Open from 3 December to 23 December see a series of photographs by Peter Thuring celebrating the ancient and veteran trees of Petworth Park that have withstood the ravages of time.
As the culmination of a series of events at Petworth commemorating the 300th anniversary of the birth of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, this exhibition recognises the 'ancient' or 'veteran' classified trees that range from 250 to nearly 1,000 years old that stand proudly today punctuating the landscape work of art by Capability Brown.
Peter Thuring has been inspired by the creative spirit of Brown choosing to use a large format camera, a slow method that clearly expresses the very fine and delicate details of the trees but also captures their magnificence and grandeur in black and white photography.
" With their burst bark, burs and broken branches, these trees have taken centuries to develop and show the scars of their long-lived life."
Be inspired by the photographs that pay homage to the proudly standing trees and discover them for yourself with a downloadable walk that guides you to some of our oldest trees that have stood the test of time.
Based in the Servants' Quarters the exhibition is free to see between 11am and 3:30pm but normal admission prices apply.
Find out more about the Turner and the Age of British Watercolour exhibition that ran from 7 January to 12 March 2017 and championed British art from 1780-1850.
Escape the ordinary and step back in time to a bygone Christmas as the 3rd Earl of Egremont and Elizabeth Ilive invite you to celebrate a Georgian Christmas from 1 December to 1 January 2019.
Follow our step by step instalments behind the scenes as Petworth gets ready to present a Christmas Masquerade - a spectacle of mischief and disguise open 3 December to 2 January 2017.


Was born our old King Coal.
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Wink always sly at me.
Obviously based on the nursery rhyme, 'Old King Coal' is a tribute to the mineral without which Lancashire's industrial society, and indeed industrial feats of other areas, could never have been achieved. Charles Chilton, the famous author, historian and collector of historical songs, introduced the Oldham Tinkers to this regal personification of coal in 1968.
Re-released on C.D. by Pier Records in 2000 under licence from Topic Records Ltd, England.
The classic Lancashire folk album from 1979, available for the first time on CD, with three bonus tracks, full song notes and a sleeve note introduction from B.B.C. presenter Andy Kershaw.


Collected Stories might well have been entitled Recollected Stories because its subject is the writer's responsibility to respect the privacy of others. Somewhere between the right to free trading in a good yarn and the obligation to protect the feelings and integrity of individuals there is a line- not to be written – but drawn.
Anyone who knows their polypeptides will tell you that endorphins are a little gift from your brain to you. And because he offers a beguiling equivalent in musical analgesia, Endorphin aka electronics composer Eric Chapus, is well-named. Skin (Columbia/Sony) is his second album, follow up to his debut work, Embrace.
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The Apostle of God
Posted on June 3, 1999 by Carl Coon
An aged hermit named Sergius dwelt in the wilds of Arabia, addicting himself to the pursuit of religion and alchemy. Of his creed it could only be said that it was so much better than that of his neighbours as to cause him to be commonly esteemed a Yezidi, or devil worshipper. But the better informed deemed him a Nestorian monk, who had retired into the wilderness on account of differences with his brethren, who sought to poison him.
The imputation of Yezidism against Sergius was the cause that a certain inquisitive young man resorted to him, trusting to obtain light concerning the nature of demons. But he found that Sergius could give him no information on that subject, but, on the contrary, discoursed so wisely and beautifully on holy things, that his pupil's intellect was enlightened, and his enthusiasm was inflamed, and he longed to go forth and instruct the ignorant people around him; the Saracens, and the Sabaeans, and the Zoroastrians, and the Carmathians, and the Baphometites, and the Paulicians, who are a remnant of the ancient Manichees.
"Nay, good youth," said Sergius, "I have renounced the sending forth of missionaries, having made ample trial with my spiritual son, the Prophet Abdallah."
"What!" exclaimed the youth, "was Abdallah the Adite thy disciple?"
"Even so," said Sergius. "Hearken to his history.
"Never have I instructed so promising a pupil as Abdallah, nor when he was first my disciple do I deem that he was other than the most simple-minded and well-intentioned of youths. I always called him son, a title I have never bestowed on another. Like thee, he had compassion on the darkness around him, and craved my leave to go forth and dispel it.
"'My son, I said, 'I will not restrain thee: thou art no longer a child. Thou hast heard me discourse on the subject of persecution, and knowest that poison was administered to me personally on account of my inability to perceive the supernatural light emanating from the navel of Brother Gregory. Thou art aware that thou wilt be beaten with rods and pricked with goads, chained and starved in a dungeon, very probably blinded, very possibly burned with fire?'
" 'All these things I am prepared to undergo,' said Abdallah; and he embraced me and bid me farewell.
"After certain moons he returned covered with weals and scars, and his bones protruded through his skin.
" 'Whence are these weals and scars?' asked I, 'and what signifies this protrusion of thy bones?'
"'The weals and the scars,' answered he, 'proceed from the floggings inflicted upon me by command of the Caliph; and my bones protrude by reason of the omission of his officers to furnish me with either food or drink in the dungeon wherein I was imprisoned by his orders.'
" 'O my son,' exclaimed I, 'in the eyes of faith and right reason these scars are lovelier than the moles of beauty, and 'the sight of thy bones is like the beholding of hidden treasure!'
"And Abdallah strove to look as though he believed me; nor did he entirely fail therein. And I took him, and fed him, and healed him, and sent him forth a second time into the world.
"And after a space he returned, covered as before with wounds and bruises, but comely and somewhat fat.
" 'Whence this sleekness of body, my son?' I asked.
"'Through the charity of the Caliph's wives,' he answered, 'who have fed me secretly, I having assured them that in remembrance of this good work each of them in the world to come would have seven husbands.'
"'How knewest thou this, my son?' I inquired.
"'In truth, father,' he said, 'I did not know it; but I thought it probable.'
" 'O my son! my son!' exclaimed I, 'thou art on a dangerous road. To win over weak ignorant people by promises of what they shall receive in a future life, whereof thou knowest no more than they do! Knowest thou not that the inestimable blessings of religion are of an inward and spiritual nature? Did I ever promise any disciple any recompense for his enlightenment and good deeds, save flogging, starvation, and burning?'
"'Never, father,' said he, 'and therefore thou hast had no follower of thy law save one, and he hath broken it.'
"He left me after a shorter stay than before, and again went forth to preach. After a long time he returned in good condition of body, yet manifestly having something upon his mind.
"'Father,' he said, 'thy son hath preached with faithfulness and acceptance, and turned thousands unto righteousness. But a sorcerer hath arisen, saying, "Why follow ye Abdallah, seeing that he breathes not fire out of his mouth and nostrils?" And the people give ear unto the words that come from this man's lips, when they behold the flame that cometh from his nose. And unless thou teaches me to do as he doth I shall assuredly perish.'
"And I told Abdallah that it was better to perish for the truth's sake than to prolong life by lies and deceit. But he wept and lamented exceeding sore, and in the end he prevailed with me; and I taught him to breath flame and smoke out of a hollow nut filled with combustible powder. And I took a certain substance called soap, but little known in this country, and anointed his feet therewith. And when he and the sorcerer met, both breathing flame, the people knew not which to follow; but when Abdallah walked over nine hot ploughshares, and the sorcerer could not touch one of them, they beat his brains out, and became Abdallah's disciples.
"A long time afterwards Abdallah came to me again, this time with a joyful, and yet with somewhat of a troubled look, carrying a camel-hair blanket, which he undid, and lo! it was full of bones.
