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East ClevelandJeffrey Bowen, Greater Cleveland Habitat for Humanity, Executive Director joins the MTB Roundtable at Midtown BrewsSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Wed, 08/01/2007 - 11:12.
08/02/2007 - 17:30 08/02/2007 - 19:30 Etc/GMT-4 The dynamic leader of Habitat for Humanity will discuss the REstore program (http://www.gchfh.org/Restore/index.htm) at their offices as well as how providing affordable, sustainable housing helps end a cycle of poverty. http://www.gchfh.org Many opportunities to contribute in this worthwhile, ongoing project in Greater Cleveland will reveal themselves through this lively discussion. And if we are lucky, we may just get Jeffrey to veer off topic a bit and talk about his other life as a performance poet. Location
Webtego
2530 Superior Avenue, Suite 600
Cleveland, OH United States
See map: Google Maps Join The Inner Circle to Put It On The BallotSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Thu, 07/26/2007 - 13:06.
07/27/2007 - 12:30 07/27/2007 - 18:00 Etc/GMT-4 It is official - "Cuyahoga County commissioners voted 2-1 today to raise the sales tax a quarter of a penny to help bring a Medical Mart to Cleveland." Perhaps you'd like time to think about this more, and the opportunity to vote with other citizens on how you are taxed. Other citizens feel the same and have formed a committee to "Put It On The Ballot"- a grass-roots campaign to collect enough signatures to force the 1/4% sales tax increase to be placed on a ballot. This Friday, July 27, there will be an Excellence Roundtable at The Inner Circle where some of the people involved with this campaign will join a discussion on this issue, from all directions. To learn more about the campaign, visit http://putitontheballot.com - you'll certainly read more about this initiative on this site and on REALNEO throughout the coming months. 7GEN (developer of REALNEO) is providing this Drupal site for this initiative, and I look forward to learning more about the campaign and all related issues. Location
The Inner Circle Restaurant, at Hough Bakeries
1519 Lakeview Road
East Cleveland, OH United States
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DOES LIKE HE WRITESSubmitted by Jeff Buster on Tue, 07/24/2007 - 19:03.
Norm and Evelyn are forging ahead in East Cleveland. Little House on the Prairie has nothing on these guys.
Anyone have experience with eco-friendly strippers and coatings?Submitted by Norm Roulet on Thu, 07/19/2007 - 19:02.
We're about to start prepping and painting lots of plaster walls and protecting lots of wood trim, windows, doors and floors, inside and out. As we are bringing the property to its most natural state possible, removing most paint, varnish, and wallpaper, we are working from very raw materials, and feel that is good. How do we now keep our house as natural as possible, as we finish it up?
Help East Cleveland build a playground on June 14th!Submitted by Annie Stahlheber on Mon, 06/11/2007 - 09:44.
06/14/2007 - 08:00 06/14/2007 - 15:00 Etc/GMT-4 This Thursday, June 14th at the Forest Hills park, community volunteers will be working with the KaBOOM! organization to build the children of East Cleveland their first playground!! KaBOOM! is a national organization dedicated to creating a place to play within walking distance for every child in America. They collaborate with The Home Depot, and are working with the Community Development and Parks and Recreation departments in East Cleveland on this playground. Location
Forest Hills Park
Entrance by Forest Hills and Terrace avenues (Driveway is on Forest Hills just south of Terrace)
East Cleveland, OH United States
See map: Google Maps
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Cleveland Jazz History and Photography Exhibition - - East Cleveland Public Library - 14101 Euclid - Sun. 6-10 4:pmSubmitted by KMaCK on Fri, 06/08/2007 - 13:00.
06/10/2007 - 16:00 06/10/2007 - 17:30 Etc/GMT-4 Don't know if any one else saw the main article in yesterdays Arts & KLife section of the PD, but this looks great. A free panel discussion on Cleveland Jazz History and the opening of a photographic exhibition of same at the East Cleveland library. Location
East Cleveland Main Public Library
14101 Euclid Ave.
East Cleveland, OH United States
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Inner Circle to Become Dress Circle as Excellence Roundtable Features Cleveland Orchestra Violist Eliesha NelsonSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Tue, 06/05/2007 - 23:33.
06/15/2007 - 11:00 06/15/2007 - 15:00 Etc/GMT-4 With this June 15, 2007, Inner Circle Open House, it is safe to say the NEO Excellence Roundtables are back, as this week we will feature a very unique discussion and performance by Cleveland Orchestra violist Eliesha Nelson, who is in the middle of a sophisticated recording project at George Lucas' Skywalker Sound, in Marin, California. Eliesha will discuss with us how she decided to get into the "recording business" and how the community can help her project succeed - and the purpose of this roundtable is to help Eliesha's project succeed. Location
The Inner Circle Restaurant, at Hough Bakeries
1519 Lakeview Road Parking by the restaurant
East Cleveland, OH United States
See map: Google Maps 05.30.07 is Historic Day for Hough Bakeries Complex Header of the DaySubmitted by Norm Roulet on Wed, 05/30/2007 - 15:31.
