Environment

To Save People The Bother of Attacking Me

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Sun, 02/28/2010 - 21:12.

I'll be brief.

I co-founded realNEO in 2004 because Northeast Ohio needs realNEO - the world needs realNEO. It is entirely different from any other "social network" or content management system on Earth, building upon the ICEarth co-op conceptual framework.

I developed the ICEarth (Internet/Information Community Earth) conceptual framework in global collaboration, in the late 1990's, and founded ICEarth LLC, in 2002, to build the co-op data warehousing and serving platform for the ICEarth conceptual framework.

We have built specialised hardware for ICEarth, running specialised open source software, all developed to unique specifications. Initial testing of the hardware and software configurations exceeds expectations.

Question of the Day: How much time do you think politicians spend on Politics vs. doing their elected, paid duties?

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Sat, 02/27/2010 - 03:47.

Why My Boys Are Lead Poisoned: "City Supports Medical Center Company Demolition and Redevelopment Project"

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Thu, 02/25/2010 - 14:44.

Meet the biggest development secret in unreal NEO, that makes the Opportunity Corridor look like heaven on Earth - here is the big opportunity being rammed through East Cleveland... although we've never seen a plan... you've only read about it here, on realNEO, because the PD is part of making this happen, obviously... you think Litt didn't know about THIS, when he wrote this?

And you think bad shit goes down in your neighborhood.

realNEO Song Of The Day: Bob Dylan and the Band - The Last Waltz - "Forever Young"

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Thu, 02/25/2010 - 00:30.

"Forever Young"

May God bless and keep you always
May your wishes all come true
May you always do for others
And let others do for you
May you build a ladder to the stars
And climb on every rung
May you stay forever young
Forever young, forever young
May you stay forever young.

China is doing well in solar, and the United States isn't. Why?

Submitted by Charles Frost on Wed, 02/24/2010 - 20:24.

Winning The Energy Wars

Tom Rooney, 02.24.10, 01:00 AM EST

I've Identified Some Astounding Information Technology Talents in real NEO who have been Harmed by our Leadership

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Mon, 02/22/2010 - 07:37.

I've Identified Some Astounding Information Technology Talent in real NEO that has been harmed by our regional leadership, and I'm trying to find a nice way to deal with that. Each of these people have risen to positions of demonstrated excellence in their fields - have innovated our regional information technology landscape and had global impact - and each of them have been directly violated by leadership in our community - IT leadership and community development leadership. They have each done the right things - each taken the right steps - and each been blocked along the way. And each are "minority". How do I now give them the proper status they deserve in the community, where they have not been welcome or valued?

Song of the Day: Depeche Mode: "Master and Servant"

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Sun, 02/21/2010 - 13:44.

Song of the Day: Depeche Mode: "Master and Servant" - dedicated to many friends in the community... especially the Weblady. Blessings.

Another Nail In Coal's Coffin?

Submitted by Charles Frost on Thu, 02/18/2010 - 22:42.

Standards for the Management of Coal Combustion Residues Generated by Commercial Electric Power Producers – Proposed Rule – Expected in the near future

Indian project for 13,000 MW of renewable energy

Submitted by Charles Frost on Thu, 02/18/2010 - 22:25.

It’s the world’s largest single investment in renewable energy sources, launched by Airvoice Group with a $50 billion investment over a 10 year period

Indian-based Airvoice Group announced an ambitious project, which is said to be «the largest single investment in the world in renewable energy sources».

My world has been quieter, lately, and then I realized... less spam on REALNEO

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Thu, 02/18/2010 - 14:17.

Props to Jeff Shuler, realNEO's tech administrator. He has been implementing an anti-spam strategy that seems to be working... meaning admins don't have to block a dozen spammers and delete their lame links, each day....! Thank you Jeff S!

If you are a real realNEO user and you have any trouble with accessing or posting to the site, it is not because an admin hates you - there is software now analyzing all the content posted to the site and running tests to rate how likely it is that the content is spam, and Jeff is adjusting settings to try and block out the spam, without impacting real users. The system must learn - a type of "artificial intelligence" - and it is learning - and it seems to be working. IF YOU ARE BLOCKED FOR ANY REASON AND SHOULD NOT BE BLOCKED, GO TO THE CONTACT LINK IN THE MENU BAR ABOVE AND LET US KNOW!

