# initialize -
        kwargs_dictionary = Dict(kwargs)
        system_dictionary = Dict{String,Any}()
        
        # package all the key=>value pairs into the system_dictionary -
        

        # pack stuff into the dictionary -
        system_dictionary["stoichiometric_matrix"] = stoichiometric_matrix
        system_dictionary["species_bounds_array"] = species_bounds_array
        system_dictionary["flux_bounds_array"] = flux_bounds_array
        system_dictionary["reaction_table"] = reaction_table
        system_dictionary["objective_coefficient_array"] = objective_coefficient_array
        system_dictionary["is_minimum_flag"] = true

        # write -
        bson(path, system=system_dictionary)

        # return -
        return Some(nothing)
    catch error

        # get the original error message -
        error_message = sprint(showerror, error, catch_backtrace())
        vl_error_obj = ErrorException(error_message)

        # Package the error -
        return Some(vl_error_obj)
    end
end
# === PUBLIC METHODS ABOVE HERE ==================================================================== #I have lived in Maine since 1982. I can honestly say that we have never had blooming trees in April.
The hydrangea is usually still asleep, and you never, never hear the sound of a lawn mower.
We are about three weeks ahead of schedule I would say.
Fantastic. I love an early spring. Makes summer come that much faster... which is all lemons, cloud watching and sand in the toes. Wonderful stuff.
We are experiencing the same thing in Michigan. It feels strange, but I, too, will take it!
Here in Colorado we are late for the end of April. I will even see snow on the ground tomorrow morning for my drive to work!!! But that is Colorado, as we say here in the west " wait 5 minutes and the weather will change". Love your flowers and flower bucket. Glad your back, missed you.
Yes, indeed...spring is breathtakingly beautiful this year....a gift, for sure!!!!
oh i'm so jealous! we've been bouncing back and forth - 80 one day, 40 the next!
Early spring...nice! Beautiful photo, too!
Happy early Spring! Love how you put the branches in the bucket. Nice photograph.
love the blooms spilling onto your floor! and the chocolaty color you painted your bedroom looks amazing with all your beautiful bedding. Love all your decorating!I’m not playing devils advocate, and for real alcoholics, according to AA, will power is not enough to stay sober. If you want I can cite you many examples directly from the book of Alcoholics Anonymous that tell you this. 

AA offers a set of spiritual tools, which if used will keep a person from drinking. If a person does not want the tools, that’s fine. we just present the information. 

I suggest you keep doing what you’re doing, sounds like it’s working. If you don’t need god you probably don’t need the meetings either 🤷🏼‍♂️ just don’t drinkA literary party, 1781, of Johnson (second from left) and other members of "The Club".
Email is a fast, cheap, convenient communication medium; these days, it’s almost embarrassing to admit that you don’t have an email address. To spare you that humiliation, Windows XP includes Outlook Express 6, a program that lets you receive and send email messages and read newsgroups (Internet bulletin boards).
Outlook Express doesn’t work with online services like America Online or Prodigy. Instead, you’re supposed to check and send your email using the software you got when you signed up for these services.
To use Outlook Express, you need several technical pieces of information: an email address, an email server address, and an Internet address for sending email. Your Internet service provider is supposed to provide all of these ingredients.
The first time you use Outlook Express (which you can open from the Start menu), the Internet Connection Wizard appears to help you plug in the necessary Internet addresses and codes that tell the program where to find your email.
If you used the New Connection Wizard (Section 10.2.2) to establish your Internet account, then your settings are probably already in place. In that case, you probably won’t see this Internet Connection Wizard; skip to the next section.
Display Name. The name that will appear in the “From:” field of the email you send.
Email Address. The...My gold pagoda chandelier is being installed in my dining room today and I am so excited. You can read more about its journey to my Chinoiserie home here and here. Tomorrow I will be posting on my progress in my One Room Challenge laundry room. The laundry room is quickly becoming one of my favorite rooms in my house. I even love doing laundry. How many people can say that?
I went to Trader Joe's yesterday and bought a whole group of beautiful heirloom pumpkins for my entrances. I've always disliked the traditional orange pumpkins, but the heirlooms in peach, celadon, white, and gray are stunning. I even have two on a pair of Chinese garden stools at my side entrance. The heirlooms have a subtlety and elegance to them, I think.
I also decided to add a couple of pumpkins to my dining room sideboard - a vintage orange sequined pumpkin and a gold leaf one.
I hope you'll come back tomorrow to see my laundry room with the Brunschwig & Fils wallpaper up. If you'd like to catch up on the One Room Challenge, you can click on the link in my sidebar.
Dear Beth, I too like the heritage, non orange pumpkins. so beautiful!!In your home the elegant pieces with your sideboard are stunning!
Love the mixture of patterns in your entry. Stunning!Since I can think of nothing else but bookbinding today, I thought it was about time I wrote a tutorial and explanation of how I make my journals and sketchbooks and even more importantly – why!? I’ve always been in awe of the fine art of bookmaking, but really I started making journals for myself to use. It was simply easier to fold up a bunch of papers I had lying around and start journaling. The ability to customize the size, the papers and add in little details made my journals even more special to me as well. However, I soon fell in love with the bookmaking process itself. I kept making journals and even though I work in more than a handful of journals at the same time, I quickly produced more than I could ever use.
So let’s get right into the basics of making your very own journal! Let me show you the general process, step-by-step before we delve into more details and some fancy stuff. To begin with, you must choose some type of material for your cover and inside pages. It can be as simple as some heavy cardstock for the cover and white copy paper for the inside. Or you can try some chipboard, cardboard, fabric or leather as I often default to using. For flimsier materials such as fabric and leather, it’s good to glue in some liner paper. In fact, you might want to glue some pretty decorative paper to cover raw materials or even paint over cardboard to make it look a bit nicer.
In my example, I chose to use a piece of black leather with silver metallic lines. It’s pretty thin, so I glued black cardstock on the inside to give it some strength. I pretty much eyeball my measurements because I can’t cut straight for the life of me and detailed measurements are a bore 🙂 I just take a rough measurement of my paper size, giving a bit of room for the binding depending how many pages I want to include. You’ll notice that I cut a bit more leather to create a flap on the right…we’ll see what that is for later. This works for materials that can easily wrap around the book.
You will notice that I folded my inside papers and grouped them together. Each group of papers is called a signature. It’s basically papers folded in half that you will be attaching to your cover in some way. I use a plastic bone folder to help me crease all the papers nicely. It’s a great tool once you get into bookmaking, otherwise your fingers will be sore…trust me on that.
Once you have your cover and papers ready, it is pivotal to prepunch all your holes before stitching. It just makes the process of sewing a lot easier and does force you to do a little planning in terms of spacing and how you will be sewing it all together. The binding method I chose to do is super simple and all you need are two holes in each signature. You’ll see that I punched 2 corresponding holes for each signature in the cover as well. Now it’s time to sew!
I use embroidery thread and a big needle to sew my books together. You can buy waxed thread to prevent knotting up and pretty much use anything that you can string through easily. I’ve used various kinds of string and ribbon as well…it’s a bit up to your taste. I say use whatever you have available.
First step is to stick the needle through the bottom hole from the inside of your signature. Stick it through all the papers and the cover to the outside.
Then