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« March 18, 2005 - April 18, 2005 »
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 03 / 18 
Start: 11:00 am 
Democracy: Is It Best 
Served by a Strict Separation of Church and State?    
 
Start: 4:00 pm 
Seasoned Entrepreneurial Panel Discussion 
The CAAO Minority Access to 
Capital Program. The mission of this 
program is the thoroughly educate minority entrepreneurs on all their funding 
options and to aid in building relationships between the funders and minority 
entrepreneurs of Northeast Ohio.  
 
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 03 / 19 
Start: 10:00 am 
Meet local authors Sarah Jane Ingrham and Jeannie Morse as they sign 
and read their delightful new children's book.  Please bring your kids 
for this wonderful afternoon of storytelling at the Local Girl Gallery.  Copies of their book will  
 
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 03 / 20 
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 03 / 21 
Start: 11:00 am 
Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Robert J. Triozzi for Mayor of Cleveland?  
 
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 03 / 22 
Start: 8:00 am 
You are invited to attend an air quality 
workshop at the offices of the Northeast Ohio Areawide 
Coordinating Agency (NOACA) to begin the public participation process for the 
Ozone and Particulate Matter State Implementation Plans (SIPs). 
As you 
may already know, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) 
designated the counties of Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Lorain, Medina, 
Portage, and Summit as in nonattainment for the new 8-hour ozone standard. The 
USEPA designated Ashtabula (partial), Cuyahoga, Lake, Lorain, Medina, Portage, 
and Summit as in nonattainment for the new fine particulate (PM2.5) standard. 
These designations require that the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, with 
local input, submit SIPs to USEPA that would bring Northeast Ohio into 
attainment for both of these pollutants. 
Please join us for a free, 
public informational event that will include presentations on the air quality 
issues that Northeast Ohio faces, talks by affected industries, discussion of 
the Ohio EPA SIP development process, and an overview of potential attainment 
strategies. Continental breakfast and lunch will be provided. 
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:00 
a.m. until 2:30 p.m. NOACA Board Room 1299 Superior Avenue Cleveland, 
Ohio 44114 
Please RSVP by e-mail 
to Pam Davis at pdavis [at] mpo [dot] noaca [dot] org 
or by calling (216) 241-2414, Extension 284. Your participation is appreciated. 
We look forward to talking with you.   
 
Start: 10:30 am 
Building a Creative Online Environment: 
Collaboration, Innovation and Education  
March 22, 2005 at 
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM    Register Now!   
 
Start: 11:00 am 
State of the Cleveland 
Schools   
 
Start: 1:00 pm 
Each Tuesday from 2:00 - 4:00 PM REI holds REALNEO planning and orientation sessions. These sessions are free and open to anyone interested in this initiative - and excellent time to work with volunteers on your Community Of Interest Links - feel free to come anytime between 2 and 4, and stick around after for the weekly Tuesday@REI meetings, from 4:00 - 5:45 PM.  
 
Start: 3:00 pm 
March 22: 
"Creating Arts Districts as Economic Development Engines"
 
- Jim Harris, HL 
   
 
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 03 / 23 
Start: 11:00 am 
Payments in Lieu of Taxes: 
Creative Revenue Stream or Fuzzy Math?   
 
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 03 / 24 
Start: 10:30 am 
Inside 
Business is pleased to honor the top-performing companies in Northeast Ohio. 
Keynote 
Speaker 
Dr. Toby Cosgrove 
The Cleveland Clinic  
 
Start: 4:00 pm 
NEOSA Hits the Alleys at NeTT Tech Thursday  Networking, spares and 
strikes will be in order as NEOSA holds its first NeTT Tech Thursday networking 
event for 2005, sponsored by Aztek, on March 24 at Winking Lizard Lanes in 
Lakewood. Click HERE 
to register.  
 
Start: 4:30 pm 
American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) and Michael Wyatt, Director of Training and Tracy 
Rohrbaugh, Associate Training Coordinator for Matco Tools.  Topics include: Capturing the stake holders; Understanding your companies planning and budget cycle; Developing a 1 year and 3-5 year implementation plan; The role of continuous improvement in training. $25.00 members $35 nonmembers. Registration 440-835-3579 or email at astd [at] apk [dot] net  
 
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 03 / 25 
Start: 11:00 am 
Good Friday: Reflecting on 
the Plight of the World’s Children   
 
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 03 / 26 
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 03 / 27 
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 03 / 28 
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 03 / 29 
Start: 1:00 pm 
Each Tuesday from 2:00 - 4:00 PM REI holds REALNEO planning and 
orientation sessions. These sessions are free and open to anyone 
interested in this initiative - and excellent time to work with 
volunteers on your Community Of Interest Links - feel free to come  
 
Start: 3:00 pm 
March 29: “CIA 
Design & Technology Transfer Center: A Showcase for Sustainable Business 
Development in NEO"
 
 
 
Start: 5:30 pm 
Local design and usability experts and attendees analyze and test a web site such as the Web Association's Meeting registration process. $15 non-members registration.    
 
