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Boy, it had been an exciting book week for me. When this little gem came in yesterday I immediately confiscated it and set it aside to be devoured right before I went home. I have been waiting for this one for months. I love Archie comics. I loved them when I was growing up and I love them still. When this landed on my desk I almost did a happy dance. I did a happy dance inside.
was not let down. The art is great. It's completely my style, bright
and crisp. The characters are truly updated versions of their old
selves. The best part about this book was finally having a background
story to work with. You know what you're getting with an Archie comic.
You're getting this great slice of life, this idealized high school
world that you only see in teen movies. I will buy into it every single
If you've read any of the Archie
comics, you know that Betty and Veronica are always fighting over
Archie. You don't really know why. They seem to like each other
alright. Archie's kind of, well, a bumbling boy with no real charm.
This book right here starts at the beginning and it is so nice to have a
beginning. Archie doesn't seem like just some idiot and there is
finally a reason for all of the fighting over him. It's a great start
and I cannot wait to see more.
In the first
issue in this collection, Archie tells us that he's just gone through a
breakup with Betty. Everyone at school is surprised. Obviously,
Archie and Betty were the power couple, the couple that everyone looked
up to. Archie and Betty have been together forever, like since
they were five. They did everything together. Now they aren't even
talking. All we know is that the break up has something to do with
#lispstickincident which Archie doesn't want to talk about. Right away
everyone starts scheming on how to get them back together and they all
decide to vote them in as Homecoming King and Queen. Only, Jughead has
different ideas and Betty ends up queen with someone else while Archie
gets to play his guitar in front of an audience for the first time.
bet you can't guess who shows up next! There's a new girl in town:
Veronica Lodge, millionairess and realty show star. And she has
something to hold over Archie's head.
I really, really enjoyed this. I don't know how I'll survive until the next volume comes out!
P.S. In case you missed it, CW has announce a new Archie TV show, Riverdale.
P.P.S. If you're looking for something a little darker, you can always give Afterlife with Archie a shot. In these comics, Riverdale battles zombies. Oxford doesn't own these but you can request them from other libraries. -RYQ
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Monday, March 28, 2016
Withering Tights, by Louise Rennison
When Tallulah Casey, 14, is accepted to attend a summer acting program Dother Hall, a very prestigious performing arts college located in the Yorkshire countryside, she is thrilled! One, she'll be off on her own for the first time ever. Two, she'll be emmersed in acting classes (and maybe get discovered as the hottest new star of stage). Three, there will be boys to snog! Lots and lots of boys! And minimal adult superviision. Woo-hoo! Why didn't Tallulah sign up for this thing sooner!?!
What no one told Tallulah is Dother Hall is an all-girls college and, in fact, the only "boy" in attendance is Bob, the elderly maintainence man. Worse, she's proving to be a complete clutz on stage, the head instructor seems to have it in for her, and she's boarding with a family who seems to be unnaturally obsessed with squirrels.
What's a girl to do?
I never really got into Louise Rennison's Georgia Nicolson series, but I gobbled up Tallulah's story, snort-laughing and cringing all the way through (for those of you familiar with Georgia Nicolson, Tallulah is Georgia's younger, and just as boy crazy, cousin). I must confess Withering Tights, the first in a trilogy about Tallulah Casey, is an absolute HOOT (pun absolutely intended; you'll get it when you read the book)! The situations this girl gets herself into.... LOL just thinking about it.
Will Tallulah make it through another semester without getting booted out of Dother Hall?
Will she return to live with the Squirrels, I mean, the Dobbins family and their looney twins?
Will the fog EVER let up?
And what will happen with Cain?
I really need to read the sequel! Like, NOW! --AJB
Saturday, March 26, 2016
Hidden Girl: The True Story of a Modern Day Slave Child by Shyima Hall
Usually when we think of Egypt images of pharaohs and pyramids pop into our head. We may picture a visit to the country as a warm place for a vacation with stops to see lots of interesting artifacts. However, for the people of Egypt there are many different social positions and for the majority it's poverty. Shyima's family is part of this group. With seven brothers and sisters, she falls in the middle. Often being left in charge of the littlest ones. Her family must share an apartment with two other families. She doesn't have a mattress and when it's time for bed her entire family shares the floor of one room. It's a life that may sound sad and small. But even wither her father's constant yelling and sometimes abuse, she's happy. She loves her family and she loves where she lives. Her happiness comes to an abrupt halt when she is seven years old. Her parents send her away, away to be a slave for a well to do family. Long days, no time for her self, her name is almost forgotten as her captors refer to her as "stupid girl". Shyima is hours from home with no end in sight. Her terror rises to a new level when she realizes her captors are moving to a new country, the United States. Shyima is taken with them and is their only servant left within the household, all of the duties fall upon her. A child that she be outside playing or attending school. She is left to clean, cook, care for her captor's children, and then possibly rest for an hour before her day begins again. Right before Shyima becomes a teenager (she has lost track of her age at this point), there is a knock on the door...
Is the title not enough to pull you in? As soon as I read the title I was hooked. Even more nerve racking this book is not located in our fiction section, I stumbled upon this book in the biography section. The author, Shyima Hall, is a real woman. This was her life. At seven years old her parents knowingly sold her into slavery. She would never see them again. I cried. At seven years old I was making friends, friends I still have today. We played out on our backyard swing set, we rode bikes, went to school. My parents tucked me in and told me how much they loved me each night. Sure I was expected to clean my room and help with the dishes. I was not Shyima. Each time this poor girl got knocked down I felt it. I wanted to reach through the pages and yell for her. Her situation is not an isolated case. In Egypt, servitude or slavery that she experienced is illegal however, it's common place. In the Unites States there are more than 17,000 people sold into slavery each year. Many of them are smuggled into the country such as Shyima. Scary, right? Shyima's story made me more aware of a situation that I didn't know existed aside from a Hollywood movie. Hidden Girl is a must read. It's a great eye opener and a book that you will thank yourself for reading.
Thursday, March 24, 2016
Jem and the Holograms: Showtime, by Kelly Thompson and Sophie Campbell
Reading Jem and the Holograms: Showtime, a graphic novilization of the popular late-80s cartoon by writer Kelly Thompson and artist Sophie Campbell is akin to eating a gourmet cupcake from a fancy bakery. A gourmet cupcake frosted with an inch of sugary pink icing, generously drizzled with edible purple glitter and raimbow sprinkles, topped off with a squirt of whip cream, and crowned with a shiny candied cherry. It's sweet (sooo sweet), you can taste its absolute (squee!) adorableness in every bite, and for the rest of the day you can almost feel sparkly pink glitter seeping from all your pores, proving the accuracy of the "you are what you eat" theory.
Yeah...that's about right.
