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Don't know - I was cooking dinner, just came to the door when kids knocked...just three sets total...

We got 11 or 12 total here in Walnut Hills, but I'm on top of a hill, lots of steps...

Personally, I'd prefer having real numbers and dealing with the truth...unfortunately, that simply isn't possible at this point. Given that, I guess I prefer that the garbage numbers favor the city's image, but I ain't all that excited by it either...well, check that - I'm excited that it's on the record that we didn't drop 7% in five years...

Well, it sounds like it means we probably continued to lose people, but instead of 330K dropping to 310K, it was more like 340K dropping to 330K or so...but regardless, it sure ain't the hemorrhaging it seemed like it was!

Didn't seem off topic at all to me, and I dug the graphic...and forgot to thank you for putting it together and posting it - thank you!

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Which "France" are you talking about? The one that's still 85% Catholic, 2% Protestant, maybe 10% Muslim at most? The one that's 90%+ white and European? Or maybe you mean the France in Fremont county, Idaho, which is only around 87% white? Yes, Europe is going to end up a Muslim continent (something I think will be a good thing) - but I'm gonna ask for a citation or an explanation on the "most diverse place on earth" thing...maybe someday, but not today.

Yeah, you could go for a Brandy Alexander!

Yeah, what is the best first impression to get someone from the highway to UC? From 75 S, there's Mitchell --> Kenard --> Clifton, which is pretty except for the Kenard stretch; Mitchell --> Vine; and everything else would come up through OTR, which is beautiful but not always welcoming... From 71 S, there's WHT, discussed above; Dana --> Madison/MLK, which is nice except a few stretches, but is kind of a long ways out of the way; then again downtown and OTR... From 71/75 N, there's assorted downtown --> OTR; 75 --> Hopple; 71 --> Reading --> WHT...

^Or about the will of those around you...Nicorette + a concerned and tenacious wife = I'm finally a non-smoker again...

So was it anything like the tour he gave me of Columbus?

I think there are occasions where Grasscat is posting a slew of articles at once, and to make sure someone's posts don't get buried amid the avalanche of articles, he'll lock the thread for a few minutes...it's really quite a thoughtful courtesy...

Very nice stuff...

Regarding John in Cincinnati: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0814164/ In Imperial Beach, California, the dysfunctional Yost family intersects with two new arrivals to the community: a dim-but-wealthy surfing enthusiast (Nichols) and man spurned by the Yosts years ago. Doesn't sound like it'll have anything to do with Cincinnati...

Moonloop - I think those units go in the $200K-$300K range, if I remember correctly...

C-Dawg - the Fountain Square thread has the liquor license discussion, I believe.

I'll say it - it was a sure thing, absolutely no doubt he would have landed in bounds. But I'm happy that if there had to be a bad call, that it went the Browns way, finally! I think that was the same officialting crew that called the BS roughing call on the Bengals a few weeks back...

Mejana's rocks...good choice!

Yeah, Dan Hurley is king...they should have a local travel show where he and Bootsy Collins go around the city checking cool stuff out...Bootsy and Hurley at the zoo, or Bootsy and Hurley at Pigall's, or Bootsy and Hurley in the abandoned subway...

This weekend was (well, actually is - I'm still in Hinckley) our last trip for a while, so I should be able to knock some OTR out this month...

By the way, here's a good site to go for to get more information: http://www.budhibbs.com/ Bud Hibbs is definitely a slimeball himself - he isn't out there to help people who don't owe anything get out of trouble - he's there to help folks who do owe money figure out a way to skip out on their bills. He's slime...but, he's slime with some great information, very helpful.

Actually, reading back through your story, the credit bureaus look like they have nothing to do with this debt - you said they have an incorrect previous address, which you can dispute, but they aren't reporting the account anymore, right? There's no Montgomery Wards tradeline on your cbr...which means they've got nothing to do with the debt. Ohio has a 15 year statute of limitations on written contracts, which is probably why you're still getting letters on it (despite it not being your debt - for whatever reason, they don't know or don't believe that). They could, in theory, take you to court over the debt. But a few things to bear in mind: 1) They aren't going to get anything with your signature on it. This means two things: a) If they find a piece of media with a signature on it (a charge slip, an original application), it won't be your signature, and it'll prove your case, not theirs. b) If they can't produce a piece of media with a signature on it, the applicable statute of limitations would become the "open" statute of limitations, which is six years in Ohio. The case would get thrown out. 2) They aren't going to sue you, because in Ohio they're going to have to lay out somewhere around $150+ just on court costs, to try to collect $138, on a disputed debt that they can't substantiate in court? That's just throwing money away. So all you have to do to end this is send them a Cease and Desist letter. That tells them that you demand they stop all contact with you, unless they intend to sue you. They're allowed to send you one follow-up letter acknowledging your Cease and Desist letter, but that's it - if they call you or letter you again, you can take them to court for FDCPA violations. Definitely do NOT pay the money - you should never pay money you don't owe...all it does is reward the unethical for being unethical.

