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As part of Speak Up Day 2003, 210,000 K-12 students submitted surveys on technology and education, sharing their ideas about using technology and the Internet for learning and for fun. NetDay�s analysis of the data reveals interesting findings and themes. Today�s students are very technology savvy, feel strongly about the positive value of technology and rely upon technology as an essential and preferred component of every aspect of their lives.

"Except for Rickert who saw great promise, especially locally, for nanotech, the others were more sobering. It seemed that many of the things that have to be done to make our community, country and world improve the way they could and should are beyond our control. Self-serving and shortsighted politicians have too much power and are reluctant, if not adamantly opposed, to considering the broader vision and hence, the broader good."

"Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives." - C. S. Lewis

"There is no gold standard for civilization. You don't have roots, you have aerials. Henceforth, O children, you are going to live in a world glued together by networks. Networks consist of two things: connections and nodes. Connections are temporary and flexible, while nodes are persistant and solid. You are the node; the circumstances are the web. You should treat the connections with great flexibility and the node with utmost care and respect. Flexibility and patience are the two virtues that best suit those circumstances."

"We are the raw material. Biotech is us, industrialized. Technology always 'improves', but the wisest path forward is a path that allows us to keep making fresh mistakes. When we're dealing with genetics, the stuff of life, we need to shy strongly away from approaches that are irreparable and can work us into a fatal corner: monocultures, monopolies, and the obliteration of alternatives."

"'Learning' is not the center of school life. [Schools] are socializing institutions. They teach children to behave in civilized groups... No matter how clever they are, children are always kept in school till the bell rings. This teaches them to behave in large, bureaucratically organized institutions. They're also kept there in order to free up the productive time of their parents...Today's schoolchildren are held to grueling nineteenth century standards. Today's sucessful adults learn constantly, endlessly developing skills and moving from temporary phase to phase... Children are in training for stable roles in large, paternalistic bureaucracies. These enterprises no longer exist for their parents. One they were everywhere, these classic gold-watch institiutions: railroads, post offices, the old-school military, telephone, gas, and electrical utilities. Please where the competitive landscape was sluggish, where roles where well defined. The educated child became the loyal employee who could sit still, read, write, and add correctly - for thirty years.

From Netscape Co-Founder's 12 Reasons for Growth of Open Source:

• "The Internet is powered by open source."
• "The Internet is the carrier for open source."
• "The Internet is also the platform through which open source is developed."
• "It's simply going to be more secure than proprietary software."
• "Open source benefits from anti-American sentiments."
• "Incentives around open source include the respect of one's peers."
• "Open source means standing on the shoulders of giants."
• "Servers have always been expensive and proprietary, but Linux runs on Intel."
• "Embedded devices are making greater use of open source."
• "There are an increasing number of companies developing software that aren't software companies."
• "Companies are increasingly supporting Linux."
• "It's free."

The US is the primary source of remittances Latin American and Caribbean workers sent $38B back home from abroad in 2003, the Inter-American Development Bank believes. The sum is probably an understatement, the IADB says, but is still bigger than foreign direct investment and official aid combined.The vast majority of the money came from workers in the US, with Japan in second place... Globally, experts believe remittance flows could be as much as $150B a year.

Lawrence Lessig could be called a cultural environmentalist. One of America�s most original and influential public intellectuals, his focus is the social dimension of creativity: how creative work builds on the past and how society encourages or inhibits that building with laws and technologies. In his two previous books, CODE and THE FUTURE OF IDEAS, Lessig concentrated on the destruction of much of the original promise of the Internet. Now, in FREE CULTURE, he widens his focus to consider the diminishment of the larger public domain of ideas. In this powerful wake-up call he shows how short-sighted interests blind to the long-term damage they�re inflicting are poisoning the ecosystem that fosters innovation. All creative works�books, movies, records, software, and so on�are a compromise between what can be imagined and what is possible�technologically and legally. For more than two hundred years, laws in America have sought a balance between rewarding creativity and allowing the borrowing from which new creativity springs. The original term of copyright set by the Constitution in 1787 was seventeen years. Now it is closer to two hundred. Thomas Jefferson considered protecting the public against overly long monopolies on creative works an essential government role. What did he know that we�ve forgotten? Lawrence Lessig shows us that while new technologies always lead to new laws, never before have the big cultural monopolists used the fear created by new technologies, specifically the Internet, to shrink the public domain of ideas, even as the same corporations use the same technologies to control more and more what we can and can�t do with culture. As more and more culture becomes digitized, more and more becomes controllable, even as laws are being toughened at the behest of the big media groups. What�s at stake is our freedom�freedom to create, freedom to build, and ultimately, freedom to imagine.

