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13 Jun 2012 03:01 GMT | Africa, Tunisia
The Tunisian government has imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew in eight areas of the country, including the capital, after rioting blamed on ultra-conservative Salafi Muslims left dozens of police officers injured.
The wave of violence on Monday night mostly targeted courts and other state buildings. Police in the capital Tunis fired tear gas to disperse protesters who torched a local courthouse and attacked several police stations.
Protesters blocked streets and set tyres alight in the working class Ettadamen and Sidi Hussein districts, hurling petrol bombs at police in some of the worst confrontations the city has seen since last year's revolution.
By morning, protests had spread to a number of residential districts, with young men preventing trams from passing through the Intilaqa district of the capital, where shops remained closed. There was evidence of looting in some areas, where shop windows were smashed.
The government condemned the riots as "terrorism" and vowed to punish the perpetrators; 165 people were arrested.
"[They] will be brought to justice under the anti-terror law decreed in 2003," said Mohamed Fadhel Saihi, an interior ministry official.
The clashes in Tunis came a day after a group of Salafis, who follow a strictly conservative interpretation of Islam, forced their way into an art exhibition in the upscale La Marsa suburb and defaced works they deemed offensive.
But Salafis denied involvement in the rampages, and instead called a protest after this week's Friday prayers.
The artwork that appears to have caused the most fury and polarised Tunisians spelt out the name of God using insects.
Othmane Batikh, the mufti on Tunisia, called on the constituent assembly to pass laws against blasphemy. "The sacred symbols of Islam are red lines that must not be crossed," he said.
It was the latest incident in a series of confrontations between hardline Salafis and more secular state and civil institutions, including universities, which have flared over the past year in Tunisia.
In a statement released before the protests, Ennahda, the moderate Islamist party that now leads the government, condemned what it described as provocations and insults against religion but urged its own supporters to respond peacefully.
Salafis want broader role
The violence puts Ennahda in a difficult position. While Islamists did not play a major role in the revolution, the struggle over the role of Islam in government and society has since emerged as the most divisive issue in Tunisian politics and several clashes have erupted in recent months.
Salafis want a broader role for religion in the new Tunisia, alarming secular elites who fear they will seek to impose their views and ultimately undermine the nascent democracy.
Last month, Salafis attacked bars and shops selling alcohol in at least two provincial towns, clashing with locals andpolice and prompting the justice minister, a member of Ennahda, to promise that perpetrators would be punished.
The clashes come a day after the leader of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, called on Tunisians to defend Islamic law from Ennahda, which won the first post-revolutionary election in North Africa in October and has said it would not seek to impose Islamic law in the new constitution that is being drawn up.
In an audio recording attributed to Zawahiri and released on the Internet, he said Ennahda had betrayed the religion.
While pushing for a greater role for Islam, Tunisian Salafi leaders have said they would do so peacefully and did not intend to clash with Ennahda.
However, Salafis say they draw the line at actions they believe humiliate Muslims or undermine their religion. Secularists say Salafis are unwilling to tolerate alternative points of view and seek to stifle freedom of expression.
They say Ennahda has been too lenient with Salafis, giving them the confidence to step up their demands.
Source: Al Jazeera and agencies
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Designs of prior art art not usable in efficient dry-run target practice with hand firearms. The greatest drawbacks are, for instance, that it is not possible by the method to monitor the result of the dry-run training; that the method or means is not liable on ordinary guns without special measures or not at all or the method is so complicated that its implementation in practice causes that the means is too expensive to be in the personal possession and use of shooters. In order to eliminate said drawbacks, the invention is mainly characterized in that by a transmitter/receiver means attachable to conventional arms is emitted an optical beam towards a surface serving as the target which is set off from its surroundings due to its optic radiation reflecting properties relative to those of its surroundings, the hitting or missing of the beam being observed with the receiver on the basis of the return beam.
1. An apparatus for dry-run target practice using firearms, such as pistols and rifles, which are to be used in competition, comprising: an integrated transmitter/receiver means for attachment to the barrel of a firearm, and a target having one portion defining a first area for aiming the sights of the firearm and another portion separated therefrom and defining a second area which exhibits significantly different light reflectivity than that of a third area surrounding said second area, said first and second areas being variable independently of each other as to their size and position;
said transmitter/receiver means further comprising means for generating and transmitting a light beam pulse to said second or third area of said target exhibiting greater light reflectivity, upon actuation of the trigger of the firearm, means for receiving a reflected light beam pulse from said second or third area of greater reflectivity, and means for detecting and indicating that a reflected light beam has been received by said receiver means, whereby an operator of the firearm can ascertain whether or not he would have hit or missed the first area of the target at which he has aimed.
2. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the optic beam from the transmitter is as narrow as possible as to divergence and diameter, and said second area of said target has a surface of predetermined size which reflects light better than its surrounding area, and the difficulty of scoring a hit, or the size of the scoring solid angle is changed by changing the size of the reflector/scattering surface.
3. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the optic beam from the transmitter is as narrow as possible as to divergence and diameter and said second area of said target has a surface of predetermined size which reflects light less than said third area, whereby said receiver detects light beam pulses which have hit the area around said second area.
4. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein an acoustic sensor in the transmitter means is actuated by transmitted sound caused by firing the cocked gun, and said sensor actuates said means for generating and transmitting a light beam pulse.
5. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said means for indicating that a reflected light beam has been received by said receiving means is acoustic or optical.
6. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the transmitter means emits a single brief delayed light pulse after the moment of triggering the gun, with such a delay that the light pulse starting and recognition moment approximately corresponds to the moment at which a bullet would ordinarily emerge from the barrel of said gun.
The present invention concerns apparatus for target practice with hand firearms, such as pistols and rifles, based on a transmitter/receiver means attachable to common firearms and on a target which is set off from its surroundings due to its different optic radiation reflecting properties.
In training shooting, especially sports shooting, the importance of so-called dry-run training is very high. The importance of dry-run training, that is, training with a gun without actually shooting, is accentuated by the fact that it is possible to practise it safely, for instance, in ordinary room. Nowadays, the problem is primarily how to motivate the trainees to do adequate and careful aiming and firing exercises without cartridges. Another problem is that there are no efficient methods known in the present art for immediate checking on the result of dry-run training, with the exception of the method described in the Finnish patent application No. 831183.
