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Giftworthy Christmas Candy
People love delicious food gifts for the holidays, and these Christmas candy recipes make it easy to be sweet. Of course pecans are one of the great nuts grown in the South, and they add a delicious crunch to sweet candy. You will love their flavors in the Christmas candy recipes for our Praline Pecans, Pecan Toffee, and Roasted Pecan Fudge. For even more Southern food gifts you can't match Mrs. Floyd's Divinity, Mississippi Mud Medallions, or Potato Candy. Grab some beautiful containers, decorate them with ribbons and bows, fill them with the delights you've made with these fantastic Christmas candy recipes, and share the joy of food gifts from your kitchen this holiday season.
Peppermint Divinity
Recipe: Peppermint Divinity
We restored this delightful turn-of-the-century heirloom, adding a delicious peppermint-flavored twist.
Salty-Sweet Nut Brittle
Recipe: Salty-Sweet Nut Brittle
This isn't your basic peanut brittle. Studded with peanuts, pecans, pistachios, and almonds, this recipe might be our best-ever nut brittle.
Ginger Bourbon Balls
Recipe: Ginger Bourbon Balls
This fresh take on the classic boozy confection features gingersnaps, crystallized ginger, and melted chocolate.
Fruitcake Bark
Recipe: Fruitcake Bark
Forget peppermint bark—we're going all in with fruitcake bark that's layered with candied fruit, nuts, and white chocolate.
Christmas Buttermints
Recipe: Christmas Buttermints
Traditionally colored in a rainbow of pastel hues, these homemade candies have a crisp, buttery richness and a refreshing minty flavor.
Buttermilk-Pecan Pralines
Recipe: Buttermilk-Pecan Pralines
Simultaneously crunchy, creamy, fudgy, and sweet, these nutty pralines are a holiday staple.
Mississippi Mud Medallions
Recipe: Mississippi Mud Medallions
You can substitute mini marshmallows for espresso beans.
Potato Candy
Recipe: Potato Candy
This old-school candy reminds us of divinity and other traditional homemade Southern sweets. The recipe is a testament to the genius of thrifty cooks who based the confection on leftover mashed potatoes.
Citrus Mints
Recipe: Citrus Mints
Use powdered sugar to keep the dough from sticking to your hands.
Salty Chocolate-Pecan Candy
Recipe: Salty Chocolate-Pecan Candy
The hardest part about making Salty Chocolate-Pecan Candy is waiting for the chocolate to firm up before devouring it.
Milk Chocolate-Peppermint Bark
Recipe: Milk Chocolate-Peppermint Bark
As if milk chocolate morsels and peppermint candies weren't perfect enough a mixture, we added rich cream-and-mint-filled chocolate sandwich cookies and salty pretzel sticks to our peppermint bark. This recipe is great for giving as gifts, but be sure to save a few pieces as a holiday treat for yourself.
Red-and-Green Pistachio Bark
Recipe: Red-and-Green Pistachio Bark
Sometimes a rich, bite-sized nibble does the trick, whether enjoyed as a pampering pick-me-up or given as a special holiday gift.
Pecan-Toffee Shortbread
Recipe: Pecan-Toffee Shortbread
Shortbread serves as a base for this chocolaty pecan toffee. Pecan-Toffee Shortbread makes excellent food gifts, but make extra because it'll be hard to give this sweet treat away.
Chocolate-Dipped Praline Pretzels
Recipe: Chocolate-Dipped Praline Pretzels
A good Southerner doesn't let guests leave empty-handed. Give them a sweet sendoff with these addicting salty-sweet nibbles.
Whole Grain Marshmallow Crispy Bars
Recipe: Whole Grain Marshmallow Crispy Bars
Crunchy, chewy, and full of cranberries - these bars are everything you crave during the holidays.
Pecan Toffee
Recipe: Pecan Toffee
The tender-crisp texture of this rich toffee will quickly make it your holiday guilty pleasure.
Easy Swirled Fudge
Recipe: Easy Swirled Fudge
Stack Easy Swirled Fudge between layers of colored card stock and parchment paper for a simple look.
Peppermint Pinwheel Cookies
Recipe: Peppermint Pinwheel Cookies
Fill inexpensive metal containers from crafts stores with Peppermint Pinwheel Cookies for a gift your neighbors and friends will love.
Video: Peppermint Pinwheel Cookies
Velvety Pecan Candy
Recipe: Velvety Pecan Candy
Make two batches of Velvety Pecan Candy, one each of chocolate and vanilla. Then prepare to see them disappear.
Praline Pecans
Recipe: Praline Pecans
No matter how you make pralines–with brown sugar or white sugar, evaporated milk or buttermilk–they are one of the paramount Southern treats.
Crunchy Pecan Pie Bites
Recipe: Crunchy Pecan Pie Bites
Great things come in small packages! These pecan pie bites are small but full of flavor and just the right size for pass-along party desserts.
Roasted Pecan Fudge
Recipe: Roasted Pecan Fudge
This delectable holiday treat received our Test Kitchen's highest rating.
Mrs. Floyd's Divinity
Recipe: Mrs. Floyd's Divinity
What better way to show your appreciation of friends and family than by giving packages of these delicious holiday confections.


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in the event you were supplied a deal that sounded as though it was once unbeatable, and it became out that there was no chance involved for you, you'd without a doubt take it, wouldn't you?
Most of us, if now not all, would. but then throw this variable into the equation: that you may most effective have this deal with the aid of profiting from the fact that a pair with three youngsters are divorcing after one of the crucial oldsters lost their job.
they'll sell for just over half of of what they paid for the property for the reason that backside fell out of the market and the repayments are crippling them.
How do you're feeling now? still thinking of popping open a bottle of champagne and toasting your good fortune? well, you can also neatly be.
actually that there will always be misfortune on this world, and if you feel that it is excessively unkind to make the most of someone else's misfortune then there shall be numerous other folks in the market who are in no way bothered about taking that step.
clearly you could be neatly steered not to celebrate your good fortune in front of the domestic who're dropping their dwelling, but they want to promote it, and you're going to now not be helping them via opting out of the decision.
that is how many individuals make their first step on the real property ladder. Equally, others will purchase homes from seized-property auctions without taking into account that the work that went into those homes could have been funded via drug dealing, and buying from a repossession public sale is also a way of profiting from some other's misfortune in case you want to take that view of things.
It's all relative, and you are not the bad guy.


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Once again, A-RAY.tv has swept the Telly Awards. This year, we won three Tellies (?) for the series, OUR STORIES, which we produced for our client, Constellation Energy. The 13 part OUR STORIES series promotes Constellation's work in the energy conservation and clean energy service sector. The stories include the genesis of one of the largest solar farms in Maryland – on the roof of the McCormick spice factory, as well as an energy conservation program at the Trenton, New Jersey Housing Authority that provided brand new upgraded appliances to thousands of tenants with no up front cost as well as lower utility bills for the city.
Our Stories: McCormick Spices
Our Stories: Trenton Housing Authority
Other stories in the series took us to a Chicago Black Hawks game, the city of Morgantown, West Virginia and the rolling bluegrass horse farms of Lexington, Kentucky. Our small crew has become very nimble with those equipment cases at the airport, and kudos to the airlines for uniting us with our gear at every destination. Here's what Constellation's brand manager, Marjorie Kass, has to say about her experience working with A-RAY on this series,
"My company hired two production companies to produce case study videos. Some colleagues insisted that we had to hire an expensive New York Ad agency because they felt 'you get what you pay for.' We also hired A-Ray, because they have many years of experience with both long and short form video and have won awards for their work. So it really was a head-to-head comparison of talent, budget, work ethic and quality of end results. The agency brought in a dozen crew members, great craft services table and went 4 times over the A-Ray budget. A-Ray brought their talented eye for lighting, captured every angle of the shot with top quality HD equipment, brought a small crew, attention to detail and incredible editing skills. The result? Hands down, A-Ray has become my go-to resource, travelling all over the country for the past two years, sometimes at a moment's notice. The videos they produced won three Telly Awards this past year and everyone in the company, as well as our customers, are raving about our videos. I am one VERY satisfied customer!"


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NISD names 10th high school for
U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan
Northside ISD's 10th high school is named after one of the most influential justices in Supreme Court history. William J. Brennan High School will open in 2010 outside Loop 1604 just west of Seaworld.
Brennan High School, formerly known as 'Potranco West' area high school, is funded by School Bond 2007 and will relieve overcrowding primarily at Stevens High School, which opened in 2005 and already has capped enrollment. A groundbreaking ceremony for Brennan High School was held March 26, 2008.
Since 1960, all high schools in NISD have been named after U.S. Supreme Court justices. Middle school students who are expected to attend the new high school submit nominations to Board members, who have the final vote on the name.
Brennan was born in New Jersey in 1906 to Irish immigrant parents. A graduate of Harvard Law School, Brennan was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Eisenhower in 1956. His service spanned eight presidential administrations, during which he authored 1,360 opinions. Only one other justice in history authored more opinions, according to the New York Times.
Brennan authored several landmark cases, including New York Times v. Sullivan, which reshaped the libel law, and Baker v. Carr, which ruled federal courts could determine the constitutionality of a state's voting districts.
Brennan retired from the Supreme Court in 1990 at the age of 84 and died in 1997 at the age of 91.


