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The drug industry's triumph over the DEA

Washington Post

In April 2016, at the height of the deadliest drug epidemic in U.S. history, Congress effectively stripped the Drug Enforcement Administration of its most potent weapon against large drug companies suspected of spilling prescription narcotics onto the nation's streets.

By then, the opioid war had claimed 200,000 lives, more than three times the number of U.S. military deaths in the Vietnam War. Overdose deaths continue to rise. There is no end in sight.

A handful of members of Congress, allied with the nation's major drug distributors, prevailed upon the DEA and the Justice Department to agree to a more industry-friendly law, undermining efforts to stanch the flow of pain pills, according to an investigation by The Washington Post and "60 Minutes." The DEA had opposed the effort for years.

The law was the crowning achievement of a multifaceted campaign by the drug industry to weaken aggressive DEA enforcement efforts against drug distribution companies that were supplying corrupt doctors and pharmacists who peddled narcotics to the black market. The industry worked behind the scenes with lobbyists and key members of Congress, pouring more than a million dollars into their election campaigns.

The chief advocate of the law that hobbled the DEA was Rep. Tom Marino, a Pennsylvania Republican who is now President Trump's nominee to become the nation's next drug czar. Marino spent years trying to move the law through Congress. It passed after Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) negotiated a final version with the DEA.

For years, some drug distributors were fined for repeatedly ignoring warnings from the DEA to shut down suspicious sales of hundreds of millions of pills, while they racked up billions of dollars in sales.

The new law makes it virtually impossible for the DEA to freeze suspicious narcotic shipments from the companies, according to internal agency and Justice Department documents and an independent assessment by the DEA's chief administrative law judge in a soon-to-be-published law review article. That powerful tool had allowed the agency to immediately prevent drugs from reaching the street.

Political action committees representing the industry contributed at least $1.5 million to the 23 lawmakers who sponsored or co-sponsored four versions of the bill, including nearly $100,000 to Marino and $177,000 to Hatch. Overall, the drug industry spent $106 million lobbying Congress on the bill and other legislation between 2014 and 2016, according to lobbying reports.

"The drug industry, the manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors and chain drugstores, have an influence over Congress that has never been seen before," said Joseph T. Rannazzisi, who ran the DEA's division responsible for regulating the drug industry and led a decade-long campaign of aggressive enforcement until he was forced out of the agency in 2015. "I mean, to get Congress to pass a bill to protect their interests in the height of an opioid epidemic just shows me how much influence they have."

Besides the sponsors and co-sponsors of the bill, few lawmakers knew the true impact the law would have. It sailed through Congress and was passed by unanimous consent, a parliamentary procedure reserved for bills considered to be noncontroversial. The White House was equally unaware of the bill's import when President Barack Obama signed it into law, according to interviews with former senior administration officials.

Top officials at the White House and the Justice Department have declined to discuss how the bill came to pass.

Michael Botticelli, who led the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy at the time, said neither Justice nor the DEA objected to the bill, removing a major obstacle to the president's approval.

"We deferred to DEA, as is common practice," he said.

The bill also was reviewed by the White House Office of Management and Budget.

"Neither the DEA nor the Justice Department informed OMB about the policy change in the bill," a former senior OMB official with knowledge of the issue said recently. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of internal White House deliberations.

The DEA's top official at the time, acting administrator Chuck Rosenberg, declined repeated requests for interviews. A senior DEA official said the agency fought the bill for years in the face of growing pressure from key members of Congress and industry lobbyists. But the DEA lost the battle and eventually was forced to accept a deal it did not want.

"They would have passed this with us or without us," said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. "Our point was that this law was completely unnecessary."

Loretta E. Lynch, who was attorney general at the time, declined a recent interview request.

Obama also declined to discuss the law. His spokeswoman, Katie Hill, referred reporters to Botticelli's statement.

The DEA and Justice Department have denied or delayed more than a dozen requests filed by The Post and "60 Minutes" under the Freedom of Information Act for public records that might shed additional light on the matter. Some of those requests have been pending for nearly 18 months. The Post is now suing the Justice Department in federal court for some of those records.

Hatch's spokesman, Matt Whitlock, said the DEA, which had undergone a leadership change, did not oppose the bill in the end.

"We worked collaboratively with DEA and DOJ . . . and they contributed significantly to the language of the bill," Whitlock wrote in an email. "DEA had plenty of opportunities to stop the bill and they did not do so."

Marino declined repeated requests for comment. Marino's staff called the U.S. Capitol Police when The Post and "60 Minutes" tried to interview the congressman at his office on Sept. 12. In the past, the congressman has said the DEA was too aggressive and needed to work more collaboratively with drug companies.

Drug industry officials and experts blame the origins of the opioid crisis on the overprescribing of pain pills by doctors. The industry notes that the DEA approves the total amount of opioids produced each year.

Industry officials defended the new law as an effort to ensure that legitimate pain patients receive their medication without disruption. The industry had long complained that federal prescription drug laws were too vague about the responsibility of companies to report suspicious orders of narcotics. The industry also complained that the DEA communicated poorly with companies - citing a 2015 report by the Government Accountability Office - and was too punitive when narcotics were diverted out of the legal drug distribution chain.

"To be clear - this law does not 'decrease' DEA's enforcement against distributors," said John Parker, a spokesman for the Healthcare Distribution Alliance, which represents drug distributors. "It supports real-time communication between all parties in order to counter the constantly evolving methods of drug diversion."

But DEA Chief Administrative Law Judge John J. Mulrooney II has reached the opposite conclusion.

"At a time when, by all accounts, opioid abuse, addiction and deaths were increasing markedly" the new law "imposed a dramatic diminution of the agency's authority," Mulrooney wrote in a draft 115-page article provided by the Marquette Law Review editorial board. He wrote that it is now "all but logically impossible" for the DEA to suspend a drug company's operations for failing to comply with federal law. The agency declined to make Mulrooney available for an interview.

Deeply involved in the effort to help the industry was the DEA'sformer associate chief counsel, D. Linden Barber. While at the DEA, he helped design and carry out the early stages of the agency's tough enforcementcampaign, which targeted drug companies that were failing to report suspicious orders of narcotics.

When Barber went to work for the drug industry in 2011, he brought an intimate knowledge of the DEA's strategy and how it could be attacked to protect the companies. He was one of dozens of DEA officials recruited by the drug industry during the past decade.

Barber played a key role in crafting an early version of the legislation that would eventually curtail the DEA's power, according to an internal email written by a Justice Department official to a colleague. "He wrote the Marino bill," the official wrote in 2014.

Barber declined repeated requests for an interview.

With a few words, the new law changed four decades of DEA practice. Previously, the DEA could freeze drug shipments that posed an "imminent danger" to the community, giving the agency broad authority. Now, the DEA must demonstrate that a company's actions represent "a substantial likelihood of an immediate threat," a much higher bar.

"There's no way that we could meet that burden, the determination that those drugs are going to be an immediate threat, because immediate, by definition, means right now," Rannazzisi said.

Today, Rannazzisi is a consultant for a team of lawyers suing the opioid industry. Separately, 41 state attorneys general have banded together to investigate the industry. Hundreds of counties, cities and towns also are suing.

"This is an industry that's out of control. If they don't follow the law in drug supply, and diversion occurs, people die. That's just it, people die," he said. "And what they're saying is, 'The heck with your compliance. We'll just get the law changed.' "

2006: 52,277 deaths from prescription opioid overdoses since 2000.

Joe Rannazzisi came to DEA headquarters as an outsider with an attitude. He worked as an agent in Detroit, where he watched prescription drugs flood small towns and cities in the Midwest.

Hundreds of millions of pain pills, such as Vicodin and oxycodone, ended up in the hands of dealers and illegal users.

Rogue doctors wrote fraudulent prescriptions for enormous numbers of pills, and complicit pharmacists filled them without question, often for cash. Internet pharmacies, supplied by drug distribution companies, allowed users to obtain drugs without seeing a doctor.

