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Kim Dingle
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Kim Dingle (born 1951) is a Los Angeles-based contemporary artist working in paint, sculpture and installation.
Dingle was born in Pomona, California. Her family moved to Los Angeles when she was two months old. In 1988, she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cal State Los Angeles and in 1990, a Master of Fine Arts from Claremont Graduate School.
Series of works[edit]
Her first solo exhibition, "Portraits from the Dingle Library", combined images of her mother, Cram, with portraits of iconic figures like George Washington, Queen Elizabeth II and George Foreman. Her inspiration for these works began with her mother's belief that she is related to both George Washington and Queen Elizabeth II.[1]
Shortly after the Cram portrait series, Kim Dingle began a critique of girlhood innocence with a character based on Dingle's niece, Wadow, who exhibited surprising violent bursts as a result of prenatal brain damage. Wadow was a major source of inspiration for the new girl characters in Dingle's art.[1] Dingle often inserted this version of Wadow and her cohorts, the "Wild Girls", into well-known historic scenes. These images reclaim famous American myths like George Washington and the cherry tree for her fleshy heroines and question the semiotics of patriotism. For example, in Untitled (Girls with Dresspole) (1998), Dingle's leading ladies raise a "dresspole" (a long pole with a dress attached to the top) in a pose reminiscent of the famous photograph of soldiers raising the flag on Iwo Jima.
The "wild girl" works led to another series of works for Dingle, this time employing the characters "Fatty" and "Fudge". Fatty, a white girl, and Fudge, a black girl, partner up to enact their diabolic whims. Their exploits and frustrations often turn on themselves, and Fatty and Fudge inevitable resort to attacking each other. In the Never in School series, Dingle introduced anonymous school mates, whom Fatty and Fudge blissfully dominate in the absence of adults or boys.[2]
Dingle created three-dimensional works featuring Fatty and Fudge in 1997 and were renamed "Priss". The Prisses took the form of stodgy, fierce little tykes made out of porcelain and sporting extra coarse steel wool hair, thick prescription glasses and crunchy white dresses with patent leather Mary Jane shoes. Dingle hired a three-year-old girl to help design the Priss installations, which included graffitied wallpapered nursery rooms with wooden cribs being broken down and used to make spears and darts, which were then used on paintings of targets. These installations were first shown at Blum & Poe in Los Angeles and Jack Tilton in New York; they also toured European museums with Sunshine Noir: the Art of Los Angeles. Priss now resides in the permanent collection at MOCA Los Angeles.[3] Priss later took the form of a 1963 MG midget car and was the poster child for the 2000 Whitney Biennial.
David Winton Bell Gallery (Brown University) wrote that "her art illuminates the role that race, gender, stereotype and myth play in defining identity."[1] Ana Honigman states, "For Dingle's girls, ... strength does not lie in the ability to get grown-ups or men to protect them, but in their ability to be strong for themselves."[2]
Honors and Accolades[edit]
Dingle was a participant in the 2000 Whitney Biennial. Dingle's works are included in the collections of MOCA Los Angeles,[4] the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Peter Norton Family Foundation, among others. Kim Dingle's work has been reviewed in Art in America, Arts Magazine, Art Issues, Artscene,[5] Frieze,[2] Artforum, London Financial Times[6] and Huffington Post.[7]
Eva Fornacs: "Modernism's Lost Future" 2014 Filosofski Vestnik Volume XXXV No. 2 pp. 29–45
Los Angeles Times 2014 Carolina A. Miranda, "Crazy Babies and Panty Hose: 5 must see works at OCMAS's "AVANT GARDE"
Los Angeles Times 2013 Deborah Vankin " Kim Dingle's Winebar for Children at Mr. Ling's Market"
Los Angeles Times 2007 David Pagel "Dingle's Return is Delicious"
Frieze, "Kim Dingle" Ana Honigman, May 2001 pp. 100–101
Frieze, "Kim Dingle at Blum & Poe", David Pagel no 21 pp 61–62
The New York Times, Ken Johnson, "Uncomfortable Beauty" December 29, 2000
The New Yorker, Peter Schjeldahl, "Pragmatic Hedonism" April 3, 2000
The New Yorker, "Kim Dingle", November 27, 2000
Art Issues, Doug Harvey, "Kim Dingle at Blum & Poe November / December p. 45 1997
Artforum "Kim Dingle: Sperone Westwater" Katy Siegel, volume 37 no. 6 p. 96
Artnews, Suzanne Munchnic, "Sunshins & Noir" volume 98, no. 2 p. 110
The New York Times, Amei Wallach, "Visions of the Void Behind the California Sun" Nov 29, 1998
Bomb, Pagel, David "Kim Dingle", interview Bomb no. 52 Summer 1995
Peter Schjeldahl, "Kim Dingle" exhibition catalogue, The Renaissance Society, Otis College of Art 1995
Peter Schjdahl, Village Voice, "Bringing Up Baby" 15 November 1994 p. 58
Art in America, Michael Duncan, " L.A. Rising" vol 83 no. 12 pp. 72–82
Robert Storr, exhibition catalogue "Mapping", Museum of Modern Art: New York and Harry N.Abrams
- ^ a b c brown.edu
- ^ a b c Honigman, Ana. "RSS Kim Dingle Sperone Westwood, New York, USA". Frieze Magazine. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
- ^ "Priss, 1994". moca.org. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
- ^ moca.org
- ^ Brown, Betty. "Sunshine and Noir". ArtScene. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
- ^ "Kim Dingle | Official Website | Artwork, About". kimdingle.net. Retrieved 2017-03-16.
- ^ Gleason, Mat (2010-08-17). "The Ten Most UNDERRATED Los Angeles Art World Stars". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2017-03-16.


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Fight On State is reporting on its Web site that junior defensive tackles Chris Baker and Phil Taylor have been kicked off the football team by head coach Joe Paterno.
If the report is accurate — and FOS does a great job, has great sources and is typically on the money — the deep and talented Nittany Lions front four will have lost two troubled players who would have been the favorites to be the starters in the middle.
Baker was involved in both of the now-infamous fights involving Nittany Lions players last season. He pleaded guilty to three misdemeanors and was serving two years probation. Taylor was involved in the HUB fight, pleaded guilty to misdemeanors, is on probation and had been expelled from the university through the summer.
Both players were suspended for last December's Alamo Bowl and throughout spring practice this year.
