Sage Lewis

OK. I’ve spent the better part of a decade thinking CuteFTP was showing me all the files on my server. I mean, I want to ftp into my site, see my site, modify my site and go away happy. Well, I just found out today that CuteFTP has been hiding a bunch of System files. I’m sure it was for my own good.

God damnit! If I wanted to live in a communist country I’d move to Cuba. I don’t want other people telling me what is best for me.

It makes me so freakin’ mad. I could have saved most of this morning and really who knows how many other hours over the past several years if this wasn’t the policy. Or at the very least, CuteFTP could have been kind enough to tell me that it was hiding files on me.

Fortunately, this site saved me:
All My FAQs Wiki: Password protect
Here’s the excerpt from their site:

“tried uploading .htaccess with CuteFTP but now I can’t see the file on the server.
For CuteFTP 4.0 from the site manager, select the profile you’re working with and click edit.
Under the General Tab, check Enable filter from the Filter (Masks) at the
bottom of the options.
Click the Filter button.
Check the box for Enable remote filters (Server Applied filter)
The text box labeled Remote Filter is not enabled. Type -a in the box.
Click ok, and ok again and close the site manager.
You should be able to see and delete the .htaccess and .htpassword files now. ”

That worked like a charm.

Incedentally, I typed in phrases like this to find this site:
cuteftp .htaccess
create a 301 permanent redirect
ftp can’t see .htaccess file
can’t see all files in cuteftp
cuteftp system files
cuteftp hidden files
is cuteftp hiding files?

Hopefully this page will save you a little less time than a decade to figure this out.

Mike Needs, the Public Editor of the Akron Beacon Journal finally compelled me to write today. I make a point to read his article every Sunday. He often shows me a perspective that I hadn’t thought of before.

But today I hope to show him a perspective that he hadn’t thought of before.

If you haven’t read the piece yet, you can find it here: (you have to sign up, if you haven’t yet):
Mike Needs on Don Plusquellic & Judith Miller in Beacon Journal

His point is that the public is overly concerned about Plusquellic and the parking attendant controversy and no one is concerned with Judith Miller who “was jailed for keeping her promise to a confidential source.”

I’m most surprised that Mike Needs, with all of his insight into his readers, has missed the underlying nuance of the Plusquellic story and also why he is surprised people don’t feel outrage by what is happening with Judith Miller.

First, let’s look at Judith Miller. Mike feels that we should be outraged and also heavily concerned of what her imprisonment means to our rights. As a journalist, Mike is actually much less qualified to discuss Judith Miller than his readers. The problem with his perspective is, of course he is going to support her, and so is every other journalist. As a small business owner, I’m going to support small business owner rights to a greater extent than the average citizen. I’m not a great person to ask for a clear, non-biased view of small business. Mike Needs is going to be equally as unclear and biased when dealing with Judith Miller’s situation.

The problem is, the Judith Miller story is complicated. Unfortunately, unlike all the other complicated stories in our lives such at Iraq, the presidential election and many other stories, Judith Miller doesn’t have a massive army of public relations spinmeisters telling us how to think. So consequently we’re all quiet out here because we are left to our own devices to make up our minds on this one. The fog of the story is just hanging over it with no spin doctors telling us what we should be seeing.

On to Don Plusquellic. I’m surprised Mike Needs has missed the nuance of this story. This is not about Plusquellic. It’s a symptom of the current day American condition. I don’t know about Mike, but personally I feel wrung out by my politicians. I feel like the current political climate is completely out of control of the public. Prickly City is asking President Bush to come up with a real Republican. We are in an Iraq war with no easy end. Who knows if we’ll go into Iran. Ohio schools are a mess. Taxes are rising. Who knows how expensive gas is going to get. Republicans and Democrats are at each other’s throats. North Korea is building nuclear weapons. Whether you are a Republican or a Democrat your future is uncertain. You don’t know what tomorrow will bring. You owe all of this uncertainty to our politicians.

