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Veronica Jaeger will bring her vision of humankind, its complexities and situations to life in her artwork as her exhibit, Humano-Metric, will be on display at the Ben Bailey Art Gallery at Texas A&M University-Kingsville. Jaeger's art will be on exhibit from Sunday, Nov. 4, through Wednesday, Nov. 21, with an artist reception and talk at 2
p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 14.
"The relation between the reality of the physical world and the reality of the mind is what moves me to create," Jaeger said. "Part of this motivation comes from life's emotions and experiences resulting in metaphorical imagery that exemplifies an opposites' interaction between human nature and geometry. This connection figure-geometry is primordial in my work.
"I begin organizing these ideas around the components I use to build my paintings like color-wooden blocks, human figures and faces, strings and some other objects, which unfold into the fusion of human and geometric explorations and its allegorical significances: comical, emotional, physical, spiritual, neutral," she said. "This is the way I perceive life and existence, a permanent blend of good, bad and incomprehensible facts. This is the truth of life as I see it. My intention is to mock the palpable reality and its false sense of order, normalcy, security and stability."
Jaeger lives and works in South Texas. Her work has been exhibited at different national and international venues, including the Museo Contemporaneo de Arte in Tamaulipas, Mexico; the Museum of Art and Sciences in McAllen; the Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts in Tallahassee; the Masur Museum of Art in Monroe, Louisiana; and in galleries in New York, Massachusetts, Michigan, Florida, Pennsylvania and Texas.
She earned a bachelor's degree in architecture from the Universidad Rafael Urdaneta in Maracaibo, Venezuela and a master's degree in studio painting from the University of Texas-Pan American.
In 2008, she was awarded a grant by the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture and in 2009 she received the Lenore Segan Award from the Joyce Dutka Arts Foundation in New York City. Most recently, she has participated locally in the Texas Biennial and as a finalist on the Hunting Art Prize during the 2010, 2011 and 2012 competitions in Houston.
The gallery is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. For more information, call 361-593-3401.


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Some people have no idea what plein air painting is since the words are French and mean "fresh air painting." There are many plein air painters today and even a great magazine dedicated to the subject that inspires one to want to go out with the group. I have been trying to get out more to paint on location having read how much it improves one's art and sense of color. I would have to say that those who tout painting outdoors on site are right on the money.
Two weeks ago I packed up my French Easel, grabbed my Dakota pastel carrier, and Better Brella and a bottle of water and went off to paint a barn I had been wanting to paint. The barn is located on Wise Road at Linnet Lane on the back road way to Lincoln from Auburn. It was a sunny cloudless day, and a comfortable temperature when I arrived on scene at 9:15 am. I decided that I would set up in the back of my Nissan P/U because it afforded a nice spacious level platform that was safe to stand on, and raised me a foot or so higher than if I had been down on the road.
I took out my viewer and made a decision as to the dimensions of my painting on the 9"X12" piece of Wallis sanded paper I had taped to the wood pallet board. I first did a value sketch in my sketchbook of what would be my painting using a #3 pencil. Once that was done, I sketched the barn lightly on the Wallis paper along with the trees in the background. I then roughed in an undercoat using some NuPastels in the major blocks I had determined. I used an orange behind the trees, some light yellow, in the sky and a darker brown where the barn would go, and a dark ochre undercoat where the foreground grasses would be. I then used Turpenoid and a 1/2 brush I had brought along to liquify the pastel and give me a nice base to begin my painting. Since it was warming up quickly, it only took about ten minutes for the undercoat to dry.
I then began using various hard and then soft pastels to bring the painting colors together, and capture the essence of what I was looking at. The barn began to take shape with its rusted roof, and multicolored wood siding. I managed to lock down the values on the shady side and in the surrounding trees and grasses. There were a lot of corral fences around the barn, and I roughed them in to get the correct placement, figuring I would complete those details at home in my studio. The sun was getting warmer as it rose and I was grateful I had brought along my umbrella to shade my painting and part of me as I worked. I locked in the sky, tree and grass colors to bring the painting together and felt comfortable with the paintings foundations. I packed up around 12:30 to head home since it was getting quite warm and the light was changing significantly. I was glad I had shot a few pictures when I first arrived on scene as a reference.
Once I was home and had a chance to have some lunch I began to tackle the fences and to add some detail and shading. I have entitled the finished piece "The Sound of Silence". Unfortunately, like many old barns, this one is no longer used and sits quietly, gradually deteriorating with no maintenance against the elements.


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Making a story map is an excellent opportunity to be creative, challenge your inner cartographer, and demonstrate GIS skills (and add pizzazz to your LinkedIn profile while you're at it). If you haven't yet made a story map, this four-step process may help you get started.
Number 2 in the process is to plan and execute your data strategy. This step is critical but can get glossed over in the creative excitement to make a cool map. It's time to give it some time in the spotlight.
A lot of story maps are focused narratives about geographic places, features, and current or historic events. When considering data to support a story map project, pay particular attention to three items.
- Locational Accuracy
- Currentness
- Understandableness
Locational Accuracy
The story map topic determines how locationally accurate your data needs to be. If you're making a map tour or shortlist, odds are you're showcasing point features. Depending on the real-world features represented by the points, map viewers may have accuracy expectations that you'll want to meet. Keep in mind that the prettiest, most topically engaging map is a dud if the features shown are far from their real-world locations.
Suppose the topic is a local garden tour and the source data is a list of the participating homes' street addresses. The map is large-scale and uses a basemap that includes streets, parcels, and building footprints. In this case, map viewers will reasonably expect the house points to be on the correct city block and on the correct side of the street. If the points are not displayed at that level of accuracy, it detracts from the story map.
If you don't know which side of the street point features fall on, let the ArcGIS Online map viewer's geocoder do the work for you. Save addresses, GPX coordinates, or lat-long coordinates in a text or CSV file, then upload the file to the map viewer.
If you're making a map tour in which images and text are the meat of your story, you probably don't need submeter accuracy. It's perfectly fine to represent an entire street as a single point feature. As long as the points are reasonably close to the real-world locations, the story works.
Unless you're presenting a historical topic or a temporal analysis of a current issue, seek out current data. You can find lots of up-to-date, authoritative maps and data on ArcGIS Online.
If you use obsolete data to present a current topic, you run a high risk of creating a misleading or totally inaccurate story map. For example, using 1990 U.S. census data as the basis for a story map about current U.S. demographics is a do-not because more current census data is readily available. In this case, the 1990 data is obsolete.
On the other hand, if the topic is how U.S. demographics have changed over the last 20 years, using 1990 census data in conjunction with 2000 and 2010 census data is the sound approach (and the Swipe or Map Series story map apps would work well). In this case, the data is old but not obsolete.
This possibly invented term relates to the usability index of your data, meaning can users interpret it at a glance or do they need to metaphorically lean in and squint? This item creeps into step 3 territory (create the web map), but an important part of planning your data strategy is thinking about the final presentation. Often, preprocessing data speeds up assembly of the end product.
A story map is a focused narrative, so delete any fields or features that aren't relevant to that narrative. Conversely, if your data doesn't include all the detail you want to present, add one or more fields with the desired information (e.g., text descriptions, website URLs, image URLs, or category codes to base feature symbology on). You may need to split attributes stored in one field into separate fields to enhance usability of feature pop-ups.
After you've finished preparing your data for story mapping, you're ready to add it to a web map, which you'll then share to become the foundation of a story map app. As mentioned previously, using the ArcGIS Online map viewer is an easy way to create a web map. You can upload a service, zipped shapefile, TXT file, GPX file, or CSV file.
- Note: When using an ArcGIS Online public account to create a story map, you can upload a maximum of 250 features at a time. If your dataset includes more than 250 features, reduce the number of features or split the dataset into multiple files and upload them separately (first plan out how to group the features into a logical set of map layers).
If the data you want to use for a story map is stored in a geodatabase feature class and you aren't able to (or don't want to) create a service, it's easy to export the feature class to a shapefile.
- In the ArcMap Catalog window, right-click the feature class and click Export > To Shapefile.
- In the Feature Class to Feature Class dialog box, you can build a query to export only certain features and you can remove fields that you don't need.
- Shapefile text fields have a 254-character limit. If the source feature class has a text field that stores more than 254 characters, the text on the web map will be truncated. Always examine your source data carefully and make any necessary adjustments before exporting.
Symbology plays a big role in data understandableness, particularly when it comes to quantitative (numeric) data. Exercise caution when mapping quantitative data—it's easy to unintentionally use symbology that turns perfectly accurate numbers into an inaccurate view of reality. For example, pie chart symbols are often used incorrectly to symbolize data that does not represent part of a whole.
When presenting quantitative data, a good practice is to cite the data source. At a minimum, document who collected the data and when. You could add this information to the story map introduction panel, legend, feature pop-ups, or another appropriate text element.
One final tip that has nothing to do with data: Be sure to add your byline and perhaps a custom logo to the story map. After all your hard work, you deserve the recognition and map viewers will appreciate knowing who created the story map.
True beauty comes from the inside, so goes the saying. When it comes to maps, true beauty comes from accurately located, current data, presented understandably with valid symbology.
