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Andrew Payne
5/23/2008 10:17am EDT
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For the last two decades, HBO has been considered the gold standard for television quality. The network routinely receives more Emmy nominations than any of its competitors, despite fielding a drastically smaller roster of programming.
HBO practically reinvented what could be done on the small screen. Each episode now had the same production values as a feature film, and the way the pay network could deal with risqué content led to a wide array of groundbreaking programming.
A quick glance at the roster of original shows produced by HBO over its first 25 years is almost like looking at the first couple pages of the greatest shows in the history of television. Of course, just like anything else, however, there are certain shows on HBO that received more credit than they deserved, and others that have been pushed aside over the years or never garnered the accolades with which they should have been showered.
The following are the most overrated and underrated HBO shows:
5. "
The Comeback
" (2005)
This was the groundbreaking show that couldn't quite pull it off. The revolutionary, genre-bending approach to comedy that felt all too familiar once the writing took over. "The Comeback" featured
Lisa Kudrow
as a former television star trying to once again return to the limelight. Rather than produce the show as a conventional sitcom, it was shown as a behind-the-scenes and unedited version from a fictional reality TV show. The approach was novel, episodes were funny, and Kudrow was great. Still, nothing ever quite clicked on the show and HBO cancelled it after its first season.
Oddly enough, this show received lamentations normally reserved for great shows axed before their time. Kudrow's performance was quickly hailed as genius by the critics who cited this show as the most criminally overlooked of the new season. None of this is really true, but the critics drove it home incessantly, championing the DVD release and insisting "The Comeback" be sought out on On Demand. In cancellation this show received way more accolades than it deserved. Remember it as a failed experiment with a fine performance and some funny moments, not the legend of the small screen that some would have you believe.
4. "
" (2003-2005)
At first, "Carnivale" was underrated. It was the solid drama on HBO lost in a sea of shows such as "
Six Feet Under
," "
", and "
Sex and the City
." Overlooked by critics and audiences alike, it was cancelled after completing only a third of its planned run, despite setting a ratings record for an HBO premiere. After its cancellation, all anybody could talk about was what an injustice it was, how the show was so underrated, and how HBO's audience should have given it the same attention it had to its contemporaries.
Soon the legend began to grow. Fans proclaimed it was the best show ever on HBO and that its epic scale left all other shows drowning in its wake. On and on this went until somebody unfamiliar with the program would have thought the producers killed "Moby Dick" before it went to press. None of this true. "Carnivale" was good but uneven. Epically envisioned but clumsily realized. Its reputation fell into the classic trap of an underrated show that had everybody talking about how underrated it was only to make it become overrated.
3. "
Taxicab Confessions
" (1995-2006)
To call this show groundbreaking is like saying that an intern who accidentally loaded a XXX tape into a local network's video feed and let it run for a few minutes is the greatest revolutionary in the history of the medium. What "Taxicab Confessions" was was oversexed and manipulated swill that masqueraded as a hard-hitting documentary. If getting drunken people to make wild claims in the back of a cab at two in the morning and having a camera there to capture it is supposed to give some insight into the human mind, then it never showed itself on this show. All the viewer did see was graphic sex talk in a smelly cab and then people signing waivers at the end of the show. Entertaining at times, but groundbreaking? Hardly.
1. "
Sex and The City
" (1998-2004) and "
" (2004-????)
These shows tie at the top because they're essentially the same series. They both feature rich people prancing around a destination city in expensive outfits. The characters on each series act as if money, clothes, and sex are all that any human being think about. Each series has purported to be a truly realistic look at how people behave, and the latter began right when the former finished.
The problem with these shows are that they are sitcoms that aren't consistently funny and feature characters about whom we're supposed to care but are intensely unlikable for the most part. Neither broke any new ground despite frequent claims to the contrary. The talk about sex on each show appeared nearly in step on "
" except they had to use euphemisms on that much funnier program.
The appeal of these two programs lies in their almost fairy tale-like quality. Viewers everywhere wish they could swap lives with any of the characters on these programs and live in their dream worlds where money flows like candy, designers craft new outfits specifically for you and beautiful sex partners come and go like the newspaper. This doesn't happen, and neither of these shows deserve the credit they've gotten.
There cannot be a real tie in under/overrated, however so "Entourage" gets the nod as the most overrated of the two series due to its creators misuse of Ari Gold.
Jeremy Piven's
Gold is one of the funniest characters in the history of television and would have stayed that way if the producers limited him to the 12-15 minutes he was allotted during the series' first two seasons. Instead, they made him a separate main character in the third season, killing the flow of the series and transforming the character into a distraction at the same time.
5. "
The Sopranos
" (1999-2007)
What? "The Sopranos" is underrated? But everyone said it's the best show ever! How can it be underrated!? Well, imaginary protestor, "The Sopranos" is underrated because it never got the full credit it as due.
David Chase
is the only man ever to use television to its full potential. "The Sopranos" was his grand thematic statement about how the drive towards material success guts the American family and ultimately leaves its patriarchs alone and empty. He presented this in the form of an incredibly entertaining mafia show that captivated the crime-loving American public. Not a lot of people got the message, however, leading to routine demands for more blood and action. This led to frequent claims that the show really isn't that good, that too many episodes turned away from the gangland drama for which its audience was thirsty. The second part of that is true, but the show never wavered from Chase's original vision and was all the better for it.
