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andrew: david, as an artist, a musician, what do you believe sets you apart from other artists / musicians? DT: The only possible response is: unique vision. The fundamental principles that shape my work are not unique... the folk methodology is as old as the hills. My life experience is no different from hundreds of thousands of others. The culture I was raised in is shared by millions. So I guess all I got that is different is me.

What does it take for a city to be a magnet for talent? The City of Memphis, the Memphis Regional Chamber and Shelby County wanted to find out, so they asked Carnegie Mellon University professor Richard Florida and a team of Memphis consultants, including Coletta & Company, to investigate. The report was completed recently, and we are now executing its recommendations. The report explains what it takes for a city to become a magnet for talent, where Memphis stands in comparison to other metropolitan areas, and makes recommendations for strengthening the city's appeal for creative workers. Download a copy of "Technology, Talent and Tolerance: Attracting the Best and Brightest to Memphis" in PDF form.

'The trigger in this decade underlying autonomous computing is "computer-to-computer" communication. By the end of the decade, more than 60 percent of the computer communications will be computer-to-computer. Computer-to-computer vastly speeds up the pace of business. For example, end-to-end supply chains can be automatically adjusted by point-of-sale computers directly communicating with warehouse computers, which in turn directly communicate with manufacturer computers, and, again in the chain, manufacturers' computers directly communicate with their supplier computers. In addition, computer-to-computer communications can track demand and adjust logistic systems to automatically direct product to geographical points of demand.'

"In 30 days, I'm going to publish a new eBook called 99 Cows. I'd like to feature the most remarkable people, organizations, products, services and ideas. Do you or someone you know qualify? Would you like to be in it? You can nominate yourself and read new articles by visiting my blog.

"A recent article in The Town Paper describes a new community in Issaquah, WA that has, among it's interesting features: a wired LAN in every home, free community Intranet, and a choice for a fiber optic connection. Is it a coincidence that Microsoft is planning on building 3 million square feet of office space there? How much is a pre-wired house worth to you? What will this do for community building?"

"He could have added fortune to fame, but caring for neither, he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world." - Carver's epitaph

"After 30 years of intensive research, no one has been able to demonstrate that moderate amounts of caffeine cause harm. What's moderate? About three cups of coffee (300 milligrams of caffeine) per day."

"Jason Therrien keeps a sealed copy of the letter of intent next to his bed and on his desk. It reminds him of the choice he made: to go urban bike riding after work rather than sweating sports-car payments. To work in his own cozy office in a converted boiler room in MidTown's Creative Corridor instead of paying for downtown parking and pushing papers in a cubicle. To keep his goatee, work hard with people he considers friends and create a culture that's warm, rather than punching a clock and numbly reporting to several layers of management." "He could have taken the consulting position with Accenture Ltd.'s Cleveland office[George: Good thing he didn't. They're gone.]. But after they pushed back his start date a few times, Therrien, 24, says his heart wasn't in it. He had built up a nice client base with Thunder::Tech, the Web design and database development company that he launched from his dorm room at John Carroll University.

If you're concerned about a city that's a great place to LIVE, I have serious doubts about the "build a new convention center, expand the airport" approach to community building. Because it doesn't build community, it builds "attractions" for tourist and visitors. I lived in Indianapolis part-time while teaching... I can attest to the bustling downtown - some weekday nights you'd have to try several downtown restaurants to find one where you could get a table without a long wait. Conventions keep the place hoppin'. I'm sure conventioneers think Indy is a great place to visit.

My Indianapolis neighborhood was the Old Northside, a gentrified area of big old houses similar in appearance to my Cleveland neighborhood, the Near West Side (or Ohio City, in marketing lingo). But in Indy there was no neighborhood life. Lots of people living inside houses and apartments, but no mom and pop stores, no street life, no sense of a community that people cared about. A clear indicator of this was a community meeting held to discuss problems with a halfway house for inmates a half block from my apartment. The community meeting drew about 30 people for what I'd call a "hot-button" issue for any neighborhood. In contrast, fairly routine block club meetings on Cleveland's Near West Side regularly attract this many people, and major issues like a threat to close our local YMCA bring out hundreds. That's a neighborhood. That's community.

