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Zolpimist Patient Information Including Side Effects
Brand Names: Ambien, Ambien CR, Edluar, Intermezzo, Zolpimist
Generic Name: zolpidem (Pronunciation: zole PI dem)
- What is zolpidem (Zolpimist)?
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What is zolpidem (Zolpimist)?
Zolpidem is a sedative, also called a hypnotic. It affects chemicals in your brain that may become unbalanced and cause sleep problems (insomnia).
Zolpidem is used to treat insomnia. The immediate-release forms of zolpidem are Ambien, Intermezzo,Edluar, and Zolpimist, which are used to help you fall asleep. The extended-release form of zolpidem is Ambien CR, which has a first layer that dissolves quickly to help you fall asleep, and a second layer that dissolves slowly to help you stay asleep.
Ambien, Edluar, and Zolpimist are used to help you fall asleep when you first go to bed. Intermezzo, is used to help you fall back to sleep if you wake up in the middle of the night and then have trouble sleeping.
Your doctor will determine which form of zolpidem is best for you.
Zolpidem may also be used for purposes not listed in this medication guide.
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What are the possible side effects of zolpidem (Zolpimist)?
Zolpidem may cause a severe allergic reaction. Stop taking zolpidem and get emergency medical help if you have any of these signs of an allergic reaction: hives; difficulty breathing; swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat.
Report any new or worsening symptoms to your doctor, such as: depression, anxiety, aggression, agitation, confusion, unusual thoughts, hallucinations, memory problems, changes in personality, risk-taking behavior, decreased inhibitions, no fear of danger, or thoughts of suicide or hurting yourself.
Stop using zolpidem and call your doctor at once if you have:
- chest pain, fast or irregular heartbeat, feeling short of breath;
- trouble breathing or swallowing; or
- feeling like you might pass out.
Common side effects may include:
- daytime drowsiness, dizziness, weakness, feeling "drugged" or light-headed;
- tired feeling, loss of coordination;
- stuffy nose, dry mouth, nose or throat irritation;
- nausea, constipation, diarrhea, upset stomach; or
- headache, muscle pain.
This is not a complete list of side effects and others may occur. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
Read the Zolpimist (zolpidem tartrate oral spray) Side Effects Center for a complete guide to possible side effects
What is the most important information I should know about zolpidem (Zolpimist)?
In January 2013, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) lowered the recommended dose for zolpidem. If you have taken zolpidem in the past, your doctor may direct you to take a lower dose of this medicine than you did before.
Do not share this medication with another person, even if they have the same symptoms you have. The recommended doses of zolpidem are not the same in men and women, and this drug is not approved for use in children. Misuse of this medication can result in dangerous side effects.
Zolpidem may impair your thinking or reactions. You may still feel sleepy the morning after taking zolpidem, especially if you take the extended-release tablet, or if you are a woman. Wait at least 4 hours or until you are fully awake before you do anything that requires you to be awake and alert.
Some people using this medicine have engaged in activity such as driving, eating, or making phone calls and later having no memory of the activity. If this happens to you, stop taking zolpidem and talk with your doctor about another treatment for your sleep disorder.
Do not take this medicine if you have consumed alcohol during the day or just before bed.
Zolpidem may be habit forming. Keep the medication in a place where others cannot get to it.
Zolpidem may cause a severe allergic reaction. Stop taking zolpidem and get emergency medical help if you have any of these signs of an allergic reaction: hives; difficulty breathing; swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat.
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For every dollar your company spends printing a page, another nine may be spent managing that page. An All Associates Group study reported that Corporate 2000 enterprises spend roughly six percent of their revenue on imaging and printing on average, with some industries as high as 14 percent.
It's time to lower these costs and bring your system under control. A key place to look for cost savings is in your printing environment. Organizations that manage their printer, copier and fax fleets can save between 10 and 30 percent of their print costs by managing their print infrastructure and automating paper-based workflows.
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Tooled up with an arsenal of drums, guitar, synth bass and loop pedals, Cairo Knife Fight brought the noise to SXSW for a week of shows and Texas barbecue, and survived to tell the tale. Here's their blow-by-blow account of one week in Austin.
Aaron Tokona: Tonight was the last gig of a tour supporting I Am Giant - we fly out at 4am tomorrow morning to San Francisco on route to Austin.
I can start to feel our little band connecting as there are more and more people showing up to our gigs with our T-shirts on, and there are lots more girls up the front on Nick's side and even more sexually-confused people on my side. The band is red-hot for this whole Austin buzz. One Maori and one Pakeha fulla, ready to go.
AT: There are a few signs you're on the way to rock'n'roll stardom, and flying on American Airlines is not one of them. Having been dropped at Christchurch Airport at 4am by my amazing wife, I leave her again with the hope that one day I'll make some coin outta this whole buzz. San Francisco customs was a breeze - the guy at the counter asked us if we knew Katchafire, stamped our shit and let us through!
San Fran is a choice town. We went out to some bars around the corner, drank beers, whiskey and shots. That sorted out the jet lag buzz. My highlight - I brought my 10-year-old an iPad. Awesome, she will love it - she already blazes me on computers.
Nick Gaffaney: I'm sure I'm not alone in thinking that airports engender a special kind of anxiety. Especially American ones. Every musician knows the rage of the excess baggage lottery, but it only cost $160 to get all this ridiculous amount of shit we take with us onto the plane. Two-person band, twice the gear.
Into Austin and straight out to meet our mates Gary Fortune and Alan Holt (from the New Zealand Music Commission) and Hugh Sundae and Sam Wicks (local tabloid phone hackers). We're out in South Austin, a few miles from downtown. Gary and Alan are at the Hilton downtown. Government types!
Gary and Alan are old hands at this SXSW thing so they show us the buzz. Barbecue is the name of the game here so we hit this True Blood-looking place and I order this whole cow in rib form. Next level. All Aaron can get out between mouthfuls of pork ribs is how his cuzzies would LOVE this place.
AT: Gig day. Our US manager Kirk Harding flies in today. The last time he saw us play was in New York - he saw one gig, we had one Chinese meal, and that was the deal done.
On route to our first gig, we walk our gear through 1000s of people in what feels like 1000-degree heat. We get into the venue and the band on stage sounds horrid, which immediately makes me feel better! Next minute we're playing to five people and sounding unbelievably awful! I take a momentary glance at Kirk and can't help but think he's thinking, 'Oh no, what have I done?' Well, we lost our SXSW virginity and it was a lame lay, but we blew the PA up - true story.
Our second gig is our one official SXSW show so there's lots of SXSW crew on hand to help. They couldn't believe the gear we had and kept asking me, 'You're a two-piece, right?' We sounded good and I think we nailed the gig.
NG: Up early. Kirk picks us up and we head in to meet Sam and Hugh for a photo shoot.
Getting your photo taken on a street when it's obvious that no one knows who you are can make you feel like a bit of a cock, but that kinda thing is going on all over this city this week. Poor Hugh had been up all night sitting in the lobby of the Hilton (which isn't even his hotel) editing footage for the Herald online so he's absolutely shattered. Whatever you pay him, it's not enough!
We picked up a last minute gig at this place called ND's. Killer space and great PA. The set is genuinely enjoyable and as quick as it starts it's over! There's virtually no time to get into the show so you have to hit the ground running.