4. "
Mr. Show with Bob and David
" (1995-1998)
This was America's real answer to "
Monty Python's Flying Circus
." "Mr. Show" took the anarchy of the English troupe's opus and put their twisted American view on the format. This show set a new standard for sketch comedy on television, picking up from the brilliance of late-80s
and "
The Kids in the Hall
" with extremely smart social satire from Messrs.
Bob Odenkirk
David Cross
. Each of these men would show up in excellent comedies for the next decade ("
Arrested Development
" to name one) but this show remains their best work. Sadly, nobody even talks about it anymore.
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3. "
The Larry Sanders Show
" (1992-1998)
This show certainly got the credit it deserved when it first hit the airwaves. Its Emmy Awards alone could have allowed its producers to print their own currency based on the gold standard. But a funny thing happened on the way to becoming a TV Legend - it didn't. Along with "
The X-Files
," there is not a more popular or lauded show that has completely slipped out of the public consciousness as this gem.
Garry Shandling's
performance was one of the best comedic creations in television history, and his supporting cast was equally strong. The celebrity self-parody has only ever been equaled by "
," and its seamless backstage/onstage plotlines were always equally funny. "Larry Sanders" was a perfect show and one so forgotten that the full series has never even seen a DVD release. What a shame.
2. "
Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel
" (1995-????)
Doing a sports show is a sure path to becoming underrated. Nobody's going to take one seriously, and the cognoscente takes pride in dismissing anything to do with sports. While this criticism is almost always deserved, it is not in any way in this case. Not only is "Real Sports" the best sports show on television, it's the best news show on television. The reporters are impeccable, and every story produced is top-notch. The program never delves into the tabloid territory so popular in sports coverage now, choosing to feature in-depth profiles of our modern-day heroes and peering into issues on the sports periphery. Even if you don't care about athletics in any way, it's hard not to find every single story fascinating.
1. "
Big Love
" (2006-????)
"Big Love" may end up becoming the best show in the history of HBO, which means it could probably be the best show in the history of television. Not bad for a show many dismiss for its polygamist premise. It's really a shame because "Big Love" is a relentlessly genuine family drama that never judges its characters for their odd convictions. Instead, it shows us that this bizarre world is very real to them, shining a bright light on an otherwise shadowy existence. There isn't a bad performance anywhere in the cast, particularly the work of
Bill Paxton
in the role of his career as Bill Henrickson.
The show also features a deep-seated mystery revolving around Bill's expulsion from Roman Grant's polygamist and his eventual conversion back to living the principle of plural marriage. Rather than revealing the mystery through flashbacks, the writers give insight through the characters' attitudes and relationships with one another. Despite all this, "Big Love" still gets written off due to its controversial premise. It's a shame really, because "Big Love" is television at its grand cinematic best, and more than just a show about a dude with three wives.
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How Important Is the Environment to Your Vote?
It's funny, but here we are facing the most existential threat to the human race since Britney Spears skinny jeans
It's funny, but here we are facing the most existential threat to the human race since
Obama did talk about global warming in a recent interview with Rolling Stone, and later today we'll post a short interview he did with MTV about climate change. Governor Romney, not so much.
Of course, although none may be greater than global warming, but there are far more issues facing the environment than just that. Ocean acidification. The commercialization of the Arctic as we head to ice-free summers. The collapse of fisheries. Dying reefs. Bark beetles. Wildfires and fire suppression. The challenges of renewal energy, from fights over where to put solar farms to the difficulty keeping birds safe around wind turbines. The true costs of fracking. Assaults on the EPA.
The list goes on. There's the new sagebrush rebellion, with states like Utah and Arizona trying to grab federal lands for themselves (in AZ's case, the Grand Canyon). Onshore and offshore drilling. Dam removal. Water use in an increasingly arid Southwest. Human-wildlife interaction.
Seriously, the issues affected by your choice of president are legion — and that extends to the House and Senate, plus your local reps, too. It is the nature of political campaigns to be simplistic, reductionist, and emotional, but to ignore these more earthy challenges seems to be cynical and irresponsible — at best. Or maybe it really is all about "jobs."
Now, I know I'm opening a can of worms by asking a political question, but please let's keep your commentary to the query at hands — the importance of environment to your vote. If you want to throw mud at the other guy, there's another place for that. It's called Facebook.
This week, one poll participant will receive Smith Optic's Serpico sunglasses. We'll pick the winner via random number generator (and announce it here) — all you have to do to enter is vote and leave a comment so we have your email to contact you. Must have a U.S. or Canadian address. Contest ends Sunday, November 4, at midnight PST.
clearly AJ, you're preaching to the choir with this one
First one! – I like the environment, and its very important. Some other issues usually take precedent as the MOST important factors, however.
I have a job so the economy is whatever. We have to wake up and think long term, I would rather save the world than create a job for someone today. This should be the #1 issue world wide from what we have seen with climate change over the last 10 years. It is just ignorant that the canidates do not even touch on the subject. And a poll on this site I assume we will all agree if not #1 it is top 3
Not MOST IMPORTANT for me either.
