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blogsStart Fresh in September at Cleveland Public LibrarySubmitted by Cleveland Publi... on Tue, 09/07/2010 - 11:27.
September is an opportunity to “Start Fresh” at Cleveland Public Library (CPL) to allow patrons the ability to return overdue books and materials free of fines for the entire month. “These are difficult economic times and this initiative gives our patrons an opportunity to bring their overdue books back without embarrassment, and encourages them to come back to the library,” said Felton Thomas, executive director of CPL. “Library books that are not returned cannot be used by others in the community.”
The slate of County Executive candidates is excellent, I must say... especially when taken en massSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Tue, 09/07/2010 - 06:27.
The slate of County Executive candidates is excellent, I must say... especially when taken en mass. I know many of the people running for country executive and the ward seats and consider some of them the finest people in town, so the reform of county government has brought out a very good group of new leaders - or I'll say leaders who want to lead in new ways - and that is excellent I especially like the range of independent candidates and the green candidate... and having those options.
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Song of the Day: "Take 5" - Dave Brubeck... King TubbySubmitted by Norm Roulet on Tue, 09/07/2010 - 01:39.
Filmed in Germany, in 1966, this version of the Paul Desmond classic "Take 5" - Dave Brubeck Quartet - is especially beautiful to hear and watch - great composition - upbeat tempo - excellent improvisations - classic German camera-work - austere staging and lighting - crisp clean high fidelity recording - showing how cool four cats in the 50s and 60s could be. Upon his death in 1977, Desmond left the rights to royalties for performances and compositions, including "Take Five", to the American Red Cross, which has since received combined royalties of approximately $100,000 per year.
I'm exploring where to base ICEarth brightest greenest development in Ohio, going forward, and am Open to SuggestionsSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Mon, 09/06/2010 - 15:15.
I'm exploring where to base ICEarth brightest greenest development in Ohio, going forward, and am open to suggestions. I already know I will co-locate in Austin, Texas, and in Colorado and California... but where shall we operate from in Ohio?
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Welcome David Franklin and hope he makes the Cleveland Museum of Art a greater asset to this community, by stopping burning coalSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Mon, 09/06/2010 - 12:12.
The Medical Center Company provides dirty, polluting coal-powered heat to many of Northeast Ohio's most "cherished" organizations, including the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA), seriously compromising the value of the CMA to citizens of the region and world - this is being opposed by the real leaders of this community. As the Cleveland Museum of Art has just hired a new Director, David Franklin, from Canada, I must wonder if the Board and Trustees who hired him advised him on these issues surrounding the heating of his new home. Immediately, before worrying about exhibition schedules and completion of the museum expansion, Mr. Franklin must plan to move his museum away from coal, meaning move CMA away from heat from MCCO. The Cleveland Plain Dealer posted a welcoming opinion editorial championing the Cleveland Museum of Art and its new director to the public, and I was pleased to add to that opinion the fact Mr. Franklin must have very different priorities than the other leadership in University Circle ever has - he must oppose using coal to heat his museum, polluting his community, and he must lead other organizations in University Circle away from coal. How he does that will in fact be his greatest challenge ever. I wish him success, as I always wish the CMA success. I am a sincere supporter of the Museum - the right kind of supporter, without compromise.
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I'm writing to encourage you to vote in tomorrow's historic primary election in Cuyahoga County - Jennifer BrunnerSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Mon, 09/06/2010 - 09:07.
I'm writing to encourage you to vote in tomorrow's historic primary election in Cuyahoga County. This election will begin to shape a new form of government for the county and its future.
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Delivery - The natural beauty of familySubmitted by Norm Roulet on Mon, 09/06/2010 - 05:44.
The natural beauty of family - nine 7-week-old South African Boerboels sleeping in a pack, keeping each other warm on a cool late Summer afternoon. Soon, they will be separated and live on their own, with humans. We are seeking the best possible humans to care for them. For now, we have the joy of their love, and they share their love with each other.
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Dear Schultz Family: 24,000 people a year die prematurely of pollution from coal-fired power plants... 38,000 Heart AttacksSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Mon, 09/06/2010 - 05:00.
