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Overheard at the bar at Barrio tonight from a visitor to Seattle, "I'm in town because I just closed on a condo at the Braeburn. I'm going to make $40,000 in three years!" No joke. Our guess is that he bought Unit W201 for $164k. It closed yesterday and is a 438 square foot studio…. Read More
Archives for November 2012
Bubble Talk at the Bar: $40k in 3 Years
A Building Boom and The Boom to Come
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Holiday Weekend Predictably Slowed Sales
Last week as expected, the holiday weekend took a tole on sales, with only 18 total sales around town. Two 1 bed 1 bath units sold at the Olive 8, and 1 unit at Escala. A top floor unit at the Trio in Belltown sold, as well as a few units in the Fremont and… Read More
Photos: New Union Apartments off of South Lake Union
The first of three new apartment buildings on the southwest corner of South Lake Union has started pre-leasing and more units are about to come onto the market. We toured "Union" recently and found it to be a cool, urban design, though a few things caught our eyes and ears. First, the basics: Union features… Read More
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There are only 2 natural units of time necessary: Year and Day
(the lunar month, a natural unit of time, is not necessary)
| Year one should start at 10,000 B.C.
We should begin counting the year at a date which preceeds history so that all dates worthy of memory are on the positive side of the timeline leaving no need for "A.D./B.C., B.C.E/C.E., etc.". So as to cause the least trouble for the western world, the year 1 should begin at 10,000 B.C. making the conversion a simple addition of 10,000. This starts the positive timeline before the beginning of the neolithic revolution (from hunting/gathering to agriculture), 10-12 thousand years ago.
| Year zero should be before year 1 and previous years should be negative.
Regardless of where we begin counting the year, this should be implemented. We have a numeric system which deals with negative numbers. Let's just use that. The only complication is that there is no year zero. So, if we implement this with our current starting point (1 A.D.), 1 B.C. would be year zero, 2 B.C. would be -1, etc.
The days of the year should be noted from 1 to 366.
January 1st would be day 1 and December 31 would be day 365. By doing away with months we would not only lose an extra digit, but an entirely separate number.
Leap days should be added at the end of the year.
Always being 366, it would not disrupt the order of the other days.
The last day of the year should be considered an extra Sunday. In leap years, the last 2 days should be considered extra Sundays.
Each year, the days of the week would always correspond to the same numbers. This change could be made independently of the others. It would prevent the need for the 7 separate calendars we currently use. The extra day should be considered the New Year's holiday. There would be little secular transition for this. Easter and any religious holidays based on a day of the week would probably grow due to predictability. This works with the need for religions to have a 7-day week which is too powerful to attempt to change.
The days of the week should have single letters for abbreviation: U for Sunday, Q for Thursday
The seven day week is too entrenched to try to change. The fact that the days are named after norse gods and such is ridiculous but does not interfere with efficiency. That we cannot abbreviate them with single letters is just dumb. Let's just decide on some alternative letters for Sunday or Saturday and Tuesday or Thursday. I have to suggest U for Sunday making it unday and the Q for Thursday because the Q is how you make the th sound in unphonics. The U is probably ok with most people, but the Q would be more acceptable if it were an H going with the theme of using the second letter.
Time of day should be referenced as a fraction of the day.
This would eliminate the need for entirely separate numbers for hours, minutes, and seconds. And, it would do away with the bizarre corner we've painted ourselves into on this am/pm thing. As the unclock (above) shows, the day is simply extended to whatever amount of detail is preferred. Scientists would often deal with digits far from the decimal, but everyday life would only have 2 digits to refer to. Each percent of the day is about 15 minutes. So, a movie would usually be 6 cents, you would meet someone at .52 to go to lunch, etc. You would not even need to go to the third digit unless you were talking to your boss...or in a murder trial. The third digit would probably be refered to as a mil (1/1000) and the second as a cent (1/100).
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.1 = 2h 24m
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And while Roberts has a long laundry list of items that will demand her attention — you know, like avoiding a lockout in 2017 — the most pressing for basketball fans of all stripes is working with the league to find a resolution to the age-limit question that was left open at the end of the last collective-bargaining negotiations.
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According to sources with knowledge of potential arrangements for an age limit, the NCAA remains a key player. While there has been much agitation for paying players some sort of stipend at the collegiate level, the organization as a whole is still firmly against changing those rules.
If that is the case, sources told Sporting News, the NBA and union could be pushed into a model in which players can be drafted and assigned to the D-League for either a period of years (two, likely) or until a player hits a predetermined age (21) before becoming NBA-eligible. Players would be given a much bigger D-League salary in that case than they receive now, which is about $25,000 per year.
"The NCAA are a bunch of horses' asses," one source said. "If they don't get their heads out of the sand and help these kids who come from nothing, then you will see the NBA make a move toward salaries way more attractive than they are now at the D-League level. Why not invest $100,000 or $200,000 in a player, put him in the D-League and let him stay there? At that age, you need to get them away from home and you need to get them on the court."
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Lamond Murray, 12-year NBA veteran and partner/speaker with the National Collegiate Scouting Association.
"I think the one-and-done thing, when you had kids coming out and they were the man-child types, like Shawn Kemp back in the day — there are only going to be one or two of those guys every couple of years right out of high school. By them regulating it and saying you have to stay a little bit longer because of an age limit, those kids will have to make more of a decision, whether or not you are going to play college ball for a few years or like some are saying, decide to go play in the D-League give them an opportunity in which they can go to school for a few years or, if that is not what they want to do, give them a platform in which they can go make money and have the option to go to the NBA after they hone their skills."
Mike Fratello, former NBA coach.
"It seems like we have acquiesced and given way more power to the agents than maybe we actually should for what we are paying these young guys to play professional basketball. Not only do they have the ability to come out after one year now, which means you get to see them play only maybe 35 games, but now we come to the predraft tryout camp, they are not even allowed to go up head-to-head against each other anymore. They're so protected by agents and the rules now have all changed, so that you can't do much of anything even in an individual workout. So it is not only the fact that they can come out after one year, it is, after that one year, you can't even see them in a competitive situation against the other young guys who have come out. It leaves a lot to be desired, especially for the amounts of money these young men are paid."
Derek Anderson, 11-year NBA veteran, University of Kentucky graduate.