It's pretty important, but there are a lot of important issues out there. It's tough to rate issues against each other.
I don't think it's as important as getting the economy back to where it should be but I think that it also play's a factor into that with green jobs and everything. It's of medium importants to me because of all the things that it effects.
Environmental issues are a huge task at hand, and sadly I don't think there is a clear cut answer on which candidates support the environment.
The environment and foreign policy. Difficult when those two subjects are paid lip service and there's no real focus on actual improvements.
very to most
I went with medium important. I'm somewhat conservative on the fiscal side so I'm having a hard time falling into a "platform". Envioment is a huge reason I'm still undecided.
It is very important, however it is also a function of a lot of the other factors our world is dealing with right now … it just needs to become a more important function of those.
Very important. I mean, can it afford not to be?
I went with medium important. While the environment is very important to me, it's not getting that level of attention from the candidates, nor do I believe it will from whomever wins. So other issues are a bigger factor in my vote.
I'm with Lee. There are some scary movements out there, primarily those in UT and AZ. I have long just voted issues, regardless of party. This year, I'm still on the fence.
Although can we have a sound political talkback without Idaho Roper?
Its up there, but definitely not the only deciding factor for me.
The thing that most bothers me is that environmental issues are always put on a back burner to the economy and foreign policy. Both of those things are very important, but if we can't protect what we rely on for life, how can we really care about all the other stuff?
I rate it way up at the top with the thinking that economy and all that stuff always changes, can be suffered through, or just plain fixed later…though don't get me wrong, I know it is important. In comparison to the environment, if we ruin it or destroy it, it cannot be fixed or put back together. The damage there can rarely be undone, at least not in a lifetime and definitely not in one presidential term.
Also, aren't the dam removals they're doing good? I'm totally for them yet they are listed with the sagebrush rebellion oil drilling bad stuff list. No so.
Very very very.
It is worthwhile to think about what a president can or cannot do with regard to a particular issue.
Foreign policy – a lot.
Abortion – almost nothing.
Environment – I think a fair amount, right? Between agency staffing, executive orders, and DoJ litigation I would assume a President can get some stuff done, but I would love the opinion of someone smarter than me on this.
My hope is that a 2nd term Obama can be more forceful on the environment.
Very important.
Not at all important to my National level vote since none of the parties actually do anything about it except give lip service. Locally on the other hand it does matter since thing can be accimplished to protect what we have a little bit at a time.
We only get one playground (planet)…I hope future generations see some of the wild places that get me so hot and bothered! 😉
Save the trees!
Voted! Definitely a big issue.
I have a good job, so the environment was number 1 for me.
Very important to me.
If we're thinking about the future vs. the present… one of the most important things on the list.
Very important, especially since the issue is so broadly ignored by the major party candidates.
Very Important
if we dont have the environment, everything else is irrelevant.
This is by no means a single issue election. But to me, the environment matters. Sadly it doesn't matter much to the majority of the voting population.
I don't understand how the environment can not be the most important issue to everyone. Without clean air to breath, clean water to drink, and clean soil to grow our food we will not survive.
Ryan has a good point….Economy and environment for sure…but I dont think any issue should be MOST important. We might loose focus on other major issues.
Without an environment, what good would jobs be?
I just couldn't fathom what the R would do with free reign, voting D just to keep the environment in play a little.
I use my job mainly to fund outdoor activities. What's the point in the former without the latter? Health care? I guess I'd need it once I lose all incentive to train.
It's very important, but it's become the third rail. The environment will get the back seat until the economy fully recovers.
Its very important to me. It really is sad that they haven't addressed this huge issue.
Very important, but I still need a government who can run the country …
What a shame that Obama came into the economic crash, and couldnt do much for the environment when the country was hurting so much. If he'd come in in 2004, then perhaps we'd be further down the road to sorting things out a littke.
Jeremy makes a valid point. I think the sustainable position here is for folks to take individual responsibility for the environment. You and I can't control what persons x,y or z do – but we do have 100% control over what we do or don't do. Actions speak louder than words. Make a personal plan and move ahead.
I'm not naive, I 'get it' that individuals are not an equal match for large corporations and government – but part of this is a cultural disconnect. so, in the interim, let's connect more people through action – small, big and other. It's a 'show me don't tell me' world out there.
I don't think you can separate the economy from the environment – not without consequences. It has to be a wholistic approach – without an economy we can't afford to protect, nurture, and sustain the environment; and without a viable environment we can't have an economy.
All of what Chris just said.
Very important
I have a bad feeling that improving the economy and making responsible decisions related to the environment are at odds with one another. Building more homes and making more stuff to sell can improve the economy, but at what cost?
Most Important!
most important for me. the rest matters but without clean air and water who cares if i have a job.
most important for sure


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Resident Superior Court Judge Mark E. Powell announced Monday he will appoint Brevard attorney Paul Welch to become the public defender for Judicial District 29B.
Age: 52
Home: Brevard
Family: Wife, Judy Welch, stepdaughter, Lindsay Johnson
Education: Law degree from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill
Occupation: Practiced law 27 years in Brevard. On Monday, named the first public defender for Judicial District 29B
Welch, 52, will become the first public defender for the district, which includes Henderson, Polk and Transylvania counties.