" 'O father,' he said, 'I bring thee happy tidings. We have found the bones of the camel of the prophet Ad, upon which his revelation was engraved by him.'
" 'If this be so,' said I, 'thou art acquainted with the precepts of the prophet, and hast no need of mine.'
" 'Nay, but father,' said he, 'although the revelation was without question originally engraved by the prophet on these very bones, it hath come to pass by the injury of time that not one letter of his writing can be distinguished. I have therefore come to ask thee to write it over again.'
" 'What!' I exclaimed, 'I forge a revelation in the name of the prophet Ad! Get thee behind me!'
" 'Thou knowest, father,' he rejoined, 'that if we had the original words of the prophet Ad here they would profit us nought, as by reason of their antiquity none would understand them. Seeing therefore that I myself cannot write, it
is meet that thou shouldst set down in his name those things which he would have desired to deliver had he been now among us; but if thou wilt not, I shall ask Brother Gregory.'
"And when I heard him speak of having recourse to that cheat and impostor my spirit was grieved within me, and I wrote the Book of Ad myself. And I was heedful to put in none but wholesome and profitable precepts, and more especially did I forbid polygamy, having perceived a certain inclination hereunto in my disciple.
"After many days he came again, and this time he was in violent terror and agitation, and hair was wanting to the lower part of his countenance.
" 'O Abdallah, I inquired, 'where is thy beard?'
" 'In the hands of my ninth wife,' said he.
"'Apostate!' I exclaimed, 'hast thou dared to espouse more wives than one? Rememberest thou not what is written in the Book of the Prophet Ad?'
"'O father,' he said, 'the revelation of Ad being, as thou knowest, so exceedingly ancient, doth of necessity require a commentary. This hath been supplied by one of my disciples, a young Syrian and natural son of Gregory, as I opine. This young man can not only write, but write to my dictation, an accomplishment in which thou hast been found lacking, O Sergius. In this gloss it is set forth how, since woman hath the ninth part of the soul of man, the prophet, in enjoining us Adites (as we now call ourselves) to take but one wife, doth instruct us to take nine; to espouse a tenth would, I grant, be damnable. It ensues, therefore, that having become enamoured of a most charming young virgin, I am constrained to repudiate one of the wives whom I have taken already. To this, each thinking that it may be her turn speedily, if not now, they will in no wise consent, and have maltreated me as thou seest, and the dens of wild beasts are at this moment abodes of peace, compared to my seraglio. What is even worse, they threaten to disclose to the people the fact, of which they have unhappily become aware, that the revelation of the blessed Ad is not written upon the bones of a camel at all, but of a cow, and will therefore be accounted spurious, inasmuch as the prophet is not recorded to have ridden upon this quadruped. And seeing that thou didst inscribe the characters, O father, I cannot but fear that the fury of the people will extend unto thee, and that thou wilt be even in danger of thy life from them.'
"This argument of Abdallah's had much weight with me, and I the more readily consented to his request as he did not on this occasion require any imposture at my hands, but merely the restitution of his domestic peace. And I went with him to his wives, and discoursed with them, and they agreed to abide by my sentence. And, willing to please him, I directed that he should marry the beautiful virgin, and put away one of his wives who was old and ugly, and endowed with the dispositions of Sheitan.
" 'O father,' said Abdallah, 'thou hast brought me from death unto life! And thou, Zarah,' he continued, 'wilt lose nought, but gain exceedingly, in becoming the spouse of the wise and virtuous Sergius.'
" 'I marry Zarah!' I exclaimed, 'I! a monk!'
" 'Surely,' said he, 'thou would'st not take away her husband without giving her another in his stead?'
" 'If he does I will throttle him,' cried Zarah.
"And I wept sore, and made great intercession. And it was agreed that there should be a delay of forty days, in which space if any one else would marry Zarah, I should be free of her. And I promised all my substance to any one who would do this, and no one was found. And she was offered to thirteen criminals doomed to suffer death, and they all chose death. And at the last I was constrained to marry her. And truly I have now the comfort of thinking that if I have offended by encouraging Abdallah's deceits, or otherwise, the debt is paid, and Eternal Justice hath now nothing against me; for verily I was an inmate of Gehenna until it came to pass that she was herself translated thither. And respecting the manner of her translation, inquire not thou too curiously. It was doubtless a token of the displeasure of Heaven at her enormities that the water of the well of Kefayat, which had been known as the Diamond of the Desert, became about this time undrinkable, and pernicious to man and beast.
"As I sat in my dwelling administering to the estate of my deceased wife, which consisted principally of wines and strong liquors, Abdallah again appeared before me.
" 'Hast thou come,' said I, 'to solicit me to abet thee in any new imposture? Know, once for all, that I will not.'
" 'On the contrary,' said he, "I am come to set thee at ease by proving to thee that I shall not again require thy assistance. Follow me.'
"And I followed him to a great plain, where was a host of armed horsemen and footmen, more than I could number. And they bore banners on which the name of Abdallah was embroidered in letters of gold. And in the midst was an ark of gold, with the bones of Ad's camel, or cow. And by this was a great pile of the heads of men, and warriors were continually casting more and more upon the heap.
" 'How many?' asked Abdallah.
" 'Twelve thousand, O Apostle of God,' answered they, 'but there are more to come.'
" 'Thou monster!' said I to Abdallah.
"'Nay, father,' said he, 'there will not be more than sixteen thousand in all, and these men were unbelievers. Moreover we have spared such of their women as were young and handsome, and have taken them for our concubines, as is ordained in the eleventh supplement to the Book of Ad, just promulgated by my authority. But come, I have other things to manifest unto thee.'
"And he led me where a stake was driven into the earth, and a man was chained unto it, and fuel was heaped all around him, and many stood by with lighted torches in their hands.
" 'O Abdallah,' I exclaimed, 'wherefore this atrocity?'
"'This man,' he replied, 'is a blasphemer, who hath said that the Book of Ad is written on the bones of a cow.'
" 'But it is written on the bones of a cow!' I cried.
"'Even so,' said he, 'and therefore is his heresy the more damnable, and his punishment the more exemplary. Had it been indeed written on the bones of a camel, he might have affirmed what pleased him.'
"And I shook off the dust from my feet, and hastened to my dwelling. The rest of Abdallah's acts thou knowest, and how he fell warring with the Carmathians. And now I ask thee, art thou yet minded to go forth as a missionary of the truth?"
"O Sergius," said the young man, "I perceive that the temptations are greater, and the difficulties far surpassing what I had thought. Yet will I go, and I trust by Heaven's grace not to fail utterly."
"Then go," said Sergius, "and Heaven's blessing go with thee! Come back in ten years, should I be living, and if thou canst declare that thou hast forged no scriptures, and worked no miracles, and persecuted no unbelievers, and flattered no potentate, and bribed no one with the promise of aught in heaven or earth, I will give thee the philosopher's stone."

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Jayaram confirms starring in Mani Ratnam's Ponniyin Selvan
By Tressa Alex
Ace filmmaker Mani Ratnam has been working on the pre-production of his dream project 'Ponniyin Selvan' for quite a long time now. The director's own banner Madras Talkies and Lyca Productions are collaborating for this mega budget film's production. Along with top actors from Tamil cinema, the film will also have several stars from other languages.
In an exclusive interview with Onlookers Media, Malayali actor Jayaram confirmed that he will be acting in 'Ponniyin Selvan'. Though he refused to divulge more details about his character, we learn that he is playing a very crucial role in it. Although Jayaram has been active in Tamil cinema since long, this is his first film with Mani Ratnam and he could not have asked for a better project.