While in Indy I also walked around downtown a lot, enjoying attractive park areas created near the Convention Center and downtown museums. Usually I shared the space with joggers and a few individuals, rarely families and children. In my unscientific view, I'd say these were mostly tourists, not residents. Now believe me, I know that downtown Cleveland lacks what you'd call a vibrant street life, nonetheless it feels more like a multicultural city than that tourist ghetto on the White River.

So be careful what you wish for. Indianapolis downtown does seem to be thriving, and perhaps it actually is. I'd be happy to visit there, and in fact am looking forward to returning when Herron opens its new downtown campus. But live there? I think not. I want to live in a real neighborhood, not a Chamber of Commerce brochure. We have real neighborhoods in Cleveland, and the benefit they gain from a new convention center is insignificant."

"Green, or unroasted, coffee beans smell and taste nothing like coffee as most people know it. It's the roasting of the beans that brings out all those wonderful aromas and flavors that have gained coffee such a widespread following." "Two main things happen during roasting. First, water evaporates. Second, a chemical process called pyrolysis breaks down the raw beans' components and forms hundreds of volatile aromatic compounds. These compounds include ketones and aldehydes, which also are responsible for flavors in foods and wine, and sulfides, which are desirable in small quantities but unpleasant, as in rotten eggs, when overabundant."

"Postmodernists - the very word is like a knell. According to popular fears, they scoff at everything we hold dear, replacing truth, reason, objectivity, knowledge, and scientific method with fashion, rhetoric, power, subjectivity and relativism - thereby summoning our history and politics, literature and art, indeed western civilisation itself, to its doom." "According to these fears, almost all the humanities have answered the diabolical call. And currently leading the danse macabre, in the steps of Nietzsche and Foucault, Lyotard and Derrida, capers the cloven-hooved and triple-horned figure of Richard Rorty."

"Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work."

Healthy: Observe everything with extraordinary perceptiveness and insight. Most mentally alert, curious, searching intelligence: nothing escapes their notice. Foresight and prediction. Able to concentrate: become engrossed in what has caught their attention. / Attain skillful mastery of whatever interests them. Excited by knowledge: often become expert in some field. Innovative and inventive, producing extremely valuable, original works. Highly independent, idiosyncratic, and whimsical. At Their Best: Become visionaries, broadly comprehending the world while penetrating it profoundly. Open-minded, take things in whole, in their true context. Make pioneering discoveries and find entirely new ways of doing and perceiving thing.

What is the Enneagram?

Don Riso has defined the Enneagram as "a geometric figure that delineates the nine basic personality types of human nature and their complex interrelationships." While the Enneagram suggests that there are nine basic personality types of human nature, there are, of course, many subtypes and variations within the nine fundamental categories. Nevertheless, the assertion of Enneagram theory is that these nine adequately map out the territory of "personality types."

Steve says, "I think we have to increase our Bohemian Index a little bit here to attract those kind of people." Artists have a track record for moving into old warehouse and industrial areas where rents are low, fixing it up, and making a community hip and attractive. The rub is they often then get priced out of the market. For artists like Kay Howard and Phil Chiban, affordable housing is one attraction of the project. They support themselves on his pension payments and her pottery sales. But there's another reason they're interested. The couple is drawn to the idea of living with other working artists. "You get kind of solitary as an artist and you really need that contact and comradery and so forth, so the idea of living in a community-type setting with other artists is very exciting." She's also excited about the prospect of being part of a project that recycles an abandoned building and one that could bring excitement to a downtown in need of new life.

"Representative Steve LaTourette is outraged that the Defense Department is using a German-made sealer to coat the walls of the Pentagon during the building's restoration instead of a cheaper version made in his hometown."