The New Zealand showcase is the other main focus here for us along with our B.D. Riley's gig so we get there early to sort it out. It's in a great spot, the weather has held out and there are loads of people. Electric Wire Hustle is setting the pace when we arrive. These guys have some great things going on over here and in Europe and it's easy to see why.
Aaron's busting out his new Gretsch White Falcon guitar so this gig is pretty raucous. I love shows like this where it seems that the walls are caving in and an aircraft is going to land on stage. The highlight of the week occurred too when the daughter of a friend from New Zealand got onstage to dance with us. It kinda felt like home for a minute.
AT: I think we are both starting to feel the tiredness now. Everything about this buzz is hectic and relentless.
We have one show to get through today -The Australian Barbecue showcase. In the spirit of the ANZACs we lock and load and head to the venue.
Next minute we're back at the barbecue joint eating ribs again. They are so good at the start of the meal, but by the end of it you actually feel sick. I thought about turning into a vegetarian after that one, and I'm a Maori!
NG: There is NO way in hell Aaron will ever become a vegetarian. That needs to be addressed before we go any further.
The festival is basically over now so we get a cab straight to the last venue we'll play - that's been unheard of this week. We drop the gear and head to dinner with the last of the New Zealand crew. The margaritas are flowing and it's a great way to see out the week.
This last gig was really a celebration of the week and all the incredible people who made it happen. And just like that, it's over!
This festival is one that defines you as a band; it requires teamwork and strategy combined with a hefty output of sweat. I think we came through it fantastically well. What I've come away from SXSW with is a renewed awareness that there are some incredibly talented people from New Zealand working at the very top of the international music industry. We met some on this trip and it's extraordinarily inspiring to spend time with them and listen to the stories and take on the advice.
Play SXSW again? Never! Unless we're being paid to. Once was perfect and the most I could handle. Visit SXSW? Definitely, best experience possible for a punter.
Special thanks to our mate Justyn Pilbrow who travelled from NYC to tech for us. It would've been a fucking nightmare without him! Thanks bro!
See you soon!
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and met the staff. They made me want to come to class every day and learn more, and
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The Division of Arts and Humanities seeks to inspire within our students a search for truth, a sensitivity to our world and the diverse cultures within it, the ability to lead in their chosen professions, and a spirit of service. Together with students, we want to know, to understand, to lead, and to serve within the framework of the Arts and Humanities disciplines.
We provide educational opportunities that involve meaningful learning in and out of the classroom, as well as engaging co-curricular events and projects. Faculty, staff, and students attend performances of the Schomburg Series, participate in the yearly Arts on the Quad arts festival, and create art during the weekly community Art Night, to name a few of the opportunities that surround the Arts and Humanities Division.
In addition, the division supports the Women's Commission Art Gallery, which brings visual arts to the campus and community, and Progeny, the Defiance College literary and photography magazine.


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Tuition at Pulaski Technical College will increase by 2 percent beginning with the fall 2011 semester.
The Pulaski Technical College Board of Trustees unanimously approved the increase during a regular meeting on Monday, Jan. 24.
Tuition costs will increase $2 per credit hour, from $82 to $84 for in-state residents. Tuition for out-of-state students will increase $3 per credit hour from $135 to $138. In lieu of paying an international tuition rate, international students will pay the out-of-state tuition rate plus a $500- per-semester international student fee. The international student application fee will increase from $50 to $250.
The college's equipment/facility use fee also will increase by $2 from $11 to $13 per credit hour. All other enrollment current fees will remain the same for the 2011-12 academic school year.
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Blues midfielder Francis Saili has been dropped from the starting XV to play the Reds in Brisbane on Friday after he was charged with a driving offence.
He is due to face court tomorrow.
Saili's alleged offending comes as All Blacks and Hurricanes wing Julian Savea was remanded on bail today after his court appearance in Wellington on a charge of common assault.
Blues coach Sir John Kirwan this morning told the media of Saili's impending court appearance for allegedly driving while disqualified after being asked about Savea's situation.
"We've actually got a little misdemeanour in our side at the moment,'' he said.
"Francis Saili was disqualified from driving because of speeding tickets and he got caught driving the other day. We've handled that internally. He's a young man who has done a silly thing.
"We're not playing him in our starting 15 for punishment of that and there are NZRU protocols that are taking place.
"He's in court tomorrow. He's apologised to the team.
"Each team needs to have its protocols. We set those up at the start of the season so he's copped it and moved on.''
Asked if his teammates were disappointed with Saili, Kirwan said: "We've cleared that up. We just asked him to take more responsibility and make better decisions. He was disappointed, he apologised to the boys.''


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Thank you Celeste and Fabia all your activities, arrangements and kindness.
We felt to very welcome. For the extra price, personal driver picked up us from the airport terminal. We've got also a lift to the airport the same style. Price correlated with taxi prices. Apartment was nice, clean and very silense at the night. It is also very near to historical centrum and we walked all to our trips to the sights. Bus stop is also near, few minutes from the apartment.
We give warmly recommondations.
Brilliant stay at Loft Trastevere 2, it began with great service from Celeste and Flavia from the moment of booking. They arranged transfers from the airport to make life easier when arriving, the price was competitive compared to many taxi firms in the area and we had the assurance of knowing it was pre-booked. Celeste was there to meet us and gave us useful information about the surrounding area as well as the WiFi instructions all in a pack.
The apartment is exactly as advertised, in good, clean condition. The Roman wall is a great centre piece and looks great when lit up. The air conditioning / heating worked a great. There were some basic supplies (coffee, olive oil etc...) but the shop was only around the corner. There was a nice addition in the form of a bluetooth speaker to allow us to have some music as we got ready.
Location was perfect, lovely patisserie down the road for breakfast and many restaurants nearby.
I would definetely stay here again and would like to thank Celeste and Flavia for the lovely stay.
Celeste & Flavia's loft apt was perfect, cosy, tastefully furnished (loved the old stone wall saved & lit up & antique corner cupboard. ) Very near cafes & tram stop - central line in Trastevere. Only suggestion: American coffee machine would be great - didn't know how to use manual Italian cup thingy (sorry don't know term). (& Bring your own soap for shower) ..great place - would definitely recommend & stay there again! Thanks!
Han sido cuatro días estupendos. Celeste nos ha ayudado mucho y sobre todo con un problema de pérdida de documentos. Estamos muy agradecidos y por supuesto que recomendaremos a nuestra familia y amigos su alojamiento. Un gran abrazo y nuestras reiteradas GRACIAS.
Hemos disfrutado de 4 días en Roma fabulosos.El apartamento está muy bien situado de forma que nosotros hemos hecho todas las visitas a pie salvo ir al Vaticano.Es tal como aparece en las fotos,decorado moderno y muy limpio.Celeste fue encantadora,nos recibió rápidamente y nos dejó todo tipo de información incluyendo un plano de Roma.Cerca del apartamento hay restaurantes y supermercados destacando una panadería cercana con muy buena bollería.Sin duda,si vuelvo a Rona .volvere a este apartamento.Gracias Celeste por todo.
Wij werden vriendelijk ontvangen door Flavia. Zij heeft al onze vragen kunnen beantwoorden en had goede tips. Prima Wifi verbinding.
