blogs

n/a
( categories: )

n/a
( categories: )

Coast Guard reloads on firing range !

Submitted by Zebra Mussel on Fri, 01/05/2007 - 15:39.
I know all the readers will be deeply depressed to learn that for the moment the Coast Guard WILL NOT be creating live fire ranges to apply LEAD via bow turrent mounted magazine fed applicators  to our great lake ( and source of drinking and love water).  Now all you have to be worried about are schools of 'trojan fish' migrating from the cuyahoga river towards the 5 mile crib (intake for are drinking water).    Anyway here's the skinny....

Sunday, December 24, 2006

n/a
( categories: )

dancer of the day

Submitted by Susan Miller on Sat, 12/30/2006 - 11:44.

My hero, the man whose ideas expanded my own is interviewed here about his life and work. I had the opportunity to work with one of his very first dancers, Albert Reid when I was a 15 year old bunhead at a summer ballet school in Saratoga, NY. Needless to say, it changed my life and the course of my life’s work and world view.  So now that I have ended my career as artistic director of a modern dance repertory company here in Northeast Ohio, I, like Merce, am still dancing and still seeing dance even though I may not be entering theaters to do so as often as before. Now for example I head out for the dance of dog walking. Today, the lighting design is especially brilliant.

( categories: )

In ultimate act of healing, Ford left last words "Rumsfeld and Cheney and the president made a big mistake..."

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Fri, 12/29/2006 - 02:02.

I'm just old enough to remember Watergate, and Nixon's resignation, and President Ford pardoning him, and Chevy Chase spoofing Ford throughout his presidency, and the end of the Viet Nam War, and then Ford was gone, defeated by Carter. Ford died December 26, 2006, and the headline in the Plain Dealer the following day was "The Accidental President." The news also referred to him as "a healer", taken from the title of Ford's autobiography "A Time To Heal". To me, his legacy was not especially memorable, until I learned Ford had conducted a series of interviews with Watergate investigative reporter Bob Woodward, of the Washington Post, to be published after Ford's death, which make public Ford's exclamation "Rumsfeld and Cheney and the president made a big mistake in justifying going into the war in Iraq." This was published in the Washington Post December 28th, and spread like wildfire, and is certainly Ford's greatest contribution to world peace imaginable.

Bill Callahan's Cleveland Diary details risk of regional buying... NOPEC natural gas will be 33% higher than Dominion

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Thu, 12/28/2006 - 19:21.

Cleveland Vision's Bill Callahan hosts a remarkably insightful blog called Cleveland Diary where he digs deeper into fascinating regional economic issues than anyone else on Earth, in a very precise and reputable way. Today, he posted a fasinating revelation that "NOPEC natural gas will be 33% higher than Dominion East Ohio next month", because "Dominion’s current residential rate of $12.49 per mcf will fall to around $9.90 starting in mid-January" while "the rate charged by the Northeast Ohio Public Energy Council (NOPEC) — at $12.68, already higher than East Ohio’s — is going up next month to around $13.13." He goes on to point out, "So tens of thousands of residents of Cleveland and other NE Ohio cities who were automatically “opted in” to the NOPEC supply deal last Spring by our cities, and didn’t go to the trouble to opt out — either because they believed in the promised savings, or weren’t sure what to think, or just didn’t understand the system at all — will now be paying 33% more for NOPEC gas than they’d be paying as Dominion East Ohio customers." Well, by some stroke of luck, I'm still a Dominion customer... I sure didn't understand the system at all.

Cleveland Plain Dealer columnist Sheryl Harris gives holiday gift to keep giving until 2008

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Tue, 12/26/2006 - 15:03.