07.05.27 Header of the Day: Edwin at the Inner CircleSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Sun, 05/27/2007 - 01:53.
Located in the heart of the historic Hough Bakeries Complex is the Inner Circle, a weekend club and reception facility operated for the past 7 years by the Hot Sauce Williams family. Starting shortly, operation of the Inner Circle will expand to extended hours every day, featuring a cybercafe, meeting space, computer terminals, free wifi, independent film, the Linux Cafe, art, culture, and great food, coffee, and even wine tastings, via a broader partnership of friends. This pan is from the deck and patio area, and features Guyanese chef and reggae performer and DJ Edwin, who will help operate the Inner Circle, shown with Hot Sauce Williams founder LeMaud Williams, as well.
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05.23 07 NEO Excellence Open House: Growing the Inner Circle from withinSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Tue, 05/22/2007 - 00:19.
05/23/2007 - 10:00 05/23/2007 - 13:00 Etc/GMT-5
Location
The Inner Circle Restaurant, at Hough Bakeries
1519 Lakeview Road 1 block north of Euclid Avenue, directly past railroad bridge
Cleveland, OH United States
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NEO Excellence Roundtable with Bruce Perens, on making NEO a global center of excellence with FOSSSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Mon, 05/21/2007 - 15:01.
05/22/2007 - 08:00 05/22/2007 - 09:30 Etc/GMT-4
Join us, if you may... 8 AM breakfast tomorrow at the Juniper Grill. Location
Juniper Grill
1332 Carnegie Ave (@ E 9th)
Cleveland, OH United States
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Growing the Inner Circle to include you... what would you do with your own club?Submitted by Norm Roulet on Fri, 05/18/2007 - 00:43.
May 19: Big 75th Anniversary Party at East Cleveland’s Coit Rd MarketSubmitted by Lee Batdorff on Thu, 05/17/2007 - 23:31.
To sweet Old Time tunes an interesting cross section of the Northeast Ohio alternative farming and energy communities will be represented at the 75th Anniversary of Coit Road Farmer’s Market on Saturday, May 19th 8am – 4pm. Also, a community garden on property owned by the market across Coit Rd. will be inaugurated.
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Ozzy and Observer two interesting new examples of Drupal sites doing heavy liftingSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Wed, 05/16/2007 - 20:22.
It is always exciting to see powerful uses of the technology we use for realneo - Drupal. Derek recently pointed out that the New York Observer uses Drupal for their web presence and I just found a posting on the website of the originator and keeper of the Drupal flame, Dries Buytaert, that Ozzy uses Drupal - his label Sony uses Drupal. I'd heard that about Sony, but hadn't connected it with any of their sites before... this...
Brooking’s Bruce Katz and Lt. Gov. Fisher at The City Club of ClevelandSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Wed, 05/16/2007 - 13:12.
05/29/2007 - 12:00 05/29/2007 - 14:00 Etc/GMT-4 Restoring Prosperity: The State Role in Revitalizing America’s Older Industrial Cities
CLEVELAND, OH—Bruce Katz, vice president and director of Metropolitan Policy at The Brookings Institution, will present Restoring Prosperity: The State Role in Revitalizing America’s Older Industrial Cities, a comprehensive economic study of the 65 U.S. cities lagging behind their peers (scheduled for national release on May 20), at noon on Tuesday, May 29, 2007, at The City Club of Cleveland. He will be joined by Ohio Lt. Governor Lee Fisher, who will give a local response to the report. Location
City Club of Cleveland
850 Euclid Avenue 2nd Floor
Cleveland, OH United States
See map: Google Maps FON is Dropping Microsoft, Adopting UbuntuSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Sun, 05/06/2007 - 14:56.
Martin Varsavsky, founder of FON, and author of his "Blog of an Entrepreneur", posted there an interesting letter he sent to all his employees: "FON is Dropping Microsoft, Adopting Ubuntu". I had seen, on some of his earlier blog entries, that Martin had a major Windows crash and lost his whole hard drive (been there) and so after 20 years with Microsoft he switched to Ubuntu (done that) and also Apple - after a month he settled on Ubuntu. It has been fascinating reading Martin's celebration of discovering FOSS - I remember having the same awakening. It is very exciting to now see Martin move his company FOSS, and to highlight how he is doing this and why - read his personal account here... and think about how this could be happening all over NEO...