Een heerlijk ruim en schoon appartement met een goed bed, gelegen in het hart van Trastevere. Bijna alles is op loopafstand te bezoeken!
Una estancia perfecta con una anfitriona maravillosa y un plan perfecto para ver Roma, disfrutar de su gente tan cojonuda, su buena comida y para repetir cuanto antes
Gracias por todo a Flavia y su amabilidad.
Nuestra estancia en Roma ha sido genial, Celeste es un encanto y nos trato maravillosamente, el apartamento fantastico, limpio, acogedor , tranquilo , que mas decir, volveremos pues con gente asi da gusto pasar unas vacaciones . Lo recomendamos.
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Pulaski Tech will observe Banned Books Week during the week of Sept. 27. The Library Committee and the Fine Arts Division will have various activities on both the main campus and at the Little Rock -South site, including readings and panel discussions.
Volunteers are needed to read short excerpts from previously banned or challenged books. Commonly read and/or recognized titles are preferred, and numerous lists are available.
Please email J. Michelle Palmer at email@example.com with any questions or to volunteer.
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Edward O. Wilson
Science, its imperfections notwithstanding, is the sword in the stone that humanity finally pulled. The question it poses, of ultimately lawful materialism, is the most important that can be asked in philosophy and religion. Its procedures are not easy to master, even to conceptualize; that is why it took so long to get started, and then mostly in one place, which happened to be western Europe.
Science, to put its warrant as concisely as possible, is the organized systematic enterprise that gathers knowledge about the world and condenses the knowledge into testable laws and principles. The diagnostic features of science that distinguish it from pseudoscience are first, repeatability: The same phenomenon is sought again, preferably by independent investigation, and the interpretation given to it is confirmed or discarded by means of novel analysis and experimentation. Second, economy: Scientists attempt to abstract the information into the form that is both simplest and aesthetically most pleasing—the combination called elegance—while yielding the largest amount of information with the least amount of effort. Third, mensuration: If something can be properly measured, using universally accepted scales, generalizations about it are rendered unambiguous. Fourth, heuristics: The best science stimulates further discovery, often in unpredictable new directions; and the new knowledge provides an additional test of the original principles that led to its discovery. Fifth and finally, consilience: The explanations of different phenomena most likely to survive are those that can be connected and proved consistent with one another.
Astronomy, biomedicine and physiological psychology possess all these criteria. Astrology, ufology, creation science and Christian Science, sadly, possess none. And it should not go unnoticed that the true natural sciences lock together in theory and evidence to form the ineradicable technical base of modern civilization. The pseudosciences satisfy personal psychological needs, but lack the ideas or the means to contribute to the technical base.
The work of real science is hard and often for long intervals frustrating. You have to be a bit compulsive to be a productive scientist. Keep in mind that new ideas are commonplace, and almost always wrong. Most flashes of insight lead nowhere; statistically, they have a half-life of hours or maybe days. Most experiments to follow up the surviving insights are tedious and consume large amounts of time, only to yield negative or (worse!) ambiguous results.
Over the years I have been presumptuous enough to counsel new Ph.D.'s in biology as follows: If you choose an academic career you will need 40 hours a week to perform teaching and administrative duties, another 20 hours on top of that to conduct respectable research and still another 20 hours to accomplish really important research. This formula is not boot-camp rhetoric. More than half of the Ph.D.'s in science are stillborn, dropping out of original research after at most one or two publications. Percy Bridgman, the founder of high-pressure physics—no pun intended—put the guideline another way: "The scientific method is doing your damnedest, no holds barred."
Original discovery is everything. Scientists as a rule do not discover in order to know but rather, as the philosopher Alfred North Whitehead observed, they know in order to discover. They learn what they need to know, often remaining poorly informed about the rest of the world, including most of science for that matter, in order to move speedily to some part of the frontier of science where discoveries are made. There they spread out like foragers on a picket line, each alone or in small groups probing a carefully chosen, narrow sector. When two scientists meet for the first time the usual conversation entry is, "What do you work on?" They already know what generally bonds them. They are fellow prospectors pressing deeper into an abstracted world, content most of the time to pick up an occasional nugget but dreaming of the mother lode. They come to work each day thinking subconsciously, It's there, I'm close, this could be the day.
They know the first rule of the professional game book: Make an important discovery, and you are a successful scientist in the true, elitist sense in a profession where elitism is practiced without shame. You go into the textbooks. Nothing can take that away; you may rest on your laurels the rest of your life. But of course you won't. Almost no one driven enough to make an important discovery ever rests. And any discovery at all is thrilling. There is no feeling more pleasant, no drug more addictive, than setting foot on virgin soil.
Fail to discover, and you are little or nothing in the culture of science, no matter how much you learn and write about science. Scholars in the humanities also make discoveries, of course, but their most original and valuable scholarship is the interpretation and explanation of already existing factual knowledge. When a scientist begins to sort out knowledge in order to sift for meaning, and especially when he carries that knowledge outside the circle of discoverers, he is classified as a scholar in the humanities. Without scientific discoveries of his own, he may be a veritable archangel among intellectuals, his broad wings spread above science, and still not be in the circle. The true and final test of a scientific career is how well the following declarative sentence can be completed: He (or she) discovered that.… A fundamental distinction thus exists in the natural sciences between process and product. The difference explains why so many accomplished scientists are narrow, foolish people, and why so many wise scholars in the field are considered weak scientists.
Yet, oddly, there is very little science culture, at least in the strict tribal sense. Few rites are performed to speak of. There is at most only a scattering of icons. One does, however, hear a great deal of bickering over territory and status. The social organization of science most resembles a loose confederation of petty fiefdoms. In religious belief individual scientists vary from born-again Christians, admittedly rare, to hard-core atheists, very common. Few are philosophers. Most are intellectual journeymen, exploring locally, hoping for a strike, living for the present. They are content to work at discovery, often teaching science at the college level, pleased to be relatively well-paid members of one of the least conspiratorial of professions.
In character they are as variable as the population at large. Take any random sample of a thousand and you will find the near full human range on every axis of measurement—generous to predatory, well adjusted to psychopathic, casual to driven, gregarious to reclusive. Some are as stolid as tax accounts in April, while a few are clinically certifiable as manic-depressives (or bipolars, to use the ambiguous new term).
In motivation they run from venal to noble. Einstein classified scientists very well during the celebration of Max Planck's 60th birthday in 1918. In the temple of science, he said, are three kinds of people. Many take to science out of a joyful sense of their superior intellectual power. For them research is a kind of sport that satisfies personal ambition. A second class of researchers engage in science to achieve purely utilitarian ends. But of the third: If "the angel of the Lord were to come and drive all the people belonging to these two categories out of the temple, a few people would be left, including Planck, and that is why we love him."
Scientific research is an art form in this sense: It does not matter how you make a discovery, only if your claim is true and convincingly validated. The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper, and I suppose that if gifted with a full quiver, he also writes like a journalist. As a painter stands before canvas or a novelist recycles old emotion with eyes closed, he searches his imagination for subjects as much as for conclusions, for questions as much as for answers. Even if his highest achievement is only to perceive the need for a new instrument or theory, that may be enough to open the door to a new industry of research.