On Sunday, December 24, 2006, Cleveland Plain Dealer columnist Sheryl Harris wrote a column I thought to write myself, titled "My holiday gift to you: A list of Ohio politicians who sold you out", "a list of the Northeast Ohio legislators who voted to curtail your consumer rights" by passing lobbyist, lawyer and industry-benefiting Amended Substitute Senate Bill Number 117, allowing significant corporate entitlements to soar through the Ohio legislature without community debate. The amendments are most significantly designed "to prohibit the use of enterprise theories of liability against manufacturers in product liability claims, and to include public nuisance claims under the definition of product liability claims", meaning to protect the paint industry here from liability for the public nuisance they have caused by selling lead based paint nearly a century after it was known to harm humans, as proved in their loss to the State of Rhode Island earlier this year. The amendments also protect car dealers, scam loan sharks, manufacturers, etc. from real accountability for harming the public. The legislators who are guilty of this abuse of their offices were listed in the PD article with the suggestion that is "a keepsake you could clip and save." Local blogger Jill Miller Zimon repeated the list on her excellent blog, "Writes like she talks", and I repeat it here, so it may be as present in cyberspace and available to the world as possible. We will need this list over the next many years, until all of these anti-Ohioan men and women are driven from public "service", as they have shown they do not protect public interests. By having this information in as many public places as possible, I hope we the people will be more successful protecting the public than has our legislature under current rule. The list of sell outs and further harms they cause the public is as follows, from Cleveland Plain Dealer columnist Sheryl Harris:

Happy Holidays 2006

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Mon, 12/25/2006 - 00:43.

 

This afternoon I came across a truly revolting locally-produced channel 5 I believe Christmas special filmed at Crocker Park, celebrating what appeared to be 1,000,000s of plastic Christmas lights a-burning, and 1,000s of plastic people a-shopping, and 100s of plastic big boxes a-selling, and that made me appreciate the humble and community-based holiday season I have enjoyed, with peaceful moments of good cheer talking with local shopkeepers I've known in some cases over a decade, wishing them joy for the new year, and hearing the same from them, like friends, and buying local little things, knowing tomorrow they will be truly appreciated, as simple as can be.

( categories: )

It seems time to open up the OneCleveland network vision of Cleveland Heights, to see if there is value for others

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Sun, 12/24/2006 - 02:02.

The other day I saw, in The Cleveland Plain Dealer and Crain's Cleveland Business, an announcement Case University is funding OneCleveland to put wifi in some high density, affluent commercial and residential rental and home ownership cores of Cleveland Heights. Justifying the expenditure, from Crain's: “Part of the entry into Cleveland Heights is that it’s really an extended community of Case Western,” said OneCommunity chief operating officer Mark Ansboury, and Cleveland Heights law director John Gibbon said. “It’s designed primarily as a trial for the business district, but it certainly will hit a number of residences, as well.” From the PD: "Lewis Zipkin, a major Cleveland Heights landlord" is qouted saying: "It's going to be a terrific benefit for me, my properties and the community". If I were a Case student or trustee, SBC/AT&T, the Cable company or a person living in a less affluent community, I'd have serious concerns about all of this. In fact, as my wife is a Case Ph.D. student being assessed $100s a year by Case for a technology fee, which it now seems is going to Cleveland Heights, I guess I have a right to be concerned myself.

Another interesting way art and science meet in University Circle ....

Submitted by Evelyn Kiefer on Tue, 12/12/2006 - 15:02.

I have been following this fascinating debate in the pages of the New York Times, the PD and on CASE Daily (CASE's online newsletter). About 2 months ago I also attended a CASE physics department symposium where Kate Jones-Smith and Ellen Landau were the guest speakers on this subject. That afternoon Jone-Smith and Landau captivated a large audience of scientists and art historians -- a group that does not often come together on this campus! On this debate I side with Jones-Smith and Landau. I think the Pollocks are real and I hope I get to see them in person someday. Fractal or not, seeing Pollock's drip paintings is an experience like no other.

read on ...

Case Western Reserve University physicists refute analysis of Jackson Pollock's paintings


Courtesy of Alex Matter

Ubuntu Linux, to be king for a day!

Submitted by Phillip Williams on Mon, 12/11/2006 - 11:37.

mandriva    fedora    ubuntu    debian    suse  
Google trends

For the many people who read RealNEO you are, I am sure, aware that we use Linux not only on the servers, but also on the desktop.  In the past there have been a couple distributions used, however in the second quarter of 2006 the Ubuntu distribution was loaded and we have not looked back.
( categories: )

Cleveland Orchestra makes more than Holst Planets align, as they explore new frontiers of experiences with classical music

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Mon, 12/11/2006 - 01:02.

