I have a subscription until March 2019, and they have started to charge me for downloading magazines, since November. Apple will not refund my money, the say it is up to the app developer, and the developer doesn't answer my requests.
I love this magazine. It offers timely practical content which enables me to maximize my use of all my apple products.
Had this app on the iPad and it was literally a work of art. Was forced to use the iPhone version after the iPad died, and it doesn't even feel like it could be from the same company. Not only is the experience subpar from the iPad app, but it's not even formatted for the iPhone X after a year of being out!
User interface is very poor; didn't receive current issue, and couldn't access it. Cancelled subscription.
I find the articles in MacLife to be very informative, concise, and well written. When I was moving from the PC world to Apple MacLife was, and still is, a great resource for information. I love the iPad version. This app is well worth the price.
Please add iPhone X support. It's fine if it still has bars when not zoomed but it needs this update. It's been long enough. There's no excuse as to why it's not out yet.
I have been a lifelong subscriber of MacLife and love the magazine. However, I purchased an issue a bit back and have subsequently upgraded my phone to the new X! All of my issues have loaded back onto my account except the one (mentioned before) that I really need right now. I have emailed the "support" folks, several times, hoping that they could help and haven't gotten any answers back. I'd say get the app, just hopefully don't lose any of your purchases as their support staff are nonexistent. Hopefully they don't cease production as good luck finding anyone who cares!
MacLife was the one magazine I would still buy in print form in the grocery store, as I really like the content and look. But, for less than the cost of two print issues (which is still true, I think), I can get an entire year. And, with the Retina display on the large iPad Pro, it seems to actually look BETTER than the print version. And, of course, there's also all the capabilities that come with an "active" publication (like links and such). Plus: I have ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE as to where all these other reviewers are getting these problems! They must be using a different app or something! ;) Seriously, though, I've actually NEVER had a problem with the app itself, or with the purchasing of issues! Plus, I've just turned 60 years old, with my brain and memory getting worse and worse, and I've been able to read issue after issue with (LITERALLY) ZERO problems. So, this app is ABSOLUTELY AND VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
MacLife is one of my first magazine (apps?) experiences within Newsstand. It's working well generally. I response time is good. New issue load time is long - not something to do just before leaving the house or a Starbucks. In-magazine navigation is intuitive for the most part, with helpful cues (and the initial help screen is handy), but sometimes there is a sense of too many different ways to reveal another page or section. Maybe I need to get some practice! In the end I can read the content, share it and that's most important. I will add that going back after a break to an open mag can be frustrating with having to start in the library screen and wait a long time for the mag to open- fortunately on the page you were in. Make the app smarter and snappier!
Contents is good, but the app need more work.


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Working as a health care professional can be a very challenging and yet rewarding job, involving direct contact with people, especially with people in need of medical care. Health care professionals have the job of assisting patients, of providing medical care, first aid or medical and health counseling. Health care personnel can be divided into university licensed personnel and personnel with high school diplomas only. We can be talking about doctors, nurses, psychologists, psychiatrists, etc. They are all doing the same thing: dealing with ill people or with people who need medical advice and trying to solve their problems.
Being a health care professional sometimes means working in hospitals, in the ER wards or in other related institutions, resume writing services for nurses; some health care professionals may work in schools, companies, other organizations. Health care personnel have a various number of duties, beside the health related ones. They need to deal with computers and phones, disease prevention, patient post hospital care, family education, birth control, project development, budgeting, research, providing emotional support to patients, etc.
Working in the health care industry means being able to communicate in a good, efficient way with people; we are talking here about people with health issues, people who maybe lack the patience of waiting in lines because they do not feel good, people who are sad, desperate or scared. Health care professionals need to know everything about patients' psychology and they need to approach and address patients with extreme care and diplomacy. Every patient is different than the ones before him. Every patient needs a personalized approach and sometimes it is more than pills that cure diseases. Health care personnel need to show empathy and to give both good and bad news in an appropriate manner. They need to know how to console their patients and how to provide them with whatever it is they need.
Health care employees who work in hospitals need to be able to work long hours and to cope with stress, unexpected situations and tiredness. Being a good health care professional means having excellent health care knowledge. It means a lot of notions related to Anatomy, Chemistry and Drug Administration. Every patient has their own files with their own problems and a health care professional needs to know when some types of pills are forbidden or the patient is allergic to them. It is not easy assisting patients with more difficult health issues but the health care responsible needs to maintain a positive attitude and to work with both body and mind of the patient. Sometimes making the mind feel better will also help the body.
Health care professionals can be specialized in different fields. Some of them may treat children, while others may be specialized in geriatrics. Some health care professionals do surgery while others may focus on paper work; no matter what they do, they know that their main concern is people and how people feel. A good health care professional knows when a patient needs immediate care and this is extremely important at patients with psychiatric diseases; you cannot send home a patient who is unstable, obviously.
Health care professionals many sometimes need to work long hours, day after day because nobody can leave a patient on the operating table. They need to leave stress and angriness behind and treat patients with diplomacy and interest. Especially when working with children, health care specialists need to take extra care in order not to scare them and this is a challenging job. Health care professionals are devoted persons who take pride in helping others. If you want to become one, you need to be comfortable with working with people in the first place.


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Thanks James.. Great additions to the list of reasons why processes sometimes fail.
How did u pick up the techniques to create ""6 Reasons Processes Fail – Cartoon"?
Would it be possible to utilize this cartoon in an internal company newsletter in which we are highlighting a current Process Mapping project we are working on?
We would for sure reference your blog in the newsletter. The cartoon really illustrates things very well for us.
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Foot Zone Therapy for Health
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This post is a continuation of the article Foot Zoning for Drug Free Pain Relief.
At about the same time that Dr. Joseph Shelby and Dr. Eunice Ingam were discovering the reflex points on the feet, hands, and face, there was a young man in Norway by the name of Charles Ersdal who suffered from paralysis on the left side of his body. He heard of the reflexology technique and allowed a friend of his, Enrar Svenson, a chiropractor and reflexologist, to treat him.
Enrar treated Ersdal over a period of two years resulting in the cure of his paralysis. This peaked Ersdal's curiosity and he began a study of reflexology. He was particularly interested in discovering why reflexology would work on some patients but not on others.
