Students learn to put together a Naloxone spray gun in a class on opioid overdose prevention held by non-profit Positive Health Project in New York City.
Prosecutors and law enforcement agencies have been bringing murder charges against people who supply friends and family with drugs. As the opioid epidemic marches on, efforts to curb heroin and prescription drug abuse through increased arrests and harsh sentencing look just as misguided as earlier phases of the so-called "war on drugs" that began in the 1970s. Journalist Zachary A. Siegel joins us to explain the disturbing evolution of the drug war in the era of opioid abuse.
Adam Johnson: Hi, welcome to The Appeal, a podcast on abolition, reform and everything in between. I'm your host Adam Johnson. Today's topic is the criminalization of addiction and the opioid crisis as a pretext for more lawmaking and prosecution. Our guest is Zachary Siegel, a Guggenheim fellow at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and a contributor to The Appeal.
Zachary Siegel: Drugs are like usually a container for like hysteria and fear. I mean we saw in that, I wasn't around at this time, but we saw it in the crack cocaine crisis. I mean crack became a container to hold so much hysteria and xenophobia and urban plight and fear.
Adam: Thanks for joining us Zachary.
Zachary Siegel: Thanks for having me.
Adam: You wrote a piece in The Appeal back in March titled, for those at home, "In an Upstate New York Community Wracked by Overdoses, Prosecutor Pursues Users in Homicides Cases." It's such a cliché but there are so many cities and small towns like this throughout the country. You focus specifically on how the heroin epidemic or pandemic or however you want to define it has been met by law enforcement officials and prosecutors in what you describe, I think very thoroughly, as a kind of haphazard and overly punitive manner which is something we've seen time and time and time again since the rise of the heroin epidemic, as it were, five some odd years ago when it really sort of came into the cultural zeitgeist as something we had to tackle. The thing I liked most about the piece was you put a human face on it. So I want to talk about that human face, Richard Gaworecki of Union, New York. Can you tell us about his situation and what you found in the reporting of his case and what this says about the broader approach to the war on drugs?
Zachary Siegel: So I never actually spoke to Gaworecki himself, but I spoke to one of his friends and also one attorney in Broome County and you know this town it's pretty small and like everyone sort of knows everyone's business. That's really the sense I got after talking to a few people who live there and one of Richard Gaworecki's friends is, he was a 27, 28 year old guy and there was just like a small group of friends from high school, they're all in their late twenties now, but they were all using heroin together and in this sort of social network basically whoever has money that day is the person buying the drugs. Right? And then that will then turn into a transaction between friends. So like if I have ten bags of heroin well, 'You get a couple, you get a couple and, you know, give me whatever you can now and just know that next time I need heroin, you're going to be able to get me.' And that's just sort of how these relationships work. It's a self-preservative and, and, and survival. And so in this friend group, one day the batch of heroin is maybe extra potent. Maybe there's illicit fentanyl in it. And one member of this friend group, um, his name, Nicholas McKiernan, he fatally overdosed. And then, uh, at the scene, the police look at his phone and it's very obvious that Richard Gaworecki sold him the heroin and so this is just one case and there's many like it where a close friend or a romantic partner or a friend of a friend is basically charged with killing their friend. And um, yeah, like you said, it's very punitive and it's very harsh and I think it's emblematic of this sort of just-do-something attitude about the overdose crisis, like it's been going on for so long that at this point it's like people just need to look as though they're doing something and apparently charging friends with murdering their friends is that something in this case.
Adam: Let's back up here and set the table. What is the broader heroin epidemic as it's sort of generally understood from a macro scale and how have the Obama and Trump White Houses responded to it in general and how have states and local prosecutors responded to it in general?
Zachary Siegel: Yeah, I mean that's actually like a really good question that few people really stop to think about. So in my reporting, I've actually stopped calling it an "opioid epidemic" for various reasons. One of those is in epidemiology there's always a causative vector of any epidemic, so it's like HIV or Ebola, the virus, when you come into contact with that, you get sick and you might die. With opioids however, almost every single American has taken one at one point in their life for surgery or their wisdom teeth or whatever and the majority of us don't get addicted to it. The majority of us don't seek out more after we get a prescription and the majority of us don't overdose and die. And so to say that opioids are the causative vector in the epidemic just doesn't really make a whole lot of sense in epidemiological terms. And so I just call it an "overdose crisis" because that's what's happening. People are overdosing and I think there's so many reasons why and obviously very potent drugs are causing that overdose. But, um, I think broadly people really don't understand that starting around 2012, the heroin in the United States began to be contaminated with illicitly manufactured fentanyl. And this stuff is super potent and it's by and large seen as a poisoned by people like drug users don't want this stuff in their drugs, but there it is and it's killing people. And so, so many people are dying because so many users haven't adapted to that new market. And so that's like the big problem right now is fentanyl is killing more people than heroin. It's killing more people than prescription painkillers. And so the, one of the major problems I see on like a federal health policy level is all the attention was pointed at pharmaceutical companies and their marketing and prescription painkillers and the CDC took it upon themselves to write prescribing guidelines in the hopes that doctors would ultimately prescribe way fewer opioids then they were. And since 2011 the amount of prescription painkillers out there has dramatically declined and the rate of prescribing among doctors has also declined since about 2011. But the overdose rates have exponentially risen since then. And that sort of, there's a lot of debate about like, did reducing the supply of painkillers push people to the illegal market and cause more overdoses. Um, it's, there's so much like problems with proving causality in any one direction there, but um, that's definitely one thing people think. And at this point that's been like the major solution here is to reduce the reservoir of prescription painkillers and control the drug supply. That's usually how America responds to any sort of drug problem. It's, let's get rid of the drugs. And so far that's obviously not working and Trump is obsessed with his border wall and things that'll keep drugs out and just is patently absurd on the face of it. Like that wall is not going to keep drugs from coming into the States.
Adam: Yeah. What's interesting is how much he's really tapped into this id, this kind of rural white id that the reason why there's a drug problem, which I'm happy to sort of acknowledge that there is a drug problem, anyone who's from the middle or a small town in different parts of the country knows, that we all know people who are addicted to heroin, people we went to school with so forth, is because he connects it to, you know, to MS-13 and to all these sort of, whatever the Fox News, racist Boogeyman is.
Zachary Siegel: Yeah. Drugs are like usually a container for like hysteria and fear. I mean we saw that in the, I wasn't around at this time, but we saw it in the crack cocaine crisis.
Zachary Siegel: I mean crack became a container to hold so much hysteria and xenophobia and urban plight and fear.
Adam: Yeah. I think that what's interesting is that his approach takes sort of some vague; he does this a lot, right? Where there's a sort of a notion of something that's real and then he warps it into this distorted right wing version that doesn't do anyone any good. And so from your estimation, what has the kind of punitive, even more so than usual, because obviously Obama wasn't really that much better in many ways, approach on a federal level, has it had on your sort of average heroin addict as it were or drug addict? Is it, are people looking at longer jail sentences? Are they looking at more severe punishment for simple, simple possession?
Zachary Siegel: Well I think it really is actually dependent on where you are and so geography is playing a really big role in this. So if you're a drug user in like San Francisco or Chicago or the Bronx or like any of these big urban hotspots, not much has really changed. I mean there's always been a sort of like weird policing in these hotspots where cops know that there's an open air drug market and they sort of just let it carry on. Like the cops know they're outmatched, they cannot police this, these open-air markets. And so they just kind of, as long as there's not a lot of violence and they're contained, they kind of just let them exist. And so the new phenomenon is rural like beat cops and you know, places like in Broome County, upstate New York, like a heroin crisis is new to them to some extent.
Zachary Siegel: And so their policing is, it looks quite different. And if you look in states like Pennsylvania or New Hampshire or places where there's, you know, mostly like young white men using heroin, you actually see that a lot of the jails are filled with young white men and a lot of them are actually getting these very harsh sentences like drug-induced homicide or drug delivery resulting in death. I think in Pennsylvania, like the median age for who has this charge is like a 28-year-old white guy. And so that's definitely like something interesting when we talk about the war on drugs and racist policing its like, well that's definitely true, but it could also be true that young white guys are now getting really harsh sentences to.
Adam: Yeah. That's why disparity conversations without a broader framework can be somewhat misleading.
Zachary Siegel: Yeah. And so I, I've heard from people like, like attorneys who, and public defenders, who are representing people who get charged with drug-induced homicide that, you know, and one of them like I can quote just saying like "We're in Jeff Sessions' world," like that's what this person said.