I'll start by saying I've been hearing A LOT of positive buzz lately about this graphic adaption: Strong female characters, diverse characters (both in ethnicity and body type), LGBTQ appeal, a romance that's NOT a love triangle...all wrapped up in a colorful (literally and figuratively) and fun storyline. All good things (Hello! I am SO there!). Plus I'm a fan of both the old TV show and the more recent movie (Sign me up to read this thing! Like, yesterday!). So heck yes I was thrilled to finally get my hands on this book! Even more so than the second issue of Lumberjanes!
All that said, I am so happy to report that Jem and the Holograms: Showtime is every bit as awesome as hype/buzz/hoopla reported it to be-and then some. Unlike the movie, which veers off in some different (but still so cute) directions, the graphic novelization sticks fairly close to what I recall of the original storyline. With some modern adaptions, of course:
The plot centers around a group of musically talented sisters who are trying to get their band, The Holograms, off the ground. Trouble is, their lead singer, Jerrica, has some major performance anxiety issues. How to solve this? Enter Synergy, a super-cool, super-fututistic, Avengers-worthy audio/visual supercomputer designed by Jerrica's late father. This allows the shy, mousy Jerrica to transform into the uber-pink, uber-sparkly Glamazon, Jem. Wearing this disguise, our heroine has no trouble conquering her stage fright. Soon the Holograms' video goes viral and attracts millions of fans. It also attracts the jealousy of current "It" band, The Misfits. So you can probably guess where things go from there. To complicate things, a squeedorable star-crossed romance starts up between Kimber of the Holograms and Stormer of the Misfits (OMG! those two are SO cute!). To complicate things even more, Jerrica starts dating Rio, a hunky music journalist who is determined to find out who Jem really is. The drama escilates, cumulating in a food fight that disqualifies the Holograms from participating in a Battle of the Bands against The Misfits...and then ends on a cliffhanger where our heroines crash the show anyway. Right in the middle of The Misfits' set. There's motorcycles shaped like guitars, holographic T-Rexes, lots of big colorful hair, diabolical plots, cute romances, humor, music, and lots and lots of action.
I can't wait for the next book to come out!
So do I recommend this one? ABSOLUTELY!! --AJB
Monday, March 21, 2016
Kill the Boy Band, by Goldy Moldavsky
There's fans and then there's Fans. Goldy Moldavsky's novel Kill The Boy Band draws that distinction immediately. Regular fans will download some songs (or maybe an album) by their favorite band or try to catch the new Star Wars (or whatever) movie the first weekend it's in theaters. Maybe the first week. If they can. Fans will preorder tickets (or the next book) weeks or months in advance. Fans will wait for hours, enduring freezing cold or blistering heat, for a glimpse of their favorite celeb. Fans will devote hours to scouring the internet for even a mention of their obsession.
Fans may even resort to kidnapping a member of their favorite band. On the spur of the moment, of course.
This is what happens when Apple, Isobel, Erin, and an unnamed narrator get a room in the same hotel as their idols, The Ruperts, a British boy band whose name is derived from the coincidence that the first name of all the members is (you guessed it) Rupert.
So lets meet the players, shall we?
Apple: Adopted, overweight (a point that is drilled home to the point of overkill), rich, and obsessed with kidnapee Rupert P ("The Ugly One").
Isobel: obsessed with Rupert L. Infamous on Twitter and other social media.
Erin: Goes to school with our Narrator and is obsessed with Rupert X.
Our Narrator: Loves 80s movies and Rupert K...but not necessarily in that order.
Our fangirls, or Strepurs (Ruperts spelled backwards), as they call themselves, are all set to attend the band's Thanksgiving Day show in New York City. They even get a room at the same hotel as the band in hopes of getting a glimpse.
They get more than that.
While en route to get ice, Apple spies Rupert P. in the hall. So she does what any psycho fan would do: She tackles him...and knocks him unconscious. Minutes later, the poor guy is tied up and blindfolded in the girls' hotel room. He may not be the Rupet of choice (except for Apple), but he is a Rupert. Beggars can't be choosers, as they say. Suddenly finding themselves in possession of a member of their favorite band, the girls do what any crazed, psycho fans would do in that situation: They take photos, contemplate cutting pieces of his hair, and invade his pockets and cell phone (and the dirt they dig up!).
Then the unexpected happens: Suddenly Rupert P. is dead. And it's apparent that one of the four girls did it. After all, they're all crazy enough to do something insane...and they all seemingly have their motives.
But who really did it?
I've been hearing mixed things about Kill the Boy Band. Apart from the curious title, I've heard this book is a hilarious work of genius. On the flip side, I've heard the book accused of "fat-shaming" and "slut-shaming" and stereotyping those of alternate lifestyles. Among other things. So, curious about the hype, I read it.
While I can sort of see where fans and critics alike are coming from, I can't say much for either side of the spectrum. I didn't love the book. I didn't hate it. Sure, it had its moments. Mainly, though, I just found the story confusing, convoluted, and taking waaaaay to long to get to the point. I couldn't connect with any of the characters. And the ending was just kind of...meh? Reading Kill the Boy Band was like drinking a diet soda. Sure, it might quench the thirst for a moment, but it's full of empty calories and soon leaves one craving something more nutritious and substantial.
Can't say I'd recommend this one. --AJB
Monday, March 7, 2016
Awkward, by Svetlana Chmakova
Cardinal Rule For Surviving School #2: Seek out groups with similar interests and join them.
At Berrybrook Middle School, there is a long-standing feud between the Science Club and Art Club. And this rivalry only heats up when the two clubs have to vie for a coveted table at the Annual School Club Fair. In the heart of this war is new girl Peppi (Art Club) and school nerd Jamie (Science Club)...and the (awkwardly) tentative friendship the two are beginning to form over shared interests. When a prank goes too far, the principal suspends both clubs. Now it's up to Peppi and Jamie to come up with a plan to get the clubs back. But first everyone must put their differences aside so they can cooperate on the best club project the school has ever seen. Maybe Artists and Scientists can get along after all. Maybe middle school isn't so awkward for a new girl. Ok...it's still kind of awkward. But that's ok as long as you've got good friends.
Which brings us to...Cardinal Rule For Surviving School #3: Build things. Build Friendships. Build Yourself.
Svetlana Chmakova's graphic novel Awkward is just adorable! It's all about navigating the drama, pain, friendships and, of course, the total awkwardness of middle school. It's about deciding to do what's right instead of what's popular...even if it means going against what your friends are pressuring you to do. And it's about stepping outside of your comfort zone to find friendships (and yourself). Sure, Awkward's ending may wrap up a bit neatly for some, but that's part of its charm (I do love me a happy ending!). This tween-appropriate story is perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier's Smile and Drama.
