Greece was the first country to defect from the non-default game theory regime of the European Union (a move which ultimately will be in its great benefit, as it is forced, very shortly, to default higher and higher into the 177% of GDP secured debt, until finally even the Troika's DIP loan is impaired).

Please see:
http://realneo.us/content/crime-progress-demolition-school-arts
http://realneo.us/content/who-realy-cares-whether-sweeney-took-bribe-or-...

California area citrus is one of the few global citrus growing regions which has not yet been infected with Huanglongbing disease.    (link to wikipedia)

The sticky surfaced yellow card (image above) is hung on citrus trees across Southern California - hoping to collect the vector insect - and be an early warning system for the disease.  

Perhaps the biggest shortcoming of Detroit "ruin porn" is it inherently ignores the very real people who still live in the city. Now there's a convergence — the amazing story of Allan Hill, the man who legally lives inside the city's abandoned Packard Auto Plant.

Gary Spinosa's back at the non-profit Sandusky Cultural Center. The new show, Preconceived Objects, also includes Geoff Buddie, Elizabeth Emery, Jon Gott, Josh Haplea, Carey McDougal, Wendy Partridge, Emily Sullivan, and Chris Rom.
The opening's Sunday, April 15, but the show runs through May 20.

Location

Cleveland's third official TEDx event, TEDxCLE 2012 will take place from 9:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. on Friday, April 20, 2012 in the Cleveland Museum of Art's Gartner Auditorium. At TEDxCLE, Cleveland's innovators will speak on a variety of topics in order to highlight areas in which Cleveland is excelling and reinventing itself. This is the first time the event will be held at CMA. Tickets for last year’s event sold out in two hours and we plan for a sellout crowd of 685 this year.

Speakers have been confirmed and are listed below:

 This fellow was sitting in the parking lot of a McDonald's outlet (not in Ohio).   

It appeared he had had a few (too many in life too) but wasn't being more than a visual discomfort - if you find reality discomforting.  

By this point the fellow had attempted to get up, was too drunk, and pulled his cart over on himself.  

He lay spralled on the asphalt.   

I am a TREE!!!

Listen to ME!

Sex, drugs, and rock n roll.....the life in Cleveland that perpetuates the underground criminal industry....remains alive and well right under your nose in Cleveland.

The problem, according to councilman Joe Cimperman: The new group, the Justin Hughes Corporation, is actually a front organization for landlord Tom Leneghan, who also owns the Treehouse bar on the next block. According to Cimperman, when Leneghan owned the wine bar from 2001 to 2008, it was even more raucous than it is now. And it’s plenty bad now, he adds.“Other operations let out around the same time,” says Cimperman, “but we weren’t getting the same complaints. There’s not the severity anyplace else like 806 Literary.”

Home Depot donates paint etc. to Quest, ministries which we donated to angel cuevas -  auto repair to paint his building because of harresment  by tremont west development corporation - city of cleveland building dept. - politics - gentrification etc.

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.

CLEVELAND - Claims that a pregnant woman was kidnapped and carjacked from Steelyard Commons Saturday afternoon aren't true, according to Cleveland police. They said the 23-year-old made up the story.

“Our detectives did a great job. They looked at video and it revealed and unearthed the story that she was lying. It was a hoax,” said commander Keith Sulzer, who added the shopping plaza is safe.

How about cleaning house here in NEO?

Cleveland Police were called out to Steelyard Drive near downtown Cleveland for a woman locked in the trunk of her car.

It has now emerged that the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) formally taught their agents that they were able to “bend or suspend the law and impinge upon the freedoms of others” in their quest to find alleged terrorists and criminals.While the FBI has allegedly removed this offending document from their curriculum, it does nothing to help the fact that unknown numbers of agents have already been exposed to the material and actually believe it to be accurate.Furthermore,

US economy is deep down in mammoth federal debts. The total amount of debt has already exceeded $15 trillion; the number is supposed to grow in coming days. Almost 2/3rd of the total amount is owed to public, foreign governments and companies through notes, bonds and Treasury bills. The Federal government has hardly any option to pay off the debts and become ;;;;;

The US debt level

CLEVELAND - The Cuyahoga County Coroner reports deaths by prescription drugs and heroin overdoses have risen by 79 percent in the city of Cleveland and by 176 percent in the suburbs over the last five years."Four people in Ohio die everyday from a prescription opiate overdose. And what happens is, when you lose your supply of prescription opiates, you turn to something that is actually cheaper and more available, and that's heroin, " said Dr. Christina De Los Reyes, the Chief Clinical Officer for the ADAMHS board in Cuyahoga County.

Aspire Auctions, located on the web and headquartered in Cleveland Ohio, is about to celebrate 10 years in business. Starting on Larchmere Blvd. in Shaker Heights, the company started out with three people and now has a fulltime staff of 11 and two locations. The auction house moved to it's current location in the historic Bloch Building in Downtown Cleveland three years ago and has a second location in Shady Side near Pittsburgh PA. 

Fresh coconut milk and meat on the roadside across from the beach - prepared by the locals with a machete and a curved table knife -  the REAL thing...

Surf is just liquid Solar Power.....cutting right on this wave....

Kite boarding - color me there

Now, the city of Boston has been forced to go one step further than merely acquitting those charged -- they have had to respond to Glik's own lawsuit against them. As part of the settlement, Boston will pay Glik $170,000 in damages and legal fees, thus sending a warning to law enforcement that they will be watched and recorded by the public, as well as a warning to cities and states who will disobey the Constitution.