Zachary Siegel: And so now prosecutors and US attorneys and, and you know, they're emboldened to, to crack down and be harsh and the like, let's execute dealers rhetoric is, I mean, it sounds maybe farfetched to people, but that's actually already sort of going on. Like in Florida, a young black teenager sold illicit fentanyl that killed I think like a white kid or a white woman, I don't know, and um, he got charged with first degree murder and could potentially face the death penalty. And the like, sort of like medieval story here is that they might actually execute him with fentanyl.
Zachary Siegel: It's such a sort of biblical story of punishment.
Zachary Siegel: And, and so, yeah, I think at the federal, like when the president says like, 'Get tough on dealers,' and the Department of Justice and Jeff Sessions take that up, I mean I think there's a real effect on sort of the local prosecutors and DAs and things like that.
Adam: Yeah. Because I mean obviously the federal government doesn't necessarily control it directly, but there is a broader signal that's sent. Um, this is something that we see a lot of times when things change hands. It's a sort of cultural attitude. I remember when Trump first came into office, people were like, 'Oh, you know, ICE is not going to be that much different,' and now ICE I think case after case after case have shown they've, they're doing what they were doing before, but in a more, way more cowboy way, way more aggressive way and that, that there is certainly a measurable difference there. And I, and I know that, I mean you have someone like Jess Sessions who wants to keep marijuana a Schedule I drug and keep it illegal. Um, which is something that I think less than 30 percent of the population in general supports and that attitude is still very prevalent, that sort of punitive attitude. And that seems to be like they're trying to now transfer that over with the criminalization becoming less popular. Almost like they're trying to transfer over this whole addict as drug dealer/murderer. One of the numbers you gave was that the, the specific county that you discussed, Broome County, that of the 95 overdose deaths, 84 of them were being investigated as potential homicides.
Zachary Siegel: I found that shocking.
Zachary Siegel: Like, and I'm just thinking, you know, how many of these overdoses were just a friend giving a friend a bag that turned out to be too potent? And I bet a lot of those cases are sort of like this Gaworecki case where a circle of friends are sort of just using and dealing to each other. And I, I don't know the answer to that, but my hypothesis is like a lot of them because it's very hard to actually catch the bigger dealers. That's why we so often see like the lowest hanging fruit getting charge.
Adam: Yeah. The line between dealer and user is obviously not very clear all the time. Can you talk about how prosecutors are attempting to obscure that line and is there any kind of hard data that's done that shows what percent of dealers are either addicts themselves are extremely small time in their, in their scope?
Zachary Siegel: To that last question, I think it's really hard to tell like how many users are also dealers. I think like the world of drug addiction is really just shades of grays and, and really like on any given day a user is also a dealer or vice versa. And really the, the, like the true "dealers" quote unquote are people who supply like whole regions, right? And so like to catch the, you know, the major traffickers, that's sort of what they call them, takes a lot of work, a lot of investigating, a lot of time and resources and usually collaboration with multiple agencies. And so those investigations are sometimes successful and they net some cash and they net some heroin but like never enough to cause like a drought or anything like that. And so the, the, yeah, it's really hard to really tell like who's who in drug using and drug dealing networks. But to the other question like how are prosecutors blurring that line? Um, so basically there's just this, there's been a trend over the last decade or so that overdose scenes are actually homicide scenes. And so what they do is, the first thing is they go for the phone and so people are often just like, by the way, technology has changed drug dealing, you know, it's really like ordering an Uber or a Lyft. I mean you just text a dealer and they dispatch a driver and usually you just meet up with whoever's there and you get your drugs. And so that's like probably more of like an urban delivery system. And so in places like Broome County or more rural areas friends just text friends being like, 'Hey, do you have bags of heroin?' Like the language is not coded in any way.
Zachary Siegel: And then they'll, basically what that does is prove that this person is a dealer. Like they didn't just sell one time, they sold multiple times.
Zachary Siegel: That's one way at least they show that this person is a dealer.
Adam: It seems like there's a general trend in a lot of the stuff we talk about in the show, which is that there's this problem that society has that is a legitimate problem whether it's trafficking are or you know drugs or even violence, guns and then there's this response that's just let's just make something illegal and put someone in jail and it doesn't even matter sometimes who exactly that is. Just somebody needs to go to jail. And I guess when you, when you see these small towns and the sheriffs are responding to the news reports, right? They're responding to I'm sure they're responding to earnest panic about drugs. I mean people forget like during the sixties when a lot of the harsh drug sentences were passed like drugs were an actual problem. Like in the eighties, drugs were a major problem. They tear families apart. Like they're really, they're very bad. Right? But we, it seems like the first arrow in the quiver we reach for is to just start making stuff more illegal. In the county that you, that you profile the DA, Steven Cornwell, he's just constantly posturing about how much he's keeping people safe and keeping the poison off the streets and it's almost like you kind of understand why he's doing this if he thinks it's helping people, but it's like no one factors in the 10, 20, 30 year prison sentences people are having to, having to face as part of this equation of suffering. And like it doesn't factor in. Maybe this is sort of a, I don't know, not in your wheelhouse, but like if you were to talk to someone, if someone is listening and they, let's say they lost a daughter to drugs or they were negatively affected by drugs and they want to quote unquote "do something," right? Because that's always what we want in this culture is to do something. What can we do that isn't that instinct? Just stop putting people in jail as your first response to everything? What should be the approach that we take to this? Something we can all admit as an actual problem. Now obviously there's other countries that have done much better and much more humane alternatives. Can you give us some of the sort of more like maybe to be prescriptive here a little bit?
Zachary Siegel: Yeah, I mean, I, I'm, this is actually one area where like okay being prescriptive because there's so much data and so much evaluations in, in real world settings that show like that all policies aren't created equal. Some actually do work better than others. And I think right now in America we're sort of reckoning with, um, like an internationalist perspective on what helping a drug crisis actually looks like. And just in Canada alone, there are, uh, several, they're called supervised injection facilities or safe consumption sites. I mean people are trying to really tweak the language to make it sound more and more palatable but basically medical supervision for pretty entrenched drug users. So like people in San Francisco who've been maybe using heroin for years and years and years, um, give them a safe space to inject under medical supervision and start linking them up with healthcare and services that might actually steer them away from using drugs later down the road once they're ready. So that's definitely one thing that's actually looks like it might come to fruition in America soon. There's a lot of political, uh, mobility behind safe consumption spaces or supervised injection facilities, whatever you want to call them. I mean, so that's like, you know, people call that 'a public health approach' and that also includes giving drug users a sterile injection instruments like needles and cookers and, and distributing naloxone, the overdose reversal drug, I mean these are all things that, you know, keep people alive and sort of the saying is like 'you can't recover if you're dead.' And so at this point with illicit fentanyl just really killing people at a rapid clip, it makes sense to implement policies that are really only concerned with keeping people alive. At like a baseline that's what these policies do. And then once you realize, 'Okay, now that we can keep people alive, what do they need? How do we get them help? What is it that might entice them to stop using drugs and maybe get into treatment?' And really I think it's like pretty obvious. We need like maybe a jobs program like I think like the biggest things to tackle this overdose crisis is not controlling drug supply and, and, and enforcement and interdiction. It's like people probably need healthcare and a job and maybe they'll feel much better about their place in society.
Adam: Yeah I know that there is some, some studies that have shown, yeah, I mean that addiction is not some fixed thing that we have from birth and we're just addicts. That it is highly coordinated with, with being isolated and being cut off from relationships and that having a city or a town that has all the jobs leave and the centers of town degrade and you know that these things obviously will coordinate with drugs. And this is true in African American and white communities alike.
Adam: Right. I mean, I think there's like in places like Broome County maybe, or wherever; I mean there might be just like a collective loss of like human dignity. It's like how do you go home and say a robot is doing my job now and like what do you do when society just really doesn't value your existence? I mean, that's, that's like a very harsh reality to confront and retreating into like drinking or doing drugs is a comfortable way to cope with that. And so that might be like one sort of cultural thing going on at, at, uh, at, in really a lot of these places.
Adam: So somebody by the name of Tana Ganeva, who was a former colleague of mine at AlterNet, she wrote a great piece in The Intercept about the way in which we, the changing racial aspects of the heroin issue, we won't say epidemic.
Zachary Siegel: Yeah, I read that. It was really, really good.
Adam: Yeah. And one of the things that I think was interesting, and people may not know this, that amongst African Americans, uh, heroin overdoses have increased, they've tripled since 2010. Um, that it's increasingly becoming an African American problem as well as a white problem. I mean you can't talk about drugs without talking about race. Obviously, in this country, they're wedded at birth. Can you talk about how the changing racial dynamics affect the political way we talk about it at all and what it means when we talk about how to come up with non punitive solutions?
