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One Community’s Redevelopment

Posted in Do, Experience, See on August 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Alan Carrel purchased a house on Reinhard Avenue five years ago but before he did, his friends warned him about moving immediately east of Parsons Avenue.  “The neighborhood was trashed”, he said.  “Abandoned homes, absentee landlords, litter, drugs and prostitution were rampant.”  Still, the street held a small-town appeal.
A year later when he thought to [...]

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Hot Child in the City

Posted in Think on August 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I was out on my bicycle today. Just tooling around. Along the river, around campus, through Harrison West and along High Street in the Short North and downtown.
And it never fails that this song begins to run through my head after I’ve been on the bike for a few hours.
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Yellow Shirts on High and Hubbard

Posted in Listen on August 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

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The Orwell Prize

Posted in Read on August 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Beginning tomorrow, August 9th, a new blog will begin publishing the diaries of author George Orwell. Each post will be published on the site exactly 70 years from the date of its original entry in the author’s diary.
The project will provide insight into the author’s life for four years, from 1938 to 1942. [...]

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Sphere of Influence

Posted in Think on August 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

What if time were spherical rather than linear?  Linear time requires that one thing happen before something else can begin.  Spherical time allows all things to coexist simultaneously.  With spherical time one only needs to find the shortest distance to any given point rather than waiting for one event to trigger another.
Spherical time would better [...]

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