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Reinventing Browns Deli into The Star Market and Cafe - transformational neighborhood redevelopment, one convenience at a time

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Mon, 05/05/2008 - 00:35.

Welcome to The Star Market and Cafe! What would make you walk, ride and drive out of your way and stop here? When? Why? Now is the time for Star Neighborhood Development to reinvent a blighted urban convenient store into a community asset. But how? That depends on you. What will you support here?

WHO'S IN CHARGE OF TELLING FLOWERS WHEN TO BLOOM?

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Thu, 05/01/2008 - 12:48.

We have all attended meetings where you leave feeling you didn’t get to say what was on your mind; your brainy thoughts never saw the light of day – you may never get your chance. 

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WATER RECREATION RESOURCES WELL USED IN BOSTON

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Wed, 04/30/2008 - 15:49.

 

Here is an April 21, 2008 image of the MIT sailing club practicing with MIT designed TECH dinghies in an east wind on the Charles River Basin between Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts.   This area used to be a tidal estuary a hundred or more years ago, but is now separated from the Atlantic by a control lock – though thousands of  Alewife run up fish ladders to spawn.  

There are dozens of power boat clubs, sailing clubs and rowing clubs which line the Charles River from the first upstream falls in Watertown, Massachusetts (at the west end of the Basin) to the east end Locks.

Cleveland's integration - for recreation - of its river-side and lake-side water resources pales in comparison to the water-side recreational access provided by Boston and Toronto and Chicago. 

While Ed Hauser sticks up for one of  the only decent public park on the waterfront in Cleveland, the Dirty Dealer whines shrilly for it's corporate pal - Eaton – with panicky advocacy for an empty-headed "corporate campus" on the Lakefront. 

Boy oh Buoy! - Cleveland doesn't get it.

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Question of the day: What is your favorite cookbook?

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Tue, 04/29/2008 - 23:19.

All species, all races, everywhere, we all must eat, frequently, so we humans may as well eat well. I prefer to eat at home, food I prepare,  of ingredients I know, in a kitchen I trust... there are few restaurants in the world that make me happier than homemade. But I certainly turn to experts for advice on food selection and preparation, and many of my favorite books - the ones I read over and over, and can't do without  - are cookbooks. I find all types interesting... international, ethnic, historical, regional... and consider many required reading. I'd be interesting for other foodie realneo members who share an interest in cooking to share their favorite cookbooks... some of mine are the header for today...

My neighborhood

Submitted by lmcshane on Sun, 04/27/2008 - 15:35.
My neighborhood

Here are some images of the neighborhoods known as Old Brooklyn and Brooklyn Centre.

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Throwing darts in Cleveland

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Fri, 04/18/2008 - 10:11.

Becky's on about E 18Th and Chester used to be choked with smoke.   The smoke is gone now - thank you very much.   Parking is free in the Becky's lot.   Good salads and fried eats.
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MAX HAYES HIGH SCHOOL IS REAL

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Thu, 04/10/2008 - 17:37.

Max Hayes Vocational High School is the vocational school in Cleveland, Ohio.   A larger varienty of courses are taught than just the six on the sign. 
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DNA GAITERS

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Tue, 04/08/2008 - 20:03.

Apis Mellifera carts DNA around like gaiters.   For flowers and fruit, the casual visits of the bees are crucial.  

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SUPPORT OUR TROOPS WITH HYPOCRISY

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Mon, 04/07/2008 - 18:39.

When the Iraq war began years ago, you could buy one of these magnetic backed plastic "ribbons" for a dollar or two.   I'll bet Karl Rove came up with the three word phase "support our troops". 
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CARPET OF CROCUS - HOW MANY YEARS IN THE MAKING!

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Sat, 04/05/2008 - 23:08.


Flowers which propagate by bulbs don’t spread very fast.   Maybe a few inches per year.  So here is a photo of a front yard which has 70 or 80 feet of intense crocuses.

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CUYAHOGA COUNTY COURTHOUSE 1912 CARVING

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Fri, 04/04/2008 - 15:14.

 You should visit the Cuyahoga County Court House at Ontario and Lakeside in Cleveland, Ohio.   Built in 1912 as part of the Burnham Plan, the building is a jewel.  Be sure to go to the second floor and ask to see inside the Appeals Court Room which faces Lakeside.  This carving is above the judge's bench in the Appeals Court Room.
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CROCUS - WAITING ALL WINTER TO BUST OUT

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Thu, 04/03/2008 - 10:53.

Months of embrace from rock hard frozen earth doesn’t distract them,  carpets of last falls brown leaves don’t hold them down – a little thawing and a bit more sunshine and up they bound.

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What do we bring to Mind of Cleveland?

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Sat, 03/29/2008 - 01:58.

Over the past few weeks, I've noticed strange Clevelandesque slogans posted on billboards around town, with the attribution "Mind of Cleveland". I remember wondering if this was another Cleveland+hype campaign... or about AIDS prevention... and planned to google it later...

DAFFODILS FOR IRAQ

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Wed, 03/26/2008 - 22:37.

Every spring daffodils announce renewal…the earth has been dormant during winter but is coming alive as the sun moves towards our northern axis. 

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ART IS WHERE YOU FIND IT

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Tue, 03/25/2008 - 15:38.

Like fine furniture, these new serpentine pipe bike racks are wrapped to prevent scratching.   I thought the serpentine bike rack sculpture - complete with pillow cases - set against the Breuer linear-designed façade of the Cleveland Museum of Fine Arts addition was a nice juxtaposition. 

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EASTER EGG DYE

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Sun, 03/23/2008 - 15:11.

I know a few expert egg dyers - they have all the paraphernalia for dying hollow eggs.      

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Are you ALIVE?

Submitted by lmcshane on Sat, 03/22/2008 - 20:42.
Are you ALIVE?



Outside San Juan on the way to the Botanical Gardens

Maple sap buckets in Ohio

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Sat, 03/22/2008 - 19:24.

The dirt lane was lined with 100+ year old sugar maple trees - all dripping a drop a second into these buckets. If I had brought decent audio equipment it would sound like heartbeats.
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My World

Submitted by lmcshane on Sat, 03/22/2008 - 09:39.
My World

The view from my window on the world at the Brooklyn Branch library--Saturday, March 22

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CUYAHOGA COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AND STAFF - THE NEO MEDCON TEAM

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Fri, 03/21/2008 - 13:31.
CUYAHOGA COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AND STAFF - THE NEO MEDCON TEAM

Here are the individuals who negotiated the MEDCON deal in secret for us.  They are the team that represented all of us here on Realneo and everyone else all across Cuyahoga County.

THIS IS OUR TEAM!

What do their physiognomies suggest?

We never were able to see the other team, Mr. Chris Kennedy's team, because the game was played in secret.

I wonder what the physiognomies of Mr. Kennedy and his team would have suggested to us?

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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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SPORTS AS RELIGION - CAN I GET A WITNESS?

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Mon, 03/17/2008 - 19:31.

At night you can see through LeBron James' head into the windows of the Terminal Tower building complex. 
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PRAYER FLAGS ON POTALA PALACE, TIBET

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Sun, 03/16/2008 - 18:53.
PRAYER FLAGS ON POTALA PALACE, TIBET

 

Getting messages through to someone you can't see - someone far away - can be quirky.  
A colored piece of cloth seems to do the trick in the thin air of Tibet.   Clearly, the message recipient is not color blind,  because the flags are POW! POW! Color.

 

 

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Botanicals in Terrazzo

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Sat, 03/15/2008 - 11:34.

These stainless steel and terrazzo "flowers", which also might be seen as heads of leggy persons, are very whimsical

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