'Ponniyin Selvan' is actually a historical Tamil novel written by Kalki Krishnamurthy. In five volumes, or about 2400 pages, it tells the story of early days of Arulmozhivarman, who later became the great Chola emperor Raja Raja Chola I. Mani Ratnam is working on its screenplay adaptation with writers Siva Anand and Kumaravel.
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Two LEGO sets, three little aeroplane models and lots of Kinder chocolate later, I'm back from a stellar holiday in Croatia with Andrew and his family. It was the longest I've ever been apart from you, and in that fortunate-unfortunate way, the holiday flew by, which made my longing time for you and your little-big hugs more manageable.
When we're apart, usually we don't speak on the phone as sometimes you feel a bit sad after, but this trip, we spoke on my last few night there. Surprisingly, these conversations were a highlight of my trip – you asked about my days, and we spoke about your school days (albeit briefly, as usual) and your upcoming birthday and party.
The trip was fuller, better and more picturesque than I could have anticipated, and it was filed with much eating, walking, sailing, reading (I read seven books – the best!) and just loads of fun.
Croatia is magnificent, and it's relaxed – people are nice, and even in high-tourist places, things still feel quite chilled. Everywhere is a picture begging to be taken, and at each turn there's something wonderful to be seen, enjoyed and walked.
As with any good trip, this one inspired, relaxed, recharged and fed me, and given me a bit of a glow. You'll probably discover this on your own, but travelling, no matter where, gives perspective, and it changes one, even slightly. Whether one learns something new, relaxes, strengthens a relationship, just has fun, or reads new books, change happens. And that's a fantastic thing.
I missed you so much my dude, and I'm so excited that I get to have my next sun-kissed holiday with you.
PS: There are hundreds of pics from the trip, but one day I'll show you the full album.
Wow that looks gorgeous!! Loved watching your photo streams as you travelled around.
Oh gosh – what a fantastic holiday. It looks so picturesque and just perfectly beautiful.
It was just that, and everywhere is beautiful!
Looks stunning! I'm glad you had a good time and it must have been good to get home too.


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New Perfume Review Penhaligon's Elisabethan Rose- Let Them Sniff Roses!
Posted on July 18, 2018 by mark behnke	in Mark Behnke, New Perfume Reviews and tagged alienor massenet, penhaligon's elisabethan rose, reviews.
Someday, somewhere, a perfume PR person is going to explain the reasoning behind putting the same name as a classic within the brand on a new perfume which smells nothing like it. I've never figured it out because those who loved the original version feel "cheated" when faced with the new version. It must be especially jarring when the new version very pointedly goes for a contemporary vibe. This is the case for Penhaligon's Elisabethan Rose.
Back in 1984 the original Elisabethan Rose, composed by perfumer Michael Pickthall, was released. It was a big powerful aldehydic rose sandalwood affair. When smelling it for the first time in the early 2000's I felt this was Exhibit A of what people meant as "old lady perfume". It felt like it should have a warning sticker of "only for those with grandchildren". I received a press release announcing that Penhaligon's was bringing back Elisabethan Rose. My first snarky thought was there must be a new generation of grandmothers by now. As I read further into the press release I saw that perfumer Alienor Massenet has been asked to produce the new version. Once I saw the note list I became much more interested in trying it. Mme Massenet has a very lean style which was just what a new Elisabethan Rose needed.
If the original Elisabethan Rose was the perfume of a Dowager Queen the new one is for the Princess first in line to the throne. Rose has always been one of the most regal perfume ingredients which something with the name Elisabethan Rose should reflect. With all of the aldehydes in the original you felt the crown was perched on a heavily hairsprayed coif. Mme Massenet creates a rose with vitality and verve for the lively Princess.
Mme Massenet substitutes a green opening for the aldehydes of the original. This comes via hazelnut leaves. This is a foliage type of accord. Almond is used in a judicious way to provide a kind of nutty woodiness. What comes next is what really drew me in as Mme Massenet uses cinnamon to add some shimmering heat to the top notes. Out of this a classic rose begins to increase in presence. It becomes very forthright; reaching a kind of sticky, near cloying, level. Mme Massenet has a firm grip on the reins which keeps it from tipping over into an unpleasant level. This is the regal spine of both versions. The cinnamon amplifies the spicy core of the rose making it a spicy jammy rose. The sandalwood is back from the original as the rose wanes. It is accompanied by a splash of vetiver, bringing back the green, and a bit of musk.
Elisabethan Rose has 10-12 hour longevity and average sillage.
I like this new version quite a bit more than the original. It feels like a rose for 2018 represented by a vivacious Queen-in-waiting telling her admirers to "Sniff the Roses!".
Posted on November 17, 2017 by mark behnke	in Mark Behnke, New Perfume Reviews and tagged alienor massenet, andrea maack, andrea maack birch, reviews.
I have admired the eponymous perfume line of Icelandic artist Andrea Maack because they have all been interesting takes of interpreting her vision into fragrance. I met Ms. Maack in 2012 at the Elements Showcase. From the very beginning she impressed me as someone who was doing this because she had something to say on an olfactory canvas. Over the past five years there have been releases on an irregular schedule. The latest, Andrea Maack Birch, has just arrived.
Ms. Maack has managed in some of her perfumes to dwell on her geographic identity. This is best exemplified by her 2014 release Coven which captures the lush damp soil of the spring thaw. Birch takes place six months later as the ground has just refrozen. Working with perfumer Alienor Massenet the first milder days of winter are captured.
As the winter winds blow more gently in the early days so does Birch open on a chilly breeze of bergamot, baie rose, and ginger. Mme Massenet does a nice job at melding this accord. The ginger gives that sense of the chilly bite of the breeze on bare skin. Bergamot represents the low-angled sun while the baie rose adds the intangible sense of far-off trees. The heart is where we get closer to those trees with a pairing of guaiac wood and cypriol. This has some sharp edges almost oud-like in nature. It is not surprising because cypriol is one of the main ingredients in many oud accords. Here it captures another roughhewn wood forming a birch accord. The cypriol also imparts a gentle wreath of smoke around it all. The base is an earthy patchouli enhanced with a few musks.
Birch has 8-10 hour longevity and moderate sillage.
When I saw Birch attached to Andrea Maack I was expecting some penetrating rubbery tar construct similar to the power of Coven. What I found in the bottle was a more meditative style of perfume. On the days I wore Birch it imparted a very peaceful feeling upon me. Coming as it did, in between my testing of some other challenging fragrances, it was a welcome respite. Birch is an ode to the approach of winter.
Disclosure: This review is based on a sample provided by Andrea Maack.
Posted on September 5, 2017 by mark behnke	in Mark Behnke, New Perfume Reviews and tagged alienor massenet, carven la collection, carven paris bangalore, reviews.
Perfume has been used as a bit of an olfactory magic carpet meant to transport you to far-off lands. That is why there are a significant number of travel inspired fragrances. They can be excellent guides to an exotic locale. They can also be a bit lazy as a perfume brand rounds up the usual suspects for each place. The latest brand to become world travelers is Carven.
Carven resurrected itself as a fragrance brand in 2013 with the release of Carven Le Parfum. Through the first six releases there was a clear desire for clean, crisp structures. When I think of the best travel scents there is a less clean and fresh nature to them as they capture some of the stronger smells of the place. The seven perfumes which make up the Carven La Collection are all given the name of Paris and a connected locale. The overall concept is to combine the Parisian perfume style with the other locale on the bottle.