Read this one! You're gonna heart it! --AJB
Thursday, March 3, 2016
Thanks For the Trouble, by Tommy Wallach
Parker hasn't spoken in the five years since his dad died. His way of communicating with the world is to write his thoughts, feelings, stories, and (brief) replies in notebooks (to date, he's filled 105). Another thing about Parker: He's also become a fairly skilled pickpocket, preying on the careless rich elite who frequent posh hotels.
Then one Halloween Parker lifts a wad of cash from the purse of a sad-eyed, silver-haired girl eating in the dining hall of the Palace Hotel. And he would have gotten away with it too, except that he left his notebook behind on the table. A notebook containing a fairy tale he wrote about a girl with silver hair. A notebook containing his name and contact number. Even though he could use the cash, Parker has no choice to go back, apologetically return the cash to its rightful owner, retrieve his notebook, and hopefully escape without getting charges pressed. But the girl, Zelda, won't let Parker off that easily. She wants to know all about him. Why he steals. Why he won't talk. Why he won't go to college or plan for his future. She also drops a shocking confession: She plans to give the cash, all she has in the world, to the first needy person she encounters. Afterward, she will jump off the Golden Gate Bridge. Zelda agrees to give the cash to Parker on one condition: He agree to apply to (and actually attend) college. The pair then makes an adventure of Zelda's final hours: Shopping, exploring, engaging in some pretty wild shenanigans, and, of course, talking of (writing) their most personal secrets. Turns out there's more to Zelda--and to Parker--than anyone could have imagined.
Thanks for the Trouble is the second book for author Tommy Wallach (his first was We All Looked Up, which I didn't read). It's been on our New Book shelf for about a week and looked interesting, so I picked it up. The concept was ineteresting: A seriously troubled boy trying to show an even more troubled girl that life is worth living. Sounds like the proverbial blind-leading-the-blind situation, but in this case it worked. Thanks for the Trouble is one of those books where nothing really happens, but everything happens. As Zelda and Parker's mini-adventures became more random and wild and as their conversations became more personal, I was drawn deeper and deeper into the story.
I'd definitely suggest this one. --AJB
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
The Mystery of Hollow Places by Rebecca Podos
Ahh the joys of being seventeen. Parties with friends, shopping for a dress for prom, hopping in the car and driving off to your favorite restaurant anytime over winter break... Not for Imogene Scot. She loves a good mystery, and by mystery I mean a novel with a fantastic mystery theme involved. No worries, she blames that on her father who is a medical coroner turned mystery novelist. She's not sure if she gets any of her social hesitation from her mom, because her mom left in the middle of the night before Imogene was even old enough to finish a full sentence.
The mystery of her mother has always eluded her, her own father tells her nothing more than a bed time story involving a stone. That she can get over. However, when her father leaves in the middle of the night Imogene can not deal with the fact that both her parents have left. After discovering clues along the way she believes her father has left to find her mother. Maybe if she finds him she will find a happily ever after at the end? Maybe.
The Mystery of Hollow Places dives into some heavy topics that many of us have dealt with in one way or another. Podos does a fabulous job of crafting metaphors that dance around the topics of depression and mental illness. On top of that the themes of child abandonment and strained family relationships are worked in to the story. All of that mixed with trying to be a "normal" teenager. You will cry for her when the world comes crashing in around Imogene and then stand up and root whole heartedly for her when she show her confidence and breaks the rules to find answers. The Mystery of Hollow Places is located on the New Teen Shelf. Check it out and let us know what you think!
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I received an off-line instant message from B, a friend living and working in the US yesterday morning. The message simply contained this link with no other explanation of what it was about. I didn't click on the link straight away as I had other matters to attend to but was intrigued. B usually just forwards links of her online photo albums, funny emails and other fun stuff. She's certainly not the kind to read blogs, much less forward something that has "seething with anger" as its title.
I finally got round to checking the contents of the link around noon and found out that a certain Malu Fernandez from the Philippines has written an article for People Asia and has whinged about having to share her pleasure flight to Dubai with Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs). Complaining of having to squeeze herself into a tiny seat and having to endure
sounds of gum chewing and endless yelling of "HOY! Kumusta ka na? At taga saan ka? Domestic helper ka rin ba?" Translation: Hey there? Where are you from? Are you a domestic helper as well?"
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On my way back, I had to bravely take the economy flight once more. This time I had already resigned myself to being trapped like a sardine in a sardine can with all these OFWs smelling of AXE and Charlie cologne while my Jo Malone evaporated into thin air.
Now, OFWs are publicly hailed as modern day heroes in the Philippines because the money they send back to their families keep the economy afloat. Most Filipino families have at least one family member living or working abroad. Those who don't are in the process of becoming OFW themselves or may just be dreaming of becoming one in the future. The Philippines is turning out to be a nation of overseas workers, its chief export being its people.
So you could probably guess that this Malu Fernandez, who fancies herself a cultured socialite, got the ire of a lot of people. Blog posts a-plenty have been dedicated to this incident, some from people who are OFWs themselves. Also there's a campaign right now to get her to apologise, with calls of boycotting The Manila Standard, where she currently works as a columnist. This was her response. I don't agree that the whole newspaper daily should suffer from her careless remarks. I mean, not everyone working for the paper would share her views so why should they be punished for her error?
I messaged B this morning, asking if she even read the link she forwarded to me, to which she replied 'Of course!" I was interested to know what she thought of it and asked her. Her response? 'Sarap ipakulam, parang hindi siya pinoy.' (How great would it be to put a curse on her, she acts as if she's not Filipino). I laughed, clearly this Malu Fernandez got to my even-tempered friend as well. As for me, I don't think she would ever apologise (nor am I entirely sure she should). She calls her comments a product of her 'ascerbic wit'. I call it ignorance and utter disregard for others. She has shown herself as someone who's shallow, spoiled and suffers from tall poppy syndrome. Perhaps the best response would be to ignore her and her crass pronouncements and then maybe she'll finally shut up.

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I don't know about you, but I am so tired of the political yap on the talking heads channels, that it was a breath of fresh air to have the science channel on in the background today. You don't have to watch it to know what's going on, just listen to the stories. From UFOs to Yeti, it was entertaining and kitchy.
I guess I should show the finished quilt...I did what she wanted and custom quilted it, but even though I used fluorescent threads, the quilting is very hard to see. The quilt fabric is just too busy. Oh well, I like the borders.
|It really is a beautiful quilt
|I couldn't get a nice picture of the border quilting...it looks way better in person
|Part of what you can't see is the swirl from the big flower's center with fern feathering in it.
|She put a swath of the fabric down the back so people could see where the kaleidoscope
blocks on the front came from.