The method disclosed in said patent application is, however, intended to be used in the first place as a versatile shooting analyzing method in training shooters, whereby an important utilization mode of the means based thereon is its appplication in a real target practice situation. Probably the most important and valuable measurement datum of the method disclosed in the Finnish patent application No. 831183 is continuous monitoring of the aiming point during aiming and firing. If said idea is implemented in practice it implies a rather costly means which cannot in general be acquired for private property and use.
Designs of prior art involving the use of light in connection with target practice have been mentioned, for instance, in the Finnish patent application mentioned in the foregoing and in the Norwegian patent application No. 770997 (Utlegningsskrift nr. 144118). Summarizing the greatest drawbacks of the designs known in the art, the following may be mentioned: the method or the means is not applicable on common guns without special measures, or not at all (e.g. specific laser guns); the method is so versatile and complicated that to implement it in practice makes the means too expensive for the trainee to own and use personally.
In the present invention, a simple transmitter/receiver means is attached to the gun with which target practice is going to be carried out. This means that each trainee may do his exercise e.g. with the gun which he will use in competitions. Since in the apparatus of the invention merely note is taken of whether the shot fired with the optic beam has fallen inside or outside a circumscribed area of desired size and shape, the target will be simple. The circumscribing of the optic target is carried out in that the target plate (or the plate and its surroundings) consist of surfaces which reflect light in different optic ways. In the simplest form, the optic target is e.g. a circular reflecting tape stuck on an ordinary backing surface (e.g., a wall), and the optic beam which is emitted is a light pulse narrow in divergence and diameter, whereby in practice the size of the tape alone determines the difficulty of scoring a hit (that is, the magnitude of the hit solid angle).
For the actual aiming plate, a separate plate can be used--and this is obviously also the most efficient way from the viewpoint of training. In this way, the aiming plate can be selected to conform as well as possible to the actual situation, and by changing the size of the optic target, the difficulty of scoring it can be regulated. Therefore, dry-run training can be carried out with ease at varying ranges, and it is still always known to what result the size of the optic target that is used would correspond in a real situation.
One form of training used by persons engaged in target practice is to record the number of rounds missing a circle of given size. When this is done, the area corresponding e.g. to the scores ten and nine is removed from the target, whereby only results which are inferior to this will be recorded. Equivalent dry-run training is easy to simulate with the means of the present invention.
For target practice training of biathlon sportsmen, the present invention described here is particularly well applicable because also in the competition only the hits are taken into account. In addition, the functional range ("the shooting range") of the means of the invention when implemented by modern technology extends up to several hundred meters, and therefore the shooting range may be chosen to equal the real range.
At its simplest, indication of hits or misses is effected with the aid of an acoustic or optic signal. If it is desired to record and store the hits/misses over a prolonged period of time, separate counters and display means can be connected to the means. Recognition of the firing moment may be with the aid of a sensor attached to the gun trigger, or on the basis of the energy pulse caused by firing the cocked gun (in which case the sensor may be accomodated in the same housing with the transmitter/receiver means).
The invention is described in the following more in detail with the aid of an example, referring to the drawings attached, wherein:
FIG. 1 presents a training apparatus according to the invention,
FIG. 2, the block diagram of the means,
FIG. 3, the block diagram of the electronics of the transmitter, and
FIG. 4, the block diagram of the electronics of the receiver.
In FIG. 1, on a common pistol 1 has been mounted, with the aid of a magnet and a centering mandrel 2, a transmitter/receiver means 3. The parts contained in the transmitter/receiver means are depicted more in detail in FIGS. 2-4.
In addition to the parts 2 and 3 to be mounted on the gun, the apparatus comprises a target plate 5 and an optic reflecting plate 6 for the optic beam. When the cocked, unloaded gun is fired, a laser transmitter in the component 3 emits a narrow "optic bullet" towards the plate 6. The transmitter/receiver 3, the plates 5 and 6 and the sights 4 are so adjusted that when the sights 4 are aligned with the target plate 5 the narrow light beam emitted by the laser strikes the plate 6. The plate 6 is made e.g. of inexpensive reflecting foil having a reflectivity typically 100-1000 times that of conventional background surfaces (wood, paper, concrete, etc.). Thus, it is easy to notice with the receiver in the component 3 when the beam strikes the reflector 6. The size of the reflector determines, of course, how difficult it is to make hits with the means. Conversely, plate 6 could be made of a material having significantly less reflectivity than that of the background surface surrounding plate 6, and misses are detected by the receiver when light from the transmitter is reflected from the background surface.
In FIG. 2 is presented how the transmitter 7 and the receiver 8 are placed inside the component 3. The transmitter as well as and the receiver has simple optics 9, by which the laser light is collineated and the reflected light is focussed on the receiver. Moreover, the component 3 comprises a power source 10 (a storage or dry-cell battery) for power supply.
In FIG. 3 is shown the block diagram of the transmitter electronics. The solid-transmitted sound in the gun produced by firing the unloaded cocked gun is detected with the aid of a piezo sensing element 11. The signal from the sensing element is amplified by an amplifier 12, which triggers a pulse of suitable size from the monostable vibrator 13 to the amplifier 14. The amplifier 14 in its turn controls a laser diode 15, whereby a light pulse corresponding to the firing is obtained from the transmitter.
In FIG. 4, again, is presented the block diagram of the receiver electronics. If the narrow light pulse emitted by the laser 15 strikes the reflecting plate 6, the reflected light is observed with the photodiode 16. The signal from the photodiode is amplified by the amplifier 17 and filtered by the filter 18. The pulse from the filter 18 triggers the monostable vibrator 19 if the pulse is powerful enough. The oscillator 20 oscillates during the duration of the pulse from the monostable vibrator 19, controlling the piezo buzzer 21. In this way, an acoustic signal is obtained from the buzzer 21 for each round that has hit the target. The buzzer may be easily replaced with a pilot light, for instance an LED.
The size and shape of the aiming plate 5 (FIG. 1) is so selected that at the practice range which is used the plate looks the same when aimed at as in the real shooting situation. If the trainee does not like to readjust the sights 4 of his gun for the duration of the dry-run exercise, the requisite aligning adjustment may be carried out by means of adjustable attachment of the transmitter/receiver means 3 and/or by changing the location of the plates 5 and 6 in relation to each other.