"I hate it, man. It is not so much that people talk about the financial end of things, it is, when you are done with basketball, you have got the rest of your life, with what? You've got kids with no education, you have kids struggling to get jobs, struggling with personality issues, they don't know how to deal with life out of the limelight. Kids don't know what to do. And not enough of them are thinking, 'OK, when things are done in the NBA after 10, 15 years and he is 35, what is he going to do for the next 35 years?' Nothing, he is going to struggle. He has no education, no training. And that is if you're lucky enough to get a 10-year NBA career. What do all these people do? Half of them go into coaching because they don't have any other training."
Steve Smith, 14-year NBA veteran, collegiate and NBA TV analyst.
"I think you should be allowed to come out of high school, or if you are going to have an age limit, it should be 21. You know, you're grown. One year of college does not seem to be the right answer, you are still so far away from your degree. I think it should be 21, or you allow guys to enter the draft out of high school. I don't see one year, or even two years, being enough."
Reggie Theus, former NBA player and coach, D-League coach and current coach of Cal State Northridge.
"I am all for players making their living and starting to make their living early. But I think it is up to us to protect the game and the integrity of the game to some degree. So with that in mind, I think it is not so much you need an age limit, I think it is just you require two years of college. After two years, it is fine. I would like to see the two-year rule, I think it would solve a lot of problems. But I think if you're coming out, you need to be with the big franchise, you need to get your reps with those coaches. There is very little stability in the D-League. It's a tough league, players there have their own agendas. It is sort of like junior college, the mentality is the same, because everyone there is trying desperately to get somewhere else."
Brendan Suhr, 25-year veteran NBA assistant coach and executive, director of program development for University of Central Florida
"Personally, I am for two years. That's my management and coaching side of it. If I am going to pay those guys, coming in, I would want to have the ability to see them play for a couple of years, see how they fit into the college game. See how they mature and go from there. There are all kinds of good examples, obviously, Kobe and LeBron, and Garnett. But you have Tim Duncan, too — does anyone think he missed out by staying in school? It didn't hurt him too badly, you know? I don't think it is an advantage to rush things, it should be about getting it right for these kids. You want to make sure the kid, when he comes, is ready."


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Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy can help to heal bone disorders by stimulating both the osteoclasts and the osteoblasts. This helps and leads to the re-absorption of dead bone and the creation of new bone. In addition, HBOT stimulates the production of new blood vessels, so that the growing bone receives a steady supply of nutrients, including oxygen. The increased blood vessel network that HBOT yields does two other things: it helps support the function of the osteoclasts, and brings infection fighting white blood cells to the area.
Osteomyelitis is a bacterial infection that usually involves both the outer layers of the bone and the inner bone marrow. Staphylococci, is a common form of bacteria that can cause infections ranging from pimples to meningitis. Staphylococci are an anaerobic (oxygen hating) bacteria, making HBOT ideal for controlling its spread.
Part of the difficultly in treating osteomyelitis lies in the fact that it causes a lack of oxygen in the tissues. HBOT, by providing forced oxygenation, helps fight this disorder along with antibiotic therapy and or surgical intervention. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy helps preserve healthy bone, restore, and help build new bone and helps with the immune system. In some cases, in both bones and wounds, HBOT draws a clear line by which the surgeon can aid in the removal of dead or diseased bones. These types of infections can occur sometimes in the extraction of a tooth.
A good three-part treatment for bone infections includes the use of antibiotics, surgery to remove the dead bone, and HBOT as a supporting or adjunct treatment. There are some surgeons who are using HBOT before and after surgery.
Hyperbaric Oxygen in the Treatment of Controlled Laser Induced Thermal Burns
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) has established itself as an adjunctive treatment for thermal burns. The physiological damage of these burns is comparable to the thermal burns induced by CO2 Laser resurfacing. Laser resurfacing is a procedure for indications such as sun damage, telangiectasias, eliminating facial rhytides or wrinkles. The elective nature of the procedure allows for any patient with the will power and the financial freedom to undergo this procedure. The purpose of this article is to evaluate and compare thermal burns and controlled laser resurfacing thermal burns, their definitions, treatments and the possible adjunctive hyperbaric oxygen treatments. The subject of adjunctive hyperbaric oxygen therapy in the treatment of controlled laser induced thermal burns will also be compared, seemingly due to its role in the treatment of thermal burns.
Laser Resurfacing
Laser resurfacing has recently become the vogue for reducing or eliminating facial rhytides or wrinkles. The evolution of this process has been a long time in coming. Previously, CO2 lasers were used for cutting and destruction of tissues. This is a less controlled use of laser energy. The advent of the computer pattern generator revolutionized the laser industry. Now instead of physician judgment of how long and where to aim the laser, the computer would selectively irradiate the chosen tissue in a uniformly repeatable fashion for a specified period of time. This revolutionized the laser industry and brought about great research into laser biophysics. Thus in the early 1980?s, Anderson and Parrish developed the theory of Selective Photothermolysis (Anderson RR, Parrish JA; Selective photothermolysis; Precise microsurgery by selective absorption of pulsed radiation. Science 220:524, 1983) this theory states that the effects of a laser begin by energy being absorbed at specific sites called chromophores. The chromophore for a CO2 laser is water. Consequently, exposure to a CO2 laser will superheat the water molecule within the cell and thus cause the cell to vaporize. The distribution of laser heating in the skin is not only determined by the depth of laser penetration but also over the period of time that the laser energy was distributed.
Controlling these attributes allows us to ablate tissue and cause a controlled thermal burn, which results in a controlled scarring process that appears to eliminate wrinkles. A certain portion of energy extends into the underlying dermis by thermal conduction. Consequently we are not resurfacing the face with new tissue, we are allowing a controlled scar to evolve. Scars shrink over time, a process called contracture. This controlled contracture is what gives the appearance of youthful un-wrinkled skin.
Thermal effects on tissue are both time and temperature dependent:
42-45 degrees C-reversible protein and membrane changes
50-85 degrees C-structural protein denaturization
75-80-irreversible collagen coagulation
Greater than 100-vaporization of tissue water, then ablation and carbonization.
Complications of CO2 Laser Resurfacing
Laser surgery has exploded in the past decade, both in the number of indications for its use as well as the number of types of lasers. As with all surgical modalities, excellent results are tempered by the existence of complications such as those listed below.
Postoperative hyperpigmentation can be seen after almost any cutaneous laser procedure, regardless of type. It is more common in patients with darker skin types and is, in the vast majority of cases, a temporary side effect that responds to time and topical bleaching therapy. It is relatively common after CO2 laser resurfacing, where it lasts for an average of 3-4 months.