"I'm very grateful and pleased to have been selected," Welch said. "The candidates were quite impressive, and to have been selected from that groups means a lot to me."
Welch has practiced law in Brevard for 27 years. He runs a general practice, and has significant criminal defense experience. Welch earned his law degree from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
The pool of candidates included Welch, Polk County attorney Lee Atkins and Hendersonville attorney J. Michael Edney.
"This was a very difficult decision," Judge Powell said. "I have known each of the candidates for more than 20 years. All are good persons and are well qualified."
The Office of Indigent Defense Services in Raleigh will help Welch set up the new office and hire assistant public defenders.
The office could be ready to begin work in January 2008.
Welch will be sworn in as Public Defender at that time. In the interim, he will be paid on an hourly basis for his time setting up the office.
"One of my concerns has been the decline in attorney professionalism we have seen in our courts during the last few years," Powell said. "It is my hope that the new Public Defender's office will help set a high standard in professionalism that will be a guide for us all."
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Rod Robinson is founder and CEO of ConnXus.
John Pepper (Photo Courtesy: P&G)
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For ConnXus founder and CEO Rod Robinson, the numbers tell the story.
The roughly 14 million U.S. companies owned by women and minorities represent about half of all the nation's businesses.
But those same firms account for only 6 percent of the total revenue generated by businesses in the U.S.
"That tells the tale right there," Robinson said.
ConnXus aims to change that. The Mason-based company's website connects corporations with women- and minority-owned companies that can do work for them.
The idea is a system that helps both sides get what they need: The corporations find new, qualified vendors, and the women- and minority-owned businesses get the kind of contracts they need to grow.
It's kind of like eBay and Match.com with a sprinkling of Amazon-style ratings thrown into the mix.
And local investors think ConnXus could one day become as well known as those other technology companies.
"I see no reason why this can't be an extremely big business," said former Procter & Gamble Co. chairman and CEO John Pepper, a ConnXus investor and advisory board member. "Certainly the need is huge."
Robinson started ConnXus in late 2010 at the same time he was running Accel Advisors, a downtown-based consulting firm he had co-founded. He didn't have ConnXus.com completely up and running until 2012.
Since then, the company has attracted investments from such local business titans as Pepper, Cincinnati Reds majority owner Bob Castellini and former Cincinnati Bell Chief Operating Officer Brian Ross.
Cincinnati-based CincyTech, a seed-stage investment fund that works to grow local IT and bioscience companies, first invested in the company in 2012 and also led a $1.7 million seed round that ConnXus closed earlier this year. Other investors in that round included New York-based Serious Change LP and STAR Angel Network.
ConnXus now has 15 employees and big-name customers including McDonald's, Coca-Cola Co., Harley-Davidson Motor Company and Caesars Entertainment Corp. Locally, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the Federal Home Loan Bank of Cincinnati were among the firm's early clients.
Robinson wouldn't give details about his company's revenue but said ConnXus is close to making more than $1 million per year. Between 2012 and 2013, he said, revenue grew 1,200 percent.
"We're starting from a small base," he said. "But as one of my investors said, growth is growth."
Insiders can read more about ConnXus, how Robinson is growing the company, how a Columbus-based business won a contract through the website and a June 16 Wealth Summit that ConnXus has organized at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.
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MASON, Ohio – For ConnXus founder and CEO Rod Robinson, the numbers tell the story.
ConnXus aims to change that. The Mason-based company's website connects corporations with women- and minority-owned companies that can do work for them.
Robinson started ConnXus in late 2010 at the same time he was running Accel Advisors, a Downtown-based consulting firm he had co-founded. He didn't have ConnXus.com completely up and running until 2012.
Company Has Big-Name Investors
Robinson wouldn't give details about his company's revenue but said ConnXus is close to making more than $1 million annually. Between 2012 and 2013, he said, revenue grew 1,200 percent.
The key is building a group of qualified women- and minority-owned businesses that can provide the services that the company's major corporate clients need.
Simplifying A Complex Process
ConnXus already has a database of more than 850,000 suppliers, Robinson said. About 5,000 of those have active profiles.
Columbus-based Uniglobe Travel Designers is one of them.
Company owner and President Elizabeth Blount created a profile for her company and within a month got the opportunity to bid on a travel management contract for Jack and Jill of America, Inc., she said.
Uniglobe won the three-year contract, and Blount hopes her company's performance will help her win more business with the organization.
Without ConnXus, she said, "I would have never known how to find" the bidding opportunity.
"They simplify the process," Blount said of ConnXus. "Sometimes requests for proposals can be pretty daunting. But with this, you're getting to the decision-maker quickly, and it's simple."
That's the goal, Robinson said.
A former procurement executive with Cincinnati Bell, Robinson knew how complicated it could be for corporations and minority and women business owners to make the connections they wanted to make in order to do business with each other.
He started ConnXus as a way to use technology to make those connections more easily.
The company offers other services, too. It can help corporations figure out how much they're spending with women- and minority-owned firms and how much its direct suppliers spend with such firms, too. It also can manage supplier registration for big companies, which it is doing for McDonald's, so that ConnXus keeps track of all the women- and minority-owned companies that want to do business a particular corporation.