According to the American Lung Association, 24,000 people a year die prematurely because of pollution from coal-fired power plants. And every year 38,000 heart attacks, 12,000 hospital admissions and an additional 550,000 asthma attacks result from power plant pollution. It is therefore not surprising to read, in The Place My Father Didn't Want Me to See, an article by Plain Dealer Columnist Connie Schultz, published in Parade Magazine this Labor Day weekend, that Ms. Schultz' father died of a heart attack after having worked as a mechanic in a coal fired power plant for 34 years. As Ms. Schultz writes: "I never knew what Dad did at the plant, but I saw the toll that 34 years of hard physical labor took on him. He had surgery on his shoulder, his hand, his spine. At 48, he had his first heart attack and bypass. He retired in 1993, right after the last kid graduated from college. But the damage was done. A few years later, another surgeon shoved stents into his arteries. The next heart attack killed him. He was 69." She further observed, from once having visited her father at his plant: "I stared at my father, covered in sweat and coal ash, and for the first time had to consider why he was so often angry for no apparent reason." What is surprising is that Ms. Schultz does not offer her readers of this story the learning opportunity to understand that industrial pollution from burning coal kills 10,000s of fathers, mothers and babies in America each year - I don't know of studies proving "hard physical labor" does the equivalent. There is clear evidence that working with coal causes heart attacks, among a long list of health impacts... including mental illness. From a recent study in Korea: "When particulate matter (a common form of air pollution) spiked, the risk of suicide increased by 9 percent over the next two days, the researchers found. Among people with heart disease, the increased risk was even greater, about 19 percent." Beyond the physiological impacts of pollution, knowing you are being killed by pollution makes you angry... I certainly know that for a fact, as my family is being killed by a coal power plant in my neighborhood, and I have grandparents who died of industrial poisoning, and I am angry about all that. Angry at Connie Schultz' family. Connie Schultz is married to U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown and his family is in the coal burning business, as his brother is Robert Brown... Chairman of the Board of Medical Center Company (MCCO), a coal burning power plant located next to University Hospitals, in University Circle, Cleveland, Ohio, which burns over 44,000 TONS of coal a year, emitting over 4,000 TONS of air pollution into surrounding neighborhoods.... killing people in my neighborhood unnecessarily.
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only when it gets personal will government do anything truly productive for the economySubmitted by Quest-News-Serv... on Mon, 09/06/2010 - 03:39.
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Too Good To Ignore - Fox News Shoots Itself In Foot Over The Ground Zero MosqueSubmitted by Charles Frost on Sun, 09/05/2010 - 23:07.
The Parent Company TrapFox News is either evil or stupid for not mentioning that Alwaleed bin Talal is News Corp.'s largest shareholder.
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Word of the Day: Retribution [re-truh-byoo-shuhn]Submitted by Norm Roulet on Sun, 09/05/2010 - 20:03.
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THANK YOU CUYAHOGA COUNTY RESIDENTS FROM DIANNA LYNN HILL, Candidate for County ExecutiveSubmitted by ANGELnWard14 on Sun, 09/05/2010 - 16:18.
Dear Cuyahoga County Residents; Thank you for upholding democracy and Voting this Tuesday, September 07, 2010! Thank you for your endurance and desire to hold your future leadership accountable! Thank you for working to remove pay to play politics from our area. Thank you for putting the futures of our families first when you vote! Thank you for all of your faith, charisma, and true consideration for our community at large! I admire your American Spirit that empowers us to stand united for the best interests of our people!
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DIANNA LYNN HILL, Democrat Candidate for Cuyahoga County Executive Noted in YAHOO NEWS, ASSOCIATED CONTENT! VOTE TUESDAY...Submitted by ANGELnWard14 on Sun, 09/05/2010 - 15:52.
DIANNA LYNN HILL, Democrat Candidate for Cuyahoga County Executive Noted in YAHOO NEWS, ASSOCIATED CONTENT! VOTE TUESDAY...by Dianna Hill on Sunday, September 5, 2010 at 4:48pm
YAHOO NEWS: ASSOCIATED CONTENT
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Warn the World About Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown's Family Coal Fired Pollution Factory in University Circle - Disclose MCCOSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Sun, 09/05/2010 - 06:34.
