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Book your room at Hilton Colombo
Get an overview of this hotelFamily-friendly hotel with 3 restaurants and free valet parking
This family-friendly Colombo hotel is located by the ocean, within a 10-minute walk of Dutch Hospital Shopping Precinct, Colombo World Trade Center, and Bank of Ceylon Tower. Pettah Market and Dutch Period Museum are also within 15 minutes.
Hotel Features
This hotel features 3 restaurants, an outdoor pool, and 3 bars/lounges. Valet parking is free. Additionally, a 24-hour fitness center, a poolside bar, and a spa tub are onsite.
Room Amenities
All 382 rooms feature thoughtful touches like bathrobes and slippers, along with conveniences such as refrigerators and coffee makers. Other amenities available to guests include 24-hour room service, WiFi, and wired Internet.Would you like to give us feedback? Share it! Opens in a new window
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Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
In addition to an outdoor pool and a children's pool, Hilton Colombo provides a spa tub and a sauna. Dining is available at one of the hotel's 3 restaurants. The property also offers a grocery/convenience store. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of the hotel's bars, which include 3 bars/lounges and a poolside bar. Public areas are equipped with high-speed wireless Internet access (surcharge).
This 4-star property offers access to a 24-hour business center and meeting rooms. 4 meeting rooms are available. This family-friendly hotel also offers a 24-hour fitness center, spa services, and tour/ticket assistance. Complimentary self parking and valet parking are available on site.
- 24-hour business center
- 24-hour fitness facilities
- Babysitting or childcare
- Pool umbrellas
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Children's pool
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Concierge services
- Conference space
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Free self parking
- Free valet parking
- Garden
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Grocery/convenience store
- Hair salon
- Laundry facilities
- Meeting rooms 4
- Multilingual staff
- Number of bars/lounges - 3
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Number of floors - 19
- Number of meeting rooms - 4
- Number of restaurants - 3
- Outdoor pool
- Pool sun loungers
- Poolside bar
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Sauna
- Spa services on site
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Spa tub
- Steam room
- Supervised childcare/activities (surcharge)
- Tennis on site
- Total number of rooms - 382
- Tours/ticket assistance
- WiFi (surcharge)
Family Friendly Amenities
- Babysitting or childcare
- Children's pool
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
- Grocery/convenience store
- Laundry facilities
- Outdoor pool
- Refrigerator
Available in all rooms: Wireless internet access ( LKR 1800 per 24-hour period ), Wired internet access ( LKR 1800 per 24-hour period )
Available in some public areas: Wireless internet access ( LKR 1800 per 24-hour period )
Free self parking, Free valet parking
Room Amenities
- Air conditioning
- Bathrobes
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Coffee/tea maker
- Free bottled water
- Free toiletries
- Free weekday newspaper
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Daily housekeeping
- Designer toiletries
- Desk
- Hair dryer
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- In-room safe
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Minibar
- Phone
- Premium TV channels
- Private bathroom
- Refrigerator
- Room service (24 hours)
- Slippers
- Television
- Wired high-speed Internet access (surcharge)
- WiFi (surcharge)
Where to Eat
Buffet breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 6:30 AM and 10:30 AM.
Curry Leaf Restaurant - Overlooking the garden, this restaurant specializes in local cuisine and serves dinner only. A children's menu is available.
Emperors Wok - Overlooking the garden, this restaurant specializes in Chinese cuisine and serves lunch and dinner. A children's menu is available.
Spoons Restaurant - This restaurant serves lunch and dinner. A children's menu is available.
Thorana Lounge - Overlooking the garden, this bar serves light fare only. A children's menu is available. Happy hour is offered.
Stella Karaoke Bar - This karaoke bar serves light fare only.
24-hour room service is available.
Nearby Things to Do
An outdoor pool, a children's pool, and a spa tub are on site. Other recreational amenities include a sauna and a 24-hour fitness center.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Basketball on site
- Golfing nearby
- Playground on site
- Racquetball/squash on site
- Fitness classes on site
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessible bathroom
- Roll-in shower
- In-room accessibility
Hotel Policies
Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
No rollaway/extra beds available
Optional extras
- Fee for buffet breakfast: LKR 2350 per person (approximately)
- Fee for in-room wireless Internet: LKR 1800 per 24-hour period (rates may vary)
- Fee for in-room high-speed Internet (wired): LKR 1800 per 24-hour period (rates may vary)
- Fee for wireless Internet in public areas: LKR 1800 per 24-hour period (rates may vary)
Hotel Name
- Colombo Hilton
- Hilton Colombo
- Hilton Hotel Colombo
- Colombo Hilton International
- Hilton Colombo Hotel Colombo
- Hilton International Colombo
- Hilton Colombo Hotel
We should mention
The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.


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Appendix:Yellow walkthrough/Section 14
Route 22
After traveling throughout the Kanto region and defeating the eight Gym Leaders, the end of the story is fast approaching. The last great challenge for aspiring Trainers is to defeat the Elite Four far to the northwest, at Indigo Plateau. But before reaching the summit, you must travel through Victory Road, a grueling cave that serves to weed out the weaker Trainers. Rest your team and stock up on items while you can; the third legendary bird roosts deep inside the cave, so plan accordingly.
As you travel west on Route 22, Blue shows up to challenge you one last time. His Pokémon are no pushovers, but play to their weaknesses and they won't last very long.
Continue west and enter the League's front gate.
Route 23
POKéMON LEAGUE
Front Gate
Route 23 is a long route, and Victory Road awaits at the northern end. Be sure to have access to Surf, or you won't get very far.
The guard in the front gate checks all Trainers for the Boulder Badge. Scattered to the north are seven more guards, who each check for one of the other seven badges. Once the eighth guard sees your Earth Badge, you are free to enter the cave.
|Available Pokémon
Victory Road
Like the Seafoam Islands, Victory Road features several Strength puzzles; however, instead of dropping them through holes in the floor, they must be moved onto pressure switches to unlock new areas.
|Available Pokémon
Inside the entrance is a boulder to the west and a switch to the east. To activate the switch, move the boulder ↓1, →4, ↑2, →7, ↑2, →1, and ↓1. This removes the semi-invisible barrier on the rock platform. Head up to the northeast area to find two items near the north wall. The cave's layout forces you to use the boulder here to block off one item in order to reach the other. A Rare Candy lies to the west, while TM43 (Sky Attack) lies to the north. In order to reach the other item, exit and re-enter the cave to reset the puzzle. Go west past the two Cooltrainers and climb up the ladder in the northwest.
To the south is another boulder, move this one ←1, ↓2, ←2 onto the switch to clear the rock platform. Walk across the ledge, and go down the first stairway. To the west is TM05 (Mega Kick) and a pressure switch. Head northeast to find a Full Heal and TM17 (Submission), and climb the ladder near the Full Heal to the third floor.
To the north is another boulder, but ignore it for now. Go east to fight a Cooltrainer♂ and get a Max Revive. Head to the northwest area to find TM47 (Explosion) and another switch. Climb down the ladder to reach a new part of the second floor.
Fight the PokéManiac and grab the Guard Spec., then save the game. Roosting nearby is Moltres, the third and final legendary bird. Follow the same methods used against Articuno and Zapdos to complete the trio, then climb back up the ladder to 3F.
Go back east to the first boulder and move it ↑2, ←16, ↓1, ←4, ↓3, →1 to reach the switch. This clears the barrier on the rock platform so you can reach the southern area. Walk across the platform and head south to battle two more Cooltrainers. Go east to drop the boulder down the hole, then jump down behind it.
Shove the boulder all the way west to the switch. This removes the barrier near where it fell through from 3F. Climb up onto the platform and take the ladder back to the third floor.
Climb down the next ladder back to 2F.
Check the rock west of the ladder to find a hidden Full Restore, and leave the cave to return to Route 23.
Route 23
Follow the tiled path to the north, and wander through the maze of Pokémon statues at the foot of the Indigo Plateau. This is it!
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|This article is part of Project Walkthroughs, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive step-by-step guides on each Pokémon game.
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i'd like to battle on this week. can you come tomorrow at 8.00–10.00? then i have some time .
It's cool man, I don't mind bowing out, GL in the upcoming rounds.
when do you have time to complete our battle? my timezone is +2
Well I hate taking a bye so if you get any free time I don't have much going on this week so I should be able to battle any time you're able to.
Hey, do you use irc? I'm pretty much always in #pokemon, so I'm good to battle whenever you are. If you don't use irc, you might be able to find me on Showdown on the name zfs, I'm voiced so I'm near the top of the userlist.


text: High Rankin presents Rank Me Off (June 2010 Mix) by High Rankin published on 2010-06-21T15:16:50Z As you can see the wanking puns are thin on the ground. I think i have one more left in me for a special emotional mix that i'm planning but apart from that i may have to change the format of the pun. Anyhow, there is some more Hugh Rankin and plenty of shit off my new EP. This is a slightly self indulgent mix but that's how i like it so fuck you. There is a bit of Tom Waits at the end which to be honest is the high point of the mix. You can download the mix from the Suicide Dub site by clicking this link here >>> www.suicidedub.co.uk Tracklisting:: 1. Hugh Rankin's guide to picking up chicks part 1 2. High Rankin - Cut You Down (Forthcoming on Suicide Dub) 3. Blame & Ruff Squad - On My Own (Drumsound and Bassline Smith mix) 4. Reso and Vent - Rumble 5. High Rankin - Feel For You (forthcoming on Beta Recordings) 6. High Rankin - They Are Watching (Forthcoming on Suicide Dub) 7. High Rankin - Suicide 2 Point Oh (Temper D Mix) DOWNLOAD THIS TRACK FREE @ WWW.SUICIDEDUB.CO.UK 8. High Rankin featuring Pie - Soundboy (Forthcoming on Suicide Dub) 9. Hugh Rankin's guide to picking up chicks part 2 10. Drop Top - Machete (Forthcoming on Suicide Dub) 11. Temper D - Big Fat Star (Forthcoming on Suicide Dub) 12. Temper D - Circles In A Line (Forthcoming on Suicide Dub) 13. Zinc - Old Flame 14. Jack Beats - Revolution 15. High Rankin - Running up the walls (Forthcoming on Suicide Dub) 16. High Rankin - State Pump (Forthcoming on Beta Recordins) 17. High Rankin - Crumbling Beauty (Forthcoming on Suicide Dub) 18. Tom Waits - 9th and Hennepin Comment by dubstf hahaha this is really great 2011/03/30 01:03:15 +0000 Comment by YeloSno dammit, your best tracks are the ones that can only be purchased -_-.... sneaky sneaky 2010/12/08 03:35:21 +0000 Comment by SparkyHERO Here come's the best part. 2010/11/09 20:11:14 +0000 Comment by ensurdagen This part made a chill go down my spine 2010/09/02 20:09:43 +0000 Comment by ensurdagen Love you too, I'm poor but when I have a job I will buy this track! 2010/09/02 20:05:51 +0000 Comment by Crashbass @morah: LMFAO! 2010/09/02 19:13:17 +0000 Comment by _WDIS awesome!!! 2010/08/30 14:04:43 +0000 Comment by niggaed this is soooo dope!!! 2010/08/06 22:28:02 +0000 Comment by Reset the Atari Love this tune. What is it? 2010/08/06 12:29:35 +0000 Comment by DocBrownMusic wicked wicked wicked 2010/08/03 17:02:48 +0000 Comment by augustinsane rolfs at hugh!! 2010/07/07 13:43:30 +0000 Comment by Dstro AHHHHHHHHH! Effin rotating turntables with dancing midgets batman this mix is heavier then 29 pairs of double D Tits! 2010/07/01 23:17:20 +0000 Comment by Dstro Powdering up the pimp hand, Cool 70's swag tune in the intro. 2010/07/01 23:03:26 +0000 Comment by Lg Dubstep oh daaammmn 2010/06/29 19:46:38 +0000 Comment by High Rankin @dan-de-lion: Of course!!! How did i miss that one!!?? 2010/06/27 13:12:48 +0000 Comment by Dan DeLion u say u are running thin on the wanking puns! if u haven't already thought of it how about The Posh Rank lol! loving this mix btw :D 2010/06/26 11:06:46 +0000 Comment by Jimi Burnz Reeeet tune!! What is this pweeeeze!! I have a mix of machete but this kicks ass. 2010/06/24 17:07:22 +0000 Comment by Jimi Burnz Mr Rankin! Love your work. My hero. (" ,)x 2010/06/24 17:01:32 +0000 Comment by Mr Blackley @high-rankin: well i laughed, id rather hear a slice of whats to come than not at all ! vocal string over the top or not :) 2010/06/23 13:39:16 +0000 Comment by Beyond XIII MACHETE! awesome sample 2010/06/22 23:30:50 +0000 Comment by Morah AKA Low:r Hhaha 2010/06/22 22:04:36 +0000 Comment by Giz-Roc/Sugar&Cream i want to buy now!!! 2010/06/22 20:37:17 +0000 Comment by Djaze Can i get special version with your vocal on it?? i pay extra! quality idea btw 2010/06/22 20:10:46 +0000 Comment by High Rankin @hrabia: Oh poo poo pants!! 2010/06/22 19:32:14 +0000 Comment by Pete Glazebrook wicked mix as ever... and lovin this! :) 2010/06/22 17:07:23 +0000 Comment by hr4ps if you scared of rippin youre tunez from internet then dont put it there... that chitchat ruin whole mix for me 2010/06/22 17:06:19 +0000 Comment by Pete Glazebrook genius :'D 2010/06/22 17:00:08 +0000 Comment by Mr Blackley HERO!! 2010/06/22 14:25:50 +0000 Comment by lilaliend Definitely will be purchasing this when released!!!! 2010/06/22 12:04:58 +0000 Comment by kpush RUMBLE!!!!! sick drop !! 2010/06/22 10:45:29 +0000


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Dayion Pruitt, sitting in the back seat, rattles off the places he and Woods have fought -- in the garage, the bedroom, the street, the woods. He looks out the window. Somewhere out there, another fight is about to happen.
"I fucking hate it when people call it backyard wrestling," Pruitt grumbles.
Pruitt's philosophy is this: Fight wherever you can, for whoever wants to watch. But don't ever do "none of the stupid shit" without a camera. "Because if I break my leg," he says, "I want it on film."
Videos, if marketed right, can lead to recognition. Recognition can lead to fame. And fame, Pruitt hopes, will get him paid for all the hell he's been through.
But performances in a backyard (or a bedroom, the woods, garages, the street) are a long way from professional rings where fighters -- real or otherwise -- find real fortunes. But it's fortune Pruitt thinks about during his shifts as a stockroom manager at Kirkland's in Southlake Mall.
Woods, who works nights as a for-hire security guard, is not after fortune. Woods wants something different, something like the feeling he got from fighting in front of 120 people in a Florida match. Or something like the time last month when he walked into the Masquerade and about 20 people recognized him. "And I had one or two of them ask for my autograph," he says. "I get all giggly and stuff."
He wants something like that, but more.
"I would love to walk down the street or go to a grocery store or a porn store and see some motherfucker have on our shirts, with a picture of Death Match Guy [his stage name] or Kidd 19 [Pruitt's stage name]," he says. "I want for someone to say, 'Hey man, can I buy your video? I bought the last 14.'"
And on another level he wants to make up for the times past when he was too young to fight back.
"It's just a lot of anger that has built up over the years due to being picked on and pushed around and abused, just crap that goes on in the world that pisses me off," Woods says. "This is my stress reliever, to beat the crap out of somebody."
Yet Woods is the one who takes the brunt of the abuse when he and Pruitt fight. He's more willing to endure pain. He's trained to. The price of Woods' training can be measured in memory loss and broken bones.
Woods is 5 feet 8 inches. He's not a feather over 130. He says he has lost 10 percent of his memory. Last year didn't help. He had joined a wrestling club that met off Edgewood Avenue in Atlanta. After one of the matches, a fighter twice Woods' weight grabbed Woods, stood on the top ropes of the ring and dropped him a good 15 feet. Woods crashed through a plastic lawn chair, fractured some vertebrae and spent two days in the hospital. He paid $7,000 for the incident.
Pruitt, at 5 feet 9 inches and 135 pounds, is a more appropriate opponent. Woods says he fights Pruitt "90 percent of the time." They know each other's limits, but they are not easy on each other.
Pruitt hasn't broken any bones in his four years of serious fighting -- not his own and not anyone else's. He says he doesn't really want it to come to that.
"I'm not out to hurt him, know what I'm saying? That's the last thing I want to do."
Pruitt knows, though, that pain is one of the first things the camera and the crowd are looking for.
And sometimes that's what they get to see. "Right Mike?" Pruitt chides.
"Yeah, right," Woods says. They're pulling into the Wal-Mart parking lot. Woods runs in. His wife and Pruitt wait.
Woods, 21, and Pruitt, 19, have been fighting since their middle school days in Jonesboro. They would set up a ring of pillows and practice moves they saw the mammoths of the World Wrestling Federation perform on the small screen.
They'd take those moves and create dirtier ones. They added an arsenal. They christened their club Muther Fuckin Wrestling.
There are similar clubs, with similar names, with more members, across the country. MFW may be the product of two teenagers' creativity. But it is not a first, nor is it an original concept.
Which makes it that much harder for Woods. He's got to take pain to another level. And it shows.
"He's been hit in the head too many times," Pruitt says.
"By you," Christa shoots back. Woods is inside Wal-Mart buying the clamp. The fight is supposed to start in 10 minutes.
"I don't aim for the head," Pruitt says. "He walks into that shit."
The Corolla nearly passes the driveway, which loops behind a bungalow in Forest Park that looks like the other bungalows in Forest Park. Pruitt and Woods get out and look around. They must determine where in the yard to fight.
Inside, Tim and his girlfriend sit in Tim's parents' basement, waiting on the wrestlers to knock. The walls of the basement and the ceiling are painted black. A camouflage spread covers both couches. On one side of the room, two flesh-eating fish circle each other in a dim tank. On the other, a kitten bats at caged crickets. Three television sets sit silent in a wall-sized entertainment center. Tim rolls a joint. The stereo plays Tchaikovsky.
"Tchaikovsky," his girlfriend says.
"Jack-offsky?" He grins.
Pruitt raps on the door and enters, followed by Christa and Mike Woods. The CD player changes discs, from The Nutcracker to heavy metal rockers Slipknot. Pruitt and Tim talk music. Woods ignores them. He waves away a joint passed to him. He's intent on fixing his mask.
He has three others he can wear, but he considers this one -- white latex with black horns and black mesh -- the prettiest. He's using the binding clamp he just bought at Wal-Mart to refasten the elastic band that holds the mask to his head.
Tim's brother Chris walks into the basement with a friend. Another friend will arrive later, in a white pickup, and Mike Stone, a promoter and the founder of Shrapnel Films, will show up with the video camera. A bigger crowd was assembled four days earlier, when the match was originally scheduled. But Pruitt didn't show, and the whole crowd has not returned. Pruitt would only say that "some shit came up."
That was Saturday. Tim's parents seemed uninterested in the fight scheduled in their backyard, although one of the older men in the crowd brought a waiver for the wrestlers to sign. It stated that if they got badly hurt, or killed, they wouldn't sue the homeowners.
Today, Wednesday, the arrangement is more chill.
"My parents said if one of you gets killed, we're gonna have to bury you in the backyard," Tim says to Woods.
Woods keeps working on the mask.
By the time the match approaches, it is getting cold in the shade. A shadow covers most of Tim's backyard. A gravel driveway forms a donut around a wooden shed and a sign that says: "Don't spin out in the driveway. MFRS." Beyond the gravel is a pit of wood chips surrounded by thick pine trees.
Woods walks the few yards from the basement to the Corolla and starts unloading the trunk. He throws on the ground three-foot-long florescent bulbs, street signs, sheetrock, a metal folding chair, an axe and a tangle of barbed wire.
He suits up. First on is the Point Blank bullet-proof vest, then the City of Atlanta "Recruit" shirt with matching navy pants, followed by Ace bandage elbow pads and plastic shin guards. He duct tapes the shin guards around his calves.
He gets back to work on the mask.
The crowd of five, which has moved from the basement to a cluster of lawn furniture, rails Woods about his fixation with the mask. One person raises his voice, but not loud enough for Woods to hear: "I wanna see blood and broken bones."
People have poked fun at Woods before, but back then it was different. Back then he was in grade school.
"I was called Porky Pig because I always stuttered and all," Woods says. "It wasn't because I couldn't communicate. I was nervous because I was afraid of being hit. I was just beaten all the time, as far back as I can remember."
The training began. Somewhere along the line, Woods' stuttering become less obvious. The more he fought, the less afraid he was.
"For some odd reason, I like to be hit more and abused more," Woods says. "And I think that that's from my childhood. I like to be at the bottom end and work my way up, just to show that, hey, I can fight my way back."
Woods tries the mask on. A tight fit. Perfect. He takes it off and approaches the house.
"Can I use one of the baseball bats?" he asks Tim.
The crowd murmurs while Tim grabs a bat and hands it to Woods. Woods walks off.
"They aren't going to actually going to hit each other with the bats, are they?" Tim's brother Chris asks. "I mean, bats will break bones. I'm just wondering about the bats."
"They won't hit anybody in the head," says Stone, who's filmed Pruitt and Woods countless times in the last year-and-a-half. "They might hit each other in the back."
"That'd be cool," Chris says.
Woods returns.
"Can I borrow your ladder?"
He hauls it to the woodchip pit.
Chris follows him with his eyes. "These guys got issues."
Christa, Woods' 24-year-old wife, stands off to the side, away from the crowd. She watches her husband from behind her wispy bangs, soft brown laced with gray. Her wide blue eyes suggest naivety, but her words don't.
The wrestling used to bother her, she says, back when she and Woods got together a year-and-a-half ago. But "now that he's learned to control the anger," she sees wrestling as his outlet. "When we first started dating, I was worried he'd take it out on me," she says. "But this is his only violence."
Christa does have worries about finances and hopes her husband's violence will turn a profit. They have a 7-month-old baby, Evan, to care for. "He's a good baby," Christa says. "He doesn't cry. He's not what you'd think, coming from Mike."
She assists however she can, driving Woods to matches, tending his wounds, playing the role of "roadie."
Pruitt got married in March, but his wife doesn't usually come to the fights. "She's not a big fan," he says. "She's more the parental type."
Pruitt puts on his gold-faced mask with black rope for braids. Woods tapes his mask to his head. Pruitt helps press the tape to the back of Woods' head and rips the excess away. That's the last of the preparation. They approach the woodchip pit.
The fight starts with Pruitt removing the wood-handled, rusty ax from its slim cardboard box.
Pruitt pushes Woods down and strikes the ground with the ax as Woods rolls away. They move like acrobats, all leaps and rolls and catapults. It seems choreographed, until Woods huddles on the ground and takes three blows from a baseball bat. Woods swings his leg around and takes Pruitt down.
Woods hits Pruitt with a road sign. The pain it inflicts is not as impressive as the noise of quivering metal. Then, Woods breaks sheetrock over Pruitt's head and back.
"Yeah," Chris says from the side of the pit. "I felt that."
"I know that shit hurts," Tim says. "I work with it."
Woods and Pruitt break florescent light bulbs on each other's backs. They pop and shatter. One blow burns Woods' right shoulder. Pruitt steps back and rushes at Woods, spinning to add momentum to a kick that lands on Woods' lower back. He whips Woods with barbed wire and stomps his shoulder.
The crowd laughs.
Pruitt hits Woods over the head with a street sign, mashing the barbed wire into Woods' skull. Barbed wire stuck to his head and forearm, Woods shivers, as if the wire carried electricity.
Pruitt dropkicks Woods' head. That was probably the blow that got the blood flowing, although the crowd can't know that. The mask hides the blood.
Woods gets up and motions to his wife for the lighter. She tosses it to him. He pours liquid from a gas can onto a ceiling tile and tries to light it. It doesn't light. Stone runs in with the camera and tries to light it himself. But before he can, Woods shatters the tile over Pruitt's head.
Pruitt's turn.
Pruitt climbs atop a woodchip pile and does a flip onto a folding chair and two metal signs. Beneath them is Woods.
"That was damn cool right there," someone in the crowd says.
"Yeah!" whoops another. "Kidd 19!"
Woods knocks Pruitt to the ground. He lifts the rickety ladder and climbs its rungs. He jumps from the top of the ladder and lands half-on, half-off, Pruitt. Pruitt moans and groans, holding his side and rolling back and forth. They are catching their breath. It's hard to breathe through the mouth hole in the mask. It's hot under those layers of clothing.
Pruitt crawls for the bat, hits Woods on the chest and drags him across the pit.
The moans, groans, holding and rolling continue, and the crowd gets antsy for a minute. They can't see the blood.
The mask hides it. The mask hides expressions of pain, fear or boredom. The mask hides the face you wear during most moments of most days.
"I look up to Death Match Guy," Woods says. "And that's a thing people don't understand. When I talk about Death Match Guy I'm not talking about myself. I'm talking about a whole different persona. Death Match Guy's a chair-swinging, barbed-wire-eating, fire-making, table-crushing, Kidd 19-killer guy. And Mike is just laid back, taking care of the kid and the wife and working a regular job, trying to make it as a regular person."
The fight is winding down.
Pruitt collapses against a woodchip pile and pours water on himself.
Woods kneels in the pit and takes off his mask.
Those who doubted Woods, who wondered if the fight was more theatrics than bloodthirst, take pause.
Woods' mouth hangs open like that of a dehydrated animal. His scalp is flecked with blood. Blood trickles from his mouth like a leaking faucet.
"That's what it's all about," he says. He stumbles a minute. "I want a cigarette is what I want."
"How was that?" an unscathed Pruitt asks Stone.
Stone got at least 20 minutes of footage for an upcoming documentary. "Good, man," he answers.
Woods seems more concerned with the crowd than the footage.
"I mean, were y'all pleased?" he asks, not bothering to wipe the blood away. "Did you like it?"
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.comments2016-07-30T09:23:09.246-04:00just up the pikeDan Reedhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-21045393889434637572016-07-11T17:41:13.490-04:002016-07-11T17:41:13.490-04:00Weighing in late .... but a HUGE Congratulations, ...Weighing in late .... but a HUGE Congratulations, Dan!! Thank you for JUTP!! Love it!Tinahttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-46456815333736928692016-07-11T12:43:13.802-04:002016-07-11T12:43:13.802-04:00A year later, new crosswalks on EW highway have st...A year later, new crosswalks on EW highway have still not appearedtdactshttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-87415343788802341842016-07-07T12:59:10.382-04:002016-07-07T12:59:10.382-04:00This would be such a welcome addition to South Sil...This would be such a welcome addition to South Silver Spring, by far one of the least served neighborhood's in Montgomery County by the Parks Dept. David Fogelhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-82424330065499261912016-07-07T12:19:44.873-04:002016-07-07T12:19:44.873-04:00Thanks for a decade if insights and efforts to pro...Thanks for a decade if insights and efforts to promote a better built environment. Sometimes change comes slowly (speaking as a 30 year Silver Spring resident) but these are exciting g times for our little city. Keep up the good work!Webb Smedleyhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-56468547818972624692016-07-06T12:38:30.820-04:002016-07-06T12:38:30.820-04:00In our household, the turf was The Green Grass.In our household, the turf was The Green Grass.Liz Brenthttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-47793571457715139602016-06-29T16:46:44.005-04:002016-06-29T16:46:44.005-04:00"It looks from your profile like you live in ..."It looks from your profile like you live in Silver Spring; what streets would you widen to accommodate 100 buses in your neighborhood; how many homes would you be okay with inconveniencing, of families who have NOT moved there to be adjacent to 100 buses (whereas new buyers are more likely to know up front that the depot is there)?"