"That's what excites me the most about this," Robinson said. "It's making the market more efficient."
Room To Grow
That strategy could have applications in other areas, too, said Mike Venerable, managing director of CincyTech.
For example, corporations could target companies that meet certain energy standards or those that are locally based or specialize in sustainability, he said.
"The spend targets that corporations have are much more aggressive, and over the next decade, I think you'll see this area getting much more attention," Venerable said. "We think it's going to grow to a billion dollar category in the next decade."
That makes it all the more important to find good women- and minority-owned businesses to add to the ConnXus database, and the company has several ways
to do that.
The company announced a partnership with the National Urban League's Entrepreneurship Center Program in April called the Thrive Initiative. Through the initiative, ConnXus with donate 10 percent of its revenue from ConnXus Plus subscribers to the National Urban League. (Suppliers can create company profiles free on ConnXus, but they get additional benefits if they pay for ConnXus Plus.)
The Urban League operates its Entrepreneurship Center Program in 12 cities, including Cincinnati, to help minority business owners grow and become more profitable. The more thriving minority-owned businesses there are, the better for ConnXus and its corporate customers.
ConnXus also has organized a Wealth & Empowerment Summit, to be held June 16 at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center downtown.
The summit is designed to help women and minority business owners learn more about how they can get the capital they need to grow their companies.
"The wealth summit is going to be huge," said Daryl Hammett, the newly hired chief operating officer at ConnXus.
The event will give women and minority business owners the opportunity to hear from entrepreneurs who have grown their companies to more than $100 million in revenue a year or have built a strong enough business to sell to a larger corporation.
There also will be ConnXus suppliers there, such as Blount, who have won business through the site.
"It's not the good old boy network," Hammett said. "It's actually somebody winning, and those deals are happening every day."
ConnXus investor Brian Ross said he thinks ConnXus could someday become one of those minority-owned companies that make it big.
"I think it has the potential of even being a public company someday," said Ross, who has known Robinson since they both worked at Cincinnati Bell. "It's certainly too soon to declare victory, but I think Rod's making tremendous progress."
For more information about ConnXus, go to connxus.com .
For more stories by Lucy May, go to www.wcpo.com/may . Follow her on Twitter @LucyMayCincy.


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Burgers? Or baseballs?
Is Chappell's in North Kansas City a restaurant with a sports museum? Or is it a museum that also sells food?
Owner Jim Chappell has devoted a lifetime to accumulating the treasure trove of sports memorabilia which fills his restaurant from floor to ceiling.
And over the years he has frequently played host to local sports personalities who, over food and drink, have talked about their lives and careers.
Now Chappell and co-writer Matt Fulks share some of those stories as told in their book Conversations at Chappell's on Sunday, October 14 at 2 p.m. at the Central Library, 14 W. 10th St.
The book, published by Star Books, is a virtual Who's Who of Kansas City sports. With an introduction by former Missouri Governor and U.S. Senator. Christopher Bond and a forward by Chiefs legend Len Dawson, the volume covers the big three sports - football, baseball, and basketball - on both the professional and college level.
Among the figures featured in the book are Athletics legend Lew Krausse, Royal's players like Denny Matthews and Dennis Leonard, Chiefs immortals like Dawson and Bobby Bell, and giants of college play like K-State's Lynn Dickey and KU's Scot Pollard, and even players for the NBA's long-gone Kansas City Kings like Sam Lacey and Joe C. Meriweather.
Sports journalists have their say as well, among them KU's Max Falkenstein, Star writers Kent Pulliam and Jeff Flanagan, and TV commentators Dave Stewart and Kevin Harlan.
Chappell is the owner of Chappell's Restaurant & Sports Museum. Fulks is a sports journalist, author, and broadcaster who works for Kansas City's Metro Sports.
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B2 to act or work together for a particular purpose, or to be helpful by doing what someone asks you to do: A two-year old is likely to refuse to cooperate when you tell her to get dressed. The two companies have cooperated in joint ventures for the past several years. The Spanish authorities cooperated with the British police in finding the terrorists.
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Baseball GIF Perfectly Illustrates Why We Don't Slide Headfirst
Cincinnati Reds second baseman Brandon Phillips' butt has a lesson for all of you ball players out there -- don't slide head first.
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As the saying goes, you win some, you lose some, and that was indeed the case last night for the Victoria Generals who did exactly that in a doubleheader vs. the Texas Marshals.
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In Nod To History, A Crumbling Philly Row House Gets A Funeral
This weekend, an old, dilapidated row house will be torn down in Philadelphia. That's not unusual — it happens all the time in Philly's blighted neighborhoods.
But this house is getting an elaborate memorial service, complete with a eulogy, a church choir and a community procession. It's called "Funeral for a Home," and local artists and historians are using the event as a way to honor the changing history of the neighborhood.
An Old, Ugly Building, Ready To Fall
The address of the house at 3711 Melon St. is painted on the stucco in a rough hand, right next to a bright orange sign announcing that the property is condemned. Sheets of plywood are nailed up where the front door and the ground-floor window used to be, but you can see the upper windows still have lace curtains.
