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^ Many of these chains are using metal panels. They get cheap rates on the material and installation because they make deals with suppliers to roll out the upgrades to large numbers of stores at a time. In some retrofits they actually just plop the metal panels and aluminum framing directly atop the existing walls. With EIFS they'd have to worry about drainage and use several different subcontractors for framing, waterproofings, EIFS, etc. The metal panel installers can show up and retrofit a store in a couple weeks, with minimal coordination with other trades. http://www.ccsimagegroup.com/portfolio-item/wendys-ultra-modern-new-build/

It sounds like they're just stalling for the meeting, which could be for one of two reasons - UC is in, or they aren't. I'm sure the records the Enquirer wants will end up in their inbox the day after an announcement is made.

They probably just doomed any hope he had left.

It looks like they were notified of the failed inspections a month ago, and didn't make the fixes within 30 days. If the guy did the wiring himself, there might be plenty of mistakes, or he did something like put up the drywall before he had the inspections done, in which case he'll have to remove all of it. It could also be that he used a crappy electrician who is refusing to come out and fix his mistakes. That's why most subcontractors don't get paid in full until inspections are passed. Though in general, failing an electrical inspection when the renovation is done is odd. Usually the electrical is passed, or at least partially completed, well in advance of the final building inspection. It also looks like it was a two family before - if he went from two meters down to one it could have gotten messy.

^ The Business Courier may have updated the article, but it states that Diamond said he is still the owner despite the transfer to the LLC (it must be his LLC). If there were a "Law and Order: Code Enforcement" show this would be a perfect case for it. It could be an illegal construction accident, but both the owner (Diamond) and the adjacent property owner (Kulkarni) have good reasons to want the building gone. Kulkarni also has enough knowledge to know that the building can bypass any reviews if it needs an emergency demolition, and he knows what leads to emergency demolitions. Diamond could want to get rid of the building and sell to Kulkarni to settle the lawsuit about falling debris, something he is now at fault for since his earlier lawsuit against Kulkarni awarded gim $65k that was supposed to be spent to stabalize the exterior wall of his building, but wasn't.

^ Your comment about energy savings alludes to the boxy aesthetic jmecklenborg mentioned above. Buildings went from having attractive thin cladding, often with single plane glass and aluminum, and steel and concrete that spanned from the interior to the exterior without any thermal breaks, to big boxy framed areas with several inches of insulation, and a skin that was completely separate from the interior. The ability to have a very simple envelope with a thin skin is what helped make many early Modern buildings attractive. The technology and focus on energy efficiency quickly outpaced design styles, which is why a lot of the later buildings that tried to have the same look as stuff from the 50s and 60s looked ugly. I can see why people would think the original Kroger cladding is ugly - one of the reasons I like it is that it's different. The Kroger Building cladding of today makes it look too generic. It looks like the Macy's building down the street, and thousands of other buildings all over the world.

The Kroger Building, with that pastel curtain wall, and the 5/3 Building, before they put the big logo on top, were so much nicer looking in the 70s and 80s. They were good examples of Modernism, Kroger in particular reminded me of Lever House: Now they are both very generic looking.

"'I just, I can’t,' she said." She was so close to unintentionally using a meme, one that is stereotypical of the exact type of girl I imagine she is: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-cant-even

^ I do something similar with my money via an Excel spreadsheet that I've had and continually used since the late 90s when I got my first bank account as a teenager. Virtually every dollar I've ever made or spent in my life is in that spreadsheet, and I use it to budget in a similar manner to the app you described. If I spent a little bit of time to format the earliest years to match how I have been doing it for the past decade, I could create a bar chart categorizing every expense I've ever had.

This is exactly what I do with my credit card. Pretty much every dollar I spend is via credit card, and it is paid off in full every month. You can make use of credit cards in a way that ultimately results in the credit card companies paying you to use their card. Every couple of months I cash out my points for something like Home Depot gift cards.

I found this really put Cranley's view into perspective: "Even Councilman Charlie Winburn, a Republican and staunch mayoral ally, called out Cranley in a letter. 'This 2017 collection estimate cannot be legitimately portrayed as a property tax increase,' Winburn wrote."

You can't have family values if you don't make a big family. Praying and going to church is what causes the kids, just ask my grandparents - the Catholic Church is the reason I had 21 aunts and uncles at the peak.

At least there would be minimal utility relocation along the route, given that most of it is on a bridge. The coordination and relocation of utilities seemed to be one of the major cost and schedule items for the first phase in Cincinnati.

^ That's a brazen, but incredibly clever strategy.