The man didn't quit until nearly 7:00, so after his shower, we had a quick supper of bacon, eggs, fried potatoes and biscuits. Carb load deluxe, but easy to make and clean up.
He spent some time watering everything before coming in, and during supper it poured rain . It figures.
Oh well, the yard will be happy. It has been looking a bit brown. Molly and I sat on the deck in the perfect 85 degree evening, listening to the wind and loving the view.
|Hosta and lilies blooming torether
|He has turned the corner with the walkway!
|The back yard is mostly greenery that doesn't need much attention.
|Watering and enjoying a brewski.
|The sweet potato vine is bright and lush again this year in the front garden.
|Rain on the way, the air is warm and breezy. Sitting outside is so relaxing!


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NEWSNIGHT by Manuel Almada
He knows his clients only by voice.
Every day at 6 p.m. Raymond Flagg picks up the newspaper and wheels himself over to the telephone.
Well, first, there's the death of Hal Thompson, aged seventy-three, of New Bedford. He was a lawyer. Did you know him? Oh, I'm so sorry.' 'There's a happy item about
Mrs John Owens. She had a baby boy.'
And so it goes. Ray Flagg is a news broadcaster with a unique audience, and one of the most appreciative; one blind person at a time. Each evening until late, Flagg is busy telephoning his blind clients to read them items from the local newspaper, the New
Bedford Standard Times.
He knows his clients only by voice: their ages range from fifty- eight to seventy-eight. There is no charge for Flagg's services. He feels that what he does is its own reward.
'This helps and cheers me as I hope it helps and cheers them, too. What would I do if I were all alone?'
There was a time when he was. When his wife died in March 1965, the world became an empty place for Raymond Flagg. Overnight, the modest first-floor apartment where the couple had lived for twenty-six years became a painfully lonely place.
Flagg, now sixty-five, had no alternative but to stay in the apartment. He is confined to a wheelchair: when he was a child, infantile paralysis crippled his body but not his spirit.
One day, something a friend said gave Flagg the idea that has helped fill the aching void left by his wife.
'Blind people like to know what is in the daily newspaper but have no one to read it to them,' the friend had remarked.
Ever since, Flagg has been reading the papers to his blind friends bringing the world closer to them and to himself.
Flagg is self-sufficient. He cooks -his own meals and does his own housekeeping. A tiny pension supplies my his needs. He is most grateful for that independence. 'I don't need help. Thank God for that.'
The man who is grateful to God for not needing help from others is equally grateful for the privilege of being able to help others.


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Something very unusual happened in Canada the other day. A federal government bureaucrat actually resigned his (lucrative paying) job on principle. Canadian federal bureaucrat, statistician Wayne Smith, resigned from his position in Statistics Canada over coming technological changes to the department:
High-ranking federal bureaucrats don't tend to resign publicly, or on principle. Yet that's just what Wayne Smith did on Friday in a move he described as desperate, and one that's made him, in his words, a black sheep among his peers.
In an interview with CBC News, Canada's former chief statistician says he's at peace with his decision to quit over the federal government's troubled tech support agency, Shared Services Canada, which he says has compromised Statistics Canada's independence.
Smith submitted his letter of resignation to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Aug. 3. In it, he thanked Trudeau for giving him the opportunity to reinstate the long-form census, and then he outlined his reasons for leaving.
"I made clear that if I did resign it would be with the intention of making public my concerns. So that was my last desperate bid, I guess, to persuade the government to sit down and talk about this. Didn't work," Smith said with a smile.
Chief statistician resigns over government's failure to 'protect the independence' of StatsCan
5 years on, still not clear when Shared Services Canada will save Ottawa money
On Sept. 15, Smith received two letters. The first was from Trudeau, who Smith said acknowledged receipt of his correspondence and restated his commitment to the independence of Statistics Canada. The second was from Privy Council Clerk Michael Wernick, who accepted his resignation.
"Well, it told me quite clearly that the government has no intention of changing course," said Smith.
In the olden days...actually, I can remember back a few decades in Canada when, if a leader or a politician failed in a major commitment to the electorate, s/he would "fall on their sword", i.e., resign from their position. If they lost a major vote in Parliament or were beset by personal or political scandal...they would immediately do the honourable thing and resign. This would allow the democracy to move on...and the business of government not to be dragged down by scandal or legal entanglements.
That almost never happens today. Today, no matter how dire the personal scandal, corruption allegations or, as we've seen recently in the Hillary Clinton health controversy...the individual could literally pass out on the pavement during an election campaign....still insist they're in excellent health...then clam up and demand that the electorate "forgid aboud it!" Hillary's legal issues (e-mail scandal) were serious enough for the head of the federal law enforcement agency...FBI's James Comey...to give a press conference where he listed her untruths, but then decided...because she didn't "intend" to prevaricate or subvert standard rules of government confidentiality...he was not going to charge her. Now, we find out (due to even more e-mail revelations) that he has personal connections to the Clinton Foundation and that his brother...does Hillary's tax returns! And this is not a conflict of interest?! Never mind...neither of them resigned and don't intend to.
Why Not? The reason is that, in former times, politicians and bureaucrats resigned because in a democracy...they were considered to be working for the people and if they let the people down they had to resign. Today, there's no democracy. Western states are run by an international Deep State government controlled by the international Rothchild banksters and the MIC (military/industrial complex). Hillary, Comey, et al. don't owe their jobs to the people anymore. They are factotums of the Deep State. All the elections in the West over past few decades have been subverted. True democratic candidates are rarely allowed to gain office. Remember the shock in Minnesota when Jessie Ventura won the governorship? That was probably the last time that happened in the US.
The only reason politicians and bureaucrats have to resign today is if they embarrass the Deep State...or somehow delay or thwart its goals. Then, and only then, the bought and paid for, criminally culpable main$ream media will rise up as one.... like a monster from the "Deep" State and drive them from office.
The same rules apply in international relations. Witness the lack of fall out from the "mistake" the US military made in attacking the Syrian army last weekend, causing mass casualties. Did anyone from the US State Department or Department of Defense/Pentagon resign? Naw....it was bidness as usual. Nobody has ever resigned over the scores of similar "mistaken" airstrikes....from the time the US air force attacked the Canadian armed forces in Kandahar Afghanistan in 2002, through all the friendly fire and fragging incidents of dissidents/whistleblowers, like that famous young football player who was killed in Afghanistan under highly suspicious circumstances...through all the bombings and attacks on civilians in Iraq...through the several air bombings of "Doctors Without Borders" hospitals in Afghanistan and Syria last year...right up to this latest atrocity. How many times have the "gang that can't shoot straight" killed their enemies, called it a "mistake" and quickly moved on? If anyone other than a low ranking patsy/pilot/soldier has ever resigned, it would be an utter shock. Now, they even have vassal states like Australia, Denmark and the UK stepping up and, in a quintessential political "humiliating test of loyalty" offering to share the blame for the latest "mistake". I guess, after the Tarnak Farm Incident, even the US did not have the gall to demand that Canada also make the false confession.