Zachary Siegel: Yeah well I think to backtrack a little bit into sort of the early waves of the overdose crisis so it's like come in three waves. So the first wave was prescription painkillers in the late nineties and the early aughts, and then heroin and now illicit fentanyl. And right away the first wave of prescription painkillers was really framed as innocent victims, innocent patients getting addicted by their doctors who were duped by greedy capitalist big pharma. Like that was really the narrative that took hold. And so right away there was a wave of sympathy for these like white middle class people with healthcare who got surgery for some reason.
Zachary Siegel: Exactly. So like right away there was like a sympathy that was elicited this drug crisis in a way that there rarely was for other crises and like, not to pick apart that whole narrative because there's some truth to it, but that's just right off the bat something really interesting that really framed where we are now, which is, you know, young white people dying from heroin. And now what's happening is because the heroin is tainted with illicit fentanyl communities like the Westside and Southside of Chicago, the Bronx, San Francisco, places where heroin has been endemic, where like it's just been there since post Vietnam and never left, now we're seeing this population starting to die off because they've been doing heroin for so long and now the heroin is more potent and again, behavior needs to adapt to face a sort of changing drug supply. And so now that the like, so-called 'urban' users are, are dying um, I haven't really seen that get picked up too much and, or really changed the narrative overall. I think people like to say addiction doesn't discriminate or that you know it's an 'equal opportunity disease'. Like I hear all these things like addiction is a thing that spans race, class, gender, like everyone is potentially a susceptible to it. And maybe that's true to an extent, but really the people who are most susceptible to it are probably the people who are most marginalized and oppressed or people who lack financial opportunity or people who've experienced serious, serious trauma in their lives. And I just think we need to sort of do away with the like innocent white victim narrative to really confront what's happening in communities where people are dying from overdoses and, and the reality is people are in pain whether it's physical or emotional. And we need to ask why is there so much pain? Why do people demand this drug so much today? What's going on?
Zachary Siegel: Right. Like will the public health policies that really do help people, will those be extended to people in the South and Westside of Chicago or Harlem? Like will that sympathy be extended to them? We'll see.
Adam: And these, you know, there's so many of these cities and towns that have just been completely left for dead. I mean they're total sacrifices zones and the rates there are so high. Let's say for the sake of argument we live in a civilized country where we actually try to solve problems instead of throwing everyone in jail. There would be a public health response to this; we would treat it as a public health issue. The issue of people getting addicted to opium via legal painkillers, as you mentioned, did sort of help create the white victim image that was popularized but we definitely don't want to dismiss that altogether. That actually is a problem. Can we talk about the prevalence of opium, legal opium in prescriptions? I know that one statistic I heard said that there are more people addicted to prescription pills, painkillers than people who are addicted to cocaine, crack and heroin combined, which of course doesn't surprise me. Um, and if you just look at the sheer amount of numbers of painkillers out there, now there have been, that has gone down, but can we talk about how much that actually does serve as a gateway drug? I mean, anecdotally, I know people in my circles who that's absolutely been the case. Uh, but obviously that's just anecdotal.
Zachary Siegel: Right. I mean there's definitely something going on there. Like, I don't want to dismiss the fact that opioids are actually addictive drugs and if you get a wisdom tooth pulled, you don't need a 30-day supply of these things. You might need two days tops or you might just be fine with ibuprofen. So what I think what was going on with the overprescribing was people would be sent home after having like very minor surgery or like a very minor injury with like way more of these drugs than they really needed to go home with. And then, you know, I think one of the big problems was if you give so many people this drug then you're giving so many people who have all sorts of baggage and other problems access to a drug that will make them feel really, really good. And maybe I think that was part of the problem here is like if you have any sort of mental health condition, if you have like depression or anxiety and all of a sudden you take an opiate and you feel really good, sort of like its really interesting. You're like, 'Oh my God. Like I finally feel okay. I finally feel at home in my own skin,' and then clearly that drug a doctor prescribed to you is being used in the wrong way and like, how is the doctor supposed to know that you were going to react like that? Right. So that was definitely like one thing going on with the over prescribing and it's definitely real that like Purdue Pharma had false and misleading marketing and it's definitely true that, you know, this drug was way, way, way overused and prescribed to tons of people who didn't probably need it. But then there's also a population of patients who are on chronic opioid therapy who do need these drugs and are relatively stable on them. And as a result of the prescription pendulum swinging from this very liberal position to now a very restrictive one, now they're being, um, they're sort of bearing the brunt of that policy now. And so whenever I talk about prescription painkillers, I just want to make sure that people do know that these drugs are used everyday in hospitals and by people in pain and that they're like a medical necessity. But we need to strike a balance in how many we give people and when we give it to them and, and things like that. So it's a really complicated issue of like understanding what addiction is and what epidemiology is and how we study like drug epidemics. I mean it's like when I first started to report on this, I had no idea how many layers there was to this thing.
Adam: Yeah. Because if I'm of a certain disposition or, or wealth and I'm an addict, I go to some rehab center, but if you know the other 80 percent who don't have those resources, they're invariably just going to end up in jail at some point either for quote unquote "dealing" and getting someone killed or for just possession alone, which is why the whole like addiction is colorblind or addiction is not, it's kind of a BS talking point.
Zachary Siegel: Yeah. Politicians love to say that. Like Chris Christie, he says that all the time.
Zachary Siegel: Uh, yeah, yeah, definitely. There are people out there who really, really like beat cops to police chiefs to DAs. Like there are people out there who really do want to sort of treat people with addiction, not as criminals, but as human beings and like reflect their dignity back to them. And I was actually shocked, so I was at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice for this like couple day symposium and one of the panels was about the opioid crisis and this police chief from Burlington, Vermont, Brandon del Pozo, um, anyway, so he's a police chief in Burlington, Vermont and he said to the crowd, 'I would prescribe buprenorphine outside of my police station if I could.' And so this a drug that, it's referred to as like medication assisted treatment, but basically if people who are addicted to opioids have access to drugs like methadone and buprenorphine, the risk of overdosing, the risk of dying, the risk of relapsing, is all dramatically reduced, like huge, hugely, like by 50 percent or more. And it's, basically if we get this drug out there and more available than it is right now, we'll see overdose rates start to go down. So yeah.
Adam: Can you talk a little bit about that? For people who aren't familiar, what are the programs that exists to reduce overdoses and to kind of help out people who are addicts in a way that is non punitive, can you talk about those programs and what they are and what these other medications are?
Zachary Siegel: Yeah. Yeah. So a really good example I like to use is what happened in France. So France in like the late nineties and early two thousands they were having like a really, really bad HIV and heroin crisis. And what they did was institute what's called a low threshold model for accessing medication treatments. And so basically any doctor could prescribe these drugs to just about anyone who wanted them on demand. So basically these two drugs were like methadone and buprenorphine and so both of these drugs are what are called opioid agonists or half agonists. So that means they actually activate the receptor, which means to some extent there's, there might be possible euphoria if you don't really have a tolerance, but if you do have a tolerance for opioids, that means your receptors are basically like satiated, like they don't crave the drug because they are active. And so the, when you're in withdrawal, your opioid receptors are just like so thirsty for opioids that they make you feel like complete crap without it. And so access to these drugs, um, reduces the risk of overdosing and relapsing. And so any program that makes this drug easier to obtain would see favorable results. And like Vermont, again, they have a pretty innovative model to get people access to these drugs. And we can talk more about that but like basically we need to fold addiction treatment into primary healthcare. Like for some reason, if I have addiction, I can't go to my regular doctor and be like, can you treat me? Because they'll be like, 'I don't know what to do.' So then you have to Google best rehab or something like that and then you get sent to like South Florida and could be potentially preyed upon. I mean there's a whole sort of fraud and, and, and huckster, snake oil salesman facet to addiction treatment that bafflingly is thriving right now. But um, basically, yeah, we need to actually treat this like a chronic medical condition.
Adam: Yeah. It's the whole we need to treat drugs as a, as a health crisis, not a criminal one. You know, it's interesting to me, I feel like that's kind of been the consensus now for going on 20 years and yet we still have the same laws and no democrat wants to be on record as opposed to anything except for the most token cannabis reform.
Adam: It is shocking how much capture that the war on drug ethos still has on our political class when you consider, I mean obviously that's because certain power structures want it and it's deeply racist, but even granting that, given that the radical swings in public approval, you think there would be some kind of lax on that, but there isn't.
Zachary Siegel: There's so much fanfare around Larry Krasner in Philly, I mean, this guy, he came out and straight up said criminalizing crack cocaine was a big mistake. And to even get a politician to say that, I don't even know. I don't know many people who have said that, uh, like maybe in retrospect people will be like, 'Oh yeah, like we definitely shouldn't have had crack cocaine carry a one hundred to one sentence compared to powder cocaine. Maybe that was bad.' But like, it even just saying like the most patently obvious, uh, thing is hard. Like for politicians when it comes to drugs because they're so afraid to appear soft on crime or whatever.