From: Andrew May [mailto:amay@greatlakestheater.org] Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 3:52 PM To: neohiopal@lists.fredsterfeld.com Subject: GLTF calling all people To all the good people in the Land of Cleve!!!!! I am in the midst of putting together the artistic look of our new "summer theater brochure" and I need your help. This Sunday at 10AM to 12 noon, right outside the Ohio Theater marquee, we are taking the "cover shot" photo of the brochure. I have closed down Euclid Ave. from E 17th to E 14th to create the correct atmosphere for what I have in mind. It is quite complex, so to simplify - what I need is PEOPLE. Live, breathing people to act like themselves and walk down the street as though they knew where they were going. People of all shapes and sizes, colors, sexes etc..... Oh yeah, dress like it is summer! I can't offer much, except coffee/tea, donuts/bagels, getting a chance to be on the cover of our brochure, hang out with some fun people in the middle of a large street while the police direct traffic around you, and some good theater Kharma! Call or email me if you can make it! Thanx and all the best to all of you, Andrew May Associate Artistic Director Great Lakes Theater Festival 1501 Euclid Avenue #423 Cleveland, OH 44115 216 241 5490 Ext. 313 amay@greatlakestheater.org

Someone sent this to me and asked me to distribute to Metropolis... Case Western Reserve University's second annual Research ShowCASE will be held on Friday April 2, 2004 at the University's Veale Convocation and Recreation Center. This day-long event will highlight the breadth of research done at Case and its collaborating institutions including University Hospitals of Cleveland, MetroHealth System, The Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and The Cleveland Clinic Foundation. As the name implies, this event will provide a unique opportunity for the Northeast Ohio community, corporate and civic leaders, and other researchers to fully appreciate the vitality of the research enterprise at Case. Further, it identifies opportunities for future collaboration and support by linking businesses and potential funders with researchers, as well as researchers with other researchers and entrepreneurs. Research ShowCASE 2004 welcomes all attendees free of charge. For more information and a complete schedule of the day, please visit http://showcase.case.edu

"Yankee found that 4% of Unix customers and 11% of Windows businesses plan to replace all of their servers with Linux. And less than 5% of organizations will replace their Windows desktops with Linux."

Engadget has a great post about a company in Japan using RFID tags in Sushi Bar plates. This enables wait staff to scan a stack of empty plates and send the check to the cash register. This is a great technology and it will change cafeteria style food service areas (hospitals, college dorms, corporate campuses, etc.) across the globe. Suddenly cafeterias become giant walk thru vending machines. Hang on to your jobs RFID technology is going to change everything.

"To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Biomed Central, a publishing house offering free access to over 100 journals of peer-reviewed biomedical research, has recently adopted the Attribution license on all their submissions.

"Every year this continues means at least a couple of thousand new entrants in the city's work force without diplomas. When the last census was taken in 1999, Cleveland's percentage of adults without diplomas (31%) was the sixth highest among the fifty largest U.S. cities. And ominously, the 1999 count found that a full 38% of Cleveland's youngest adults -- 18-to-24-year-olds -- had neither diplomas nor GED certificates."

[A] survey [of] 300 randomly selected companies and found that 92 (30.67%) had had major virus incidents in 2003, up from 80 (26.67%) in the year before. The cost to recover from the incidents also increased, to almost $100,000 last year from $81,000 in 2002. Moreover, nearly 11% of all their machines were infected every month, according to the survey. The numbers indicate that antivirus software isn't proof against infection. Almost all of the companies surveyed said that at least 90% of their desktops have antivirus protection, but still a third of the companies suffered virus disasters

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"Yes, it seems like we should be able to measure 'dollars spent' in NE Ohio as well as 'dollars earned' here; that would give us some idea of the regional trade deficit, and how much of our commerce is getting siphoned away by companies and people outside the region."

