Hermes Sports & events is seeking interns for the winter/spring/summer/fall session(s). Hermes Sports & Events manages events such as the Cleveland Clinic Sports Health River Run Half Marathon, Cleveland Corporate Challenge, Cleveland 10 Miler at House of Blues, Komen Race for the Cures in Cleveland, Columbus, Toledo, Baltimore, Madison, Knoxville, and Raleigh(NC Triangle) and over forty 5k run/walks.

Watch this amazing video of award-winning filmmaker and intellectual activist Michael Moore nearly speechless as he comes to terms, on Countdown, with a Cigna Insurance industry executive, now retired from the industry, who has written a book about how the insurance industry conspired to attack Moore and his movie "Sicko", and deny Americans good healthcare, ultimately being about the failure and sorry state of corporate America, subverting and smearing the best interests of citizens... "which kills 45,000 people a year".

Sicko promotes the concept of universal healthcare, which renders the health insurance industry useless. In its current state, revealed here, the health insurance industry is far worse than useless than you may ever imagine... it is collusive, murderous, and evil, as confirmed by one of their top executives ever.

At first, I was going to write some nice stuff about Michael DeAloia and his new book:

Lost Cleveland

...but I am a bit miffed right now.

I am mad, not at Michael DeAloia, who doesn't seem to let the local corruption dampen his enthusiasm for our fair city, but at the puppetmasters at NPI, the foundations and Greater Cleveland Partnership.

For folks with any memory left at all....a reminder from Tremont Memory project.  An interview with Father Bodziony (emphasis added):

In 2007 there were 1,143,358  Lawyers in the United States, which had a population of 303 million people, representing 265 people per lawyer in America. That would indicate that the 16 counties of Northeast Ohio (Ashland, Ashtabula, Carroll, Columbiana, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Lorain, Mahoning, Medina, Portage, Richland, Stark, Summit, Trumbull and Wayne counties), with a population of 4.5 million people, have approximately 17,000 lawyers.

Thus, Northeast Ohio's 17,000 lawyers should be providing at least 850,000 hours of pro bono work to this community... let's round that up to 1 million hours.

It's a near-perfect replica of our $100 bill." "It's an act of aggression," Hamer said, recalling his undercover work that helped expose the counterfeiting plot."We're talking about a foreign country counterfeiting our currency and then were going to make me an exclusive distributor of over $40 million of this counterfeit money here in t<

Appreciation is the strongest force in the Universe

Volunteers are the second strongest force in the Universe.

Find more videos like this on Shaw High Online

I was pleased to see posted on East Cleveland's core home-town social network, Shaw High Online, an excellent opinion editorial - Matters Of Opinion: Vol 7 Decriminalize Marijuana - by Zakee A Rashid. The tagline reads: "Why are we spending 10 billion dollars a year to stop people from smoking weed?"

Rashid goes on to reference a wide range of facts about the economics and injustice of the prosecution of citizens for marijuana that all Americans must take into account. In Ohio, recent polls indicate 73% of voters support legalization of medical marijuana "MMJ", showing opposition to legalizing MMJ (now legal in 15 states, including McCain's Arizona) is a losing political ticket. Making President Obama a major loser... especially as the harm caused by unjust marijuana prosecution in America predominantly harms African Americans, who rallied to elect Obama president.

They have had many Transition Advisory Group Meetings over the last year or so. They have had forums for candidates and input from lots of angles. Recommendations from the public have been given. Yet, have you had your say in the future of our county? 

Hemp Industries Association (HIA) President Steve Levine - speaking to membership at the 2010 Annual HIA Convention, November 08, 2010, in San Francisco - discusses his expectation that California will pass and enact into law a Hemp Farm Bill in 2011 - "Definitely in 2012 it (hemp) will be grown in California" - "there is talk there may be some hemp grown in 2011". Steve indicates developments are positive for a 2011 version of Ron Paul's Federal Hemp Farm Bill to pass congress and become Federal law in 2011, making it legal to farm hemp nationwide in 2012 - "as hempsters, we did not lose one of our sponsors for the bill - all 25 were re-elected". This is one of the most important economic development forecasts for America of the 21st Century, to-date.

Google Analytics Traffic Data for realNEO.us for October 19 - November 18, 2010 (31 days)

Based on Google Analytics of realneo.us traffic, we are now at a level that exceeds 500,000 unique visitors and 1,000,000 page visits per year, and both metrics have been growing steadily for as long as we have tracked our web traffic metrics... so expect realNEO.us to exceed 1 million hits per year forever hereafter. By how much we exceed these metrics, with what growth rate for the future, is up to our members and community who create the content here that now attracts over 1,000,000 reads a year.