"Steve McGreevy is a sound recordist based in California. With the help of a special antennae and radio receiver, he listens to what's called chorus: the very low frequency electromagnetic waves which are created when charged particles from the sun reach the Earth's magnetic field." "What's happened is the sun has burped out a solar flare or what they call a coronal mass ejection. This energy travels several hundred kilometers per second and so eventually, within about twenty four hours or less, it impacts the Earth's magnetic field and causes it to pulsate. Imagine a bubble floating with wind currents pushing against it. You can see it deform. Well that's essentially what happens with Earth's magnetic field." "Once this energy from the sun collides with the Earth, it disturbs the Earth's magnetic field, generating the electromagnetic radio waves that we've been listening to."

"Researchers from Humboldt University found a way to build self-assembling networks. By emulating the behavior of ants and insects the team, which is led by Frank Schweitzer, demonstrated a simulation where agent-based architecture was able to quickly assemble itself into a network and quickly react to a broken link or damages.

Portland Fire Bureau officials Monday ordered U.S. flags removed from downtown fire engines, concerned that their presence might provoke dangerous confrontations with antiwar demonstrators. . . . "Protesters have threatened our personnel and are burning flags in the street," the memo said. "We do not want extremists attacking our apparatus or our personnel."

"Want to see more political violence in America? Then just keep rewarding it this way. Once people figure out that it works, you'll see a lot more."

I know some of you are avid news readers and this site is cool. It uses thumbnails and when you mouseover a thumbnail, it displays a larger version of the frontpage of the newspaper. Clicking on the thumbnail opens another window, where you can just about read all the articles.

"Today's Front Pages" is an online version of one of the Newseum's most popular exhibits. Every morning, more than 100 newspapers from around the world submit their front pages to the Newseum via the Internet. Sixty-eight of the front pages are selected for an outdoor exhibit located at Pennsylvania Avenue and Sixth Street in downtown Washington, D.C., future site of the Newseum. Front pages are chosen to represent each of the 50 states as well as a selection of international newspapers. The electronic files are printed out on large-format printers at the Newseum's offices in Arlington, Va., then are transported to the Pennsylvania Avenue site and mounted inside the 98-foot-long steel and Plexiglas display by 8:30 a.m., seven days a week.

"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds." - Samuel Adams

In my experience, entrepreneurial learning is a recursive process composed of questions, connections, conversations, and resolutions. Too often, I've made the mistake of trying to craft a conversational space in search of connections without a sufficiently clear understanding of the question. What works is when a conversation emerges from the question of a single entrepreneur. At least in the context of a network distributed in space and time, I've found that there is no shortcut. Resolution is, to a large degree, a function of hard work and attention to detail.

SynthCleveland is curating a series of live events during the month of April called "A Month Full Of Wednesdays." The shows will take place at the Symposium in Lakewood, OH, and will feature 17 bands over five weeks of shows - April 2, 9, 16, 23, and 30. The shows will feature SynthCleveland member bands, with doors opening at 8:30 pm and shows beginning at 9:00 pm. These shows are designed to showcase the diversity of electronic acts within SynthCleveland, which is a resource group for Cleveland area electronic musicians holding monthly meetings, and presenting workshops related to electronic music for over 150 members.

"Simplistically, there are three types of leadership styles. Each one of them has a place in your organization at the right time. That's the key to this discussion. Each style is useful and beneficial to your organization, but if any style at the wrong time can result in disaster rather than success. To take a fresh start, begin by understanding the differences and appreciating the right attitude for your situation. Go grab a notepad - let's take some notes." 1. Involver - Engaging manner requires letting go 2. Developer - Innovative challenger with vision for the possibilities 3. Tyrannical - Forceful approach with dramatic results

"The Cleveland Public Library will reopen its Eastman Reading Garden at the end of next month. Bring you laptop the next time you go. The library offers free wireless Internet connections to garden readers."

"A landmark UCLA study suggests friendships between women are special. They shape who we are and who we are yet to be. They soothe our tumultuous inner world, fill the emotional gaps in our marriage, and help us remember who we really are. By the way, they may do even more." "Scientists now suspect that hanging out with our friends can actually counteract the kind of stomach-quivering stress most of us experience on a daily basis. A landmark UCLA study suggests that women respond to stress with a cascade of brain chemicals that cause us to make and maintain friendships with other women. It's a stunning find that has turned five decades of stress research - most of it on men - upside down."