They started eating away the stone wall in front of the property today...got home too late for a picture, but I'll try in the morning...basically, they ate probably a quarter to a third of the way through the wall in this old picture (from left to right):

I figured out where Sharkey Lane is...it's a new street they've created off of Fulton in Walnut Hills. I believe the places in question are here: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&z=18&ll=39.119411,-84.491515&spn=0.001656,0.003181&t=h&om=1

Congratulations to Andy, who won the NACIS Interactive Map context this year with CincinnatiRoads.com! Plus he gives props to UrbanOhio.com! http://www.geography.wisc.edu/News/stories-department.htm Geography grad student Andy Woodruff wins national NACIS Interactive Map prize Second-year geography grad student Andy Woodruff has won the Interactive Map section of the student web mapping contest of the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS). The interactive map integrates actual video footage with a searchable map that simulates driving through Cincinnati, Ohio urban streets. The map, "Cincinnati Roads," can be viewed online at: http://www.cincinnatiroads.com/ . The award was announced during the 25th annual NACIS meeting held here in Madison, WI on October 18-21. The award brings a $500 prize and significant recognition in the cartographic community. A really useful idea In a personal email, NACIS award director and ESRI senior cartographer Charlie Frye said, "What struck me first was that his idea is useful. Imagine if Hertz or Google picked this idea up—travelers could test drive their routes before arriving in a new city. I would love to have that service. I travel six to ten times a year, usually to two new cities every year, and typically I arrive after the sun has set, making navigation really difficult." According to Frye, the 3 judges base their decision as 15% on concept, 30% on cartography, 25% on technology, 15% on web design, and 15% on reliability—all aspects of delivering solid web-based content. The weighting focuses on the two areas that would require the most of student's mapmaking and technical abilities. Robust and fun Frye also indicated he was impressed with "how robust the application is. [Woodruff] has several things a user can do at any time. His map could handle the abuse even the flakiest of users might dish out... Some of that's due to the technology (Flash)," he wrote, "but Andy also deserves some credit for figuring it out and exploiting it. Not everybody does that or to the level he did." Not content with following the video's pace? "You could 'speed' by hitting the fast-forward button," said Frye. Urban Ohio.com Woodruff said he got the idea for this map from a friend, Ethan Hahn, who he met in March through the UrbanOhio.com website, an online community that mainly uses photography to showcase what he calls the "urban morphology" of Ohio. "Hahn was interested in doing a website for his Cincinnati videos," said Woodruff, "and—because I was in Harrower's Geography 575 class at the time—it made sense to do it as an interactive map instead." Hahn shot the videos and Woodruff incorporated them into Flash. The Cincinnati Roads map honed his cartographic and advanced Flash programming skills, said Woodruff, but preparing and coordinating the videos was fairly time-consuming. Woodruff also said that he's been able to leverage many of the techniques he learned and components he built for the Cincinnati map for use in other interactive map work. Recently, Woodruff was on the team that began the groundwork for the interactive campus map. His master's thesis, supervised by Prof. Mark Harrower, will examine the utility of aerial photos versus traditional line maps in online mapping environments. Interactive maps are maturing, diffusing "The NACIS Student Web Mapping Contest has been something of a bellwether for web maps in general," wrote NACIS' award director Frye, "and this year it was very clear that the state of that art has matured with highly-integrated elements that are appropriately balanced against one another." Frye wrote that all of this year's entries—not just the winners—had these qualities, indicating that interactive maps are maturing along with the diffusion of design skills to make them. Wrote Frye, "This permits better targeting and presentation of information and knowledge—and I think that helps make our world a better place."

Here's the ultimate graphic for explaining something complicated: