REALNEO - the name of this web site - is an acronym for Regional Economic Action Links North East Ohio.   

When Realneo was started by Norm Roulet in 2004 - one of the purposes of Realneo was to function as an open source  network/catalyst for civic and private innovation and economic development by facilitating effective communication and searchability via the world wide web. 

Use of the internet leaves a perfect record - for Google, for Facebook, for corporations who buy the tracking information from Google and Facebook, and for the authorities if they can get it.   Here is a link to BBC News which discusses the Court demand for Twitter data.

A few weeks ago a Realneo report described how 5 police in one community spent a 1/2 hour moving a homeless fellow from a McDonalds - sending him on his way down the street to another ? location.

This afternoon it was sunny out and I was up working on the roof where I could see the kids next door  bouncing a basketball in their driveway.    I also could see and hear - on the next street over - other kids playing basketball in their quiet residential street.   Both sets of kids could have had a pick up game if they just could get to one another conveniently and safely - through the middle of the block.   

Image:  John Filo 1970 student photographer (link to wikipedia) in later career won Pulitzer

The upper image (taken at a new car show) is the electric power pack which is under the rear trunk floor of the Mitsubishi i-MiEV all electric car.

Image: Toledo Blade

Why is it that of all the Occupy camps across the USA, the FBI took up a "successful" sting/entrapment operation in Public Square?   Could it be true that there is a more active wanna-be "anarchist" spirit here in Cleveland than, say, in Oakland, CA?    Just curious of the instigating circumstances which led the FBI to become involved....

For a new vocabulary word how's "corruscading" -

I learned the word when I saw the palm frawns oscillating rapidly back and forth in the wind making the sunlight flash brightly off the waxy surface of the frawn with each oscillation.

How to discribe that bright flashing?   

"Corruscading" light - I was told. 

Cool, a new word...

I had the lucky opportunity a few weeks ago to visit a navel orange grading and packing plant that was built from scratch by 3 brothers and their parents.   The experience was exhilarating - so much creativity and ingenuity on display. 

California area citrus is one of the few global citrus growing regions which has not yet been infected with Huanglongbing disease.    (link to wikipedia)

The sticky surfaced yellow card (image above) is hung on citrus trees across Southern California - hoping to collect the vector insect - and be an early warning system for the disease.  

 This fellow was sitting in the parking lot of a McDonald's outlet (not in Ohio).   

It appeared he had had a few (too many in life too) but wasn't being more than a visual discomfort - if you find reality discomforting.  

By this point the fellow had attempted to get up, was too drunk, and pulled his cart over on himself.  

He lay spralled on the asphalt.   

Fresh coconut milk and meat on the roadside across from the beach - prepared by the locals with a machete and a curved table knife -  the REAL thing...

Surf is just liquid Solar Power.....cutting right on this wave....

Kite boarding - color me there

 Doing my Saturday night rounds, I come to the stop light where I want to take a right turn - and very faintly on the sidewalk I think I see what I think is a votive candle flickering - I look up and it's in the quiet hands of a young black man.   

BIG MESSAGE HERE, I immediately realize.

Then everyone in the car says: It's got to be for Trayvon!

Wow!

Beautiful!

 Why didn't I think of this?   A local ordinance that requires a million dollar commercial insurance policy in order to have a public assembly or public march?   Why not a 10 million dollar policy limit if the march is really controversial?   

 Cuyahoga County   Common Pleas Judge John P. O'Donnell 

just appropriately ruled for the low bidder on the Brown's stadium concrete work. So, I thought, maybe here's a judge who is doing his job.  I Googled him. 

Rail Road engineering is some of the finest engineering.   The trains have to keep on schedule, and the tracks have to be always passable.  

In the image above, avalanche/dry landslide sheds deflect rock over the tracks on the Canadian National east of Vancouver, Canada.  The telephone poles near the sheds have wires which trip an alarm if a rock hits the wire.  

 Realneo is considering starting the world's first spam parasite "A" list:  Instead of removing spammers and their commercial crap content from Realneo.us, spammers will be highlighted here on realneo, and the underlying product rejected as parasidical crap.

Our US  politics are really weird.  

 It's all choreographed,  The Secret Service keeps everyone back.  Sort of.   

Image US Coast Guard

After a catastrophic event, many people help to quench the fire. 

But there is another way to prevent this situation. 

Don't deep water drill.  Don't Fukushima.  

Take away the fuel.

Guns

1972 Image from AP

 When we are young (and even when we are old) we are all mixed up.   In our youth (or adult-hood) we may be in conflict about our sexuality, and in our maturity (or youth) we may be in conflict about the merits of our political system.

But at whatever age we are, we don't need anyone filming and streaming our bedroom on line.  

That's out. Way out. SICK.

This is an image of an experiment set up to heat outside plants 12 months of the year.   Lots of electricity expended.  Not sure what the function of the  wire basket is.    

Have you seen anything like this?  If so, please let us know where.

Email me if you want to know where this experiment is being conducted. 

getting ready for the new movie.    The air grate is even part of the re-creation.