In Cleveland, Ohio, there are blocks of apartments (like the one in the image above) which don't have any lights on inside at 8:00pm.   I wonder what the 2010 census could tell us....

Are the tenants just all behind in their Cleveland Illuminating bills? or are these apartment blocks just empty?

Possitively Cleveland!

I was staying with friends when I heard about this tragedy, and I immediately got a splitting migrane.   

I couldn't imagine the intensity of grief the parents and family were enduring. 

At at time like this you would want to crawl into a hole and drown in your depression...

So the Jewish culture over centuries has developed an antidote - about as good as it can be - sitting Shiva.

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I had never heard about this industrial re-use project until a relative gave me a heads up and gave me a slide show (image above credit CEB)

The rail road right of way is on a viaduct - built decades ago - above street level and in numerous places went through the commercial warehouses and industrial buildings which the rail line served.  

Mortgage Fraud--two of the largest players were indicted yesterday and the story was relegated to a back page and players get a slap on the wrist:

"The magnitude of this crime is hard to fathom," Mason said. "A total of 453 homes, 358 of which fell into disclosure, were part of a master scheme to bilk the banking and real estate industries out of funds."

Ward 14 is victimized again...According to Channel 19 news..."It happened Tuesday just before 6:30 p.m. Police were called to respond to the Caribe Bake Shop on Fulton Road for a robbery in progress. When they arrived they found the female victim with a gunshot wound to the head." Read the full story at the link below. 

 

The above process of stopping hemorrhage and dressing a wound will also work for traumatic injuries such as knife wounds and gunshot wounds.

So many times, I have opened this window to attempt to write a hearty blog recently and never gotten past the first thought....My heart seems so heavy and at a loss for words. Tragedy has hit below the belt this time and I simply cannot pretend that it's all okay. It's not. I see the headlines, but they don't process. I try to read some of the news, but it just drains me. I try to find the heart to fight the battles, but cannot find the gump. I try to find the motivation to react to the list of things to do...but find myself depleted before I begin.

Cleveland Public Power is requesting an Air Pollution Permit from the Ohio EPA to construct an INCINERATOR at 3723 Ridge Rd. --it will impact entire region including suburban areas of already toxic and polluted Northeast Ohio airshed.

See attachments http://realneo.us/system/files/520659-1.pdf

 or click link below and enter permit P0107767 and click GO--50 page pdf is attached here.

Location

 Brownbag Sports Series - Bring a Lunch

                                          Tuesday, January 10 * 12:00 PM

                    "Baseball Fiction Firsts: Sports Research Center Treasures"

B-Collage is a powerful motivational tool, a visual board used to help one realize life dreams.  Special emphasis will be on employment visualization through a pictorial exercise.

This is a Law of Attraction workshop.  Supplies will be provided for those who make reservations at (216) 623-2860.

Date: Saturday, January 21, 2012 

Time: 10:00 AM

Location: Cleveland Public Library - Main

It's halfway through the school year, and despite major setbacks, Valerie Salstrom is again grooming the young people in our neighborhood into sophisticated adults.

Growing up, of movies that stuck in my conscience, besides Planet of the Apes and Omega Man, Logan's Run stood out.  Lately, I am revisiting the message of that sci-fi movie as I see worthy and intelligent "senior" members of our community...discarded by the workforce. 

Why do we insist on decommissioning the most experienced and valuable members of our society? 

Recently I lent a hand at removing some dead limbs from a white ash tree.   The trunk on the tree is in the 48 inch diameter range - and when I counted growth rings in the 20 inch diameter limb which was removed - the limb had been up in the sky defying gravity for 125+ years!   

Pretty amazing. 

Ever felt like this?  Just too much going on?   

Sam, the cat, is 15 and rarely takes a break - but I caught him on camera at a slow moment between meetings!

The mainstream media has said absolutely nothing about this development, continuing its pattern of downplaying news involving Fukushima, radiation or the flawed structure of nuclear power plants. This is hardly surprising, given that many of the largest media outlets (such as NBC and MSNBC) are owned by corporations such as General Electric, the designer of many of the world's nuclear power plants.

 All around Cleveland - in the local golf course, in the corner of the field - screened and painted green, there are sprouting gas wells.  Fracked wells.

And those fracked wells, full of all types of crazy chems - those chems will not migrate into the local water table.  

No. 

No migration. 

I believe that. 

We all can tell that something has gone off the rails in American - and in our entire western culture.  

Capitalism has a flaw.  Or 2.

So last Saturday, when I was listening to some on-the-fly progressive radio station - I heard a podcast lecture given by Richard Grossman.  A lecture describing why corporations were causing havoc - and why corporations under the US Constitution were not "people".  

Take a look at your local chain grocer or your local big box store - you will find pallets stacked with bags of firewood from Eastern Europe.  

Is collecting firewood work Americans will not do?

Bizarre.

This sack (volume 1.36 cubic feet) of white birch sells for $13.99.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has used lies to attack the record of Sherrod Brown according to a recent edition of the Plain Dealer's Politifacts.

Sherrod must be good at what he does by the way he draws vicious attacks centered around lies from the right. These are especially from U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown's nemesis de jour, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, current Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel.

PROPOSED AMENDED BY- LAWS by GUY TEMPLETON BLACK
Please vote for my-your  amended by-laws

1.  New proposal:
At least 7 of the 15 elected board of trustees shall be composed of the general membership that meet the following guidelines:
1)    Low Income Members of TWDC
a)    Members of TWDC that meet minority status.
b)    Disabled/Handicapped members of the TWDC.

From the website:

 Sanitation, extension cords, fire hazards is what all the Mayor's intone. 

But those "reasons" don't ring true.

While in many cultures conflict means killing, with Occupy we have peaceful protest, and yet the "authorities" can't resist shutting that peaceful protest off. 

What a huge mistake. 

Occupy Boston faces sanitation tonight at midnight.   (dark, few onlookers, OT for the Force) 

That's American Sanitation!

Jon Corzine's a smart guy - been a United States senator, been the head of Goldman Sachs, been the Govn'er of New Jersey.....

But now Jon  doesn't know where 1.2 billion dollars is - money that was involved in "betting" on European government debt - could be "operational errors" at MF Global,  the hedge fund Jon piloted,  Jon notes.