"There were just too many bad practitioners, too many bad pharmacies, and too many bad wholesalers and distributors," Rannazzisi recalled.

Rannazzisi, a burly, tough-talking Long Islander, was assigned to head the DEA's Office of Diversion Control. He had a law degree, a pharmacy degree and had spent years navigating the DEA's bureaucracy.

The office was seen as a backwater operation whose 600 investigators had toiled for years over prescription drug cases with little or none of the recognition that went to those who investigated illegal street drugs like heroin or cocaine.

Rannazzisi brought an aggressive approach to the diversion control office.

The year he took over, Linden Barber was promoted to run diversion control's litigation office, which crafted the legal arguments that supported the team. He was a former Army lawyer who served in Iraq. The cadre of attorneys who worked for him saw him as a tough litigator unafraid of an influential industry.

Barber and Rannazzisi formed a powerful combination that the drug companies would learn to fear. "Early on he did really good work," Rannazzisi said. "He jumped into the Internet cases when he first came here."

After shutting down the Internet pharmacies, Rannazzisi and Barber pursued the pain management clinics that replaced them and soon became as ubiquitous in South Florida as the golden arches of McDonald's. To get there, drug dealers and users would take the "Oxy Express" down Interstate 75.

"Lines of customers coming in and going out," said Matthew Murphy, a veteran DEA supervisor in Boston whom Rannazzisi hired to be chief of pharmaceutical investigations. "Armed guards. Vanloads of people from the Appalachia region driving down to Florida to get a prescription from a pain clinic and then get the prescription filled, going back to wherever they're from."

Back home, each 30-pill vial of oxycodone was worth $900.

DEA officials realized they needed a new strategy to confront this new kind of drug dealer.

"They weren't slinging crack on the corner," Rannazzisi said. "These were professionals who were doing it. They were just drug dealers in lab coats."

Rather than focusing on bad doctors and pharmacists, Rannazzisi and Barber decided to target the companies feeding the pill mills: the wholesale drug distributors, some of them massive multinational corporations.

"I developed the legal framework to pursue actions against distributors," Barber would later say. "We initiated a record number of administrative actions; the government collected record-setting civil penalties."

Under the Controlled Substances Act of 1970, drug companies are required to report unusually large or otherwise suspicious orders. Failure to do so can result in fines and the suspension or loss of DEA registrations to manufacture or distribute narcotics.

When the DEA suspected that a company was ignoring suspicious sales, the agency filed an "order to show cause." That gave a company at least 30 days to explain why the agency should not revoke its registration.

In the most egregious cases, the DEA employed an "immediate suspension order," allowing the agency to lock up a distributor's drugs. The orders instantly halted all commerce in controlled substances on the grounds that the drugs constituted an "imminent danger" to the community.

Under Rannazzisi in the mid-2000s, the DEA repeatedly warned the companies that they were shipping unusually large volumes of opioids to customers around the country. Despite the warnings, some companies continued the shipments.

The DEA soon began bringing enforcement actions against distributors. In 2007, the agency moved against McKesson, the nation's largest drug distributor and the fifth-largest corporation in the nation, for failing to report hundreds of suspicious orders placed by Internet pharmacies. McKesson settled the case, paying a $13.2 million fine.

In 2008, Rannazzisi and Barber targeted Cardinal Health, another large drug distributor, for filling "blatantly suspicious" orders from online drugstores. Cardinal paid a $34 million fine.

The DEA would ultimately bring at least 17 cases against 13 drug distributors and one manufacturer. The government said it assessed nearly $425 million in fines over a decade. Those fines reflect only a small portion of the hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue the companies receive each year.

"It's a cost of doing business," Murphy said.

Along the way, Rannazzisi was making powerful enemies in the industry.

"They definitely didn't like Joe Rannazzisi," Murphy said. "Not at all. He wasn't viewed as a person that they could work with. And maybe that was appropriate. He didn't want to work with industry much."

Rannazzisi was unmoved by their complaints.

"We're worried about their feelings being hurt because we were doing our job?" he said. "We were making them comply. We were holding their feet to the fire."

Murphy recalled a telling meeting with drug company representatives.

He said the president of one of the drug companies sat on the other side of the table, put his hands up and said, " 'You got us. What can we do to make this right?' " Murphy recalled.

Murphy said he had heard the same thing from drug dealers.

There was an important difference, Murphy noted.

"You know," he said, "the heroin and cocaine traffickers didn't have a class ring on their finger from a prestigious university."

2011: 121,468 deaths from prescription opioid overdoses since 2000.

In 2011, Linden Barber left the DEA to join the Washington, D.C., office of the law firm Quarles & Brady. He started a practice representing drug companies. "If you have a DEA compliance issue or you're facing a government investigation," he said in a promotional video for the firm, "I'd be happy to hear from you."

Barber's move turned out to be a key moment in the struggle between drug companies and the government, but it was far from the only one. Dozens of top officials from the DEA and Justice Department have stepped through Washington's revolving door to work for drug companies.

Two former U.S. deputy attorneys general have defended Cardinal, one of the "Big Three" companies, along with McKesson and AmerisourceBergen, that together control 85 percent of drug distribution in the United States. Jamie Gorelick, an attorney for WilmerHale, was deputy attorney general under President Bill Clinton. Craig S. Morford, Cardinal's chief legal and compliance officer, was acting deputy attorney general under President George W. Bush.

As Rannazzisi's investigators increased their pressure, those lawyers began to contact their former colleagues in government.

In late 2011, Morford went over Rannazzisi's head to then-DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart as the agency again investigated Cardinal, which had sent millions of doses of oxycodone to a small number of pharmacies in Florida, including two CVS stores in Sanford.

"Michele," Morford wrote to Leonhart in October 2011, "we are committed to working with DEA to address the challenging problem of diversion and welcome the opportunity to meet with you and your team to address these issues in a non-adversarial way." He signed the handwritten note "Craig."

Gorelick said in an email that she wrote to then-Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole "to ask that my client be afforded due process." Morford did not respond to requests for comment.

Around Thanksgiving, Rannazzisi said he received a call about the Cardinal-CVS case from James H. Dinan, then-chief of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces program at the Justice Department. Rannazzisi said Dinan told him, "We're getting calls from attorneys, former Justice people, that are saying you guys are doing some enforcement action."

Four months later, Rannazzisi received a late-night call from Dinan summoning him to appear at Justice headquarters early the next morning to explain his actions in the Cardinal-CVS case to Cole.

"Please call me in the morning," Dinan wrote, according to Rannazzisi. "I want to make double sure nothing unreversible happens before [Cole] is briefed."

Rannazzisi was stunned. He had brought hundreds of these cases and had never been called to brief Cole, the second-most-powerful law enforcement official in the country.

The meeting quickly "spiraled out of control," Rannazzisi said. "It was adversarial to say the least."

Rannazzisi believed the message was clear: Back off.

Cole, now a lawyer in private practice, said he was not trying to pressure Rannazzisi.

"Hearing what Cardinal had to say could inform DEA of facts they may not have known," Cole said in a statement. "I did not tell Mr. Rannazzisi how to come out on the Cardinal matter and certainly did not discourage him from going after any company in violation of any statutes or regulations," he said.

Either way, Rannazzisi was defiant when he returned to the office from the Justice Department and sat down with his staff.

"Now this is war," he recalled telling them. "We're going after these people, and we're not going to stop. We're just going to continue to move forward. And we don't really give a damn any more what the department wants.'"

2013: 149,853 deaths from prescription opioid overdoses since 2000.

The field generals in the DEA's war on opioids are men and women such as Jim Geldhof, a 43-year agency veteran who managed the diversion control program in the Detroit field office. He witnessed firsthand the heartbreak pain pills were causing across the Midwest.

