This roof collapse (in first bay at gable end)  took place on a publicly owned/operated skating rink.   At 7:00 AM it was lucky that everyone in the building was, by chance, at the other end.   No one was injured or killed.  

 Realneo admin just got notice that our servers will be down for a few hours on March 6 at about 5:00 am east coast time.   

The notice to admin used UTC time....you can read more about one earth time here...

Here is a pc of the advisory that admin recv'd.

 TV rules in the USA

This week it's ball inflation.

We all know about it. 

too soft

balls were too soft after the action

Well?

what's so abnormal about that?

TV folk got ahold of this whimsical story and went GLOBAL

aNY NEWS IS GOOD NEWS.   

bad pr is pr is the best pr

corporate sports rules Cleveland, why not the rest of the USA media too?

Soft balls.

Perfect story.

Supper Bowl in the news everyday this week!

 Near Shaker Square - on the City of Cleveland side of Shaker Square (Shaker Square is on the border line between the City of Shaker Heights and City of Cleveland) runs East 130th Street.   On each side of East 130 are  4 story apartment buildings - about 1/2of the buildings are vacant.    No lights on, no trash out on the curb on pick up day. That means the place is empty of tenants.  

 Folks locked up in Cuba for 12 years.   Unacceptable.   Wrong.  Way Way Wrong. 

Torture.   Wrong. Wrong Wrong.

The USA has dropped below the Gulag.  Below South American despot countries of the 60s. Pinochett. 

What the hell is going on?

Our federal legislators have tax payer funded health insurance but oppose the Affordable Care Act.  WTF?

Citizens: we're screwed.

Image Mark Naymik - red lines mashed up showing cop car tire tracks

Can the mind set of the two officers who shot and killed Tamir Rice be determined from the path of their patrol car in their approach to what the police dispatcher described as someone  "pointing a gun at people"?   Note: the gunner was sitting at one of the park benches under the gazebo.

 I have a very close friend from Europe who just two weeks ago attended a Canadian government sponsored conference in Nova Scotia.  The conference was sponsored by FundyFORCE.ca   (Fundy Ocean Research Center for Energy)    Here is a link to the November 3 to November 7  conference itinerary.

 Progress? or major Sickness?  

While the NRA and gun folks suck up to their profit and paranoia, the rest of us taxpayers fund the cost of total insane craziness...shooter detection systems in grade schools. 

We are cooked....

 It turns out that the police used the Ferguson unreast over the Michael Brown killing to get the FAA to issue a no fly zone - as it turns out specifically to preclude news helicopters.   Read more here at KMBC.com   

The image above depicts the Allie's trenches (red) and the German trenches (blue) at the end of World War I in France. The trenches were aerially photographed during the war and recently each of hundreds of photographs were given GIS points and collated into a map which combined over 300 individual maps.  (Exhibit at Harvard's Pusey Library through Nov. 11).

This is an important opportunity to establish the states' right to confine potential disease vectors.  

Does the state  have the right, and under what guidelines?  

I hope Ms. Hickox does not carry ebola, but we need to know that someone like her - cocky, self assured, media motivated and just back from treating victims in a  hot zone of infection - can be restrained by the state for potentially being a disease vector. 

Read more here at NYTs

 Here is a link to the report on Talking Points Memo.    Click on the last link to see the re-posted video.   

Unfortunately, both these men are lousy.  

 Kasich is ignorant, can't sit up straight, and rude and Republican (coal man who paused Ohio's utilities green energy push).  

Fitz is ignorant, lousy manager (didn't vet his first Lieutentant Gov), womanizer (parking in a warehouse lot at 4 am) , and un-professional.  

This is my kinda stuff.  

Totally not required by anything - ie work, the family, the government.

Just required because it is a challenge.  A challenge which gets into your gut and overtakes everything.   The best part of being alive!

You can see the image is at a low altitude (take off) because the balloon is not expanded. 

Image credit and New York Daily News report at this link

 If a dog is a police officer as is stated in the recent White House fence jumping event ( don't get me started - ) then what about the chimp issue?

Here is Tommy, a 26 year old chimpanzee, who is confined to this metal cage.

Who would have thought that a deadly chemical is used to fix the xerography on cash register receipts?   

Comforting to know that women can be infatuated too. 

Great Image from http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/gwyneth-paltrow-gushes-over-barack-obama-youre-so-handsome-i-cant-speak-properly-9788357.html

 Take a look at the ingenuity Fest Cleveland web site -   Think you can find how much a ticket costs?    I couldn't.   So I telephoned their contact number  216-589-9444 and it just rang.......

Take a look at the Board of Directors.  Thomas Mulready would turn over involuntarilly in California. 

 Fukushima nukes over topped by a sunami, Toledo over topped by algea, Atlanta by a 1/2inch of snow, polar bears smothered by me burning gas in my stupid Detroit car, and now Africa with ebola. 

The older I get the clearer my understanding is: humanity is stupid, aggressive, hatefull, and corporations love it. Down the tubes we go. 

Ebola on an air plane. 

When we had the black plague...was there any intercontinental travel?

We are total ignoramisus. 

btw, Le Bra is back to Cle!

good news, and 500 new jobs!

Wake up America - we have folks who are willing to work hard - scrap collecting in a shopping cart is hard - but our system fails to allow them to be legitimately engaged.   

In Cleveland, Ohio (image above) and across the nation scrap metal yards are often busiest on Friday afternoons as the weeks' collection of metal is brought in for beer money.

 I got an email from Dan Gilbert last week.    Dan said that Casinos  need the sin tax too.  

A few years back I imaged young persons using a public street to skateboard.   Illegal on public streets.  Can't use the sidewalk either. Sensible, sure because of safety.  But...

image from Wikipedia A. Q. Khan

When snow snarled Atlanta, Ga. a month ago it was perfectly apparent to anyone that our auto based "transportation system" is pathetic.   PATHETIC!