I found it to be a frustrating group to test. It is wildly uneven with some having inexplicable connections. Does magnolia make you think of Florence, Italy? Vanilla the Middle East? Paris Seville is a serviceable neroli fragrance. Paris Sao Paolo also leans on orange blossom to connect with Brazil. Even when you go with the obvious there can still be something pleasant to be found as is the case with Paris Bangalore.
When you think of India the most famous perfume ingredient from the sub-continent is sandalwood. It is no surprise that perfumer Alienor Massenet uses that as the keynote. What makes Paris Bangalore work better than any other in Carven La Collection is the dichotomy of Paris and Bangalore show up more distinctly than in any of the others.
That dichotomy shows right from the start as pungent clove recalls Kreteks perfuming the air with their smoke on a nighttime walk on the Seine. This is matched with saffron providing a toasty golden contrast. This opening is what the entire collection should have been like. It drew me in to a heart of balsam sweetened with vanilla. It comes off as soothing arising from the clove and saffron. The vanilla significantly sweetens the balsam setting the stage for a sweet creamy sandalwood in the base. Tonka provides a warmer version of the vanilla while amber provides a spicy partner for the final moments.
Paris Bangalore has 8-10 hours longevity and moderate sillage.
I was disappointed in the Carven La Collection but Paris Bangalore showed the concept does have potential as long as they remember these perfumes are meant to be a tale of two cities.
Disclosure: this review is based on samples provided by Carven.


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You may have been faced with the option of repairing your old house or moving to an entirely different place either because you do not have enough space in your house or because you feel that it is old for you. There are a number of factors that you should consider before you settle for any of your choices when it comes to either shifting from your place to another or conducting maintenance and repair on the old and broken parts in your home.
It is very important to look into the future and try to imagine what you would need in your old house the moment you move into a different place. Will you have more space to accommodate your children to come and will it be comfortable for you as you keep on aging or will the house be left vacant after your children grow up and go their ways? It is advisable to consider these important aspects before you can settle for either renovating or relocating. Another aspect that may determine the choice you make is the people and the valuable things around you that you would not wish to leave behind either because you depend on them or they depend o you.
You should always remember that the current condition of the house that you live in matters in the decision you will finally make in that, if the repair and maintenance needed is not too much then you can consider working on it and remaining there. You should consult a professional from a reknown company to guide you on the right thing to do as they will be able to assess the damage and guide you on the best choices that you can make.
You may need to consider the surrounding neighborhood as this will help you make up your mind on whether you wish to relocate or repair and maintain your old house. The availability of good roads, security, education centers and other social facilities should make you consider the choice that you need to make on either relocating or renovating in order to enjoy these services at all times.
You should consider the time that the whole process is going to consume. It is important to consider a project that will consume less time while offering you with quality services so that it can save you the pressure that you undergo when you have projects before you that you need to oversee.


Not about FATCA, actually. The main focus of these letters and the petition is about implementing Territorial Based Taxation. Try to keep the campaign focused on CBT/TBT, or else it blurs the message. FATCA is the secondary topic. Please tell all your US person friends to participate.
Does anyone have suggestions as to how former US citizens could word their letters? Would it be best to pretend they are still US citizens? (They might, after all, consider themselves to be Americans in a heritage sense.) I think this might give their letters more "standing", writing as though they are back at the time before the decision to renounce/relinquish was made. I doubt anyone will cross-reference their names with the "Liberty List". Or is there a way to carefully word their letters so that even as renounced/relinquished persons their letters will not be perceived as irrelevant? This little dilemna might be hanging up some potential letter writers who would welcome some advice to help them get started and get it done before the deadline is passed.
In my short letter (I removed most of the RO arguments) I said simply that any tax reform was too late to "save me", as I had already renounced because of bad U.S. laws, but hoped that the new legislation would help others. I suggested to RO (which I support) that it could use my letter, if it felt it were helpful, or not.
My other suggestion is that people could note in the letters the components of the RO proposal that they don't like (why not?), but that it would still be reasonable (I think) to consider the big picture and support the (imperfect) kill-CBT tax reform legislation as a whole. I did.
Thank you, that sounds like a good approach.
@Embee – I used the letter I sent last January (http://isaacbrocksociety.ca/lobby-the-new-us-government/comment-page-4/#comment-7776813) with a couple of minor edits.
Thanks @ Karen. That is a good one.
I think it's great that Solomon Yue will physically be delivering these letters to the White House on October 2nd. Ordinary overseas Americans would likely never have the opportunity to set foot in there but this way they can get a piece of their mind, set down on a real piece of paper, in the door. This stack of letters has to be as thick as possible … PLEASE write everyone. Think of all the people who have put so much effort into making this chance to end CBT possible. Don't disappoint them.
If you want Citizenship Based Taxation to stay definitively then stop reading and do nothing. This is the chance to do something. Only 350 Americans overseas have signed the petition and we are short of the 2,000 letters needed for 30 September. We can do better IF YOU WANT anything to change. If you do not, then do nothing. IT IS UP TO YOU!
If we cannot get proper participation, there is ZERO reason to maintain this group. Again IT IS UP TO YOU!
If anyone thinks adding a few thousand pages to the current tax code and calling it tax reform, is really reform, then I have some ocean front property in AZ cheap.
Every congressman and every senator regardless of party is on the lookout for a lobbyist or a rich individual with a contribution to just leave it alone. and for a price they all do leave it alone. A new amendment to the bill will just get them more money.
The FairTax is real reform but it kills the money train they all love and it ain't happening.
It's been confirmed that an anonymous letter or one without a last name is better than none.
I suppose one with a fake name is a problem might cause a problem if it were detected and were a pattern.
The Kisch approach sounds right.
Congress writes the laws, so the auxiliary measures that RO proposes may never be implemented. It's only their method of selling it to Congressmen.
Republicans Overseas received this email from Francesca Vogliotti, a 19 year-old American living in Rome. Her heartfelt letter to President Trump reminds us what Republicans Overseas is fighting for. We are fighting for Francesca's desire to remain an overseas American, to live free wherever she wants, to have her privacy rights respected, and to end double taxation.
"Citizenship Based Taxation and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act are true modern day tyranny because overseas Americans like Francesca and her mom are being forced to choose between the American citizenship they treasure and the imposition of double taxation and FATCA with which America burdens its overseas citizens," said RO Vice Chairman and CEO Solomon Yue.
Ms. Vogliotti's letter should inspire all overseas Americans who want to be freed from CBT and FATCA to participate in our letter/email writing campaign to President Trump.
Ms. Vogliotti does not have a US birthplace. With minimal prudence she could live completely free of FATCA and CBT. She could also travel to the US with her Italian passport.
So it's all well and good to write something noble and tragic, but in the real world this person (who is in basically the same situation as my daughter) can complete ignore US law.
Done!!!! Petition signed but goofed up a bit with the attached letter to the president — forgot to put e-mail address below the name. Hopefully RO can add it if needed. BTW, he (i.e. my husband) used the suggestion Dr. Kish gave for renouncers/relinquishers. Received a "thank you" by return e-mail. Only 5 more days to contribute to this particular campaign to get rid of CBT.
Secondly if it was such a bastion of freedom, then perhaps it should lower its fee to renounce to ZERO and allow those who no longer wish to be a United States citizen to unilaterally renounce their citizenship. Such bastions of "freedom" shouldn't apply ball & chain to their citizens if they no longer wish to be regarded as such.
Such bastions of "freedom" wouldn't even consider citizenship based taxation in the first place. In that regards…I consider myself freer than any American.
THAT is FATCA in a nutshell.
And keep in mind that a leopard does not change its spots. All it takes is one change of government and we're back to square one.
As I said in another thread, I know a few accidental persons and with US birth places, left in diapers. One was harassed about 10 years ago traveling to the US on a UK passport and has never gone back to the US for holiday after that incident.
I have spread the word and the only proposal they are interested in supporting is one that allows them to renounce without filing the 5 years and paying the ransom fee. They are not subject to the exit tax being born dual. They don't see this proposal as helping their situation as they are already non compliant and don't see the proposal as being retroactive. They feel nothing but horror on what the US as become. They just won't put their name out there under any circumstances.
These are only a few but I would not be surprised if this is the general attitude of accidentals and non compliant people not part of this community. When you are part of a community like Brock, you want change not only for yourself but for fellow Brockers. It is like a community of people that have gone through a bad experience/war together. People not part of such a community don't have the same mindset and don't want to think about this and want to just do what they have been doing so far, hiding successfully.
Even my own non US Citizen spouse was annoyed that I was writing a letter and putting my name out there again after safely renouncing.
To me I believe this to be the real reason why there isn't more letter writing.


Xiongnu, the first great empire on the grassland, greatly influenced the course of human history. By now, the Eurasian archaeological work has been very productive, but many questions have been raised at the same time. It has been found that there exist both regional and period varations concerning Xiongnu culture, however, few thorough discussions about a certain period of acertain region have ever been conducted. So, here, Tomb Heigouliang and Dongheigou site will be studied as two examples to show the unique cultural features of Xiongnu in the eastern part of Tianshan Mountain.First of all, Tomb Heigouliang and Dongheigou Site are of great similarities. The both locate in Barkol county in Xinjiang. Besides, they belong to the same culture of a same period. According to the unearthed relics, they can be traced back to the same period of time, that is, the early stage of Xihan Dynasty. Also, human sacrifice remains have been found at both places.Besides, these two sites show great cultural diversities. Apart from the aboriginal culture and Xiongnu culture, which are two prominent cultural representative, traces of Subeixi cultural, Chinses culture and many newly appeared cultures were also discovered there.In addition, the culture of these two places is a combination of the local aboriginal culture and Xiongnu culture. According to some historial records and some archaeological researches, especially researches on the relation of tomb owners to human sacrifice remains, the relation between Xiongnu and the local aborigines is a relation of conquering and being conquered, ruling and being ruled. But, the Xiongnu remains of the Mongolian plateau is quite different historical backgrounds.Lastly, at its earlier days, Han Empire made various divided cultures a unified one. Similarly, Xiongnu may also have seen the same kind of unification. The discovery of Heigouliang and Dongheigou serves as a typical example of the regional cultural phenomena. But Heigouliang and Dongheigou also formed a quite critical link in the whole chain of the unification of Xiongnu culture. After Xiongnu occupied the eastern part of Tianshan Mountain, they stuck to some parts of there own culture, absorbed some parts of the aboriginal culture and brought in many alien cultures. Thus, a number of new cultures appeared. But, on the whole, all the cultural diversities were moring for a unified Xiongnu culture.The study on Heigouliang and Dongheigou has revealed a lot about the regional similarities, the diversities, the content and the unification of the Xiongnu civilization. But, to set the final frame of the whole Xiongnu cunture, archoologists still have a long way to go.


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Tag Archives: cigarette butts
No Butts About It
One of my favorite pastimes is taking a nice long walk for exercise and fitness.
On weekends we like to locate a new park to check out, or go to a local neighborhood walking path where we can also enjoy nature.
It's rare to walk in a park that doesn't have some tell tale signs of smokers revealed by the cigarette butts along the way. A good percentage of smokers are simply uneducated when it comes to tossing butts and the toxic implications left for nature to defend.
Tracking Litter Offenders
A website you may want to visit is LitterButt.com. They even sell stickers one can display to help create more awareness on this topic. As awareness grows many US states are now implementing new litter laws with stiff fines and requirements of community service for butt tossing offenders.
Questioner: So What If I Throw My Butts on the Ground? They're Biodegradable, Right?
Answer: WRONG!! If you throw your cigarette butts on the ground, they eventually find their way to the ocean and other water sheds and YOU are contributing to the most commonly found man-made waste that originates from land!
"The Ocean Conservancy, a nonprofit environmental organization based in Washington, D.C., compiled the results of a shoreline cleanup day conducted by volunteers last year in 68 countries. It covered a combined 34,000 miles of shoreline and collected 7 million pounds of litter, 80 percent of which had been washed from land into the water. Of the 7.7 million items of debris collected worldwide in 2006, cigarettes and cigarette butts accounted for roughly 1.9 million, the sixth consecutive year they have topped the list.
"People think they are biodegradable," said Kathryn Novak, coordinator for the Florida branch of the Ocean Conservancy. They're not, so think before flicking that cigarette butt out the car window."
Tossed Lit Cigarette Butts Can Cause Fires
Another concern over tossing butts is their potential to start deadly fires. They have been known to start major forest fires, burn down retail buildings, complexes, homes, and cause extensive damage to all types of personal property.
We ask that smokers pay attention to how they discard butts. Please be responsible, and snuff those butts in a proper container. The accumulated butts are probably best disposed of in a toxic waste facility! Really … although that isn't a requirement.
This entry was posted in Environmental News and tagged butt flicking, cigarette butts, environmental toxins, the ocean conservancy on July 8, 2014 by sanbreck.
Anticorrosion Benefits for Steel Derived from Cigarette Butts' Toxins
There are estimates that gauge more than 4.5 trillion cigarette butts litter the streets and ground across the world on an annual basis.
Aside from the displeasing aesthetics of these butts, there are numerous environmental consequences of this toxic litter, including the leaching of chemicals into our waterways.
A team of researchers led by scientist Jun Zhao discovered a new use for this harmful garbage, one that has great benefits for the steel industry.
Putting Those Butts to Use
Chinese researchers from Xi'an Jiaotong University extracted chemicals from cigarette filters and their residual tobacco. The result? A successful transformation of the cigarettes' chemicals into an anticorrosion treatment for steel.
After soaking the butts collected off the street in water for 24 hours, the researchers were able to identify 9 compounds—including nicotine—in the liquid using infrared and mass spectrometry. Next, the scientists put the solution through an hydrochloric acid process. The resulting solution was then applied on steel disks.
The researchers subjected the steel disks—N80 grade, typical for use in the oil industry—to harsh conditions that should lead the way for corrosion. The steel remained protected by the cigarette butt solution.
In fact, the researchers were successful in preventing corrosion on 95% of the steel disks on which the cigarette butt solution was applied. Zhao speculates the chemicals in the corrosion inhibiting solution coat the metal in a protective surface.
Healthy Steel, Unhealthy Lungs
At last there is a practical application for the cigarette litter found everywhere—from the streets, to the parks, to our waterways, and even our forests. Due to the extreme toxicity of the cigarette butts, there has been no recycling program previously established.
Another benefit from this study is now the steel industry has a new weapon to use in its expensive struggle against steel corrosion.
This research raises another crucial observation: If cigarette butts soaked in water can produce an anti-corrosion solution strong enough to work for steel, just imagine what those same chemicals do to smokers' lungs and bodies.