I live in a formerly industrial neighborhood that is being redeveloped with apartments. My building is next to a fire station, a homeless shelter, and an active train line. The train was there when my building was built, the fire station came after, and the homeless shelter is being built right now. I see it every day. And I'm fine with it, because I live in society, and these things are all beneficial to the society I live in, even if I am personally inconvenienced by the noise or the traffic. I live in an awesome community, and the things I love about it aren't diminished by the presence of fire trucks or homeless people.

Again, the bus lot will have to move, and I think it's a net positive for the county, for all the reasons I listed. The county needs to find a good place to put it where it can also be a good neighbor - though those neighbors will also have to come to this with an open mind. They live in society too.Dan Reedhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-71053506427911349192016-06-29T13:32:54.066-04:002016-06-29T13:32:54.066-04:00I disagree that the buses should be moved at all, ...I disagree that the buses should be moved at all, BUT.....

If they had to go somewhere, why not, say, DowntownCrown? That is an ENORMOUS parcel of land with more than enough space for a couple hundred buses, and even with what's been built so far, room to make sure roads are wide enough and buffers are wide enough to mitigate noise and bother. Why not the landfill off Gude Drive, which is already large enough for industrial traffic (unlike North Horner's Lane, which can't accommodate commercial truck traffic easily) that was explored before? Oooh, Rockville has a sizeable golf course property - how about there? (No, that isn't a serious suggestion; it also opens onto Avery Road, which is absolutely not suitable for that kind of bus traffic.) As development accelerates between Clarksburg and Damascus, the Clarksburg facility will need to be expanded or moved or a separate facility built; has that been planned for? And what is it that makes the Clarksburg site less onerous than, say, the Westmore site? How large are the roads in and out of that site? How substantial a buffer between buses and homes? Did the homebuyers know in advance that there would be buses there? These things matter - and there simply isn't room to accommodate the buses at Avery Road or Westmore, and the space at Carver is already needed as well in addition to the question of traffic flow and proximity to homes. This isn't NIMBY - this is simple logistics. Go and see the Westmore site. Drive up N. Stonestreet, and then along the facing street across to Horner's and back down, and consider what would need to be done to the site and to the entire neighborhood to accommodate the buses on those narrow streets. Do the same for the Avery Road site: drive along Avery Road during morning rush - for a real wake-up call, try it later in the year on an icy morning, driving as large and unwieldy a vehicle as you can find - and multiply that by at least 100. Not gonna work.

As future developments are built, they will need schools; any new schools built should have bus parking included at least for each catchment area. The current Shady Grove Depot should remain where it is IMO; Rockville is already a Metro-friendly spot (if anything, perhaps more homes could be built on the Westmore site, assuming infrastructure could be provided), and Avery Road is already in use, too close to Rock Creek Park/Lake Needwood (that IS our water supply here in Rockville), and simply too small to fit that many buses safely. Even accounting for MPDU's, the home prices there will be out of reach for most families, and as usual there will be a tiny fraction of them available for the number of people who need them/qualify for them. But if the depot DOES need to be moved - find a logistically realistic place to put it - which means a location with AT LEAST as much space as the current depot, and which none of the 3 sites that were under consideration even have. You can't put 10 pounds of sugar into a 5-pound sack.CrunchyMamahttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-16463490343140611722016-06-29T12:18:28.070-04:002016-06-29T12:18:28.070-04:00Fair point - but it's not going to be by shoeh...Fair point - but it's not going to be by shoehorning it into a location that can't accommodate it in the first place without outright displacing a number of other homes, businesses, and/or services.

Would Craig Rice be fine with it adjacent to HIS property? How about Leggett? Would you? It looks from your profile like you live in Silver Spring; what streets would you widen to accommodate 100 buses in your neighborhood; how many homes would you be okay with inconveniencing, of families who have NOT moved there to be adjacent to 100 buses (whereas new buyers are more likely to know up front that the depot is there)? Have you physically been to the Westmore site, the Avery Road site, and seen the neighborhoods and the infrastructure in those locations?

The depot site shouldn't have been signed away in the first place, not without a plan already in place. There *still* isn't a viable plan.CrunchyMamahttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-42166575186222515222016-06-29T11:12:21.642-04:002016-06-29T11:12:21.642-04:00@CrunchyMama I hear what you're saying, but t...@CrunchyMama

I hear what you're saying, but the county has to make the best decision for the county, and (for the reasons I've stated above) that's moving the lot. The question isn't whether or not to move the lot from Shady Grove - it's where to move the lot, and how to make that lot the best neighbor it can be, wherever it ends up.dan reed!http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-4574993885229715692016-06-29T09:59:09.961-04:002016-06-29T09:59:09.961-04:00There is other housing going up on the west side o...There is other housing going up on the west side of the Metro as well. Heck, the entire King Farm community didn't even exist 15 years ago, and there are new apartments built and being built. But it's not the job of established neighborhoods (and East Rockville is also a Metro-walkable neighborhood - just saying) to pick up the detritus of the County Council's inability to plan carefully.

Comparing Clarksburg, where the bus depot was integrated into a new community as it was being planned and built with that capacity in mind (at least this is my understanding), to East Rockville, where roads and homes are much smaller and have no room to expand, is not remotely valid; it compares better to the situation at Shady Grove, where the development is new, not established.