One night, at a town hall meeting in Portsmouth, Ohio, Geldhof sat quietly as the Portsmouth High School gym fell dark and a large screen flickered with photographs.

Geldhof was in tears.

"Sons and daughters and grandsons and granddaughters in graduation pictures," he recalled. "Some were wearing football jerseys. They had their whole lives ahead of them, and then they were gone."

The families always asked: What was the DEA doing to stop the flow of drugs?

By 2013, it had become increasingly difficult to answer that question. Cases were languishing at headquarters. At first, Geldhof wasn't sure why.

Behind the scenes, a major shift was taking place at DEA headquarters.

An appeals court in Washington, D.C., had been reviewing a case that Rannazzisi's investigators brought against Walgreens, alleging that some of its pharmacies in Florida were selling more than a million pain pills a year. A typical pharmacy sold 74,000.

The DEA had used an immediate suspension order against Walgreens, arguing that the drug sales constituted an "imminent danger" to the community. The DEA moved to shutter a large Walgreens distribution center in Jupiter, Fla., that supplied nearly 1,000 pharmacies along the East Coast.

Walgreens fought back.

The company's attorney, Gregory G. Garre, the former U.S. solicitor general during the second Bush administration, argued the "imminent danger" standard was vague and not supported by law. The original 1970 act did not define imminent danger.

Judges on the appellate panel voiced similar concerns during oral arguments.

No one knew how the appeals court would rule, but Linden Barber had argued while he was still at the DEA that the vague standard could cripple the cases the agency was building. Now Barber and other industry lawyers were making that argument on behalf of their clients. Their position was common knowledge in the diversion legal office, and it resonated with Clifford Lee Reeves II, a career Justice attorney who had recently taken the job Barber once held, according to Jonathan P. Novak, a lawyer who worked in the office.

"Lee kept trying to shut us down," said Novak, now in private practice. "He kept telling us about the Walgreens case and the imminent danger standard and that we were going to lose all of our cases and we didn't have enough information to go forward."

The DEA declined to make Reeves available for an interview.

Rannazzisi, a lawyer himself, told the DEA attorneys that the law was on their side.

"I said, 'Stop worrying. We have never lost an imminent danger case,' " he said.

The warnings by Barber and other industry lawyers divided the 15 attorneys in diversion control's legal office.

"Linden carried a lot of weight, and people listened to what he had to say," Novak said. "He knew all the arguments. He had the clout. He was the big gun. He put the fear of God into people."

Frank Younker, a DEA supervisor in the Cincinnati field office and 30-year veteran of the agency, said the legal office began demanding more evidence from investigators.

Starting in 2013, shortly after the Walgreens case was argued and Reeves arrived, investigators felt they were now required to establish that their evidence was "beyond a reasonable doubt." Previously, investigators had to show only "a preponderance of evidence."

"We had years of very aggressive enforcement," said Younker, who retired in 2014. "It was like we were in a Porsche and all of a sudden, someone hit the brakes."

DEA officials later said the standards did not change.

Novak said Reeves and his second-in-command, Jason Hadges, also required investigators to transcribe their interviews and hire high-priced expert witnesses, even though there was no budget for them.

Novak said it seemed like there was never enough evidence to please his bosses.

He said they would ask: "Maybe we need an expert to explain how recording equipment works? Maybe we need an expert to explain the system for prescribing?

"It felt, honestly, confusing and almost insane."

The delays cost months, sometimes years.

Geldhof, the DEA program manager in Detroit, was investigating a midsize Ohio-based drug distributor. Between 2007 and 2012, Miami-Luken had shipped 20 million doses of oxycodone and hydrocodone to pharmacies in West Virginia. About 11 million wound up in one county, Mingo, population 25,000.

Despite the rising death rate in West Virginia - the highest in the nation - Geldhof said his pleas in 2013 to halt Miami-Luken's operations were ignored by the legal office at headquarters.

"First we got blown off by the company," he said, "and then we got blown off by our own lawyers."

Novak suspected another reason for the slowdown.

At times, he said, some of his colleagues appeared more concerned with pleasing the industry than working on behalf of the public. Some of the lawyers had simply given up fighting the industry and seemed to be preparing for a future working with the companies they were supposed to be regulating, he said.

"It was not just one person who left the office; everyone started to leave. That's your payout. You do your time, and more and more people were auditioning for the industry. It stopped us from doing our jobs."

The departures gave the industry an unfair advantage, Novak said.

"There was a fear," he said. "It comes from seeing that some of the best and brightest former DEA attorneys are now on the other side and know all of the weak points. Their fingerprints are on memos and policy and emails."

2014: 164,691 deaths from prescription opioid overdoses since 2000.

The major drug companies also brought their campaign to Capitol Hill. One of their key allies was Tom Marino, then a two-term Republican congressman from Williamsport, Pa.

Marino was a former county and federal prosecutor with deep hometown ties to a district that was reeling from the opioid epidemic.

On Feb. 18, 2014, Marino introduced the Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act, making an effort to define what constitutes "imminent danger." The proposal raised the DEA's standard for suspending drug shipments by requiring that the agency establish "a significant and present risk of death or serious bodily harm that is more likely than not to occur."

It attracted 14 Republican co-sponsors, chief among them Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), also from a region in the grip of the epidemic.

The DEA mobilized to defeat Marino's measure. One internal DEA memo obtained by The Post and "60 Minutes" noted that the bill essentially eliminates the agency's power to file immediate suspension orders of drug shipments. The new law "is fixing a problem that doesn't need fixing," a DEA official wrote.

On April 8, 2014, with the bill stalled, Marino confronted the nation's top law enforcement officer, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., during a House Judiciary Committee hearing. Marino told Holder the DEA was treating the companies like "illicit narcotics cartels."

"This mind-set - it's extremely dangerous to legitimate business," Marino said.

He told Holder that he wanted the Justice Department to meet with industry executives. When Marino wrote to Holder three weeks later urging him to set up the meeting, the congressman added a handwritten note: "It would be great to work together on this. - Tom."

Within the DEA and the Justice Department, Marino's overtures to Holder set off alarms. On May 7, 2014, Matthew Strait, the DEA's congressional liaison officer, detailed ways "to push back" on Marino's bill, according to an email he wrote.

It was followed by a flurry of DEA memos. One said, "This bill is without basis in case law or Congressional findings." Another said the bill "would constitute perhaps the greatest reduction in the Attorney General's authority under the Controlled Substances Act since the Act's passage in 1970."

Later in May, Marino introduced a second version of his bill, with slightly altered language. Blackburnwas again a co-sponsor, but this time two Democrats were on board: Rep. Peter Welch of Vermont and Rep. Judy Chu of California.

On June 4, Bill Tighe, Marino's chief of staff, wrote to Peter Kadzik, Justice's top congressional liaison officer, thanking him for setting up a meeting with the industry executives.

Tighe asked Kadzik to coordinate with the industry's point person: Linden Barber.

Kadzik wrote to a colleague at Justice about Barber.

"Linden Barber used to work for DEA," Jill Wade Tyson, another Justice congressional liaison officer, responded in an email. "He wrote the Marino bill."

Through the summer of 2014, as the fight over the second Marino bill unfolded, the congressman and other lawmakers pressed for a meeting with the DEA to understand why Rannazzisi was so opposed. Congressional staffers set a conference call for July 2.

Rannazzisi's relationship with the Hill was already frayed, and his disdain for diplomacy had become legendary. His aides advised him against joining the call.

Rannazzisi ignored them.

At first, the conversation was cordial. Rannazzisi and DEA officials discussed the legislation with staffers from the Judiciary and the Energy and Commerce committees.

But the tone soon turned testy.

One DEA official asked why the law was necessary.

A congressional staffer responded, "We're just trying to create a better relationship between industry and DEA.'"

Rannazzisi blew up.

"You'll be protecting criminals," one participant recalled Rannazzisi saying.

Eric Akers, another DEA liaison to Congress, was stunned.

"As soon as he said it, I said, 'Oh, crap,' " recalled Akers, who also was on the line. "It was about as undiplomatic as you could be. I don't think he meant it as a threat. But any chance of salvaging the relationship with Congress just got immensely harder."

The congressional staffers were furious. "We can't work with you," one told the DEA.

Rannazzisi refused to meet with the industry executives, saying it would be improper because many of the drug companies were under active DEA investigation or in settlement negotiations with the Justice Department.

On July 29, the Marino bill passed the House and went to the Senate.

The Justice Department was so concerned that it took the unusual step of having Attorney General Holder publicly oppose the bill.

"A recently passed House bill would severely undermine a critical component of our efforts to prevent communities and families from falling prey to dangerous drugs," Holder said in a July 31 news release.

The bill stalled in the Senate.

On Sept. 18, during a congressional hearing, Marino complained to Leonhart, the DEA administrator, about Rannazzisi's comments on the conference call.

"It is my understanding that Joe Rannazzisi, a senior DEA official, has publicly accused we sponsors of the bill of, quote, 'supporting criminals,' unquote," Marino told her. "This offends me immensely."

A week later, Marino and Blackburn accused Rannazzisi of trying to "intimidate the United States Congress" and asked the Justice Department's inspector general to investigate.

Rannazzisi said he never said the bill would protect criminals.

"I said that this bill is going to protect defendants that we have under investigation," he said in a recent interview. "And if they don't like the truth, well, I don't know what to tell 'em."

2015: 179,972 deaths from prescription opioid overdoses since 2000.

With Rannazzisi under attack, the industry effort gained momentum. Marino introduced yet another version of his bill in the House on Jan. 22, 2015. He announced that the Energy and Commerce Committee would hold a hearing five days later.

One of the witnesses was Linden Barber.

Barber told the committee about the Walgreens case. He was still pressing the industry's long-standing argument about the need for a clearer legal definition of the DEA's imminent danger standard.

The case had not ended up setting a precedent that undermined the standard. Rather than take the case to trial, the company agreed to settle and pay what was then a record $80 million fine. Still, Barber argued the DEA faced legal jeopardy.

"Indeed, many of my colleagues believe that the [Walgreens] case would have resulted in a narrowing of DEA's authority if the agency had not settled its dispute," Barber said. "As a supporter of DEA's mission, I urge this committee to take legislative action that clarifies the meaning of imminent danger."

On April 21, 2015, the House took up Marino's bill. On the floor of Congress, Marino said:

"This bill will bring much-needed clarity to critical provisions of the Controlled Substances Act. In doing so, we will ensure that the DEA's authorities are not abused and threatened by future legal challenges; foster greater collaboration, communication and transparency between the DEA and the supply chain; create more opportunities to identify bad actors at the end of the supply chain; and, most importantly, be certain that prescriptions are accessible to patients in need."

The House passed the bill by unanimous consent. Not one lawmaker opposed the measure.

That same day, Leonhart, who had supported Rannazzisi's aggressive approach, announced that she was retiring as DEA administrator amid reports that some of her agents had attended sex parties funded by Colombian cocaine cartels.

For the industry and its supporters on Capitol Hill, the pieces were falling into place.

A month later, the Justice Department named a new DEA chief who said he wanted to mend the rift between the agency and the drug industry. Chuck Rosenberg was a former U.S. attorney in Virginia and Texas who had served as the chief of staff to then-FBI Director James B. Comey.

After Rosenberg came to the DEA, the agency began putting out a new message.

"Rosenberg wanted to paint a new face on the DEA for the Hill," said Regina LaBelle, the chief of staff for the White House's Office of National Drug Control Policy at the time. "He wanted to show them the softer side of the DEA, and he wanted to work with industry."

In October 2015, one of the last remaining obstacles to the bill was removed. Rannazzisi was pushed aside at diversion control. With the inspector general's investigation into his comments hanging over his head, Rannazzisi retired from the DEA after a 30-year career.

The investigation went nowhere. But, Rannazzisi said, "It destroyed me."

By this time, Holder had left and Lynch was the attorney general. Her office informed Marino that the DEA had met with 300 industry representatives and Justice was committed to "working more closely" with the drug companies.

"We value these opportunities to communicate and work with our partners in the pharmaceutical industry," Kadzik, Lynch's congressional affairs chief, wrote to Marino.

At the same time, the DEA was in negotiations with Hatch's staff to amend the bill for the Senate's consideration.

The newly proposed language required the DEA to show that a company's conduct posed a "substantial likelihood of an immediate threat" of death, serious bodily harm or drug abuse before the agency could seek a suspension order.

Whitlock, Hatch's spokesman, said the new language was proposed by the DEA.

"Senator Hatch has had a strong working relationship with DEA for his entire term of service and worked collaboratively for months with DEA here. Any claim that he tried to steamroll DEA or would ever seek to steamroll DEA is simply incorrect."

A Nov. 30 email from Tyson, the Justice Department congressional liaison officer, to a Senate staffer shows that the DEA agreed to the bill with reluctance.

"DEA felt this wasn't a great solution, but was the best of the options offered to us, even if it did not fully address the concerns we had previously laid out for you," she added, according to the email, which was provided by staff of Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), one of the bill's co-sponsors.

The bill would also give drug companies the opportunity to submit "corrective action" plans - outlines of how they were going to fix problems - before the DEA could sanction them. The DEA would be required to consider those plans before imposing penalties.

On March 17, 2016, the Senate passed the bill by unanimous consent. On April 12, the House approved the Senate version, also by unanimous consent.

The bill still needed the president's signature. Opposition from the DEA or Justice could derail it, but the two agencies had given up the fight.

The senior DEA official said the agency worked with Congress to improve the bill under difficult political circumstances. The agency believed earlier versions of the bill would have forced it to meet a criminal standard before issuing immediate suspension orders. "The original version of the bill was unworkable," the official said.

The congressional affairs office at the Justice Department told the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy that it no longer objected to the bill, according to Botticelli, then chief of the office.

On April 19, Obama signed the bill. The White House issued a one-page news release announcing its enactment.

Marino also issued a release taking credit for the legislation.

"With this law, our drug enforcement agencies will have the necessary tools to address the issue of prescription drug abuse across the country. I applaud the hard work of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle in Congress and President Obama for realizing the importance of this legislation."

Industry groups also thanked Obama. They agreed to work with the DEA "to ensure that the law is implemented efficiently and effectively," said John M. Gray, chief executive of the Healthcare Distribution Alliance, which represents the nation's drug distribution companies.

Two months after Obama signed the bill, Rosenberg appeared on Capitol Hill. Hatch praised him.

"I've been told the DEA's relationship with supply chain stakeholders has improved since you've taken the helm at DEA," the senator said. "I want to just say I applaud your efforts on this front."

He then asked Rosenberg how he viewed the relationship between the DEA and the opioid industry going forward.

Rosenberg said the agency had been slow to address industry's concerns and had failed to communicate with them.

"The overwhelming majority, 99 plus percent, are our allies in this thing," Rosenberg said.

2016: 197,713 deaths from prescription opioid overdoses since 2000.

John Mulrooney, the chief DEA administrative law judge, has been documenting the falling number of immediate suspension orders against doctors, pharmacies and drug companies. That number has dropped from 65 in fiscal year 2011 to six so far this fiscal year, according to the DEA. Not a single order has targeted a distributor or manufacturer since late 2015, according to Mulrooney's reports, which were obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.

Mulrooney said in his reports that the judges under him were handling so few cases at the DEA that they began hearing the cases of other federal agencies.

In his article planned for the winter issue of the Marquette Law Review, Mulrooney wrote: "If it had been the intent of Congress to completely eliminate the DEA's ability to ever impose an immediate suspension on distributors or manufacturers, it would be difficult to conceive of a more effective vehicle for achieving that goal."

Mulrooney's article also criticized the law for allowing companies to submit corrective action plans before the DEA could sanction them.

