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Cleveland FoundationFoundation Center Program at the Cleveland Public LibrarySubmitted by helenatravka on Mon, 08/13/2012 - 15:25.
08/13/2012 - 14:15 09/22/2012 - 14:15 Etc/GMT-5 Guide to Online Grantseeker Resources In this workship, you will: Location
Cleveland Public Library
325 Superior Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44114United States
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216-623-2860
See map: Google Maps Cleveland Kids Travel to NYC, Perform on Apollo Stage for National Poetry CelebrationSubmitted by kblackley on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 12:11.
Two elementary students from Buhrer Dual Language K-8 School on Cleveland’s near west side will travel to New York City to perform their original poems at the historic Apollo Theater for the sixth annual National Poetry SLAM on Monday, April 16. Fifth grader Tamia B., age 11, and fourth grader Sebastian M., age 10, will represent America SCORES Cleveland alongside 28 youth from 15 cities across the country. The Other Night I Remembered A Dream - And I Never Remember Dreams. This Was Serious... I was stabbed in the back!Submitted by Norm Roulet on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 06:00.
The Other Night I Remembered A Dream - And I Never Remember Dreams. This Was Serious. Evelyn and I were sitting in the foyer of our home talking, at night, when gunmen in black masks suddenly rushed through our front door. We dove to the ground and lay there wondering what would happen. Suddenly there was a nine millimeter pushing forcefully against my forehead. Then, I felt a numbing pain in my back and I could feel something was sucking the life out of my spine - and thank God I awoke. Now I have been stabbed in the back so many times by so many people in Cleveland it is made of steel. I'm in the middle of showdowns with liars and cheaters all over town and the country - no big deal. No - this was near and dear. Big surprise to find out the chairman of realNEO Jeff Buster has been in hyper-back-stab mode and trying to destroy My realNEO. Your realNEO! ( categories:
IntraCom/UCANX Update: GROHIO Sprouting - States of Emergencies - On the road again - BTWsSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Sat, 05/21/2011 - 04:22.
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Journalism That Matters: realNEO Optimizes IT For All - Create Or Die!Submitted by Norm Roulet on Fri, 05/20/2011 - 04:21.
Since the 1990s, my personal professional mission has been "To Optimize Information Technology for All". I've helped the world's greatest organizations optimize IT for all their stakeholders, as a consultant working around the globe, and I am enabling Ohio and the world to optimize IT for all citizens, as an information technology innovator in my home of Northeast Ohio. One important expression of my mission to optimize IT for all is realNEO.US - Regional Economic Action Links for North East Ohio - which I founded in 2004, moved into the dysfunctional but living Real Coop co-operative owned structure a few years later, and have since used to transform the information, technology, insight and action of the people of the world interested in Northeast Ohio, and the world. I recently received an email from Bill Densmore, co-director of Journalism That Matters, inviting me to "Create or Die 2", offering a nice global opportunity to share the realNEO story more broadly. Journalism That Matters is "an evolving collaboration of individuals supporting the pioneers who are shaping the emerging news and information ecosystem" - Create or Die 2 is about "Disrupting the Status Quo with Journalism Innovation and Entrepreneurship" - and I can't imagine initiatives that fit better with realNEO and my mission. ( categories:
May 18, 2011 IntraCom UCANX Board Update: Vote Hemp - Finding Roots - Board Building - Energy BuildingSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Wed, 05/18/2011 - 04:21.
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My Advice to Kasich: mobilize Ohio Attorney General, police and the National Guard to develop Cannabis Economy in Ohio FIRST!Submitted by Norm Roulet on Wed, 05/18/2011 - 03:40.