One night as Charles was asleep he received the answer to his question in a dream. He was told that the body needed to be treated in its entirety and not only in reflex points. He was also shown the placement of the spine, the organs, and systems of the body as they are scaled down three dimensionally on the feet. Charles continued his study of the human body and physiology and mapping the body on the feet. He opened a clinic in Kristiansand, Norway, called the Centre for Alternativ Medisin, where he treated patients and taught his method of foot zone therapy.
Charles also taught in Finland, Sweden, Russia and at the European College of Natural Medicine in Germany. It was there that Katri Nordblom first met Charles Ersdal. Katri was living in Sweden at the time but traveled to Germany during the summer, Easter, and Christmas holidays to take courses at the College.
After moving to America in 1989, Katri discovered that people were interested in learning Ersdal's method of foot zoning so she invited Ersdal to America to teach for a group of people from the community. Ersdal's first class in America was in June 1989 in Montana. Over the course of the next three years, Ersdal traveled to America two to three times a year teaching his methods. He would hold classes over a period of about five days discussing physiology in depth before demonstrating his foot zone technique. Classes were held in Montana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Wyoming, Nevada, and Idaho at the invitation of Katri Nordblom and Christine Horvath. Christine was a student of Ersdal's who lived in Minnesota.
When Ersdal first began coming to America to teach, although he was able to speak conversational English, he would lecture in Norwegian with Katri's husband, Hans, translating into English. As Ersdal became more proficient in English medical terms, he began teaching classes without the assistance of a translator. He also taught much of the anatomy portion of the class in Latin. The first maps of the feet made available to his students were in Norwegian but later maps were in labeled in English.
During this time, word of Ersdal's methods began to spread and many people did not want to wait for him to visit America so they would travel to his clinic in Norway to learn from Ersdal, two of those students included Julie Holderegger of Idaho and Martha Libster of Chicago, Illinois.
Between Ersdal's visits to American, previous students would work with current students to ensure proper placement of the hands on a client's foot. Those teachers included Katri Nordblom, Christine Horvath, Julie Holderegger, and a gentleman by the name of Bob Personette.
Although Ersdal's map of the feet was very detailed, he realized that the treatment was incomplete and continued to study the body and it's placement on the feet.
Katri Nordbloom recognized what she felt were limitations to Ersdal's map of the zone and began teaching her own method of foot zone technique. Martha Libster began teaching their own method of foot zone technique, combining her knowledge and practice of Ersdal zone therapy with that of foot reflexology and nurse-herbalism. Ersdal continued coming to America and teaching in Minnesota at the request of Christine Horvath. After Charles Ersdal's death on March 23, 1995, Christine Horvath received permission from Ersdal's family to continue teaching Ersdal's method of foot zoning using Charles' very detailed maps of the feet. She is the only person in America authorized to teach from his maps. Ersdal's son, Robert, continues to run the clinic that Charles started in Norway.
Like a cook who is given a recipe and makes adjustments to suit their tastes, students of Ersdal's took what they learned from him and began adjusting and adding to his method, creating maps of the feet and zone techniques that reflected their understanding and education. Some opened schools, like Katri Nordblom and Martha Libster, others taught workshops independently to friends and neighbors who wanted to learn.
At this time, in addition to Katri's school in Montana, Nordblom American Institute of FootZonology, and Martha Libster's school in Chicago, Golden Apple Healing Arts, you can learn the foot zone technique from schools such as We Do Feet with locations throughout Utah, Idaho, and Nevada, or the Academy of Foot Zone Therapy which holds classes in Utah, Arizona, Washington, and Nevada. Christine Horvath continues to teach the foot zone technique, using Ersdal's maps of the feet, in Minnesota.
Katherine Atkinson
Katherine is a Foot Zone Instructor and the Davis County Utah Chapter Leader for the Weston A. Price Foundation. She also teaches classes on nutrition & cooking and herbs.
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INCREMENTAL ANALYSIS IN COMMON BUSINESS DECISIONS Accounting Help
Let us now see how incremental analysis can be used in a variety of business decisions.
Special Order Decisions
Companies sometimes receive large special orders to provide merchandise at less than the regular price. Typically, these orders are not from a company's regular customers.
To illustrate, assume that Par Four manufactures golf balls that it distributes exclusively through professional golf shops in the United States. Although the company has the capacity to manufacture 2 million balls per month, its current sales volume requires that only 800,000 units be produced. At this level of output, monthly manufacturing costs average approximately $480,000, or $0.60 per ball as follows:
Average costper ball
Assume that Par .Four receives a special order from :'-lGC, a company that sells golf products in Japan, for 500,000 "special label" golf t rlls per month. The balls would be imprinted with the NGC name and logo and would not in any way be identified with Par Four.
To avoid direct competition with Par Four's regular customers, NGC has agreed not to sell these balls outside of .Japan. However, it is willing to pay Par Four only $250,000 per month for the special order, which amounts to only $0.50 per ball. Would it be profitable for Par Four to accept this order? .
At first glance. the order appears to be unprofitable. Not only is NGC's offer of $0.50 per ball much less than the regular sales price of $1.25, it is even less than Par Four's $0.60 per-unit manufacturing cost. However, before we decide to reject NGC's order, let us first perform an incremental analy is of the costs and revenue relevant to this decision:
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Our analysis indicates that accepting 'NGC's special order will generate incremental revenue of $250,000 and incremental costs of $JOO.OOO.Thcrctorc. the order will increase Par Four's monthly gross profit on sales by $150.000.
The relevant factors in this type of decision are the incremental (additional) revenues that will be earned and the incremental costs that will be incurred by accepting the order. Only the additional variable costs of $0.20 per unit are relevant to this decision. because the fixed costs remain $320,000 regardless of whether the order is accepted or not. Thus the $0.60 average manufacturing cost, which includes fixed costs per unit. is not relevant ~()this decision
In evaluating the merits o(a special order such as the one received by Par Four. managers should consider the effect that filling the order might have on -the company's regular sales volume and selling prices. Obviously, it would not he wise for Par Four to sell golf balls at $0.50 apiece to a domestic company, which might then try to sell the balls to Par Four's regular customers for less than Par Four's normal selling price of $ 1.25 per ball. Par Four's management should also consider how the company's regular customer might react if word gets out about the special order. These customers may also demand a $0.50-per-ba)) selling price
You as a Sales Representative
In summary. incremental analysis is a useful tool for evaluating the effects of expected short-term changes in revenues and costs. Managers should always be alert, however, to the long-run implications of their actions
Production Constraint Decisions
In the previous example, we demonstrated how a contribution margin approach can be used in incremental. analyses. The contribution rnargln approach often applies when the availability of a particular production input (such as a raw material, skilled labor, floor space, etc.) is limited. An understanding of contribution margin concepts enables managel's to decide what products to manufacture (or purchase for resale) and what products to eliminate in order to maximize the contribution margin per unit of the limited input.