If it were really a "mistake", IMO, Kerry should resign, along with Ashton Carter and Samantha Power...just for a start. In the days of democracy...if it had really been a "mistake" they would all be long gone. IMO, even Russia's Lavrov should consider resigning...due to his perpetual ineptitude in trusting the rogue deep state that is occupying the corridors of power in Washington. He complains about the United States being unable to separate the jihadist terrorists from the "moderate" rebels. Well, Lavrov is just as guilty of not being able to separate the two factions in Washington who are duking it out in a highly dangerous undeclared civil war.
Before any more "peace agreements" are signed between Russia and the US...Putin/Lavrov need to first define and separate the few vestiges of the former democratic Republic of the United States of America--from the current representatives of the dominant neocon, globalist, warmongering MIC/international Rothchild Banksters. Russia should only negotiate with the vestiges of democracy in the US...as rare as these are.
Or, if they fail again, they should seriously consider falling on their swords.


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Are you tired of fast food restaurants and takeout? Are you expecting company soon? If you said yes to these questions, you may be in need of some cooking inspiration. These tips should help you get passionate about cooking again!
You should not boil pasta in water that has oil in it. When you add oil to the water that you are boiling your pasta in it keeps the sauce from sticking to the pasta. By leaving the oil out you can toss your pasta in the sauce and it will cling to it.
Take care when storing chocolate for use in cooking. As a rule, only buy as much chocolate as you can use within a few months. Chocolate contains fat, and under the wrong conditions it can turn rancid. Store in a cool, dry place away from sunlight. A kitchen cupboard away from any heat sources is ideal. Keep the chocolate wrapped in foil or plastic and store it away from anything with a strong smell, as it absorbs odors easily.
When you are seasoning a salad, add a small dose of olive oil in addition to natural sea salt. This will help to give your salad a crunchy appeal even after you add the dressing. Keeping your salad as crunchy as possible will create a feeling of freshness upon consumption.
Always use the freshest ingredients you can find for your cooking. Fruit, vegetables, meat and seafood all taste better when they are fresh. Besides better taste, fresh ingredients are usually healthier than pre-packaged, canned or frozen ones. Fresh foods have superior nutritional content and lack the unhealthy additives found in packaged foods.
One fun part of learning to cook is showing off your new-found skills. If you are cooking for someone special, though, leave the experimentation for another day. Do not try new recipes or new ingredients (or, worse, both at the same time) when you are cooking a meal for someone you really want to impress.
If you are cooking for someone special, do not try a recipe that you have never tried before. Because you are trying to impress this person, you want to make sure you make a satisfying meal. Try something you are very familiar with, and make sure you have all the ingredients you need to make it.
If you are having a big party, one of the worst things that you can do is to put dressing on the salad. Since the salad will sit out for a long time, it will probably get soggy after a while. Instead, leave an assortment of dressings out for people to choose.
It is possible to cook healthy without abandoning all of the rich, creamy dressings that can contribute so much flavor. One method is to use Greek-style yogurt as a replacement for mayonnaise. Half of the mayonnaise called for in the recipe should be replaced with the yogurt. This will give the same great taste while cutting down on the unhealthy effects of the mayo.
Do not let cooking frustrated you, even if you fail at first; you will get better at it as you practice. Remember to have fun. Think of the joy that you will have to share your creations with your family and friends.


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I want to give full details on this here circus party because I know so many of you all were hoping everything would work out. And because some of you, particularly my family, wanted to be here but simply couldn't.
So recaps will come. This week.
But not today.
When Adrian comes home, I intend to drop this computer and, consequently all of you (no offense! it's his birthday!), give that guy a hug and talk to him. About everything. The party. That wild photobooth. The amazing friends who helped bring it all together. And about how much I love him, you know, in case he didn't get that message from the two months I spent planning for that party.
So, to hold you over until then, I present to you the best of the Circus Photobooth:
Happy Birthday, love!
Thank you all again for loving Adrian as much as you do. For building a canopy and decorating for hours. For making a cake and enough cupcakes for a neighborhood. For staying late into the evening, laughing with him and taking silly pictures. For praying that the weather forecasts would be wrong. For taking down in thirty minutes when you probably just wanted to go home. For calling this morning to make sure things went off without a hitch. And for wishing Adrian a happy birthday from afar.
Oh, and of course, to the barber who gave my husband his faux-hawk on his big day. For $8.


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By: GUEST AUTHOR Karen Fredricks, Tech Benders | 12/06/2017
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In the late 90's I owned a computer school in Boca Raton, Florida. If you are a Seinfeld fan you can equate Boca with the fictional "Del Boca Vista" and be able to accurately picture my clientele. It was around this time that Dragon Naturally Speaking voice recognition arrived on the scene and my clients all clamored to use it. Back then you had to "train" Dragon to recognize your voice by reading hours of data into the system. Trust me, the results were not pretty. It soon became apparent that phrases like "it was a dark and stormy night" came across as a jumbled mess but phrases like, "Gosh darn it, that's not what I meant!" came through loud and clear.
It became apparent to me that to be successful with voice recognition you had to speak in a complete monotone; my only truly successful client was a psychiatrist that made Ferris Buehler's teacher sound animated.
I was so traumatized by my foray into voice recognition that I did not dip my toe back into that treacherous water for literally twenty years. When I did it was with my Xfinity television remote and I found it to be amazingly accurate. I soon ventured into the uncharted territory of both Google and Siri; I found Google to be a bit more precise but I have to admit I like Siri's sense of humor. My car has Apple CarPlay so I can now demand that Siri read out my voice messages, compose a text and get me driving directions. I suddenly developed a new respect for voice recognition!
The icing on the cake came when I received an Amazon Echo Dot a few months back. I started by asking "Alexa" to play the Hamilton soundtrack; no problem. I then ventured out to a rather obscure band I like; without hesitation Alexa started playing the Dirty Heads.
I tell her to add items to my shopping list, take notes and basically boss her around. Alexa is awesome: unlike my kids she doesn't talk back and makes my life a whole lot easier!
Alexa got me to thinking about my other favorite software, Act!. Imagine how nice it would be to hear my current list of Activities or lookup someone's phone number. Well my friend, I am happy to say it's h-e-r-e! (Cue drumroll). Act! now integrates with Alexa. Need to find out what your calendar looks like? Ask Alexa!
