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Scholarship opportunity for 2008 CMSD graduates!

Submitted by lmcshane on Sat, 08/09/2008 - 08:49.

From an esteemed colleague--some good news:

If you know of anyone that graduated from CMSD in 2008 there are full scholarships available to them to attend Tri-C.  The link below will take you to the site.  Below there is some extra information.  There is an informational session on August 16 (information below).

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You will do as I say

Submitted by lmcshane on Sun, 08/03/2008 - 08:24.

Today 8/3/2008, Chris Ronayne gets a front page editorial on the Forum page of the Plain Dealer.  Chris lives in Cleveland and drives to work every day.  I know his commute, because I made a similar commute when I worked at Metrohealth Hospital in the eighties.*  My drive time?  Ten minutes from University Circle to Metrohealth Hospital. Sure, sometimes, it was 15-20 minutes, if traffic held me up, or, if it took forever to get out of the parking lot, but I literally made the commute every day with my eyes closed.  It scared me so much to realize that I was driving in a trance, that I committed myself to public transportation. 

STEP!

Submitted by lmcshane on Sat, 08/02/2008 - 09:14.

Jessica, Aladeen, Mohammad and Mustafa rode their bikes to see the kids perform in Lincoln Park under the stars! 

Scary world ?

Submitted by lmcshane on Mon, 07/28/2008 - 14:51.

(This photo was taken in Berea)

A fellow librarian sent this article link Source: www.nytimes.com:

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What movie changed your life?

Submitted by lmcshane on Thu, 07/24/2008 - 07:56.

My colleague at work suggested that we show movies that matter to the kids this fall.  So, a discussion ensued.  What visuals really made a dent in your life?  We could go on and on about songs that affected us, but films come back to haunt our dreams.

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Summer Reading II

Submitted by lmcshane on Sat, 07/19/2008 - 09:03.

Last night's Bill Moyers Journal discussed the mortgage meltdown and the role of Wall Street and the Federal Reserve Bank with author William Greider--order the book from a local library on line* and educate yourself on how we got ourselves into this mess.  In a word--GREED.

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Who was W.C. Reed?

Submitted by lmcshane on Thu, 07/17/2008 - 09:31.

Who was W.C. Reed? Tremont is fortunate to have a large green space--Lincoln Park--which serves to provide a community center to one Cleveland neighborhood.

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Civil Liberties

Submitted by lmcshane on Sun, 07/13/2008 - 09:29.

Today's PD includes an editorial opposed to Library Director Ken Warren's decision to monitor computer use at Lakewood Public Library. 

Public library patrons should be left alone

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Ingenuity Cool

Submitted by lmcshane on Fri, 07/11/2008 - 13:47.


Graphics speak louder than words, but, of course, the kids know that!!!

G-8 Summit

Submitted by lmcshane on Wed, 07/09/2008 - 07:48.

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Summer Reads

Submitted by lmcshane on Sun, 07/06/2008 - 07:56.

Here's today's Summer's Bliss List.  I have to say this for the PD: Karen R. Long is a goddess!
Cleveland Public Library carries all the titles, so please find these great reads in a library or a locally-owned bookstore such as Visible Voice (west)  and Mac's Backs (east).

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1984

Submitted by lmcshane on Fri, 07/04/2008 - 14:29.

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Old Photos don't lie

Submitted by lmcshane on Thu, 07/03/2008 - 09:09.

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Vampires

Submitted by lmcshane on Wed, 07/02/2008 - 19:05.

I never fell into the category of teen drawn to goth and vampires, but now I understand the attraction. I just finished Twilight by Stephenie Meyers.  It has become the de rigeur rite-of-passage book for the current generation of humans.

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How it was

Submitted by lmcshane on Mon, 06/30/2008 - 19:17.
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Question of the Day? Next City?

Submitted by lmcshane on Sun, 06/29/2008 - 09:56.

Prelude to the Storm

Submitted by lmcshane on Sun, 06/29/2008 - 08:01.

Under Mike White's administration, Abram's Creek in the Rocky River watershed was buried to make way for the expansion of Hopkin's Airport.  Fourteen million dollars in mitigation funding was allocated to restore the Doan Brook watershed.  What happened to the money?

 

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Green Wash job

Submitted by lmcshane on Thu, 06/26/2008 - 07:07.

Leave it to Cleveland politicos--if there is a way to sell sewage, they will do it, and call it GREEN.

Take a close look at the Denison Proposal in Ward 15.  Could the PD make an attempt--just try--to look up the history of Neighborhood Revitalization Partners and subsidized senior housing projects in Toledo and in Akron.  Ten years ago.  Same old tricks.
 

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The Perfect Job

Submitted by lmcshane on Fri, 06/13/2008 - 02:58.

When I worked downtown, I used to ride the bus with an editor from Webster's New World Dictionary (little known secret--the editorial office is located in Cleveland).  His job seemed perfect to me.  He got paid to read newspapers from all over the world and to compile definitions.  This came to mind as I read the latest word release from the Oxford English Dictionary.

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Cleveland--Members Only!

Submitted by lmcshane on Thu, 06/12/2008 - 17:03.


Good neighbor Gloria finds out that Positively Cleveland is a members-only club.

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Cleveland's GEM

Submitted by lmcshane on Sun, 06/08/2008 - 16:27.


My friend and all-around pundit, Lissa (she speaks Italian), pointed this out to me--the Cultural Gardens are alive with song this summer.  

Good Magic vs. Bad Magic

Submitted by lmcshane on Sun, 06/08/2008 - 16:13.

Last week, the kids were treated to a magic show from a fabulous neighbor in Brooklyn Centre.  Now, I have more than one "seer" in the group of kids in this neighborhood, but one family, especially,  has become the resident "genius" family in the 'hood ranging from little Lily on up to her brainiac brothers, their mechanically-inclined father and their fierce supermom, the defender of the clan. 

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Walkable lives

Submitted by lmcshane on Tue, 06/03/2008 - 19:19.

Today, Gloria, Tim and Rudy really deserve credit for trying to make the obvious apparent to our collective political machine with the workshop they organized for NOACA's Liveable, Walkable Communities. 

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Bo Diddley Dies

Submitted by lmcshane on Tue, 06/03/2008 - 09:53.

Bo Diddley died yesterday.  We should all appreciate people before they die, but his was a great life and I can say that I appreciated his life lesson.  He came to perform at Miami University, while I was in college there and I worked on the student program board, so I saw a bit of the off-stage persona, as well as the on-stage persona. 

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Trains

Submitted by lmcshane on Sun, 06/01/2008 - 08:06.

Where do the tracks take us?  Pondering the fate of trains in America.  My Aunt just told me about the Hiawatha Trail in Idaho.  Interesting to see how it is financed.

This shot was taken in Frostburg, MD, with a simple, plastic box camera--no gizmos.

More shots attached.

 

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