Postoperative hypopigmentation is also possible, particularly after pigment-specific laser irradiation. In these situations, it is seen more commonly after multiple treatments and is more common in darker skin types. As with hyperpigmentation, this complication is often temporary, although permanent hypopigmentation has been seen. Delayed permanent hypopigmentation has been recognized as a complication particular to CO2 laser skin resurfacing.
Postoperative Blistering
Blister formation (or vesiculation) is due to epidermal thermal damage induced by the laser. Explanations for its development include use of excessive laser fluencies or inadvertent absorption of laser energy due to the increased presence of an epidermal chromophore (e.g., melanin in a tan). The concomitant use of tissue cooling (through a contact chill tip or cryogen spray) serves to protect the epidermis from excessive thermal damage during laser irradiation.
Postoperative Crusting
This undesirable effect is also due to laser-induced epidermal damage (see blistering). Without appropriate postoperative care, crusting is inevitable after cutaneous laser resurfacing procedures.
Milia are often seen as a normal event in the postoperative course of patients who have undergone CO2 or erbium laser skin resurfacing. Their development may be reduced by application of topical tretinoin or glycolic acid.
This is perhaps the most dreaded of laser complications and was relatively common with continuous wave lasers. The risk of scarring with more recently developed pulsed and Q-switched lasers utilizing the principles of selective photothermolysis is far less, but remains possible. Whether atrophic or hypertrophic in type, scarring is always due to excess damage to the dermis. This may be the result of direct laser-induced thermal damage or may arise from complications such as postoperative infection. In general, risk of scarring is low with pigment-specific lasers, non-continuous wave vascular lasers and pulsed hair removal laser systems. Cutaneous laser resurfacing (both CO2 and erbium) carries the highest risk of scarring because of the intended destruction of dermal tissue as well as the increased risk of infection in the de-epithelialized skin. Factors such as the number of passes delivered and energy used may affect the risk of scarring, this complication may be seen even in the hands of the most experienced surgeon.
Definition of Thermal Burns
A thermal burn is an injury caused by exposure to heat sufficient to cause damage to the skin, and possibly deeper tissue. Most thermal burns are caused in one of the following ways, FLAME, HOT LIQUIDS, HOT OBJECTS, FLASH INJURIES and SUNBURN. The burn wound is a complex and dynamic injury characterized by a zone of coagulation, surrounded by an area of stasis, and bordered by an area of erythema. Depending on the severity of the thermal burn the zone of coagulation or complete capillary occlusion may progress by a factor of 10 during the first 48 hours after injury. Edema formation is rapid in the area of injury but also develops in distant, uninjured tissue. There are changes also occurring in the distant microvasculature where red cells aggregate, white cells adhere to venular walls, and platelet thromboemboli occurs. This is a progressive ischemic process which, when set in motion, may extend the damage dramatically during the early days after injury. The continuing tissue damage seen in thermal injury is due to the failure of the surrounding tissue to supply borderline cells with oxygen and nutrients necessary to sustain viability. The impediment of circulation below the injury leads to desiccation, as fluid cannot be supplied via the thrombosed or obstructed capillaries. Topical agents and dressings may reduce, but do not prevent, desiccation of the burn wound and the inexorable progression of the injury to deeper layers. Regeneration cannot take place until equilibrium is reached; hence, healing is retarded. Prolongation of the healing process may lead to excessive scarring. Hypertrophic scars are seen in 4 per cent of patients taking 10 days to heal, in 14 per cent of patients healing in 14 days or less, in 28 per cent of patients taking 21 days, and up to 40 per cent of patients taking longer than 21 days to heal. Rational for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in Thermal Burns
Rational for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in Thermal Burns
Initial burn therapy must be directed to minimizing edema, preserving marginally viable tissue, enhancing host defenses, and promoting wound closure. Adjunctive hyperbaric oxygen therapy can attack these problems directly, maintaining microvascular integrity, minimizing edema, and providing the essential substrate necessary to maintain viability. The beneficial effects of HBOT are vasoconstriction & fibroblast proliferation.
Effects of Hyperbaric Oxygen on Thermal Burns
The postulated mechanisms of a beneficial effect of hyperbaric oxygen on burn wounds are decreased edema due to hyperoxic vasoconstriction, increased collagen formation, and improved phagocytic killing of bacteria. In a trial comparing burn treatment with and without hyperbaric oxygen in 16 patients, the healing time was significantly shorter in the group receiving hyperbaric oxygen. Rationale for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in Laser Induced Thermal Burns. The mechanisms of insult in a controlled laser induced thermal burn are similar to the insult in a thermal burn. The controlled laser induced thermal burn has a less dramatic insult due in part to its controlled nature. The extent of thermal damage is generally from 200 to 400 microns, sufficient enough to be classified as a partial thickness burn, but could be less with HBOT treatments early on after the surgery. The same pathophysiology of the thermal burn applies to laser burns, the edema, erythema but the ischemia is less severe.
Hyperbaric oxygen treatment of the controlled laser induced thermal burn has shown a reduction in edema, erythema and promotes faster wound healing. Because the severity of the burn is not considered 20 per cent of the body or life threatening as specified in most HBOT literature as an indication for treating the thermal burn wound, the benefits seen in the hyperbaric oxygen treatment of the thermal burns are the same benefits seen in the treatment of controlled laser induced thermal burns. Treatment protocols for a less severe thermal burn like the laser induced thermal burn is anywhere from 5 to 10 treatments postoperatively. Each HBOT treatment is 90 minutes at 2 atmospheres (equal to 33 feet underwater). It has been observed that the patients whom elect to undergo the hour and a half HBO treatment protocol post laser resurfacing have healed 30 to 40 percent faster than those that don't do the treatments, and the chances for hypertrophic scarring and other complications are reduced by as much as 80 percent.
Although the treatment for the controlled laser induced thermal burn is not an approved indication by insurance companies for hyperbaric oxygen therapy, the fact remains that the patient can benefit from the HBOT treatments. Insurance coverage is a moot point in the reimbursement for this indication due to its elective nature (laser resurfacing is an elective procedure). The research has been extensive in the adjunctive HBOT treatment for thermal burns and should pass scrutiny based on its merits alone. The fact is that the treatment for thermal burns has itself not been widely accepted due to the lack of general understanding about Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy and its benefits. This lack of understanding and ignorance hinders the progression of further research and usage of the treatment for indications that obviously benefit from its adjunctive use.
