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Question about the ipad: If I bought one, would I hook it up to my computer and download all of my back-upped programs (from my iphone) via itunes or would I need to download everything from scratch?

good to see people downtown on a weekend

Fat girls thinking they're hot. It drives me crazy.

CDC, I'm not sure what you're saying/criticizing about my earlier point. We can appreciate the mistakes from our past and then use those lessons to make a better future. If you look at how the University of Chicago has benefited Hyde Park, then you have to admit there would be been a great impact if Cleveland had tried to resolve the Rockefeller tax disputes, resulting in his staying and building the University of Cleveland and Rockefeller University downtown or at least in the city proper. We seemed to ignore those lessons with the Peter Lewis situation (wasn't it over something as trivial as parking privileges - I admit I don't know the exact specifics?) so it is important to refer to the past to best shape our future or else we keep making the same mistakes. But onto my original point, strong schools strengthen cities as the city has a better reputation for being well educated, students and their families spend money on all kinds of things, and there is a larger population. I don't see any negatives here, folks.

Seems like someone is anticipating a big tourism or otherwise increased hotel space demand boom. Perhaps the developers know something the rest of us don't?

How come these aren't on the front page of cleveland.com. I mean, come on, this is what the city needs to be broadcasting left and right, not yet another poorly written OH NO WILL LEBRON LEAVE article

Colleges absolutely build up cities. Look at Northwestern University and its relationship with Evanston. From my understanding, the school actually preceded the city by about 20 years and both have thrived considerably off one another. Evanston has some wonderful restaurants, new condos left and right, great public schools, thriving business district, and has great public transportation. Northwestern is, of course, Northwestern - one of our nation's best, in particular in journalism and engineering. Evanston would not be Evanston without Northwestern (the funny thing is that they have a contentious relationship over some of the local tax codes). If Cleveland hadn't chased out Rockefeller back in the day and we got to have the University of Cleveland instead of Chicago receiving U of C, you can bet things would have been a TON better for the downtown area and city as a whole. Colleges can make cities - look at Kent as another obvious example.

If this keeps up, one of these days Cleveland's going to have some kind of restaurant district

Hts121, judging by your tone, you don't seem too concerned that there were two separate violent altercations witnessed by hundreds of innocent families just trying to have fun, 9 arrests and about 7 or 8 different precincts of police officers rushing to prevent a full fledged riot. Do not make light of what happened and how close it came to being a true disaster. My friend's father works at one of the stores close to the Mayfield/Coventry intersection and his father had told him it got very scary at around 8:30 where out of the nowhere a few dozen scumbags seemed to emerge at once, yelling, throwing out the n-words left and right, screaming over each other, aggressively bumping into people and each other, and other loveliness. This was very bad and close to being out of hand. And don't say this was kids just acting like kids. Nothing like this happened at the recent Legacy Village art fair or any Tremont art fair that I've ever attended. Nothing like this happened at the Geauga Lake Water Park this season. Nothing like this has ever happened at the Crocker auto shows from last year. Nothing like this happened has happened at Whiskey Island (where there are tons of kids chilling). This is not kid behavior - it's criminal behavior and we all know it and I'm seeing it more and more at Coventry when I go.

I'm sure the riot at the Coventry Street Fair last week would count as actual proof and not just my own skewed perception as well.

As to the previous two posts: I love how Pickwick has free food during happy hours. I can't think of any other downtown restaurants that do the same. Are there any? The wait at the Lakewood Melt is bad and the Cleveland Heights one INSANE! I wish they had a RSVP policy.

I'd prefer we deputize squads of volunteer Guardian Angels type groups and have them walk around mid and high crime neighborhoods in exchange for some kind of tax breaks/benefits - kind of a vastly expanded, proactive community watch. There wouldn't be as much as crime if people are walking around - New York did something similar after 9/11 where the city (or maybe Port Authority) organized people (don't know if they were paid) to walk around wearing police/security guard like apparel. It gave residents and tourists a sense of calm and security. If we had that kind of group presence in Cleveland, there would be fewer incidents. And good for the Tremont residents! And Cleveland.com said somewhere that the artist was improving and in good spirits, so that is also uplifting. Of course, there are problem spots, generally public housing at Tremonte Parte, and I don't know how to solve those issues without going extreme.