"For waitress Jannie Brown, the least she could do in time of war was send coffee to a friend who is deployed. Brown, who works at the Waffle House near Fort Campbell, Ky., posted five bags of coffee to one of her 'regulars' who is in the Persian Gulf."

"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"It's not our role as North Americans to determine what the needs are in the community and try to fix them, but rather that we enter into partnership humbly and try to ask and be supportive of what the local community identifies as its respective assets and its needs." - Joe Cistone, Executive Director

"Upstairs is for thinking... and downstairs is for dancing. And we need more of both, don't you think?"

"The Heritage Foundation has just launched an experiment to send notices about their studies directly to webloggers (read: inject their viewpoint directly into the blogosphere). I'm amused to find myself on the list; clearly they haven't read my site very extensively. But I'm actually interested in seeing just what they send out, and comparing it with the points made by pundits in mass media publications." "This marks the end of an age of innocence for weblogs, far more than the Raging Cow incident ever did. I'm also of the opinion that both the product marketers and the idea marketers are vastly overrating the level of influence weblogs have attained."

"Once upon a time, mortification of the flesh was an aid to spiritual reflection and purification. People abjured pleasures during Lent to remind themselves of Christ's suffering on their behalf, and to remind them of their own sinfulness. It was an aid to self-perfection, conceived as the imitation of God." "Nowadays such mortification is simply the continuation of self-indulgence by other means, because for us only the flesh is real. That is to say, the flesh is willing, but the spirit is nonexistent. As everyone knows, we live in a post-religious age, though not a post-superstitious one. Our sense of sin has shrivelled, so that it is scarcely more than a vague rumour descending from a distant and ill-remembered past."

"Besides using 'social capital' to measure countries' economic power, I belive that the same concept can be applied to any community. Applied to the weblogs community, this concept helps to explain the huge power that has been unleashed by blogging. Reading other people's weblogs creates trust and efficiency, and it's an excellent base to build businesses and relationships."

"When posting a discussion group message or sending e-mail, write a subject line that asks a question. Questions naturally arouse more interest than statements, and make it much more likely that your message will be opened and read."

"This Cleveland area artist creates abstract work that is inspired by quantum physics and metaphysics to the under currents of religion, secret societies and the interconnectedness that exists between them... Deeply moved through books on those subjects, Brenda spends much time delving into research to comprehend the initial spark of inspiration.... With her strong interest in groups such as the early Gnostics and the Templars, which are strongly associated with both the Magdalene and Isis, Brenda taps into subjects that run strong and deep through history which challenge current accepted doctrine. The hidden addresses what longs to be brought to light.

"It is a place for people who know how to abandon and be abandoned for the sake of their fate, but who do not have the nerve to live up to this fate. It is a true asylum for people who have to kill time so as not to be killed by it. It is the beloved hearth of those to whom the beloved hearth is an abomination, the refuge of married couples and lovers from the fear of undisturbed togetherness' a first-aid station for the confused who, all their lives in search of themselves and all their lives in flight from themselves, conceal their fleeing ego behind a newspaper, dreary conversations, and card playing, and press the pursuer-ego into the role of kibitzer who has to keep his mouth shut." "The Cafe Central thus represents something of an organization of the disorganized."

"[W]hen people understand and work with the guiding principles of nature, they create harmony and when people are ignorant and work against these principles they create disharmony! The simple truth is this; the ends will never justify the means because the means will always determine the end. Every action creates one of two results: harmony or disharmony! The wisdom of the greatest scientists, saints, sages, inventors, artists and business leaders throughout human history could be expressed in a practical training seminar that outlines the principles that shaped the lives of the greatest human minds of all time."

1. Commit to your Business
2. Share your Profits
3. Motivate your Partners
4. Communicate all that you Know
5. Appreciate what your Associates do
6. Celebrate your Cuccess
7. Listen to Everyone in your Company
8. Exceed your Customer's Cxpectations
9. Control your Expenses better than your Competitors
10. Avoid Conventional Wisdom.
11. Swim Upstream!