In order to eliminate the effect of interference; it may be advantageous to switch the detection in the receiver of FIG. 4 to be active only for a short time during the emitted light pulse. Synchronization is easy to achieve e.g. by connecting the emission datum from the monostable vibrator 13 of FIG. 3 to the control input of the monostable vibrator 19 of FIG. 4.
When the firing pin of the gun strikes the cap on the cartridge, it takes a while before the bullet that has been fired emerges from the muzzle of the gun. Only after this length of time the movements of the gun have no influence on the flight path of the bullet. This time can be taken into account in the transmitter of the target practice means, FIG. 3, by delaying the triggering of the laser 15 electronically, e.g. by means of a monostable vibrator. The greater part of the so-called barrel time, however, consists in practice of the motion of the trigger and firing pin mechanism (typically 2-5 ms) which is automatically taken into account when the piezo sensor 11 depicted in FIG. 3 is employed to detect the firing. The velocity of propagation of solid-transmitted sound (about 5000 m/s) is so high that it has no significance in practice.
It is obvious to a person skilled in the art that different embodiments of the invention are not merely confined to the example presented in the foregoing and that may vary within the scope of the claims presented below.
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Volunteers make home renovations for wounded Blount County veteran
MARYVILLE — As Master Sgt. Michael Trost was rushed into surgery for the seven gunshot wounds he received during an ambush in Afghanistan, he demanded one thing.
A doctor, who Trost learned happened to be University of Tennessee graduate, had to sing "Rocky Top" before operating.
"I'm not going out like this," he said, describing how he felt at the time. "I'm going back home to Maryville."
Several months, 12 units of blood and 18 surgeries later, Trost is back in Blount County.
He was in the process of renovating his barn before he was deployed, but his injuries meant he wouldn't be able to complete the task without some help. He is using a wheelchair while he goes through rehabilitation.
He found plenty of help Saturday when a team build project, organized by the New Hope board of directors, drew together some 100 volunteers to help complete the renovations.
New Hope Executive Director Trudy Hughes said the build was a way for New Hope, a children's advocacy center, to give back to Trost, who had helped New Hope when he was on leave.
"Instead of taking that time to rest and recuperate, he became engaged in a fundraiser that we were involved in," Hughes said. "So we really want (this barn) to be a place for Mike to rest."
Stephanie, Trost's wife and the secretary for New Hope, said she has felt every emotion but loneliness because of the outpouring of community support.
Harrison Construction Company paved the couple's gravel driveway with asphalt for free because Trost couldn't use his wheelchair on gravel. Anderson Lumber donated lumber for stairs to the barn, and Cherokee Millwright and Mechanical worked for more than 13 hours on the barn's plumbing.
"I don't even know how to put it in words how grateful we are," Stephanie Trost said. "The project started very small, and it has just blossomed."
Saturday's build was the culmination of weeks of work from a dozen people willing to work until midnight or later to ensure the renovations could be completed by the team build day.
"I've been given the skills that I've got, and to be able to use these skills to help Mike just feels like it's meant to be," Ed Kreplewski, one of those dozen people, said.
In a ceremony that took place before the build, state Sen. Doug Overbey presented Senate Joint Resolution 742 to Trost. The resolution honors and commends Trost for his service.
Trost flew a Blount County flag that was given to him by Blount County Mayor Ed Mitchell above his compound while he was deployed.
On Saturday, he presented the flag, along with signatures from everyone in his troop, back to Mitchell.
"It served many a night and many a day as a beacon of hope for us that we would have a warm meal, hot shower and a bed to sleep in," Trost said.
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MUPC Battle of the Bands and DAM JAM!Wednesday, May 21st, 2014
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Mann Center for the Performing Arts Young People's Concert Series 2015 "Magnificent Magical Mondays"
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Grooves and Good Vibes with The Ardvark Felon, Ben O'Neill & No Good Sister
Frank Velardo Music
Wednesday, January 23, 2013 at 9:00 PM - Thursday, January 24, 2013 at 2:00 AM (PST)
3 great bands!
No Good Sister: Honky tonk blues led be powerful female vocalists
Ben O'Neill: Great songwiting, Contemporary Rock!
The Ardvark Felon: The alrter-ego of Philly Musician, Frank Velardo. Psychedelic Blues, Jazz and Funk! This will be the first performnace wth a 3 piece horn section!!!
They'll be dancing, positive energy and kind-hearted folks all looking for the same thing: Love, movement and live music!!
21+ $7 at the door. Doors open at 9:00
Frank Velardo is a artist/educator stationed in west Philly. The Ardvark Felon is the name his debut album, released in October, 2012. Even though he's only had a few performances since the release, there is alot of talk about what he is doing. This past December Frank and his group opened for the band Cultureal, an awesome Roots Reggae band. The Ardvark Felon put on a very exciting show performing his originals and throwing in some familiar surprises!
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Updated: October 1, 2011, 6:51 PM ETAssociated Press
NEUBRANDENBURG, Germany -- Yoan Pablo Hernandez of Cuba defeated champion Steve Cunningham on a controversial split technical decision after six rounds Saturday to take the American's IBF cruiserweight title.
Referee Mickey Vann stopped the bout because of two cuts sustained by the Cuban after the fighters twice clashed heads in earlier rounds.
Two judges scored it 58-55 and 59-54 for Hernandez while another had it 57-56 for Cunningham.
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In response to Democratic mayoral candidate John Cranley's call for a debate, the campaign for Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls, another Democratic candidate for mayor, is calling both campaigns to schedule a series of debates. Jens Sutmoller, Qualls' campaign manager, said in a statement, "Vice Mayor Qualls believes the citizens of Cincinnati deserve a robust series of public debates between the two final 2013 Mayoral candidates. She looks forward to articulating her optimistic vision of Cincinnati's future and the investments we need to make in our neighborhoods and city to achieve a welcoming city of opportunity for all our citizens."
Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS) are being used as a model by other schools around the state and country. Other schools are particularly interested in Cincinnati's community learning centers, which provide services not directly related to education, including health clinics, mental health counselors, tutoring programs and extensive after-school programs. The approach is being praised for making schools serve the greater needs of communities. CityBeat wrote about CPS and its community learning centers here.
Steve Dyer, an education policy fellow at Innovation Ohio, says Gov. John Kasich's school education plan actually does the opposite of what Kasich claimed: "However, after examining the district-by-district runs produced by the Kasich Administration yesterday (which I posted at Innovation Ohio earlier), what is clear that even without eliminating the guaranteed money Kasich said he wants to eliminate soon, kids in the poorest property wealth districts in the state will receive 25 cents in additional state revenue for every $1 received by kids in the property wealthiest districts." A CityBeat analysis found the education plan increases funding for Cincinnati Public Schools, but not enough to make up for past cuts.
The University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati State and Miami University are getting slight increases in funding under Kasich's higher education funding plan.
The plan increases overall higher education funding by 1.9 percent,
with UC getting 2.4 percent more funding, Cincinnati State getting 4
percent more and Miami getting 1.8 percent more. The increased funding
should be helpful to Miami University, which recently initiated $99 million in summer construction and renovation projects. Historically, Ohio has given its universities less funding per pupil than other parts of the country.
An appeals court ruling could put the Anna Louise Inn back at square one. On Friday, the Ohio First District Court of Appeals affirmed most of a lower court's ruling against the Anna Louise Inn, but it sent the case back down to the lower court on a legal technicality. The ruling means the case could restart, but Tim Burke, the inn's attorney, claims the Anna Louise Inn has already done what the appeals court asked. For CityBeat's other coverage of the Anna Louise Inn, click here.
Media outlets are finally picking up the story about illegal immigrants and driver's licenses. Gongwer wrote about it here, and The Columbus Dispatch covered it here. CityBeat originally wrote about the story last week ("Not Legal Enough," issue of Feb. 6).
Following the board president's comparison of Adolf Hitler and President Barack Obama, the Ohio State Board of Education is set to discuss social media. CityBeat wrote about Board President Debe Terhar's ridiculous Facebook post here.
Remember the Tower Place Mall! Two tenants are holding out at the troubled mall as they look for different downtown locations.
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine wants everyone to know he's still cracking down on synthetic drugs.
The pope is stepping down.
How kids draw dinosaurs is probably wrong.
Standing in front of roughly 40 supporters, city leaders gave the order on Tuesday to lay down the first two streetcar tracks.
The milestone has been years in the making for the $133
million streetcar project — ever since City Council approved the streetcar plan in 2008 and the project broke ground in February 2012.
"This is another great day in our great city," proclaimed Mayor Mark Mallory, a major proponent of the streetcar. "This is the project that will not stop."
Political and financial hurdles snared the massive project in the past five years, but city officials say the construction phase is so far within budget and on time, putting it on track to open to the public on Sept. 15, 2016.
Until then, City Manager Milton Dohoney asked for patience as construction progresses.
But not everyone was happy with the milestone. Ex-Councilman John Cranley, a streetcar opponent who's running for mayor against streetcar supporter Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls, criticized the city for not delaying the project until a new mayor takes office in December.
"The streetcar has been a bad idea and a bad deal for the people of Cincinnati from the beginning," Cranley said in a statement. "To lay track for a project that can't be completed for three years right before an election that will serve as a referendum on the project is a slap in face to the voters."
Cranley insists that he'll cancel the project if he takes office, even though roughly half a mile of track will be laid out by then and, because of contractual obligations and federal money tied to the project, canceling the project at this point could cost millions more than completing it.
Multiple streetcar supporters at the event told CityBeat that Cranley's demands are ridiculous. They say that delaying a project with contractual obligations and deadlines for two months because of a political campaign would cripple the city's ability to take on future projects as weary contractors question the city's commitments.
Streetcar supporters back the project as both another option for public transit and an economic development driver. Previous studies from consulting firm HDR and the University of Cincinnati found the Over-the-Rhine and downtown loop will produce a three-to-one return on investment.
Opponents say the project is too costly. They argue the project forced the city to raise property taxes and forgo other capital projects, such as the interchange at Interstate 75 and Martin Luther King Drive.
The project already went through two referendums in 2009 and 2011
in which voters effectively approved the streetcar.
Gov. John Kasich pulled $52 million in federal funds from the project in 2011 after he won the 2010 gubernatorial election against former Gov. Ted Strickland, whose administration allocated the money to the streetcar.
Earlier in 2013, City Council closed a $17.4 million budget gap after construction bids for the project came in higher than expected.
Despite the hurdles, city leaders remain committed to the project. They estimate the first section of the track — on Elm Street between 12th and Henry streets — will be finished in January 2014.
Damaged parking meters in Over-the-Rhine are causing problems for residents and local businesses. For months, thieves have been cutting off the top of meters to steal change. The vandals directly steal revenue from the city, ensure the damaged meters won't collect revenue until they're fixed and force the city to shell out more money to fix the meters. Businesses and residents are also worried the damaged meters cause confusion for drivers and make the area look unattractive.
Democratic mayoral candidate John Cranley wants to debate Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls, a Democrat who's also running for mayor, over the city's plan to privatize parking services. Cranley, a former council member, has pushed the city to find an alternative to the privatization plan — sometimes leading him to make claims with little backing. Qualls isn't ecstatic about the privatization plan, but she seems to side with City Manager Milton Dohoney's position that it's necessary to avoid the layoff of 344 city employees.
County officials around the state are peeved at Gov. John Kasich's budget plan because it limits how much they can leverage in county sales taxes.
The proposal bars counties from changing their sales tax rates for
three years starting July 2013, and it also adjusts county's rates to
force a 10 percent revenue increase over the prior year beginning
December 2013. The Kasich administration claims the move is necessary to
prevent county governments from using the governor's plan to subtly raise the sales tax, but county officials argue the
move infringes on local rights. Kasich's plan lowers the state sales tax rate from 5.5 percent to 5 percent, but it expands what's affected by the tax.
CityBeat analyzed Kasich's budget proposal yesterday:
Kasich's school funding plan is also drawing complaints from school leaders. At a press conference, Kasich made his plan sound fairly progressive, but school leaders found the actual numbers underwhelming, and 60 percent of schools won't get any increased funding.
City Council Member Chris Seelbach took to Facebook to slam Cranley for some recent comments regarding freestanding public restrooms. During an interview with Bill Cunningham, Cranley tried to politicize the issue by saying City Council wants to build a $100,000 freestanding restroom. In his Facebook post, Seelbach explained that's not the case: "John Cranley, if you haven't heard (which I find surprising), NO ONE on City Council has ever said, in any capacity, that we should spend $100,000+ on a 24-hour public restroom facility. No one. In fact, I went on Bill Cunningham to make that clear. I'd appreciate if you'd stop trying to politicize the real issue: Finding a way to offer more public restroom choices in our urban core for our growing and thriving city. In case you didn't hear my interview with Cunningham, or my comments to almost every media source in this region, I'll post the interview again." Seelbach's interview with Cunningham can be found here.