I'm starting my deep research into the corruption that is Medical Center Company (MCCO) - Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown's family coal fired pollution factory in University Circle, Cleveland Ohio - and as I search the web for articles about Senator Brown's energy policy, I find good opportunities to educate the world about the harm his family pollution does here. For example, the Breakthrough Institute has a posting about Senator Brown - The Sherrod Brown Test: Finding Consensus on Climate Policy... If we want to pass policies that will truly catapult the United States into a clean and prosperous energy economy, slash global warming pollution, and make clean energy cheap and abundant, we need to pass the "Sherrod Brown Test." - to which I posted the following clarification for the world:
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Cuyahoga County Building Prisons - Netherlands to Close Prisons: Not Enough CriminalsSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Fri, 09/03/2010 - 13:00.
Figure 1 shows projected Ohio prison inmate population growth through July 2012 (Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, July 2009) I noticed an interesting link from a few Facebook friends to the Marijuana Policy Project website at "Netherlands to Close Prisons: Not Enough Criminals", which reports "The Dutch government is getting ready to close eight prisons because they don’t have enough criminals to fill them. Officials attribute the shortage of prisoners to a declining crime rate." MPP points out, with glee... "For years prohibitionists, including our own Drug Enforcement Administration, have claimed — falsely — that the tolerant marijuana policies of the Netherlands have made that nation a nest of crime and drug abuse." Based on a quick illustrative analysis of data provided by MPP of the prison populations of the Netherlands and California... I calculated the imprisonment rate for Ohio, with a baseline population of 11.5 million people, if we had the incarceration rates of the Netherlands. Ohio would have a prison population of about 8,000 people. In fact, in mid 2008, Ohio's incarceration (or imprisonment) rate, which is calculated from counts of incarcerated persons per 100,000 total residents, was 445 (Bureau of Justice Statistics) - representing a prison population of over 51,000 - more than 6x the incarceration rate in the Netherlands - costing Ohio over $1.6 BILLION per year. Worse, as posted April 27, 2010, on Crime Reporter - "Ohio prison crowding at crisis stage" - "the Ohio General Assembly allowed the state prison budget to grow this year, despite looming multi-billion-dollar budget deficits. Ohio’s statewide inmate population climbed within 128 inmates of the all-time record of 51,273 this month, prompting state lawmakers and Gov. Ted Strickland to blame one another for inaction."
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Here is David Ellison's position on burning coal at MCCO - TOO LITTLE TOO LATE FOR ALL OF US, David. Good Luck.Submitted by Norm Roulet on Thu, 09/02/2010 - 17:59.
Susan Miller just sent me County Executive Green Party Candidate David Ellison's written statement to the Federal EPA protesting the burning of coal by Ohio Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown's brother (Plain Dealer columnist Connie Schultz' Brother-in-Law) Robert Brown's Medical Center Company (MCCO), which harms the health of my family and the millions of citizens of Northeast Ohio... spreading death and destruction worldwide. Is David Ellison the only candidate for County Executive who formally protested the burning of coal at MCCO? That should be easy to determine. I challenge the other candidates for County Executive... and ALL standing local politicians... to put forth their written positions submitted to the Federal EPA regarding burning coal at the politically-corrupt MCCO plant, in politically-corrupt University Circle, or withdraw from offices and races to represent citizens in government anywhere in the world, for cause (being murder).
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Cuyahoga Board of Elections to enter agreement with US Dept of Justice to accommodate Puerto Rican VotersSubmitted by briancummins on Wed, 09/01/2010 - 17:51.
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EMERGENCY RESOLUTION OBJECTING TO ROWLEY INNSubmitted by jerleen1 on Wed, 09/01/2010 - 17:02.
Whereas, the uniform date for renewal of liquor permits in the State of Ohio is October 1st; and Whereas, pursuant to Section 4303.271 of the Revised Code, the legislative authority of a municipal corporation may object to the renewal of a permit based upon legal grounds as set forth in division (A)
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realNEO Word of the Day: Corrupt [kuh-ruhpt]Submitted by Norm Roulet on Wed, 09/01/2010 - 16:26.
