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Coach of French Ligue 1 side Nantes has backed Chidozie Awaziem to bounce back from the red card he received yesterday in their 1-0 win away to Troyes.
Awaziem was sent off in the 37th minutes for a rash tackle, but his absence wasn't felt that much by Nantes as they scored late on to claim their first win of the three games old Ligue 1.
Ranieri refused to criticise the referee as well even the though the sending off looked a bit harsh, rather he backed the 20 year old to bounce back from the setback in a big way.
" Awaziem has big talent but he is only 20 hence can make mistakes, and the red card is one of the setback he will encounter on his way to fulfilling his potential", the coach said.
" I don't complain about referees, because it is the hardest job in football. The win is good for our confidence ahead of our subsequent games".
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I'm thankful to welcome my friend, April Emery, to my little space today. I met April through my brother as we had many similar interests. April blogs at aprilemery.com so be sure to check out her space too. Thanks for sharing here, friend!
Regardless of the morning, week, or even year you may have had … regardless of what you may think or feel right now, your children are a blessing from God.
• Psalm 127:3 — Behold, children are a gift from the LORD
• James 1:17 — Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above
As a mother of young children, it's easy for me to forget that truth in the midst of the daily grind. It's easy to believe this when my children are respectful and kind to one another or are sleeping.
But my children are also gifts …
• when my youngest bites, pinches, or hits his sisters
• when my child wakes up in the middle of the night sick and can't fall back asleep
• when my baby insists on rolling over in the middle of a diaper change
• when my child just won't "get" potty training
• when my daughter slips and falls in a pile of dog vomit at Petsmart because she was not listening when I said, "there's doggie throw-up right here. Watch out and don't step in it." (#truestory)
• when both of my girls decide they want to have a party as soon as it is "lights out" at night
• when I have to pack up and leave the store in the middle of a much-needed grocery run because of disrespect and disobedience.
Even in the midst of these times my children are a gift.
And yours are, too.
Parenting is the hardest, most demanding job in the world, but it is also the most important job in the world. It is easy to get lost in the day-to-day and forget the importance of your job as mom or dad. It's equally easy to forget about how those little people in your house are walking gifts from God.
Mary, the mother of Jesus, is described on more than one occasion as "pondering and treasuring" things/moments in her heart in regards to her son Jesus. We should follow her example.
So how do we treasure these gifts?
Slow down. You can't appreciate something you don't take the time to observe. And doing this forces us to step outside of task mode for a while and appreciate the uniqueness of this stage of parenting.
I have a running "quote book" of all the funny things my kids say/do. I write the date, who I am quoting, and the quote/action in a journal. On a long, hard day (and perhaps one day when they are grown) I can flip through it and cherish those precious moments.
Parenthood is not just about the destination, but the journey. You can't plan a vacation to the Grand Canyon and then expect to magically appear there once your bags are packed. You must travel over hours (or even days) to get there. You get to your destination point by going through the process of traveling.
Likewise with parenting.
Parenting is not just about raising kids to leave the nest, but enjoying the journey of getting there. Don't wish their childhood away. Enjoy each stage for what it is. The next stage will come. If you are constantly hoping for the next thing to happen you will look back on the time you had to raise your children with an immense amount of regret and an ache in your heart. If most of us are honest with ourselves, we probably already have some regret.
If you are like me, you probably are thinking of all the ways you have failed to recognize your children as gifts … or how you have failed to treasure them where they are in life right now. If you are in this place let me encourage you with this verse from Lamentations 3:22-23:
The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; His mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness.
Let's extend this mercy to ourselves. Don't let your past mistakes define you. They are only part of our journey. Learn from them and move on. Life is not about just the mom or dad you were today, but the one you are fighting to be. We can learn from our bad days, but then we must let them go and move on.
We can extend this kind of grace to our children, too. Like us, they are human and will fail us… just like we fail God. But we can't let their mistakes define who we think they are. Just as the Lord gives us new mercies each day we can extend those same mercies to our children.
God made no mistakes in giving you the children you have to parent. He's using every ounce of joy and heartache from your journey. If God wanted someone else to be the parent of your child He would have done that. You are not the perfect parent, but you are the best parent for your children. You have things to offer your child that no one else in this world can. He will use you in your child's life, but He is also using your children to make you more like Him in the process.
Mama-hood is sure a hard task, but it's so rewarding. Let's grab on to the Hope we have and parent with presence and grace. You are a much better mama than you give yourself credit for.
April Emery is a campus minister's wife and homeschooling mama to 3 children. When she's not busy with school lessons and field trips April loves to sharpen her photography skills, be outdoors, or go on a road trip. She is a Compassionate Entrepreneur with Trades of Hope and blogger over at AprilEmery.com. You can also find her on Facebook and Instagram.


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It's so cool that Japanese Macques want to have snowball fights! This totally awesome photo was taken in Japan by Masashi Mochida.
I must try this on the weekend~ nothing sounds better right now than some belly warming stewed apples.
Alisa Burke answered a whole load of reader questions about her sketchbook techniques and practices. I love getting an inside look at different ways artists use sketchbooks. And I have to say that it's really refreshing to see someone say "I am not too concerned about the latest and greatest tool or supply"
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"For a field largely reliant on the active participation of the individual users responsible for creating, using and managing records to achieve its aims, much of records management appears sorely lacking in the depth and sophistication of its knowledge about those same user s, their needs and objectives".