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Bottom line is, Penn State will go from having ungodly depth at the tackle spot to having great depth there. This is still a team that can go three teams deep at tackle on a Saturday afternoon and still have some very effective players. But if there are some injuries like there were last season, Joe Paterno is going to wish Baker and Taylor could have kept their noses clean.


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McKean previously illustrated Almond's book The Savage:
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — At 200 mph, it may be difficult to see the difference between last year's race car in the Sprint Cup Series and the new Gen-6 car that will debut at Saturday night's Sprint Unlimited exhibition race.
NASCAR, however, believes everyone eventually will notice a big change.
Gone is the snowplow-like front bumper and common template that made every Ford, Chevrolet and Toyota look like they came off the same assembly line. Gone are a lot of the loopholes that allowed engineers to make it so complex, so technical that it relied as much on a computer program as a driver.
The new Chevrolet SS looks very similar to the Australian-produced Chevrolet Commodore. The new Ford Fusion looks like a Ford Fusion. And the Toyota Camry looks like a Toyota Camry.
"After all, this is supposed to be stock car racing," driver David Ragan said.
By turning the page back into NASCAR's history to allow manufacturers to have a greater brand identity, the sport hopes to get better footing for the future.
New cars, called "Generation 6," will have identifying manufacturer body panels. Front bumpers look more like on passenger cars.
They also are 150 pounds lighter, 2 inches shorter and 3 inches wider, to make them less dependent on aerodynamics and more on a driver's skill and nerve.
"First of all, they look awesome," Greg Biffle said. "That's the coolest part. But they drive a lot different. Three-quarters of the chassis is the same (as last year's car), but we also have a new body. They don't have a lot of downforce and they're harder to drive.
"But as a driver, that's what you want."
The now-obsolete Generation 5 car was developed to make it easier for NASCAR to level the playing field between the manufacturers by making them all look the same. Fans clearly didn't like the fact every car looked identical, distinguishable primarily by decals.
Fans proved their disappointment by skipping races in the last few years, both at the track and on television. NASCAR eventually responded by returning to its roots and demanding manufacturers put their thumbprint on new cars.
"Sometimes we forget that we all got into racing because we like cars," Carl Edwards said.
"The cars are supposed to be neat and fun to look at and get your blood pumping," Edwards continued. "I think these cars look good and the fact that NASCAR has an open mind on what will make the racing better tells me we have people in charge that want to do what is best about the sport."
There are other differences that may change the way races unfold. Teams no longer are allowed to adjust their rear axles to help make cars turn in the corners. By moving the rear axles, cars didn't travel in a straight line. The right-rear generally protruded to the right, creating something called "crabbing." It allowed extra air to catch the rear spoiler on the right, and it made it easier to turn the car.
Now the driver has to do all the work.
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The names of drivers and the manufacturer now are displayed across the top of the front windshield to make it easier to recognize, while the name of the primary sponsor can be displayed across the top of the rear window.
"What's nice about this car is it's going to start off looking good, driving good," Gordon said. "It looks like a racecar should look."
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I WAS RUNNING LATE, WHICH WAS NO surprise. I always seemed to be in a rush—there was a meeting with my editors halfway across Manhattan, I had a deposit to make before the end of the business day, my shoes were killing me, and I was so hungry I could have eaten the glass and metal desk I'd been allotted at my temp job at the Pitt Foundation.
I could handle most of those things—I was nothing if not adaptable. People were used to my tendency to show up late; the secretary over at MacSimmons Publishers was wise enough to schedule my appointments and then tell me they were half an hour earlier. It was a little game we played—unfortunately, since I now knew the rules, I'd arrive an hour late, ruining her careful arrangements.
Tant pis. They could work around me—I was reliable in all other matters. I'd never been late with a manuscript, and my work seldom needed more than minimal revision. They were lucky to have me, even if biblical murder mysteries weren't a big moneymaker, particularly when written in a smart-ass tone. Solomon's Poisoner had done even better than the previous books. Of course, you had to put that in perspective. Agatha Christie I was not. But if they weren't making money they wouldn't be buying me, and I wasn't going to worry about it.
I had just enough time to make it to the bank, and I could even manage a small detour to grab a hot dog from a street vendor, but there wasn't a damned thing I could do about my stupid shoes.
Vanity, my uptight mother would have said—not that she ever left the confines of her born-again Idaho fortress to see me. Hildegarde Watson trusted nothing and no one, and she'd retreated to a compound filled with other fundamentalist loonies where even her own sinful daughter wasn't welcome. Thank God. I didn't need my mother to tell me how shallow I was. I embraced it.
The four-inch heels made my legs look fantastic, which I considered worth any amount of pain. On top of that, they raised me to a more imposing height than my measly five foot three, an advantage with obstreperous middle-aged male editors who liked to treat me like a cute little girl.
However, the damned stilettos hurt like crazy, and I hadn't been smart enough to leave a more comfortable pair at my temp job. I'd been hobbling around all day without even a Band-Aid to protect my poor wounded feet.
I'd feel sorry for myself if I hadn't done it on purpose. I'd learned early on that the best way to accomplish anything was to grit your teeth and fight your way through it with the best grace you could muster, and wearing those damned shoes, which had cost me almost a hundred and eighty dollars, discounted, was the only way I'd ever get comfortable in them. Besides, it was Friday—I had every intention of spending the weekend with my feet up, working on my new book, Ruth's Revenge. By Monday the blisters would have healed enough, and if I could just tough it out for two more days, I'd be used to them. Beauty was worth the pain, no matter what my mother said.
Maybe sometime I'd be able to support myself with my writing and not have to deal with temp jobs. Snarky mysteries set on debunking the Judeo-Christian Old Testament weren't high on the public's interest meter, the occasional blockbuster Vatican thriller aside. For now, I had no choice but to supplement my meager income, making my weekends even more precious.
"Shouldn't you be heading out, Allie?" Elena, my overworked supervisor, glanced over at me. "You won't have time to get to the bank if you don't leave now."
Crap. Two months and already Elena had pegged me as someone chronically late. "I won't be back," I called out as I hobbled toward the elevator. Elena waved absently good-bye, and moments later I was alone in the elevator, starting the sixty-three-floor descent.
I could risk taking off my shoes, just for a few moments of blessed relief, but with my luck someone would immediately join me and I'd have to shove them back on again. I leaned against the wall, trying to shift my weight from one foot to the other. Great legs, I reminded myself.
Out the sixty-third-floor windows, the sun had been shining brightly. The moment I moved through the lobby's automatic door to the sidewalk, I heard a loud crash of thunder, and I looked up to see dark clouds churning overhead. The storm seemed to have come out of nowhere.
