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02.24.2014 59 days ago
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Board of Elections to move, Kasich repeals one early voting week, income inequality on rise
Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted on Friday ruled that the Hamilton County Board of Elections can move to a former hospital site at Mount Airy after the 2016 election, but whether early voting moves along with the Board of Elections needs to be resolved separately. The decision does little to resolve the dispute between local Democrats and Republicans about which location — downtown or Mount Airy — is better for early voters. Democrats argue downtown, as the central hub of local public transportation, best meets the need of most early voters. Republicans argue the Mount Airy facility is closer to the center of the whole county and provides free parking, which Republicans say should make up for the few bus routes that go to the neighborhood.Gov. John Kasich on Friday signed two controversial election bills that reduce the time allotted for early voting by one week and restrict counties' ability to send out unsolicited absentee voting applications. The reduction of early voting in particular raised claims of "voter suppression" from Democrats because the bill eliminates the Golden Week in which early voters can register to vote and actually vote on the same day. Republicans say the bills are necessary to establish uniform early voting hours and rules across the state. In general, both sides acknowledge Democrats benefit from more early voting access and Republicans benefit from less early voting access.Income inequality rose in Ohio between 1979 and 2011, but Ohio fared better than most states, according to an analysis from the Economic Policy Institute and the Economic Analysis and Research Network. Ohio's top 1 percent make roughly 18.1 times the annual income as the bottom 99 percent. In comparison, the average nationwide rate is 24.4 and the rate in the two worst performing states — New York and Connecticut — is 40.Contrary to faulty reports from Councilman Charlie Winburn and The Cincinnati Enquirer, the city extensively warned residents about its decision to decertify the flood levee around Lunken Airport. In fact, Winburn in 2010 actually voted in favor of an ordinance that supported the decertification. The decision means residents in the area need to purchase flood insurance.Mayor John Cranley and other city officials plan to boost minority- and women-owned business contracts through aspirational inclusion goals set between the city and contractors. Since the city can't force businesses to meet the goals, Cranley acknowledges the city could fail. But contractors who worked on the Horsehoe Casino said a similar policy was effective in boosting minority rates for that project.Two people died in Walnut Hills today after a stabbing and police-involved shooting, according to Cincinnati Police.Cincinnati plans to increase efforts to get more solar panels on city rooftops. A more specific announcement should come in the next few weeks. Just a couple weeks ago, the Solar Foundation ranked Ohio No. 8 in the nation for solar jobs.Ohio gas prices continued rising this week.Watch a robot 3-D print with metal here.Follow CityBeat on Twitter:• Main: @CityBeatCincy • News: @CityBeat_News • Music: @CityBeatMusic • German Lopez: @germanrlopezGot any news tips? Email them to email@example.com.
by German Lopez
01.31.2014 83 days ago
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Mayor targets joblessness, early voting might stay downtown, Kasich could veto fracking tax
Mayor John Cranley plans to address long-term unemployment in Cincinnati with several new initiatives, some of which could get support from the White House, he told CityBeat yesterday. According to Cranley, the idea is to end employer discrimination against the long-term unemployed or land the long-term unemployed into jobs to end the job-crippling gap in their resumes. Cranley's push against long-term unemployment comes in preparation of his visit today to the White House, which is looking for different ways to tackle the sluggish economy without going through a gridlocked Congress. Republican Secretary of State Jon Husted said it would be "logical" to keep an early voting location downtown even if the Hamilton County Board of Elections moves its offices to Mount Airy. Husted's comments imply local Republicans are alone in their effort to move early voting to a new Mount Airy location, where only one bus line runs. Democrats oppose the move because it would limit voting access for people who rely on public transportation. But local Republicans claim free parking at the facility would outweigh the lack of bus access. As the secretary of state, Husted could break the board's tie vote over the issue and make the final decision on where its offices and early voting end up.Gov. John Kasich threatened to veto a "puny" oil and gas tax, casting doubts on the current proposal in the Ohio legislature. The debate has put Kasich and his fellow Republicans in the General Assembly at odds as the state undergoes a bit of an oil and gas boom because of fracking, a drilling technique that pumps millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals underground to unlock oil and gas reserves. Kasich has been pushing to reform and increase the severance tax for the state's oil and gas producers. But Republican legislators have largely resisted Kasich's call to action, instead pushing a proposal that increases the severance tax by much less than what the governor proposed two years ago. In both Kasich and legislators' proposals, the raised revenue would be used for an income tax cut. A Hamilton County judge should decide today whether a local abortion clinic can remain open while it fights a state-ordered shutdown.This year's Neighborhood Enhancement Program will target Walnut Hills and East Price Hill. The program aims to address a number of issues, including the number of calls to police, building code violations, vacant buildings, drug arrests, graffiti, junk cars, litter and weeds.Cincinnati officials won an award for how the local budget is presented and communicated, even though it's still not structurally balanced.The Ohio Statehouse welcomes weddings and receptions except for gay couples, who can't get the Ohio marriage certificate required to hold a ceremony at the location.The Feb. 4 debate between Bill Nye the Science Guy and Creation Museum Founder Ken Ham over evolution and biblical creationism will stream live at The Cincinnati Enquirer. Evolution is taken as fact in the scientific world, but creationists deny its truth despite the clear, overwhelming evidence.A school bus driver might have saved two children by yelling at them to get out of the way during a crash.Scientists might have discovered a potential cure for peanut allergies.Follow CityBeat on Twitter:• Main: @CityBeatCincy • News: @CityBeat_News • Music: @CityBeatMusic • German Lopez: @germanrlopez
by German Lopez
01.27.2014 87 days ago
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Elections board could move, bill allows armed teachers, fracking waste could move on river
