When I'm reading the aura, I generally find spirit guide energy above the client's head. Assigning a specific area of the aura to 'the colours of spirit guides' is helpful because then I can discern spirit energy from the energy of any incarnated beings the client might be interacting with. Using the area above the head as the spirit guide area makes sense because this is the area governed by the crown chakra, our spiritual chakra.
I tend to see spirit guides as balls of coloured light, with the colour, positioning and size of the ball giving me information about the guide's personality and purpose. These meanings are my own personal system, and certainly not a rule of thumb- everyone perceives energy in their own unique way. I like the ball of light idea because to me, spirit is energy…the image of a guide as a character or human is secondary to the idea of spirit being an energy field.
Larger balls generally represent 'older' or wiser spirit guides. White balls are 'master' guides- guides with a very high frequency. When a ball of light is touching on, or close to the body, it means the guide and human have a very good working relationship and have probably been together for a long time.
Guides are attracted to us and connect with us on the basis of shared personality traits, interests and goals. Guides have many reasons for connecting with humans. Some guides are 'working' (ie guiding people is their spiritual work), others are simply making friends or reconnecting with old friends. Others are on a mission and the humans they choose to connect with are on the same mission.
A red ball of light can represent a guide who will teach you how to manage your 'fire'- eg your personal power, passions and energy. Depending on the exact shade and any accompanying colours, a red-coloured guide might be a martial arts teacher, a motivator or sports coach, an assertiveness coach, or a sexuality coach, to name just a few possibilities.
An orange ball of light can represent a 'lighten up' guide. These guides teach us how to have a sense of humour and not take ourselves and life so seriously. They can be mischievous and exasperating, pushing our buttons in an effort to help us find the funny side of life. A slightly different shade of orange and the guide might be a counsellor, attracted to you perhaps because you need counselling or because you give counselling to others.
Guides don't have to be strictly personal or even human. We are all connected as one and we have access to all energies. I have many personal guides that are human in appearance, but most of these guides shape-shift into other forms, such as pure energy, or animals. I also enjoy working with what I call public guides. A good example of a public guide is the archetypal 'mother' energy which comes in many guises such as Mother Mary, Isis, Quan Yin etc. To me, these mother energies are often depicted as balls of sapphire blue light.
Yellow balls of light can be sunny guides who uplift and inspire us, helping us develop confidence and a warm countenance. And if you like the idea of being guided by archetypes or public guides, a golden ball of light might represent a sun God like Ra or Apollo.
Sometimes a ball of light will take on specific colours that tell me the guiding energy is an inner self, like the inner child, higher self or a creative inner muse. Another category is the past life guide. In this case the guide might be someone you knew from a past life, or it might be yourself from a past life. In the latter instance, the presence of this guide can help you tap into past lessons learned, or past skills and wisdom.
When I am reading the aura, I almost always tune in to at least one animal spirit guide. The animal spirit guides I have recently connected with during aura readings include a starfish, a firefly, and a giraffe. Sometimes I will be guided to sketch the actual shape of the guide, as I did with the starfish, but mostly, they appear as balls of light. One energy that tends not to appear as a ball of light, is fairies. Fairies more often appear to me as sparks of light!
When a spirit guide is a nature spirit, I might see a literal image of a mountain, tree, flower or the wind, but at other times the guide appears in a metaphorical fashion, personified as a fairy, elemental or magical being. Mountains, for example, can be personified as giants. A leaf might express itself as a tree dryad, a flower as a flower fairy and the wind as a sylph.
I'll never forget the time I looked at a child's colours and said 'Oh, you have a tree dryad with you- it looks like a boab tree', only to be told they did indeed have a boab tree on their property. The same family, a few years later, was surprised when I spotted a giant in one of the children's auras. The little girl immediately pulled a sulky face and her mother and grandmother looked at each other in amazement. Apparently, she had been consistently talking about a giant who kept following her around and she was frightened of him. I tried to reassure her he was friendly and suggested to the giant he back off a little!
Is the giant real? Are any spirit guides real? Who knows. I certainly gain a lot of joy and very real benefit from my invisible friends and my clients experience the same. Sometimes my clients and I invent spirit guides for specific purposes, like the time we created a personal trainer spirit guide to help a client reach her sporting goals. Talking with an invisible friend you view as a positive role model, helps you practise healthy self-talk.
The only time believing in spirit guides can be unhealthy is when we give them negative personalities, expect them to make our decisions for us, spend more time with them than we do our real people, or take the entire exercise just a little too seriously and literally. If a conversation with my spirit guide starts sounding negative or silly, I stop and go do something else, because I know I'm in the wrong headspace.
As the Hawaiian saying goes- 'Effectiveness is the measure of truth'. If it works, use it. If it doesn't, don't. I measure the value of believing in spirit guides on the basis of how balanced and healthy my life is as a result. In fact, I measure the value of any belief on this basis, seeing beliefs as tools, rather than facts to prove or disprove. After all, who know what 'real' really is? Anything could be possible. One thing I do believe in is the power of the mind and imagination!
*Guides that vibrate at green frequencies like Archangel Raphael, guides and deceased loves ones who are/were healers (e.g. a nurse, midwife or herbalist), and/or have a strong connection with nature or work with plants (e.g. gardeners, environmentalists, horticulturalists, dieticians).
*Some green shades are associated with musical or performing arts skills. Eg guides helping you with these skills or skills learned in past life.
*If the blue-tinged green is lighter, it can represent teaching skills, dancing skills or a guide who is helping you be more present in the moment.
Keep in mind that I experience the aura via the filter of my personal colour-associations, history and systems. All readers perceive the another person's aura through the filter of their own (i.e. reading the aura is a subjective experience to some extent).
But personally, I think you have a couple of young green dragons with you. You could think of these as archetypal metaphors for 'fire energy in the heart chakra': inspiring our passions as well as helping us connect with others in meaningful ways and build bridges in the community around us.
PS light green makes the nature spirits more likely!
Recently I had gone through some experiences with feelings of a presence. I actually took a photo of myself in the mirror one day and I had a white, almost transparent ball that was hovering my heart/chest. What would this mean to you? I am so interested in figuring this out. Thank you so much.
It's really important we find our own stories/perspectives on these things, and not take another's word for gospel (even if they are a psychic!). I can tell you my impressions if you wish, but I would highly recommend doing the spirit guide meditation on this site, after spending some time gazing at the photograph. This way you can gather your own impressions first. Let us know what you discover!


