Dispositions of U.S. and allied forces in Iraq, as reported in a Pentagon press briefing of April 30, 2004. Original URL: http://www.defenselink.mil/DODCMSShare/briefingslide/52/040430-D-6570C-006.jpg

I was trying to estimate the number of US troops overseas, right now, and came across an interesting list of facts about the war in Iraq, compiled by a Guide on About.com, a New York Times Company. I'm pleased to see US Monthly spending in Iraq has declined from $12 billion to $7.3 billion, from 2008 to 2009... although the world-at-war is escalating military actions in Afghanistan. Ultimately, have we scaled-back the world-at-war machine globally, since Obama took office in January, 2009?

I was reading a moving article on NYTimes.com today - As Families Gather at Dover, Efforts to Ease Pain - that had a surprising fact... President Obama Gave $250,000 Of His Nobel Prize Money To Help Build A Hotel?!?!

the property we own (and had owned for over 40 years) around treehouse (our old southside market) is a great location to help the neighborhood and keep its historic roots. I had proposed underground and above ground parking to alleviate parking issues in the neighborhood as well as residential retail mix above to support funding for parking with a historically correct design based on sustainable and green practices to fit seemlessly within the streetscape.

The steam column rising from the coffee cups is three dimensional - this image is similar to an x-ray of a bone.

 This jogger suffered horrific injuries when he was caught in a storm raining hail the size of golf balls.

Storm is Hail on Earth for Jogger

Maps start to look interesting when they hit 1,100 shakes. Aftershocks from the Easter quake have rocketed this tally way beyond anything we've experienced in recent years.

There can be no question Ohio has a dismal record on public policy and the environment - we are a national disaster. The Governor-appointed Public Utility Commission has failed to protect the public interests of citizens and has embarassed the citizens of the state in countless ways, most recently with matters surrounding an absurd light bulb subsidy program they divised with First Energy, report on realNEO here..."Let Me Introduce To You Five Public Servants Who Just Cost Citizens Of Unreal NEO Millions Of Dollars, While Poisoning Them".

Today, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports energy policy in Ohio is moving from laughable to criminal... damn-well communist... announcing that "Governor pushes for permanent discounts on all-electric heating", leading off with the following:

I've been printing out many of the unique panorama photo collages of real NEO that I have created over the past six years, which I have displayed as headers on realNEO, as I plan to sell editions of some favorite images to raise money for realNEO. I'm currently producing a series from many shoots at Whiskey Island, in memory of my friend Ed Hauser.

They are stunning, printed in their full glory. Composed of often dozens of high resolution images, these panoramas are 100s of megapixels in size and, printed at 300x300 ppi resolution, they are around 8 feet long... and some may be printed up to 36 feet long, while still holding a strong image.

How low will Cleveland and Northeast Ohio sink in the global new economy, as a result of the embarrassment the leadership of the Cleveland Plain Dealer and their Newhouse parents have brought upon this community, as a result of their pathetic if not illegal misuse of information technology and the Internet here? It doesn't get much lower than this... "Cuyahoga County Judge Shirley Strickland Saffold files $50 million lawsuit against The Plain Dealer and others".

Linked above is the PD spin on this case. Read the actual lawsuit linked as a PDF here (1.13 MB)... and read all the way to the end, where it concludes "Plaintiffs demand a trial by jury by the maximum number of jurors permitted". Smart move for the citizens-Saffold to choose to be judged by their peers.

The coal-industry group Families Organized to Represent the Coal Economy, which doesn’t actually allow families to join, has a wonderfully crappy coloring book for children. Let’s have a look!

by Greg Haegele, Sierra Club on 10.15.09

by Matthew McDermott, New York, NY on 04. 5.10

Some photos recently taken in and around Tremont and Brooklyn Centre. 

I know of three high level bridges that will allow you to cross the Cuyahoga River as a pedestrian or cyclist--Superior, Lorain and Harvard Ave. 

It would benefit all of us to have the Clark Ave. Bridge, again.

More hard hitting investigative journalism from the Plain Dealer...

Why do we even bother?

"Political language...is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." - george orwell

"Entrepreneurs" do not maintain résumés for employment, but they do need to maintain a running tally about their professional lives, for various purposes... something I refer to as a curriculum vitae (CV). As I'm growing many entrepreneurial initiatives, I'm updating my CV... so I tracked down my latest version, from 2000. Since then, I've launched ICEarth, realNEO, Star Neighborhood Development, 7Gen, and Bigbang Tech, which I must now add to my life-list below... useful information for someone first getting to know me... but is that good enough for Ireland?

The United States Military is in the midst of a troop surge in Afghanistan, but the surge has caused the ratio of resources to troops to widen. Many American Forward Operating Bases are experiencing food and water shortages.  

U.S. military goes hungry in Afghanistan

By Samantha A. Torrence.

 Collateral Murder WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad -- including two Reuters news staff. Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom of Information Act, without success since the time of the attack.

 Co-Chair Lena Jackson's response to the discovery of the "unauthorized" letter allegedly writted by Kristen Trolio

 Letter dated November 24, 2008, which according to TWDC Executive Chris Garland, was written by Kristen Trolio.

Question is - under who's direction and authority?

guy has video of the dec.18, 2010, twdc board meeting and when jerleen question the board and chris garland was there also on who wrote and authorized the  "unauthorized letter" no one would admitt anything except as jerleen wrote about dean - all of a sudden my good friend chris is stating lena is not telling the the truth and that lena was the one that "authorized" the unauthorized letter - someone is not telling the truth and lena and the group wouldn't authorize said letter that is not in their best interest - since said citizens viol