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Artist Review Today Blog and Podcast

markquinn — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:37:47 -0700

Artist Review Today is for the "artist in all of us". A group of over 200 artists make up the galleray in the Galleria at Erieview in Cleveland, Ohio. The gallery maintains a podcast and blog as our way of sharing community events and happenings in the art world.

You can check our blog at www.markquinn.net/blog7 to learn more about us.

How about when it's $5.50-$6

escalus — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:42:16 -0700

How about when it's $5.50-$6 a gallon in early November? And we know Cheney and Bush are getting richer each penny.

"Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."

Jane Mitakides

Ross1985 — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:02:07 -0700

Jane Mitakides seems to be one of the stronger Field Candidates listed. I have heard great things about her and less than flattering comments about her opponet Mike Turner. Anyone know anything about this race?

Ohio Senate District 20

Tim — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:18:38 -0700

As "pamphleteers of the revolution" I would imagine you are interested in accuracy and fairness as well as a dedication to serving the informed voter. In that light I will note that I am the Green Party candidate for the Ohio Senate District 20 race. Having acheived ballot status in spite of rules that required me to gather 25 times the amount of signatures as the major party candidates.

Please add my information to the above candidates list and note my website... http://www.votekettler.com

Thanks, Tim Kettler

Bob Taft provided dead

Magi1 — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:43:21 -0700

Bob Taft provided dead weight to the Republicans in 2006, he really supressed Republican votes and even pushed votes to Strickland in 2006. If we see $4 gas this spring it will be a worse albatros than Bob Taft for Republicans. So when you see those gas prices going up, take heart liberals ... it will help you!

Website

Andi Eveslage — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:19:10 -0700

My web address is www.andihio.com. Thank You.

Andi Eveslage

Paid for by Friends to Elect Andi Eveslage, Dwain Fansler, Treasurer, 834 Shroyer Rd. Dayton, OH 45419

I would like to say that we

blondi — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:26:26 -0700

I would like to say that we did not think hard enough when we voted for Bush and now we are doing the same if we vote for Obama.

He is just screaming change and how can we just close our eyes and not see this dood does not have a clue what to do.

I do not see him being able to clean up after this 8 years of hell we have been trough.

Do we need to trust another risk, and unknown?????

Clinton's have been amazing before why change a good thing to an unknown??? We need them to clean up this mess. They did it once they can do it again. Screaming change is not enogh.

D'oh.

Rieux — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 10:12:56 -0700

My paragraph breaks appear to have been eaten by the software (mine or yours, I can't tell). Sorry about that.

A Couple of Tweaks

Rieux — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 10:09:17 -0700

Hi, Jerid. Nice applet. There are a few things I think deserve changes. First, none of the percentage windows allow the entry of tenths or hundredths. This could be a real problem: an extra 0.1% or two can make a huge difference in the delegate count. (For example, in a 6-delegate district like Ohio's Districts 9, 10, 13, and 14, the difference between Candidate X getting 58.2% of the vote and Candidate X getting 58.4% of the vote is the difference between a 3-3 delegate split and a 4-2 delegate win. The calculator here can't illustrate that.) Second, though I haven't looked "under the hood" at the Java, it appears to me that your applet counts the 49 statewide delegates as if they were a single pool of 49 delegates, to be given out according to the candidates' shares of the vote. That's not quite correct. As the window text testifies, 18 of the 49 statewide delegates are PLEOs; the other 37 are ordinary at-large delegates. The important mathematical point is that those pools are calculated separately, as if they were separate districts (that happen to have equal vote totals). As it stands now, the calculator doesn't appear to understand this. Try inputting 36% of the statewide vote for Obama, and 64% for Clinton. (Yes, this is an implausible finish--but the several more realistic finishes that demonstrate this problem require the entry of 0.1% units, which the applet won't allow.) Given 36% Obama-64% Clinton, the calculator yields 18 statewide pledged delegates for Obama and 31 for Clinton. This is reasonably simple math: 0.36 x 49 = 17.64, which rounds up to 18; and 0.64 x 49 = 31.36, which rounds down to 31. Unfortunately, that's wrong. The at-large and PLEO pools need to be calculated separately: 31 at-large delegates: 0.36 x 31 = 11.16, which rounds down to 11 delegates; 0.64 x 31 = 19.84, which rounds up to 20. 18 PLEOs: 0.36 x 18 = 6.48, which rounds down to 6 delegates; 0.64 x 18 = 11.52, which rounds up to 12. That makes 11 + 6 = 17 delegates for Obama and 20+12 = 32 for Clinton. So from 36%-64%, the output should be 17-32 in delegates, not 18-31. All of this, I'm sure, is fixable.

I'll be adding a button for it to the sidebar tomorro

Jerid — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 23:00:49 -0700

...after I get home from Cbus.

Thanks, Jerid

Tom Smith — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 22:56:46 -0700

Is there any way you can keep this on the top of the front page? Perhaps even have a few folks like Chuck Todd at MSNBC or someone at CNN take a peak.

Btw...help

Jerid — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:59:11 -0700

If anyone is good at javascript, I'd really like to add a variable that tallies delegates statewide based off entered percentages.

The calculator file is here if anyone feels like tweaking it for me to add that (I had to teach myself a sparing amount of java just to do that today).

http://filer.case.edu/jkk3/working1.html

Give me a heads up if you tweak the file, and I'll post the update (I literally knew nothing about java till today).

Given the way..

Entrwriter — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:58:55 -0700

Given the way they have the Greater Cleveland area carved up, I don't think so. If anything it's more direct because depending on where you live you have a direct contact in your area as opposed to dealing with a regional office.

Poor decision...

themanlyone — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:46:17 -0700

Its surprising that the Obama campaign decided to have only one Cleveland office. The Clinton campaign has a West Side office at Kamm's Corner in West Park, an East Side office in Univeristy Heights, and an office in Lake County. That seems much smarter. Anyone with even a cursory knowledge of Cleveland would understand the east/west divide and put offices on each side of town rather than the no man's land that is Cleveland's downtown... Is Obama taking Cleveland for granted?

Corrections

kJk — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:18:15 -0700

You misread the address. It is 815 Superior Avenue East, Cleveland. Superior Avenue East means Superior, east of Public Square. 815 Superior is the Superior Building, on the NW corner of the intersection at East 9th and Superior. The Superior Building is adjacent to the Federal Reserve Building on the east side. Cleveland only has 21 wards, so there is no ward 28. Linsdale should be Linndale.