RiverViewer

I just put a bid in on it...we'll see how it goes. Definitely looks cool! If I win, I'll be happy to loan it to someone for scanning purposes, but I don't have a scanner myself...

I don't mind it being Section 8 - I just hope the day will come when I don't see a couple cops outside the place every other time I go past it...

Although the public was asked to vote for its favorite designs, neither of their selections were chosen by the committee. One wonders why they ask for public input, if it was just going to be ignored...

Three out of the eight haven't played a down in 2006 (Askew, Rucker and Thurman); I believe Nicholson has only played a couple special teams downs; McNeal pushed an off-duty cop outside a nightclub - and we've heard only one side of that dispute; O'Neal was stupid but as observed above, not exactly crazy drunk or something - not too many years ago, he may have been legal to drive; and Steinbach violated a frickin' no-idle zone, and failed field sobriety tests. So, for seven of the eight, it seems that we're not talking about some major Bengal Character Flaw or some such nonsense. And sure, Mr. P***y, He Who Takes Not Hits? Yeah, he's a punk who won't learn how to behave, and I'd rather lose without him than win with him, for a host of reasons - but other than him, come on, we're not talking about the friggin' James Gang or something here. This "8 arrests" bulls**t is getting extremely old...our problem is a decimated O-line and decimated defensive backfield, for Christ's sake...

"Some politician..." Gah! John Conyers has been in congress now for what, 40 years? If he isn't the Democrat with the most seniority in the House, then he's damn close...fought Clinton's impeachment tooth-and-nail...let's see, quick bio check...Korean War veteran, founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus, served on the Judiciary Committee during Watergate, and was the guy behind the Violence Against Women Act and the Motor Voter Bill... "Some politician..." Dude, that picture needs to be frickin' framed...

Ink, a fantastic find! Thanks so much for posting them! How many more are there?

...sayeth the pro-ban non-smoker...

Margo Smith (a country singer and yodeller from the mid-1970's through mid-1980's) has a song called "Apartment Number Four, Sixth Street In Cincinnati" - I've never heard it, though one of these days I'll pick up the single on eBay...

Would you have the pop-up version be aligned vertically? Because yeah, the alignment thing kinda screws me up...

Wow...utterly fantastic! You are king!

Freedom isn't free...(no, there's a hefty f**king fee)

You know, I wonder if the police were to show up at an establishment, and they ordered the patrons to stop smoking, and the patrons refused - they couldn't be fined for smoking...but they certainly could be fined for disobeying a lawful order; the bar owners could be fined for the same thing, I would think...why couldn't this enforcement be local? I mean, I'm wholly against the ban, but it's the frickin' law now, and folks ought not be dodging it.

But complaints will still help out...squeeky wheels, grease, etc...and you know if your local bar has a butt-ton complaints lodged in the database between now and enforcement time, that they'll be high on the list when enforcement time comes...

I don't know the answer to that question, but I'm not sure if it's something that really could be answered, for a few reasons. The "pool stage" of the river has changed over time. Before canalization, low water was however low it dropped in the summer - it didn't pool. Regular records only go back as far as 1858, since which time the lowest recorded level was 1.9 feet (see http://www.kenton.lib.ky.us/gen/ohioriver.html). Then in 1929, they finished canalizing the river, and pool stage was somewhere north of 7'. And then in 1963, Markland opened up, and pool stage was raised to 25.4'. So yes, the river has "risen" over time - but not at all in the way you mean! Perhaps the way to answer your question is to answer a different question - how much time does the river spend at pool stage in a given year? If it spent, say, 60% of its time at pool stage in the 1960's, but only 30% of its time at pool stage today, then that might indicate more water is reaching the river. However, even that wouldn't necessarily answer your question - there are other complicating factors. For instance, there are dams in tributaries all up and down the Ohio - not just big ones like the Kinzua Dam, but these lakes, like East Fork and Caesar Creek and Cave Run...as different dams have come online, the Corps has gained more and more control over the river. So there could be exactly the same amount of water in the system today as in the past, but more of it may be held upstream for optimal hydroelectric generation today than in the past - that would lead to fewer days at pool stage, without meaning any real change in water levels. You know what? They do measure water through-put...I've never dug into those figures before, because I don't understand the measures, and the data has never really interested me. But if you were really interested, you could poke around the links I posted at the top of this thread - that might yield some information... Of course, reading back over this now, I'm wondering if your question isn't more whether sedimentation is raising the river relative to Cincinnati...is that more what you're getting at?

...that's truly fantastic...

A river link I didn't post before - the Enquirer's special section on the Flood of 1997: http://www.enquirer.com/flood_of_97/ ...the pictures had all been down a couple weeks back, but I emailed them and got a response this morning - there had been some sort of issue they corrected, but the photos got disconnected. It's now all fixed - yay!

Welcome, and hi!

I was staying at the St. Joseph Christian Life Center (at the end of E. 185th) on a retreat back in the mid-1990's in January, and it reached 20 below zero or some insane record low - and I just had to - I put on every article of clothing I had, and walked out to their lake overlook thing...it was on a concrete pad high enough up that you were above the piles of ice by the shore, so the only thing to break the wind between Canada and me was the curve of the earth... It was amazing...so cold my jeans felt like paper. Life-sucking cold. The wind...gah. Just an amazing experience. I still need to experience some real cold some day - some Alaska cold, where steaming hot coffee freezes solid before it hits the ground...but until then, I've got Lake Erie at twenty below...

For some reason, I don't feel nearly as bad about this move...sounds like it wasn't making it where it was in Oakley, and that it was either drop it or move it...and man, that section of Greenup could use the tenant too - a number of places have closed in that section of Covington - as much as I mourn for Oakley, I'd love to see that section of Covington come back to life again!

Dude - ain't nothing wrong with your pictures! The only bad picture of Cincinnati is the unposted picture of Cincinnati! I love the warmth and green...and that shot off the Ault Park Pavilion is great - I love that view! Plus, this reminds me of a question I've had for years now - I can't place that building that sticks up on the horizon in this view: The one slightly right of center...can anyone help me out?

Could I ask those who are better informed about him than I am - even if he could be elected, and even if you believe he's right on the issues, has he not shown his executive skills to be soooooo poor that his election would be at the least problematical? Or is his mayorship of Cleveland not a concern? Like, was he too young at the time for that to be indicative of how he'd do as president? Or did he actually do a relatively good job in what was a remarkably challenging time? Seems to me that even if I thought his policies were the wisest out there, that (what I understand of) his executive skills would utterly disqualify him from getting my vote. But I say that with a very limited understanding of what he actually did as mayor. I mean, aside from presiding over the city's insolvency...

But wow, what a picture! Fantastic!

Another little stretch that went from being...er...let's just say, very East End-y... With the Schoolhouse Lofts down the street one way and DeSales corner the other way, it's disappointing to see a Skyline going in there... Yeah, there aren't enough gas stations in that area! Jeez... ...and hey, more commuters on already stressed infrastructure! Yay! Actually, if you're going to add them, that's the spot - the whole interchange there was recently improved massively...

Wow...fantastic sunset shots...and those are the first nighttime shots from Carew that I ever remember seeing...very cool!

Holy zoom, Batman! Wow! we were lucky to get such a great design in PBS! I'm with Ink there... you also take VERY good pictures ...and with Rando there!