Happy Wednesday! I hope everyone is having a great day. The Perfect 10 Picks posts are some of my favorites because I get to share the variety of things that interest me with readers.
One // WARRIORS! Yes, last night's game was amazing. I watched it with my parents at their house and we were screaming and cheering and it brought us all back to our State Championship days! Also, if you didn't already love MVP Steph Curry before, how could you not after his post-game press conference with his adorable daughter Riley!
Two // The hardest thing for me after finishing a good book is finding a new one that's just as good at grabbing me. I usually get my reading recommendations from my friend Carol. I found this list of "21 Books From the Last Five Years that Every Woman Should Read" and I'm proud I've read a handful! I can't wait to read the entire list at some point (I'm not putting a deadline on this since there's a baby on the way!).
Three // One of my favorite clothing lines Brochu Walker is having a spring sale for friends and family. See how I've styled some of my favorite Brochu Walker pieces here and here. Use promo code Spring30Friend for 30% off!
Four // Whether you love or hate to fly, I think this is a very interesting (and surprisingly visually stimulating) NY Times article from the perspective of a pilot. "In Flight: En route from London to Tokyo, a pilot's eye view of the sky"
Five // Did you see yesterday's post with the handmade sugar cookies from my friend Kerri? I am still so in love with them!! See the images and get the recipe here!
Six // The last two days of pregnancy have been really fun because this little baby girl is kicking me like crazy!!! She pushes up on my ribs with her feet. I'm not being sarcastic, I think it's really funny and always catches me by surprise. I can't wait to see her in a few short weeks! I can't wait to snuggle her in all of the comfy clothes and blankets we have for her.
Seven // Would it be impractical to get these shoes before baby arrives? I feel like I probably won't be wearing heels for a while after she's here, but I still really want them!
Eight // Last night Jesse and I put together our glider for the nursery. I feel like every other day a huge box arrives and every other night, Jesse is assembling something! I think that's it for the big items and our nursery is all set. The BEST thing we did was get the nursery organized months in advance. I could not imaging trying to decorate it at 35 weeks pregnant. We ordered this Eddie Bauer glider from Target because I felt like it was the perfect intersection of price and style. I couldn't believe that some gliders go for over $1,000!!
Nine // I hate to admit it but I didn't have a chance to see Pitch Perfect 2 opening weekend (insert monkey emoji with hands over eyes) but I'm looking forward to seeing a matinee this week and being the only one in the theater with my Milkduds. Who saw it? What did you think?
Ten // I'd love to get people's Netflix recommendations for maternity leave!! Please let me know if there are any good shows or movies that you think I should watch. I don't like anything dark and sad!! Just light and airy!!
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AJ Styles Talks Injury, Not Facing Shinsuke Nakamura In WWE Until Now, Asuka Vs. Charlotte Build
WWE Champion AJ Styles recently spoke with USA Today's "For The Win" blog to promote WrestleMania 34. Below are highlights:
The past couple of weeks a lot of fans have been freaking out online over a potential injury you suffered at a Live Event, but you've obviously returned to the ring since. What happened there?
A little of nothing. It was just one of those… got hit in the back of the knee. I think it scared more people than it actually scared me. I knew I was going to make it to WrestleMania, there's nothing wrong with me.
Another huge SmackDown match on the WrestleMania card is Charlotte vs. Asuka. How impressed have you been by what those two have accomplished?
Charlotte, definitely one of the best women's performers in the WWE, and Asuka, of course, she's no slacker either. You put these two in the ring…. It's almost like the same build-up [to Nakamura-Styles]. It's a match that I want to see, and now the opportunity of it finally happening is very exciting. This WrestleMania is probably one of the best cards in a long time for exciting matches.
Aside from the last Money In The Bank, we haven't seen you and Shinsuke face off as opponents in WWE, even at live events. Is that something you're thankful for, looking back, that this match has been kept totally fresh?
You know what's great about that is the same thing happened in Japan, and the same thing's happening here in WWE. That's a good thing. There are matches that you can have over and over and over again and people will love it, but there are some matches that you wish you had and you never got the opportunity to see it – this is it.
This is the match I think a lot of people wanted to see, and I think we proved that at Money In The Bank. The build-up just to that moment was great… The opportunity to do it at WrestleMania is perfect, and the fact that we haven't touched in a one-on-one competition? Perfect.
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Despite Negative Feedback, Chipotle Queso Sales Are Doing Fine
Chipotle fans across the globe were waiting for the day to come for quite some time. The masses that were begging for Chipotle Queso finally had their prayers answered, though much to their dismay, the cheesy dip seemed to largely disappoint.
Sure, Chipotle Queso made plenty of headlines, but many of them were ribbing the chain for the poor job they did when concocting the recipe. With all this being said, though, Chipotle still claims that most people actually like the queso, and it isn't, at all, hurting the brand's sales.
In announcing the company's latest quarterly earnings, Chipotle CEO Steve Ellis argued that the burrito chain had been able to "change the narrative about Chipotle" in the wake of the high-profile 2015-2016 food-borne illness and norovirus outbreaks at numerous Chipotle locations. Sales through the first nine months of 2017 were up 17% over the same period last year, said Ells.
Furthermore, Chief Marketing Officer Mark Crumpacker explained during the call that around 19% of the new and "lapsed" customers visiting in recent months ordered queso, and around 15% of customers are continuing to order it either as a side or as a topping to their entrée, Crumpacker also spoke of the sales at the California and Colorado restaurants where queso was initially tested average out to around 15% long after those tests began. While queso-haters on social media are rather loud, the company claims that its research found that "93% of customers that tried queso on an entrée said they like our queso" The Consumerist reports.
What do you think? Drop a line below and give us your opinion. We know that our "official" office taste tester, Mark, wasn't a huge fan of the stuff…
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Here's a short dusty rose flower girl dress from La Petite by Hayley Paige. So adorable that it deserves to be named, Charlie is a tea-length sleeveless formal dress for flower girls that is eye-catching and delightful. The sweet formal dress is fully lined with a sparkling tulle caviar overlay that shimmers from the jewel-style neckline to the hem of the twirl-worthy skirt. A triple tulle lining and horsehair hemline add even more volume to give this youthful party dress a mini ball gown look and feel. In a neutral color that is sure to coordinate with most bridal parties, this short dusty rose flower girl dress is a fanciful statement-maker for black-tie weddings.


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The Chairman of the Russian Investigative Committee instructs to report on the situation in Lipetsk Oblast, voiced on the air of one of the Television Programs
The Head of the Russian Investigative Committee instructs to organize an inspection into the fact of a possible violation of the housing rights of a large family and a disabled person in Lipetsk Oblast
The Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia instructs to submit a report on the Appeal of the Lipetsk Oblast citizens
The Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia instructs to submit a report on the circumstances previously revealled within the inspection related to information about the eviction of citizens from a dormitory in Lipetsk Oblast
The Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia instructs to report on possible violation of the rights of an orphan in Lipetsk Oblast
Criminal investigation launched for inflicting a knife wound to a teenager in Lipetsk oblast is a subject to control of Mr. Alexander Ivanovich Bastrykin
The Chairman of the Investigative Committee instructs to conduct an inspection relative to information about the violation of residents' rights in one of the dormitories of Lipetsk
The Chairman of the Investigative Committee instructed to launch a criminal case on information about the violation of the rights of citizens from Lipetskaya oblast
Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia Ordered to File Criminal Charges Over Injury of Child From Attack of Stray Dog in Lipetsk Oblast
Chairman of the IC of Russia Instructs to Report on Enquiries into Violations of Rights of Citizens Living in Dilapidated House in Lipetsk Oblast
On the evening of October 8, 2022, the suspect, who was in one of city parks of Lipetsk oblast, had an argument with a group of teenagers. In response to verbal insults and ridicule, the suspect stabbed a 15-year-old teenager in the abdomen with a kitchen knife. The minor was hospitalized with damage to internal organs and massive bleeding. Currently, there is no threat to his life and health.
On this fact, Investigators of the Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia for Lipetsk Oblast launched a criminal case in accordance with Part 2, Article 111 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm), the suspect was detained.
The Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia instructed Mr. Shapovalov E.V., Head of the Investigative Directorate for Lipetsk Oblast to submit a report on the progress of the investigation.
The results of the investigation are the subject to control in the Main Directorate of the Department.


I use the expression "movements for colonist-independence" to designate those actions, whether successful or not, undertaken on the initiative of the colonists, that is, by white men. In this manner this first "decolonization" marked the highest level attained by expansion. On the other hand the other independence movements, that is, those of the colonized peoples, actually marked a reflux from expansion.
Actually one may observe that, from its beginnings up to almost the end of the twentieth century, the relationship which the colonists maintained with their mother country was of a rather ambiguous nature. As is well known, most of the time the mother country supported them against rivals, against the natives. But the conflicts in which they become involved may have nevertheless worsened to such an extent that, in order to give to themselves greater freedom of action, the colonists chose to break away from the mother country.
It is in this sense that one may view this series of struggles for independence as the most advanced stage of white colonial expansion.
Conflicts of this nature broke out from the very outset of colonization. An example is provided by the Pizarrist movement against Charles V (in 1544-48): it evinced characteristics which one observes in other contexts. Indeed one encounters a host of such movements during the entire period down to the end of colonization. The stakes were varied, and one must refrain from assimilating the aims of the "American Revolution" (1783) to those of the Spanish colonies between 1819 and 1825, or let alone to those of South Rhodesia, later Zimbabwe, which claimed affinity with the principles of the American Revolution. Likewise one ought not to confuse what was at stake in the revolt of the colonists of Algiers in 1871 with what was at stake in 1958. The facts and the contexts are quite different. From one extremity of the history of colonization to the other, the movements of the colonists each had its respective logic and its specific configuration.
Publication information: Book title: Colonization: A Global History. Contributors: Marc Ferro - Author. Publisher: Routledge. Place of publication: London. Publication year: 1997. Page number: 211.