HeadRush Music was founded in New York City in 2000 and is currently based in Cleveland, Ohio. Our mission is to advance the positive vibes of underground dance-music culture and to broaden the horizons of those who think that dance music is what they hear on mainstream radio. We work toward this mission by organizing high-quality events with artists and DJs who champion the ideals of the electronic underground. Currently, we promote events in New York City, Connecticut, and Cleveland using innovative online, e-mail, print, and distribution strategies. We also produce original music, which has been signed to various labels throughout the world.

As we look towards economic revitalization, we also must remember that it goes hand in hand with educational reform. We cannot attract businesses to the region without a trained workforce. The regions largest school district is hemorrhaging students. Cleveland's student population numbers over 70,000. The district's graduation rate is only 38%. Realize, that means 62% of those 70,000 will not receive a high school diploma. That is HUGE. The implications are staggering. Those who discuss revitalizing the region, without considering Cleveland's education crisis are like physicians trying to treat the symptoms while ignoring the cause.

"A speech is a solemn responsibility. The man who makes a bad thirty-minute speech to two hundred people wastes only a half hour of his own time. But he wastes one hundred hours of the audience's time - more than four days - which should be a hanging offense." - Jenkin Lloyd Jones

"One day Rex got a letter from the Starbucks corporation demanding he stop selling Star Bock beer. The company even threatened litigation, claiming the two products sound too similar. "I told the lady, the attorney for Starbucks, I explained the whole story about Lonestar and how it came up," explained Rex. "And she said, 'Mister, we're going to beat you. You can't beat us.' I was just amazed at her arrogance." Rex hired his own attorney. John Egbert told Eyewitness News, "In my opinion, there's no likelihood of confusion. If I go to his bar and have a Star Bock beer, I don't walk away going, 'Did I just have Starbucks coffee?'"

Tom Mulready in his Cool Cleveland dispatch links to this site, maintained by the Employer's Resource Council, which gives links to a zillion good things in the Cleveland area. Whenever the weather gets me down -- as the several inches of snow from yesterday and today (a mere 12 days after we experienced 74 and sunny) have done -- it helps to go look at a site like that to remind me of some of the reasons why I'm here, rather than basking on my beach in 82 and sunny, smoothie in one hand, a book in the other, waiting to get warm enough to go float around in the water for a while . . .

This region needs to let go of its �follower� mentality, and take a leadership stance by looking at the "big picture". This region's industrial age is over, however, is arts and cultural age is just beginning and its technology age is in its mid-adolescent stage. This region needs to "embrace" these two new economic revitalizers, and help them grow. What do I mean by �follower� mentality? This region seems to follow in the footsteps of other cities that have revitalized there regions and cities. This region has a tendency to hire the people who have helped revitalized other regions to assess and revitalize this region, however, they over look one major flaw in this practice: Those people don�t live in this region. They don�t know about this region first hand, and they have nothing at stake if the revitalization plan fails...

Bill Clinton was, in many ways the midwife of the new creative economy. Present at the birth of the '90s boom, he recognized it quickly for what it was and helped spur it by such projects as wiring poor and middle-class school classrooms around the country for the Internet and beating back Republican efforts to cut immigration. For this, he was beloved not only by creatives, but also by many of those in Red America whom he convinced would benefit from the new economy. But he also personally symbolized the creative-class archetype--its libertine character, its cleverness, its global-mindedness. For this, he drew the lasting enmity of many millions of those in the "other" America. It's often been said that Clinton was the embodiment of the '60s, and one's position for or against him revealed one's attitude towards that era. It's perhaps more precise to say that with his constant hyping of new technologies and "bridge to the twenty-first century" rhetoric, Clinton was the embodiment of what the '60s became--the creative class '90s, hip but pro-growth, open-minded and progressive but ambitious."

The last 20 years has seen the rise of the "culture wars"--between those who value traditional virtues, and others drawn to new lifestyles and diversity of opinion. In truth, this clash mostly played out among intellectuals of the left and right; as sociologist Alan Wolfe has shown, most Americans manage a subtle balance between the two tendencies. Still, the cleavages exist, roughly paralleling the ideologies of the two political parties. And increasingly in the 1990s, they expressed themselves geographically, as more and more Americans chose to live in places that suited their culture and lifestyle preferences.

