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Philadephia car-freedom ain’t free no more. The Illadeph blog has updates and a late-Friday bad news email to the previously free basic membership service–was pay for what and when you use, nothing more. Near as we can tell, the service is healthy and well-used (50k members), it’s just that the founders got booted when their [...]

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Geez, what’s the point of being proud when you sit on the news like an egg?
As promised, our headline is the update for last Friday’s Richmond Public Schools citywide MindGames competion. The J.B. Fisher team went one better than their 2007 1st and 2nd place season, and claimed both age group first place overall trophies.
Sadly, [...]

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Yes, Silver Persinger productions brings us … The Thing many have heard of, few have seen, but most acknowledge must be exceedingly terrifying because, well, it’s from GRTC and, umm, so many are talking about it so authoritatively.
This video, includes an interesting [and glitchy] computer animation of what GRTC is proposing for the Transfer Center, [...]

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Attended a creative/visualization workshop this morning hosted by the businesses of Peter Fraser, Ansel Olson and John Sarvay. Topic? A very productive and affirmative working exploration of Richmond’s tangible and intangible assets, story, context and vectors of meaning. Geez, that sounds buzzwordy, doesn’t it? Ignore the jargon. It was very refreshing and dynamic, using various [...]

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…and I’m sticking to it is the title of crisp post by Gayle Turner over at Bait, Tackle, Ice, Advice & Beer Blog
Everyone sees themselves as the hero of their own story…. Great branders understand the stories their target audiences tell themselves. They position their products and services within stories that embrace and celebrate the [...]

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Expression, amateur-artisan-artist, object design, exploration, open play, reclamation, no boundaries, and massive consumption to create necessary source material – –  I love this on so many levels.

“Build, sculpt, weld, glue, hammer, bend, fold, print, tape and paint” and moreover, BE BOLD.
Red Bull Art of Can is a nationwide hunt for creativity with annual exhibits in major cities [...]

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Full day coaching at RPS Mind Games surrounded by 203 brilliant young minds, 29 school teams, 4 competitions, 3rd & 2nd graders, but only 1 first place trophy!! Way to go FISHER ELEMENTARY!

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For the last 3 months, teams of Elementary kids have been practicing for tomorrow and Friday, the respective 2/3 grade and 4/5 grade competitions of the Richmond Public Schools Mind Games. (Read about last week’s Middle School battle here.) This year’s compo will be @ Miles Jones Elementary instead of the Arthur Ashe Center. Good [...]

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New Ballpark Statistic: Stadium’s Toilet Ratio
If nothing else, $2 billion worth of baseball ballparks should buy shorter waits for the restrooms, at least for women… “potty parity” laws and ever-changing plumbing codes promise relief.
And in no place in New York City will those changes be felt more than in the restroom lines at the new [...]

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Equal and opposite reaction. That’s what I remember most about Newton’s laws from high school. It might be the most handy thing an observer of people might get from science. If not, maybe it’s what goes up must come down. Or that a motion continues until it’s interrupted by an external force…
NYT: “Community organizing has [...]

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