Planning and executing your data strategy may take a little time and effort, but the reward is an authoritative map that will engage and educate. In other words, a story map that's beautiful both on the outside and on the inside.
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Applied Evolutionary Economics and Complex Systems
Edited by John Foster and Werner Hölzl
Chapter 3: Random walks and non-linear paths in macroeconomic time series: some evidence and implications
Franco Bevilacqua and Adriaan van Zon
Franco Bevilacqua and Adriaan van Zon 1. INTRODUCTION The aim of this chapter is to identify the nature of the dynamics of macroeconomic time series. When time series are characterized by zero autocorrelation for all possible leads and lags, the issue of distinguishing between deterministic and stochastic components becomes an impossible task when linear methods are used (Hommes 1998). This impasse arises because linear methods are appropriate to detect regularities in time series like autocorrelations and dominant frequencies (Conover 1971, Oppenheim and Schafer 1989), while fluctuations in real economic time series are generally characterized by zero autocorrelation and no dominant frequency. Economic fluctuations seem really similar to background noise, which does not possess dominant frequencies and each noise impulse is not serially correlated. The spectral analysis of economic fluctuations, seemingly as complex as noise, has led many economists to consider fluctuations as identically independently distributed (i.i.d.) events. As a matter of fact the i.i.d. hypothesis is an obvious necessity for all linear models to describe, at least approximately, the irregularities in the observed data. In the past two kinds of linear economic models based on the i.i.d. hypothesis in the residuals have been presented. In the first model, known as the deterministic trend model, variables evolve as a function in time along a linear trend. In the second model (the stochastic trend model), variables evolve as a function of their forgoing values and a shock shifts the value of the variable from the lagged value (Rappoport and Reichlin 1989). In...
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I popped into Superdrug a few weeks ago to have a little mosey on my lunch break and as usual I left with a hand full of swatches. It wasn't until later that evening when I stepped out of the shower that I realised one of the swatches just would not budge, even after about 6 hours, 3/4 hand washes and a shower! That's some serious staying power right there! I cast my mind back to the earlier Superdrug trip and remembered that that particular swatch had come from one of the new Bourjois Rouge Edition Velvet Lipsticks and I made a vow that next time I was there I simply NEEDED to pick one up!
The boring as ever, neutral fan I am I picked up a mid-toned beigey pink which closely remembers at least 9 or 10 other lipsticks and glosses in my collection. What can I say?! I just can't seem to escape those kind of shades but at least I know what I like!
The lipstick comes in a liquid form with a doe-foot applicator and is completely matte. It's easy to apply, the applicator picks up just enough product and doesn't overload your lips whilst giving you enough precision to make a neat application.
As previously discussed, the staying power is pretty damn brilliant. I like knowing I can rely on what I put on my face in the morning and this is definitely one of those products. It will last about 3 hours on the lips (even through food and drinks) and then will fade to a nice stain for another few hours. It is slightly drying but nothing a bit of Blistex can't fix.
I have now decided I absolutely need every single colour. The next on my list is Peach Club. You can pick these up from Boots and Superdrug for £8.99 each but they're on special offer in Superdrug at the moment for only £5.99 so go go go!!
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The "City of Big Shoulders" was devastated in the Great Fire of 1871, and has risen from the ashes to become Chicago, whose sights and sounds make it just the place for a memorable holiday.
Start with a bang at the Chicago Cultural Center. Everything from workshops to theatre performances is held here at the "People's Palace," the stage for about 1,000 events annually. It is a grand building acclaimed for its stained-glass domes and its beaux-arts style.
The Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio is a tribute to the great architect, who was known for his "Prairie Style." An example of this is the Robie House, also in Chicago, illustrating the American Midwest's landscape, with low structures, built-in furnishings, and art glass windows.
Check out photos of Chicago here!
The Lincoln Park Zoo is where kids of all ages can see flamingos, lions, penguins, and more -- all for free. The Regenstein Center for African Apes is not to be missed, home to endangered chimps and gorillas. Have a sip from the bronze Elephant Drinking Fountain, just one of the sculptures which complement the trees dotting the zoo.
"Go a little overboard" at Navy Pier by Lake Michigan, with parks, outdoor theatres, and fairgrounds. Fireworks light up the sky every Friday and Saturday. Another outdoor bonanza is in store at Millennium Park, where the Grant Park Music Festival is held every year.
Buddy Guy's Legends is "the nation's premier blues club." Owned by the master of electric blues, Buddy Guy, equally talented musicians have taken the spotlight one time or another: The Rolling Stones, John Mayer, and David Bowie, to name a few.
There are loads of tours to enjoy during a holiday in Chicago, such as "Women of Influence at the Graceland Cemetery," "Temples of Culture," and "Architecture River Cruise." Food tours are available too, with stops at a Jewish deli, a Chicago-stuffed pizzeria, and a fudge and confectionery store.


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Raymond Schinazi, PhD, DSc
Chairman, CoCrystal Pharma, Inc. and
Frances Winship Walters Professor, Emory University and VA Medical Center
Raymond F. Schinazi, PhD, DScwas the Founder and Director of RFS Pharma, LLCuntil its merger with CoCrystal Pharma (NASDAQ: COCP) in November 2014. He is also the Frances Winship Walters Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Laboratory of Biochemical Pharmacology at Emory University. He serves as Senior Research Career Scientist at the Atlanta Department of Veterans Affairs and Director of the Scientific Working Group on Viral Eradication for NIH-sponsored Emory University Center for AIDS Research (CFAR). Dr. Schinazi received his BSc (1972) and PhD (1976) in chemistry from the University of Bath, England.
He has authored over 500 peer-reviewed papers and 7 books and holds 92 issued U.S. patents and over 120 non-U.S. national stage patents and patent applications, which have resulted in 12 New Drug Applications (NDA). A world leader in nucleoside chemistry, Dr. Schinazi is best known for his pioneering work on HIV and HCV drugs d4T (stavudine), 3TC (lamivudine), FTC (emtricitabine/Emtriva), LdT (telbivudine), and most recently sofosbuvir (Sovaldi), which are now approved by the FDA.
More than 94% of HIV-infected individuals in the US on combination therapy take at least one of the drugs he invented, and it is estimated that his work has saved more than 3 million lives worldwide. His contributions related to HCV are expected to have a profound positive impact on the approximately 170 million people worldwide suffering from chronic infection.
Dr. Schinazi has been the recipient of numerous awards chronicling his track record of innovation and contributions to medical science including an honorary degree from Bath University, his Alma mater. Among these many awards, are the 2000 Bruce Witte Annual Distinguished Award from the Hepatitis B foundation. He served on the Presidential commission for AIDS during the Clinton administration. This year, Dr. Schinazi was awarded the Research and Hope Award for Excellence in Academic Research from the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) organization and the Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award from the American Liver Foundation, which was presented at the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases Annual Conference in Boston. Furthermore, Dr. Schinazi has been awarded a Distinguished Lectureship from Emory University in recognition of his academic contributions.


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Hong Kong actor Fui-On Shing [File Photo: TUNGSTAR]
Hong Kong actor Fui-On Shing, 54, died of nasopharyngeal carcinoma at 23:45 Thursday, five years after being diagnosed with the disease.
Shing reportedly spent his last minutes with his family and friends in Hong Kong Baptist Hospital, where several close friends in the entertainment industry, including Alan Tam, Eric Tsang, and Nick Cheung, also accompanied him, according to sina.com.
In 2004, Shing was diagnosed with terminal stage nasopharyngeal and told he had only four months to live.
But with his optimistic character, Shing prolonged his life by four years and seemingly created a miracle.
Two years ago, he even shot two more films, namely "The Detective" and "Crazy Money & Funny Men."
Shing, well-known among many Chinese born in the 1970s and 1980s, started his showbiz career 31 years ago and often played the roles of gang leaders as he was usually described as a tall, muscular man.
He was mainly known for supporting roles and had only held one leading role in his entire career in the movie "The Blue Jean Monster."
Shing performed in more than 350 films and 600 soap operas episodes.
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Light from a Distant Star by Mary McGarry Morris (5 Stars)
Light from a Distant Star
by: Mary McGarry Morris
5 Stars
Product Details
- Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
- Publication date: 7/17/2012
- Pages: 336
- Sales rank: 401,440
- Product dimensions: 5.30 x 7.86 (h) x 0.73 (d)
Summary: Nellie is in charge of taking care of her younger brother Henry for the summer. The adults are just too busy. Her mother is working as much as she can at the salon, and when she is home, she is always complaining about the lack of money that they have. Her father owns the family hardware store, but really spends all of his time working on a history of the city. In order to help with finances, the apartment in the basement is rented out to a young erotic dancer. This sets Nellie off on an adventure that has several ups and downs. To begin with, Nellie is fascinated with this dancer. She loves to eaves drop on her by listening in through the walls. Dolly, the dancer, then becomes a little more part of the family as she talks to Nellie's older sister and mother. In the meantime, Max has started working with Nellie's grandfather. Max is another fascination for Nellie. She likes talking to him. He seems to be the only adult that treats her as more than just a little kid. The problem is, she can tell that Max is interested in Dolly, but several men seem to be interested in her. She's also seen Mr. Cooper, a local businessman, hanging around Dolly. She's overheard conversations with Dolly on the phone with a man she seems to be dating. It's all rather unclear. Then, something horrible happens! There is a murder and Nellie may be the only one that knows what really happened. This spirals Nellie into a moral dilemma. She tells one person the truth to what she believes it to be, but is told that she may be wrong. Nellie has to deal with the trial and attempting to figure out what is right and what is wrong. Who knows if she may be ruining one persons life to save someone who could be guilty.