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University Circle Blog on Joe Stanley and "Design for people, not institutions"Submitted by Norm Roulet on Thu, 04/26/2007 - 17:46.
It is very nice to see my favorite real urban planner Joe Stanley featured on Lee Batdorff's very informative University Circle Blog - and thanks to Joe for mentioning us here at realneo! We set up and host his http://neomainstreet.com site, which is one of the best uses of Drupal in this region, and presents excellent work by a talented planner and designer. Joe is working on all the community development projects I'm involved with, including overall East Cleveland planning and the Star Intergenerational Neighborhood planning and The Intergenerational School, along with other work Joe does independently. ( categories:
A Rubinesque View of ClevelandSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Thu, 04/26/2007 - 15:56.
Interesting perspectives on economic and community development from Coral's Peter Rubin, from the Villager Newspaper Online. I think Rubin makes some good points, and the reality is that we are overbuilding the Cleveland housing market, and other amenities, and that will make Cleveland a more powerful residential draw. As more of Cleveland becomes more "livable", more people will chose to live here. Add good schools and free city wide wifi and watch out. Clevelaqnd first will draw people from other parts of the region - empty nesters from the xburbs, students and young professionals from the inner heights - it will be cool and good to live in Cleveland again. That will attract people from other regions and parts of the world, and they will grow the economy - you need a critical mass of urban housing and culture to be a player and we aren't even near that yet - time to keep building and innovating in Cleveland housing! Now for the chair half there, with Rubin:
ECOSSystem - Extending Community Open Source SystemSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Wed, 04/25/2007 - 17:20.
While not currently a powerhouse in Free Open Source Software (FOSS), Northeast Ohio is positioned to begin excelling with FOSS in some very strategic ways that may add great value to the regional economy. Because of FOSS, we may now bridge the digital divide more quickly and completely here than has any other large urban center in America, we may soon have the highest percentage of workforce properly educated for the new economy, and we may lead the world in some fields of application development and technology innovation with global, open standards, all if the region now embraces FOSS.. ( categories:
Bridging the Digital Divide, One Open Source Home at a TimeSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Tue, 04/17/2007 - 01:21.
About two years ago, the REALNEO team took on the challenge of helping to bridge the digital divide in NEO, in many ways, including recycling "obsolete" corporate computers, wiping the hard drives, and loading them with free versions of Linux and other Free Open Source Software (FOSS). One group of computers, provided by Progressive Insurance and Benesh Friedlander, that we freed from Microsoft-obsolescence, were given to a combination of Shaw High School seniors and senior citizens in East Cleveland. Shaw seniors have since taken their computers off to college, and, a few weeks ago, East Cleveland CIO Abulime Alli and I met with one of the senior citizens who received a desktop PC and now needed some tech support. I was thrilled to help her out and interested to hear how having a Linux computer at home had changed her life. Exploring connections between lead poisoning and Alzheimer's disease and related dementiasSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Thu, 04/12/2007 - 00:19.
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Request For Collaborators (RFC) for Intergenerational Daycare and Preschool near University Circle, in The StarSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Wed, 04/04/2007 - 23:10.
Muni Wi-Fi Powers Hope at San Francisco Housing ProjectSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Wed, 04/04/2007 - 22:20.
Academic debates about the reality and cost of the so-called digital divide -- and the ability of individuals to fight economic disadvantage with nothing more than a computer and an IP address -- seem to crumble in a place like this. Like water and heat, internet is a clear necessity in the modern world, opening doors to education, employment and engagement. ( categories:
What a difference voters make: State of Ohio Files Suit Against Paint Makers over Public Nuisance of Lead PoisoningSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Wed, 04/04/2007 - 13:35.
YES - this is a huge story... the State of Ohio is suing Sherwin Williams and other paint manufacturers over the public nuisance caused by lead paint they sold here over decades... the state is joining five Ohio cities in this battle for our citizens - this case could very well take over the battle for the cities - very exciting times for our down-trodden state. It is exciting to see the new Ohio leadership in action, after so many years of poor performance by past administrations.
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TOD update from Richard McDougald Enty, Planning Team Leader, Programming & Planning Department, GCRTASubmitted by Norm Roulet on Wed, 03/28/2007 - 17:02.
I received an informative email this afternoon from Richard McDougald Enty, Planning Team Leader, Programming & Planning Department, Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority, about some of their Transit Oriented Development initiatives and vision. It is very exciting to see this as an active subject for discussion and planning here. I am a strong supporter of Transit Oriented Development and consider it the core foundation on which we should rebuild the City of Cleveland and surrounding suburbs. Here is the vision from RTA: ( categories:
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