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BLUFFTON, OHIO – A tip-in by junior guard Alyssa Smith (Bluffton, Ind.) in the waning moments proved to be just enough of a difference to lift Manchester University to an important Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference road win Thursday, Feb. 6.
Smith, battling in the paint after a missed jump shot from sophomore guard Katie Arterburn (Indianapolis, Ind.), got her fourth rebound and flipped it into the net for a 51-49 Spartans' lead with two seconds remaining. BU (11-9 overall, 7-6 HCAC) got another opportunity on its ensuing possession after a foul was called but could only sink one of the two attempts with less than a second remaining to see the visitors gain a hard-fought 51-50 victory.
"It was a good win for us, and I'm proud of our players," Coach Josh Dzurick said. "(Bluffton) rallied back after we had managed to get a good second half lead. However, our team overcame that down the stretch … battling to the final buzzer."
Smith, who ended with seven points, four rebounds and two steals, was one of eight MU players to appear in the scoring column. Arterburn, draining two three-point baskets, led the offense with 10 points and also picked up three steals, while junior guard Jocelyn Hamilton (Columbus, Ind.) and junior center Alyssa Hammond (Osgood, Ind.) each added eight points.
Manchester University, improving to 10-10 overall and 7-6 in league play, used an 11-0 run to overturn a 16-12 deficit midway through the first 20 minutes. They got out to a good start in the second frame, too, holding as large as an 11-point lead (43-32), but Bluffton responded on the heels of a 17-5 roll to claim a 49-48 edge with just over a minute and a half remaining to set up the frenetic finish.
The Spartans begin a stretch of four home games in their final five dates to wrap up the 2013-14 regular season Saturday, Feb. 8. Rose-Hulman visits Stauffer-Wolfe Arena for a 3 p.m. start.
NOTES: Hamilton saw her multiple-assist games' string run to 20 with a team-high four … Senior forward Erynn Meiklejohn scored seven points to reach the 200-plus mark for the third consecutive year. She also grabbed a team-leading eight rebounds for a personal season single-game high … The victory put the Spartans into a tie with Bluffton for fourth place in the HCAC.


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Neither Poverty nor Riches is the best book about wealth I have ever read. It is practical, comprehensive, scholarly, balanced and thoroughly biblical. Blomberg's central point is a simple one: that extreme poverty and extreme wealth are not to be tolerated – hence the title which is drawn from Proverbs 30:8, 'Give me neither poverty nor riches'.
To give an indication of the challenge of the book, Blomberg argues that the rich should give more than 10% (perhaps many times that amount), to enable the poor to give less. But he takes a global perspective, reminding Western readers that the vast majority of us are firmly in the 'rich' side of the scales. And he reminds us that spiritual growth in the area of stewardship is 'a necessary sign of [spiritual] life'.
Thankfully, Blomberg never falls into the trap of declaring all riches as evil, or advocating asceticism. God's gifts are to be enjoyed, he reminds us, but they are also to be shared.
If I have one criticism it would be that in the chapter with application there is an emphasis on the relief of material poverty in the world that was not apparent in the earlier exegesis. As I read the New Testament (or the Old for that matter) I see a wide concern for the spiritual well-being of all people, and a narrower concern for the material well-being of believers. That is not to say we should be callous towards the non-Christian poor, or that we should only bring Bibles and not bring bread. But it is to say that when it comes to loving our neighbour, the Bible seems to make our two priorities the sharing of the gospel with the world, and caring for our brothers and sisters in Christ.
That, however, is a relatively minor criticism. If you want to think about the Bible's teaching on wealth and poverty I know of no better book.

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Nearly two-thirds of American adults (65%) use social networking sites, up from 7% when Pew Research Center began tracking social media usage in 2005.
36% of adult smartphone owners use messaging apps, while 17% use apps that automatically delete sent messages. These types of apps are adding to an already complex terrain of digital and social communication. Meanwhile, social media platforms continue to attract dedicated users.
