Blarg. Nasty migraine today. Took lots of meds and made it to work, but may not make it the whole shift. Otherwise life is going pretty well. Yesterday Chad and I escorted at the clinics, then had a very relaxed movie-watching sort of day at home together. I didn't end up having to work an overtime shift, which was excellent given how wiped I was after escorting. Side effects from the new med are still messing with me.

Still working hard on the Kenyon outsourcing issue; we got HuffPo coverage!

Kenyon College Outsourcing Plan Sparks Outcry From Students, Faculty

BoingBoing: The only good abortion is my abortion -- excellent piece.

a Mother to one: support for women and their choices
Support & Information for mothers who have faced Selective Reduction (Multi-fetal Reduction) and abortion. -- A friend of mine runs this site, and it's a topic that's rarely addressed.

RHRealityCheck: On Contraceptive Coverage, the Government Is Right, the Bishops Are Wrong, and This Is Why.
by Rev. Harry Knox, President & CEO, Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC)


Coitus More Ferarum [NSFW] -- a great article by a friend of mine about sexuality in Game of Thrones.

An assortment of excellent Health at Every Size articles
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Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States.

And it's also my younger brother James' Birthday! Happy Birthday [livejournal.com profile] jajy1979, thanks for everything you do, in your own inimitable way!
That last post outgrew its pants, so I pulled the relatively few linketies in it over here instead.

PoisonedPets: ALERT: Vets warn of new treats from China poisoning dogs
The brands veterinarians say are associated with the new cases of unexplained acute kidney failure are Canyon Creek Ranch Chicken Yam Good Dog Treats (Nestle-Purina), Beefeaters Sweet Potato Treats (16 types of yam-related treats), Drs. Foster and Smith (exact item not specified in the report) and Dogswell Veggie Life Vitality (4 types of Veggie Life brands).

DailyKos: Hate-mongers sell paper targets depicting Trayvon Martin

KATU: Beaverton church sues family after they criticize it online

ONTD_Political: Arizona high school Our Lady of Sorrows Academy — run by the Society of St. Pius X, a pre-Vatican II sect of Catholicism that is unrecognized by the Church — forfeited the Arizona Charter Athletic Associaton High School Baseball League championship game rather than face Mesa Preparatory Academy and their female second-baseman, 15-year-old Paige Sultzbach.

YahooTravel: America's Best Carousels (it's not particularly comparable to a regular carousel aesthetically, but I always did love Cedar Downs at Cedar Point, which made their list)

One of my Dad's favorite blogging theologians on Obama's evolution (Dad forwarded me this one)

Charmin Sponsors “Sit or Squat” Toilet Finder App -- Huh.

Grist: The secret mall gardens of Cleveland

EcoCityCleveland: The Cleveland EcoVillage

BBC: A US drug company has agreed to pay out $1.6bn (£1bn) after improperly marketing a mood-stabilising drug in a settlement thought to be the largest of its kind involving a single drug.

ONTD_Political: When Same-Sex Marriage Was a Christian Rite -- This isn't new info (my first encounter was a very energetic debate about it during college in the early nineties), but how one interprets these rites has a lot to do with one's current perspective, as is made abundantly clear in the comments.

OK, more linketies in a bit, hopefully. A few other half-complete posts calling my name first.
Happy Mother's Day to the mom-types out there!

So behind.
Week of Migraine seems to finally be over. Yay!
Just discovered I don't actually have extra Dr. Pepper in my desk drawer like I thought. Boo!
Getting sushi for dinner. Yay!
Favoritest neighbor dog moving away June 15th. Boo!

Also, our most central patient care system is being upgraded on May 20th. We have 40,000 or so users. Don't expect to see much of me online for a while after that happens; it's going to be ridiculously hectic here.

So, let's see. Yesterday morning was escorting at the Center. Lots of extra Mother's Day-themed yelling from the protesters, but nothing all that out of the ordinary. And I finally got to run my bag of toys, books, and puzzles down to Preterm! That ended up being quite fortuitous; there were a Dad and two kids waiting down there right then, and the kids' eyes lit up at the bag! I got home pretty early, but ended up spending most of the rest of the day in low-energy recuperation mode watching the weekend political talk shows and working on my puzzles (Chris Hayes and Melissa Harris Perry make me happy, and had excellent conversations about motherhood and feminism on both today).

Thursday and Friday were mostly eaten by migraine, but I did get to see Kidlet and Chad briefly on Friday night, since I was home. It was his last day of preschool for the year, so I wanted to do something a little special for it.