"Weblogs are an inexpensive vehicle for knowledge sharing in both large and small organizations - offering a flavor of 'Personal Knowledge Mapping' that is appealing to a larger audience."

Have: I am the luckiest guy in the world, I have a loving and supportive wife. Want: information on grant opportunties for economic development. Title: Manager of Research and Member Services Home: Cleveland, OH USA Company: Consortuim of African American Organizations From: Bermuda Industry: Non Profit - Economic Development, Interests: Economic Development, Leadership Development, Cooking, Civic Innovation, Entrepreneurial Development, Reading, Computers, Digital Photography, Non - Profit Orgs., Collaboration, Universities: Bermuda College Acadia University "Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends." - John 15:13 "The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it." - Elaine Agather "Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds." - Orison Swett Marden

I would like to hear your feelings on regionalism. Is regionalism the only way to develop renewed economic vitality in Northeast Ohio? What do you think has to take place for Northeast Ohio to move forward as a region?

: "incestuous amplification n. The reinforcement of set beliefs among like-minded people, leading to miscalculations and errors in judgment."

"Only three of the top ten, and nine of the top twenty, are private for-profit companies. Five of the top ten are government entities (counting the USPS). Numbers 1 and 2 are nonprofit health care systems. Of the 152,000 people working for the county's twenty biggest employers, only 42,000 -- less than a third -- work in the 'private sector'."

"More than 86 percent of email users reported they had some frustration and anger about the spam in their in-box."

A new round of Bagle worms blitzed the Internet Thursday, and takes advantage of a five-month-old vulnerability in Internet Explorer that let them infect computers without having to convince users to open a file attachment.

�Former Rep. Jim Traficant (D-Ohio) was transferred last week to a higher security federal prison facility in upstate New York, a move that generally means a prisoner has misbehaved while behind bars.�

A Pew study shows what we all already knew: the Can Spam Act didn't make any difference in the amount of spam we're all receiving. Three quarters of respondents said they saw no change in the pattern of spam they received. To be fair, enforcement actions have only just begun, but experts don't foresee the act having much of a real effect on the proportion of spam in email.

iMedia's interview with Howard Dean campaign helper David Weinberger provides a review of what worked with the explosive growth of the Dean campaign's grassroots effort. The main message: by giving up control over the movement, the campaign sacrificed predictability for rapid growth. The conversation draws interesting parallels in brand marketing.

Doc Searls has written an excellent piece on why weblogs will succeed where traditional knowledge management has failed. His explanation ties in with what we observed couple of years ago: weblogs are personal stories that embody tacit knowledge. Doc puts it nicely: "they are about sharing and growing what we know and what we can tell."

Small Times magazine has placed Ohio in its list of the �Top 10 Small Tech Hot Spots,� recognizing Ohio for its progress in the developing fields of nanotechnology, MEMs and microsystems... The magazine placed California in first place, followed by Massachusets and New Mexico. The rankings are given in the magazine�s March/April issue, which will be released next week. The issue also features an eight-page advertising section touting Ohio�s nano and MEMS technology assets. The section was paid for by eight organizations, including Case Western Reserve University, the Cleveland Clinic, Nanofilm and iActiv Corp.

"Wendy Hoke, a Cleveland-based freelance writer and editor, opens the discussion on living the creative life."

If you want to be free, Get to know your real self. It has no form, no appearance, No root, no basis, no abode, But is lively and buoyant. It responds with versatile facility, But its function cannot be located. Therefore when you look for it, You become further from it; When you seek it You turn away from it all the more. - Linji (d. 867)

COWCS: Down Reference to the failure of Issue 31 and the mention of the variance between population and travel send negative signals about Cleveland to the rest of the world.