So begins the conclusion of the paper written by myself and Jay Vidyarthi and published in the latest volume of the Records Management Journal. (Vol 20, No 3)
The paper discusses the way in which records management has focused almost exclusively and to the exclusion of virtually all other considerations on the needs of 'the organisation' often to the detriment of the users we are so reliant upon. Records management is a discipline which strives for standardisation, consistency and uniformity; for example in the form of functional classification schemes attempting to map activities across the entire organisation with a view to constructing a 'corporate file plan' or shared metadata schemas. This drive to standardisation isn't just evident within organisations, but across them – be it in the guise of ISO 15489 or any of the specification standards for an EDRMS – all of which have at their heart the desired goal of uniformity of approach.
Read any section of 15489 and it's abundantly clear who the main beneficiary of records management is intended to be – and its not the user. Virtually every section defines its objectives in terms of the benefits it will provide to 'the organization' with the user(s) getting barely a mention. Now none of this may strike the user as particularly surprising, nor in any way negative. After all, records management has long strived to be acknowledged as a 'corporate function' alongside HR, finance etc and clearly many of the drivers for it (accountability, governance, regulation etc) tend to apply at the organisational, rather than the individual level.
None of this is intended to criticise, but to shed some light on why it is that records management often struggles to satisfy the requirements of the individual users it relies on for success and why it could be argued that it has given up even trying. At its most extreme this disparity between the design of many records management systems and the needs of the individual user is most succinctly summed up in a quote made by one EDRMS user to me once that 'making me use an EDRMS is like asking a plasterer to use a hammer'!
This clearly puts records management and the technology we rely on to implement it (whatever that technology may be) in something of a quandary. Is it really possible for it to successfully serve two equally demanding masters? Can we really hope to find ways of meeting the myriad, highly specific, highly personal demands of our user community in a way which not only pleases each individual user but also in a way which continues to meet the obligations and interests of the organisation as a whole?
Carry on as we are and I fear the answer will continue to be 'no'; but open our eyes and ears to some radical new perspectives and it could yet be a 'yes'. Human-Computer Interaction, or HCI is a combination of computer science, cognitive psychology, sociology, information science and design which might just represent the 'missing piece of the puzzle'. A blog post doesn't provide the space to explore the detail – that' what Jay and I start to do in the RMJ paper. Here it suffices to describe it as a structured approach which puts the users first to ensure that they can interact with the system in ways which meet their needs whilst also continuing to meet the needs of the organisation. By shining a light on the behaviour, needs, opinions, tendencies and motivations of end-users it's the first step towards achieving truly effective records management systems. After all, give somebody a tool that patently saves them time, energy and frustration and they would be foolish not to embrace it; but so too we must acknowledge that the reverse is true and that to try to make somebody use a tool that promises to only help someone (or something) else but at their own personal expense and surely we must concede that they would be a fool to use it.
The implications of such a shift in emphasis are profound, for records management as traditionally conceived is a house built from the top down determined by the needs of the organisation, and not one built from the bottom up based on the needs of its users. But it also offers some tantalising prospects: not just RM systems that users actively want to engage with, but also the possibility that we could start to use this new found knowledge of user behaviour to design and create records management systems that can actually manage records 'automatically' (at least in part) based on this behaviour – in a way similar to that used by Amazon et al to organise their content to aid the user experience. Desirable? Definitely. Possible? Who knows, but what this space…


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By Cmdr. Mark S. Riddle. Continuing Promise is an annual humanitarian civic affairs deployment to the U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) area of responsibility providing medical, dental, veterinary, engineering and subject matter expert exchanges (SMEEs) with the goal of demonstrating dedication and commitment to our friends in the Caribbean, Central and South America. The Continuing Promise mission provides …Read More »
Bethesda Holds 'Day in the Life' to Ensure Smooth Transition, Seamless Patient Care
By Capt. David Bitonti, Chief of Staff for Integration and Transition at NNMC, Bethesda Md. Last week, our staff held a "Day in the Life" (DIL) exercise here at the National Naval Medical Center (NNMC) to ensure a smooth transition and seamless patient care as the hospital embarks on a historical merger with Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC). …Read More »
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By Dr. Nancy F. Crum-Cianflone, M.D., Department Head, Deployment Health Research Department, Naval Health Research Center As a former military officer, I personally value the importance of discovering new information that will help those who serve in our military. My job at the Naval Health Research Center (NHRC) in San Diego, Calif., allows me to be on …Read More »
Recognizing the Contributions of Navy Medical Research Efforts
By Cmdr. Rita Simmons, Executive Officer, Navy Medical Research Unit-Dayton As the Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory (NAMRL) closes the book on its 70-plus year history in Pensacola, the laboratory's scientific resurgence and push to maintain mission execution during a tumultuous period of reorganization and relocation to Ohio to become part of Navy Medical Research Unit-Dayton continues …Read More »
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Legendary designer and DJ Takuya Angel will hold a concert, a fashion show and a rave at Nekocon 14, Virginia's longest running anime convention, on November 4th.
Following his concert, Takuya will display his unique designs in his first ever east coast fashion show, which will then transform into a rave with Takuya himself in the role of DJ. In addition to this, he will have a small booth at Nekocon's dealer room, where he will invite customers to try on and buy his unique brand of clothing, as well as selling and autographing his album Ima-Wa-Mukashi. Takuya will also participate in a fan Q&A Panel, as well as a panel about how to make it as a Harajuku model.