Social media networks have become vital channels for Americans' daily interactions. Our new report explores how parents turn to these networks for parenting-related information and social support.
Smartphones are fueling a shift in the communication landscape for teens. Nearly three-quarters of teens now use smartphones and 92% of teens report going online daily — including 24% who say they go online "almost constantly."
Frequent use of social media is not directly related to higher stress. But stress can be contagious through social media channels: Social media users are often more aware of the stressful events in others' lives, and this awareness itself can lead to higher stress.
While Facebook remains the most popular social media site, other platforms — like LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram and Twitter — saw higher rates of growth over the past year. In 2014, 52% of online adults used two or more social media sites, up from 42% in 2013.
Online American workers say the internet and email are very important tools for doing their jobs, rating them higher in importance than landline phones, mobile phones, and social networking sites. Just 7% say the internet makes them less productive at work.
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Like far too many of his brethren on the bench this dirty old man in a black dress needs to be removed from that bench, having forsworn his oath to uphold, protect and defend the Constitution (specifically here, the First Amendment). However, it'll never happen, because far too many of his brethren believe, as he clearly does, that judges are above the law and can do any damn thing they please, with impunity, while on the bench.


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Author: Richard M. Stallman
It has become fashionable to describe copyright, patents, and
trademarks as "intellectual property." This fashion did not arise by
accident — the term systematically distorts and confuses these issues.
Anyone wishing to think clearly about any of these laws would do well
to resist it.
One effect of the term is a bias that is not hard to see: It suggests
thinking about copyright, patents and trademarks by analogy, with
property rights for physical objects. (This analogy is at odds with
the legal philosophies of copyright law, of patent law, and of
trademark law, but only specialists know that.) These laws are, in
fact, not much like physical property law, but use of this term leads
legislators to change them to be more so. Since that is the change
desired by the companies that exercise copyright, patent, and trademark
powers, these companies have worked to make the term fashionable.
Is the term 'intellectual property' a fad?
According to Professor Mark Lemley, now of the Stanford University School of Law,
the widespread use of the term "intellectual property" is a fad that
followed the 1967 founding of the World "Intellectual Property"
Organization, and only became really common in the past few years.
(WIPO is formally a UN organization, but in fact it represents the
interests of the holders of copyrights, patents, and trademarks.)
Those who would prefer to judge these issues on their merits should
reject a biased term for them. Many have asked me to propose some
other name for the category — or have proposed alternatives themselves.
Suggestions include IMPs, for Imposed Monopoly Privileges, and GOLEMs,
for Government-Originated Legally Enforced Monopolies. Some speak of
"exclusive rights regimes," but this means referring to restrictions
as rights, which is doublethink, too.
But it is a mistake to replace "intellectual property" with any other
term. A different name could eliminate the bias but won't address
the term's deeper problem: overgeneralization. There is no such
unified thing as "intellectual property." It is a mirage, which
appears to have a coherent existence only because the term suggests it
The term "intellectual property" operates as a catch-all to lump
together disparate laws. Non-lawyers who hear the term "intellectual
property" applied to these various laws tend to assume they are
instances of a common principle, and that they function similarly.
Nothing could be further from the case.
These laws originated separately, evolved differently, cover different
activities, have different rules, and raise different public policy
issues. Copyright law was designed to promote authorship and art, and
covers the details of a work of authorship or art. Patent law was
intended to encourage publication of ideas, at the price of finite
monopolies over these ideas — a price that may be worth paying in some
fields and not in others. Trademark law was not intended to promote
any business activity but simply to enable buyers to know what they
are buying; however, legislators under the influence of "intellectual
property" have turned it into a scheme that provides incentives for
advertising (without asking the public if we want more advertising).
All IP laws are different in every detail
Since these laws developed independently, they are different in every
detail as well as in their basic purposes and methods. Thus, if you
learn some fact about copyright law, you had better assume that patent
law is different. You'll rarely go wrong that way!
