natininja

You can find pretty much any shapefile you want online, but not all in the same place. Google around. Neighborhood boundaries you may need to get from the DAAP folder. To get you started, look here: http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/geo/shapefiles2010/main

They are DC.

^^ Beats the pants off Hartwell, that's for sure. Outer-ring counts, but much less than center city. ^ Bury the utilities, fix the paving, maybe fill in a couple missing teeth, Cincy wins hands down.

The Avengers rock, and I like the more light-hearted aspect to Marvel. I want fantasy worlds to be fun, the real world is dark enough. Justice League is a joke. I agree the ending was too sunny for consistency with the mood of the series. Anyone who thinks Alfred was dreaming is looking too far into things, they obviously meant for him to be alive given the auto-pilot stuff. Typical Hollywood -- wrap it up with a bow and hint at a sequel to come.

I know you are joking, but no one is saying Paris isn't more culturally rich. We've been talking about physical attributes.

I got free tickets, so I went. Good movie, but I prefer the Marvel Universe.

I lived in Europe for a few years, and I agree with City Blights. Cincinnati compares favorably to the beautiful capitals there, aesthetically. I find Paris architecturally boring. I admit I haven't been to London. But we don't have to agree on London and Paris, as there are many other capital cities. Ohio didn't have to be part of the beginning of the manufacturing age in order to be born of it. In fact, if it had existed first, it would be less an artifact of the era. I agree wholeheartedly that Cincinnati boomed in the absolute sweetest spot for architectural style. Ornate but not wedding cake-y. Charming and pretty but rugged. "Royal" but democratic - unlike cathedrals. Paris is too understated, with repetitive and boring pastel stucco. Prague is too overstated, every facade a wedding cake. Cincinnati is Queen Goldilocks. Then there's this thing called topography...

Rob, that is one hell of a domain squat you have there. I expected little more than a placeholder page, from the way you described it. But you have a lot of content (photos) up on there. I'm guessing the interest is lower than for Urban Ohio because Indiana has fewer major metros.

The picture isn't from 1890! :D And not of a streetcar from 1890 either!

Details? How was it?

Lager House, butterfly show if it's still going on, sign museum,omnimax if something good is playing, maybe one of the heritage tours depending on how patient the 8 year old is. Plot out an urban hike using some of the city steps if it is not too hot. Mount Adams is good for that, but there are other options, too.

They emailed each other about how they would wait-see and the one guy said he was worried that might turn out to be problematic, even though he agreed it's what they would do. Basically they agreed to protect sandusky. That doesn't let JoePa off the hook though. It wasn't a professional responsibility to see to it that Sandusky was held responsible by his superiors. This want a matter where protocol would be to handle it internally. Anyone with knowledge of the situation had an obligation to go to higher authority than the school administration to see to it that these kids were protected. In this situation, the school administrators were not the proper authority for JoePa to appeal to, in fact they were not authorities at all in that they had no real power over Sandusky's behavior. It was not school rules being broken but civil laws. JoePa passed the buck and pretended to have clean hands.

^ BS. If you want to be cynical but realistic, the NCAA and B1G wanted to clear their own names by making it clear they would not tolerate this behavior. They see the blame creeping up the chain of command and they aren't willing to accept any criticism.

Bottom line is, a precedent has been set and people will think twice now before overlooking child (sex) abuse. This has ramifications beyond the NCAA. Children (and adults who were once children) will be saved a lot of torment because of these harsh penalties. Too bad the Catholic Church will likely never get its comeuppance for far worse, and more systematic, complicity than Paterno and PSU ever committed.

^^ Yes, it is curious. Good for Cleveland!

^ You said Kaldi's is "now a storefront or something" and OTR clarified that it is Park + Vine's space. It is interesting to compare Main Street of 12 years ago to Main Street today, though I think they are two very different animals. It's nice to have Park + Vine and Shadeau Bread instead of two more bars, for example. (I know Kaldi's wasn't a bar.)

I think it is worth noting that the highest ranking public high school in Ohio is Walnut Hills in Cincinnati. Yes, there is a test to get in, but it's just to make sure a student is functioning at grade level. It has a diverse student body, lots of lower income and minority students, and yet it rocks not only the wealthy suburban districts, but also Cleveland and Columbus schools which have a larger pool of students from which to pull good students, so it's not just a numbers game (an argument made by many a suburbanite in Enquirer comments sections). Not that I think this model could be repeated for all inner city districts in the city or the state, but it is proof of principle for high functioning public schools which are not very selective.

What/where is Rhino's?

This discussion just goes to show how America really has no leftwing. So many "progressives" displaying open hostility to the underclass. I know, I know, it is hostility to criminals, not the underclass. That's fine, personal accountability is important and should not be undermined. Still, we should not pretend our society isn't responsible for cranking criminals out like a Ford factory, with cold indifference and absurd denial of responsibility and accountability.

You know what? I take that back, I realized I am just using the full version of the forum page, but thought it was a new mobile site because the skin is different than on my desktop. ;-) As a rule, I hate mobile sites. Maybe for a cellphone they are necessary, but on my 10-inch tablet, full sites work just fine.

I like the new mobile forum. A lot. Though a few days ago I tried the mobile version of the main site and it didn't work very well. In particular, browsing pictures was painfully slow. Worse than just browsing the full site on my tablet.

What styles were they reviving? I know the name italianate sounds derivative, but I thought it was its own thang. Of course, I'm no architectural historian. I guess Greek revival was reviving something Greek. What about second empire? Is that a revival of the first empire? :-P

There was a CET show on Music Hall on during the Reds game yesterday. I caught a few minutes of it but ultimately watched the horrible game instead. Apparently MH was essentially the convention center for many years and had all kinds of crazy shows. People had model homes built in MH and shipped elsewhere in the city...lots of weirdness.

More misinformation. Pathetic.

Agreed. We should pick a GBV song for State Rock Song, like Oklahoma did with "Do You Realize" by the Flaming Lips. What to pick, what to pick...