Project Title: The Interruption of Contemporary Fiction' (JM Coetzee, Ali Smith, Tom McCarthy, Zadie Smith).
Supervised by Professor Peter Boxall.
My thesis looks to construct an understanding of enchantment in contemporary fiction, with particular attention to writing by Nicola Barker, J. M. Coetzee, Toni Morrison and Ali Smith. I am interested in how the use of a magical idiom (mystery, illusion, concealing and revealing) in the novel speaks to the critical histories of enchantment and demystification as interpretative methods, and how this might inform narratological ideas about fictionality.


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Book launch for David Spaner's Shoot It! Hollywood Inc. and the Rising of Independent Film
DAVID SPANER in conversation with RICHARD CROUSE AT "SHOOT IT! HOLLYWOOD INC. AND THE RISING OF INDEPENDENT FILM " BOOK LAUNCH
TINARS is Occupying Hollywood for just one night as the Indie film community celebrates the launch of movie critic/film historian David Spaner's new book Shoot It! Hollywood Inc. and the Rising of Independent Film. Indie film pioneer Larry Kent introduces the evening featuring film clips, slideshows and a candid discussion between David Spaner and film critic Richard Crouse about the void created by the Hollywood studio system and the independent filmmakers overcoming obstacles to fill it. Presented by This Is Not a Reading Series, Arsenal Pulp Press, the Gladstone Hotel, Productions and The Toronto Review of Books.
Gladstone Hotel, Main Ballroom, 1214 Queen Street West
Doors open at 7 pm; Event begins at 7:30 pm
Admission is $5 or FREE with purchase of a book
Shoot It! Hollywood Inc. and the Rising of Independent Film is a revealing history of how Hollywood, with its eye on the bottom line, lost its ability to support the work of creative filmmakers; it is also a passionate portrait of the independent filmmakers who have risen up to fill the void.
The book examines the Hollywood studio system over several decades, from the period when it produced more quality yet commercially viable films, to today, when studios seem only interested in surefire sequels and comic-book adaptations aimed at a global audience. By the same token, Shoot It! also celebrates today's great movies produced outside of the studio system, chronicling the international independent film movement in seven countries (the United States, Canada, Mexico, Britain, France, Romania, and South Korea), from its roots (European New Waves, New York independents) to the revolutionary impact of digital technology. It also features commentary from indie film notables such as Mike Leigh, Gus Van Sant, Claire Denis, Miranda July, Woody Allen, Atom Egoyan, Catherine Breillat, Sally Potter, John Sayles, and Ken Loach.
While the studios envisage a generic universe, repressing local film cultures along the way, talented independents continue to tell local stories with universal appeal. This book is a celebration of those determined filmmakers who, despite it all, overcome every obstacle and just shoot it. For more information about the book, visit Arsenal Pulp.
David Spaner has worked as a movie critic, writer, reporter, and editor for numerous national publications. His movie coverage—often focusing on independent film—and other writing featured in the Vancouver Province daily newspaper from 1999 to 2008, won the Publishers Award for best feature writing in the paper. His political and cultural commentary has appeared Georgia Straight, Vancouver Sun, Ottawa Citizen, Montreal Gazette, and Vancouver Magazine. Spaner was a co-founder of the Vancouver Film Critics Circle and has often appeared at film events as a moderator, juror (from Vancouver's 48-hour-film contest to the Toronto International Film Festival's panel that selects the year's top-10 Canadian films), or programmer (in 2010, for instance, he curated a tribute to University of B.C. filmmakers). He is also the author of Dreaming in the Rain: How Vancouver Became Hollywood North by Northwest. Visit David's site at www.davidspaner.com.
Richard Crouse is the regular film critic for CTV's Canada AM and the 24 hour news source CTV's News Channel. In 2011 he hosted In Short, a series of eight hour long show showcasing BravoFact's best short films. He was the host of Reel to Real, Canada's longest running television show about movies, from 1998 to 2008 and is a frequent guest on many national Canadian radio and television shows. His syndicated Saturday afternoon radio show, Entertainment Extra, originates on News Talk 1010 in Toronto. He is also the author of six books on pop culture history including Who Wrote the Book of Love, the best-selling The 100 Best Movies You've Never Seen, its sequel The Son of the 100 Best Movies You've Never Seen and the upcoming Raising Hell: Ken Russell and the Unmaking of The Devils. He also writes two weekly columns for Metro newspaper. Visit Richard's site at www.richardcrouse.ca
Larry Kent One of the original English-Canadian auteurs, South African-born Larry Kent produced, wrote and directed a number of enigmatic, personal and powerful dramas during the sixties and early seventies. Kent came to Vancouver from South Africa at the age of nineteen and made his first film, The Bitter Ash (1963), while still a student at the University of British Columbia. His low-budget and semi-improvised early films were among the first in Canada to explore the social, cultural, sexual and feminist revolutions of the sixties; as a result, they were subjects of controversy and censorship across the country.
The bold stylistic expressiveness and adventurousness of Kent's sixties films mark them as key works of their era, and represent a vital step away from the realist/documentary tradition that had dominated Canadian filmmaking. Many critics and historians contend he has never received his proper due as an important and influential figure in the development of our national cinema.
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Florida és una població dels Estats Units a l'estat de Nova York. Segons el cens del Census 2000 tenia una població de 2.571 habitants.

Demografia
Segons el cens del 2000, Florida tenia 2.571 habitants, 951 habitatges, i 704 famílies. La densitat de població era de 525,2 habitants/km².

Dels 951 habitatges en un 36,1% hi vivien nens de menys de 18 anys, en un 59% hi vivien parelles casades, en un 11,4% dones solteres, i en un 25,9% no eren unitats familiars. En el 21,8% dels habitatges hi vivien persones soles el 10,3% de les quals corresponia a persones de 65 anys o més que vivien soles. El nombre mitjà de persones vivint en cada habitatge era de 2,7 i el nombre mitjà de persones que vivien en cada família era de 3,17.

Per edats la població es repartia de la següent manera: un 26,7% tenia menys de 18 anys, un 6,2% entre 18 i 24, un 30,2% entre 25 i 44, un 24,2% de 45 a 60 i un 12,8% 65 anys o més.

L'edat mediana era de 38 anys. Per cada 100 dones de 18 o més anys hi havia 90 homes.

La renda mediana per habitatge era de 54.893 $ i la renda mediana per família de 61.406 $. Els homes tenien una renda mediana de 45.577 $ mentre que les dones 32.232 $. La renda per capita de la població era de 22.138 $. Entorn del 5,5% de les famílies i el 7,3% de la població estaven per davall del llindar de pobresa.

Poblacions properes
El següent diagrama mostra les poblacions més properes.

Referències

Comtat d'Orange (Nova York)
Entitats de població de Nova York

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Placeholder text in selection/dropdown cannot be manipulated by CSS right now. Sometimes we'd like the placeholder text to change based on how wide the container is.
To allow the same HTML look differently based on the width of its container.
So here's an idea to generate a selection/dropdown via a list and allow the placeholder text to change based on the width of the container via pseudo elements.


