Slavic Village "recovery". There's an oxymoron! From their web page they define "stress free" homes. And I quote..." Let's face it--most of the stress in our lives has a dollar figure attached to it. How many times has something gone wrong and the first question is "How much is this going to cost." Unquote!

South Branch Library

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 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....

(WJHL) - Veterans Day is on Tuesday, November 11 and merchants across the nation would like to honor those who have served in the military with FREEbies and discounts.

News Channel 11 has compiled a list of this year's deals. Our service members are in for a treat because many of these promotions will run on multiple days.

To qualify for the discounts, you must show proof of military service. Also, call ahead to make sure the a franchise restaurant or store is participating in the national promotion. 

Illinois residents John Kraft and Kirk Allen, who run an anti-corruption non-profit called the Edgar County Watchdogs, have waged a campaign against crooked public officials over the past two years, forcing resignations from 102 bureaucrats and politicians and at one point placing an entire park district board under citizen’s arrest.

AN UNNECESSARY $25 MILLION LAKEFRONT BRIDGE PROJECT IN CLEVELAND, OHIO!

AN UNNECESSARY $25 MILLION LAKEFRONT PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLE BRIDGE PROJECT IN CLEVELAND, OHIO – CONNECTING THE NORTHERN TIP OF MALL C WITH THE NORTH COAST HARBOR – WHEN WE ALREADY HAVE THREE EXISTING CROSSINGS – SCHEDULED TO BE READY IN TIME FOR THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION IN 2016 -- ALL THIS IN A CITY WITH A 37% POVERTY RATE!

Epistemology.  How do you know what you know?  In the past, the print media controlled much of what we knew and our thought process on issues.  Has that changed with the Internet and citizen reporting?  

 Please take a moment to weigh in on the final Towpath Trail connections as it winds towards Lake Erie and Whiskey Island.

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 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   

Students at Japan's Waseda University are revolutionizing home heating by designing a home heated by actively decaying compost. The home, located on the island of Hokkaido in the town of Taiki-cho, is known as "A Recipe to Live."

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

 A handful of folks who actually live in and around Clark Ave. (I counted MAYBE 10) showed up last night at the old Gruss Hall across from St. Michael's to attend a Transportation for Livable Communities meeting.  Four council reps are part of this "planning" exercise - including from west to east : Matt Zone, Joe Cimperman, Brian Cummins and Anthony Brancatelli.  Zone and Cimperman were no shows.

 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.  

TALK OF THE TOWN – I: The LEAVE PUBLIC SQUARE ALONE Campaign Rocks Cleveland, Ohio!

BICYCLISTS: Some of the faces of Cleveland’s brave bicyclists as photographed in 218-year old Public Square during the course of over 110-hours of demonstrations in the “LEAVE PUBLIC SQUARE ALONE” campaign in downtown Cleveland, Ohio.

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. 

Scientists have detected the largest sunspot region in more than 20 years — and it's aiming solar flares toward Earth.

Image credit and New York Daily News report at this link