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As far as I know they are already a neighborhood outlet for hardware items. Samsel is cool though. They have a really neat role in the history of cleaning up the river back in the day. Cuyahoga River fire - Frank Samsel Frank Samsel -- and his 56-foot boat, the Putzfrau -- played a large role in the river cleanup. Now retired, but owner of Samsel Supply Co. in the Flats since 1958, Samsel and his crews on the Putzfrau -- German for "cleaning lady" -- began first by picking out large debris and then sucking up flammable and chemical liquids. Samsel said he wasn't surprised to hear the river had caught fire -- and remembered a later incident that could have ended worse. "Are you kidding? We once cleaned up a 164,000-gallon gasoline spill," he recalled recently. "I mean this was bad, this stopped all railroad and marine traffic, but we didn't tell anyone about it because we didn't want some nut coming down there smoking a cigar." Samsel said pollution was so pervasive on the river that his crew wasn't even called out unless there was an oil slick or other known industrial spill of more than 2,000 gallons. "The river was always dirty, that was the way it was," he said. "And it never froze, there was so much heat in the water coming from the cooling waters of the steel mills." But the Putzfrau began to make a dent in some of the surface pollution on the river. "But in a 16-hour day, we could pick up 100 cubic yards of debris and 15,000 gallons of oil a day," he said. "And we had spills that would take four or five days, so there was a lot of stuff on that river." That "stuff" included everything from fats and grease from slaughterhouses and rendering plants along the river to acids used in steelmaking or dyes from paint plants -- along with much of the raw or partially treated sewage from the entire Cleveland-Akron area. But Samsel said that debris collecting at the mouth of the Cuyahoga wasn't all industrial waste. "When spring floods would come, picnic benches, screen doors and automobile tires would come down and mix in with the industrial waste," he said. "The industrial got blamed, but it was like the old Pogo comic strip said: 'We have met the enemy -- and it is us.' " Where is this boat today? It should be on display in FEB, to celebrate the history of the river and of the environmental movement.

What does this team look like by adding Carmelo Anthony. Is he the 6th man?

And we still have Zimmer.

I truly wish that wasn't the case. I much preferred the idea of USL and NASL being competitors to MLS. As much as I like MLS, I think some of their league rules are limiting or unnecessary. An interleague rivalry would showcase which league was making the smarter moves. Anyhow, I'm optimistic about the future of the Crew. I never liked their stadium locale. A venue that's more part of the urban fabric would be a huge improvement.

What a game! CHI comes out attacking and FCC starts out on their heels, to put it nicely. Then at the 30 min. mark FCC starts playing. Midway second half they are the aggressor now! Hey there's Aodhan Quinn, gotta love the Akron Zips alums. I used to watch his dad play for the San Diego Sockers. Times running out....and it's a breakaway!!! How in the world does that Bone guy miss? Handball in the box NOT called on CHI defender. An outrage! Times up. OT/Shootout/yadda/yadda/yadda. Just another great show in front of a national audience :-)

A Fruitful Endeavor An unusually cold winter and frost in May damaged the crop of grapes growing in Lake and Ashtabula counties. But Imed Dami, assistant professor of horticulture and crop science at Ohio State University, doesn’t mind. He’s happy the grapes are not only growing but thriving in an area that was once considered a polluted wasteland. Dami chuckles as he talks about how people react when he tells him that the grapes are growing in the middle of a massive brownfield, an old industrial site, that is being cleaned up. https://ofbf.org/2009/10/27/a-fruitful-endeavor/ Efforts focus on breathing new life into brownfield sites in eastern Lake County Former Diamond Shamrock site, now called Lakeview Bluffs, has been in the remediation process since 2001 under the auspices of Bedford-based Hemisphere Corp. and its owner, Todd Davis. Hemisphere Corp. specializes in brownfield projects and is overseeing multiple projects across the country. The company is developing Lakeview Bluffs under terms of a 99-year lease with Tierra Solutions Inc. Some of the work at Lakeview Bluffs was paid for with $6 million in grants from the Clean Ohio Brownfield Revitalization Fund. Davis said a “substantial amount of remediation“ has continued at Lakeview Bluffs since that funding stream ceased in 2013. “Given the regulatory, environmental and economic factors, you must be extremely patient as a brownfield developer,” Davis said. Previously announced plans to build a sports academy, hotel, golf course and residential housing at Lakeview Bluffs have been put on the back burner as Hemisphere Corp. continues to work with the Ohio EPA to meet standards for remediation. “There is no doubt in my mind that, ultimately, a development similar to our original vision will be realized at Lakeview Bluffs,” Davis said. http://www.news-herald.com/article/HR/20160607/news/160609599

The DJ's that play 60's Motown/garage rock in Cleveland draw a really great crowd. https://www.facebook.com/SecretSoulClub/

Tell me about it. I stopped by a watch party at a local bar and it was so weird. Totally surrounded by all these cultish Lynch disciples wildly applauding at every terrible scene. I was actually looking forward to the reboot, but it's hysterically bad so far (saw first two epis).

