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Security cameras have come a long way - I think a lot of vandalism should be able to be detected by the car and flagged automatically. A few cameras in each car (I imagine they would have these, anyway) could cover most angles and software could detect changes and identify what the change is. If someone gets out of the car and leaves their phone or wallet behind on the seat, software can recognize the pixels look different than what an empty seat should look like and raise a flag. With enough practice, software can start to make an accurate assumption as to what the difference is - a phone looks visibly different than a pile of vomit, for example. So in the event you leave your phone behind, the car would recognize it as soon as you stepped out, roll the window down, and in a robot voice say "taestell, I believe you forgot your phone."

^ It jumped up from $2 (which is what the price had been for as long as I can remember) to $4 2 or 3 years ago. $6 is nuts. I used to go on my lunch break every now and then because it was a cheap way to kill 10 minutes or so. I found out about the $4 price tag after having gone all the way up to the little desk on the roof - I turned around and left.

^ I've never understood the hype about the Eagle. I had it once and found it to be pretty average fried chicken. I'd like to subject anyone who raves about it to a blind taste test - Richie's, Ron's Roost, let's even throw the Corryville Kroger and Tina's by the Shell on Liberty in there, and see who comes out on top. My money wouldn't be on Eagle.

When the lease is up, the Bengals need a corporate sponsor for the stadium. I think they're one of 6 or so NFL teams who do not sell the naming rights/branding at their stadium. Some of the more recent naming rights deals have price tags around $10,000,000 a year. That would fund a significant portion of any upgrades that may be needed.

At first glance, a normal ranch in Wyoming: https://www.coldwellbankerhomes.com/oh/wyoming/555-compton-rd/pid_26460332/

I almost bought that a few years ago. I came across this blog post about it: http://www.diggingcincinnati.com/2012/03/blue-house-on-west-clifton.html Still no clues as to why it's so far back from the street. My guess is that it was the first building there, they wanted a front yard instead of a back yard, and no one else followed suit. That or they owned all the adjacent parcels and sold them off a few years after they built the house.

^ It's a good pricing strategy for people who use RedBike all the time, but for the casual rider the fares aren't great. I'd probably use it a few times a month if I could get a 30 or 60 minute ride for $1 or $2. Whenever I have the need for something like RedBike, I generally just have a spur of the moment need to go from point A to point B - I don't want a day pass, and I'm not going to pay $8 for a single short trip. If RedBike did start to drop their price to compete with the scooters, I'd probably use them instead of Bird because generally people look goofy on scooters.

^^ I think our sign laws are decidedly antagonistic to the historic character of Cincinnati. Here's 5th Street (perhaps, at the time, a "complete street?") looking north in 1907. Some of these signs are 20+ feet long. Compare them to the tiny signs currently required by code:

The court ruled in Deters favor, so tent cities are effectively banned county-wide. I've already seen local media and other dweebs on social media start to refer to this as a "homeless ban" so I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up being national news within a few days. The Vox's and Huffington Post's of the world love these kinds of stories.

Deters is finally looking to get rid of the tent-city enforcement boundaries and extend the ability to shut down the camps to the entire county: Deters wants homeless ban for all of Hamilton County: 'They need to go to shelters' https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2018/08/09/homeless-ban-deters-wants-extended-all-hamilton-county/947325002/

How many of those 68 are in Ohio? And how many of those are essentially on par with OH12? Also, why'd you stop quoting my post at that spot? Was it to purposely remove context in order to make it seem like I wasn't specifically talking about seats in Ohio?

Results aside, I'm reading that this election is meaningless - the two candidates will face off again in the fall???? Did I read that correctly? Yeah, kind of absurd. It'll be interesting to see if the Green Party leaves it alone or not. Haha...yeah right. The Green Party will go in harder. I know I'm planning to write Joe Manchik a check: Green party spoiler candidate in Ohio election whose 1,100 votes could tilt outcome says his ancestors were from another planet and can't remember his own campaign website address http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6039535/Ohio-Green-Party-spoiler-candidate-remember-campaign-website.html Joe Manchik played spoiler Tuesday in Ohio, taking nearly enough votes in from the Democrat in a special election to trigger a statewide automatic recount The native of Hell, Michigan says his ancestors came from a distant planet and couldn't remember his own website address during an interview this year He claims marijuana is the solution to opioid addiction and says he speaks 19 languages including 'Spanglish' and 'Sheet Music' Calls Israel's prime minister a 'war criminal' and says every American should be required to grow hemp

^ Deters went back to the court yesterday and extended the "no-tent zone" from the Ohio River to the Norwood Lateral, between 71 and 75. The first time I heard that I thought it was a joke because the border seems so arbitrary. So far I don't think the police have taken down the encampments, though - per the Enquirer: "As of 9:45 a.m., tents were still up on Central Parkway and no police or sheriff's personnel were seen." https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2018/08/08/cincinnati-homeless-camp-jack-casino-move-police/928408002/