Laymen are not alone in getting confused by this term. I regularly
find that experts on patent law, copyright law, and trademark law —
even law professors who teach these subjects — have been lured by the
seductiveness of the term "intellectual property" into general
statements that conflict with the facts they know. The term distracts
them from using their own knowledge.
People often say "intellectual property" when they really mean some
other category, larger or smaller than "intellectual property." For
instance, rich countries impose laws on poor countries to squeeze
money out of them. These laws often fit the category of "intellectual
property" — so people who question the fairness of these laws often use
that label, even though it does not really fit. That can lead to
incorrect statements and unclear thinking. For this subject, I
recommend using a term such as "legislative colonization" that focuses
on the central aspect of the subject, rather than the term
"intellectual property." For other subjects, the term that describes
the subject would be different.
The term "intellectual property" also leads to simplistic thinking.
It leads people to focus on the meager commonality in form of these
disparate laws, which is that they create special powers that can be
bought and sold, and ignore their substance — the specific restrictions
each of them places on the public, and the consequences that result.
At such a broad scale, people can't even see the specific public
policy issues raised by copyright law, or the different issues raised
by patent law, or any of the others. These issues arise from the
specifics, precisely what the term "intellectual property" encourages
people to ignore.
Why generalized opinions about IP are foolish
For instance, one issue relating to copyright law
is whether music sharing should be allowed. Patent law has nothing to
do with this. But patent law raises the issue of whether poor
countries should be allowed to produce life-saving drugs and sell them
cheaply to save lives. Copyright law has nothing to do with that.
Neither of these issues is just an economic issue, and anyone looking
at them in the shallow economic perspectives of overgeneralization
can't grasp them. Thus, any opinion about "the issue of intellectual
property" is almost surely foolish. If you think it is one issue, you
will tend to consider only opinions that treat all these laws the
same. Whichever one you pick, it won't make any sense.
If you want to think clearly about the issues raised by patents, or
copyrights, or trademarks, or even learn what these laws say, the
first step is to forget the idea of lumping them together, and treat
them as separate topics. If you want to write articles that inform
the public and encourage clear thinking, treat each of these laws
separately; don't suggest generalizing about them.
And when it comes to reforming WIPO, among other things, let's
call for changing its name.
Copyright 2004 Richard Stallman.
Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article are permitted
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May 19, 2010 (CIDRAP News) – If the trajectory of public opinion during the H1N1 influenza pandemic is any guide, safety worries and doubts about the severity of the disease threat may cause a good share of the public to shun vaccination the next time a pandemic emerges, according to a review of 10 months' worth of polls.
Surveys taken before the H1N1 vaccine became available showed that about half of the population planned to be vaccinated, but that fraction shrank considerably by the time the vaccine became readily available in December, says the report published online today by the New England Journal of Medicine. The main reasons for not wanting the vaccine were safety worries and a belief that it wasn't needed.
On the other hand, the polls suggested that most people heeded public health messages about other flu-prevention steps, such as hand washing, says the report by researchers from Harvard University and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Also, pollsters found that a majority had a generally favorable impression of the governmental response to the pandemic.
The authors reviewed 20 polls conducted between April 2009 and January 2010, eight of them run by the Harvard School of Public Health for the CDC and the rest by news organizations and polling institutes.
Early in the pandemic, surveys indicated that most Americans were following the public health advice to wash their hands more often and to prepare to stay home if they got sick. About 35% of respondents said they had avoided being near people with flu-like symptoms.
Before the vaccine became available, 46% to 57% of respondents said they planned to be vaccinated, and 59% to 70% of parents intended to have their children immunized.
For adults who said they would not or might not seek vaccination, the top three reasons cited in September were concern about side effects (30%), doubt about the risk of getting a serious case of flu (28%), and a belief that they could get drug treatment if they did get sick (26%). Safety concerns and doubts about the disease risk continued to be major deterrents to vaccination in December and January, the polls showed.
The surveys also documented that few people who wanted the vaccine succeeded in getting it in October and November, when the doses began trickling out to providers. By early November, 17% of adults had tried to get vaccinated, but only 30% of them succeeded. Among adults in high-priority groups, 21% sought the vaccine, but 66% of them failed, the polls found. About 40% of parents sought the vaccine for their children, but two thirds of them failed.
By the time states began offering the vaccine to everyone in mid-December, interest in it was ebbing, the polls showed. The proportion of people concerned about getting sick dropped to 40% at that point, from a peak of 51% to 59% in October and November.
The share of parents who had at least one child vaccinated reached 35% in December and 40% in January, figures well above those for adults seeking the vaccine for themselves. Among adults who had talked with a healthcare practitioner about the vaccine, 53% said the practitioner had recommended it and 17% said the opposite.
Through the whole period studied, a majority of Americans had a good impression of the government's response, the polls showed. In the early days, 54% thought the response was appropriate, while 39% saw it as an overreaction. By January, 59% endorsed the response, while 39% called it fair or poor.
The report says the public's two main concerns about the response were displeasure with the vaccine shortage and, in the early phase of vaccine distribution, worry that the government hadn't done enough to ensure the vaccine was safe.
"Our review of these data suggests that in the event of a future influenza pandemic, a substantial proportion of the public may not take a newly developed vaccine because they may believe that the illness does not pose a serious health threat, because they (especially parents) may be concerned about the safety of the available vaccine, or both," the report states.
SteelFisher GK, Blendon RJ, Bekheit MM, et al. The public's response to the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic. N Engl J Med 2010 May 19 online publication [Full text]


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All campuses are closed on Monday, November 11, in observance of Veterans Day.
Wil Haygood, author of The Butler, to speak Nov. 12
Author and prize-winning journalist Wil Haygood will speak and read from his book The Butler: A Witness to History at a special free public event on Tuesday, November 12, at 11:00 a.m. in the Conference Center Ballroom. The event is free, but ticketed to reserve your seat, so please Register Here and bring your ticket with you on November 12.
First Wednesday meeting to be held Nov. 13
The monthly meeting with President Harrison, First Wednesday, will be held on Wednesday, November 13 (yes, we realize this is the second Wednesday!) starting at 8:15 a.m. in the Conference Center Ballroom, fourth floor WD. The November Staff Employee of the Month will be recognized, followed by an update from the president. A live stream will also be available at http://www.livestream.com/columbusstate, where you can log in by using the password: cougars.
Migration of email messages begins Nov. 15
Information Technology will begin migrating (moving) Groupwise email messages into the new Microsoft Outlook (Office 365) accounts beginning Friday, November 15. Because the full migration will not be completed until after the holiday break (January 2), messages that you delete from Groupwise after November 15 may reappear in your new Office 365/Outlook account after the break. You will simply have to delete them again.
Appointments and tasks will be copied in late December to avoid multiple instances of moved or deleted appointments from showing up in the new Office 365/Outlook accounts. Need more information about the new Office 365? Find it online here.
Clark receives service award
Connie Clark, program coordinator in Dental Hygiene, was given the Sandra L. Winchell Exemplary Service Award at the recent Ohio Dental Hygienist's Association annual meeting. The $500 award is given to members of the organization who "selflessly give of themselves in supporting roles" to the organization. Clark, a 2010 Distinguished Teacher, started as an adjunct in the dental hygiene program in 1999. She became the full time clinical coordinator in 2007, and currently serves as the program coordinator.
After 26 years as mail service clerk at Columbus State, Chuck Pritchard will retire at the end of this year. Please join Mail Services at a retirement reception for Chuck on Thursday, November 14, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Discovery Exchange (Bookstore) Conference Room, DX 306.
Volunteers needed for "College Goal Sunday" in Feb.
Columbus State will again serve as a College Goal Sunday site. The College Goal Sunday workshop will be held on Sunday, February 9, in Davidson Hall on the Columbus Campus.