From some facebook updates (mostly with pics) from this weekend:
Chalk drawings from last night with Kidlet. Embarrassingly, those are mostly my drawings. We did spend time talking about how all insects have six legs and all spiders have eight (non-FB folks, tell me if you can view the pics when I link them this way? James, I'm looking at you...)

And Microcosmos was a big hit! Really highly recommend that one for purchase btw; it's great at any age and on multiple repeat viewings. Be prepared to Google bug info questions, though, since it's not an educational program per se, and is very lightly narrated. A few scary moments but mostly just awesome and gorgeous!

Oh, and the giant animal book I posted pics of yesterday was a huge hit, too! He kept asking me to show him different animals and was getting good at identifying different insects himself. It was only a casual thrift store find, but wrapping and hiding it added to the fun and emphasized excitement about his educational achievements.

Home from patient escorting at the clinic. Good morning, nice weather. Quiet, so I spent a lot of time shopping Audible from my phone. Lots of awesome stuff that I'll post about as I work through them. Pseudo kids book Go The Fuck to Sleep? Read by Samuel Motherfuckin Jackson!

Audible for Kids: Synchronized Images -- Well, hey! I was wondering about this, and it seemed baffling that images didn't come along with some of the books I bought. Apparently they did, there's just a special super-sekrit way to access them that I didn't know. That makes the cheap prices on the kids' picture books even more awesome. Lots of reviews coming soon; I sort of splurged on .69 cent kids books!

My partner chad's son graduates from preschool today. I scored this the other week at the thrift store and have been waiting for a special occasion! Inside pages [also posted in FB] since they're pretty cool.
Kidlet's favorite page

Pics of Villa Villekula:
Grafton and Caleb have been doing a lot of work recently, so I took some pics. Grafton built a whole new islandish sort of thing in the kitchen to block out the animals and create more counterspace. Caleb bought us a new dishwasher!
The 'pit' door in the corner of the living room where we're going to paint a TARDIS door. The door comes up about halfway through the floor so it seems appropriate (it was indoor motorcycle parking for the old owner)
The breadmaking area and our network center (behind chalkboard-paint doors)
The new kitchen arrangement for extra counterspace and dog blockage.
Counter folds up against bookcase. Gate will slide behind it.
From the living room. Damn, I loathe that flooring.
Grafton's work with the window markers in the living room. (they're fun, but we wish they were actually a bit more opaque)

Garden/Yard pics:
Looking off the back porch toward the back house and back yard.
Strawberry bed along the back porch of the front house.
More sweet peas along the front porch of the back house.
Front yard ten days ago
Front yard today.

Critters (fyi, lots of our critters aren't shown in these few pics):
Particularly adorable pic of Ringo and Tarma curled up together
A decent shot of spike's awesome little tail-spike.
Grafton's tiniest maine coon ever, Cat. She rarely allows pics.
Tarmatarmatarmaface
Cat puzzle with cat. Just finished it! That's Ringo trying to climb me.

Random:
From when we visited the natural history museum. Considering inclusion in my tattoo.
Earlier this week: Waiting out another migraine. I like the island of misfit pieces on the upper left. This is progress since this morning (and my awesome puzzleboard that allows puzzles and pets and hippies to coexist.)
How my Portapuzzle works
Same year as the Kroger family photo. Peeps annual photo, 92, spring of my freshman year. Still 17, on the far right with the wooden snake around my neck. -- Some of the folks I'll be reunionating with in a few weeks! Can't wait!
Others of 'em
And some more of 'em. The chicken outfit was part of a very serious Otisian rite, donchaknow. It's how we got listed as one of the most dangerous cults in America by some right-wing outfit (quite a high point in our history)

Hey, look, my sweeties! (pic is from years ago)
Grim Colberty Tales with Maurice Sendak Pt. 1

TheNation: MCA’s Feminist Legacy -- I agree with some of the commenters that there are problematic elements to this piece, but I still think it's worth sharing.

The Daily Beast: Melinda Gates' New Crusade: Investing Billions in Women's Health
She plans to use the Gates Foundation's billions to revolutionize contraception worldwide. The Catholic right is pushing back. Is she ready for the political firestorm ahead?



"Calls from Home: Mama's Day Special," a radio project that connects incarcerated mothers to their families, friends, and communities.