Assume that you arc offered two equally satisfactory jobs. one paying $8 per hour and one paying $ 12 per hour. If you are able to work only 40 hours per week and you wish to maximize the amount you earn per hour of your time, you would naturally choose the job paying $12 per hour. For the same reason, if a company's cutput is limited by a particular resource, such as labor or machine-hours, management should use this resource in a way that maximizes total contribution margin. To illustrate this concept, assume that Fran's Studio creates three products: (I) watercolor paintings. (2) oil paintings, and l.~) custom frames. Total output. however, is limited to what can be produced in 6.000 hours r)j direct labor. The average contribution marginper direct labor hour required ,lO corr.plcre each of the studio's products is as follows
Notice that oil paintings generate the highest contribution margin on a per-unit basis ($100). However, watercolors are the studio's most profitable product in terms of their contribution margin per direct-labor hour.
In general. when capacity is constrained by the limited availability of a particular input, a company should attempt to maximize its contribution margin per unit of that
Understanding the best use of scarce capacity is critical, even [or art studios .
input. The following table shows the total contribution margin Fran's Studio would earn if it used all 6,000 of its annual labor hours to create a single product line
This schedule shows that the studio can maximize its total contribution margin and, therefore, its operating income, by creating only watercolor paintings. In most 'Cases,however, a company cannot simply manufacture the single product that is most profitable. For example, the demand for watercolors may not be sufficient to allow Fran's Studio to sell all of the watercolor paintings it is capable ·of producing. In this case, operating income would be maximized by creating oil paintings once the demand for watercolors is satisfied. If the demand for oil paintings is also met, any remaining direct labor hours would be devoted to producing custom frames
You as a Store Manager
Make or Buy Decisions
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Manufacturing Cost Estimates (Schedule A3)
Evaluating Percentage Changes
Computation and Use of Overhead Application Rates Assume
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Review: Interstellar (2014)
Just tagline the movie poster 'The real Outer Space is Inner Space' and save us the extraneous third hour.
I found the 5th dimension scene in Interstellar to be much more dreamlike (or nightmarish) than anything in Christopher Nolan's other movie that was actually about dreams, Inception, from the imagery and "landscape", to the screaming-and-not-being-heard and desperately-hitting-with-little-impact. It's not only sadly out of place in this movie, I feel like in a film featuring some spectacular visuals, it's the most frustratingly whiz-bang-with-no-substance moment in Interstellar.
Nolan's first attempt at sympathetic (or even vaguely human) characters.
There's still his patented late-in-the-third-act "high-concept" twist which is supposed to function as the story's emotional payoff, but within this character-driven film, it's a mutant version of the classic Nolan move. In Interstellar, the "twist" boils down to the same cop-out conceit that seems to serve as the "resolution" in other recent sci-fi movies (Danny Boyle's Sunshine, I'm looking at you): after more than two hours of telling us how unfathomably huge the universe is, the film concludes that HUMANS ARE STILL THE CENTRE OF EVERYTHING (I mean really, just tagline the movie poster 'The Real Outer Space Is Inner Space' and save us three hours).
Of course, this film looks and sounds typically Nolamazing – and some geniunely entertaining space travel sequences are worth watching, if you shave 45 mins off the start and end the film (each, not altogether), or if you simply don't care about story or people in general. (And that sequence on the water planet is genuinely thrilling.) Much of the character-driven nature of the movie is carried by Matthew McConaughey's charisma, and the fantastic casting of Mackenzie Foy and his young daughter, Murph.
The Core of Nolanism: That One Line (Which Means Nothing)
But, as is typical with each of Christopher Nolan's films (even the ones I've personally enjoyed most), Jonathan Nolan (his brother who wrote this script) is so dazzled by his own concepts and imagery that he forgets to actually resolve anything with his characters, their world(s), or any of the other various plates he's been spinning. And worst of all, he usually does this for the sake of a laughably "poetic" line and/or visual coda that not only ignores all the events that led up to it, but also means nothing in itself. In The Dark Knight, it was that ridiculous "Not the hero Gotham wants, but the hero it needs" garbage (THAT MEANS NOTHING); here, it's the daughter vs fellow astronaut ending. I mean really: the entire emotional tether of this overlong epic was the connection between father and daughter – yet, when he finally, FINALLY, FI. NA. LLY. gets to her, after less than a minute she simply sends him off to find Anne Hathaway, with whom he'd shared zero affection or even connection throughout the whole adventure.
And meanwhile: the film's most psychedelic visual sequence (the "5th dimension" scene), which also doubles as its narrative moebius strip, and triples as the knot in its emotional tether (M. Night Shyamalan's Signs meets Danny Boyle's Sunshine once again), is perhaps the most Nolancriminal act in the entire film (and that's saying a lot, given the string of things like, say, the whole fist-fight-in-space episode). The logic of the scene itself is explained in one crucial line (that it wasn't aliens but humans who, somehow, in the future, developed the mind-boggling technology to make this single activity possible). The implications of this notion are massive, perhaps bigger than space itself (which, as the movie by this point has already taken considerable time and energy to show us, is really big) – and yet it's never revisited or even addressed afterward, which is short shrift considering that it's also the single development that allowed one man to save the entire human race and keep his promise to his little girl. (Wow, did I actually just write that sentence? That's Nolan for ye). It's a Nolanism en par with the Talia "twist" in The Dark Knight Rises: one line of dialogue intended to check emotional, narrative and conceptual boxes all at once, yet ultimately failing to satisfy any of them, and merely raising more questions.
Nolan missed the "show, don't tell" day at film school – and then he copied someone's notes badly, and got it the wrong way around.
I don't derive much enjoyment from peanut gallery-ing a movie, but Nolan purports to be an intelligent, intellectual film-maker, serving up pretense in dry, sober aesthetics, tailored suits and unrelenting seriousness. So when he presents things that lack intelligence or even any cohesive logic, what other response is appropriate? We're asked to engage with Nolan's work on a cerebral level, and yet we're met with obfuscation, as if that were the same as having our minds blown. We're invited to play tennis; we get to the court, racquet-in-hand, only to find that the tennis balls are turning into basketballs, and then no balls at all. And did you notice how the court was never a court at all? The court is inside us all! Game. Set. Match. Nolan out.