By now you might be wondering exactly how the Act!/Alexa integration works and more importantly how much it costs? The cool part is that the integration comes absolutely free with your Act! Premium subscription. As in $0.00 USD. If you have an Act! subscription and an Amazon Echo device, you have the ability to connect Act! to Alexa.
Excited about the new Act!/Alexa integration and want to know more? Check out my latest blog on Act!, "Introducing Act! v20 – What's Not to Like?"


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Black Irish Texas
Austin-based seven-piece Black Irish Texas reside in the sweet spot where country and Irish pub punk cohabitate perfectly. Formed in 2004, they have spent over ten years earning a place as a staple in the Austin live roots scene, sharing the stage with Dropkick Murphys, Street Dogs, and many more. But Black Irish Texas insist that you leave your pre-conceived notions at the door; you won't be singing along to "Whiskey in the Jar" at their shows. After all, they may have Irish blood, but they are Texas-raised. And when you put a guitar in a Texan's hand, odds are good you'll get a little twang and a lot of attitude.
Black Irish Texas have experienced a few lineup changes over the past decade, and their roster has included some true Austin veterans from beloved bands such as Flatcar Rattlers, The Bulemics, and Mr. Lewis & The Funeral Five. Today, Black Irish Texas consists of James Fitzsimmons on vocals and guitar, Mark Maughmer on the fiddle, James Sheeron on drums, Shannon McMillan on upright bass, David Zarate on banjo, and a bottle of Jameson providing the fuel to their fiery performances.
After a decade in the Austin live music scene, Black Irish Texas finally put out their debut album "To Hell with the King" in 2014, and fans of Texas punk and Irish rock will find it's worth the wait. Their debut was soon followed by the feisty EP "An Ode to Saint Cecilia". In 2017, they released "The Good, The Bad and the Indifferent", a fireball of an album that continues their momentum as one of the most exciting heavy roots bands in Austin, Kansas City, or anywhere they stomp onstage.


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Today is the first Saturday of your owner's summer break. It is, you suppose, common knowledge that the majority of school-aged Neopians, in the hot summer months, have this sudden and inexplicable rush of time. Your owner chooses to spend her vacations chatting or earning money. Woe betide you if she decides to go restocking in the shops; you are her favourite companion.
You grudgingly change out of your comfortable but scruffy pajamas into an outfit considerably less scruffy and proportionately less comfortable. Your owner appears, bright-eyed as an Usul up a tree. She seems to have much more energy than usual these days, too, which you have often asked her about. A typical conversation goes like this:
"Xiiyu, if something called Neoschool existed, you would understand how I felt."
"There is a Neoschool," you remind her, gently. "It's called the 'Neopian Book Store.'"
Her answer to this is predictable. "I'm not spending money to train you in a useless statistic, like intelligence."
You consider asking her why she goes to school in the first place if intelligence is so "useless" but you decide against it.
Your sister, Yooe, appears at the top of the stairs as you are preparing to leave. Her chubby Cybunny form casts a long shadow. She is, was, and presumably always will be the family laboratory pet. Therefore, she is allowed by your owner to spend her days recuperating from the "horrible pain" of the lab zaps. You suspect this is exaggerated and would try it for yourself, except you are entirely too fond of your Grey colour. You were zapped this colour while you were still a baby, and have no memory of it.
Yooe gives you a pitying and taunting look that never changes no matter how often her species does.
"Good luck restocking."
You nod, reminding yourself to put toothpaste on her pillow when you get home, or better yet, that melted day-old butter.
Once you get outside, you are surprised that the rest of your owner's stock hasn't melted as well. Heat waves dance on top of everything like water.
"The shops will be less crowded in this heat," your owner explains, coming up behind you. You realise that this is true. Most of the vacationing children will be relaxing at Mystery Island or talking with their friends. More to the point, most of the vacationing children aren't foolish enough to try and snatch things from the shops when it is this hot. The adult restockers, lounging languidly in the shadows, seem to be encouraged by the heat, with the result that you and your owner miss three restocks in a row.
"I'll be outside," you tell your owner, discouraged, and shuffle in the stated direction, passing windows featuring rows of sticky chocolates and dripping smoothies. You know, deep down in your heart and mind, that the entire summer will progress this way, with slight variations to your (always butterless) breakfast. Some days your owner will drag you to the chat rooms to help answer people's questions. And some days, few and far between, your owner will make forays into a place called "reality," obviously even more fun and engaging than restocking (insert gasp here) and leave you to rest your aching bones. You know that your owner's school is located in "reality," as well. You wish as you had never wished before that "reality" would take up more of your owner's time... facing this summer is too much.
Bowing your head, you begin to cry.
You remain in this attitude for some time, seeing as how everyone expects grey Neopets to cry all the time, anyway. Finally, the pounding pain in your head and eyes tells you it is time to stop sobbing, and you look up – straight into the calm amber eyes of a fire Scorchio.
After a few shocked moments, you realise where you've seen this Scorchio before. She is the only Neopet of an adult restocker, a friend of your owner's. This person is in the habit of using long and complicated names for everything, including his pet. So everyone just calls her Nix.
"Missed the restock?" Nix says sympathetically.
"Yes," you reply. "Three times in a row."
Nix nods, but says nothing. You and your owner miss restocks all the time, and you've never cried about it before. Suddenly, you begin to tell the Scorchio everything about your current summer break crisis. The words, like bricks, pile out of you all in a jumble, and you lose track of your point, but keep going all the same. When you are finished, you look up to find Nix obviously very sad.
"Xiiyu, why must you insist on only thinking of yourself? Look around you."
Obediently, you scan the area, but are unable to see anything unusual until your friend points out the massive numbers of Neopets walking, dancing, and skipping (!) past where you sit.
"Summer is Neopia's best season," Nix tells you. "The weather's perfect – although a little warm – all of the fruit is in season, and the kids and their pets are out of school. They give the place new life!" You think Nix is an incurable optimist to see all of this in dusty, sweaty days, a few stunted fruit crops, and an overload of ill mannered children. (Your owner is not the least of these.) But before you can say anything, Nix pulls you to your feet. Together, you trot down the street, passing shops and fountains and groups of laughing, talking people and their pets.
"Think about it this way," says the Scorchio. "Pretend you have a Baby Neopet, right? They're cute and tiny, but so full of mischief! And yet they don't mean any harm. It's the same with everyone here. The summer holidays are meant for Neopians of a certain age to enjoy themselves as they see fit. In August and September, the streets become quiet and the chat rooms are peaceful again. Xiiyu, you have ten whole months to relax..."
Her last sentence echoes in your ears, but somehow she has disappeared, between one moment and the next. In her place is your owner, clutching two large bags of restocked goodies and waving frantically.
"Goodness, didn't you hear me calling you?! It's been ten minutes already!"