The state of Ohio is working to increase the number of students pursuing a college degree. Many families believe they cannot afford a college education. By helping families complete the FAFSA application on College Goal Sunday, we will help eliminate barriers to pursuing an education. Please consider volunteering to help with this event in February. You need not be a financial aid expert to help out. Training will be provided and you will be able to volunteer to work with experts as necessary. You can sign up here: http://www.ohiocollegegoalsunday.org/
Weight Watchers at Work holds open meeting
An open meeting for those interested in joining Columbus State's Weight Watchers at Work program, will be held Tuesday, November 12, in WD 352 at 12:00 p.m. The next ten-week session begins November 19. To register for the meeting, contact Nichole Bowman-Glover, Wellness coordinator or call ext. 3989.
Reminder: Health Rewards briefings offered
All full-time employees with UHC coverage are invited to attend a briefing which will help you navigate the web portal and answer any questions you may have about the Health Rewards Program offered through United Health Care (UHC). The briefings will be held:
Wednesday, November 13, from 9:00-10:00 a.m. in CT107
Tuesday, November 19, from 12:00-1:00 p.m. in CT-107
Delaware Campus employees should RSVP to Nichole Bowman-Glover to attend a teleconference.


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Chokehold Made Fashionable.
Wikipedia's definition of a chokehold or choke is a general term for grappling hold that critically reduces or prevents either air (choking) or blood (strangling) from passing through the neck of an opponent.
My definition: A chokehold is a piece of fabric or material beautifully made to fit tightly around the neck. This chokehold, sometimes called choker, or artful neck-piece, may be so tight that it cuts off ones ability to speak, leaving this piece of art to do the talking for you. Just breathe lightly in and out your nose.


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Archive for the 'East Coast Grilll' Tag
Anthropological Musings on the Painfully Hot Ghost Chili
Last Wednesday, the Hub and I ventured over to Inman Square's East Coast Grill for their legendary Hell Night. For four days out of the year, the talented chefs at East Coast prepare a menu to tantalize and terrify the taste buds. Habenero-infused vodka, Chile Chimichurri steaks, oysters drenched in hot sauce, and a dozen other spicy options ranging from one to nine chili peppers grace the menu. The star of the night, however, is the pasta from hell. This pasta, made from the world's hottest ghost chilies, has been featured on the craze foodie hit Man vs. Food, where even the daring Adam Richman could only take about two bites. This pasta is hot. And I ordered it.
You are required to sign a waver before you dig in, which is all part of the fun. But after the first bite, the most excruciating pain sets in, the kind of pain that sends tears down your cheek as you dig your high heel into your calf to distract your dendrites from the horror taking place in your mouth. Now, don't get me wrong. I live for spicy food. I eat sriracha on everything. I nibble on raw jalapenos while I cook spicy Mexican food. I have successfully taken an adolescent dare to drink an entire bottle of Tabasco. And by the time reached the half-way mark on my pasta from hell, I was doubled over in pain and had to stop. But I took it home, and the next night suffered through the rest (armed, of course, with a full bottle of antacids for the heart burn that came later that night).
When I recovered, I started wondering why in the world I freely and intentionally chose to do something so painful, not just once, but two nights in a row. Everydaythomist that I am, I toyed with the question of whether my actions constituted daring, one of the vices against fortitude that inclines the appetite toward danger in ways contrary to reason.
Turns out, scientists are doing research on this very question. A few months ago, the NYTimes featured an article on the pleasure and pain of chili peppers based on the research from Dr. Paul Rozin at the University of Pennsylvania:
[Rozin]has evidence for what he calls benign masochism. For example, he tested chili eaters by gradually increasing the pain, or, as the pros call it, the pungency, of the food, right up to the point at which the subjects said they just could not go further. When asked after the test what level of heat they liked the best, they chose the highest level they could stand, "just below the level of unbearable pain." As Delbert McClinton sings (about a different line of research), "It felt so good to hurt so bad."
