RiverViewer

Aww...way, way too horribly cute...very nice! Great to see the square so busy!

Er...someone "holding the ranke of Detective Sargeant" who misspells his own rank? Can you forgive a little skepticism on my part?

We've got a lot to do before we can start buying our post-season tickets, though...Denver's only one game back, and they've still got a game against us...KC's a game back, but they've still got a game against Jacksonville...and the Jets have the easiest schedule of all four of us. But man, it's very, very nice to be in complete control of our own destiny again!

The writers, photographers for this book were featured on CH 12's Newsmakers show 12-10-06 ...best show on television...Dan Hurley rocks...

Anyone ever use PODS to move? Seems like a great concept, would allow a patient self-move, but I've never talked with anyone who's used them...

I'd imagine you couldn't actually rent out either space, but I'm sure you could use it, especially if it were just going to be a 15-20 minute ceremony...not sure who to contact, but I'd be surprised if you couldn't...

The suggestions keep rolling in...Issue430 just suggested Adonis, the new gay club out on Kellogg by the marina...it's got a swimming pool and pool tables and everything! http://www.adonisthenightclub.com

My wife and I were married at Alms Park, and that was just phenomenal. But we got lucky - our rain plan was for there to be no rain...you can rent a covering, but at Alms Park that cost $1000...if you cancelled six days in advance you got your money back, but every day cost you $200... Because of that, we planned our wedding for September, which was, far as I could tell, the driest month in the Miami Valley for a number of years. But then Hurricane Isidore came through...it rained straight from Wednesday through Friday. But it stopped, dried out, and we ended up with flawless weather... While I've not been there, a friend was married in the Verdin Bell Clock Museum: http://www.belleventcentre.com My friends here watching the game are giving suggestions...one suggested a riverboat - that sounds incredibly cool! They went to a wedding reception at Paul Brown Stadium - I'm sure that was expensive, and if you weren't a big fan, that could be really kitshy...GABP could be a similar thing... I think the conservatory in Eden Park would be part of the Historic Properties portfolio, but I don't believe the Art Museum is, is it? The observation deck of Carew Tower - if it were a more informal thing, that could be astonishingly cool...well, for the ceremony, but not for a reception. One of them said he's seen weddings on the Purple People Bridge... Here's a link to a photographer listing sites where he's done weddings - should be a bunch of great ideas in here: http://crystaluxdv.com/cincinnatiweddinglocations.htm Here's a few that sound interesting: Cincinnati Museum Center (Union Terminal), Cincinnati, OH Hilton Netherlands Hotel (The Hall of Mirrors), Cincinnati, OH Music Hall, Cincinnati, Ohio Omni Netherlands Hotel (The Hall of Mirrors), Cincinnati, OH The Twentieth Century Theater, Oakley (Cincinnati) Ohio Taft Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio ...and for a ceremony, Fountain Square could work, with a reception in one of the hotels around there...

Wow - you've got some great stuff in there! Thanks for posting them!

From what I read, the line did quite well in protection last week...

I wonder if the moderators, could send a message to all members, asking each member to confirm that they are would like to keep their account. Give a deadline and for those that don't respond, delete the account. Again, this is solving a problem that doesn't exist...having unused sign-ups doesn't hurt anything... I almost got stuck with "Riverviewer671," thank you very much. I was deciding between "Bluegill In Pond" and "RiverViewer", but the coin came up heads...

That's a great thought - I similarly use a few other messageboards where I'd never post (sports forums, say - no good ever came from posting on a sports forum - but they're very interesting to read), and losing the ability to track what's been read and what's left unread would blow... Though the pruning could be limited to those accounts that have never posted and have not been active since signing up...but again, I don't see what possible benefit that could be, unless maybe someone were trying to use up all the cool usernames...

^I would vote for that in a minute. Well, if it were combined with a sealed-up-tight border, or as sealed-up-tight as we could manage...and then following that up with drastically liberalized immigration laws - open the spigot up for a while, just make sure you know who's coming in and that they follow the rules...

Well, there's a Wild Oats or something going in at Kenwood, which is just down Montgomery from there...not sure how that would influence the decision of another similar store...

But who's decision is it on the degree of the law that you should follow?? So you are saying that since the smoking ban is less harmfull than drug dealing then it is ok to be ignored??? I say a law is a law and it should be followed................ We can not pick and choose which laws to follow Obviously not. But there's a matter of degree. Is a guy going 57 mph on I-71 between downtown and Kenwood as bad as a guy barreling along, drunk and high, sideswiping school busses running nuns off the road? Equating the two is just stupid. And equating Nick allowing someone to break an unenforced law with a frickin' drug dealer is also just foolish.