When Plusquellic verbally abused that $8/hour parking attendant and then took his job, Don took all of this uncertainty to a new, uncomfortable level. Could Plusquellic come to your workplace and get you fired? Probably. It’s just too scary. Whether you are a Republican or a Democrat, you know that Plusquellic getting that guy fired was too close for comfort.

The Plusquellic incident is all too clear. Politicians have massive amounts of power and there is little accountability. We as American citizens are just along for the ride. We aren’t being listened to. We are being played by politicians who have polarized the game… in effect forcing their constituents to vote down the party line. They don’t’ have to worry about losing decided voters because there is so much anger towards the other side. All of this anger is thanks to our politicians. It’s a sick, twisted mess we’re in. Plusquellic represents all of these feelings. And fortunately he has made a mistake that is crystal clear. He over reacted and swung his weight around in a completely scary, inappropriate way. That’s why we can’t stop writing about this.

Mike Needs, the Public Editor of the Akron Beacon Journal finally compelled me to write today. I make a point to read his article every Sunday. He often shows me a perspective that I hadn’t thought of before.

But today I hope to show him a perspective that he hadn’t thought of before.

If you haven’t read the piece yet, you can find it here: (you have to sign up, if you haven’t yet):
Mike Needs on Don Plusquellic & Judith Miller in Beacon Journal

His point is that the public is overly concerned about Plusquellic and the parking attendant controversy and no one is concerned with Judith Miller who “was jailed for keeping her promise to a confidential source.”

I’m most surprised that Mike Needs, with all of his insight into his readers, has missed the underlying nuance of the Plusquellic story and also why he is surprised people don’t feel outrage by what is happening with Judith Miller.

First, let’s look at Judith Miller. Mike feels that we should be outraged and also heavily concerned of what her imprisonment means to our rights. As a journalist, Mike is actually much less qualified to discuss Judith Miller than his readers. The problem with his perspective is, of course he is going to support her, and so is every other journalist. As a small business owner, I’m going to support small business owner rights to a greater extent than the average citizen. I’m not a great person to ask for a clear, non-biased view of small business. Mike Needs is going to be equally as unclear and biased when dealing with Judith Miller’s situation.

The problem is, the Judith Miller story is complicated. Unfortunately, unlike all the other complicated stories in our lives such at Iraq, the presidential election and many other stories, Judith Miller doesn’t have a massive army of public relations spinmeisters telling us how to think. So consequently we’re all quiet out here because we are left to our own devices to make up our minds on this one. The fog of the story is just hanging over it with no spin doctors telling us what we should be seeing.

On to Don Plusquellic. I’m surprised Mike Needs has missed the nuance of this story. This is not about Plusquellic. It’s a symptom of the current day American condition. I don’t know about Mike, but personally I feel wrung out by my politicians. I feel like the current political climate is completely out of control of the public. Prickly City is asking President Bush to come up with a real Republican. We are in an Iraq war with no easy end. Who knows if we’ll go into Iran. Ohio schools are a mess. Taxes are rising. Who knows how expensive gas is going to get. Republicans and Democrats are at each other’s throats. North Korea is building nuclear weapons. Whether you are a Republican or a Democrat your future is uncertain. You don’t know what tomorrow will bring. You owe all of this uncertainty to our politicians.

When Plusquellic verbally abused that $8/hour parking attendant and then took his job, Don took all of this uncertainty to a new, uncomfortable level. Could Plusquellic come to your workplace and get you fired? Probably. It’s just too scary. Whether you are a Republican or a Democrat, you know that Plusquellic getting that guy fired was too close for comfort.

The Plusquellic incident is all too clear. Politicians have massive amounts of power and there is little accountability. We as American citizens are just along for the ride. We aren’t being listened to. We are being played by politicians who have polarized the game… in effect forcing their constituents to vote down the party line. They don’t’ have to worry about losing decided voters because there is so much anger towards the other side. All of this anger is thanks to our politicians. It’s a sick, twisted mess we’re in. Plusquellic represents all of these feelings. And fortunately he has made a mistake that is crystal clear. He over reacted and swung his weight around in a completely scary, inappropriate way. That’s why we can’t stop writing about this.

Cast:
Joaquin Phoenix, John Travolta, Jacinda Barrett, Morris Chestnut, Kevin Daniels, Robert Patrick, Kevin Chapman, Balthazar Getty, Jay Hernandez, Billy Burke, Tim Guinee

Director:
Jay Russell

Length:
115 minutes

I’m starting a run of Travolta movies because I was going through my Netflix database by actor. So now I’m going to be seeing this movie and then “Be Cool”. I will say that Netflix has changed how I watch movies a bit. I don’t know if it’s good or bad. But it’s definitely different.

In case you have never seen one of my movie reviews, this is where I give a play-by-play as I’m watching the movie. So, if you still want to be surprised by the ending of a 2004 movie, be ware… you will hear about the entire movie.

Here’s the link to the INDb of Ladder 49 (2004)

And here’s the synopsis from Netflix:
Netflix: Ladder 49

Trapped in a horrendous factory fire that may kill him, a fireman (Joaquin Phoenix) looks back at his life, career and marriage while he waits for the remote possibility that his company — Ladder 49 — may rescue him, if they can just reach him in time. John Travolta plays Phoenix’s fire chief and mentor, and Jacinda Barrett plays Phoenix’s wife. Directed by Jay Russell.

Also, here’s the Open Directory listings:
Open Directory - Arts: Movies: Titles: L: Ladder 49

And there are the results from the Yahoo Directory:
Movie Titles > Ladder 49 in the Yahoo! Directory

The movie opens really strong with a lot of explosions. Joaquin Phoenix playing Jack Morrison is saving a man by the name of Phil. Jack forces Phil to repel off the side of a burning building. And eventually one of the explosions sends Jack falling down an elevator shaft.

The movie then goes back in time: Jack Morrison reports to Engine 33 as a rookie to Captain Mike Kennedy (John Travolta). We find the Captain sleeping at his desk. He wakes, gives Jack a hard time and then poors himself a Scotch.

Jack is told to go to confession. It’s actually Lenny Richter (Robert Patrick) behind a curtain with the rest of the station. They try to have Jack confess to impure thoughts.

The movie goes on to build the ties of a fun loving fire house.

I have become such a big fan of Travolta. I loved Pulp Fiction and I felt he did such a good job. He came such a long way from Welcome Back Cotter. Incidentally, I recently saw Mr. Cotter on the World Poker Tour. He’s quite an accomplished poker player.

We see Jack successfully fight his first fire.

Now we’re back to present time. Captain Mike Kennedy (Travolta) comes on the scene where Jack is still at the bottom of the elevator of a 20 story building. He was on floor 12. Jack is now part of Ladder 49. Travolta is much more with it. He’s in charge and looking strong.

Jack is weak. But he is able to answer his radio. He’s talking with the Captain.

We go back in time again. Jack and Captain Dennis Gauquin (played by Billy Burke)meet two women. One of whom is Jacks future wife. Jacinda Barrett plays Linda Morrison

She works in a jewelry store where people make their own jewelry.

Jack is the pipe man. He holds the nozel of the hose.

Linda meets all of the guys from the firehouse. She shoots an Irish Car Bomb which is:
1/2 pint Guinness
1 oz Jamison
1/2 oz Bailey’s Irish cream

Pour Guiness into a pint glass. Float Baileys on top of Jamison in shot glass. Drop shot glass, carefully, into Guiness. Drink quickly before it curdles.

She goes on to get pretty drunk but has a lot of fun. It’s all pretty standard character building for the life of Jack. It’s nice. But clearly they are playing with our feelings a little here. They they are trying pretty hard for us to care about Jack Morrison.

We’re back in real time now.

They are probably being a little too heavy handed on the sappy character building. I’m pretty sure I’m the audience for this movie. I don’t need a lot of sap. I need explosions, fire and intense drama.

Multiple teams are moving in to try to save Jack. Squad 47 is bringing heavy equipment. And Captain Mike is moving in.