Nekocon 14 will be held at the Hampton Roads Convention Center in Hampton, VA, from November 4th-6th. More information about the convention can be found here. Takuya Angel is being presented by Tainted Reality. More information will also be available on their website.
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Ferrari CEO Sergio Marchionne said that all the carmaker's new sports cars sold from 2019 will have some hybrid elements.
Hybrid technology could be the bridge to carry the Italian carmaker over the 10,000 vehicles a year hurdle. The company has committed to ship about 8,000 cars this year and gradually raise that to 9,000 by 2019. Passing the 10,000 vehicles manufactured per year mark will subject the automaker to fuel economy and emissions requirement regulations that hybrid sports cars could solve.
The company hasn't committed to increasing its production volume, but has acknowledged it's an option that may be tapped into. Marchionne said Ferrari could sell more than 10,000 cars a year by 2025 during a presentation Monday on better-than-expected quarterly earnings and upgraded full-year guidance.
Marchionne added chief executive of Ferrari to his title at the start of the year, along with continuing as CEO of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. Ferrari was spun off from FCA as its own company. The sports carmaker has been under pressure to show it can increase profits on its own.
Marchionne had promised to position Ferrari as a luxury goods business by expanding the brand beyond cars, but on Monday he said the focus would be on vehicles first. There will be a "fundamental shift" in the way Ferrari manufactures its cars, he said. That would be a driver to growing the company and manufacturing well over 10,000 new vehicles each year.
Beyond hybrids, that fundamental shift will include a combination of combustion and electrification that will "even yield additional performance," he said.
"Although I neither commit to this nor do I give any sort of certification of it being our objective, it is possible that the [annual sales] number could be well in excess of 10,000 cars in 2025," Marchionne said to analysts.
Marchionne also said the carmaker would expand the range to vehicles that appeal to a larger demographic by focusing on characteristics other than the technological prowess and horsepower seen in its recent V8 and V12 models.
The unveiling of the GTC4Lusso T in September points in this direction; the four-seater will have a smaller V8 turbo engine, "designed to be driven every day," the company said.
SEE ALSO: More Ferrari Hybrids Are On the Way
Another car unveiled at Paris Motor Show in September was a convertible version of the LeFerrari, launched to celebrate the brand's 70th birthday. The LaFerrari Aperta has a hybrid powertrain coupled with a 6.3-liter V12 engine that delivers 789 horsepower.
In February, Autocar reported that Ferrari is working on a plug-in hybrid that will be front-engined and offer a 30-mile electric-only driving range. That news came from finding a patent filed by Ferrari in June 2015. The patent didn't make it clear what the hybrid model might be called or what it might replace in the lineup, if anything.


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San health professionals present at the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Congress
Adventist HealthCare was represented at the prestigious Annual Scientific Congress of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, held in partnership with the American College of Surgeons and in conjunction with the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists, from May 7 to 11.
San Ear Nose and Throat Surgeon, Associate Professor Payal Mukherjee, chaired an important discussion about Domestic Violence. As Deputy Chair elect of the RACS NSW State Committee Professor Mukherjee has been a strong voice looking at policy and practices to help health care professionals who are subject to domestic violence.
At the same Congress, San Orthopaedic Surgeon Dr Mich Atkinson, Vascular Surgeon Dr Pecky De Silva, and final year medical student Sarah McLain addressed the conference regarding gender imbalance in the medical profession.
Other SAH representatives and presenters at the event included Professor Arthur Richardson, Professor Greg Falk, Dr Christos Apostolou and Dr Greg Bennett.
In addition, San Nursing Unit Manager Dr Linda Thomson Mangnall presented on her PhD on 'Longer term outcomes after valve surgery for Rheumatic Heart Disease in the Kingdom of Tonga, 1985-2018', based on her long-term volunteering with Open Heart International.
Click here to read more information from the Royal Australian College of Surgeons regarding the "Domestic Violence: Exploring support for the health industry" and "Reducing the Gender Gap" presentations.


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When I Feel Fulfilled
by Breshvic Penicillin
Future Video Engineer
Hello. My name is Breshvic Penicillin and I am a Video Engineer to be. And while many of my extensively enthusiastic and thoroughly trained colleagues are excited and better-suited to this career track, people that eat, shit, and breathe audio, I have some doubts. Granted, Seeing the new Mackie D8B, and going further to read up on its successor, the DXB, grants me with such an erection I need an excuse to sit at the console for a while thinking of baseball or perhaps Brazilian soccer until it subsides. And true, I wept with joy at the new audio Iso booth B setup, which actually makes sense for once. I die a little inside when I hear that a fellow student has gotten fake blood all over the $24,000 24p cameras, or buried them in mud unprotected for a singular "artistic" shot, (metaphorically representing the inner struggle of us all to unwield ourselves from the worldly strain of CAMERAS BEING BROKEN!) How do you break a tripod mount screw? How does the inner lens get chipped? Why would you ever hang out of a moving car window climbing onto the roof on the highway with equipment of this kind??
But I digress.
I go to a trade school that touts itself as an Art school, luring would-be Digital Compositors with the promises of animation, would-be Graphic Designers with the promises of painting classes (of which none that I can recognize exist), and would-be Video Engineers with the promises of film. Granted, I did get to work with film. As an tertiary expendable class not necessary and in fact quite obstructive to my core classes in Nonlinear Editing on Avid and Business of Production. I take general elective classes that I do not generally elect to take, but are required by law for state accreditation, such as History of Art in Early Civilization or Professional Development or Ethics, in which I received twenty dollars to write somebody else's final term paper, entitled "an Attack on Civil Liberties."