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Group Buying Site UForce Goes Live
By Jennifer Bissell, Twin Cities Business
"UForce, a virtual group buying marketplace, went live Monday.
More than five million buyers are members on the site, ready to get discounts on the products and services they wish to buy.
The site mirrors group discount sites like Groupon and Living Social, but instead of just receiving the discounted offers, users group together to make them. Weight Watchers, Travelocity, WireFly, Lenovo, and AC Lens have all registered with the site so far. As of late May, Andrew Atkin, founder and CEO of UForce, had recruited 120 sellers."


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Case citation is the system used in many countries to identify the decisions in past court cases, either in special series of books called reporters or law reports, or in a 'neutral' form which will identify a decision wherever it was reported. Although case citations are formatted differently in different jurisdictions, they generally contain the same key information.
Where cases are published in paper form the citation will usually contain:
In some report series, for example in England and Australia, the volumes are not numbered independently of the year: thus the year and volume number (usually no greater than 4) are required to identify which book of the series has the case reported within its covers. In citations of this type it is usual in these jurisdictions for square brackets "[year]" to be applied to the year (which may not be the year that the case was decided: for example, a case decided in December 2001 may have been reported in 2002).
The Internet brought with it the opportunity for courts to publish their decisions on web sites. Decisions of many courts from all over the world can now be found through the website WorldLII and its member institutes.[1]
Most decisions of courts are not published in printed law reports. The expense of typesetting and publishing them has limited the printed law reports to the significant cases. Internet publishing of court decisions resulted in a flood of information. The result was that a medium-neutral citation system had to be adopted. This usually contains the following information:
Rather than utilizing page numbers for pin-point references, which would depend upon particular printers and browsers, pin-point quotes refer to paragraph numbers.
The standard case citation format in Australia is:
|Style of cause
|(year of decision)
|[year of report]
|Mabo v Queensland (No 2)
Like in Canada, there has been divergence between citation styles. There exists commercial citation guides published by Butterworths and other legal publishing companies, academic citation styles and court citation styles. Each court in Australia may cite the same cases slightly differently. There is presently a movement in convergence to the comprehensive academic citation style of the Australian Guide to Legal Citation published by the Melbourne University Law Review.
|Administrative Appeals Reports
|Australian Law Journal Reports
|Australian Law Reports
|1983 -
|Commonwealth Law Reports
|1903 -
|Family Law Cases
|Federal Law Reports
|New South Wales Law Reports
|Qld R
|Queensland Reports
|South Australian State Reports
|Victorian Reports
Australian courts and tribunals have now adopted a neutral citation standard for case law. The format provides a naming system that does not depend on the publication of the case in a law report. Most cases are now published on AustLII using neutral citations.[2]
The standard format looks like this:
|Year of decision
|Court identifier
|Ordinal number
So the above mentioned Mabo case would then be cited like this: [1992] HCA 23.
There is a unique court identifier code for most courts. The court and tribunal identifiers include:
|Court Identifier
|High Court of Australia
|Federal Court of Australia
|Federal Court of Australia - Full Court (Appeals bench)
|Family Court of Australia
|Federal Magistrates' Court of Australia
|Federal Magistrates' Court of Australia, family law decisions
|Administrative Appeals Tribunal of Australia
There are a number of citation standards in Canada. Many legal publishing companies and schools have their own practice for citation. Since the late 1990s, however, there has been a convergence among much of legal community to a single standard which has been formulated in the "The Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation", known as the "McGill Guide" after the McGill Law Journal that first published it. The following format reflects this standard.
The standard case citation in Canada looks like this:
The format can be broken into its component parts:
|Style of cause
|(year of decision),
|[year of report]
|R. v. Big M Drug Mart Ltd.,
|R. v. Oakes,
|Re Canada Trust Co. and O.H.R.C.
|(Ont. C.A.).
The Style of Cause is italicized as in all other countries and the party names are separated by "v." (English) or "c." (French). Prior to 1984 the appellant party would always be named first. However, since then case names do not switch order when the case is appealed.
Undisclosed parties to a case are represented by initials (e.g. R. v. R.D.S.). Criminal cases are prosecuted by the Crown which is always represented by "R." for Regina (queen) or Rex (king). Constitutional references are always entitled "Reference re" followed by the subject title.
Usually either the year of the decision or the year of the report is cited, but not usually both. Only if they are different years can they both be cited at the same time. If they are the same, one should always use the report year.
Where available cases should be cited with their neutral citation immediately after the style of cause and preceding the print citation. For example,
This format was introduced in 2006. Prior to this format, the opposite order of parallel citation was used.
|Admin. L.R.
|Administrative Law Reports
|Admin. L.R. (2d)
|Administrative Law Reports (second series)
|Admin. L.R. (3d)
|Administrative Law Reports (third series)
|1999 -
|Alberta, Northwest Territories & Yukon Tax Reporter
|1973 -
|All Canada Weekly Summaries
|A.C.W.S. (2d)
|All Canada Weekly Summaries (second series)
|Alberta Reports
|1976 -
|C.C.L.T. (2d)
|Canadian Cases on the Law of Torts
|Dominion Law Reports
|D.L.R. (2d)
|Dominion Law Reports (second series)
|D.L.R. (3d)
|Dominion Law Reports (third series)
|- 1984
|D.L.R. (4th)
|Dominion Law Reports (fourth series)
|1984 -
|Federal Court Reports
|1971 -
|N.B.R. (2d)
|New Brunswick Reports
|1969 -
|National Reporter
|N.S.R. (2d)
|Nova Scotia Reports
|1969 -
|O.R. (3d)
|Ontario Reports
|1986 -
|Supreme Court Reports
|1970 -
|Western Weekly Reports
|1911–1950, 1971 -
|Western Weekly Reports (New Series)
In 1999 the Canadian Judicial Council adopted a neutral citation standard for case law. The format provides a naming system that does not depend on the publication of the case in a law report.
The standard format look like this:
|Year of decision
|Court identifier
|Ordinal number
There is a unique court identifier code for most courts. There are a few courts in Quebec and Ontario that have yet to adopt the system. A list of the court identifiers include:
|Court Identifier
|from year
|Supreme Court of Canada
|Federal Court of Canada - Trial Division
|Federal Court of Canada - Appeal Division
|Tax Court of Canada
|Court Martial Appeal Court
|Comp. Trib.
|Competition Tribunal of Canada
|British Columbia Court of Appeal
|Supreme Court of British Columbia
|Provincial Court of British Columbia
|British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal
|British Columbia Securities Commission
|Ontario Court of Appeal
|Quebec Court of Appeal
The standard case citation format in England and Wales is:
|Style of cause
|(year of decision),
|[year of report]
|Donoghue v Stevenson,
|R v Dudley and Stephens,
In England and Wales as with certain Commonwealth countries, the abbreviation "R" for rex (king) or regina (queen), is used for cases in which the state is a party (typically criminal cases or judicial review cases).
Square brackets "[ ]" are used when the year is essential to locating the report (e.g. the official law reports either - as with Donoghue v Stevenson, above - do not have volume numbers or, if there are multiple volumes in a single year, they are numbered 1, 2, etc.). Round brackets "( )" are used when the year is not essential but is useful for information purposes, e.g. in reports which have a cumulative volume number such as R v Dudley and Stevens, above.
The term "reporter", meaning a law report or a series of them, is not widely used in England and Wales.
Before 1865, English courts used a large number of privately-printed reports, and cases were cited based on which report they appeared in. (This system was also used in the United States and other common law jurisdictions during that period).
In 1865, many English cases were reprinted in a set of volumes called English Reports, abbreviated E.R. Between 1865 and 1875, decisions were published in a single series of law reports simply known as the "Law Reports" (L.R).
Since 1875 the official law reports have been split into a number of different series, the current series being the Appeal Cases (A.C.), Chancery (Ch.), Family (Fam.) and Queen's Bench (Q.B.) (or King's Bench—K.B.—depending on the monarch of the time). These 4 series are cited in preference to all others in court. There are two main unofficial law reports which report all areas of law, the Weekly Law Reports (W.L.R.) and the All England Reports (All E.R.). In addition there are a number of unofficial specialist law reports which focus on a particular area, e.g. the Entertainment and Media Law Reports (E.M.L.R.) or the Criminal Appeal Reports (Cr. App. R.). See the table below for a list of the most common current and past law reports.
|Law Report
|Admiralty and Ecclesiastical (L.R.)
|1865 -
|Appeal Cases (L.R.)
|1890 -
|All E.R.
|All England Law Reports
|1936 -
|Butterworths Company Law Cases
|1983 -
|Butterworths Human Rights Cases
|1996 -
|Butterworths Medico-Legal Reports
|???? -
|Criminal Cases Reserved (L.R.)
|Chancery (L.R.)
|1891 -
|Ch. App.
|Chancery Appeal (L.R.)
|Ch. D.
|Chancery Division (L.R.)
|Con. L.R.
|Construction Law Reports
|1985 -
|Common Pleas (L.R.)
|Cr. App. Rep.
|Criminal Appeal Reports
|1987 -
|European Court of Human Rights Cases
|1960 -
|Estates Gazette Law Reports
|1975 -
|Equity Cases (L.R.)
|Ex. D.
|Exchequer Division (L.R.)
|Family Court Reports
|1987 -
|Goode Consumer Credit Reports
|1882 -
|House of Lords (L.R.)
|Industrial Relations Law Reports
|1972 -
|Butterworths Intellectual Property and Technology Cases
|1999 -
|Justice of the Peace Law Reports
|2003 -
|International Tax Law Reports
|1998 -
|King's Bench
|Butterworths Local Government Reports
|1997 -
|Law Reports of the Commonwealth
|1995 -
|Occupational Pensions Law Reports
|1992 -
|Probate and Family
|1850 -
|Privy Council (L.R.)
|Estates Gazette Planning Law Reports
|1988 -
|Queen's Bench (L.R.)
|1952 -
|Queen's Bench Division (L.R.)
|Reports of Patent Cases
|1939 -
|Simon's Tax Cases
|1973 -
|Official Tax Case Reports
|1883 -
|Weekly Law Reports
|1953 -
Since 2001, judgments in the House of Lords, Privy Council,
Court of Appeal and Administrative Court have been issued with
neutral citations. This system was extended to other parts of the
High Court in 2002. Judgments with neutral citations are freely
available on the British and Irish Legal Information Institute
website (www.bailii.org). Neutral citations identify judgments
independently of any series of reports, and cite only parties, year
of judgment, court and case number. For example,
Rottman v MPC [2002] UKHL 20
identifies the 20th judgment in 2002 in the UK House of Lords. UKHL stands for UK House of Lords. EWHC and EWCA identify the England and Wales High Court and Court of Appeal respectively. These abbreviations are generally followed by an abbreviation indicating the court or division (e.g. Admin, Ch, Crim, Pat).
If a neutral citation is available for a judgment, it should immediately follow the party names. If the judgment has also been reported in a law reports series, follow the neutral citation with the 'best report', which is usually from the official Law Reports series (Appeals Cases - AC, Chancery - Ch, Family - Fam, Queen's Bench - QB etc).