If anyone should be making the choice about whether they want to live near the bus depot, I say let the 2200 new families living downwind of the Waste Transfer Station decide if it's worth it without moving the current depot. There's been talk for years about extending Metro up toward Frederick, and about improving access to public transportation overall; I'd rather see that than using a highly-overpriced (at over $1 million/acre) tiny lot inaccessible lot at the end of a tiny road (which would have to be widened significantly, displacing both established residents and businesses, in our Metro-accessible neighborhood of East Rockville). We're all dealing with rising house prices and shortages - even those of us in East Rockville. Refusing to be the County's dumping ground, to pay the price for bad planning, is hardly elitist; assuming that we won't mind a hundred buses on N. Stonestreet 12 hours a day (AM magnet bus runs, mid-day Head Start & pre-K runs, PM runs & magnet & activity bus runs), on the other hand...CrunchyMamahttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-16033830955197500222016-06-29T09:02:37.606-04:002016-06-29T09:02:37.606-04:00As I said, housing prices keep going up because th...As I said, housing prices keep going up because there isn't enough supply to meet demand—and while $700,000 townhouses may not be affordable, they expand the supply, which helps stem rising costs. Besides, of the 2200 homes planned to go at Shady Grove (and 700 on the bus lot site), about 15% would be set aside for low-income or workforce housing, or about 300 homes (a third of which is on the bus lot). So not moving the bus lot actually does have an impact on housing affordability.

This isn't one-sided. I don't see why people should have to suck it up and deal with rising house prices and a housing shortage because someone doesn't want school buses in their neighborhood. dan reed!http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-51650708227519128302016-06-29T08:33:47.033-04:002016-06-29T08:33:47.033-04:00"Meanwhile, there are roads all over the coun..."Meanwhile, there are roads all over the county, and the trucks that carry things to and from the county's warehouses can go pretty much anywhere there's a road. That's why ten years ago, county leaders decided that it made more sense to put homes near the Metro, and warehouses and bus depots somewhere else.

That won't make everybody happy, but it's the right thing to do."

There are indeed "roads all over the county." Avery Road is a 2-lane winding road with lots of hills, and adjacent to already-congested MD Route 28; nothing like adding a couple hundred more buses to that traffic flow in addition to the other issues with the site (inadequate road, parkland, active school site) - the opposite of what hundreds of buses would need. The roads to and from the Westmore site are also crowded 2-lane roads, and one - N Stonestreet - is already something of an obstacle course with a lot of industrial traffic already (and can we talk about the MCPS "warehouse" on that street? Yeesh!). The Carver site is adjacent to homes, already needed and used by Montgomery College for satellite parking, and opens onto Mannakee & MD 355 - also already crowded roads. You are talking about imposing buses on neighborhoods that would not have a choice in the matter, rather than leaving the depot where it is and allowing the NEW homeowners to decide whether they can live across the street from a bus depot (if, as Rice says, it's no big deal, let it not be a big deal for the new folks), not to mention adjacent to a busy rail line across from which is the Waste Transfer Station (have you SMELLED the area on a muggy summer day? LOL The bus depot may be the least of their objections!).

The bus depot was located where it is because there wasn't housing there; any future housing communities WILL need to have additional bus storage in mind along with new schools - and perhaps new schools could come with their own bus parking for their clusters. It was unspeakably short-sighted of the County Council to not truly consider the ramifications of their bad planning here - and I see no reason that Rockville neighborhood residents should have to pay for that.CrunchyMamahttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-32504841543836223912016-06-29T00:00:24.817-04:002016-06-29T00:00:24.817-04:00The bus depot at Shady Grove can certainly be relo...The bus depot at Shady Grove can certainly be relocated, *after* a satisfactory replacement site or sites have been secured. That hasn't happened in ten years, but please don't beat up on the residents who do not want the noise (sometimes starting as early as 4am!), pollution, traffic, environmental damage, or loss of green space. The fact that people are willing to fight to protect their communities from bad planning is probably one of the things that makes Montgomery County such a desirable place to live.

None of the three sites mentined above (Avery Road, Carver Ed, and Westmore Ave.) are acceptable for buses for a variety of reasons. The implication that targeted neighborhoods should just suck it up so a developer can build expensive townhouses makes no sense to me... and I cannot see how $700,000 townhouses will help the affordable housing crisis, in any case.

With regards to the site on Avery Road, it is home to an active school (the Blair G. Ewing Center), a recreational park (the Mark Twain Athletic Fields), and a forest conservation easement that covers more than a third of the property. It simply does not make sense to demolish those at a time of school overcrowding, tight budgets, property tax increases, and rampant urbanization throughout the County.

Lastly, Rock Creek Park is a treasure, and putting a bus depot on top of steep hills that drain straight into the creek (a mere 400' away) would have a disasterous effect on both the park and the creek. That is why a number of communities - both within and outside of Rockville - are opposed to putting buses on Avery Road.JamisonAdcockhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-41437574023630439842016-06-28T12:21:15.986-04:002016-06-28T12:21:15.986-04:00The County isn't going to build the new houses...The County isn't going to build the new houses; profit-making developers will. So instead of forcing homeowners somewhere else in the county to bear the costs -- the noise, pollution, etc. -- from a school bus lot so the developers can maximize their profits, how about requiring the developers to build a new multi-story bus garage as part of their housing development? The houses would still be built. Potential buyers could decide if they want to live next to the garage or not -- a choice which would be denied to current residents or other areas if the bus lot is moved near them. The county might not get as much when it sells the land the bus lot is on and the developers might not make as much money, but at least the county and the developers wouldn't be passing on the negative aspects and costs of the redevelopment to others.

Just like polluters should bear the costs of their pollution, developers (and that includes the County in this case) should bear the full costs of their development.Roberthttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-26747708327989537132016-06-04T22:23:53.525-04:002016-06-04T22:23:53.525-04:00I'm really excited about this idea, in part be...I'm really excited about this idea, in part because one of Howard County's largest employers, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab (APL), is just another 6 miles away up 29 and not that far from the Scaggsville/Maple Lawn Park and Ride. Presently, it's transit accessibility is fairly terrible and since the MD commuter buses don't serve counterflow commuters, it's hard to really make the case for shuttles.

