The image above is of the Goodyear Wrangler tire which blew out on the rear axel of my van.  

Every car has a tire constructed just like this.  Fabric (polyester, etc) cord running across the tire, and steel cord alligned around  the circumference of the tire. 

Synthetic rubber everwhere in between.

When it blows up - this is what it looks like.

De-lamination.

Civil Discourse in Cleveland hit its high with Ed Morrison's Regional Economic Iniciatives , (Betsy Merkel and Susan Altshuler organizing Ed) (and Craig and Sue James as facilitators). Sorry City Club, your conversations are  1 way.

I was lucky to find out about these Tuesday afternoon free civic meetings by chance.   Don't really know why I went...

 You don't find many women mechanics - why is that ? Sure, there is the oil and grease which gets under your fingernails and in your skin, but there are surgical gloves which can help.

Toledo, Ohio The city is ensnared in a scandal within its Department of Neighborhoods that involves alleged bid rigging and stolen funds. The FBI and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development are investigating the crimes. Toledo scores poorly when it comes to income and property tax rates.intimidation of a police officer who was investigating a department employee,

• possible theft of money and equipment
• improper bidding procedures
• unexplained increases in project costs

The image above shows the harvesting of salt from the Cargill salt ponds on the southern end of Bonaire, WI.  

There are just two employees - one operating the Caterpillar dozer and one driving the Caterpillar belly dump.  The belly dump is filled to overflowing in just a few minutes.   Much of this salt gets shipped by sea to the icy parts of North America for road de-icing.   

HUD Dollar Trafficking

Please watch this video and witness the stupidity of our Landmark Commission and Council representatives:

The image above shows a pattern of weathering erosion  in the stucco surface on the easterly facing vertical wall of a masonry building on Bonaire, WI. 

Stucco is applied to the wall with a trowel from a mortar hod - the mortar is loaded into a hod after the stucco is mixed in a rotary mixer or mixed in a wheelbarrow or on at flat surface.

Nuclear reactor near Chicago, Illinois, vented steam with radioactive Tritium on Monday, Jan 30, 2012. A nuclear reactor at a northern Illinois plant, about 95 miles (152 km) northwest of Chicago, shut down at 10:18 am, local time (16:18 UTC), after losing power.

They say that the best camera is the one you have with you.   It's true. 

Carry a camera, and you are more apt to get the images. 

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When I went to my friend's gas station, there was Larry, reading the newspaper next to the desk in the office, with his glasses almost falling off his face.

Cleveland City Council folks are being evasive--they know that the shady contractor Peter Tien has asked the Mayor and Council's approval for some up front money.  Fortunately, Ohio Citizen Action (and to his credit, Councilman Brian Cummins) are on top of the shell game:

  "Today is the 30th birthday of the man who holds the European record for reciting pi from memory, Daniel Paul Tammet. It took him five hours and nine minutes to recite 22,514 digits of pi (the number that begins 3.14). 

"Say howdy to George Carter, and thank him for taking the pistol from you when you were shooting at me." A newly discovered letter from a freed former slave to his onetime master is creating a buzz. Letters of Note explains that in August of 1865, a Colonel P.H.

Washington’s emergency management director is encouraging individuals, businesses, schools and service groups to participate in a regional earthquake preparedness drill.The Great Central U.S. ShakeOut will take place Tuesday, Feb. 7, at 10:15 a.m.Those taking part are asked to practice “Drop, Cover and Hold On” — drop to the ground, take cover under a table or desk and hold on to it.

(see angel cuevas links) -View full sizeChuck Crow, The Plain DealerTwo holes in the ceiliing of a East 131st Street fire station that is scheduled to be r

Like every reader, my attention is grabbed by news reports about creativity and unique events.  

Today, Google News carried a piece about the two Canadian high school fellows who sent a helium balloon with cameras to the stratisphere and then recovered the cameras.  The news media has dubbed the advanture "Lego Man in Space" because the balloon carried a Lego man holding the Canadian maple leaf flag and the on board cameras recorded images of the man/flag against the curvature of the earth.  

wish sandwich!

Submitted by ralph solonitz on Mon, 08/03/2009 - 10:12.

VIDEO - The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) President Jefferson Keel delivered the annual "State of Indian Nations" Address Thursday morning, just two days after President Obama's "State of the Union" Address.

Mr. Keel spoke to a live studio audience of tribal citizens and leaders, Congressional employees, federal government officials, students and advocates. Representative Tom Cole (R-OK), an enrolled member of the Chickasaw Nation, provided the Congressional response.

Need a getaway from a crazy Cleveland weather day?

While away time at the Cleveland Artist Foundation for an exhibit of August Biehle featuring works from his period in Zoar, Ohio.  You may be fortunate enough, as I was today, to engage in great conversation with major area art collectors.

Tues the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences declared the nominees for the 2012 Academy Awards show. And with that comes the release of the free official Oscars Application. The application offers buzz, live feeds galore, and a virtual pass to the A-list after party. Source of article: The official Oscars App puts you on the red carpet

A free application

Examining the levels of mania in any environment require the examiner to fairly and reasonably evaluate the defining normal values of the environment and all the factors of the various participants. Failure to equitably balance the concepts can result in critical mistakes and disregard for the truth. In most cases, it requires a degree to make such a diagnosis. 

Almost everything they teach us about the ancient history is wrong: origin of men, civilizations and pyramids. Homo sapiens sapiens is not a result of the evolution and biologists will never find a “missing link”, because the intelligent man is product of genetic engineering. Sumerians are not the beginning of the civilized men, but rather beginning of another cycle of humanity. And finally, original pyramids, most superior and oldest, were made by advanced builders who knew energy, astronomy and construction better than we do.

With the internet, finding a needle in a haystack is no longer an issue. 

I just put the following item up on a Craigslist site.   Let's see what happens!

guy templeton black and sophia honey yoga (service canine) i'm a board canidate and have my proposed by-laws and to avoid a potential harmfull situation for us -  i would like to speak to the members with a point of order -  for a minute at 6:30 discussion time with my hand held loud speaker or your speaker system and state that i'm a canidate and by-laws and it is a lot easier for me to speak to you now  and not go to the tables between the chairs etc.