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^If UC gets an invite to the Big 12 later this year, which is seeming increasingly likely, they will likely add even more capacity to Nippert in the next decade. Right now it works for FC Cincinnati because even with the top stands closed off, it still has an intimate feel. I'm not sure UC will be able to pull off the same intimate feel if they add another 10,000 seats or so - since up is really the only way they have to go to get in more seats.

^^ North Avondale and Clifton-Fairview are just lottery based now. They used to be first come first served, but that was unfair somehow, so the selection is now random. I think the testing requirements to get in were dropped years ago in a lawsuit but I could be mistaken. If I remember correctly, the test was somehow unfair, too. But yeah, school districts are the primary reason young professionals move out of the city. I've seen it happen a few times with friends. The fact that selection is random and you have to be lucky is what would scare me. If/when I have kids, I don't know if I'd be comfortable buying a house in CPS's district knowing where my kids go to school is left to chance and luck.

Winnipeg is similar, though it does not quite extend all the way out to it's boundaries. It seems to sprawl out in grid like chunks and then has a hard line where all development stops. I'm not sure if it was a legal growth boundary or just a de facto one. I do know that as soon as you got near the boundary, all the roads started to turn into mostly dirt and snow, or a frozen combination of the two.

^ I agree completely about fried wings. That is by far the best way to cook a wing. There are a few places in Cincinnati that smoke or grill wings, and they are also quite good. Whenever I cook wings at home I do it low and smokey on the grill. I marinate them in super spicy oil first so they don't need sauce, which I think actually makes them healthy to some extent. Normal fried wings, aside from being fried in oil, have buffalo sauce that is usually about 50% melted butter. Grilling them gets rid of a lot of those calories, but it is an entirely different flavor.

The proliferation of "boneless" wings AKA chicken nuggets means the language surrounding traditional chicken has been complicated. I hear "bone-in" fairly often, as well as the ridiculous jargon surrounding wing parts -- drums vs. slats, or whatever it is. The "bone-in" phrase is just so ridiculous, because it insinuates that the bones are inserted into boneless wings after having been removed by the same mysterious process that creates seedless watermelons, etc. I noticed once that Richie's charges a small fee if you want "peg legs only." I had never seen that terminology before. I always just used "wings" and "drumsticks" but I guess a lot of people use "wings" to refer to both types and had to make up another word for the actual wing portion of the extremity.

Popeye's closed a few urban stores in Cincinnati over the past few years, there are still a few urban KFC's left dotted around but their only customers are people who are not aware that Richie's Chicken exists.

According to the auditor images it was a KFC as recently as 2003. I think this image is posted in this thread somewhere already, actually:

On 7/19 they applied for a plumbing permit for the following: "commercial,Replace Fixtures - replacing existing stacks building is a mix use building 1st floor is a bar upper floors are apts" What's it smell like? It could be that the stacks are blocked so the sewers are backed up and festering in this nice 90+ degree, humid weather we've been having.

I think UC and BYU are in, if they go to 14 I think it becomes a bit of a crap shoot. I don't think they'd want Houston if for no reason than there's already so many Texas schools. Maybe Memphis? UCONN? USF, UCF, CSU could be on the table.

Clinton, Obama, etc. were all against gay marriage before they were for it. Ohio voted overwhelmingly to ban gay marriage back in 2005. The majority of people who are for it now were against it before they were for it. I don't think it's something that should be criticized, though I've always been opposed to using the "flip-flop" as a point of criticism, unless it can be used to demonstrate a clear pattern of pandering to populism, or worse, rich donors. This flip-flop on Portman's part was definitely not done for those reasons, but a personal reason, which is as good a reason as any.

More good news in terms of Big 12 Expansion, they are now actively and publicly reaching out to potential schools: Surprise! Big 12 takes sudden step toward expansion Sources on Twitter are saying Cincy is pretty much a lock, and the decision is whether to add 1 or 3 other teams.

^ What confused me is that they had St. Louis, and then Cahokia 100 years later. I suppose the mounds on the St. Louis side of the river are assumed to have been built prior to Cahokia.

^ Yeah, this is getting off topic for this thread, but the real solution for Terrace Plaza isn't to open it up like 580, but to reset it to its original setup which had a much better street level presence, and actually had second story windows on the northeast corner. Architects and other people on this board constantly look up as they're walking around and judge buildings but the truth is that most people walking around really only pay attention to street level unless there's something above that that is purposefully drawing their attention away. Get rid of the awful valet/parking area and get more glass and street level tenants and it'd be a fine building. The tricky part is finding a tenant for the base that doesn't need windows. Department stores worked perfectly when this was built, but there's no need for downtown department stores today. Find something that works in a downtown setting without windows and the whole problem is solved.

