Now I just have to wait for the law exam results...

And another for the people dealing with the flooding...

until next time, !

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Did anyone else read the article in the TL today? It's good to see that Hugo can get his side of the story out into the media, but I don't understand why Lupas was able to respond even before the letter got to the public. Be on the lookout for the whole letter being published sometime this week! Go "freedom of speech" and "innocence until proven guilty" and last but not least, "FREE HUGO!!!"

Hope everyone is staying safe and dry with all this rain- yeesh! My sister works nights in W-B so who knows how long it'll take her to get home tomorrow morning. If you see a Jeep Liberty floating down the street, it's just my sister! Sorry, K...

OK, so I'm waiting to find out if I am licensed or not; I'll know anyday now if I go from intern to pharmacist status online, but who knows when. It could be soon, so if I "fall off the face of the earth" it just means that I have become an official pharmacist and I'm running all over NEPA filling in on vacations and sick days and other holes in coverage. Hope I don't get that busy that I can't come on here but I just wanted to warn my few readers...

Keep me up to date on how everyone is! I hope to ttys!

... rain, go away, come again some other day! My poor pooch gets soaked every time she has to go out. But at least the ground is getting some much-needed water...

Today is my little sister's 23rd birthday! Wow, I feel old, ha ha. Thank God we're only 17 months apart!! I got her a portable DVD player; she'd be mad if she found out how much I spent on it. I knew how much she'd love it for work, so the price didn't matter to me. I picked one that had a nice-sized screen from a quality brand so I'm happy and I'm glad that she's happy with it.

Watching Young Guns II on TV, love it, like a guilty pleasure. "Regulators. We regulate any stealin' of his property, we're DAMN good too. But you can't be any geek off the street. You've gotta be handy with the steel if you know what I mean, earn your keep." That's a sweet line!

Holy crap, "Gil Grissom" from CSI is in the movie!!!!

From the June 24th edition:

"County officials blame each other for Hugo file not reaching state court" BY EDWARD LEWIS, STAFF WRITER, 6/24/2006

WILKES-BARRE — A Luzerne County judge, the district attorney and clerk of courts are blaming one another for failing to send the case file on Hugo Selenski’s prison escape to Superior Court.

District Attorney David Lupas is challenging a Feb. 15 ruling by Judge Peter Paul Olszewski Jr. that dismissed charges against the accused murderer, stemming from his daring October 2003 escape from Luzerne County Correctional Facility.

Lupas filed a motion Wednesday accusing Olszewski of being derelict of his duties for not sending the court record on the escape charges to Superior Court.

The judge is required to ensure all records on the escape charges reach the Superior Court, Lupas said in his motion. Those records should have been sent within 40 days of his Feb. 16 appeal, Lupas said.

“It’s way past that,” Lupas said Friday. “All we want is the appeal to be heard regarding the escape.”

Clerk of Courts Bob Reilly disagreed Friday with Lupas’ account of what happened. Reilly believes the delay in sending the escape file was due to a problem with the court transcript from the Feb. 15 hearing when Olszewski dismissed the charges. The transcript arrived in the clerk of courts office Thursday morning and was immediately sent to the Superior Court, Reilly said.

The county stenographer’s office was not aware Lupas filed his Feb. 16 appeal to reinstate the escape charges, Reilly said. The lack of notice held up the transcript, he said.

“Nobody served the stenographers’ office with a notice of appeal. To the best of my knowledge, that’s what happened,” Reilly said. “It’s not our job to notify them.”

When asked about Reilly’s account of what happened, Olszewski said, “That’s an accurate statement by Mr. Reilly.”

The judge declined to comment further because the case is ongoing.

Lupas disputed Reilly’s comments.

“Maybe Mr. Reilly should look at his files before he speaks,” Lupas said.

The district attorney insists his office made an official request to the county stenographers’ office to transcribe the Feb. 14 hearing.