Clifton's new grocery store will begin construction next week. Goessling's Market-Clifton is finally replacing Keller's IGA on Ludlow Avenue.
A local high school's prom was canceled to punish students for a massive water balloon fight at lunch. The giant fight was planned as a prank on social media, and school staff tried to prevent it by warning students of the repercussions on the day of the prank. Students did not listen. Prom was lame, anyway.
PNC Bank donated $450,000 to Smale Riverfront Park. The money will be used to build the PNC Grow Up Great Adventure Playground, which will have a swinging rope bridge for kids to walk across a canyon. PNC is among a handful companies to donate to the riverfront park; most recently, Procter & Gamble donated $1 million.
Cincinnati was called the most literate city in Ohio.
The Montgomery County Democratic Party endorsed the Freedom to Marry Amendment, which would legalize same-sex marriage. CityBeat wrote about the amendment here.
Kasich's latest budget proposal would privatize food services in prisons to save $16.2 million. The Ohio Civil Service Employees Association, which represents prison staff, has come out against the plan.
A lawsuit has been filed to take down a Jesus portrait in Jackson Middle School in southern Ohio. The lawsuit is being backed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio and the Freedom from Religion Foundation. They argue the portrait is an "unconstitutional endorsement of religion and must be removed."
A new cure for color blindness: goofy glasses.
There's new evidence that a giant asteroid really sparked earth's last great mass extinction event, which killed the dinosaurs.
For this week's cover story, CityBeat analyzed the Ohio House budget bill that would defund
Planned Parenthood, fund anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers and forgo the
Medicaid expansion in favor of broader reforms. The bill passed the Republican-controlled Ohio House last week, but it still needs to be approved by the Republican-controlled Ohio Senate and Republican Gov. John Kasich. Ohio Senate President Keith
Faber announced yesterday that the Ohio Senate will not move forward
with the Medicaid expansion — a sign the Ohio Senate is agreeing with the Ohio House on that issue.
Facing the recent wave of deadly gun attacks around the nation, some moms have banded together to demand action. Moms Demand Action is using its political clout to push gun control legislation at a federal level, but it's also promoting grassroots campaigns in cities and states around the nation.
Contrary to The Cincinnati Enquirer's "exclusive" story, the mayor's office is actually shrinking its budget by $33,000 between July 1 and Dec. 1 despite plans to give some employees raises. The mayor's office says the raises are necessary because the employees will be taken a bigger workload to make up for reduced staff levels, but the budgetary moves will save money overall. Originally, The Enquirer reported the raises without noting the savings in the rest of the budget plan, inspiring a wave of angry emails from readers to the mayor's office through The Enquirer's "tell them what you think" tool.
This week's commentary: "Streetcar's No. 1 Problem: Obstructionism."
At the NAACP meeting today, members will ask independent Councilman Chris Smitherman to step down from his leadership position. The disgruntled members told The Enquirer that Smitherman, who is an opponent of the streetcar and often partners up with the conservative Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes (COAST), is using the NAACP for his "personal and political agenda," not civil rights. Smitherman told The Enquirer to focus on the legitimate work of the NAACP instead of a potential coup that he says isn't newsworthy. Smitherman will not allow media into today's NAACP meeting.
City Council unanimously passed a resolution yesterday to oppose anti-union laws that are misleadingly called "right to work" laws. The laws earned their name after a decades-long spin campaign from big businesses that oppose unions, but the laws' real purpose is weakening unions by banning collective bargaining agreements that require workers to join unions and pay dues. The City Council resolution has no legal weight; it simply tells higher levels of government to not pass the anti-union law.
Metro's budget would need to increase by two-thirds to implements the bus and public transportation agency's long-range plan, which would add rapid transit lines, other routes and sheltered transit centers with more amenities.
Two Cincinnati economic entities are getting federal funds: The Cincinnati Development Fund will get $35 million to invest in brownfield redevelopment, nutritional access and educational improvements, and Kroger Community Development Entity will get $20 million to increase low-income access to fresh and nutritional foods and fund redevelopment projects.
As expected, Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald officially announced yesterday that he will run for governor against Kasich in 2014.
Kasich appointed former State Rep. John Carey to head the Ohio Board of Regents, which manages the state's public university system. Carey says his biggest goal will be to better align higher education opportunities with jobs that are available in Ohio.
Sen. Sherrod Brown is unveiling a bill that would effectively break up the big banks by imposing strict capital limits and other rules. CityBeat wrote about Brown's efforts here.
In a blog post yesterday, Rep. Steve Chabot, a Cincinnati Republican, criticized President Barack Obama for not calling the Boston bombers "Islamic jihadists." Public officials typically do not publicly jump to conclusions in the middle of an ongoing investigation.
A new app gives you an automatic nose job.
Researchers are developing a solar dish that produces electricity and fresh water at the same time.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ed FitzGerald called on Republican Gov. John Kasich, who's running for re-election in 2014, to veto a bill that will prevent a full audit on JobsOhio, but Kasich spokesperson Rob Nichols says the governor will sign the bill. The bill will define JobsOhio's liquor profits, which the agency gets from a lease deal with the state government, as private funds, closing the profits to an audit. The bill will also prevent State Auditor Dave Yost, a Republican who's been pursuing an audit of JobsOhio, from looking into private funds in publicly funded agencies. The new limits on state audits could have repercussions beyond JobsOhio, making it more difficult to hold publicly funded agencies accountable. JobsOhio is a private nonprofit entity established by Kasich and Republican legislators in 2011 to replace the Ohio Department of Development.
The Ohio Senate will vote on a budget bill Thursday that continues to push conservative stances on social issues and aims to cut taxes for small businesses. The bill will potentially allow Ohio's health director to shut down abortion clinics, effectively defund Planned Parenthood, fund anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers and forgo the Medicaid expansion. The bill does not cut taxes for most Ohioans, unlike the Ohio House budget bill that cut income taxes for all Ohioans by 7 percent.
Local Democrats are unlikely to endorse a candidate
in this year's mayoral race, which will likely be against Democrats
Roxanne Qualls and John Cranley. Even though both candidates are
Democrats, they have two major policy differences: Qualls supports the streetcar project, while Cranley opposes it. Qualls also supports the city's plan to semi-privatize its parking assets, which Cranley opposes. CityBeat previously did Q&As with Cranley and Qualls.