Photo by David Sygall The spring of 2011 has brought tension to the air for everyone involved with cannabis in the United States. Federal authorities have unleashed a coordinated attack on political efforts to tax marijuana and they have made war on medical marijuana programs. This has been matched by additional states changing local laws, putting more skin into the game than ever. The bets are now in for the biggest cannabis policy showdown in our generation – right in Washington DC. The Schedule I status of marijuana in the federal Controlled Substances Act will either be re-affirmed or changed, likely over the next 24 months. Marijuana prohibition has become the most refined and serious states’ rights issue of the 21st Century. Millions of Americans are now participating in a multi-billion dollar medical cannabis economy.
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This Tuesday in Akron is our chance to help move First Energy Beyond Coal.... Rally with us outside the shareholders meetingSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Sun, 05/15/2011 - 21:42.
05/17/2011 - 09:30 05/17/2011 - 12:00 Etc/GMT-4
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John S. Knight Center
On the corner of S. High St and E Mill OUTSIDE
Akron, OH United States
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UCANX: "Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2011... amend the Controlled Substances Act to exclude hemp from definition of marijuana"Submitted by Norm Roulet on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 16:21.
realNEO readers are among the first to see "The Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2011, To amend the Controlled Substances Act to exclude hemp from the definition of marijuana, and for other purposes", signed by its sponsor, US House Representative of the 14th District of Texas Ron Paul, around 1 PM today, May 11, 2011, and introduced to the US House of Representatives to be enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 112th US Congress. As Paul previously concluded, in a a statement for Hemp History Week: "The federal government should change the law to allow American farmers to grow this profitable crop as American farmers have through most of our nation's history. I plan to reintroduce the Industrial Hemp Farming Act next week." Paul clearly is a man of his word. Above is "The Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2011"... on hemp paper, and below is Ron Paul signing the bill. ( categories:
Inspired Art Benefit Auction presented by America SCORES ClevelandSubmitted by kblackley on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 11:47.
06/11/2011 - 18:00 Etc/GMT-4 You are invited to the Inspired Art Benefit Auction, a collaboration of Cleveland artists and young Cleveland poets of the after-school program America SCORES Cleveland (SCORES). The original poetry of Cleveland kids involved in SCORES has compelled over 30 local artists to create and donate artwork to support the after-school health and literacy program. At the Benefit, students will witness their visions brought to life and artists will experience the poetry on a deeper level as select youth perform. On June 11th you too can experience the profound impact of these youths’ words. Enjoy hors d’oeuvres, an open wine bar, and live music while bidding on one-of-a-kind artwork. The benefit auction features local artists including CPAC Fellowship Award winners Amy Casey and Stephen Yusko. For more information, visit www.InspiredArtCleveland.com. Location
smARTspace at 78th Street Studios
1305 W. 80th Street Suite 1B
Cleveland, OH 44102United States
See map: Google Maps Ohio - an agricultural, healthcare, industrial and education powerhouse - must take our rightful place in the Cannabis EconomySubmitted by Norm Roulet on Tue, 05/10/2011 - 16:21.
I can't ever remember enjoying converging with 1,000 or so amazingly diverse Clevelanders so much as I did Saturday afternoon, May 7, as Northeast Ohio held the 2011 Cleveland Medical Marijuana March and Jobs, Peace and Freedom Rally. The crowd created the buzz of a perfect championship game day - Cleveland was in the World Series again. At the 2011 Cleveland Medical Marijuana Rally, medical patients experienced an historic moment of personal freedom and liberty, in peace, and went home healthier - we all saw Cleveland may actually win the world championship, for the first time in our lives - as Ohio... an agricultural, healthcare, industrial and education powerhouse... realizes we must take our rightful place in the Cannabis Economy! ( categories:
USDA Undersecretary Tonsager: "We are interested in getting into almost any kind of material that might be used for biofuel."Submitted by Norm Roulet on Tue, 05/10/2011 - 13:51.
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USDA and DOE Award Biomass Research and Development Grants to Reduce America’s Reliance on Imported OilSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Thu, 05/05/2011 - 15:15.
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The Ohio Medical Cannabis Act of 2012 - A Message From The CampaignSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Thu, 04/28/2011 - 12:12.