Remember hyperbaric oxygen therapy is not employed to replace any other treatment modalities but to be used adjunctively with them to get the best possible outcome for the patient. The hyperbaric oxygen therapy not only limits the doctor's liability but also cuts the healing process for the patients thereby shortening the number of post-operative office visits.
(From Hyperbaric Medicine Today. www.hbomedtoday.com)
Sports Injuries
HBOT has been shown to reduce recovery time of various soft-tissue injuries and bone fractures. At least 12 professional NBA, NHL and NFL teams (including the New York Giants and the Dallas Cowboys) own or lease hyperbaric oxygen chambers for treating their players.
A concern expressed by some physicians is that HBOT will stimulate the growth of cancer. Experimental animal data by Matko Marusic, Ph. D. showed that HBOT given after inoculation of cancer cells decreased the take of the cancer cells. Again, the thousands of patients treated with the Marx protocol have demonstrated a lower recurrence of cancer in patients who received HBOT as part of their reconstructive process than those who had only antibiotics and surgery.
Based on the data above, HBOT has a significant role in cancer care but it has been under utilized except for reconstruction of head and neck cancer. In the future, the value of HBOT in cancer care should be the basis for expanded use of HBOT in care of the cancer patient.
Fatigue is a common complaint of the cancer patient. It may be due to the cancer itself or from cancer treatments. Results with HBOT have been reported in patients with migraine and chronic fatigue syndrome. Therefore, it seems probable the fatigue of the cancer patient would also respond to HBOT.
HBOT In Cancer Care Anemia
Anemia is a frequent result of cancer and cancer treatment. The anemia of cancer and cancer treatment should also respond well to HBOT. The ability of HBOT to stimulate the bone marrow is the rationale for use of HBOT in acute blood loss anemia. Chronic anemia can also respond well to HBOT. Addition of HBOT to erythropoetin treatment of anemia should increase and speed response. 34-year-old female with Lupus who developed osteomyelitis of distal 5th finger. The surgical recommendation was amputation of the finger. The osteomyelitis was cured with antibiotics and 60 days of HBOT at 2ATA for 2 hours per day. Her hemoglobin increased 3.8 grams and the patient had her first period in 5 years. MUCOSITIS AND ESOPHAGITIS Mucositis and esophagitis are debilitating complications of chemotherapy and radiation therapy with a higher incidence in concurrent or sequential treatment programs. Recent reports indicate a complicating factor is a superimposed pseudomonas infection. HBOT speeds healing, reduces edema and is very effective against pseudomonas infection. Amifostine (Ethyol) and recombinant human kevatinocyte growth factor (rhukgforkgf) are reported as treatments for mucositis and esophagitis. Adding HBOT to these treatments should significantly improve response. Therefore, the use of HBOT for muscositis and esophagitis should also be considered as acute ucositis and esophagitis respond well to HBOT. 54-year-old diabetic who ruptured his Achilles tendon. Post-operatively, he developed pseudomonas infection that progressed in spite of antibiotics. Achilles tendon is shown in infected wound before HBOT.
At Start of HBOT Development of granulation tissue after 20 treatments of HBOT at 2ATA 2 hours per day. Response at 2 Weeks Skin graft doing well. HBOT was continued . Patient received 120 HBOT treatments. At one year follow-up there was 100% take of graft. Prior to HBOT patient had one to two TIA's per month. Post HBOT, no TIA's for one year.
The use of HBOT as an adjunct to radiation therapy was tried 40 years ago. At that time, the radiation therapy was given while the patient was at pressure in the hyperbaric oxygen chamber. As both the normal cells and the cancer cells were hyperoxygenated, the expected increase in cancer control and decrease in modality did not occur. Twenty years ago, I started using HBOT prior to the radiation therapy treatment for difficult cases. This technique of HBOT immediately before the radiation therapy worked well with my patients . In a 1999 article, Drs. Kohshi, Kanugita, Kinoshita and Abe from
Using HBOT before the radiation therapy treatment permits the normal tissue to return to standard oxygenation while the less vascular cancer will still have an increased oxygen level as does the slow healing wound post HBOT. It is well documented that good oxygenation is needed for full response to a dose of radiation therapy.
34-year-old white female with synovial cell carcoma of chest wall. Patient was given 4,000 rads to chest wall with HBOT 2 hours at 2ATA just before each radiation therapy treatment. At one month after completion of radiation, patient had wide surgical excision and skin graft followed by an additional 20 days of HBOT post graft. Graft take was 100 percent as shown at one-year post graft. Eighteen years post treatment, there is no recurrence.
A 56-year old woman was diagnosed in 1993 with breast cancer. She had a lumpectomy followed by six weeks of radiation therapy and six months of chemotherapy with Cytoxan, methotrexate, and fluorocuracil. Tamoxifen therapy was given for five years. Shortly after starting chemotherapy, she noted a gradual and progressive memory impairment with confusion, poor ability to recall recent events and understand information provided to her. She had a tendency to misplace her possessions and lost interest in many of the activities she had participated in previously, including playing bridge. Her reading comprehension deteriorated and she no longer was able to cook many of the dishes that she had prepared in the past. Because of the cognitive defect, she had to stop working in 1996. The patient was evaluated for HBOT on
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Spy Sunglasses Activity
What's a spy without a pair of dark, secretive sunglasses? Outfit a pair of dark sunglasses with sneaky mirrors for eyes in the back of your head. Now all you're missing is a bowler, a trench and a phony moustache.
What You Need:
- Old pair of dark sunglasses (or new pair if needed; sunglasses are often available at dollar shops)
- Mirror paper (available at craft stores)
- Scrap paper
- Ruler
- Pencil
- Scissors
- Hot glue gun
What You Do:
- Have your child place the sunglasses face down on the scrap paper.
- Next, he can use the pencil to trace around the outside of the sunglasses frames.
- Hand him the ruler and ask him to measure from the outermost edge of the traced picture to the middle of the sunglasses. Help him divide the measurement by three. Then he should use his pencil to draw a vertical line a little over 1/3 of the way in from the outside edge of each side of the sunglasses frame.
- Next, your child should find where the vertical lines stop, then cut in a horizontal line at the end of them so that he has two half-circles. These two pieces of paper will be the templates for the mirrors he will stick on the sides of his sunglasses.
