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EconomyFirst Smart Thing Democratic Leaders Have Done Here Since I've Lived Here! Thank God!Submitted by Norm Roulet on Tue, 08/10/2010 - 12:37.
First Smart Thing Democratic Leaders Have Done Here Since I've Lived Here! Thank God! I've declared the politicians in Northeast Ohio a threat to national security and have asked for UN support. Off to see Pelosi. Keep up the good work for a change, Cuyahoga County Democratic Party! Published: Tuesday, August 10, 2010, 11:50 AM Updated: Tuesday, August 10, 2010, 1:03 PMCLEVELAND, Ohio -- Cuyahoga County's new Democratic Party boss is calling on his two highest-profile Democrats – Commissioner Jimmy Dimora and Auditor Frank Russo -- to resign immediately.
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"He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it" - MLKSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Tue, 08/10/2010 - 00:00.
I'd like you to reflect upon an amazing speech by the great Martin Luther King Jr. - certainly one of his most controversial and certainly one that was a factor in him being assassinated... EXACTLY 1 YEAR LATER TO THE DAY... Martin Luther King, Jr. Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence - Delivered 4 April 1967, at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York City. He speaks some brutal and powerful truths our leadership of then and now do not want citizens of America or the world thinking... and you DO want to think about these things... especially with 43 years passed. I recommend you at least read the end of the speech (inserted below, along with the entire speech), which starts focused on Viet Nam (and is amazing about that), but ends all about citizenship, and what we should have been doing the last 43 years, and what we still must do today... including the famous quote:
PD Writes: Old-fashioned Ohio coal still being burned at tech-savvy University Circle institutionsSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Mon, 08/09/2010 - 19:55.
This excellent article on the MCCO coal burning powerplant in University Circle - Old-fashioned Ohio coal still being burned at tech-savvy University Circle institutions - by the Plain Dealer's John Funk speaks for itself... and is truthful to the best of my knowledge... and I learned some important new information. Thank you John Funk! I've included the entire PD article below in the interest of public safety. Thank you Mattie and the Sierra Club for making all this happen - love the conclusion... "The solutions are not as forth coming as some might think," Reitman said. "You can't just put up a wind turbine and call it warm." Now to get a timeline in writing from MCCO for all aspects of their planning to move off coal, WITH CITIZEN INVOLVEMENT!
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realNEO Question of the Day: Do You Care If Your Air Is Unhealthy Today?Submitted by Norm Roulet on Mon, 08/09/2010 - 17:12.
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Good Afternoon real NEO - Cleveland has been fucked all day - Sheffield is worst nowSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Mon, 08/09/2010 - 13:23.
Good Afternoon real NEO - Cleveland has been fucked all day - Sheffield is worst now
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Good Morning real NEO - last night the air was unhealthy... were your windows open?Submitted by Norm Roulet on Mon, 08/09/2010 - 01:22.
Good Morning real NEO - last night the air was unhealthy... were your windows open? It seemed like a beautiful Sunday night for sleeping with the windows open but you should not have last night. You should have known better. Did you know the air pollution would make you unhealthy last night? Were you warned it would be unhealthy today?
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I Love LeBron More Now That He Is Free. Go MIami... go LeBron - you rock!Submitted by Norm Roulet on Sun, 08/08/2010 - 01:17.
I Love LeBron More Now That He Is Free - blessings. Lucky kids don't believe what adults say and do... because adults here have treated this home town hero poorly, and kids don't deserve to believe their adults will turn on good people so easitly - pathetic role models, those Gilbertoid Cavaliers freaks. Go MIami... go LeBron - you rock! What has Gilbert ever done for Cleveland, that didn't cost Clevelanders a fortune... Clevelanders???????????
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Would Someone or Everyone Monitor Mittal for me this Weekend?!?! Forever?!?!Submitted by Norm Roulet on Sat, 08/07/2010 - 15:03.
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Back of napkin sketch of new I-90 Bridge - Cleveland Of My DreamsSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Sat, 08/07/2010 - 11:37.
Back of napkin sketch of new I-90 Bridge... blending of visioning with Ed Hauser, Joe Stanley and Ken Prendergast... FIRST - REPLACE ALL ODOT LEADERSHIP, CONSULTANTS, PLANNERS, ENGINEERS, ARCHITECTS AND POLITICIANS WHO EVER TOUCHED THIS DISASTER. IMPRISON AS MANY AS POSSIBLE FOR AS LONG AS POSSIBLE. TERMINATE ALL RTA LEADERSHIP Keep the damn bridge we already have and decommission it for highway use - the carbon footprint return on saving this embodied carbon and not wasting unmeasurable more pollution buiilding an unnecessary new bridge alone is worth $ billions. Pay the union mafia $ millions to stop crying about jobs and go do something to improve the world
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"Sadly, no one in government or community development sought a second opinion"Submitted by Norm Roulet on Sat, 08/07/2010 - 05:56.