This level of creativity in science, as in art, depends as much on self-image as on talent. To be highly successful the scientist must be confident enough to steer for blue water, abandoning sight of land for a while. He values risk for its own sake. He keeps in mind that the footnotes of forgotten treatises are strewn with the names of the gifted but timid. If on the other hand he chooses like the vast majority of his colleagues to hug the coast, he must be fortunate enough to possess what I like to define as optimum intelligence for normal science: bright enough to see what needs to be done but not so bright as to suffer boredom doing it.
Advice to the novice scientist: There is no fixed way to make and establish a scientific discovery. Throw everything you can at the subject, so long as the procedures can be duplicated by others. Consider repeated observations of a physical event under varying circumstances, experiments in different modes and styles, correlation of supposed causes and effects, statistical analyses to reject null hypotheses (those deliberately raised to threaten the conclusion), logical argument, and attention to detail and consistency with the results published by others. All these actions, singly and in combination, are part of the tested and true armamentarium of science. As the work comes together, also think about the audience to whom it will be reported. Plan to publish in a reputable, peer-reviewed journal. One of the strictures of the scientific ethos is that a discovery does not exist until it is safely reviewed and in print.
This column was adapted from Wilson's book, Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, published in April 1998 by Alfred A. Knopf. © 1998 Edward O. Wilson
You can find this online at http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/num2/1998/1/scientists-scholars-knaves-and-fools/1
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Movie Review: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
The seventh and final film of the saga delivers the best visuals we've seen yet.
Director: David Yates Rating: PG-13 Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 is a thrilling, whiz-bang, emotionally satisfying and beautifully-filmed wrap up to the fateful saga of the world's favorite boy wizard and his two best friends. It's also a magnificent way to top off 10 years and seven films' worth of great storytelling and pleasurable moviegoing.
The movie is, as if you didn't already know, the final installment of the beloved, if uneven, movie franchise based on JK Rowling's even more beloved, once-in-a-lifetime international mega-sellers. This one, arguably the topper of all of the Potter films directed David Yates, completes the search-and-destroy mission by Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), Hermione (Emma Watson) and Ron (Rupert Grint) for the life-giving "horcruxes" required by the monstrous, parasitical evil-doer Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) to realize his plan to dominate the universe throughout eternity. The heroes' journey—which engulfs the audience right from the start—translates into a series of edge-of-the-seat, exhilirating sequences including a surreal plunge into the bowels of a bank worthy of the illustrations of Gustave Dore and John Tenniel's illustrations for Lewis Carroll, a thrilling ride over London on the back of a dragon and a heart-rending attack on Hogwarts school by Voldemort's relentless, fascinatingly bizarre followers, including the cackling Bellatrix Lestrange (Helena Bonham Carter).
But what's best about Yates's direction of the adapted screenplay by Steve Kloves is that it never loses sight of the emotional interplay and struggles of its characters. Thus, the stage is set for soul-stirring, good vs. evil moments from the three loveable, all-grown-up leads, let alone from the great Maggie Smith, Matthew Lewis (a show-stopper as "Neville Longbottom"), Michael Gambon, David Thewlis, Robby Coltrane and, arguably best of all, Alan Rickman, finally given enough screen time to show himself as haughtier but more touching and tragic than ever. The visuals are elegant and stupendous, the best of the entire series, and every polished frame of the film is packed with fantastic, sometimes witty detail. Although the movie ducks cheap and easy sentiment it's tough not to get misty-eyed over the brutal deaths of so many well-liked characters, let alone a hopeful coda that sends a new generation of young wizards off to Hogwarts—though not, we hope, to a series of unnecessary sequels.
Big budget, mass audience entertainment should always be this rewarding, powerful and, yes, magical. Masterfully played, Harry and company.
About the Author
Playboy Contributing Editor Stephen Rebello has written many Playboy Interview and 20 Questions features. He is the author of such books as the notorious Bad Movies We Love (with Edward Margulies) and Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, the latter of which has inspired a dramatic feature film set for production in 2011. His most recent Playboy Interviews include Josh Brolin and Cameron Diaz.


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Holidaymakers often complain when they can't get cellphone coverage but a new breed of city dwellers have been seeking out parts of New Zealand where their phones won't ring.
For them, a modern summer getaway is to break the tether of constant telecommunication.
Paul Brislen, the chief executive of the Telecommunications Users Association of New Zealand, ditches the smartphone for a few weeks in the summer.
"I do it every year. We go off to a place on the Coromandel Peninsula. Otama Beach. And it's glorious. Absolutely glorious," Mr Brislen said.
"No cellphone coverage."
There are more cellphones in New Zealand than people - and with smartphones, work emails can arrive 24-7.
"These days you get a lot of people whose lives revolve around the office," Mr Brislen said.
"You work hard, so when you play you want to get away. The change of pace is tremendous."
At the secluded campground, Mr Brislen came across another worker from the telecommunications industry, also enjoying the inability to connect digitally. Somehow it didn't work so well to just decide to leave the phone off by choice, Mr Brislen said.
But, at Otama Beach, the flipside was locals wanting better connectivity. The campground owner recognised Mr Brislen and asked him to lobby for better cellphone coverage.
"I can well understand the frustrations of, say, a son trying to get through schooling." The Rural Broadband Initiative was helping such communities, he said.
Further east, in Whanarua Bay, on East Cape, a manager of a rental bach said none of his visitors ever complained about being isolated from technology.
"We had a person saying 'I want to be away from normal life. No cellphones'," said Bernhard.
"People tell me they enjoy not having the amenities they normally have. In our bach we don't have TV or radio either. Out here, you have a peaceful environment. You don't miss any of it."
He said it was the only way to truly enjoy your holiday. If you really needed to make a call, there was a public telephone box in the village.
Carmen Tredwell, owner of Prospect Homestay and Spa, in Wairarapa, said a new Vodafone cell tower 10 minutes down the road could remove the farm's isolation.
Visitors had previously left messages in guestbooks about how much they enjoyed the lack of coverage, Mrs Tredwell said.
"I run a business and I can't receive a mobile call from my farm. For me, it's a hinderance," she said.
On Friday, Prime Minister John Key was on Great Barrier Island launching a new cellphone tower as part of the Government's Rural Broadband Initiative.
Emma Blackmore, Telecom's community relations manager, said people were becoming more reliant on their mobile phones as their primary form of connectivity.
"Fast broadband and mobile services are vitally important for the success of rural businesses, education, health providers, and in bringing rural communities together," she said.
House of Travel commercial director Brent Thomas said people could always go even farther afield.
"Typically customers looking to get far away from their day-to-day workloads are asking for places that are off the beaten track. Such holidays take people to Africa, eastern Europe and South America with a few even adventuring to Antarctica."


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Penetration Test Report
I have been an ethical hacker for about 6 years but mainly operating out of Africa where PT is still being regarded as some sort of "black magic". Most of our clients are big financial institutions and a conglomerates.
I have been a passive member of this forum for some time now and would like to share with you a VA/PT report framework that i came up with from my experience consulting in this field. I do not know how reports are structured in other parts of the world, but i do know that other than the engagement itself, the report serves to justify the derived value around these parts.
I have googled for sample reports but to say i came up short is a masterpiece of understatement. What i found were either too verbose and grandiose or downright narrow in scope missing out salient but pertinent details in mostly audacious attempts at describing all the technical input and results - Detailed layout, logical flow and visual analysis are conspicuous only by their absence.