This building is in really bad shape. It’s burning really hard.

Now we’re at the wedding of Jack and Linda. I will say, she is extremely beautiful. And she’s cast really well. She has one of those looks like you might actually believe you could find a girl like that in a blue collar town. Don’t kid yourself. It ain’t happening.

Here’s a fun review from Moviesforguys.com:
Ladder 49 movie review. He’s got a couple good points:
“I hate flashback movies.” and “Ladder 49 is one of the best 2 star movies I’ve seen, but it’s still only 2 stars.” Pretty funny. I’m at about 3 stars so far in the movie.

Keith Perez (Jay Hernandez) is now the new rookie in the next flashback. He is set up with the confession bit. He pretends to be gay. The team is shocked. But it turns out that he is playing a prank on them with the help of Travolta.

Linda tells Jack she is pregnant on St. Patrick’s Day. He and the whole firehouse are really excited.

The guys are on a two story roof. You can see it coming. The roof colapses. A firefighter is down. The fire is much bigger than anticipated. They lose a fellow firefighter: Billy Burke played the ill-fated Dennis Gauquin.

Captain Mike let’s the men take off as much time as they need.

There’s a scuff at the firehouse. Dinnis is accused of not being careful enough by Lenny. Lenny is the antagonist in this movie. Captain Mike gives a heartfelt speech and tells them to lower the flag.

There’s a full funeral scene. It’s supposed to be touching. But I think the movie is just trying too hard. It’s a delicate line. I feel for the director… not enough emotion and people aren’t connected. Too much emotion and they are insulted. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work. But it’s not a terrible storyline. It’s not unwatchable.

Jack was an engine man (he’s on the pipe) but now he wants to be a truck man. Jack takes Dennis’ place on the team as search and rescue.

Captain Mike shows Jack some pictures and stuff. Both his father and grandfather were firefighters. His grandfather got the Medal of Valor after he died.

We go to a scene where Jack is now on his new job. He is repelling down the side of a building. Tommy Drake played by Morris Chestnut is repelling him down the side of the building. There is a man on a ledge as the building is burning. The man leaps for Jack before Jack is ready. “Calm down or you’ll kill us. I swear to God I’ll drop you.” That’s a pretty cool line. Jack swings them out repeatedly until he breaks a window and is able to get them both in. They are both safe. Jack is clearly good at this new job.

Jack comes home after a few drinks with the boys. Linda saw him on the news and she is not happy. She is pregnant. “This isn’t just about us,” Linda says. She’s scared. She has a recurring dream about the red car turning up at the house when he doesn’t return home. (That could be foreshadowing.) He says he saved that man. She feels bad.

We now move ahead to when Linda gives birth and then gets their baby baptized. They have a daughter.

Back to today. Water is dripping on Jack’s head. He’s passed out. He slowly opens his eyes. There are explosions and loud creeking. Things are falling. He tells the chief that thngs are getting pretty unstable.

He tells the chief there’s a sliding access door but Jack can’t get to it because of too much debris. There is a control room behind a wall. They want Jack to break through the wall and it will buy them some time. Jack begins the process of breaking through the wall… brick by brick.

We pan to a birthday party. It’s the party of Katie Morrison played by Brooke Hamlin. Spencer Berglund plays Nicky Morrison their other child.

If you want this movie as part of your collection, would you consider clicking through here:

I make a small percentage and then I’ll be inspired to keep writing these crazy reviews.

There’s a big fire that wakes up a lot of teams. It’s a terrible fire and they decide to leave. Just as they decide to leave, Tommy gets blasted with a broken pipe in the steam heat system. He’s badly injured.

Jack goes home and has both hands covered in bandages. He has a heart to heart conversation where his son Nicky asks if steam can melt your face. Jack says new skin will grow back. Nicky asks if it heart. Jack says it does. Nicky doesn’t want him to get hurt. But Jack says he does it to save people and all the other guys at the firehouse wouldn’t let anything happen to him.