It is always a pleasure and privilege to see the Cleveland Orchestra perform at Severance Hall, but their presentation of Gustav Holst's "The Planets" was unique and special. This is a great creative set of compositions, being composed in 1914-1916 as highly expressive, at times avant-garde voyages to each of the planets known at the time, long before man had physically probed space, and no man has probed space more aptly than did Holst. And, I doubt any men and women could probe the complexities of these compositions more ably than does the Cleveland Orchestra.

New, Unseen Marilyn Monroe Photos Unveiled

Submitted by Phillip Williams on Sun, 12/10/2006 - 14:34.

Marilyn

"Five previously unseen candid photographs of Marilyn Monroe have now been released, with limited edition prints being distributed to select galleries throughout the United Kingdom.

The photographs are not posed, and capture the star in her most private moments- in bed, on a plane and in front of a mirror. Only 495 prints of each photo have been made, making them very exclusive.

The photos are were unveiledfor the first time today at a Marilyn-themed event at the Meller Gallery in Witney, Oxfordshire. They will be available only until Christmas."

Read the full article here: http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/862

( categories: )

Forestry Stewardship Council (FSC) Certified Wood

Submitted by Zebra Mussel on Fri, 12/08/2006 - 22:57.

I saw some Forestry Stewardship Certified (FSC) timber products at Home Depot.  2 years ago they pledged to sell 40% FSC certified timber products.  Last year 60%.  The word on the street is that there is not even enough supply on the street yo.

Heights a Holiday Store

Submitted by Susan Miller on Thu, 12/07/2006 - 14:54.

Shopping at Heights Arts Holiday Store supports local artists and the local economy, and provides unique gifts for your friends, relatives, or yourself.
 
Paintings, prints, collage, photography, glass, ceramics, cards, scarves, jewelry, dolls, and more by:

Jon Abrahamson, Ambiente, Todd Anderson, Judith Angelo, Pamela Argentieri, Anna Arnold, Herbert Ascherman, Jr., Kris Barnes, Peter Billington, Dana Bjorklund, Cathie Bleck, David Brichford, Ann Caywood Brown, Craig Bungo, Gail Burdick, Catherine Butler, H.C. Cassill, Janet Century, Wendy Collin Sorin, Rene Culler, Bonnie Dolin, G.M. Donley, Kathryn Ellis, Gene Epstein, Betsy Fallon, Gretchen Gaede, Susan Gallagher, Joann Giordano, Zach Gorell, Marge Grevatt, John Gulyas and Maryann Posch, David Hagen, Joel Hauserman, Matthew Hollern, Margaret Kimura, Anne T. Kmieck, Ursula Korneitchouk, Tomasz Kowalczyk, Jean Kubota Cassill, Laura Kulber, Joanne Laessig, Andrea Leblond, Joan Lederer, Rick Lewin, Nancy Markham, Tobi Mattes, Susan McNamara, Shannon Morris, Robert Muller, Lynn O'Brien, Melissa O'Grady, Susan Prendergast, Debbie Apple Presser, Quandle Qadir, Robert Raack, Jeanne Regan, Jennifier Rohrer, Michael Romanik, Debra Rosen, Ann Rosmarin, Viktor Schreckengost, Patricia Schneider, Susan Skove, Steve Sorin, Susan Squires, Ellen Strong, Mark Sudduth, Anne Taylor, Jeremy Tugeau, Douglas Max Utter, Vivian Vail, Rafael Valdivieso, Roger Warner, Roy Woda, Theresa Yondo, Brent Kee Young, and Paula Zinsmeister.

( categories: )

Crayon Carving Art

Submitted by Phillip Williams on Sun, 12/03/2006 - 13:11.
Crayon Art
It amazes me that people can see in something so amazing.  This artisit, Pete Goldlust, has taken the staple of many a childhood and turned it into something wonderous (at least to me anyhow).
( categories: )

n/a
( categories: )

n/a
( categories: )

Nanotech products harm the environment!?!