I have always believed that in order to get inside the mentality, first we have to jettison the PT myth. Furthermore I am also of the opinion that a VA/PT report should be as simple and clear as it is concise and should cut across all strata of audience not just the technically minded.
All these put together led me to put up what is the first draft of the Open Source Security Assessment Report (OSSAR v 0.5). This is something that will be updated as often as i can with new information. I will kindly request members to download it and give an objective opinion on the material. I am very much interested in what this community thinks. Comments (+ve or -ve), suggestions and modifications are welcomed.
This is a VA/PT report for a fictitious bank called eClipse Bank PLC carried out by another fictitious company Cynergi Solutions Inc. All names, URLs, IPs, etc are fictitious. Some of the vulnerabilities discussed have actually occurred for real but i have replaced all the pesky details.
It can be downloaded here http://uploading.com/files/E5MHOS2U/ossar_v0.5.pdf.html


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City may seek grants for shuttle service
The city of Manhattan Beach will look into the possibility of applying for grants to help fund the Safe Ride shuttle service there, according to draft meeting minutes of the city council's April 2 meeting.
Council member Clyde Brodt owns the service. The draft minutes show he said he was approached by a coalition against drunk driving in Minnesota, which said his company is one of few that has stayed in business.
Brodt has presented at some seminars hosted by the coalition to show others how the business operates and encourage them to do the same.
During a phone interview, Brodt said the shuttle has charged the same fee for seven years, and since then gas and other expenses have gone up, making the service more and more difficult to sustain.
He said he does a lot of picking up and dropping off in Manhattan Beach, so the city is willing seek grants to help support the shuttle. He said the shuttles have had a significant impact in lowering the number of accidents and DWIs in the cities it serves.
In other business April 2, the council:
• Tabled discussion on the annual ditch clean-up to the May meeting because of the amount of snow still on the ground.
• Allowed the Soil and Water Conservation District to use city hall free of charge for a contractor workshop meeting.
• Heard that snow had to be removed from the mailbox because it was preventing mail from being delivered. Wannebo Excavating was hired to remove the snow.
• Decided to print and frame a written history of Manhattan Beach to be posted in city hall.


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What a run we are having!!!! Anyways, it's always fun to do a mock draft so here is my shot at one. I have us getting an extra 4th for Cofield and a seventh for Boss:
1.) Dont'a Hightower - ILB - Alabama - An absolute beast at MLB for the future. I know a lot of experts say he is a 3-4 prospect but from what I have seen, he would fit in any system. I love Goff but Hightower is an upgrade every way.
2.) Zebrie Sanders - OT - Florida State - Sanders could be our starting RT from day 1 and also has the versatility to play LT if needed. Either way, he fits a need.
3.) Michael Egnew - TE - Missouri - Egnew's numbers dropped this year but he is a very good receiving TE. Not a great in-line blocker but hopefully we can develop him in that aspect. He will give Eli another weapon to play with.
4A.) Coryell Judie - CB - Texas A&M - CB is a need with the possible departures of Ross and Thomas(although I think we will keep 1). Judie was mentioned as a top 2 round guy but had a rough year which will drop him here. He has a lot of potential and could be a starter a few years down the road.
4B.) Juron Criner - WR - Arizona - We grab a guy who I believe will fall due to character concerns and a slower 40 time. But, he is a play maker and I feel we are missing a tall WR that can make plays in the green zone. Barden does not seem to be that guy.
5.) Jake Bequette - DE - Arkansas - A classic motor guy who I am hoping is still available here. He would be a nice rotational guy who I believe will fill the Tollefson role as I feel Tolly will try to grab a starting spot somewhere.
6.) Case Keenum - QB - Houston - At some point, we need to get in and develop a backup for Eli. Keenum would be a good guy for this as he needs some development on the NFL level.
7A.) Moe Petrus - C - UCONN - A developmental center just in case Baas turns out as a bad signing. Petrus is a good technician and could be a starter with some work.
7B.) Bryce Brown - RB - Kansas State - With this extra pick, we are in a position to take a gamble. Brown was once the top RB recruit in the nation but has a questionable work ethic and an attitude. We can try to turn him around and see if we get a gift.
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Suspect In Fatal Crash Fell Asleep, Records Say
Warrant Shows Michael Benton Was Test-Driving SUV
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Court records show that Michael Benton apologized to the surviving victim in last Monday's deadly crash in Colorado Springs, seconds after he apparently fell asleep at the wheel.
According to Benton's arrest warrant, he asked victim Ken Baker if he was OK and said, "I'm sorry. I only looked down for a second."
The warrant also names Samantha Bowen as Benton's girlfriend who confessed that she lied about being the driver of the Nissan SUV that caused the crash. Bowen said she knew Benton has two children, a revoked driver's license and a designation as an habitual traffic offender, and she wanted to protect him. Her confession came two days after the crash, shortly after confessing to her mother.
Benton picked up Bowen on the morning of the accident, the warrant states, and the two stopped at a nearby Walgreens store. Video from the store's surveillance camera showed Bowen exiting and entering the SUV from the passenger side while the driver remained inside. The crash happened 20 minutes later.
Police said Benton, 32, fled the crash scene, leaving Bowen, 20, to accept blame. Benton walked into the Police Operations Center on Monday night and surrendered. He's being held on a bond of $25,000 and is charged with accident involving death or personal injury -- a felony carrying a maximum penalty of between 12 and 16 years in prison.
In addition to Benton's history of traffic violations, Bowen has her own troubled background. Court records show that in 2010 she pleaded guilty to drug possession, burglary of a building and careless driving. She received two years of probation, a three-year deferred sentence and community service. However, it's unclear whether she'll be charged for lying to police about the crash.
The funeral of Mark Meschelle, who died in the crash, was held Tuesday night. On Wednesday, his family gathered in Ellicott to reflect on his loss and Benton's arrest.
"I felt badly. I judged a book by its cover," said Michael Fraijo, Meschelle's nephew, who said he's surprised that Benton surrendered. "But he did the right thing. I commend him for that. The only way he was going to understand and feel something, is to see that my uncle as a good person."
Meschelle leaves a wife, three children and a grandson, and relatives say his family is struggling to make ends meet.
A fund has been established at Academy Bank to benefit the family.


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Just by using different types of beans, you can make this dip as spicy as you like it. My family could eat this as a complete meal.—Jeanne Shear, Sabetha, Kansas
Recommended: 40 Tex-Mex Recipes Bursting With Southwestern Flavor
- 2 pounds ground beef
- 1 tablespoon dried minced onion
- 1 can (8 ounces) tomato sauce
- 1 can (16 ounces) kidney beans, rinsed and drained
- 1 can (16 ounces) chili beans, undrained
- 4 cups shredded cheddar cheese
- Tortilla chips
- In a large skillet, cook beef over medium heat until no longer pink; drain. Transfer to a bowl; add the onion. Mash with a fork until crumbly; set aside.
- In a blender, process tomato sauce and beans until chunky. Add to beef mixture and mix well. Spoon half into a greased 13x9-in. baking dish; top with half of the cheese. Repeat layers.