Reference: Cigarette Butts Yield a Chemical Rebuttal [http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/88/i16/8816news3.html]
This entry was posted in Environmental News and tagged cigarette butts, cigarette chemicals, cigarette litter costs, cigarette research, cigarette toxins, corrosion inhibitors, environmental toxins, nicotine, smokers lungs, whats in cigarettes on June 3, 2011 by Kirk VandenBerghe.
Effects of the World's Growing Number of Smokers
The past decade has seen a remarkable shift in the way Americans view cigarette smoking.
Since the massive tobacco litigation settlements began in 1997, the federal government has phased out support for tobacco farming, states and cities have enacted public smoking restrictions, and the number of smokers has steadily declined.
Meanwhile, the tobacco industry's manipulative advertising tactics have become part of the cultural lexicon. In the 2005 big screen satire Thank You For Smoking, the film's protagonist — a "morally flexible" tobacco lobbyist — admits, "I earn a living fronting an organization that kills 1,200 people a day."
With Hollywood now taking jabs at its one-time co-conspirator, it's no wonder that the Centers for Disease Control found that 70 percent of the current 45 million adult smokers in the United States want to quit. While slightly less than half will succeed, the mere desire offers hope that cigarette smoking in America could one-day go the way of trans-fats or MSG.
Such logic, however, does not extend to the tobacco manufacturers themselves. The multinational tobacco corporations have moved their production and marketing efforts overseas, causing experts to predict that by 2010, 87 percent of the world's tobacco will be grown in the developing world.
Since the '60s, global production has doubled and 33 million people work cultivating tobacco to serve the world's 1.2 billion smokers — one-fifth of the world's population. Meanwhile, according to conservative estimates by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, since 1997 consumption has increased at an annual rate of 1.7 percent in developing countries, meaning people there will smoke 71 percent of the world's tobacco by 2010.
Deforestation and Land Erosion
Without even factoring in the paper wrapping, packaging and print advertisements — which require as much paper by weight as the tobacco being grown — nearly 600 million trees are felled each year to provide the fuel necessary for drying out the tobacco.
That means one in eight trees cut down each year worldwide is being destroyed for tobacco production.
In South Korea and Uruguay, tobacco-related deforestation accounts for more than 40 percent of the countries' total annual deforestation. While in Malawi, in a region where only three percent of the farmers grow tobacco, nearly 80 percent of the trees cut down each year are used for the curing process.
Such a rapid depletion of trees in an already semi-arid climate will lead to desertification. Parts of Uganda are currently losing much of their arable land as the topsoil erodes.
Yet farmers in developing countries continue to grow tobacco because of the tremendous financial incentives from multinational corporations like Philip Morris and RJ Reynolds. With enticements such as farming supplies or a guaranteed foreign exchange for their crops, farmers are reluctant to use their land for anything else.
Even when some corporations try to boost their green reputation by offering to replant trees on excess farmland, most tobacco farmers use what little land is left to grow food for their families. Moreover, were farmers to stop growing tobacco and only grow food crops — as the Yale University School of Medicine proposed more than a decade ago — 10 to 20 million of the world's current 28 million undernourished people could be fed.
Aside from land erosion, deforestation also affects the atmosphere, by raising the level of carbon dioxide emissions responsible for global warming. Scientists affiliated with the climate research group Global Canopy Programme in England have reported that the 51 million acres cut down every year account for nearly 25 percent of heat-trapping gases. By that standard, the 9 million acres being deforested annually for tobacco production account for nearly 5 percent of greenhouse gas emissions.
Deadly Litter – Effects of Tossing Cigarette Butts and Packages
In the United Kingdom, people throw away 200 million butts and 20 million cigarette packages every day, some of which end up on the street. According to the Tidy Britain Group, cigarette butts make up nearly 40 percent of litter.
Since the filters found in most cigarettes are comprised of 12,000 plastic fibers, they are not biodegradable and can take up to 15 years to break down. Meanwhile, the leftover tobacco releases toxins into the surrounding environment.
According to Californians Against Waste, cleanup of cigarette litter costs taxpayers billions of dollars each year. Even more costly are the losses incurred from fires started by carelessly discarded cigarettes. Not only are they a major cause of forest fires — destroying wildlife and ecosystems — but they are the leading cause of fatal fires in the United States, killing more than a thousand people annually. The tobacco industry is fully capable of selling fire-safe cigarettes — wrapped with several thin bands of less-porous paper that act as "speed-bumps" to slow down a burning cigarette — but it only does so when forced by a state government. So far, only four states have such a mandate in place.
Tobacco Cultivation Poisoning the Developing World
The deadly impact of cigarettes as post-consumer waste is one side of the story. Before being rolled and packaged, the tobacco leaf subjects humans and wildlife to numerous health hazards.
Since it is a particularly sensitive plant, tobacco often requires 16 applications of pesticides during the three-month growing period. In developing countries, where environmental laws are absent or not enforced, chemicals like DDT and dieldrin — both banned in the United States — are sprayed on the tobacco.
These pesticide applications often harm animals that live or feed near them, causing loss of biodiversity or genetic mutations. And runoff and leaching during a rainstorm carry the pesticides into waterways and aquifers, thereby contaminating the drinking supply.
Since tobacco farming requires an estimated 3,000 hours of work per year per hectacre — astonishing when compared to the 265 hours needed to produce maize — field workers endure long hours of exposure to these harmful pesticides.
To make matters worse, most farm workers are in subtropical climates, where an extra layer of clothing — even if it's for protection — could result in heatstroke. It's no wonder that pesticide poisoning is almost exclusively a problem in the developing world, where an estimated 25 million poisonings occur each year.
Popular pesticides used on tobacco crops, such as acephate, cause twitching, headaches, salivation, diarrhea, difficulty breathing and death. A study conducted by the University of Rio Grande do Sul, one of Brazil's largest federal universities, found that the suicide rate among Brazilian tobacco workers between 1979 and 1995 was nearly seven times greater than the national rate.
They also discovered that the occurrence of these suicides corresponded with pesticide sprayings, harvests and preparation for the next year's crop (the study admitted that its findings were not conclusive, as workers' depression might also stem from their often insurmountable debt).
Even without pesticides, farm workers are getting sick from the nicotine their skin absorbs while handling wet leaves. This condition has come to be known as green tobacco sickness (GTS) and its symptoms include nausea, weakness, abdominal cramps, and changes in blood pressure and heart rates.
While its hard to estimate the number of people suffering from GTS, one study conducted on migrant workers in North Carolina suggests that 41 percent of tobacco handlers get the illness at least once during harvest season.
Exposure to the plant and its chemicals pose a greater threat to children, increasing the risk of cancer as well as damage to their immune and nervous systems. No figures exist on the number of child tobacco workers worldwide, but many tobacco-growing countries have a history of child labor.
The Norway-based Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research is one of the only organizations in the world to investigate tobacco-production. After researching the use of child labor on African tobacco estates — which are strikingly feudal — Fafo found that 78 percent of the children of tobacco workers between the ages of 10 and 14 work either full or part time with their parents, performing all the tasks of tobacco cultivation.
Solving the Crisis – Eradicate Tobacco
The looting of natural resources, the destruction of ecosystems, and the poisoning and enslavement of people are all reasons to end our dependence on a product that is completely unnecessary to humans. Economic alternatives to tobacco production need to be encouraged, with the goal of eradicating tobacco as a cash crop.