Jack goes to see Tommy at the hospital. He almost backs out because he’s afraid to look at him. But Jack pushes through and goes in. Tommy is in bad shape. Tommy doesn’t want his kids to see him like this. He was their hero and kids don’t forget things like this. Jack tells him that his kids don’t love him because of his looks. Linda wants to go see him but Jack doesn’t want her to go because it will freak her out.

Jack is drinking a lot and Lenny Richter comes in dressed as Santa. He jumps at Lenny.

Mike offers to take Jack with him as an aid. He would stop fighting fires. His kids are scared and Linda is upset, that’s why he’s thinking of taking this job. She says she is proud of him even though she does get scared. Jack says he doesn’t know if he still loves the job like he did initially.

Now there’s a Christmas-eve fire. Jack goes to save “Jenny” in the top apartment. It’s dark, chaotic. He can’t find anyone. He finally hears coughing. He sees Jenny. He starts to pull her out. A massive explosion engulfs the apartment. He screams for help. He and Jenny are rescued… by Lenny. Jenny is not breathing and has no pulse. They do cpr. It looks bad. But then suddenly she recovers. Jack narrowly escapes his Christmas fire. He stops into an evening church service where he finds his family.

Jenny Buckley presents a medal for saving her at an awards ceremony to both Lenny and Jack.

Incidentally, here’s a link to the sound track for Ladder 49:

We are now back at the current fire. Jack continues to chip away at the wall.

The units are making way to the control room and Jack is breaking through his wall. He’s able to sqeeqe through.

The fire is getting really bad. Conditions are deteriorating rapidly. Ladder 49 is through the debris. Lenny and his team are pushing through. The team is at the door to the control room but the fire behind it is too much. It’s fully engulfed. It looks bad for Jack. They will have to find another way to get in. Jack says it’s too late. He tells Captain Mike to pull them out. He tells Mike to tell Linda that he loves her and he loved her from the second he saw her. Jack is fading. Captain Mike tells all units to evacuate the building immediately. Is this it? Is Jack going to die? I find that hard to believe. That’s un-American. It wouldn’t test well. But sure enough the untis are out of the building. We see the building engulfed.

The red car pulls up to Jack’s house. Linda knows what is about to happen. Two men get out. She starts to cry. He did die. That’s pretty shocking. I’ve been shocked by surprising deaths in Travolta movies, i.e., Phenomenon

I have to hand it to them. Killing your main character is gutsy.

The funeral procession is quite impressive. I’m sure 9/11 is not lost on the director here. That’s fine. It’s certainly not directly referenced. The movie is an upclose view of New York firefighters.

After the initial heavy-handed emotional stuff, I eventually got into the story. It was a nice story. There are no tears welling up or anything. But it’s nice.

I’ll give it 3 stars. It certainly didn’t suck. But it probably could have been better, somehow.

I’m sorry for Jack’s family. That must be a pain greater than anything I’ve ever felt. But without people like Jack, our society would simply not exist. The sacrifices of people like Jack and Jack’s family, allow the rest of us to do whatever it is that we do. If a person is willing and then does die for society, shouldn’t we all give a little more in whatever it is that we do? We don’t have to be as great as someone like Jack. But maybe if we just tried a little harder because we know people like Jack are allowing us to move on with our lives.

Here’s to society… and all the people that have died to protect it.

Aldi Food Store Locations In Ohio

I put this page together because I never can find Aldi’s on the search engines. It takes me forever. I think part of the reason is because sometimes I call it Aldi’s Foods, or Aldi’s Grocery Store or Aldi’s Supermarkets. Or sometimes I just call it Aldis. Their site never comes up when I type in Aldis.

I can’t blame them really, though, because their name isn’t Aldis or Aldi’s.
It’s Aldi Foods. And they seem to prefer ALDI USA.

But I wanted to put this page together for anyone happening to search for Aldi’s Foods… particularly in Ohio.