Kevin McCusker, the man who will be responsible for the demolition, says it's definitely time for the house to come down. "Stucco is holding it up right now," he says, pointing out damage to the walls in the rear of the house. "It's ready to fall. This couldn't happen sooner."
There is nothing particularly exceptional about this house — in fact, it's kind of ugly. But that's exactly why historian Patrick Grossi, of Temple University's Tyler School of Art, says it deserves a funeral.
"The loss of vernacular architecture is often hidden in plain sight," Grossi says. "When a kind of modest house is being run down, you are erasing a century of lifetimes."
At 3711 Melon St., 140 Years Of History
The home was built in the 1870s as a classic brick row house to be rented to the many Irish-American immigrants coming to Philadelphia's powerful industrial economy. For about 70 years, Grossi says, it housed a carousel of renters.
In 1946, a single mother named Leona Richardson purchased the house. "She worked for a time in Baltimore, during WWII, as a welder, and then moved to Philly and purchased this home with her infant son, Roger," Grossi says.
He calls Richardson the patron saint of 3711 Melon: She and her son lived there for the next 50 years, watching their block fall apart around them.
When the industrial economy all but left Philadelphia, the Mantua neighborhood fell into poverty and gang warfare.
The Rev. Andrew Jenkins gave a walking tour of Mantua as part of the Funeral for a Home project, explaining what residents faced during Mantua's decline. "We had seven, eight and nine shootings a night," he said. "There were six major gangs in this neighborhood."
Jenkins has spent decades trying to bring Mantua back, fighting gangs head-on inside their own homes and coordinating low-income housing developments.
The neighborhood is now turning around, but it still has an unemployment rate nearly twice the rest of the city.
'Homegoing Is More Appropriate, Anyway'
A pair of artists called the Dufala Brothers — Steven and Billy — are coordinating the funeral. They had an uphill fight to get the community behind the idea of memorializing a demolition.
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"Early on in the project there was a sentiment that came up: 'What is this project?' " Steven Dufala remembers. "People were just like, 'We don't have any tears left.' "
Dufala told the community that the funeral is a celebration of the history and resilience of the neighborhood. He convinced the Mount Olive Baptist Church choir to perform for the funeral.
Along the way, Dufala learned it's not called a funeral.
"It's a 'homegoing,' " he says. "Homegoing is probably more appropriate, anyway, in terms of looking to the future."
Once the house at 3711 Melon is razed, a local developer of low-income housing will build a complex on the entire block.
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Canadian Charter Of Rights And Freedoms Case
Many people may look at this case in their own ways due to the faulty search and seizure that was conducted and the circumstances behind it but in trial according to the trial judge, he found that the search of Mann's pocket breached s. 8 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. He held that the police officer was justified in his search of Mann for security reasons, but that there was nothing the officer could say or to that would make it reasonable to look inside Mann's pocket for those reasons. The evidence was excluded under s. 24(2) of the Charter, due to the fact that its admission would interfere with the fairness of the trial, and the accused was acquitted. The Court of Appeal set aside the acquittal and ordered a new trial, finding that the detention and the pat-down search were authorized by law and were reasonable in the circumstances. To add to the breach of s.8 of the charter, the trial judge stated that the officers had reasonable grounds to detain Mann and to conduct a protective search, but no reasonable reasoning for reaching into Mann's pocket. This part of the search was an unreasonable violation of Mann's reasonable expectation of privacy in respect of the contents of his pockets. As the case went on, the trial judge made the decision of making the evidence inadmissible due to the fact of trial unfairness because the marijuana was non-conscriptive, but his decision to exclude it was correct. The search went beyond what was required to sustain concerns about the officer's safety and reflects a serious breach of Mann's protection against unreasonable search and seizure. When the officer reached into Mann's pocket, the purpose of the search shifted from safety to the detection and collection of evidence. While a frisk search is a minimally intrusive search, the search of Mann's pocket must be weighed against the absence of any reasonable basis for justification. The good faith of the officer is but one factor to be considered alongside other factors which speak to the seriousness of the breach and good faith cannot be claimed if a Charter violation is present on the basis of a police officer's unreasonable error of his authority. Lastly, although absence of the evidence would substantially eliminate the evidence altogether, the Crown's case against Mann and possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking is a serious offence.