The case of Rottman v MPC was reported in the Appeals
Cases, so the citation should be:
Rottman v MPC [2002] UKHL 20, [2002] 2 AC 692.
This means that a report of the case and the judgment can be found in the 2002 volumes, vol 2, of the Law Reports series called Appeals Cases, beginning at page 692.
To cite a particular paragraph from the judgment, add the paragraph number in square brackets at the end of the citation: Rottman v MPC [2002] UKHL 20, [2002] 2 AC 692 [58].
If a case is not reported in the Law Reports, the next best report is the Weekly Law Reports (e.g. [2002] 2 WLR 1315), and then the All England Reports (e.g. [2002] 2 All ER 865). In some situations, it might be preferable to cite a specialist series, eg Rottman v MPC was also cited in the Human Rights Law Reports, at [2002] HRLR 32.
For cases before 2001, cite the best report. If referring to a particular page of the judgment, give that page number after the page number on which the report begins. The following citation refers to page 573 of the Donoghue v Stevenson judgment:
Donoghue v Stevenson [1932] AC 562, 573.
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In Germany there are two types of citation, the full citation of a case and its shortened form. In e.g. scientific articles the full citation of a particular case is only used at its first occurrence, after that its shortened form is used. In most law journals the articles themselves only use the shortened form, the full citations for all articles sometimes are summarized at the beginning of that journals edition.
The most important cases of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany are published by the court in its official collection. This collection is abbreviated "BVerfGE", whereas BVerfG is short for Bundesverfassungsgericht, the German court name, and E stands for Entscheidung (decision).
Starting in 2004, the court also publishes the "BVerfGK" collection, containing decisions made only by a Kammer, a specific part of the court.
The so-called Volkszählungsurteil for example could be cited
in full and
in short.
|official collection
|page of beginning
|page cited
|more detailed information and date
|case number
|Urteil des Ersten Senats
vom 15. Dezember 1983
[in case of a hearing:] auf die mündliche Verhandlung vom 18. und 19. Oktober 1983,
|Az. 1 BvR 209, 269, 362, 420, 440, 484/83
For the meaning of the different case numbers of the BVerfG see the German article.
If decisions are not published by the court yet or will not be published by it at all, law journals can be cited, e.g.
Where NJW stands for the law journal Neue Juristische Wochenschrift, 2009 is the year, 1234 the page of the beginning and 1235 the cited page(s) - "f." stands for "seq.". In general, citations of the official collections are preferred.
The Federal Court of Justice of Germany (Bundesgerichtshof, short BGH) publishes the official collections BGHSt for decisions in penal law and BGHZ for those in private law.
The Katzenkönigfall e.g. would be cited
in full and
in short (in this example, not a specific page but the case as such is cited; "ff." means "sqq.").
The official collection of the Federal Social Court of Germany (Bundessozialgericht, BSG) is abbreviated BSGE.
The official collection of the Federal Finance Court of Germany (Bundesfinanzhof, BFH) is BFHE.
The official collection of the Federal Labor Court of Germany (Bundesarbeitsgericht, BAG) is BAGE.
For the other courts generally the same rules apply, though most of them do not publish an official collection, so that they have to be cited from a law journal.
India's vast federated judicial system admits to a large number of reporters, each with their own style of citation. There are over 200 law reports in India – subject-wise and state(province)-wise; authorized and unauthorized.
The official reporter for Supreme Court decisions is the Supreme Court Reports. These reports however lag behind other journals in the speed of reporting. Whilst decisions themselves are uploaded by the Supreme Court itself on www.courtnic.nic.in, the edited versions with headnotes in the official reporter take years to compile. However, some reporters have been authorised to publish the Court's decisions. The All India Reporter is an old and respected reporter that, in addition to the Supreme Court, also reports decisions of the various State High Courts. Other popular reporters include Supreme Court Cases, which has become the most cited report in the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court Almanac and Judgements Today.
For instance, the case of Sebastian Hongray v. Union of India can be cited thus:
AIR 1984 SC 571 - where 'AIR' is the All India Reporter, '1984' is the year of judgement (AIR does not use a volume-based classification), 'SC' is the Supreme Court of India and '571' is the page number;
(1984) 1 SCC 339 - which corresponds to the Year (of publication), Volume (of the reporter), Supreme Court Cases (name of the reporter)and Page Number (within the volume);
1984 Cri LJ 289 (SC) - which corresponds to Year (of publication), Criminal Law Journal (name of reporter) and Page Number (within the 1984 volumes). The forum is indicated in simple parentheses.
A citation of the "Supreme Court Almanac" looks like this - Additional Secretary, Government of India v. Alka Subhash Gadia (1990) 2 Scale 1352; and, "Judgements Today" like this - Premium Granites v. State of Tamil Nadu JT (1994) 1 SC 374.
The "Supreme Court Cases (SCC)" published supplementary reports for a few years in the early 1990s. Those citations looked like this - Federation of Mining Associations v. State of Rajasthan 1992 Supp (2) SCC 239, which points to page 239 of the Second Supplementary Volume of the SCC reports in the year 1992. From 1996 the Supplementary Volumes were numbered in sequence after the regular volumes.
The SCC also have a separate series of subject-based reporting of the decisions of the Supreme Court. For instance - Rathinam Nagbhushan Patnaik v. Union of India 1994 SCC (Cri) 740, which refers to the SCC Criminal Reports, and Delhi Transport Corporation v. Mazdoor Congress 1991 SCC (L&S) 1213, which refers to the SCC Labour & Services Reports.
All India Reporter is the most popular nation-wide reporter for decisions of the High Courts. An AIR High Court citation looks like this - Surjya Kumar Das v. Maya Dutta AIR 1982 Cal 222, where 'Cal' refers to the Calcutta High Court, Kolkata. This is a uniform style for AIR High Court reports. Only the shortened indicator of the forum changes for different High Courts. The Calcutta Weekly Notes is the oldest continuously published law journal in India having uninterrupted publication since 1896 reporting reportable decisions of the High Court at Calcutta. Reports are cited in the style 105 CWN 345 where 105 refers to the Volume no. calculated at one volume per year from the initial volume published in 1896.
The standard case citation format in New Zealand is:
|Style of cause
|(year of decision)
|[year of reporter]
|Taylor v New Zealand Poultry Board
|R v Howse
Several leading law reviews in New Zealand have also adopted the Australian Guide to Legal Citation such as the Canterbury Law Review. The AGLC style is also rather similar to citation style in New Zealand. This is probably to aid exchanges in academic work between both sides of the Tasman as opposed to any sort of sense of cultural inferiority.
|New Zealand Law Reports
|1881 -
|Criminal Reports of New Zealand
|1983 -
|New Zealand Bill of Rights Reports
|New Zealand Administrative Reports
|New Zealand Family Law Reports
|District Court Reports
Additionally, a number of other report series exist for specialist areas such as Family, Employment and Tax Law.
New Zealand courts and tribunals have begun to adopt a neutral citation standard for case law. The format provides a naming system that does not depend on the publication of the case in a law report. Most cases are now published on AustLII[2] using neutral citations, although such formats are only used for Court of Appeal and Supreme Court judgments. Outside of AustLII, only the Supreme Court uses such citations in relation to its own judgments.
The standard format looks like this:
|Year of decision
|Court identifier
|Ordinal number
There is a unique court identifier code only for the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal. These identifiers are:
|Court Identifier
|Supreme Court of New Zealand
|New Zealand Court of Appeal
Despite the long-standing civil law tradition in the Philippines, reliance on judicial precedents has become indispensable since the period of American rule. Decisions of the Supreme Court are expressly recognized as part of the internal law, and are thus cited with frequency in court decisions or legal pleadings. Even as there is only one Supreme Court in the Philippines, the citation of its decisions varies depending on which reporter of the case is relied upon.
The Philippine Reports is the official reporter of decisions of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. The standard format for citation of the Philippine Reports is:
In the last few decades, the Philippine Reports has suffered from production problems, resulting in long delays in publication, as well as significant gaps within its published series. As a result, the privately published Supreme Court Reports Annotated (published by Central Professional Books, Inc.) has become more widely used than the Philippine Reports, even by the courts. The proper format for citation of the Supreme Court Reports Annotated is:
Owing to the delays in the regular publication of the Philippine Reports, reliance on the SCRA has been tolerated, although if a case may be found at the Philippine Reports, it is preferred that the official reporter be cited in lieu of the SCRA.
When citing cases which have not yet been reported in the Philippine Reports or the SCRA, the above citation without reference to the SCRA is preferred (i.e., Fortich v. Corona, G.R. No. 131457, 24 April 1988)
As there are no official or unofficial reporters that regularly publish decisions of the Court of Appeals and other lower courts, citation of their decisions hews to the same format as cases not reported either in the Philippine Reports or the SCRA. Thus: (case name), (docket number), (Exact date of promulgation of decision).
The standard case citation formats in Scotland are:
|Name of parties
|Year of decision,
|Year of report
|HM Advocate v Megrahi,
|McFarlane v Tayside Health Board,
|Forbes v Underwood,
|R (or 'Rettie')
|Smith v Brown,
The Supreme Court has issued a practice note on the use of neutral citation.
The standard case citation format in the United States is:
These numbers are used to find a particular case, both when looking up a case in a printed reporter and when accessing it via the Internet or services such as LexisNexis or Westlaw.
This format also allows different cases with the same parties to be easily differentiated. For example, looking for the U.S. Supreme Court case of Miller v. California would yield four cases, some involving different people named Miller, and each involving different issues.
Cases from the Supreme Court of the United States are officially printed in the United States Reports. A citation to the United States Reports looks like this:
Many court decisions are published by more than one reporter. A citation to two or more reporters for a given court decision is called a "parallel citation". For U.S. Supreme Court decisions, there are several unofficial reporters, including the Supreme Court Reporter (S. Ct.) and United States Supreme Court Reports, Lawyers' Edition (commonly known simply as Lawyer's Edition) (L. Ed.), which are printed by private companies and provide further annotations to the opinions of the Court. Although a citation to the latter two is not required, some attorneys and legal writers prefer to cite all three case reporters at once:
The "2d" after the L. Ed. signifies the second series of the Lawyers' Edition. United States case reporters are sequentially numbered, but the volume number is never higher than 999. When the 1,000th volume is reached (the threshold in earlier years was lower), the volume number is reset to 1 and a "2d" is appended after the reporter's abbreviation. Some case reporters are in their third series, and a few are approaching their fourth.