If you want their main site it’s here: ALDI USA

I think their store locator doesn’t come up well in the search engines because it’s in frames and it doesn’t have a clear title. But, you can get to it here: ALDI USA - Aldi’s Store Locator

(Dear Aldi’s owners,
The reason I am doing this is because I love Aldi’s. I shop at your stores all the time. Incidentally, this is the kind of thing I do for a living. If you would like me to help you get to the top of the search engines more readily, please give me a call: 330-379-9000. I can help. My name is Sage Lewis.)

Here are all the current Aldi Stores in Ohio:

Location

ALDI in Akron, OH
Akron, OH 44310
1620 Brittain Road

ALDI in Akron, OH
Akron, OH 44320
2100 Romig Road

ALDI in Akron, OH
Akron, OH 44311
772 South Main Street

ALDI in Akron, OH
Akron, OH 44306
1333 South Arlington Street

ALDI in Alliance, OH
Alliance, OH 44601
2150 West State Street

ALDI in Ashland, OH
Ashland, OH 44805
1640 Claremont Avenue

ALDI in Astabula, OH
Astabula, OH 44004
3124 North Ridge East

ALDI in Athens, OH
Athens, OH 45701
932 East State Street

ALDI in Austintown, OH
Austintown, OH 44515
5863 Mahoning Avenue

ALDI in Bellefontaine, OH
Bellefontaine, OH 43311
1708 South Main Street

ALDI in Bowling Green, OH
Bowling Green, OH 43402
1010 S Main Street

ALDI in Brooklyn, OH
Brooklyn, OH 44144
5170 Tiedeman Road

ALDI in Brunswick, OH
Brunswick, OH 44212
4221 Center Road

ALDI in Cambridge, OhioP
Cambridge, OH 43725
6124 Southgate Parkway

ALDI in Canton, OH
Canton, OH 44705
2725 Maret Street N.E.