As the case moved to the Manitoba Court of Appeal, more actions had come into play at this level. To begin with, The Court of Appeal ultimately concluded that the detention and pat-down search were authorized by law and exercised reasonably on the facts. As we know, Twaddle J.A. set aside the acquittal and ordered a new trial. He began with the proposition that a warrantless search is upon observation; unreasonable, and that the weight falls on the Crown to show that the search was nevertheless reasonable on a balance of probabilities. The judge then turned to consider whether there existed common law authority for the initial detention. After conducting a test, he held that the detention was authorized at law based on the facts. He noted that the circumstances fell within the general scope of the duties of a police officer, and that the detention was further justified given the similarity of the appellant's description to that of the suspect. Knowing the fact that the detention and search power is to be authorized by law, the judge considered whether the search had been conducted reasonably. He held that it was not unreasonable for the police officer, having found something soft in the front pocket of the appellant's pullover to continue searching inside the pocket. Twaddle J.A.'s conclusion on the reasonableness of the search was based upon the good faith conduct of the officers in carrying out the protective search. He said that it was not reasonable for the inside of the pocket to be searched absent a finding on the pat-down search of something that either was or could conceal a weapon. However, given the safety principle underlying the pat-down search, he was very cautious of placing too rough of a constraint on officers abilities to ensure a safe environment. Twaddle J.A. held that officers should be allowed some slack in this regard so long as the search for weapons was conducted in good faith. As the good faith conduct of the officers was unquestioned, Twaddle J.A. concluded that the scope of the search had been reasonable in this case and that there had been no breach of the appellant's right to be secure against unreasonable search or seizure under s. 8 of the Charter. After deep thought, the judge then stated the fact that police officers may detain an individual for investigative purposes if there are reasonable grounds to suspect in all the circumstances that the individual is connected to a particular crime and that such a detention is necessary. In addition, where a police officer has reasonable grounds to believe that his or her safety or that of others is at risk, the officer may engage in a protective pat-down search of the detained individual. Both the detention and the pat-down search must be conducted in a reasonable manner. The judge applied this statement to the fact in which he stated by going on further about how the appellant closely matched the description of the suspect given from dispatch which led the officers to reasonably suspect that the appellant was involved in recent criminal activity. Also, due to the fact that this neighborhood was considered to be a "high-crime" area it only would have to the officers forced to believe that was there victim. To add, the judge also stated that the break and enter occurred just after midnight and when they arrived on scene, there were no other people in the area except for the person they detained. Upon these actions, the seizure of the marijuana was unlawful and the admissibility of this evidence had to been considered accordingly under s. 24(2) of the charter. The judge had many things to take into considered on the admissibility of the evidence. As stated in the case, pretty much what it came down to was "nature of the evidence obtained and the nature of the right violated" and also the seriousness of the breach. When the judge considered the seriousness of the breach, many factors came into mind such as: whether the breach was committed in good or bad faith, the obtrusiveness of the search, and the individual's expectation of privacy in the area searched and the existence of reasonable grounds. The judge then concluded that the evidence will be admitted due to the fact that he believed the officer found the evidence in good faith. Along with came the following factors on whether to exclude the evidence or not; (1) the effect of admitting the evidence on the fairness of the subsequent trial, (2) the seriousness of the police conduct, and (3) the effects of excluding the evidence on the administration of justice. The marijuana and baggies seized by the officers upon the search constitute the Crown's only evidence to the effect that the accused possessed the drug and intended to sell it at some point in time. In addition, the jurisprudence of this Court strongly supports the view that possession of marijuana for the purposes of trafficking is a serious offence for the purposes of s. 24(2) of the Charter. Back to the search the judge then clarified that the amount of privacy the appellant received was reasonable at the time because that the search occurred late around mid night in a high-crime area, approximately two blocks from the scene of a break-in. Individuals should expect a lesser amount of privacy in public areas frequently patrolled by police.
Having the decision made by the court of appeal judge that the officers acted in good faith did not contravene s.8 of the charter, the decision was a appealed to the S.C.C with individuals taking part such as Criminal Lawyers Association, Canadian Civil Liberties Association, Attorney General of Ontario, and the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police. The appeal was allowed and the acquittal was restored. The marijuana seizure constituted a sec. 8 Charter violation. The evidence was excluded under sec. 24(2) Charter. The S.C.C backed up there conclusion by stating the facts in which there is no general police power to detain for investigative purposes. This means the Supreme Court of Canada did not recognize an automatic investigation detention power that is all encompassing in any circumstance. The S.C.C. then called for Parliament to decide whether this authority should become a statutory law. Although there is no general investigative detain police power, there is limited police power to detain for investigation. Investigative detentions are limited to situation where the police have reasonable grounds to suspect that a person is connected to a particular crime. Furthermore, The S.C.C. stated that the phrase "reasonable grounds to suspect" cannot be confused with "reasonable grounds to arrest" as used in sec. 495 of the Criminal Code. "Reasonable grounds to suspect" means a mere suspicion belief that is justified by relevant evidence that exceeds something in which might be the case. To elaborate; mere suspicion must be explained by circumstances that caused the belief that the suspect was connected to the crime. The S.C.C. then brought up the idea that police powers and police duties are not necessarily correlative. While the police have a common law duty to investigate crime, they are not empowered to undertake any and all action in the exercise of that duty. They continued with that fact that a justified investigative detention search authorizes a protective pat-down search of the detained person. This means that weapons must be the target of search, evidence cannot be the target of the search, and the method of the search cannot exceed pat-down. Lastly, an investigative detention does not obligate the detained to answer questions by the police; this rule has always existed and hasn't changed.
Due to the reasoning stated the S.C.C restored the acquittal and the accused was free to go with no charges.


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Scapegoating Israel, Again; the Imperfections of the Jewish State Roil the Academy
Byline: Suzanne Fields, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
'Tis the season of the long holiday for toilers in the Groves of Academe. Learned professors of the American Studies Association (ASA), who recently adopted a call for a boycott of contact with Israel's academic institutions, presumably to protest Israel's treatment of Palestinians but perhaps because they just don't like Jews very much, should take a break from grading papers, or partying with academics who think exactly as they do, and use the time to reflect on something important. One such topic should be why they single out the one democracy in the Middle East for criticism of its imperfection.