I wasn't as pissed off with Interstellar as I'd been led to believe I would be, but that could just be because I was led to believe I'd be more pissed off. Is that a black hole of logic? Must be Nolan rubbing off on us all. What a twist!
Further Viewing
This Guy Edits breaks down – literally, on his own editing timeline – the deceptively complex cross-cutting of Interstellar's climax:
This Guy Edits | 'Interstellar's Editing Is Out of This World'
Lessons from the Screenplay examines Christopher Nolan's use of cross-cutting – when it works, when it doesn't, and why:
Film School: Cross-Cutting
Review: Tenet (2020)
Film School: How Editing Can Transform Genre
Review: Ad Astra (2019)
Review: Annihilation (2018)
Review: Cloud Atlas (2012)
Review: The Prestige (2006)
Film School: The French Dispatch (2021)
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Red Sox owner enters $70M deal for Boston Globe
$70M price is a massive drop from the record $1.1B The Times paid for it in 1993.
Red Sox owner enters $70M deal for Boston Globe $70M price is a massive drop from the record $1.1B The Times paid for it in 1993. Check out this story on ElPasoTimes.com: http://usat.ly/1cxGEIO
AP Published 12:42 a.m. MT Aug. 3, 2013 | Updated 3:19 p.m. MT Aug. 3, 2013
A security guard walks past the entrance of The Boston Globe building in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston in 2009.(Photo: Charles Krupa, AP)
Deal will give John Henry the 141-year-old newspaper, its websites and affiliated companies
$70M price is a massive drop from the record $1.1B The Times paid for it in 1993
Businessman John Henry is the principal owner of the Boston Red Sox
BOSTON (AP) — Businessman John Henry, the principal owner of the Boston Red Sox, has entered into an agreement to buy The Boston Globe for $70 million, a massive drop from its record $1.1 billion price two decades ago.
The impending purchase from The New York Times Co. marks Henry's "first foray into the financially unsettled world of the news media," the Globe said Saturday. The deal will give Henry the 141-year-old newspaper, its websites and affiliated companies, it said.
RIEDER COLUMN: 'Globe' sale a sign of the Times
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The Times announced in February it was putting the Globe and related assets up for sale four years after calling off a previous attempt to sell it. The company's CEO said at the time selling the Globe would help the company focus attention on The New York Times brand.
Times spokeswoman Eileen Murphy confirmed the planned sale of the Globe and other media properties to Henry. The Times said the all-cash sale, expected to close in 30 to 60 days, includes BostonGlobe.com, Boston.com, The Worcester Telegram & Gazette, Telegram.com, the direct mail marketing company Globe Direct and the company's 49 percent interest in Metro Boston, a free daily newspaper for commuters.
Henry, in a statement published by the Globe, cited the "essential role that its journalists and employees play in Boston, throughout New England, and beyond."
"The Boston Globe's award-winning journalism as well as its rich history and tradition of excellence have established it as one of the most well respected media companies in the country," Henry said.
Henry, who also owns the English Premier League soccer club Liverpool F.C., said he would reveal details about his plans for the Globe in the next few days.
The Times bought the Globe from the family of former Globe executive Stephen Taylor in 1993 for what it said was the highest price paid for an American newspaper. The price Henry is paying is less than 7% of the 1993 price.
The Globe and other newspapers have faced difficulties in recent years as readers have fled to the Internet and advertisers have cut spending on newspapers and moved more ads online. Still, the Globe is a journalistic institution in New England and was lauded for its coverage of the deadly Boston Marathon bombings in April.
A 2009 round of cost-cutting, involving pay cuts, helped put the Globe on better financial footing and prompted the Times to call off a planned sale. In late 2011, the Globe started charging for access to its online version at BostonGlobe.com, which helped to boost circulation revenues.
The Times company doesn't separate Globe revenue from The New York Times revenue in its financial statements. But the Globe had an average weekday circulation of 230,351 in the six months through September, according to the Alliance for Audited Media. The newspaper's increase in digital subscriptions more than offset declines in print. But the total is still down significantly from the nearly 413,000 it boasted in September 2002.
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by Patricia Inacio, PhD
Nimbus Therapeutics, which uses computer analysis to identify and develop therapies for autoimmune diseases like lupus, has established a long-term strategic alliance with Celgene, a company that focuses on immunology.
The agreement promises to foster the development of new therapies for diseases triggered by imbalanced immune system responses.
Nimbus develops programs that identify potential targets for autoimmune disease treatments. An autoimmune disease is one in which the immune system attacks healthy cells rather than invaders.
Under the alliance, Celgene gains access to Nimbus' immunology programs. In return, Nimbus receives an upfront payment plus additional revenue when Celgene reaches various development milestones.
One of the alliance's programs targets tyrosine kinase 2 (Tyk2), a signaling protein that regulates inflammatory responses. Tyk2's ability to mediate inflammation makes it a potential target for several immune disorders, including lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn's disease, psoriasis, and multiple sclerosis.
The agreement also covers Nimbus' small-molecule STING antagonist program. STING stands for stimulator of interferon genes. Nimbus is using computer analysis to develop a strategy to block STING's ability to activate immune responses involved in lupus and several other diseases.
"Celgene is committed to the continued growth of our expanding immunology and inflammation pipeline," Rupert Vessey, Celgene's executive vice president and president of its Global Research and Early Development program, said in a press release. The company "believes that the Nimbus immunology programs, including their efforts on Tyk2 and STING antagonists, represent important additions as we work to create the next generation of drug candidates for patients with autoimmune disorders."
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This year we saw Christmas items hitting the shelves well before Halloween. What happened to Thanksgiving? This has been out of hand for a while but it keeps getting worse. Now I hear "Black Friday" sales are creeping onto Thanksgiving Day. Is one holiday not enough for the stores? Now they have to steal another? Thanksgiving should be a day families come together and give thanks for what they have, while enjoying a good meal together. All these chasing of sales is nonsense.
My plan this year is to enjoy Thanksgiving Day with my family. The following day we will put up Christmas decorations but not before that day. We will also avoid all stores both days. You should do the same and help encourage retailers to allow their employees to also stay at home or on minimum staffing on Thanksgiving.