Adam: Right. If somebody is listening and they themselves are struggling with heroin addiction or know someone who is, what are some of the best tools and resources they can use? Based on the sheer numbers it's likely that many of the listeners will have that in their lives and I want to try to be a little bit constructive here.
Zachary Siegel: To try and help me figure out what's wrong with me and what treatments would work.
Zachary Siegel: And I think that's the first thing that I would do if I really needed, um, if I was really ready to like stop using and get treatment. But in the interim, if I'm using and I'm, I'm in, I'm not interested in quitting and are not ready to give it up, it sounds weird, but I would just tell people in my social network like, hey, you should probably carry naloxone because I'm using heroin and I might overdose and you might be the one nearest me who could revive me. Like, it's so counterintuitive because heroin use is so secretive and no one likes to tell other people that they're doing it. But if you really want to stay alive, you can't be using it alone and in secret.
Adam: Zach, thank you so much.
Zachary Siegel: Yeah, thanks for having me on. This was, this was fun.
Adam: That was Zachary Siegel, a Guggenheim fellow at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and a contributor to The Appeal. I'm your host Adam Johnson. This is The Appeal Podcast. It is produced by Florence Barrau-Adams with executive producer Sarah Leonard. Thank you so much for listening. We'll catch you next week.


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Mountain View High School serves 1,895 students in grades 9-12.
The percentage of students achieving proficiency in Math is 37% (which is lower than the Arizona state average of 42%) for the 2016-17 school year. The percentage of students achieving proficiency in Reading/Language Arts is 41% (which is lower than the Arizona state average of 42%) for the 2016-17 school year.
The student:teacher ratio of 22:1 is higher than the Arizona state level of 19:1.
Minority enrollment is 48% of the student body (majority Hispanic), which is lower than the Arizona state average of 62%.
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The diversity score of Mountain View High School is 0.59, which is less than the diversity score at state average of 0.65. The school's diversity has stayed relatively flat over five school years.
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New ambassador David Haye promises an 'explosive win' over Tony Bellew
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New Betfair Ambassador David Haye says he needs an 'explosive' victory over Tony Bellew in their rematch on Saturday night to prove to the boxing world that he is back to his best.
Speaking exclusively to Betfair to mark his announcement as Ambassador, the heavyweight said: "Victory isn't good enough, it has to be explosive, it has to be dynamic and I have to make a statement to the rest of the heavyweights on the planet. They need to know after this victory that I am a force to be reckoned with."
Haye also insists that he is in prime condition for the bout this time around after admitting to being sloppy in the first fight.
"The training camp has gone perfectly, I'm healthy, I'm in good shape and my timing is good," he said. "In the first fight, I was sloppy, and my timing was out but, unfortunately for Tony Bellew, this time I'm razor sharp."
Haye's new partnership with Betfair continues our association with the boxer and Hayemaker Boxing Promotions which we also sponsor. As part of the two-year deal, Haye will be writing a regular exclusive column here on Betting.Betfair.
We'll have plenty more from David Haye this week ahead of the fight. Follow @Betfair for all the latest
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Robbie Savage delivers Flintoff a knockout blow!
Ahead of what is dubbed as the biggest fight of all time between Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather Jr. this weekend, ex-Premier League star Robbie Savage teamed up with impressionist Al Foran to play a little trick on his friend and fellow William Hill ambassador, Freddie Flintoff.
Freddie was 'punt'd' by Savage, who managed to convince the former England bowler that he had pinned down the first ever two-division UFC champion, McGregor, to an interview for a segment of the William Hill boxing podcast. What Freddie didn't know that on the other end of line was in fact Irish born impressionist, Al Foran, who would then launch in to a tirade of abuse against Freddie. You can see the content below:
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THE TWO SIDES OF A BOXING CAREER – JOE MURRAY
Joe Murray, the Manchester born boxer is a perfect example of a boxer having two sides to their career.
The first part of Joe's career as I see it was his amateur days when he won bronze at the World Amateur Boxing Championships in Chicago. Then when he went on to fight at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
Later turning professional in 2009 facing Sid Razak in a six round contest Murray won on points.
Joe racked up a impressive 14-0 record, capturing the IBF youth featherweight title on the way. In 2013 his first defeat came at the hands of Liam Walsh by majority decision.
Joe was inactive for over a year after that fight – returning with a TKO win over the then undefeated Gyula Tallosi.
In February 2015 Joe faced off again against Liam Walsh for the British and Commonwealth titles, losing by TKO and again was inactive for over a year.
The changing point was in 2016 when Joe Murray laced up the gloves again and returned to the ring, but a new and improved version of Joe had emerged in and out of the ring now.
Murray moved up to the lightweight division and has been more active than ever. His return there was a TKO win over Abdon Cesar.
Then in July of 2016 he faced Ibrar Riyaz, winning on points in front of a packed house in Manchester.
Next up was Danny Little. Again Joe pulled of an impressive points win. Only 14 days after the fight with Little Joe Murray travelled over to Denmark with short notice to square of against unbeaten prospect Rashid Kaseem.
This was undoubtedly the best performance of Joe's career to date. Murray was rocked early on in the fight but showed real grit and determination and came back to drop Rashid twice in a lively opener.
Murray went on to dominate and finish Kaseem in the 6th round with the KO of the night and his career. The KO got Joe the Knockout of the month award on BoxNation TV and rightly so.
Published On April 13, 2017 | By Craig Elson | Boxing News
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THE SWEET SCIENCE: MY JOURNEY AS A BOXING COACH IN ENGLAND – Rachel Bower (FCN)
As this is my first blog for the Female Coaching Network (well, in fact ever – so please bear with me) I thought I would introduce myself and set the scene for my posts so you can follow my coaching journey.
I was a late comer to boxing starting in my 20's, but it soon developed into an obsession and I was competing within a year and began coaching not long afterwards. I was a young Police Officer and used my contacts to set up community projects and youth diversion schemes. I also coached the new boxers looking to join the Police team. I was lucky that my own coach was an early advocate for women's boxing. We had the strongest female squad in the country at the time and the experience and skills of my team mates meant I was surrounded by women who were confident in their own abilities.
After a short break, I returned to competition boxing for a well-established Amateur club. Again, I was fortunate to have a coach invested in female boxing and sparring partners that forced me to up my game. Healthy competition and an expectation of excellence enabled me to finally achieve my goals, a national title and representing my country. I retired from competition in 2015 and joined my former coach at a new gym where I now coach and manage our Amateur squad. In the last few years I've immersed myself into my new role. I've been selected as a London female squad coach and as a coach for Police team the World Police and Fire Games in Los Angeles this summer. I was also appointed to the England Boxing (the National Governing Body) Coach Education Subcommittee.
Read the full article – https://femalecoachingnetwork.com/2017/04/07/the-sweet-sciencethe-sweet-science-my-journey-as-a-boxing-coach-in-england/
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Robert Helenius will fight Dereck Chisora in May
The next fight for Robert "The Nordic Nightmare" Helenius is a long-awaited heavyweight rematch against Dereck Chisora from the UK.
The fight will take place in the Hartwall Arena in Helsinki on 27 May. The WBC Silver Heavyweight World title will be up for grabs in May and the winner will become an official contender for Deontay Wilder's world title.
"I have been looking forward to this match for a very long time. One of my hands was injured the last time, but in May I will prove who's the king of the castle using my two good hands," says Helenius.
Helenius' trainer Johan Lindström adds that this is a great opportunity to shut Chisora up once and for all.
A fighter who goes the distance
Chisora is known for being a dogged boxer and he's had lots of tough fights in his career. The Brit's latest fight against Dillian Whyte lasted 12 rounds and Whyte came out on top on points.
"Chisora's boxing technique is abrasive and he punches in volume. So I will have to throw a lot of punches and make sure that my footwork is strong," adds Helenius.
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British boxing champion Dillian Whyte "just drops in" on innovative new Loughborough boxing studio
Staff at an innovative new Loughborough boxing studio were shocked and delighted when British WBC International heavyweight title holder Dillian Whyte turned up at their premises after reading about them on Twitter.
BOx, on Nottingham Road, only opened two weeks ago and is the brainchild of Mountsorrel husband and wife team Ainsley and Anne-Marie Neckles.
Ainsley, who is an ex-Leicester City footballer, said: "Anyone who follows boxing knows that Dillian is a strong believer in the power of boxing to change people's lives. He talks all the time about how it changed his.
