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- Question from UPSC Mains GS1
- Introduction (Define > Origin > Data)
- Body#1: Early Indian Society- Love and tolerance
- Body#2: Modern India- Love & Tolerance plays important part
- Conclusion (discuss -> summarize & end on +ve note)
- Afterthoughts / Pitfalls
Question from UPSC Mains GS1-2017
Till now, I had solved the first nine questions of UPSC Mains General Studies Paper1 (2017). Now I shall solve the 11th
Q.11: The spirit of tolerance and love is not only an interesting feature of Indian society from very early times, but it is also playing an important part at the present. Elaborate. (GSM1-2017, 250 words, 15 marks)
सहिष्णुता व् प्रेम की भावना न केवल अति प्राचीन समय से ही भारतीय समाज का एक रोचक अभिलक्षण रही है, अपितु वर्तमान में भी यह एक महत्वपूर्ण भूमिका निभा रही है | सविस्तार स्पष्ट कीजिए|
Syllabus Relevance in GSM1? Salient features of Indian Society; Diversity of India.
Introduction (Define > Origin > Data)
There are three ways to open an answer:
- Define: If question was about cryosphere or sustainable development – we should open by defining those keywords. But here question is about tolerance, love & society- if you start by defining those terms, it'll look pathetic.
- Origin: Suitable method for this question- we can give "origin of the issue" i.e. India is a plural and diverse society. Because if India was a homogenous one-language-one-religion society then there was no need of love / tolerance in the first place!
- Data: You can open answer by throwing numbers and statistics related to population, number of languages, major religions etc. But I dont want to take trouble of searching those statistics, I'll simply open with "origin"
Introduction (Origin):
- India is a vast country with a lot of diversity in her physical and social environment.
- People of different racial stocks, ethnic backgrounds and religious beliefs have settled down here.
- While their food habits, dress patterns and languages vary but the spirit of love and tolerance is common elements among all of them.
Body#1: Early Indian Society- Love and tolerance
For ancient- medieval – sufficient content available in the NCERT books. I'll only write only selected points:
- Buddhism and Jainism's concepts of non-violence are direct corollary to the spirit of tolerance.
- Sufi saints' sense of piety, tolerance, sympathy, concept of equality attracts both Muslims and Hindus.
- Emperor Akbar listened to scholars from different religions at the Ibadat Khana in Fateh Pur Sikri at Agra on every Thursday. He even started a faith called Din-i-Illahi which encompassed ideas from various religions.
- Parsis were persecuted in Iran, Jews in Hitler's Germany. But both have inter-mingled with us for several thousands of years and have become an integral part of the Indian society.
- Gandhi and many other freedom fighters / social reformers strived for Hindu-Muslim harmony, fought against social evils such as child marriage and untouchability and were successful. [If society was intolerant, they'd have been unsuccessful.]
Body#2: Modern India- Love & Tolerance plays important part
We've to elaborate the sentence "Love & Tolerance playing an important part…at present". Meaning, you have to not only give examples but also you have to link it "why / how are those L&T-examples playing important part in (Modern) Indian society?"
Love & Tolerance counters the Destructive forces in India:
- To increase their cadre strength, the Left-wing extremists (LWE) try to create divisiveness between poor vs rich, Dalits vs upper caste, Tribals/Christians vs outsiders, yet they're unable to expand their ideological base beyond the Red-corridor and within this Red-corridor they're struggling to retain existing followers.
- ISIS could recruit only a handful of misguided youth from India, unlike the western countries where ISIS could not only find more recruits, but also carried out multiple "Lone-Wolf-Attacks" on innocent civilians.
- Despite the rise of fake news and provocative messages over social media- communal disturbances are usually confined within a small geographical area and are tackled within a short time frame. One matchstick can't burn the whole India.
- Whether Tibetans, Bangladeshis or Rohingya- persecuted communities from our neighboring countries always want to enter India- because India are more peaceful than their home nations.
Love & Tolerance= opportunities within India
- Muslims find work as cooks, pony/horse operators and palanquin bearers at Amarnath Shrine. Local Muslims have been instrumental in relief and rescue operations during snow storms, landslides and floods in this area.
- Similarly, Hindus find work around Sufi Dargahs and Mughal monuments as shopkeepers, guides and tour operators.
- National holidays on major religious festivals- they create economic opportunities for tourism, restaurants and film industry.
- People from all religions go out to watch movies of Salman Khan, Shahrukh Khan and Rajnikanth irrespective of whether they're released on Diwali or Eid, irrespective of the said actor playing the role of a Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Sikh or Dalit.
Don't digress from question by narrating Padmavat movie controversy. Because even if you try to portray that "ultimate release of the movie proves our tolerance"- but unnecessary words will be wasted on an event that is merely a drop in the whole timeline of Ancient to Modern India.
Love & Tolerance= opportunities abroad
- Indian society's L&T sprit, combined with Government's soft diplomatic power creates economic opportunities in terms of investment, exports and job creation.
- Our diaspora is not usually persecuted in middle-east or Africa.
- It's not uncommon to find Indian-origin persons commanding high positions in the executive and legislative wings of Western democracies.
Conclusion (discuss -> summarize & end on +ve note)
Question had keyword "elaborate", so it's a "discussion" type question, therefore answer must end in "summary", No need to give 'findings / suggestions'.
Barring occasional incidents of violence and hatred, Indian civilization has always celebrated plurality and promoted love & tolerance. This spirit has countered the destructive forces within India and created opportunities for Indians both within and outside our country. Thus, despite the diversity within Indian society in terms of religion, region, caste and language – our spirit love & tolerance has helped all of us to survive, sustain and flourish.
Afterthoughts / Pitfalls
- My answer has gone beyond 500 words, but in real-exam difficult to recall that many points within given time limit, so automatically it'll compress down to 250 words.
- You're asked to elaborate the given statement about Love and Tolerance. Examiner has not asked you to "CRITICALLY EXAMINE" the statement. Therefore, you should merely 'discuss'. Meaning, DONOT divert from the discussion by providing "Diagnosis and Solution". For example..
- Body should not contain diagnosis like "Communalism has divided our society for long. It causes belief in orthodox tenets and principles, intolerance hatred of other religions and religious group, distortion of historical facts and communal violence. PAK/ISI Funding hatred. Social media is fueling intolerance. Atrocities against Dalits rising etc.
- Conclusion should not contain NEW suggestions like "Economic problems of the people, like-poverty and unemployment must be resolved in the country before the problem of communal violence, mob lynching and other forms of intolerance can be totally eliminated."
- Constitution's Preamble/ DPSP की पिपुडी: can be played but it looks cliched. Besides, same GSM1-2017 question paper had another similar question "Distinguish between religiousness/religiosity and communalism giving one example of how the former has got transformed into the latter in independent India." So if you play the same flute at both places- it'll harm your impression. In a given question paper, ideally you should not play the DPSP-पिपुडी more than once.
- Vasudhaiva Kutumbkam, Unity in Diversity की पिपुडी : These are also cliched phrases and expressions. When answersheet after answersheet, examiner sees the same phrase in introduction / conclusion he starts giving average and identical marks to each candidate. Therefore, try to bring some freshness in your choice of words, but that can come only when you read more news columns / magazines, instead of just cramming their bulleted-PDF-summaries.
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Mondays @ 8p/7c: Chuck (NBC) vs. How I Met Your Mother & Rules of Engagement (CBS)
One of the few repeat matchups kicks off the week as Chuck is up against How I Met Your Mother once again, and this time around the CBS comedy is bringing longtime hanger-on Rules of Engagement. Now, I'm probably in the minority, but I actually enjoy RoE mostly due to Oliver Hudson's performance. Too bad RoE isn't a stellar show and is paired up with the long-in-the-tooth How I Met Your Mother.
I know Carter & Bays have said they're going to right the HIMYM ship, and they've learned their lessons from the horrible 5th season, but I'll believe it when I see it. If HIMYM can stop focusing on gimmicky stand-alone episodes, tones down Barney's shtick, and gets back to the "mother" then this show will be watchable again.
In all reality, Chuck shouldn't have gotten a 4th season, but it did and I'm not going to complain. Until this show is cancelled once and for all, I will always watch Chuck live and catch up on other shows online. The realist in me figures this will be the last time there will be a Timeslot Showdown on Mondays at 8 PM, but the Chuckster in me hopes I'm wrong.
WINNER: Chuck
Mondays @ 10p/9c: Castle (ABC) vs. Hawaii 5-0 (CBS)
For the first time since its inception, Castle does not have to go up against the powerhouse that is CSI: Miami, and will get to face the rookie cop procedural Hawaii 5-0. I was initially happy to hear the news that the Fillion vehicle does not have to go up against David Carusso's sunglasses, but I have a feeling Hawaii 5-0 is going to have enough sizzle and buzz to put up a fight. Much like Chuck, I will always watch Castle first which means Hawaii 5-0 will have to wait.
WINNER: Castle
Tuesdays @ 8p/7c: Glee (FOX) vs. No Ordinary Family (ABC)
This match up shouldn't be as close as it is because Glee quickly became one of my favorite shows on TV (even with its weaker back 9), and I will definitely be watching Mr. Shue and New Directions live, but No Ordinary Family is intriguing enough to have me wondering which to choose.
WINNER: Glee
Thursdays @ 8p/7c: The Big Bang Theory (CBS) v. Bones (FOX) v. Community (NBC) v. The Vampire Diaries (The CW)
Bones had a pretty underwhelming fifth season, and I was close to giving up on the show altogether, but I'm going to stick it out...I'm just not going to make watching it a priority. Community should be the clear winner, but as Lee Corso says, "Not so fast my friend".
The winner of this Fatal Fourway will come down to which shows are easily accessible online. Usually, CBS never puts episodes of Big Bang online and the CW's exclusion from Hulu makes catching up on VD episodes kind of a hassle.
Gun to my head, I'll probably pick The Big Bang Theory to watch live and try to catch up with all of the others somewhere online, although I won't be surprised if Community ends up being my must-watch as times goes on.
WINNER: The Big Bang Theory
Thursdays @ 9p/8c: Fringe (FOX) vs. Nikita (The CW)
I'm still trying to make myself a Fringe fan, but I still haven't gotten through season 2 which kind of hinders my ability to watch season 3 right off the bat. On the surface, Nikita seems like it's my kind of show, and it has the chance to be the first CW show I have to watch since Reaper.
WINNER: Nikita
As always, Thursday and Monday nights will be the busiest when it comes to good shows being on the air, but unless a show surprises me one way or another my decisions will be pretty easy to make this fall.


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Mosaic replied to PaulDenton's topic in MinidiscA friend of mine told me about a guy selling his RH1. I told him that I was interested and that we should get in touch asap. Just found out today that he sold the unit for 150 Euros. This is an outrage!
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Both sfpb and MDietrich, thank you for your comments. I will take your suggestions into account in terms of the battery related problem. First I will recharge my gumsticks using the special charger which a friend of mine will borrow. Second i check the connections and may fix the compartment doors using the copper foil. If all of that wont help for any of my units the problem might be the unit itself. Another hint for that can be that the same ticking sound problem appears when there is no gumstick inserted and the unit runs on the charger. I'll keep you updated since i might not be the only one experiencing those problems.
Thank you for your suggestion. The contacts are fine and for most units there is no corrosion. The problem is: when I fully charge a gumstick in my black R90 it works perfectly fine in that unit. When I change the same gumstick to the R55, R91 or R900 the unit will behave like I said before.
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There must be some sort of virus spreading among my Sony units. As a matter of fact not only the R91 but also the R900, as well as the two R55s showed the same sympton today. The problem lies in the battery level which as for the old gumsticks is constantly low regardless of the level displayed. Since I am pretty fed up with recharging and re-checking the malfunctioning gumsticks I decided to only run my units on the battery packs from now on. So the ticking sound must be a result of the unit trying to get into the load mode without having enough power from the gumstick battery.
MD going up in popularity?No. Except for Victor which released blanks in 2013. Credits to our forum member Sescoscuba for his research on that: https://sites.google.com/site/crazyforminidisc/the-earlier-period-1992---1995-blanks/year-2013
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Thank you for your answer. I checked the contacts. Those are fine. Like I said, that ticking sound also appears when there is no battery inserted and the unit runs on the AC charger.
Problem with MZ R91Its was just recently that my R91 started to behave weird. When trying to start the unit with the charger plugged in nothing but a gentle tick appears. Also the unit does not recognize or reload any of my fully charged gumstick batteries (which have been reloaded using my other R90s). It won't even make that ticking sound on battery power. When using the battery extension pack the unit works fine. The ticking noise might be the key to the problem. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance


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Daniel Dadush and Samarth Tiwari from CWI's Networks and Optimization research group receive the Best Paper Award at CCC'20, the Computational Complexity Conference, for their work 'On the Complexity of Branching Proofs'. This year, the conference takes place online instead of Saarbruecken, from 28-30 July.
Tiwari explains the topic of the award winning paper: "Designing fast algorithms to solve various computational problems is the central goal of computer science. Proof complexity theorists study the related problem of proving that a solution is indeed correct: for some hard problems, devising proofs (or 'certificates') is difficult in itself. Modern optimization software and bug-detecting software routinely produce and work with such proofs."
The PhD student continues: "A proof of correctness, like a solution to a high school math problem, consists of step-by-step logical deductions. In fact, the number of steps in a proof is one measure of its complexity. Another is its total size, say, in kilobytes. The size of a proof depends not only on the number of logical deductions, but also on the size of each step. Daniel and I both analyzed different kinds of such certificates from a geometric perspective. We related the size of a proof directly to the number of steps needed by bounding the complexity of a single step in a proof."
A long-standing conjecture in the field asserted that certificates for the correctness of so-called Tseitin formulas must be long. Dadush and Tiwari now refuted this conjecture, demonstrating that Tseitin formulas admit shorter certificates than previously thought. They attribute their results to reinterpreting well-known techniques from proof complexity in the language of integer programming. Through extended collaboration between these two disciplines, they hope to build bridges and enrich understanding of fundamental questions in theoretical computer science.
The talk of Samarth Tiwari and Daniel Dadush for CCC'20 can be seen online.
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Tuesday 21 October 2014
Windmills in my mind!
One little project this week was to make some simple pouches from colour catchers - preparation for a crafty 'girls night in' that I've planned for later this week.
The only other sewing to show this week is a postcard for my Birthday Swap - the theme was 'circles' for this one, so I had a play with a scrap of fabric that had been gifted to me and some time with my lovely Inktense pencils.
I'm back off to my windmills - perhaps I'd better write a good list and get my projects written into a sensible time line for the week, otherwise I might not manage to get anything else done with a paralysis of indecision!
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Wednesday 15 October 2014
A little early for snow?
I've decided to make a quilt using snowballs this month. I had hoped to have made more than just this sample one, but have been knocked sideways with a horrid cold and cough. Still, when I'm sewing again at least this will be a simple project to continue with. All the initial cutting is done, so it's just a bit more sewing, swiping the rotary cutter and pressing to do.
I'm making the blocks with coloured squares so I get the 'bonus' half square triangle blocks shown here at the same time. I'm looking forward to playing with them once I've made the quilt!
Here it is.
Somewhat busy with the novelty prints. The sashing (and how I wished that I'd had enough to finish framing the novelty squares at the top and bottom of the quilt!) came in a bag of scraps from The Skep in Leeds more years ago than I care to remember.
I'd always thought that it was 'cow patch' fabric, but the more I sewed with it, the less certain I became. I think that it might be Dalmatian fabric instead.
It has finished approx. 42" x 60" - so just right for wrapping up a child in (or for curling up under myself whilst watching mindless TV and sipping honey and lemon, as it turns out!).
Esther Alui has just published the LAST part of her Love Entwined pattern. Amazing quilt! I still haven't finished my fourth vase - which would be the last bit for me as I'm only making the central square. Time for me to pull it out of the 'project wallet' and see what I actually need to do in order to finish it.
Perhaps some gentle hand sewing would be just the thing for me this week!
Happy sewing to one and all!
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Wednesday 8 October 2014
More time, please!
Sewing time has been reduced by time spent at school meetings, tidying, sorting, and generally having the type of turnout (in some tiny areas of the house - I wouldn't like you to think that things had become too extreme!) that is more usually associated with spring!
Of course, every bit of tidying seems to result in even more ideas for the 'to do' admin and household chores list - never a good idea! The list now runs to an entire sheet of A4 paper and the plans would total about £45,000 - or about £42,500 more than we actually have to spend right now! Ho hum. Back to the drawing board (or at least the sewing machine!).
I have managed a little sewing, though - but as both blocks are for my quilting group's Round Robin, which is kept secret over the five months that it run,
I got to play with a stitchery, an improve border, and some paper piecing.... not bad for just one 'hit' on someone else's project.
I'm hoping to make more progress on other projects this week although time does rather seem to be getting away from me again.
I think that I'm going to set aside one week a month for (modern) family history and scrapbooking, rather than vacillate between whether to start fiddling with photos or fabric and ending up doing neither!
Hope that your autumn is more productive than mine at the moment!
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The California Transportation Commission (CTC) last week approved the allocation of $510 million for 83 transportation projects around the state.The allocations include $104 million from Proposition 1B, a transportation bond approved by voters in 2006. To date, more than $17 billion in Proposition 1B funds have been provided for transportation projects statewide.Among the rail projects that will receive allocations, the CTC will provide $12.3 million for the Tehachapi Trade Corridor improvements. The project involves constructing sidings to create a 2.8-mile segment of double track and extending a siding by 900 feet to the portal of Tunnel No. 7 on a Union Pacific Railroad line between Bakersfield and Mojave.The commission also will allocate $5.74 million for the construction of an underpass on Navy Drive in Stockton to accommodate a future four-lane highway and an additional mainline for BNSF Railway Co./Amtrak shared track.In addition, the CTC will provide $3.1 million to the town of Truckee to widen a UP grade separation at the "Mousehole" on Highway 89, and $3.9 million to the city of Tulare to complete a grade separation at a UP crossing that intersects I and K streets.Meanwhile, the Alameda Corridor-East Construction Authority (ACE) announced it will receive $71 million from the CTC to build an underpass and railroad bridge at the Fairway Drive grade crossing in the city of Industry and unincorporated Los Angeles County.The funds will enable ACE to seek bids this summer and award a construction contract for the $143 million grade separation in fall. The authority plans to construct a four-lane roadway underpass and a double-track rail bridge for UP and Metrolink trains."Once complete in four years, the grade separation will eliminate crossing collisions, emergency vehicle delays and train horn noise, as well as reduce emissions from idling vehicles stopped for trains," said Norma Macias, an El Monte councilwoman who chairs ACE's board, in a press release.The Fairway Drive crossing is used by 49 trains each day — a traffic level that's projected to increase to 91 trains by 2025. The project is part of an ACE program that calls for building 22 grade separations in the San Gabriel Valley along freight-rail mainlines serving San Pedro Bay ports.


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HALCO provides free legal services for people living with HIV/AIDS in Ontario. HALCO's legal services include summary legal advice, brief legal services, referrals and legal representation. For information about other legal services in Ontario, please scroll down.
HALCO Legal Services
Legal Advice, Brief Services and Referrals
HALCO provides free legal advice and referrals, as well as brief services in our Areas of Legal Practice (see below). There are no financial eligibility guidelines for HALCO summary advice and brief services. If we cannot provide advice, we will do our best to provide information and referrals to other services.
HALCO provides free legal representation to clients who meet case and financial eligibility guidelines, and whose legal problem is within our Areas of Legal Practice (see below). We do not practice in all areas of law and are not be able to take on all cases. If HALCO is unable to provide advice or representation, we will do our best to provide referrals to other services. Some clients may be asked to help pay costs for reports, etc.
HALCO's Areas of Legal Practice Include:
- Government Income Maintenance/Income Security programs (including Ontario Disability Support Program, Ontario Works, Canada Pension Plan, Old Age Security, Employment Insurance)
- Tenant/Housing matters (tenants, rent-geared-to-income housing tenants, Co-op members, etc.)
- Immigration and Refugee law
- Human Rights (Federal and Provincial)
- Employment Standards
- Privacy law
- Health law
- Substitute Decision-Making and Powers of Attorney (advice)
- HIV-related prison matters
- Regulated Health Professions complaints
- Criminal Injuries Compensation Board applications for victims of crime
- Some private insurance matters
- Other administrative law matters
Although we do not practice all areas of law, we may be able to provide legal advice, information or referrals to other services.
If you are facing HIV-related criminal charges, please contact us right away.
Please visit our Contact Us page for more information about getting legal advice from us and our intake process for new inquiries.
You can visit our Areas of Law pages for general information about many legal topics.
HALCO pamphlet
Our HALCO information pamphlet is available in print and on-line. Almost everything that you might want to know about HALCO is in one pamphlet. You can view our HALCO pamphlet on-line: https://www.halco.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/HALCO_pamphlet.pdf. Please contact us if you would like to request print copies of our pamphlet.
Other Legal Services in Ontario
The following sections provide information about a number of other legal services available in Ontario, including community legal clinics (like HALCO) and other Legal Aid Ontario services, for example Legal Aid certificates, advice lawyers, and duty counsel. Private lawyers and licensed paralegals also provide legal services and usually charge fees. Pro Bono Ontario provides free legal information, resources and services.
Ontario's community legal clinics
Community legal clinics provide free legal services to people across Ontario. HALCO's community is people living with HIV in Ontario. Legal clinics are independent not-for-profit organizations with volunteer Boards of Directors. There are two types of community legal clinics:
- General/local community legal clinics that provide services to people in the clinic's local community, and,
- Specialty community legal clinics, like HALCO, that provide services to a particular group of people or in a particular area of law.
You can contact your local community legal clinic to find out about services in your community. You can find your local community legal clinic as well as specialty legal clinics using the Legal Aid Ontario website: https://www.legalaid.on.ca/legal-clinics/.
Getting legal help: Community Legal Clinics in Ontario is a Community Legal Education Ontario (CLEO) on-line resource that lists all the legal clinics in Ontario: www.cleo.on.ca/en/publications/ontario.
Conseils juridiques en français par téléphone :
- Région du Grand Toronto (RGT) : téléphone sans frais 1 877 966-7345 (service fourni par le Centre francophone de Toronto).
