RiverViewer

Used to have one, so I'm sure there are good places for it...might need a new bridge over Eden Park Drive connecting to Sinton like it used to, though...I'd dig that!

^That's pretty funny...

Say, KCN, if you see this, I've been having trouble with http://www.riverwatch.noaa.gov/forecasts/ILNRVDILN.shtml - it throws a server error, and has done so every day since Saturday...in fact, http://www.RiverWatch.NOAA.gov is down entirely...I assume folks are aware and scrambling to get things back up, but didn't know if you'd heard what was up?

Do you have any idea what source, year or measure they used? Because everything I'm seeing from every year contradicts their claims...cargo value, tonnage, etc. - nothing corroborates that claim...haven't seen numbers for number of shipments, but that would mean "busiest" to my mind, not "largest."

That sounds suspicious...digging around... According to the American Association of Port Authorities, Toledo in total moved 9.9MM short tons in 2003 - 7.7MM foreign, the rest domestic. Compare that to Duluth, with 13.1MM short tons of foreign shipping (and a total of 38MM!). Toledo doesn't even move 2/3rds as much foreign cargo as Duluth. According to the Toledo Port Authority, the port moved 9.4MM short tons in 2004 and 10.7MM in 2005. That's total volume, not just international, and even so, it's still below Duluth's international alone: http://www.duluthport.com/tonnagestats/yearend-20045-tonnage.html (they use metric tons - to convert to short tons, multiply metric tons by 1.1025) - so they did 15.5MM short tons of foreign trade in Duluth in 2004 (couldn't find 2005 numbers). Toledo may be 2nd, but they ain't anywhere near first. Don't know who wrote that webpage, but they ought to check with their friendly local Port Authorities first! Again, from the American Association of Port Authorities, here's a list of the top US ports by cargo tonnage. Looks like the top ten US Great Lakes ports, in order, would be: Duluth-Superior, MN and WI 38,343,379 Chicago, IL 22,609,742 Detroit, MI 14,308,032 Indiana Harbor, IN 14,132,553 Two Harbors, MN 13,032,598 Cleveland, OH 12,620,794 Ashtabula, OH 10,426,942 Toledo, OH 9,864,318 Gary, IN 9,010,338 Presque Isle, MI 8,775,676

Yeah, I forgot to mention, I really dig the new "They're building such CRAAAAP!!!" feature of your posts!

That actually sounds like a cool gig - most of the data entry jobs I've had have been pretty mind-numbing - at least that would be amusing!

I'm surprised those are considered East Walnut Hills - the maps I've seen all draw the East End/East Walnut Hills line at Columbia Parkway, and Gladstone is definitely south of that. Here's a link to the CAGIS map of the area...but the assessor's page agrees with you! Maybe the dividing line is actually the railroad tracks... Regardless, that spot will rock out. I had some friends who lived in the first house on Collins up the hill from Gladstone - here's a shot I took during Paddlefest last summer, with my friends' house circled: Those places will have a fantastic river view...

When you don't have to drive anywhere, snow is definitely beautiful...thanks for the live update!

KTP, I'd just say that the important thing for a child is growing up with discipline, love, and his or her material needs being met. Everything other than that is secondary. Lots of single parents do a great job; lots of straight couples do a poor job. Being ridiculed for being fat or ugly or thin or tall or short or speaking weird or anything else, that's going to happen. Being confused because you lose your grandparents young or your parents are dorks or weird or into square dancing or anything else is unavoidable, but also secondary. Yes, having gay parents would be different from other kids - but they're different from each other as well. If a gay couple can provide love, discipline, food and shelter, I can't imagine their kid will end up any more unique than any other kid. God bless them all...

Jake, that was the I-40 bridge over the Arkansas River in Webber Falls, Oklahoma: http://www.answers.com/topic/the-i-40-bridge-disaster (I had to google to remember...)

I definitely understand being swept away by them - I almost laughed through the entire Mahler 5 first movement they did back in the 90's, it was so amazingly good...the 2nd most amazing concert of my life was the Firebird Suite they did with Dohnyani...(the first was Cincinnati's Sibelius 2 last year...sorry!). I still need to hear them in the renovated hall, though - it's been years...

^Indeed. But since that includes the navigable portions of the Kanawha river, I'm assuming that area includes Charleston. I'm surprised that, except for Tulsa, OK, all of the top 20 largest inland ports from east of (or right on) the Mississippi...nothing off the Missouri River? The Red, the Brazos? I guess major industry is pretty much all east?

What's the story behind that name?

Indeed... It's Krivsky on deck New GM emerged as obvious choice for job By Marc Lancaster Post staff reporter Wayne Krivsky's first interview in his second attempt to become general manager of the Reds blew everyone in the room away. "He was totally prepared," Reds CEO Bob Castellini said of that initial meeting Feb. 1 at Great American Ball Park. It wasn't just that the Minnesota Twins' assistant general manager demonstrated an insider's knowledge of the Reds' personnel and put forth a plan to build a winner in Cincinnati, it was the way he presented it all. Krivsky was the first person identified as a candidate to replace Dan O'Brien, and the first from outside the organization to get an interview. He agreed to a two-year contract through the 2007 season with mutual options for 2008 and 2009. Financial terms were not immediately available. Full story at http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060209/SPT05/602090319/1027

I wonder what the four larger inland ports are...maybe Great Lakes cities plus St. Louis?

Hey, is the land where the Coluseum used to sit available? That'd be a great leap forward!

...and Chattanooga! Though it's not a big city, it's still hilly and frickin' outrageously beautiful...

The Little Miami is about a mile away, but it's not going to be viewable from that place...

^I'm 100% with you there...it's why I never plan to leave Cincinnati, but if I had to, I'd pick Chattanooga long before I'd ever pick Chicago...

I suspect ColDay's $625 house suffers primarily from Dumb-ass Realtor Syndrome...I'd assume that's a typo...

Well, the cool thing about the arch, from someone who's only a three-time-visitor (but who fell in love with St. Louis in those cumulative maybe four days total), is that 1) you can see it from all the f*** over the place - like, you may not visit the park, but you can be (seemingly) ten miles away, and it will poke out between buildings. With the bowl Cincinnati sits in, that's really not an option - but it's gotta help tie St. Louisians to the arch... And the other thing about it is that it's impossible to take a bad picture of the arch...every angle is interesting...it's an astonishingly simple and yet complex structure...absolutely gorgeous...

Yeah, you can really see the colors...thank you!

That sounds very cool...

I'd assume "minority" is defined in statute and in case law, not by the quirks of local demographics...