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Are you sure you're opposed to Citizen's United?
After yesterday's overindulgence of anti-SOPA Internet blanketing, I can't help but notice that a large swathe of people I know went from posting passionate defenses of freedom of speech on Wednesday to a Thursday of cries to allow the government censor speech by amending the Constitution to overturn Citizens United.
Yes, SOPA would have been a problem if passed. I fully support measures to stop piracy, but not by giving government officials powers beyond due process and trusting them to only use it fairly. This always, always, leads to abuse.
Yet those same people are upset about a court case that allows groups of people to broadcast criticisms of politicians around election time.
Actually, they're not really upset by that because most of them don't understand that's what Citizen's United is. They assume it allows big businesses to spend unlimited amounts on political lobbying, which is not true.
I've never kept it a secret that I support corporate personhood, but that isn't what the case is about. The Citizens United case didn't just free the speech of for-profit businesses, it also applied to organizations like the ACLU, labor unions and media companies.
These people aren't actually against the case they say they're against. They are, in fact, against a different issue and have allowed themselves to follow a fad without doing any real research.
But let me take the activists on at their true point. I'll disregard their intellectual sloppiness and engage them on their central issue: should we trust the government to put a cap on how much speech a private corporation can make?
This is simple, all I need to do is share the same quote I used last time that retired ACLU executive director Ira Glasser wrote on the Huffington Post:
The inequities of speech that flow from the inequities of wealth are certainly a big and distorting problem for a democracy, and have always been so, and not just during elections. No one knows how to remedy that, short of fundamental re-distributions of wealth. But I'll tell you what isn't a remedy: granting the government the power to decide who should speak, and how much speech is enough. Nothing but disaster flows from that approach, and that was what was at stake in this case.
You can not claim to be a champion of free speech one day and then call for restrictions the very next day hoping to silence organizations you don't like. Most of the anti-Citizens United activists are grossly ignorant about the most basic details of the case.
If instead of a movie about a politician, Citizens United had written a book, would you allow the government to seize all the copies and burn it?
BONUS: As I was searching for the Popehat link about the New Jersey Department of Public Affairs claimed national security when it locked up the details on a barn it was building to house road salt, I came across a post that makes a better argument than mine. Ken gives a roundhouse punch when he says that it was corporate speech from Google, Wikimedia and Reddit that made the SOPA protest so big. Do these same people think those websites should have been censored from weighing in on proposed anti-piracy legislation?
How much speech should they have been allowed to have?
Posted by Michael at 8:50 AM
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Michael Hawkins January 19, 2012 at 11:45 PM
Citizens United is about allowing the government to regulate business, something it is perfectly allowed to do. SOPA is about allowing businesses to stymie the speech of the small guy. The latter reminds me of SLAPP lawsuits without the hassle of due process.
Citizens United did no such thing. It was not about businesses: Here's Glasser from the above link:
"The issue at stake in the case was whether, consistent with the First Amendment, the government could criminalize speech that criticized a public official who was also a candidate for elective office, 60 days before a general election and 30 days before a primary."
You have confused corporations with businesses. If you aren't prepared to make an honest effort to understand this issue, why should anyone value your opinion?
Flavorscape April 20, 2012 at 1:44 PM
Citizens United is a load of bull. When corporate charters first began you could only get one for 10-20 years from congress, and creating one was as difficult as passing a law in congress. You had to prove a need beyond that which was supplied already by government and other charters. And if you were found breaking the law, the charter was terminated. The use of 'personhood' was only a convienent speech tool to allow lawyers to speak of entities as beholden to contracts or to sue and be sued. Now you can get one for small fee from the State Department.
CU only passed after they beat on the courts long enought and hard enough that they just caved. The basic premise you cant dispute: You cannot treat a corporation like a person. You and me are subject to the death penalty; you can't send a corporation to hell. Corporatehood should go back to being a priveleage, not an unalienable right. Humans have rights, not conglomerations.
Also, when it comes to political financing corporations should have no right to contribute. One reason is that so many of our corporations are not our corporations, they are multi-national organizations that pay or hide taxes in other countries. They are not beholden to us. Only private US citizens should be allowed to contribute. Do you really want a global corporation propping up candidates that favor them?
CU only passed after they beat on the courts long enought and hard enough that they just caved. The basic premise you cant dispute: You cannot treat a corporation like a person. You and me are subject to the death penalty; you can't send a corporation to hell. Corporate-hood should go back to being a privilege, not an unalienable right. Humans have rights, not conglomerations.
Zachary Bos January 20, 2012 at 9:01 AM
I'm not sure I can follow your point that the decision in Citizens United does not allow "big businesses to spend unlimited amounts on political lobbying," at least from reading the link you provided>
I agree that some of the criticism of Citizens United is grounded in views that aren't themselves informed of the details of the case. That being said, I'll state my own opposition to the ruling, an opposition grounded in my view that corporate speech is a contradiction in terms. This follows from my admittedly narrow view of speech, in that I believe there is a category distinction between the speech acts made by an individual (which the individual can be said to be fully invested in and fully accountable to that speech act) and between speech acts made by collective or corporate entities. These latter speech acts are supported financially by the individual constituents of the collective or corporate entity, but this does not entail that these constituents are fully invested in or accountable to any particular speech act that the entity makes.
This category difference between speech made be an individual, and speech made by a group acting in collective or corporate fashion -- which amounts, in my analysis, to an ontological difference demanding, really, even a different term -- in my view lays a foundation for the limits set in the BCRA. And why shouldn't it? We (alright, I) want democracy, not plutocracy -- in which the interests of individuals are accounted for in representative fashion, and not according to their cash reserves.
Through such arguments, I find myself agreeing incidentally with the slogans of "end corporate personhood" and "money is not speech", albeit through rather different philosophical reasoning.
Michael Hawkins January 21, 2012 at 12:28 AM
Corporations have business interests like anyone else. Most often, they are themselves businesses. As such, the government has the right to regulate them. (In fact, the government has the right to regulate the shit out of them by virtue of being the very definer of them.)
Michael January 21, 2012 at 9:07 AM
Zachary, you raise a good point. Let me clarify.
Citizens United did not allow entities to perform unrestricted direct lobbying. It allows groups to speak directly to the public through broadcasts, which is exactly what we saw with the anti-SOPA calls for actions large corporations conducted this week.
"First, while the court threw out decades-old constraints on corporations and unions today in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, it preserved disclosure requirements that at least force those expenditures into the public eye.