- Place a template on the mirror paper. The template should be on the mirrored side of the paper. Help your child cut around the template on the mirror paper.
- Repeat step #6 with the other template.
- Position the two pieces of mirror paper inside the sunglasses flush with the outer edges and temple hinges on the sunglasses. You can help your child trim any mirror paper that shows outside the sunglasses.
- Help your child use the hot glue gun to glue the mirror paper into these positions.
- When the glue has dried. he can wear the sunglasses. He should be able to see out the front of the sunglasses and use the mirror paper to spy on things or people behind him!
Beth Levin has an M.A. in Curriculum and Education from Columbia University Teachers College. She has written educational activities for Macmillan/McGraw-Hill and Renaissance Learning publishers. She has a substitute teaching credential for grades K-12 in Oregon, where she lives with her husband and two daughters.


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The player he is now could still be an upgrade for the New York Knicks.
The Knicks acquired Rose from the Bulls on Wednesday, hoping the former NBA MVP can be their answer at point guard.
New coach Jeff Hornacek said recently the Knicks needed a point guard and Rose was one of the NBA's best before multiple knee injuries slowed the former No. 1 pick's career. He played in 66 games last season, his most in five years, and averaged 16.4 points.


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Ok, so I've been skirting around really committing to this for the past 6 days. Id say Ive actually done pretty well for those 6 days considering what a high carb/sugar/sweetner lifestyle it was I was living before I decided to hit this thing. I have been struggling post-starvation mode for a long time, I was very ill with a stomach disorder that sent me very very very underweight, and since gaining weight my body has been all over the place, I have an out of whack body fat percentage, i store fat if I so much look at bread and despite a HELL OF A LOT of cardio I couldnt seem to drop it, oh, and I crave sugar like I will die without it. So enough is enough. I lived about 2 years in ketosis very very happily and I would like to get back to somewhere near there, with less hunger, less desperate need to eat and a leaner body mass.
From this moment on, I commit for the next 30 days, and beyond.
This WILL be a big battle for me, I come from the 'scared of fat but getting fat anyway' camp, I generally dislike hot food and cooking so I am taking on the challenge of dealing with that head on. I truly believe that I will have a better, happier life if I can.
I will be taking a low nut/fruit stance for a bit to see how I go for the first two weeks with the intention of adding them in after that.
Here goes everything...
Welcome. If you fight your way through the carb craving, Primal can be a very easy ride.
You don't have to go into ketosis but you need to keep your carbs between about 50 and 100 per day.
You don't have to eat a huge amount of fat, but you need enough to feel satisfied by meals - saturated and monounsaturated.
It sounds like big-assed salads are in your future. Make sure to include olive oil/avocados/cheese (if you tolerate it)/cold meats/hard boiled eggs and other fat and protein. You gotta get some fat.
Good luck. Come here for support. You can do it!
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The art of making paper airplanes is affectionately known as "aerogami," which is a play-on-words of "origami," the Japanese art of folding paper. This leads me to think that The Office missed an opportunity with "Paper Airplane," to have the contest won easily by the mysterious warehouse worker Hidetoshi Hasagawa. The show still could have kept the dynamic between Dwight and Angela, as they each tried to "lose." But it would have been cool to see Hide casually throw his carefully folded plane for a vast, jaw-dropping distance at the end, when almost nobody (but the camera) was watching. I just thought I'd "speak my truth." Now I suppose I should speak about this episode's Scrantonicity.
The show starts out with an interesting quirk; the company that is sponsoring the paper airplane contest is named "Weyerhammer." This is a thinly-disguised version of the huge cellulose fiber corporation Weyerhaueser, which is known for its paper products. It also produces lumber and packaging from the many trees of the great Pacific northwest. And Weyerhaueser's company headquarters is a huge sprawling, park-like campus just a few miles from where we live now outside Seattle. So there I am, a Scranton native searching for Scrantonicity, and the show is having a laugh about a company just down the road from me in Seattle. Weyerhaueser's main campus features a gorgeous bonsai garden that is free and open to the public, if you're ever out this way.
The first legitimate new "Scrantonicity" sighting of this episode is Angela's accounting diploma that is seen hanging on the wall behind her desk. It is from PennFoster College, an online university that has a main office and "Career School" on Oak Street in Scranton. It was not easy to read this diploma, which was visible on the wall for only a few seconds. It's yet another example of all the research that was put into the back stories of these characters, most of which will never even factor into the show. But they did it anyway, and the prop department produced a nice-looking diploma for the wall.
Also visible on that wall were two "certificates of merit." There is one I've noticed before, "honoring" a real person named Marc Christie, for his past work on The Office as a "best boy" and a "key grip." Marc has since moved on to other shows as a key grip, and this was probably his "lovely parting gift." The second "certificate of merit" is for "Acco Fasteners," a real company with ties to the paper industry. But curiously, the person listed on the plaque is "Todd Liggies," a name that does not show up in any online searches. Hmm… I think we are on the outside of an "inside joke" here.
When Andy and Daryl arrive at the HDRCP lab to begin filming the industrial instructional video, they are shown walking through a working laboratory, with actual research going on around them by white-lab-coated technicians. They pass by a full snack box positioned on the lab counter, amongst the beakers and test tubes and vials and such. A bag of Herr's Ragin' Ranch Chips is clearly visible. It made me wonder if the meticulously pristine, gloved, goggle-wearing technicians just set their equipment down at any time to snatch up a handful of Ragin' Ranch chips to satisfy their mid-afternoon munchies. Then do they carefully wipe the colorful Ragin' Ranch crumbs off their hands onto their white lab coats? It all seems kind of Kevin Malone-y, doesn't it?
Meanwhile, the paper airplane contest is in full swing down in the Dunder Mifflin warehouse. Behind the contestants is a desk or a shelving unit that is covered with boxes of Wegman's snacks and cereals, in an artfully-arranged still-life composition similar to the top of the break room refrigerator upstairs. On the wall above this snack cart is a poster that is "awarding" the warehouse with the unwanted title of "Dirtiest department." The illustration on this "award" is a cartoon pig. Well… maybe if they didn't have so many boxes of goodies so conveniently handy down there, they wouldn't have so many cookie crumbs all over the floor! The warehouse refrigerator features a magnet for RX Billing Services, a local Dunmore business. It also has the exact same magnet as the upstairs refrigerator, extolling the legal services of Dante Cancelli, a Scranton attorney-at-law. Dante works both floors, tending to the legal needs of the blue and the white collars. There are several cases of Izze sparkling juice on the floor behind Nellie, and a 97.9X radio station bumper-sticker behind Kevin, as he glues his fingers together making his many faulty airplanes.