He likened that provision to allowing bank robbers to "round up and return ink-stained money and agree not to rob any more banks."

The DEA said in a statement last weekthat it is still pursuing reckless doctors and rogue businesses with a wide variety of tools.

"We will continue fighting the opioid crisis and continue to use all the tools at our disposal to combat this epidemic," the statement said.

Since the DEA started to crack down on the opioid industry a decade ago, pharmaceutical companies and the law firms that represent them have hired at least 46 DEA officials - 32 of them directly from the division. They include two officials who managed day-to-day operations; the deputy director of the division; the deputy chief of operations; and two chiefs of policy.

After nearly 30 years with the DEA, Matthew Murphy, Rannazzisi's lieutenant, retired in 2011. He formed a drug industry consulting firm and went to work for the people he used to face across the table.

"I feel guilty," Murphy said in a recent interview. "Because every day a lot of people die of an opioid-heroin overdose. Whether it's a pill or heroin, people die every day because of it. And it shouldn't be happening."

One of the most recent departures was Jason Hadges, the senior DEA attorney overseeing pharmaceutical enforcement cases who, according to former agency supervisors and lawyers, had been demanding a higher standard of proof on cases. Hadges left the DEA in May to join the pharmaceutical and biotechnology regulatory division of Hogan Lovells, a high-powered D.C. law firm. He declined to comment, citing "client sensitivities."

In January, Mike Gill, who had served as the chief of staff to DEA Administrator Chuck Rosenberg, left the agency to join one of the nation's largest health-care law firms. He declined to discuss why the DEA dropped its opposition to the bill or his new job.

On Oct. 1, Rosenberg himself resigned from the DEA.

Last December, seven months after the bill became law, Marino's chief of staff took a job as a lobbyist with the National Association of Chain Drug Stores. Bill Tighe had served as Marino's point man on the legislation. The association was a key backer of the bill. Tighe declined to comment.

In July, Linden Barber left Quarles & Brady to join Cardinal Health as the company's chief regulatory attorney. After being the target of two DEA enforcement actions, Cardinal had become one of the biggest backers of the bill.

Marsha Blackburn, who co-sponsored the House version of the bill, received $120,000 in campaign contributions from the pharmaceutical industry. She did not respond to requests for an interview. She announced this month that she will run for the seat of Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), who is not seeking reelection.

In addition to Blackburn, Marino and Hatch, The Post sought comment from the other nine co-sponsors of the 2016 bill. Only four responded.

A spokesman for Whitehouse said that the DEA could have expressed its opposition at any time.

"The fact that it passed the entire Senate without hearing any sort of communication that would have triggered concern of at least one senator doesn't really pass the smell test," the spokesman said.

Jim Geldhof, the DEA program manager in Detroit, retired from the agency at the end of 2015 after 43 years on the job. He said the companies were fully aware of their responsibilities under the law.

"When you're selling half a million pills to some pharmacy and you're telling me that you don't know what the rules are for a suspicious order?" said Geldhof, who is now working as a consultant to lawyers suing the industry. "All we were looking for is a good-faith effort by these companies to do the right thing, and there was no good-faith effort. Greed always trumped compliance. It did every time. It was about money, and it's as simple as that."

Just before Geldhof left, his two-year quest to persuade the DEA to take action against Miami-Luken finally paid off. In November 2015, the DEA accused the company of multiple violations of the law for allegedly failing to report orders for tens of millions of pain pills from pharmacies, most of them in West Virginia. That case - the most recent one to target a distributor - is pending.

Of the millions of pills sent to Mingo County, many went to one pharmacy in Williamson, the county seat, population 2,924. In one month alone, Miami-Luken shipped 258,000 hydrocodone pills to the pharmacy, more than 10 times the typical amount for a West Virginia pharmacy.

The mayor of Williamson has since filed a lawsuit against Miami-Luken and other drug distributors, accusing them of flooding the city with pain pills and permitting them to saturate the black market.

"Like sharks circling their prey, multi-billion dollar companies descended upon Appalachia for the sole purpose of profiting off of the prescription drug-fueled feeding frenzy," the lawsuit says.

Marino, now in his fourth term, continues to represent northeastern Pennsylvania and Lycoming County, population 116,000.

His nomination as drug czar, which would put him in charge of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, is pending.

Marino declined to be interviewed for this story, but last year he told The Post:

"We had a situation where it was just out of control because of [Rannazzisi]," Marino said. "His only mission was to get big fines. He didn't want to [do] anything but put another notch in his belt."

Since 2014, the year Marino first introduced his bill, 106 people have died of opioid overdoses in Lycoming County. Over six days this summer, 53 people in the county overdosed on opioids. Three of them died.

On a warm night in July, four families gathered in a large, manicured back yard in Marino's district to share their sorrow over the children and siblings they had lost to opioids.

Around the table they went, each with a different story, each death leaving the same wreckage behind.

"I got the phone call Nov. 12 at 2:39 in the afternoon," Tina Snyder recalled. Her 24-year-old son, Lee Winder, had been found in a shopping center parking lot near his car outside a Dunkin' Donuts.

Winder had become addicted to pain pills and died of a heroin overdose.

"All I remember hearing is 'Ms. Snyder, this is Chuck Kiessling, the Lycoming County coroner,' " she recalled. "I could literally feel my heart breaking, and I didn't say anything. He said, 'We found your son at 7 o'clock this morning.'

"And I just kind of like melted to the floor, started crying. And the girl I was working with took the phone and was talking to him. And I just kept begging her to tell me it wasn't true."

Steven Rich, Alice Li, Alice Crites, Reis Thebault and Sarah Bowman contributed to this report. Thebault was a fellow at the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University. Bowman was a fellow at the Medill Justice Project at Northwestern University. Graphics by Armand Emamdjomeh. Design and development by Leslie Shapiro, Danielle Rindler and Kaeti Hinck.

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July 25, 2018 16:24

Recently, Team Viral acquired a new European team after their short adventure with the ex-Team Pharaohs lineup.

Just a few days ago, they qualified for the Valiance Summer Season Group Stage.

To find out more about the team and their plans, we had a chat with the team manager - „Smokey

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Hi Smokey, please tell us who are the players in your lineup and what are their roles?

ReST (Entryfragger/Sniper)

DarkSan (In Game Leader)

T-BoX (Rifler)

Loxii (Entryfragger)

PROLORD (Supporter)

Matrix (Supporter/Sniper)

WarGame (Sniper)

6 players of this roster are playing together for months.

"PROLORD" is our recent addition to the team.

He's a new player and he adapted really fast to our gamestyle.

The main 6 is familiar with each other and have built up a good chemistry in these months playing together, and now we're working on building a chemistry with „PROLORD“.

In the Valiance Summer Season Qualifiers, you didn't encounter much of a resistance up until the last two matches against „SVR Team TR“ and „Team Vision“.

Tell us about it.

In the Summer Season Qualifiers we didn’t encounter much of a resistance, but we always were prepared and ready if the teams were actually good.

We didn’t underestimate any team and we played them just like any other top class Team.

However, we thought "Team Visionary" was decent so we were prepared for anything that could occur during that game.

We made sure we win every game in a good fashion.

Can you tell us more about these matches and did you prepare for any team specifically?

After seeing our bracket we didn't expect some team to come up and beat us, however, we always worked hard and played like always to get this group stage place.

Even if it was a team no one heard about we still prepared the map we're gonna play and discussed strategies.

We don't think any team in the brackets could've beat us.

Not so long ago "Team Viral"dropped their previous squad and acquired you as their new team.

How important is it for you to be a part of a known organization?

It's really important for us that we're playing under such a known organization like "Team Viral" since we get recognized now by a lot more people and with an eSports organization, you just realize that this isn't just for fun anymore its serious and professional.

Do you receive salaries or any sort of benefits from the organization?

As of right now, we have no salary, but equipment will be provided in the near future - headsets, iPads and other stuff that will help our team in improving.