It was a cool October afternoon, with Halloween only a few days off. The sidewalks were busy as usual, and the bank was across the street. I could always walk and eat a hot dog at the same time, I thought, heading over to the luncheon cart. I'd done it often enough.
With my luck there had to be a line. I bounced nervously, shifting my weight, and the man in front of me turned around.
I'd lived in New York long enough to make it a habit not to look at people on the street. Here in mid-town, most of the women were taller, thinner, and better dressed than I was, and I didn't like feeling inadequate. I never made eye contact with anyone, not even with Harvey the hot-dog man, who'd served me daily for the last two months.
So why was I looking up, way up, into a pair of eyes that were . . . God, what color were they? A strange shade between black and gray, shot with striations of light so that they almost looked silver. I was probably making a fool of myself, but I couldn't help it. Never in my life had I seen eyes that color, though that shouldn't surprise me since I avoided looking in the first place.
But even more astonishing, those eyes were watching me thoughtfully. Beautiful eyes in a beautiful face, I realized belatedly. I didn't like men who were too attractive, and that term was mild when it came to the man looking down at me, despite my four-inch heels.
He was almost angelically handsome, with his high cheekbones, his aquiline nose, his streaked brown and golden hair. It was precisely the tawny shade I'd tried to get my colorist to replicate, and she'd always fallen woefully short.
"Who does your hair?" I blurted out, trying to startle him out of his abstraction.
"I am as God made me," he said, and his voice was as beautiful as his face. Low-pitched and musical, the kind of voice to seduce a saint. "With a few modifications," he added, with a twist of dark humor I couldn't understand.
His gorgeous hair was too long—I hated long hair on men. On him it looked perfect, as did the dark leather jacket, the black jeans, the dark shirt.
Not proper city wear, I thought, trying to summon up disapproval and failing because he looked so damned good. "Since you don't seem in any kind of hurry and I am, do you suppose you could let me go ahead of you?"
There was another crash of thunder, echoing through the cement and steel canyons around us, and I flinched. Thunderstorms in the city made me nervous—they seemed so there. It always seemed like the lightning snaking down between the high buildings would find me an easier target. The man didn't even blink. He glanced across the street, as if calculating something.
"It's almost three o'clock," he said. "If you want your deposit to go in today, you'll need to skip that hot dog."
I froze. "What deposit?" I demanded, completely paranoid. God, what was I doing holding a conversation with a strange man? I should never have paid any attention to him. I could have lived without the hot dog.
"You're holding a bank deposit bag," he said mildly.
Oh. Yeah. I laughed nervously. I should have been ashamed of my paranoia, but for some reason it hadn't even begun to dissipate. I allowed myself another furtive glance up at the stranger.
To hell with the hot dog—my best bet was to get away from this too-attractive stranger, drop off the deposit, and hope to God I could find a taxi to get me across town to my meeting. I was already ten minutes late.
He was still watching me. "You're right," I said. Another crash of thunder, and the clouds opened up.
And I was wearing a red silk suit that I couldn't really afford, even on clearance from Saks. Vanity again. Without a backward glance, I stepped out into the street, which was momentarily free of traffic.
It happened in slow motion, it happened in the blink of an eye. One of my high heels snapped, my ankle twisted, and the sudden rain was turning the garbage on the street into a river of filth. I slipped, going down on one knee, and I could feel my stockings shred, my skirt rip, my carefully arranged hair plastered limp and wet around my ears.
I looked up, and there it was, a crosstown bus ready to smack into me. Another crack of thunder, the bright white sizzle of lightning, and everything went calm and still. Just for a moment.
And then it was a blur of noise and action. I could hear people screaming, and to my astonishment money was floating through the air like autumn leaves, swirling downward in the heavy rain. The bus had come to a stop, slanted across the street, and horns were honking, people were cursing, and in the distance I could hear the scream of sirens. Pretty damned fast response for New York, I thought absently.
The man was standing beside me, the beautiful one from the hot-dog stand. He was just finishing a chili dog, entirely at ease, and I remembered I was famished. If I was going to get held up by a bus accident, I might as well get a chili dog. But for some reason, I didn't want to turn around.
"What happened?" I asked him. He was tall enough to see over the crowds of people clustered around the front of the bus. "Did someone get hurt?"
"Yes," he said in that rich, luscious voice. "Someone was killed."
I started toward the crowd, curious, but he caught my arm. "You don't want to go there," he said. "There's no need to go through that."
Go through what? I thought, annoyed, staring at the crowd. I glanced back up at the stranger, and I had the odd feeling that he'd gotten taller. I suddenly realized my feet didn't hurt anymore, and I looked down. It was an odd, disorienting sensation. I was barefoot, and if I didn't know it was impossible, I would have said there was thick green grass beneath my feet.
I glanced back up at the rain-drenched accident scene in front of me, and time seemed to have moved in an odd, erratic shift. The ambulance had arrived, as well as the police, and people were being herded out of the way. I thought I caught a glimpse of the victim—just the brief sight of my leg, wearing my shoe, the heel broken off.
"No," said the man beside me, and he put a hand on my arm before I could move away.
The bright light was blinding, dazzling, and I was in a tunnel, light whizzing past me, the only sound the whoosh of space moving at a dizzying speed. Space Mountain, I thought, but this was no Disney ride.
It stopped as abruptly as it had begun, and I felt sick. I was disoriented and out of breath; I looked around me, trying to get my bearings.
The man still held my arm loosely, and I yanked it free, stumbling away from him. We were in the woods, in some sort of clearing at the base of a cliff, and it was already growing dark. The sick feeling in my stomach began to spread to the rest of my body.
I took a deep breath. Everything felt odd, as if this were a movie set. Things looked right, but everything seemed artificial, no smells, no sensation of touch. It was all illusion. It was wrong.
I wiggled my feet, then realized I was still barefoot. My hair hung down past my shoulders, which made no sense since I had short hair. I tugged at a strand, and saw that instead of its carefully streaked and striated color, it was brown again, the plain, ordinary brown I'd spent a fortune trying to disguise, the same plain, ordinary brown as my eyes. My clothes were different as well, and the change wasn't for the better. Baggy, shapeless, colorless, they were as unprepossessing as a shroud.
I fought my way through the mists of confusion—my mind felt as if it were filled with cotton candy. Something was wrong. Something was very wrong.
"Don't struggle," the man beside me said in a remote voice. "It only makes it worse. If you've lived a good life, you have nothing to be afraid of."