ALDI in Canton, OH
Canton, OH 44708
5117 West Tuscarawas

ALDI in Celina, OH
Celina, OH 45822
2001 Havemann Road

ALDI in Centerville, OH
Centerville, OH 45459
6250 Center Point Drive

ALDI in Cincinnati, OH
Cincinnati, OH 45245
821 Clepper Lane

ALDI in Cincinnati, OH
Cincinnati, OH 45239
2550 West Galbraith Road

ALDI in Cincinnati, OH
Cincinnati, OH 45238
5033 Delhi Road

ALDI in Cincinnati, OH
Cincinnati, OH 45229
3545 Reading Road

ALDI in Circleville, OH
Circleville, OH 43113
23455 US Rt. 23 South

ALDI in Cleveland, OH
Cleveland, OH 44109
3787 Pearl Road

ALDI in Cleveland, OH
Cleveland, OH 44120
10815 Kinsman

ALDI in Cleveland, OH
Cleveland, OH 44112
18235 Euclid Avenue, Unit 3

ALDI in Columbus, OhioP
Columbus, OH 43220
4664 Sawmill Road

ALDI in Columbus, OH
Columbus, OH 43068
3043 Gender Road

ALDI in Columbus, OH
Columbus, OH 43224
3350 Cleveland Avenue

ALDI in Columbus, OH
Columbus, OH 43228
5487 West Broad Street

ALDI in Columbus, OH
Columbus, OH 43211
2395 Silver Drive

ALDI in Columbus, OH
Columbus, OH 43223
1331 West Mound Street

ALDI in Coshocton, OH
Coshocton, OH 43812
811 South Second Street

ALDI in Dayton, OH
Dayton, OH 45432
3846 Linden Avenue

ALDI in Dayton, OH
Dayton, OH 45417
4303 West Third Street

ALDI in Defiance, OH
Defiance, OH 43512
950 North Clinton Street

ALDI in East Liverpool, OH
East Liverpool, OH 43920
15849 South R. 170

ALDI in Elyria, OH
Elyria, OH 44035
426 Oberlin Road

ALDI in Englewood, OH
Englewood, OH 45322
606 Taywood Drive

ALDI in Fairview Park, OH
Fairview Park, OH 44116
21329 Center Ridge Road

ALDI in Findlay, OH
Findlay, OH 45839
1960 Tiffin Avenue

ALDI in Forest Park, OH
Forest Park, OH 45240
1135 West Kemper Road

ALDI in Fremont, OH
Fremont, OH 43420
2096 Enterprise Street

ALDI in Gallipolis, OH
Gallipolis, OH 45631
176 Upper River Road

ALDI in Greenville, OH
Greenville, OH 45331
415 Wagner Avenue

ALDI in Grove City, OH
Grove City, OH 43123
4041 Gantz Road

ALDI in Hamilton, OH
Hamilton, OH 45013
1431 Main Street

ALDI in Heath, OH
Heath, OH 43056
775 30th Street

ALDI in Hilliard, OH
Hilliard, OH 43026
4489 Cemetary Road

ALDI in Holland, OH
Holland, OH 43528
7101 Spring Meadows West

ALDI in Huber Heights, OH
Huber Heights, OH 45424
6300 Brandt Pike

ALDI in Kettering, OH
Kettering, OH 45420
1940 East Dorothy Lane

ALDI in Lancaster, OH
Lancaster, OH 43130
629 North Memorial Drive

ALDI in Lima, OH
Lima, OH 45805
3285 Elida Road

ALDI in Lorain, OH
Lorain, OH 44052
3810 South Broadway

ALDI in Mansfield, OH
Mansfield, OH 44906
1345 West 4th Street

ALDI in Marietta, OH
Marietta, OH 45750
708 Pike Street

ALDI in Marion, OH
Marion, OH 43302
1916 Marion / Mt Gilead Road

ALDI in Marysville, OH
Marysville, OH 43040
15740 U S Rt 36 E.

ALDI in Medina, OH
Medina, OH 44256
3444 Medina Road

ALDI in Middleburg Hts., OH
Middleburg Hts., OH 44130
18324 Bagley Road

ALDI in Middletown, OH
Middletown, OH 45042
4720 Roosevelt Blvd.