Rozin disagrees with theories that argue for an evolutionary advantage to eating hot peppers, say, for example, by arguing that they lower blood pressure or provide some other such advantage in health. In fact, Rozin thinks there actually is not an evolutionary advantage at all to such acts:
No one knows for sure why humans would find pleasure in pain, but Dr. Rozin suggests that there's a thrill, similar to the fun of riding a roller coaster. "Humans and only humans get to enjoy events that are innately negative, that produce emotions or feelings that we are programmed to avoid when we come to realize that they are actually not threats," he said. "Mind over body. My body thinks I'm in trouble, but I know I'm not." And it says, hand me another jalapeño.
One of the key observations here is that no other mammal likes hot peppers. And from this observation, Rozin and others draw an interesting conclusion: the human taste for painfully hot peppers says something important about what it means to be human:
[A]s Paul Bloom, a Yale psychologist, puts it, "Philosophers have often looked for the defining feature of humans — language, rationality, culture and so on. I'd stick with this: Man is the only animal that likes Tabasco sauce."
That's from Dr. Bloom's new book, "How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like," in which he addresses the general nature of human pleasure, and some very specific, complicated pleasures. Some, like eating painfully spicy food, are accidental, at least in their specificity. A complicated mind is adaptive, but love of chilies is an accident.
And that is what I celebrate behind my respirator as my son and I dice habaneros, accidental pleasures. A taste for chilies has no deep meaning, no evolutionary value. It's just a taste for chilies. I might add, though, that since it takes such a complicated brain and weird self-awareness to enjoy something that is inherently not enjoyable, only the animal with the biggest brain and the most intricate mind can do it.
Take heart, chili heads. It's not dumb to eat the fire, it's a sign of high intelligence.
I find this a fascinating and largely compelling contribution to philosophical anthropology. Whereas for most animals, pleasure is a function of biology, humans have a lot more flexibility. They can, in many ways, choose what it is that brings them pleasure, even things that go against biology or evolutionary advantage. That is, human beings are masters of their actions largely because they are masters of their pleasure.
This means that for human beings in particular, morality cannot simply be a matter of examining nature and drawing normative conclusions. Human beings are greater than the sum of their biological parts, and the objects from which they draw pleasure cannot be reduced to merely a biochemical neural reaction.
When it comes to chili peppers and roller coasters, the human ability to find pleasure in biologically unpleasant things may not have much moral consequence, but in other areas the question may be more serious. For example, a friend sent me an Atlantic article on porn addiction which also examines the recent prevalence of anal sex. I hesitate to even quote the article on my blog due to how explicit it was, but I do think the following revelation from the author is significant:
Never was this made plainer to me than during a one-night stand with a man I had actually known for quite a while. A polite, educated fellow with a beautiful Lower East Side apartment invited me to a perfunctory dinner right after his long-term girlfriend had left him. We quickly progressed to his bed, and things did not go well. He couldn't stay aroused. Over the course of the tryst, I trotted out every parlor trick and sexual persona I knew. I was coquettish then submissive, vocal then silent, aggressive then downright commandeering; in a moment of exasperation, he asked if we could have anal sex. I asked why, seeing as how any straight man who has had experience with anal sex knows that it's a big production and usually has a lot of false starts and abrupt stops. He answered, almost without thought, "Because that's the only thing that will make you uncomfortable." This was, perhaps, the greatest moment of sexual honesty I've ever experienced—and without hesitation, I complied. This encounter proves an unpleasant fact that does not fit the feminist script on sexuality: pleasure and displeasure wrap around each other like two snakes.
If anal sex is unpleasant, why do it? Human intentionality, that is, human choice, can transform unpleasant actions and unpleasant objects into pleasure. In Dependent Rational Animals, Alistair McIntyre made the somewhat surprising claim that ethics could not be separated from biology. Ghost chilies and anal sex remind us that morality also cannot be reduced to biology. Human intentionality transcends what we are biologically conditioned to do.