To prove his point, Lupas displayed an order and proof of service — both public documents stored in the clerk of courts office — that indicated the order was hand delivered to the stenographers’ office Feb. 16, one day after Lupas filed the appeal.

“We followed all the steps we had to,” Lupas said.

Early Wednesday, the Superior Court notified Olszewski it had not received the Feb. 14 transcript. Later the same day, Lupas filed the motion asking the higher court to compel Olszewski to send the transcript.

Olszewski said prosecutors failed to bring Selenski, 32, to trial on time for the Oct. 10, 2003, escape. State law mandates defendants must be brought to trial within one year of their arrest.

Less than 24 hours after Olszewski’s ruling, Lupas filed an appeal in Superior Court, claiming Selenski’s escape and double-homicide cases were consolidated for trial by President Judge Michael T. Conahan in late October 2003. A jury cleared Selenski on the two homicide charges March 15.

But that trial was delayed because of an unrelated appeal. Court records related to Selenski’s homicide case during the unrelated appeal process also contained Selenski’s escape case.

The appeal caused any trial on the escape charges to exceed the one-year requirement.

Reilly admitted his office needed time to separate the escape files from the homicide files because numerous court records contained the two crimes.

“In this particular case, we had to review files and take out what was unrelated to the escape case,” Reilly said. “With the few workers I have, that took time.”

MY COMMENTS: Wow, Lupas really does NOT play well with others! Yikes... With it being almost three years since the escape, I think it's time to give it up already! And when will the next trial start? I thought, as a US citizen, everyone is entitled to a fair and speedy trial. Here we go, the 6th amendment of our Bill of Rights: "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense."

CHEW ON THAT...

Um, whoa...

******* The Analysis Starts Here *******

For a graphologist, the spacing on the page reflects the writer's attitude toward their own world and relationship to things in his or her own space. If the inputted data was correct Tara has left some white space on the left side of the paper. Tara fills up the rest of the page in a normal fashion moving the entire writing rightward as she moves down the page. If this is true, then Tara has a healthy relationship to the past and is ready to move on. The right side of the page represents the future and Tara is ready and willing to get started living now and planning for the future. Tara is leaving the past behind and moving on to what she perceives as an exciting and enticing future.


Tara has a very unusual lower zone y loop. If the data input is correct, Tara's y or g is large and opens up to the left side of the page. This is not a common trait, but the implications are very interesting. As you begin to study handwriting analysis, you will learn any loop indicates imagination. This lower loop indicates the amount of imagination Tara has regarding sex and physical things. So, her lower zone stroke is large, so her sexual imagination is large and open. Furthermore, because the loop is incomplete and extends to the left, this indicates a particular fascination with certain aspects of sexuality that have not been fulfilled, yet. In a nutshell, Tara is open to some very new ideas sexually and is willing to try anything once.


Tara is selective when picking friends. She does not trust everyone. She has a select group of people that are truly close to her, usually two or three. She is careful when choosing her inner circle of friends.


Tara has a tendency to put things off, Tara procrastinates. She sometimes pretends to be busy, so she will not have to do whatever she is putting off. She is often late to appointments or deadlines. This usually leads to a great amount of effort at the last minute to meet the deadline. Procrastination is an important factor as it relates to her output on the job or at school. Remember, Tara will put it off until later. Procrastination is easily overcome through a simple stroke adjustment in the handwriting.


Tara will take action on her thoughts. She is positive that her views are correct for her. She has the ability to seem as if she is positively correct when answering a question, even if she does not have the slightest idea of the answer. Tara displays a self-confidence that makes everyone else sure she is correct. She is positive of her own views, but not necessarily stubborn.


Tara is capable of seeing far into the future. She plans two, three, even ten years in advance. Tara has high goals and can literally see them being reached. She is very self-confident and has a high self-esteem. Tara will reach whatever level of success she desires. Tara has the self-concept that is possessed by less than two percent of the population. That two percent contains the most successful people in the world. When a person has a high self-esteem, she frees herself to achieve an unlimited world of success. Tara has achieved this frame of mind. Congratulations. She has the self-confidence to take great risk, thus reaping the rewards. If she does fail, it doesn't break her confidence. She knows she can do it! In retrospect of our research, this trait is one of the most desirable to possess, because it releases the writer to achieve her full potential. We recommend everyone raise their self-esteem to this level.