When Angela is shown "stocking up" on Dunder Mifflin toilet paper for her home use, she walks past a poster for the Scranton "Fight For Air" Walk, a charity event which was held in October 2012. The pilfered toilet paper rolls were in a blue generic wrapping paper, with only the word "soft" written on the packaging. Since the show knows that nuts like me are out there watching for stuff like this, they really should have put something comically negative like "industrial-grade" on the toilet paper. It would have been funny and apropos, reminding us that the notorious cheapskate Dwight Schrute is the landlord that stocks the Scranton Business Park bathrooms.
And finally, Jim Halpert is shown climbing into a McCarthy Flowered Cab in the parking lot. The local company McCarthy cabs has been a staple on the show for years, showing up time and time again. This particular cab is marked on the front fender with the designating number "M152." Hmm… if I look back at previous episodes, I wonder if cab M152 will be the one that is making every single pick-up. Something tells me that it just might be. 😆
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|Sunday, 02 April 2006
Book review
Sri Lankan literature in English
Entire gamut in one volume
Sri Lankan English Literature and the Sri Lankan People 1917-2003
Author D. C. R. A. Goonetilleke
Reviewed by Prof. Walter Marasinghe
This is a collection of essays on Sri Lankan English Literature, written by Prof. D. C. R. A. Goonetilleke, the most distinguished Sri Lankan critic in English to date, which have been originally published in various international journals and anthologies, between 1986 and 2003. In the present volume they have been revised, updated and edited to present a coherent and complete picture.
Sri Lankan English Literature comprehends literature written in English by Sri Lankans, some of them belonging to the Sri Lankan diaspora, and forms part of Commonwealth Literature in English, with its own Sri Lankan identity.
Prof. Goonetilleke however is wary in applying the term Commonwealth Literature to this wider body of literature because of the changing status of certain countries like Pakistan and Nigeria and South Africa's earlier exclusion from the British Commonwealth.
Despite the common language used, the different literatures falling under Commonwealth literature differ much from the standard English Literature, with regard to subject matter, the cultural background depicted and the nuances of the language used. It, therefore, behoves to be treated as a separate mass of literature, and Prof. Goonetilleke has done just that.
The integration of the several essays (eleven of them) included in this volume has been done so well, that the reader will not feel they are detached essays but the chapters of a complete book written according to a pre-conceived plan.
The most salutary feature of this book is its treatment of the subject of Sri Lankan literature in English, placing it in its proper perspectives of political, social and cultural background that prevailed in the country at the time when the literature took shape. It is not merely an evaluation or critique of Sri Lankan poetry, drama and fiction in English written strictly from a literary point of view. Herein the author has displayed his maturity and deep knowledge of and concern for major issues of social and political interest of the country.
In these essays the author surveys Sri Lankan literature in English from 1917 to 2003, but in effect the post-independence literature, in the context of the history of the Sri Lankan people. The author believes that literature cannot be examined in isolation, separated from the social, economic and political context, which has given rise to it. Prof. Goonetilleke has done an admirable job in evaluating Sri Lankan literature from this approach.
Chapter One, Sri Lankan English Literature in Perspective, makes a general survey of important works from Lucian de Zilva's The Dice of the Gods (1917), the first English novel written in Sri Lanka, to Regeneration (2003) by Eileen Siriwardhane.
In Chapter Two titled The Interface of Language, Literature and Politics in Sri Lanka: A Paradigm for Ex-colonies of Britain, the author deals with the factors that have contributed to the emergence of the Sri Lankan English literature. He shows that the British, in launching English education in Ceylon had no intention to make it widespread. They only needed to create a class of 'interpreters' to go between the British rulers and the uneducated natives. His remark that English literature in Sri Lanka, emerged from the growth of nationalist currents is full of significance.
To me the most interesting Chapter is the third, titled, The 1971 Insurrection: the Perils of Idealism. According to the author, among the Sri Lankan writers in English, the poets have fared better than the novelists.
At the same time he does not fail to remark that no poet has done justice to the Insurrection of 1971, 'a revolt that is, todate, still unique in the Third World'. A few novelists, on the other hand, have looked at this unique event from different angles.
The most important among them are James Goonewardene, Punyakante Wijenaika, E. R. Sarachchandra and Raja Proctor. The author has critically examined their strong points and weaknesses and done an in-depth study of the Insurrection and causes behind it.
For instance, Wijenaike The Rebel lays more emphasis on the depiction of human emotions, whereas Sarachchandra in Curfew and the Full Moon delves deep into the causes that led to the breakout of the insurrection. But the latter's treatment, according to the author, is parochial, being centred round the happenings connected with a University don and his students who have joined the movement.
The fourth chapter, Sri Lanka's "Ethnic" conflict: Fact and Fiction, surveys the literature on Sri Lanka's most pressing problem at the moment. The author appears not to believe "that the sharp division that exists in Sri Lanka at present can be attributed to the racial and linguistic differences between the two communities, the Sinhalese and the Tamils, and he adduces very convincing arguments in support of his view. It may be noted that when he refers to the "ethnic conflict" he always writes the word "ethnic" within inverted commas.
According to the latest national census, the percentage of the Sri Lankan Tamils is 12.6 as against the 73.98 percent of the Sinhalese. Of this 12.6, nearly 70% live with the Sinhalese in the South. Thus the entire Tamil population living in the Northern and Eastern Provinces is less than 4% of the whole population of Sri Lanka. Prof. Goonetilleke is, therefore, quite right in asserting that the claim made by the LTTE who have proclaimed themselves the sole representative of the Tamils, to 1/3 of the country and 2/3 of the sea-coast is invalid.
It is a demand to which no sensible government can concede. The author rightly says of the problem: "It is not ethnic as such; ethnicity provides only symbols for conflict."
Of the poetry on the ethnic problem the author says that it is prompted to move our feelings. He further remarks that the ethnic conflict has been dealt with mainly, in more or less short poems. Most of these poems are expressions of sympathy for the community to which the poet himself belongs or the outpourings of the poet's own expressions. The author laments the failure on the part of the poets to offer any solution to the problem.