My thoughts: I really enjoyed this book. The murder doesn't happen until about half way through the book, but I could have done without that and the aftermath. I loved just following Nellie around as she lived her daily life through the summer. Her interactions with all that are around her and her astute observations are fun to be a part of. I love the lazy summer stories that just allow you to delve into the characters. Once the murder happens, things spiral around that and her attempts to hold things in or tell them out. I didn't enjoy the last half of the novel as much as the first. I felt like I lost some of my connection with Nellie. It is realistic for a little girl to be obsessed with one particular topic. It is also frustrating when people don't seem to believe her when she shares information. Towards the end of the novel, I felt bad that we have lost the innocent and observant child from the beginning; however, I appreciated Nellie's character arc and found overall the book to be a great read.


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September 5, 2017
Rich flavor and just the right combination ingredients. The only thing extra that is needed is a fine bottle of Chianti.
Warning: This Baked Mostaccioli is not your sports banquet mostaccioli. This pasta is blanketed in layers of robust tomato flavor, mozzarella, parmesan and ricotta cheese and it is utterly delicious.
I've been like a kid on summer vacation the last few weeks. Sleeping in, reading books from my local library, boating, two weekends away and alas, not tackling chores I should have, including routinely updating my blog with new recipes.
It's been a good summer, but Labor Day has passed, the school buses are rolling again and it's officially time I stop slacking and start remembering what day of the week it is. That calls for an especially good, practically unforgettable recipe and Baked Mostaccioli covers all the bases.
I've made pasta more times than I can count. If it weren't for the darn calorie factor, I would eat it every day. Not long ago a good friend told me she looked on my blog for a Mostaccioli recipe but didn't find one. She's right. Somehow the obvious was overlooked.
She found another Mostaccioli recipe online that she shared with me. It was delicious (some may say even breakfast worthy ~ don't judge) but I wanted to create a recipe using some of my favorite sauce ingredients you can make year around and the result is this Baked Mostaccioli ~ three-cheesy and packed with over-the-top, robust delicious flavor ~ and oh yeah, it's breakfast worthy, too.
I used a whole grain pasta in this recipe ~ the other leaf I'm turning over ~ eating a bit healthier where I can without sacrificing taste, but use what you prefer. You may notice this pasta has lines, meaning it's not technically mostaccioli but actually penne pasta. True mostaccioli has no lines and as far as I know, that's the basic difference between the two. I used penne because that's what I found in whole grain. You can also use ziti in this recipe as well.
Baked Mostaccioli (um penne) is a great any-night dish and ideal for a crowd because it serves an army ~ especially good for Sunday football gatherings because you can make it ahead of time and let it bake while you watch the game or catch up with friends. It's a guaranteed pleaser that disappears fast.
I added fresh herbs, one the best ways to elevate an everyday dish and though this isn't a 30 minute stove-to-table recipe, the prep time is quick (about 10 minutes) and once it's in the oven you can do whatever feel like doing ~ maybe pour a glass of wine to enjoy with this cheesy, tomatey 9×13 pan of deliciousness.
When my daughters were high school cheerleaders the season always ended with a big sports banquet. The menu was pretty much the same year to year and always included a huge pan of mostaccioli. They were feeding teenagers, after all.
Friends, this Baked Mostaccioli is not your sports banquet mostaccioli. It's layers of robust tomato goodness blanketed in layers of melted cheese. Make it once and it'll become your comfort go-to.
Baked Mostaccioli is labor intensive lasagna's cousin ~ simple, unpretentious and every bit as delicious. No one needs to know how quick it is to prepare; they'll be focused the flavor.
Tip #1: Be sure to generously season the pasta water so every ingredient in your dish is flavored. Pasta sets the groundwork for the dish.
Tip #2: I love the convenience and easy storage of tomato paste in a tube (like toothpaste). It stores easily in the refrigerator and you use only as much as you like, without waste.
Tip #3: Italian Seasoning is a great spice to keep on hand for this dish and many others. It's the ideal balance of marjoram, thyme, rosemary, sage, oregano and basil.
Start by cooking the pasta just to the point before it reaches al dente. It'll finish cooking as it bakes. Reserve ¼ cup of pasta water then drain the pasta and rinse it with cold water to stop the cooking process.
Warm a deep skillet over medium-high heat then add a drizzle of olive oil, the ground beef, onions, mushrooms (optional) and grated garlic. Give it a good seasoning of salt and pepper and cook until the beef is no longer pink, breaking it up with a wooden spoon or spatula.
Tip #4: A great way to infuse more flavor into any meat by searing. When you add the beef to the skillet, spread it out then let it sear over medium-high heat for several minutes before turning and breaking it up.
Once the beef is cooked, lower the heat to medium, fold in the tomato paste, Italian seasoning, reserved pasta water, parsley and tomato sauce and cook a couple of minutes.
Blend in the ricotta then add the pasta, combining completely.
Butter (yes butter) a 9×13 baking dish, then add half of the mostaccioli to the baking dish. Top with half of the mozzarella then add the rest of the mostaccioli, the remaining mozzarella and parmesan cheese.
Bake uncovered at 350° for 40 minutes. Serve with your favorite red wine, bakery bread or garlic toast and salad.
Side notes:
I mentioned I was lucky enough to get away two weekends this summer. Both were to the west side of Michigan, just a few hours from home. As a lifelong Michigander it doesn't take much to convince me to get out of town during the winter months, but in my *unbiased* opinion, Michigan is one of the best places to be in the summer, especially if it's near one of our Great Lakes.
One weekend trip was with my husband and another couple salmon fishing on a charter boat. Those 20 pound fish can fight and we caught quite a few of them! It was a lot of fun and a great weekend.
We came home with about 30 pounds of fileted salmon, now vacuum sealed in our freezer ~ plenty for the entire winter and spring, so not only will I be sharing some of my favorite salmon recipes over the next few months, I'd love to try yours, too! Leave a comment for me please.
The second weekend getaway was a mother-daughter trip with lots of laughs and plenty of delicious food and wine. While we were there, I had a really ah-mazing dish, Chicken Pesto Mac and Cheese at Taste, a restaurant in South Haven. Tender bites of chicken and macaroni in a creamy, silky cheese sauce enhanced with freshly made basil pesto.
It was so good, we went back to the restaurant that same weekend and I ordered it again. I'm a huge pesto fan and when it's paired with pasta and melted cheese, I practically swoon. I'll be recreating the dish very soon, so keep an eye out for it on the blog. It's definitely one worth sharing ~ or not ~ it's your choice. It's that good.
If you like this Baked Mostaccioli but have your heart set on lasagna, try this any-night Skillet Lasagna ~ a simple yet decadent, one-pan recipe ideal for weeknights.
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September 5, 2017
Rich flavor and just the right combination ingredients. The only thing extra that is needed is a fine bottle of Chianti.
September 6, 2017
Your trips sound so fun…that's a lot of salmon! Can't wait for your future recipes, especially the chicken pesto mac & cheese. Really sounds yummy! Happy you had a good summer vacation, but glad you're back. Take care. Chat soon, my friend.
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Blue Invasion: Artist Statement
By Tony Oursler
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-You can feel the color that is cold or hot for you close your eyes run your hand over them just above yes an inch or two feel anything?
-You seem in an auric cloud yellow tonight
-Hey you what's your fav color?
-You look like you could use a boost try color charging
-We got your dreams over here
-Any color to fit your mood,
-We are products of the stars and now you can listen to them
-Oh be a fine girl kiss I! That's a system used to rate the heat of starts from hot to cool O B A F G K M, that how the students remember it.
-Look up that's where you came from
-Look at a color and close your eyes, know what you'll see? The opposite color? Now what does that tell you?
-What color eyes do you have? The iris is like the universe around a black hole. Come have a look at black.
A meteor has crash-landed in the park in the center of the city of Sidney. It is glowing from the inside and shows some form of life in fact it may be a prism as colors are streaming forth from it. It is surrounded buy onlookers and officials studying it. We find it perhaps taped off, we are sad because we want to be closer. It could be toxic, not on purpose, so the public does not touch it. Video is constantly being taken of it and there are projections of light. The ground close to the meteor is smoking hot. It has burned through the atmosphere to help us. And to pick up some of the images which emanate from the rock eyes mouths and body parts as well as symbols of all sorts (this rock is alive and the spearhead of some sort of invasion. There are men and women walking around the rock doing things making measurements photographing and using laser to take other readings sharing information. A small satellite, dishes can also be seen at this site to complete the picture of the material inside the stone.
The rock has a life form in it that believes light to be the universal means of communication and any sophisticated culture would have the knowledge to break light into it's components as Newton did in 1666 with the prism and identify the spectrum and thus it follows that the codification of light would be a natural first language. The heavens are nothing but a series of points of lights and reading starlight has captured the imagination of this and our life forms.