The parties' slates of City Council candidates are mostly set. This year, Democrats are running 10 candidates — more than the nine seats available in City Council. Meanwhile, Republicans are running four candidates and the Charter Committee is looking at three potential candidates.
Cincinnati already has some of the cleanest water in the nation, but Water Works is making improvements to its treatments. One new treatment will use an ultraviolet process to kill 99.9 percent of germs.
It's National Internet Safety Month, and Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine is asking Ohioans to be safe out there.
A 131-year-old historic building in the West End collapsed after a car crashed into it. The driver's whereabouts are currently unknown.
Ohio State's president, who's a Mormon, is in trouble for making fun of Catholics.
Mason and Sophia are Ohio's most popular baby names.
Dogs are currently the best bomb detectors, but scientists are aiming to do better.
Federal grants for the $132.8 million streetcar project are on hold
until City Council votes to continue the project, according to a Dec. 2 email from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) to Cincinnati officials.
The decision means Cincinnati can no longer tap into $44.9 million in federal grants until Mayor John Cranley and a majority of the newly sworn-in City Council, both of which have shown opposition to the streetcar project, agree to continue with ongoing construction.
"As per our telephone conversation, early last week, the Administrator decided to restrict further access to the Federal project funds until the FTA received an affirmative signal from the city's newly elected officials that the city intends to proceed with the project on the agreed-upon schedule," wrote Marisol Simon, FTA regional administrator in Chicago. "This measure was taken to protect the taxpayer funds not yet drawn down by the city from being subject to a potential debt collection action."
The FTA's decision shows Cranley and other streetcar opponents were in the wrong when they insisted they could lobby the federal government to reallocate the money to other projects, such as the interchange at Interstate 71 and Martin Luther King Drive.
But the consequence should come as little surprise to elected officials. In two letters to former Mayor Mark Mallory and a phone conference with City Council, federal officials warned the city they would pull the funding if the streetcar project were canceled.
The news comes on the same day City Council plans to vote to pause the streetcar project as the costs of cancellation are weighed against the costs of continuing.
It also comes two days after streetcar builder CAF USA warned the city of substantial costs that would be incurred if the streetcar project were canceled.
Even if council only pauses the project, Streetcar Project Executive John Deatrick says the path forward is unknown because it's unclear how the city will fund costs associated with a pause.
The costs would presumably come out of the project's contingency
fund, according to Deatrick, but pulling money out of the contingency
fund for a delay or pause changes the scope of the project and could face federal resistance.
On Nov. 21, Deatrick said the costs of canceling the $132.8 million streetcar project could nearly reach the costs of completion after accounting for $32.8 million in estimated sunk costs through November, a potential range of $30.6-$47.6 million in close-out costs and up to $44.9 million in federal grant money that would be lost if the project were terminated.
City Council met today for the first time since June and passed several development deals and projects spanning six Cincinnati neighborhoods.
The approved deals include a 15-year tax abatement for the second phase of The Banks, which will produce 305 apartments and 21,000 square feet of retail space; several other apartment projects; new Over-the-Rhine headquarters for Cintrifuse, a small business and startup incubator; the redevelopment of Emanuel Community Center; and a new homeless shelter for women in Mt. Auburn.
The projects are expected to lead to 575 new apartments around the city. That could prove particularly timely for downtown Cincinnati, which is currently struggling to meet high demand from a growing market of aspiring property renters, leasers and buyers.
"Today is a huge day of progress for Cincinnati," Mayor Mark Mallory said in the statement. "The momentum has been building in our city for a while. And now, developers and businesses are lining up to do projects in the city because they see all of the progress and they want to be a part of it. This is the vision — our success is leading to more success."
Among the other items, Council passed a motion asking the city administration to look into a disparity study and a resolution condemning a ballot initiative that would change the city's pension program by pushing future public employees into a less generous 401K-style plan.
Today's meeting was Council's only full session for July and August, which is why the agenda was so packed. That's irked some council members and critics, who argue Council should be in session for more of the summer.
"Council has no shortage of issues to consider and challenges to address — this should NOT be our only Council meeting of the summer," tweeted Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld during today's meeting.
Council is scheduled to meet again on Sept. 11.
Mayor Mark Mallory and other community officials today jumpstarted a six-month effort to enroll uninsured Cincinnatians into the Affordable Care Act's ("Obamacare") online marketplaces, which open for enrollment on Oct. 1.
"This is not politics," Mallory said. "Obamacare is now the law of the land."
The goal is to reach out to the 21 percent of Hamilton County residents who currently lack health insurance and hopefully help enroll them through the marketplaces, which will allow anyone to go online and browse and compare different health insurance plans.
Forty-six plans will open for enrollment in Cincinnati on Oct. 1, but coverage won't begin until 2014. The three-month period is supposed to give consumers enough time to decide on a plan before insurance kicks in.
"A new day is starting tomorrow for millions of Americans who have been shut out of the health insurance market," said Kathleen Faulk, a director at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services who will oversee the Cincinnati area's marketplace.
At the marketplaces, an Ohio 27-year-old making $25,000 a year will be able to buy a "silver," or middle-of-the-pack, plan for as low as $145 a month after tax credits, while a family of four making $50,000 a year will be able to pay $282 a month for a similar plan, according to Congressional Budget Office numbers. Other options will range from catastrophic plans, which will cover the barest minimums for a low price, to "platinum" plans, which will provide the most expansive coverage at the highest price.
Participants with an annual income between 100 percent and 400 percent of the federal poverty level, or individuals making between $11,490 and $45,960, will be eligible for tax subsidies, with the highest incomes getting the smallest subsidies and the lowest incomes getting the largest.
Throughout the enrollment period, outreach campaigns will attempt to enroll as many Americans as possible. Some of those efforts have been made more difficult through new regulations passed by legislators who oppose Obamacare, including Ohio Republicans.
The federal government estimates it will have to sign up 2.7 million young adults out of the 7 million Americans who are expected to enroll. Otherwise, older Americans, who are more prone to sickness and poor health, will flood the marketplaces, exhaust health services and drive up costs.
Enrollment will remain open from October through March. Afterward, enrollment will open annually from Oct. 15 to Dec. 7, just like Medicare. There will be exemptions for those who have life-changing events, such as losing a job or turning 26, to allow people to sign up for coverage during unexpected circumstances.