We are never permitted by the writers in English, says the author, to see a presentation of the actual conflict in all its complexity, with its tangled webs of wrongs perpetrated not by one side or the other, but both.
A few novels have been written on themes associated with the ethic conflict, which attempt to delve into deeper aspects of the problem.
The author examines in detail some of the more important among them, Punyakante Wijenaike's An Enemy Within, Elmo Jayawardena's Sam's Story and Suvimalee Karunaratne's The Vine, to name a few.
The ethnic conflict has also inspired dramatists of no mean importance like Ernest MacIntyre. His play, Rasanayagam's Last Riot, is written in the realistic mode instead of his usual absurd style, but it fails to impress, being too academic, superficial and slanted.
The author considers Suvimalee Karunaratne's The Vine superior to MacIntyre's plays. It is a balanced treatment of the subject.
Chapter five titled The Changing Phases/Faces of Nationalism deals with the emergence of Nationalism in Sri Lanka, which resulted in two rebellions under colonial rule, in 1817-1818 and 1848 respectively. The next phase began with the landslide victory of SWRD Bandaranaike in 1956.
Here, the author makes a critical evaluation of the poetry that emerged, which has two faces, one that arose as a reaction to the expressed opposition to English by the nationalists, and the other that took the form of self-criticism by the poets who lost their cultural roots.
The next chapter presents a survey of Sri Lankan drama in English. Contemporary English theatre in Sri Lanka, says the author, is very much alive.
This is partly due to the untiring efforts of members of the older generation such as H. C. N. de Lanerolle, E. M. W. Joseph, Ernest MacIntyre, Regi Siriwardene, and partly due to the efforts of the younger generation, Nedra Vittachi, Indu Dharmasena and Ruwanthie de Chickera.
The remaining chapters are devoted to poetry, the novel and short fiction. These receive the same fullness of treatment.
Prof. D. C. R. A. Goonetilleke should be congratulated on his remarkable feat of surveying the entire gamut of Sri Lankan literature in English in one volume and doing so admirably. It is very revealing, enlightening, and very interesting reading.
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Trent Thomas scored three goals and added an assist as West Texas A&M opened its men's soccer season by defeating College of the Southwest's first-year program 7-0 in the Buffs' final game at The Pitch.
WT will play the remainder of its home games at resurfaced Kimbrough Memorial Stadium.
"To be my first game, I was kind of uneasy and I didn't really know what to expect," said Thomas, who helped the Buffs vault to a 4-0 halftime lead and eventually outshoot the Mustangs 34-4. "I guess I played on top of my game today."
WT coach Butch Lauffer, begining his 12th season, was impressed by his young squad.
"We kept the tempo very high," said Lauffer, whose team returns to action to face Colorado-Colorado Springs at 1 p.m. Monday in Kimbrough Stadium.
Late in the first half, sophomore forward Josh Fender pushed the ball deep into the Mustang zone and slapped a cross-field pass to an open Thomas, who blasted it past goalkeeper Chris Choate.
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The Emmy-winning actress's CBS show The Good Wife "ripped its title from the headlines when Silda Spitzer was standing right behind her husband" during the prostitution scandal, Margulies told PEOPLE on Tuesday.
With her character "loosely based" on Silda and other political wives who have stood by their husbands, Margulies says, "The headlines are now imitating us because both of these politicians – Spitzer and Weiner – have gotten back into the game of politics. And now newspapers are saying, 'Huma, take some advice from Alicia Florrick. Go back to work, don't read the papers.' "
But having played Alicia for so long on the show – the fifth season premieres Sept. 29 – the actress, says, "I have no judgment."
"Every woman has to do what feels best for her in that moment," she continues, "and I don't think anyone in that moment knows what the best situation to do is. I think it's called survival."
Adds Margulies, "Watching Huma [Abedin] on the podium, standing there next to her husband and saying she was going to stand by her man, I only had compassion and empathy for her, and felt like none of us know what she's going to do yet."


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If The Internet Disappeared: Finding Answers Without Google
We sat there a little longer, but neither Tobey's jokes nor sips from my flask could quell my rising anxiety. Not even this journal that keeps my hands busy and my mind occupied can put me at ease. There's something about the pen scratching against the thick textured paper that makes my words take on greater weight. Like their existence must be justified. It troubles me. Online, words flow almost as quickly as thoughts without revision or purpose, the way they do when you're alone, answering to no one.
I needed that back, but all we had were these rumors that were "totally true because it happened to this guy my cousin knows." Something more had to be done. If someone had internet, I wanted it.
"Tobey," I said, while unscrewing my flask for dramatic emphasis, "we're not doing this right."
"I don't know. Knees bent, ass planted, back against the rest... I'd say we're sitting on this bench perfectly."
Much like a 2am text from a drunken acquaintance, I decided to ignore Tobey's joke completely.
"No, I mean, we're looking for information. But we're not getting involved enough."
"Gladstone, I'm not getting into another Digg or Reddit circle. I can't take it."
"No, we need to go deeper. Not self-styled internet reporters and editorialists. We need to get behind the scenes. Hackers. What we need is..." I now took the swig of Scotch. (I really nailed the timing). "4Chan."
"You've got to be kidding me? You want to seek out a bunch of /b/tard hacking imps? Online, they gave us Rickrolls and LOLcats, who knows what they're capable of in real life?"
"I'm guessing nothing," I said. "They did that behind the cover of anonymity. In person, I'm guessing we'll find Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters, except not high, and inexplicably bitter."
"Don't disrespect the /b/tards," someone said and upon closer inspection, that someone was Australian. And a woman.
Sitting on the neighboring bench in her boots, torn fishnets and mini skirt was a living hyperbole of retarded sexuality. The pink streak in her hair. The heavy eye makeup and the harlequin nails alternating in red and black all reeked of desperate Hot Topic posturing that spoke in equal parts to 14 year old boys and dirty old men.
I took a moment before speaking, conscious that this was one of those dramatic opening lines that required a clever and witty response.
"Fuck, you're hot," Tobey said.
"Ignore my friend," I apologized "Sometimes, he forgets public spaces are different from chat rooms."
"I'm familiar with that phenomenon. So you boys looking for the internet? Because I could use some help in that area."
"Oh, yeah, we're doing some heavy duty investigative shit," Tobey said. "We hear someone in New York's got it."
"Yeah, I heard that too."
" That rumor's going around Australia?" I asked.