My father was a stoner beatnik hippie, or at the very least, a wannabe, for though he denies it, his record collection consisting of Steppenwolfe and the Grass Roots speaks for itself, and the final condemnation coming from his liberal arts degrees at the University of Fawcett City in the height of the seventies where he dreamed of becoming a Painter, a conceptual architect, a substitute art teacher, and a science fiction writer. He certainly did NOT dream of becoming a Loan Officer for a major banking clan, a title that, as a child, I assumed carried some intrigue of Starsky and Hutch-like car chases and shootouts. He works in a bank. He has a degree on the wall with little to no relevance, alongside a fairly decent painting of a waterfall that he painted for my mother and hanged dormant there ever since.
My mother, though she denies it, was an artist as well, though in a much more benign sense of the word, stitching, painting, writing, dreaming, and in high school cut gym class to be on the debate team, and mock trial and urged me to do the same which I casually did but never recognized myself as a full member of either club. She wanted to be a lawyer, but with an old-fashioned father who didn't want to send his daughter to college since his son didn't want to go and it wouldn't be fair to send one and not the other, she would have had to pay for school herself, something she could readily do, working hard hours at the Waffle House, that is, if she weren't already paying for my father's now-defunct degree.
I sadly, I believe, offended my parents with these revelations when visiting them some months ago, cold and rainy and depressed and the loving both of them trying to cheer me up hopelessly with Orange Sherbet ice cream (my favorite) at a United Dairy Union somewhere around Mt. Scott. Who am I? Who am I to think that I'll be doing what I want in ten years when my parents didn't achieve that end, and they actually KNEW what the wanted, something that can't, truth be told, be said about me.
I agonize. I'm confident, sure, but I agonize. Beginning each quarter of school it's 'nose to the grindstone' and 'eye on the prize.' But with one foot on the ground and half my head in the clouds it seems to me a tall order to fulfill.
Once again, I do not feel fulfilled.
Would I work in video? In television? In Hollywood running for coffees for people arrogant enough to manifest their own? Perhaps. After all, any dignity I had was buried some miles below towards Queensland back in middle school. This makes life all the more convenient for me, you see, when I ask girls out on dates, or go for a job interview, or simply meet new people. A lack of fealty to dignity but with the remnants of proper humility is very useful, you know. It's like losing all your inhibitions while drunk, but while retaining all motor control and most of your sense of decency.
"Do I contradict myself? Very well. I contradict myself. I am large and contain multitudes." -Walt Whitman
Video doesn't fulfill me because it doesn't leave anything for my children, which I assure everyone, I will have. The sad realization hit me, quite young in fact, as the biological alarm went a ringin', that my sole purpose in life is to have children, which is also convenient to know because it means that, once I have my purpose, I can go on enjoying life on my own terms until the time comes to fulfill it. I can date and sleep around, because I know that one day, perhaps by fate, I will meet that ONE girl that deigns me appropriate father material. However, I must strive to attain more, to raise children *responsibly*, and to assure that THEY get what THEY want from life, and I'm not just talking about funding. If it were only so, then the whole argument would be moot, because Video Engineers make more than enough money to send their children to ivy league schools, should they happen to have the foresight to save up for them, which clearly I would. My point is that the children, and not just my children, but children of the world, should have something to build upon, as we have. Each time I am introduced to a new author or artistic influence or see some epic construct of film-making genius, I think of Hegel's pyramid, that the truth of the universe reveals itself to us through history. That each generation, building upon the philosophical successes of their predecessors, comes that much closer to the great answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything. Call it God. That would be a different essay.
Making sure that the graphics package is done for the six-o-clock news on time hardly fulfills this function, nor me. Neither does tape rewinds, slo-mo replays, or coffee retrieval.
What fulfills me, dear friends, is sitting in a lounge listening to a progressive band that I have never heard before and discussing the possibilities of time travel with others. What fulfills me is a decent debate, nay, argument, with differing political or religious ideologues over fried food. What fulfills me is a discussion on the nature of nature or perhaps evolution while partaking in some finely ground herb by a waterfall in the middle of the woods after half of your trek, or Volk's March, with nothing but your bowl, a notepad, a good friend to share it with. What fulfills me is silence, while sitting on a fishing boat with two good friends and plenty of free time. What fulfills me is a good book, and the discussion that will inevitably follow as you share it with a friend, a significant other, or a lover. What fulfills me is to lay down, stoned, on the hood of a friend's car and imagine yourself slowly drifting directly straight into space as you would into madness, face a mask of horror as each loss of gravitational pull, each darkening moment leads you closer to the cold grip of that aether, and a loss of each precious breath. What fulfills me is the smile of the girl you love, a girl that can never know that you love her, and a love that fulfills itself nonetheless. What fulfills me is to reconcile two mutual friends who've been fighting for reasons either substantial or petty, and for the three of you to hang out again. What fulfills me is the altruistic pursuit of helping another, even for a moment, even in the smallest of ways, and touching that person's life for the rest of their realized memory, and receiving nothing asked in return. And finally, what fulfills me the most is the ability to laugh, hand-in-hand with the ability to weep, but more-so, to laugh at our failings, at our enemies, at our friends, at nothing particular at all.