The Hamilton County Board of Elections plans to decide today whether it will move its offices and early voting from downtown to Mount Airy. The two Democrats on the board argue moving the offices would push early voting away from public transportation options and the city's core, while the two Republicans claim it's "good government" because the Mount Airy site consolidates county services with the coroner's office and includes free parking. In the event of a tie between Democrats and Republicans, Secretary of State Jon Husted, a Republican, will break the tie. Mayor John Cranley, a Democrat, proposed an alternative site downtown on Thursday, but at least one Republican county official said it wasn't enough to meet the county's needs.One of the Republicans on the board resigned as the city's lobbyist to avoid a conflict of interest prior to today's vote.The Republican-controlled Ohio House last week approved a bill that would allow school boards to designate school employees to carry concealed firearms and prohibit school boards from releasing the names of those employees. Republicans argue the proposal will help make schools safer against would-be shooters. But several studies indicate more guns lead to more gun-related violence. A 2009 ABC News special also found even trained gun-wielders fail to properly react in the event of a shooting.Fracking waste could soon move through barges on the Ohio River, depending on an incoming decision from the U.S. Coast Guard. During the fracking process, drillers pump millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals underground to unlock oil and gas reserves. But some of that water returns to the surface, and that wastewater needs to be dumped somewhere. Oil and gas companies support the allowance of river barges as a potentially cheaper transportation option for the wastewater. But environmentalists, emergency response experts and other critics argue a spill on the Ohio River could cause widespread damage as toxic wastewater flows down a river many communities tap into for drinking water.Citing research from Pennsylvania fracking sites, some advocates argue Ohio officials should take another look at whether radiation from Ohio's fracking operations is affecting surrounding landfills and aquifers.Work at The Banks continues despite a debate over buildings' heights.Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center significantly improved outcomes for teens with asthma, according to a Pediatrics study.Warning: Some Ohioans have been targeted by utility bill scams.Ohio gas prices remained relatively steady at the start of the week.Popular physicist Stephen Hawking argues there are no black holes, but other physicists appear skeptical of Hawking's claims.Follow CityBeat on Twitter:• Main: @CityBeatCincy • News: @CityBeat_News • Music: @CityBeatMusic • German Lopez: @germanrlopez
by German Lopez
01.07.2014 107 days ago
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Court orders state to allow minor-party primaries
A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked a controversial law that limits minor political parties' access to the statewide ballot and ruled that the state must allow minor parties to participate in primary and general elections in 2014. The law required minor parties to gather about 28,166 voter signatures by July to regain official recognition at the state level — a threshold that critics called unrealistic and burdensome for minor political parties — and disallowed minor parties from holding primary elections in 2014. U.S. District Court Judge Michael Watson concluded the requirements hurt minor parties that already filed for election before Kasich signed the law in November. He argued the law also unfairly prevented minor parties from reaping the political benefits of a primary election. "The Ohio Legislature moved the proverbial goalpost in the midst of the game," wrote Watson in a 28-page opinion. "Stripping plaintiffs of the opportunity to participate in the 2014 primary in these circumstances would be patently unfair." But in filing a temporary injunction, Watson acknowledged the law's requirements could still stand for 2015 and beyond after the court hands down its final ruling at a later date. Watson merely agreed with minor parties that the law places too many retroactive limits in time for the 2014 election. For now, the ruling comes as a major victory for the Libertarian Party of Ohio, which filed a legal complaint against the law after Gov. John Kasich and his fellow Republicans in the state legislature, including State Sen. Bill Seitz of Cincinnati, approved it. Ohio Democrats and Libertarians took to calling the law the "John Kasich Re-election Protection Act." They argued the law defends Kasich from minor-party challengers dissatisfied with his record as governor, particularly his support for the Obamacare-funded Medicaid expansion. Secretary of State Jon Husted, a Republican, also backed the law. He is cited as the defendant in Watson's opinion. CityBeat could not immediately reach Husted's office for comment. Democrats quickly took advantage of Watson's ruling to prop up Nina Turner, the Democratic candidate for secretary of state. "Today, a federal court declared that Jon Husted's attempt to put his political party over the rights of Ohio voters to have choices violated the constitutional rights of Ohioans. This is not the first time, either. This November, Ohioans can elect Nina Turner to bring needed change to the Ohio secretary of state's office," said Brian Hester, spokesperson for Ohio Democrats, in a statement. Husted and Turner will likely face off in the November ballot. Watson's ruling could make it easier for a minor-party candidate to enter the race as well. Watson's ruling:
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ACLU Opposes New Limits on Early Voting
Proposed legislation removes five days in which voters can simultaneously register and vote
The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio says it opposes Senate Bill 238, which would reduce Ohio's in-person early voting period from 35 to 29 days and repeal a five-day period in which Ohioans can simultaneously register to vote and vote in person. "The five-day window offers major benefits to many voters, including those with disabilities or inflexible work schedules, and there is little evidence that it has created any major problems," said ACLU of Ohio Director of Communications and Public Policy Mike Brickner in a statement. "S.B. 238 throws away these critical, nonpartisan benefits for no good reason." The bill was introduced in the Ohio Senate on Nov. 13 by Republican State Sen. Frank Larose. It's co-sponsored by six Republicans, including State Sen. Bill Seitz of Cincinnati. The bill's introduction follows a letter from Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted urging legislators to trim in-person early voting days. The Ohio Association of Election Officials claims uniform voting hours are necessary to avoid legal challenges in case some counties set longer voting periods than others, which courts could deem unfair under equal protection grounds. The uniform voting periods reduce early voting days in some counties without their approval, the organization acknowledges, but it's necessary to keep the standards uniform without placing an unfair burden on smaller counties. Democrats, including State Rep. Alicia Reece of Cincinnati, say the real reason behind such proposals is to suppress voters. "The Secretary of State's voter suppression agenda is extremely disappointing. As the state's chief elections officer, Secretary Husted is tasked with the duty of ensuring that Ohio's elections are fair and accessible to all citizens," Reece said in a statement. "Unfortunately, the proposed changes are aimed at restricting voters' access to the ballot box in 2014." Democrats have some evidence to their claims. Doug Preisse, chairman of the Franklin County Republican Party and close adviser to Gov. John Kasich, previously wrote to The Columbus Dispatch in an email regarding early voting, "I guess I really actually feel we shouldn't contort the voting process to accommodate the urban — read African-American — voter-turnout machine."