- Bake, uncovered, at 350° for 30 minutes or until cheese is melted. Serve warm with chips. Yield: about 9 cups.
Originally published as Southwestern Bean Dip in Taste of Home Ground Beef Cookbook 1999, p19
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"i make this often in my slowcooker until its heated through, its a hit everytime,its not spicy unless you add some hot sauce or chilles,or serve with jalopemos."


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Overview: Agricola is a fantastic worker-placement game (one of my favorites, in fact) about farming, but it's big and complex and can take hours to play. Agricola: All Creatures Big and Small is a compact version for two players that captures much of the feel of the original but in about half an hour. Fence pastures, build feeding troughs and buildings, and raise as many animals as you can!
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Liza Minnelli, who was to be presented with the key to the city of Portland (I dare you: find the lock!) before her Merrill Auditorium performance tonight, is on her way back to New York, having fallen ill this afternoon.
Portland Ovations promises an update to fans and ticket holders.


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More dads want paid paternity leave
Marc Carlson, a senior manager at Ernst & Young in Detroit, took two weeks of the company's standard paid parental leave for dads when his daughter, Rebecca, was born last year. Then, when his wife, Diana, went back to work as a physician, Carlson declared himself the primary caregiver and took the maximum four additional weeks of paid leave.
Carlson, 35, changed diapers, took Rebecca for walks and struggled for what seemed like hours to get the uncooperative baby to drink from a bottle.
"From the beginning, my wife and I really wanted our child care to be shared. And I wanted to be engaged with my kid," Carlson said. "I was a little hesitant about taking the full six weeks off. But I wasn't worried about the stigma, or whether it would affect my career advancement. I was more worried about the mountain of work I'd return to."
Carlson is part of a generation of young fathers who tell pollsters they want to be more than a paycheck, or the fun dad on weekends, and instead to be fully involved in parenthood. In a recently released Boston College survey of 1,000 fathers, the majority rated paid parental leave as important or extremely important, although 96 percent reported they could take two weeks or less. Some said their companies gave them one day.
But a number of companies, taking heed of fathers like Carlson, are expanding paternal paid leave. More than 500 dads a year now take at least the two-week paid leave offered by Ernst & Young, said Karyn Twaronite, partner and inclusiveness officer. State Street, a Boston-based financial services company, has doubled paid leave for fathers to four weeks. And high-tech companies like Yahoo and Facebook - in the vanguard of the movement promoting fathers as caregivers - offer fathers eight and 12 weeks, respectively, of paid leave.
"Traditionally, it was always the mother who took time off to care for new family members. But we're seeing a real shift," said Lisa Horn of the Society for Human Resource Management, a business membership group that tracks benefit trends. "Companies that offer paid parental leave for fathers are setting themselves up for a real competitive advantage."
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued guidelines earlier this month that call for employers to give equal parental leave time to mothers and fathers to bond with or care for a new baby. Mothers may still be given additional childbirth, or "pregnancy-related medical," leave to recuperate.
"It's clear we need to have changes in our social norms, so that it's presumed men will want time off to bond with their newborn," EEOC Commissioner Chai Feldblum said.
Those norms are not changing only in the United States. The International Labor Organization said in a recent report that fathers wanting policies such as paid leave and flexible schedules to take on greater caregiving roles is "likely to be one of the most significant social developments of the 21st century."
Robert E. Moritz, chairman and senior partner of PriceWaterhouseCoopers, said the professional service network's surveys have found that 70 percent of millennial employees see flexible work environments as "hugely important," as do 60 percent of baby boomers. "The difference is, the millennials are willing to walk," he said at a recent White House Summit on Working Families. "They want choices."
(The company offers primary-care parents, including adoptive parents, 12 to 14 weeks of paid time off, and three weeks' leave for non-primary-care parents.)
Aaron Gouveia, 34, is a case in point. Gouveia was working as a newspaper reporter when his first child was born six years ago, and with no paid parental leave, he cobbled together vacation and sick time to be at home with his infant.
He quit and went to work for IBM. When his second child was born, he took the company's two weeks of paid leave.
"The company culture is even more important to me than the company itself," said Gouveia, who writes the Daddy Files blog. "And I like to work for a company culture that gets it, to work for bosses who understand that we're all human, and want to spend time with our families."
Jim Lin, 41, who works in public relations in San Francisco and writes the Busy Dad blog, quit his old job on the spot a few years ago when his boss gave him grief for taking two sick days to care for his son. "My boss implied that that was my wife's job," he said. "And I just didn't want to be in that kind of work environment."
Views like Lin's - he calls them "Father First" attitudes - which once might have been outliers are gaining traction as they spread through social media and virtual connections. When Lin began blogging in 2007, there were perhaps 15 other dad bloggers, he said. Now, he belongs to a private Facebook group of more than 800. "This generation of fathers is so much more vocal about involved parenting, and the Internet spreads those ideals," he said.
These blogging dads came out loudly in support of Dan Murphy, the New York Mets second baseman, after some talk radio jocks ripped into him for missing Opening Day while his wife gave birth to their first child. The radio hosts later apologized. Murphy took his full two days of parental leave.
That more men want to take on care-giving roles comes as no surprise to scientists.
Paul Raeburn, author of "Do Fathers Matter? What Science Is Telling Us About the Parent We've Overlooked" said the stereotypes about men are so strong that until recently, science all but ignored the role of fathers as parents.
"If you asked a psychologist in the 1970s what fathers do for their kids, especially young kids, the answer would have been, 'Not much,' " Raeburn said. "The most important thing people thought fathers did was earn money and keep their kids out of poverty - which is a good thing - but that was the beginning and the end of it."
Emerging science is finding that men bond with their children even before birth as their testosterone levels drop and their levels of oxytocin, the bonding hormone, and prolactin, the hormone that produces breast milk in women, rise. Fathers who are warm and engaged also strengthen a child's healthy development, Raeburn said. And studies have found that it is fathers who stretch their young children's vocabularies and help with language acquisition.
"Mothers tend to tune their language more closely to the child," he said. "But fathers use a broader vocabulary. They use words the child doesn't know. And that pulls the child forward, helps them more rapidly develop language ability and eases their transition into school."
Science is also showing that becoming a good parent is less about a mythological maternal instinct, he said, and more about having the time early on to develop the competence and the skill. "I didn't hit the issue of paid parental leave hard in my book," Raeburn said, "but I provided all the ammunition for why it's important."
Still, fathers who want to do more caregiving from the start face a steep uphill battle.
Only 14 percent of U.S. companies offer paid parental leave to mothers or fathers, down from 16 percent in 2008, and many offer only partial salary replacement, according to the Families and Work Institute. Unlike any other advanced economy in the world, the United States offers only unpaid leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act, which doesn't cover 40 percent of the workforce.
And one in five companies that are required by law to offer unpaid leave to fathers don't, the study found. "This is clearly one place where business policy has not caught up with changing demographics," institute president Ellen Galinsky said.
In June, President Barack Obama called for paid parental leave, saying, "A whole lot of fathers would love to be home for their new baby's first weeks in the world." Obama didn't endorse paid-leave legislation pending in Congress. Instead, he offered funds for five states to explore how to craft paid-leave programs. Three states - California, New Jersey and Rhode Island - now have employee-paid parental leave programs.