Because Tara has sharp needle pointed 'm' and 'n' humps, she has a very sharp mind. She instantly sizes up situations, making instant decisions. She thinks and evaluates circumstances very rapidly. Many people with this type of mind are geniuses, thus she may be seen as highly intelligent. Tara is often irritated by slow talkers or slow thinkers. If she drives, she gets irritated by slow drivers in the fast lane. She quickly becomes bored when being taught on the level of the slowest student in class. She may be on problem number three when the rest of the class is on problem one. Tara is curious and very active. In fact, in school she might have been a trouble maker because she thought so much faster than the other kids, she finished her work first, thus having plenty of time on her hands to make trouble!


Tara will be candid and direct when expressing her opinion. She will tell them what she thinks if they ask for it, whether they like it or not. So, if they don't really want her opinion, don't ask for it!


Tara will demand respect and will expect others to treat her with honor and dignity. Tara believes in her ideas and will expect other people to also respect them. She has a lot of pride.


Tara uses judgment to make decisions. She is ruled by her head, not her heart. She is a cool, collected person who is usually unexpressive emotionally. Some may see her as unemotional. She does have emotions but has no need to express them. She is withdrawn into herself and enjoys being alone. The circumstances when Tara does express emotions include: extreme anger, extreme passion, and tremendous stress. If someone gets her mad enough to tell her off, she will not be sorry about it later. She puts a mark in her mind when someone angers her. She keeps track of these marks and when she hits that last mark she will let them know they have gone too far. She is ruled somewhat by self-interest. All her conclusions are made without outside emotional influence. She is very level-headed and will remain calm in an emergency situation. In a situation where other people might get hysterical, she has poise. Tara will work more efficiently if given space and time to be alone. She would rather not be surrounded by people constantly. In a relationship, she will show her love by the things she does rather than by the things she says. Saying "I love you" is not a needed routine because she feels her mate should already know. The only exception to this is if she has logically concluded that it is best for her mate to hear her express her love verbally. Tara is not subject to emotional appeals. If someone is selling a product to her, they will need to present only the facts. They should present them from a standpoint of her sound judgment. She will not be taken in by an emotional story about someone else. She will meet emergencies without getting hysterical and she will always ask "Is this best for me?"


People that write very large tend to be very social and friendly. It seems Tara has this type of writing. This indicates a need for people and a particular natural ability to socialize and be the life of the party. Now, if Tara also has specific fears (like fear of criticism or fear of trust) then she will deny she is the life of the party, because fear has overcome her natural inclination to be social. People with large handwriting tend to be effective at anything that requires interaction with lots of people. she is a people person.


According to the inputted data, Tara has a stinger shape inside the oval of her a, d, or c. This might be hard to visualize, but if this little hooklike shape is present, then Tara has an unresolved "issue" with strong members of the opposite gender. An occasional appearance of this stroke could indicate a simple "loves a mental challenge" which can manifest in playful linguistic conversations and being attracted to a lover who isn't always available. However, if the stroke is severe, this means the individual has unresolved anger at the oppostive gender - which usually started with the person's childhood relationship with the opposite gender parent (Mom or Dad). If the writer is a woman she will be attracted to strong challenging men. If the writer is a man, he will find the woman who is "hard to get" the most attractive. In a nutshell, people with stingers in their writing tend to have challenges in their romantic relationships. For more information about this "stinger" trait, visit this webpage: http://www.myhandwriting.com/analyze/hlltrt5.html. Remember, it is only negative if the traits occurs often and is quite pronounced. An occasional stinger can be no problem.


Tara has a desire for attention. People around Tara will notice this need. She may fulfill this need by a variety of ways depending on her own character.