Time To Start Organizing realNEO for Software Freedom Day 2010 - IT's the Year Of The Penguin real NEO

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Wed, 02/17/2010 - 01:35.
09/18/2010 - 01:00
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Software Freedom Day in Toronto 2006

I attended an excellent Software Freedom Day event in Toronto in 2006, which I introduced on REALNEO here, and covered on REALNEO here - I actually needed a copy of Ubuntu that day, so it came in very handy.

I'd like to see Northeast Ohio celebrate Software Freedom Day 2010 in a BIG WAY - Saturday, September 18 - and follow the model I saw in use in Toronto, which included active, friendly engagement on a busy street, with workshops and light training/Q&A offered inside a receptive place. Of course, the Linux Penguin was out-front to draw attention to the event... we definitely need a penguin.

I'm Proud My Wife Has Been A Great Role Model To 10,000+ People Considering Childbirth

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Sun, 02/14/2010 - 10:48.

It has been exciting to watch, over the past week, as this beautiful video clip of my beautiful wife Evelyn giving birth to our beautiful daughter Clara has been viewed by nearly 6,000 people on YouTube - a companion video clip of my wife in hypno-birth, water-birth labor has received nearly as much global attention... in a week. In a week, those two clips attracted around 10,000 unique viewers... about as many unique viewers as come to our REALNEO community, in a week. The value of sharing these videos on YouTube is obvious - that is a good distribution channel to teach people about childbirth. So is REALNEO.

How Do "Feed In Tariffs" For Solar Power Work

Submitted by Charles Frost on Thu, 02/11/2010 - 20:37.
Here is a video on how Feed In Tariffs Work:

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...and here is an article from USA Today on the new UK Feed In Tariff Program:

Feb 02, 2010

Go green, earn green: U.K. pays people for wind, solar power (from USA Today)

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Legalize It or Criminalize It - Should NEO/Ohio Lead The World in Medical Marijuana R&D, Production and Revenues?

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Tue, 02/09/2010 - 22:14.

realNEO homemovie 1 Women in HypnoBirth in Waterbirth Delivering Baby Happy

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Sat, 02/06/2010 - 09:29.

Expert hypnobirthing mother, during her third naturally-wonderful, perfect hypnobirth, January 31, 2010, delivering and receiving her baby - no medications or medical intervention - one hour and 10 minutes after she falls asleep between strong contractions here.

Notice the complete lack of screaming, scalpels, doctors, pain and gore... not one drop of blood in the water - observe the natural joy and beauty, and the smile on the mother's face just moments after childbirth... the baby immediately comforted in her arms.

The midwife is heard saying "Not a small child" - she was right... 8 pounds 13 ounces.

A chat with Sen. Bernie Sanders on his new 10 million solar roofs bill

Submitted by Charles Frost on Sat, 02/06/2010 - 00:43.

"On Thursday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) introduced a bill aimed at getting 10 million new solar rooftop systems and 200,000 new solar hot water heating systems installed in the U.S. in the next 10 years.

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EYES WIDE OPEN

Submitted by lmcshane on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 02:26.

I am sending this plea to the Cleveland Metropolitan School District and Mayor Frank Jackson:

realNEO ambient 14 Women in Hypnobirth in Waterbirth Falling Asleep While Having her Baby

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 08:44.

Women in labor under hypnobirth

This High Definition ambient film clip is of an expert hypnobirthing mother, during her third naturally-wonderful, perfect hypnobirth, January 31, 2010, in hard labor, fully dilated - no medications or medical intervantion, other than a midwife breaking her water, later - one hour and 10 minutes before the baby was delivered - where she falls asleep between strong contractions that are less than 2 minutes apart. She has been up the entire night before tiling a bathroom, has not slept, and was stressed until she began focusing on her hypnobirthing.