"I'll carry that," you tell her, reaching for the larger of the bags. As you head home, a rumble splits the sky, and you both look up to see dark storm clouds and the cooling shadow of rain.
The summer is as hectic and drama-packed as all those that preceded it, but eventually the weeks pass, and Neopia gradually empties. Soon, your owner has settled down to her usual school-year routine, checking on you early in the morning and late at night. Her shop lies empty, gathering dust.
And one day, in the middle of October, you wake up and there it is: fresh butter for your morning toast.
Sometimes, you think, your world can be a perfect world, summer break and all.
The End
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The Kbura Ulwan Free Methodist Primary School was started 1996 as an ECD Centre or Nursery school by a free Methodist church pastor by name pastor Amos Owoko Ochola and assisted in the teaching of Kabura Ulwan village children by mother Sabina Akello Oketch.
The work of teaching village children was in the Kabura Ulwan village at the home of this lady: Sabina Akello Oketch. The classes progressed as the year advanced from the ECD or Nursery up to class one in the year 1997. The Pastor in charge that is Pastor Amos Owoko Ochola lobbied for assistance so as to acquire a land parcel to enable proper school initiation.
Pastor Amos Owoko Ochola was successful by managing to convince sister Louis Meredith a Missionary from Canada who was the overall in charge of all African Free Methodist Churches in the African Continent. The Free Methodist Church headquarters was based in Nairobi Kenya.
Sr. Louis Meredith gave funds to Pastor Amos Owoko Ochola who intern purchased the land parcel from a Kabura Ulwan village native by name George Otieno Ondiege. The land parcel purchased was now converted to be a Free Methodist Church land at which they contracted their semi permanent church building.
The size of the land purchased was 0.37 hectares. The children were now transferred from Sabina Akello Oketch's home, and under tree shade learning; into this land parcel and their learning continued. Sr. Louis Meredith made occasional visit to monitor the church's as well as the young children's learning progress as conducted by Pastor Amos Owoko Ochola with the assistance of the lady mother Sabina Akello Oketch. The Free Methodist Church in need of advancing their school; formed an interim committee consisted of Pastor Amos Owoko Ochola; Pastor Titus Mathias Oyile and the late Patrick Ojwang Moni and in 1998 registered their school by name Kabura Ulwan Free Methodist Primary school with the Ministry of Education thus the creation of the school as a Public Mixed day primary school.
In 1998 the school's classes had advanced into class two with the entire school enrolment being 60 pupils. The reason for starting and registering the Kabura Ulwan Free Methodist were that Kabura Ulwan village had no school; and was surrounded by the flooded Ulwan Swamp while to the North was covered by river Nzoia; the school to the East at a radius distance of 2 kilometers away was Kalkada Primary school and to the West at a radius distance of 2 kilomiters away was Kabura Primary school.
This flooded Ulwan Swamp made it difficult to the school going age young children to access the two Primary schools given the 2kms radius distance.
Therefore the children from Kabura Ulwan village wasted a lot of their time in the village but not attending school. The school having been registered in 1998 got the first Teachers Service Commission's teachers with the following Head teachers posted in succession as here under:
1. First head teacher in the year 1998 – Mr. Okuto Raphael Olwendo.
2. Second head teacher in the year in 1999 – 2000 – Mr. Otieno Johnstone.
3. Third head teacher in the year January 2001 – June 2001 – Mr. Molo John.
4. Fourth head teacher from June 2001 – date – Mr. Odawo Alfred Oduor.
The school is still very young and in dire need of infrastructure development though it is a complete full primary school with eight single streamed classes; having done her K.C.P.E without fail as from the year 2004 to date. The school to date lacks the school administration block building.
GAMES AND SPORTS DEPARTMENTKabura Ulwan Free Methodist Primary School has games and sports departments catering for co – curricular …read more
GREEN BELT MOVEMENT CLUB.Kabura Ulwan Free Methodist School has a club for conserving the environment known as Green Belt Movement. The …read more


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the agnes chronicles: chapter 3
The adorable heroine of our story is four months old today! I've done a terrible job of blogging about Agnes' adventures because she has been pretty much all-consuming. I don't mind… I rather enjoy spending my days (and nights) cuddling with Agnes, while the dishes and laundry pile up, blog posts go unwritten, and bathrooms and bedrooms go without cleaning. Well, not entirely. I actually get plenty accomplished. It's never as much as I want (hence the lack of blogging), but I can live with that. The chores will eventually get done. These precious moments with Agnes however are quickly fleeting.
Some of the highlights of Agnes' few short months of life include a trip to Michigan to meet her abuelos, great-grandpa, aunts, uncles, cousins, and friends, a detour to Ohio for the Schwartz family reunion, accompanying me and Karl (and a few friends) on an anniversary trip to Nantucket, and (the best of all) being baptized.
Agnes is getting so big! The other day, Karl commented that Agnes was growing and changing so much that she was practically a little woman. I reminded him that she was only three and a half months old. "Well… she's a baby-woman!" he exclaimed. I wouldn't go that far, but it is incredible watching her develop more every day into a little lady.


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"Most rules are just bad habits that people are afraid to change"
Therese Anne Fowler
Logical people follow the rules.
Creative people play with the rules.
That is a the key difference.
Great art, poetry, music and even great lives didn't happen because people followed the rules.
Like in the movie the Matrix life has some rules that can be bent, some that can be broken and some rules only exist in the minds of the players.
I'm not suggesting flat out anarchy (although if we finally reject the Swiss Bank cabal and their disingenuous puppet politicians then I am in the front row). I'm simply pointing out that your life is a result of your thoughts and if you are not happy with the results you are getting its time to re-examine the playing field and change a few fundamentals.
You can only remain a rat in a trap while you believe your environment to be a giant trap and yourself to be rat-like. This is your life and only common law principles apply – do onto others as you'd have done to you (or something like that). Everything else is a choice. Play with the rules, but choose wisely.
Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.


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AUSTIN – State Representative John Wray took the oath of office Tuesday at noon inside the Texas State Capitol, marking the beginning of his second term in the Texas House.
"I'm honored to represent House District 10 again in the Texas legislature, and will continue to fight tirelessly for the people and values of Ellis and Henderson Counties," said Wray. "I am proud of the accomplishments we achieved last session, and although we face new challenges I believe the House will continue to approach issues in the same conservative, pragmatic, and fiscally responsible manner that has helped our state prosper."
In his first term as State Representative, Wray was appointed to the Homeland Security and Public Safety Committee and the Ways and Means Committee. As a member of those committees, Wray helped pass open carry legislation, increased security at the Texas-Mexico border, and provided nearly $4 billion in tax relief to Texans. Wray also passed the most bills of any freshmen representative, and filed bills to repeal taxes, honor Texan and American hero Chris Kyle, establish a higher education campus in the district, and protect private property owners and taxpayers from the planned High Speed Rail project.
