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You may have been thoughtful, but many smokers are not. As a tall person, I've had people blow their smoke up....directly into my face. Smoke travels even when the smoker tries to be courteous to step away....and it seems it is always creeping toward the faces of the non-smokers. As the saying went... having a smoking section is a restaurant was like having a peeing section in a swimming pool.

Yes, all fair enough...But I can tell you some horror stories with issues I have had with cell phone companies and land line companies in terms of poor customer service. And that in itself could bring up another peeve of many customer service issues...talking to someone who asks what your problem is...then having to forward you to someone else anyway---after they assured you, in the first place...that you were speaking to the right department. Then, you have to explain it all over again...get put on hold and have this music and advertising imposed upon you......and then you get cut off! I could mention the countless mistakes they have made that I had to end up paying for. My best solution for me is NO PHONE....and if you want me, Skype me...email me...or send a letter! That's how fed up I am with both ways. UGH! It is soooooooo frustrating.

Unregulated capitalism can become..and HAS become just as corrupt as any other economic system we in the USA have been condition to think is "EVIL" Good Night..and Good Luck!

4-12 .... 6-10... two losses to Pitt. Same 'ole shi!!... BUT, maybe they will do a fluke and go 9-7... or better..... ................. ......... Nahhhhhh! I will watch highlights of 60's BROWNS teams and Paul Warfield.

Yes.. I know what you mean... Hate that too!

^ Some good points. There were some good old buildings removed..... The bar only scene was destined to wear thin. I predicted that in 1988 when I was going there every weekend. And to be honest... If we are going to tear down buildings and leave surface lots/mud pits for several years.... Let's restore some green-space---so contrasting from the past. Let's re-introduce a part of Cleveland's NATURAL heritage...Plant some Cottonwoods, Sycamores, Birches instead of the repeated CRAP Apple trees.... Some areas where wild meadow grasses and colorful native flowers are planted that will provide a colorful scheme all year round.... Some walk ways.... etc.. maybe intertwined with small places to eat... I think that once people would see just how nice and refreshing that can be..... They just may trade it in for the typical repeated scene of bars, shops, and concrete, and even the wonderful Flats east Bank! What revenue does this bring in? Many tax paying stake holders who will want to live here because of such amenities. (kind of like Portland) In the meanwhile, it would be better than emptiness. I will try to find a picture to illustrate this vision that challenges the archaic notion that a piece of land left natural is worthless. In a city that has all but murdered its riverbanks and shoreline for years.... Maybe we can do a complete 360 and wow the world with the changes alone! Couldn't hurt the image can it!

This is disgraceful. I predicted this a looooong time ago. It is a simple fact that there are toooooo many of these in all the given areas...they end up cannibalizing each other. They don't care because their 'pin-the tail-on-the-donkey' approach to determining where to place these...and if their needed, is just that--A blind approach that says "Here!... This looks like a good place to put one"....then, when the blindfold is removed....we just stuck a Wal-Mart right on top of another! There is no market study that constitutes the absolute need for..how many?...over 100 Wal-Marts in an 88 County state! Some time ago, when I was working with some people in Salem, Ohio to curb the building of a Wal-Mart there....not far down from an historic district, I might add... We had a meeting that showed the map of Ohio...and it was thumb-tacked in every place that symbolized where a Wal-Mart existed, or was proposed. Around these tacks was a circle radius drawn that represented the customer base within 25 miles that Wal-Mart officials claimed was needed to support a store their size. They needed ALL that territory in order to remain open and thriving. Now here is the KICKER...this map had circle overlapping circle, overlapping circle..overlapping circle. Simply put, it was destiny for them to cannibalize their own stores...and this is EXACTLY what happened. They really took advantage of the home rule status in Ohio, lack of statewide comprehensive plan (somewhat proposed in the 70's but shot down) and the weak land use laws that were never designed to facilitate such an entity this size. Many businesses closed in their wake..and along with them went the jobs and taxes that such local/independent businesses were already contributing. Sadly, we cannot seem to see the collective power such independents have in the economy, and instead, we're often lured by the misguided concept that "more is better..bigger is better..cheaper is better...that sprawl is our benefactor..... and that 'this growth will save us' etc" Let's see...Where did that smiley face and saving 5 cents on Fruit-Of-the-Looms---while running all over town spending money on fuel to save the 5 cents on those cheap underwear, get us???....... Huge influx of cheap Chinese crap unlike we've never seen....along with is some nice bugs brought over on the boat such as the wonderful Emerald Ash Borer taking out native ash trees all the way up to Canada (costing millions in its own way)... Loss of middle supplier jobs when the smiley does his usual price bullying of "I'll buy from China if you don't give us the price we want!"...Loss of farm land (Ohio's biggest economy), loss of habitat/woodland buffer zones around cities, increased sprawl, increased need for spending on infrastructure due to their often big tax abatements....Dirtier water ways from all the parking lot runoff.... empty buildings which we struggle to fill...including their own big box buildings that sit empty....loss of independence in the economy to be self reliant...and not overly co-dependent on ONE entity to supply is with all we need, including retail jobs.......Great assistance in increasing obesity by offering their mile row after row of crap foods...More litter.....more noise....loss of retail jobs.... Oh, I could go on and on....But I ask...Was this worth it? The high cost of low price! Hope people like how their state will look in 15 years from this completely unnecessary glut of all these stores being built when there was nothing that constituted the need for this much...on every corner. Every time I pass one I feel the waistline grow, IQ drop..and the sudden urge to buy a trailer and start smoking!!!!! No, this is not only Wal-Mart, but they're the biggest...so I'll start with them. I will not set foot in one of these places... When it comes to factors like needing quality, service, and knowledge in certain purchases of certain products, I have learned too many times that there is no real bargain whatsoever...and that the local places will often bend over backwards for you. That to me and to avoid all the above is worth it to me to pay more if I have to. I have learned that in the long run,that usually.... the guy who always wants to spend the least...spends the most. This store and their whole company can kiss my Royal... I hate everything they stand for...and their PR propaganda is actually the opposite of all theyt claim to be! Yeah, right...clear 60 acres of woods to build a green building ..and then tell me "We're Going Green!" Its all B.S. Just like the movie "I Heart Huckabees!" Well, that's enough!

