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Lemon Brownies & Lemon Glaze are a sweet, tangy twist on the traditional brownie. These still keep the dense sweet cake you know and love, but instead serve up the tangy flavor of lemon. They’re topped with a sweet lemon glaze and a sprinkle of lemon zest. Best of all, they’re gluten free!

http://www.dishingdelish.com/lemon-brownies/

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…and I really wish someone would write it.

Holmes is being all bored, as usual.

Everyone shouts about a jewelry store robbery, someone walked right in and grabbed the goods and rode off on a hansom cab.

Not in. On. Standing on the roof like a chariot.

Boring. It’s just the latest sensationalism, not an interesting problem.

After crashing it and getting surrounded by some constables and a crowd, she reached up, broke an iron cross bar off a lamppost, and brained the head policeman. Also she announced she was going to be Queen of the world.

She, some bystanders, and the horse vanished clean away.

All of the above has a crowd of eyewitnesses.

Not boring.

There’s no client. Maybe he’s just really bored? Some of the Irregulars were definitely among the witnesses and would want the backstory.

No, the client is the jeweler, duh.

One of the bystanders who disappeared was seen with the robber before the incident. He was a well-dressed gentleman later identified as a Mr. Ketterley. He cannot pay for the jewels.

Another disappeared bystander, the owner of the stolen getaway cab, hasn’t been seen since any more than the robber has. His wife disappeared too, and she wasn’t even there.

Examining their house shows that she was in the middle of washing clothes when she left. There is a tub of soap and water that she (or her kidnappers) just left to evaporate.

Holmes, disguised, asks the servants at the Ketterley household about any strange goings-on. They assume he means the fact that Ketterley’s sister, Mabel Kirke, was dying and just had a miraculous recovery. Watson probably knows the doctors, they confirm it.

While trespassing around, or maybe he got a job there or something, Holmes notices a tree. Small, very young, but not any species that grows around London. (Of course Holmes knows every species of tree in London. Why wouldn’t he.)

None of the servants he talks to knows where it came from.

The next day it’s a good few inches taller.

By some contrived sequence of events he touches a shiny bit of yellow metal buried next to the tree, and disappears without a trace.

Watson heads in to rescue him.

Anyway, this definitely ends with Holmes and Watson telling the White Witch that she owes a bunch of money to a London jeweler. They probably re-bury the rings when they get back; it seems like something Holmes would do. Plus it makes this completely canon compliant.

“talk less, smile more”

Lafayette combining ASL with French Sign Language

In “Farmer Refuted” Ham and Seabury go from simply trying to block their audience’s view of each other’s hands to actively slapping each other’s hands down mid-sentence

King George doesn’t deign to sign. He has the ensemble sign for him and gets pissed at how with each reprise there seem to be fewer and fewer ensemble members there to translate.

everybody’s name signs corresponding with their musical leitmotifs

apparently the ASL word for “helpless” can also be used to mean “speechless” in some contexts

during “Helpless,” if you look closely, you can see some of Alex and Angelica’s conversation from “Satisfied” being signed in the background

LOOK AT HOW BEAUTIFUL THE SIGN FOR “WAIT” IS 

 THE GLORY THAT IS “GUNS AND SHIPS” IN ASL

everyone breaking apart to sign their own parts in “Non-Stop” in a beautiful visual explosion like I am dying just thinking about this

AGGRESSIVE CABINET BATTLE SIGNING

“The Room Where It Happens” being all about being shut out of conversations and decisions, there’s some new subtext to “hold your nose and close your eyes” because you can’t sign while holding your nose and you can’t watch others sign while closing your eyes

Phillip not being able to complete the “sept huit neuf” with Eliza because his hands are going limp as he dies and Eliza actually screaming

Burr’s signing in “Your Obedient Servant” getting more and more angry along with his writing, the syntax of which also changes until “Weehawken. Dawn. Guns. Drawn.” matches up exactly with Burr signing the words–he’s sick and tired of translating every thought into perfect English, he’s tired of signing less and smiling more, he is 100% done with this shit

during Ham’s final “I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory,” it’s not just the music that drops out, it’s the English translation. that’s right, y’all, HAMILTON’S FINAL MONOLOGUE IS ONLY IN ASL

at the end of it, he sets down his pistol prop and makes the ASL sign for “gun” AND RAISES THAT SIGN INTO THE AIR

WHEN ALEXANDER AIMS AT THE SKY, BURR IS STILL HOLDING HIS PISTOL, SO HE CAN’T SIGN HIS “WAIT”–HE HAS TO SCREAM IT WHILE THE ENSEMBLE SIGNS FOR HIM

for all the emphasis put on “who tells your story” and “being a part of/erasing myself from/putting myself back in the narrative,” there isn’t much explicit mention of speech and I think that’s beautiful

No one likes funding public defense offices. This is known. (And also responsible for mass incarceration on a higher level than the drug war, but that’s a subject for another post.)

Missouri Governor Jay Nixon is one of the ones who likes it least. This is also known. The public defenders there tried to address the problem every normal way, and now they’re scraping the bottom of the barrel. They’re trying trolling.

As Director of the Public Defender System, I can only hire attorneys when I have the funding to do so. Because you [Governor Jay Nixon, vetoer of bills] have restricted that funding, MSPD must hold a significant number of vacant positions open in order to have the necessary funds to make it through the fiscal year, a task which is exacerbated by a 12% increase in cases over the year prior.

(This is one of several ways in which Missouri aggressively doesn’t care about due process for poor people.)

To avoid having to close one or more offices [!], the remaining option is to consider the use of Section 600.042.5, which gives the Director of the Public Defender System the authority to “delegate the legal representation of any person to any member of the state bar of Missouri.”

As of yet, I have not utilized this provision because it is my sincere belief that it is wrong to reassign an obligation placed on the state by the 6th and 14th Amendments to private attorneys who have in no way contributed to the current crisis.

You can probably guess where this is going.

[I]t strikes me that I should begin with the one attorney in the state who not only created this problem, but is in a unique position to address it.

Therefore, pursuant to Section 600.042.5 and as Director of the Missouri State Public Defender System tasked with carrying out the state’s obligation to ensure that poor people who face incarceration are afforded competent counsel in their defense, I hereby appoint you, Jeremiah W. (Jay) Nixon, Bar No. 29603, to enter your appearance as counsel of record in the attached case.

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let’s talk about housecats and how fucking weird they are evolutionarily/anthropologically

like who thought it was a good idea to have tiny malicious predators in our homes anyways????? (not us actually)

are they even domesticated????!!!?? (yes) do they even feel LOVE???????!!? (yes)

LET’S LEARN ABOUT CATS

“you ready 2 learn punk”

Basically, the point of Oscar the Grouch is so that kids know it’s okay to have fucking emotions and moods that aren’t all cheery. That’s the fucking point. And that’s even more important to the kids who are living in harsh realities. Realities where their families are falling apart or they’re not getting food every day or they’re getting abused. Telling them it’s okay to express that they are NOT HAPPY because they are HURTING is so fucking important I cannot even say it. 

Big Bird is nice, but goddamn, when you’re a kid who’s hungry and you just got beat by your caretaker and all you wanna do is hole up somewhere and tell everyone else to go away because you don’t even have words for how bad things feel? Big Bird is not your dude. Cheery happy, “well, let’s play a happy game!” Big Bird ain’t cutting it for you. Oscar the Grouch is your dude. Oscar the Grouch is the dude who tells you it’s okay to put the lid on your garbage can and be alone and be upset.

Big Bird tries to talk you out of being upset (and maybe sometimes that’s okay). But Oscar the Grouch teaches you that, no, it’s okay to be upset and you have every right to stay upset and grouchy and unhappy until you’re at a point where that can change. Oscar the Grouch teaches you that you have a right to your emotions, whatever they are.

On a more advanced level, the point of Oscar is to start teaching kids that it’s okay to have boundaries, it’s okay to want to just go into your trash can (home/safe place) and not be bothered, it’s okay to defend those boundaries and say “go away!” when you want people to go the fuck away and that you can still have a place on Sesame Street. That not everyone has to be shiny, happy Big Bird. 

The fact that people tell you things you like are stupid doesn’t make it’s true. He loves trash. He loves it because it’s trash. That’s important too.

As is the fact that *even though everyone thinks his interests are stupid*, people don’t take his trash away and they don’t drag him out of his can.

Also he has *fantastic* body language. Boundary laden but also very emotional. And just the way he likes stuff and expresses interest…

“How do libraries stay relevant in the age of Google?”

“Do we still need libraries?”

“What can libraries offer that Google can’t?”

- Encourage literacy in children. My library and most other libraries have huge sections entirely for children as well as a ton of programs to encourage children to use the library. I would probably not have the same love for reading that I do today, if not for the amazing library near my house.

-Builds communities. My library and most other libraries will frequently sponsor community events to bring people together and make their city a more friendly place. Some of the things my library does it: organise a marathon; participate in parades; two used book sales each year; host local documentary showings; etc.

-free books and resources for anyone to use. I can read any book I want for free!!!! It’s awesome. And anyone can do it.

-seriously, I see homeless people at my library all the time reading books, and enjoying the free resources. Without the library, they would not have access to those books.

-awesome study spot. Seriously, great. As someone who lives with a very large, loud, busy family, the library is awesome for providing a productive peaceful place to study and get away from my hectic house.

-Librarians. are. the. greatest. Really, these people are so nice, and cute, and so hard-working, and I just love and want to be friends with them all, because they are awesome. 

-What are you gonna do when you need help with your English paper, and the internet isn’t working? Google it?

Immigrants studying for the citizenship exam, trying to find jobs, and looking for English conversation groups.

Those who are incarcerated – we bring books to them but also allow incarcerated parents to read to their kids via a live video feed.

Amazing cultural events that feature everyone from Pulitzer-prize winning authors to flamenco groups to art critics to teenage metal bands.

Job-seekers who need one-on-one resume help and interview prep.

Senior citizens who want to stay active – we have dance classes, a bowling league, and all kinds of activities.

For artists, we offer free Photoshop, Illustrator, photography, and art classes taught by professionals.

Every summer we provide free lunches to kids in low-income families.

All kinds of language classes for those looking to learn, and of course, all classes are free!

So yeah, the library is pretty bad ass.

Bob the animator: “Ok, so, there’s gonna be a broken piece of a sign that says ‘KL’ on it. Can you draw that?”

Frank the animator: “Yeah, sure, how’s this look?”

Bob the animator: “Well, if it was ACTUALLY a broken piece of a sign that says ‘Klondike,’ it wouldn’t have a big gap after the letters, but whatever. We can fix it in the closeup.”

Frank the animator: “Uh… ok. Shouldn’t I change it in the first shot?”

Bob the animator: “Nah, leave it, but give the new one some wood texture, and make it smaller… oh, and change the lengths of the spikes. The kids won’t notice.”

Frank the animator: “More like this?”

Bob the animator: “Yeah, yeah! And for the final scene, make it REALLY big, and remove the texture, and… heck, make it two spikes instead of three. Two is better.”

Frank the animator: “Alright, it’s done. Are you sure no one will ever notice all these haphazard, illogical changes?”