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Sorry, don't feel like reviewing the thread. How many stories is this supposed to be?

Still, news-markets? Are they the most relevant factor as far as defining an economic region? Although I do believe Carl Monday is the best investigative reporter out there, and, himself, an economic meteorite for greater Cleveland.

In the end, it just seems like a journalist coming to a city with a particular story assigned/in her mind, and then "discovering" the atmosphere, examples, illustrations that she "believed" ahead of time that she would find. Does this make the image of Cleveland she portrays any better, no, but it provides perspective. Not that this helps C-towns rep anyware.

I just have trouble believing any study that includes Akron w/Cleveland, but doesn't include Dayton w/Cincinnati is a reliable and well researched project. And I know even w/dayton it appears cinci is still underwhelming, and I understand that studies like this are, indeed, relevant to the Federal govmt (unfortunately). Just a personal annoyance, I guess.

I wonder how bad COSI moving hurt their business?

j73-- I would only add that if structured parking was utilized it should promote ground level retail, and be amenable for upward expansion of the structure at a later date (office/residential) if the market demands.

Yeahhh, for Health Care Sprawl! :whip:

Wow! Just drove home from University Hospital today on Eden and noticed the huge divits in the brick lined portion of the road. They correspond with the tire tracks of normal traffic flow. Does anybody know if these are new with the rain and melt runoff of the past couple days? I think I drove over down Eden and did not notice any thing like this a week ago. Maybe heavy duty salt trucks running up and down or something. Anyway, the divits are probably 10 inches deep on either side, and the raised portion in the center looks bad for the under carriage of cars. I drive a Vibe which is slightly higher then the average sedan and I was really concerned I was going to tear the hell out of the underside of my auto. If you were driving a sports car you were f**ked! Its pretty atrocious looking. If I had a camera I would have taken a picture.

oh, feel stupid.

I always thought the Rock Hall and NCH would be a great venue/staging area for the Red Bull Flugtag competition thing. Launch from a ramp alongside the Rock Hall and plop down in NCH, everybody happy and potentially drunk. Good event.

Damn it! Passed over for the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District leader position again!

Why couldn't this just be converted into residential. I know its too late now, but man on the upper floors you can look down upon the Jake, you can people watch on the busiest street in downtown, and you could live in a substantial and significant building. I'm pissed that the county basically feels they're doing everybody a favor by buying and bulldozing this building to put up a piddling lackluster structure, that could have just as easily been built on 1 of a 100 surface lots in the surrounding area.

That is exactly my point. The big boxes and possibly the developer new about this, its the lack of knowledge/competence by the city that frustrates me.

There are two types of Diabetes Mellitus, DM I and II, and although both types have different etiologies they both have very similar complications. DM I, or childhood diabetes/insulin dependent diabetes, is usually an autoimmune disorder that presents itself when the individual is between the ages of 2-30 years (usually under 18). It often follows a viral infection in the child, when for some reason the body's own immune system begins attacking the beta-cells (the cells that make insulin) in the pancreas. The beta-cells are not all killed at once, so sometimes the beginning of DM I isn't noticed for months or occasionally years after the initial infection. The inheritance pattern among siblings is usually <10%. UncleRando, there are other forms of DM I that can be inherited (as seems to be your case), but these are significantly rarer. DM II on the other hand, which is often associated with obesity, high blood pressure, and the sedentary lifestyle actually has a sibling concurrence rate of slightly > 90%. In adopted twin studies, twins that were adopted and seperated around birth and raised by different families with different lifestyles, also had this 90% concurrence rate (if one twin has it, 90% chance the other twin also has it). This seems to indicate that there is a genetic predisposition to develop DM II. No one gene has been pinpointed to be the cause, although numerous genes are believed to play a role, making this a multifactorial disease. In other words, a person may have a number of genes that predisposes him to have DM II, but if he doesn't exercise and puts on even a little bit of weight it can be enough to push him into having diabetes. Where as a person without these genes could put on a little bit of weight and still be capable of maintaining a normal blood sugar. So, if you have a family history of DM II it would be to your advantage to try and not gain that extra weight, exercise, and watch what you eat. The actual initial pathology of DM II is different from DM I. In DM I the problem is your body doesn't make insulin any more, where as in DM II initially your pancreas makes insulin--but the cells of your body no longer respond to the insulin normally. The insulin no longer causes the glucose in your blood to be taken up by the cells in your body that need the glucose for energy. Thats the initial problem for DM II, and I can explain in more detail the step by step path if anybody is more interested. How does insulin work? Insulin is released by your pancreas when your body senses carbohydrates in your meal and blood stream. The insulin acts to "pull" the glucose (sugar) from your blood into the cells of your body. If there is no insulin in your blood or your body does not respond well to the insulin that is in your blood, those cells in your body are "starved" for energy and will take it from other sources other than glucose. Also simply having too much glucose in your blood is very bad for the cells that line make up the lining of your blood vessels, causing damage, atherosclerotic plaques (stiff and cholesterol lined vessels), increase the chance of a plaque rupture/clot. The damage to the vessels can lead to such problems as heart attacks/angina, certain types of strokes, decreased blood flow to legs causing sores and pain, damage to kidneys, and damage to the retina of the eye (diabetes is the leading cause of blindness in the US). If anybody has any more questions about DM, let me know I will be happy to try and answer them.

There is no fricking way these companies did not know about this tax break. They all have tons of stores in Ohio, and have f**king corporate lawyers that eat this type of sh*t for breakfast. This is a snow job.

Cimperman, nah. It looks like Elton John to me ;)

Interesting, and nice for Cleveland :clap:

I propose that anybody with an ugly, but smart and interesting, family member should have that family member killed. Because, my God, there Soooooooooo ugly!

Do you think the fact that they are mainly catering to suburbanites that are afraid of the "city" has any thing to do with the way they build suburbanly? Are they trying to make their wards more comfortable, at the expense of the neighborhood? Also, is there a list of where the Administration and board members live, I believe that would be interesting to view.

Having an establishment like an upscale, busy, bowling alley was probably the best thing that could have happened to a development like E4th (or warehouse district if it would have happened there). Having to wait an hour for a lane is probably a godsend to the other bars/establishments in the area. This helps create the roves of revellers bouncing from place to place waiting to get in some good bowling. This makes me :). Happy new year! PS-I love the idea of destination bowling!

MrsAweeks: I'm not super familiar with Tower Place, but haven't some of those stores from Kenwood already had locations at Tower Place? If TP is like former downtown retail centers that are built fundamentally as suburban malls (Tower City, City Center, etc.) this is probably the case. My other question would be how old is the Seattle shopping center? Give it the 15-20 years that the aforementioned "destinations" were given and we will see how vibrant the shopping will be. Perhaps Nordstrom's being from Seattle helps that center. Also, Seattle's downtown population obviously helps (and I would love to see this happen in any of OH's 3C's). My opinion would be that the next step in the evolution of "malls" would be the development of "lifestyle" centers in the heart of downtowns (with retail, office space, and housing located in the same complex = you know the way it used to be and should have always been). The sooner living downtown becomes cool the sooner destination retail will move downtown.

If I was to move to downtown CLE, this would be the place I would be most interested in. God, you can't beat that view of Public Square. So, if somebody could put the down payment for me I would appreciate it.

I was at McFadden's friday, some of my friends were smoking at the end of the night and nobody bothered them. But I didn't really see anybody else lighting up.

Does Crosley have Physics/Chem labs in the building?

Wim, what were you doing in Peru for 2 years?