Obviously as that's still a challenging last half-dozen mile problem, but it seems like with some support from Howard County and perhaps APL itself, this could pave the way for a few additional wins.Greg Sandershttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-14020696538263660952016-06-04T12:48:56.685-04:002016-06-04T12:48:56.685-04:00Lets hope that we'll be able to realize the be...Lets hope that we'll be able to realize the benefits of current mass transit innovations sometime in the foreseeable future:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/27/world/asia/china-elevated-bus.html?_r=0

http://qz.com/696350/hyperloop-travel-might-sound-like-a-far-fetched-idea-but-some-companies-are-already-building-it/
Chris Brantleyhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-88567676368083867792016-06-04T12:08:21.310-04:002016-06-04T12:08:21.310-04:00Up and running by 2019 LOL! How long did it take f...Up and running by 2019 LOL! How long did it take for the Silver Spring Transit Center?Tanisha Brownhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-87840740699813249822016-05-29T06:37:33.292-04:002016-05-29T06:37:33.292-04:00[Long Opinion - Part 2] I know you want 29 corrid...[Long Opinion - Part 2]

I know you want 29 corridor transit improvements... and I do too. But this half-baked BRT concept is bovine scatology. The blown off traffic studies, a push for lots of new (tax generating) development without consideration to impact, and Percontee donations/activities with council members/MoCo Govt. should be all the red flags you need on this. Combine that with a county that seemingly cannot build anything on time and with quality... and you've got a recipe for *WORSE* traffic not better.

It's time we discuss and plan real options... long term options and not patchwork nonsense used to justify massive development. Rushing into things helps nothing.

And as for this voter... I can't wait to vote for term limits so we can replace Berliner, Elrich, Leventhal, and Floreen. I'm tired of their disrespectful behaviors in office. I don't think they are looking after their constituents... they're looking out for themselves and their political careers. Your mileage may vary. I'm sure if I donated a few thousand dollars to each one my issues would get a boatload more attention. But... I'm just a regular citizen... I'm not a big land holding business like Percontee or Marriott (who snookered the State and County for the Rockledge Dr. exit on 270. They promised jobs and then *broke the deal* shortly thereafter without any negative repercussions).

Let's hold them to what's right! Let's plan "East County" and do it right! I don't care that the 'Ike and Nancy Show' wants to push a shovel into the ground ASAP... I want to see it laid out completely - with all the (formerly) required research studies completed - so we're not stuck with a multi-decade boondoggle. Like the Silver Spring Transit Center. Did you see what poor planning and implementation did there?
J Millerhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-68553321226713027892016-05-29T06:36:39.162-04:002016-05-29T06:36:39.162-04:00[Long Opinion - Part One] An incredible waste of...[Long Opinion - Part One]

An incredible waste of time and money... that will mostly subsidize Howard County commuters and Percontee.

And just imagine the traffic impacts... which is all we can do because the MoCo Council has decided to skip critical BRT related traffic studies - voting to override regulations put in place to protect the citizens from the impacts of this size/type of project without proper review. I find that sickening, quite frankly. And infuriating. The level of hubris demonstrated by our officials here is staggering.

Here's a question: If this is going to be so great why can't they do the studies to **prove** it? What are they trying to hide? (I'll give you a hint: massive traffic on 29) What will be the delays for regular traffic on 29? The questions unanswered are huge:

- How much will this impact an already nightmare of a ride during rush hour?
- How will HOV enforcement (presumably with police vehicles with lights on) affect traffic due to rubbernecking?
- With large numbers of HOV violators how would BRT vehicles provide any benefits over traditional, less expensive, express buses?
- How will this affect cut-through traffic in neighborhoods like Woodmoor, North Four Corners, etc.?
- How will people enter/leave their neighborhoods when traffic/BRT lanes make current accessways (like Crestmoor, Southwood, Dale, Noyes, Lexington, Indian Spring, Franklin, etc.) inaccessible or overly difficult to use during peak times?
- How will increased bus traffic affect smaller roads like Lockwood?
- What will the impact be to the intersections at 29 - NH Ave. - Lockwood - FDA Dr.?
- With Lockwood carrying increased traffic how will that affect Burnt Mills Estates and other nearby neighborhoods like Quaint Acres?
- What budget additions will be made to increase maintenance on roads carrying heavier bus traffic? (heavier vehicles tear up roads quickly)

So many unanswered questions.

Ultimately... They lost me when they decided to blow off the research requirements. It's all very suspicious. I don't appreciate elected officials overriding regulations set in place for decades to push ill-conceived pet projects (with huge development components... of course!).

Instead of wasting millions...maybe we can do something along 29 and NH Ave that doesn't include adding 60,000+ densely packed residents in an already densely packed area. Maybe the MoCo Council could focus on fixing/maintaining what has already been (over)developed. They can start with my neighborhood's roads (just off Rt. 29) - which look like ISIS shelled them. Or repair the dozens of crumbling and invisible speed bumps that wreck our car suspensions. Or develop some signal timing strategies that can speed traffic during peak times (especially at 4 Corners which is a disaster most times of the day... or the gridlock on University Blvd.... or the mess that is now Fenton/Wayne... or the backups/gridlock through most of Silver Spring, etc.).

Perhaps we could determine how many people using the 29 corridor are from *Howard County* and maybe work with them and the State (and get them to kick in $$$) for a better planned inter-county project(s)? A simple license plate survey would demonstrate exactly what percentage of the indigenous MoCo population is clogging the roads between Georgia/29 and the ICC. (The ICC... which... if I recall was supposed to "End Gridlock!" Man... how'd that work out for us? Remember when they told us about how the ICC would greatly reduce the traffic on the Beltway?)

J Millerhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-13050979991347471582016-05-25T09:42:08.253-04:002016-05-25T09:42:08.253-04:00Sweet, a Bus that gets stuck in the rest of traffi...Sweet, a Bus that gets stuck in the rest of traffic? Sign me up!
Since we know it's going to be anything BUT 'rapid', can we call this thing Terrapin Transit??*A*http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-41245179108527495842016-05-24T15:30:54.932-04:002016-05-24T15:30:54.932-04:00The real plus to this latest BRT proposal from Cou...The real plus to this latest BRT proposal from County Executive Leggett is that the groundbreaking ceremony will occur before he leaves office. It will also be right befor the next election when today's council members will be running for office, most for county executive. melhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-50791876614126717122016-05-23T14:07:56.740-04:002016-05-23T14:07:56.740-04:00Metro proposed to add Metro Extra Express service ...Metro proposed to add Metro Extra Express service on Route 29, which wouldn't cost $67 million to implement.

Aside from having stations, which would mean longer walks for lots of riders, how is the BRT proposal better or worse than Metro Extra Express? Metro Extra Express could run on the shoulders and HOV-2 lanes, too.

What we really need is Metro heavy rail tunneled under Route 29, just like it is under Georgia Avenue. Expensive, yes, but far better than the do-it-on-the cheap half way measures of light rail and BRT even with dedicated lanes. If Virginia can build Metro rail to Dulles, why can't Maryland do it up Route 29?Roberthttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-48434399669506012482016-05-05T22:57:19.199-04:002016-05-05T22:57:19.199-04:00Ironic how residents in the western part of the co...Ironic how residents in the western part of the county are fighting urban development while east county residents have to fight for it.