"No, I got it from a Reddit circle in Brooklyn."
"Then why were you already in New York if you hadn't yet heard the rumor?"
"For fuck sake. You try living in Perth without internet."
Her name was Oz, which was apparently short for Ozzygrrl69. Our newfound friend was 23 years old and made her living letting men watch her shower for money. Much like Tobey, the death of the internet meant the loss of her livelihood.
She was all for seeking info from the /b/tards, but didn't know where to find them and was afraid to go alone. I didn't blame her. Overt sexuality without the distance and anonymity of the internet was dangerous. We decided to pool our resources. And that's when I noticed the black ops helicopters. Troops and dogs emerged around the perimeter of the park. Some zombies approached the dogs eager to see a stupid pet trick like they remembered from YouTube or take a pic they could use for a funny caption. They were summarily mauled. New York City, we were told, was shutting down.
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Missed the prior installments of Notes from the Internet Apocalypse? Start here. Also, check out Gladstone's article about "5 Famous Artists Who Didn't Create Their Signature Creation," only in the new Cracked.com book. Oh, and his site. You can also follow Gladstone on Twitter and Facebook. Wow, you have a lot of things to do.


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While new Blu-rays of old movies are sometimes dubious replacements for prior editions (hence the need for this column), box sets released in the high-definition format have thus far been fairly helpful, at least in terms of shelf space: many or most of them forego a lot of the frills and flourishes of their standard-definition iterations in favor of more streamlined packaging. Unfortunately, that's also sometimes extended to their extras, thanks in no small part to the legal entanglements of transferring commentaries and bonus content from one format to another.
Both Warner Brothers and Fox have faced this challenge a couple of times thanks to their ownership/ adoption of the libraries of MGM and United Artists, which until a few years ago issued their own releases. Rocky, which is one of United Artists' premier franchises, was recently released on Blu-ray in The Undisputed Collection, a set that contains all six of the films in the series, but it remains to be seen whether complete also means comprehensive in this particular case.
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Rocky was previously released several times on DVD both as a standalone title and in Rocky-themed box sets. 2006's Rocky Anthology featured remastered versions of the first five films (it was released prior to Rocky Balboa) and no extra content. Meanwhile, a Special Edition of the first film was released in December of that same year and featured three commentaries, a three-part making of documentary called "In The Ring," seven featurettes, TV spots and trailers, deleted scenes and a collectible booklet.
What's In The New Set:The Undisputed Collection features all of the films as well as a bonus that has more than three hours of extras and special features. Additionally, all of the films are presented in high definition with 5.1 DTS-HD audio tracks, or in Rocky Balboa's case, English PCM 5.1 uncompressed audio.
What's The Difference In The Movie Itself: Like many Blu-ray reissues of films more recently released or updated on DVD, the films basically feature the same transfers as their standard-definition version, albeit now presented in uncompressed high definition. Much like the DVD transfer for the '06 edition, Rocky shows its age (and its initial price tag) with picture presentation that has a lot of grain and soft detail, but with the exception of the new film, which was transferred to HD when it was originally put on DVD, it by far looks the best of the series.
According to online information the '06 Anthology set boasted remastered presentation of the other films as well, but here they're all grainy and muted, with soft colors and a focus that quite frankly should be sharper in high definition. Meanwhile, in terms of the content of the films, they're all the same as in previous sets, with no edits or changes implemented.
What's The Difference In Everything Else: This set unfortunately is a victim, at least in part, of the same rules that kept the bonus materials for Robocop off of its Blu-ray release. None of the films have commentaries, which means that the first film lost all three of the existing ones, and the new ones, well, they never received (and one might argue, they never deserved) one. Further, almost all of the special features on Disc Seven are the same as the ones on the '06 Rocky Special Edition, which begs the question why the commentaries couldn't also carry over in addition to the featurettes and other stuff.
That said, the material is all genuinely interesting – a featurette about Steadicam inventor Garrett Brown explores a footnote in filmmaking history that is virtually unknown to anyone outside the industry – but again it would have been interesting to see something new among these existing extras, or in lieu of that a sort of one-stop set that collected everything together.
What's The Final Grade:C. The appeal of the Rocky series is mostly predicated on personal experience – all of the films aren't great – so if you saw certain ones at important times in your life (at least cinematically speaking), then this set is a must own. But for folks on the fence, the transfers are definitely not terrific, and the slate of extras is incomplete, especially if you've already spent some money on making this palooka a winner.
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That 40 story tax payer edifice across the street from the dome should be a clue. Add to that the influence of OSU and you have a tax dollar consuming false economy that creates a real distortion of what is really happening in the rest of the sate.
Same is true for most capital cities with the DC area being the poster child of false economies.
The morale to the story, live where you can benefit most from the taxes paid by others.
Big Ten football makes it all worthwhile....right?
Cleveland and Cincy on the other hand have roughly 77 square miles ever since 1950, because the surrounding areas were already well established and had solid governments, so they could not annex their neighbors. The only hope for them is to merge with surrounding areas. If Cleveland for instance annexed half of what Columbus annexed it would have roughly 2.4 million people and Cincy would have almost 1.8 million people. So to answer the question Columbus didn't actually grow in the normal sense. The core city just like most core cities is still declining. In the brookings study only Chicago, NYC, and Sanfrancisco had core cities which did not dramatically decline and is only attributed to the falling numbers of families in each household.
Also if you look at the current GDP for the metro areas, Cleveland and Cincinnati were #1 and #2 for income and growth. The metro numbers are the better indicators since Cleveland's metro is smaller in square miles yet has 3 times the population of Columbus and the same goes for cincinnati. Also if you look at the detailed report of the crime statistics the Columbus metro area was the most dangerous of the big cities in Ohio.
So looks can be decieving and if either Cleveland or Cincinnati acquired its neighbors like Columbus did those cities would appear has having BIG booms. So if your question regards growing as in actual growth then no Columbus is not growing, if you are talking about growth as aquiring land have having more square miles then yes it is.
The real problem is the fact that their is little to no job growth in the State of Ohio. The tax burden is high, government regulation and legislation is oftentimes unfavorable towards business owners, and property taxes are high as well. This leads to inadequate job growth and more importantly, a declining population, which will ultimately lead to declining property values (separate and above the subprime/general housing slowdown that is currently occurring).
In the end, at some point Columbus will cease growing as well, as it will become more clear to people that better economic opportunities lie elsewhere.
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