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Anthony Bourdain Dead at 61 of Apparent Suicide, CNN Says
We remember our favorite no-holds-barred chef.
Anthony Bourdain, the Emmy-winning host of CNN's Parts Unknown, died on Friday. He was 61 years old.
Bourdain was a chef, an author, and a remarkably fit Brazilian jiu-jitsu fighter.
He also had no time for bullshit — especially when good food was on the line.
Writing about grilling techniques for , Bourdain excoriated the "hockey puck" he'd received at a cookout a few summers before — the "carbonized meat patty" he ultimately chucked into the trees "like a Frisbee."
"Are you heaping your grill with coals and then dousing them with accelerants because a high flame somehow looks cool and makes your penis feel larger?" he asked readers. "Don't bother. Moderate heat is better."
Bourdain was found dead of an apparent suicide on Friday morning by his friend and fellow chef, Eric Ripert, according to CNN. He'd been in France working on an episode of Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, his five-time Emmy-winning CNN travel show.
"It is with extraordinary sadness we can confirm the death of our friend and colleague, Anthony Bourdain," the network said in a statement Friday morning. "His love of great adventure, new friends, fine food and drink and the remarkable stories of the world made him a unique storyteller. His talents never ceased to amaze us and we will miss him very much. Our thoughts and prayers are with his daughter and family at this incredibly difficult time."
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Bourdain was born in 1956 in New York City. He attended the Culinary Institute of America, and spent years as the executive chef at Brasserie Les Halles. His bestselling 2000 memoir, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, gave readers a characteristically honest inside look at his time as a chef — a "long love affair," as he described it, "with moments both sublime and ridiculous."
In one memorable chapter, Bourdain dished out the real deal behind the seemingly-innocuous stuff you see on restaurant menus.
"'Beef Parmentier'? 'Shepherd's pie'? 'Chili special'? Sounds like leftovers to me."
"Chilean sea bass? Trendy. Expensive. More than likely frozen."
From 2005 to 2013, Bourdain hosted No Reservations and The Layover on The Travel Channel. In April of 2013, Parts Unknown debuted on CNN.
Bourdain's no-BS attitude carried through to Parts Unknown, where he strove to give viewers an authentic look at the worldwide destinations he visited. In a Season 2 episode filmed in Sicily, Bourdain became appropriately furious upon discovering that his squid-fishing expedition was no more than his local guide tossing dead seafood into the water for Bourdain to "catch."
"It's a good show, well made. But a personal failure," he later wrote of the Sicily episode. "Like a girl you love but just can't find a way to tell her."
Bourdain was tough as nails: not just as a young chef navigating the seedy underbelly of the culinary world, but at 61, as a blue belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu. In November of 2017, Bourdain about the hobby that made him — as we put it at the time — "the walking definition of fitness goals."
"I found it very strategically and intellectually intriguing," he said of the sport. "I like problem solving and I also like being the stupidest person in the room. I like being at the foot of a very steep incline where you never reach the top."
If you are struggling with depression, please seek professional help or call the National Alliance on Mental Illness(NAMI) helpline at 1-800-950-NAMI(6264). If you are having thoughts about harming yourself, call 911 immediately or call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255.
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Address: 1311 Webster St. New Orleans | NEW ORLEANS-LOUISIANA | United States
Latitude/Longitude: 29.9272043, -90.1211066
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Situated in a well-established uptown neighborhood of otherwise ornate, traditional Southern homes, the Webster Street Residence stands out for its modern use of brick, storefront glazing, metal trim, and contemporary detailing. The clients, with whom studioWTA has worked extensively on other developments, have substantial experience designing from the ground up. This allowed the home's interior to be a highly-refined example of clean modernism grounded in careful detailing and rich material choices, rather than stark minimalism.
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Through the front gate and up a few meandering pavers, an oversized, custom wood-clad pivot door leads into a dining area and library. The path then descends to a sunken limestone floor living space with twenty-foot tall ceilings. The scale of this interior offers a liveliness by tying together private spaces above to living below, and welcoming the full-scale views of the oak trees into the living room through a large operable curtainwall.
The house, despite its substantial square footage, doesn't overpower its 19th century context; instead, it nestles beneath two impressive, mature live oak trees along the north edge of its corner site where a shaded yard with a pool was a natural fit for a young, growing family. The siting of the house away from the tree also allowed its foundation to avoid the trees' extensive drip line. With an open side to the street, the courtyard scheme is made private with a custom metal picket fence covered in climbing vines along the sidewalk. The front of the house responds to the courtyard and trees via a porch extended as a dramatic steel "frame" perch off the second floor playroom, protected by sliding shutters and the oak tree canopy above. Anchoring one side of the courtyard is a 700 square foot guest house with a loft, designed to provide eating, sleeping, and living space overlooking the pool, while maintaining privacy from the main house.
Within the house, the clients' desire for a modern yet comfortable home come to life in the detailing and material selection: kitchen cabinets in matte charcoal; upper level balcony railings in frameless glass; the entertainment wall enclosure in concealed, hinged wood slat panels. All these well-developed ideas were a collaboration, and only made possible through a clarity of vision and a refined sensibility.
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By Casey Campbell, Radcliffe Communications
In 2001, Janet Connors' son, Joel James Turner, was stabbed to death in his Dorchester apartment. While three of the men charged in the killing received prison sentences, a fourth — the one who Connors believes was mainly responsible — was released on reasonable doubt.
The grieving mother felt she needed to create her own justice. She quickly realized her path forward would be rooted in forgiveness, rather than retribution. Five years after the murder, Connors became the first person in Massachusetts to hold a victim-offender dialogue, a meeting between a victim and offender, after the offender is incarcerated.
"When it happened, my first thought was, 'Who are these monsters?'" Connors said at a recent Radcliffe event. "But, if I hold them in their humanity, then I can hold them accountable."
Accountability is key to Connors' idea of restorative justice, which she encourages as a "circle keeper" for the local nonprofit Our Restorative Justice. Circle keepers lead conversations that promote healing and forgiveness.
To Connors, a circle is a sacred space; it's a practice based on an indigenous peace-keeping ritual. Every circle also utilizes a talking piece, designed to limit reactive responses and ensure active listening.
Documentarian Julie Mallozzi's "Circle Up" highlights the use of circles as a means to spread restorative justice. Last month, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study screened a short version of the film, followed by a discussion with Mallozzi and film subjects Connors and Clarissa Turner, who struggled to let go of her anger after her son was murdered in 2011.
"Homicide doesn't come with a book of instructions," Turner said. She now speaks with victims and offenders through her nonprofit organization Legacy Lives On. Through these circles, Turner's perspective of prisoners has changed. "The reality is that they're human beings. As they transform, we transform. As they heal, we heal."
Restorative justice requires this shift of perspective, the mothers said. Conversations need to focus less on placing blame and more on questioning what happened and who was harmed, Connors added.
The event was one in a gallery series taking place in Radcliffe's Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery. Speakers respond to the exhibition currently on view, "Willie Cole: Beauties," full-scale prints made from crushed and hammered ironing boards. The series invites the community to react to the art and generate new ideas for discussion.
For Turner and Connors, the event was another opportunity to spread their message and build community. Since the documentary first aired in 2017, they have spoken at schools, prisons, and to survivor groups.
"Circles can be happy or sad — they simply build relationships," Turner said. "Circles are beautiful. Powerful."
Willie Cole: Beauties
Wednesday 3/27/19 to Saturday 6/29/19
Vision & Justice
Thursday 4/25/19 to Friday 4/26/19
From Prison to Poverty
Photo by Kris Snibbe
"Just about everyone leaves prison and enters poverty," said Harvard sociologist and Radcliffe fellow Bruce Western, who recently completed a study tracking 122 incarcerated men and women who were released back into society.
A Bleak, Troubling History
Photo by Stephanie Mitchell
Laurence Ralph has used his time as a Radcliffe fellow to study police violence and race. "I wanted to examine the contradiction between the fact that the police are supposed to safeguard citizens and yet they're contributing to an alarming number of violent deaths," he says.
Could an Ex-Convict Become an Attorney? I Intended to Find Out
Reginald Dwayne Betts while he was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute in 2011-2012. Photo by Jessica Scranton
Reginald Dwayne Betts RI '12 writes: "After serving time for a crime I committed at 16, I discovered how hard it is for a felon to get a second chance."
The jazz great Wynton Marsalis electrified Sanders Theatre. Photo by Evgenia Eliseeva
For two days in April, "Vision & Justice: A Convening" was a campus hit, drawing crowds to the Knafel Center and Sanders Theatre. But we weren't the only ones watching and listening.