Start: 6:00 pm 
 CLEVELAND  
Panel looks for jobs ideas  
The Council for Excellence in Government will hold a town hall meeting on jobs at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Cleveland State University's Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs. The nonprofit, nonpartisan group based in Washington, D.C., will ask residents for suggestions on job creation and the roles that government and the private sector should have in economic development. The session is also sponsored by the Global Markets Institute at Goldman Sachs. Panelists include Mayor Jane Campbell, Ohio Lt. Gov. Bruce Johnson and the head of the Cleveland AFL-CIO Federation of Labor John Ryan. The meeting is free, but seating is limited. Call 202-728-0418  
 
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 03 / 30 
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 03 / 31 
Start: 7:30 am 
The Convention 
and Visitors Bureau (CVB) of Greater Cleveland will be hosting a forum to 
present a concept for development of an online marketplace for the sale of 
discount surplus tickets to events in Cleveland.  Loren Chylla, Director of Marketing, 
Cleveland.com and King Hill, Principal, Director of Marketing Services, 
Digiknow will be in attendance to give an overview of the proposed online 
model.  Community Partnership for Arts 
and Culture conducted significant background research on discount ticketing 
models for the arts and cultural tourism committee of the CVB.  This research has helped to shape and inform 
the model that is being proposed.  The 
FINAL FORUM will be held on the following date:  
 
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 04 / 1 
Start: 11:00 am 
Friday, April 01, 2005 12:00 PM Civil Rights Enforcement: The Bulwark of Opportunity R. Alexander Acosta Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights 
The first Hispanic to serve as an assistant attorney general at the Department of Justice, Alex Acosta will give remarks concerning the Division’s accomplishments during the past four years and the future of civil rights in the 21st century. The Civil Rights Division is responsible for enforcing federal civil rights statutes, including those statutes that prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, sex, disability, religion, and national origin in education, employment, credit, housing, public accommodations and facilities, voting and certain federally funded and conducted programs. 
Acosta previously was a member of the National Labor Relations Board and served as principal deputy assistant attorney general in the Civil Rights Division. A native of Florida, Mr. Acosta earned his law degree from the Harvard Law School. After graduation, he served as a law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and then worked at a law firm, where he specialized in employment and labor issues. 
He is a 2004 recipient of the Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee Michigan’s Distinguished Leadership Award, the 2003 Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund's Excellence in Government Service Award and the 2003 DC Hispanic Bar Association’s Hugh A. Johnson, Jr. Memorial Award. He has also taught several classes on employment law, disability-based discrimination law and civil rights law at the George Mason School of Law.   
 
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 04 / 2 
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 04 / 3 
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 04 / 4 
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 04 / 5 
Start: 1:00 pm 
Each Tuesday from 2:00 - 4:00 PM REI holds REALNEO planning and 
orientation sessions. These sessions are free and open to anyone 
interested in this initiative - and excellent time to work with 
volunteers on your Community Of Interest Links - feel free to come  
 
Start: 3:00 pm 
What Lakefront Access Means to NEO
  
Chris Ronayne, former Cleveland Planning Director and current Chief of Staff at City Hall will address Cleveland's competitiveness as a 21st Century City.  From an accessible waterfront to a growing downtown, an emergent R&D Center at University Circle and a diversified local economy.  Ronayne will build the case that Cleveland is poised for growth and has a unique pportunity to become the next development frontier of our region.
  
 
Start: 5:00 pm 
North Coast 
Entrepreneurs, Inc
Hosts of The 
Gorilla Group and Capitalist Clevelandâ„¢
   
 
Start: 5:00 pm 
This meeting will feature Frank Cotter who is in charge of 
business development for Integran. Integran is a one of the companies that has 
been successful in taking nano technology from the laboratory into the 
marketplace.  Their electrodeposited coatings have been developed for a 
wide variety of industrial, military, consumer and medical applications.  
Their's is a story how to find the market applications to commercialize a new 
technology.  
 
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 04 / 6 
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 04 / 7 
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 04 / 8 
Start: 7:30 am 
Notacon is the second iteration of a yearly technology, arts and music event held at the Cleveland Holiday Inn. 
 
Start: 8:00 am 
Exploring Community through Technology - Notacon is the second iteration of a yearly technology, arts and music event held in Cleveland, Ohio. 
This year's focus is on how technology and community intermingle.  The event itself hosts 
speakers, events, games, live music and a whole lot more. 
 
 
Start: 11:00 am 
Terrorist Profiling: Safer 
Airlines or Violation of Civil Rights?   
 
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 04 / 9 
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 04 / 10 
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 04 / 11 
Start: 10:30 am 
Michael C. DeAloia 
- Senior Executive for Technology Development 
- City of Cleveland - “Technology Development in the City�  
                         
Monday, April 11, 2005  
- 11:30 Networking/12:00 Lunch Served/1:30 Adjourn 
The Union Club - 1211 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland Ohio
  
 
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 04 / 12 
Start: 10:30 am 
Intranets and Portals 
– What are they? How do they work? How are Intranets and Portals used 
in day to day activities across different industries and environments?  
 