"Second, the court's dramatic reversal does not threaten the existing ban on direct corporate and union campaign contributions. So while those players may now lavish money from their treasuries on independent campaign expenditures, they still may not donate directly to candidates."
Mr. Hawkins, I see you are standing by the idea that since the government creates corporations, they create them in any form the government wants with any restrictions. That would be true in a direct democracy or dictatorship, but as we're a constitutional republic, we have restrictions on what rules the government can make. The government can not simply confiscate corporate property and sell it.
Michael Hawkins January 22, 2012 at 9:50 AM
The government can force businesses to use nutrition labels. We really should stop this trampling of rights.
I'm not sure why you want to change the subject to that.
I don't believe people should lose their rights because they organized in a group. What's absent from this debate is question if the rich are allowed to run ads by themselves. There is no calls to restrict that. What this would do is limit groups of less-wealthy people to organize and share their views.
I didn't change the subject in the least. You seem to believe the government can't regulate corporations in certain ways, yet I don't see you going on about this trampling of rights via nutrition label regulation. It's an inconsistency on your part.
It's not an inconsistency for me to fail to mention an obscure, unrelated position I hold.
If consumers want those labels, they can simply demand them. If the businesses or restaurants don't wish to provide them, they can go elsewhere. Thus, we have a plausible mechanism that will allow the public to get that information without having to make yet another law. Therefor, I oppose mandatory nutrition labels.
As a bonus to my ideology-based view, it doesn't hurt that nutrional labels are only enforced on low-status restaurants and not high-status restaurants. It's also well understood that these labels fail to change consumer behavior towards healthier choices.
Nate January 22, 2012 at 10:58 AM
He has simply lost the plot. Yes, liberal Michael, the government can force companies to include information about their products, on those products.
Similar to how the government may still require disclosure as to who is doing the political spending, but may not limit it.
Zachary Bos January 23, 2012 at 4:04 PM
"I don't believe people should lose their rights because they organized in a group."
Neither do I. But, I'm finding a philosophical incompatability between the exercise of those rights within a group context. Which is to say, the kinds of actions groups can undertake are categorically different from the kinds of actions individuals, exercising their rights, can perform.
I see -- and did not originally misunderstand -- that the decision in Citizens United did not forge a path for unrestricted lobbying. What I'm characterizing as "plutocratic" is precisely the privilege which that decision upheld: that of "groups to speak directly to the public through broadcasts". If a group of people act in a collaborative fashion, I'm arguing -- whether that action is produce speech, or to purchase the means to broadcast that speech -- they are not doing the same *kind of thing* that an individual does without such collaboration or collusion.
It is a fair point, to observe that "What this would do is limit groups of less-wealthy people to organize and share their views." Really, though, the anti-egalitarian problem is that what this decision allows for is the coming together of groups of MORE-wealthy people to share their views and leverage their capital to inordinately influence public discourse.
How a government (a society) is to legislate against the use of capital as a proxy for speech, I cannot say.
I will observe that the anti-SOPA actions were coordinated, vastly, who did NOT spend money in support of this action. It wasn't a media buy that bought the win, but the cooperative action of many millions of Internet users.
Do the practices of the anti-SOPA campaign disenfranchise non-users of the 'Net, in a way which is as anti-egalitarian as the practices of entities operating through the allowance of Citizens United? I couldn't say.
Important questions to answer, though. It's not for nothing that many authors of speculative fiction have come up with the idea of a fully participatory citizen quorum, through web-connected devices. One citizen, one vote, on all issues they care to participate in. They call it fantasy for a reason, I suppose.
I agree with Nate that an almost screamingly obvious step would be to repair the disclosure requirements.
Nate January 23, 2012 at 10:54 PM
There is a fine line between spending money to, run an ad for example, and using the leverage previous spending has provided, regardless whether or not it was the original intent.
As far as things that cost a corporation money, shutting down their website or something similar such as using space that could have been used for money making advertisements, there is practically no difference at all. Any difference is a spurious one at best.
Another thing I question is how different direct spending for a candidate is from spending on a certain issue.
Churches and other non-profits are a good example. They can't usually financially support candidates, but they can do what they like on individual issues. I find it hard to discern any practical way that advocating for lower taxes is different from endorsing a candidate who is running on a policy of lower taxes.
Nate: I would actually oppose the lobbying efforts of any non-individual, be it a church or a corporation, addressing a policy issue or a candidate's election. I agree that a hard-line distinction can't be made; that is why I'd call into question the legitimacy of all kinds of collective or corporate speech acts as constitutional (or, more conservatively, as favoring increased equality).
I do disagree, though, with your characterization of the anti-SOPA/PIPA campaign as one defined by corporate acts. The great majority of ways I heard about it, was through private communications initiated by individuals; and it is this method of advocating for change -- an aggregate of speech acts, mediated THROUGH corporate channels perhaps, but each requiring an individual's volitional action, which I would advance as a more evolved form of political participation. These *is* a bright-line distinction between individuals-acting-collectively (as mediated through a hierarchical structure, like a publicly-traded company, a trade union, a church committee, or a non-profit like the Nature Conservancy), and individuals-acting-coactively (as through a web campaign in which each individual must click on the button to send a message to Congress). In the former, there is a flattening or binning effect of volition, and therefore of the agency of the speech act; in the latter, volition and agency are preserved.
Nate January 24, 2012 at 9:08 AM
So you would get rid of groups such as the ACLU? NRA? PETA? so on?
You'll find a large portion of non-profit corporations are devoted to issue advocacy. I think its a great thing we have a system that permits that.
I would not get rid of groups such as the ACLU, etc; I would, however, make a separation between advocacy which takes place in the culture, and advocacy which takes the form of lobbying.
The former allows for individuals, persuaded by a message, to lobby their representatives. The latter, which is presently considered a protected right under the First Amendment, should be restricted, since it is not (as I'm arguing) it is not a speech act but rather a co-optive action by the leaders of organizations which has the effect of flattening or limiting the volitional speech of constituent members.
Michael January 24, 2012 at 1:14 PM
Zachary, you are describing a caste system for free speech
There already is a caste system. It's called being born poor.
Nate April 26, 2012 at 9:41 PM
That isn't a caste system.
Michael, can you elaborate?
You are making different classes of organizations and saying members of one class retain their free speech rights, while the second group loses them.
