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I mean, if teams only schedule other teams that go 1-11, sure, that's bad. See: UCF, TCUs of the world. But Ohio State will always have "good enough" opponents on their schedule. Clemson doesn't exactly play a world beaters schedule and they seem to do fine when it comes to making the playoff. Plus, for better or for worse, there's always recency bias. Even the committee cares more about the last 3-4 games played than beating ACC, SEC, and Big 12 teams in September.

Does it hurt in the rankings? When has "oops, they played a MAC (or similar) school...gotta dock them" ever happened? -2019: Florida Atlantic, Cincinnati, Miami OH (still made playoffs as 2 seed) -2018: Oregon State, Tulane, neutral site with TCU (missed playoffs because they gave up 49 to Purdue) -2017: Oklahoma, Army, UNLV (missed playoffs because they gave up 55 to Iowa) -2016: Bowling Green, Tulsa, at Oklahoma (made playoffs) -2015: at Virginia Tech, Hawaii, NIU, Western Michigan (missed playoffs because they forgot Zeke Elliott was on the team against Sparty) -2014: Navy, Virginia Tech, Kent State, Cincinnati (made playoffs) -2013: Buffalo, San Diego State, at California, Florida A&M (1AA - if I recall, this was scheduled to be an SEC team? Georgia or Tennessee?) (missed BCS because they forgot Carlos Hyde was their running back against Sparty) -2012: Miami OH, Cal, UCF, UAB (missed BCS because Gene Smith was a moron and also the team wasn't good anyway) -2011: Akron, Toldeo, at Miami FL, Colorado (Fickell year...team was bad) -2010: Marhsall, Miami FL, Ohio U, Eastern Michigan (missed BCS because they lost at Wisconsin, and not sure they'd get it because that was the Cam Newton year and Oregon with Chip Kelly) -2009: Navy, USC, Toledo, New Mexico State (team wasn't making the BCS) -2008: Youngstown State (1AA), Ohio U, at USC, Troy (Pryor's first year...not a great team) Only 2018 and 2017 didn't feature a MAC opponent. Teams are mostly penalized for losing, so why add another risk to the mix? They lost to their toughest OOC opponent in 2014 (Va Tech) and still won the title. If you want to talk about schedule padding, let's discuss Alabama and the SEC scheduling 1AA opponents the week before rivalry week/the final week of the regular season.

I mean, this is getting slightly off-topic, but if I recall...the only two Dems to win state-wide in the last 12 years have been Sherrod Brown and Barack Obama. Not exactly a purple resume, either, with the state house, state senate, and all state-wide positions held by Rs. But, alas, there is an Ohio Politics forum for this discussion.

State population growth from 2010-2019 = ~153k Columbus MSA population growth from 2010-2019 = ~220k Non-Columbus MSA population change from 2010-2019 = -~67k Pretty remarkable.

Well, more realistically, the Columbus metro population will likely pass Kansas City in the next 3-4 years, Cincinnati in the next 6-7 years, and maybe Pittsburgh as well. Of course, population changes can shift so who knows what the next decade will bring.

Ohio 16. Cardinal Health - $145,534 22. Marathon Petroleum - $124,813 23. Kroger - $122,286 50. Procter & Gamble - $67,684 74. Nationwide - $43,982 86. Progressive - $39,022.3 180. Sherwin-Williams - $17,900.8 204. American Electric Power - $15,561.4 216. Goodyear Tire & Rubber - $14,745 224. Parker-Hannifin - $14,320.3 248. L Brands - $12,914.2 294. FirstEnergy - $10,850 325. Fifth Third Bancorp - $9,790 367. Dana - $8,620 383. American Financial Group - $8,237 390. Andersons - $8,170.2 400. Cincinnati Financial - $7,924.2 401. Western & Southern Financial Group - $7,920.5 407. J.M. Smucker - $7,838 411. KeyCorp - $7,694 431. Owens Corning - $7,160 441. Cintas - $6,892.3 453. O-I Glass - $6,691 456. Alliance Data Systems - $6,580.9 467. AK Steel Holding - $6,359.4 480. TravelCenters of America - $6,117.4 500. Huntington Bancshares - $5,655 508. RPM International - $5,564.5 513. TransDigm Group - $5,517.2 526. Big Lots - $5,323.2 543. Welltower - $5,121.3 584. Greif - $4,595 603. Vertiv Holdings - $4,431.2 607. Diebold Nixdorf - $4,408.7 661. Timken - $3,789.9 664. Worthington Industries - $3,759.6 678. Abercrombie & Fitch - $3,623.1 695. Medical Mutual of Ohio - $3,502.7 698. Designer Brands - $3,492.7 700. Applied Industrial Technologies - $3,472.7 715. Aleris - $3,375.9 717. Hexio - $3,374 724. PolyOne - $3,351.6 734. Hyster-Yale Materials Handling - $3,291.8 753. Scotts Miracle-Gro - $3,156 780. Mettler-Toledo International - $3,008.7 783. Lincoln Electric Holdings - $3,003.3 830. Cooper Tire & Rubber - $2,752.6 871. M/I Homes - $2,500.3 882. Verso - $2,444 908. Ohio National Mutual - $2,340.5 949. Nordson - $2,194.2 990. Express - $2,019.2 The bottom four all dropped in the rankings and it looks like no new additions (though I could be reading it wrong). By Ohio Metros 1. Columbus MSA - 17 2. Cleveland-Elyria MSA - 14 3. Cincinnati MSA - 9 4. Toledo MSA - 5 5. Akron MSA - 2 6. Findlay MSA - 2 7. Canton-Massillon MSA - 2 8. Wooster (Orrville) MSA - 1 9. Dayton MSA - 1