We greet a vastly superior intelligence is on our planet. We are sorry to say that after what some estimate may have been 10,000 years of wandering space the creatures are confused. The creatures of the rock have received media signals in space in the form of radio and television fragments as well as SETI signals over the last 70 or so years and have mastered our language and can take on the guise of these signals and communicate with us in the form of reverse broadcasts a slightly different way than we do it. Directly into the mind of the viewer. They also broadcast directly onto the environment: trees, buildings, fountains and the ground it's self become screens for the messages from the rock.
Some people have become over whelmed when they discovery of a new benevolent life form while others are suspicious. Some have fallen into the fountain and are spraying water into the air to collect images and text from the information rich environment around the park. SETI has set up a series of colored lights and antenna to see if it can find another means of communicating with the entity.
And at least one news team is religiously interviewing people around the park documenting this historic event and they seem to have a new form of technology T-ray perhaps given to them by the creatures in their camera as though they are under control of the entity occasionally. They are very pro rock and speak for it sometimes. Another confusing element in the messages that can only be explained by millions of years of parallel evolution: it seems that the messages are all color based in content. It is as if the rock, prism- like, believes we will understand things better if we think of them in terms of color. We agree. Harmonic auric color charge is human power fused with off earth sounds: listen to the record. The colors are there. The rock has released a number of 'entities' or 'reflections' of it's self in the form of video and humanoid in nature onto the trees and pure light onto other trees. Thus the question: does the rock makes any distinction between that of sentient life forms or does it treat all life as intelligent or does it have some other motivation that remains mysterious. Too bad the trees will die but others will grow. Large and green. Perhaps it has chosen the park with its memorials to war and attention to new growth in vegetation as the perfect spot for its message. Regeneration of color life. Now if we can only understand we have written some of its messages in these books for you to decode. As far as we can tell. These entities roughly corresponding to the 7 basic colors and black. The color of space and all colors at once. And the communiques they present are riddle like in their color obsession. You must now decode we have some information for you we have done the best we can do up to now.
Thus the rainbow of booklets are examples of the rock entity and creature color texts. Through followers the rock has written as much of the missives and fragments of language and images that they can into this array of color pamphlets and sound CD's New reports and fresh material comes to us constantly we will try to record all of it.


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Key Concepts
Review core concepts you need to learn to master this subject
JavaScript Control Flow
if Statement in JavaScript
else statement in JavaScript
NOT Operator in JavaScript
JavaScript Truthy and Falsy
JavaScript Comparison Operators
JavaScript Strict Comparisons
else Control Flow Statements
JavaScript Control Flow
JavaScript Control Flow
Control flow is the order in which statements are executed in a program. Control structures such as conditionals allow for control flow to be altered during the execution of a program. In JavaScript, the default control flow is for statements to be read and executed in order from left-to-right, top-to-bottom in a program file. Control structures such as conditionals (
if statements and the like) alter control flow by only executing blocks of code if certain condition(s) are met. These structures essentially allow a program to make decisions about which code is executed as the program runs.
if Statement in JavaScript
if Statement in JavaScript
if statement will be executed if the
if condition is true. In this code block, the variable
isMailSent has been initialized with a boolean value
true. Therefore, the
if statement will be executed resulting a log in the console
Mail sent to recipient.
else statement in JavaScript
else statement in JavaScript
else block will be executed only if the
if condition fails. In the above example, the variable
isTaskCompleted has been initialized with a boolean value
false. Therefore, the
else block will be executed resulting in
Task incomplete logging to the console.
NOT Operator in JavaScript
NOT Operator in JavaScript
! operator can be used to A) invert a Boolean value, or B) invert the truthiness of non-Boolean values. In the code block, we see how it is used in both situations.
JavaScript Truthy and Falsy
JavaScript Truthy and Falsy
In JavaScript, values evaluate to
true or
false when evaluated as Booleans. Values that will evaluate to
true are known as truthy and values that evaluate to
false are known as falsy. Falsy values include
0, empty strings,
undefined, and
NaN. All other values are truthy.
JavaScript Comparison Operators
JavaScript Comparison Operators
JavaScript comparison operators are used to compare two values and return
true or
false depending on the validity of the comparison. Comparison operators include:
- strict equal (
- strict not equal (
- greater than (
- less than (
- greater than or equal (
- less than or equal (
= (assign a value to something),
== (check if something is equal, not strict), and
=== (check if something is equal, strict) are commonly confused. "Strict" means that it checks not only the equality of two values, but also the types of the two values.
JavaScript Strict Comparisons
JavaScript Strict Comparisons
Strict equality or inequality comparisons use:
=== and
!== operators respectively. Strict comparisons evaluate the equality of the operands without employing type conversion.
else Control Flow Statements
else Control Flow Statements
Control flow statements can be chained by combining if and else statements into else if. After an initial
if statement, one or more
else if blocks can check additional conditions, with an optional
else block to catch cases that do not match any conditional. The example above demonstrates how you can create multiple conditions in an
if...else control flow statement.
The JavaScript && operator
The JavaScript && operator
The logical OR operator (
||) compares two values. When it is used in a Boolean context, it returns
true when either values evaluate to
true. If both values evaluate to
false, the
|| operator returns
switch Statement in JavaScript
switch Statement in JavaScript
Switch statements allow for compact control flow structures by evaluating a single expression and executing code blocks based on a matched case. The
switch statement first evaluates the expression provided. The result of the expression is matched against one or more
case clauses. If it matches one, the code inside that clause is executed. If the
case clause ends with a
break statement, the code inside the
switch will cease executing and the next statement following
switch will be executed. If no
case clauses match but a
default exists, the code inside
default will be executed. If
break is omitted from a clause (or the execution is not broken otherwise, such as
returning from a function with a
switch), code in subsequent clauses will continue executing until a
break is encountered or the flow is otherwise broken.
JavaScript Ternary Operator
JavaScript Ternary Operator
The ternary operator allows for a compact syntax in the case of binary (if/else) decisions. It evaluates a single condition and executes one expression if the condition is evaluates to
true and the second expression otherwise. The syntax is:
condition ? expression1 : expression2. It can be read as "IF condition THEN expression1 ELSE expression2".
- 1In life, we make decisions based on circumstances. Think of an everyday decision as mundane as falling asleep— if we are tired, we go to bed, otherwise, we wake up and start our day. These i…
- 2We often perform a task based on a condition. For example, if the weather is nice today, then we will go outside. If the alarm clock rings, then we'll shut it off. If we're tired, then we'll go to …
- 3In the previous exercise, we used an if statement that checked a condition to decide whether or not to run a block of code. In many cases, we'll have code we want to run if our condition evaluates …
- 4When writing conditional statements, sometimes we need to use different types of operators to compare values. These operators are called comparison operators. Here is a list of some handy compar…
- 5Working with conditionals means that we will be using booleans, true or false values. In JavaScript, there are operators that work with boolean values known as logical operators. We can use logic…
- 6Let's consider how non-boolean data types, like strings or numbers, are evaluated when checked inside a condition. Sometimes, you'll want to check if a variable exists and you won't necessarily w…
- 7Truthy and falsy evaluations open a world of short-hand possibilities! Say you have a website and want to take a user's username to make a personalized greeting. Sometimes, the user does not hav…
- 8In the spirit of using short-hand syntax, we can use a ternary operator to simplify an if…else statement. Take a look at the if…else statement example: let isNightTime = true; if (isNightT…
- 9We can add more conditions to our if…else with an else if statement. The else if statement allows for more than two possible outcomes. You can add as many else if statements as you'd like, to mak…
- 10else if statements are a great tool if we need to check multiple conditions. In programming, we often find ourselves needing to check multiple values and handling each of them differently. For exam…
- 11Way to go! Here are some of the major concepts for conditionals: An if statement checks a condition and will execute a task if that condition evaluates to true. if…else statements make binary…
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iLife '09: Little Enhancements Add Up
One of the big attractions of the Macintosh platform is the iLife suite of applications--and the fact that they are simple to use but still make the basic multimedia functions very accessible to typical users. I've been using iLife 09 for a while now, and I can't say there's any one improvement that makes it essential for most Mac users. But there are lots of little enhancements that, together, add up to a nice upgrade.
All the applications--iMovie, iPhoto, iTunes, and GarageBand--have gotten upgrades. PCMag.com has a complete review, so I'm mostly going to give my impressions here.
iPhoto '09: iPhoto is probably the biggest draw of the various applications; it remains one of the easiest ways to manage your photos I've seen. There are two big additions in this version: "Faces" and "Places." Typically, you start in a view called Events that basically takes your photographs by folder or date and organizes them together. Each appears as a little thumbnail, and I really appreciate the way you can mouse over a thumbnail and quickly glance at all the photos in that event. It's surprisingly quick, and very slick. Then it adds Places--a way to organize your photos by where they were taken, assuming that the photos have geotags. Places shows pins on a map, and you can click on a pin. It worked really well for photos taken on an iPhone 3G, though in most cases you;ll have to manually add the locations, since most pictures don't have the geographic information. The good news is that this is pretty easy: Just click on an event or a set of pictures, and click a single button to add the information for all the photos. But I would have liked to see some of this done a little more automatically; for instance, if I have a folder marked "San Francisco," it might be nice to see those photos placed for me.