"Anyway, he saw the launch of BOx on Twitter, thought it was an interesting idea and decided he would come and have a look for himself. He literally just knocked at the door. Our jaws hit the floor when we saw who it was."
BOx has a cutting-edge boutique studio approach, promoting boxing training as health, fashion and exercise for all kinds of abilities and a wide range of ages.
Anne-Marie said: "We hold classes every morning and evening that use boxing methods as the basis for getting into really good shape, as well as offering personal training.
"There is no actual boxing with an opponent but we use top of the range water filled punch bags, gloves and general boxing techniques alongside banging music and nightclub style lighting. It's a great way to work out.
"Dillian listened to what we had to say about using boxing as a means to help people turn their fitness around and was very complimentary. He thinks it is a great idea.
"We are a new business just starting out and trying to spread the word about what we are doing, so to get that kind of endorsement is a real boost to us."
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Confessions of a Retired Athlete: Ria Ramnarine – FCN
As an athlete, we sometimes, maybe most times, or perhaps ALL the time, believe that no one else has to make sacrifices like we do. One might say it's selfish of an athlete to think of themselves only, yet at times, we do teach them to not worry about other things – "Focus on training, leave the rest to me".
While an athlete, I was aware of the many sacrifices my own coach made. I saw his gracious understanding, his Mahatma Gandhi like patience, his parent-like protection, his selfless sacrifices. I also saw how that was taken advantage of on many occasions, by many students. I always said to myself, I do not want to be a coach, I don't have that kind of patience and understanding, or tolerance. I am not cut out of that cloth. But here I am today, doing more or less the same – being a coach. Because I have also seen the success of the hours and energy put in. Apart from the success in the ring, I have seen the success on the outside too. The students who became exemplars of discipline and respect, who pulled their lives together, who swear that if it wasn't for the coach, they would be in a far worse place today.
Being an instructor, assisting in the gym by teaching classes is very different from being a full-time coach. I never fully appreciated that until I had the responsibilities of my own students, my own teams. Coaching is a 36 hour a day job. Yes, 36 hours. You have to think ahead, think previously, and of course think presently. You have to remember what happened, know what's happening and foresee what is going to happen.
As a coach, you have to create so many worlds. So that each athlete has a world that revolves around them. As the athlete, you see one world, the one that revolves you. In moving from athlete to coach, it's only then you truly understand what your coach did for you.. and even in some cases, what he or she didn't do.
Bio: Ria Ramnarine became Trinidad & Tobago's first World Champion in 2005 and has since gone on to not only win a whole host of championships in other combat sports as well as boxing, but has now become a world renowned coach. Working with Olympic hopefuls in the T&T national team, Ria also even runs her own national boxing programme to encourage more girls in T&T to take up boxing.
Source – https://femalecoachingnetwork.com/2017/01/31/confessions-retired-athlete-move-center-attention-taking-care-charge-responsibility-group-students-center-attention/
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OLYMPIAN BEX WILSON BRINGS THE DMSF HUB FESTIVAL TO HARPURHEY AGAIN FOLLOWING PAST SUCCESS
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The Diane Modahl Sports Foundation (DMSF) Hub Festival opens its doors once again at 12 noon on Saturday 26th November at The Factory Youth Zone in Harpurhey, Manchester.
Olympian and DMSF Hub Project Manager, Bex Wilson, originally launched the scheme earlier in the year and is keen to offer the free afternoon of activities to local kids once again.
Bex explains: "Our pilot day in June was a great success and we're hoping to replicate or even better the turn-out with our 2nd festival.
"The day will include a wide range of sport and social activities for young people to get involved in, including food and music plus a wide range of sports from dance, basketball, dodgeball to climbing – with loads of prizes up for grabs!"
The DMSF is a registered charity, set up by former Olympian Diane Modahl, to give young people across Greater Manchester access to world class coaching and coaches, who support, mentor and provide opportunities through sport, education and employability programmes. The foundation's ethos is to give young people a sense of purpose, through and beyond sport.
The DMSF partner with schools, sporting and community venues across North, Central and South Manchester, focusing on disadvantaged areas giving young people access to opportunities they may never have been offered previously by fostering aspiration, breaking down barriers and developing potential.
Bex continued: "We want to host a regular event for local youngsters and give them something different to try. It's not a day all about sport, but a day to get together with your mates, have a laugh, and try out the sports on offer if you want to.
"We're keen to provide an alternative to hanging round on the streets and maybe we'll find a gem of a dodgeball player we can encourage to join us on the track. The kids at DMSF often haven't been given the chance to try new activities, and the DMSF Hub Festival is the perfect opportunity to get together with like-minded people and ultimately have a great day and maybe find their inner dancer or basketball pro and win a few prizes!"
The DMSF Hub Festival will take place from 12-4pm on Saturday 26th November at The Factory Youth Zone, 931 Rochdale Road, Harpurhey, Manchester M9 8AD
For more information via Twitter @DMSF_HUB #HubFest
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Nicola Adams successfully defends her flyweight boxing crown – Team GB
Nicola Adams became the first British boxer to retain their Olympic Games title since 1924, beating France's Sarah Ourahmoune in the women's flyweight final.
The 33-year-old from Leeds won by unanimous decision, cruising through the first two rounds before defending her advantage in the fight's final two.
Adams, who won the inaugural women's flyweight title in London, matches middleweight Harry Mallin's feat of 1920 and 1924 in defending her title and takes Team GB's 26th gold of the Games.
"It feels absolutely amazing, especially to be able to think to myself that I've created history and I'm not the most accomplished British amateur boxer of all time," she said.
"It's pretty much the same feeling as in London. I've had a massive amount of support from Yorkshire and the rest of the nation. I feel like I had all their support in the ring with me every punch I was throwing, so I'd like to say thank you to everyone."
All three judges scored Adams the winner in the first two rounds, where she looked relatively untroubled by her French opponent.
But Ourahmoune was given the decision by all three judges in the third round to keep the bout alive.
A scrappy fourth round was given in Adams's favour thanks to some solid counter-attacking blows as Ourahmoune attempted to reverse her deficit.
And while Adams looked cool and collected in the ring, she admits she was feeling the same nerves and emotions as with any other fight.
"I'm always nervous for every competition I have," she said. "I think it's good to have nervous energy when you get into the ring. It gives you the adrenaline and it lets you know that you're taking it seriously, not just thinking that you're going to win it.
"The route to gold was not easier this time. I had to qualify the same way as everyone else. It's tough because everyone wants to go to the Olympic Games, so every time you beat someone you're crushing their dreams.
"I felt like I did enough to win [when the bell rang], definitely. I thought I was winning the rounds comfortably and was scoring the cleaner shots."
– See more at: https://www.teamgb.com/news/nicola-adams-successfully-defends-her-flyweight-boxing-crown#sthash.FusnIs64.dpuf
Meet the Team GB boxers set for Rio
Ten men and two women will make up Team GB's largest Olympic boxing squad for 32 years after their selection today for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games
Olympic Champion Nicola Adams returns to Team GB after adding World, Commonwealth and European Games gold medals to her name since picking up the flyweight crown at London 2012.
World Championship bronze medallist and Commonwealth Champion Savannah Marshall is the other female representative and will compete at middleweight.
For the men, Commonwealth and European Games Champion Joe Joyce will fight at super heavyweight with Lawrence Okolie named in the heavyweight division.
Joshua Buatsi is selected at light heavyweight with Commonwealth Games Champion Anthony Fowler at middleweight. Josh Kelly and Pat McCormack are selected to fight at welterweight and light welterweight respectively.
European Champion Joe Cordina is set to compete at lightweight, while European silver medallist Qais Ashfaq will fight at bantamweight and Muhammad Ali and Galal Yafai round off the team in the flyweight and light flyweight divisions.
Team GB sit third on the overall boxing medal table having won 53 medals at the Olympic Games – 17 gold, 12 silver and 24 bronze.
The selected athletes are:
Nicola Adams, 33, hometown Leeds (flyweight, -51kg)
Savannah Marshall, 25, Hartlepool (middleweight, -60kg)
Galal Yafai, 23, Birmingham (light flyweight, -49kg)
Muhammad Ali, 20, Bury (flyweight -52kg)
Qais Ashfaq, 23, Leeds (bantamweight -56kg)
Joe Cordina, 24, Cardiff (lightweight -60kg)
Pat McCormack, 21, Birtley (light welterweight -64kg)
Josh Kelly, 22, Sunderland (welterweight -69kg)
Antony Fowler, 25, Liverpool (middleweight -75kg)
Joshua Buatsi, 23, London (light heavyweight -81kg)
Lawrence Okolie, 23, London (heavyweight -91kg)
Joe Joyce, 30, London (super heavyweight +91kg)
Source: https://www.teamgb.com/news/meet-the-team-gb-boxers-selected-for-rio-2016#sthash.IUF9fyh9.dpuf
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'Lime Street a gateway any smart city would die for': Civic campaigner Jonathan Brown
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Shouting from the rooftop
Larry Neild takes a sneak peek at the new Central Library
Written by Larry Neild. Published on September 5th 2012.
