Strategic direction : it's such an important thing, as Ed Morrison has long driven home.  Strategic doing, to me, involves careful planning and action - and its reassuring to see the core of talented thought leaders that have comprised this collective.

 All Aboard Ohio has just launched a social networking site, Ohio Passenger Rail. Join to: stay updated on the latest news, meet others who are interested in passenger rail and become a part of the grassroots movement to increase our transportation options.  

Your "3-Brains-in-One" Brain

 
You may have thought all you had was one, but inside there are two more brains.

Brief decription:Open block party for family's & friends to come together  an encourage our city to overcome our lackness in society.We'll have many interested speakers & rolemodels an also united states recruters their also to share their experience an also many opputunity's for our upcoming children.Hopefully have the mayor frank jackson their himself an also other important people as well.

Here are some thoughts prompted by a string over at BFD.

One sign that Clevehoga is frozen - all year long - is the vacant Coast Guard Station. 

A spectacular location, a spectacular building.  

But no ideas for re-use, and no effort to stabilize the deterioration.

Two Links of interest.

Henry Gomez's PD City Hall Blog entry for today.

http://www.cleveland.com/cityhall/index.ssf/2009/02/council_president_martin_j_swe.html

The Cleveland Scene Expose from Yesterday.

http://www.clevescene.com/stories/15/95/foul-trouble

COMMENCE FIREarms Training Academy is the Premier Northeast Ohio Concealed Handgun - Our Training Facility is in the Greater Cleveland area

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This is a photo of the "Northwind 100"kw rigid hub/permanent magnet generator which was put into service January 30, 2008 in Medford, (a suburb of Boston) Massachusetts.  

U. S. Judge Robert Krupansky knew how to toss a case the way he wanted it to go.

He did it a simple way. The first jury voted against CEI with a single holdout. That was a bad sign for CEI. So Krupansky made a couple of simple changes. He finely tuned things for CEI.

There were two damaging examples of CEI’s legal manipulation that swayed the first jury.

This is Seattle:

This is Seattle on S2:

A lot of folks will want to further write off downtown Cleveland after the recent violent shootings of two Clinic employees.  The violence can happen anywhere.  It's time that we looked harder at ourselves.

You may not be familiar with Charles Chestnutt, but he was a Cleveland writer who first broke the color line with his popular novel, House Behind the Cedars.  

This was your NEO

This is your NEO on FFOEF

 Here is Patrick Henry's Speech in the Virginia
Legislature that brought Virginia
into the War of the Revolution Against King George's
tyranny.

Once upon a time there was a guy named Tim Hagan – and John Carney was Tim’s friend.  And JC was a key player in the Cuyahoga and Cleveland Port Authority (CCPA)  which Authority could get million dollar bonds for parking lots and whatever.

The war is on.  Bombs away....From Cuyahoga County Planning Commission blog:

At Realneo we have celebrated the legislative passing of the Hauser Amendment. 

Deconstruction is a wonderful opportunity to create revenue from what would typically be waste material that would be directed to landfill otherwise. The typical cost of demolition of a typical home in an underprivileged community often exceeds $8000. In addition, demolition needs to be accompanied with the use of excessive water - which is another form of waste - to ensure toxins like lead, asbestos, or mercury do not spew into the surrounding air, soil and water. When deconstructing, this toxicity spread and water use is circumvented.

Okay, on to more important matters - one school of thought contends we can resolve prevailing conditions of racism and bias by simply ignoring them and focusing on the positive core and align best strengths - people, institutions, and organizations have to offer our community. When you try to function as a change agent within networks, the goal is to help manage conflict and help others see new solutions to problems together. So coming together and appreciating one another can be done in a slower way or more rapid way.

A recently-released article in the Boston Herald offers some remarkably similar points to those I made recently on the Cleveland Planning group on Facebook - and have since been deleted - but in the grand scheme of things, this serves the greater good quite well.