Submitted by Zebra Mussel on Thu, 11/23/2006 - 14:21.

In a striking change of direction the USEPA has decided to regulate an ever growing part of consumer culture....  pesticides built into our products.

As you may have noticed you can get just about anything these days in "antibacterial" form.  Windex, socks, deodorant, zebart tidycar antibacterial car wash, hell even my keen sandals have "no odor footbeds" impregnated with what Ray Anderson CEO of Interface calls " Microbial Inhibitors".  Dont be fooled fellow citizens for the fancy terms used in place of the regulatoraly defined word pesticide.  That word, with all this organic food fan fair can cause negitive vibrations.... rightly so, maufacturers are shying away.

A sustainable Thanksgiving

Submitted by Evelyn Kiefer on Wed, 11/22/2006 - 01:00.

The food we eat is one big area of each of our lives where we have opportunities to impact the “triple bottom line” of sustainability:  supporting healthy people, a healthy planet, and healthy profit to the local economy.

( categories: )

Bla Bla Bla

Submitted by Phillip Williams on Mon, 11/13/2006 - 17:53.

Bla Bla Bla
Hummm, This is just a sound I hear.
Nothing of importance being said
, so all I hear is Bla Bla Bla.
Then one day I hear it no more...

( categories: )

7th International Art Fair Toronto: Art Toronto 2006

Submitted by Evelyn Kiefer on Sun, 11/12/2006 - 02:23.

I had the great pleasure to attend the 7th Toronto International Art Fair:  “Art Toronto 2006”.  Over 80 galleries from all over the world  selling  20th and 21st century art were represented at the four day event held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. The majority of the galleries were from Canada, but there were also many from the United States and Germany and others from Spain, England, the Netherlands, Columbia and Argentina. 

Twinkle, twinkle, little star... Night Lights in Toronto

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Sun, 11/12/2006 - 00:28.

An organization in Toronto called New Mind Space hosts some very innovative public events I've been following online, and this week got to join in on - in this case, something called Night Lights. The point of the event was to bring lots of people together to increase awareness of light pollution... the light humans create that blocks the light the Creator creates. In NEO, you can look at the issue as the glare off Jacobs Field when they burn the lights even when there isn't a game, or the wasted electricity to do that (BTW, think of all the sick KWHs and coal/oil wasted and pollution created as you celebrate Christmas lights this season). - in every case... duh. I've never heard this subject raised in NEO at all, anywhere, but I've always been very disturbed to come into the city from the East and see the sky turn from black, with stars, to grey/blue/red with smoke and light pollution. Try it some time - drive from Chagrin Falls into downtown on a clear night and watch the sky turn to crap. Consider that, and then realize last week I was in one of the highrises downtown (where the Cleveland Foundation is housed, as a matter of fact) and in the elevator was a notice for tenants to "leave your lights on" that night because ESPN was in town covering the Cav's game and the city wants the world to think someone is home, downtown. So, in these times of a war in Iraq over fuel and high fuel costs and global warming some powers that be want everyone in downtown NEO to leave the lights on all night. How stupid are we? There are less stupid people in Toronto, and they do things like Night Lights, and twinkle twinkle little star, how I wonder why environmentalism leaders in NEO don't think to do the same smart things...

( categories: )

Julia Louis-Dreyfus has a green home

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Fri, 11/10/2006 - 01:32.

I just caught Julia Louis-Dreyfus on the Kimmel Show and Jimmy mentioned to Julia that he heard she has a solar home, and she expanded to say it has solar power, heat and hot water, recycled fiber carpet, renewable wood, etc... also drives an electric car. Imagine if those in the media in NEO bothered to be socially conscious like this, and the media here promoted that. Imagine if the newscasters here bothered to live green. Louis-Dreyfus is politically active and otherwise socially conscious, yet seems very unassuming. Good for her - step up NEO media leaders... get green and then feel free to brag about it!