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Few local contributions to Issue 4, private prison mired in violence, Ohio could limit voting
Issue 4, the ballot initiative that would semi-privatize Cincinnati's pension system, obtained most of its financial support from out-of-town tea party groups, according to financial disclosure forms filed to the Hamilton County Board of Elections on Oct. 24. Of the more than $231,000 raised for Issue 4 by Cincinnati for Pension Reform, $229,500 came from groups in West Chester, Ohio, and Virginia. Chris Littleton, a leading consultant for Issue 4 and a long-time tea party activist involved in a few of the listed groups, is also based in West Chester. City leaders unanimously oppose Issue 4 because they argue it would force the city to cut services and city employees' retirement benefits — two claims that have been backed by studies on Issue 4. Supporters say Issue 4 is necessary to help fix the pension system's $862 unfunded liability. Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls previously told CityBeat that City Council will take up further reforms to address the unfunded liability after the election, assuming voters reject Issue 4 on Nov. 5. A re-inspection of the privatized Lake Erie Correctional Institution (LECI) found that, while the private prison has made some improvements in rehabilitation, health services and staffing, it remains on pace in 2013 to match the previous year's increased levels of violence. Various state reports found the facility quickly deteriorated after it became the first state prison to be sold to a private company, Corrections Corporation of America, in 2011, under the urging of Gov. John Kasich. In particular, inmate-on-inmate and inmate-on-staff assaults rapidly rose between 2010 and 2012 and appear to remain at similar increased levels in 2013, according to an audit conducted on Sept. 9 and 10 by Correctional Institution Inspection Committee, Ohio's independent prison watchdog. CityBeat previously covered the deteriorating conditions at LECI in further detail here. Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted advocated trimming the amount of early voting days in a letter to the state legislature yesterday. Husted says he wants the rules passed to establish uniformity across all Ohio counties. But Democrats — including State Sen. Nina Turner, who is set to run against Husted in 2014 for secretary of state — say the measures attempt to limit voting opportunities and suppress voters. In 2012, Doug Preisse, close adviser to Gov. Kasich and chairman of the Franklin County Republican Party, explained similar measures that limit early voting in an email to The Columbus Dispatch: "I guess I really actually feel we shouldn't contort the voting process to accommodate the urban — read African-American — voter-turnout machine." Husted's suggestions also included measures that would allow online voter registration and limit ballot access for candidates in minor political parties. A Hamilton County judge yesterday dismissed another legal challenge against the city's parking plan, but the conservative group behind the legal dispute plans to appeal. The plan would lease Cincinnati's parking meters, lots and garages to the Greater Cincinnati Port Authority, which would then use private operators to manage the assets. Supporters say the lease is necessary to leverage the city's parking assets for an $85 million upfront payment that would help pay for development projects. Opponents argue it gives up too much control over the city's parking assets to private entities. Several Medicaid overhaul bills began moving in the Ohio House yesterday, following months of work and promises from Republican legislators. The bills increase penalties for defrauding the state, require the Department of Medicaid to implement reforms that seek to improve outcomes and emphasize personal responsibility, and make specific tweaks on minors obtaining prescriptions, hospitals reporting of neonatal abstinence syndrome, behavioral health services and other smaller categories. The overhaul bills follow Gov. Kasich's decision to bypass the Ohio legislature and expand Medicaid eligibility for at least two years with federal funds approved by the Controlling Board, an obscure seven-member legislative panel. Ohio's controversial facial-recognition program can be used by some federal and out-of-state officials, according to The Cincinnati Enquirer. The program allows police officers and civilian employees to use a photo to search state databases for names and contact information; previously, law enforcement officials needed a name or address to search such databases. Shortly after the program was revealed, Gov. Kasich compared it to privacy-breaching national intelligence agencies. Ohio students aren't as good at math and science as students in China, Japan, Korea and Singapore, among other countries. A bipartisan "open container" bill would allow cities, including Cincinnati, to legalize drinking alcohol in the streets. In the case of Cincinnati, the city could allow public drinking in up to two districts if the bill passed. Supporters of the bill say it would boost economic activity in certain areas, but some are concerned the bill will enable "trash and rowdiness." Cincinnati leads the way on Twitter. Vitamin B2, which is commonly found in cottage cheese, green veggies and meat, could be used to 3-D print medical implants. Early voting is now underway. Find your voting location here. Normal voting hours are 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., although some days are extended. Check out CityBeat's coverage and endorsements for the 2013 election here. On Oct. 29, local residents will be able to give feedback to Cincinnati officials about the city budget — and also nab some free pizza. The open budgeting event is from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Oct. 29 at 1115 Bates Ave., Cincinnati. Follow CityBeat on Twitter:• Main: @CityBeatCincy• News: @CityBeat_News• Music: @CityBeatMusic• German Lopez: @germanrlopez
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Bill restricts abortions, locals to combat infant deaths, Reece criticizes voter investigations
Got questions for CityBeat about, well, anything? Submit them here, and we'll try to get back to you in our first Answers Issue. CityBeat is also looking to talk to anyone who's been incarcerated for a drug-related offense in Ohio. If you know someone or are someone interested in talking to us, email email@example.com. An Ohio House bill introduced June 11 would impose harsher restrictions on legal abortions, and some of the requirements may coerce doctors into giving medically inaccurate information. Among other requirements, the bill would force doctors to explain fetal development and supposed risks to inducing an abortion, while pregnant patients would be forced to undergo an ultrasound 48 hours before the procedure. But research has found that, barring rare complications, the medical risks listed in the bill are not linked to abortion.Local leaders are beginning a collaborative effort to combat Cincinnati's alarmingly high rate of infant mortality. The effort is bringing together local politicians from both sides of the aisle, nonprofit groups and local hospitals. Infant mortality rates are measured