'Says Gordon Smith, an instructor who spent 26 years in the Special Forces: "I tell the students, If you have a guy with all the survival training in the world who has a negative attitude and a guy who doesn't have a clue but has a positive attitude, I guarantee you that the one with the positive attitude is coming out of the woods alive. Simple as that."' 'Often, the biggest obstacles are psychological. Fear of the unknown. Stress over things that are beyond your control. Anger at being in this predicament. Guilt over comrades who didn't make it. It's important to recognize that those emotions are normal, says John, a master sergeant and the chief instructor at SERE. But such feelings are potentially overwhelming. If you dwell on the negative, you can become paralyzed, depressed, and indecisive. The stress will crush your confidence.'

"[O]ur problems can often best be solved through common effort, applying it on a larger stage as well, addressing the major issues of our time. When we open ourselves up to those around us, asking for and offering help and support, we discover strengths and passions we never knew we had. We begin to reconnect with our fellow human beings, with our wisest and most humane instincts, and with the core of who we are, which we call our soul."

"Without my morning coffee I'm just like a dried up piece of roast goat." - Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) The Coffee Cantata

A recent First Monday paper, "Leaderless resistance today", explores the mechanisms behind small, unlinked groups and their public actions. Members share a common ideology, but do not cooperate using social networks. They focus on immediate swarming, but can also work along longer cycles of time. Some, like the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), are "more accurately described as a movement or a milieu, rather than an organization or a formal group."

"A coffee house," wrote the Austrian author Alfred Polgar, "is a place for people who want to be alone, but need company to do it."

"The Community section in the Sunday News Herald had an article called "The Wright Touch." It had a link to the Penfield House Bed and Breakfast in Willoughby." "The Lake County Gazette had an article in the January 31st edition called 'Frank Lloyd Wright Connection in Lake County' about the house in Madison. It mentioned that a course was offered in February at Lakeland regarding the house."

As an American, I can recognize that the decision has been made. We're marching inexorably to a terrifying conflict that will, with grace, be mercifully short. Like many others, I've made my fears and concerns clearly known. I can't support the decision, but that's an issue for the voting booth, regardless of the outcome. Whether it's in the role of sailor, parent, journalist, constituent, or simple human being, it's my job to support those who, at this moment, are seeing the first clear morning light of the desert, so far from home.

What if, instead of building a program, we created a social revolution which would change all existing programs? What if, instead of aspiring to become our own international monolithic giant, we could instead give a 'hot-foot" to all the existing leadership resources out there, in a way that would inspire them to reform themselves and evolve? "Use the kids." No, not exactly. More appropriately, let the kids use us! We would become "Social Middleware", a thin, adaptable organization that would operate as the synapse that fires from the consciousness of our youth, and animates the body of the youth development world. And so YouthVoice was born, a grass-roots social action youth movement, which helps teens organize themselves on a community-by-community basis. YouthVoice works with local teen communities to build powerful communications platforms (radio, newspaper, posters, town-hall meetings) in order to impact reform among the organizations that serve them; their schools, community centers, houses of worship, and local and national youth development organizations.

"In just 3 or 4 short years, [The Beachland Ballroom has] become a certified Cleveland institution, largely because of the unique community-building skills of one Cindy Barber. Some of her friends might have thought she was smoking something when she decided to try to save her neighborhood by opening a club in a dilapidated old ethnic dance hall. But just like she did in journalism, as editor of the now-defunct-but-soon-to-return Free Times, she invented a national-class entity almost out of nothing, with equal parts inspiration and perspiration."

"Good coffee should be black like the devil, hot like hell, and sweet like a kiss." - Hungarian saying

'Europeans have always looked at America with a mixture of fascination and puzzlement, and now, increasingly, disbelief. How is it that a country that prides itself on its economic success could have so many very poor people? How is it that a country so insistent on the rule of law should seek to exempt itself from international agreements? And how is it that the world's beacon of democracy can have elections dominated by wealthy special interest groups? For me, the question has become: "How can a country that has produced so much cultural and economic wealth act so dumb?"'