How do we preserve the legacy comprehensively? 

How do you feel about starting a "BUILDING FUND" for a REALNEO LIBRARY and CAFE that will be a central location for all "ED's" to leave their historical evidence for the duration? 

Can REALNEO add a "DONATE" icon that is strictly for such a plan? 

I have a starter location idea... if anyone is interested.

Mr Alvarado,

Thanks for writing. Mr Long and Mr Pelikan explicitly told me it was Councilman Cummins plan to not fund TWest in the next CDBG year.

While there are rights to recourse towards CIVIL TORT CLAIMS and remedies under the RICO Laws for CIVIL CLASS ACTION SETTLEMENT OPTIONS of Recourse....what lawyer do you know that will actually put their career on the line---SUING CUYAHOGA COUNTY GOVERNMENT in a CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT by the CITIZENS of CUYAHOGA COUNTY??? 

At the end of the day, the taxpayers would be getting paid back from their own payments into the county...it's almost comical!

Looks like the City of Cleveland is doing Holiday Baskets this
 year: SATURDAY 12-11-2010 Mayor's Holiday Basket Give-Away.This December 11th the annual Mayor's Holiday Basket Give-Away will be held at the Michael Zone and Zelma George Recreation Centers and the Cleveland Foodbank. - see addresses and times-

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN AT TREMONT WEST DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND EMPLOYEES: FOR THE BETTERMENT OF THE COMMUNITY THIS IS A REQUEST TO HAVE SAMMY CATANIA  (DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR)  RESIGN OR BE FIRED FOR ASSAULTING AND MENACING GUY TEMPLETON BLACK AND YOGI AND WHICH HE WAS FOUND GUILTY IN CLEVELAND MUNICIPAL COURT - JUDGE STOKES - AND TO BE SENTENCED DECEMBER 2, 2010. (THIS LETTER WAS PRESENTED TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTOR OF TWDC MEETING  AND READ ON NOVEMBER 18, 2010)

GUY TEMPLETON BLACK AND YOGI

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The Social Sciences Department of the Cleveland Public Library will hold their non-fiction book club discussion Thursday, December

The Social Sciences Department of the Cleveland Public Library will hold their non-fiction book club discussion Thursday, December

While corporations are all going “smart” with digital and wireless equipment and metering of their “services”, there is nothing in our political system which requires, or even encourages, “smart” people to run for office. There is nothing in our political system which prevents “analogue” headed types (or even log-headed types) from running our towns, our cities, our states and our federal government. 

Take that! Realising his chance, the cat lashes out at the alligator with his left paw

It is interesting to see published in Crain's Cleveland Business today Study advocates creation of NEO Food Authority to aid in localizing region's food supply that reports "A comprehensive study that examines the state and potential of Northeast Ohio's food economy calls for the creation of a NEO Food Authority that would facilitate a 25% shift in localizing the region's culinary and agriculture systems." That's the leading recommendation I made in my Preamble: Real Co-op for Open Food, Information and Community Development 2009, which I developed with one of the authors of the study Crain's references today, Brad Masi, about two years ago.

To optimize value in these critical sectors, I have recommended Cuyahoga County convene and sponsor overarching Greater Cleveland Food and Information Advisory Councils, like and associated with the Greater Cleveland Lead Advisory Council, and county leaders should take active roles leading the councils and in planning these multi-billion-dollar sectors of our economy and society... we must not entrust the leadership, innovation, financial engineering and decision-making control to under-engaged government and over-engaged foundations, academe, industry and non-profits.

Planning these sectors should not happen behind closed doors in any ways at all, as has been the case in the past.

Crain's is reporting on "Economist Michael Shuman, who is part of the local and national consulting team that has conducted the Northeast Ohio Local Food Assessment, presented the study's findings Tuesday, Nov. 16, to a sold-out meeting at the City Club of Cleveland." Apparently, a bunch of Foundation-paid consultants have finished planning local foods behind closed doors.

The report is found at the NEO Food Web portal - you must register for access, which seems open to the public, and Drupal.... see Summary of NEO Local Food Assessment and Plan after you have set up an account... or just click the following link for a 354 KB .PDF of the "summary" report (the only report posted)... Summary of The 25% Shift- Northeast Ohio Local Food Assessment and Plan.