by the number of deaths of babies less than one year old per 1,000 live births. In Cincinnati, infant mortality rates are at 13.6, while the national average is six. In previous comments, Mayor Mark Mallory explained his moral justification for increased efforts against infant mortality: "In Cincinnati, we have had more infant deaths in recent years than victims of homicide. Our community, justifiably, invests millions of dollars, immense political capital and large amounts of media attention in reducing our homicide rate. It's time to start doing the same for our infant mortality rate."State Rep. Alicia Reece, who heads the Ohio Legislative Black Caucus, sent a letter to Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted yesterday criticizing recent efforts to investigate 39 voter fraud cases in Hamilton County. "It is unfortunate that during the past few years, the focus has been on voter suppression instead of voter access and education," Reece said in a statement. "Many of these voters come from African-American and low-income neighborhoods, and they would benefit from a comprehensive voter education program." CityBeat previously covered the 39 "double voter" cases, which mostly involved voters sending an absentee ballot prior to Election Day then voting through a provisional ballot on Election Day, here.Mayoral candidates Roxanne Qualls, John Cranley, Jim Berns and Stacy Smith squared off at a mayoral forum yesterday. Democrats Qualls and Cranley, who are widely seen as the top contenders, debated the parking plan and streetcar project — both of which Qualls supports and Cranley opposes. CityBeat previously covered the streetcar project and how it could relate to the mayor's race here.An audit of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS) found Ohio's Medicaid program could save $30 million by avoiding fraudulent billing. State officials responded to the audit by highlighting changes in budget plans that supposedly take steps to reduce Medicaid fraud, including Gov. John Kasich's proposal to add five full-time Medicaid auditors to perform additional on-site monitoring in an effort to reduce overpayments.Ohio lawmakers seem unlikely to approve a federally funded Medicaid expansion, but bipartisan bills introduced in the Ohio House and Senate make sweeping changes to the Medicaid program that aim to lower costs and make the government health care program more efficient. Legislators claim the goal is to bring down costs without reducing services, all while providing avenues for Medicaid participants to move out of poverty. Hearings for the bill will begin next week.After giving a speech celebrating the resurfacing of a high-speed test track, Gov. Kasich rode a car at 130 miles per hour in a more literal "victory lap."Scientists are apparently making advancements in helping people regrow limbs.
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Deters, Husted Criticized for Pursuing Voter Fraud Investigation
German Lopez
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As county and state officials move to investigate and potentially prosecute voter fraud cases, local groups are pushing back, warning that the investigations could cause a chilling effect among voters.
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County to Investigate 39 Voter Fraud Cases
Critics warn of potential chilling effect
As county and state officials move to investigate and potentially prosecute voter fraud cases, local groups are pushing back, warning that the investigations could cause a chilling effect among voters. Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls became the latest to speak out in a letter to Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters and Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted. "The current legal investigations perpetuate the idea that voter fraud is widespread, when it's not true," she wrote. "We need to work together to give citizens the confidence that the election process is fair and accessible to those who have followed the law and pre-determined process. When citizens are confused about the process of voting they are intimidated from exercising their full rights to vote, which erodes confidence in and the integrity of our democracy." The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio (ACLU) and League of Women Voters of Ohio sent similar letters to Husted in the past few weeks, echoing fears that the investigations will intimidate voters into staying out of future elections. The controversy surrounds 39 "double voter" cases recently sent to the county prosecutor by the Hamilton County Board of Elections. In most of the cases, the voters in question sent in an absentee ballot prior to Election Day then voted on Election Day through a provisional ballot, which are given to voters when there's questions about eligibility. Even though the voters technically voted twice, their votes were only counted once. The letters from Qualls and the League of Women Voters claim the cases were sent to the county prosecutor based on a narrow interpretation of state law and other sections of election law back the voters' actions. The letters reference Ohio Revised Code Section 3509.09(B)(2), which says, "If a registered elector appears to vote in that precinct and that elector has requested an absent voter's ballot for that election and the director has received a sealed identification envelope purporting to contain that elector's voted absent voter's ballots for that election, the elector shall be permitted to cast a provisional ballot under section 3505.181 of the Revised Code in that precinct on the day of that election." The law goes on to clarify only one of the votes should be counted. Husted broke a tie vote in the Hamilton County Board of Elections on May 31, siding with the Republicans on the board who wanted to send the case to the county prosecutor. Alex Triantafilou, an elections board member and chairman of the Hamilton County Republican Party, says Republicans just want an investigation. "I think anytime a person casts two ballots we ought to ask why," Triantafilou says. "This is not to prejudge any of these cases as criminal charges. That's not been our intention. What we want is a qualified investigator to ask the question and then answer it." Tim Burke, chairman of the local elections board and the Hamilton County Democratic Party, disagrees: "This is a damn shame. What's happening to those voters is absolutely wrong." Burke claims the law was followed and no further investigation is necessary. He alleges Republicans are trying to suppress voters. "I fear that what's going on is that elements of the Republican Party want to create the impression that there is massive voter fraud going on, and they want to scare the hell out of people to intimidate them and discourage them from voting in the future," Burke says. "I think part of what's going on here is an effort to identify voter fraud in order to justify more restrictions on voting rights." Triantafilou argues Democrats, including Burke, are playing politics: "It's a continuation of the kind of fear that Democrats try to instill in the electorate, and it's a political weapon. We're not trying to do that. They alleged voter suppression in the last election cycle. That was nonsensical. The problem really is fraud."