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Only quick, aggressive attacks can stave off the doomsday scenario: the collapse of society as zombies overtake us all.Submitted by Norm Roulet on Fri, 04/01/2011 - 21:44.
Living in Cleveland, fighting against excessive polluting by popular local industrial interests, I've found environmental and climate awareness here brain-dead... zombified... people walking in an unnatural smog, accepting unnatural death around them. So I appreciate a mathematical explanation of how an entire city of 500,000 may become dominated by environmental zombies - from today's Climate Progress, which references a study of the proliferation of zombies finding they will drive humanity to the collapse of civilization.... I believe this effectively explains Cleveland (and much of America) today:
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It pained me to watch this, and I am not Black - A War For Your Soul-Birmingham versionSubmitted by savcash on Thu, 03/31/2011 - 21:57.
----Filmmaker and public speaker Reggie Bullock is one of the most sought after motivational speakers in the United States. On March 15, 2009, Reggie’s short film "A War For Your Soul" was independently released on the internet, and has catapulted as a “stirring, epic and inspirational” video for today’s generation”. Over 6 million internet viewers have watched “A War For Your Soul” in 1 year. ( categories:
EPA's 2005 National Air Toxins Assessment looks at human health impacts from estimated, chronic air toxin exposureSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Mon, 03/14/2011 - 06:14.
On March 11, 2011, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sent a press release (below) and held conference calls supporting release of the fourth update of the National Air Toxics Assessment (NATA) - a computer tool that helps federal, state, local governments and other stakeholders better understand the potential health risks from exposure to air toxics. The EPA states: "the National Air Toxics Assessment (NATA) contains 2005 emissions data submitted primarily from the states for 178 pollutants. Models are used to make broad estimates of health risks for areas of the country. The tool is not designed to determine actual health risks to individuals living in these areas." "Because the data submitted varies from state to state, it is also not possible to use the data to compare risks between different areas of the country." As someone who lives in Cleveland, Ohio, which the Federal EPA and their NATA prove is highly polluted and unhealthy, I truly appreciate access to all environmental data management and mapping services the EPA may provide, as real-time as possible. These federal government tools offer citizens access to information that allows us to make better life-decisions - like where to live - and empowers us to be better environmental stewards - like shutting down coal pollution in our own backyards. ( categories:
Yale University Identifies Six Distinct “Americas” When It Comes To The Issue Of Global Warming - Where Do You Live?Submitted by Norm Roulet on Sun, 03/13/2011 - 20:09.
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Celebrate the 2nd Annual Hemp History Week - May 2nd-8th 2011 - a national grassroots education campaignSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 03:44.
Wherever you live in America, there should be some near-by gathering, event, public meeting or celebration in support of Hemp History Week - May 2nd-8th 2011 - and if there isn't, you may help organize one in your community. Check their website for planned events - and how to organize events - and do it ASAP, as events registered by March 15th may get hemp product samples to distribute, and that is worth hustling-for. The sponsors and supporters of Hemp History Week include Vote Hemp, the Hemp Industry Association, and leading hemp manufacturers, natural foods retailers, celebrities, farmers, historians and hemp advocates. "Hemp History Week is all about celebrating the goodness of hemp", and that is something all these organizers and millions of other people are working hard to make legal in every state across America - like New Mexico is succeeding with this week - to making hemp agriculture legal in America and worldwide, as is the mission of Vote Hemp and other advocacy organizations, large and small.
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The steepness of the drop prompted a skeptical reaction at Cleveland City Hall. "We believe it is a significant undercount"Submitted by Norm Roulet on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 01:44.