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LOOK WHAT A LITTLE INVESTIGATION CAN UNCOVERSubmitted by jerleen1 on Tue, 08/31/2010 - 22:30.
Cuyahoga County's boards of revision violated state law by ruling on property assessments behind closed doors, according to a legal opinion http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/08/board_of_revision_complaints_h.html http://www.cleveland.com/news/ Full Story on page 5.
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Case Study: Modus Operandi of Illuminati... Fabricate Crisis and Fear... Switch Idols on Braindead Citizens... Leverage RacismSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Tue, 08/31/2010 - 11:27.
Case Study: Modus Operandi of Illuminati... Fabricate Crisis and Fear... Switch Idols on Braindead Citizens... Leverage Racism. Witness! If you ever come to question the intent and modus operandi of the Illuminati, just witness how they fabricated a crisis in the trading of LeBron James... creating instability and fear among millions of loyal Ohioans and Americans... and then witness how they just switched idols on hate-programmed braindead zombie Citizens of Northeast Ohio, fabricating broad public outrage against a talented, young black man to stir racial hatred against an entire class of new leaders, in an important swing election year.
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STIFF PENALTIES FOR BARS/NIGHTCLUBS WHO WON'T TURN IT DOWNSubmitted by jerleen1 on Tue, 08/31/2010 - 01:56.
CLEVELAND BARS/RESTAURANTS/NIGHTCLUBS GET SLAMMED WITH STIFF NOISE ORDINANCE PENALTIES BY: JERLEEN JUSTUS Cleveland business owners may now find themselves digging a little deeper into their profit margins for disturbing the peace and quiet of neighboring residents. The drafting of new legislation to amend the Penalty Section (683.99) of Cleveland City Ordinance Chapter 683 passed through Cleveland's City Council by unanimous vote on July 14, 2010.
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updated yogi & guy show - questministries live on internet at lncoln park tremont cleveland, ohio - every day also recordedSubmitted by Quest-News-Serv... on Mon, 08/30/2010 - 23:30.
yogi and guy show - truth to power - tremont anti-mob vs. tremont mob -- questministries - live on the internet at lncoln park, tremont, cleveland, ohio (recorded at same time) video below and link- august 30, 2010- see below the information - location and truth to power- first time live with ustream.com - wifi pick up - started anout 5:00 pm till battery died about 2 hours later - i need a better camera to the laptop - and longer battery laptop - but all went well - its funny when one is live on the world wide web - what one will say and come up with - and being recorded for later show - will post the time about and link everyday that we are live at lincoln park - or any place with our about 2 hour battery- and donated laptop pentium 4
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Atlantis Unveils The World’s Largest Tidal Turbine – The AK1000™Submitted by Phillip Williams on Mon, 08/30/2010 - 12:03.
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"the Obama administration and the solicitor general appear to have made their own lives a lot more difficult"Submitted by Norm Roulet on Sat, 08/28/2010 - 05:00.
Northeast Ohio clearly has some ot the worst air pollution in America, exposing residents to 100,000,000s of pounds of severe toxic point source and fugitive emissions from the Arcelor/Mittal combination steel-mill, coal powerplants, landfills and recycling facilities, refineries and 100s of other hazardous pollution point sources located throughout this 2 million+ person community - I'd like to know where in America more people are harmed more significantly by particulate pollution, on a daily basis, than in the neighborhoods surrounding Mittal and the industrial Flats... by no means our only toxic war-zone in the region. Environmentalism here is "greenwashed" with "a pretense of concern about climate but policies dictated by fossil fuel special interests", as renowned climatologist Dr. James Hansen, Director, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, describes the global state of inaction in response to global warming worldwide. Hansen prescribes action: "To the young people I say: stand up for your rights – demand that the government be honest and address the consequences of their policies. To the old people I say: let us gird up our loins and fight on the side of young people for protection of the world they will inherit." But, he cautions: "It becomes clear that needed actions will happen only if the public, somehow, becomes forcefully involved. One way that citizens can help is by blocking coal plants, tar sands, and mining the last drops of fossil fuels from public and pristine lands and the deep ocean." We have many horrific polluters here - where to get citizens forcefully involved to stop excessive pollution... where to block a coal plant? How?
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