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King Records is a pretty important piece of 20th century history in Cincinnati. It's definitely worthy of protection and turning into a museum.

I'm glad this was posted because it's utterly wrong in almost every respect. First, a calorie is a unit of energy, but that is irrelevant to the human experience. We do not have a system for directly sensing and regulating units of energy, we have a hormonal system that senses and regulates hunger and satiety. That system is not tuned directly to units of energy, thus a calorie is not just a calorie. It's about how satisfied that calorie makes you feel. Without getting into a long and tedious discussion of the different hormonal and neurological responses to eating this or that, it's generally safe to say that fat and protein make us more satisfied - per calorie - than carbs, especially simple carbs. You can tweak this by eating more complex carbs or by eating a lot of fiber with the carbs, but on a basic level, that carb calorie will not increase satiety as much as that fat or protein calorie. And we stop eating when we feel full, not when we reach a certain calorie target or our stomachs stretch to a certain size. This all starts to lead into the history of obesity and heart disease research in the mid 20th century and the fat-vs-sugar battle that came out of that, but that's another story as well. You just said you were glad I posted what I did because it was almost completely and utterly wrong, but then you basically made most of the same points in your post... Nah, you just don't understand what you're talking about. I hate to break it down too simply because the more simple you put it, the less universally accurate it is, but: Sugar calories make people fat, not fat calories. It's really hard to become very overweight just on extra fat, all things being equal our bodies have a reliable system of telling us to stop eating it. We don't have that for sugars. Sorry, I'm not trying to troll you or be rude. But correct health information is important to me, personally and professionally.

I'm glad this was posted because it's utterly wrong in almost every respect. First, a calorie is a unit of energy, but that is irrelevant to the human experience. We do not have a system for directly sensing and regulating units of energy, we have a hormonal system that senses and regulates hunger and satiety. That system is not tuned directly to units of energy, thus a calorie is not just a calorie. It's about how satisfied that calorie makes you feel. Without getting into a long and tedious discussion of the different hormonal and neurological responses to eating this or that, it's generally safe to say that fat and protein make us more satisfied - per calorie - than carbs, especially simple carbs. You can tweak this by eating more complex carbs or by eating a lot of fiber with the carbs, but on a basic level, that carb calorie will not increase satiety as much as that fat or protein calorie. And we stop eating when we feel full, not when we reach a certain calorie target or our stomachs stretch to a certain size. This all starts to lead into the history of obesity and heart disease research in the mid 20th century and the fat-vs-sugar battle that came out of that, but that's another story as well.

I think it should just be what it will be. My philosophy of planning is that you just push values and resist micromanagement. They got everything right at the banks that needed to be right: good street grid, green spaces, transit connections. If, economically, it wants to be all chain bars and restaurants right now, who cares? Those spaces can be anything they want to be. This is the whole philosophy behind the form-based code movement. The form matters, the use not so much.

Never figured out the allure of that one. Aside from the bathroom, having my own kitchen was one of the biggest goals of moving from roommates to my own apartment.

That's a low blow. No seriously, his nuts are like 6 inches off the floor.

Driverless road transit portends advances in AI that are so fundamental that conversing about specific early applications of these advances (such as transit) are extremely speculative at best. My intuition is that speculating about cheaper transit because you don't have to pay labor costs isn't seeing the economic forest for the trees. The economics of human labor as we know it will cease to exist.

Not sure if this has been posted yet? https://twitter.com/ChrisSeelbach/status/785906684560609280/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Hit piece from Reason.com. This young woman clearly had marching orders to pull every bad piece of news over the past 9 years and cobble it together in an article. This is why I'm always telling my family: Get your news from your favorite echo chamber at your own peril. Whoever would casually read this piece would learn nothing about the actual process and history of this project. http://reason.com/blog/2016/09/17/cincinnati-streetcar-launch-is-disaster

Is there a point to your constant commenting? You seem to keep hearing these mysterious people on the Streetcar who are complaining about what a waste of money it is, then you keep complaining about how slow it is. I call BS on pretty much most of your posts regarding this. You seem to be having a different experience than any of the UO forumers in regards to what others are saying, so I'm guessing it's made up to stir drama. So, in other words, pretty much par for the course. Well that was constructive.

In planner speak that's called "unplanned exchange." It's kind of one of the pillars of civilization. Always amazes me that America gets by with so little of it.

Rode it last night between 8 pm and 10 pm. Pros: Extremely popular. Nice ride. Decals not as fugly in person. The riding experience shows the true human-scaled size and complexity of the central city, and all the opportunity still there for further revitalization. Each abandoned building becomes a thing to behold and catalog, even for the layman, rather than going by in a car and combining a whole block of OTR into "ghetto." Cons: Slow. Too many stops on Main.

Quite a nice park was built there, it begins in the lower right corner of the rendering and extends from there off screen.

This will be a big long-term test of the theory that as long as you build the bones of the development right, individual stages of its evolution don't really matter. The Banks will be whatever it will be. What is important is that it extended the block pattern of downtown, it has transportation connections, and great public space. All it really needs in the long run is the decks over FWW.

Yup.

There is no debate to this issue at all. It is simply the mayor trying to stifle the success of the transit project in any way he still can. Reality is against him, though. As soon as the thing starts operating and people see how it fits into city life, logical roles for it like moving people during events will be so self-evident that nobody will ever remember that for the first 2 years of operation they shut it down during Octoberfest.

Looks good enough to me!

I don't know the most up-to-date statistics, but at least as of a couple years ago, Wal-Mart sold more groceries than anyone else in the U.S. Fairly certain that remains the case. Kroger may be the largest "traditional" grocer, but there are definitely bigger fish out there. I think WalMart did about $140 billion in US groceries last year, while Kroger did $100 billion. Kroger's future though is in collecting information more than selling groceries. When you walk into a modern Kroger, an AI is tracking you everywhere, analyzing your traffic pattern, calling cashiers to the registers when it predicts check-out traffic is about to spike, then analyzes your entire purchase since you swiped that Kroger Plus Card. This may somewhat explain why Kroger has not aggressively pursued urban format. Their almost self-aware intelligence gathering system has probably indicated that the right opportunity is still in the future.

I agree that it would be a little ridiculous to build a facility that had its own park space and parking garage on top of the most amenitized urban land in the state. I think the city understands this and we'll see something different.

I'm sure that building will have some of the most expensive square footage in the city over the long term. It looks right onto Music Hall.

It's going to boom because it's the first direct freeway connection to the regions second largest employment center, largest medical center, and largest university. I think it's pretty imminent.