- Est de l'Ontario : téléphone sans frais 1 877 500-4508 (service fourni par le Centre des services communautaires Vanier).
- Nord de l'Ontario (incluant Barrie, Parry Sound, Muskoka et les lacs Kawartha) : téléphone sans frais 1 87 POUR AVIS / 1 877 687-2847 (service fourni par la Clinique juridique communautaire de Sudbury).
- Sud-Ouest de l'Ontario : téléphone sans frais 1 855 650-9716 (service fourni par la Clinique juridique bilingue de Windsor/Essex).
HALCO is a member of the Association of Community Legal Clinics of Ontario: www.aclco.org.
Legal Aid Ontario (LAO)
Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) provides many programs and services to help low-income people with legal issues. You must be financially eligible to qualify for most LAO legal aid services. LAO programs and services include:
- telephone services
- duty counsel lawyers in family and criminal courts
- advice lawyers in courts and in the community
- community legal clinics
- Student Legal Aid Services Societies (SLASS)
- Family Law Information Centres and Family Law Service Centres
- LAO law offices, and
- Legal Aid certificates to pay private lawyer fees
For more information about Legal Aid Ontario (LAO), please visit the Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) website: www.legalaid.on.ca. For LAO financial eligibility: https://www.legalaid.on.ca/will-legal-aid-pay-for-my-lawyer/.
Human Rights Legal Support Centre (HRLSC)
The Human Rights Legal Support Centre (HRLSC) offers human rights legal services to individuals throughout Ontario who believe they have experienced discrimination. The Centre's services range from legal assistance in filing an application at the Tribunal to legal representation on human rights applications. For more information, please visit the Human Rights Legal Support Centre (HRLSC) website: www.hrlsc.on.ca/.
Pro Bono Ontario
Pro Bono Ontario provides a wide range of legal information, resources and services for people in Ontario: www.probonoontario.org/.
Private Lawyers and Licensed Paralegals
Private lawyers and licensed paralegals provide legal services in Ontario. Some private lawyers accept legal aid certificates, and others charge fees for legal services. The Law Society of Ontario (formerly the Law Society of Upper Canada) regulates the provision of legal services in Ontario, and is responsible for the licensing of lawyers and paralegals. For more information, please visit the Law Society of Ontario website: https://www.lso.ca/.
Law Society Referral Service
The Law Society Referral Service (LSRS) of the Law Society of Ontario is an on-line service that provides a referral to a lawyer or paralegal for an in-person or phone consultation of up to 30 minutes at no charge. The LSRS crisis telephone for people in custody, in crisis, in a shelter or in a remote community without internet access is 416-947-5255 or toll-free 1-855-947-5255, Monday to Friday 9 am to 5 pm. For more information please see the Law Society Referral Service information on the Law Society of Ontario website: https://lsrs.lso.ca/lsrs The Law Society of Ontario was formerly the Law Society of Upper Canada.


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As a business owner you are probably reliant upon your digital go-to person for what is important online. The problem is, everyone has their favourite metrics to look to, and these may not be the metrics that your company needs to know about. Dependant on your ongoing or campaign specific business goals, you may actually need to be looking at completely different things! Don't miss out on the most valuable offering of social media: transparency! As an over-arching rule, your business goal should always be directly measurable via social media OR through your website with social media attributed. You as a business need to start understanding that transparency and attribution are now easier than ever to measure. Don't be fooled by the idea that social is purely an awareness game. Please find below in no particular order, the Facebook Advertising metrics that you really should be looking at to measure the real performance of your Facebook Marketing efforts.
Top Facebook Advertising Metrics to Focus On
Metric #1: Reach
Enquires from your website require someone to visit your site. For someone to visit your site they need to have seen something they like or have a specific need to visit your site. The basic assumption is that the more people you reach, the more people you can communicate with. Reach is still very important to review. However we recommend it be looked at in line with other metrics, not as a standalone.
Metric #2: Relevance Score
You may have heard this term being thrown around over the last year or so. Relevance Score is a term used to measure the relevance of your ads to the audience that you're reaching. If you are reaching 100,000 people with a relevance score of 1, then you may well be throwing your money down the drain. It is important that your ads are constantly being refined and refreshed. This ensures that your ads are always relevant to your audience. Of course, relevance scores are not always required to be 10. Your social media marketer may have a very good reason why it is lower and if so then great. It is important to review though, to make sure money spent is money well spent. Note: There are circumstances where running ads with low relevance score is worthwhile.
Metric #3: Interactions
This metric is dependant on your campaign. If you have an offer, a share, like or comment promotion, an event or something that requires interactions than this is what you are going to want to look at. If you have a video which you are looking to promote to people then this may also be useful. In addition to interactions, COST PER INTERACTION will likely be of interest to you. Especially if you have a target in mind of interactions and what that is worth to you. 'Cost Per Interaction' is not going to be the term used in the Facebook Advertising platform. Instead, you'll find it under the "Cost" tab of your campaign, ad set or ads, with some text under the figure as "Cost Per Engagement", "Cost Per Video View" and so on.
Here is Some Bonus Information on Interactions
Depending on how up-to-date your Facebook Ad Manager is you will be able to create ads based on certain engagements. This is a great process to undertake to move people through a sales funnel. That is, from just seeing something they like from you, to genuinely considering what you offer. My company Knackmap ran a video campaign earlier this year. We were trying to build video views for our video about the day in the life of a social media marketer. We generated over 10,000 views on their video. Following this, we ran a FREE TRIAL ad campaign for users who watched their 2 minute video for longer than 45 seconds. To receive these video views we were paying about 1c to 2c depending on the ad. To reach the 500 people out of the 10,000 that watched the video was about 50c. As part of our advertising campaign, we ensured our audience was highly targeted. We then promoted to this audience with the Knackmap Enterprise Social Media Marketing Software. The cost per interactions and the quantity of interactions for the video views were very important as they assisted us in creating a very niche audience.
Metric #4: Traffic
Traffic is one of the easier Facebook Advertising metrics to quantify against a value for businesses. Let's say for example that for every 100 people that visit your site, you are going to get 5 enquires or sales. These enquires/sales are worth on average about $100 each. Hence, you know that the average click to your site is worth about $5. If your campaign brings in 1,000 visitors who are highly relevant, then you'll be able to measure your traffic value. You'll need to have some attribution and conversion settings on Google Analytics to know what the value was thanks to your Facebook campaign. If your 1,000 extra visitors brings in $5,000 then the traffic from Facebook is just as valuable as that of other sources of traffic. If the extra 1,000 visitors brings in $10,000 of business, then your campaign is bringing in MORE valuable traffic. And of course if your ad traffic brings in less value than your regular traffic, then your campaign will need work. Hopefully not less than what you spent on your advertising campaign! Traffic really can be sliced however you want it. The above format for me though has always been a surefire way to measure the value of traffic as part of your overarching sales funnel.
Metric #5: Conversions
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The final of this Facebook Advertising metrics series that I'd like to cover is your conversion score. If you have your ad tracking set up correctly then you can measure conversions. That includes measuring the exact % or dollar value of those conversions. Furthermore, you can also run campaigns targeting people more likely to CONVERT. This is only possible if you have your ducks in a row so to speak on your website and ads/business manager. If you have any questions about whether conversion tracking is possible for your business then don't ever hesitate to ask us :).
Bonus: Cost and Results
I've put these two points separately as they really do vary depending on the campaign you are running. Your 'Cost' and 'Results' of your campaign can help you determine your true Return on Investment (ROI). With the Facebook Advertising metrics above, you can paint a really clear picture as to what the actual value is of your marketing efforts. This can help you to plan for future campaigns and ensure that you are always reaching performance targets.