Perhaps the most interesting feature is called Faces: It uses face detection to identify the faces in your pictures, then attempts to use face-recognition to match the faces. This is a great idea, but there's still a lot of work to be done here. Initially, it didn't work well at all on my photos, but over time (and after selecting more samples) it has become noticeably more accurate. Still, it takes Faces a while to sort through your photos (it look most of a day to work on my library of 13,000 photos), and there are plenty of suggestions where it thinks it has found a match that just seem laughable. (For matches for me, for example, I can understand it suggesting a picture of a teenage nephew of mine, but I'm not sure why it would suggest a picture of my mother-in-law.) But glitches like that are only to be expected with this technology. I've seen similar examples in other software and web sites, and people are just better than computers at this right now.
The program also has very simple tools that make it easy to upload your photos to Facebook, Flickr, or Mobile Me or send them via email, just at the click of a button. Similarly, you can create a photo book, calendar, or card.
Of course, there are lots of other photo management applications out there. Google Picasa offers most of the same features for free; and of course, you could use a number of higher-end tools such as Adobe Photoshop with more editing features. But iPhoto remains a very nice tool for managing your photos and for simple editing.
iMovie '09: This is one of the easiest ways of making a video. As with iPhoto, it scans for videos you have on your machine and divides these into events, here in an event library You can skim through the videos, and pick the parts you'd like in your movie, then move them into a project window. It's particularly easy to add photos (from iPhoto), music, titles, and transitions; or to pick from a handful of themes from the library and create a nice, simple movie, with titles and transitions.
This is a big step forward from iMovie '08 (which was a complete rewrite of the older iMovie, and left off a number of features), including direct export to the iDVD burning application, and new visual effects. You can convert your video to black and white, or show a scene in slow motion or reverse motion. One of the nice things is that just about anything you do works almost instantly; there is no big delay for rendering when you add a transition, and so on. And you can directly move your movies to iTunes (for an iPod or iPhone), Apple's MobileMe service, or YouTube.
Perhaps the biggest new feature is image stabilization. The program can go through a clip or an event and analyze it, finding the parts that are too shaky to use. It also finds those parts that can be "stabilized," which effectively means zooming in on the common parts. In my tests, this took a little time, but worked reasonably well.
A few things in the new iMovie will be big issues for some users. It had no trouble connecting to a Sony AVCHD camcorder and importing the files directly, but it wouldn't read the same .MTS files if directly copied to the hard drive. And while it can work with HD files, the only way of viewing a completed HD movie is on the Mac; it can't output to HDV tape or make a Blu-ray drive. Indeed, the largest file it seems to be able to export has a frame size of 960 by 540.
In addition, iMovie '09 is missing some features that the older iMovie ('06 and before) had, including plug-ins.
GarageBand '09: I have absolutely no musical talent at all, so I'm probably not the person to review GarageBand. It's essentially a tool for letting you record your own music on the Mac, but it's been expanded to become a tool for learning to play an instrument as well.
Generally, you begin a project by choosing from one of the many sound loops that come with the program, then add in your own music, either from a real instrument that plugs into the computer, or from a software version of the instruments. You have have multiple tracks, and multiple takes, editing as you go. You can then arrange your song, moving different sections around.
When you are done, you can output the music to ITunes, or create a podcast or ringtone for an iPhone.
The Learn to Play feature is new in this version. it comes with two basic lessons (for Piano and Guitar) on disk and links to new video lessons online. There are nine free video lessons each for guitar and piano, along with video instructions from well-known musicians such as Nora Jones and John Fogerty (each artist lesson costs $4.99).
All of this solidifies GarageBand as a learning application. It's pretty simple to get started with, though I doubt most people could really learn to play an instrument from video. My guess is that serious musicians would prefer a somewhat higher-end application, but this is a good way of getting started.
iDVD: This is Apple's DVD-writing software, and it doesn't appear to have changed significantly since the last version. As a general-purpose DVD writer, it's pretty limited, but where it shines is the tight integration with iMovie. Basically, now you just choose "iDVD" from the Share menu within iMovie, and it creates a DVD project that's ready to burn. It's very simple.
iDVD can do more--you can add other movies that have been exported as files, but I would have liked a simple way of just picking iMovie projects and iPhoto slide shows and adding them.
iWeb '09: This is Apple's method of taking content from within the rest of iLife and turning it into a basic Web site. It seems mostly aimed at sites that are part of Apple's MobileMe service, which costs $99 a year, including e-mail, Web hosting, and file storage. But new in this version is the ability to directly post to any host that accepts FTP. This makes it more flexible. I haven't used this in depth, but it looks like a very easy tool to use, and more powerful than a lot of the free web-based tools out there. Of course, businesses will likely find it too limited,
Integration: The biggest thing iLife has going for it, though, remains integration. For instance, it's really easy to take music from iTunes or GarageBand and photos from iPhoto and combine them to create a great slideshow in iMovie, then burn it in iDVD. You can easily find other photo and video applications that have more features, but nothing that is quite so easy and well integrated.
iLife '09 comes with new Macs, so it's an obviously choice for people with new machines. If you have an older Mac, the upgrade is $79 (or $99 for a family pack.) For most people, there's no one big "must have" improvement in this version. But the combination of relatively little things, such as the "faces" and "places" features in iPhoto and the image stabilization in iMovie, add up to a nice upgrade that will be worth it for people who spend a lot of time in these applications.


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Learn my 9 step technique of shading and coloring distressed tiles!
Learn how to select the right supplies to tangle over distress tiles
Learn a technique which combines waterproof and water-soluble brush markers to create glorious, vibrant shading over distress tiles
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Shading and coloring over distressed markers is not simply a matter of using colored pencils. After all, you want to display your gorgeous distressed tiles, right?
Learn how to select the right tiles and right materials to enhance the distressed features.
Look at what you can do with this technique!
List of Supplies:
Bristol Vellum paper or art tile - I use 4x4 inch square tiles
Distress Ink pads or stain in spray bottles: at least 3 colors plus white "picket fence". You can also use Dylusions Spray Ink.
A large plastic box or drawer
Plastic food wrap
A small spray bottle with water
Paper towel
Hair dryer or heat gun
A small spray bottle with alcohol
Brown Sakura Micron 01 inking pen (waterproof)
Sharpie pens ultra fine point in various colors (waterproof)
Distress Ink Watercolor brush pens in various colors (or any other type of water-soluble brush pen, Koi, Tombow, etc).
White gel pen
White colored pencil (prismacolor or polychromos)
Fine paintbrush (#4), clean container for water, paper towel (or waterbrush)
This is what students made!
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PRESS RELEASE: Argenta Welcomes LGBT Cinema in August
Argenta Welcomes LGBT Cinema in August
NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – (June 21, 2016) The Film Society of Little Rock, a non-profit organization focused on providing innovative and unique programming and events, is proud to celebrate the diversity of the LGBT community and filmmakers with Kaleidoscope, a film festival set for August 18 to 21, 2016.
The Film Festival will open at Pulaski Technical College in North Little Rock August 18. All other screenings will be held at the Argenta Community Theatre.
"I've always believed the arts present a great opportunity to win over a person's heart and mind," said Tony Taylor, Executive Director of Film Society of Little Rock and Festival Director of the Kaleidoscope LGBT Film Festival. "And I believe it is more important now than ever to support LGBT films and filmmakers. Festivals like Kaleidoscope provide an opportunity for people, both gay and straight, to come together and see that we all experience similar things in life."
Kaleidoscope's mission is to provide innovative and unique programming that will engage the hearts and minds of audiences in the state of Arkansas and the surrounding region.
"Kaleidoscope provides a great opportunity for Arkansans to be exposed to film and entertainment that they might never encounter outside a festival like this," said Susan Altrui, FSLR board member and chair of the Arkansas Motion Picture Institute (AMPI) board. "We are very excited about the response we received the first year of the festival, and we are even more excited to build upon what we started last year. Kaleidoscope is a first class regional film festival and AMPI couldn't be more proud of that."
The festival exhibits the power of film to transform the lives and opinions of those inside and outside the LGBT community through the universal medium of cinema, which Taylor says speaks to the current issues and tragedies affecting the LGBT community.
"Over the past few years, there have been many who have questioned the need for Pride and LGBT film festivals since the LGBT community has finally made gains after decades of fighting for equality," said Taylor. "Unfortunately, the horrible tragedy in Orlando shows, that our community remains a target for persecution."
Film selection is still underway and details of the program will be announced mid- to late-July. To sign up to volunteer at the film festival or subscribe to the newsletter, please visit kaleidoscopefilmfestival.com.
About Film Society of Little Rock
The Film Society of Little Rock is a grassroots, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization focused on providing innovative and unique programming and events that will engage the hearts and minds of audiences in the City of Little Rock, State of Arkansas, and the surrounding region. Our year-round programming includes two principle festivals; Fantastic Cinema and Kaleidoscope, as well as, film series and individual screenings. For more information visit: filmsocietylr.com.