As Steven Litt points outs out in the Plain Dealer today, as he slams all the designs and design processes leading to the $3.5 billion boondoggle that is the Cleveland ODOT I-90 bridge replacement disaster...
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Report Prior to Medical Center Company hearing on Tuesday!Submitted by Norm Roulet on Fri, 08/06/2010 - 11:48.
Report Prior to Medical Center Company hearing on Tuesday!
Dear Mr. Chopra, We met briefly at the City Club of Cleveland and I requested your card to follow-up regarding an investigation into irregularities in our environmental monitoring data and technologies in Ohio. I am preparing to report on these concerns to the EPA, in writing and during a permit renewal hearing in Cleveland, August 10, 2010, highlighting the fact that the citizens of Cleveland, Northeast Ohio and the world have been denied accurate, actionable air quality data here for so long, and our air quality monitoring systems are so poorly architected, it is safe to say we have no idea how polluted and polluting we are. As such, no permits to pollute further should be issued here.
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I'm actually preparing my report on all this for the CTO of AmericaSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Fri, 08/06/2010 - 09:10.
Medical Center Company hearing on Tuesday!
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More from EPA Region Mars coming soon... August 4-5, 2010Submitted by Norm Roulet on Thu, 08/05/2010 - 15:00.
Hexa the Pollution Fighting Witch, strugging to escape the pollution at Clark Field, in the Cleveland Flats, near the Cleveland Kennels and Dog Park... below are some hints why...
Mayor Jackson... "concerned about the human impacts of pollution in northeast Ohio"Submitted by Norm Roulet on Wed, 08/04/2010 - 23:36.
Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson held a press conference today on the hills overlooking the beautiful Cuyahoga River Valley, where he proclaimed "I am not a mutant - no Clevelanders are Mutants - pollution don't mutant people... mutants mutant people... and I'll Prove it". All two honest journalists remaining in Ohio attended the press conference, and puked. They are being treated at MetroHealth for pollution poisoning, and are reported to be in critical condition.
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After reading your message, I'm concerned about the human impacts of pollution in northeast Ohio.Submitted by Norm Roulet on Wed, 08/04/2010 - 12:43.
Daily Air Quality Forecast for Cleveland-Akron-Lorain
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Rideshare to Washington DC - leave TONIGHT - return TOMORROW nightSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Tue, 08/03/2010 - 12:56.
08/04/2010 - 00:00 08/05/2010 - 06:00 Etc/GMT-4 It seems I suddenly need to go to Washington DC to meet with Federal officials about air pollution in Northeast Ohio. As timing is critical, I need to leave tonight and drive - returning tomorrow night. Rather than make the trip alone, wasting all that gas for just one person, I thought I 'd see if anyone else in the realNEO community would like to share a ride to-and-from DC for a day-trip there - we should be there for full business hours... 8am-midnight. Location
White House, etc.
Washington, DC
United States
Phone:
unlisted
See map: Google Maps
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TUESDAY MORNING IN CLEVELAND AND ALL AROUND NORTHEAST OHIO - THE AIR IS UNSAFE TO BREATHESubmitted by Norm Roulet on Tue, 08/03/2010 - 09:45.
Right now - TUESDAY MORNING IN CLEVELAND AND ALL AROUND NORTHEAST OHIO - the air appears unsafe to breathe. According to data hidden throughout air quality monitoring reporting in the region, our air has been AT BEST UNSAFE FOR SENSITIVE GROUPS since MIDNIGHT. In other words... it is still UNSAFE from yesterday. Of course, the Ohio EPA forecast for today was "Moderate".
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So many years of screwing citizens... and screwing honest tech people like me... hang MaSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Mon, 08/02/2010 - 23:44.
As a tech guy in a tech-brain-dead town, I must point out how much harm to the new economy and our quality of life scumbags like Tony Ma cause... Information Technology is critical to the success of the region and our IT is planned and provided by greaseballs, who typically belong in jail.
I am in contact with the Senator's staff about these conflicts of interestSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Mon, 08/02/2010 - 18:48.
