Summer hasn't hit it's solstice, but seeing these poppies on Fairmont made me realize where sherbet got it's colors.  Color Test, it's also a book

When I was traveling a number of years ago in Santorini, Greece with a young woman I still know,  I had an experience that doesn’t happen much in this country.   We were eating dinner in a small bistro when volla! The waiter came to our table with a bottle of wine and two glasses, filled the glasses and left the bottle  – announcing that the wine was “compliments to the lady” from two men at another table.  That was great!

I have a theory that images influence our mood.  In particular, I believe that color and shape  in images impact our daily behavior.  Images certainly may even control more than our mood, but let’s start simply with mood.   There are images we turn our heads away from because we don’t want to view them, and there are images which we return again and again to view.  What does that tell you? 

"My Son K.I.A Iraq" is a traveling Activist.  I didn't hear the presentation in the nearby church, so I don't know if the "son" is personal, or a generalization.  The pick up truck ...with a flag drapped coffin, empty boots, ... and the trailer with crutches and crosses  - just the stuff Bush keeps under wraps... is an appropriate follow up to Mothers' Day 2007.

Mothers’ Day in the USA began when Julia Ward Howe instigated a post-civil war movement for peace.  It wasn’t about thanking mothers for bearing and rearing children and keeping house.  Mothers’ day originated as a political movement with the very sane and rationale objective of  keeping every mother’s child – mainly sons - alive by keeping them from the battlefield .

When I was in High School I changed the marquee weekly at 3 of our local theaters.   The ladders I climbed and the gravity exposure I had 40 feet up over the public concrete sidewalk makes me wince now when I think about it.  But one of the job perks was that I got to see Tom Jones 14 times from the projection room. 

This Associated Press report describes the new manufacturing plants in the United States which will be producing wind turbine blades and other components. 

Meanwhile, the Cuyahoga County Energy "task force", Bill Mason, and the Cleveland Foundation are funding a feasibility study with about $800,000 of taxpayers' money to investigate building - six or more years in the future - "about 10 turbines 3 miles out in Lake Eire off of Cleveland".

What about manufacturing jobs now in NEO?  Why is Cuyahoga "planning" six years out, while other states are so much better organized that they are getting the wind turbine manufacturing jobs NOW? 

NEO is way behind the curve and has its sight set on the wrong goal - the Lake Wind Iconic Dream.  Cuyahoga "study" of lake wind is so retro, I wonder if the Ohio Coal Lobby – coal produces 85% of the electricity in Ohio - is subliminally funding Sustainable Cleveland.  

I studied Latin in High School.   Mr. Feser was our teacher.  I remember Gallia Est Omnis Divisa in Partes Tres, but I remember even better Mr. Feser’s warnings about TV. 

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This is a piece about the modern consumer-grade digital camera.  What it can do. Amazing piece of equipment.  A Panasonic DMC – FZ50 for less than $500. Records to postage stamp size 4 gig SD media card.    I have used large format film and 35 mm film cameras all  through my years.  Today film cameras have nothing on digital.  Film cameras are relics.   I bought my first Sony Mavica digital in 2001.  2.2 megapixel maximum file size recorded to pocket CDs in the camera.  That camera cost $1,000 and worked great – even after I dropped it out of a tree.  But now, 6 years later, digital cameras with file capture 5x’s larger (10 megapixel) are available for half the cost of the 2001 camera.  That is a success story from the mass production economy.   And Moore’s Law is borne out again.

Don Imus and Jackie Robinson – looked at through the lens of our  economy.

 While the US is spending trillions on killing and being killed while we disassemble Iraq on a lie about WMD from our government – while we heckle Iran and North Korea with “homeland security” as our rationale – while we lock up and persecute “dirty bombers” for years without trial, while we lock up “high value” suspects on a Caribbean Island which it is illegal for US citizens to visit – WE REMAIN SELF-DELUSIONAL ABOUT THE REAL KILLER IN OUR LAPS.   

Today’s a day Dear in the Heart of Americans.

I have to catch a plane, so I will post the subject matter soon.

Cuyahoga County has issued  RFQ 8382 for a so called “Feasability Study concerning Lake Eire Wind Energy Center”. See County site here.  Responses are due April 23. 2007  The  "Center" is not a center as in a building, but  an offshore installation of  turbines.

Bill Callahan follows the money.  Finances. How Cleveland's being economically eviscerated. 

Seems like a simple idea, but I've never seen it elsewhere.   Will Alsop

So its eleven thirty at night before the easter friday holiday and the lines are long in front of the clubs.  Minus 5 cel but the heels and hems are still high.  I see the H2 (Norm’s nemesis) and I go for my  cam – but then I read the copy on the outside of the Hummer “BlogTV.Ca”  

The abandoned Bethlehem Steel facility rests like detritus amongst mountains of slag.- wily cottonwoods and eight new Clipper turbines spout up from the debris -  the old steel site is so large - 1500 acres – running several miles along the shore of Lake Erie, that it would be easily feasible to install more than 100 turbines here.  This is a perfect location for turbines. 

While the Cleveland Clinic goes for a 5,000 car parking monstrosity, and Detroit goes intentionally bankrupt to dump its auto unions and its pensions and move offshore, and ODOT spends a Billion on a new "signature" interstate bridge, and our NEO rail service goes further into the ditch,  Europe is on top of high speed train technology.  Look at the NYTimes’ story re: French TGV.

This is particularly ironic because the USA has the wide open spaces which are most compatible with high speed rail.  Yet the USA does inefficient, polluting cars, very fuel inefficient aircraft, but not rail.  Think the industry lobby are the reason?!  Of course,  our federal government does what it is told, and inefficient travel is a money maker for the highway construction lobby and the gas lobby and the auto lobby.  Citizens, get in the back seat.  No, actually, get in the trunk and close the lid.  You aren't relevant. And neither is the atmosphere.