Like every reader, my attention is grabbed by news reports about creativity and unique events.  

Today, Google News carried a piece about the two Canadian high school fellows who sent a helium balloon with cameras to the stratisphere and then recovered the cameras.  The news media has dubbed the advanture "Lego Man in Space" because the balloon carried a Lego man holding the Canadian maple leaf flag and the on board cameras recorded images of the man/flag against the curvature of the earth.  

With the internet, finding a needle in a haystack is no longer an issue. 

I just put the following item up on a Craigslist site.   Let's see what happens!

This dual style frost pattern formed on the inside of a storm window glass - the straight line frost was towards the center of the window and the "crystal" patterns are near the edge of the glass.     

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Image shows the setting of the center section of the main truss on 1.20.12

Occupy Cleveland is maintaining a presence in Public Square through these cold winter days -

People are very complex, and we all don't think alike or see things the same way.   It is always a challenge to try to understand the messages other people  are sending our way.   Sometimes it is difficult.  Sometimes we need  to separate the message from the messenger.  It is all confusing. 

Have you seen this kind of amile in Cleveland lately?

Must be the water.

Cutting glass is an exercise in preparation. 

First you need a flat table surface which has rug, resilient rubber, or other soft surface on it.

Second, the glass surface needs to be  clean.  Very clean.  Especially if you are attempting to cut old glass - make sure that the surface has no paint, grit, etc. on it.   Dirty glass and your cut will likely fail.

Above is a driver's view of MOCA from the intersection at the corner of Mayfield and Euclid on a sunny January afternoon. 

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The Wall Street Journal link has an editorial by Steven Malanga which runs through the "economic development" boondoggles to which Buffalo NY has subscribed.  

The funding ideas sound much like those which have done nothing but harm in Cleveland, right down to the ubran light rail line which sounds just like our goofy "lakefront" rail line.

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Anyway, the only way we in Bonaire are able to produce pottery and export it to Venezuela is because there are no government regulation in Venezuala and no taxes on the 1% there. 

So, of course, there are lots of jobs in Venezuela and those jobs actually move offshore to the Dutch West Indies.

Crazy, isn't it, how trickle up works?  

As I have been looking back through a hard drive for images for a story, it dawned on me that perhaps there could be a popular appetite for taking a virtual vacation - not to carouse, but to get educated and to gain a bit of vitamin D from exposure to something other than neo. 

Less than a decade ago we refered to "home telephone", "work telephone", "public telephone' - these descriptions are pretty much history. 

Instead of a phone being in a "place" where you go to use it, our bodies are now the "place" for phones.

Image March 13, 2008 Cuyahoga County Building elevator.

A recent study, linked here, demonstrates that  heart attacks dramatically increase with grief.  Besides grief- for example caused by the death of a loved one- other emotions like anger, depression, and anxiety also dramatically increase the risk of heart attack.

What happened to all the civic energy which we had in the 2004 to 2007 era?   I reported (image above) on March 12, 2007 about George Nemeth and Gloria Ferris conducting a Meet the Bloggers discussion.

And what you hear on the news is that Iran is a danger because the Iranians have produced yellow cake!

Who needs a nuke or an ICBM when you are able to sell a country located half way around the world across an ocean from your country "fresh" garlic?

Another job Americans won't do:  grow garlic.

Nothing wrong with that!

In Cleveland, Ohio, there are blocks of apartments (like the one in the image above) which don't have any lights on inside at 8:00pm.   I wonder what the 2010 census could tell us....

Are the tenants just all behind in their Cleveland Illuminating bills? or are these apartment blocks just empty?

Possitively Cleveland!

I was staying with friends when I heard about this tragedy, and I immediately got a splitting migrane.   

I couldn't imagine the intensity of grief the parents and family were enduring. 

At at time like this you would want to crawl into a hole and drown in your depression...

So the Jewish culture over centuries has developed an antidote - about as good as it can be - sitting Shiva.

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I had never heard about this industrial re-use project until a relative gave me a heads up and gave me a slide show (image above credit CEB)

The rail road right of way is on a viaduct - built decades ago - above street level and in numerous places went through the commercial warehouses and industrial buildings which the rail line served.  

Recently I lent a hand at removing some dead limbs from a white ash tree.   The trunk on the tree is in the 48 inch diameter range - and when I counted growth rings in the 20 inch diameter limb which was removed - the limb had been up in the sky defying gravity for 125+ years!   

Pretty amazing. 

Ever felt like this?  Just too much going on?   

Sam, the cat, is 15 and rarely takes a break - but I caught him on camera at a slow moment between meetings!