FORGET books in print and electronic formats, the star of Liverpool's new look Central Library will be the roof.
As part of a £50m makeover, a stunning rooftop terrace has been created, giving visitors a spectacular bird's eye view across the city.
More than 70ft above William Brown Street, the terrace could become one of the city's favourite gathering places when the library reopens next spring.
The terrace will even be wi-fi enabled, to allow library users to work on laptops up on the roof.
Mayor Joe Anderson, Mayor Sharon Sullivan and Culture Cabinet Member Cllr Wendy Simon were among the first to be given a sneak preview of the roof terrace when a traditional topping out ceremony was held. The ceremony marks the completion of the highest point of the building. Liverpool Confidential was also present.
New on the roof is a 1,880sq ft glass dome, 26 metres above ground level.
Lord Mayor Sharon Sullivan and Mayor Joe Anderson survey their fifedom
Inside, the new look library is rapidly taking shape. The 1950s Brown Library, built in 1950s after the original was wrecked by Hitler's bombers, has been demolished along with a 1978 extension.
Nearing completion is a new building behind the original listed historic façade. Final fittings and fixtures are being installed in the Picton and Hornby libraries, the Oak Room and the Clayton Stack.
In the Picton Reading Room, the intricate, domed ceiling has been painstakingly restored and all the timber bookcases repaired. Thousands of hours of work have also gone in to matching plaster and paint as close to the originals used when the dome was built in 1875.
Finishing touches are also being made to the main library room, ramps in the children's library are being installed and landscaping outside the building is also taking place.
A new literary wall is in place and can be seen at the back, and the ground is currently being prepared at the front of the venue for the installation of the literary pavement – a 22 metre long, 4.5 meter wide walkway which will have engraved on it titles from world books, cinema and music, selected by local people.
Mayor Anderson said: "This is a massive project taking place in one of the most significant and prominent libraries in the country.
"Central Library is one of the city's jewels and it's wonderful to be able to see changes taking shape and start to get a sense of how wonderful the final result is going to be.
"This redevelopment is also a major landmark for William Brown Street as a whole as Central Library is the final building to be restored and rebuilt in the area – making it one of the finest historic cultural quarters in the UK."
Main contractor Shepherd Construction is responsible for the building work including the full restoration of the Grade II listed parts of the building, which date back to 1860, and the famous Hornby Library and Oak Reading Rooms which will be fully open to the public for the first time.
Throwing in the trowelThe revamped Central Library will also include a new home for the Liverpool Record Office which will house 14km of archives and some of the city's most historic treasures from the last 800 years - such as the original 1207 charter signed by King John - in purpose built, secure, climate-controlled storage.
The work is being carried out by the Inspire Partnership, which is a joint venture between Amber Infrastructure and Shepherd Construction, with architects at Austin-Smith:Lord and Cofely as providers of facilities management services.
Mike Leto, from the Inspire Partnership, commented: "Today marks an important landmark in the reconstruction and restoration of this fantastic facility. The successful renovation reflects many years of endeavour and an exemplary example of how public private partnerships can provide solutions to create, restore and enhance facilities for the community of Liverpool and beyond."
For the city's libraries supremo, Joyce Little, the new Central Library will create a world class facility for Liverpool.
Starting as a librarian in Old Swan Library to become head of libraries, she has seen a number of new facilities built across Liverpool.
Asked for her opinion of the views from the roof terrace Joyce Little said: "Stunning. This is going to be a popular venue when it opens."
BookwormSeptember 9th 2012.
Full of noise and few books I suppose?
Slightly FoxedSeptember 9th 2012.
With so much of the Central Library's building being demolished, how many books will have been lost? How many desks for readers to use for study will have been lost? What efforts have been made to restore what was described as the finest music library outside London before it was destroyed by the philistine Storey and his Lib-Dem administration?
Is the new building to be a library for people to study in or an attraction for slack-jawed, cooing sightseers to noisily shuffle through with no intention of reading any books?
AnonymousSeptember 9th 2012.
And once again, with typical predictably, the whinging miseries who post on here start griping about investment in the city before the door has been opened!
I don't think they'll be happy until Fritz and Ludwig come back in their Fokkers and reduce the place to rubble! Just like in the old days!
Your ignorance of Fokkers exposes your mischievous, empty posturing.
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AnonymousSeptember 10th 2012.
And your pompous tone indicates a total sense of humour failure. The name was used for it's slightly comic effect see, I'm aware that Fokker did not make a bomber, but Heinkel didn't sound the same
Also tend to suspect ever so slightly that you missed the point
BigglesSeptember 11th 2012.
Ahem! The library was bombed the 1939-45 war, whereas the Fokker aircraft company had been a DUTCH manufacturer of civilian aircraft since 1918.
Fokker was dealt with specifically in the Treaty od Versailles.
D. HavillandSeptember 11th 2012.
Anonymous is Stan Boardman and I claim my £5...
Fokkers, heinkels who cares.......buts he's right ole fox, you is still whinging aincha
Anon, so this is what over paid council employees get up to when they're bored is it?
Slightly FoxedSeptember 10th 2012.
It's fairly obvious that Anonymous has never been in a library in his life.
Barry WilkinsonOctober 31st 2012.
Looks fantastic..cant wait for it to open..just another JEWEL in Liverpools crown. Maybe some of you can visit Lpool one day and 'pop in' here..update your history on WW2 and 'Bombers' etc.
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Manipal : Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), Indiana on behalf of Manipal College of Health Professions (MCHP) for Cooperative Education Programmes here on Wednesday.
MAHE, Vice Chancellor, Dr H Vinod Bhat and Prof Josette Jones, Director, Health Informatics, Indiana University School of Informatics & Computing, USA singed the MoU. Also present on the occasion were, Dr Raghu Director, International Collaboration MAHE, Dr G ArunMaiya, Dean, MCHP andDr. Palakal Mathew, Senior Executive Associate Dean IUPUI and others.
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The Missouri House of Representatives has given overwhelming approval to a proposed constitutional amendment protecting the religious freedoms of Missouri citizens. House Joint Resolution 11 was given final passage by a vote of 134-24. It now must be approved by the Missouri Senate before it can be submitted to voters in a statewide election which would occur in 2010.
This is the second year in a row the House has given strong bipartisan endorsement to this religious freedom proposal. This is the fourth consecutive year in which the House has supported some form of religious liberty legislation. Each of the last three years those bills have died in the Missouri Senate.
of government bodies to invite ministers to offer invocations at public meetings.
In the public school setting, HJR 11 provides that students have the right to pray so long as such prayer is private and voluntary and is not disruptive. The resolution also calls for a copy of the Bill of Rights, which contains the First Amendment provisions on freedom of religion, to be posted in every public school building.
HJR 11 is a response to continuing threats mounted against religious freedom by groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union and the Americans United for Separation of Church and State. These groups regularly send threatening letters to school officers and government officials in efforts to stifle religious expression. They claim that the bogus constitutional theory of the separation of church and state prohibits any discussion or acknowledgement of God in the public arena. As a result, many public officials and school district employees ban religious speech which is protected under the First Amendment to the Constitution.
The truth is that even the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed that religious speech must be afforded the same free exercise as any other form of speech. No public entity or its employees can engage in viewpoint discrimination, and discriminate against expression of one's religious beliefs or prayers offered according to one's faith. In the school setting, federal courts have prohibited organized prayer led by teachers or school officials, but have protected student-initiated prayer so long as it is truly voluntary.
Yet the ACLU and the AUSCS continue to engage in intimidation tactics arguing that students can't talk about God in the classroom, that prayer meetings can't be held on government property, and that pastors can't pray before city council meetings, despite the fact that federal courts have made clear that such actions are constitutionally permissible.
1) It would clarify for citizens and public officials throughout Missouri the extent of our constitutional liberties in the area of religious freedom. The general principles contained in the current Constitution would be strengthened with specific language detailing the application of these freedoms in the daily lives of Missouri citizens and in the activities and proceedings of government.