A spiritual revolution may be coming to a town near you. I don't know what it is or will be, I don't even know if it will even be in my lifetime, but I would like to expedite the process. If I only knew how, then I may fulfill that little something greater.


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A lot of people that I've met throughout my life don't know that I have a deep fasination
with space. From when I was a kid; I would check out books from my elementary school
library. Books that told me about the different planets and the possibility of there being
more solar systems out there. This interest wasn't some attempt at trying to find evidence
that there is life on other planets. Of course there is. We aren't that special. It was
more like an interest in finding out what goes on outside of the world that I was a part
of. Or had the closest contact with. I would spill out facts to anyone that I could to inform them about anything that I had read involving space. It's almost insane to think about things like that. That our world is just this small.. very very small part of a bigger picture. A picture that we may not ever find out about. I'll probably be long gone before the next big space breakthrough. But you realize that our conflicts and challanges on an invidual level seem so minut in comparison. With that way of thinking you realize that a lot of things that you let weigh you down that you can't change. Really don't matter.
A lot of people that I've met throughout my life don't know that I have a deep fasination


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Has the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in Murphy v. NCAA, 584 U.S. ___ (May 14, 2018), prohibiting Congress from forcing states to outlaw sports gambling, actually changed anything regarding legalization of marijuana in the States? No, not really, and here's why.
The decision in Murphy does not change anything since Gonzales v. Raich, 545 U.S. 1 (2015), was decided. States are, and always have been, free to prohibit, or not to prohibit, activity that the federal government does not allow.
But, we are still left with one fundamental question. Does state law specifically authorizing activity the federal government does not allow prohibit the federal government from enforcing federal law against an individual in full compliance with the state law? To be fair, it does matter how the laws (both state and federal) are written (context matters), but let's proceed to a legal analysis.
Starting with the recent decision in Murphy:
Justice O'Connor's opinion for the Court traced this rule to the basic structure of government established under the Constitution. The Constitution, she noted, "confers upon Congress the power to regulate individuals, not States." 505 U.S., at 166. In this respect, the Constitution represented a sharp break from the Articles of Confederation. "Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress lacked the authority in most respects to govern the people directly." 505 U.S., at 163. Instead, Congress was limited to acting "'only upon the States.'" 505 U.S., at 162 (quoting Lane County v. Oregon, 7 Wall. 71, 76 (1869)). Alexander Hamilton, among others, saw this as "'[t]he great and radical vice in . . . the existing Confederation.'" 505 U. S., at 163 (quoting The Federalist No. 15, at 108). The Constitutional Convention considered plans that would have preserved this basic structure, but it rejected them in favor of a plan under which "Congress would exercise its legislative authority directly over individuals rather than over States." 505 U.S., at 165.
Murphy, slip opinion at page 15-16, citing New York v. United States, 505 U.S. 144 (1992).
In Gonzales v. Raich, Raich claimed that federal prohibition of her personal use of marijuana for medical use authorized by California state law violated "the Commerce Clause, the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment, and the Ninth and Tenth Amendments of the Constitution, and the doctrine of medical necessity." 545 U.S., at 8.
Here, respondents ask us to excise individual applications of a concededly valid statutory scheme. In contrast, in both United States v. Lopez, 514 U.S. 549 (1995), and United States v. Morrison, 529 U.S. 598 (2000), the parties asserted that a particular statute or provision fell outside Congress' commerce power in its entirety. This distinction is pivotal for we have often reiterated that "[w]here the class of activities is regulated and that class is within the reach of federal power, the courts have no power 'to excise, as trivial, individual instances' of the class." Perez, 402 U. S., at 154 (emphasis deleted) (quoting Wirtz, 392 U. S., at 193); see also Hodel, 452 U. S., at 308.
545 U.S., at 23.
The question that was not reached in these two decisions, Murphy and Raich, is a distinction the U.S. Supreme Court mentioned in a footnote in Raich. After reviewing and upholding the statutory scheme, the court noted that marijuana must be correctly classified to pass constitutional muster, citing, "the accuracy of the findings that require marijuana to be listed in Schedule 1." 545 U.S., at 28 n. 37. The court further noted, "[t]he possibility that the drug may be reclassified in the future has no relevance to the question whether Congress now has the power to regulate its production and distribution." 545 U.S., at 28 n. 37.
And, this is precisely the analysis legal experts have overlooked. Legal experts, without exception, consistently overlook the "accuracy of the findings that require marijuana to be listed in Schedule 1."
I've written on this topic extensively, but it's worth repeating again. Marijuana cannot be in Schedule 1 if it has "accepted medical use in treatment in the United States." 21 U.S.C. § 812(b)(1)(B) (2018).
The requirements for Schedule 1 are listed in 21 U.S.C. § 812(b)(1):
(A) The drug or other substance has a high potential for abuse.
(B) The drug or other substance has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States.
(C) There is a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug or other substance under medical supervision.
Legal experts will tell you that the required findings are listed in 21 U.S.C. § 811(c):
In making any finding under subsection (a) of this section or under subsection (b) of section 812 of this title, the Attorney General shall consider the following factors with respect to each drug or other substance proposed to be controlled or removed from the schedules:
(1) Its actual or relative potential for abuse.
(2) Scientific evidence of its pharmacological effect, if known.
(3) The state of current scientific knowledge regarding the drug or other substance.
(4) Its history and current pattern of abuse.