YOU'RE FIRED!!!!!!

There is a peeve .... I hate it when people cannot exercise the common sense, courtesy, and manners to silence the thing in important meetings, movies, plays, shows, , etc..etc... It is a testament to a culture that has its manners eroding by the day, and its stupidity climbing higher and higher.

Or...How about when you are behind someone making a left turn.... and when the light turns green, they still sit behind the light....when they are SUPPOSED to ease forward to get ready to turn. The result...YOU get caught waiting for the whole process for the green light again! Just plain stupid. Didn't they listen to their driving instructor!

^ Actually, I would appreciate it if someone could make that group aware of these efforts. A quick note would be appreciated. I have my hands in 15 different projects at the moment and one little note like that could mean a world of thanks! :-) Can someone please do that? Tomorrow, I a talking to the new park manager to address these issues. Please, people, it takes more than me doing this....we need to call the park, ODNR and simply suggest we need better attention in this park. Anyway, let me see some hands for Next month...the fourth saturday...or even this one.....

The LED lighting is nice. Unfortunately, our streetlights are out, not because someone is wanting to go out of their way to save energy......But for two reasons.. 1. People fail to report them...2. neglectful maintenance. Maybe more efficient and longer lasting ones can be installed. I don't know how many times I have called CPP.

I had this problem on my blog with Google Ad-sense...which places relevant ads on your site. Sometimes the wrong ones sneak through.

Can anyone participate this Saturday...same time/place.... Those who can on the 4th Sat. of September..great! Some expressed interest in each Saturday. Those of you who can...say "I" I may not be able to do it Saturday... But that shouldn't stop anyone else who could go....from going...as the idea is just to gewt whomeber can show up....on a given sat. to show up. Thought I'd throw this out there... Keep rollin' :-)

Self proclaimed, maybe.....but by nature we are not a true carnivore. People started eating meat because of climate changes, food shortage, and maybe even laziness.... but it was not their main diet. So what?... cavemen ate meat. I heard that a million times. Are we still cavemen? Or have we evolved? ....Do we have incisors that are designed to tear meat off bones...Or a longer snout that can reach up inside carcases and go after the intestines, liver, heart, lungs, etc.... Do we have ravishing claws and a big jaw to bring down your prey, or the speed to do so? Is our intestine short like a carnivore..or long like an herbivore..... Is out saliva acidic like carnivores, or more alkaline like an herbivore?... All physiology points into the direction that we are mostly if not all herbivore..... the only thing we have that makes us a great carnivore is a a brain...a gun and a slaughterhouse. People eat meat because they can....Not because they have too, or need to. Remember... I ate at all the beefy places too... Then something happened. I started thinking things over. If we're true carnivores, lets see how the fight goes between man without a gun, and wildebeest...just two bare brute animals battling it out. It always makes it easier to remove ourselves from such a process. But hey... I am not stopping anyone.....knock yourselves out...Just be good to your heart.

Thanks for the name correction, although irreverent to the point I was making. I also did not suggest that he suggested eating nothing but veg..But he DOES suggest eating mostly plants...AND...not eating meat as main courses...which was my point.

I have no problem with that, but some have argued that the land the animals are grazing on would be better served as land for growing crops. If we don't eat the animals, they will have no natural predators and over-run our civilization, much like the deer in my neighborhood, and eat all those crops. And don't get me started with the methane they'll produce which will destroy our ozone layer (what's left of it). If you don't let them eat the crops, then you're resigning them to a slow and painful death by starvation, and ultimately extinction. PETA won't be happy. Nope, from my standpoint, eating them is a win win. Just looking at this quickly..and forgive me if I misinterpret..But this logic is silly to say the least. Livestock is man made.. would not be here if not bred. There is nothing 'natural' about the industrialization of commercial meat production. This mass production is an 'artificial eco-system' that does real nature no benefit..and the fact they're raised to be subjected to such cruelty, in the name of profit and 'taste' makes me question the evolution stage of humans. If we didn't 'eat them' and just quit breeding them....they would not be. The rest could go retire in petting zoos.