Starting in 2014, most Americans — with exemptions for religious and
economic reasons, the imprisoned and those living outside the country — will have to enroll for health insurance or pay a tax penalty. The penalty will start at $95 per uninsured adult in a household or 1 percent of household income, whichever is higher, and grow in 2016 to $695 per uninsured adult in a household or 2.5 percent of household income, whichever is higher.
Anyone interested in the marketplaces will be able to browse options and sign up online at www.healthcare.gov or www.mayormallory.com, by phone at 1-800-318-2596 or in person at various locations, including community health centers and the Freestore Foodbank.
Update: Clarified metal-based classifications for different health care plans.
John Cranley is calling for the city to halt progress on the streetcar after a report from The Cincinnati Enquirer revealed the city's construction bids are $26 million to $43 million over budget. City Manager Milton Dohoney says the city might throw out the bids and start the bidding process again, but no final decision has been made yet. But Cranley argues the city has no leverage over bidders because it already bought the streetcars. In CityBeat's in-depth look at the streetcar, Meg Olberding, city spokesperson, said the cars had to be bought early so they can be built, tested and burned into the tracks while giving staff enough time to get trained — a process that could take as long as two and a half years. The city also cautions that sorting through the bids will take a few more weeks.
The Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority (SORTA) landed a $2.5 million grant to purchase seven new buses. U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, an Ohio Democrat, yesterday announced SORTA had won the competitive grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation. The new buses will replace old ones that are no longer good for service.The Horseshoe Casino got approval from the state yesterday despite fears of bankruptcy surrounding the casino's parent company. As a precaution, the Ohio Casino Control Commission is requiring Caesar's, the troubled company, to undergo annual financial reviews and notify the commission of any major financial plans, including any intent to file bankruptcy. Caesar's is currently $22 billion in debt.
Ohio legislators have a lot of questions about Gov. John Kasich's new school funding formula. Kasich claims his formula levels the playing field between poor and wealthy schools, but Rep. Ryan Smith, a Republican, pointed out his poor Appalachian district is getting no money under the formula, while the suburban, well-off Olentangy Schools are getting a 300 percent increase. In a previous glimpse at the numbers for Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS), CityBeat found the funding increases aren't enough to make up for past cuts — largely because of the phaseout of tangible personal property reimbursements.
Another report found low-performing schools could be forced to outsource teaching. The new policy has aggravated some local officials.
Kasich's budget will apparently benefit the state's mentally ill and addicted. Mental health advocates said the budget will expand treatment, housing and other services. Most of the benefits will come from the Medicaid expansion.
CPS says it will not lose any funding over the state auditor's attendance scrubbing report. The report, released Tuesday, found CPS had been scrubbing attendance data, but the school district claims errors were not intentional.
Hamilton County Board of Commissioners President Chris Monzel will give the State of the County address later today.
Ohio Third Frontier approved $3.6 million in new funds to support Ohio innovation. About $200,000 is going to Main Street Ventures, a Cincinnati-based startup accelerator.
Cincinnati Art Museum named an interim curator: Cynthia Amneus.
Covington is getting a new city hall.
New evidence shows lab testing on mice may not be helpful for humans. Apparently, mice and human genes are too different for treatments to be comparable.
Early reports from the Hamilton County Board of Elections indicate Election Day is proceeding with minimal problems and voter turnout is considerably better than it was for the Sept. 10 mayoral primary.
"There's always bumps in every election … but nothing highly unusual," says Sally Krisel, deputy director of the board of elections.
Countywide voter turnout was estimated at 20 percent around noon, with turnout in Cincinnati stronger than the rest of the county, according to Krisel. But she cautions that the numbers are still unclear and could completely change, particularly after work hours.
Turnout is particularly strong in wards one, four and five, according to Krisel. That could be good news for mayoral candidate John Cranley, who handily won all three wards in the primary against opponents Roxanne Qualls, Jim Berns and Sandra "Queen" Noble.
But since citywide voter turnout was an abysmal 5.74 percent in the
primary election, it remains uncertain how much primary results will
ultimately reflect on Tuesday's election. Historically, Cincinnati's mayoral primaries failed to predict the winner of the general election.
Cranley obtained nearly 56 percent of the vote on Sept. 10, while Qualls got slightly more than 37 percent. Both candidates received enough support to advance to Tuesday's ballot, but the Qualls campaign acknowledged the lopsided results were disappointing.
To obtain the Election Day numbers, the county is for the first time tracking ballot usage. Krisel says the measure allows the county to gauge countywide voter turnout and whether more ballots are needed in different voting locations.
Tuesday's votes come in addition to 20,500 absentee and early voters across the county, about 90 percent of who already submitted ballots to the board of elections. Krisel claims that's about half the amount of early voters from two years ago, but she says she doesn't know whether that will reflect on the final turnout numbers.
The election is the first time Cincinnati voters will elect City Council members for four-year terms, which means Tuesday's results will effectively set the city's agenda for the next four years. Voters are also deciding on a new mayor, the Cincinnati Public Schools board, two property tax levies for the local library and zoo, and a proposal that would privatize Cincinnati's pension system for city employees.
Polls will remain open until 7:30 p.m. To find out where to vote, visit the board of elections website.
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Tim Tebow has hit a rough patch. After an offseason in which it seemed he would ascend to the starting job, he's plummeted down the Broncos' depth chart and currently finds himself behind Kyle Orton, Brady Quinn, and, impossibly, maybe even Adam Weber.
ESPN analyst Merril Hoge has been scathing in his criticism, and earlier in the week, CBS analyst Boomer Esiason spoke frankly about Tebow's prospects as an NFL quarterback. "He can't play. He can't throw," Esiason said, according to USAToday.com. "I'm not here to insult him. The reality is he was a great college football player, maybe the greatest college football player of his time. But he's not an NFL quarterback right now. Just because he's God-fearing, and a great person off the field, and was a winner with the team that had the best athletes in college football, doesn't mean his game is going to translate to the NFL."
An unofficial Broncos PR campaign on Tebow's behalf followed, and talk of the 2010 first-round pick getting cut or traded has since subsided.
Earlier this month, Broncos Executive VP of Football Operations John Elway told ESPN, "[Tebow's] a great young man who is really working hard. But he didn't get an offseason to work on [playing from the pocket]. He didn't get much of that in college. And it's a completely different thing than the shotgun. Plus, he's only had the one season. But he's an amazing football player. I'd never give up on Tim Tebow."