Film Society of Little Rock Board Members include Chris Cranford, Chair, Susan Altrui, Johnnie Brannon, Linda Brown, Jennifer Cox, Bruce Hutchison, Sarah Jones, Jennifer Owens, Tony Taylor, Mindy Van Kuren, Cameron Vaughan and Jason Willey.
Connect with us
Twitter: @FilmSocietyLR
Facebook: www.facebook.com/FilmSocietyLR
About Kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscope celebrates the diversity of the LGBT community and filmmakers by presenting poignant and thought-provoking films documenting LGBT lives truthfully and with respect. The festival exhibits the power of film to transform lives and opinions of those both inside and outside the LGBT community through the universal medium of the cinema. Kaleidoscope is Arkansas's only major outlet for LGBT films, as well as LGBT filmmakers. Kaleidoscope 2016 will be held August 18th through August 21st in North Little Rock, Arkansas. For more information visit: kaleidosocpefilmfestival.com.
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Havasu 'Baaja
Havasupai Indian Reservation
Arizona, USA
My daughter Rebecca, 'Becca' for short, and I were on our long awaited Daddy/Daughter trip and we'd made our way to the little village of Supai within the Grand Canyon in Arizona. What a place…we had a fantastic time.
Upon our return I asked Becca if she thought the colors looked right in this final image. "The color was more intense that that!", she said. I explained to her that I thought the color was dead on. "Besides", I explained to her, "people are going to have a hard time believing these colors!" She recounted about how beautiful it was, and she's right, it was.
Havasu 'Baaja (pronounced – "Havasu by") translated means: People of the blue green waters.
See Ya On the Trail!
Field Notes
Camera: Arca Swiss 8x10 f-line camera
Lens: 150mm
Aperture: f64
Exposure: 10 Seconds
Film: Professional Fuji Astia 100f


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III. American Courts (Ch. 15)
Current Events -- none
Alexis de Tocqueville stated "scarcely any political question arises in the U.S. that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question".
Hyperlexus -- litigation explosion, frivolous lawsuits
American law is based on the English legal system. EXCEPTION: Louisiana is based on Roman law (Napoleanic)
Roman law code -- provide rules comprehensive enough to settle all disputes. Very precise and detailed but allows little discretion and flexibility or creativity.
English law -- common law and created on a case by case basis through real disputes and established by precedence.
Common law -- Judge made law that originated in England from decisions shaped according to prevailing custom. Decisions were applied to similar situations and gradually became common to the nation. Common law forms the basis of legal procedures in the 50 states. A.K.A. case law which evolved into a system of rules but not a systematic code.
Statutes -- comes from England and means laws enacted by Parliament or "A law that is on the books". The US Constitution is referred to as a law also.
We inherited from the Roman code our use of terms -- latin.
Stare Decisis -- To stand on decided cases; the policy of courts to follow precedents established by past decisions.
Precedent -- A court rule bearing on subsequent legal decisions in similar cases. Judges rely on precedents in deciding cases.
Habeas Corpus, Writ of -- means literally, "you have the body." An order that requires jailers to bring a person before a court or judge and explain why the person is being held in prison.
ultra vires -- beyond the powers; Supreme Court uses this to strike down the constitutionality of acts passed by congress. Act is beyond the powers of congress to pass.
Administrative law -- branch of public law that govern administrative and regulatory agencies and their activities. They are Quasi (almost) judicial.
Criminal Law vs Civil Law
Criminal Law -- The law that defines crimes and provides punishment for violations. In criminal cases, the govt. is the prosecutor, because are against the public order. Injuries against society itself.
Capitol offenses -- criminal offenses subject to the death penalty. In Texas, death by lethal injection.
Current Events -- Still bombing Kosovo and clinton meeting with China about trade
Non Capitol offenses -- criminal offenses not subject to the death penalty but is a crime against society. Includes Graded penalties providing different levels of punishment for offenses bsed on the severity of the crime. Harsher penalties are included for repeat offenders.
3 Classes of Misdemeanors
A. -- burglary of a vehicle: up to 1 yr.
B. -- evading arrest, falsely impersonating an officer: up to 180 days
C. -- theft less than $50, attending a dog fight: up to $500 fine
Civil Law -- The law regulating conduct between private persons over non criminal matters. Under civil law, the govt. provides he forum for the settlement of disputes between private parties in such matters as contracts, domestic relations, and business relations. Relates in part to contracts among private individuals or companies and State is not a part in the case.
Ex. from class: Slander - may be true or false statementsCriminal and Civil cases combined -- Drunken driver runs over and kills a pedestrian. Criminal offense. Family of pedestrian files civil suit for suffering and damages, etc... Civil suit.
willful negligence -- wet floor signs
liable -- false and malicious publications; Carol Burnette seen in San Antonio restaurant by Nat'l Inquirer who
published that she was drunk and disorderly. Burnette sued and won. Donated winning to charity.
Examples of DWI (DUI) offense in other countries:
A. Has to involve a federal law -- like the Constitution,
federal regulation, federal treaty
B. Parties in case must have criteria or "Standing to sue" (4 elements and must contain all)
1. adverse parties -- truly hostile
2. substantial legal interest -- parties must stand to gain or loose something like life and or assets.
3. real set of facts
4. a legal question -- an enforceable determination of rights.
Ex. An election with 1 party well qualified and the other not qualified and from a questionable background.
The person not qualified wins the election by stuffing the ballot box. This would be a legal question.
However if they won legally there is no problem.
Class Action Suits -- A lawsuit filed by an individual seeking damages for "all persons similarly situated." Group of people with the same lawsuit. Lot of interest groups do this for ex. the NAACP.
Federal Court System-- consists of 3 tiers
1. Supreme Court
2. Court of Appeals -- Intermediate
3. Trial Courts: 94 district courts
A federal case begins with an arrest, appeal to grand jury of 20 people. If jury declares crime committed there is an indictment and person must stand trial.
Federal District Court -- each state has several & the judges are set by Congress. They are the only federal courts who use a jury. Usually conduct civil cases but also do criminal cases.
Appellate Courts -- Court of Appeals. Do not hear witnesses and no juries, main function is to examine record of original trial to determine if held correctly in accordance with the rules. Under normal circumstances, this decision is final, but appeal to the Supreme Court is possible. There are 12 Courts of Appeals + 1 in D.C.
Jurisdiction -- A court's authority to hear a particular case.
Appellate Jurisdiction -- the power to hear and decide cases from lower courts and has the jurisdiction of being the original court (1st one to hear the case)
Supreme Court Jurisdiction -- in all cases affecting foreign diplomats, in cases in which a state is a party. Ex. a border dispute between states, or cross border pollution
The Supreme Court has the power to judge the law. It gave itself this power through the Mulberry vs Madison case in 1803.
Special Courts -- created by Congress
Supreme Court Judges -- are seen as American elite and appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate. Frequently white, Protestant, and influential. Was closed to minorities until LBJ appointed Thurgood Marshall to Supreme Court. Since that time we've had women appointed also.
Senatorial Courtesy -- a Senate tradition allowing a senator of the president's political party to veto a judgeship appointment in his or her state simply by indicating that the appointment is personally not acceptable. At that point, the Senate may reject the nomination, or the president may withdraw consideration of the nominee.
All federal judges are appointed. Once appointed to a judgeship, a person holds that job for life. Judges serve until they resign, retire voluntarily, or die. May be removed through impeachment.
Every case that goes to the Supreme Court is not heard. Court Justices use the law clerks to review the cases and write up a brief about it. The brief is then submitted to the justices. 4 of the 9 have to rule to hear the case
Rule of Four -- a U.S. Supreme Court procedure requiring 4 affirmative votes to hear the case before the full Court.
The Supreme court normally does not hear any evidence. 1). Consideration of a case is based on the record and the briefs. 2.) The attorneys are permitted to present oral arguments with 30 minutes granted to each side unless a special exception is granted. 3.) All justices meet in conference to discuss and vote on the case.
4 types of justice opinions -- The statement by a judge or a court of the decision reached in a case tried or argued before it. The opinion sets forth the law that applies to the case and details the legal reasoning on which the judgment was based. This document is written.
1. Unanimous Opinion -- all judges agree
2. Majority Opinion -- written, outlining the views of the majority of the justices involved.
3. Concurring Opinion -- A separate opinion, prepared by a judge who supports the decision of the majority of the court but who wants to make or clarify a particular point or to voice disapproval of the grounds on which the decision was made.
4. Dissenting Opinion -- A separate opinion in which a judge dissents from (disagrees with) the conclusion reached by the majority of the court and expounds his or her own views about the case.
Congress can strike back against the Supreme Court rulings by the power
of the purse.
Texas court system -- contains appx. 3,000 courts, most complex in the US
Municipal courts -- towns and cities (judicial bodies).
Cases involve both criminal and civil, traffic regulations, criminal class
C misdemeanors, violations of city ordinances (laws). Can't handle
Class A & B misdemeanors. Jury at city level -- 6 people.
Deals with the city.
Ex. barking dog
Municipal judge -- gets this job through the city ordinances, some have to be elected while others are appointed. Do not have to have a law degree.