According to the London-based Panos Institute, which specializes in development issues, "Many crops can grow in land that is now under tobacco — they include the majority of grain crops and vegetables. Sugar cane, bananas, coconut, pineapples and cotton could all be suitable."
Since 1999, the Golden Leaf Foundation has used funds from the settlement with cigarette manufacturers to help farmers in North Carolina transition from a tobacco-dependent economy to alternative programs like goat farming. In this respect, other parts of the world could follow America's lead.
The fight against tobacco consumption can be won with awareness and education. The industry has suffered a massive blow to its U.S. propaganda machine. Such attacks must continue throughout the world until smoking is not just looked upon as a poor personal health decision, but one that has deadly implications for all the world's inhabitants.
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Original Publication date: October 4, 2007
Source: http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/64222/?page=entire
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By Evan Bleier / August 20, 2018
Kaepernick's Lawyer: Elway Violated Collusion Case Gag Order With Kap Comments
The Denver GM said last week that the team had offered Kaepernick a deal and been rejected.
ENGLEWOOD, CO - JULY 27: John Elway President of Football Operations/General Manager speaks during the Broncos annual media BBQ at the training facility July 27, 2018 in Englewood, Colorado. (Photo by Joe Amon/The Denver Post via Getty Images)
Football exec John Elway may have put his foot in his mouth with some comments last week.
While addressing the media, the Denver Broncos general manager said the team was not interested in signing Colin Kaepernick this year because the team had previously offered him a deal in 2016 and been turned down.
"We offered him a contract. He didn't take it," Elway said. "And as I said at my deposition – and I don't know if I'll be legally able to say this – but he had his chance to be here. He passed it."
As Elway noted during the interview, it may not have been wise to speak on the matter for legal reasons. And, according to the attorney representing Kaepernick in his collusion case, Mark Geragos, it wasn't.
"Mr. Elway, clearly he violated the protective order that the NFL has been wielding at me like a club at me," Geragos said on his Reasonable Doubt podcast. "And he's apparently suffering from some real brain trauma."
Geragos went on to say that were the NFL owners not colluding to keep Kaepernick out of the league, he'd certainly be able to because he is still in prime playing shape.
"He works out like a banshee. I just saw him last week and physically he could not be in better shape. He's in impressively good shape, ready to go at any moment," Geragos said.
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SB 50 could help provide students with more affordable housing in Westwood
By Isabel Weinerth
Opinion, Opinion Columns
Westwood, like many Los Angeles communities, suffers from lack of housing and sky-high rent. State Senate Bill 50 would address this by incentivizing the development of more high-density housing near job-rich and transit-driven neighborhoods. While homeowners and the city council have opposed the bill, it should be passed. (Daniel Leibowitz/Daily Bruin staff)
Correction: The original version of this article incorrectly stated SB 50 was a reformulated version of SB 27. In fact, it is a reformulated version of SB 827.
This post was updated on April 22 at 6:18 p.m.
Westwood is a tale of two cities: The west side boasts a picturesque campus with rolling hills and glowing bricks, all of which create a place for the world's sharpest minds to flourish. The east side, on the other hand, has little more than ramshackle, unmanaged apartments and pricey "luxury residences" well out of the price range of most college students.
Westwood's exorbitant rents, which average an extortionate $3,416 per month, can be attributed largely to the neighborhood's lack of apartment-style housing. Much of the neighboring residential areas consist of single-family homes instead of buildings that can house multiple residences. While this might make for prettier neighborhoods, it creates an ugly housing process for students living off-campus.
State Senate Bill 50 could help change that.
The embattled bill, which will be heard by the state Senate on April 24, would require towns to allow apartment construction within a half-mile of a rail transit station, within a quarter mile of a high-frequency bus stop or within a so-called "job-rich" neighborhood. It's a reformulated version of last year's SB 827 and now protects against prior expressed fears, such as gentrification.
Westwood is a neighborhood that meets the bill's proposed requirements – meaning the housing floodgates in this expensive college town would finally open if the legislation passes.
And it should.
Westwood's housing crisis derives largely from the city's lack of options. Because housing is a renter's market, landlords and property owners in the status quo are able to escalate costs for students on the hunt for a place to live. SB 50 would create more apartment buildings in high-density areas, which for Westwood, would create competition that would drive rents down to affordable rates.
Paavo Monkkonen, an assistant professor of urban planning, said an increase in apartment buildings could drive apartment pricing down.
"Given that there's already a ton of demand for housing near campus and the prices for the old stock are quite high, if there was competition for new stock then the prices of the old stock might come down," Monkkonen said.
The opposite scenario is taking place right now: The lack of housing allows property owners to take advantage of students by skyrocketing rents because students don't have other options they can turn to.
Courtney Kim, a third-year political science student, said she lived on the Hill her first year and opted to live in a Greek-affiliated house for her second, primarily because she couldn't figure out the ins and outs of the off-campus housing process.
"I've never felt like I can choose where I want to live – I more just had to go wherever was available," Kim said.
Living in Los Angeles' star-filled neighborhoods requires a millionaire's budget, but that's slowly becoming a reality for all the city's communities.
Nic Riani, a second-year public affairs student, said he feels Westwood is not fully meeting its student housing needs.
"I feel like it's not affordable for most students to live in Westwood or live close to campus," Riani said. "There are students that are homeless or, you know, struggling to meet all of their needs, especially given the cost of housing."
And attempts at affordable housing have seen immense opposition.
Take The Agora, for example, a proposed a 16-story apartment for students on Hilgard Avenue. The Westwood Neighborhood Council voted in opposition to the project, and the homes of the Little Holmby neighborhood have scattered their lawns with "Save Hilgard" signs contesting the housing development.
This kind of opposition is characteristic of city governments too.
The Los Angeles city government officially stated its opposition last week to the bill.
The reason, as most SB 50 critics argue, is that it would take away governing autonomy from the cities to determine how best to handle their housing woes. Zev Yaroslavsky, a former LA City Council member, said the bill's one-size-fits-all approach will not create affordable housing, and community-specific action would be more effective than a state approach.
"This bill goes way too far; it's an overly simplistic piece of legislation that will not get the job done," Yaroslavsky said. "We need to use fewer sledgehammers and more scalpels to get this right."
While Yaroslavsky's logic makes sense in theory, the reality is that city-specific efforts have been made in the opposite direction. Rather than creating more affordable housing, LA has instead restricted the areas in which multiple-family housing can be built. A city-centered approach doesn't help solve the problem students are facing and ignores the urgency of the need for affordable housing.
Moreover, the very problem of the lack of affordable housing has been created in large part by the city government's actions over the past 40 years to reduce the production of apartments, Monkkonen said. This bill, he said, serves as California's response.
"I think what a lot of cities are mad about is that the power to control land use and to permit (or block) development is a power that city governments have," Monkkonen said. "No city government wants to give away its power to the state."
Yet a bill like SB 50 is exactly what Bruins need. And now is the perfect chance for Westwood, LA and California to give students the east side they deserve – and can afford.
Isabel Weinerth |
Opinion columnist
Weinerth is an Opinion columnist.
