Once a year, during the brief run of the Cleveland International Film Festival, Cleveland feels like one of the great cities of the world. For a little more than a week the grand space of Tower City is filled with life; diverse crowds of art lovers flow in and out, steadily buzzing with excitement for what they are experiencing. Because it only happens once a year, it is easy to overlook The Cleveland International Film Festival as one of Cleveland's greatest assets.
 

The Social Sciences Dept. of the Cleveland Public Library is facilitating a non-fiction book club.  Our next discussion will be held on April 9, 2009 at 12:00 PM.  We will discuss the book entitled, "Raising Blaze: Bringing Up an Extraordinary Son in an Ordinary World," by Debra Ginsberg.  All book club members may register and pick up their books in the Social Sciences Dept.   All questions may be directed to the Social Sciences Dept. at 216-623-2860.

May 20, 2009, 7:30 a.m.-9:00 a.m.: Environmental Division Meeting
Shula’s 2, DoubleTree Cleveland South, 6200 Quarry Lane, Independence
Discuss upcoming CES events, updates on regulatory issues, and whatever interests you. Free to attend, breakfast is on your own. Register online:  http://www.cesnet.org/evtView.asp?evtID=166

May 27, 2009, 7:30 a.m.-9:00 a.m.: Climate Change Roundtable

"78% of the homicides in the City of Cleveland are African American Males murdering each another!" was the small print I first noticed on the flier stuck between the bars on Snag's Glenville door, when I stopped by the other day. 

race and ethnicity: the language of self-identity on the clock

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.

Topic: An Economic Forecast for Northeast Ohio

Speaker: John Burke, President, Burke Rosen & Associates; Professor Emeritus of Economics, Cleveland State University; Adjunct Professor, John Carroll University

Program Sponsorships and tables available. Earn 1 Continuing Professional Development hour.

Location: Hilton Garden Inn Cleveland Downtown

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Join us the first Friday of every month for networking at the Bier-Markt. FREE appetizers and nonalcoholic beverages.

Online registration not required but helpful: http://www.cesnet.org/evtView.asp?evtID=163. Ask about sponsorship opportunities: http://www.cesnet.org/conNew.asp

Location: McNulty's Bier-Markt

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This event has been cancelled.  Information about future Climate Change Committee programs is available here: http://www.cesnet.org/newsAnnouncementView.asp?nwsID=109

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Panel Discussion: "Transportation: How We're Moving Economic Development"

Moderator: Howard Maier, Executive Director, Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency (NOACA)

Panelists:

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Sponsored by SE Blueprint, Inc. and Boundless Flight.

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Kickoff program for Leadership Breakfast Spring Series. Speaker: Jeffrey L.

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Discussion about issues related to climate change. Topic TBA. Free to attend; breakfast is on your own.

Local: Shula's 2 in the DoubleTree Cleveland South

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Sponsored by SE Blueprint, Inc. and Boundless Flight

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This was your NEO

This is your NEO on FFOEF

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.

Tim Russo noted this first on his blog . Jennifer Brunner has a senate website up and running at www.jenniferbrunner.com. And, the contenders?? Lee Fisher, PLJ? Nada.

Ed was as furious as I can ever remember seeing him, as he shouted "the process is broken".

Ed was so right.

The Social Sciences Dept. of the Cleveland Public Library is facilitating a non-fiction book club.  Our first discussion will be held on March 12, 2009 at 12:00 PM.  We will discuss the book entitled, "Green River, Running Red," by Ann Rule.  All book club members may pick up of their books in the Social Sciences Dept. OR request them at any library.  All questions may be directed to the Social Sciences Dept. at 216-623-2860.

In the Fall of 2008, I proposed to Cuyahoga County Commissioner Peter Lawson Jones that the local foods sector offers the people of Northeast Ohio $ billions in economic development opportunities that may be distributed to a huge percentage of our 1,000,000s of residents in very socially equitably ways. I also proposed similar opportunities are available in open source information and social computing. And I pointed out regional organizational, strategic, social and operational barriers to success and proposed specific solutions to maximize workforce and infrastructure development, massive scaling, and social equity.

Please Join us for a look at the works of some of Cleveland's finest African American Filmmakers

Works by: Fred Boswell, Georgio Sabino, Marcell Dorsey, Nikki Byrd, Robert Banks Jr. and Preston Pickett.

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The Cleveland Public Library welcomes the Year of the Ox with two Lunar New Year celebrations at the Louis Stokes Wing Auditorium, FREE and open to the public, the event will take place at the Main Library, Louis Stokes Wing Auditorium, E. 6th Street and Superior Avenue, on Saturday, February 7 at 1:00 p.m. and Sunday, February 8 at 2:00 p.m.

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Despite corruption and cronyism galore, Ohio does have it's bright and shiny moments of good and brilliant. Here's a way to make history come alive for your kids (from ODOT!) http://www.dot.state.oh.us/districts/D06/Maps/Pages/OhioUndergroundRailroadMapsPage.aspx

We have come a long way, but we still have a long way to go.

Shout out to Slavic Village Sandy, who is the voice of NEO. Thanks for the heads up!