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I knew two girls from a small town between Hamburg and Bremen staying with a friend of mine. When I told them that I was studying planning the first thing they said was "I hope you don't study the American cities." And these girls were pharmacy majors.

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Great pics Rando. I really wish I would have gone to one of these tours. I had about 5 too many liters of Spaten Optimator at Kaldi's Friday night. Needless to say I got Optimated and didn't wake up till 1 pm Saturday.

I'll take Newport and Covington any day over East St. Louis or Camden, NJ. I don't think most people realize how lucky we are to have these cities across the river.

The similarities between that new park and Fountain Square are amazing. That has to be one of the most urban parks I have ever seen ;) I wonder what Rob Fischer and the park's designer would consider "urban"?

I find it quite ridiculous that Japan is willing to give Vietnam almost the same amount of money that Bush and co want to give for their own country.

Yeah I've read where Dubai is pretty bad with human rights. I remember a few months ago when all the construction workers started to riot because of the extremely poor working conditions. I've also heard Americans are not allowed to own any property in Dubai. $60/hr is a lot of money for a planner, but it definatley comes at a price of selling your soul and rights.

Anybody wanna work in Dubai? $60/hr doesn't sound too bad. And by the looks of it, they sure could use a few decent planners. http://www.workgateways.com/Job.10162

That's kinda funny, I'm from Portsmouth. But on the topic I prefer quarters, even though I have never experienced semesters. When I come back to school after co-oping I'm ready for the shit to end after about 2 weeks.

I believe the site of the abandoned auditorium on Clifton is slated to house all the offices that are currently in Crosley, since it will be coming down soon (who knows with UC though). I don't think Burnett Woods should be touched. All Burnett needs is some tlc by the Park Board and UC and I believe it can really become a truely great neighborhood park. The Clifton area is full of the type of people who would constantly use the park if it was up to par. As for the new arena, when we start selling out games constantly for 4-5+ years, then maybe it should be considered. And it's not as if 5/3 held the basketball program back from achieving great things in the past, so why the big need now?

Go to http://www.uc.edu/cdc/ Click on Niehoff Urban Studio on the left hand side. Then you will see Urban Food Projects appear below that. It has all kinds of research, urban grocery precedents, etc. Hope that helps some.

Preaching to the choir. I couldn't even find a computer to use Wednesday. They had classes in the computer labs and I needed a computer with Illustrator and Photoshop. I asked one of the computer help guys if there was any available and his reply was "you're required to have a laptop when you come to school here." Thanks alot jackass but my laptop crapped out and I don't have $1000s laying around for a new one...But lets go out and spend millions on a new arena to replace the ancient 17 year-old current one.

Spend millions; ignore 1,000's UC's plan for new place for athletes to play doesn't help working students BY PAUL DAUGHERTY | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER Before we discuss the University of Cincinnati's need for a new basketball arena to replace the ancient, 17- year-old Shoemaker Center, let's talk about Tom Demeropolis. He's a senior at UC. Last year, he took a class in advanced reporting I taught at 11 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays. Tom was a great student, but he wasn't always on time. A few days ago, I found out why: He worked the 4-10 a.m. shift as the produce department manager at the bigg's in Delhi. "I can tell you all you need to know about apples," he says. Demeropolis had a schedule that would tax a Swiss watch: Thirty hours a week at Bigg's, 18 credit hours at UC, another 20 to 25 hours working at the News Record, UC's newspaper. That was before he ever cracked a book or wrote a paper. bigg's paid him $10.50 an hour and had a tuition reimbursement plan that offered him $2 for every hour he worked. Read full article here: http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070128/COL03/701280451/1064/SPT0101

just heard on Channel 5 that TGI Fridays is going to open a restaurant in Tower Place, with a street level entrance...not sure about that one.

