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Speak for yourself! :P

I suppose one way the cycle may be broken is if he is in prison throughout the years in which he can produce a child. With his history, it looks like he may be headed down that path.

"Some" maybe, but if it was "much" that wouldn't explain the numerous other developments that have actually completed (or at least are underway) in the last decade. Stark's biggest problem seems to be that his plans are often too grand and not realistic enough.

By the same token, can you name something Stark has delivered on in the city of Cleveland? We're still waiting for construction to start on The Beacon, but it would be the first. For all of his grand talk about urban planning, he doesn't deliver much in the city. http://www.starkenterprises.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/StarkEnterprises_CurrentProperties.jpg

That's what she said.

One more, from yesterday...

From a few days ago...

He wasn't invisible to the GSW defenders, who had a field day blocking his "telegraph dunks".

Korver was missing his shots. He'll probably have a game or two where he can't miss. What really worries me is Williams. He looked like a complete stiff yesterday. He's usually much more smooth.

Thomas Philomethian Horsman II?

You can't reduce the game of basketball to a simple rating of individuals on both teams. Sure, if the Cavs didn't have Lebron and Kyrie, there'd be a significant talent gap that would be nearly impossible to overcome. But I think the talent levels are close enough and the two rosters both have enough star power that the game will be determined by subtleties (bench depth/performance, who has an off night and when, guys getting into foul trouble, injuries or lack thereof, making free throws, etc.).

How are they going to get away with not having a 177.5 foot rear yard? Where will the swing set go?

I don't get this argument. In CH, you can get to I-271 in <15 min from most parts, I-90 east or west in <15 min via MLK, and downtown in <15 via Carnegie, where you can pick up I-90, I-71, or I-77. So even when you do need a freeway (which isn't often because many places are nearby), it isn't that awfully hard to get to one. I know people who complain about the lack of freeway access and then move to an exurb 40 miles from the city in a development 10-15 minutes from the freeway (the ONLY freeway, which they then need to take for many miles to get anywhere of interest). It's a nonsensical argument.

This place looks like it was so Westlake.

Yeah, HSR is probably a more apt comparison.

All of the Red Line platforms are set up to be restricted access, right? Which is why it makes no sense that we'd have POP on the Red Line and not the Green or Blue lines.

They won't do anything. You've made a good-faith effort by buying a ticket/pass. Even if you run into a cop at Tower City, as I've seen, he'll validate the ticket/pass for you. And I seem to recall that inserting a ticket/pass into the turnstile (rather than sliding it through at the top) will activate the ticket/pass. I thought I had read a story on here a while back of someone who got hit with a fine for doing exactly this (forgetting to activate a pass). From the point of view of RTA, if they never did ticket these mistakes, what's to stop people from buying a pass and never activating it until they get caught?

Technically, you could be hit with a hefty fine, but you're probably right. However, it's just another example of the uncertainty and fear people have to face when riding thanks to the over-complicated system.

We're making this sound more confusing than it really is. Don't worry about activation. Just buy the tickets. When you go through the turnstiles at Tower City, they will become activated if they weren't already. And hope you don't run into a transit cop before getting to Tower City?

None of this would be necessary if we weren't using a POP system. POP is what's at fault here. Otherwise, all tickets would just be "activated" the first time you use them like every big city transit system. The problem with POP is that you don't have to "use" your ticket most of the time.

You can buy a day pass days or weeks in advance of your trip. It is not activated if there is no machine-stamp time/date ID on the back when you buy it. If there is a time/date stamp on the back, it means it was activated when you bought it and thus the clock has started ticking on how long you can use it. Usually an activated day pass is active until 3 a.m. the next day. If you bought an non-activated pass, you can activate it by feeding it in a ticket vending or card-activator machine at a train station or into a bus' fare machine. Things like this are why POP sucks.

I wish they'd do the same with 2066 Random Rd. (the makeshift parking structure next door).

Is there a legit purpose for that? Phones use nearby wifi networks to triangulate their location. There is also a free service called WiGLE that does this, it's pretty interesting to zoom in and see network names on the map. Looking at that map, why are there so many dots that are along freeways? People that have the WiFi hotspot turned on on their phones.

Yes, and 55 Public Square is blocking the view of The Standard Building. It and parking lots replaced all that density in the foreground.

Ugh, that's idiotic. But there is an area down the center where its seems they once were. Were they original there? Could another building have once butted up against this one? There is a small "newer" (like 50s/60s) building sitting in between this one and the Old Stone Church.