Natural law scholars, especially those rooted in the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition, debate whether natural law should be grounded in a "metaphysical biology" which assumes that the normative "ought" can be drawn from the biological "is." The more we learn about biology, the more important biology becomes in our moral reflections, and this, I think, is a good thing. Biology reminds us that we are creatures, not just spirits. It reminds us how much we share with our non-human animal cousins. But, while biology can tell us what it means to be "animal" (which humans are), it cannot tell us what it means to be human. In Aristotelian parlance, our human species is derived from our genus (animal) and differentia (rational). And that differentia does a lot to separate us from our non-human animal cousins. It does not totally separate us, but it separates us enough to give us pause as we realize that our animal nature cannot explain the many perplexing questions regarding why we do what we do. Now, if you will excuse me, I need another antacid.


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A filmmaker masquerades as a hobo to get in touch with the little people.
Hollywood film director John L. Sullivan dreams of making a film called Brother, Where Art Thou , dealing with the misery of the poverty-stricken, and convinces the studio executives to allow him to do research by traveling cross-country disguised as a hobo. As "Sully" treads the road dressed in a hobo outfit from the studio costume department, a fully-equipped "land yacht," complete with physician, photographer, reporter, secretary and chauffeur, follows him to take care of his every need. Hampered by their presence, Sully insists on traveling alone and arranges to meet the land yacht in Las Vegas. After working as a hired hand for a widow who has more in mind for him than chopping wood, he sneaks out of her house at night and hitchhikes, but the truck he gets a ride with lands him back in Hollywood. Frustrated by his failure, Sully wanders into a diner to buy a cup of coffee with his last dime, and a beautiful blonde actress, down on her luck, takes pity on him and buys him breakfast. Sully and "The Girl" are later arrested for stealing his own car, but they return to his palatial home after his valet and butler bail them out. The Girl dresses as a boy and joins him for his experiment, and the next morning they hop an outbound freight car. Sully and The Girl live like true hoboes, wandering through shantytowns, lining up for food at soup kitchens and listening to midnight sermons in order to secure beds at missions. In Kansas City, Sully declares his mission complete, but The Girl saddens at the thought of losing him to Hollywood. He admits to her that although he cares for her, his greedy wife will not release him from their marriage of convenience, arranged by his business manager to lower his taxes. That night, Sully wanders the streets handing out $5,000 worth of five-dollar bills to the needy. A hobo wearing Sully's stolen shoes which contained his only identification, follows Sully and robs him, and after knocking him unconscious, drags his body onto a freight car. The hobo dies shortly thereafter when he is hit by a train, and Sully awakens the next day at an unknown train station. Disoriented, Sully is arrested after an unintentional altercation with a railroad employee, and because he cannot recall his identity due to the severe blow to his head, he is called "Richard Roe" and sentenced to a hard labor camp. Sully finally recalls his identity but is beaten by the warden for speaking out of turn. At work on the chain gang, Sully is befriended by an elderly trustee, who helps him survive. He is placed in the sweatbox because of his outburst after seeing a front-page article reporting his presumed death. One evening, the convicts are allowed to see a Mickey Mouse cartoon at a black church. The parishioners are gracious, and Sully the sophisticate surprises himself when he joins in the uproarious laughter of the audience at the antics on the screen. In order to get his picture in the newspaper, Sully confesses to his own murder. The Girl, hard at work on a film, sees his photo in the newspaper and brings it to the attention of the studio heads. Overjoyed that he is alive, Sully's friends and coworkers meet him after he is released from the labor camp. Sully is pleased to hear that his wife, believing he was dead, married his business manager immediately, and that he is free to marry The Girl. Aware of the powerful misery of the poor and disadvantaged, Sully abandons his idea of directing a tragedy and is determined to produce a film that will make people laugh.
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Homeless, hopeless, and homilies
Jeff Boston 2019-11-29
John, the boy genius in a bubble, ventures out and lives among the homeless, where 99.9% of them are angelic; lives among chain gang prisoners, where 100%... MORE>
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My only complaint is the lackluster performance of Veronica Lake,who I find overrated anyway and in all ways! MORE>
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