The Group Stage is not going to be easy for any team that is taking part.

What team do you think is the strongest one in Europe and why?

In our opinion "Nova eSports" is the strongest European Team right now since they proved in last LAN how good they are and were the best European Team in LAN.

Also "Nova eSports" had the same roster for a long time now means they developed a good chemistry and know each other very well.

How are you going to prepare for the Group Stage?

Is it going to be any different from the qualifiers and are you already preparing for some teams?

We will keep analyzing our enemies, develop counter strategies and practice hard in scrim.

It means the preparation for group stages will be slightly different than the preparation for the Qualifiers since we play tier 1 teams.

And yes we are currently scrimming other Group stages teams already and looking out for weak points.

What do you think of your chances of making it to the playoffs?

What result would you be satisfied with?

I think the chances for „Team Viral“ for making it into the playoffs isn't bad.

We are an upcoming team with a lot potential and can use the surprise effect to our advantage.

We already beat good teams in scrims and are optimistic that we can beat any team in the Group Stages if we work hard enough.

I think if we would end up 3rd or 4th in the Summer Season it would be great already, however, we will try our best to finish off 2nd or even 1st place that we can secure a cash prize.

Any words for your fans and followers?

Yes, thank you guys so much for supporting us on our way we are really thankful to have such a great community, expect a lot coming from us we won't disappoint you!

We also wanna thank the lovely interviewer from Valiance for setting up this interview.

Thank you!

A lot of things can happen in the European part of the tournament since a lot of teams have a realistic chance of securing the number one spot.

It’s going to be an exciting season!

We'd like to wish Team Viral good luck and we hope that they will show us some great games during the Summer Season.

You can follow team at - @ThroneUp

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Athena Kildegaard: "In the Kirkegaard, December"

The graves here are swaddled with pine boughs

and across the street a woman lights tall candles.

In her window a white orchid blooms.

Men working on a steep roof

came down some time ago—I saw them

at noon, when the sun crested the chimney

—they left the ladders for tomorrow. How easy

it seems—now when daylight is lean

and weather tears at the sky—to stand

balanced before death, to warm a room

with only three flames and a flower.

Someone has been paid to lay the boughs

in quilted patterns around the stones

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to tuck in the dead, the beloved strangers, for winter.

Athena Kildegaard has had work appear in Faultline, Drunken Boat, Poetry East, Puerto del Sol, Cream City Review, Tar River Poetry, and elsewhere. Her first book, Rare Momentum, was published by Red Dragonfly Press, as will the forthcoming collection, Bodies of Light.


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My Move May Take Longer Than 1 Day What Should I Do?

There are a lot of moves that take longer than one day, especially if you’re moving house from York to somewhere else in the UK. As we like to allocate a day for packing and unpacking, this often leaves little time left for travelling. In these instances we’ll pack on day one. Travel half way to your new home or business and stay somewhere overnight. We’ll also ensure your belongings are kept completely secure. Then we’ll meet you at your new property early in the morning ready to unpack so we can finish before nightfall, leaving you to enjoy your new home. We’ll factor everything in to our quote but we won’t charge for hours where we’ll be sleeping despite being away from home!

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We don’t as a general rule supply boxes but as we are local York residents we do have many suggestions for where you can easily source new and used boxes for your move.

If I Helped with the Move Would It Affect Your Insurance?

We like it if you help us with the lifting and it won’t affect our insurance. Your home contents insurance covers your belongings while they are still on your property whereas our insurance covers your possessions once they are on our vans, in our hands.

Can You Move Two Students Together?

We understand that students have a very limited budget and need to save money wherever they can. This is why we actually recommend a student teams up with a friend to split the cost and to use the full potential of the van.

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We have been operating as a removal company in York for many years now. We work out how many vans you’ll need and the hours it will take us to load, along with the hands we’ll need on the day.

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Parking Near My Property is For Residents Only, What Should I Do?

We understand that in the city of York there are parking restrictions. We do state in our terms and conditions that you are responsible for arranging and paying for any parking we may need. This is because it is much easier for you to request a parking pass for a visitor, as a resident, than it is for us. It’s also cheaper for you to do so too. Please do make sure that we have the right parking permit for the day of the move as we can’t move you without it.

How Do I Know What Van I Need?

You don’t need to know what van you need, we have a wealth of experience and will choose the best one to suit you. We will never choose a vehicle that has too much capacity as we want to keep your costs as low as possible. A larger vehicle takes more fuel and is obviously more expensive so we’ll always choose the perfect fit for your move.

Do You Need to Visit?

Although we ask for an inventory if you’re moving house locally in York we do like to visit. This is so we can visualise the space we may need to help you move house. Often, our customers will under or overestimate the van capacity they need on the day and this can cause you an unnecessary headache. We’d much rather make sure everything is in place for a completely stress free move, so when we turn up on the day of the move we know we have everything we need.

This attention to detail also helps us to create bespoke quotes that save you money to the nearest penny as we work out exactly how many hours you may need us for.

What Happens If Something Breaks In Transit?

We know what we’re doing; we know the best way to stack and pack things in our van to avoid items moving during the journey and how to wrap valuables and other items to protect them as much as possible while on the move. Our removal vehicles are carpeted and clean and if you follow our advice on being prepared then your things should be perfectly safe while in transit even if you're moving right across the country or having items delivered abroad. That said, on very rare occasions, accidents can happen. Don’t worry though; your goods are covered by Goods in Transit and Public Liability insurance so if the worst does happen, the cost of repair or replacement is covered.

My Friends Said They Can Help Me Move. Is This Ok?

Yes it is, but make sure they are strong, healthy and know exactly what they are doing! More often than not, it can be very tempting to try and save on the cost of hiring extra removal men by getting friends or family to help. Just be aware that this can backfire and can end up more expensive in the long run whether through breakages or through the amount of time taken. Trust us, it can actually work out cheaper and less stressful to hire a couple of extra York removals men to get the job done as quickly and efficiently as possible.

I’m Moving Out of York, Does That Matter?

No. We carry out jobs all across the UK and even Europe (click for details). Our rates are some of the cheapest around so whether you are moving just a few streets over or are heading off to start a new life in sunny Spain, we can get your possessions there quickly and cost effectively. No matter how far away you plan to move, we have the reliable removal vehicles and professional moving team to help get your goods safely to their destination.

We have moved many families overseas to Europe and enjoyed every European removal. Obviously there is a little more involved with removals such as these as we have to pass through customs and follow the foreign legalities. If you are considering a move from York to a country in Europe, please get in touch and we can discuss our methods and rates for such a move.

Where Can I Get Boxes From? Do you Provide Them?

You can buy full moving packages that include everything you need including bubble wrap and boxes or just boxes from a number of retailers including places like Ikea and Staples. Our friends at Teacrate Packaging are our company of choice. It can also be worth asking at places that tend to throw away boxes once they have used them, such as supermarkets and warehouses. If you ask nicely they might give you them for free. These boxes will usually have been broken down flat, so if you do use them, make sure they are put back together securely to avoid any breakages in transit with extra tape to keep seems in place.

I Need To Move Tomorrow. Can You Help Me?

We are one of the most active moving services the North York area. As such, our services are in high demand, especially during the months of September and June. Although we are able to carry out jobs with very little notice on some occasions, we recommend that you try and book our courier and removal vans as early as possible to avoid disappointment. We do, however, take care of urgent removals as much as possible.

How Do I Book Your Services?

It’s easy to book our removal services in York, simply request a quote through our website. As we’re usually on the job, we can’t always get to the phone but we will respond to any messages within the hour.

What Hours Do You Work?

We know that not every job is the same and that sometimes people need to move their things from place to place outside of 'normal' working hours. That's why our removal services are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, all year round. We can tailor our times to suit your needs whether you need an early start or a late finish.

Your Name is Van Man York, Does This Mean You Are Only One Man and a Van?