The Proof is in the Pudding
Every other metric that you are identifying as important outside the above better be assisting you to understand and refine your core sales funnel. Whilst some vanity metrics can sound appealing, they are often used in vain. Unless they are helping you understand your true return on investment then you may have just poured money down the drain. For most businesses this is monetary. Now more than ever, businesses have the opportunity to understand the raw truth about their marketing effectiveness. These Facebook Advertising metrics are just an example of how transparent digital marketing is. Measure + Refine = Ongoing Results. Smash it.


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Once you become a labyrinth walker, you'll become fascinated and want to walk others, as we did.
This design comes from Chatres Cathedral in France in the 11th century and has been copied for Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. Now labyrinths are making their curative presence felt across the world at hospitals, medial centres, prisons and old age home and schools for children with ADD problems and hyperactivity, because it engages their minds and helps them to concentrate on walking on the light pavers like nothing else can.
We laid down the first plans for this labyrinth in 1999, which is on of the first in Africa. Our dream would be to have labyrinths at every clinic, every hospital, every school, every university, where students can run it at lunch breaks to clear their mind and inviting that moving meditation we all so sorely need, a prescription for a problem, a stress unravelled, a meditation in motion, a healing experience.


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How did the European Parliament encourage online the European Citizens to participate to the 2009 European Elections? In which ways, the strategic use of social media helped to raise awareness about the European Parliament Elections 2009?
The turnout of the European Parliament Elections has been falling steadily since the first elections in 1979 indicating increased apathy about the Parliament despite its increase in power over that period.
In order to reverse this tendency, the European Parliament is increasingly using the Internet to reach out the European citizens online. The year 2009 was particularly interesting for the use of social media like social-networking and content-sharing web platforms.
This short retrospective analysis focuses on the online communication strategy of the European Parliament.
Though I consider myself being a kind of "insider" of the EU Bubble, I don't belong to the European Parliament and have no relations with their Web Team. That's why, this analysis is rather a partial interpretation than an exhaustive impact assessment. So, any feedback is welcome!
While the official website of the European Parliament played a central role in the online communication strategy of the European Parliament, two fields of online promotion to spread through its message were mainly used:
Finally, one should not underestimate the power of offline communication of the European Parliament which reinforced the impact of their online communication.
Basically, the European Parliament created synergies between its different communication channels the Internet (official website, social-networking and content-sharing web platforms) through interlinking them all together and thus creating multiple online "gates" to its official website.
First, it is important to reckon that multilingual European Parliament website played a central role in the online communication campaign of the European Parliament Elections 2009 through informing, communicating and linking to their different web platforms.
Then, to raise awareness about the European Parliament Elections, the European Parliament did perform a Europe wide Google AdWords campaign directly promoting the European Parliament website and indirectly promoting their presence on other web platforms.
Indeed, in order to convey online their message, the European Parliament developed mainly its presence on content-sharing web platforms and social-networks:
Their dedicated blog – EP-WebEditors.eu– played a central role to provide content on the Facebook Fan Page and interact within the EU blogosphere. They also opened a Twitter account – EU_Elections_en – to diffuse efficiently short messages.
After having identified key online leaders – mainly EU bloggers – they successfully contacted them to promote their Facebook Fan Page and manage to relay their initiative through effective seeding.
There are three key factors of success regarding the online communication strategy of the European Parliament are:
The online communication strategy of the European Parliament is integrated meaning that – the European Parliament used all the communication channels available on the Internet to spread through its message.
Then, the online communication strategy of the European Parliament is based on the continuous production and effective diffusion on content. While the European Parliament did produce and diffuse the great majority of the content, they also relayed on the user generated content.
Finally, the online communication strategy of the European Parliament was proactive, meaning the European Parliament – with the help of eAmbassadors – actively interacted with social media web platforms to spread through their message


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"Listening to it feels like arriving in a bustling, unfamiliar city, a very long way from home: a gripping mix of excitement, apprehension, and sensory overload." —The Guardian (UK)
Minneapolis, February 14, 2017— Hailing from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mbongwana Star features a new generation of Kinshasa musicians embodying the concept of change (mbongwana) led by Coco Ngambali and Theo Nzonza, two founders of Congolese supergroup Staff Benda Bilili. Along with maverick Parisian producer Doctor L (Tony Allen), the band creates a sound that embodies the "smashed-together" nature of the surroundings from which it was born. The group fuses traditional Congolese rhythms with European post-punk bass and busted electronics from recycled and reconstructed instruments, amplified and distorted in unexpected ways. Their celebrated album From Kinshasa (World Circuit) has won numerous awards. Mbongwana Star makes their Midwest premiere at The Cedar on Friday, March 3 at 8 pm. ZULUZULUU opens the show. The Cedar is located at 416 Cedar Avenue South in Minneapolis. Copresented with the Cedar.
This is a standing show with an open floor.
Tickets to Mbongwana Star are $28 ($22.50) and are available
online at both thecedar.org and walkerart.org/tickets, by phone at 612.375.7600 (Walker) or 612.338.2674 (The Cedar), and at Depth of Field, Electric Fetus, and The Cedar during shows.
About Mbongwana Star
Welcome to the rue Kato. Welcome to Kinshasa. Welcome to System 'K'.
There was a time when Africa's third most populated city was number one in musical terms. The whole continent danced to its premium musical exports: rumba and soukous. Then war, corruption and chaos bought Kinshasa to its knees and its population fell back on what the French wittily refer to as Système D, after the French words se débrouiller and se démerder. Roughly defined, Système D means to cope, get by and hack out a living at the coalface of poverty with only your wits to guide you and your courage to protect you.
But Kinshasa, an immense agglomeration of shanty-villages with their disparate maze of peoples, languages and cultures, has never gone in for self-pity that much; it's too busy staying alive and being obtuse. Away from the gaze of the world, its artists, musicians and creators are cooking up their own revolt against the grotesque pantomime of life in 21st century Congo. Necessity, ingenuity and an innate sense of style are conspiring together to make "magic out of garbage", to quote producer Doctor L. It's a new spirit, concocted from the waste of consumerism in one of the most abused and rejected places on earth, with its epicenter in the rue Kato, a two-kilometer-long drag that slices through the pretense of Kinshasa's downtown commercial district. If that spirit were in need of slogans then "Screw your Pity!" and "Dream or Die!" might serve well.
Yakala 'Coco' Ngambali and Nsituvuidi 'Theo' Nzonza, know all about Système D. They've been living it for fifty years and more, down by the Congo river docks, out in the combustible atmosphere of Kinshasa's streets, in night shelters, on roundabouts, with the other 'cripples' and rejects, polio victims and shégués or street kids. Their love of Congolese rumba and its pantheon of demi-Gods -Franco, Tabu Ley Rochereau, Pepe Kallé – provided the early impulse to learn the guitar and play music. About fifteen years ago, they formed a band with other street hustlers, both handicapped and able-bodied, and named it after a local beer joint. Staff Benda Bilili – "the people who see beyond" – became an unimagined worldwide hit. Kinshasa specializes in producing the unimagined.
After releasing two albums, starring in the acclaimed film Benda Bilili and touring the world, Coco and Theo left the band in 2013. The split was testing and uncomfortable, but they saw no reason to shed any tears or dwell on it. Within months Coco had begun composing songs (he was the main composer in Staff Benda Bilili) and gathering musicians for a new project: Mbongwana Star. "Staff Benda Bilili? That's the past," says Coco. "I concentrate on the present."