I actually think the restaurant is a turn in the right direction, eventhough I am vegetarian. But I have to ask....Have you ever tried foods that are NOT cooked in animal fat? They're really delicious too.....and much better for you. I can guarantee you that my 'chicken tofu crumbles' will have you asking for seconds and thirds. Too many people are conditioned to think food has to be prepared in grease taste good. They get their taste buds addicted to this acidic, salty, fatty slop. When they wean away from it and actually eat better foods....and then, for tests sake.... if suddenly went back to eating the former... Usually is the case one would think.. "How could I have ever eaten this stuff?"... Coats the mouth with a grease like film...takes more energy to digest fatty foods like this which could mean we actually eating more due to the lack of fiber or real nutrition content in greasy foods...which in turn, more energy consumed. One thing many of us fail to realize about the meat production---even if it is 'green'... While such can produce a better product which lacks the added chemicals and is 'kinder' (tongue in cheek) in terms of the slaughtering of the animals..... It still presents the problem of actually being unkind for the land itself. Monitoring streams for a long time...one gets a first hands look at what such production contributes to rivers. Industrialization of foods, even if produced 'green' is not without harm. Do like Michael Pollack wrote in "IN DEFENSE OF FOOD" At the end of the day, and I know we cannot account for all the variables......the best thing we can do to go green is try to develop a sustainable and healthy veg diet...Or limit your meat intake to it being a small side dish once or twice a week...and not a big main dish where this huge hunk of muscle flesh is in the center of the plate. Thomas Jefferson suggested consuming meat as more of a 'condiment' Oh, Don't worry anyone....I won't 'slaughter the sacred cow' and suggest not to have kids and instead do like the Australian Aborigines with their voluntary extinction philosophy. Although not perfect...I do think Green House is a move in the right direction. Last food for thought...think of the energy consumption that would be needed to keep alive a sickly society. Does anyone really begin to put that into dollars and sense and energy used?

"a city struggling to rise from years of decline and home foreclosures." Yes, this is a beaten down horse. Not very clever writing. I have an idea about which a growing movement is taking place. There is one very simple baby step thing Cleveland can do to make a bold and real example of being more sustainable...and that is...do like many cities in Canada, (Tornoto, the biggest) and even Buffalo, and Minneapolis (to a degree)...and ban the city use inorganic petro-based lawn chemicals and phosphorus lawn fertilizers. Science center uses this stuff... Real smart...so it runs right off into the lake! Even with all the empty buildings and and foreclosures, such a new mandate would really place us high in the ranks of truly progressive cities who are really wanting to clean up the environment. Such may sort of negate some of the negative attention that always results in the same opening sentence at the top. We may be struggling, but we don't have to be stupid.

Good points...No its not unique to just here.. Its just what happens when central banks control all the world's money....and have the power to bring the economy to its knees until they get what they want. Get rid of the Fed. Reserve. Are there any latest renderings?

Notice: Anyone who thought the trash scenario was shameful....It would also be a good idea to call the State parks HQ to express these concerns so we can help ti implement some much needs simple changes. Their number is 614-265-6561

I cannot believe no one took a second to comment on this photo.

I think Coshocton, Roscoe Village, Zoar, Cadiz, Gnadenhutten, Erichisville (spelling?)...of course German Village, all have some German roots...

Here is a great slogan for anti-butt littering (a bigger problem than people think) Have some bikini butts in one picture... Nice ones....and a cigarette butt in another...and the caption can read... "Butts on the beach----these!!!.... NOT....these! and under it the appropriate picture would be placed! Someone can draw that up...compose it...and I will submit it to the park personnel.. I am sure they'll love it!

If lighting is aimed downward at buildings...it would maximize the effect of the lights...and not waste it into the night sky. Good point... On the butts... This also presents a problem for plants and trees. See the chemical compositions listed above in one of the links. If enough of these get tossed into the flower planters and tree planters...especially on the young plants... It may very well pose a problem in compromising the health of the plants when the chemicals from butts leach into the soil. I like the "Don't Be A Tosser......BIN your butts..and garbage too" type campaign. I would like to see this a colorful window theme...and on small cans. In Victoria, people can get fined $60.00 for that. Technically, in Ohio, it is $500.00 (littering) But when these kinds of rules/laws are never enforced...because we simply used to rely on common sense to dictate....those who would actually get fined would think it is some kind of encroachment on their 'freedom' ...when in actuality it was never allowed to begin with. Time for a change in attitude, perhaps? Another good slogan: "Butts are for Ashtrays...Not Neighborhoods!"