Some very old Supreme Court cases have odd-looking citations, such as Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. (1 Cranch) 137 (1803). The "(1 Cranch)" refers to the fact that, before there was a reporter series known as the United States Reports compiled by the Supreme Court's Reporter of Decisions, cases were gathered, bound together, and sold privately by the Court's Reporter of Decisions. In this example, Marbury was first reported in an edition by William Cranch, who was responsible for publishing Supreme Court reports from 1801 to 1815. Such reports, named for the individual who gathered them and hence called "nominative reports," existed from 1790 to 1874. Beginning in 1874, the U.S. government created the United States Reports, and at the same time simultaneously numbered the volumes previously published privately as part of a single series and began numbering sequentially from that point. In this way, "5 U.S. (1 Cranch)" means that it is the 5th overall volume of the United States Reports series, but the first that was originally published by William Cranch; four volumes of opinions prior to that were (for example) published by Alexander Dallas (for example, "4 U.S. (4 Dall.)"), and after Cranch's 9 volumes, 12 more were published by Henry Wheaton (e.g., "15 U.S. (2 Wheat.)").
When a case has been decided, but not yet published in the case reporter, the citation may note the volume but leave blank the page of the case reporter until it is determined. For example, Bowles v. Russell, 551 U.S. ___ (2007).
See the Supreme Court of the United States Reporter of Decisions for other edition names.
In the caption of a Supreme Court case, the first name listed is the name of the petitioning (appealing) party, followed by the party responding (respondent) to the appeal. In most cases, the appealing party was the losing party in the prior court. This is the same practice used in cases in the federal courts of appeal.
United States court of appeals cases are published in the Federal Reporter (F., F.2d, or F.3d). United States district court cases and cases from some specialized courts are published in the Federal Supplement (F. Supp. or F. Supp. 2d). Both are published by Thomson West; they are technically unofficial reporters, but have become widely accepted as the de facto "official" reporters of the lower federal courts because of the absence of a true official reporter. (Of the federal appeals and district courts, only one, the D.C. Circuit, has an official reporter, United States Court of Appeals Reports, and even that one is rarely used today.)
When lower federal court opinions are cited, the citation includes the name of the court. This is placed in the parentheses immediately before the year. Some examples:
State court decisions are published in several places. Many states have their own official state reporters, which publish decisions of one or more of that state's courts. Reporters that publish decisions of a state's highest court are abbreviated the same as the state's name (note: this is the traditional abbreviation, not the postal abbreviation), regardless of what the actual title of the reporter is. Thus, the official reporter of decisions of the California Supreme Court (titled California Reports) is abbreviated "Cal." (or, for subsequent series, "Cal. 2d," "Cal. 3d" or "Cal. 4th").
In addition to the official reporters, Thomson West publishes several series of "regional reporters" which cover several states each. These are the North Eastern Reporter, Atlantic Reporter, South Eastern Reporter, Southern Reporter, South Western Reporter, North Western Reporter, and Pacific Reporter. California, Illinois, and New York also each have their own line of Thomson West reporters, because of the large volume of cases generated in those states (titled, respectively, West's California Reporter, Illinois Decisions, and West's New York Supplement). Some smaller states (like South Dakota) have stopped publishing their own official reporters, and instead have certified the appropriate West regional reporter as their "official" reporter.
Here are some examples of how to cite West reporters:
Abbreviations for lower courts vary by state, as each state has its own system of trial courts and intermediate appellate courts.
When a case appears in both an official reporter and a regional reporter, either citation can be used. Generally, citing to the regional reporter is preferred, since out-of-state attorneys are more likely to have access to these. Many lawyers prefer to include both citations. Some state courts require that parallel citations (in this case, citing to both the official reporter and an unofficial regional reporter) be used when citing cases from any court in that state's system.
Some states, notably California and New York, have their own citation systems that differ significantly from the various federal and national standards. Citations in California style put the year between the names of the parties and the reference to the case reporter. Citations in New York style wrap the year in brackets instead of parentheses. Both New York and California wrap an entire citation in parentheses when it is used as a stand-alone sentence. New York puts the terminating period outside the parentheses, but California puts it inside. New York wraps just the reporter and page references in parentheses when the citation is used as a clause.
Either way, both state styles differ from the national/Bluebook style of simply dropping in the citation as a separate sentence without further adornment. Both systems use less punctuation and spacing in their reporter abbreviations.
For example, assuming that it is being placed as a stand-alone sentence, the Brown case above would be cited (using the official reporter) to a New York court as:
And, again, as a stand-alone sentence, the famous Greenman product liability case would be cited to a California court as:
Like the United States Supreme Court, some very old state case citations include an abbreviation of the name of either the private publisher or the reporter of decisions, a state-appointed officer who originally collected and published the cases. For example, in Hall v. Bell, 47 Mass. (6 Met.) 431 (1843), the citation is to volume 47 of Massachusetts Reports, which, like United States Reports, was started in the latter half of the 19th century and incorporated a number of prior editions originally published privately into the series, and began numbering from that point; "6 Met." refers to the 6th volume that had originally been published privately by Theron Metcalf. An example of a case cited to a reporter that has not been subsequently incorporated into an officially-published series is Pierson v. Post, 3 Cai. 175 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. 1804), reported in volume 3 of Caines' Reports, page 175, named for George Caines, who had been appointed to report New York cases; the case was before the New York Supreme Court of Judicature (now defunct). Most states gave up this practice in the mid- to late-1800s, but Delaware persisted until 1920.
A growing number of court decisions are not published in case reporters. For example, only 7% of the opinions of the California intermediate courts (the Courts of Appeal) are published each year. This is mainly because judges certify only significant decisions for publication, due to the massive number of frivolous appeals flowing through the courts and the importance of avoiding information overload.[4] It is also argued that this is in part because in many states, especially California, the legislature has failed to expand the judiciary to keep up with population growth (for various political and fiscal reasons). To deal with their crushing caseloads, many judges prefer to write shorter-than-normal opinions that dispose of minor issues in the case in a sentence or two. They avoid publishing such abbreviated opinions, however, so as not to risk creating bad precedents.
Attorneys have several options in citing "unpublished" decisions:
Some court systems—such as the California state court system and the federal Court of Appeals for the Second, Seventh, and Ninth Circuits—forbid attorneys to cite unpublished cases as precedent. Other systems allow citation of unpublished cases only under specific circumstances. For example, in Kentucky, unpublished cases from that state's courts can only be cited if the case was decided after January 1, 2003 and "there is no published opinion that would adequately address the issue before the court."[5] From 2004 to 2006, federal judges debated whether the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure (FRAP) should be amended so that unpublished cases in all circuits could be cited as precedent. In 2006, the Supreme Court, over the objection of several hundred judges and lawyers, adopted a new Rule 32.1 of FRAP requiring that federal courts allow citation of unpublished cases. The rule took effect on January 1, 2007.[6]
With the rise of the web, many courts placed new cases on websites. Some were published while others never lost their "unpublished" status. The major legal citation systems required cites to the officially published page numbers, in which publishers such as West Publishing claimed a copyright interest. (In view of the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in Feist Publications v. Rural Telephone Service, that the mere alphabetical listing of telephone subscribers was an inadequate amount of effort to be valid to obtain copyright, the claim of copyright on page numbering of court decisions is probably not valid.)
A vendor-neutral citation movement[7] led to provisions being made for citations to web-based cases and other legal materials. A few courts modified their rules to specifically take into account cases "published" on the web.
An example of a vendor-neutral citation:
In practice, most lawyers go one step farther, once they have developed the correct citation for a case using the rules discussed above. Most court opinions contain holdings on multiple issues, so lawyers need to cite to the page that contains the specific holding they wish to invoke in their own case. Such citations are known as pinpoint citations, "pin cites," or "jump cites."
For example, in Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the word "person" as used in the Fourteenth Amendment does not include the unborn. That particular holding appears on page 158 of the volume in which the Roe decision was published. A full pin cite to Roe for that holding would be as follows:
And a parallel cite to all three U.S. Supreme Court reporters, combined with pin cites for all three, would produce:
But in its opinions, the Court usually provides a direct pin cite only to the official reporter:
Even then, such citations are still quite lengthy, and obviously look quite mysterious and intimidating to laypersons when they try to read court opinions. Since the 1980s, there has been an ongoing debate among American judges as to whether they should relegate such lengthy citations to footnotes to improve the readability of their opinions, as strongly urged by Bryan Garner, one of the leading authors on legal writing style issues. Most judges do relegate some citations to footnotes (though the refusal of jurists such as Justice Stephen Breyer and Judge Richard Posner to use footnotes in their opinions is well-known).
There are two types of citations: proprietary and public domain citations. There are many citation guides; the most commonly acknowledged is called the Bluebook, published by student-run law reviews at several eminent law schools, namely Columbia Law Review, Harvard Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review and Yale Law Journal. Public domain citations are those which refer to the official reporters, rather than a publication service such as Westlaw, LexisNexis, particular legal journals, or specialization-specific reporters.
States with their own unique style for court documents and case opinions also publish their own style guides which include information on their citation rules.


