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Avian Flight Anatomy

Submitted by Jeff Buster on March 10, 2010 - 12:52am.

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Responding to bread being thrown into the air, every gymnastic move was on display.  Spectacular!

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Cleveland Foundation has the answers

Submitted by Jeff Buster on March 10, 2010 - 12:19am.

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Except for teachers, parents, and students - everyone at the Cleveland Municipal School Board meeting this evening supported the school closing plans advanced by the Cleveland Foundation.   

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Warping light, sound, and time?

Submitted by Jeff Buster on March 8, 2010 - 9:32pm.

mirage on rail road track warp visible light air temperature differential

Why do small differentials in air temperature warp visible light?  Index of refraction.   

An earlier post on Realneo wondered whether an invisibility cloak could be made from wire - the air temperature differential around the wires on the corn crib causes a visual moire effect.

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Digital Prowess

Submitted by Jeff Buster on March 7, 2010 - 10:08pm.

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No cell phone app will put buttons back on your shirt, or darn your socks.  

Have you ever created a shirt from a McCalls pattern? 

Have you sewn with a treadle machine and finished the details with needle and thread?

It used to be that thimbles were an indispensible tool in every household - necessary for digital protection. 

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Winter Sport

Submitted by Jeff Buster on March 7, 2010 - 9:06pm.

vail grooming slopes at night 1.09 image jeff busterWhile you are having that Martini at dinner - and all through the night, the slopes are being groomed.

 

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Boraxo Closes Boron

Submitted by Jeff Buster on March 5, 2010 - 8:38pm.
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On January 31, 2010 Rio Tinto locked out 550 union miners from its Boron, California Borax Mine.
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The Old Light Bulb Joke ...

Submitted by Jeff Buster on March 3, 2010 - 6:09pm.

changing street signal bulbs cleveland ohio image jeff buster 3.2.10

Did you hear the joke about how many (insert your favorite-to-ridicule ethnicity here) it takes to change a light bulb?  

In this case two City workers, and two to turn the truck!  

Just kidding, this is an unfair use of the image.  

 

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Igloo - building with water crystals in compression

Submitted by Jeff Buster on March 3, 2010 - 2:36pm.

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The  recent snows in the North East Ohio area have stimulated children (and perhaps adults, in the case of the very cleanly expressed example in the image above) to creative play involving no commercial components. 

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Snow Lettuce - gardening we don't know well

Submitted by Jeff Buster on March 1, 2010 - 10:49pm.

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I took a walk through a community garden in the middle of February - no one else was there. 

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How Can Joe Roman Sleep at Night?

Submitted by Jeff Buster on February 3, 2010 - 11:46pm.

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I went to a Greater Cleveland Partnership funded "community" meeting tonight...and the hypocrisy and lies were so thick I felt like I had to ethically/intellectually PUKE.

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US Postal "Service"?

Submitted by Jeff Buster on January 31, 2010 - 9:13pm.

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Improving our passenger rail facilities - park the car

Submitted by Jeff Buster on January 31, 2010 - 5:24pm.

  joe cimperman councilor cleveland image jeff buster 1.29.10 colonade Cleveland’s downtown Councilman Joe Cimperman points out that the  Rail Road Station design competition reception on Friday, January 29 took place only a day after Ohio received 400 million dollars in stimulus funds to be used to connect Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati by passenger rail.

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Lake Front Rail design proposals - reception

Submitted by Jeff Buster on January 28, 2010 - 5:28pm.

 
 
 
Project 2009: Lakefront Station Awards Reception and Exhibition
 
 
On Friday January 29th, 2010, you are invited to attend the 2009 Cleveland Design Competition Awards Reception and Exhibition to view ideas for a new Lakefront Station in Downtown Cleveland and celebrate this years' winning proposal

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What types of structures stood up to the Haiti quake?

Submitted by Jeff Buster on January 23, 2010 - 8:32am.

dome survives earthquake intact in Haiti image bbcThe 3 concrete domes on the Presidential Palace in Haiti not only survived the recent earthquake intact, they also appear to have survived their fall from their positions as roofs over the second floor of the Palace to their final resting positions on the rubble of the first floor. 

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California Seismic retrofit - not done in Haiti

Submitted by Jeff Buster on January 19, 2010 - 11:23pm.

seismic retrofit support california freeway image jeff buster san andreas faultThe image shows a retrofit seismic support on I 215 in San Bernardino, California near the San Andreas Fault.  CalTrans has studied all of the California highway structures and retrofitted the system with earthquake safety features in many locations across the State.

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Take a deep breath - and shove off

Submitted by Jeff Buster on January 17, 2010 - 12:12am.

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Very special.  Makes me gulp.  Blind Skier

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Why ignorance prevails in our “democracy”.

Submitted by Jeff Buster on January 16, 2010 - 11:13pm.
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These T12 fluorescent light bulbs went obsolete a decade and a half ago. 
But not in Ohio. Because Ohio has the right to be an ignorant state.   Ohio has its own citizens who elect their own legislators.   Ohio citizens have the right to be ignorant.    And democracy will guarantee that the ignorant citizens of Ohio will retain their prerogative to remain backward.
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Flaunting Curves - When is the expression of Sensuality OK?

Submitted by Jeff Buster on January 13, 2010 - 10:21pm.

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When a Judge goes out of bounds....

Submitted by Jeff Buster on January 13, 2010 - 6:21pm.
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Filing an ethics complaint against a Judge is serious business.  And having such a complaint upheld by The Board of Commissioners on  Grievances and Discipline of the Supreme Court of Ohio means the complaint was found to be meritorious. 
 
 It would appear that  
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Interstate RR - Most efficient transportation works out of 3rd class quarters in Cleveland

Submitted by Jeff Buster on January 11, 2010 - 8:08pm.

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The Passerby I Haven’t Seen Recently

Submitted by Jeff Buster on January 11, 2010 - 11:26am.
We all have memories of people we pass by regularly on our daily travels.   In front of our house, on the bus, at work.
 
These people are part of our personal landscape. Though seen regularly, we often may never actually converse with them.   
 
There was an older man who walked past my house on his way to the grocery store. His back was so bent that even with his brace he was facing straight down to the pavement.
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Fire and Ice - steel furnace flame off

Submitted by Jeff Buster on January 10, 2010 - 7:39am.

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Prosecutor Bill Mason's better side: The 1 Million Dollar Lake Effect Wind Turbine Study

Submitted by Jeff Buster on January 9, 2010 - 6:54pm.

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Just Brilliant in Clevehoga

Submitted by Jeff Buster on January 4, 2010 - 7:36pm.
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The image is of Cuyahoga County Commissioner James Dimora taken on March 13, 2008. We were going up in the elevator in the County Offices in Downtown Cleveland.
 
Mr.
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