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Medical marijuana advances, commissioners threaten streetcar, voter fraud report released
If you have any questions about Cincinnati, CityBeat's staff will do its very best to answer if you submit them here. The Ohio Ballot Board certified an amendment that would legalize medical marijuana and industrial hemp in Ohio. Petitioners will now have to gather 385,253 signatures to get the issue on the ballot — most likely this year or 2014. CityBeat previously covered Ohio's medical marijuana movement in greater detail here. Republican county commissioners are asking the Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana Regional Council of Governments to pull $4 million in streetcar funding, but the city says OKI can't legally do it. Commissioners Greg Hartmann and Chris Monzel, who are also members of the OKI board, made the request in a letter. City spokesperson Meg Olberding says OKI was simply an agency that passed the money along as it worked through the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) to OKI to the Southwest Ohio Regional Transportation Authority (SORTA), and the agreement doesn't allow OKI to interfere any further. This morning, the city's Twitter account tweeted, "City has confirmed with Feds that OKI cannot pull streetcar $ bc funds are already obligated to this federal project." Ohio released its first ever statewide report on voter fraud yesterday, called the "Post-2012 General Election Voter Fraud Report." Secretary of State Jon Husted said the report shows voter fraud exists, but it's "not an epidemic." That coincides with previous findings from researchers: An extensive study of the nation's databases by News21, a Carnegie-Knight journalism initiative, found no evidence of widespread voter fraud. Ohio Democrats are proposing more accountability rules for JobsOhio, including adherence to public record laws, open meeting laws, state ethics laws for employees and full state audits. JobsOhio is a privatized nonprofit agency established by Gov. John Kasich and Republican legislators to eventually replace the Ohio Department of Development. They claim the privatized nature of the agency allows it to respond to economic problems more quickly, but Democrats say the agency redirects public funds with minimal oversight. Cincinnati will host a march against genetically modified organisms Saturday as part of the international March Against Monsanto. The movement's organizers are calling on participants that explain the facts of genetically modified organisms, encouraging "no slandering, no opinions or paper — just facts." The protest is scheduled for 1 p.m. at Piatt Park. A.G. Lafley is reclaiming the top spot at Cincinnati-based Procter & Gamble. The company says the change is not part of a deeper issue. The 35th annual Taste of Cincinnati begins tomorrow. Win or lose, the University of Cincinnati baseball team has a lot of fun. An adorable Labrador Retriever puppy had her heart cured after a minimally invasive heart procedure — the first ever in the Tri-State. Salamanders have some lessons for humans when it comes to regrowing limbs.
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In 2005, for my third year at university, I moved to Russia to study Russian in two towns a few hours north of Moscow. In Yaroslavl I had lived with fractious landladies, glued bushy sideburns to my face to act in a play, spent Friday nights with classmates in a nightclub called Joy Party, and made friends with Georgian and Azeri traders at the town's clothes market. In Tver I had lived in the university hostel with a dozen warm-hearted Finns.
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|Jan 11, 2013, 02:46 PM
Keydown isn't firing.
OS X 10.8.2, XCode 4.5.2.
I have a textbox that I need to limit input to numeric, 3 digits (3 must be 003) between 0 and 360 inclusive. I also need to trap the Enter key.
My thought was to do the validation in a keyDown method. After a lot of searching and reading, it seems I need to have
- (BOOL)acceptsFirstResponder { NSLog(@"Accepting..."); return YES; } - (BOOL)becomeFirstResponder { NSLog(@"becoming..."); return YES; } - (void)KeyDown:(NSEvent *)event { NSLog(@"a key wuz prest"); NSString *characters = [event charactersIgnoringModifiers]; if([characters isEqualToString:@"v"]) { } }
None of those three methods fire. I think something's not wired correctly, but no idea what.
I'd also welcome any comments if catching the keys in keyDown isn't the best way to go.
|Jan 11, 2013, 07:03 PM
Your app delegate is near the bottom of the responder chain, so it is just not getting the keydown event: the field is simply swallowing it. You could use a custom text field subclass that overrides -keyDown: or you could subclass NSNumberFormatter and attach that to the field. Otherwise, I think you can attach a delegate to the field itself or get notifications from it.
You got to be a spirit. You can't be no ghost.
|Jan 12, 2013, 09:40 AM
I see the app delegate at the bottom of the chain. What I don't get is how buttons on the same view as my text box can respond and the text box doesn't.
Even if I call the acceptsFirstResponder and becomeFirstResponder, they have no effect I can see. Isn't there a way to move the app delegate up the chain?
[rant]I can't believe that this is such an uncommon a task and so esoteric.[/rant]
Of your suggestions I think a custom field/override -keydown appeals the most, second would be attaching a delegate.
Any tips there?
|Jan 12, 2013, 10:21 AM
Doesn't your method have the wrong name? You have "KeyDown". It should be "keyDown". But either way, if you are trying to limit the keystrokes that get accepted by the control, I'd bet you are going to have to make a custom control. I'm not sure how the delegate protocol works, but it would have to be earlier in the responder chain than the control or the control will consume the event before you get a change to filter it out.
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|Jan 12, 2013, 10:46 AM
Now since your text field is only supposed to accept numbers, what should happen if I paste in some text? Overriding keyDown won't help there at all (and you have to implement cut/copy/paste and so on). It isn't actually of any interest what keys the user is pressing. What interests you is what text is in the field. So find a delegate method that is called when the user changes the text.
|Jan 13, 2013, 07:46 AM
Good eye on the name. Changing it to keyDown didn't help. So it's getting eaten somewhere somehow. I just can't dope out how/where.
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Now as all knows any CORBA application needs a domain file ( .cfg )News to me.
and some org.omg classes to communicate with the server by RPC.Provided with the JDK.
I am stuck with how to specify these domain file name, path, CORBA classes etc in my JNLP.The .cfg file is just a file and the classes are provided with the JDK.
Not even that, I can't understand exactly what configuration will make the CORBA apps work properly in Java Web Start so that it can communicate with the server as well. All the Orbix jars's,Orbix?
But as usual it is not workingBut as usual the actual error message, exception, stack trace, etc is not provided so we are left guessing as to what exactly you mean by 'not working'.
EJP wrote:After scrutinizing thoroughly I found that some error is occurring when I am loading the URL in Chrome. An error dialog is displayed and in the browser the Launch button is displayed. The error dialog and its detailed exception is below.
Your JNLP looks OK to me although I am wondering whether you really heed to use the Orbix ORB at all. the one in the JDK should work just as well. Your application is exiting for a reason. Log that reason and post it here.
So will I replace the lineDo that.
Are the rest things all rightI've already said that they look OK but only your test will tell.
Kindly post some sample code which I need to doRequest denied. This is a forum, not a paid help desk.
WARNING: "IOP00410201: (COMM_FAILURE) Connection failure: socketType: IIOP_CLEAR_TEXT; hostname: 172.28.1.139; port: 900"Odd to pass that as a warning, seems like a pretty critical failure to me. "Cannot connect".
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:: Posted by Sid Smith on Mon., Jan 14, 2013
The opening date in King Crimson's last North American tour of 1984 has just been made available for download. You grab it here.
The Universal Symphony
:: Posted by David S on Mon., Jan 14, 2013
As Sid has already announced, The Vicar and Punk Sanderson have joined DGMs ongoing campaign against UMGs many violations of the King Crimson catalogue (all too familiar to all diary readers).
Punk has taken the "Universal Symphony" emanating from DGMHQ and (with apologies to Monty Python and Bob Dylan) used it as the soundtrack for an unlikely protest video.
Please share with your enemies and even your friends. Perhaps a Youtube hit is what it takes.
Record company breaks contract Artist breaks wind
How can one small, mobile and not-very-intelligent unit fight the blast-door of lawyers that protect the worlds largest media company?
Many musicians and artists have faced the same problem, but few have worked their butts off quite like this to find a solution - fart outside the offices of their nemesis and post the video on YouTube.
Punk Sanderson, author of a series of semi-fictional exposes of the music industry, has filmed his protest: Fart For Your Rights!
Punk Sanderson, author of a series of semi-fictional exposes of the music industry, has filmed his protest: Fart For Your Rights! Its like the Occupy Movement, only smellier. Weve called bankers, politicians and phone-hackers to account now its time for major record labels. They trample over musicians rights and rather than owning up and offering fair settlement, reach for expensive lawyers. It would cost over £300,000 to fight them in the courts whos got that kind of money?
So, armed with a battery of slogans - Fart For Farts Sake, All You Need Is Wind, With A Little Fart From Your Friends - the intention is to encourage Dinosaur Inc to own up, get ethical and improve business practices.
The major record labels are happy enough chasing college kids who infringe their own copyrights. This campaign blows them towards taking their own copyright abuse seriously. Any artist can join the protest, get the iFart app on their phone, and blast away in meetings with their record label. Or just trigger it anyway. We are on the scent of something big.
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Fart For Your Rights!
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Mon., Jan 14, 2013
The Vicar has more information about the latest video addition to the website.
Important Mail Order News
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Mon., Jan 14, 2013
Some changes have been made to the way mail order via the site is fulfilled. Burning Shed are now formally operating a European store for DGM releases, allowing Inner Knot to concentrate on their customers in the US. Both companies are independent of DGM, and our aim is to co-ordinate worldwide pricing and release dates, avoiding problems we know customers have been having when hard-earned pay is prised from their grasp.
Happy Birthday King Crimson
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Sun., Jan 13, 2013
On this date in 1969... There was much excitement in camp of the as yet unnamed King Crimson. Why so? Greg, Bob, Mike and Ian started their very first rehearsal in the basement of the Fulham Palace Road Café. The venue had been found by Pete Sinfield, who turned up on the 13th with fellow KC roadie (and later tour manager) Dick Fraser at Ian McDonalds place to collect Mikes drums. After that Dick, Pete, Bob and Greg returned to Ians to haul the Mellotron off to its new subterranean home and get their first rehearsal in their new space underway. KC had truly become part of the underground scene!And speaking of the underground...In 2011 a Japanese film crew making a documentary about the song The Court Of The Crimson King chose to visit the site of the Fulham Palace Road Café as part of their show. You can read what happened over on the blog. Here's some snaps of the place as it is today.
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Visit the DGM Shop to check out three new shirts including a vintage-style Larks' Tongue in Aspic. Currently, purchase three shirts and receive a 15% discount (25% for Frequent Fliers).
Bowie's Blast From The Past
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Thu., Jan 10, 2013
My thanks to Albemuth who writes "Spiegel Online has an article called "Back in Berlin, At Least in
Spirit" by Kristen Allen, which tells of the understandable excitement
Berliners have about Bowie's new single. The photo at the beginning of
the article shows Bowie standing with two of his genius collaborators,
whom all of us will recognize!"
Fripps Crisps
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Thu., Jan 10, 2013
Is there no end to Robert Fripp's shameless marketing plans to part people from their hard-earned pay?
Guitar Circle Goes Red
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Thu., Jan 10, 2013
Currently on a short mini-tour, the Guitar Circle Of Europe have a version of Red online for your enjoyment. The Circle have two more dates where you can see them if you're in the neighbourhood. 10th January.19:30 hs Antikriegshaus Sievershausen
Free admission, Kirchweg 4A, 31275 Lehrte
12th January 20:30 hs Rabotheater Hengelo - Eijsinkzaal
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Where's Levin Now?
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Tue., Jan 8, 2013
David Bowie has released a new single - Where Are We Now? - today and Tony Levin plays bass on it! You can hear it over on Bowie's website.
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Summer 2010 is approaching quickly and with it come many new opportunities to dive with manta rays and whale sharks in the incredible Hanifaru Bay dive site in Baa Atoll, the Maldives. Hanifaru Bay has sprung to fame in recent years after being featured in the National Geographic Magazine. As shown in the documentary, Hanifaru is the setting for a spectacular natural phenomenon known as a manta ray "feeding frenzy", during which up to 200 manta rays and up to a dozen whale sharks gather together to feed voraciously on the massive amounts of plankton found in Hanifaru Bay during the months of August and September each year.
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Theia, the brand new luxury liveaboard, launched in Februrary 2010, has several 7-night dive safaris of the Baa Atoll and the North Male Atoll, home to some of the Maldives' finest dive sites including Lion's Head, Okobe Thila and Banana Reef, to name a few.
Theia departs Male on the following dates for this amazing Hanifaru Bay scuba safari:
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NBA players like race car drivers have to be able to trust the other players not to kill or maim them. Bynum's actions broke that line of trust. He should be suspended.
Great job by the other Bobcats for winning the game without Gerald.
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Late shot lifts Lady Vols past Lady Rebels
Tennessee's Angie Bjorklund hit a game-winning 3-pointer for the second straight year to defeat the Ole Miss Lady Rebels 61-58 Thursday night at C.M. "Tad" Smith Coliseum. The loss was devastating for the Lady Rebels, who had tied the game just seconds before Bjorklund's shot. (February 12, 2010, Page Page 9A)


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Smoothfoam™ Carnival Clown
Have fun clowning around with this project! Simple and fun, everyone will love creating their very own carnival clown!
Material List
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Paint half of the large ball, for the body, Rubber Ducky and the other half Habanero. Let dry.
Paint small, medium and large white polka dots onto the body, with Wedding Cake paint. Let dry.
Paint the medium ball with Wedding Cake and the smallest ball Habanero. Let dry.
Determine the length of the wood dowels for the legs and cut. Paint dowels with Wedding Cake and dry. Once dry, paint Beetle Black stripes and let dry.
Paint a face on the medium Wedding Cake ball.
Paint the wood plaque Beetle Black. Let Dry.
Cut the small Habanero painted ball in half for the clown's shoes. Poke a hole in the top center of each shoe with dowel. Add hot glue into the hole and insert the dowel legs. Let dry.
Poke holes at the base of the large painted ball, add hot glue and insert the legs to the body.
Hot glue the head onto the top of the body.
Glue the feet of the clown to the wood plaque.
Cut a triangle from the yellow felt to make a tall pointed hat. Glue on to head.
Cut a circle from the blue felt to make a collar. Cut a small hole in the center and slit it on one side. Fit it between the head and the body and glue together.
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Et Tu, North Carolina?
First, Iowa, not North Carolina.
I'm Myra from NCI think I had the very first ITMFA license plate. They pulled it about 2 months agoI got a polite letter, a self addressed envelope for the return, and a new plate in the mail. I HAD to put on the new plate, or I wouldn't have been legal driving. But I did not return the plate. I will hang it up, framed, for my grandson to have. And I did not cash the check they sent to refund my special plate fee. Therefore, the transaction never finished in their computers, and they cannot make me return it. A memento. It was great while I had it on, though. Myra G.
Where are you, ACLU?
In other ITMFA news, my old arch-enemies at the Des Moines Register published an editorial in defense of ITMFA plates.
Who cares if a driver you've never met is Cyclone fan (CYFAN) or likes to play tennis (10SNE1)? Personalized license plates are curious because, like bumper stickers, they reveal the need some people have to announce tidbits about themselves to other motorists who probably couldn't care less.
But in some cases, the government cares a lot. Government-issued plates are subject to government regulation.
The Iowa Administrative Code states personal plates can have "No combination of characters...which is sexual in connotation; defined in dictionaries as a term of vulgarity, contempt, prejudice, hostility, insult, or racial or ethnic degradation; recognized as a swear word; considered to be offensive; or a foreign word falling into any of these categories."
Defining "offensive" is tricky business. And likely a headache for Iowa Department of Transportation officials who take complaints about license plates. This year, the DOT has sent letters to nine Iowans asking them to surrender their plates.
Included in the list are: ITMFA, HORNDOG, GOTWUD1, HUKDFOX, BCHMGNT, 2REDRUM, COOTER, and 3REICH.
We'll admit we were scratching our heads on a few of these until we checked the Internet for the meaning of slang terms.
The DOT also issued a letter to John Miller of Boone for the FNADER plates on his Corvair. He's not only refusing to give them up; he's getting some help from the American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa.
There are thousands of words in the English language beginning with the letter F. Is that letter now recognized as always synonymous with a swear word?
We don't think so. Censoring it amounts to censoring thoughts.
Register writer John Carlson elaborated on ITMFA in a recent column. This is apparently taken from an anti-Bush Web site and stands for "Impeach the (expletive) Already."
But how could anyone be offended unless they read Carlson's column or were familiar with the Web site?
Aside from banning plates that spell out profanities, the DOT should leave creative Iowa drivers alone.


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Durable Construction. BBK's X-pipes use a free-flowing 2-1/2" diameter CNC mandrel bent aluminized tubing and a merged X crossover to improve flow. And features High flow catalytic converters to provide a significant horsepower increase over the restrictive stock cats.
Application. Specifically designed to fit the 1986 to 1993 5.0L V8 Mustangs this Catted X-pipe is a direct fit replacement for the stock mid pipe.
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Solution 2.
Set up the formulas for the two cubic polynomials and form the equations to solve. Subscripted variables are used if you prefer you can use ordinary variables .
Set up eight equations using the prescribed endpoint conditions. Then find the solution set to this linear system and store it in the variable solset.
Use the solution given above for the coefficients and form the cubic functions. Remember that we must dig out one set of braces using before we can use the ReplaceAll command.
Now graph the portion of each cubic in the interval over which it is to be used. Then combine the two piecewise cubic graphs to form the spline.
Remark. Note that the individual cubics were graphed over different intervals and then the graphs were combined. If they were plotted together over a common interval it would look different.
Remark. It would be
nice to have one piecewise cubic function S[z] that is used.
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the condition syntax for
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patt test is a pattern which matches only if the evaluation of test yields True
Caution. We cannot print the formula for a piecewise function with the Print command. It is only possible to interrogate the system and determine what rule it is storing for S. Hence, it was a good idea to always use two formulas f1 and f2 to define S, since they can be printed.