"You are making different classes of organizations and saying members of one class retain their free speech rights, while the second group loses them."
(Is this addressed to me?)
I'd seek to limit the political speech of collective entities, as against the unlimited political speech of individual persons. This is not a class distinction between groups of different kinds, but a category distinction between "persons" (whose rights are Constitutionally protected) and "non-personal collective bodies" (who do not possess such rights, I'd argue).
Zachary, it was in reference to when you said:
"I would not get rid of groups such as the ACLU, etc; I would, however, make a separation between advocacy which takes place in the culture, and advocacy which takes the form of lobbying."
And when you limit the political speech of collective entities, you absolutely are creating a caste system.
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Hill College men's and women's rodeo teams hosted the 33rd annual home rodeo this past weekend, March 23-24. Nearly 400 student athletes from 11 colleges and universities from Texas and Louisiana who represent the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association's (NIRA) Southern Region competed in the rodeo.
The Hill College men's rodeo team won the rodeo with 472 points, McNeese State University was second with 431.5 points and Wharton Community College was third with 400.5 points. The men's team remain number one in the southern region standings and in the top five in the national standings after this rodeo. The women's rodeo team is in sixth place in the region standings.
Hill College dominated the bareback riding event, with Colby Fedor, a freshman from Grandview, winning the event with a score of 79 points; Zack Hibler, a sophomore of Wheeler, placing third with a score of 75 points; and Tim Murphy, a sophomore of Simpsonville, S.C., placing fourth with a 68 point score.
In the tie-down roping Jon Douch, a sophomore from Huntsville, won the event with a time of 8.6 seconds and Cooper Mathews, a sophomore from Cleburne, had a 9.7-second run and placed seventh.
In the breakaway roping, Brooke Jordan, a sophomore from Covington, had a 2.4-second time and placed third.
Douch also placed fourth in the steer wrestling event with a 5.3-second run and Tanner Fleet, a sophomore from Axtell, had a 5.7 time and placed sixth.
In the team roping event Ross Ashford, a freshman of Lott, was a heeler on the winning team, roping behind a Texas A&M University header with a time of 4.7 seconds. Hill's Colton Brittan, a freshman from Rockwall, heels behind a North Texas Community College cowboy and had a 5-second run and placed second. Fleet and Laney Newman, a sophomore from Fairfield, had a 7.1-second run and placed sixth in the event.
Additionally, Douch won the all-around cowboy title for the rodeo earning 233 points and Fleet placed third in the all-around earning 100 points for the rodeo.
Schools competing at the rodeo include: Texas A&M University, Sam Houston State University, McNeese State University, Texas A&M University-Commerce, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, Louisiana State University-Alexandria, Stephen F. Austin State University, Northeast Texas Community College, Panola College, Wharton County Junior College, Southwest Texas Junior College, Trinity Valley Community College and Hill College.
The Hill College men's team is currently leading in the men's team Southern Region standings with 4,535.33 points followed McNeese State University with 4,186.99 points. Panola College has slipped to third place in the regional standings with 4,133.83 points and North Texas Community College is in fourth place with 1,929.33 points.
The final college rodeo of the season, April 20-21 at Wharton County Junior College, will be the deciding factor as the top two men's and women's teams and top three individuals from each region will qualify to compete at the College National Finals Rodeo (CNFR) in Casper, Wyo., in June.
Currently, in the bareback riding, Zach Hibler, a sophomore from Wheeler, is leading the southern region standings and Fedor is third, Mitchell is eighth and Murphy is ninth. In the tie-down roping, Douch is winning the region, Mathews is fifth and Fleet is ninth. In the breakaway roping, Jordan is in fourth in the regional standings. In the saddle bronc riding Jarrod Hammons, a sophomore from Stephenville, is fourth and Logan Decker, a sophomore from Burleson is setting eighth. In the steer wrestling event, Douch is setting fifth and Fleet is eighth. In the team roping standing for headers, Cyle Denison, a freshman from Iowa, La., is fifth in the standings. In the heeling standings Brittan is in second, Ashford is in third and Clay Sieber, a sophomore from Troup, is in fifth. In the bull riding, Ezkiel Mitchell, a sophomore from Baytown, is first in the southern region standings.
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STOCKTON, Calif. - Drivers often see big, stenciled letters painted on the road approaching a speed bump.
One such sign along East Ninth Street in Stockton does its job in alerting drivers - but this one was spelled B-M-U-P.
"I double checked. I said, 'Wait a minute.' I stood on one side of it and made sure and said, 'Wait a minute, you don't spell it like that, you know?'" neighbor David Roots told KTXL. "And went back and on the other side and that's when I came to the conclusion, 'Man, they spelled it wrong.'"
The city of Stockton says contractors did some work on the street last year and re-stenciled the road markings but misspelled this particular one. City officials say the misspelling was missed on final inspections because crews don't typically check spelling.
"I think it's funny that they did all the ones over there and just got this one wrong, so I don't know what was going on. I don't know if they just weren't thinking, maybe it was after lunch or something," Roots said.
While some find it funny, others see it as a carelessness use of tax dollars by the city.
"'I don't give a damn,' you know what I mean? They might as well just say that," neighbor Sante Gayle said.
The misspelled marker had been on the street for three months before it was painted over on Thursday.
Roots said it didn't bother him at all. For him, it was part of his neighborhood and he smiled every time he saw it.
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A major and serious foundation should not be done by yourself only. It's not a DIY thing to do. The small cracks and holes can be sealed with patches and sealants, which can be done with a couple of helping hands. But with a sinking foundation and big cracks on your walls, you need the expertise of Enid foundation repair professionals.
Neglecting the early signs of foundation damage like cracks and stuck doors will only lead to worse things in the future. If you want to hire a foundation professional but doesn't know what to look first, the following are the qualities that professional should have.
Nothing beats training, education and experience combined together. When you look for a foundation repair contractor, they should be well-experienced and well-trained to do the job. There is not only one foundation repair method, there are many methods and all of them will require a special skillset and use of equipment to be done successfully.
A foundation repair method is not something to be done in DIY approach, we will repeat this many times until you encourage yourself not to do it. Hiring a contractor with no deal of experience with the kind of method your foundation needs, you will end up having a worst foundation. Once the ground continues to move and shirt, a repair would not be enough.