Coco and Théo knew that they had to look beyond the rumba funk of Staff Benda Bilili and find a new direction, a USP, a sound that faithfully mirrored the creative genius of their home city. One day the filmmaker Renaud Barret (half of the team that gave us Benda Bilili, Jupiter's Dance and other seminal documentaries about Kinshasa) played Coco and Theo an album called Black Voices, by the Nigerian drummer Tony Allen. It was produced by Liam Farrell, aka Doctor L, the son of an Irish painter who grew up in Paris and became involved in the Parisian hip hop and electro scenes before applying his maverick aesthetic to African music. "That's it!" was Theo's reaction. "That's the direction we should go in. Because mbongwana means 'change'. Because that's the future."
The first recording sessions with Doctor L took place in a hired yard in downtown Kinshasa, with a chugging generator pumping out the electricity that the perfidious politicians of the DRC were incapable of providing themselves. Everyone admits that initial proceedings were fairly shambolic, with friends and relatives piling in to swell the numbers and music gushing forth with joyful but unfocused energy. When Doctor L took the masters back to Paris the alchemy began: rhythms were laid bare, voices honed, guitars given a new sonic garb. The result was revolutionary.
"I wanted to change the classical pre-conceptions about African music," Farrell says. "Kinshasa reminds me of New York in the 1980s…a place where you could have a punk band, a gay band, a new wave band…what the fuck! Like everywhere else, Africa deserves to have artists who can choose whether they're related 100% to Africa or not. We're not talking about Africa, or wheel chairs, we're talking about guys who are doing music."
When Coco and Théo heard the demos, it was a shock, but a happy one. "In the beginning it was a bit hard," Coco says, "But then we really understood. We work well with Liam, he's a real artist. And he's courageous!" Renaud Barrett remembers that the new sound was received in Kinshasa with wild dancing and escalating excitement.
World Circuit's Nick Gold heard the demos and immediately signed the band to the label. Farrell and manager Michel Winter returned to Kinshasa in late 2014. By then Mbongwana Star had made the new sound their own: "That's what I love about Africa," Farrell says, "the strength and rapidity by which they can integrate whatever comes up." The group had been honed down to Coco and Théo on main vocals, Jean-Claude Kamina Mulodi aka 'R9' (so called because he was the ninth child in his family) on guitar, a young street-kid called Makana Kalambayi aka 'Randy' who'd been Coco's wheel-chair pusher and part-time member of Staff Benda Bilili on percussion and drums and Coco's step-son Sage on vocals and general vibe-mastery.
And Liam Farrell on bass and effects. That's the point. This isn't an African band per se. It's a trans-global barrier-busting sound machine that demands the unfettered horizons of any artist who values originality and creativity, wherever in the world he or she might live.
"We wanted to try and get out of the Afro-African straightjacket into which everyone tries to put African bands," says Michel Winter, "We wanted to get back in spirit, if not music, to 1970s when Africans were really modern, maybe more than us. There's a lot more creativity there than we can imagine. Kinshasa is crawling with creativity."
Mbongwana Star's first video 'Malukayi (feat. Konono No.1)' was shot by Renaud Barret and directed by Barret and Farrell. It features a character called The Congo Astronaut, a 100% pure ghetto boy who has decided that his life will, for the time being, consist of dressing up in a space suit and wandering the streets of Kinshasa. The Congo Astronaut is just one phenomenon to have come out of the rue Kato, where the city's garbage-to-art revolution is in full spate. It's not just about music; artists, sculptors, stylists, photographers, jewellery designers, self-made engineers and technicians, all of them are at work in rue Kato, or the nearby Academie des Beaux-Arts, refashioning waste into unimagined objects, sounds, happenings, ideas. Minimalism, style and raw urban energy hangs heavy in the air, like tropical moisture. "Here we'd call it 'hacking' or 'up-cycling' or whatever," Barret says. "There, it's just necessity."
Barret set up a giant screen at the Beaux Arts in Kinshasa to premier to the 'Malukayi' video. The whole academy was there to watch it. The response was fervent: "That's it! That's us!"
System D is becoming System K, a revolution that won't be televised, not for a while at least. But you'd be fool to miss it.
About ZULUZULUU
Minneapolis has a long history of distinctive R&B styles and flavors. ZULUZULUU arrived in 2014 and began to expand on that with an eye on the future but with respect to the past. One of their first shows was playing a Clash tribute; months later, they landed on First Avenue's Best New Bands 2014. After bursting onto the scene the band took a hiatus and gathered back together to build and contribute to the new vanguard of black music.
ZULUZULUU is made up of six musicians/producers: MMYYKK, Proper T, Greg Grease, DJ Just Nine, ∆RT P∆RTÉ and Trelly Mo; armed with various synths, drum machines, and instruments they've set out to bring a new, exploratory modern sound influenced by the greats of funk, soul, and jazz with electronic excursions, hard grooves, Afro-futurism and soulful melodies.
ZULUZULUU explores the psyche and searching for Black Excellence: "ZULUZULUU is church, it's therapy, it's family, it's a space where we can express ourselves freely as black men with no limitations", states multi-instrumentalist/vocalist MMYYKK. The band works in communal fashion and continually seeks a greater a truth. The band sees the group's mission as part of a bigger movement "we see ZULUZULU as a vessel, a spiritual, sonic culmination of our experiences and influences from our ancestors".
About the Walker Art Center
One of the most internationally celebrated art museums and multidisciplinary art centers, the Walker Art Center is known for presenting today's most compelling artists from around the world. In addition to organizing traveling exhibitions and presentations of its world-renowned collections, the Walker presents a broad array of contemporary music, dance, design, theater, and moving image.
In 2015, the Walker celebrated the 75th anniversary of its founding as a public art center dedicated to presenting and collecting the art of our time with a series of institutional initiatives, exhibitions, and events that spanned more than a year. Although it was more than 125 years ago when lumber baron Thomas Barlow (T. B.) Walker built a room onto his Minneapolis house, mounted his 20 favorite paintings on the wall, and opened his door to the community, it was in 1940 that the Walker's contemporary-focused mission to be a catalyst for the creative expression of artists and active engagement of audiences was born. Supported by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the Walker became a public art center presenting the work of living artists, forming a collection beyond the 19th-century holdings of its founder to the multidisciplinary works of today's artists.
About the Cedar
The Cedar Cultural Center is an eclectic music venue that is located in Minneapolis's Cedar-Riverside neighborhood. Over its 27-year history, the Cedar has become a premiere US venue for world music by fulfilling its mission of promoting intercultural understanding through the presentation of global music and dance.
Support for Mbongwana Star provided by Producers' Council members Nor Hall and Roger Hale.
The Walker Art Center's performing arts programs are made possible by generous support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation through the Doris Duke Performing Arts Fund, the William and Nadine McGuire Commissioning Fund, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Producers' Council
Performing Arts programs and commissions at the Walker are generously supported by members of the Producers' Council: Goodale Family Foundation; Nor Hall and Roger Hale; King's Fountain/Barbara Watson Pillsbury and Henry Pillsbury; Emily Maltz; Dr. William W. and Nadine M. McGuire; Leni and David Moore, Jr./The David and Leni Moore Family Foundation; Mike and Elizabeth Sweeney; and Frances and Frank Wilkinson.
Major support for the Walker's commissions and presentation is provided by the William and Nadine McGuire Commissioning Fund, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.


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Hello, hello and a Happy Hump Day to ya!