I looked at him in horror. Lightning split open the sky, followed by thunder that shook the earth. The solid rock face in front of us began to groan, a deep, rending sound that echoed to the heavens. It started to crack apart, and I remembered something from Christian theology about stones moving and Christ rising from the dead. The only problem was that I was Jewish, as my fundamentalist Christian mother had been for most of her life, and I was nonobservant at that. I didn't think rising from the dead was what was going on here.
"The bus," I said flatly. "I got hit by the bus. I'm dead, aren't I?"
I controlled my instinctive flinch. Clearly he didn't believe in cushioning blows. "And who does that make you? Mr. Jordan?"
He looked blank, and I stared at him. "You're an angel," I clarified. "One who's made a mistake. You know, like in the movie? I shouldn't be dead."
"There is no mistake," he said, and took my arm again.
I sure as hell wasn't going quietly. "Are you an angel?" I demanded. He didn't feel like one. He felt like a man, a distinctly real man, and why the hell was I suddenly feeling alert, alive, aroused, when according to him I was dead?
His eyes were oblique, half-closed. "Among other things."
Kicking him in the shin and running like hell seemed an excellent plan, but I was barefoot and my body wasn't feeling cooperative. As angry and desperate as I was, I still seemed to want him to touch me, even when I knew he had nothing good in mind. Angels didn't have sex, did they? They didn't even have sexual organs, according to the movie Dogma. I found myself glancing at his crotch, then quickly pulled my gaze away. What the hell was I doing checking out an angel's package when I was about to die?
Oh, yeah, I'd forgotten—I was already dead. And all my will seemed to have vanished. He drew me toward the crack in the wall, and I knew with sudden clarity it would close behind me like something out of a cheesy movie, leaving no trace that I'd ever lived. Once I went through, it would all be over.
"This is as far as I go," he said, his rich, warm voice like music. And with a gentle tug on my arm, he propelled me forward, pushing me into the chasm.
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When Kristina Douglas is not traveling, she's at home in Northern Vermont with her luscious husband, three cats and one Springer Spaniel. And when she's not working, she's watching movies, listening to rock and roll (preferably Japanese) and spending far too much time quilting. This is her first novel.
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First off I would have liked to give this book four and a half stars but obviously couldn't. I was pleasantly surprised to have found this debut author because this book and the others in this series are super good. I love the world Douglas has weaved together in this story and it just gets better in the following books of the series. I love it when an author creates something so unique as the world in which Allie, Raziel, and the rest of the Fallen live in. To me it is a breath of fresh air to NOT be reading a book that you've felt you have read before based on the same endless story lines. The reason I didn't give it a five star rating is because the story does start off a bit slow in the first few chapters, and at first I felt that I'd end up putting it down and never picking it back up. But don't fret because soon you'll be completely taken away into a fantastic world ripe with mysteries, evil enemies, different and otherworldly realms to explore, and of course some great love and sex.
This was a nice change from the standard vampire/werewolf stories. It had a lot of character and kept me guessing. I really enjoyed the fallen angel slant. Definitely a good read, I couldn't put it down once I started it.
Just picked it up cause I was looking for a new series to read and it was near the dark-hunter (kenyon) books. I loved this one and can't wait for May for the next one. easy to read and you really start to care for everyone in the book.
Allegra "Allie" Watson wrote sassy biblical murder mysteries. However her career as a novelist ends when she dies in a bus accident.
Because of her saucy biblical tales, Allegra is slated for hellfire. However, Raziel, one of the twenty-Fallen that Enoch with bias mentioned, violates the afterlife operating procedures. Instead of guiding her soul to her final destination, although unsure why he reacted like he did as he has ferried countless lost souls, Raziel changes her destination saving her from eternal damnation. He is injured in the process. Sparks fly between this blood drinking Fallen and the damned he temporarily rescued. His peers take the pair to safety in Sheol. However by doing what he did and what the other Fallen did for the condemned duet, they enable God's last remaining archangel Uriel the "unfallen" to break the millennia old armistice sending the flesh eating Nephilim swarm to attack Raziel and the other Fallen.
Although the opening acts take a bit of adjustment to understand who's who and what is going on in the Kristina Douglas pantheon, fans will believe it is worth the time as the story line turns into a fast-paced angelic war with an intelligent obvious jab at the hypocrisy of organized religions. Cleverly designed so that heavenly decree is deigned by bureaucrats, fans will enjoy Raziel's (and Allie) tale as the Nephilim led by one who takes pride that he never fell attacks the Fallen using the rescue of a condemned as the excuse for open war.
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I loved this book, I just wish there was more to the future of Raziel and Allies relationship, either way it was a great book.
Not what I expected but a great story! Once I started I could not put down! Can't wait to read all the books in this series!
I loved this book the begining was a little slow but once you get through the first 15 pages or so you cant put it down and the series just keeps getting better and better i just finished the third one and can not wait for the next one to come out!!!!!
4.5stars actually. These were such entertaining characters, I was engaged from the outset. Allie was so layered she practically jumped of the page and Raziel was perfectly luscious for want of a better description. Their steamy interaction had you grabbing a fan or a partner of your own. Although unseen, the main villain's presence and threatening posture was palpable. One of the strong, vibrant characters was so ingrained into the story that the sudden loss of that character – although necessary, resonated throughout the remainder of story and the other characters. All of the standard story mechanics fired on all cylinders.
The special conceit of this vampire series provides a firm and broad foundation for what could be a successful and long running series if this origin story has anything to say about it.
This was my first Kristina Douglas but it will definitely not be my last.
Ok, I really wish you could give a half star. I wanted to give the bood a 3.5 because it took way too long at the beginning with Allie trying to figure out that she was dead. Then, if you're looking for a lot of romance or sexy love scenes, this book is definitely not for you. I don't think there was any sex until more than halfway into the book. Just the cover made that a little deceiving. I mean, seriously, look at Raziel on the cover! Anyway, I went ahead and went for the higher rating because it did hold my attention once the plot was revealed. There was also some good suspense but again, a lot of that was close to the end of the book. Another reason I gave it a 4 instead of a 3 is because I did like this take on the whole 'angel/demon' thing. It was pretty interesting to read the take on free will and what that really means (as far as the story is concerned).
So far this series rocks
This was a nice escape from the everyday.
Great book! I love this series and look forward to reading more.