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Do you have plans for the year 2019? What are your plans? Perhaps you plan to get married, or continue your studies, or look for a different job, or buy a house, or travel abroad. Well, whatever your plans may be, as you plan, consider what God teaches us in Proverbs 19:21, "Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the LORD that will stand (ESV)." One version puts it this way: "People may plan all kinds of things, but the LORD's will is going to be done." There is one important lesson on planning that we can glean from this verse: Unless our plans are part of God's eternal plan, they will not succeed.
Before I elaborate this point, let me first clarify that Proverbs 19:21 does not discourage or forbid us to make plans. In fact, elsewhere in the Bible God calls us to plan for our future, "The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance" (Prov. 21:5). Or another version translates this verse as follows, "Plan carefully and you will have plenty." According to this verse we are to plan carefully, and yet as we make plans, let us realize that our plans are subordinate to God's sovereign will. God's eternal plan is supreme over all our plans. Therefore, not all that we plan will come to pass.
Heart is regarded as the center of your life. Your plans are what occupy the center of your life. These are the things that you care about, or motivate you to live. For instance, in the Parable of the Rich Fool, a parable which illustrates the sin of covetousness, we see the rich fool making plans—plans that occupy his entire life: "And he [the rich fool] said, 'I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, 'Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry"' (Luke 12:18-19).
The rich fool made selfish and greedy plans. Oh, but listen to what God says in Proverbs 19:21, "Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the LORD that will stand." The word purpose here comes from the Hebrew verb that means to determine. Before the foundation of the world God has already determined that which must happen. We call it his eternal decree or counsel. Here's the analogy: before the creation of the universe, the three persons of the trinity met to have a council meeting, as it were. In that meeting they made a plan—a perfect plan that must take place. Therefore; and here's my point, unless our plans are part of God's eternal plan, they will not succeed.
Let me ask you again, "Do you have plans for this year—plans that occupy your mind and heart? What are they?" Well, remember this: Before you were even born, God had already made a plan for you and unless your plans are compatible with his eternal plan, your plans will not prosper.
Maybe you plan to get married this year, have children, graduate from high school and go to college, and work, and buy a house. But at the beginning of this year, God may say to you, "This night your soul is required of you." You might get sick and die before the year 2019 ends.
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If your lipstick ever gets mushy or breaks and you know it was one of your favorite , don't get sad all you need to do I is , get a browdryer or a lighter and heat up your lipstick a little bit , and them where it's mouldy and broken , smooch it back together , then roll you fingers around the part that you fixed , last step put in freezer with or without lid for few hours and it should be as good as new.
You always having a problem with your lipstick not lasting as long as you want all day long , no need to worry use this beauty hack and you will see what I'm talking about . Apply the lipstick that you going to wear for the day , now take a tissue paper and pull open into half , place the tissue paper over your lips and the. Taking a make up brush dust over some translucent powder over your tissue traissing the whole lip area , take off the tissue paper and you good for the rest of the day .
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I have this problem of buying mascara after mascara and I end up with whole lot of them , and most of them tend to dry out after some time , I feel so heartsore chucking them away , until I discovered thus hack , all you need to do is add 2 to 3 drops sayline drops , eye drops or even baby oil into the dried out mascara close it and mix it . Works all the time 🙂 .
Is false lashes way yo complicated for you to understand and is your regular mascara not living up to its expections , applying layers and layers of mascara will just make your lashes looking clumpy , so let me share with you my household ingredient to get super thick and volumized lashes , all you need is some baby powder and a ear bud , apply some baby powder on the a tip and then using the tip apply powder on eye lashes, now this will give the mascara something to cling on , apply the mascara their after , this works like a bomb .
It's not cool going through thousands of eyeliners , looking for the blackist black eyeliner . Try this take a lighter and any black eyeliner roll it up to sharpen it , now hold the lighter close to the tip of the eyeliner ,not too close you don't want to burn or set a fire . Ok now wait until the first layer burns out now the eyeliner will be creamy , leave to cool for few seconds and then apply . Will be sooooo creamy and black as hell .
As heat helps our hair to be styled , it will help with the eye lashes , warm the eye lash curler with the hair dryer , cool slightly and curl the lashes , will look perfect all day long . Perfect for days you don't wanna apply make-up .
If you have no make-up on and you feel your brows are going insane , and you not carrying your brow pencil or brow bar with you , take your lip balm and smooth them on your brows to tame them .
Applying bb cream on other parts of your body besides your face that needs coverage , so I'm not such a big fan applying bb cream on my face ,I just don't like the feel of it on my face , but the ones I actually purchased didn't go to waste . If you have scars , bruises or slight signs of cellulite , use the bb cream over those areas , because bb creams are moisturizing and has a hint of color , it will help hide the bruises , scars or any spots on your body .


Amnesty International Ireland is pleased that its judicial review action before the Irish High Court has been resolved on the basis that the Standards in Public Office Commission accepts that the process leading to the adoption of the decision it made in November 2017 was procedurally flawed. This decision has now been quashed.
Amnesty International Ireland has been vindicated in our decision to challenge the decision. The Commission has also confirmed that Amnesty has at all times cooperated in our responses to its inquiries into the OSF grant.
However, our primary concern has always been and remains with the law. The vague wording and overly broad application of the Electoral Act, which imposes restrictions and onerous reporting obligations on 'third parties' who accept donations over €100 for 'political purposes'. It imposes a blanket ban on overseas donations and very severe limits on domestic donations. The problem is that 'political purposes' is so broadly defined that it can include the general advocacy work of a wide range of human rights and other organisations. We believe this law contravenes Ireland's obligations under international human rights law, including the rights to freedom of association and expression. This is of course a matter for the Government and not the Commission. The Government must urgently act to amend this law to ensure it no longer obstructs the work of civil society groups, and violates civil society freedoms.
"Following careful consideration of the complaints made by your client, the Commission has concluded that the process leading to the adoption of the decision communicated in a letter of 17 November 2017 was procedurally flawed and considers it appropriate to consent to the relief sought at D.22 of the Statement of Grounds, namely an Order of certiorari quashing that decision on that basis.
The Commission also agrees to pay a contribution towards your client's costs of these proceedings to date.
We also refer to your client's concerns regarding the Commission Press Release dated 13 December 2017.
Arising from third party complaints, the Commission made inquiries with your client relating to the OSF grant. The Commission acknowledges that your client cooperated with the Commission and responded to these inquiries. The Commission confirms that at no point did the OSF advise the Commission that the donation was for political purposes within the meaning of the Electoral Act 1997.


Norman has never quite been understood by anyone. To most—including his parents and teenage sister—the boy is a peculiar outcast. However, Norman is different thanks to one special skill—he can communicate with the dead. Unfortunately his family and peers just think he's crazy.
Despite being made fun of, his skill comes in handy when a centuries-old witch's curse unleashes a group of undead creatures onto his small New England town. Although everyone made fun of him, it turns out Norman is the community's only hope for survival. Norman has to figure out where the curse came from and on top of it all, he's forced to battle ghosts, witches and zombies. To make matters worse, he also has to deal with the ignorant humans who don't understand why he's so special.