We indeed start as one man and a van but we’ve come a long way from that. Now we have a fleet of vehicles and many removal men that make up the entire Van Man York team. You can find out more in the About Us section, however we do still offer the man and a van services in York which allows us to take on any job, big or small.

If you need a single piano moving or a whole five bedroomed house you’ll find what you need with Van Man York.

If you live locally you will be familiar with our vans whizzing up and down the A64!

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The vessel has extensive capacities for storing and handling liquid and dry substances under deck, and an impressive deck load capacity of approx. 9,000 tonnes. The main deck area aft of hangar measures 2,250 square metres.

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The vessel is built and outfitted according to the SPS (Special Purpose Ship) Code and can accommodate 239 persons. Life-saving appliances with a total capacity for all on board are installed on both sides. The entire accommodation is fire retardant and aligned with the Mobile Offshore Unit (MOU) code. The X-BOW® hull line design, floating floor on five accommodation decks and quiet-running thrusters forward all ensure low noise and vibration levels. Installed safety systems include overpressure of accommodation, fire-fighting, gas detection, rig-savers and emergency shut-down.

The vessel is built according to the highest standards for energy awareness and emissions. This includes full focus in operational system layout, efficient system solutions and equipment, and NOx emission reducing SCR (Selective Catalytic Reactors) system for all combustion engines including harbour and emergency generators. The DP system comprises approved Closed Bus operation in DP3 mode to exploit energy efficiency and reduce fuel oil consumption and emissions.

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Wildlife: Fools (2018)

Description: 14-year-old Joe is the only child of Jeanette and Jerry—a housewife and a golf pro—in a small town in 1960s Montana. Nearby, an uncontrolled forest fire rages close to the Canadian border, and when Jerry loses his job—and his sense of purpose—he decides to join the cause of fighting the fire, leaving his wife and son to fend for themselves. Suddenly forced into the role of an adult, Joe witnesses his mother’s struggle as she tries to keep her head above water.

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Danang attractions comprises manmade structures and natural beauty, ranging from centuries-old pagodas, French colonial buildings and gothic-style cathedrals to tranquil beaches, breath-taking mountains, and verdant national parks. If you’re looking...
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Obituary for James Howard Ogden, Jr. | Vilonia Funeral Home
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James Howard Ogden, Jr.

November 29, 1957 ~ November 27, 2018 (age 60)

James Howard Ogden Jr. of Vilonia, passed away at his home on November 27, 2018, at the age of 60.

James was born on November 29, 1957, in Conway, Arkansas to James H. and Mary (Nix) Ogden. He was a Christian and a member of Vilonia First Assembly. He enjoyed fishing, gardening, and riding motorcycles. James was a great husband, father, pappy, brother, and friend. He always went out of his way to help others that were in need. He was the rock of the family.

He leaves to cherish his memory, his wife of nineteen years, Brenda Ogden of the home; three sons, William Green of Conway, AR; Josh Ogden of Michigan; Bryan Gajeski of Springdale, AR; four daughters, April Alford of Mississippi; Brittney Branscum of Mayflower, AR; Tosha Ogden of Michigan; Trisha Simonds of Michigan; one brother, Burt Ogden of Conway, AR; three sisters, Benita Burge of Dallas, Texas; Carolyn Milner of Jusup, Georgia; Marie Long of Sam Rayburn, Texas; sixteen grandchildren, his mothers husband of whom she was married for more than forty years, Jeff Lyda, as well as a host of extended family and friends.

He is preceded in death by his parents.

There will be a visitation at Vilonia First Assembly 851 US- 64 on Friday, November 30, 2018, from 2:00 - 4:00 PM. Bro. Jim King will offer a few words of encouragement at 3:00 PM.

In lieu of flowers please make donations to First Security Bank Vilonia in c/o Brenda Ogden.

Cremation arrangements are under the care and direction of Vilonia Funeral Home 1134 Main Street Vilonia, AR 72173. Sign the online guestbook at

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Room in the Inn

We give a hearty thanks to all those in our Vine Street community who were able to support our emergency efforts with Room in the Inn last week through prayer, volunteerism and donations. We pray especially for the guests we hosted: Dana, Edward, Steve, Juan, Carlos, Nathan, Gary, Roderick, Peter, Jermaine, Orlando and Wubalem.


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Vintage Roots' Selection of Organic and Biodynamic Wines

You don’t need a fancy wine cellar to enjoy the benefits of keeping wine at home. A simple wine rack under the stairs or in the garage is likely to be fine. It will allow you to have a range of wine to choose from, giving you something to suit your mood and meal. There are also many wines that can be kept and will even improve with time – giving you a more enjoyable wine at no extra cost!

If you want to know how to store wine, you've come to the right place. Here, we'll show you the best way to store wine, no matter the vintage. Whether you have red, white, or sparkling wines, we'll teach you tips on how to store wine properly so that the bottles last for a long, long time… (unless you drink them first!)

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How to Store Wine: Wine Storage 101

Did you know that the average person stores a bottle of wine for anywhere from 14 hours to two weeks, with up to 90% of wine drunk within 24 hours of purchase! Unless you're a collector of wine, you have no real need for a fancy wine cellar, dehumidifier, or cooling unit.

All you'll need to do is find the best place in your home that meets the following conditions:

The number one enemy of wine is heat! The hotter the temperature in your home, the more likely it will be for the wine to spoil. However, fluctuating temperatures will also have a negative effect. If the temperature reaches just 21 C, the heat can age the wine more quickly. If the heat keeps rising, the wine may "cook" in the bottle, leaving your wine with flat flavours and aromas.

Anywhere between 7 and 18 C is ideal for storing your wine. Find a room (or cupboard!) in your home where the temperature is cool and constant, and keep the wine there.

Note: Heat exposure won't affect the wines in the short term, only if you store the bottles for years. If you are drinking the wine within a year or so then you shouldn't have to worry about heat, but do try to keep it away from radiators or other sources of heat.

Some people advise against storing wine in the fridge, but as a dark place with a constant temperature, there are benefits, particularly if it’s for white wines as they were always be ready at drinking temperature!

Light is one of the worst enemies of your wine, particularly white and light-colored wines. The UV rays of direct sunlight can degrade your wine, causing it to age prematurely. This is why most vintners use colored bottles, as the tint helps to protect the wine from direct sunlight.

You should make it a point to store your wine someplace where there is NO direct sunlight.

As the sun's rays hit the wine, they cause it to heat, leading to degradation. Store them out of direct sunlight, and even keep them in a dark place to ensure that they last longer.

You won't have to worry about your light bulbs or interior lights causing damage to the wine, though strong direct lighting (such as from halogen bulbs or spotlights) could cause degradation of your wine. Incandescent bulbs are usually safer than fluorescent bulbs, as they emit far less UV light.

The "ideal" humidity level is around 70%. This is because air that is too dry will cause the corks to dry out, leading to seepage and air bubbles. Too much humidity, and mould could grow on the cork and bottle.

If you don't want to fork out for a controlled environment (like a wine cellar or cooler), don't sweat it! Humidity levels anywhere from 50 to 80% are fine for your average bottles of wine - only truly fine, fancy wines need a controlled environment.

If the wine is shaken, it could cause the chemical reactions in your wine (the reactions that caused it to ferment) to speed up. The vibrations could also disturb the wine's sediment, preventing the sediment from settling. This could lead to a gritty bottle of wine, which can be unpleasant.

The best way to store wine is to keep it well away from excessive vibrations, such as washing machines. Long-term storage can be affected by vibrations, but for short-term storage it should be fine.

If you want to know how to store wine, it's always wise to keep cork-sealed wines on their sides until opened. This ensures that the bottom of the cork stays moist, and the wine prevents the cork from drying out.

Horizontal racking is also a space-efficient solution, so it's likely the best way to store your wine. Screw capped wines can be stored horizontally or vertically.

