Jeff Buster's blog

DISTURBANCE ALWAYS IN FRONT - NOT BEHIND - OUR INTENDED VIEW

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Mon, 05/26/2008 - 13:39.

I used to always open the window of the car when I took photos of scenes passing by.   But at 60 mph you’re apt to get your lens cap blown off.  

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LOOKING FOR A HUSBAND

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Thu, 05/22/2008 - 21:45.

Charles Stevens was a member of the United States Armed forces.   So he was eligible for a veteran’s burial in the cemetery along Chagrin Boulevard out near 271.  

 

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CIVIC ENGAGEMENT - A NEW FAD?

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Wed, 05/07/2008 - 13:12.

Following is a piece I posted on BFD in response to Ed Morrison bringing the Boston Civic Engagement Summit to my attention last week.  (the links wouldn’t copy live to BFD when I pasted in my Word doc. there, so I duplicate the post here with live links)

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DIRTY DEALER STRUGGLES to UNDERSTAND PORT AUTHORITY OWNS UNIVERSITY SQUARE’S 40.5 MILLON $ PARKING GARAGE FAILURE

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Sun, 05/04/2008 - 14:42.

The plain, simple minded, Dirty Dealer is unable to cut through the glib assurances of Town Engineer Ciuni and others who continue to ambiguously suggest that  the Cuyahoga County owned University Square Plaza (mall) 5 deck parking garage is structurally safe .  The photo above shows a typical double T precast garage installation at another parking structure.  Notice that there is much more depth of the vertical leg of the T resting on the horizontal (beam is concrete in the above photo but steel in USq.) beam than in the USq. garage lower photo here in an earlier article on Realneo.

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BOSTON NOW - A BLOG STYLE FREE PAPER - SHUTS WHEN LESS THAN ONE YEAR OLD

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Thu, 05/01/2008 - 14:03.

Boston Now, a free daily started last spring in Boston, Massachusetts, and reported about then on Realneo,  has closed up and pulled it's servers off line.  You can't even read about their closing on their web site.  Instead you can find the news here in Google's cache

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REAL HIGH GRAFFITI

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Wed, 04/30/2008 - 16:33.

Does this night shot of Good Year's noisy, fuel-sucking,   electronically advertizing Blimp pounding down  commercial money messages over the Indian's commercial electronical big screen stadium filled with it's captive electronically numb audience constitute GRAFITTI? 

NATIONAL CITY'S SUB-PRIME EFFORTS HELP CLEVELAND SHRINK

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Fri, 04/18/2008 - 22:06.

 

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ATT / SBC Global.net ISSUE: Archived inbox and sent mail not accessable

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Thu, 04/17/2008 - 15:44.

On Monday, April 15, 2008 when I went to open my SBC Global.net webmail account, I got a message that said that “I had stumbled on a temporary yahoo problem”, and that I should be patient and check back later to see if the problem had been cleared. 

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BUTTERFLY TO FLOWER - PERFECT MATCH?

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Sun, 04/13/2008 - 14:21.


"It is the pervading law of all things organic and inorganic,

BILL SCHEELE - NEW CAT TO KOKOON - AMERICAN GREETINGS THIS FRI&SAT

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Mon, 04/07/2008 - 19:38.

There’s a warren of artistic eclecticism on the West Side of Cleveland off Detroit in the American Greetings factory.   

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EPHEMERAL WEBS IN PUBLIC PLACES

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Sat, 04/05/2008 - 13:49.

 

Titled "Arachne Weaves Her Web", this imaginative low tech installation by Debbie Apple-Presser is testing viewers.  

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NO EASY JOB FINDING OUT HOW OUR PUBLIC MONEY IS SPENT ON CSU'S “WIND SPIRE” SCHEME

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Thu, 04/03/2008 - 13:44.

 

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AMERITRUST BREUER TOWER SALE - $5000++ LESS, BUT REAL MONEY DOWN

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Wed, 04/02/2008 - 14:50.