(5) The scope, duration, and significance of abuse.
(6) What, if any, risk there is to the public health.
(7) Its psychic or physiological dependence liability.
(8) Whether the substance is an immediate precursor of a substance already controlled under this subchapter.
But, the statute clearly says, "consider." Nowhere does the statute say any or all of these factors are determinative. Nowhere does the statute say other factors, such as state laws, have no relevance. State law is not explicitly included in the list of findings, but one has to wonder what impact 46 state medical marijuana laws enacted since 1996 might have on a statute that was written in 1970. How could a federal administrative agency make a finding that a state has not accepted the medical use of a controlled substance? Are these state laws just totally irrelevant?
There actually are some federal court decisions that address this question, showing that state law is actually determinative.
First, in 1987, The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit held that solely intrastate medical use of a controlled substance is accepted medical use of a controlled substance in the United States. Grinspoon v. DEA, 881 F.2d 877 (1987):
Congress did not intend "accepted medical use in treatment in the United States" to require a finding of recognized medical use in every state or, as the Administrator contends, approval for interstate marketing of the substance.
Grinspoon, at 886. And, as recognized by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, "neither the statute nor its legislative history precisely defines the term 'currently accepted medical use'." Alliance for Cannabis Therapeutics v. DEA, 930 F.2d 936, 939 (D.C. Cir. 1991).
The authority of the DEA is not unlimited. As the U.S. Supreme Court held in 2006:
The Attorney General has rulemaking power to fulfill his duties under the CSA. The specific respects in which he is authorized to make rules, however, instruct us that he is not authorized to make a rule declaring illegitimate a medical standard for care and treatment of patients that is specifically authorized under state law.
Gonzales v. Oregon, 546 U.S. 243, 258 (2006).
Legal experts are applying federal pre-emption to state laws, when they should be applying state pre-emption to the invalid federal administrative classification of marijuana as a substance without medical use in the States.
To prove the point, the Federal Aviation Administration interpretation of state and federal drug law clearly shows state medical marijuana laws exempt individuals from the enforcement of federal administrative regulations:
Title 14: Aeronautics and Space
Subpart A—General
§91.19 Carriage of narcotic drugs, marihuana, and depressant or stimulant drugs or substances.
(a) Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this section, no person may operate a civil aircraft within the United States with knowledge that narcotic drugs, marihuana, and depressant or stimulant drugs or substances as defined in Federal or State statutes are carried in the aircraft.
(b) Paragraph (a) of this section does not apply to any carriage of narcotic drugs, marihuana, and depressant or stimulant drugs or substances authorized by or under any Federal or State statute or by any Federal or State agency.


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Celebrating the life of Leslie Gayle McGuire
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Leslie Gayle McGuire, age 75, of Varney, Kentucky passed away at 10:18 P.M. Friday August 3, 2018. He was born at Varney, Kentucky the son of the late Forest and Effie Williamson McGuire.Leslie had worked as a shuttle car operator in the coal mines, and was a member of the Pilgrim Home Old Regular Baptist Church, at Varney, Kentucky for over 38 years where he served as deacon for 36 years.
Along with his parents, he was preceded in death by, one granddaughter, Jackelyn Rae Nichols, two brothers, Leon and Charles McGuire, three sisters, Magdeline McGuire, Dolly Mae Robinson, and Elkie Catherine Robinette, and one special sister-in-law, Ella McGuire.
Leslie is survived by his loving wife, Gloretta Faye Bevins McGuire, one daughter, Penny Sue (and her husband Dudley) Nichols, two sons, David Leslie McGuire, and Christopher Gayle McGuire, all of Varney, Kentucky, six grandchildren, Jessica (Michael) Sturgill, Haley (Jacob) VanHoose, Kristina Danielle McGuire, Aaron (Kaci) McGuire, Christopher Blake McGuire, and Zachary Ryan McGuire, two great grandchildren, Michael Elijah Sturgill, and Avery Jordyn Sturgill, and one brother, Ralph (and his wife Betty) McGuire of Wellington, Kentucky.
Pallbearers wil be, Aaron McGuire, Blake McGuire, Zachary McGuire, Michael Sturgill Jacob VanHoose, and Dudley Nichols
Jesus has gone to prepare a place for Mr. McGuire and has received him onto himself, where he is waiting for his friends and family.
Visitation will begin at 4::00 P.M. Sunday at the Church.
The funeral will be at the Church 11:00 A.M. Tuesday with Michael Lowe, Dale Williamson, Danny Runyon, and Richard Staton officiating.
Burial will follow at the McGuire Family Cemetery at Wolf Branch-Varney, Kentucky.
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Ah, young love. You snuggle together, whispering sweet nothings in his ear. You can't get enough of his smell, his gaze, his sky-blue eyes.
Remember when you felt like that about your husband? If you're like the vast majority of new moms, you're probably directing most of your emotional energy these days toward your newest little love. But between the baby-snuggling, your post-baby body blahs, and the sheer exhaustion of taking care of a newborn, you may start to look at your partner as the nice, platonic friend who just so happens to share your bed. Romance and sex fall way down the list of things to do -- far below "Buy new Diaper Genie inserts" and "Look up recipe for pureed squash."
Well, let's turn that list upside down. Even if you think you're not interested in getting some nookie right now, keeping the romance alive in your marriage will not only make you a happier person, it will make you a better parent, says Ellen Kreidman, PhD, a marriage counselor and author of How Can We Light a Fire When the Kids Are Driving Us Crazy? (Villard).