What's the one thing you know about gentrification? That, as rents rise, poor people get pushed out of their neighborhoods. You know this because advocates for the poor have said it over and over since the 1980s. But as it turns out, the exact opposite may be true. A study of seven of New York's rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods (Harlem, Morningside Heights, Park Slope, the Lower East Side, etc.) has found that poor people are actually less likely to move when their neighborhood is being gentrified. How can that be? While it's true that rents rise when neighborhoods turn around, residents are often willing to pay more to continue living there. "If the neighborhood is on the upswing, people want to stay," said one of the researchers, Columbia University Professor Lance Freeman. And there may be an unexpected bonus in gentrifying areas: better jobs close to home, which helps the original residents afford higher rents. The researchers say they're as surprised by their findings as everyone else. "My impression (at the outset) was that gentrification caused displacement . . . but the results came out differently," Freeman said. And it's not just New York. A professor at Duke University has studied neighborhoods in Boston and found similar results. Footnote: So how could we have been so wrong about the effects of gentrification? Blame it on "observation bias," the tendency to see what we're looking for. In this case, it's easy to see families leaving when neighborhoods gentrify. That's because families are always coming and going, for reasons that have nothing to do with rents, racial change or the sudden arrival of Starbucks. "What happens in gentrifying neighborhoods," says one academic, "is that (the coming and going) becomes visible."

If leaders are less than honest, credible and trustworthy, are they really "leaders"? Leadership is the ability to influence a change in another person. This puts the leadership hat on everyone's head. You don't need an SVP title, a group of direct reports, or your name on the door to be a leader.

Yesterday I attended the "Women's Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century" conference in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

In an article in The Plain Dealer, Donald Rosenberg stated that classical music radio stations tend to play works by composers who are dead, white, and male. Throwing these requirements to the wind, each Saturday at 8:00 PM, WCLV and the Cleveland Composers Guild present an hour of music by northern Ohio composers. The program is sponsored by the Bascom Little Fund and produced and announced by WCLV's Mark Satola.

BayStar Capital, which invested $50 million in The SCO Group last October, on Thursday confirmed that Microsoft introduced it to the small software company that has mounted a court challenge to Linux, the open-source operating system that has become a strong rival to Windows. While confirming the introduction, a spokesman for the Larkspur, Calif., investment firm reiterated earlier statements that Microsoft did not invest any money in Lindon, Utah-based SCO. "Microsoft did introduce SCO to BayStar as a possible investment opportunity," the spokesman said. "But, and we said this previously, Microsoft neither participated in the SCO investment back in October, nor is Microsoft an investor in BayStar."

Music journalist Devon Powers has a great piece on copyright terms, sampling, and the Beatles at PopMatters. In it, she looks at the Grey Album and comes to the conclusion that overly long copyright terms harm our culture by limiting the use of music as social force. Akin to "Free the Mouse" she arrives at the conclusion "Something's gotta be done about the Beatles."

And for all of us who hold music dear, we owe it to ourselves to not only let our musical past footnote our musical present, but also allow that past to live and breathe, change and reform, disappear and reappear in unexpected ways.

: "Sheldon Kopp once wrote a book on Zen called, If You See the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him. Kopp was warning against false prophets."

Julie Hubert at Working Virtually points to an article titled Harness Your Entrepreneurial Spirit. In the article, the author asks a powerful question that is worth sharing.

Rather than quickly reading this and zooming off to the next thing, I encourage you to sit quietly for a couple minutes and reflect on the answer.

Are your choices based on fear? Are they based on possibility?

The motivation behind your choices makes all the difference in the world in creating a career - and a life - that brings you joy and keeps you excited, energized, and engaged.

Have: Potential opportunities for talented designers to contract with me on web development projects Want: I am looking for a job in Cleveland, Ohio as a web developer, producer, or project manager

One Sixty is the first journal of txt poetry. 160: the maximum number of characters each poem can include.

There's a ton of buzz about places where you can live, work and play within a 5-minute walk. Just google "smart growth" and "new urbanism". Now, it's tough to do a survey asking people if they'd prefer a live/work/play neighborhood because they haven't been built since the 1920s, and the ones that have are ranked as the most expensive neighborhoods* in the country - hmm, there's evidence for demand huh? However, one unmistakable trend that provides evidence of this is the number of people doing business in their homes. IDC research lists 35 million home office households in the U.S., slightly more than half being income-generating home offices with the rest being corporate telecommuter households. That's exactly one-third of all households - don't you think they're trying to tell us something? ps 70% of businesses started in the home are by women.

