Hackers in Europe and China successfully broke into computers at nearly 2,500 companies and government agencies over the last 18 months in a coordinated global attack that exposed vast amounts of personal and corporate secrets to theft, according to a computer-security company that discovered the breach.

 A software engineer furious with the Internal Revenue Service plowed his small plane into an office building housing nearly 200 federal tax employees on Thursday, officials said, setting off a rag

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!

It’s no surprise but it’s good to have the real data. The top 400 earners saw their tax rates drop as their income soared. No one gives us this information better than David Cay Johnston. He says that these top income households have “soared to a new record high.”

Where are the credible voices in NEO? 

http://www.cleveland.com/education

Is anyone buying this plan?

Last night, at Tremont Montessori the question was asked--Does anyone (by a show of hands) believe that this plan fairly serves east and west side residents in providing quality education that empowers community?  

Is it any surprise that no one raised their hand?

 The solar maximum forecast for 2012 could do greater harm than any before, since human life has become much more dependent on the global energy grid.

 dbra joking or wrong  rcmp photo (royal canadian mounted police) left bottom corner -angel dog real blood real injuries    - plus blood of other species is more a different red  than humans - in an emergancy humans can have one blood tranfusion of a dog etc  - an older more experienced mostly dog like yogi would have killed the mountian lion - the lion would have gotton a sandwich and yogi would have gotton a meal so to speak- it looks like the lion (rcmp photo) was thin and needed  food

The City of Cleveland's TV20 now provides LIVE streaming video of Cleveland City Council meetings:  Here is the link:
http://portal.cleveland-oh.gov/CityofCleveland/Home/Government/MayorsOffice/tv20/watch

Who's a good dog: Angel the golden retriever took on the mountain lion after it attacked an 11-year-old boy
That's when the mountain lion charged across the yard at the boy.

 Dennis Kresak, president of Volunteers of America of Greater Cleveland, talks about an attack at the Volunteers of America Veterans Resource Center Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010, in Cleveland.

36 Predictions for the World: 2010 - 2012

Birds on Clark Avenue. http://rag14.weebly.com/birds-on-clark-avenue.html

RAG - Resident Advocacy Group
http://rag14.weebly.com/index.html
http://twitter.com/RAG14Tremont

Photos are from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Transforming the economy of Northeast Ohio - real NEO - will take incredible guts, new creations, a commitment to real openness, and 1,000s of Big Bangs.

real NEO, say hello to your little friend - ICEarth Big Bang 1. Created and Manufactured in Old Brooklyn - that's in Cleveland, Ohio, Earth.

Play the job lotto, it's easy. Post your resume on the net, apply for every job where the shoe fits and wait for your number to be called. Some employers will post all sorts of contact info and yet say "no phone calls please". Some are required to collect so many applicants to be a sample pool, but the boss's nephew is singled out already. The fresh faced youth's first job is so important for his success. What, he has few job specific skills, no training, no experience, but he is a crony.

 WEAPONS OF CHOICE  - No guns allowed, declares city, it's a 'snow emergency' - Hidden state laws ban firearm sales, even possession, during crises
Posted: February 16, 2010
12:06 am Eastern

 What I am about to tell you is something you've probably never heard or will ever read in history books.

One of my favorite songs, "Truckin", is snapshots from on the road by the Grateful Dead, which are not unlike snapshots in all our lives. Great early European video recording here, showing even the greatest performers make mistakes.

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.

There is a very disturbing article in today's Cleveland Plain Dealer, written by their urban-planning-master-in-training at Cleveland State University, that is so full of conflicts-of-interests and halftruths it will take weeks to dismantle the mess.