@isabelweinerth
Wouter Dito
Which students can afford to buy $1-3 million condos authorized by SB 50? Apartments, if any, built under SB 50 would be among the most expensive around. Whose daddy will be footing that bill? SB 50 is for corporate employees – largely in high tech and mostly from outside of California. More housing will not much help if the corporate plan for California is to continue to import new employees. What UCLA students get under SB 50 is FOOLED. There is a line from an old rock song on the subject. Meet the new boss – same as the old boss. The new boss consists of self-serving multi-national corporations and their overpaid executives. To them, UCLA students are as important as they are potentially profitable. Look up "Yimby" online. Who are they really? Who pays their salaries. Go back a year to the predecessor bill: SB 827. There you will find corporate execs now hiding behind the scenes.
NateDogg11
Nice try NIMBY. I'm guessing you own property and want to limit competition and squeeze renters for every dollar possible. Would you also be opposed to 5,000 units of affordable school-owned high rises? I bet you would.
Basic logic (and every expert) will tell you that if you flood the market with new supply, prices across the board will go down, even if the supply is high end. Many of these tech employees are former UCLA students living in westwood who would love to buy a condo.
Yeah sure, keep opposing bills like SB 50 to inflate your own property values.
Building more apartments increases supply and lowers rents.
Kelly523
The writer is profoundly misinformed.
1. Westwood is not a city. It is a neighborhood within the city of Los Angeles. Its neighborhood council is one of nearly 100 neighborhood councils in Los Angeles.
2. The city of LA does not restrict the construction of multi-family residential buildings. LA's thousands of miles of underutilized commercial zones, many of which have one-story strip malls along transit routes, could already host thousands of new four- to five-story apartment complexes and still conform to existing zoning.
3. Adding to the supply of housing through a state-driven, top-down usurpation of local planning control will never lead to the lowering of rents coming into parity with the miserably depressed wages of low- to middle-income households.
4. SB 50 neither boosts the construction of affordable housing nor protects renters from exorbitant rent increases or evictions.
5. Generous measures like JJJ and Prop HHH already provide many incentives to developers to build affordable units. LA, in fact, is doing more than any other California city to approve dense housing developments.
6. SB 50 targets entire transit corridors, not centers. This means that apartment complexes, which would most likely be market rate or luxury, would crop up along entire bus-served routes but would be so unaffordable that college students and other low-income residents would not be able to afford them.
7. Elsewhere in the country, such as in Denver, Colorado, and Charlotte, NC, TOD has led to gentrification and the displacement of lower-income workers out to the suburbs.
8. In the Warner Center neighborhood of Woodland Hills in LA, more than 2,500 apartments were built between about 2008 and 2010. Rents there went up, not down. Rent in Warner Center rose an astonishing 33% from 2013 to 2018. Do you think wages did?
9. TOD is leading to real estate speculation in the last remaining quasi-affordable areas of the San Fernando Valley. As soon as land is upzoned, its value increases, and owners of small apartment complexes see dollar signs. Several complexes, for example, have been sold recently in Canoga Park in anticipation of the Transit Neighborhood Plan, which will wipe out the largely Latino community in eastern Canoga Park.
Another NIMBY with falsehoods. Flood the market with high end supply and the people who buy these units will refrain from occupying and gentrifying low end units. Every study says this. On the other end, people with propaganda such as yours are usually rich apartment owners in Westwood that are afraid they will need to charge less than $3k for a 1 bedroom if they need to actually compete.
State law strives to facilitate development of affordable housing
Westwood Forward endorses The Agora citing potential as affordable student housing
The Agora addresses growing problem of high demand for housing in Westwood


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Discussion in 'The Projects Forum' started by tracecom, Apr 3, 2013.
I am back on the idea of an electronic way to differentiate copper pennies from zinc pennies with a copper plating. Hey, I know it's a waste of time, but I am intrigued by it.
My basic scheme is to position some strong magnets on one side of a non-ferrous channel and a coil on the other, and cause the pennies to move between the magnets and the coil so as to generate a voltage in the coil. Today, I messed around with rare earth magnets stacked up on my desk, and placed a penny on top of the stack. Then, I took a 25 foot spool of 22 AWG wire and connected the ends to my DVM. Then, I moved the spool across the top of the penny as quickly and as closely as I could.
I saw a voltage on the order of a few millivolts, but I couldn't really concentrate on the DVM while I was waving the coil. I tried it with a copper penny, a zinc penny, and without a penny and saw a voltage in all three cases, but of course I had no way to say which produced the higher voltage.
If I could determine that there was a repeatable difference in the induced voltage using a copper penny versus a zinc penny, I would be on my way.
What say the brain trust here? Am I "penny wise and pound foolish," or does this idea have some merit? What would be the optimum configuration for my coil?
How about attaching two pennies, one of each type, opposite to each other, to a wooden disc.
You can then spin the disc in between the coil and magnet and see what happens on a scope.
Seems like the easiest would be look at the date, pre1982.
Easy, but slow. And with 1982 pennies, I have to weigh them to decide.
I can tell you that some hobbyist metal detectors can distinguish between the two. I have a Minelab Explorer SE, my buddy has a Minelab E-Trac, and both can easily discriminate between them. My Fisher Gold Bug Pro can also do it.
Not much help, I know. I just wanted to let you know that it can be done electromagnetically.
Actually, that does help. I have been reading since making my post about eddy currents, and am beginning to understand. There are several contraptions that use eddy currents to differentiate between copper and zinc pennies, but they all seem to use physical motion. I want to do it by measuring the current induced in the coins, or if not measuring it, at least using it to tell the copper from the zinc. I guess that's the way metal detectors work: the eddy currents are induced, and then picked up and used to alter the frequency of an oscillator?
As best I can tell, my Minelab drives a sequence of pulses of various widths into the transmit coil, and apparently does something like an FFT on the return signal, possibly analyzing amplitude and phase, if that's possible with an FFT.
Pulse induction (PI) detectors measure the decay characteristics of the induced eddy currents. The only discrimination capabilities i have heard of on the market are ferrous vs nonferrous, but there are almost certainly PI discrimination techniques that I know nothing about.
As soon as I saw this video, I thought of this thread. It won't help you, but it's interesting. Skip to about1:40 to watch him melt a copper/zinc penny with a lens from a tv, right after that he melts a whole stack of them.
Second video, lower right of screen.
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Now, you've done it! Another crazy idea for me to think about.
I have had one laying around that I took off of a 50" projection TV, now I know what to do with it!
It could be dangerous just carrying one of those things around on a sunny day.
I was thinking that same thing. If I had it in a frame like the guy in the video, I would have a cover or something to keep the sun off it when I was carrying it.
I can just see the headline: "Man Immolates Self with TV Screen."
Seriously...sort of. One of those could be mounted with a sun tracker on a big lazy Susan, along with a steam engine and a genhead, and produce some serious electricity.
That's a cool...er... hot video. I also saw one of a Fresnel lens heating water for a steam engine. So, now, I am really thinking about generating electricity. The idea is imminently realizable; I knew I should have learned to weld.
Some of my students want to focus the lens on our little solar panel trainer, said it would "turbocharge it"
Sorry about hijacking your thread.
No problem. Maybe thinking about Fresnel lenses is better than sorting pennies.
Just a thought about non-ferrous alloys and electromagnetic fields. An AC current applied to an air-core coil would show a certain current and phase. Putting a ferrous slug thru the coil would increase the inductance, reduce the current and shift the phase. A copper penny would increase the current due to eddy current effects and shift the phase. A zinc (penny) would also increase the current, but possibly slightly less than the copper penny and shift the phase as well. Both current amplitude and phase could be used to discriminate between ferrous and non-ferrous alloys. This is the principle of operation of many modern metal detectors.
Can I use a copper/zinc cell as a cheap, precise voltage source?


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