Like we mentioned, there are many types of repair methods suitable for the type of foundation you have. Hire someone who is well-trained that can do two or more of these methods. There's nothing wrong if the contractor is only experienced on one type of repair as long as he doesn't insist to do the method he doesn't know about. This will only lead to more problems. Hire someone who can give you a variety of options instead.
When you look for a contractor, don't settle on the first one you interviewed. Three of four prospects would be needed so you can assess what kind of options they are willing to give. Don't also hire the one who recommends a one-size-fits-all approach because that will only mess everything up.
Aside from asking the company or contractor about the years of experience they had or the kind of trainings they received, it's also necessary to know if they are licensed and insured. Don't hire someone who doesn't have these documents and qualifications. A license will ensure you that the company is legal to operate such repair methods. The insurance will give you peace of mind about damages and injuries that might occur on site.
The foundation repair is very costly, so make sure that the investment is worth it by getting the best service. Ask the contractor for any warranty. Check the terms to see if they suit you. The warranty signifies that the contractor is serious in his field and is willing to do the best for the job.


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On the eve of its annual awards ceremony for movie and television performers, the Screen Actors Guild issued a statement warning of a new blacklist aimed at actors who profess anti-war opinions.
In terms so vague yet alarmist that Joe McCarthy himself could hardly have improved on them, the guild insinuated: "Some have recently suggested that well-known individuals who express 'unacceptable' views should be punished by losing their right to work." Ever vigilant, the guild rose up to "deplore the idea that those in the public eye should suffer professionally for having the courage to give voice to their views."
It is not clear who would punish the celebrated actors. In Hollywood these days, it typically is the famous actors themselves who alone possess the clout to get a movie greenlighted. Neither is it clear how much courage is required to voice anti-war views in Los Angeles. Just last month, the Los Angeles City Council passed a resolution opposing U.S. military action against Saddam Hussein. If any are at risk in this anti-war redoubt, it might be America's uniformed personnel.
Not that uniformed personnel are likely to encounter the sort of landmarks that gave Hollywood justifiable pride in its patriotic outlook 60 years ago, during World War II.
No Hollywood Canteen. No bond rallies. Just try getting an impromptu hug from Cameron Diaz or a jitterbug with Angelina Jolie. And no 24-hour movie theaters catering to a triple-shift work force that made just about every film profitable for the war's duration.
Although annual production did decline between 1942 and 1945 from 533 releases to 377 the studios were economizing resourcefully on all sorts of raw material, from film stock to nails. Moreover, so much of the country was a captive audience that not as many replacement titles were necessary a far cry from the current business model, in which any movie that lasts four weeks at a multiplex can be considered a marathon hit.
The advent of television had been postponed by the war, prolonging the public's reliance on radio and the movies for both entertainment and updates from the battle zones. The Hollywood cupboard was so full in World War II that many completed films were kept on the shelf and released after the war had been won.
The armed forces frequently saw new pictures before the domestic marketplace. A vast network of 16 mm distribution and exhibition reached to far corners of the world to place movies at the disposal of service personnel. There was speculation at the time that it might transform the movie industry after the war. It didn't.
Television got that privilege, but a non-theatrical circuit of 16 mm films flourished for decades, specializing in educational, industrial and public-service productions. The studios had contributed to that development by shooting hundreds of instructional shorts for the armed forces during the war.
The most popular director of the 1930s, Frank Capra, finished a movie version of "Arsenic and Old Lace" in 1942 to provide some financial security for his family, then left Hollywood to supervise what became a famous series of historical indoctrination films for the Army, unified by the theme "Why We Fight."
Mr. Capra's screenwriting partner, Robert Riskin, had a similar mission at the Office of War Information and supervised two dozen instructional and propaganda shorts for the agency, which distributed most of them in Allied or liberated countries. Directors John Ford in the Navy, John Huston and George Stevens in the Army and William Wyler in the Air Force completed notable combat chronicles, ranging from Mr. Ford's coverage of Midway to Mr. Stevens' coverage of the liberation of Dachau.
James Stewart was in his early 30s when he joined up, soon after winning the Academy Award for best actor in "The Philadelphia Story." A private pilot for years, he advanced impressively in the Air Force hierarchy, commanding a B-24 squadron in England and then serving as a key administrator with Gen. Edward Timberlake, the commander of the 8th Air Force.
About one-sixth of the Hollywood work force entered the military during World War II. About 1,500 members of the Screen Actors Guild were in uniform, including about 50 leading men. Indeed, the guild specifically asked to be excluded from the directive when the government declared the movie business an essential industry. The membership, exposed to the public eye more than other segments of the film industry, did not want to be perceived as a special pleader for draft deferments.
Circumstances and prevailing attitudes have changed enormously since Hollywood was a willing collaborator in war mobilization and exhortation. The Vietnam War replaced deference to the military with distrust and sometimes loathing. The draft was discontinued a generation ago. Now the anti-war mind-set seems as difficult to alter as the exuberant patriotism that distinguished the industry's war effort and, let's be honest, often diminished the quality of its movies, especially comedies for a brief time in World War I and then a longer one in World War II.


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It's not too far-fetched to say that if Martin Luther King Jr. were around today and had to give a three-letter response to the programming on BET, it would be something along the lines of "SMH."
We'll never know for sure what the civil rights icon would have made of 106 & Park, but this fall we'll see his son's vision for what is being billed as the first broadcast network devoted to an African-American audience.
On the 43rd anniversary of his father's death, Martin Luther King III announced the upcoming launch of Bounce TV. The civil rights legend's son is a founder and has a seat on the board of directors.
A press release says that the network will target African Americans primarily between the ages of 25 and 54 with a programming mix of theatrical motion pictures, live sporting events, documentaries, specials, inspirational faith-based programs, off-net series, original programming and more.
In preparation for the launch, the network has struck a deal with NBC Universal Domestic Television Distribution for nearly 200 titles, including the 2004 Jamie Foxx movie Ray and the Denzel Washington film The Hurricane, as well as agreements with Sony Pictures Entertainment and other content providers.
King said of the venture, "My father envisioned the day that African Americans would play major roles in entertainment within ownership, not just serve as entertainers on the stage or in front of the cameras. That's what makes this even more exciting to me as we embark on this new endeavor of an independently owned and operated broadcast television network featuring African Americans."
African-American ownership is great, but when your dad is MLK, the bar for "exciting" is set a little higher. We'll be watching, and hoping that a network that reflects the diversity and depth of the black experience is more than just a dream.
Read more at the Wrap.
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