When a plot is made, it only uses real numbers specified in the conditions.
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Your favorite portion in the [unknown] and in honor of Sex in City the movie, Cosmo is taking you on a tour of some of the most memorable locations from the show. So, let's start here, so that we know it's here. It's Carrie's apartment. Yeah, that's the scoop. There's the front door. Just don't sit down on the step, so looks like the secret town and everyone knows where Carrie lives. Here we are at the plaza. This is where Carrie came to talk to Big after his engagement party. She told him that she understood they weren't meant to be and well we all know how that turned out. All right ladies, we're gonna play little Sex and the City trivia. In the last episode, we learned Big's real name, what was it?
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"'well ¬-¬ (I know you can't do this face ¬ _¬ Hahaha)" hehehe you are right!!!
Dee didn't know what to do, and didn't want to see Sofi, so she decided to go and visit her friend Jelena!!! She walked for 20 minutes to JJ's house, all the way thinking about Sofi leaving – she couldn't get it out of her head. She spent a few hours at Jelena's house just hanging out – Dee hadn't told Jelena about Sofi leaving because she didn't want to talk about it and she just wanted to forget it all. After a few hours Dee felt quite tired so she decided to take a nap in Jelena's spare room! (Hahaha as if I would take a nap – I am not an old woman like Sofi!!! Hehehe!) Suddenly Dee woke up, and looked around, confused as to where she was, 'this isn't my room' she thought to herself. Then she started to panic 'oh my God, have I been kidnapped?!!!!!', before realising that it was JJ's spare room. She then looked at the clock: 8:15 am!!! "Oh My God!!!! Nooooooooo!!" shouted Dee. She ran out of the room and banged right into JJ: "Owwwww!!" screamed JJ, holding her arm, "Dee, what the hell!!! Must you come rushing out of your room at 100 miles an hour?!!!" "Oh Jelena I am so sorry, but why didn't you wake me up last night? I was only meant to be taking a nap!!" Dee said. "Well you looked so peaceful sleeping – I didn't want to wake you up" she replied. "But Sofi" Dee said before remembering that Jelena didn't know the story about Sofi, so she said a quick bye to Jelena and ran home. She rushed upstairs to Sofi's room, but she noticed that all her clothes were gone!!! [:O] "Ohhh nooooooo" Dee whispered to herself. She went downstairs to find Maria, who told her: "Sofi's already gone, her flight leaves in 20 minutes, why did..." but before she could finish her sentence, Dee had gone. Dee grabbed the keys to Maria's car and suddenly drove off!! "Deeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!" Maria screamed, running out of the house. Then she started panicking cos Dee could not drive well at all and didn't actually have a driving licence!! [:S] Dee was driving even worse than she normally does and was swerving all over the road, but she managed to get to the airport in one piece!! She looked at her watch: 9:05 am. 'Oh no I am too late' thought Dee as she rushed into the airport and looked for the right terminal. Meanwhile Sofi, who was about to board the plane, looked around, hoping to see Dee coming to say goodbye. She started to cry [:'(] as she realised that her best friend didn't even care that she was leaving, and so she gave her ticket to the person at the counter................when suddenly she heard Dee's voice!!!!!!!! "Sofiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii WAITTTTTTT!!!!" Sofi turned around to find Dee running towards her!! "Dee what are you doing here?" "Sofi I am sooo sorry, please you can't leave like this, I didn't mean anything I said, you are my best friend, we have been friends for too long for us to fall out over something stupid like this damn promise! I am soooo sorry, please forgive me and please don't leave to go to Sante Fe, I will miss you too much, and I love you so much and I am so sorry for everything" Dee blurted out. Sofi then replied..............
Hahaha You love me Hahaha ;)
before she had taken a deep breathe and replied 'Ohh Dee, I thought you won't forgive.. I missed you soo much and I was lost. the only way I could find is this, this flight to go home, my sweet home with mom, daddy, my sis and bro..' 'But you can't let me alone!!' Dee was out of her nervess .'I spent you good time with you, you were one of my best friend as Maria is too.. Hmm well I don't know she is already' Sophie's voice sound very peaceful. 'Nooo, she is!! and I am too.. Please Sofiii I need you like hell, pleaseeee it won't happen again' Dee started to cry like a little baby and it broke Sofi's heart [U] but she stared at the ground and replied 'well it was the last person in my flight.. and..' 'Hmm and what Sofi?? C'mon go home with Maria!! Hmm Roger needs you too'. Sophie smiled when she heard the name 'Roger'.. 'and.. and.. my decision is ..I will back home'. Dee gave her a hug and scream out 'Nooooo' the same time.. Sofi enjoyed the hug and whispered 'I will back home with you my lovely sis [;)].. 'Yayyyyyy!! Yipeeee!!!Woooohhhhooo !! Yess!! she started to shout like a crazy person (it reminds when you and I used to run and scream around the house like crazy people). 'C'mon in the park is Maria's car, I borrowed it Hehehe' 'Yessss!! Hmmm you stoled like my emoticons on MSN' sophie and Dee were laughing so hard... In the park, 'Hey Dee, did you drive it?' asked Sophie very curious, 'Yes I did' replied very proud. 'Didn't crash the car? wooooowww' 'Hehehe very funny sofi, but this time it's your turn because I am tired' 'Yesss, you are tired Dee' replied Sofi in a sarcastic way....
~~~~~~~Ohh Christmas is near~~~~~~~~ Sofi was thinking
Sorry I am sleepy and I amnot very creative, like always [|-)]
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You're damn right I am talking about Alan Carr!!!!!!!!! [:D]
Ohhhh i'll tell you who's better...Jason Manford :) He was on live at the apollo the other night and he was awesome!!!
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OMG he is a racist!!! [:O] Hahahaha I am joking - its funny, but I have never heard of him, but OMG Alan Carr was at the Apollo and he was absolutely hilarious!!! [Y] [:D] He makes me laugh all the time!!
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