I would do a back flip if east county could get mid to high end retail, especially now that the White Oak plan is in doubt. I guess I can always hope for Konterra to come to fruition (or move).Lanehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-42521249379918496492016-05-05T11:55:30.271-04:002016-05-05T11:55:30.271-04:00"A lot of people still don't want urban d..."A lot of people still don't want urban density, which explains why home prices are higher in less dense neighborhoods and why people are willing to pay those prices if they can."

Except that's increasingly not true, including here in the DC area. From Chris Leinberger, former professor at George Washington University:

Mariela Alfonzo and I just released a Brookings Institution study that measures values of commercial and residential real estate in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area, which includes the surrounding suburbs in Virginia and Maryland. Our research shows that real estate values increase as neighborhoods became more walkable, where everyday needs, including working, can be met by walking, transit or biking. There is a fivestep "ladder" of walkability, from least to most walkable. On average, each step up the walkability ladder adds $9 per square foot to annual office rents, $7 per square foot to retail rents, more than $300 per month to apartment rents and nearly $82 per square foot to home values.

I won't deny anyone their individual preferences, but the facts are that more people (not are, but more) want to live in an urban, walkable place, and the real estate market bears that out.

You know Robert, I grew up in an apartment house with dozens of kids who were more than tolerated, warm, friendly building staff, a pool for swimming in, a courtyard for snowball fights, and a big park next door for running around in. And I turned out just fine.dan reed!http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-37549457281463973152016-05-05T11:43:05.997-04:002016-05-05T11:43:05.997-04:00The move to suburbia didn't begin after WWII. ...The move to suburbia didn't begin after WWII. Suburban development in Montgomery County started with suburbs around the Metropolitan Branch of the B&O, e.g. Woodside, Kensington, etc. It picked up in the 1920s. Here's the text of an ad in Washington's Evening Star newspaper from October 1925 headlined "What Sort of Place Will Your Children Call Home":

"Some Day, not so many years from now, your little boys or girls will be telling their little folks about "our old home." What sort of place will they describe—an apartment house like an office building with a cold marble lobby, where children were "tolerated," or a row house on a noisy, crowded city street?

 "Or will they have tales to tell of a home out where the blue begins —and the green of Springtime and the gold and red of Autumn? A home, centering around a real hearth-stone where marshmallows were toasted on long Winter evenings and stockings were hung at the Yuletide?

 "Will you buy or build your suburban home now or after it is too late for your children to get the full benefit of its health and joy-giving advantages?"

 "Come Out to Wynnewood Park Sunday

A lot of people still don't want urban density, which explains why home prices are higher in less dense neighborhoods and why people are willing to pay those prices if they can.Roberthttp://email@example.com


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Former head of the Adult Survivors of Child Abuse has rejected an apology from the WA Government for her treatment while in State care.
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Sex abuse victim and campaigner, Michelle Stubbs, has rejected an apology from the State Government and returned a copy of it to every member of the Barnett Government.
The apology was issued by the State Government as a part of WA Redress, which was set up in 2008 to acknowledge and apologise to adults who were abused or neglected as children while in State care.
Ms Stubbs, who formed Adult Survivors of Child Abuse, also told ABC's Geoff Hutchison that the Minister for Child Protection Robyn McSweeney phoned her on the day that the maximum ex gratia payments for Redress WA victims was cut from $80,000 to $45,000 to ask if she would 'let this one go through to the keeper'.
"You know I have some integrity Geoff, and that was far too great a compromise for me I'm afraid," she told ABC's Geoff Hutchison. "I clearly said no."
Ms Stubbs says the process she went through to receive an apology and compensation was humiliating, inadequate and deeply offensive.
"I've sent the letter of apology to the leader of the Opposition and they are going to give it back to the Premier today. [The letter of apology] basically means nothing to me."
Ms Stubbs received $13,000 as compensation, $5,000 of which went to legal fees, and relocated to QLD because she was so disgusted with her treatment by the WA Government.
"I walked away with $8,500, which was basically enough to get me out of WA."
Ms Stubbs was sexually abused by her step-father from the age of 8-years-old until she reported the abuse to WA Police at the age of 13.
Her mother rejected the claims of sexual abuse and Ms Stubbs was removed from her home and placed in care of the State until she was 17-years-old.
While in care, Ms Stubbs was forced to have unsupervised visits by her step-father, which she found traumatic and she frequently ran away to avoid the meetings.
"I didn't know what else to do. I'd gone to the Police and the State Government for help and instead of my step-father going off to prison; I was the one being punished."
"It's actually quite sad when you see it all detailed in my community welfare file."
Running away from these meetings resulted in Ms Stubbs being placed in a maximum security detention centre for women under 18-years-old and was raped twice.
Ms Stubbs was able to leave State care when she turned 16-years old but a year later another tragic event occurred.
"My mother found out that my step-father had begun abusing my younger sister, she finally worked up enough courage to try and leave him. She was gone for a week and then he shot her to death.
Ms Stubbs said it was a traumatic experience at the time and to have to relive the memories all over again through the Redress WA process. In her Redress WA application there were five points concerning her treatment that she wanted the State Government to acknowledge:
1. Ms Stubbs was an A-grade student and a school prefect but during her first 8 months of State care she was sent to 6 different high schools, one which she attended for only 2 weeks.
2. Forced unsupervised visits with by her step-father while in care of the State
3. Being locked up in Nyandi, a maximum security detention facility while a minor and having not committed an offence
4. She was raped twice while in care of the State
5. Claimed being placed in 'time out' several times where she was forced to sit at a desk, facing a wall, for two days without being allowed to talk or sleep.
Ms Stubbs says she only wanted to focus on the major wrongdoing while she was in State care and left out other misconduct.
Not satisfied with her Redress WA assessment and settlement, Ms Stubbs accepted it but pushed for a further explanation of her submission appraisal.
"I discovered that of the five issued that I raised, the only one they were sorry for was the forced visits with my step-father."
Ms Stubbs says she sent the letter of apology back and wrote a letter to all Liberal members because she wanted to share with them exactly how their decision impacted on her.
"The State Government's decision about Redress was about as far from helping people as you could possibly get."
The Opposition Leader tabled the letter from the WA Government to Ms Stubbs in Parliament and put forward an unsuccessful motion to condemn the Government's handling of the Redress WA system.
WA Premier Colin Barnett says almost 5000 victims had received the ex gratia payments and he stands by spending $120 million on the WA Redress program.
Michelle Stubbs now lives in the Atherton Tablelands, near Cairns, in QLD.
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