Some lawmakers and business groups who oppose paid parental leave say such a program will be too expensive, create too much bureaucracy, increase costs to business and could lead to a drop in wages. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business groups have lobbied against paid-leave proposals. Others oppose extending leave to fathers as "not natural," with one writer in Britain vowing, "If God had meant men to have paternity leave, he would have given us all wombs."
That traditional view, argues Josh Levs, a journalist for CNN, is a big reason why companies give fathers shorter leaves than mothers, and why many fathers don't take any leave at all.
"As men in this country, we are literally leaving hundreds of millions of dollars on the table in unused parental leave, and the biggest reason is: They're afraid to take it," Levs said. "Study after study shows that when men come back from taking parental leave, they're often treated worse by their colleagues and their bosses. Their reputations are damaged. They're demoted or given less work, because we have these stigmas that dads are supposed to work and moms are supposed to stay home."
Last fall, Levs filed one of the first complaints with the EEOC alleging discrimination against fathers after his employer, Time Warner, refused to grant him equal paid-leave time. Time Warner offers biological mothers and adoptive mothers and fathers 10 weeks of paid parental leave, but allows biological fathers only two, even when they plan, like Levs did, to be the primary caregiver.
Other discrimination cases include a father in Ohio who alleges he was passed over for promotion because he took unpaid leave to care for his children and was shunned and defamed, and a father who said he was terminated after he asked to extend his five-day parental leave and was refused.
"There's still a powerful stereotype that real men work; real men earn wages," said Brad Harrington, director of Boston College's Center for Work and Family. "Women who take extended leave might be seen as less-committed workers, but they're seen as better women, because the stereotype is that's the 'right' thing for women to do. But the irony for men is, they're perceived not only as lesser workers if they take leave, but lesser men."
For gay fathers, the dearth of paid leave for men can sometimes mean that neither father can take much time to bond with their children. Kipp Jarecke-Cheng saved up five weeks of vacation and sick time and paid about $1,200 to be off another four weeks when he and his partner adopted their son from Vietnam.
"The place where I worked when we adopted our son did have a paid leave policy for mothers, but not for fathers," he said. "It was very much tied to the notion that women need bonding time with infants, but dads don't. But even if I had a female partner who had given birth, I'd want to spend that time with my child."
Other companies, like Scholastic, treat gay fathers as they would any primary caregiver. "I was very lucky. I was given the full leave package that women get, minus the medical leave," said Michael Strouse, director of retail operations at Scholastic's store in New York. "I got eight weeks of paid bonding leave and another eight weeks working part time on transitional leave. All at full pay."
Strouse's husband had no paid leave. So Strouse, like women with long leaves, became the primary caregiver. "It's a function of experience more than anything else. And my husband just didn't have the opportunity."
Janet Gornick, a professor of political science and sociology at the City University of New York's Graduate Center who studies paid-leave policies around the globe, said that traditional attitudes about gender still hold powerful sway even in countries with generous paid parental leave policies. In France, Germany and Austria, for example, 2 percent of fathers take paid leave, compared to 90 percent of mothers.
"European countries realized that instead of promoting gender equality, these leave policies were retarding it," Gornick said. So several countries developed "use it or lose it" programs. If fathers don't use their allotted leave time, the family loses it. "That changed father behavior overnight."
In 2000, a movement of young fathers led Iceland to change its paid leave to a "use it or lose it" system. Now, mothers and fathers each have three months' paid leave and three months the family can share. And lawmakers have promised to extend the leaves for both parents to five months, with two months to share, and increase the pay in coming years, despite the fiscal crisis of 2008 that bankrupted the country.
Today, 90 percent of all fathers in Iceland take paid parental leave.
As a result of the "father quota," a recent report found, 70 percent of parents who live together continue to share child-care duties three years later, up from 40 percent.
In the United States, where mothers have longer parental leaves, time studies show that mothers still do about twice the housework and child care, on average, even when they work full time.
"This is one of the biggest factors in preventing women from leaning in to the workplace," CNN's Levs said. "Our current policies police men out of caregiving roles and police women into them. And we have to stop. Giving adequate, substantial parental leave for fathers is good - good for fathers, good for gender equality and good for business."
Anthony Mitchell, 46, of Atlanta, told his employer that he planned to take only a few vacation days when his wife gave birth to their first child. He assumed that's all he'd get. His employer, Catalyst, a nonprofit group dedicated to women's advancement and gender equality, set him straight.
"They said, 'What are you talking about? You get parental leave!' almost like it was a foregone conclusion," Mitchell said. He took six weeks of paid leave and worked reduced, flexible hours for another two. "There was so much fear of the unknown for both my wife and I. For us to be able to handle those things together as true partners was huge."
Although Mitchell was initially worried about missing so much work, his colleagues and clients were supportive, saying, "This is a time in life that you never get back."
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In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. Yet, as legal star Michelle Alexander reveals, today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against convicted criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans. Once you're labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination - employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational opportunity, denial of food stamps and other public benefits, and exclusion from jury service - are suddenly legal.
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"An essential read. A horrifying reality."
The New Jim Crow has been reopening my eyes to the modern system of enslavement that still exists in our drug war culture. It's a mechanized system of mass incarceration that ingests people and spits out corpses with the brandished label of a "criminal."
Too often we can create tunnel vision excuses for panoramic systems of injustice because we only analyze a problem based on the top 10% of the iceberg that's in our face, meanwhile a behemoth lurks beneath the surface unnoticed. Michelle Alexander's work in this book helps complete the picture. She dives down to get beneath the superficial anecdotes. She relays the history, identifies tipping points along the way and uses broad strokes and individual stories to make the message clear: Slavery may have ended, civil rights may be written into law, but there is a still a purposeful and intentional modern Jim Crow war against communities of color, and African Americans in particular, that can't be denied.
I strongly suggest if you're a person of justice or seeking understanding, that you pick up The New Jim Crow.
"Shocking, Important and Brilliant"
As a white Londoner now living in SoCal I witnessed the 'war on drugs' and the resulting boom in prison growth with a combination of disinterest and perhaps mild confusion. Many things confuse me about the US; like why poor working class white people vote against their own best interests so often, and why do people with so much economically in common not get along better. I experienced the phenomena of racism in America at a distant third hand. It did occur to me on occasion that the entire weird situation of race, colorblindness and the massive growth in the prison population could be seen as a massive socio political "Pelican Brief" style conspiracy… it couldn't be could it? Well, if this book is even only a fraction true that is precisely what this is.
This book proposes that what we have seen in the last few decades is exactly that. A conspiracy between right wing political elites to control a section of our society which had formerly been controlled by slavery then by Jim Crow. It's an excellent example of evil flourishing when good people do nothing. If you are a member of the hard right this book will make your blood boil. It makes an excellent case against your core views and beliefs with extensive and detailed evidence for the case, which will likely send you running back to Fox News to get your reality reinforced. If you lean even slightly liberal or are just a busy middle of the road kind of person who has scratched your head about "those people" getting sent to jail in such large numbers this book will rock your world. Either way you should read this. I defy you not to have at least one "aha!" moment per chapter….this book will haunt you…it may even make you cry.