That's because out in the 'burbs they're building on previously unused greenland...not wrongfully taking away some family run restaurants and businesses that took generations to build up. I'm all for the use of eminent domain for the betterment of the general public. Along with giving up one's personal space for the betterment of all. But what I'm not for is the government taking away one's personal space and property for the betterment of a select few, which this project is intended for. I feel bad for cities such as Cincinnati, Norwood, New London, etc. because they have to resort to such low ball efforts as what they did here, because federal and state planning regulations have decimated them to do so. But, you have to deal with the cards you are given, and taking private propety for private use that only 25% of the workers at the targeted instituions could afford to live in, is border line dictatorship. And let me make this clear, I'm not sticking up for the fast food chains there were previously there, or the ones that are currently taking this to court. I don't believe they should receive further payments, since they've obviously given up on their properties long ago.

As much as I hate to say it, I hope the city loses this case then. Hopefully that will force them to rethink and rewrite the current definition of 'deteriorated.' It's not like this would set back the project start time or anything. Since it should have started over 2 years ago.

I sure hope he meant specificly the block that is sitting empty. If not than I'm sure he just offended alot of property owners of the neighborhood, including myself who frequents the neighborhood often...mostly for Chicago Gyros.

Calhoun Street project in court BY GREGORY KORTE | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER Both sides in a Clifton Heights eminent domain dispute argued their case before a three-judge appeals panel this morning, and both cited another Greater Cincinnati eminent domain case – Norwood v. Horney – as bolstering their argument. The Ohio Supreme Court’s July 28 decision that struck down the use of eminent domain for economic development in Norwood was a sweeping property rights decision. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20061207/NEWS01/312070019/

I could never understand why all Big 11 schools have to root for each other? As for the game, I'm following with the trends of the last few years, with the exception of the '05 USC team. The underdog will win. Gators win 27-24. tOSU will find out what Miami did in '03. but as much as I hate it, I still think tOSu will prolly win.

I can't wait until this building is finished. Side note, not really related but... My father owns a home theater business in my hometown. One of the projects he did a few years back was a home theater with a bar in it. He made the bar using glass block with LED lighting behind it. Much like what this building is going to do. The bar looked absolutely amazing, lit up the entire room. Can't wait to see how it will look covering an entire building.

Square project seeking ideas Post staff report Consultant Steve Davies encouraged some 70 people who toured the site of a planned public square in downtown Covington Wednesday to "think big" as they pondered ideas for the spot. Some did, while others zeroed in on detail for the proposed Times-Star Commons in the block bounded by Fourth and Fifth streets, Madison Avenue and Scott Boulevard. http://news.kypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061130/NEWS02/611300362/1014/NEWS02

um what can i say but wow... Here's the Beacon-Journal link: http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/16129439.htm Here's another link about the announcement http://ssl.hammerhead.net/OHNeMail/e...sID=10 &ID=32 Here's a link to the Official Site: http://www.neoprosoccer.com/

Great for Louisville athletics. Even though I wasn't impressed with the stadium when I went there. Something about a stadium being located in a massive parking lot kinda sucks. By the way, when was the last time anyone heard of anything coming out of the University of Louisville. Talk about an athletics dominated university. Maybe they should be spending some of the athletic money on the campus, which I find very underwhelming.

^ from the looks of the construction I'm assuming that they will be making all of the turns for MLK/Jefferson to be at the intersection. Thus, eliminating the Jefferson connector the article mentioned. I know they are moving the enterance to the epa further west, where a new traffic signal is installed. Also you will be able to turn east and west onto MLK from Short Vine, previously you could only turn eastbound.

Maybe you should tell that to Boston Red Sox GM Theo Epstein. Who graduated from Yale University and later got his Juris Doctor and passed the California bar while he was working 70 hour weeks for the Padres front office. Or maybe the entire Oakland Athletics organization, who also has a Harvard Grad working as GM in-training. Or the very extensive statistical analysis formulas that Oakland has revolutionized, with pretty much every professional sporting organization in the world has adopted and utilized since. Or even the Society for American Baseball Research, which is based out of Cleveland, that use mathematical tools to analyze the game.