Today, working hard is about taking apparent risk. Not a crazy risk like betting the entire company on an untested product. No, an apparent risk: something that the competition ( and your coworkers ) believe is unsafe but that you realize is far more conservative than sticking with the status quo... As the economy plods along, many of us are choosing to take the easy way out. We're going to work for the Man, letting him do the hard work while we work the long hours. We're going back to the future, to a definition of work that embraces the grindstone... Some people ( a precious few, so far ) are realizing that this temporary recession is the best opportunity that they've ever had. They're working harder than ever - mentally - and taking all sorts of emotional and personal risks that are bound to pay off.

According to Susan, one of the store's barristas, "They're doing their deals here. You'd think this was their office." Turns out, the economy still runs on caffeine COFFEE.

Open Space Technology, as a definable approach to organizing meetings, has been in existence for somewhat more than a dozen years. Truthfully, I suspect it has been around as long as Homo sapiens has gathered for one purpose or another, from the days of the campfire circle onward. It is only that our modern wisdom has obfuscated what we already knew and have experienced from the beginning.

"The radical ideas and the great products come from small groups (the creative layer) to be allowed to work on a diverse set of ideas. When these ideas reach a certain level acceptability, the social level (the early adopters?) picks up the idea and "puts it on the radar." It then gives the opportunity for the idea to take a real shot at the masses. If you think about The Woz, I would say that the Home Brew Computer Club was the creative layer where the idea percolated. Then, Silicon Valley (the social layer) decided to give the idea a try. Eventually, it chanaged the world (the political layer). Many ideas don't make it past the first layer or the second."

Behold the Oracle's wisdom: Personality type: Clueless You don't go to Starbucks much; when you do you just tag along with other people since you have nothing better to do. You would like to order a Tazo Chai Creme but don't know how to pronounce it. Most people who drink grande Caramel Macchiato are strippers. Also drinks: Wine coolers Can also be found at: The mall

"When will people start to realize that Jerry Springer is a viable candidate for the US Senate? Again this region is so blinded by it's own embarrassment that it refuses to take seriously the fact that Springer has committed to spending $5 to $10 million of his own money to go up against George Voinovich. (Did you see Voinovich on C-SPAN the other day mumbling about partial-birth abortion? This is the most important issue of the day?) Springer, a former Cincinnati mayor and five-term councilman with a law degree from Northwestern who worked as one of Robert F. Kennedy's presidential campaign aides, whose family had fled the Holocaust and emigrated to the US for political and religious asylum, was an activist lawyer who spearheaded the effort to reduce the voting age from 21 to 18, even testifying in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee in support of ratification of the 26th Amendment to the Constitution. As for his television career, he has won seven Emmys for his nightly commentaries (remember when local news offered those?), which were a precursor to his Final Thought segments. With 98% name recognition (Fingerhut who?), a virtually unlimited campaign pool, and the debating chops to go up against any politician or media challenge, coupled with the lack of strong candidates in the Ohio Democratic party, Springer starts to look not only viable, but formidable."

'Christopher Reeve, who can breathe on his own for 15-minute stretches after experimental surgery to implant electrodes that stimulate the muscles in his diaphragm, told reporters today that he had just had a remarkable experience.' 'Breathing through his nose, instead of through the hole in his throat required by his ventilator, Mr. Reeve was able to identify various smells - an orange, a chocolate-chip cookie, a mint and coffee - for the first time in the eight years since a horseback riding accident left him paralyzed from the neck down.' '"I actually woke up and smelled the coffee," he told a news conference at University Hospitals of Cleveland, where the operation was performed on Feb. 28.'

Manifesto \Man`i*fes"to\, n.; pl. Manifestoes. [It. manifesto. See Manifest, n. & a.] A public declaration, usually of a prince, sovereign, or other person claiming large powers, showing his intentions, or proclaiming his opinions and motives in reference to some act done or contemplated by him; as, a manifesto declaring the purpose of a prince to begin war, and explaining his motives. it was proposed to draw up a manifesto, setting forth the grounds and motives of our taking arms. --Addison. Frederick, in a public manifesto, appealed to the Empire against the insolent pretensions of the pope. --Milman.