After reading through almost half of this book, I was ready to jump into the fires of hell to get away from the 2 main characters! It's not that Ms. Douglas does not write well develped characters, she does. However, they're just not very likeable. The female lead was whiny, confused and a bit neurotic through out most of the book. I just didn't get a sense of any real connection between her and Raziel other than the sex, which btw had pretty much no foreplay. Something I find odd considering this was written by a woman. Also, the sexist pig fallen angels were pretty difficult to stomach. This attitude really didn't change by the end of the book, and their home in Sheoul had an almost David Koresh compound like feel it. If you like this particular genre your time and money are much better spent reading JR Ward, Caris Roane, Gena Showalter or Lara Adrian. All good reads!
I was truly drawn in at first page and stayed glued until the very last word!!!! She takes through a river of emotons and feeling from Exotic to Tender, Anger to Amazed...You will be happy that you allowed this read into your library and your heart....


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Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir government has established 13 procurement centers in the current kharif marketing season to facilitate the procurement of paddy at the minimum support price, state Agriculture Minister Ghulam Hassan Mir said. (Agencies)
He was speaking at a meeting convened by him in Jammu to review arrangements for running of these centres.
Timely opening of procurement centres will ensure that the farmers are not compelled to sell their produce below the minimum support price fixed during current season, he added.
He asked FCI representatives to immediately deploy staff at the centres established in Kathua and Samba districts, where crop is already being harvested.
During the meeting, it was discussed that the rates of Rs 1,250 for common grade paddy and Rs 1,280 for A-grade paddy fixed for kharif marketing season 2012-13 are likely to be attractive for farmers.
The requisite number of gunny bags for procured paddy has already been requisitioned by FCI and no shortage on this account is envisaged by them.
The centres have been established at Bishnah, Arnia, RS Pura, Sohanjana, Gajansoo, Channu Chak, Pargwal, Khour and Jourian (Jammu District), Ramgarh, Vijaypur (Samba District) Nagri Parole-Chanigran and Sanji Morh (Kathua District).
The provision of requisite infrastructure like winnowing fan, weighing machines, hand stitching machine, tarpaulins, at these locations has also been made.
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the first ones are call sugar & spice and the second ones are fairies.
I did not add the crackle on this what do you think ?
Oh they are so perfectly made! Wonderful job!
Love all of your new girls! Beautiful!
I love them!crackle or no crackle works!
The girls are sweet! and I don't think they need crackle...
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Nicknamed the "Demon of Frome" by cricket writer Alan Gibson, Colin 'Herbert' Dredge was an integral part of the Somerset side that lifted five one-day trophies in as many seasons.
'Herbie' as he is affectionately known to his friends, came from a family that had, and still has, a long association with Frome Cricket Club.
He was an all round sportsman and had made his mark playing cricket for his local club as a bowler and agricultural batsman as well as playing centre forward for Frome Town FC. In fact in his younger years he had a trial with Bristol City and played for their reserve side. He also served an engineering apprenticeship before deciding to opt for cricket.
The youngster from the north east of the county was well established in local cricketing circles and along with his brothers led the Frome CC attack in the early days of the Somerset Cricket League.
His success with the ball was noticed by the powers that be at the County Ground and in 1975 he was invited to play in a handful of games for the Second XI in the Minor Counties Championship competition.
The following season, at the age of 21, Colin made his first team debut in the County Championship match against Worcestershire at the Rec in Bath and in his opening spell claimed the wicket of New Zealand Test batsman Glenn Turner. Later in the same innings he also accounted for England Test player Norman Gifford.
In the second innings he bowled Imran Khan- after which the Demon of Frome was here to stay.
His action was far from text book, but it was mightily effective and he had a big heart to match the six feet five inches tall that he stood. Whatever he was asked to do, the Somerset thoroughbred was happy to undertake and never once did he give anything less than 100%.
It was his wholeheartedness that appealed to the Somerset faithful. Colin Dredge was not one of the big timers in the team, he was just a local lad who was proud through and through to play for his county. Whatever the format he would wheel away, often into the wind and up the hill and try his hardest to ensure that Somerset won the match.
Between 1976 and 1988 he played for Somerset in 194 First Class matches in which he scored 2182 runs at an average of 13.98, with a best of 56 not out against Yorkshire at Harrogate. With the ball to captured 443 First Class wickets at a cost of 30.10 each and a best of six for 37 against Gloucestershire at Bristol in 1981.
In one-day cricket Colin played in 209 matches for Somerset in which he took 253 wickets at an average of 25.42. His one Gillette Cup Man of the Match Award came in 1978 against Kent at Canterbury where he took a career best four for 23.
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Mini Cheesy Chicken Calzones
These pizza pockets are filled with gooey, cheesy goodness.
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- 2/3 c. ricotta
- 1 1/2 tsp. Italia seasoning
- 2 eggs, divided
- 1/2 c. spinach
- 1/3 c. Parmesan
- 1/2 package frozen chicken tenders, thawed and diced
- 2 tubes French bread dough
- Marinara sauce, for serving
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. As it heats, combine ricotta, Italian seasoning, 1 egg, spinach, Parmesan, and diced chicken in a large mixing bowl. Set aside.
- Roll out bread dough and trace a 1-cup measuring cup with a knife to form large circles in the dough. Place the dough on a parchment-lined baking sheet, keeping the circles about an inch apart.
- Add a heaping tablespoon of the cheesy-chicken mixture on each dough circle, closer to one side (placing it about a 1/4" from the edge of the dough). Flip the far edge of the dough over the cheese ball, forming a crescent or semi-circle shape. Use a fork to crimp the edges, sealing completely.
- Crack the remaining egg into a small bowl and whisk it with a fork until the yolk has cracked and the egg is beaten. Brush the top of each mini calzone with the egg wash.
- Cook until the pastry dough is golden brown and has fully cooked, about 20 to 22 minutes. Serve with marinara sauce, for dipping.
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Accessing WebDAV as a Filesystem With davfs2
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I had a request this week to check out davfs2. This neat open source utility allows you to connect to a WebDAV server as a regular filesystem, meaning that applications that don't support WebDAV can still access resources shared via WebDAV. Basically, it provides another protocol for mount to use.
davfs2 is available as a Debian/Ubuntu package, so it's easy to install with apt-get install davfs2. Once installed, you can connect via the commandline straight away, if you have sudo access:
sudo mount -t davfs http://webdav.example.com/directory /mnt/ |
This will mount the specified WebDAV share at /mnt. You'll be asked for the username and password to connect with, if the share is secured. When you're done, unmount with
sudo umount /mnt
This isn't entirely convenient, though; it's better to be able to mount the directory as a normal user. Edit
/etc/fstabto set up a mountpoint by adding a line like this:
http://webdav.example.com/directory /home/juliet/mnt/webdav davfs rw,noauto,user 0 0 |
You'll need to create the mountpoint with
mkdir -p /home/juliet/mnt/webdav |
if it doesn't already exist.