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The Sport
Wheelchair rugby is a team sport for male and female athletes with a mobility-related disability in at least three limbs. It is a unique sport created by athletes with a disability that combines some elements of basketball, handball, and ice hockey.
What is Wheelchair Rugby?
The object of the game is to carry the ball across the opposing team's goal line. Two wheels must cross the goal line for a goal to count, and the player must have firm control of the ball when he or she crosses the line. All wheelchair rugby players compete in manual wheelchairs. Players must meet the minimum disability criteria of the sport and must be classifiable under the sport classification rules.
Who Can Play?
To be eligible to play, individuals must have a disability that affects both the arms and the legs. They must also be physically capable of propelling a manual wheelchair with their arms. Athletes with neurological disabilities must have at least three limbs with limited functions; athletes with non-neurological disabilities must have limited function in all four limbs. The majority of wheelchair rugby players have spinal cord injuries that have resulted in full or partial paralysis of the legs and partial paralysis of the arms. Other disability groups who are represented include polio, cerebral palsy, some forms of muscular dystrophy, dysmelia, amputations, and other neurological conditions such as Guillain-Barré Syndrome. Men and women are classified equally and compete on the same teams; there are no separate men's and women's competitions. However, teams are allowed an additional 0.5 points for each woman who is playing in the line-up on the court.
Wheelchair rugby Duncan Campbell, founder of wheelchair rugby was invented in 1976 in Winnipeg, Canada, by a group of quadriplegic athletes who were looking for an alternative to wheelchair basketball. They wanted a sport that would allow players with reduced arm and hand function to participate equally. The sport they created, originally called murderball, is now known as wheelchair rugby. One of the founders, Duncan Campbell, still plays in BC, and has been on numerous organizing committees ranging from local to International level events. He is currently the National Director for the Bridging the Gap Program, and Wheelchair Rugby Development in Canada with CWSA.
Wheelchair rugby first appeared outside Canada in 1979 at a demonstration at Southwest State University in Minnesota. The first Canadian National Championship was held the same year. The first team in the United States was formed in 1981 and the first international tournament, which brought together teams from the US and Canada, was held in 1982. Throughout the 1980s, other local and national tournaments took place in various countries. The first international tournament was held in 1989 in Toronto, Canada, with teams from Canada, the USA and Great Britain. This was a breakthrough for developing international competition and co-operation.
Wheelchair rugby first appeared at the World Wheelchair Games in 1990 as an exhibition event. In 1993, with 15 countries actively participating, the sport was recognised as an official international sport for athletes with a disability and the International Wheelchair Rugby Federation (IWRF) was established as a sport section of the International Stoke Mandeville Wheelchair Sports Federation (ISMWSF). Seven countries participated in wheelchair rugby at the 1993 Stoke Mandeville World Wheelchair Games. In 1994, wheelchair rugby was officially recognised by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) as a Paralympic sport. The first Wheelchair Rugby World Championships were held in Nottwil, Switzerland, in 1995, with eight teams competing. In 1996, wheelchair rugby was included as a demonstration sport in the Atlanta Paralympic Games.
In 2000, Wheelchair Rugby was included for the first time in the Paralympic Games competition programme as a full-medal sport at the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games. It was also featured at the 2004 Athens Paralympic Games, and the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games. Wheelchair rugby is currently actively played in twenty-six countries and is under development in at least eighteen more. The IWRF currently includes three zones: Zone 1 (The Americas), with six active countries; Zone 2 (Europe), with fourteen active countries; and Zone 3 (Asia-Oceania), with six active countries. The most recent Wheelchair Rugby World Championships was held in Richmond, BC in September 2010. The next major competition in wheelchair rugby will be the London 2012 Paralympics.