"The happiest, most well-adjusted children come from a home where Mommy and Daddy truly love each other," she points out. And that affection doesn't just sustain itself -- you need to stoke the fires every so often to keep it going.
"You can't just wait for the pleasure fairy to come sprinkle some dust and have all those sensual moments magically return," says Regena Thomashauer, creator of the School of Womanly Arts in New York City and author of Mama Gena's Marriage Manual (Simon & Schuster). "You have to work on it. Pick up your Palm Pilot and schedule in time to take care of your sensual life. If you have time to walk the dog, fold laundry, and cook dinner, you have the time for a real romantic encounter."
And if you need just a little extra incentive to get it on, consider this: "Part of being a parent is teaching your children about relationships and how people love each other," says Michele Weiner-Davis, a marriage therapist and author of The Sex-Starved Marriage (Simon & Schuster). Modeling a happy relationship is one of the best gifts you'll ever bestow.
You don't have to spend a week on a secluded island to reconnect as a couple. Just insert a few of these simple, sweet gestures into your daily routine. It's easy -- you used to do them all when you were first dating!
2. Instead of just a peck on the cheek when leaving for work, take 10 seconds for a real lip lock. "One says, 'I love you,' but the other says, 'I'm still in love with you,'" says Kreidman.
3. Show you care by finding one new thing to compliment him on each day, even if it's just that he shaved his sideburns in a particularly sexy way today.
4. Remember how to flirt. When you're both bustling around the kitchen, let your hand graze his behind and rediscover the chemistry that's still there.
5. The return of "Smoochiekins!" Dust off those pet names you used when you first got together.
6. Keep a pad of yellow stickies by your bed, and write a sweet little note for him every few days. Stick it in his briefcase or on his razor, where you know he'll find it.
7. If you're too exhausted to do anything but sack out in living room watching Law & Order, lie together on the couch and play footsie.
8. Have a digital camera? Take a picture of yourself holding a sign that says "Can't wait to see you tonight" and e-mail it to him at work. Caution: no nude pictures unless he works from home.
Drop the baby off with your sister for a few hours, whip out that sexy bra, and get set to be swept away right there, in the privacy of your very own bedroom.
Anticipation is major foreplay. Psych yourself up by planning your date a couple of weeks in advance, suggests Haynes. "Get your hair and nails done, and buy a new outfit or borrow one from a friend," she advises. Even though you're not leaving the house, put on slinky heels and going-out makeup. And remember when you were first dating, how you would make a mental list of interesting things to talk about? Do it again. "Whatever you do, don't talk about the kids over dinner!" Haynes says. "Talk about where you want to go for your next vacation, relate funny anecdotes from work, discuss politics and art."
Set the scene. Dirty laundry and piles of Legos don't make for the sexiest boudoir. "You need to create the space for a sensual experience," says Thomashauer. "Pull down the shades, light some candles, and put on soft music." Spray a spritz or two of your favorite perfume on the sheets, and toss anything baby-related in the closet or under the bed.
Get in the mood. You might need a little help transitioning from Mom and Dad to red-hot love bunnies, so Thomashauer suggests you change into bathrobes (with nothing on underneath), and lie on the bed together reading erotica or just some sexy poetry. If you're not literary types, pop in a DVD of something you find stimulating, whether it's X-rated or something more subtly erotic. (See "Paramount Pictures" below, for suggestions.)
Still not there yet? Slip out of those robes, pull out a bottle of essential oils, and take turns giving each other a massage, says Thomashauer: "You can bet that within five or 10 minutes, a very sexy mood is going to unfold."
Old-School Classics
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Our readers' tips for keeping the romance alive.
"Instead of celebrating our anniversary once a year like most couples, my husband and I make a point of getting a sitter and going out to dinner every month on the sixth to celebrate. We just celebrated our 62-month anniversary!" --Hope, New York City
"My husband and I sneak in some time together by popping in a Barney video, giving the kids a snack, and shutting our door for a half hour. The only problem is, every time I hear the Barney theme song now, I get a little excited!" --Jennie, Los Angeles
"We've started traveling with our parents. We went to the Caribbean with my folks when our son was 3 months old and to Greece with my mother-in-law a few months later. That way we get free babysitting by people we trust, and we actually get to relax." --Monica, New York City
"Most evenings my husband and I are too tired to talk, so instead, we get up an hour before our daughter and catch up. It's one of my favorite times of day." --Rehana, Orange, New Jersey
"Whenever my husband and I actually get the house to ourselves for a little while, we give each other our special 'look.' That signals it's time to take advantage of the moment!" --Anne Cavicci, Nelson, British Columbia
"Any time I hug and kiss my 2-year-old son or snuggle up with him, I make a mental note to do the same thing with my husband once I get the chance, so he doesn't feel like I'm giving all my love and affection to the baby instead of to him." --Caryn, St. Louis, Missouri
"As a token of affection, I sometimes buy my husband a small gift. Once I saw the cuffs on his shirts had worn thin, so I bought some new shirts and put them under his pillow. He really appreciated that I cared enough to notice and get the gift." --Jennie, New Bedford, New York
American Pie?
What scents make men weak in the knees? According to a study at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, a combination of lavender and pumpkin pie increased blood flow to the penis by 40 percent. Another favorite: the highly erotic mix of black licorice and doughnuts.