I don't think it's meaningless - it's a preview of November in Ohio. This was supposed to be the first appearance of the "blue wave" here, and it's didn't materialize. Democrats will face similar challenges in Ohio's other Republican districts - they might get a bit of a bump and chip away at Trump's margin of victory, but not enough to flip the seats. It was +12 Republican district. It's been Republican for 35 years. Now it's a toss up. That says something. Yeah, it says " they might get a bit of a bump and chip away at Trump's margin of victory, but not enough to flip the seats." If Democrats couldn't flip this seat in Ohio, what seats do you think they will flip? Most of Ohio's Republican-held districts had similarly large double-digit margins in 2016. Democrats won't have the resources to flood them all in November like they flooded this one. I'm genuinely not worried about Ohio. Nationally, based on historical trends, I'd expect Republicans to lose a few seats but I'm not all that concerned about it. The Senate almost certainly won't flip.

I don't think it's meaningless - it's a preview of November in Ohio. This was supposed to be the first appearance of the "blue wave" here, and it's didn't materialize. Democrats will face similar challenges in Ohio's other Republican districts - they might get a bit of a bump and chip away at Trump's margin of victory, but not enough to flip the seats.

Honestly - I'm a bit surprised how far to the left side of the political spectrum WWE skews. I'm not sure, yet, what to make of it.

So long as the city is only allowed to enforce the law in certain, specific areas, the camps will continue to relocate. The problem will perpetually be moved like a big game of whack-a-mole, and the Josh Spring's of the world will always be there to make sure the problem moves from one in-your-face location to another.

^ The Cincinnati metropolitan statistical area, roughly the area served/represented by the Enquirer, trends about 60-40% Republican over the last few presidential elections. I wouldn't be surprised if the segment of the population that routinely reads the sports page is farther right than that, but I don't have the data to back it up.

^ They have to give 72 hour notice before they clear out the camps, the problem is they give the notice but don't go through with clearing out out the camps - they just clean up and let everyone come back. The camp is already set up again, hours after the alleged deadline. This doesn't frustrate the campers, it's more like complimentary maid services. After the initial notice, the city should be able to remove tents at will indefinitely.

The 72 hour notices are pretty pointless because when the clock winds down, all that happens is the city comes in, picks up trash, and pressure washes the sidewalks. They don't stick around to monitor the area and keep people from simply moving back in, so the tents are put back up almost immediately. This happened a few times at the Plum Street underpass before the city finally put up the fence to keep people out - a strategy that won't work on 3rd, and probably won't work long term for the underpass as I'm sure the Bengals will want it open when the season starts. Unless the city is willing to ticket/arrest people who set up camps on public rights of way, the camps aren't going anywhere.

While googling "hand foot and mouth disease" for my previous post, I found this: (!) http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/24247119/ja-happ-new-york-yankees-diagnosed-hand-foot-mouth-disease I heard that on the radio today. I didn't even know adults could get hand, foot, and mouth disease. The only two adults I've ever heard of having it just so happen to both be MLB players in NYC and they got it days apart. Incredibly bizarre.

Maybe I'll be proven wrong: Mayor calls downtown homeless camps unacceptable, says they must go https://www.wlwt.com/article/mayor-calls-downtown-homeless-camps-unacceptable-says-they-must-go/22596008 CINCINNATI — Cincinnati's mayor said Monday that the homeless tents along Third Street and under an overpass near US Bank Arena must be removed. John Cranley characterized it as a public health issue. As the homeless along Third Street dug in, resolving anew to stay put, Cranley minced no words about why the tents will have to go. "It's a public health hazard for the people living there and for the city as a whole," he said. "So, I find them to be totally unacceptable."

A house has since been built on Klotter where those steps (Manchester Ave) connected, however a house was torn down long ago directly south of where Stratford terminates at Klotter, so new steps could be build connecting Stratford down to Renner. The steps from Klotter to Ravine were removed not all that long ago - I believe it was in the 90s, after a crime spree during which suspects frequently fled down them after robbing cars and homes on Klotter.

After much delay and procrastination, the Plum Street Underpass tent city was expeditiously removed mere days before the start of Bengals training camp and the Cincinnati Music Festival. I imagine the same fate will be faced by the rest of the 3rd street bum camp prior to Oktoberfest. Oktoberfest vendors will have permits to use the space and the city will be obligated to turn over a clean and empty street. I just don't expect the city to do much about it until they're facing an immediate deadline. A few months after Oktoberfest, temperatures will get cold and the vast majority of the "residents" will no longer have the desire to camp out on the street as they'll make their way to any of the plentiful shelters nearby. Then we can repeat it all over again in the spring when Taste of Cincinnati is on the horizon.

Staggered terms seems like a terrible idea. We'd end up with a group of 4 and a group of 5 that are composed of people who are essentially the same. The result would be no different than simply reducing City Council to 5 seats.