"Nonprofit organizations are in transition, facing strategic and financial challenges and opportunities. At the same time, businesses/employers recognize that involvement in the community is good for business, good for employees, and good for the community. BVU is a VEHICLE that effectively and efficiently involves talented people in leadership and volunteering."

It's a shame that there isn't more info available on BVU and Alice Korngold. It looks like the WSJ moved an article from 3 years ago, because all the links are broken. It's a good thing Google keeps a cached version of pages. When I searched for Alice on Google, the best page I could come up with was a page for Kansas City. If Cleveland and Northeast Ohio want to attract people to the area, we've got to become much better at promoting ourselves linking together and fostering communication and collaboration.

"The product of a series of public discussions held beginning throughout Cleveland in January 2000, CREATIVE ESSENCE grows from an effort by the Cleveland Artists Foundation to define what is distinctive about the character of arts and aesthetic design in this region."

"Gesu dedicated its season to the memory of Kyle Beige, a member of the last Gesu City Championship team. The recent Walsh Jesuit graduate died earlier this year after a long bout with cancer, and for the balance of the season the Gesu players wore black armbands bearing his initials."

"To suggest something simple, I think that, instead of reacting with cynicism and skepticism to an idea, we powerfully encourage people to initially respond with, 'there could be something serendipitous here!' In other words, we would empower imagination and positive 'what ifs' as a perfectly normal and expected way to respond to an idea, as opposed to reacting with pure logic and linear thinking. Let's spend some quality time having fun, reaching for the stars, and brainstorming the possibilities. This is far different from initially reacting to an idea with 'this couldn't work here,' or 'I don't like this because I have no reference from the past to compare it to'."

Lorem Ipsum, or Lipsum for short, is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only four centuries, but now the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged.

"First and foremost, kooks believe really weird stuff. But simply holding weird beliefs isn't enough to make someone a kook. It's the tactics they use to spread their beliefs that separates kooks from the merely eccentric. Below is a list of common kook distinguishing characteristics. The average Usenet kook will possess at least several of these traits. �ber Kooks will possess most or all of them."

"War Photographer," an Oscar-nominated documentary portrait of longtime photojournalist James Nachtwey, will receive its first Cleveland screenings at 8:50 pm on Thursday, March 13, 2003, and at 7:30 pm on Friday, March 14, at the Cleveland Cinematheque, Cleveland Institute of Art, 11141 East Boulevard in University Circle, telephone 216/421-7450. Tickets are $7. The film follows Nachtwey to Kosovo, Indonesia, and the West Bank where, thanks to a small video camera mounted to his still camera, we are there with him, in the midst of the action. Nachtwey also talks eloquently about how he hopes his pictures of war may some day lead to its eradication. 96 min.

"Mayor Campbell's "State of the City" address states her goals for Cleveland are to "turn (Cleveland) around, stop the bleeding, and begin populating the city of Cleveland" by focusing on technological research and by attracting people to Cleveland. Mayor Campbell's priorities raises the question: Where are Cleveland's creative people?" "Richard Florida ranks Greater Cleveland as number 30 out of 49 regions with over a million people. For the record, Florida ranks Columbus: 24, Chicago: 15 - both above Cleveland. Pittsburgh: 36, and Detroit: 39, fall below us." "Considering that Cleveland is seeking to become a technological -- read that: creative -- center we must consider why 29 other cities, cities that we compete with for the technological dollars, rank above us; two of them, our neighbors."

"The soothing sounds of jazz from a Kurzweil keyboardist. About 75 people gathered around dozens of PCs. The launch of a new software product. Just another Thursday morning in Silicon Valley, right?" "Wrong. It was the launch of Miliki Software from QuikCat right here in Cleveland - Mayfield Village to be exact."

"The shiny, swirling $62 million building that houses the business school at Case Western Reserve University is a marvel to behold. But it is sometimes best admired from afar."