I wonder how this infill will compare and relate, style-wise, to what we've been seeing in OTR.

^ That's disgraceful.

My roommate was a die hard fan of that show. She used to call me over to watch, um, certain scenes. Now my gf is watching the same season you are, and though I admittedly haven't been paying good attention, the show just seems trashy, exploitative, wildly unrealistic, and features really dumb characters. I'm sure there's a silver lining somewhere or it wouldn't be so successful. Now I'm getting really into this: Fascinating look at the criminal justice system, scandal, public perception and obviously, religion. I won't spoil it, but I will say what's most intriguing is that I don't really believe the key witness. She is such a sympathetic figure, and I think she's definitely experienced abuse. But she claims to have some very wild experiences, which were only recently revealed because they were repressed memories. Very controversial subject.

Double dose of CLE TV. Matthew McConaughey talks with Katie Couric about his time in Cleveland. There's no such thing as bad publicity, said somebody. Have you gone to this place? The WORST WALMART IN AMERICA right here in CLEVELAND, OH. New documentary coming.

By the same token, can you name something Stark has delivered on in the city of Cleveland? To be fair, some if not much of that blame could be placed on dysfunctional city leadership.

^ I'd much prefer an option that automatically steered idiots out of the passing lane. People of Ohio, please stop camping out in the left lane. You're a hazard to everyone. State of Ohio, please invest in a few highway signs as a friendly reminder to our citizenry.

Also that you could be clicking through about 29 different screens to find the "answer."

Keep in mind this was the “progressive” coalition. And Scene. The reporter seemed to have a grudge against that Kilo guy. I thought his MLK quote in that context (police relations) was thoughtful and eloquent. I suppose he should have instead quoted Bono or something.

My guess, near the "BP" Building. In hindsight it's probably (hopefully) a temporary measure to keep people from getting hurt. Another sad part of this is how ridiculously expensive it is to plant trees in the city.

Dating myself here....

Because the state and local government LOVES speeding. Seriously. Public safety isn't their main concern, because if it was we could eliminate speeding tomorrow. Ticketing speeding cars is a billion dollar industry in this country.

^ Wow, did they salt the earth before capping it with the concrete? You don't want to take any chances...

Cities vie to become hubs of self-driving technology The development of self-driving cars has pitched a handful of cities into a new gold rush, a chance to be at the forefront of a new technology that will give rise to billion-dollar companies and thousands of new jobs. The stakes are enormous. Last year, Goldman Sachs projected the market for advanced driver assistance systems and autonomous vehicles would grow from about $3 billion in 2015 to $96 billion in 2025 and $290 billion in 2035. In some cities, automakers, suppliers and technology companies are clustering to test their self-driving vehicles. In others, governors and mayors are beckoning the industry by changing laws or touting other inducements. “I think it’s about being a part of the race,” said Alex Fischer, CEO of the Columbus Partnership, a group of top CEOs that helped the Ohio city beat out tech hubs such as Austin, Pittsburgh and San Francisco to win federal grant money through the government's Smart City Challenge. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2017/06/25/cities-vie-become-hubs-self-driving-technology/100963464/

There was a cool idea for a "District of Design" along Euclid. It was to highlight Cleveland's role in technology and innovation. Cleveland has such a tremendous history but I think there's a certain midwestern modesty at play. The city should do more to celebrate itself. Anyhow the idea never got traction, however.

^ In ten years Cleveland will be as bike friendly as Pittsburgh was ten years ago. Sad, but progress is slow sometimes.

Stole my thunder. I'd be surprised if this was a random. I was actually going to post earlier about something I witnessed last year. I was enjoying a nice night out at an outdoor bar area in historic Hingetown. That's when I saw a big guy on the sidewalk get on a bmx bicycle while casually tucking a handgun in his pants. There are people out there that are not to be f'd with.

Great point. Season 4 was a disappointment.