YesMeansYes: It’s invisible to the mainstream. There’s a war on within the BDSM community[1] about whether to face up to abuse within. There are a lot of dynamics overlapping here, and it’s hard to see the whole picture even for those of us who keep up with these things.

TED: Good news this week — we’ve got something extraordinary to tell you about. MAKERS is a video initiative to share the stories of hundreds of women. When you go to the MAKERS website, you can watch interviews with the leaders, thinkers, reformers and pioneers who have shaped and continue to shape our world.

IO9: 5 Scientific Explanations for Game of Thrones‘ Messed-Up Seasons -- Small moon's been my working theory up to now (I couldn't relax into it without coming up with some plausible explanation for the variable seasons), although the others are interesting too.

Plain Dealer: Ohio lawmakers on Tuesday repealed a controversial election bill that was supposed to go before voters on Nov. 6 -- the first known case in Ohio history in which legislators repealed a bill up for referendum.

RollCall: The Illustrated Congressmen
*sigh* The past two days have sucked mightily. Migraine started Monday, and Tues/Wed were nasty despite meds. Today's a lot better; still feeling a touch wonky, but nothing dramatic. Got a lot done on a really tough puzzle over the past few days, though (progress pics over at my FB). Really looking forward to getting home and finishing it tonight. And started rewatching Game of Thrones last night, catching up on the new season, so my head's full of that. Today I can't get Facebook to load properly, so if I haven't responded to someone over there, that's why. On to linketies.

Discover: What does it mean to say that something causes 16% of cancers?

ThinkProgress: MONTANA COURT STRIKES DOWN BAN ON BIRTH CONTROL FUNDING FOR LOW-INCOME TEENS

ABC: A delegation of female Canadian soldiers is in Australia to advise the Defence Force on moves to allow Australian women to serve on the frontline.
Australian women will be eligible to serve in combat by the end of next year, but Canadian female soldiers have been able to do so since 1989.


Feministing: For the past 12 years, Ai-jen Poo has been fighting for the workers “that make all other work possible.” Co-director of Caring Across Generations and director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA), she was recently named by TIME Magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People of 2012. And we’ve been fans of hers here at Feministing for awhile now.

Alternet: The Unbelievable Brutality Unleashed on Kids in For-Profit Prisons
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Blarg. Woke up with a migraine at 7am this morning. Took meds, settled into my new jigsaw puzzle again until they kicked in, and about two hours later a massive thunderstorm with hail hit and passed over really quickly. We're due for storms all day. Never did get back to sleep, and although the migraine is mostly gone my brainmeats are mushier than usual today. I'm at a good holding point in my project work until we can finally have this meeting to sort things out, and I'm definitely not in good shape for the kind of focus it requires, so linketies it is. Good for the mushy brainmeats, they are. Also, the office is hot and humid as hell for some reason. As soon as 5pm hits it's barefoot time; that'll make me feel a good bit more human.

In happy news, I've been feeling all frubbly about the new developments in the lives of two of my partners. Not my place to go into more detail than that, but it is a good and happy thing in both cases, so yay!

Cleveland.com: Suspects in Cleveland's bridge bomb plot plead not guilty in U.S. District Court
More: NewsNet5: Bridge bomb suspects plead not guilty; Occupy Cleveland members show up to support suspects -- WTF is up with this shit? I really hope it turns out these folks were there because they were interested in justice being served, not in defending these assholes. I will be furious if it turns out otherwise. I get enraged with the anti-choice movement when they don't take a stand against violent anti-choice terrorists, and I'm not going to expect less of the people on my side.
More: NewsNet5: Family of bridge bomb plot suspect says he was set up by undercover FBI informant
More: NewsNet5: Cleveland leader: Occupy must watch for trouble
More: NewsNet5: Bomb plot suspect's attorney reveals FBI's informant, Shaquille Azir, who has long criminal record
More: NewsNet5: Defense attorney: Bridge bomb plot suspect Brandon Baxter was 'coached' and 'entrapped' -- Issues of entrapment may factor into the appropriate criminal charges, but they do nothing to defend these fucks morally against agreeing to take those actions.
More: VIDEO: Accused bridge bomb plot suspect caught on camera talking violence in 'Occupy' documentary
More: NewsNet5: One of five men arrested in an alleged Ohio bridge bombing plot signed the lease for the warehouse that's home to about a dozen protesters from the Occupy Cleveland movement, which is working to get the man's name removed from the lease, a group spokesman said.
More: Cleveland.com: FBI arrests 5 accused of plotting to blow up Ohio 82 bridge in Cuyahoga valley (and earlier article, but it includes the affidavit)
More: NewsNet5: Five suspects charged in Brecksville bridge bomb plot due in court
More: NewsNet5: Kent State terrorism expert puts perspective on Brecksville bridge bomb plot
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Alternet: Bankrupting the Vote: Voter Suppression Through Budget Cuts?

