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MEDIA ADVISORY
Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2005

‘Emerging Cleveland’ to lead holiday tours for ex-pats

CLEVELAND -- The student chapter of the American Planning Association at CSU’s Levin College of Urban Affairs will present a holiday tour of new developments and off-the-beaten-track gems in the City of Cleveland.

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SUSTAINABILITY?

What can be more sustainable than community-owned Wind
Energy?

This can be a reality.

You can be a part of the solution.

Solution to energy shortages!

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REALNEO.US has been up and running since October, 2004, and has 1,000s of postings, 100s of members, and gets 1,000s of hits a day from all around the world. To join the free REALNEO community, simply create an account - if you are already a member, log in. Some suggestions on how to participate... go to the events calendar to find something interesting to do around town, and add events you think others will enjoy ("create content", "event")... go to the Community Forums and comment on the topics, or add a topic for collaboration with others... post a thought to your blog ("create content", "my blog")... comment on the thoughts of others... invite your friends to join you, and make new friends. If you have questions or would like to do more for the community, like cover events, email info [at] realinks [dot] us.

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How do you raise the bar on innovation in the creative industries? By
networking a region’s arts entrepreneurs who are rich with
capabilities, diverse resources and innovative businesses in the visual
and performing artsÉAll at
once!

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I missed it, but apparently on the Lehrer-Mcneil Report, there was a section on increased individual participation in "journalism", or what they called "We Media". A large piece of the report was focused on wiki technology. Of course they mentioned Wikipedia. Apparently, wikipedia has over 2 billion hits per month. "Subscribers" to wikipedia outnumber the subscribers to the New York Times, Washington Post, the LA Times(and maybe one or two others) combined.

REALNEO is hosting our November 22nd NEO Excellence Roundtable at the City Club with the Innerbelt Bridge Plan featured as the discussion topic. We will be joined by Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Director Paul Alsenas, and we have invited representative of the Ohio Department of Transportation. One outcome we hope to see from this process is increased support for developing a new "Signature Bridge" for Northeast Ohio. We invite you to attend and participate in these discussions.

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Please attend this Cleveland Municipal School District CEO Search Advisory Committee Community Meeting and provide your feedback on what is important to you in the selection of the Chief Executive Officer to lead our municipal school district forward into the future. Light food and beverages will be provided and you will be encouraged to speak up and voice your opinions. For more information, visit http://schoolceosearch.net

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Please attend this Cleveland Municipal School District CEO Search Advisory Committee Community Meeting and provide your feedback on what is important to you in the selection of the Chief Executive Officer to lead our municipal school district forward into the future.

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Few people will disagree the most important decision for planning the future of Northeast Ohio will be that of the Search Advisory Committee selecting the next CEO for the Cleveland Municipal School District. The Committee has selected nationally respected search firm Hazard, Young, Attea & Associates to handle the selection process, and has scheduled eight public forums to invite citizen feedback. The committee has also established a hotline citizens can call to leave their feedback by phone - 216-858-6978 - and has arranged with REALNEO.US is provide a social network where citizens may sign-up for a mailing list and submit a survey response expressing your view-points. We strongly suggest everyone sincerely interested in seeing Cleveland choose a great CEO for our schools become involved in the selection process - see the realneo.us events calendar and visit http://schoolceosearch.net to find the schedule of upcoming public forums, and submit a "search survey" response to communicate your opinions.

Friends of Northeast Ohio, a day for a new bridge to our future is arriving Thursday, November 17th, when the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) will present their plan to supplement the current I-90 Innerbelt bridge over the Cuyahoga River by building a second bridge immediately to the north of the current span. If you care about the form, flow and future of our community, you must care about this near $ billion project. The Cuyahoga County Planning Commission, area newspapers and universities, and broad community leaders all agree this project offers a great opportunity to reshape Cleveland forever. There is broad agreement we should replace the current I-90 bridge with a world-class span. In doing so, we may relocate the bridge south to allow further development around our $500 million gateway district, and create an astounding gateway entrance to our city. To help further such enlightened outcomes, realneo.us has provided a social networking site to this community, found at http://neobridge.net - thanks to Cleveland Institute of Art Future Center Director David Moss for site design support. Please join your community at NEO Bridge to interact on this issue. And, most important, please join your community at the Wolstein Center this Thursday, November 17th, at 4:30 pm for a public forum with ODOT...

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This year has been a fantastic time for the entire Northeast Ohio tech and biotech community. So my thought
was that we should have some time to celebrate this fact.

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I just got a notice from the good folks at Assemble - http://www.assemblegallery.com - all should definitely check out the Tremont ArtWalk, and the Edge show at Cleveland State will be excellent as well.

For the ArtWalk, Asterisk and Doubting Thomas have great shows scheduled... also, the artist showing at Pilgrim Church is cool, and it is worth seeing the place... I went there with a friend and his kids, a few months ago, and the caretaker took us into the belltower and let the kids ring the bell... Quasimdodo style... real trip

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Stuart Hart spoke before an engaged audience at the Dively Executive Building at Case November 8th , sharing a 21st century vision for a more sustainable future made possible by a paradigm shift in business which considers the creative application of disruptive technology and bottom of the pyramid (BOP) strategy.