2) It would prevent state judges from interpreting Missouri's Constitution in ways that would be hostile or adverse to religious freedom. Christian families continue to witness dictatorial behavior by state judges across the country who issue decisions from the bench which thoroughly distort longstanding provisons of state constitutions. This has been particularly evident in recent judicial dictates decreeing "homosexual marriage," such as just occurred in our neighboring state of Iowa. The language of HJR 11 would bind the hands of state judges and foreclose assaults on religious liberties in our state courts.
House Joint Resolution 11 is sponsored by Representative Mike McGhee of Odessa. Representative McGhee has been a great friend of the Christian community and a strong advocate for the spiritual convictions of Missouri families. Much of the language in HJR 11 was developed by the Missouri Family Policy Council. We appreciate Representative McGhee working with us to advance the strongest possible proposal for consideration by Missouri voters.
Prospects for ultimate passage of the religious freedom amendment are not promising. Companion legislation (Senate Joint Resolution 12) introduced in the Senate by Senator Delbert Scott of Lowry City has been stalled by a filibuster. Please pray that Senators will recognize the the primary importance of protecting our religious liberties in the priorities they will consider as the legislative session comes to a close. As we discussed last week, they must be willing to shut down a filibuster to see that the constitutional freedoms of Missouri citizens are preserved. Please pray that they will have the moral resolve to do so.


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Before I could warn the others, the shadowed form stepped into a ray of moonlight. He held one finger up to his lips urging me to be quiet. Mason. I didn't know him well. He was a senior too, but he only hung out with his group of friends. They didn't interact with other people. I had always found that strange as they all seemed like they would be the popular athletic types. His sister looked like she should be a cheerleader. He and Alex looked like they should have been football players. They had never been on a sports team. They had never been in any after school activities. When school was finished, their group went home together. I didn't know where they lived, but there were rumors they lived in a cult compound. I didn't believe that though.
His brown eyes drifted to the camp behind me. I turned to look if he had garnered anyone else's attention, but not even Darren had noticed us and everyone else was still asleep. Molly, however, lifted her head from Arthur's stomach. She sniffed the air and then jumped to her feet. I opened my mouth to urge her to be quiet, but she didn't bark. Instead she ran to Mason and jumped on him wagging her tail happily. He crouched so he was eye level to her. He smiled fondly and scratched between her ears. She leaned into him loving every moment of it. He stood up straight and waved a hand in Arthur's direction. Molly ran back to Arthur's side and settled down next to him with her head on his stomach.
He turned back to the woods and made a shooing motion with his hand as if to tell others to leave. I didn't hear anything in the woods, but I hadn't heard him either. He turned back to me. I waited for him to say something, but he didn't. He stepped passed me into the camp. He stopped near Hunter's head and stared down at my friend. He cocked his head to the side in contemplation. His eyes slowly left Hunter and scanned over everyone else in the camp and the low fire.
He crouched next to Hunter's head and tilted his head again. "You must really trust your friends to sleep so deeply you don't notice me," he said.
Darren spun in our direction with his knife raised. The rest of the camp woke with a start, but Hunter's hand shot out and closed around Mason's neck.
"Careful," Mason said as Hunter sat up and his grip tightened. "I'm not alone." For the first time, I heard footsteps in the woods, twigs breaking as if they were purposely letting themselves be heard. And it wasn't only coming from the direction Mason had come from. It came from all around the camp. We were surrounded.
Hunter slowly released Mason's neck. Mason smirked and brought his hand up to rub his neck. "You are dangerously close to our home," Mason said never taking his eyes off Hunter's. "The ignorance of these others I can understand, but you and your sister don't have that excuse."
"We've been killing zombies all night," Hunter said. "Their blood and viscera on my clothes must have hidden your smell."
That was an odd response, but it seemed to satisfy Mason as he looked down at Hunter's clothes.
"It's almost dawn," Mason said standing up straight. "You better break up camp and be on your way. Erik knows you are near and he doesn't like it."
"In case you didn't notice," Hunter said, "the world is different than it was yesterday." He stood up and shielded his sister behind him.
"We could really use some help," Mrs. Smith said. "Even if it's just packs to carry our things." She held up a jacket that had been folded up to carry food and water.
"We're not planning on staying," Hunter said to Mason. "We are on our way to find my sister and Lily's brother."
Mason sighed. "Stay here a moment," he said. He walked passed me and back into the woods.
I strained my ears and listened carefully, but I didn't hear anything. He came back a few moments later and this time Alex was with him.
"We'll take you as far as the gates," Mason said. "It's up to Erik if we are going to help you. None of you can go beyond the gates. We'll go this way." He and Alex walked across the camp and left through the trees near where Darren stood.
We gathered our things and followed. Molly ran ahead and nudged Mason's legs. He patted the top of her head, but didn't stop walking. She ran to Alex's side and he did the same. Then she ran back to Arthur's side and stayed near him the rest of the time.
We didn't see the others, but I knew they were out there. We had heard more than Mason and Alex around our camp. I could feel their eyes on me and they didn't feel friendly.
I couldn't see any identifying marks to show where we were going. There were only trees and more trees. Mason and Alex seemed relaxed and easy other than the occasional glances they gave Hunter and Victory. Hunter and Victory on the other hand grew more and more nervous. Their eyes scanned through the trees constantly. Hunter's fingers skimmed along the knife strapped to his leg several times. Victory's hand almost went for the bow on her back, but every time she started to reach for it, she stopped herself. Hunter took Victory's hand in his. They held each other so tightly their knuckles were white.
There was a moan from somewhere in the distance. We all froze except Mason and Alex who kept walking as if a zombie moan was no big deal. The rest of us followed them again. It didn't take long before the zombie moaned again this time louder and more urgent. But before the moan could die away it was suddenly cut off. We didn't hear it again. I assumed one of the silent guards in the woods killed it.
We continued our walk through the trees until we got to a small road. We followed it until we reached a large ornamental iron fence. There was a large stylized wolf on the iron gate. The fence stretched out in the woods for as far as I could see. Mason's other companions finally came out of the woods then including Mason's sister, Elsie.
"What were you supposed to be?" Elsie asked. Her hand reached up and almost touched the faded makeup on Victory's cheeks, but Hunter pulled Victory behind him before Elsie could touch her.
"Relax," Elsie said easily. "If I was going to hurt her, I would have already done it."
Mackenzie looked at me with concern for her friend. It was strange how Mason and his friends seemed to focus on Hunter and Victory but barely glanced at the rest of us.
"So what were you supposed to be?" another young woman from the group asked.
Victory didn't answer her. Now everyone in Mason's group stared at Victory. Hunter couldn't shield her from the stares of all of them even though he tried. They had encircled us.
Victory didn't answer them and she seemed uncertain – maybe even afraid of them – but she didn't shy away from their gazes. She was defiant in her silence in a way I didn't understand. Mackenzie squirmed beside me clearly not liking the way the focus was on her friend.
"She was a lizard girl," Mackenzie said.
"Lizard girl?" Elsie asked and then they all started laughing – like jovial, genuine laughing. I didn't understand it.
"I don't want to be rude," Monica said as she stood beside Grant, "but don't one of you need to go in to get Erik or whatever? The phones are dead so you can't exactly call him."
"He's on his way," Mason said easily. "We'll wait for him here."
It grew quiet as we waited for Erik. I had never met or seen Erik myself. He had been a senior when Tanner was a freshman and Tanner had spoken highly of him. He had said Erik was the coolest person he had ever seen and had even tried to dress like him for a few weeks. He had tried to become Erik's friend, but after Erik ignored him and only focused on his own group of friends, Tanner became disenchanted with him and went back to normal.
"Lizard girl," Alex muttered and their entire group laughed again as if it was the funniest thing they had ever heard.
Victory reached up and rubbed away the leftover makeup roughly. Mackenzie stepped up and helped her get it all off. Victory's reaction seemed to indicate Mason and his group were making fun of her, but I didn't understand how. It was as if they all had some inside information the rest of us didn't. Because with the exception of Hunter and Victory who both scowled at Mason and his group, the rest of my group looked as clueless as I felt.
It grew silent again as we waited. The sun was rising and the sky was lighting. Birds began their morning call. Molly had settled at Arthur's feet. She jumped and rushed to the gate with her tail wagging vigorously. A moment later a man stepped out of the woods beyond the wrought iron fence. A woman stood by his side and a handful of people stood behind them. He smiled at Molly and reached through the fence to pet the top of her head.
Hunter and Victory became even more stiff at the appearance of the new man. The man looked away from Molly and his face went serious when he saw Hunter and Victory. Hunter pulled his sister close to him and wrapped his arms around her shoulders as if to shield her. She hugged him back and wouldn't look the man directly in the eyes. Hunter didn't look at his eyes either.
"You were at the party," Mrs. Smith said to the man. "You both were," she indicated the woman by his side.