Alternet: The Self-Made Myth: Debunking Conservatives' Favorite -- And Most Dangerous -- Fiction

Alternet: Private Prison Corporations Are Modern Day Slave Traders

Alternet: Racist "Neighbor" Vigilantes Who Arrested Moving-in Couple Are Arrested

CommonBlog: New Infographic Explains Effects of Restrictive Voting Laws

MotherJones: Holding Birth Control Hostage
Doctors still require women to submit to cancer screenings and pelvic exams to get birth control pills. Scientists say that shouldn't happen.
-- I couldn't agree more on the points in this article; it's a long-standing issue in the US.

TrainingWithDrEllen: Is the Health At Every Size, HAES(r), approach useful even for people at very high weights?

GizMag: Wristbands could be used to monitor seizures, and warn epileptics when they need help

Alternet: Porn Lit: Why the S&M "50 Shades of Grey" Is Freaking Everyone Out

Two Whole Cakes
How to Stop Dieting and Learn to Love Your Body
By Lesley Kinzel
-- Oooh, exciting! I've been following her writing online for ages, so I'm betting this will be good.

Advocate: Ohio DJ Says Man's Gay Daughter Should Be Raped

CNN: Red Chair interview: Norton Juster's guide to talking to children

Rachel Maddow: ACT UP marks 25 years of AIDS activism
My comment to a friend about her: Yeah, she is absolutely KICKASS AWESOME. It was her prison-based HIV activism work that really won my heart. Rachel Maddow first appeared on our pages when she was a freelance reporter struggling to pay the rent. For POZ’s July/August 2003 issue, she penned a piece on the advances in HIV prison care, a topic to which she has committed 15 years of her life—by serving as a health care advocate for those living with the virus behind bars. While getting her PhD at Oxford University she wrote a brilliant thesis on the topic (HIV/AIDS and Health Care Reform in British and American Prisons).

EnvironmentalHealthPerspectives: Questions Persist: Environmental Factors in Autoimmune Disease

Yahoo: Jailed for $280: The Return of Debtors' Prisons
Still doing a lot of catch up here (yes, a bulk delete would be more efficient and wouldn't end the world. Good luck convincing my obstinately obsessive brainmeats on that matter).

ONTD_Political/ABCNews: Planned Parenthood ended nonsurgical abortions at its Wisconsin clinics Friday because of a new state law that subjects doctors who perform abortions but don't follow certain procedures to criminal penalties.
The law, signed by Gov. Scott Walker two weeks ago after the Republican-controlled state Legislature passed it earlier this year, took effect Friday.
It mandates that women having nonsurgical abortions visit the same doctor three times and that doctors ensure the woman is having the procedure voluntarily and without coercion. Failure to follow those requirements could result in felony charges against the doctor.
The law does not affect emergency contraception, known as the morning-after pill.
Planned Parenthood president and chief executive officer Teri Huyck said because of confusion over the new law, nonsurgical abortions are being suspended. Planned Parenthood will continue to provide surgical abortions at its clinics in Madison, Milwaukee and the Appleton area, its leaders said.




PlainDealer: Funny, frank 'In the Next Room, or the vibrator play' performed brilliantly at Cleveland Play House -- I've been hearing really good things about this, and my carpool coworker is going to see it this weekend. I'd really like to make it sometime before they close, if I can.

ONTD_Political: Concluding that racial bias played a significant factor in the sentencing of a man to death here 18 years ago, a judge on Friday ordered that the convict’s sentence be reduced to life in prison without parole, the first such decision under North Carolina’s controversial Racial Justice Act.

Jezebel: The Ten Scariest Places to Have Ladyparts in America
Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland's also a one of America's rape capitals. And with legislators concentrating on regulating pregnancy rather than protecting women, it doesn't look like that rate will decrease anytime soon.
Legislators in the worst state in America to drive across are currently debating a "heartbeat bill," which will ban all abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected at about 8 weeks. The law's bullshit and will likely be blocked from ever being enforced by a judge with some damn sense, but, like most crazy abortion laws, it's the thought that counts. And the fact that men in power in Ohio would call a fetus to testify in favor of a law taking power away from women is a pretty terrifying thought indeed.

