and luxury.
I prefer the D&G Sicily pink purse in medium size as it offers more versatility. It is not too small or too big. It is perfect for carrying all your essentials throughout the day- at work, at meetings, when going out or at shopping. Indeed, most replica merchants won't have any problems in cloning its sizes: 29 x 21 x 12 cm, but will surely fail at getting its shape right. The structure of the purse is unique. The rectangular front side is complemented by rounded, full sides that are slimmer on the upper part and more pronounced on the bottom. At the top of the purse on the outer sides there are two pink leather cylinders which attach to the handle. These enhance the elegant and unique construction of the bag. By comparison, the replica has differently looking folding sides. These are not as fluid and natural looking as the original ones. On the top part of the curved sides you can see that these are spaced apart and discontinued from the main body of the purse. The top leather cylinders appear to be shorter and the bottom of the bag isn't straight as the real one, it is creased in a very unflattering manner.
A Replica Louis Vuitton handbags review is a must as LVs are extremely popular and sought-after and that's why you need to have all the information about them to make sure you only choose the best Louis Vuitton bags on the market. Find everything there is to know about iconic bags such as the Speedy or the Neverfull Tote but also about the newer models from one of the most famous fashion houses in the world.
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Today we're looking at one of the newest Louis Vuitton knockoff bags, the Kimono tote. It's not only one of the newest, but it has also occupied an important place in my favorite handbags list. I'm about to purchase it and that's I why I'd like to share this with you. I'm not buying handbags too often, but when I do, I only purchase the best. And yes, the new Kimono tote from PurseValley just got my attention and I'm sure it's going to be one of those great decisions I kept taking lately.
Whether we talk about LV replica bags or genuine pieces, the Monogram canvas is the most popular pattern we'll meet. This brand built its popularity around the Monogram and the Damier canvases. And as we all know, Louis Vuitton has begun his career by manufacturing high quality traveling bags. Today, we will talk about the newest embodiment of the classic Louis Vuitton traveling trunks: the Petite-Malle Trunk Bag.
Luxury handbags and celebrity lifestyle that they represent are a constant allure to us. What it is in the perceived exclusivity and glamor that attracts us so much and makes us pay way more than we would pay for the same products without the luxury brand name but with the same quality's. We explore the world of luxury and how to safely navigate your way shopping online and looking for the best deals and sales.
Bottega Veneta is an Italian luxury goods and high fashion brand house best known for its leather goods which are sold worldwide and its .men's and women's ready-to-wear.In September 2016, it was announced that Claus-Dietrich Lahrs would be named CEO, replacing Carlo Beretta.
Bottega Veneta's signature intrecciato leather gets an intricate update this season with this tote. The contrasting hues of cream and beige ensure a subtle look, while the adjustable top handles offer customisation. Carry yours in the crook of your arm when catching your long-haul flight – the roomy size will hold more than just the essentials.
The Petite Malle Monogram is crafted in the Louis Vuitton tradition of high style. A fusion of Monogram canvas and classic hardware in a day-to-evening silhouette, it is inspired by Maison trunks. The Louis Vuitton Petite Malle comes in a number of different finishes including monogram canvas, damier ebene, and an array of different colored epi leathers. Cruise 2015 introduced less classic finishes that are not represented in this post. It is a small bag, measuring 7 x 4.75 x 1.5 inches. A magnetic clasp closure keeps belongings safe. The calfskin shoulder strap is long enough for crossbody and is also removable, making this bag suitable for both casual and formal events.
I think that this has got to be one of the most delicious bags that Louis Vuitton ever did. I love how the bag is not only beautiful but reflects a bit of Louis Vuitton's history. It's both elegant and playful, a challenging balance to achieve!


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The 1981 Toledo Rockets football team was an American football team that represented the University of Toledo in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) during the 1981 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their fifth and final season under head coach Chuck Stobart, the Rockets compiled a 9–3 record (8–1 against MAC opponents), won the MAC championship, outscored all opponents by a combined total of 270 to 170, won the Mid-American Conference (MAC) championship, and defeated San Jose State, 27–25, in the 1981 California Bowl.

The team's statistical leaders included Jim Kelso with 975 passing yards, Arnold Smiley with 1,013 rushing yards, and Rodney Achter with 361 receiving yards.

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