"How'd you get out?" Grant's dad asked.
The man smiled, but it wasn't friendly. It was menacing and a rush of fear spread through me causing the hairs on my arms to stand on end.


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FibreBlock Composite flooring, Mohawk Broadloom. Nemo Tile Co., China White and China Blue in baths / guest bath walls. Daltile Quarry Tile /kitchen. Porcelanosa bath floors. Nemo Metro Tile, white in kitchen / cafe. Daltile Colorbody Porcelain.
Located on the West End of downtown and occupying the historic Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant, the 21C Museum Hotel Oklahoma City is a 135-room boutique hotel, contemporary art museum, cultural civic center and home to Mary Eddy's Kitchen and Lounge. Its address is 900 W Main Street.
A $51.5 million project and one of six 21C Hotels, the property is an adaptive reuse of the 95-year-old assembly plant with a contemporary interpretation of the building's industrial heritage. 21C Oklahoma City offers 14,000 square feet of contemporary art exhibition space open free of charge to the public, plus 23 suites, including the 21C penthouse suite and luxury loft suites.
The design team, led by New York-based Design Architect Deborah Berke Partners and Executive Architect Hornbeek Blatt Architects of Edmond, integrated elements of the automotive plant heritage throughout. The design takes full advantage of the scale of the building with spaces that are open and light-filled. Lingo Construction was the General Contractor.
Bentley Flooring installed the carpet in all the rooms, ceramic tile in the bathrooms and restaurant and the wood flooring in the hallways. "We often think of our flooring as art -- and so our artful installers were right in their element. We were thrilled to get to play a part in bringing new life and purpose to this historical building and new vitality to this area of Oklahoma City." Steven Bentley said.


Ten years ago, I got married. I left everyone I knew behind to move to another country where I only knew one person – my new husband. I left behind a successful career, built upon decades of hard work to come a country where no one knew who I was, and where I had to start over. So, just like everyone else, I've experienced uncertainty.
Any change we experience in life – a switch in our routine, a new opportunity or a new way of doing things, triggers fear in our brain. If you want to get technical, the amygdala is the reason we are afraid of things unknown to us or outside of our control. Every time you move away from your safe and familiar routines or encounter any type of uncertainty, your amygdala will trigger fear and anxiety. How we deal with it is a very personal thing.
For example, I'm afraid of heights, but I have still bungee jumped off bridges and skyscrapers. I'm an extremely weak swimmer (I failed swim class), yet I've been out of my comfort zone on a jet ski (I fell off and sprained a muscle trying to climb back on), and I have been kayaking – where the instructor judged me in a very disdainful manner for briefly freaking out and panicking that I was about to drown. I wasn't really in any danger of drowning, but when you're uncertain in life you magnify the slightest risks.
In every case, whether bungee jumping or quitting my job, I learned something that I apply to all aspects of my life. You can call it my "what I know for sure" moment: Life is uncertain, and that uncertainty brings a tremendous amount of fear which will chase you into open and unknown spaces, but with the right approach and an ability to stay focused on seeing the opportunities before you, the experiences you originally greeted with fear can lead to some of the best breaks in life. There is beauty to be found in open and unknown spaces.
Sonia Layne-Gartside is a dynamic and results-oriented global Consultant, Master Trainer, Instructional Designer and Strategist. She partners with leaders to achieve business results by improving the performance of people and the systems they work in. Her work involves developing leaders, creating targeted learning solutions, instructional design, leading change management initiatives, coaching executives, undertaking business analyses and developing strategy. Sonia is the author of the book Workplace Anxiety: How to Refuel and Re-Engage. Her website is www.soniagartside.com.


Saturday Night Live guest host Louis C.K. began his monologue last night with that hoariest of set-ups: Why did the chicken cross the road? But it was the punchline that defined the bit, launching a stand-up routine about racism that was prime Louis.
From there, C.K. used the animals-as-stereotypes that goes back at least to Simon & Garfunkel's "At The Zoo." Giraffes, moose, goats and horses got a going-over before the host arrived at his destination: his own sense of privilege.
Noting that he was actually happier during his lean (career-wise) days on the comedy circuit, staying in cheap motels where "the minute you get in the shower, you're dirtier," C.K. recalls a recent stay at a fancy hotel where a grouchy housekeeper set him off.
"I said, 'You want to try that again?'," C.K. recounts telling a hotel housekeeper who didn't answer the phone with enough enthusiasm.
Elsewhere during the episode, C.K. slipped into various characters, the funniest a re-enactor at New York City's (real-life) Tenement Museum. As he and Kate McKinnon present a slice-of-life scene of an impoverished 1913 Polish couple new to the city, they first charm the gathered high school students before stunning them with casual racism. The jokes are decent, but it's C.K.'s accent – a mix of Borat with the wild and crazy guys of Steve Martin and Dan Aykroyd – that breaks up his castmates, and himself.
"Birthday Clown," a pre-taped bit, has C.K. as a depressed 53-year-old who's hired a child's birthday clown (Bobby Moynihan) for a party of one, a situation so awkward it would be right at home on C.K.'s Louis.
Equally strange was a commercial parody – sort of – about sofas. Odd and funny – and most likely the best riff on sectional couches since the 1970s.
Pulling up the rear of C.K.'s SNL offerings were skits about a leering 1950s soda jerk whose fatherly advice to bobby soxers turns not so fatherly, and a courtroom sketch starring the comic as a lawyer with eyelashes so long and beautiful they win over judge and jury. Not me.


"Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class" is credited to Brooklyn-born gangster Al Capone (1899-1947). The quotation has been cited in print since 2002, but there is no evidence that Capone ever said it.
Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone (January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947) was an Italian-American gangster who led a Prohibition-era crime syndicate. Known as the "Capones", the group was dedicated to smuggling and bootlegging liquor, and other illegal activities such as prostitution, in Chicago from the early 1920s to 1931.
However, Capone gained infamy when the public discovered his involvement in the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre, which resulted in the death of seven of Capone's rival gang members. Capone's reign ended when he was found guilty of tax evasion, and sent to federal prison. His incarceration included a stay at Alcatraz federal prison. In the final years of Capone's life, his mental and physical health deteriorated rapidly due to neurosyphilis, a disease which he had contracted several years before. On January 25, 1947, he died from cardiac arrest after suffering a stroke.
"Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class"- Al Capone?
Some people think that all the world is made up of crooks. Some are legitimate some not. Capitalism is then a form of theft. Taking from the poor and giving to the rich.
Chicago gang boss Al Capone often claimed he was like any other businessman, saying, "All I do is supply a demand," and pointing out that, "Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class".


As part of the Foyle Maritime Festival programme Loughs Agency are running 2 exciting competitions for young people to sail the seas!
To enter, simply nominate someone you think would enjoy being a crew member on the beautiful Spirit of the Oysterhaven. Or why not nominate yourself?
Join the Spirit of Oysterhaven for a sail from Greencastle on the 16th of July. We have 10 spaces available for 14-17 year olds from the Foyle Area for a truly unique experience! Click here for the nomination form and return to 1daysail@loughs-agency.org by noon on the 24th of June.
Loughs Agency are also looking for applications for our free 5 day sail competition on board the Spirit of Oysterhaven departing from Derry ~Londonderry on the 17th of July with the Clipper parade of sail and travelling to Warrenpoint. We have 10 spaces available for 15-17 year olds from the Foyle/Carlingford areas to part in this fantastic adventure! The voyages are run by Atlantic Youth Trust and subsidised by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Reconciliation Fund, and aim to bring young people together from different communities around the island of Ireland to experience the adventure of sailing. Click here for the nomination form and return to 5daysail@loughs-agency.org by noon on the 24th of June.
To find out more about the Oyster Haven visit the ships website.


Best Fine Dining Tea House restaurant in Canon City Royal Gorge area with high Trip Advisor rating.
Creating "Moments of Magic and Memories" since 2007.
seating 6:00 p.m., serving 6:15 p.m.
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Historic Downtown Canon City Structure.
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Welcome to the Queen Anne Prime Rib House, which is more than Fine Dining, it is "Table Side Entertainment and Superb, Personalized Attention." You will have Moments of Magic and Memories to share with others, as your multi-course dinner is unique in design and excellent to your taste buds. We look forward to serving that special occasion or just your date night. Reservations are necessary as prepare each meal specifically for our dining guest.
Reverse seared prime rib, grilled with marinate.
Our Prime Rib is prepared as a single roast.
seasoned and grilled to caramelize the outside.
Our roast is cooked to "Medium Rare" temperature.
if you desire Medium or Medium Well temperatures.
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Chocolate Covered Strawberries, just one of the many table side desserts.
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