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James v. United States Department of Defense
United States District Court, D. Alaska
Dayle James, as the Personal Representative of the Estate of Charlie Thomas James, Jr., Plaintiff,
United States Department of Defense, and U.S. Army, Defendants.
ORDER FROM CHAMBERS [MOTIONS AT DOCKET 12 & 17]
JOHN W. SEDWICK SENIOR JUDGE.
I. MOTIONS PRESENTED
Plaintiff moved for summary judgment at docket 12. Defendants United States Department of Defense and the U.S. Army (jointly "Defendant") filed an opposition and cross motion for summary judgement at docket 16. Defendant filed the same opposition and cross motion for summary judgement again at docket 17. Plaintiff filed a combined opposition/reply at docket 20. Defendant filed a reply at docket 21. Oral argument was not requested and would not aid the court.
Charlie Thomas James, Jr. ("Charlie") was killed in an accident which happened on March 13, 2015, when an Army "Stryker" vehicle was being loaded onto a rail car and its brakes failed. Plaintiff brought this lawsuit seeking information pertinent to his wrongful death lawsuit, which is also pending in this court ("James Lawsuit").[1] Only one defendant remains in the James Lawsuit, General Dynamics Land Systems, Inc. ("General Dynamics"). Plaintiff's counsel has expressed his intent to join the United States as a defendant in the James Lawsuit, [2] but has not yet done so.
Plaintiff's counsel made a Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") request to Defendant on March 7, 2017, which set out five specific questions.[3] The Army responded with answers to the questions on April 6, 2017.[4] On May 23, 2017, Plaintiff's attorney made a second FOIA request in which he asked the Army to provide "copies of any Army reports, memoranda or similar documents reflecting the results of any investigation into [Charlie's death] including any inspection and testing of the brakes on the subject Stryker and any investigation into the cause of the brake failure, and any persons or entities that might be responsible for the brake failure."[5] The Army responded on June 14, 2018, stating that the investigation had been conducted by OSHA, referred Plaintiff's lawyer to that organization, and said that the referral to OSHA was its final response.[6]
Having seen discovery responses from General Dynamics in the James Lawsuit, indicating that the Army had been involved in investigating the accident, Plaintiff's lawyer renewed his FOIA request on July 25, 2018, asking for "all documents concerning the inspection of the Stryker involved in [Charlie's] death, including all memos, emails, reports and similar documents regarding any inspection of the accident vehicle both pre and post accident."[7] The initial response was a letter advising that the request was being referred to the U.S. Army Pacific Command-U.S.Army Alaska.[8]
Hearing nothing further, Plaintiff's lawyer made a follow-up inquiry on January 2, 2018.[9] Thereafter, on April 2, 2018, the Army responded by providing a redacted copy of its AR15-6 investigation report and redacted sworn statement from three soldiers. The response also advised that other documents were being withheld. The response advised that the redactions and withholding of documents were done pursuant to the FOIA privacy exemption, 5 U.S.C. § 552 (b)(6) and the FOIA deliberative process exemption, 5 U.S.C. § 552 (b)(5). Attached to the response was a log of withheld materials listing categories of materials withheld and references to the pertinent exemptions for each category.[10] Copies of the redacted sworn statements are at docket 12-9. A copy of the redacted AR15-6 report with attachments is found at docket12-10.
Plaintiff's attorney then asked for reconsideration of the decision to withhold information saying: "We need the names and last known addresses of the persons who gave statements and signed and created the documents. Unless the [James Lawsuit] is settled we will have to take depositions of those personnel and thus require their names and last known addresses."[11] With respect to the documents being withheld, Plaintiff's counsel asserted that to determine whether the invocation of the deliberative process exemption was appropriate, he needed more information. In particular, he asked for the type of document and its date, and as to documents which were communications, the "name, rank and title of the sender and recipient."[12] Plaintiff's lawyer also asked that if a privilege were claimed, that the specific privilege and specific facts supporting the privilege be disclosed.[13] The Army responded by denying the request for information identifying the various individuals pursuant to the privacy exemption and attaching another copy of the log of withheld materials.[14]
In connection with its response to Plaintiff's motion, Defendant indicated that it would produce portions of two email chains which were among the four documents originally withheld in their entirety. The first email chain "constituted communications between United States Army Alaska staff members concerning the Stryker vehicle and incident."[15] The redacted portions were "withheld because they contain personal recommendations of USARAK staff and are exempt under the provisions of FOIA."[16]
The second email chain consisted of communications between USARAK lawyers "concerning the Stryker vehicle, potential courses of action, and discussions in anticipation of litigation."[17] The redacted portions "are being withheld because they contain attorney-client communications and are exempt under the provisions of FOIA."[18]
Defendant maintains that the entirety of the other two documents must be withheld. One consists of communications between lawyers which "reflect answers and information in response to questions raised by attorneys regarding the Stryker vehicle."[19] The second being withheld in its entirety is a printout regarding information "requested 12 May 2015 by Chief, Legal Assistance Office to the ASARAK Attorney Adviser, and clearly marked 'For Official Use Only: Litigation/Attorney Work Product.' This record is a memorandum of the observations of the Attorney at the March 24, 2018 observation at the accident scene."[20] The reason given for withholding these two documents is that they qualify for protection as attorney-client communications and as part of "pre-decisional materials written as part of the decision making process of the agency Army."[21]
Defendant also prepared a "Vaughn index." The index appears in the record at docket 17-5.
III. STANDARD OF REVIEW
Summary judgment is appropriate where "there is no genuine dispute as to any material fact and the movant is entitled to judgment as a matter of law."[22] The materiality requirement ensures that "[o]nly disputes over facts that might affect the outcome of the suit under the governing law will properly preclude the entry of summary judgment."[23] Ultimately, "summary judgment will not lie if the . . . evidence is such that a reasonable jury could return a verdict for the nonmoving party."[24] However, summary judgment is mandated "against a party who fails to make a showing sufficient to establish the existence of an element essential to that party's case, and on which that party will bear the burden of proof at trial."[25] Because facts in FOIA cases are rarely in dispute, "[m]ost FOIA cases are resolved by the district court on summary judgment."[26]
IV. DISCUSSION
A. Principles of FOIA Case Law
FOIA requires public access to government information to further an open and well functioning democracy, especially where access might be "needed to check against corruption and to hold the governors accountable to the governed."[27] "The statute provides public access to official information 'shielded unnecessarily' from public view and establishes a 'judicially enforceable public right to secure such information from possibly unwilling official hands.'"[28] FOIA mandates full agency disclosure unless information is exempted under one of FOIA's nine statutory exemptions. Because FOIA's purpose is to encourage disclosure, its exemptions are narrowly construed.[29]