Justice of the Peace -- also can handle Class C misdemeanors,
criminal or civil cases. Also functions asa small claims court.
Works the whole county, elected to a 4 yr term
Ex. Work done and pay not received.
Magistrate -- Municipal judges and Justice's of the Peace are know as magistrates. Issue warrants, search & arrest, conduct hearings.
2 types of courts
1. Constitutional County Court -- established by the Texas constitution therefore there are 254 because that is the number of counties in the state. Handle criminal and civil cases, class A & B misdemeanors, have original and appellate jurisdiction.
2. Statutory County Courts -- passed by the Texas legislature to handle the excess workload of the constitutional courts in the larger cities. Handle the same types of cases and have same jurisdiction. Comes from England.
District Courts of Texas -- judges are elected (one's we see on TV), handle class A & B, crminal and civil cases, divorces. Principle trial court.
Texas Supreme Court -- divided into 2, only Tx and OK have a split supreme court
Court of Appeals -- 14 judges, appellate jurisdiction, justices vote by a simple majority, handle only civil cases. 9 (elected) Justices, all decisions are final. Highest civil court in Tx. Mostly handle writs of error , approve Tx law schools (whose accreditation comes from the law board) and approve the board of examiners.
Rules of Criminal Procedures are made by the legislature.
Criminal court of Appeals -- handle only criminal cases, 9 (elected) Justices, all decisions are final, judge is elected
Juries -- 2 types Grand and trial The state's Bill of Rights guarantees that individuals may be charged with a felony only by grand jury indictment. Also guarantees that anyone charged with either a felony or a misdemeanor has the right to trial by jury.
Grand Jury -- A jury called to hear evidence and determine whether indictments should be issue against persons suspected of having committed crimes. Decide whether there is enough evidence to warrant a formal accusation by the state of wrongdoing; they do not determine guilt. 12 people
True Bill-- enough evidence to warrant a trial on an indictment.
No Bill -- not enough evidence to warrant further action.
Rehabilitation vs Punishment
Confinement in a prison or jail is designed to punish lawbreakers, deter others from committing similar crimes, and isolate offenders from society, thus protecting the lives and property of citizens who might otherwise become victims of criminals. Ideally, while serving a sentence behind bars, a lawbreaker will be rehabilitated.
There are over 107 prisons in Texas which house appx. 2,000 inmates each. Appx 140,000 inmates incarcerated today.
Tx Dept of Criminal Justice -- headed by Tx Board of Criminal Justice, composed of nine members appointed by the governor, dual headquarters in Huntsville and Austin.
Huntsville is the headquarters of the Institutional Division of the TDCJ.
recidivism -- criminal behavior resulting in reimprisonment after release.
Every prisoner must be given a job but may elect not to work. Some return to school and others sit in their cell. The jobs are in a variety of prison-owned industries. Any inmate who cannot read at the 6th grade level must be taught to read. Almost 80% incarcerated due to drug problems.
Local Government Jails
County -- operate under the direction of the county sheriff.
City -- some are used primarily as "drunk tanks"


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Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. James 1:2-4
Have you ever been at the point in your life when you thought, "I can't handle one more thing?" It's been that kind of a year for me and my family. But James tells us that when you face adversity with God, spiritual growth occurs (my interpretation of James 1:2-4).
Our life with Christ can't always be a mountaintop experience. To grow spiritually, we must spend time walking with the Lord. And that walk may take us through a valley, or even many valleys. How we react when we are in the valley can show our spiritual maturity. Do we use our time in the valley to walk closer with God, or do we try to get off the path we are on and take matters into our own hands? We should remember that when we are in the valley, we are protected by the mountaintops.
Let God order your steps. In Psalm 119:113 the psalmist prays, "Direct my footsteps according to your word; let no sin rule over me." God knows better than we do. If we follow Him, through the mountaintop, and the valley, and all the plateaus in-between, we will arrive at the destination He set for us. It's in the journey that we grow the most.
"In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls." 1 Peter 1:6-9


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OSWEGO, NY – The winter sports season has been quite exciting thus far with success in the pool, on the ice, the bowling lanes and on the courts and mats.
Swimmers Move to 3-0
The Buccaneer swimming and diving team was able to keep its three meet win streak going against Syracuse at Nottingham High School. The boys were able to do this by turning in the top time in ten of the twelve events and win 97-79.
Seniors Drake Becksted and Reeve Callen, along with freshman Dylan Harrington, were double winners. Becksted took first in the 200 I.M. with a time of 2:03.94, which is currently the top time in Section III. Callen placed first in the 50 free with a season best time of 23.07, placing him fourth in the section. He also won the 100 back with a best time of 57.58, the third fastest time in the section. Harrington put up the fastest time in both the 500 freestyle (5:56.85) and the 100 breaststroke (1:19.27). Senior Zach Gerber also had a good meet, winning the 100 fly in his best time (57.64) and placing second to Callen in the 50 free with a time of 23.67.
The depth of the Buccaneers allowed them to put up the top time in all three relays. Junior Jeremy Galvin, sophomore Alex Kemper, and freshman Dylan Harrington and Ben McCrobie took the 200 medley relay in 2:03.25, out touching the competition by over nine seconds. Seniors Becksted, Callen, and Gerber, along with junior Jimmy Dylan, placed first in the 200 freestyle relay. Their time of 1:33.13 is a team best this season, and the second fastest time recorded in the Section so far this season. Completing their sweep of the relays were seniors Becksted, Callen, and Gerber, with junior Dillon, who put up the top time in the 400 freestyle relay (3:30.99).
Coach Josh Lerch said, "This is our first meet in nearly three weeks and it was good to see that the boys were able to maintain their fitness over the holiday break and come back with just as much intensity as we have all season. I'm very impressed with the team's improvement across the board. My fastest swimmers are close to, if not faster than, their best times consistently and the others on the team continue to show even greater improvement."
He also noted, "It's pretty exciting to see boys like senior Alex Shannon, juniors Josh Costo, Jimmy Dillon, and Jeremy Galvin, sophomores Alex Kemper, Tyler Benjamin, and Brendon Reed, and freshman Zach Bush and Nick Lewis popping their best times nearly each subsequent meet. We have many boys who have already qualified for Sectional's and several that are very close after their continued improvement."
The Buccaneers will try to continue their winning streak against a traditionally strong Auburn team next week on Wednesday at home.
Varsity Basketball Wins Again
The varsity basketball team never gave up in earning a hard fought 62-57 win over host Cicero-North Syracuse.
The Bucs trailed 27-20 after eight minutes, but outscored CNS 17-9 in the second quarter to go up 37-36 at halftime. Oswego built up a nine point lead midway through the third quarter for a 53-44 advantage, but CNS didn't go away. The North Stars pulled to within four during the final quarter, but a strong defensive effort by Michael Thompson and clutch free throws by Ryan Lavner preserved the win.
Ryan Patrick (12 Points) Josh Gillard (22 Points) Michael Thompson (11 Points)
Josh Gillard finished with 22 points while Ryan Patrick had a dozen. Mike Thompson and Dylan Lavner had nine each while Kevin Carpentier and Ryan Lavner each scored five.
"The boys fought hard tonight and are starting to buy into the defensive mentality that it takes to beat an elite team," said head coach Bob Misch.
Continuing he said, "We had our best practice of the year on Thursday and the boys carried that intensity over to the game. "It will be nice to be home for three games this week, as we have been on the road for six out of our first seven games. We will find out just where we stand after this week, as far as contending with the elite teams, as there are no easy outs in this league."
The Bucs will host Nottingham on Tuesday, FM on Thursday and Hilton on Saturday.
Hockey Team Sweeps Weekend
The Oswego High School boys' hockey team moved into first place in Division II with a sweep of league foes.
Oswego dominated Whitesboro at Crisafulli Rink for a 7-0 victory.
Josh Cooley was forced to make just 14 saves while the Bucs were putting 33 shots on the Whitesboro net minder.
The Bucs won it early with four in the first period and with Coach Andy Rozak keeping everyone fresh and rotating the line up OHS won handily.
Cody Mariano had a four point night with three goals and an assist while Trend Yule (1-1), Dan Maniccia (1-1), along with Jeremy Purce (0-2), Tyler Grimshaw (0-2), John Phillips (1-0), and Dave Mathes (1-0) all contributed.
The Auburn-Oswego match up was wide open with the Bucs winning 3-2 in overtime.
Phillips and Mathes scored in the first period for a 2-0 lead, but with five minutes to go in the game Auburn had scratched back to knot the count at 2-2.
Grimshaw scored a deflection 40 seconds into overtime on a shot by Yule to clinch the game and provide the eighth league win of the year against just one lose.
Coach Rozak said, "The boys played hard both games. They did a good job remaining calm after Auburn tied the game. They did a good job sticking to our game plan and almost won it in regulation."
Chase Izyk was in net for the Bucs and finished with 22 saves. Meanwhile, Auburn goalie Jeff Gardner stopped 29 Oswego shots.
Bowlers Take Five Games
The Oswego boys' bowling team won two of three in a hard fought, low scoring match against West Genesee while the girls' captured three points against the Wildcats.
Oswego boys' moved to 18-3 on the year with the girls improving to 12-9.