Over the past couple of weeks I have noticed a growing controversy over What I Ate Wednesday posts. Issues of eating disorders, comparisons and judgements have come up on multiple pages and I can't help but feel a little down about it.
WIAW is a series a fellow (and awesomely hilarious) food blogger named Jenn started quite a while ago. She blogs at Peas and Crayons and her site is filled with tons of yummy (and super healthy!) meal ideas and inspirations.
She started featuring weekly food posts to show her readers what a day of eating looks like at her house, and encourages everyone and anyone to join in and link up. She also makes sure to note on a disclaimer that this weekly food diary is a good way to reflect on eating habits, both good and bad.
Sadly, this concept has been both beneficial and controversial, which I know were not her intentions.
I started taking part in WIAW's over eight months ago after I saw them consuming my news feeds on a weekly basis. Every time I clicked over, I saw literally hundreds of other bloggers and in turn healthy meal ideas to try out. I thought and still think that the idea is genius!
It starts to get hairy when we (healthy living bloggers) take these posts too seriously and edit what our eats really look like. I have to admit that I tend to eat healthier on days I know I am photographing my food, but that is simply to act more as an inspiration for you guys. (There are only so many times you can handle… whoops, had pizza for lunch again and feel motivated to eat differently as a result!)
My hopes are for you to see the beauty of what these posts can do for all of us. I started reading healthy living blogs on a regular basis over two years ago to bring an every day dose of positivity and inspiration into my life, and more times than not that centers around food.
For me, WIAW posts are weekly check-ins to reflect on my eating habits and see how far away they are from my healthy eating goals.
Some weeks are more on track than others, and that's fine. I am human and I, like anyone else, have cheat days and meals and portions I know aren't ideal. But I include them in these posts for a reason, and that is to show you that it is normal to include them into your every now and then overall healthy eating lifestyle.
I realize that not everyone has this outlook, and it breaks my heart a little when I see a blogger's day of eats and exercise schedule that from the outside eye might look overworked and underfed.
Then I remember that we are all different. All of our bodies work at various physical levels and need different amounts of calories. Some of us need more to function and some of us get by with half the amount just fine.
The biggest downfall is getting sucked into the comparisons and judgments. The "I can't believe that girl did a spin class, yoga and only had chicken and vegetables for dinner afterwards," way of thinking just doesn't need to happen. For all we know, she could have loaded up on her calories earlier on in the day and prefers to keep dinner her lighter meal. You never really know.
I have never been one to count calories. I do label stalk and think to myself "is this snack really worth the 250 calories?" but I have never been the type of person that adds up a total caloric intake for the day.
Overall, I am a healthy eater, but by no means am I a perfect clean eater. I love dessert. I love anything Italian, Mexican, and carb loaded. I love being able to include anything I want into my meals, when I feel it's okay to.
I choose to participate in and share these (mostly) weekly food recaps to hopefully leave you all with something. Whether it's how to put a quick and healthy lunch together, add something new to your smoothie, or even put a smile on your face from me making fun of myself, I choose to continue to put them together for you guys. And I really, really hope that comes across in a positive open-minded way.
Now that we've covered why I WIAW, let's go on and quickly cover this week's eats shall we?
WIAW #33: What I Ate
Wednesday Monday
This week I purposely chose to change things up and document a typical Monday for me. Since I blabbed a lot at the beginning, I'm going to try and keep this at short as possible!
Breakfast was a no-brainer with a bowl of overnight oats I prepared the night before. I like to experiment with different yogurt and milk combinations, but here are Julie's tips on how to make a traditional bowl of overnight oats.
This time I used 1 cup Blueberry Chobani Greek yogurt, 1/2 cup raw oats, 1 Tbsp. chia seeds, and 1/2 cup almond milk to mix overnight, then topped it with a sliced banana in the morning.
That seemed to hold me over for quite some time, and feeling content without a snack I headed over to the gym for a Noon Fitness Pilates class.
This one was particularly great with the addition of the bosu ball! Loved it.
I must have gotten up on the right side of the bed that day because after class I had the urge to run. To the treadmill I went and knocked out three miles, no sweat.
Okay, there was a lot of sweat. But it felt great!
While gathering my stuff out of the locker room I then noticed how hungry I was. I grabbed this Mediterranean Salad to go from the cafe and enjoyed it at my desk while working on the computer for lunch.
Man, it was delish! I need to remember this combo for the future… mixed greens, free-range chicken, all-natural turkey, cucumbers, tomatoes, kalamata olives, nitrate-free bacon and a balsamic vinegar dressing topped in ground pepper.
About an hour later I also devoured this cup of Key Lime Greek yogurt topped in Bear Naked granola.
Mondays are practice days, which usually means I allow myself two dinners. Before practice I quickly put together a bowl of couscous, mixed vegetables (with a few beans) and Al Fresco Spinach & Feta chicken sausage for dinner #1.
Umm, NOM. Definitely worth repeating… several times.
I stopped by the arena on the way over to practice for my first flu shot! It's wasn't half as bad as I expected it to be, but I do have to admit that I still have a bit of soreness in my right arm. During practice I enjoyed my all-time favorite protein bar in my all-time favorite flavor.
I was completely content with something small after practice, but became easily talked into pasta for dinner #2 when I got home by the husband.
He always asks for pasta for dinner the nights before game days, so I really didn't have much of a choice anyways. I did, however, suggest we add the rest of the chicken sausage into the sauce and I enjoyed a small(er) portion of it. (No whole wheat noodles this time either, per Scott.)
And as you can imagine, I was too full to even think about dessert.
I know… (gasp) crazy!
Today I am off to another practice which includes a stop to Subway beforehand. I'm thinking of ditching the salad and going for the footlong to split before and after too. Sounds delightful!
• If you liked this WIAW post, head on over to Peas & Crayons to check out plenty others, or even link your own!
• Also, you can always find my latest What I Ate Wednesday posts by exploring the "WIAW" tag on the right hand sidebar.
Questions of the Day
• Do you participate or like reading WIAW posts?
• What is one inspirational meal or snack idea you've enjoyed this week? (Feel free to link it below!)


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Party Protocol...
by Sonya M Fitzmaurice - Friday, November 30, 2012
1) RSVP as soon as possible... It is very frustrating for a host to have to email or call, following up on your response, especially if a lot of guests are expected for the party. When the day arrives, being punctual is appreciated and expected. "Fashionably late" is very passe. Listen, things happen and if you will be more than a half hour late to an intimate get-together, a courtesy call to the host is appropriate.
2) If you have any dietary needs, make the host aware of them ahead of time... That is, if you have any food allergies, are a diabetic or a vegetarian/vegan. Give your host enough time to accommodate your situation. I'm not talking about being on the latest liquid diet or colon-cleanse fad! In that case, you need to just personally modify your selections from the menu offered or ditch the diet for the night.
3) Bring a gift for the host... It doesn't have to be extravagant, just a little something like a bottle of wine, or a lightly scented candle. If you are crafty in the kitchen, a simple great dessert or app would be perfect! It shows you appreciate the invite extended to you and yours and are happy to share the time together.
4) Wear something appropriate... Dressing "festive" doesn't mean whipping out the Sexy Santa costume, especially at a company or family party! Ladies, keep it classy and avoid wearing anything that shows too much leg or cleavage. If you find yourself asking if it's inappropriate, it probably is. Gents, dress professional, swap the jeans for khakis or chords. Remember, it's always a good idea to be dressed up than dressed down.