An agency bears the burden of justifying application of FOIA exemptions.[30]Reasonably detailed, non-conclusory affidavits meet this burden. Affidavits must include a 'Vaughn index' "identifying the documents withheld, the FOIA exemptions claimed, and a particularized explanation of why each document falls within the claimed exemption."[31] The particularized explanation should disclose "as much information as possible without thwarting the claimed exemption's purpose."[32] If there are particularized explanations, "substantial weight [should be given] to an agency's declarations regarding the application of a FOIA exemption."[33] "If, however, the court finds the affidavits or testimony submitted too generalized to establish eligibility for an exemption, it may, in its discretion, proceed to examine the disputed documents in camera for a first-hand determination of their exempt status."[34]
Defendant invoked 5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(6), the "personal privacy" exemption, to support redaction of the names and other personal identifying information of personnel who gave sworn statements or worked on investigative, maintenance, or inspection reports. Personal privacy is implicated if the request affects "the individual's control of information concerning his or her person, or constitutes a 'public intrusion' long deemed impermissible under the common law and in our cultural traditions. Disclosures that would subject individuals to possible embarrassment, harassment, or the risk of mistreatment constitute nontrivial intrusions into privacy."[35] The government carries the burden of proving a non-trivial privacy interest.
Defendant redacted or did not produce some documents relying on the "deliberative process" exemption found in 5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(5). The "deliberative process" exemption permits non-disclosure of "inter-agency or intra-agency memorandums or letters which would not be available by law to a party other than an agency in litigation with the agency."[36] This provision shields "those documents, and only those documents, normally privileged in the civil discovery context."[37] "A predecisional document is a part of the 'deliberative process', if the disclosure of the materials would expose an agency's decision making process in such a way as to discourage candid discussion within the agency and thereby undermine the agency's ability to perform its functions."[38] The government agency must segregate and disclose "any reasonably segregable portion of a record"[39] that is being withheld under a FOIA exemption.
Defendant asserts that Plaintiff's purpose in seeking disclosure is to obtain information relevant to the James Lawsuit and that such a purpose is not appropriate in a FOIA lawsuit. Two cases principally relied upon by Defendant are readily distinguishable from the situation before this court. As Plaintiff points out, those cases involved enforcement actions by a federal agency.[40] Another case relied upon by Defendant involved a FOIA request seeking information that would assist a defendant in a criminal prosecution. The appellate court wrote: "We hold that in criminal cases [FOIA] does not extend the scope of discovery permitted under Rule 16."[41] That case is easily distinguished from the case at bar. The other cases cited by Defendant are also distinguishable.
The real issue emanating from Plaintiff's purpose in seeking information that relates to the James Lawsuit is whether Plaintiff has provided an adequate basis for seeking the information relating to the actions of the Army personnel involved in the Stryker incident. The Ninth Circuit has explained:
When a FOIA requester alleges a public interest 'in showing that responsible officials acted negligently or otherwise improperly in the performance of their duties' Favish, 541 U.S. at 174, we are guided by the Supreme Court's decisions in Ray and Favish. In Ray, the FOIA requesters argued the identities of the Haitian returnees was necessary for 'ascertaining the veracity of the interview reports.' 502 U.S. at 179. The Court rejected this argument, holding that [w]e generally accord Government records and official conduct a presumption of legitimacy,' and that requesters had presented no evidence to overcome this presumption. Id. Ray expressly reserved the question of '[w]hat sort of official misconduct might be sufficient to identify a genuine public interest in the disclosure. The Court subsequently answered that question in Favish, holding that where 'the public interest being asserted is to show that responsible officials acted negligently or otherwise improperly in the performance of their duties' then 'the requester must establish more than a bare suspicion' in order to overcome the presumption of legitimacy accorded to official conduct.' 541 U.S. at 174. Rather, 'the requester must produce evidence that would warrant a belief by a reasonable person that the alleged Government impropriety might have occurred.' Id.[42]
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Blackline Safety Wins Two Accolades for Software Innovation
Blackline Safety October 11, 2022
SaaS platform recognized as integral part of successful business DNA
Calgary, Canada —Blackline Safety Corp. (TSX: BLN), a global leader in connected safety technology, today announced it has been recognized for its innovation in health and safety software from both the 2022 International SaaS Awards and Canadian Occupational Safety's 2022 5-Star OHS Awards.
The SaaS Awards, a New York-based program that evaluates software-as a-service companies worldwide, named Blackline Safety's G7 as Best SaaS Product for Health & Safety or Risk Management, following a review process by an international panel of judges.
Canadian Occupational Safety (COS), Canada's premier publication on occupational health and safety, named Blackline Safety a winner of its 5-Star OHS Software and Technology Providers Award. In selecting the winners, COS conducted thousands of one-on-one interviews and surveys with safety professionals to gain a keen understanding of what they think about current market offerings, and then asked them to vote on the technology.
"Over 1,000 companies in 70 countries rely on our software to power their data-driven safety program, protect their people and enhance operational performance," said Cody Slater, CEO and Chair, Blackline Safety. "To be recognized with these two awards is an immense honor, especially as it represents endorsement not only from software experts, but also the end users in the field—the thousands of customers we continue to serve globally."
Blackline Safety's SaaS-enabled, cloud-based wearables for personal and area gas monitoring put reliable data at managers' fingertips so they can gain a better understanding of safety situations facing employees in real-time. The technology features GPS-enabled safety sensors that leverage the Internet of Things (IoT), providing valuable data analytics and connecting workers to live 24-7 command centre monitoring.
Said James Williams, Head of Operations for the SaaS Awards: "SaaS technologies are now part of successful business DNA and continue to evolve. This year we've seen a raft of truly remarkable software solutions, the winning candidates announced however, have proven to be truly innovative thinkers in the SaaS industry, whether they're freshly-funded disruptors or established names."
About Blackline Safety
Blackline Safety is a technology leader driving innovation in the industrial workforce through IoT (Internet of Things). With connected safety devices and predictive analytics, Blackline Safety enables companies to drive towards zero safety incidents and improved operational performance. Blackline Safety provides wearable devices, personal and area gas monitoring, cloud-connected software and data analytics to meet demanding safety challenges and enhance overall productivity for organizations with coverage in more than 100 countries. Armed with cellular and satellite connectivity, Blackline Safety provides a lifeline to tens of thousands of people, having reported over 185 billion data-points and initiated over five million emergency alerts. For more information, visit BlacklineSafety.com and connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram.
Christine Gillies, CMO
cgillies@blacklinesafety.com