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Over on the Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog, Jemma challenges us to use the ingenious art of Escher as our inspiration. He often uses a pattern (or tessellation) to create interesting patterns in his pieces.
Take a look at how I incorporated this technique in my layout:
I used a touch of tessellation in my layout today. I decided to use a series of overlapping circles to create what loosely looks like fish scales. I'm featuring my son and his role as King Triton in the Little Mermaid Jr. As I was playing around with the circles, I even found a pattern that reminded me of a fish tale shape.
How will you repeat a pattern on your page?
Can't wait to see!
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Sending Scrapiness,


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A brief company history written by the publisher.
To put it in the most boring possible way, Daytripping is a travel guide. It's a free paper that promotes a great number of the most unique shops, stops, towns and events in Southwestern Ontario. It's not your typical magazine because it's printed on newsprint. It's not a newspaper because there is no news - lots of stories, but no news. No bad news anyway.
Daytripping is known as "The Biggest Little Paper in Canada," but in 21 years we've never had a reporter. Our readers are our writers, which makes for an interesting read. Most of them are from our region in Ontario, but a few are from far and away.
Our story began in a gift shop in Petrolia, Ontario (Canada's Victorian Oil Town) in 1995. John Redden is a friend and former customer who owned "Under the Maple Tree," an elegant gift shop in Petrolia. He had mentioned an idea for a paper to me several times over the course of two years but I never thought much about it until he actually showed me an example of what he meant. The paper he dug out of his basement was torn, faded and bent, but the pages inside covered almost every unique antique and craft shop for miles around. Almost all of it was advertising and it covered a large area of the U.S. There were no articles, but he had kept it for almost two years - for the ads! You have to understand that to an advertising salesman, this was amazing. So John Redden is officially credited with the idea for Daytripping, but our paper turned out to be considerably different than the example I saw that day.
Needing shops to advertise, I began by asking Jane Teskey who owned a local folk art shop. By the time I approached Jane I was working on a craft and antique paper that would cover all of Lambton County, but she set me straight and encouraged me to cover all of Southwestern Ontario. I set my sights on the five counties closest to me, covering an area from Windsor to Goderich to Tillsonburg. To drive from one to the others in the triangular shape they form would cover 675 kilometers and take over seven hours. Then there were all the places in between. It was time to hit the road!
When I arrived in towns like Ridgetown, St. Thomas and Kingsville for the first time, I didn't know a soul. Surprisingly, I walked into the best shops I could find and was not only well received, but encouraged. Many of the people I met sent me to other shops that they felt would be a good fit for this new paper. Some of the customers that took a chance on me then are still in Daytripping today, 21 years later. The strange thing is that I wasn't even sure that there would be a second issue, and I had no idea that it would be three times as large as the first. In no time at all, Daytripping was covering all of Southwestern Ontario and was being prominently displayed in almost every unique shop along the way.
Within one week after the release of our first issue in March of 1995, I had fielded more calls from people asking to advertise than I had received in the previous year. The response forced me to put a number of other projects aside in order to concentrate on Daytripping and while I was still trying to figure out if "Daytripping" was a good enough name, the most amazing thing happened. One of my customers had backed out of the first issue and the half page space was filled with an eleventh hour recipe column... featuring the only four recipes I knew. At the bottom of that article we asked any readers to send in their recipes, stories, etc. and they actually did! Sue MacKellar and Mr. & Mrs. Chapman were our first contributors.
While the shops, stops, towns and events are the reason for producing this paper, the contributors changed our initial idea into something worthy of the unique shops we promote. Our readers had the opportunity to help build this paper and by meeting the challenge, they have made "The Daytripper" their own. Most of our readers realize that Daytripping is a very special paper, but it is due to the contributions from many writers and artists. Speaking of artists, our front covers have presented the works of Barbara Perrin, Elsie Thoonen, Shelley McVittie, Alan Hilgendorf, Al McGillivray, Kay Lamb Shannon, Lucy Ogletree and Catherine Simpson, just to name a few.
In the early years, we would have created the ads and then tried to find enough stories, photos and tidbits to fill the pages, but due to the input from our readers, we now have a small library packed with very good articles, poems, recipes and more to choose from. More than anything else, I love to say "Our Readers are Our Writers." People that had never before written to a paper, now have faithful readers who pick up Daytripping to read their work. Unless you're a local, you've probably never heard of Ruth Sharon, Eileen Cade Edwards or Glynn Leyshon, C.W. Tiffin or Spokeshave. They're not famous…yet! The tales we're told are truly inspiring and Daytripping has become a part of the fabric of southern Ontario.
Daytripping is a surprisingly small business to be calling itself the "Biggest Little Paper in Canada." There are seven of us in all now: Laurie Dunlop and myself both came from an advertising background; Carrie Ann Timm had never worked as an editor, bookkeeper, graphic designer, or webmaster before coming on board after college in early 1997; Carla Mejia started with us in 2003 as a graphic designer fresh out of college and has now learned the many aspects of publishing a magazine. Rhonda Long successfully began trying her hand at sales with us in 2005. Angela Lyon came to us with years of experience in graphics & office work in 2011. We have a great team, and as a result, the job of producing the paper has become easier over the years, even though the paper has grown immensely. Our office is now at home along Lake Huron's south shore, in Brights Grove, Ontario.
Daytripping itself is fun...both as a job and as something to do on your day off. Most people don't have time for all the extended holidays they would like to take, but there is so much to do in your own backyard that daytrips can become the best getaways of all. Many of our readers keep a copy of Daytripping in their car. It's a fact that 72% of the tourism in southwestern Ontario comes from within Ontario. It is people traveling from Brantford to Port Dover for the day, or Londoners getting out of the city and driving off to Tillsonburg or Grand Bend. They're looking for a new road to go down, a new shop to explore and an easy, affordable adventure.
So, Daytripping is a travel guide designed to promote unique businesses in southern Ontario. It's ours, but it's also yours. Anyone that has written to us or even read Daytripping has helped to build it from the ground up. It is theirs!
Hopefully, our website will encourage you to visit Southern Ontario and give you an idea of the best shops and towns to visit. However, once you're here you'll want to find a copy of Daytripping at an Ontario Travel Centre or at one of the shops listed on our Destinations page.
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January 31, 2018, the deadline for the first global survey for the Maritime Training Insights Database (MarTID), is quickly approaching.
The mission of MarTID is to help ensure safe, efficient and sustainable maritime operations on clean oceans. It will do so by providing the maritime industry with objective and comprehensive data on how it manages and conducts training for shipboard competencies and the effects of drivers, such as technology, on this training.
So far, the MarTID team has received good input and we thank those of you in the maritime community who have already taken the survey. We invite all other vessel operators and maritime training facilities to complete this survey before the deadline.
Your doing so will help MarTID to develop an even more comprehensive dataset, the analysis of which will be of significant benefit to the global maritime community. Insights from the analysis is expected to enhance policy-setting, decision-making, benchmarking and operational optimization by industry operators and regulatory authorities at all levels. To take the survey, please follow the link www.martid.org/survey.
The MarTID partners look forward to hearing from you and, even more, to sharing with you the results of our analyses of this first survey when it is completed. I wish to sincerely thank you in advance for joining with us to support this important endeavour to put in place this robust database, the MarTID.


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Do food snobs eat at gas stations?
I have been pampered and spoiled by some of the best chefs in the world, have sated my hunger in a few of the finest restaurants that ever existed, have paired Gewurztraminers with sweetbreads and eaten desserts that made me moan.
In 1997 I dined at Emeril's, the New Orleans Warehouse District stronghold of Emeril Lagasse, long hailed as the most uncomfortable restaurant with the best tasting food in that city famous for drool-inducing eateries. Emeril's has (or had'… I'm not sure how they're doing down there these days) an open kitchen, and when I looked back there I noticed that Lagasse himself was cooking my lunch.
Later that evening I had the pleasure to watch Lagasse and his crew break down the kitchen. It was like a military operation, with teams of white-clad kitchen workers scurrying about like ants while Emeril stood on a chair and shouted directions. Only he was allowed to speak.
In 1999 I had the pleasure to dine with Chef Duke LoCicero at Café Giovanni on Decatur Street, where the waiters sing opera and where I once saw Charles Barkley cavorting at the bar with a bunch of plumpish groupies (this was a while after he retired from basketball, and the Quote Machine himself looked none too svelte). That was the year Chef Duke won a national award for a dish consisting of grilled shrimp big like a fat man's fingers and scallops as big around as poker chips quickly pan-seared served with a sweet saki soy reduction and a ramiken of jasmine rice. I had it, with a salad that contained like 15 ingredients, including crisped leek strips and jumbo lump crabmeat picked from actual crabs right back there in Duke's kitchen.
I've done Spago and Le Cirque and Commanders Palace. I've sat at Antoine's and Arnaud's and Galatoire's and Alex Patout's. I once spent an entire evening at Bayona, Susan Spicer's magnificent restaurant in the French Quarter, where she did things with liver that nearly made me weep.
You might say that I was once a food snob. This was before my situation in life '— a married man with three kids '— prevented me from enjoying three-hour, five- to seven-course meals that cost about half my rent. I still carry some vestiges of my epicurean arrogance, like when I scoff at canned oysters or when I roll my eyes as my wife puts pasta in the pot before the water begins to boil, but I believe my days as a member of the superior palate club are numbered.
This is because I have a new favorite restaurant. And it's in a gas station.
Go ahead and laugh'… it's pretty funny, but I can't and won't go without my Sheetz.
I discovered the chain years ago while crossing Virginia on one of our thrice yearly drives to New York and became enamored of their low, low gas prices and clean restrooms. But I didn't start eating there until they built the one on Wendover just off the interstate. It started slow '— I grabbed a pre-made breakfast sandwich from under a hot lamp by the door on my way to buy cigarettes. A hash brown, too. I ate them at the office and found them comparable to, if not tastier than, the other breakfast sandwich products out there. The 'schmuffin' sandwich became a semi-regular part of my morning routine, though I started ordering them fresh rather than grabbing the pre-made ones.
Then I got more adventurous, ordering a Buffalo chicken wrap, rolled with lettuce and bleu cheese dressing. Awesome. I branched out into the roast beef melt and the jalapeño-filled pretzel. I started ordering fancy coffees from the coffee bar and making plans to visit the milkshake machine. I considered opening a line of credit.
I started talking about Sheetz at the office, at my house, to strangers in bars. And I delved deeper into their menu.
A few weeks ago I had a black and bleu steak fajita wrap that was one of the tastiest things I've ever eaten that took less that three minutes to prepare, no sheet, and it would stand well with anything from a delicate Pinot Noir to a spicy Zinfandel to a big, bold Cabernet.
So maybe my slide from foodie snob to fast-food slob is not yet complete, but I can see the writing on the electronic touch-screen and I know that my days as a gourmand are numbered.
I tried a new menu item at Sheetz last week. They're called macaroni and cheese bites, flash-fried triangles of warm, fuzzy goodness that would either go very well with, say, a smoky Fumé Blanc or would taste even better if served on sticks. Such is my life as a falling epicure.