Oh man, as cool as all of this Hot in Cleveland hype is, I am in shock as to how awful the 1st episode turned out to be. It took a little while for Drew Carey to get rolling (probably when Craig Ferguson joined the cast) so maybe HIC's quality will improve as well. It certainly pulled in great ratings thanks to Betty and there is a ton of momentum going right now. But seriously, what a horrible horrible pilot. Other than Betty White and a cute concept, I think there needs to be some serious rewrites and cast changes. Jane Leeves in particular is awful.

Why should he provide statistical proof? Half of the stuff on urbanohio.com is anecdotal.

Arming oneself is sometimes the only answer. You can't always run and the police are usually not around - they're more reactionary than anything. What else are you supposed to do? I mean, look at the whole Bernard Goetz situation. The man was just minding his own business before a gang of criminals began to mug him. Rather than be robbed and likely beaten maimed or murdered, Goetz shot the bastards a number of times. And then he gets prosecuted in criminal and civil courts multiple times. As if the thugs he had shot were somehow innocents or victims. Read about them online - they're all anti-human scum. We are one messed up society where people get arrested for defending themselves.

I was at a red light at the Mayfield/Coventry intersection and a little zoned out. No one around, window open, late at night. I was just relaxing and listening to music until all of the sudden some guy came out of nowhere and startled me with an angry, "Yo, I want to ask you a question" (paraphrase) and began kneeling into my car. It was obvious he was going to punch me or grab my keys or something. I keep my cell phone and knife on the passenger seat so I reached over, without really thinking of it, popped the button and kind of half-arsedly swung it at him, yelling to get the f away (paraphrase). He jumped away like a cat and I zoomed through the red light. The whole thing probably took 6 or 7 seconds seconds, maybe fewer.

Fists don't do much against people who are bigger than you, multiple in numbers, and/or better with them. "Punks" aren't looking for a fair fight where the victim has a chance - they're looking to rob, maim or even kill by any means necessary. If I had a gun instead of a knife that time, I would have brandished it and, if he would have been more aggressive, shot the bad guy whereas I just popped the knife near his throat and screamed at him to back off.

I've definitely stumbled around that hill before at night and have never had any problems. I'll certainly be changing that after this attack. Also, I can't reiterate enough how important it is to bring some kind of weapon whenever you're in an area like Tremont. My blade saved my butt once in Coventry when a large gentleman approached my car and started to lean inside (to do do god knows what). It was definitely a close call, and I credit my knife for saving me from a carjacking and possible bodily harm.

Do the lines shut down that early because of some kind of city or state code? Or is there just not the demand to keep them open? Have there ever been any 2 or 3 am train lines running, presumably during summer?

My point is that this will screw up the ipad 3g, not the ipad regular. The whole point is that you need not rely on wifi with these specific ipad 3g products, yet the cap will just deter consumers from buying them. You might as well just buy the ipad non 3g since you will end up deactivating the 3g on the ipad 3g once you hit the 2 gigs, unless youre willing to chance it. Just a bad bad call.

AT&T's new 2 gig cap for $25/month is going to be a disaster for people thinking of purchasing ipad 3gs. It's bad enough that new users will have to somehow monitor their data on iphones (2 gigs might be enough for some, definitely not me), but the ipad 3g is simply not worth it with this cap. Who on earth would buy one, knowing you only get maybe 15 hours of video in a pay period - that's horrible! It's only 7-8 streaming movies, which would not even come close to a lot of people's needs if they're using netflix, youtube, or other legitmate online screening programs. What a horrible decision by AT&T.

That's a really cool picture

What a stupid reply. Jerry, I hope you realize that if this kind of 2nd grade mentality is prevalent in your organization, then you, and we, have a serious problem with the RTA.

If we keep losing grads, then we'll have no people eventually so I don't have a problem with focusing on them. I have no answers for the brain drain problem other than hoping that jobs come to Cleveland. Jobs are really the ONLY thing that matter since everything else - lower crime, better schools, higher standards of living, better communities, improved morale - come from it. People leave because there are so few opportunities (outside of some specialized bio-whatever or nursing fields here), and the ONLY remedy is, however it happens, for more jobs to open up. And I'm talking about real jobs, not some low wage service-based crap but rather employment that can pay $45k+/year.

I'm not exactly sure what you're saying, EC, but I think I agree. You might want to edit the first half of that rant a little and make it a little more clear, but I see your point...mostly. I've had plenty of icky (putting it nicely) experiences on RTA buses and bus stops (in particular at Tower City), and after 4 or 5 "unhelpful" experiences with bus drivers and the people working at TC, I just stay out of it. Honestly, some of them are on par with the riffraff I've had the pleasure of encountering.