Under There
29 percent of men think the thong is the sexiest piece of lingerie, according to a Maidenform/RoperASW poll. Women, on the other hand, feel sexiest in a bra or camisole.
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Visit to Kenganaickenpalayam school - report by Mani
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I visited Panchayath union middle school, Kenganaickenpalayam, Tirupur on 19-06-2011. I interacted with school Headmistress. The usage of monthly periodicals being sponsored by Helping minds is highly satisfactory. The students read the magazines and they are doing some activities also. The Headmistress conveyed her thanks on behalf of school teachers and students. You can see the work done by students using chutti vikatan in the upper corner of the photos.
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Pez Machines delivering self-driving cars, and other musings
This is the third instalment in a series of posts about transport in the future. The previous ones are: What does the future hold? [Transport] Thinking aloud: Back to the Future [of Transport] I have no idea how many I'll write on this … Continue reading
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Thinking aloud: Back to the Future [of Transport]
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What does the future hold? [Transport]
John Murray shared an interesting article this morning Aggressive drivers are going to bully self-driving cars https://t.co/PQelE0nvAV via @sai — John Murray (@MurrayData) October 23, 2016 The gist of the article is that – whilst autonomous vehicles can be instructed to take … Continue reading
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I live and work in Hampshire. I'm biased. But I still think this is really nice.
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We would like advice on whether it is prudent to serve a s21 notice now. The tenants have repeated late in paying the rent and were 4 months behind in December 17. They have since payed off arrears for 3 months however, are still 1 month in arrears. The AST is due to end on 2 June 18 and due to payment issues we are reluctant to renew the tenancy. When is the earliest we can serve a the s21 notice to ensure the tenants have sufficient notice?
Is there any additional thing we need to do prior to the of the tenancy.
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Now with COLOR!
I know I don't have much work in color here; mostly because I'm a sissy. But lately I've been playing with watercolors in my sketchbook at work. Here's what I've done so far.
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Saturday, September 12, 2009
Here are some examples of the quick sketches I do for proms and parties. My models are my co-workers at Disneyland/California Adventure and, of course, my beautiful girlfriend Marie.
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When we were in Turkey last week, I met a Swiss couple at Nemrut and told them excitedly that I was heading to their country on Friday for the first time. I said regretfully that I only had time to see Zurich and Basel, and their immediate and humorless response was: "That is not Switzerland". And while there are no alps around here, there are lots of Swiss people…and that makes it pretty Swiss to us. Even though we've only been here about 48 hours there have been more than enough reasons for us to coin the phrase "to be Swissed", which means to do be chastised or put in your place by a person of Swiss origin because of your inefficiency or your inability to follow Swiss rules. An example where we were Swissed was when we went to buy train tickets from Zurich airport to the city centre. The lady at the counter said, "That will be 10 francs 80…will you be going anywhere else in Switzerland?" Michael quite thoughtlessly said no, that that was all for now…so when I asked her a minute later, "Oh by the way, we are going to Basel tomorrow, can we have the train timetable?" She immediately frowned and tutted, "That is why I asked you if you were going anywhere else," sighed at our inefficiency and handed over the timetable in a bad spirit. "You can book the ticket today as well if you like", she added in a crisp tone, but because we had just been Swissed we decided it was best for us to move on and waste any more of her valuable time.
So, to be back to the title of my post. I say 'Northern Switzerland' meaning Zurich and Basel, the two main cities in the north of the country, to be more precise in keeping with the spirit of the country. We arrived in Zurich late in the day and were pretty damn tired and in serious need of sleep…so it was good timing to arrive on the biggest night of the year to date: Switzerland vs South Korea at WM2006. It made the city centre pretty lively in fact, so there was a great atmosphere for us to enjoy some much needed non-Turkish pasta at The Spaghetti Factory on Niederdorfstrasse which is a really cool paved 'Eat Street'. The pasta was fantastic and not too expensive – a rarity in Switzerland. We also bought a few bars of Lindt and enjoyed chocolate for the first time in a while since chocolate in Turkey tastes kind of wrong. Following on from the World Cup match however, I didn't appreciate being taken for a Korean the next morning and having a drunk Swiss guy rub his belly in my face to indicate his victorious feelings about the football match.
It was nice to see a familiar face again in Basel; someone I hadn't seen for about two years. She is also the reason we decided to stop in Switzerland and take advantage of the stopover in Zurich. Ingrid was one of my linguistics lecturers at Sydney Uni over a couple of years, and I was also a (bad!?) research assistant to at one point. So now we're staying with her in her roomy apartment in Basel, being entertained by the antics of her super-bright 3 year old daughter Ava, having delicious home-cooked meals, and really enjoying being in Basel which is a pretty and laid-back town. We spent much of today sitting on the bank of the Rhine River watching people float down the river, eating the best ice-cream ever (Movenpick at Marktplatz – 3.50 for a massive scoop of deliciousness) and I also visited the best modern art museum ever: the Tinguely Museum. Jean Tinguely created some seriously whacky moving sculptures and I felt like a kid again going through and activating everything and making the junk machines move. It reminded me of my childhood spent dismantling cheap plastic toys and taking out the motor to create battery operated tin-foil boats that we put in our dirty swimming pool.
Tomorrow we fly to London and spend 11 hours there before taking an overnight flight to Bangkok. We've decided not to travel in Thailand because we're both a bit over backpacking…so we're going to stay in Khao Lak and do volunteer work for a couple of weeks. But more about that in my next post.