A cork will usually only dry out after many months or years of storage, so only fine wines that are left to age really NEED to be stored this way.

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How to Store Red Wine

If you want to know how to store red wine, you need to remember that all wines are sensitive to light. The light causes premature aging, which can affect the flavours - and not in a good way! Red wines aren't as sensitive to light as other wines, but you want to make sure that they are stored in a cool, dark place with as little direct sunlight as possible.

How to Store White Wine

White wines are the most susceptible to light damage, and they tend to degrade very quickly if left out under direct sunlight. It's vital that you store white wines in a cool, dry, and dark place, as that will protect the wine and reduce the risk of degradation. Particularly those that are in clear glass bottles, rather than dark coloured bottles, as these are more susceptible to light damage.

How to Store Sparkling Wine

Just like white wines, sparkling wines tend to degrade fairly easily when exposed to direct sunlight. You'd do well to keep them stored in the same cool, dark place as the white wine, as that will ensure that they have their bubble and fizz when you open them. Plus, you don't want the light to affect the flavour of the wine!

Champagnes can be stored for many years in the right conditions, with the flavours becoming more complex, and the bubbles softer. Lighter sparkling wines such as Prosecco, however, are best drunk whilst young and fresh.

Follow these tips, and you'll find that your wines last a whole lot longer.

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Kinetic Scroll for all interfaces in N97 in V12 firmware?

N97 - Landscape - Auto CompleteOne sore point with the N97 and other phones running on the Symbian S60 V5 platform is the lack of Kinetic scroll in the default interfaces. The Web browser and apps like Gravity have built  kinetic scrolling interfaces which are fast to flick though.  The other menus on the device use the nasty scroll bar which is tiny enough to struggle with to scroll through, for example, a large music collection or even a contact list. It looks like there’s a beta firmware update which brings kinetic scrolling for all the interfaces on the N97.

Lenny put this up on this twitter status a few days back – “Just got my black n97 and saw person in flagship store with full kinetic scrolling throughout said it was a beta software

Hope the v12 version of the N97’s firmware comes with kinetic scroll as a default for all interfaces. I’m already tired of navigating though my contact list with the current scroll bar interface!

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The Year of Many Treasures

Henry friendship gatewaySo many good things are happening as we continue to build a permanent Peace Park for our Buddhist Community; as we assist all who come here for spiritual sustain-ability and peaceful means in life!

Thank you for considering to donate online here at BeGiving.

The Vision and goal is for a Legacy of Peace a sanctuary for all people. A walk in the quiet forest for a thousand years  assisting people to get away from the noise and find spiritual refreshment and peaceful means. We all live with a strong desire to help others, and I believe it is this desire and vision to help others that leads one to wisdom and enlightenment. Thank you for taking a few moments of your day to reflect on the goals of most of humanity; the attainment of health and happiness in One’s life.

A place of retreat, a peace center and community gathering place. A landscape of natural online forest that runs alongside a protected heritage river, a place where people come to find harmony in their life. You can make a difference!  Our social network is no longer is just the neighbour next door, today family, friends, work associates, people we  share with on the Internet, Facebook, Twitter and in person, is our everyday social network.

Even if you can’t donate a dollar, you can become a “champion” for peace. Who do you now who could be interested in financial aide? You can help by sharing with some of the people you know.   You can assist with “in kind” donations, financial donations, and social contact donations.  Thanks for your time and considerations.

The Long Term Goal

The Long Term Goal, simple and profound, a Park of natural beauty, a place of peacefulness with the opportunity to assist those who suffer from the stress of life. A land for those who have need of getting away from the busyness that causes Health issues; a land of gracefulness, with a teacher of compassion who offers an awakening to the important issues of this world and this life.  A sharing of offerings that encompass Ones past, present and future.  This park we call Lotus Land an offering in the here and now.  Come for a visit, come walk the land, come see and feel the light and energy of a thousand years!

Ask for our complete “Discovery Package, we can send it via E-Booklet, or regular mail, your choice.  Your Questions and inquiries responded to respectfully.

Thus It Has Been Shared, Respectfully, Henry Landry, Administrator, Teacher

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Hama for Food Industries and El Gebaly Fruit Company, subsidiaries of Hama Holding for Financial Investments, are market leaders in exporting Egyptian fresh produce mainly citrus. We do oranges, mandarins, lemons, grapes, onions, garlic, pomegranates, etc. Our companies are characterized by using high technology of a fully automated production line and state-of-the-art AC cold rooms.
Hama For Food Industries and El Gebaly Fruit Co. collaborate with their sister company “Hama For Agricultural Investments” which is a fast growing reclamation and cultivation company, applying modern farming technologies to produce high quality crops from our farms. Hama for Agricultural Investments is committed to high-quality, contaminate-free products with minimum risk to people and the environment through the use of seeds and seedlings that are free from disease and the use of irrigation water that meets international standards. The main job of Hama for Agricultural Investments is to produce high quality fresh produce suitable for export to competitive and high standard markets. Within three years, we are expected to have 250 000 MT of citrus from our farms, 70% oranges and 30% mandarins.
Hama For Food Industries and El Gebaly Fruit Co. are dedicated to implementing product quality and safety systems. The Companies’ laboratory analyzes the percentage of sugar, acidity and juice contained in its produce to determine compliance with the specifications of Egyptian standards for exporting and packing citrus. Products are also analyzed for pesticide residue in the Central Laboratory of the Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture, which holds ISO 17205 certification, to determine if the results meet the MRL standards of the importing markets. Quality and efficiency are ensured through the use of electronic tracking that allows the entry of farm operation data, including the production programs, fertilization, control and irrigation, and the link between the farm and the company through a code assigned to every farm. Our Companies acquire a lot of international certificates: ISO 9001, ISO 22000, OHSAS 18001, BRC, SEDEX "SMETA", and GLOBAL G.A.P.

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Sense and Sensibility

Based on the novel by Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility follows the shifting fortunes of the Dashwood family. You’ll be transported back to early 19th-century English society with its distinctive fashions and etiquette, and we don’t doubt you’ll be enchanted. Look out for its historic locations, many of which are in Devon and London.

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Find the best British restaurants London has to offer below, from traditional venues serving classic staples, to modern eateries creating inventive dishes.

Enjoy the best British food in London, including fish and chips, pies, Sunday roasts and more. Or discover new flavour combinations at modern British restaurants in London, many of which source seasonal produce from local producers.


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Throughout our history, Gyro Conference has been responsible for planning and staging of a long succession of successful events, congresses and conferences, large and small, for the public and private sectors as well as all types of member organisations. Our portfolio spans the range from large international events and congresses to of international governmental nature. Gyro Conference has a wide and coordinated expertise within all areas related to development and staging of events and conferences. Our services include working with clients in order to develop goals and strategies as well concepts and creative solutions. In addition, we supply quality assurance services, project management, websites / marketing activities, registration, abstracts, exhibition, budget and accounting management as well as the actual operative staging and contingency planning necessary for a successful event.

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Material description
  • Shelves: extruded aluminium profiles, anodised.
  • Side walls: MDF, powder-coated.
  • Sliding doors: powder-coated aluminium sheet in pink, dark green, sulphur yellow, dark blue, bronze-grey and bright white.
  • Legs: tubular stainless steel, individually height-adjustable.
  • Range of use: recommended for residential use only.
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Modular in structure, the Kast storage unit starts with a sideboard as the base version. For the medium-height version, a second base module is placed on top to create a shelf/wall cabinet combination. In the tallest version, two simple and sturdy wooden elements are added. Maarten Van Severen paid special attention to the colours of the sliding doors, which not only emphasise the proportions of Kast but also give it a fresh and optimistic feeling.
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The designer Maarten Van Severen started creating furniture in the mid-1980s, initially producing the pieces himself in his Ghent workshop. His designs are characterised by their simple form and superb comfort. The collaboration with Vitra began in 1996, resulting in the Van Severen Collection.
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