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This is the back of a home of a wealthy family (the Bordens) in New England from the 1890s. I read that the house had no toilets/plumbing. In this & another picture I see no detached outhouse - would this little thing on the back of the house be an outhouse? I've never seen an outhouse for a wealthy family. Seems kind of elaborate for a door to the basement. Too small for a shed & there's a small barn there anyway. Or would they have just used pots & tossed it out later?

Just caught the meeting. The current estimate is $70k installed but the committee sent it back to the administration for lower prices & more options. The Windbag somehow turned it into a civil rights issue but he also talked about there being no public restrooms at Washington Park. I thought 3CDC promised some homeless advocates that there would be public restrooms there. Young & Quinlivan did not single out DAAP, they just suggested local design & engineering students.

Following the closure of Springfield's TGIF, the one in Oakley is closing. http://cincinnati.com/blogs/newintown/2013/01/15/t-g-i-fridays-in-hyde-park-plaza-closed/ When the one in Springfield closed the Dayton Biz Journal said "The Bistro Group, the third largest franchisee of T.G.I. Friday’s, announced Monday it had closed the Springfield location as a result of evolving guest and consumer needs." uh, yeah http://www.bizjournals.com/dayton/news/2012/09/24/tgi-fridays-closes-local-restaurant.html

Both Council Member Young and Council Member Quinlivan expressed this exact idea in today's Livable Communities Committee meeting. It would make a good civic project for any private firm in Cincinnati for that matter. Volunteerism is on the rise but Ohio's no Utah http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20130115/NEWS/301150047/More-us-Just-helping-out-

That would make more sense but it's not clearly stated in the article. I'm still not happy about accepting toxic waste. That's what Texas is for. :-)

There are plenty more effective ways for me to learn how to be an architect than to design a glorified Port-o-Let, especially when I'm spending tens of thousands of dollars for the opportunity. A typical graduate elective studio for M.Arch. students at DAAP -- one I took last year -- involved helping design a health clinic in rural Tanzania, on a site with no electricity, sanitation, or running water, using materials that could be sourced locally and assembled by locals with very little training in building construction. And then one or two students from our group had the opportunity to spend their co-op on site in Tanzania to help supervise construction. IMO, such a studio has far more educational value than anything offered by this project. Society has far more important design-related challenges to address than to redesign a modular public toilet that can simply be ordered from a catalog. The suggestion to use DAAP students for this particular project seems to have very little to do with any inherent educational value, and more to do with trying to skim a few dollars off the price by using unpaid labor. I'm a firm believer in learning design by taking on real-world projects that have a clear humanitarian focus, but your attitude seems to be more along the lines of, "Wow, this project is too expensive. Let's just get some DAAP kids to design it for free." Such an attitude is demeaning and insulting to the real issues that get addressed within the various DAAP programs, and it's insulting to practicing architects and designers who expect to get fairly compensated for their work. that's really arrogant

A Texas firm wants to ship it's fracking wastewater on barges over 1,100 miles to SE Ohio for dumping. The Coast Guard has put the transportation on hold while it studies the idea. I can't believe this makes economic sense or that there's no place for the stuff in Texas. http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2013/01/14/barges-of-brine-on-ohio-river.html

looks like the only positive comments are from a guy on Cranley's payroll.

Glenn Beck has designed a town http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/independence-park-be-glenn-becks-galts-gulch

weird article (by Horstman, so...): IN-DEPTH: Cashing in assets or selling city's jewels? A. It's not in depth B. it doesn't mention Hamilton County selling off assets in general & parking in particular. C. None of the opponents quoted have a concrete alternative D. well, it's just biased, slanted & pandering. If you can walk like Barry, I don't know why you'd even care about parking. http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20130112/NEWS0108/301120064

My dad liked BB. That was about 25 years ago, however. Are they perhaps following an age group?

Well there's still that heck hole at 4528 Hamilton (just north of Glen Parker. https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=39.170891,-84.54412&spn=0.001644,0.002411&t=h&z=19&layer=c&cbll=39.170891,-84.54412&panoid=3NuouMEzucalubV7C0-Pjw&cbp=12,77.39,,0,0.8

Well, Chabot, thru gerrymandering, will likely die in office, probably literally in his office on his gross air mattress..... Beyond that, Finney's optimism is probably the same optimism the Romney campaign had during the last presidential campaign. Now if the GOP maintains the same stance as it does today for the next 10-15 years - well, I doubt it. If they do, they won't be here in 10-15 years.

Back in olden days, guys would walk around in big oversized coats & carry around pots. When somebody needed relief they would give the guy some money & squat on the pot while he held his coat around the person, hiding them from the public. If we allowed this, we wouldn't have to pay anything. In fact, it would create jobs & increase tax revenue.

So, I guess that even without the ridiculous zoning requirements, he'd still want all that parking? I thought theaters were revenue generators.....

how many goram restaurants can we support?

For you slackers still running PPC hardware, Adobe CS2 http://www.adobe.com/downloads/cs2_downloads/index.html Or, for that matter, if you're still running WinXP.....

The maintenance rate is about 10x what you would pay for a house of that value which would have 2 bathrooms, a kitchen & a garage. We are only looking at spending hundreds of thousands of dollars because we are horrified of seeing people's butts. People should just go wherever & clean up after themselves. Works with dogs.

Gotta love a DJ who makes prank calls to the FBI

"lots of hipsters are essentially downwardly mobile young people who are putting themselves to some practical use, however small or marginal, instead of sitting around getting obese." http://www.theamericanconservative.com/jacobs/exemplary-hipsters/

I have taken the TANK airport express bus several times. I don't think I ever saw another air passenger on the thing. Once in awhile it was jammed with airport workers but usually near empty.

On the Metro part he was involved in fare hikes when Metro hadn't had any in years. I remember this being a fairly contentious issue. Metro claimed they were behind in maintenance etc because they had not had steady fare hikes in the past. I think, like Tom Luken, he wanted to strangle Metro. http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2005/01/24/daily39.html "According to information from Metro, Council members John Cranley and David Crowley, SORTA Vice Chair Lamont Taylor and Metro CEO Michael Setzer met Jan. 26 to work on a proposal. The parties agreed that Metro's plan to increase fares within the city of Cincinnati to $1, in Hamilton County to $1.50 and in Clermont County to $2 would be allowed to be implemented sometime after Feb. 1. In exchange, Metro would cut its proposed increase in Access service for persons with disabilities by half. The fare would only rise to $1.50 in Zone 1 and $2 in Zone 3." And, of course, the police chief didn't want any more cops.

If we're getting Dayton pizza down here , I want Cassano's, dagnabbit. Will the Jimmy Johns deliver & if so, where? the basin?

In the recent press releases they are talking about 1.5 years driver training. Anybody know anything about maintenance training? Time, place, number of employees.... Will the manufacturer be providing long/short term support? Any details?