Question: How is it possible not to depart from an intention for a single moment and do everything for the sake of the Creator?
Answer: For this, you must be in full and absolute adherence with the friends so that, among you, the feeling called the Creator is revealed.
The Creator is your inner feeling, Bore (Bo Re), meaning come and see with your inner vision. Reach such a state, feel it, and remain within it. This is called adherence with the Creator.
However, this is attained only with a shared, collective Kli, in other words, in your right connection with the friends, with mutual wholeness, building a mosaic such that all of its borders merge into the creation of only a single desire.
This happens under the influence of the Light. From our side, only effort is required, half of the coin (the Shekel), and the second half, which is the realization of this effort, comes from Above.
Speaking about the Creator (about the love of friends) and being with the Creator (realizing the characteristic of bestowal and love) are two different things.
Question: In order to leave the ego, is it necessary to want this?
Answer: The person does not want to leave the ego! I can play all the time, deceiving myself that I want to leave the ego. But in fact, I don't want that, and every time in the next stage, this will become clearer and clearer, until the Upper Light will change me.
Question: Through involvement with integral education, we see how we advance and grow together with the external public, and here the sharpness of the goal, the intention, becomes blurred. It follows that we still are continuing to develop egoistically.
Answer: Every moment you must check yourself: "What is happening with me? What am I doing?" You need to watch all of your physical actions, every word!
This is constant internal work, "What motivates me? What for? What kind of conclusions must I draw from this? What kind of result will this bring me, spiritual or material?" In the end, it could be that we are slowing down our actions, but they will be more correct.
Question: What could the criteria for this truth be? Indeed, each one of us is found in his own truth, in scrutiny.
Answer: It is necessary to scrutinize the truth all the time. It is necessary to advance! In the end nothing just disappears, for all of the efforts will be gathered together.
So, it is not necessary to be clever. In other words, it is not necessary to draw conclusions on the basis of what you feel now, how you think. There could only be risk in this.
The main thing is to invest effort. If you cannot do this internally, then invest external effort. In the end, it will create a new level of consciousness.
Question: Baal HaSulam wrote in the newspaper The Nation about the threat of the Holocaust almost eighty years ago. Is our situation today better than it was then, or does it only seem that way to us since hatred and anti-Semitism have just kept going and growing everywhere?
Answer: The situation today is much worse than what it was before the Second World War. This is because the threatening situation that is being created today is everywhere and not just for one nation and some of its allies.
This was a small area in relation to the entire world, and the Jews could rely on the help of other people and nations. Today, there is nobody and nothing to rely upon. Even the United Nations, which is the representative of all the nations, is against Israel. So, we have nowhere to flee.
Besides this, the situation today is much worse than before because it was founded on and has grown on the basis of a general breakdown, the global crisis, in everything and in all aspects. Humanity is going to lose all rational direction and lose everything. When it finds itself in such a bad state, it will blame the Jews for all of its problems and failures. We hear about these accusations from everyone because the crisis is global.
This is such a terrible situation that in comparison Hitler will seem like a little child playing pranks in his backyard. The present Holocaust could spread around the entire globe.
Question: We see that many European nations who supported us before are now united with our enemies, and so we need to mobilize all of our forces, and it could be that we are doing this, but I don't see true understanding among the public. Everyone is more concerned about money and property, and doesn't want to hear us that much. How do we awaken people and explain that the situation today is similar to the situation that existed before the Holocaust?
Answer: Try to bring this to people. Baal HaSulam didn't succeed, but we must succeed in doing this. He did everything possible, and he published a newspaper when everyone was afraid of saying a word. The haters broke his windows with stones many times.
We are facing dissemination operations that are broad and powerful in scope, but we must prepare ourselves for them by searching and finding points of contact with people and influential points both in Israel and the entire world. We are succeeding every day in making our explanations more accessible. It might also be worthwhile for us to publish a newspaper and distribute it both on the street and on the Internet.
It is necessary to try to do everything possible. I am looking at the future optimistically. I see the great rate with which we now have begun dissemination. The main thing is not to reduce the rate or pressure and to organize workshops in circles and roundtables. Then we surely will succeed and can advance people towards the goal of creation more rapidly than the troubles that come at us and overtake us from behind.
If we advance even more rapidly, then these troubles will become helpful and will serve us as a support. In the beginning, we only run away from them, and after that, we completely turn them around. We yearn for a state of "bestowal for the sake of bestowal," and after that, a state of "reception for the sake of bestowal," and then we use the troubles and problems for our own good.
Baal HaSulam, The Nation: It is also clear that such an enormous effort, a solid and steel-hard unity is required, from all parts of the nation, without exception. If we do not come out with united ranks toward the mighty forces that are standing on our way to harm us, we will find that our hope is doomed in advance.
Baal HaSulam says that the Israeli nation must connect above all the differences. We were connected in the past and we must reach the same connection and unity now. By that, we overcome all the interferences and leap over everything, thus bringing ourselves and the entire world to the inevitable correction.
Question: The problem is that the nation doesn't have a real need for connection. People admit that we are approaching the public prematurely.
Answer: Does that mean that we must wait until the troubles and the afflictions increase? Will we be able to speak about unity only when things get worse?
But wise men can see what is being born in the world. We still can put on the right glasses, or bring our eyes to binoculars or even a telescope, or look through a microscope in order to identify lethal bacteria before they kill us.
This is what we do in science or in medicine. In every area, we try to identify the illness before it breaks out, and weed it out. This is what wise people do.
Why should we wait until people feel bad and look for changes? We must intensify our educational measures and dissemination actions now. When people feel so threatened by the buds of evil, they will feel compelled to connect. What we see as minor evil, they see as great evil and great troubles.
However, here too, we must be cautious. Scaring people isn't our way, although it is very efficient. Doctors usually use this method, as do green organizations that scare us by speaking about ecological disasters that are coming.
We must operate differently. We shouldn't use the method of scaring people but simply show them what they immediately gain when they connect.
Question: Why was the paper The Nation that Baal HaSulam published immediately shut down?
Of course, they don't like it when someone like us calls for the love of others and for the connection among the whole Israeli nation.
Their objection is clearly understood since when we call out for that it stands in their way of pulling people in their direction. Instead we guide people in a totally different direction, letting the whole nation know that the correction is in connection and unity, as the Torah requires.
It turns out that our Torah, our teaching, is opposite from their study. It says: "the opinion of the Torah is opposite from the opinion of the landlords." A landlord is someone who thinks that he is his own boss, while we think that it is the Creator who has to correct us, that this is what we should pray for, and that our correction actually depends on the connection among us, when we become as one man in one heart.
They, on the other hand, want to separate everyone and to pull them apart from one another, since that way it is easier to control people. This is the style of the mixed multitude.
They are called the great affliction that accompanied our exodus from Egypt until this very day. They are the ones who bring about all the dangers and the problems of the Israeli nation, including the destruction of the first and second Temples, the exile, and today's interferences. It is all their doing.
Their role will be revealed, but one way or the other, we have to do our job.
Baal HaSulam, "The Nation": Hence, we have taken upon ourselves the publication of this paper, to stand guard and warn of the trouble, and explain it to the public until all the segregating elements will be silenced.
Question: It is no secret that in our day publications are undergoing a crisis. Will newspapers survive in the future?
Answer: It is difficult to say how much longer they will last considering the strength of electronic formats. Today a person essentially doesn't need a newspaper or a book, he sees everything on a computer screen conveniently and comfortably where one can adjust the font and style of the text.
Today it is possible to take electronic devices everywhere, like a newspaper. And tomorrow we will really be able to open an article and keyboard in the air in front of us, in the form of a hologram generated from some small device the size of a wristwatch.
So I don't see a future for the printed materials, not for a newspapers or books, besides our books, even though most of them will be transferred to a screen format.
Humanity is creating electronic instruments according to its desire, and this is becoming more sophisticated all the time. So I suppose that there won't be a return to the era of print.
Our way is reflected in the reaction of the other nations to the people of Israel. When we see that our enemies and haters are strengthened in the surrounding nations and organizations, according to this we can identify the rate of our advancement. And we must understand that serious and strong work is required of us.
Against every new external wave we must strengthen the unity of the Jewish people. For the power that makes it possible to neutralize the external evil is found only in our connection here. And this is specifically what will bring the world to correction.
And as much as the nations want to "catch" us more and more, so our unity must be stronger. Then we can influence them and change them. This is exactly what our war is.
Question: How do you attain simple faith?
Answer: Simple faith is absolute bestowal, Hafetz Hesed, when I try to be free of all my pragmatic thoughts, when I think about the friends and about the group and try to exist only in order to fulfill our connection.
The first phase is the minimal attainment of the level of mutual guarantee in the group. We begin to understand that different forces constantly are operating on us. Of course, they all come directly from the Creator's trying to separate us and disrupt our connection, to divert our attention from thinking about the upper force, about connection, about unity, about the goal of creation, and about our obligations.
These forces arrive continuously in different forms, in different directions, confusing us, and dulling our senses. It isn't in our power to resist them if there isn't the right spirit in the group that can help us survive. Therefore, as it is written, "They helped every one his friend." This is our obligation.
Otherwise, the days will go by, and everything will change, but a person will remain the same. So, each one must support the others and worry about them so that they will worry about him. A person cannot worry about himself since these forces operate on each one, pressuring him on all sides, trying to tear him from the others by forcing him to worry about himself.
The moment he focuses on himself, it is very easy to detach him from the goal of creation. It is because the real goal of creation is in the connection among everyone. Therefore the impure intentions are the Klipot; it is not thoughts that separate a person from the Creator. The entire world is ready to think about the Creator, to cry out to Him, to go and pray in different holy places. A person has no problem doing that.
Everything else doesn't disturb them. On the contrary, if he has no intention to advance toward the love of others, all the other actions pull him in the opposite direction.
So, when the point in the heart awakens in a person, it is important to know how to fulfill one's freewill. The Creator brings a person to the good fate and tells him: "Choose!" And this is what a person must do, that is, understand that fulfilling the Reshimo (reminiscences) is only through connection.