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Grey Fog Italian Linen
Grey Fog Italian Linen
This finely woven linen is milled in Italy. Ideal for breezy summer clothing, it has a crisp hand that will soften with each wash.
Width: 60"
Weight: 3.2 oz. Lightweight
Content/Substrate: 100% Linen
Drape: Crisp
Opacity: Lining may be desired on some garments.
Care: Machine wash gentle cycle or hand wash, dry flat or line dry.
We recommend pre-washing/pre-treating your fabric in the same manner you will care for your finished garment.
Pattern suggestions: Closet Case Patterns Kalle Shirt Dress or Charlie Caftan, Ready to Sew Jily
Fabrics are priced by the half-yard. For 1 yard, select quantity of 2; For 1.5 yards, select quantity of 3 and so on. All pieces are cut in continuous lengths.


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Research Project
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
The objective of this research is to develop an intelligent receiver which efficiently transmits wave data observed by an earth satellite and planetary probe.Development of data compression method and its evaluation was performed by an prototype of an intelligent receiver which composed of an IBM/PC compatible board computer, A/D converter, Digital Signal Processor (DSP), etc in 1997. An data compression method by variable block-length subband coding is developed, its compression rate and processing speed for various waveforms observed by the Geotail satellite using CPU and/or DSP were evaluated, and its usefulness was confirmed.A sweep receiver for the intelligent receiver using Digital Down Converter (DDC) was developed in 1998. The DDC digitally convert a frequency of A/D converted data to a lower frequency. First, observed frequencies are converted to a analytic signal of a *50kHz bandwidth whose center frequency is equal to a local frequency. This converted waveform can be efficiently sent by the data compression method shown above. Their frequency spectra can be analyzed using the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT). A frequency analyzer for frequencies up to 2MHz with about 200Hz resolution has been developed and can process data several tens times faster than the analog-type Geotail sweep receiver (SFA).A high resolution and high speed frequency analyzer and data compression methods have been developed successfully. These results could be used for planetary probes in the future.
Published: 1997-04-01
Modified: 2016-04-21
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This is an image from an unpublished turtles comic made by the great Milton Knight, who was kind enough to put it up on his website.
More cartoony cartoon fans wonder why I love the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as they don't appear very often in such adventures. I always felt the potential [I mean, ninja trained reptiles named after Renaissance painters? How delightfully surreal!] was there, it's only the people who never follow up on it. Knight, influnced by the new york 1930' s animation(among others) does just so. And he adds in the Honeymooners, one of the few worthwhile sitcoms in tv's hisory. Bravo.
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Beauty products with seaweed made a huge splash in the US and European market and almost every third girl I knew was either using Korean beauty products or talking about purchasing them.
Isn't it grand when you have access to these products in UAE? And isn't it even more grand when it comes in a pretty box entitled Glambox? The month of Sept welcomes goodies that are quite exciting to discover and try. The best part? These products are available in stores located in the UAE, so you really don't have to bother about ordering online and the delivery time.
Let's unbox!
The Face Shop's Melting Color Lip Creamer- this so screams anime. The lipstick shade is a vibrant pink, heavily pigmented and may not quite suit dusky tones (in my opinion). Glides on like a light-weight cream but one swipe does not pass the food & drink test. You'll have to reapply; beautiful color, nonetheless.
Cherry Cherry Lips Modeling Gel Patch- if you experience dry/cracker lips, this one's for you. It claims to lock in moisture and keep lips hydrated. The only drawback is that the size of the patch is...well, oversized. It will slip off your face if your head is not in a resting/sleeping position.
Skin79's Wonder Eye Brush Eyeliner- this is perfect for those who struggle with liquid liners in order to get that perfect cat eye. Use this for more precision. It's also waterproof, so ditch the standard makeup remover and use an oil-based on to remove any traces of the product.
Skin 79's Brow Class Coloring Mascara- all thanks to Cara Delevigne, fuller eyebrows is the name of the game. Brush this across your eyebrows as a final touch post make-up.
Missha's Super Aqua Ice Tear- not sure why it's named 'Tear' but this cleanser-emulsifier duo are the perfect travel skincare goodies. The cleanser will wipe away all traces of makeup and the emulsifier acts more like a moisturizing serum. They are both quite light-weight and the cleanser contains glacier water that's pretty much infused with minerals. This might be why women in Korea have beautiful skin.
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The Pakistani Taliban leader killed in a recent US drone strike was behind hotel bombings, assaults on political rallies, beheadings of policemen and suicide attacks on soldiers.
But his death elicited little joy in the country where he wreaked most of his havoc and instead stirred widespread anger and suspicion.
At the time of Friday's strike targeting Hakimullah Mehsud, the Pakistani government was engaged in efforts to negotiate a peace deal with militants.
Frustrated at years of military campaigns that have failed to end the bloodshed, many Pakistanis had high hopes for this latest peace effort and blame the US for fouling it up.
Mehsud "should have been given the chance to negotiate, and now the consequences have to be borne by Pakistan, not the US", said Syed Ahmed, a small business owner in the southern port city of Karachi.
Also contributing to the anger are fears of a bloody backlash, plus a web of complex conspiracy theories, including the idea that militants such as Mehsud are American or Indian pawns intent on weakening Pakistan.
For years, Pakistan has been fighting militants in the tribal areas that border neighbouring Afghanistan, with thousands of civilians and security forces dying in bombings and shootings at the hands of militants.
Mehsud, who had a reputation as an especially ruthless warrior, was the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, or the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, as it calls itself. The TTP is an umbrella group encompassing militant organisations across the tribal areas. It has called for the overthrow of the Pakistani government, the implementation of hard-line Islamic law and an end to cooperation with the Americans in Afghanistan.
In many ways, people across Pakistan are echoing what they are hearing from politicians and top government officials. During a news conference on Saturday, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan lashed out repeatedly at the US, which he said was trying to scuttle peace talks.
There is also suspicion that the US and neighbouring India – a longtime enemy – are directly promoting and funding militants as a way to weaken the country. In the eastern city of Lahore, where that feeling is especially prevalent, lawyer Masood Wattoo blamed the US and India for a recent string of bombings in the northwest, including a suicide attack on a church full of worshippers.
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Note : This is an edit to the default WordPress Hello world! post.
Did not feel like starting the blog off with a regular post about what I want to share and other things like that. Would have loved to do that .. but some other time!!
<me muttering to myself> Whew! ends my f**king blog post </me still muttering to myself>


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After finishing down in eighth place in the 2012 final, Kenya's Moses Mukono has his experience at this level to fall back on. On paper, he is more than 10 seconds quicker than his nearest rival in Eugene after running 13:19.26 at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in May.
Mukono will be joined on the Kenyan team by the much less experienced Fredrick Kipkosgei, who is still only 17 and who has never raced outside of Kenya before.
Phillip Kipyeko, sixth two years ago, will try to spoil a potential Kenyan party and become the first Ugandan to the take the junior global title in the distance. He is the second fastest man among the entries.
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Mom and Dad told Dennis he was adopted from the day they brought him home and said that if he ever wanted to find his birth parents, they would help him do so. (And, praise the Lord, we DID find them 37 years later!)
After we were married, Mom handed us an envelope that contained every paper they possessed pertaining to his adoption.
The envelope contained correspondence from the lawyers, a one-page typed letter with his birth family's history, the receipt for his adoption, totaling $500, paid on April 15th, 1968 (if only the cost was still this feasible!), and a three-page form filled out by his Foster Mom.
I remember reading through her notes 25 years ago - and smiling. She filled out the required answers for the state, feeding schedule, amount of food, vitamins, etc., but also added personal notes. Her words are thoughtful, detailed, more than what was expected, and give evidence that she CARED. (I laughed at some of the things she wrote because they show that we are born just as God designed - for the characteristics she observed in Dennis are still the same 50 years later! (I'll let you decipher which of D's traits were hardwired by the Lord!))
Dennis was named Jason Conrad Bold by his birth parents, Jack and Sue, but the foster mom called him Spencer. (He loves to say that his birth name sounds like a Superhero!) His full foster name was scratched out and replaced with his adopted name, so we will never know who this woman is, or how to find her and thank her for her kindness to "Spencer." But we are thankful.
Below are the highlights of her notes. I hope you enjoy this glimpse into the life of the blonde, blue-eyed four-month-old baby boy who grew up to become Dennis Lee Eastman, as well as the heart and mind of a woman who chose to "visit orphans in their distress," and did so with joy.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Daily routine:
- Bath in mid-morning. Do not make sudden movements.
- Likes a lot of attention in early evening hours until bedtime.
Feeding instructions:
- I have always held Spencer while feeding him.
- You are going to find that sometimes when trying to give him his bottle he wiggles a lot and pushes the bottle away. I knew he was tired and needed milk so I laid him in bed propped up with his bottle ... he just loves it.
Sleeping Habits:
- Spencer sleeps at night on his tummy, usually with a pacifier when he first falls asleep.
- Two or three blankets to cover him, and he stays warmer with his stretch sleepers on or sleepers with the feet in because his feet get cold very easily, hands also.
* Do not overdress him when going out (too many blankets) as he perspires easily.
- Lately, he will put as many fingers in his mouth as possible and coo for quite a while.
- If you talk softly to him and play with him a lot, you will be well rewarded because he talks a blue streak and you will be surprised at the sounds he will make.
- If there's one thing that stands out in my mind to tell you it is to talk to him a lot as he is advanced in this capacity.
- His latest feat of daring is jumping on your lap, lift him up high and he loves it.
- He does sit in an infant seat but not for too long at a time. He likes to be where the action is ...
- He loves to go bye-bye. Put him up to your shoulder and he will watch out the window and enjoy every bit of it.
- He is one beautiful boy, and he is all boy.
Found hands - 1-1/2 months
Held head up - just a few weeks old
Follow with eyes - 1 month
Turned over - 1 month **** No kidding. He tucked his arm under and over he went, then it was a habit thereafter.
First words - I have been practicing with him to say "Ruffles have Ridges" but to no avail - I hope you have a good sense of humor.
And then she writes this personal note ...To the Adoptive Parents:
It is a lovely afternoon, and I recently received a call that Spencer will be leaving us this week. My only thoughts right now are that you are very fortunate to be getting Spencer as an added member of your family. He has been most precious to us, and an extremely bright child. He has enjoyed our children's attention to him and is used to a little commotion once in a while (vacuum cleaner, usual household noises). He loves to go outside in the shade and eat (now that the weather has been nice I do this once in a while). He talks up a storm, belly laughs if you really work at it, and loves to cuddle. We've spent many an hour in a rocking chair just playing. There are no words to express how much I will miss him, and how much we have loved him. My only wish for all of you is that you have much happiness and no sorrows and that his life is blessed with all good things.
God Bless him,
His Foster Parents
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~This is just one example of countless families who willingly, compassionately, and lovingly choose to bring children into their home until they are reunified with their birth parents, adopted by another family, or become part of their own.
To the countless mothers and fathers who have chosen to open your homes and your hearts to foster children - Thank You!
Whether you have a foster child in your family for three months or thirteen years - you are making a difference - you are changing a life - and you are doing Kingdom work as you live out God's command to ...
Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute.
Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy. Proverbs 31:8, 9
You may never know the effect you have on the lives of the children who filter through your home, but the Lord knows, and your sacrifice, commitment, and willingness to fight for those who cannot protect themselves is precious - and does not go unnoticed. ♥
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain. I Corinthians 15:58


