Here is a report from the Mansfield News Journal  regarding a recent Ohio Supreme Court decision on public records.

The Zanesville Times Recorder points out that the Ohio public records law has recently been weakened by Gov. Kasich and the Ohio Legislature.

This is an image of what every culture needs to thrive and survive.  Young people who are happily learning and developing self confidence through the efforts of family and friends and teachers.

Very interesting quilt - I like the sheep and the dog.  

Are all the thread ends tucked back inside?

Thanks for your smile!

The image above shows cephalanthus occidentalis (button bush) at the end of it's flowing period.  Bumble bees are still in attendance.

Most of the seeds have left the center flower, leaving a very neat green ball.

Is there an advantage/disadvantage of this flower geometry over other flower shapes? 

Google analytics has a free software which they provide called Google Analytics.   Google Analytics has been running behind the face of Realneo for about 3 years.  From time to time one or another of the admins on Realneo has posted details, screen grabs, or other info from Google Analytics - either to make a point or just to inform the realneo audience regarding who is watching realneo.

So you buy a car for $50,000.00 - that doesn't mean you get the software you need to monitor and fix it.   In fact you don't get that vital component of the product you purchased.   Instead, the dealers get the software - so you are a captive of theirs.   

You really didn't buy all of the car, you just bought the part you can see.

This is my idea of good exercise.  And man it is exercise to use a sythe to mow. (image courtesy my friend Rich G.)

I think this is also an apt image - Realneo working with hand tools to mow the world while everyone else uses combines.  You get it? don't you?

Please relay your hand mowing exeriences for the rest of us.

You can read about cache refresh here.

After a Realneo user brought it to my attention, I was dumb founded by the issue earlier today too.

Then I remembered Realneo is now running an updated text editor module.  Its recent installation was the reason your computer's cache needs to be refreshed - in order to load the new editor module.

Thanks for your interest in Realneo.

An evening visit to the Frank Gehry designed Strata Center on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus in Cambridge, Mass. reveals a playful courtyard. 

Reflections cast from the stainless steel shingles deform lighting in unusual ways - intriquing passerbys. 

Goodrich Corporation announced on June 8, that it's Cleveland landing gear production facility would be closed in 2012 "due to program volume decline and the lack of appropriate new work to cost-effectively fill available capacity".  

From its established location in Montreal, the Bixi bike rental system has just rolled out in Toronto.

The wirelessly interfaced computer connected racks are located around downtown Toronto on the public sidewalks.  

You can read about the system and pricing on the Bixi Toronto site.

Norfolk Southern Corporation, the Ohio Department of Transportation, and Walsh Construction  of Chicago are involved in what I believe to be a bad faith transaction – the “purchase” by the State of Ohio of 50 acres of disused rail yard in Cleveland, Ohio.

During a winter hike I stumbled upon this spectacularly decomposed tree trunk.  Beautiful curves created by the still intact surface wood while the warm red core of the tree provided soft contrast.  This work must have taken a century or more...

I got back into the same woods a few weeks ago with my camera. 

Enjoy a visit to your neighbors' gardens - see their green thumb results - and learn new ideas for your garden.    Click on  GardenWalk Cleveland
for maps, times, and other particulars.

The first thing anyone sees when they click on Realneo is the banner image.

Over the last few years the administrators of realneo spent many hours developing what they hoped would be catchy and meaningful images for the banner.   It does take some time to produce a banner image - at the fastest probably 15 minutes to 1/2 hour - at least for me.

Today, 10.18.11, a bit of earnest and important Realneo went off into the ditch.   Would it be possible that certain recent comment dialogue be self-moderated and self-removed by the authors?  just askin....

Recently Realneo lost all civility and substantially abandoned any focus on facilitating intelligent community dialogue.For example, instead of advocating citizen journalism and respectful discourse, a great deal of time and effort was spent on ad hominem attacks between users of the site.

While we fight amoungst ourselves here on Realneo, our neighbors face a hell imposed by? Global Warming?

The trees in Joplin gave up their bark.  Very serious forces.

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Image, AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein

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 I'm jealous!  

This wisteria is very elegant - a spectacular statement of stable care and stable occupation - matched subtly by the front door of this residence. 

You can't buy this look - it has to be grown - with a lot of planning and patience. 

So actually I am jealous of all the years of planning, the years of civility, which were necessary to allow this beauty to mature.

This is a video of the Cleveland Community Dev power point

Ingenuity Fest now has competition.

MIT, on its 150th anniversity, has sponsored FAST.

I think it will be back in 2012.

Some will ask..."so what?".

Creative Civic Space.

So What?

Here is a view of a clivia flower from the underside.   Usually the public view is from the top of the flower.

Specialized high voltage line work is required for the change out of insulators to increase line voltage.

What can you see in the image that indicates OSHA calls frequently on these fellows?

Image Chicopee, Massachusetts