If you try running mount
/home/juliet/mnt/webdavnow, as a non-root user, you'll be told that
/sbin/mount.davfsis not setuid root. Fix this by running
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and answering 'yes' to the setuid question. You'll also need to add your user to the davfs group (either
edit /etc/groupor use sudo gpasswd -a username davfs). Log out and in again to update the group information.
Now try mount
~/mnt/webdavagain. You'll be challenged for the username and password (if the share is protected), after which you should be able to access your directory just as you would any other mounted directory.
Juliet Kemp has been messing around with Linux systems, for financial reward and otherwise, for about a decade. She is also the author of "Linux System Administration Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach" (Apress, 2009).


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Smacking – "It's wrong, full stop" say children
Media release: Barnardos New Zealand 23 June 2009
...The debate around the Referendum '09 on physical punishment has been widely debated by adults but who is listening to the voice of those who are at the centre of this debate – the children?As New Zealand's largest telephone helpline for children and young people, 0800WHATSUP provided an opportunity for children and young people to express their views about physical punishment and whether or not adults should be able to claim a legal defence if charged with assaulting a child.
"The initial results from the survey show that the majority of callers (more than 55 percent) do not think parents taken to court for hitting a child should be let off if they say they were disciplining the child", says Murray Edridge, Chief Executive of Barnardos New Zealand.
"Despite this, comments from the children and young people who participated in the survey suggest many children are conditioned to expect and accept physical discipline from parents"
So:- If a child thinks parents should be prosecuted for smacking, their opinion is very important and should be listened to. BUT
- If a child thinks otherwise, they have been "conditioned" to think so and their opinion is not valid.
In fact, most children recognise that there is a big difference between hitting and smacking, and that physical punishment may be appropriate in some circumstances. Note what the children actually said to the counsellors as reported by Barnardos themselves:
- (Counsellor) "He said it's not really that good [for parents to hit their child] but it depends on what happened, or what the child did". He said it depends on whether the child does something 'really, really, really, really, really bad', for example, 'if they break a window on purpose'".
- (Counsellor) "The interpretation I got from this caller was that she thinks its OK to smack ('a little tap on the bum') but that if there are bruises, it is not OK."
- (Counsellor) "He said that parents should be allowed to hit their children because there were more students getting suspended from school than 10 years ago."
- [Getting a smack] should be ok…if they are disciplining them for playing up, they deserve it…but it shouldn't be too hard." "I behave a bit more when I get a smack."
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Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Chihuly dedication and reception
Students, faculty, and guests enjoying the reception and our beautiful new sculpture.
Thanks to everyone who came out to celebrate Mount Holyoke College's new sculpture,
Clear and Gold Tower
by Dale Chihuly! Special thanks to President Lynn Pasquerella and Art Museum Director John Stomberg for their dedicatory remarks. The library atrium was packed; we enjoyed bubbly drinks, strawberries, and chocolate; and the sculpture, a gift from the Centennial Class of 1937, is magnificent.
Happy Convocation Day! This has been a spectacular beginning to the new year.
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I have completely lost my 2nd blog when I clicked on publish blog, the heading appears but the content is blank
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You may be able to recover an earlier Post Revision. Go to Posts > All Posts, hover over the title of the post, click Edit and check the Post Revisions module for previous saved versions of the post. If you're not seeing the Revisions module while on the editor screen, click Screen Options (top right corner of your Admin page) to activate it. Then select the post and page modules to include them. See > Recovering a lost blog post or page
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Hi how do I change "Blog Name". I do not mean changing Blog Address or Blog Title or Header which I already Know how. I am referring to the area in Dashboard, where there is a "Blog Name", Address etc..
Blog url: http://lindalimpropnex.wordpress.com/
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Changing Blog Name, not address title or heading
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WTF? Why is TNW blocked in Iran?
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For reasons we're not entirely sure of, it turns out that The Next Web itself is one of the latest sites to fall prey to government censorship. As it turns out, the government of Iran is apparently nonplussed with some of our tech coverage as Iranian readers can no longer access the site without the use of a proxy.
It's possible to check if a site has been blocked by the Iranian authorities using the site, Blocked in Iran, and testing The Next Web we discovered we are in fact blocked, joining the ranks of Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, Tumblr, WordPress, LiveJournal, The Guardian and many many more sites.
"This event was off the charts"
Gary Vaynerchuk was so impressed with TNW Conference 2016 he paused mid-talk to applaud us.
Testing many other news, business and tech sites, we found that most of them had not been blocked, and we can only guess as to what it was that triggered the block. Our coverage of the Iranian government's consistent efforts to control its citizens Internet access, and thwart efforts made by others to grant them access, as well as their attempts to block access to certain sites they deem threatening, or even cripple Internet speeds, may have had a little something to do with the move.
We most recently reported that Iran's filtering system had faltered briefly, but the filter is very much back in place, blocking not only social networking, blogging and community sites, but even blocking access to VPNs which would make it easier for Iranian residents to get online.
All jokes aside, this is an extremely serious matter. Having experienced firsthand a government's attempt to cut its citizens off not only from certain sites, but from the Internet as a whole, it is wholeheartedly disappointing to find that when you attempt to shed light on the suffocating censorship tactics in use by governments like that of Iran, you become the subject of that very same censorship.
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Jets' Bart Scott sick of being treated like a '[bleeping] joke,' declares 'media mutiny'
Bart Scott is firing up a 'media mutiny.' OK then. (AP) |
The Jets got the last laugh on Sunday, piling up 48 points en route to a blowout of the Bills. After all, this team wasn't supposed to score any points, right?
That's what the press (yours truly included) said anyway. And that makes Bart Scott mad. Mad enough to declare a "media mutiny."
"I've got a media mutiny," Scott told Jim Corbett of USA Today when Corbett approached his locker after the game.
Asked if he meant "boycott," Scott told Corbett that, yes, he meant boycott and no he wasn't interested in talking. Then Scott proceeded to talk anyway.
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"You guys treat us like we're a [bleeping] joke," Scott said. "You all want us to feed your papers, but then you all talk [bleep] about us. So why would I want to give you all quotes to sell papers with if you all treat us like [bleep]? That doesn't make sense."