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ONTD_Political: How Voter ID Laws Further Disenfranchise the Transgendered

DancesWithFat: What’s With Weight Bullying?

Guardian: Iceland's volcanoes may power UK
The energy minister is to visit Iceland in May to discuss connecting the UK to its abundant geothermal energy


ONTD_Political: UK: 32 die a week after failing test for new incapacity benefit

ONTD_Political: Bro-Choice - The Daily Show
Al Madrigal reports on location from Oklahoma, where a proposed amendment to its "personhood" bill would effectively outlaw male masturbation.
"I think the Johnsons amendment is an outragous attack on personal liberty from the government. One, it would be a huge free choice issue. Basically, the government is telling a man what he can and cannot do with his body." -- absolutely obtuse anti-choice republican politician


ONTD_Political: Iran To Shut Down Internet Permanently; 'Clean' National Intranet In Pipeline
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Well, I have my schedule for this weekend; second shift Saturday and first shift Sunday. Otherwise not much going on; my mood's been a bit wonky this week, but that's mostly due to some financial stress; life is otherwise quite good.

Still doing a lot of project work, but trying to fit some linketies in here and there. At least I'm back to being less overwhelmed by my inbox. Sorta.

Also I have a very tasty spinach salad right now. *nomnomnom*

DailyBeast: Ohio Republicans Move to Cut Funds to Planned Parenthood, Riling Democrats

Slate: Do Welfare Moms Work As Hard As Ann Romney?
A group of politicians led by Rep. Pete Stark of California are taking Mitt Romney at his word—that “all moms are working moms”—and plan to introduce an act that would allow mothers receiving welfare support to count their childrearing duties as the required “work activity” until the child turns 4. -- Not going to pass, sadly, but I love that they're pushing it anyway. It should damned well be law.

RHRealityCheck: Now It's Clear: “Pro-Life” Means “Pro-Imprisonment”
These organizations and experts, including the American Medical Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the American Nurses Association, have concluded that using the criminal law to address issues of drug use during pregnancy undermines, rather than protects, “unborn children.” One reason is that threats of arrest have been shown to deter pregnant women from drug treatment and prenatal and other healthcare that can help ensure maternal, fetal, and child health. Furthermore, if these prosecutions continue, pregnant women who are addicted to drugs and who cannot overcome that addiction in the short term of pregnancy will be pressured into having unwanted abortions to avoid criminal penalties. That is what happened in the Greywind case, in which a pregnant woman had an abortion in order to get the state of North Dakota to drop “fetal endangerment” charges against her.
So why would a group that claims to value life urge Alabama’s highest court to uphold an interpretation of the chemical endangerment law that coerces women into having abortions and punish the ones who don’t?
...
Since 2005, National Advocates for Pregnant Women has documented hundreds of cases in Alabama and elsewhere in which women have been arrested for allegedly endangering their pregnancies including: Christine Taylor in Iowa who was charged with attempted fetal homicide after she fell down a flight of stairs while pregnant, Jennie McCormick in Idaho who was charged with having an illegal abortion, and Bei Bei Shuai in Indiana who has been charged with murder for suffering a pregnancy loss after a suicide attempt.

Related: RHRealityCheck: Sensationalizing Drug Use in Pregnant Women: How the Media Perpetuates Racist and Ineffective Policies
Related: RHRealityCheck: Murder by Nursing?

BitchMagazine: Last week the trailblazing scholar and MSNBC television host featured a segment on being transgender in America. The segment included a routable discussion with Mara Keisling of the National Center for Transgender Equality, transgender political candidate Mel Wymore, Allison Kilkenny of the Nation, and transgender writer, performer and self-described "queer and pleasant danger" Kate Bornstein.
Harris-Perry is used to breaking new ground. In her true fashion, this segment blasts through typical media narratives of trans inequality by covering topics that most media commentators won't touch. Harris-Perry and her guests discuss gender-netural pronouns, transgender people in the prison-industrial complex, coalition-building across queer communities, and how marriage equality is not the most critical issue for the LGBT community.
-- And people wonder why I'm obsessively following this show... (it ROCKS!)

CNN: Rape victims say military labels them 'crazy' -- And as long as I'm being pissed about this, I really don't like the implication that "crazy" people can't be trusted to report rape, either.