The Texas Constitution dictates that the Texas Legislature meet in a regular session every two years, convening on the second Tuesday in January of every odd-numbered year. These sessions are limited to 140 days. The governor can also call additional special sessions as necessary, which cannot exceed 30 days. The 85th Legislative Session is January 10 through May 29, 2017.
CONTACT: Tabatha Vasquez
Capitol Address:
District Address:
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2001 Bates Drive, Suite 120


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- Member: Meilin1
- Studio: MeilinII Productions
- Title: Sasuke, Become the Legend!!
- Premiered: 2006-01-29
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- Evangelion Cruel Angel's Thesis
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This is a video done by me on my birthday, to a song that I think fits Sasuke perfectly. In it, I compare Cursed Sasuke to the cruel angel and portray Sasuke as the young boy it describes. In the overlap in the second instrumental, I did my best to portray that because Sasuke is an avenger, for him Love is a Sin (ai ga fusei). Im not going to tell you whether I mean that as a pain for Sakura, or Naruto (Or Both!), but I will take you step by step in my translation and interpretation of the song. Also, for the record, whereever I knew a Japanese word, I lyric synced a bit. For instance, 'Wind' at 0:36, 'Wings' and 1:16, 'Sky' at 1:34 and 'Moon' around 2:43
Note: This is more or less supposed to be read after watching the vid, or while watching the vid, as a way for you to better understand it. You dont have to agree with my logic, but you can understand it.
Like a cruel angel,
young boy, become the legend!
Ive already said, I think of Sasuke as a cruel angel when cursed, though he is young, and will be legendary.
A blue wind is now
knocking at the door to your heart, and yet
you are merely gazing at me
and smiling.
This is kind of from Narutos and Sakuras POV here. The wind that changed Sasuke still blowing, hes gone from heartless and cold, to caring enough about Naruto that he would give up his life for him. When Sasuke did, (or appeared to, as the case turned out to be) he did it with a grin on his face.
Something gently touching--
you're so intent on seeking it out,
that you can't even see your fate yet,
with such innocent eyes.
Sasuke was so intent on telling Naruto everything before his death, that he couldnt see what was awaiting him.... He couldnt see what would happen to him BECAUSE of what had happened to him when he was young and innocent.
But someday I think you'll find out
that what's on your back
are wings that are for
heading for the far-off future.
Someday Sasuke will figure out that the Uchiha symbol upon his back is not meant to brand him an avenger, but a protector, someone who will live beyond the moment he defeats his brother, or so Sakura and Naruto hope.
The cruel angel's thesis
will soon take flight through the window,
with surging, hot pathos,
if you betray your memories.
Embracing this sky [universe] and shining,
young boy, become the legend!
The narrowed view of the curse will soon fly from the window, freeing Sasuke from that pitiable state, but if he does not forget his oath against Itachi, he will only become more deplorable. As Sasuke grew more comfortable with Naruto and Sakura, and embraces their differences, he comes closer to being a Shinobi worth remembering!
The Second Instrumental
For the first part, I wondered what the young Sasuke wouldve thought if he knew that he became a monster, just as his brother was. His brother killed his family, and he was a mindless destroyer. Who was the real fiend here? I think the younger, innocent Sasuke wouldve been depressed by such an occurrence.
Okay, for the overlap here, I did not have a translation . Happy? I only had a translation for the last line, a Japanese/English dictionary, a vague idea of what it was about and determination. The translation for the last line that I had was love is a sin/wrongdoing, and I used that to help me deduce the meaning of the text. More or less, this part is meant to be about Sasukes refusal to be close to people, and even when he wants to get close to Naruto and Sakura, he ends up having to push them away for the sake of his dream. Fact is, love gets in the way of killing, and it presents a weakness to someone ruthless enough to use others against you, so for Sasuke, Sakuras affections and Narutos admiration wouldve been a liability. Though their concern for him had helped him with the curse, it could only hurt them all against Itachi and other dangerous opponents.
Sleeping for a long time
in the cradle of my love
The morning is coming when you alone will be called
by a messenger of dreams.
Im kind of thinking of this as Sakura or Naruto thinking that no matter what Sasuke says or does, they believe the time will come when he will return as the good guy he used to be.
Moonlight reflects off
the nape of your slender neck.
Stopping time all throughout the world
I want to confine them, but...
I kinda thought of this is Sasuke wanting to contain his feelings for Sakura and Naruto in the back of his heart, but he couldnt.
So if two people being brought together by fate
has any meaning,
I think that it is a "bible"
for learning freedom.
I interpreted this as Sasuke finally figuring out what he needs to do to move past his history, to be free of the curse and of Itachi.
The cruel angel's thesis.
The sorrow then begins.
You held tight to the form of life
when you woke up from that dream.
You shine brighter than anyone else.
Young boy, become the legend!
When Sasuke finally pushes through all the pain, and wants to live for himself and not as an avenger, then he will be better than all others!
People create history
while weaving love.
Even knowing I'll never be a goddess or anything like that,
I live on.
I could only interpret this as Sasuke finding a reason to live besides killing, in his relationships with his friends. He knew he could never erase his past pain, or the horrible things he did, but hell live on.
The cruel angel's thesis
will soon take flight through the window,
with surging, hot pathos,
if you betray your memories.
Embracing this sky and shining,
young boy, become the legend!
Now that youre sick of hearing me talk...
Sasuke! Become the Legend!
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Nothing against the Spurs, but they are a fundamentally great team. There defense is so good that when they have an off night offensively ... they can still win. See, we don't like that from our Western Conference teams.
But, it is par for the course. This has been a bad NBA season. The biggest storylines all year has been who was going to get Greg Oden on draft day; the Carmelo Anthony fight; Amare Stoudamire getting tossed from a playoff game. Heck, if it wasn't for Kobe Bryant's weird trade demands last week ... we woulda forgot about the NBA entirely.
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This is not just a gluten free cupcake, its not even just a chocolate gluten free cupcake.
Its a Nutella gluten free cupcake.
Any other gluten free peeps overjoyed at the news that nutella is gluten free? When I realised, I was so happy.
I honest-to-goodness love nutella. Like, 100% have been known to eat it with a spoon stright out of the jar.
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This recipe for nutella cupcakes doesn't even use nutella in the cupcake. You can bake up a nutella flavoured treat and save most of that jar of nutella for personal use. What a time to be alive! Instead, we're using cocoa powder and ground hazelnuts as a gluten free flour replacement, to give these cupcakes that, erm, chocolate + hazelnut flavour. Don't worry though, its not a completely Nutella-free zone: actual Nutella is used in the icing.
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