Apparently, Scott isn't yet self-aware. What actually doesn't make sense is Scott providing an unbelievably quotable quote about NOT WANTING TO BE QUOTED.
"You all talk stuff about us, and then when we win you flip the story," Scott said. "You all win either way."
That's kind of what sports are. Is everyone just supposed to trust that the Jets, who scored a single touchdown in the preseason and started a less-than-elite group of skill position players, would score a ton of points ... just because Rex Ryan promised everything would be fine? Even guys on the defense were talking about the dearth of talent on the offensive end.
Besides, it's early. For now, the Jets are free to gloat as much as they want. They've earned that right. And if they keep tossing up 48 a game and winning handily, they can spend the entire season smack-talking the media.
Then they really will have flipped the story. And maybe Scott will end his mutiny.
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If we're talking crazy, then he needs to carry a burlap sack that has the head of a certain wookie friend in it. That he talks to. But I am serious: the more I think about it, I don't want Solo. And I love Han Solo. But...
He's got his own planet, Although it's kind of wild. Wookiees love him. Women love him. He's got a winning smile! Though he may seem cool and cocky, He's more sensitive than he seems, Chorus: Han Solo, What a man! Solo. He's every Princess's dream!
I think their relationship is doomed. He's the flyboy badboy of the youth she didn't have being raised for public service. He'll get bored with the duties and she'll get bored with the attitude.
I'm talking 10+ years later. And I didn't say he returns to smuggling, just that it's doomed, especially if there is an extended time of peace.
With the love of repeated dialogue and situations in the franchise you could almost imagine him being confronted by Luke's son. 'No. I am your father'
Do you have any actual indication that these iconic roles will be recast beyond some self delusion that it's all about "the demographics"?
No one seemed to mind that the OT had plenty of "old codger" Obi Wan. And no, Alec Guinness was not a hip name among teens of the time.
By the end of ROTJ, Han had become pretty domesticated. He could easily become similar to Lando in ESB while staying with Leia: responsible and diplomatic while using his charm to succeed in some larger role in the government.
And that's why I don't need to see him again. His story, his life of adventure, is over. Who would want to see a "successful" diplomat Han Solo? Sounds AWFUL. Lando, at least, had some shades of grey.
We saw him for 5 minutes at the end of a battle. Everything was still VERY exciting regardless of him being on the right side of the law. I would hardly call this domesticated. Let him be married and up to his neck in diplomacy for ten years and we'll see how happy he is with domestication. He's going to get bored and she's going to get irritated with his boredom.
All I ever read was the Thrawn trilogy but that was a long time ago and I can't remember a thing about it.
I would say the Thrawn trilogy were the only great Star Wars books. The author did a good job writing a believable Han and Leia married relationship too. Most of what happens later is pretty... well... stupid.


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"For me, No.1 is still Pele. Between Pele and (Diego) Maradona, Pele of course, he is my very close friend, like my brother. What he did with the ball is like a magician. I played with him for 12 years. Maradona also did well," said Torres here. (Agencies) Latest News from Sports News Desk
The captain of the victorious 1970 World Cup team and arguably Brazil's greatest side, Torres further hoped that India, despite its massive fan following in cricket, would make it to the highest stage in the World Cup.
"I wish in the near future that India would play the World Cup. Football needs your space. Let's help develop football in our country," the former right back said.
The 69-year-further invited Indians to come to Brazil and witness the quadrennial extravaganza to be held from June 12 to July 13.
"We know that we have the World Cup in Brazil. I am one of the ambassadors. I would like to invite you if it is possible. We are preparing our grounds to promote the best World Cup ever," he said.


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Have you heard? Today, Banana Republic introduced its 'Mad Men' collection! The designs were created exclusively with Mad Men costume designer Janie Bryant and inspired by the feminine styles of the '60s. Items went on sale today & you better hurry — I have a feeling these will go fast!
I spy lots of cardigans, leopard print and lace! View the entire limited edition collection here! Prices range from $40-$250.


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Now it's easy to bring the classic presence of custom wood frames to your artwork with these Ayous Wood Frame Kits. They are crafted of imported Italian woods and designed with a contemporary flat top profile for an attractive gallery look. The perfect depth for framing canvas, photographs, posters, or other artwork.
Kit includes one pair of wood sections and two plastic wedges. Choose two kits to create the custom frame you need. Easy assembly, no tools required.
Dimensions for the Nielsen Bainbridge Ayous Wood Frame Kits are as follows:
Frame Depth — The depth of a frame refers to the depth of the frame's rabbet (the cut-out area behind the frame's molding that holds your artwork in place). To find a frame that will accommodate your artwork, measure the depth of the artwork, including any matting or mounting materials, and order a frame with a depth that is, at a minimum, the same as that measured depth.
Frame Dimensions — Frames are sized by the opening, not by the outside of the molding. To determine the size of frame to order, measure the outside of your artwork, including mat, and order that size frame. The frame will overlap your artwork ¼" all the way around, so your artwork will fit nicely behind the frame's molding.
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Very helpful and informative clerk
By none
from Queens, NY
Comments about Nielsen Bainbridge Ayous Wood Frame Kits:
I like to shop Blick even though it's so far from my home, because the clerks are so knowledgeable and helpful. A clerk named Stephanie took extensive time with me to review all my framing options and helped me select the Ayous frames. She even explained how to assemble them and fix the canvas into the frame. I am very satisfied with the appearance of the frames, and I will certainly buy them again at Blick.
This is a great product for giving a pro finish to framing.
By Bro Joe
from New Brunswick, NJ
Great service by Blick
Not worth the money
By althea
from maine
I purchased 6 sets, for 3 frames as a gift for my Mom's birthday, to frame 3 pieces of artwork. Initially, I was pleased with the look and quality, but quickly noticed a scratch on one piece and later found that 2 or 3 chips had occurred while I was working at putting them together. The finish on these is very brittle - I handled them with kid gloves, placing them on a large folded towel and being gentle as I tapped the connectors home, in the corners. All my care notwithstanding, two chips occurred at the corners, where the mitres meet and one appeared on a front edge. I use the passive voice because I was very careful and cannot tell where they came from. The other problem was that the corners did not mate up very well - on one of them it is unacceptably off and on one other it is slight. One was a good mate, though it got a chip off of the corner when the connector was tapped home, from the pressure of the joint.. All of them require touching up the mitres with black ink, as they are not tight and the outer corners, as well, all show the light colored wood to some degree. That I could live with, nothing is perfect ! But the extreme gap and crookedness on the one frame, I cannot. And you have to glue the joint and dog down the connecting pieces before you can tell they will be wrong - and then there is no way to pull out the piece and rearrange them to see if another angle would work better. On the whole, for about 100.00 dollars, I got 2 okay frames and one unusable frame. I am not happy about it.