Cleveland Sees Plunge in Population, reports the Wall Street Journal today, announcing: "A larger-than-expected exodus from Cleveland during the past decade shrunk the city's population by 17% to about 397,000, according to U.S. Census data released Wednesday." That's right, Cleveland's population has crashed below the 400K floor for the first time since around the start of the 20th Century, which triggers all sorts of unsustainable, shrinking, un-re-imaginable financial and political realities for leadership and citizens here. Perhaps the only silver lining is that this proof of Cleveland political and leadership failure will have a significant price of leaders' heads. From the Wall Street Journal:
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Good morning, The state of the American education system today is unacceptable.... let me know what you think:Submitted by Norm Roulet on Tue, 03/08/2011 - 10:28.
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Peak Drupal 2011: Real Drops of Open Source Alternate Energy to Fuel and Feed Villagers in "The Social Network" DesertSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Wed, 03/02/2011 - 15:00.
At the beginning of the 21st Century - a time when the pace of global evolution was certain to be astounding in every way, in accelerating change each day - especially as driven by transformational new Information Technologies (IT) and services - a serious, young college computer science student wrote some historic collaboration software, in his dorm-room, to help his fellow students communicate more effectively in their evolving, un-tethering, socially-networked world, and that software has been helping citizens freely interconnect with greater impact each day since, to save the world. The early days of this software are beloved, in real geek-lore:
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Mr. Wolstein, Please hold off on using the Forum Architects' plans for your redevelopment in the Flats, as much has improvedSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Tue, 03/01/2011 - 04:44.
Dear Mr. Wolstein, Please hold off on using the Forum Architects' plans for your redevelopment in the Flats, as much has improved in the prospects for this city and region since they were conceived - there is new energy, life and opportunity coming into Cleveland that will improve the prospects for this most important historic site that I've been vocal in my disappointment to see go. As you are moving forward in new directions, Cleveland and regional leaders including myself must move forward in many new directions previously inconceivable. As such, planning needs frequent re-visioning - and may in fact be open sourced, real-time and community enabled with world class information technology, which we'll be developing more of in Northeast Ohio in the future. Most significant, we are in the process of removing from our community the dangerous pollution emitted from the coal burning at FirstEnergy Lake Shore (already decommissioning), MCCO, in University Circle, and Cleveland Thermal, next door to your site (your greatest liability, easily made an asset), and the outrageous environmental injustice from Mittal and some other industrial operations - and the direct and fugitive emissions from the mobile pollution sources servicing them - ships, trains and trucks - that are just not safe for dense urban neighborhoods, which we must save and restore. There are economically viable solutions to all these challenges - it does not need to be this way!
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Dear Mr. Mowry, Chief Information Officer, Cuyahoga County, Ohio - Welcome Home.Submitted by Norm Roulet on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 17:17.
Dear Mr. Mowry, Chief Information Officer, Cuyahoga County, Ohio: Welcome Home. Without a doubt, you hold the most opportune and important office in the region, today, and I wish you great success.
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Dear Governor Kasich: Show REAL NEO You Are Serious About Ohio's Future By Ending The $3.5+ Billion ODOT I-90 Bridge Fiasco HereSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Sun, 02/27/2011 - 07:10.
Dear Governor Kasich: Show REAL NEO You Are Serious About Ohio's Future By Ending The $3.5+ Billion ODOT I-90 Bridge Fiasco Here! I'm sure, with little effort, you may find leadership in Columbus and the great-big-real-world to brief you on the runaway stupidity and corruption surrounding the "planning" by corrupt "idiots", as you say, at Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT), to replace our poorly maintained I-90 bridge over the polluted Cuyahoga River into Downtown Cleveland's Innerbelt "Trench". My good friend Ed Hauser was leading the battle against this stupidity before he was killed by pollution exposure here, and I am asking you to take his place fighting for our citizens. The war is well documented here on realNEO - and nowhere else on Earth. Google "realNEO ODOT Dream" or search within realNEO for links to ODOT, Bridge, Cleveland and Hauser. To speed-up your assessment, I include below some links I have surfaced from our years of battling government stupidity, corruption and incompetence with ODOT here, as well as my most recent posting on realNEO about this matter. ( categories:
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