The Bucs lost the first game 998-916, but came back with wins of 874-856 and 874-868.
Joe Clavelli had a team high 591 (186-224-181) and was followed by Gavin Gilbert 551 (182-188-181), Matt Clemons 538 (178-189-171) and Zach Delbrocco 520 (178-161-181). Cameron Byrne bowled the first two games with a 192 and 153 while Jim Rose had a 160 in his lone game.
Non-scoring players included Rose with a 562 (198-204-160), Dan Cliff 533 (176-183-174), Kevin Goodale 469 (154-136-179), Ethan Simmons 416 (156-125-135) and David Woolworth 321 (110-101-110).
In girls' bowling the Bucs won 691-555, 783-530 and 699-573.
Sierra Adams had a 480 (169-162-149) and was followed by Ashley Lytle 466 (154-179-133) along with Caitlin Clemons 421 (137-138-146), Christie Hoefer 414 (119-151-144) and Rachel Nye 392 (112-153-127).
Non-scoring bowlers included Abby Henderson 473 (130-154-189), Caroline Reynolds 369 (102-98-169), Meghan Flack 360 (105-129-126), Tori Gardner 330 (124-118-88) and Victoria Soper 288 (87-99-102).
Wrestlers Win On Mat, but Lose
Oswego wrestlers walked off the mat with six individual victories while losing none in competitive action. However, the Bucs lost to Auburn 42-30 behind seven forfeit losses which accounted for all 42 points.
At 99 Austin Coleman decisioned Jack Hogan 6-0 and at 126 Jordan Perchway pinned Pete Casper in 4:38. Oswego's third win came at 132 as Matt DiFabio pinned Zach Proulx in 3:35. Miguel Vazquez, at 152, won over Nicholas Campagnola 2-0 and Mike Ruggio, at 182, pinned Bob Reynolds in just 27 seconds. Oswego's 285 pounder Eric Doviak pinned Mike Carbonaro in 1:32.
Oswego gave up six points for forfeits at 106, 120, 138, 160, 170,195 and 220.
At the Ilion Tournament on Saturday the Bucs had some solid individual performances.
At 99 pounds Austin Coleman won three of four matches. He started with a 2:56 pin of Christina Peters from Berne-Knox and then pinned Cole Rifanburg of Norwich in 3:59 before losing to Dandre Norman of RFA 11-0. He came back to win over Conner Steria of Lowville 5-3.
Matt DiFabio, at 132, lost both of his matches. He was pinned in 22 seconds by Forest Boshart-Lowe of Whitesboro and then fell in 44 seconds to Travis Clarke of Copenhagen.
Miguel Vazquez, at 145, started out being pinned in the first match by Bryan Bennett of Ilion in 1:54, but came back to pin Alex Lisandrelli of Mohawk in 2:24 and then pinned Jacob Mahoney of RFA in 18 seconds. He lost to Derek Struck of Berne Knox in 2:21 and then won his final match of the day scored a 13-4 major decision over Jon Marvin of Norwich.
At 182 Mike Ruggio lost in the first match as he was pinned in 4:28 by Lymen Mecca of Lowville, but came back to pinned Zakk Zuranski of Mohawk in 1:33.
Eric Doviak, at 285 started off with a 1:54 pin of Alexander Martin, but then Martin came back to pin Doviak in 2:15. He then lost to Jess Montasano of Berne Know in 27 seconds before closing out the day losing a 5-3 match up with Stephen Davis from Mohawk.
CNS Too Much Firepower for Bucs
Everyone talked about nationally regarded Breanna Stewart coming to Oswego, but it was quickly discovered that Cicero-North Syracuse is more than one player as the talent rich squad defeated the Lady Bucs on the court 65-21.
Stewart put on a clinic in the first quarter as CNS jumped to a 21-4 lead and by intermission it was 42-9.
For the Bucs Courtney Louis had seven, Emily Barlow five, Taylor Giglio four, McKenna Brooks and Erica Atkins two and Bella Winklestine one point.
Stewart finished with 22 points while Abby Timpano had a dozen and Brittany Paul 11.
Lady Buc Icers Fall
Girls Varsity Hockey Loses 4-0 to State Champ Little Red
On Jan. 5, the Bucs girls' hockey team battled the defending state champ Little Red of Ithaca to a 4-0 loss at the Fort Ontario rink. The loss dropped Oswego to 0-3 in their division and 1-7 overall.
Ithaca took a 1-0 lead at the 9:34 mark of the first period as Jackie Cornell scored on a partial breakaway, assisted by Krystalyn Yonkin. The Little Red made it 2-0 at 3:55 when the same two connected again, as Yonkin scored on a Cornell assist. Oswego's Maddie Whalen recorded 20 saves in the period, as Ithaca's Alex Stagliano was not forced to make any saves at her end.
Oswego battled their way through the second period, allowing two more Ithaca goals at 11:19 and 5:35 (both by Shaina Joffe), but managed six shots on goal to Ithaca's 18.
The third period saw goalie changes by both teams, as Ithaca went with Devin Baylor and Oswego with Allie Yule. Play was fairly even throughout the period, as the Bucs continued to threaten deep in Ithaca's zone. As the final period expired, however, neither team had scored; Baylor was credited with six saves while Yule recorded nine.
Despite the loss, the Bucs showed determination and improvement. When the same two teams played in early December in Ithaca, the Little Red dominated all three periods in an 8-0 game, as Oswego played most of the game in its own end. This time around, the Bucs played with better execution in all three zones.
Oswego's next game is at division rival Alex Bay on Jan. 10. The last time the two teams met, the Purple Ghosts snuck out of town with a tight 2-1 decision, so the Bucs will be looking to even the series and earn a crucial division win.
Indoor Track
Senior standout Whitney Ford, turned in bests in the 300 meter dash and the triple jump, to lead the Oswego indoor track team, at the George Constantino Memorial Meet, held Friday at the SRC Arena, on the campus of Onondaga Community College.
Ford leaped a personal best of 31′ 10 1/4″ in the triple jump, to finish fifth overall. Her fine season best of 45.36 in the 300 meter dash, earned her second place in her section of the race and six place overall, in a very competitive field.
Freshmen Mariel Schickling, earned a best of 8.8l in the 55 meter dash, to finish second in her section and ran a personal best in the 300 meter dash, with a strong time of 51.72.
Sparked by senior Dave Johnson's personal best split in the 400 meter dash, Oswego's 1600 meter relay of Alejandro Lara, Sean Benjamin, Roger Meirelles, and Johnson, ran a season of 4:05.5, to place finish fourth in their section.
Chloe Patterson and Rhona Dianang turned in bests in the 400 meter dash and 800 meter run for the Bucs. Other bests included Marsaili Knapp in the 55 meter and 400 meter dash, Lexi Hanna, Krysta Broeker, and Kaylee Baldwin in the 400 meter dash, Ariel Bouffard in the 800 meter run, and Paul Oleyourrk in the 3200 meter run.
The Bucs will return to action next Friday at the SRC Arena, for the Bob Grieve Memorial Meet, starting at 4:15 p.m.
Jayvee Girls' Five Falls
Oswego Lady Bucs jayvee basketball lost a tough 47-29 game to CNS.
Oswego came out strong staying in the game the first quarter. Oswego pressured CNS and forced turnovers. Both teams ended with five points at the end of the first quarter.
CNS made some adjustments and pushed past Oswego taking over the second quarter scoring 19 points.
Oswego came out in the third quarter with a burst of energy, but it was not enough to catch up. CNS outscored the Bucs in every quarter but the first.
Leading scorers for Oswego (6-3) were Kerrigan Cummins with 6 points. Rachael Purtell with 6 points and 5 steals. Brenna Riley led the team with 5 rebounds.


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Ich habe mich ganz besonders auf Zagreb gefreut, vor allem, weil meine Mutter mit mir reiste. Meine Leute haben vorher alles genau erforscht, damit wir es schaffen, die wichtigsten Sachen in der Stadt zu sehen!
Source: Hotel Antunović Zagreb
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1.Museum of Illusions
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10.00am Meeting point at Swanky Mint hostel ( Ilica 50 )
10.15am Main square
10.30am Cathedral & Dolac market
11.00am Museum of torture
11.45am Upper town
12.00pm Lotrščak tower
12.30pm Museum of Illusions
PRICE: 99 HRK* / per person
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Mum and I are currently sitting on mattresses on the floor. My husband drove off about 10 hours ago with most of our belongings. Unfortunately someone had to stay behind to clean the house ready for the final inspection tomorrow morning.
So here we sit. On the floor. In an empty house.
Have I mentioned I hate empty houses? No? Well, I hate empty houses. They sound hollow. And they just feel wrong. I also hate sleeping on the floor. And without my husband. So far tonight isn't going well for me!
But I have been blessed.
The truck hire company ran out of the smaller truck that we booked. Which meant we got a larger truck for the same price, and were able to fit everything in without stressing or cramming.
My husband and one of his friends managed to load said truck in 3 hours. And nothing got damaged. Yet.
The house is almost clean and there are only a couple of things left to go in the cars in the morning.
And we are going home. Tomorrow. Leaving our first home together and starting on a new journey.
Can't wait to see where this road leads.