Suburban mayors and others are kicking around the idea of creating a regional economic development authority for Cuyahoga County. I thought we already had one � it�s called the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority. While Cleveland is looking at adding even more players to the crowded and ineffective economic development landscape, the folks in Toledo are trying to streamline their economic development efforts. At some point in the very near future, officials from Cuyahoga County, Cleveland, the county�s suburbs, the port, the Greater Cleveland Partnership and Team NEO are going to have to come together and come up with a cohesive, effective strategy. Hopefully, it won�t require a $132,000 study � as it did in Toledo.

"Grassroots efforts are an antidote to passive cynicism about the apparent failures of patriarchal institutions."

: "IIssue 31 was a tricky subject. Growth for public arts and community services. Kind of like art class versus algebra. My parents always wanted to hear that I was receiving good marks for algebra, and they never gave a whoot about art class. Now look at me. Heh. My take on public art is that it is [a part] for the growth of a community. Like athletics, a community needs aesthetics. Otherwise, you will have Fort Worth's in every major state. Lack of public art (Science Center, Art Museums, fundings for local [thought some private] galleries, parks where children will play and not sell crack and 'hoes' (Lincoln Park in Tremont comes to mind; great place for a cultural epicenter for our city--really is great place in the summer for theatre and cultural events; i.e. Hindu Arts Fest, Greek Fest, Irish Fest. Shit then there is Little Italy, with the Riley Hawk Gallery run by Dagoes, great place also 'public/private') ) just means that a city will have no "umph" for people to migrate to, and tourists to spend money at. I read that the actual "tax" that people are bitching about is like $1.87 per month. Pfft. WTF? As if most of these people don't piss their money away on stupid things they do not need that is on a Blue Light Special. I mean, lets pour tons of money into a Stadium where people litter, get wasted, put more effort into a "super charged 77' Chevy Econoline with a built in 7 burner mesquite smoking gas grill" and run the engine for 4 hours before the afternoon bouts at the 'DAWG POUND' (how bout them DAWGS! YEE MUTHA FUCKIGN HAW!!!). Makes no sense. You do know that an 'artist' an architect, city planner, and the government can all get along. Look at the "football field walkway" that connects the city parking lot to the stadium. That is what they mean by funding for public arts. I am sorry that most people do not like the Claes Oldenburg that we have in Cleveland. (Free Stamp) But you know, Cleveland was just one of the places that received a gift from this amazing artist. Houston, Las Angeles, New York, Hamburg Germany, Spain, and London all have a Claes. SO does Cleveland. People actually came to Cleveland to see it. Just like the Rock Hall. If there is nothing for people to see in a city, what is the purpose to even go there? Next year we get a true international airport. I have been watching its progress. Pretty amazing. Cleveland will actually have a runway that will support an international flight (747). Think of what will happen to the city if we had a bit more public 'fun things to do; i.e. Art, etc.'. Our hotels, bars, nightlife, and most other 'small businesses' would be making money that is caught up in 'other cultural cities'."

: "There is a new gallery opening up this weekend in the Cedar-Lee area called Paradise Gallery. It's located at 2199 Lee Road, which is in the same block as Cedar-Lee Theater... about 500 feet to the south and just across the street from Chuck's Dinner. The Grand Opening is this Saturday, March 6th, from 7PM-11PM, and the first show is entitled: 23-degrees & Rising, which features 23 NEOH artists.... including the likes of Alicia Ross, Todd V., Debi Cowdin, Brenda Stumpf, & a fine assortment if Nimbis Artists such as: Jason Jones, The Glass Bubble Project and even Myself. The space is a very nice, professional looking space and should made a great edition to the Cedar Lee neighborhood... especially to the for art walk vide they are trying to develop there."

: "Hey, all. My friend Rob Felber turned me on to the Ryze network. Holy Cow! I can't believe all the people who are into network marketing. Ryze is a free network marketing web site that is a huge referral ground for people with like minded interests. I'm just wading in, but it seems very cool."

