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I am surprised that nobody said this already, but they started to put up the floor to ceiling windows on the grand ballroom facing the lake, of the Convention Center this week.

BTW fracking (ie cracking rock to release gas) is not new, they used to be able to use explosives on vertical wells after the they drilled them. It's the hydraulic fracking required by the horizontal drilling that is new.

^^No I didn't say politics, I said political side :) Believe it or not there is a difference.... ^X, actually the low, low gas prices are in effect putting a moratorium on drilling new wells. Most of the drilling so far has been exploratory, with actual production being secondary. The gas companies are buying a lot of drilling rights to lock up supply, but current prices can't support drilling many production wells. The feeding frenzy has been in property lease and drilling rights. Also the procedures and processes have come a long way of the early hydralic fracking and natgas drilling in Wyoming in the early 2000's.

^^probably not the best analogy to use KJP, but really the point is that even in that article it seems that problems that the farmers were having were incidental and not systematically linked to the drilling. If they are incidental incidents, such as failure to follow procedure or dumping waste water illegally, the way to handle is through enforcement of regulations with stiff penalties and increased oversight. Anybody care to discuss the political side of this? This is the part that I find fascinating and is hardly being discussed. This could completely change the geo-political power landscape if the US can ramp up to utilize the natural gas reserves (ie freight trucking, etc) and continue to utilize wind and solar. I went looking online for some articles or academic papers on it, but even the stuff I found from 2010 is horribly outdated given the scope of what they say the utica shale can produce. Edit: One interesting article following CERA http://www.cnbc.com/id/46606934/How_Natural_Gas_Is_Changing_Global_Energy_Market From the article: "Industry practices are much more uniform than people think," Hersh said. "I think the fracking issue will end up being resolved in more oversight and more reporting, which will just add a layer of cost. It's too important an industry...and it has too many jobs associated with too much economic benefit, that it won't be killed."

1940 Census released today, so far no luck on the website. It keeps locking up.. http://1940census.archives.gov

:) Nice job. BTW, I'm bummed that MayDay didn't do his usual April Fool's Day joke on us this year. It just means we will have to be vigilante the rest of the month, he will get us sometime.

I had Mustang in highschool that didn't have a mechanical interlock on Park, so if I left it unlocked or the windows opened anybody could get in shift it into Neutral and move it around without the keys. My A-hole friends pushed it into the middle of the football field one time...Although at least I could get in and drive off. The same guys also manged to push/carry this kids K-car on top of the giant pile of snow left by the plows in the parking lot. It was teetering on top of this pile 12 ft up in the air. Edit: I also remember coming home from a family vacation one time and my car was on blocks in the driveway with the tires hidden all over my parents property, including one on the paddle boat in the middle of their pond. My dad thought it was hilarious.... Also, the transmission is still working for now, but my mechanic instead of gouging me, suggested that I trade it in ASAP because it's on its way out. I highly recommend GT Brothers in Lakewood, if anybody is looking for an honest reasonable mechanic on the westside of Cleveland.

Ah, thanks. So the base was behind the storefront part of the Beck Center where the new building and parking lot are now? The Beck uses the back building for special events and as a dance studio I believe. It is still referred to as the "Armory"

Cars that decide for the Transmission to crap out at only 75,000 miles...

^^Ah, Tom Hanks when he used to be funny. I miss those days. For me it is pretty much the whole Big Lebowski movie. Or Raising Arizona. I love the scene when Hal is stealing the diaper set to the yodeling. God, Nicholas Cage used to be funny too. Now I am depressed....

The BRRG girls have a home league bout this Saturday March 31st at the CSU Wolstein Center. Doors open at 5:00, bouts start at 6:00. Advance tickets on the website or the box office are $12, $17 at the door. There are two hour-long bouts and free admission to the afterparty with your ticket. Hope to see you there. http://www.burningriverrollergirls.com/

I agree that there has been a lot of loss of character along Detroit, just that like you stated. The point that I was trying to make is that Detroit never had the dense store front build up that I originally thought it had. A lot of the infill replaced houses. The drugmart plaza by the library is actually the second plaza there. The first one built in the 30s?t, which later burned down, replaced the original Andrews house. Taco Bell replaced a car lot. Actually a lot of the intact retail is of the one-story single use variety. Think the shops where Five guys is, the Alladins strip or strip next to Educators music east of Bunts. Anyway, despite some major SNAFUs the city is doing much better in the last 5 or 10 years than in the previous 30. Unfortunately you can't win them all. I am not trying to be a Pollyanna, but I am not that outraged either. Just be happy it's not a Taco Bell thank god for the new Drive Through rules. It will kill you to know that the new CVS was sited around the old 2 story building on the SE corner of Lakeland and Detroit, but CVS said that's OK we'll just buy it all. BTW they planted the 20ft tree yesterday and today at the CVS site.

Good job MH!

More thoughts on this later, but Detroit Ave in Lakewood had a lot more homes that made it past the streetcar era. So it always was kinda of spotty Architecturally. A lot of these commercial buildings that are suburby replaced old homes over the last 50 years.

Thanks CDM

Awesome game for OU last night. I am very proud of the team as an Alumni. The bar was going crazy during the second half.

Yeah, the guy wasn't really good at numbers... I noticed that too. PT is listed at 335lb on SI.com But it was an escape row, extra legroom...

Haha, Phil Taylor is a funny guy. Moral of the story is don't text about the guy sitting next to you on a plane, he might just see it.... http://afactoryofsadness.com/?p=54

Good try Bearcats, nice run at the start of the second half. Too bad you had to play the last 10 minutes...Now onto my Bobcats versus the 'heels tonight.

My gut reaction was to hit the like button after reading that...

^ Interesting, waitingfornextyear.com is speculating that Scott Fujita may get off relatively easily since the NFL actions seems to be focusing on the 2010 season continuation and cover up of the bounty program after the league told them to cease. Fujita was on the Browns in 2010.

^ That album is still in heavy rotation with me. There are some killer youtube video of them performing life.

As has been echoed by many, I sure it will be packed but it's not my cup of tea (that being said I am an old country and alt.country fan, but the radio stuff today hurts ears and brain). I may set foot if somebody I like plays there. If it's busy I am for it. Regarding the 88ft Guitar, it reminds of the old Ponderosa campground and amphitheater outside of Salem that catered to country acts back in the 80's. They had a guitar shaped indoor swimming pool there. Must be a Country Music thing.

I was just going to post about this in the wind thread. I saw them setting up the new tower as I was driving home last night. It was good to see the small one on that site spinning too. It has been locked down pretty much since they put it up last year. I imagine they had to get their situation straighten out to put power onto the grid.

^Nice. I keep forgetting that the exhibit hall run all the way too the MedMart and not just under the mall. Very pretty sky out over the lake too. Although they were a bit liberal with the use of tree for the look out over CBS and GLSC out of the Grand Ballroom.