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This looks pretty amazing if they can pull it off. The largest religious memorial in the world, bigger than the pyramids and, like the pyramids, a tomb. http://www.thegreatcrossalliance.com/

There's an email here, from the first days of VBML http://lists.northside.net/pipermail/cpop/2006-May.txt It says they first tested it in Avondale, East Price Hill and Northside. I get why they did it but the unintended consequences seem to have gotten out of hand.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9OlQD7bCw0

Red Rose Jems in breezy College Hill opens Italian, pizza, grinders, spag http://redroseonhamilton.com/

about 10% of his contributions were from out of town & out of state in his last financial statements. I don't know what average should be.

The training level of our drivers resembles that of a third-world country. We needed more stringent training for not only teens but adults need it as well. Somehow adults think that more than a year of driving in a straight line on interstates hours and hours a week makes you a better driver when in reality that is impossible. Just like anything else, you must push your limits and maintain your skills in order to be any good at driving. People somehow forget this. Most Americans are positively terrible drivers, yet there aren't nearly as many crashes as there could be since interstates are so mindless. Beginners make more mistakes than experienced people do. That being said, I had drivers ed thru my high school & I have seen a big difference between people who learned that way & people who use private schools. We need better training instead of just handing out licenses like party favors. And training for older people, yeah, there's all the bike signage now that most drivers don't understand - folks just put the arcane runes out there.

those clowns are now accusing the Porktown media of spreading FUD

that video would be better if the sound was all warbly

Fishwarp takes a look at the folks behind the ballot initiative. A shady lot from out of town/out of state. Their ignorance of what they are doing is alarming. "Cincinnati for Pension Reform is mostly former tea partiers who have no agenda beyond addressing the $862 million hole in the city’s pension fund, according to Chris Littleton, a West Chester resident working with the committee. He was a co-founder of the state tea party umbrella group Ohio Liberty Coalition." "The Cincinnati for Pension Reform committee has just three formal members – Burr Robinson, Dan Lillback and Bill Moore – who live in Cincinnati, as required for committees proposing charter amendments." http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20130815/NEWS010602/308150037/EXCLUSIVE-Just-who-behind-new-city-pension-referendum-

Not Ohio, but Detroit/midwest, Suzi Quatro - The Pleasure Seekers

I think they need to redo the audio, but, whatever... SoDown Video Concept Final

The Hamilton County fair has increased attendance steadily 3 years in a row from the Fishwarp: Hamilton County Fair manager 'satisfied' with rise in attendance "Hamilton County Fair organizers fell short of their goal to get 30,000 people through the gates, but they did manage to draw 20,000 people – an 11 percent increase over 2012." The Fishwarp's hatred of this community event just amazes me. Maybe if they reported on it, more people would be interested. Instead, they just continue to grouse about it & play up how pathetic it is compared to the "good ol' days". http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20130814/NEWS010801/308140098/Hamilton-County-Fair-manager-satisfied-rise-attendance

Voting problems prompt retraining of poll workers Hundreds in Hamilton Co. will be trained again, but 163 won't be asked back Hundreds of Hamilton County poll workers will be retrained – and 163 “retired” – as a result of voting problems in the 2012 election. That includes 94 workers at 16 precincts that will be completely restaffed because of a high number of errors. The others failed to vote themselves and/or performed poorly on Election Day. http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20130814/NEWS010602/308140034/Voting-problems-prompt-retraining-poll-workers

FWIW, from my experience in jury duty, they never promote Metro to the jury pool - just parking.

People who bitch about the roads being bumpy and want them repaved with speed bumps.

wow We Need Wallace by The Crusaders https://app.box.com/s/v5wysw484g4pqd72hcf1 from That's All RITE Mama: "George Wallace forged an alliance with many country singers, such as Autry Inman, Hank Snow, and the Wilburn Brothers, who participated often in his campaigns for the Alabama governorship and for the presidency. Racism was certainly one factor which contributed to Wallace's popularity, but his southern rural/populist roots also made him appealing to many of the "good old boys and girls" who picked guitars and sang. Wallace identified with country music, but he also spoke the same language, ate the same food, and responded to the same cultural traditions (both good and bad) that most country musicians understood. He linked his southerness with their own, while also tapping vaguely understood, but often legitimate, feelings of alienation that many Americans everywhere felt. The George Wallace-country music alliance was a major factor which contributed to the music's rediscovery by the media - the belief that at worst the music represented reactionary and racist politics, or that at best it spoke for alienated American working people." http://thatsallritemama.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-crusader-on-dip.html

This article gives handy pronunciation tips for people's names. I know names seem to not follow phonics the way other words do but it appears I've been mispronouncing Steve Chabot's name wrong. "Among planned speakers is U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano (Nuh-PAWL'-ih-tah-no). Ohio Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown and Republican Rep. Steve Chabot (SHAH'-but) are also expected to attend." I always used the American short A sound so the a in Chabot would sound like the a in habit. http://www.10tv.com/content/stories/apexchange/2013/08/12/oh--fop-conference.html

"The 12-story Schwind building will be blasted in a way that it will collapse onto itself and the vacant former Dayton Daily News building downtown at 7:15 a.m. Saturday, the contractor managing the demolition said Monday." http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/events/century-old-downtown-dayton-building-will-be-implo/nZMWP/

A couple guys in a gray Ford Explorer open fire on a bunch of folks on the sidewalk near Findlay Market More bored youth? http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20130813/NEWS/308130026/Gunman-sprays-city-block-hitting-4-near-Findlay

^I'm surprised Cunningham is so confident Toby Keith's is going to be around in 2.5 years.

The tube travel plan from the guys at Tesla Motors http://www.teslamotors.com/sites/default/files/blog_images/hyperloop-alpha.pdf

The mayoral candidates on the pension elimination charter amendment http://news.cincinnati.com/interactive/article/20130812/NEWS010602/130812034/Where-do-mayoral-candidates-stand-pension-reform-charter-amendment- As usual Noble hits it right on the head. Or on her own head. Seems like the Charter committee should be coming out on this issue

Bortz is a Republican in Mt Adams. (via BOE) Google streetview of his place is pretty funny

I don't know if I will even bother