The historic Cleveland Harbor Coast Guard Station on Lake Erie

The people of Northeast Ohio are
fortunate to have one of the world's greatest bodies of freshwater at
our doorstep. Cleveland, being the largest metropolis on Lake Erie,
needs to leverage this great asset and realize its potential to make
Northeast Ohio a world contender. The citizens, organizations, and
public officials have begun the collaboration needed to make it
happen. The only way we can keep the momentum going to restore our
Great Lakes is to get involved and “be part of it.”

In a fascinating discourse Ambassador Richard Fairbanks
addressed
the City Club Friday Forum and discussed important progress
toward peace in the Middle East. Fairbanks has remained quite active in
foreign policy matters, he was special negotiator for the Middle East
peace
process and then named Ambassador at Large to the region . He has also
served on a
taskforce on U.S. government international broadcasting and worked for
the Center for Strategic Policy on International Studies. He currently
serves as chairman of the nonprofit Layalina, which works through the
media to enlighten viewers to diverse beliefs and democratic ideals.

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Dear Friends of Lake
Erie ~

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As dusk approached on a dreary, rainy Cleveland 1st of November, the skies suddenly cleared and around 80 diverse NEO Stakeholders gathered at the Palace Theater for a shared experience of insight from Mayor Campbell and Next Generation Consulting CEO Rebecca Ryan followed by "world cafe" collaboration. See the results linked below.

Around 80 diverse people from around Cleveland came together Halloween Night for a arts, culture and intellect filled evening of brainstorming and discussion on what we as a region need to do to make this a "more better" place, especially considering making NEO attractive to the next generation. Visit the links below to see the results.

Event #1:

Come to the CIA and plan for a “more better future”

October 31, 2005 - 4:30pm – free parking behind
building
Cleveland Institute of Art, Reinberger Galleries - 11141
East Boulevard

Even though you are busy, come for as long as you like - stop by, be entertained, see some friends, and enjoy - invite your friends!

Escape the trick-and-treat world... connect with your friends for a real, free treat – get tricked-out for the CIA’s great new exhibit, “Dreaming of a More Better Future” (an exhibition of Art, Architecture, Technology, Science, Politics, Life Style and Mutation) – experience the world-premier of an original composition performed by an exceptional string quartet from the Cleveland Institute of Music – view multimedia work of CIA masters in TIME (Technology and Integrated Media Environment) - have your mind supercharged by Rebecca Ryan’s high-powered energy and insight – enjoy some wine, beer and cider - get really involved in state of the art visioning on your community’s future! See http://realneo.us/Future

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Storm the Palace and act up at the
Playhouse Square

November 1, 2005 -
5:00pm
Playhouse Square, Palace Theater - 1615 Euclid Avenue.

Even though you are busy, come for as
long as you like - stop by, be entertained, see some friends, and
enjoy - invite your friends!

Come act up in the stunning Cleveland
heart of theatrics – Playhouse Square – for a theater-of-life act
of collaboration. Rebecca Ryan will set the stage – area multimedia
artists will inject visual stimulation – a pianist from the
Cleveland Institute of Music will score with virtuosity – and we
all are stars. Invite your friends to join you in the lobby of the
Palace Theater to form a cast of hundreds and begin scripting the
best possible future for Northeast Ohio, and have a blast.

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On 10.31.05 and 11.01.05, Rebecca Ryan will be back in Northeast Ohio to work with all of us transforming the region for the better - we'd like your help, on 10.18.05 and 10.20.05, to help plan this neovolution... the new twist about the center.

Whether we call this new twist a revolution, evolution, or turning our brains on, it will be very live, in person and in virtual space. We will work with Rebecca, Bridge Builders, 20/30, cleveland.com, Mark Chupp, of CSU and "Voices and Choices", and every social and change organization and individual that is interested to make certain young thinkers' thoughts are heard in the change dialogues now gaining volume and taking center stages around the region.

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On 10.31.05 and 11.01.05, Rebecca Ryan will be back in Northeast Ohio to work with all of us transforming the region for the better - we'd like your help, on 10.18.05 and 10.20.05, to help plan this neovolution... the new twist about the center.

Whether we call this new twist a revolution, evolution, or turning our brains on, it will be very live, in person and in virtual space. We will work with Rebecca, Bridge Builders, 20/30, cleveland.com, Mark Chupp, of CSU and "Voices and Choices", and every social and change organization and individual that is interested to make certain young thinkers' thoughts are heard in the change dialogues now gaining volume and taking center stages around the region.

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There is probably no need for Planners to consider this for Cleveland's downtown; however, this may be the way to help struggling neighborhoods within the city, as well as the the older, inner-ring suburbs - by encouraging pedestrian activity instead of vehicular.
I suppose the fast-food industry would put up a big fight to keep things as they have been.

Tuesday Andrew Watterson, sustainability programs manager for the City of Cleveland, addressed a dynamic gathering of concerned citizens and spoke about a variety of planned initiatives geared toward progress toward sustainable economic development. Watterson explained his mission to reduce city expense while creating a sustainable economic agenda, reforming antiquated policies internally and  educating the public.