NYTimes: No One Called Me a Slut
TWO weeks ago, a bomb went off outside a Wisconsin abortion center. In recent years, several states have passed or tried to pass laws requiring women seeking legal, constitutionally protected procedures to first undergo medical examinations. A young woman has been called a slut after testifying in favor of insurance coverage for contraceptive care. These are but a few of the stories about attacks on a woman’s right to choose.
It wasn’t always like this.
This is a story of how it used to be:

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Switching back and forth between project work and linketies, hence the frequent smaller postings. Besides, my brainmeats aren't optimally functional today, and I'm having more trouble with focus anyway. Most of this post's articles were sourced from Alternet, but there are a few random additions, too. Lots of political stuff in this one.

Care2: Republican attacks on voting rights don’t just disproportionately impact minority voters or the elderly. They threaten to disenfranchise an entire population of women.
According to the Brennan Center for Justice approximately ten percent of voting-age Americans don’t have ID with both current name and address on it– requirements in states like Wisconsin and Pennsylvania under new photo voter ID laws. A significant portion of those without that idea are women whose last names change with marriages and whose address my change due to separations, divorces or because they are leaving an abusive domestic relationship.


Alternet: 10 Unbelievably Sh**ty Things America Does to Homeless People
No population has their human and civil rights so casually and routinely trampled as do homeless Americans.


Alternet: Meet ALEC's Equally Despicable Anti-Choice Cousin -- AUL
Think the anti-choicers in statehouses around the country are coming up with abortion bans all by themselves? Think again.


Alternet/DailyKos: Jan Brewer Signs "Life Begins at Menstruation" Bill, the Most Draconian Anti-Abortion Law So Far
Amongst lots of other bullshit, it pulls this nifty trick:
It sets the gestational age as beginning on the first day of a woman’s last period, rather than at fertilization. Which, in practice, means that a virgin can get pregnant and instead of barring abortions after 20 weeks as the law states, actually cuts the time to 18 weeks. -- it's true that LMP (last menstrual period) is used by medical professionals when they are dating pregnancies, but the way that's being used legislatively to cut off even more access is just a big heaping pile of bullshit. FYI, abortion protesters often use the Gestational age vs Fetal age confusion in order to pull similar mindgames on patients.
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Good grief, where to start? It'll probably take me a few days to even begin to catch up.

I think I'll start mostly with local Cleveland and Ohio news, and some random silly/quicky stuff.

ScienceMag: CLEVELAND, OHIO—So-called non-Newtonian fluids are the stars of high school science demonstrations. In one example, an ooey-gooey batter made from corn starch and water oozes like a liquid when moved slowly. But punch it, or run across a giant puddle of it, and it becomes stiff like a solid. Pour it on top of a speaker cone, and the vibrations cause the fluid to stiffen and form strange tendril-like shapes. Now, a group of college students has figured out a new use for the strange stuff: filler for potholes. -- Go Case! This is some technology we NEED around here!

TruthOut: The Seeds of a Quiet Economic Revolution: A Review of Gar Alperovitz's "America Beyond Capitalism"
One small example is in the economically troubled city of Cleveland, Ohio, where the Evergreen project was born. This network of worker-owned cooperatives simultaneously offers employment, ownership and service to the community while living the principles of workplace democracy, equality and sustainability. Their green laundry service, solar installation company and industrial scale greenhouse contribute to the development of a green economy, while their customers - the universities and hospitals - help to assure a long-term symbiotic relationship.
More recently, Mondragon has struck a deal with the United Steelworkers and the Ohio Employee Ownership Center. Together, they will build yet another variation, a "union-cooperative," merging the tenets of worker-owned cooperatives, such as democratized workplaces, with collective bargaining.

Facebook: Friday, April 27, 2012 7:00pm
Ride down and check out how our region has influenced cycling. Bicycles from pre-1900 through current day builders such as Dan Polito, Rustbelt Welding, Carmen Gambino and many more! Don't miss this awesome bike extravaganza! Local bike photography and artists, Live MUSIC..., BOOZE and Chef Sawyers fantastic array of GRUB! Live music from Heelsplitter, The Dreadful Yawns and Scoliosis Jones. DO NOT MISS THIS PARTY! Take a ride through our glorious city on Cleveland Critical Mass and finish the ride ere, with Ohio's greatest bikes and Ohio's greatest bike riders! What better way to kick off bike month!


ClevelandLeader: West Side Market Centennial Celebrations Set for Summer and Fall

PlainDealer: PNC SmartHome, a museum exhibit turned residence, sells to Maryland couple for $331,000 (slideshow)
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