"We must not think that our love has to be extraordinary. But we do need to love without getting tired. How does a lamp burn? Through the continuous input of small drops of oil. These drops are the small things of daily life: faithfulness, small words of kindness, a thought for others, our way of being quiet, of looking, of speaking, and of acting. They are the true dropMs of love that keep our lives and relationships burning like a lively flame." - Mother Teresa

: "Security is another reason for agencies to consider Linux for desktop computers. The Windows-borne viruses that have hit in the past year present a challenge for information technology departments that need to closely manage desktop computers to avoid security risks and potential damage to other IT assets, including mission-critical servers. The amount of time, money and resources needed to secure Windows desktops in large IT settings have begun to add up to an expensive line item on the budget. Thus, many IT departments are looking into Linux as a viable alternative to their current desktop investments."

"I love the story told about Pete Flaherty, mayor of Pittsburgh, and his wife, Nancy. They were standing on the sidewalk, surveying a city construction project, when one of the laborers at the site called out to them. "Nancy, remember me?" he asked. "We used to date in high school." Later, Pete teased her. "Aren't you glad you married me? Just think, if you had married him, you would be the wife of a construction worker." Nancy looked at him and said, "No, if I'd married him, he would be the mayor of Pittsburgh!"

"If piracy means using the creative property of others without their permission, then the history of the content industry is a history of piracy. Every important sector of big media today - film, music, radio, and cable TV - was born of a kind of piracy. The consistent story is how each generation welcomes the pirates from the last. Each generation - until now. The Hollywood film industry was built by fleeing pirates. Creators and directors migrated from the East Coast to California in the early 20th century in part to escape controls that film patents granted the inventor Thomas Edison. These controls were exercised through the Motion Pictures Patents Company, a monopoly "trust" based on Edison's creative property and formed to vigorously protect his patent rights."

Visualize a city with clear, clean running rivers and a pristine lake� Imagine yourself walk-ing along a street bordering a city green space. A bus roars past. You brace yourself for the usual offensive smell of petro-chemical exhaust. But instead, this exhaust smells like french fries! The tantalizing aroma reminds you of how hungry you are, so you stop in at your favorite restaurant and brew pub for a meal made from locally grown, organic food. While dining, you chat with others about how the community is working to keep these positive changes flowing. Does this sound like Cleveland? It could!

I really enjoyed our Entrepreneurs Friday @ Cafe Ah Roma!!! I walked away with so MUCH MORE than what I arrived with. Hopefully others felt the same. The idea sharing and level of conversation was phenomenal... and collaborations happened!

Cleveland�s institutions need to act more quickly. Time is the one commodity that we cannot afford to waste anymore.

As much as Cleveland is trying to achieve what it likes about other cities, it is tied to its industrial past. But that's just it - the city is not willing for that to be the past. You'd think the sorry state of Youngstown would be a lesson of what happens when the mills close and there's no other industry to take its place. But instead what happens is the people of this city vote down the idea of spending money for the arts and cultural organizations, and the government does nothing to foster the growth of IT or biotech industries while at the same time money is thrown repeatedly at the dying steel and manufacturing industry.

In Wall Street, it's known as "patient money." The name refers to the rarest of investors: ones who'll stick with a good idea or well-managed company until its potential is realized and the profits pour in. Cities and regions need patient money, too, for ideas like regionalism to take root or well-managed programs in economic or community development to succeed. And Cleveland is getting that kind of long-term investment at last. A group of 28 foundations there has decided to finance a $30 million regional economic development program for nine counties in Northeast Ohio (including Akron and Canton). This is a remarkable effort in three ways. First, it's rare for foundations to take such a leadership role, particularly in cities. The preferred model is to wait until someone walks in the door with a good idea. Second, it requires that these foundations (some of them rooted deeply in their communities) put aside their own provincialism and think regionally. Finally, it's launching these foundations into an area others shy away from. According to the Foundation Center, only about 4 percent of grants were made in 2002 to economic or community development projects around the country. But the logic behind the Fund for Our Economic Future is inescapable. The Cleveland area continues losing ground in economic development and if the economy doesn't turn, nothing else the foundations fund will make a difference. As one foundation executive put it, "The foundation community is really getting around to the need to take bold action in the economic development arena. These are big issues that we face as a region, and you can't part-time them." But shouldn't governments fund economic development? They do and sometimes screw them up because politicians are too impatient or provincial. Said another foundation executive, "We can be patient for the 12, 15 or 20 years it might take to see real changes."