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InDiViDuAlIzEd mAsS tRaNsIt EDIT - I didn't read the full original article or I just glossed over some things.. Holy crap. It's a 15 minute walk. For a guy claiming to want to change the way the world drives to save the planet from climate change, this is way worse for the environment than just walking. I'm struggling with the math here. At 4,000 per hour, and using an average of 15 passengers per car/tram (is that total or in addition to the passengers in the vehicles?)...they'd need to be completing 267 trips per hour to get to that 4k/hour figure. What am I missing here? Even if you say the tunnel is operating in both directions, that's still 133 trips per hour both ways. Plus, per the posts above, there will be three stations. Anyone understand how they're supposed to get to 4k people/hour with two one-way tunnels? Either way, it's significantly less efficient than the monorail.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/14/21257849/elon-musk-boring-company-las-vegas-tunnel-finished-digging Tunnels are apparently complete.

Isn't Condado based entirely on Barrio? For some reason, I remember Condado was started by partners or something of Barrio who broke off and came to Columbus and essentially copied the concept and gave it a new name.

This might be slightly off as I don't think Personal Capital tracks my HSA ROI at all, though it's pretty minimal overall.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/08/jobs-report-april-2020.html Unemployment 14.7%. "Real" unemployment is at 22.8%.

Nearly 3.2 million new jobless claims in over the last week. 33.5m in the past 7 weeks. Unemployment comes out tomorrow for April. Gonna be a doozy. Heard a sobering take on that - in the past, under "normal" circumstances, we could bring unemployment down by 1-1.5% a year. Only twice since WW2 have we reduced it by 2+% in a single year. If unemployment comes in at 12+%, we're looking at possibly a decade before getting back to "full employment" if this is a normal recovery instead of an expedited one.

Did the new software get rolled out? Some things are different today in terms of layout.

Yeah, that's the commonly cited one. U3 vs U6. Conservatives loved to tout the "real" unemployment number during the Obama years as all those folks out of work (including actively looking and those who had given up).

New unemployment claims last week were 3.84m. At least 30m people have filed for unemployment since mid-March. The U.S. labor force is ~165m (recognized as all able-bodied, non-retired people age 16+ I believe). More than 18% of the labor force has filed for unemployment in the last ~6 weeks and that's not even counting the ~3.5% who were unemployed before. Unemployment is heading to 25+%. Levels not seen since the Great Depression.

I threw in like ~$200 into UPRO when it was $21.75 at the end of March. That's paid off nicely so far. I like VGT for a little extra towards tech. That index fund has taken off since 2010. Fun to do these backdate tests lol.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gdp-1q-2020-us-economic-activity-coronavirus-pandemic-155756514.html Q1 GDP contracted 4.8%.

Basically our exact days except add a couple on the front to Seattle!

(do not take this commentary seriously) "Columbus (proper) is only growing because they annexed a bunch of land!" "Cleveland Metro should add Akron to its MSA to increase its national ranking/standing!" I wonder what the Venn diagram of these two look like. Lol.

This is so cool. My wife and I went to Portland (and Seattle) in June 2019 and I notice a bunch of spots we checked out...don't see us, though!

^The Schott is, what, 22 years old? If it were a professional arena (see: Georgia Dome, Texas Rangers, etc.) it'd already be slated to be razed!