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Two years ago, I had a very straightforward reading pattern. Every few days, I'd read a book. I would immerse myself in its characters and storylines, swim in its style, snatch every opportunity throughout the day to return to its enveloping world. Then I would finish it, and start another one.
Things were so simple then.
I wish I could blame it on the Christmas eReader, but my evolution into schizophrenic multimedia literature butterfly started long before it landed in my lap – via iPod and Audible, Twitter and Gutenberg, and brick-like new-writing magazines that take weeks to digest. My reading has taken on a strangely driven, guilty quality, as I try to justify the cost of all those subscriptions and all that hardware by consuming fiction in an unprecedentedly multiplicitous and simultaneous way. Secretly, I long to return to a world in which I had a loving, stable relationship with one paperback at a time.


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Upload a midi file, hit play on the control. It will be rendered on a 486 DX2 66 running dos with a true hardware Roland SC-55. Be a bit patient. It's an old computer.
Tech JargonA lot of music from the early 90s was written to be synthed on the Roland SC-55 and it's various cousins. Emulation of the device via soundfonts has not come close in all areas. Upload a midi and it will be synthed on real hardware and hopefully play over shoutcast. I have a (really bad computer) system running a TCP/IP stack in dos via packet driver, along with said Roland synth. For the heck of it I wrote a series of batch\qbasic scripts and chained curl + dosmid + some php scripts together. The result is that this here 22 year old machine will synth MIDI files you upload, and they will be streamed over an Icecast server automatically in the order they are queued. It probably is horribly dangerous to put such an old machine on the internet, a backup is in place as this is probably going to be wildly unstable and prone to issues. It probably will not be up all the time, I want to get back to playing Zeliard. ;)
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LITTLE ELM (January 16, 2018) Registered voters in Little Elm will elect a mayor and voters in two geographic districts will elect their respective Council members on Saturday, May 5. Votes can be cast on Election Day or during the election's Early Voting period.
"All Little Elm residents who are eligible to vote may cast a ballot for the mayor's position," says Town Secretary Kathy Phillips. "In addition, those who live in districts 3 and 5 may cast an additional vote for their representative."
Residents wishing to run for any of the positions, and who meet the eligibility criteria, may declare their candidacy during the month long filing period, which runs from Wednesday, Jan. 17 to Friday, Feb. 16. Packets containing the appropriate forms and other relevant materials may be obtained from the Town Secretary on the second floor of Town Hall, 100 West Eldorado Parkway in Little Elm.
David Hillock occupies the position of mayor, while the incumbent in Place 3 is Neil Blais, the current mayor pro tem, and the Place 5 incumbent is Nick Musteen. All three are eligible for re-election. Whereas the mayor's position is at-large, meaning that any eligible resident may file for election, residents who declare their intention to run for either of the two districts up for election must reside in that district. Specific boundaries for district 3 and district 5 appear on the Town website www.littleelm.org. The Council district number in which voters reside also appears on individual voter registration cards.
Potential candidates must also be qualified voters in Town elections, be at least 21 years of age on the date of election, and have been a fulltime resident of Little Elm for no less than 12 months immediately preceding election day.
"The length of time for individual terms of office for the mayor and Council members is three years," said Phillips. "The Town Charter also stipulates that the maximum number of terms for the mayor and Council members is three successive terms."
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I was born in 1966 in thetown of Cabinas, foundin the state of Zulia; which is one of the 23 states in Venezuela. I am the youngest of 9 children (4 brothers and 4 sisters).
I began my career in theater and modeling at an early age. I studied theater at Tecnico Medio en Artes Escenicas in Venezuela. Later in 1989, I began dedicating myself to the sport of bodybuilding.
In 1990 my only son Luis Alcala was born; he is currently 20 years old.
In 1993 I earned my pro-card in Puerto Rico after winning the overall Iberoamerican Championship which governs athletes from all of Central and South America. I still represent Venezuela, my homeland, during my professional bodybuilding competitions.
Most of my time is spent at RYPT GYM (I am co-owner) working, training and preparing for contests. I also work as a personal trainer and prepare other athletes for figure and bodybuilding competitions. I consider myself a very spiritual person. I listen to the Word of God, and have put Him first as I follow Him throughout my life's journey.
I am a very disciplined person, and dedicate myself wholly to my sport as well as my personal life. I enjoy having friends, but I choose carefully with whom I spend my time. I typically go out with friends once weekly to eat out at the wonderful restaurants of Miami.
I enjoy traveling. I conduct myself as a professional bodybuilder; I do not participate in muscle worship sessions.


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I have previously submitted a soundtrack of the Cain Guitar.
The other day My Son brought over a DVD of a Graduation party.
The father of the Graduate arranged to have music by a band made up of himself, playing the drums, & some other friends.
They got together , & practiced a few times. It turned out really nice.
My Granddaughter did the camera work on this, I think she did a fantastic job.
I hope you all enjoy this.
-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1


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In order to meet the apprenticeship standards, apprentices must:
- Achieve a minimum of Level 1 English and Level 1 Maths
The on-programme pace will be driven by the apprentice as well as by the breadth of experience an employer can offer prior to the minimum of 12 months, after which end-point assessment will take place.


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Kymone Freeman was the director of the National Black LUV Festival (1997-2010) recognized as a Washington, D.C. Mayor's Art Award Finalist for Excellence in Service to the Arts in 2006 and received a Mayoral Proclamation in 2007. NBLF was the largest annual AIDS mobilization in WDC for six years and partially credited with the passing of Initiative Measure 62: Treatment instead of incarceration for non-violent drug offenders in 2002. Freeman has appeared along side Mark Twain and Harriet Tubman in newspapers and subway cars throughout WDC metro area as a Clinical AIDS Vaccine Trial Participant and NIH "Everyday Heroes" Ad Campaign Model to bring attention to this pandemic.
He is a founding board member for Words Beats & Life, a Hip Hop Non-Profit and co-founder of Bum Rush the Boards the largest annual youth chess competition in WDC. He is the subject of one chapter of the book Beat of A Different Drum: The Untold Stories of African Americans Forging Their Own Paths in Work and Life (Hyperion). He interned at Common Sense for Drug Policy: A Harm Reduction Organization. Worked as a Consultant with the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) and appeared in several cities across the country when he participated in the DPA's Breaking the Chain: The War on Drugs and People of Color Conferences, a scholarship received from American Friends Service Committee to spend the summer in Nairobi, Kenya for an international leadership conference resulted in him returning to the states as a playwright with three productions to his credit. He received the 22nd Annual Larry Neal Award for Drama for his successful debut play Prison Poetry that has sold-out the Historic Lincoln Theatre and Studio Theatre during the Hip Hop Theatre Festival; with additional appearances at THEARC Theatre, Oak Hill Juvenile Detention Facility and several college campuses where his work has been included in the Black History curriculum of Maryland's Eastern shore.
He has conducted production workshops at the National Black Theatre Festival and Institute of Policy Studies. He is a 2010 Green For All Fellow and is co-founder of We ACT Radio 1480 AM DC's only independent radio station.
Recipient of the Fellows Fund micro-grant award for:
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Washington DC- Social Art and Culture
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