The process for getting a permit to do something like this isn't much different than the process to get any other building permit, as I understand it. This application should not only have to go through building department review (in my experience this usually takes around 3 weeks of sitting around in queue before it is even looked at), but also zoning and historic conservation. In theory, the historic reviewer could come back and deny the permit and say that this isn't a permissible way to temporarily secure a structure in Cincinnati. I haven't done any code research at all to see if this is allowed, or even addressed at all, though. An inspector could also show up Monday morning and tell them to take it down as the permit application hasn't been reviewed yet - though I'm sure Cranley would make sure that inspector would be out of a job by week's end so I wouldn't expect that to happen.

The city should have required they use a better looking tarp. I remember seeing one once that had a big printed image of the building it was covering up/.

It's like a poorly executed Christo. Tarps like that, when used during construction, typically don't last very long. They flap around a lot in the wind, even if properly secured, and eventually rip to shreds. The only times I've seen them last are when they are secured to scaffolding.

A possible tornado swept through Cincinnati, ripping off some rooftops, downing trees, and knocking power out all over the west side: http://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/hamilton-county/cincinnati/storm-leaves-widespread-damage-power-outages-behind My house is about a mile south of the major damage. It sits on what is basically a cliffside, facing to the south, with mostly glass on the south wall. I usually get exposed the brunt of storms as they tend to come from the southwest - this one came out of nowhere but wasn't all that bad (probably had 2 or 3 worse storms this year), so seeing this damage just a mile away was surprising.

Part of the problem with workplaces is that at any given time during regular business hours, most companies find that maybe 70% of the seats, at most, are being used. A lot of places are below 50%. Many people work remote, travel to meetings, work from home, etc. There are actually companies that use sensors in their seats, conference rooms, etc. to track utilization of their spaces, and if they never use more than half of their seats they downsize their building and get rid of half. They then get rid of the idea of a "permanent" desk. Everyone has to come in to work and find a place to sit, sort of like a high school cafeteria.

Facilitating commutation and cooperation is just what people are told is the motivation behind the open office setting, the real motivation is money. If you get a 4'-0" long sliver of desk with about 3'-0" behind you to move your chair around in, you only take up 20 square feet of space. If everyone gets a 6'-0" by 6'-0" cubicle that's almost double the amount of space per person. An 8-'0" by 10'-0" office is four times as much space. But as a side note, the trade off is usually adding some extra rooms a normal office wouldn't have - small 40 or 50 square foot rooms that just have a chair and table in them for people to make personal calls or make loud conference calls. If your office doesn't have some of those, it's a poor design.

I learned HTML in a computer class in 7th grade. We all learned it in a couple of weeks - it's really that easy to figure out. Most kids forgot it the second the class was over, like a lot of stuff in middle school, but I never let it go. In 8th grade I was given detention for a week for making satirical websites about different cliques - I think today this would be called cyber bullying. Anyway, CSS doesn't take much more effort - most everything you need to know is easily found via Google. That said, I stopped paying attention and keeping up with the times when optimization for mobile devices started. My website hasn't changed in years but it's basically a photo gallery so I think it holds its own. But if you get the basics of HTML, which in my opinion aren't much more difficult than formatting threads on this forum, and the basics of CSS, you understand the structure behind websites and templates and can customize them to make them your own.

^ Here's a map showing some of those earthworks (warning, it's a PDF): http://sandmancincinnati.com/images/Maps/Cincinnati/1800_1825/1815-Cincinnati.pdf I think they assumed that anyone with enough spare time and resources to build ornamental earthworks must have lived in cities of some sort. The Mississippian peoples would have been the reasons for St. Louis and Cahokia, and the Fort Ancient Civilization the reason for Cincinnati and Chilicothe.

I wonder if we will see a hipster resurgence of video tape rental stores like we have seen a resurgence in local beer, arcades, etc. Once these things disappear entirely the nostalgia sets in just a few years later. Luckily, I think I still have a VCR and one of those video tape reminders that looks like a car in my parents basement somewhere.

^ It's unfortunate they are tearing down a historic building to build these. Loveland has a good collection of nice old homes, but the downtown portion is fairly small - the building they are tearing down is probably one of the biggest building there: https://www.google.com/maps/@39.2663515,-84.2591057,3a,75y,68.09h,91.91t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sitFgCP2iW4BN1-s4WB8Bdw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 I don't think it's any further gone than buildings that are rehabbed in places like OTR, but I imagine the demand for that type of condo doesn't really exist in a suburban location.

I think a lot of offices like Auditor aren't really political. I wouldn't vote for an auditor based on whether they had a D or R next to their name, I'd vote for whichever one I thought would be the best auditor. Dusty is a real life version of the "Old man yells at cloud" Simpson's clip, but does anyone think he doesn't do a good job as auditor? Coroner, Engineer, etc. are all similar IMO. I don't think they should even show the party affiliation on the ballot, I just want to see a resume.

I've heard good things about Wix, as well. I also have a friend who swears by Hostmonster. I use GoDaddy because I got the first year during some type of sale, so it was cheapest then. Now I'm too lazy to move my website and it more than pays for itself with a couple of Google Ads, even though I'd make a few bucks more per year if I switched because it's a bit pricey. I don't use any templates or anything, I just code it myself and use Dreamweaver to manage it and upload it via FTP.