If you want to attempt to come to terms with what 'the war on drugs' unfair policing, mandatory minimums and the impact that so many people getting felony convictions for such minor crimes has had on our society this book will take you by the hand and lead you through the last hundred or so years of our history and open your eyes. The conclusion is as startling as it is depressing, every thinking person in our society should read this book…and perhaps we can then start to solve the problem it so disturbingly describes.
"An eye opener"
This is the first book I read about this subject matter. It is a good introduction to what happened between the civil rights movement in the 1950s and today in the U.S. in how segregation has evolved from a visible to an invisible most dangerous hand that manipulates the politics of encarceration within a legal frame and power control by restricting voting rights and access to public assistance to felons to perpetuate a cycle that locks out "the black and brown undesirable" from the economic and political arena.
I am a younger Latino so I was not aware of half the things I learned here. The book will teach you about the current social struggle of black and brown communities in the U.S.
While I am fortunate to be bilingual and read the book in English, I wish it were available in Spanish to extend awareness to monolingual Latinos in the U.S. who would deeply benefit from this reading.
"Justice denied"
The author builds the case that the mass incarceration of people is no mistake as the system has been made as the next evolution of the old Jim Crow laws in the south. She focuses on a broken war on drugs that have lead to a normalcy in the poor communities of everyone having a criminal back ground and how that background becomes a scarlet letter keeping them out of society and severely limiting their life choices.
I value intelligent stories with characters I can relate to. I can appreciate good prose, but a captivating plot is way more important.
"An extremely well constructed argument"
I heard Michelle Alexander speaking about this book, and immediately her premise intrigued me. I'd always known that our criminal justice system was biased, but the scope of it was shocking... and thinking about it as a system as detrimental as Jim Crow had never even occurred to me.
Her exploration of the topic in the book is fascinating. I'm halfway through and I'm already amazed, frustrated and enraged. I've always been concerned about social justice and civil rights. I went to law school because of my passion for these issues. But I didn't realize until this book, just how oppressive and racist our supreme court has been. I'd seen all the cases she wrote about, and had been independently outraged at each of them... but I didn't realize how they all worked in concert to leave no judicial remedy to systematic racism.
As a white man, I find that other white men will occasionally make racist comments or jokes around me. I believe that most of these people feel comfortable doing so only because they believe that real institutional racism is a thing of the past, and so that their own bias is benign. "We have a black president, so racism is over". This book is arming me with a fantastic rebuttal to those people.
This book should be read by every employer, landlord, politician, judge, and prosecutor in the US. Actually it should be read be read by every American, period.
I've often wondered how so many white people could have stayed silent and complacent in the face of Jim Crow. Now I realize that I am guilty of doing the same under a regime that is just as harmful.
This book has changed the way I look at the world. Hopefully it will spark serious reform in this country.
"Great Book a must read for every American!"
I was shocked and amazed at the content and how truly ignorant I was on the subject matter. I liked the fact that Ms. Alexander not only gave the historical context, facts and examples but also what we can to do to change it. This was a great book!
To know that the whole government is involved in the plot to incarcerate, control, and obliterate the rights of its citizens.
"On behalf of humanity, thank you Michelle."
As young human living in the Bay Area, I intuitively knew the deck was stacked against me and all those who looked like me. Thank you Michelle Alexander for Illuminating the very nature of our nations parasitic and perverted system of justice.
To think in my juvenile rebellion against this system I unwittingly played their game. I, like the others in my hood, acted out the roles displayed on TV and the movies eventually landing me in jail. While in jail I realized my juvenile rebellion, subsequent jail time, and fines were feeding the very parasites I was rebelling against. Unbeknownst to me these same parasites are feeding on poor whites as well, and pitting us against each other.
"Recommended with a caveat"
Michelle Alexander has put together a very well written and well researched book regarding the horrors of the drug war. She goes into great detail about how minority populations (primarily blacks) have been devastated by the unsuccessful war on drugs. She makes a few mentions of how poor whites have recently become affected by the same war on drugs ala "The House I Live In". However, her conclusions regarding the escalation of the war on drugs seem to be biased. She continuously blames "conservatives" for the war on drugs. They bear some blame, no doubt. But to be more accurate, it seems that Republicans (sometimes conservative) would be a better way to describe those who have caused the escalation. Furthermore, she places little blame on Democrats and usually makes excuses for those who contributed.
In the end, it's clear Ms. Alexander sees the world through a right vs left paradigm. But the truth is that when assessing responsibility for the drug war, a populist vs authoritarian, or libertarian vs statist view would be much better in assessing political blame. After all, a true conservative should believe that a small government is best. The drug war is a result of the exponential increase in the size of government. But again, I will continue to recommend this book to friends with that caveat.
"Where have all the young men gone?"
This is a piercing, courageous book that connected a lot dots for me. Michelle Alexander lays out a compelling, sturdily reasoned case that may explain a lot of very sick things in our society. The "war on drugs," incentivizing biased police enforcement, unfair stereotyping of minority youth, prison profiteering, and fear of discussing racial issues are not the only perpetuating factors. Anyone who cares about social justice would appreciate this book. It interestingly written, although a bit repetitive and I believe the author could have said more about how the system perpetuates crime and violence. The reader Karen Chilton is one of the best I have heard in many hours of audible.com listening.
"Lots of Information"
The content of the book and the way the information was narrated.
The facts that were presented
She made it nice to listen to while riding in the car. Some of her voice narratives were good as well. Her voice was easy on the ears.
No. The entire book was a moving experience. Especially the facts on drug use among different races, yet the amount of disproportion of incarceration in our justice system.
This book should be read/listened to by all who consider themselves active in the social justice movement. The facts in this book were well presented and gives answers to many questions that other ethnic groups may have about the troubles faced in the minority communities and people of the lower economic class.
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Johnathan Thurston has refused to give any assurances he'll remain with North Queensland beyond next season, leaving the champion playmaker poised to potentially become the game's highest-paid player.
A week after his Australia and Queensland teammate Greg Inglis signed a new deal with South Sydney to become the NRL's first million-dollar-a-season man, Thurston said he had yet to decide where his future lies.
The 29-year-old two-time Dally M Medallist is the biggest name off-contract at the end of the 2013 campaign, and with the new broadcast deal pumping A$1 billion into the game, Thurston is in a strong position to name his price.
The Cowboys have no fewer than 20 players who have deals that expire at the end of next year, including representative props Matt Scott and James Tamou, while Matt Bowen, Brent Tate, Dallas Johnson and prolific winger Ashley Graham will also be off contract.
This could hamper their attempts to keep the former Canterbury playmaker, who joined the club in 2005, but Thurston, who will play for Australia against New Zealand tomorrow in Townsville, said he was more interested in taking a holiday at the moment.
"It's still a long way away, my attention is all on this weekend," Thurston said. "I have a holiday planned and I don't want to worry about it before then.
"When I get back that's when I'll sit down and work out with my manager and we'll work out then what is best for my future."
Tomorrow's international will see just one referee take control of the game but Thurston, who was seething at the officials after North Queensland's controversial finals loss to Manly last month, is happy for the NRL to stick with two whistleblowers.
However, he said more assistance was needed from the touch judges and less reliance on video referees.
"Having the two refs is a good option, but there are little issues in the game with the video ref and the benefit of the doubt," he said.
"But what are our touch judges doing? They have to have more influence than just putting their flags up.
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