Established in 1963 by John T. Zubal, Zubal Books offers an outstanding selection of used and antiquarian titles. Thier Website provides access to one of the largest collections of out-of-print titles available on the Internet. The Zubal Books warehouse maintains close to 5,000,000 volumes of scholarly and rare books in the fields of Literary Criticism & Biography, History, Philosophy, Science, Anthropology & Archaeology, Religion, Historiography, Linguistics, Occult and Fiction.

"[H]ow do we raise champions? How do champions get past the defense of the prevalent norms? How do we make the norms and attitudes of the Creative Age the playing field? How do we create a a climate of championships?

I like their tag like as well. "Life is short. Stay awake for it"

"Yesterday, I had a meeting in Public Square and I took the RAPID for convenience and to be a little 'green'. Waiting for the return run, I noticed a women with a suitcase seemed a little nervous about how to get to the airport. I told her to follow me and she'd be fine." "We got to talking and found out she was from San Franscisco and was here to install software at CSU. We compared notes on SF and shared stories about restaurants and weather. I asked the woman, what did she see, do, and eat in Cleveland. Not much, except San Souci and Rascal House pizza. She was busy and only averaged about 4 hours sleep each night. She said that although, the CSU people were real friendly, picking her up at the aiport and taking her out for the San Souci meal, they did not make any other suggestions to what to do or where to eat."

Poet Laureate Billy Collins chose George Bilgere for the 2002 Witter Bynner Fellowship. Billy Collins has also has chosen George's new book, The Good Kiss, as the winner of the University of Akron Poetry Prize, for which Collins was the judge. Bilgere lives in Cleveland, Ohio, and teaches at John Carroll University.

"Great tax breaks, a well-trained labor force, and affordable living are contributing to a mini-boom in Omaha's commercial development. Recent corporate emigres include AFLAC, which recently brought 100 jobs to the city, the Gallup Organization, and PayPal... But the information industry is hardly the only game in town: Omaha's rolling landscape and its many farm byproducts make it an attractive home for ethanol plants... Life in Omaha is easier on the wallet than in many other U.S. cities. The cost of living is 11 points below the national average; health-care expenses fall a comfortable 8 points below the national average. Houses in new-home developments range from $125,000 to $170,000, while the downtown Old Market area offers loft-style apartment rentals (approximately $750 to $1,200 a month at the rate of $1 a square foot) amid a string of shops, restaurants, and bars... In addition to many churches, Omaha has at least four synagogues, several Christian Science Reading Rooms, and one Hindu and one Buddhist temple... It's a wonderful place to raise a family."

• "In a larger company, it would take five to seven years to get the kind of promotion that I can offer in 18 months".
• invests 10% to 15% of the company's net income on new technologies.
• gives out a monthly "star derriere" trophy -- shaped like a horse's behind -- to employees who aid colleagues in trouble. In November, Mark Goebel in the IT department won for helping an ad exec cope with a file-deleting system crash just before a client meeting.
• Make it look like the city: The agency's offices resemble a Chicago warehouse.
• "Most of the people I hire have already worked with big clients and great brands. What they want is a great company."

1. The book's indispensable design advice will grow your business.

2. You must teach your children to recognize this new class of manipulation.

Thank goodness Jakob is trying to protect our children!

"NOFA is a growing community of growers and producers, food industry professionals and individuals who share a common vision of a more sustainable regional food system."

Our monthly meetings are held the third Tuesday of most months from 5:30 - 8:00 p.m. at The Great Lakes Brewing Company.

"Metropolis Cleveland provides a network for Cleveland residents to promote and to celebrate living, working, and playing in the city. We are a group of young, and young-at-heart, city residents that believe in our city and are committed to its economic and social growth. We believe a strong, prosperous central city is vital to the quality of life in the region. Through our activities, we hope to attract and retain diverse and dynamic people to live in the city and to help Cleveland thrive."

"A handful of high-tech companies from Israel will co-locate to the Beachwood area in 2003 as part of a $474,000 economic development agreement the city has struck with the Beachwood Chamber of Commerce."