Cooperstown could learn a lesson from this: http://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/2016/01/19/reds-induct-pete-rose-into-hall-fame/78993684/

A team called the "Bengals" after the tiger that shares the same name has every logical reason to use orange, though. It's not so much a copy as it is something that made perfect sense. What's weird is that a team called the "Browns" uses the color orange as their primary color, instead of brown.

^ Would the trouble with soccer be attracting new fans at the new location? If a Cincinnati sports team were to move, I certainly wouldn't continue being a fan of them, I'd just let the NFL drop out of my life much like other sports that don't have teams here (NBA and NHL), which is what I imagine the vast majority of fans would do. Perhaps the markets in the US are big enough that attracting new fans isn't a problem? I can't imagine the Rams will have much trouble seeing as how they have about 18 million people in LA as potential fans.

I poured through the NFL rule book and have no idea where Florio is getting his understanding from. It would be far from unprecedented if he were just talking out of his ass. I posted the rule above. The reference to incidental contact is exactly that - contact that isn't on purpose. Shazier clearly lowered his head, looked straight down at the grass, and led with it directly into Bernard. Florio either didn't review the rules before writing his blog post, or he is confusing several rules. The post above this one links to a far better summary.

Claiming a rule is hard to officiate is just an excuse for not enforcing said rule when it should have been enforced. Florio's explanation is about how Bernard wasn't defenseless - no one is claiming he was, and that's a different rule. The entire rule I'm referencing is posted above, I don't see any exceptions in the rule book for "bang-bang" situations, which seems to just be an allusion to an excuse for not calling a penalty because it happened too fast for an official to register. However anyone looks at it, my point is that the NFL either needs to get serious about it or admit they don't care and relax the rules. When it's written and enforced in such an incompetent way fans feel alienated. Unfortunately, no Ohio team is a big enough market for the NFL to care, but if this were a Pittsburgh v. New England game we'd never hear the end of it.

Hue will probably trade for AJ McCarron, have a poor season, get fired, and come back the the Bengals.

If you made a tackle with your head down like Shazier did when I played in high school, you had to run laps after film. You got a star on your helmet for a hit like Burfict delivered. The rule regarding leading with the helmet is in my post above. I don't see any way someone can read that rule, watch the gif on the previous page, and make any logical argument that it shouldn't have been a penalty. Aside from offsides, false starts, and a handful of other penalties, this one is probably the most clear cut and obvious.

The rule about leading with the crown of the helmet applies to runners, if it's not often called it's because it's another example of inconsistency among NFL officials. Your NCAA example is a good point, and further shows that the NFL doesn't really care about injuries, they just want to appear to care - Shazier would have been automatically ejected for that hit in the NCAA. That's the entire rule - compare it to the page and a half of 8 point font that is the "defenseless posture" rule, and it puts some of the anger here in context.

The penalty on Burfict is one of the more complex articles in the NFL Rulebook and whether the flag should have been thrown is debatable. Initiating contact with the crown of the helmet as Shazier did is one of the simplest, most concise rules. If a player initiates contact with the top of the helmet outside of the tackle box, it's a penalty every time. It was a horrible no call, exacerbated by the fact that it was blatantly obvious during the challenge replay. The NFL should revisit their rules - when a turnover is caused by an obvious concussion causing illegal hit, and the challenge replay clearly shows it, there should be some recourse. If not, the NFL should just drop the entire concussion protocol and all penalties crafted around it.

Hopefully Burfict's appeal gets the suspension down to one game, at most. The entire act by the NFL is just another example of their pretend concern for player safety. They don't really care, but that was one of the most watched games of the year so they had to appear to care. Meanwhile, there are a lot of Steeler fans and the NFL doesn't want to piss all of them off and affect a playoff game so no Steeler is going to be suspended. At least they had some key injuries, though. If Shadow Hare were dedicated to fighting evil, he'd get to Pittsburgh and leave a flaming bag of poop on Joey Porter's doorstep, and release a bunch of mice and cockroaches in Martino's on Short Vine.

The Bengals aren't going anywhere, at least for another 20-30 years when they demand a Paul Brown Stadium replacement. But by that point it might be paid off, so people will probably vote to build a new one. Next year will be the first year since I was preschool aged that I won't watch Bengals games, though. I'll listen to the radio while getting other tasks and chores done. It's no fault of the Bengals, just disgust with the hypocrisy of the NFL, classlessness of the fans, and the joke that officiating has become over the last 3 seasons. Listening to Dan Hoard and Dave Lapham has become more interesting than watching the games.