It's not an academic question.
These academics teach interdisciplinary approaches to history, religion, literature and philosophy in the American culture, but many of them obviously missed their own critical study of intellectual history. How else to explain why they're unable to distinguish between scholarly arguments and arguments extracted from their own attitudes, prejudices and uninformed opinions?
Perhaps they've been too busy researching scorn to heap on the United States for presentation in a learned paper at their next convention. The latest call for ASA scholarship is to provide papers on The Fun and the Fury: New Dialectics of Pleasure and Pain In the Post-American Century. (You might want to wait for the movie, which is not likely to be coming soon to a theater in your neighborhood.)
It's a long time since we've looked to tenured professors to guide moral thinking on anything, but this recent ASA resolution is political posturing of the worst order. Not even Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, favors the boycott of Israeli professors, who actually teach a multicultural mix of students in their universities, including, in addition to Jews, Arabs, Palestinians, Ethiopians and exiles from despotic countries who are enjoying academic freedom for the first time.
For an organization devoted to cross-disciplinary study, the ASA boycotters might refresh their recollections with unpleasant anti-Semitic models of intellectual boycotts, such as Hitler's order against patronizing Jewish businesses in Germany in the 1930s, or the Arab League's boycott in the Middle East in 1948, when it still held high hopes of seeing the extermination of Israel.
It's particularly bizarre for academicians to single out Israel to be the most imperfect of imperfect nations, since Israelis debate with each other with a passion that would set off a rush to the fainting couches in almost any American university, over such subjects as the treatment of the settlements, prospects for peace and the two-state solution. …


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Remember when Dani didn't race at Sachsenring? A bunch of muppets chose to lay into the guy calling him basically a bit of a wuss.
One mouth-breather went so far on Crash as to state DP to be a cry-baby.
Wonder what these hard-of-thinking keyboard heroes will have to say about this article?
There's a lot of falseness and hype, manipulation and PR in MotoGP, as well as the general mess that Dorna have made that makes MotoGP the 3-tier uncompetitive farce that it is.
But, the one thing that you can be sure is genuine is the sheer bravery and determination of the racers. Anyone who's ever ridden (& crashed) a motorcycle knows that if they have another, it ain't "will it hurt" but "how much will it hurt" - and that's without getting back on injured and pushing 100%.
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Police have identified the three children who died after yacht capsized on the Fourth of July off New York's Long Island.
David Aurelino 12, Harley Treanor 11, and Victoria Gaines 8 were recovered from the boat's cabin. They all lived in Suffolk County.
Twenty-four other people were rescued, and were treated and released.
Weather and a wake from another boat are being investigated as possible factors. Nassau County Police Det. Lt. John Azzata says alcohol is not believed to be a factor.
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Police say three bodies have been pulled out of New York's Long Island Sound after a yacht capsized on the Fourth of July, and 24 others were rescued.
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The U.S. Coast Guard says survivors were pulled from the water around 11 p.m. Wednesday, about an hour after the boat went over.
Lack says some but not all passengers onboard the 34-foot boat had been wearing life jackets. He believes they were watching fireworks.
Lack says weather may have played a factor or a wake from another vessel may have caused the boat to capsize.


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Anaesthesia and emesis II: Prevention and management
- Mark G. A. PalazzoAffiliated withDepartment of Anaesthesia, Foothills Hospital, at the University of Calgary
The causes of emesis associated with anaesthesia are varied and in any one patient are likely to be multifactorial. Our approach has been to emphasise those areas which can be controlled. However, general prophylactic measures, such as reduced gastric inflation, avoidance of opiate premedication and pharyngeal stimulation, might not be sufficient to prevent emesis. Although we do not recommend routine preoperative use of antiemetics because of their relatively high incidence of side effects, we do feel there is a place for prophylaxis under certain circumstances. Our drug of choice for prophylaxis would be droperidol 0.175 mg·kg-1 intravenously, given peroperatively, although a smaller dose can be effective. For operations involving the ear we would prefer promethazine given with the premedication or peroperatively. Once nausea and vomiting have begun, cyclizine 25–50 mg intramuscularly, or one of the piperazine phenothiazines (prochlor-perazine or perphenazine), would be appropriate. In the event of the first choice drug being ineffective, we would encourage the use of a second agent, preferably one with a different site of action. We feel that familiarity with a few drugs and more attention to the controllable factors mentioned should help reduce postoperative emesis.
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Garnett Gives His Perspective On Losing, But Not Mitchell's FutureIt had been exactly a month since Kevin Garnett last spoke to the media. In that time, the Wolves lost 14 out of 16 games.
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As Losing Mounts, Wolves' Mitchell Sees ProgressSix in a row. Ten of their last 11. Eighteen of their last 22. That is a lot of losing. "Yeah, definitely it's hard," Wolves forward Shabazz Muhammad said. "It's the NBA, and everybody's trying to step on your throat. Especially us, [because] we have a lot of young talent on our team."