5) Put away the gadgets... Many hosts today are setting up a large bowl in the entrance so that arriving guests can leave their Smartphones at the door. You are at a party with live people! What is this with people texting each other from across the room in the same space?? Get over there and work on your social skills!
6) Mingle and meet... It's a party! Make the rounds and talk to people!
7) Hold your glass in your left hand so your right is free to shake and greet... This helps solve the awkward fumbling of hands as you mingle, and can potentially avoid the embarrassment of spilling your drink all over yourself... or on someone else for that matter.
8) Avoid drama... Forgiveness is the best gift you can give to yourself. While I'm not encouraging you to be bubbly with anyone who has crossed the line giving you the evil eye over the years, a party is not the time to start a full blown argument bringing up resentments. Remember - keep it light and keep it bright.
9) Overindulgence is a cardinal sin... Too much of a good thing, is, well, a bad thing! Just because there is all that food and alcohol doesn't mean you need to consume it all in one night. Moderation is key to everything and you will feel much more satisfied and smitten if you don't overdo it.
10) Send a thank you note... It is always a welcomed gesture to send a hand-written note to the host after the party. Yes, I know that today the art of hand is lost to electronic messages and tweets. Yes, I know that it is more convenient for modern communication. But to take the time to acknowledge kindness and hospitality is really a treasured gift itself. I can guarantee you will absolutely make a lasting impression if you take the time...
But the most important part of my party protocol is to HAVE FUN folks!
Enjoy the delights of the season responsibly... xoxo-Sonya
But the most important part of my party protocol is to HAVE FUN folks!
Enjoy the delights of the season responsibly... xoxo-Sonya


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Report: KFG International Conference 2014 on Comparative Regionalism
Nov 10, 2014
The conference took place on 12-13 December 2014
Last weekend, the final of three authors' conferences in preparation for the first Oxford Handbook of Comparative Regionalism, co-edited by KFG research directors Tanja A. Börzel and Thomas Risse, took place. While the December conference of last year had set the scene and the June conference was devoted to debating the general line of the chapters, this conference was about fine-tuning und bring the chapters together as a handbook.
Francesco Duina, Andrea Bianculli, Frank Schimmelfennig, Kathleen Hancock, Alexander Libmann, Anja Jetschke, Saori Katada, Christof Hartmann, Morton Valbjorn presented their chapters on Regionalisms around the world. Etel Solingen, David Levi-Faur, Tanja Börzel and Thomas Risse took the participants over their chapters on Explaining Regionalism. Chapters on Regional Governance Regimes were presented by Arie Kacowicz, Soo Yeon Kim, Kathleen McNamara, Stefano Palestini, Peter Haas, Anna van der Vleuten, Sandra Lavenex, Terri Givens, Flavia Jurje, and Ross Buchanan. And finally, the participants discussed the chapters by Tobias Lenz, Gary Marks, Liesbet Hooghe, Jeffrey Checkel, Berthold Rittberger, Andrea Ribeiro-Hoffmann, Jon Pevehouse on Comparing Regional Institutions.
For a report on the two preceding conferences follow this link.
The handbook will be published with Oxford University Press presumably in early 2016.
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KPMG has given retired Air Force General Janet Wolfenbarger a friend on its board of directors.
KPMG LLP, the U.S. audit, tax and advisory firm, is pleased to announce the appointment of Linda L. Addison as an independent director to its U.S. Board of Directors. Addison is the second distinguished independent director the Firm has announced, joining General (ret.) Janet C. Wolfenbarger, who was appointed in October.
The recent influx of outside directors "is an important change to our governance model, and demonstrates our ongoing commitment to quality, innovative thinking and a values-driven culture," said KPMG Chairman and CEO Lynne Doughtie in a Nov. 12 press release.
But let's be real. You wouldn't be seeing Wolfenbarger, Addison, or any other "outside perspective" joining the firm's board if a handful of KPMG partners weren't indicted earlier this year for stealing inspection information from the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.
Doughtie said as much in an article she wrote for Accounting Today last May:
In 2017, certain events, and the actions of a few former colleagues, caused us to take a deeper dive into examining our culture and values, and to assess with fresh eyes how we could improve and best position our more than 100 year-old firm for future success. What has emerged from that ongoing exercise is not surprising. We have been reminded of the cardinal rule in our business, namely that trust is paramount and, as such, must inform all that we do.
Three of those former colleagues have pled guilty to wire fraud and conspiracy charges, while two other ex-KPMG partners are scheduled to go to trial in February 2019.
Addison, the newest independent KPMG director, is the immediate past U.S. managing partner of global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright. Here are her credentials:
For more than three decades, Linda has worked with CEOs, corporate boards, and corporate executives across multiple industry sectors, both regulated and unregulated, including some of the world's leading multi-national companies. Linda is a global business leader with expertise in compensation, M&A, risk management, regulatory/compliance, technology, governance, and crisis management. She has extensive knowledge of a complex partnership structure and culture like KPMG's, and brings vast experience defining and implementing a firm's global strategy and overseeing business operations worldwide.
KPMG is one of only two Big 4 firms that have independent directors on its U.S. board. The other is PwC, which also has two, according to Compliance Week.


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By: Rhema
"Where there is no vision, the people perish" Proverbs 29:18 (KJV)
I recently went on a trip to Plymouth, Massachusetts and traveled down the East Coast to Washington D.C. with a group of people from my church. We went on that trip so that we could learn the true Christian history of America that isn't taught in our schools. As I was on this trip, I learned so many new things, but what stood out to me was the sacrifice that people made for the future country and future generations.
The pilgrims were not the only people that traveled to America to start a new country. There were other groups of people that came as well. The pilgrims were a group of people that were called separatists because they separated from the Church of England because there was no religious freedom. They moved to Holland to escape persecution for their beliefs, but even in another country they were still persecuted for what they believed.
104 separatists moved to America so they could form a Christian nation where they could worship the Lord freely. But the journey was extremely difficult for the pilgrims. They were in small quarters with sickness and lack of food and water. The mothers gave up what they had for their children to survive. During the first winter, 51 of the 104 died, and 14 of the 18 mothers died. They left all civilization to start a country and sacrificed their own lives for the hope of future generations having a Christian country where they could worship God freely.
The Revolutionary War was another time of great sacrifice. People willingly gave up their lives and family for the hope of a free country from Great Britain. People were separated from family for years, just so that we could live with the freedom that we have today.
The Civil War was more sacrifice for our freedom. Brothers fought brothers. Fathers fought sons. They fought for our freedom and for our country to stay united.
The people that started our country gave everything. The people that fought to keep our country gave everything. They trusted God and had a bigger vision than themselves. They had a vision for the many generations to come. They fought for our freedom. They sacrificed everything. We have a choice to do the same. Everyday there is a chance that laws will be changed. We need to fight so that future generations have the same freedom that we have. We can't forget our history. Our godly, American history.
Whatever Girls Inaugural America Vision Trip | June 21-28, 2020
America is a Christian nation, there's no doubt about it. Join us as we study America's providential history and then travel to Plymouth, Massachusetts and Washington D.C. to see, touch, and stand on the land on which American history was made. This trip is open to women and girls ages 12 and up. If you would like to receive more information and a trip application, please click here.
Rhema is a 9th grader in Spokane. She is on ASB at school and knows her mission at school is to be a light in the darkness and to influence students and staff for Jesus at her school. Outside of school, she dances tap, hip hop, lyrical and jazz. She loves little people and helps in children's ministry at her church and helps teach dance to 4 year olds at her dance school. She is actively involved at her youth group and loves helping new people feel at home at church. She has a heart to make sure others feel included and never excluded.