At the time it sounded like a pretty crappy consolation prize for Tebow, who weeks before figured to open the season under center. But there's a very real chance that 2012 could provide Tebow with an opportunity to win quarterback job.
The nuts and bolts: Tebow is the only Broncos' quarterback under contract beyond 2011. In fact, he just cashed a $6 million bonus check from the organization so it's unlikely he'll be anywhere but Denver for the foreseeable future. Also helping his case for the starting gig, as explained by the Denver Post's Jeff Legwold:
"Failing to convince Orton to redo his current deal was one of the reasons a trade with the Dolphins fell through. Quinn is in the last year of the contract he signed as a rookie with Cleveland, and with his improved play he is itching for a chance to be a starter.
"Orton and Quinn are relatively young, with a chance to go into the open market in 2012. They would need pretty compelling reasons to pass up that potential financial windfall, which means the Broncos would likely have to dangle more-than-market value to them before that. That doesn't seem likely given the team's controlled approach in free agency. … The Broncos appear to be positioning themselves to let him learn this season and see what they can do with him in an offseason that doesn't include a lockout."
This means that our Tebow Tracker wasn't in vain, and more generally, the Broncos have every intention of bringing him along slowly and giving him an opportunity to be Denver's franchise quarterback. It's just not happening this year, which is for the best. Orton is clearly the better quarterback, and Tebow doesn't appear ready for full-time duty. If Philip Rivers can sit on the bench for two years, so can Tim.
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If you buy only one hip-hop album this year, I'm guessing it'll be Camp. The album maintains some of the overweening humor of Donald Glover's sitcom "Community", but Glover's exaggerated, cartoonish flow and overblown pop-rap production are enough to make Camp one of the most uniquely unlikable rap records of this year (and most others). What's worse is how he uses heavy topics like race, masculinity, relationships, street cred, and "real hip-hop" as props to construct a false outsider persona. On record, he paints himself as a misunderstood victim of cultural preconceptions who is obviously smarter and funnier than his primetime material suggests. Unfortunately, it's a position that holds up to absolutely no scrutiny whatsoever.
Glover's not doing himself any favors with a rap handle taken from the Wu-Tang Name Generator, but that'd be easy to overlook if Camp functioned as anything more than a series of similar one-note gags. On a song-by-song basis, he scripts a slightly off-brand, fictional version of Kanye West being played for laughs. We could talk about Glover's bloodlines all day, but Childish Gambino's paternity test traces straight back to "All Falls Down". "You See Me" reimagines "Niggas in Paris" as a meme cemetery, with Glover painfully leaning into herniated punchlines like, "She's an overachiever/ All she does is suck seed." (Or maybe "Asian girls everywhere... UCLA!" will eventually end up on a T-shirt.) The bottle-service electro of "Heartbeat" could have been the 10th-funniest song on 808s & Heartbreak-- somewhere between "The Coldest Winter" and "Love Lockdown"-- and it's actually trying for laughs. A few of Camp's tracks focus on more inspirational topics than "making up for the fucks I missed in high school," but they usually emulate "Jesus Walks", or when trying to be slightly more humble,"Get By". And any shred of relatability Glover establishes by reminiscing about sinkbaths with his cousin, or trying to fit into the white school his parents busted their asses to send him to, are cancelled out by R&B hooks so garish and impersonal they make Lupe Fiasco's Lasers sound dignified.
Supporters may rush to praise Glover as a "multi-talent" due to Camp's self-production, but his cratedigging begins with The College Dropout and ends with My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, all of it Blingee'd up with assistance from "Community" composer Ludwig Goransson. Yes, that's a lot of Yeezy talk, but the most insidious aspect of Camp is how Glover operates from a pre-Kanye inferiority complex where he senses that any dismissal of his music stems from gangsta rap still being the predominant aesthetic version of hip-hop (never mind that the most commercially relevant guy who can be feasibly be called "gangsta rap" right now is Rick Ross, and even he's widely beloved on account of being an acknowledged pathological liar). This much is obvious from the tone-deaf "All of the Shine," and especially "Backpackers", a preemptive strike at his always-male, usually educated haters. Note how its title co-opts the one epithet more outdated than "hipster" in rap music circa 2011.
Glover isn't strictly a comedy rapper, but he flows like a comic actor: When he's trying to be playful, his voice hitches in a pubescent squeak, and when he "goes in," he's still delivering one room-clearing punchline after another with the earnestness of the most confused Rhymesayers guy ever. At the very least, Camp can serve as hashtag rap's tombstone, and I'll just present some choice quotes without comment so you can decide for yourself: "I made the beat and murdered it, Casey Anthony," "You can kiss my ass, Human Centipede," "I got a girl on my arm, dude show respect/ Something crazy and Asian, Virginia Tech."
Every attempt Glover makes to present himself as an inside operative confounding stereotypes about mainstream rap rings totally false. In "Fire Fly", he brags about the ease of scoring college gigs and college girls (while rhyming "LSU" with "molest you") and then complains: "No live shows because I can't find sponsors/ For the only black guy at a Sufjan concert." Bullshit. OK, look: I realize that there's a chance some kid will hear that line and feel validated, and you know, the last thing we need is an armchair cracker like myself relating contrary anecdotal evidence about the demographics at Sufjan Stevens' last concert. So let's just look at the facts: Jay-Z and Beyoncé could be seen at Grizzly Bear shows in 2009, Justin Vernon has a free pass to jump on any track he chooses, and producers spent the year sampling Beach House, the xx, and Tame Impala. How does Glover explain Drake? Is he "crazy or hood," or just a half-Jewish, former child actor from Toronto who's already sold 600,000 copies of Take Care while signed to Lil Wayne's record label? I mean, sub-major hip-hop isn't a post-cred, post-racial utopia by any means, but I can't think of another time when there were more options for listeners of just about any race or background seeking to identify with rappers on a non-allegorical level. I just have to assume Glover has completely ignored the success of Lil B, Main Attrakionz, Curren$y, Kendrick Lamar, Odd Future, Danny Brown, and especially Das Racist when he meekly moans, "Is there room in the game for a lame that rhymes/ And wears short shorts and tells jokes sometimes?" It's the perfect summation of Camp: preposterously self-obsessed, but not the least bit self-aware. Tell me that ain't insecure.
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