ALDI in Mt. Vernon, OH
Mt. Vernon, OH 43050
1545 Coshocton Avenue

ALDI in New Philadelphia, OH
New Philadelphia, OH 44663
1187 West High Street

ALDI in North Randall, OH
North Randall, OH 44128
4650 Northfield Road

ALDI in Northfield, OH
Northfield, OH 44067
10333 Northfield Road

ALDI in Northwood, OH
Northwood, OH 43619
2676 Woodville Road

ALDI in Norwalk, OH
Norwalk, OH 44857
195 Milan Avenue

ALDI in Painesville, OH
Painesville, OH 44077
2045 Mentor Avenue

ALDI in Piqua, OH
Piqua, OH 45356
987 East Ash Street

ALDI in Portsmouth, OH
Portsmouth, OH 45662
2339 Gallia Street

ALDI in Salem, OH
Salem, OH 44460
2495 East State Street

ALDI in Sandusky, OH
Sandusky, OH 44870
229 West Perkins Avenue

ALDI in Sheffield Village, OH
Sheffield Village, OH 44035
5216 Detroit Road

ALDI in Sidney, OH
Sidney, OH 45365
2500 Michigan Avenue

ALDI in Springfield, OH
Springfield, OH 45504
2091 North Bechtle Avenue

ALDI in Springfield, OH
Springfield, OH 45505
1911 Limestone Street

ALDI in St. Clairsville, OH
St. Clairsville, OH 43950
51660 National Road

ALDI in Steubenville, OH
Steubenville, OH 43952
4150 Mall Drive

ALDI in Stow, OH
Stow, OH 44224
3804 Fishcreek Road

ALDI in Streetsboro, OH
Streetsboro, OH 44241
9071 State Route 14

ALDI in Tiffin, OH
Tiffin, OH 44883
2124 West Market Street

ALDI in Toledo, OH
Toledo, OH 43612
130 New Towne Square Drive

ALDI in Toledo, OH
Toledo, OH 43614
3015 Glendale Avenue, Suite 500

ALDI in Wapakoneta, OH
Wapakoneta, OH 45895
1245 Bellefontaine Street

ALDI in Warren, OH
Warren, OH 44485
2774 Parkman Road NW

ALDI in Warren, OH
Warren, OH 44484
2425 Niles Cortland Road

ALDI in Washington Ct Hse, OH
Washington Ct Hse, OH 43160
250 Washington Square

ALDI in Westerville, OH
Westerville, OH 43081
5990 Westerville

ALDI in Westlake, OH
Westlake, OH 44145
30700 Detroit Road

ALDI in Whitehall, OH
Whitehall, OH 43213
3831 East Main Street

ALDI in Willowick, OH
Willowick, OH 44095
30960 Lake Shore Blvd.

ALDI in Wilmington, OH
Wilmington, OH 45177
1801 Rombach Avenue

ALDI in Wooster, OH
Wooster, OH 44691
2249 Akron Road

ALDI in Xenia, OH
Xenia, OH 45385
201 North Allison

ALDI in Youngstown, OH
Youngstown, OH 44512
6131 South Avenue

ALDI in Zanesville, OH
Zanesville, OH 43701
3500 North Maple Avenue

What Coming Together Does
Coming Together is devoted to helping its members promote diversity. Sometimes that means exchanging ideas and resources through community workshops. On other occasions, it means assisting member organizations in planning and presenting educational forums, as well as musical and theater events that teach us to appreciate the culture of others.

Coming Together also encourages people to go out of their way to develop friendships with those of another race. To facilitate this effort, the project has sponsored such social events as a Unity Walk and an annual Akron Aeros Baseball Game. When we get to know people of other races who share our values and goals, we can celebrate what we have in common and appreciate our differences.

I had an interesting, extended conversation about where we stand as a country with racial diversity. Rocky pointed out that nothing new was really brought up in the conversation. It was white people talking about how we all agreed with Bill Cosby. As white people that’s an embarrassing position. Again, Rocky pointed out that the reason Cosby got any traction from his position is because it’s controversial against his race, and it’s what white people have always wanted to say but couldn’t. And really, Bill Cosby has lived longer as a rich man than a poor man. He’s far removed from people living in economically depressed areas. How much does he really know about it? I actually don’t know… maybe he knows a lot. But socially vocal celebrities are notorious for their lack of true understanding, i.e., Jane Fonda, Tom Cruise.

All that being said, it is a topic that interests me. I would like to do something in this area. So I think I might go check out these folks.
The Coming Together Project

Here is yet another directory:
Your Online Celebrity Directory
Enjoy!

These are the latest sites we have been working on at SageRock:

Your Online Cats Directory
Your Online Dog Information and Resources Directory
Your Online Christian Resources Directory
Your Online Beer Information and Resources Directory
And they all have their own blog:
Dog Blog
Cat Blog
Beer Blog
Christianity Blog

I’m pretty sure it was record time for creating 4 major directories. The Christianity directory has over 12,000 listings in itself. I don’t think I will ever try to roll out 4 directories all at the same time again. It’s just too painful.

There are actually 2 more to come. But they might be out a ways in production time.

These sites are actually just major experiments. I want to see a couple things. First, the engines always say they prefer you to have all of your web properties under one domain. So that’s a test… can I rank well on a diverse set of topics as subfolders. Next, I want to see if directories are of interest to the engines. Will we get ranked high for some of these big phrases? That will be interesting to see.

So, that’s that. I’m now off to start populating the blogs.

Cheers!

OK. This is my crowning jewel. There are 12745 links in this database. We have an extensive collection of Christian churches by state plus many many more categories. I’ve been working on this site non-stop for 4 days. The database almost didn’t build out. I was totally nervous that it wasn’t going to work out. But it all looks to be running well. I encourage you to use the Search feature on the top nav bar in the far right. It works quite well. Enjoy…
Your Online Christian Resources Directory

And here is yet another directory. This one is all beer related. I’m not a beer drinker. But I certainly can appreciate the beauty of such a cool, refreshing treat.
Your Online Beer Information and Resources Directory