My earlier post: ...just upgraded to IE 7.0 at home today, so it's just IE 7.0 and Safari 1.0.2 for me...

I think there's a difference of degree here that makes the comparison pretty unhelpful...I mean, honestly, drug dealers? Come on...

Jake - that's true now, but not when it was passed. They didn't allow primary enforcement of it for what, 10 or 15 years? And that is a little beside the point...I wouldn't call the seat belt law dictatorial either...

Yes, by definition, those things are dictatorial - in the extremely narrow sense of the government dictating what you may or may not do. But under that definition, speed limits and industrial zoning are dictatorial. Nobody brings up "dictatorship" in that extremely narrow sense - they're rhetorically invoking images of Mussolini and Pinochet and Mao. It implies that the takings clause of the 5th Amendment is borderline Stalin - and that's what I'm objecting to. Because Eminent Domain law and public smoking ordinances are governmental regulation, and that's all. It may be unwise, it may be overbearing, but it ain't a frickin' dictatorship.

Well, I guess the question is the long-term plans for parking...I understand if that isn't worked out yet, but obviously two lots isn't sufficient for demand. I'm just not familiar enough with the area to know if there's ample spaces or not, it's just looking at Glencoe and LeRoy and all that, I just don't see it...

Downtown would be a better place for a Dorothy Lane Market!

So how many buildings are gonna be torn down in the end? (I hope you understand that the suggestion makes the ol' sphinkter tighten up a little...)

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. I have to object to "border line dictatorship" - I mean, you could say the exact same thing about the takings clause of the 5th amendment. Or about the new smoking laws, or manditory seat belt laws, or zoning laws, or any of a host of laws. Describing them as overbearing government is one thing - but these are our elected leaders setting policies and executing them. This has nothing to do with dictatorship, borderline or not. I agree with your sentiment, but I honestly think calling elected representatives dictators, when they're just trying to follow the laws, and they go to court like everyone else, and they follow the rules set down, and you can vote them out of office, and we're talking about gray and changing areas of law - I think it's supremely unhelpful to call the folks one disagrees with dictators. If for no other reason than it leaves us no words to describe real dictators... I'm completely with you on your argument - that the standard should be the betterment of the general public, the betterment of all, not of a select few. (And maybe that's why the future value of the land seems like a novel concept - because how do you establish the future value of a park or a cemetery or a county municipal building?) But I'm just off the bus on the hyperbole...

The stories referred to park land being counted as deteriorating - what park? The nearest park I know of is Inwood, on the other side of frickin' Vine Street... Mohr37: You can take heart, because the Ohio Supreme Court has already decided that 'deteriorated' is an inadequate reason for taking private property. This Calhoun project stuff happened prior to the Norwood case that resulted in that ruling, but City Council is not about to try this kind of thing again - not because they'll learn a lesson by losing this case, but because it's not lawful to do so anymore. Rando: I agree and disagree...first, I disagree with your argument based on capitalism. At its most basic root, capitalism is about supply and demand. The capitalism argument would say that Hardee's and Arby's could hold out forever and ever, until they chose to sell their product. When you throw the strong arm of government takings into the mix, any appeal to capitalism goes out the window. That being said, eminent domain is lawful (setting aside whether it's lawful in this case or not), and the standard for compensation is left ambiguous. Here's what I wrote over in the Norwood thread: From what I've read, the idea of having to pay the future, developed value for eminent domain land seems kind of novel - though please, if anyone has any knowledge to the contrary, I'd be thrilled to read it...I've spent a few hours looking for information on valuing taken property to no avail, so anything someone knows would be very appreciated! I'd imagine that the idea here for the property owners is that, yes, the taking already happened, but hey, if they'd have tried to pull this today, it would be illegal...how about we not reward the developers just because they broke the law before it was illegal?

I'm much more interested in what someone's saying and how they're saying it...my formative musical years were spent with old dictation machines or crappy cheap 9-volt radios or Ford Escort factory speakers...although I'll admit that excessively poor quality on anything classical does get distracting, so while I don't share that sensibility on non-orchestral music, I can understand it... Though I've gotta say, to me it's like coffee - being able to love a shitty cup of gas station coffee seems to me a more useful skill than being such a connaisseur that you have to spend $1600 on a home espresso machine or you'll never be satisfied...similarly, being able to listen past distractions and poor quality without it annoying the hell out of you seems to be a more useful skill than being able to detect slight imperfections in various bit rates, and being utterly pissed off by it...so while I respect the audio-phility of folks like pope and C-Dawg, I'm also extremely happy that I don't share it!