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By Thos
from Cambridge, MA
I am very fond of the Nielsen Bainbridge Ayous wood frame kits. They are accurately made and easily assembled. They are a great way to acquire museum quality frames at bargain prices.
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By Jeanbean
from New York, NY
I use these frames for canvases and panels. It's good simple frame, but the wood quality is not top notch. It's good for finishing touches.
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By Lizzie
from Meridian, ID
We've used the Neilsen Bainbridge Ayous Wood Frames many times over many years. The price is right, but what we most appreciate is the excellent joinery work -- when assembled, you can't even feel the "seam" between the pieces. Top-notch product considering it's not custom work. Love this product.
I would not purchase this product again.
By Glo
from Maine
The corners did not come together well at all and I followed the directions exactly. The frame was warped and the corners did not fit together evenly. I had to send the frame back. I was very disappointed and will go back to using metal frames.
Simple, Elegant, Easy
By Glenda
from Binghamton, NY
These frames are simple and elegant, and very easy to assemble -- and the price is certainly right for such a rich look! I've begun using them for all of my work, and my gallery colleagues all ask who my framer is. When I tell them I use sectional frames, they're really surprised.
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By The Earl
from Paradise Valley, Arizona
All orders I have received of this product have been excellent: solid wood, consistent finish, a good selection of sizes, and easy to assemble. I add glass and a matted picture and I have a professional looking presentation.
Great when not defective
By wmls
from Healdsburg, CA
Two of the last four sets I ordered were defective. One set had the wrong corner widgits and one was cut incorrectly and looked like a mobius strip when assembled. Blick was excellent about sending replacements. I doubt if I'll order them again because it takes so long to receive them and then to receive a replacement.
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Traditionally St. Patrick's Day is celebrated in Ireland as a holy day. It usually falls during Lent, so they lift the restrictions on eating and drinking for the feasting associated with it. And who wouldn't want to celebrate that with some awesome Shamrock Cookies from Smiley Cookie!
Even if you don't participate in a religious abstinence, you may be staying strong with your New Year's resolution to eat fewer sweets. Good for you! Reward yourself with a day off, too. One cookie won't subtract from your diet, and it will add a smile to your face. Or your co-workers! St. Patty's is a great time to bring a basket of Smiley Shamrock cookies to the office to set a festive mood.
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In honor of St. Patrick's Day, I thought I'd write about the various cookies of Ireland.
The Oatmeal Cookie
Oatmeal cookies didn't start out as the tasty, sugary desserts we know now. Back in the 1800′s, oats were plentiful in Ireland, England and Scotland. They were a staple food group for people and animals, used in a variety of dishes. Oat cakes were easy to make, preserve and dry. They were also inexpensive and filling. They were largely considered peasant food. Eventually, as more and more people could afford sweeteners, they began including honey, molasses and even sugar. The eventual result was today's Oatmeal Cookie. Cookie gifts were often presented at the Celtic festival of Beltane to commemorate the beginning the summer season.
Shortbread Cookies
So, why's it called "shortbread?" Well, it's not because of height. The name "shortbread" actually refers to the ingredients. The term "shortening" is used to describe any fat that was used to create a nice, crumbly texture and rich, creamy taste. In this cookie's case, butter is used.
Shortbread is extremely popular in Ireland and the British Isles. The dough holds its form while baking so shortbread can take on a number of shapes. Some of the most common shapes are shortbread "fingers" and shortbread rounds.
The Sugar Cookie
Often enjoyed at tea time, the sugar cookie is popular, not just in Ireland, but all over the world. Sugar cookies are simple to make and are the cookie equivalent of a blank slate. They can be cut into as many different shapes as you can think of and frosted in a myriad of ways.
Our Shamrock Smiley Cookies
Although they haven't been served on St. Paddy's day in Irish households through antiquity, we're starting to see that our Shamrock Smiley Cookies are becoming a bit of a St. Paddy's day tradition here in America. We would love hear about your St. Patrick's day traditions and maybe even get a few pics of you chowing down on our Shamrock cookies!
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St. Patrick's day is right around the corner! As always, we have a Smiley Cookie for that.
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IHC image of Cyclin A staining in Human normal tonsil formalin fixed paraffin embedded tissue section, performed on a Leica BondTM system using the standard protocol F. The section was pre-treated using heat mediated antigen retrieval with sodium citrate buffer (pH6, epitope retrieval solution 1) for 20 mins. The section was then incubated with ab38, 10µg/ml, for 15 mins at room temperature and detected using an HRP conjugated compact polymer system. DAB was used as the chromogen. The section was then counterstained with haematoxylin and mounted with DPX.
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Immunoprecipitation using ab38 at 4µg/mg whole cell lysate diluted in RIPA buffer and incubated with Protein G matrix at 4°C for 12 hours.
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Lanes 1-3 = 293T
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The Western Blot antibody was ab38 at 2µg/ml
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7915 Imperial V-Wing Starfighter is a Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith set released in January 2011. The set includes Imperial Pilot and R2-Q2 Astromech Droid minifigures.
- The set includes the second V-wing fighter released in LEGO form; the first is the 2006 set 6205 V-Wing Fighter, which includes a V-wing in the red colours of the Republic.
- This set is the first, and thus far only, set to contain R2-Q2.
- Only R2-Q2's dome can be fitted to the V-wing, as there is no actual socket for the droid.
- Several Imperial V-wings can be seen in the last scenes of Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, in the final scene featuring Darth Vader.
- The inclusion of R2-Q2 in a V-wing is somewhat ambiguous. Even as V-wings were redecorated with Imperial paint jobs, the Q7-series astromech droid (as opposed to an R2-series) remained red.
- This set was released shortly before January 2011 in some LEGO Shop outlets.
- This is almost exactly the same as the Republic V-Wing Starfighter, but is in Imperial colors.
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Battle the Rebel Alliance with the Imperial V-wing Starfighter! After the fall of the Galactic Republic at the end of the Clone Wars, the Imperial V-wing starfighter became one of the first battle crafts of the growing Empire. The Imperial V-wing starfighter hunts down the Rebel Alliance with a working cockpit and rotating wings. Includes Imperial pilot and astromech droid R2-Q2 minifigures.
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