Start: 1:00 pm 
Each Tuesday from 2:00 - 4:00 PM REI holds REALNEO planning and 
orientation sessions. These sessions are free and open to anyone 
interested in this initiative - and excellent time to work with 
volunteers on your Community Of Interest Links - feel free to come  
 
Start: 3:00 pm 
   
Tuesday@REI: April 12: "The Gehry designed Peter B. Lewis portal to Industrial Innovation in NEO"   
 
Start: 4:30 pm 
Try Speed Dating For Your Business!  
Attraction, infatuation, going steady, 
engagement…and finally marriage! Sounds like the evolution of your relationship 
with your significant other, right? Well your business relationships are no 
different. And COSE has a way you can form a new business relationship and take 
it straight to the altar!  
  
Speed dating for your business is the idea behind 
COSE’s Power 50 Networking event. You’ll take your turn making your company’s 
pitch to the other people seated at your table. Then, every fifteen minutes 
you’ll switch tables to address a new group of four tablemates, until you have 
met face-to-face will all 49 other attendees.  
This event, COSE’s most popular networking event 
last year, is limited to the first 50 members who register, and has consistently 
sold-out. Don’t wait…register now!  
For more information, call Amanda Flood at (216) 
592-2207.  
  
 
   
  
Who should 
attend: Anyone looking to make new business 
contacts! 
 
 
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 04 / 13 
Start: 6:30 am 
How do personal characteristics such as 
intelligence, education and wealth contribute to disparate health outcomes? 
 Linda S. Gottfredson, Ph.D., professor 
of education at the University of Delaware, and co-director of the 
Delaware-Johns Hopkins Project for the Study of Intelligence and Society, will 
discuss this and related issues at the next program in the lecture series, 
"Prescriptions for Change: Reducing Health Disparities in Our Community," 
presented by the Roundtable Community Council, a program of the Greater 
Cleveland Partnership, and the Center for Health Disparities, a collaboration 
between MetroHealth Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University.  
The program will be held from 7:30-9:30 a.m., Wed., April 13, at The 
City Club of Cleveland, 850 Euclid Avenue. It is sponsored by the St. Luke's and 
Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundations. Tickets are $15 for City Club members and 
nonmembers.  
Register 
here. Dr. 
Gottfredson has written extensively on the impact of general intelligence on 
personal functioning in different life domains, including in school, on the job 
and in health self-care. Among her recent publications is an article in Current Directions in Psychological 
Science, 
co-written in 2004 with Ian J. Deary of the University of 
Edinburgh (Scotland), examining the theory that intelligence (as measured by an 
IQ-type test) enhances individuals' care of their own health, because it 
represents learning, reasoning and problem-solving skills useful in preventing 
chronic disease and accidental injury and in adhering to complex treatment 
regimens.  
 
Start: 10:00 am 
Creating Web User Interfaces that Work - After 10 years of changing web design trends, the 
enduring truth is that web sites are most successful when form and function work 
seamlessly together. A website’s orientation, the clarity of layout and 
terminology, and a common-sense, visitor-oriented approach are consistently 
rewarded by internal and external customers.   
 
Start: 4:00 pm 
Work on your finance, marketing or business plans 
twice a month at the E4S Study Hall Night. Working on your business is hard to 
do when the demands of working in your business overwhelm your work day. Why not 
commit to working on your business plans two nights a month with your friends at 
E4S. You can work alone or bounce ideas off your peers. We will invite local 
business development experts to be on hand to help answer your questions.  
E4S Members in the Start-up, First Growth or Established Business categories 
who are interested in finding time to work ON your business not just IN your 
business.   
 
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 04 / 14 
Start: 2:30 pm 
David Cutler, professor of economics at Harvard University’s 
							  Economics Department and the Kennedy School of Government, will deliver 
							  the annual Howard T. McMyler Lecture. He will discuss the U.S. health 
							  care system in a lecture, entitled “Your Money or Your Life� and 
							  co-hosted by the Economics Department of Case’s Weatherhead School 
							  of Management and by the Center for Health Care Research and Policy. 
							  The talk will take place on Thursday April 14, 2005, 3:30 p.m. in the 
							  Clark Room at the Cleveland Botanical Gardens. It is free and open to 
						    the public  
 
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 04 / 15 
Start: 4:00 am 
Community 
Partnership for Arts and Culture and COSE Present: The Artist as an Entrepreneur Institute  
 
Start: 11:00 am 
Tax Day 2005: The Case for 
Tax Reform   
 
Start: 3:00 pm 
The growing visibility of sustainable development 
creates new opportuinities for NEO. We have a strong foundation of 
organizations committed to sustainability. We have a thick network of 
committed civic entrepreneurs who know a lot about these issues. We can 
move forward with an aggressive sustainable development agenda in NEO.   
 
Start: 4:30 pm 
In support of the The Artist as an Entrepreneur Institute, held April 15 & 16 at CSU, there is a networking event, allowing current AEI “students� to get to know “graduates� and other artists in the community.  
If you have any 
questions please feel free to contact us at cpac2001 [at] aol [dot] com  
 
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 04 / 16 
Start: 8:00 am 
Community 
Partnership for Arts and Culture and COSE Present: The Artist as an Entrepreneur Institute  
 
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