Mattie Reitman with the Sierra Club just forwarded me his communications with the Chairman of Medical Center Company, Robert Brown - who is Treasurer of Case.... and Senator Sherrod Brown's brother... the PD's Connie Schultz' Brother-in-Law... major regional coal-burner and source-point polluter. Through Brown's leadership MCCO operates a secretive coal burning, polluting steam plant for University Circle in my backyard, causing 1,000s of tons of pollution a year in my backyard, harming us each and every day... which I am fighting with the Sierra Club to shut-down. Sherrod Brown has proven to be a pro-coal Senator. The PD basically denies global warming exists, loves coal, and ignores the issue of environmental injustice entirely. I am in contact with the Senator's staff about these conflicts of interest, as I am dealing with his brother's pollution, I don't like that my Senator is pro-coal, I don't like that his wife's monopoly newspaper ignores pollution. As you will see below, Mattie politely asked Robert Brown to arrange for better communications between MCCO and neighbors like myself, including "putting energy into something like" forums on moving MCCO off coal... and Brown said no.
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Here is Our Brightest Greenest Outreach to the People of East Cleveland - We Are Taking This To The Streets and ViralSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Mon, 08/02/2010 - 12:31.
What if MARIJUANA was LEGAL in EAST CLEVELAND?!
Like in Michigan, California, and other states, but EVEN BETTER for the community
Welcome to East Cleveland the International Cannabis Exchange for healthcare and industry for the world – The Exchange will put East Cleveland back ON THE MAP!
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Singapore Job markets hiring slows, says Singapore company formationSubmitted by danielyio on Mon, 08/02/2010 - 04:04.
Contrary to the latest reports of soaring economy boosted by the manufacturing sector, manufacturing jobs have actually dropped their numbers while the unemployment number crept up by 0.1 of a percentage point to 2.3 and 3.3 per cent respectively in June. According to the latest figures released by Ministry of Manpower, job gains in the second quarter of the year slipped to 26,500.
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When I met with my counsel about legalizing cannabis in Ohio, I explained I never bring up a problem without a solutionSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Mon, 08/02/2010 - 02:10.
When I met with my counsel about legalizing cannabis in Ohio, I explained I never bring up a problem without a solution. The problem I brought up to him and his many large industrial clients is the excessive industrial pollution in Northeast Ohio, primarily from coal-burning industrial source points like MCCO and MIttal, which must be eliminated to make this a livable, sustainable region. The solution I asked his firm to support is making Northeast Ohio the Open Source Capital of the Brightest Greenest State of Earth, including legalizing Cannabis and basing the Global Cannabis Exchange and industry here... which will grow to over $1 trillion world-wide in the coming years. Cannabis is marijuana, for medicinal and other personal use... and hemp, for industrial use and nutrition - two classes of crops, each worth $10s billions to the Ohio economy alone, if developed effectively.
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The realNEO Formula: k=ic2Submitted by Norm Roulet on Sun, 08/01/2010 - 16:12.
knowledge = inclusion x community (public + private)
knowl·edge
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Origins of realNEO: CAUSE For Cleveland - "Dear fellow University School Alumnus"Submitted by Norm Roulet on Sun, 08/01/2010 - 06:00.
At the end of the last Millennium, having created InT+IME (The Information, Technology and Infrastructure Management Exchange), and having led the leadership of scores of the world's leading global corporations through comparative enterprise benchmarking and best practice analysis of their information systems (and lots of related systems), for many years, I recognized an opportunity for Northeast Ohioans to transform ourselves and move our region to a position of global importance by doing best here what my clients did best worldwide... optimize Information Technology, focusing on universal access and open source virtual community development. At the same time, the poor information technology climate in Northeast Ohio had forced me to leave my family here and relocate my ICEarth enterprise to Northern California. Once safely in an incubator there, I turned around and asked Northeast Ohio's leaders why I must do my work for Ohio from California? To help change everything, I reached out virtually to ALL of my Northeast Ohio stakeholder community, from Aggie Gund and family (to post)... to ALL the readers of the Cleveland Plain Dealer... to ALL the alumni of my High School, University School (with email addresses in our online directory in 2003... over 2,000 as I recall)... to 39 children studying at the last-resort Charles Orr Cleveland Public School... seeking data and insight on real NEO community needs and interests for information systems. This pathway, partially documented on-line on the Wayback Machine, directly resulted in realNEO.... and me relocating ICEarth back to NEO... and meeting my wife... and us growing our family here... lots of good.
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How Bad Was Cleveland Air Quality Yesterday (your guess is as good as the EPA)?Submitted by Norm Roulet on Sun, 08/01/2010 - 03:51.
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