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I'm pretty sure the long stretch of alley they drove down was Thurman, including the spot where the guy faked pulling a gun on the cameraman.

Thanks for the info OC_Charlie. I wasn't aware of the house being torn down. Hopefully the church will be saved. A historic district isn't as much of a historic district if its historic structures are demolished, but especially for a parking lot.

Let's not presume to tell anyone else how to manage their finances. I think the Commuter Alerts program is great, but the fact remains that the single best medium for disseminating information about service interruptions to the widest possible audience (the website) has historically been underused for that purpose. I'm glad that RTA is working to redesign their website, and I sincerely hope that this is something the development team is taking into consideration. I was just pointing out that asking for alerts on the go and then complaining about a 20 cent text message is unfair to RTA. And he had already said he doesn't have a smartphone, so the website wouldn't help.

I don't have free texting either. I have a basic phone with no qwerty key pad. I have to text the old way. Some things just aren't in the budget. When your job is in an automobile-centric exurb, and the job is too good not to keep, those car expenses (even though I also carpool) take a huge bite out of the budget. This is what too many people don't understand about car ownership. It's an insatiable money pit. I agree about car ownership being a money pit, but I'm not sure what that has to do about RTA's commuter alerts or text messages. RTA is alerting customers in a way that costs them at most 20 cents per message. I don't know how often they send these alerts out, but I can't imagine it would cost you more than a dollar or two a month. If the alerts are important to you, I find it hard to believe you can't find a dollar or two in a whole month somewhere else in your budget that can be cut out. If not, that stinks I guess, but I don't fault RTA for not reasonably trying to get the alerts out to people on the go.

Thanks. That's what I thought, though. It wouldn't have helped me that particular day. I just didn't have time to fire up the PC that morning. When you are leaving the house at 6:15A, you usually do the minimum you need to in order to get out of the house. I'll try to remember to allow time for that in the future. If I had a smart phone, it would have worked. I wish that was in our budget... Thanks for listening Jerry and passing along my message. If I had to do it over again, I would have just stuck with the Health Line once I got downtown and then I probably wouldn't have thought to even mention anything here about the incident. Gildone, I assume Jerry means they're sent as txt messages. You don't need a smartphone for that.

I was there last night. Unfortunately, there were about 30 people in line in front of me.

Blackberry? Oh lawd. SO last century, KJP ;). Last millenium!

Ouch. That's an expensive paperweight.

It's more than that. It's that it is surrounded by woods and wide highways. There is no tie in to any further urban infrastructure (like First and Main in Hudson).

I have a question, how old are you? Most people in their 20s and in some case early 30s have no clue what urban shopping is. They see it on TV, but have never experienced it. I'll give you that Clarendon is a bit better than other centers as it's not surrounded by parking, but that wasn't the case when built. Other than that, its still a center surrounded by cheap housing trying to emulate an urban experience. You don't have to look far in DC to find urban shopping...Georgetown.

What picture are you referring to? The article posted only had a rendering of the proposed structure.

Red for Chophouse is a great trade if it comes to that.

My attitude towards the development has nothing to do with the generic lifestyle center stores or mish-mash architecture. It's good mixed-use density and I would take it any day over most other lifestyle centers even. The reason I hate where it is is because it's a tiny island surrounded with 6 lane highways, not part of a larger urban whole.

A lot? What do you consider "a lot"? I'm not being a smart ass when I ask this question. A few thousand. Although I see someone answered below and there are less than I thought, although still significant to raise the total. I'm really surprised that Independence has slightly more rooms than Beachwood. Now that I think of it...aren't a few of the hotels at Chagrin/I-271 and Harvard/I-271 in Orange (anything on the east side of 271) and Warrensville Heights (like the Marriott) since those cities all butt up against each other there?

Would Beachwood fit within the 30-minute drive? There's a lot of hotel rooms there.

OK...I see. You go to your closet and you select those Lee jeans for instance, because you're trying to tell the world that you take your self too serious to care what you put on your back. MayDay, this isn't just a cry for help......This is a science project. Maybe even a thesis! My advice to you. Burn all your clothes - hell just burn the closet! Should I buy more clothes from Kohl's after I burn my closet down? Should I get baggy pants? What do you think of my popped collar?

MTS, I usually wear to work Lee boot cut blue jeans with a vertical stripe polo from Kohl's. I like to button the collar all the way to the top and tuck the shirt in. I usually don't wear a belt, but if I do, I have a nice brown braided belt that I bought from JCPenney a while back. I'll usually wear short white athletic socks and my brown Skechers. Do you think I am dressed well enough or do you have any advice for me?

I own an iPad and an Android tablet. The iPad is a little smoother in operation and has a better app selection, but I still feel very limited using it. I find myself falling back to my older Android tablet for a lot of things (any website that has Flash, for instance), but neither tablet even comes close to fulfilling my computing needs. There's just no good replacement for a physical keyboard yet for getting serious work done, and the screen size is too small on a tablet for more complex apps as well.

When's the last time you used a PC? Ever since about Windows 98, a file explorer already navigated to the drive opens up automatically when the drive is plugged in. Even if that is turned off (I actually find it annoying), it's not really that hard to double click the My Computer icon (or click Computer in the start menu) and see all of the drives on your system.

Hts and RNR, Here's what a friend highly recommended to us. It seems to be similar to the Moby Wrap but they advertise that it doesn't need the wrapping (however that works). http://www.babyktan.com/ I believe my wife way have bought it already actually.

Yep. And according to my wife before the epidural, the last. According to her after the epidural, not the last. (She was in labor 18 hours and didn't get the epidural until 15 since she didn't want to have to get it at all.)

Our little girl, Mariana, was born very early Friday morning (missed being born on Thanksgiving by 57 minutes).

Just curious, but how do you monitor service demand for a service which does not exist? When my wife and I last came back to Cleveland from Chicago on Amtrak, we waited over an hour for the first Waterfront Line train to come to take us home. We were the only ones that took the rapid from the train station, but it's tough to say how many others would have if the next train had come after only a 10-15 minute wait and was advertised.

Haha, I had this exact thought a few days ago. It has nothing to do with upper body strength and everything to do with him exposing the ball and saying "please block this dunk". It's so predictable.

In OT