  Robert Carrick,  County Purchasing Department, holds a half million dollar bank check which was submitted as part of the K & D Group bid package.  The half million dollars are non-refundable to K & D should they not complete the purchase of the Ameritrust property.  There are two 6 month periods during which K & D can close the deal with the County.  But if K & D fails to close during the next 12 months, they forfeit the $500,000.00 to the County. 
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WHY RIDE A ROLLER COASTER, VISCERAL THRILL?

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 19:49.

 

Engineering continues to out do itself - with computers and finite element analysis  - creating "thrill" roller  coaster rides which test our faith in physics.   I love the physics – and the curvilinear ride tracks – and they say riding the coasters is safer than driving…but geezzz, why do it?  

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A NOBEL FOR SKYPE?

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Wed, 03/26/2008 - 16:59.

Almost every time I post to Realneo I  find I am asking myself the same question  (which comes from a sense of urgency):   is this post what I should be spending my time on?  is the subject a priority?

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BILL CALLAHAN: KNOWLEDGEABLE VOICE IN NEO

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Sun, 03/23/2008 - 17:21.
bill callahan cleveland foreclosure reporter
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SUGAR SHACK MADLY EVAPORATING

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Sat, 03/22/2008 - 18:46.

In Ohio the sap is running.

So Richard Benjamin stokes 'er up - got to get that sap to 218 degrees F! 

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CUYAHOGA COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PRIORITIES: MEDCON OR STREET LIGHTS?

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Sat, 03/22/2008 - 13:43.

At the City Club recently, Cuyahoga County Commissioner Peter Lawson-Jones suggested that the first priority for the County goverment was "economic development", and that's why the Commissioners and Fred the Fixer Nance were working so hard to be able to pay a wealthy developer from out of state to build and operate a public-private pirate ship here in Cuyahoga.

CHRIS KENNEDY FACILITATES TOTAL COLLAPSE OF CLEVELAND AND CUYAHOGA COUNTY

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Fri, 03/21/2008 - 12:25.

Of all the possible investments that are needed here in Northeast Ohio’s Cuyahoga County and in Cleveland,  the County Commissioners have chosen – in secret meetings and without the vote of the public – to spend over $900,000,000.00 (even more for a possible 60 year contract) in a scheme whose only acknowledged public benefit is amorphous “trickle down”.   

ARCELOR MITTAL CLEVELAND: POLLUTION AND INTIMIDATION

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Thu, 03/20/2008 - 18:10.
 

I visited the Arcelor Mittal Cleveland Works this afternoon to take a a look.   The sun came out making the scene fairly photogenic.  I began to take photos from the public way.

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DENNIS R. WILCOX ESQ - WORKING FOR AND AGAINST CLEVELAND-CUYAHOGA PORT AUTHORITY - WHAT'S NEW?

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Tue, 03/18/2008 - 18:11.

 

If you owned a $40,500.000.00 parking structure,  would these images concern you?  (by the way, if you live in Cuyahoga County, you DO OWN IT)

TIBET - MONKS REACT TO INTENTIONAL CULTURAL DISSOLUTION BY CHINA

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Sat, 03/15/2008 - 13:25.

 What is it about Buddhists that encourages their intense involvement in politics?  

UNIVERSITY SQUARE MALL PARKING STRUCTURE - CLOSE IT NOW?

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Fri, 03/14/2008 - 14:31.

University Square was described in this 2003 International Council of Shopping Centers.
Two weeks ago I visited the mall and drove up to the top floor (5th) of the mall’s parking structure.    There is a stop sign on the entry ramp at the 4rd floor, and when I looked right, into the 4rd floor, I was surprised to see a section of shoring set up under the end of one of  the double T beams (the upper surface of the double T beams comprised the 5th floor parking deck).  I walked in and did my shopping and then had to leave in a hurry to make an appointment.   No time to investigate. 

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GREAT SPIRIT!

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Thu, 03/13/2008 - 23:34.
Cleveland Mayor Jane Campbell image jeff buster after she left office March 2009
  With all the public noise she's been exposed to  in NEO,  and with all the Dirty Dealer's un-ethical public noise about what was private, to see her today with her smile was an affirmation.

AND GREAT SMILE!