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Assessment Hell
Mayor Kenney is replacing his chief property assessor. But will he fix the broken assessment system?
BY Jon Geeting
With the steady drumbeat of criticism from property owners about the Office of Property Assessment's 2019 assessments, and City Council's recent decision not to reapprove OPA's chief assessor Michael Piper, the Kenney administration has announced they'll conduct a national search for someone new to lead the city's property assessment office.
But just a day later, in a separate story about OPA's land valuation methods, Kenney spokesman Mike Dunn is still out there defending the biggest thing OPA is doing wrong.
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The criticisms of the Office of Property Assessment are coming from a lot of different directions, and many of those criticisms actually conflict with one another, so it's useful to sort out what the complaints are, and what exactly it is that we want the next Chief Assessor to fix.
Regular tax politics
It's important to note right up front that a lot of the complaints about OPA are just rooted in plain old anti-tax politics. OPA isn't being criticized only for things they're doing wrong; they're also getting slammed for things they're doing right.
Property values really have increased by a lot in the neighborhoods ringing Center City and University City, so correctly matching assessed values to market values every few years means people in those neighborhoods are going to keep seeing their taxes go up a lot. That makes people upset, but just because people are upset doesn't necessarily mean OPA is doing something wrong. Property taxes are going to keep rising fast in places where values are rising fast, and that's how it should be. Because the alternative is that people in places where real estate values aren't rising as fast, or are even shrinking, will be left paying unfairly high property tax bills.
Too much deviation
While many of the loudest complaints about over-assessment are coming from higher-income areas of the city, the reality is that many of these areas are still under-assessed, and the over-assessed areas are really in North, Southwest, and West Philadelphia, according to a recent analysis by Controller Rebecca Rhynhart.
Rhynhart's analysis found that 2019's assessments were some of the most accurate citywide, but that within specific sub-regions were still way off the mark.
Historically, the OPA has not met the acceptable range for uniformity or regressivity since AVI, despite claiming to have met acceptable standards every year since tax year 2014. Tax year 2019 is the first year in which the OPA achieved acceptable results for both regressivity and uniformity. For several of the years, the OPA's reported results differed materially from ours, which were determined using industry standard guidelines.
When you look at the OPA's accuracy at a geographical basis for tax year 2019, the OPA is still outside of acceptable ranges for uniformity and regressivity in 7 of 14 zones, despite its citywide acceptable results.
The OPA performs worse in the areas of the city with the lowest median income. These areas of the city have the least uniform and the most regressive assessments. As a result, less expensive homes in North, Southwest and West Philadelphia tend to be overassessed relative to neighboring more expensive homes.
An Inquirer analysis from last summer had similar findings, showing that about 35 percent of properties are over-assessed, and these are disproportionately located in lower-income areas.
Land values are still all over the place
The other big finding in the Controller report is that OPA has gotten worse at assessing land values, starting around 2017. And the issue is that they're not even really trying to value land—which is mostly a function of locational value—and instead are just taking a flat percentage of each property's value and calling that land.
That practice has led to the bizarre outcome where land values jump around a lot within specific blocks on a square foot basis, where common sense would suggest similarly sized lots on the same block should have almost identical land values, all else being equal. Any land assessment methodology that's turning out vastly different square footage values on the same block or section of the neighborhood is doing it all wrong.
The Inquirer looked at one block in Fishtown for an example, where it's clear this is what's happening:
Rhynhart found that land values for properties with 10-year tax abatements were priced higher as a result of OPA's move to start backing land values out of building values in the 2017 assessments. Lots of people thought this was an intentional decision by the Kenney administration to try and collect more property taxes from people who have abatements, since those property owners still pay taxes on their land value.
If OPA would finally release their official methodology, as they're required to by law, we'd be able to get to the bottom of that.
Unfortunately, the Kenney administration still doesn't seem to see anything wrong with this approach and they're still defending it even as they reluctantly show Michael Piper the door.
Assessment officials disagreed, calling the 2017 changes "a great improvement," and said OPA is still refining its approach.
The value of residual land — land that is encumbered by a building — is influenced by the value of the structure that sits upon it," Dunn said. "Developing the best structure to the highest permitted density on that land generally maximizes the value of that land.
The idea that building values feedback into land values isn't wrong, but what is wrong is the idea that this effect is somehow contained only within that one parcel—rather than diffused throughout the block or neighborhood sub-market. If a fancy new building makes the land value underneath it go up, it obviously makes the land values of the parcels next door to it go up too, and in the real world you'd see it impact comps within an even broader geography. The land assessment methodology should accurately reflect this.
What City Council Could Do
Most of the recent legislative responses coming out of Council so far, particularly from David Oh and Maria Quinones-Sanchez, are really awful and regressive, and would either leave a lot of tax dollars on the table from people who can afford to pay (Oh) or make a mockery out of the whole concept of fair and accurate assessments (Sanchez.) But Council also has played a productive role on this issue in the past, and it's worth highlighting what they've already done well, and how they could build on that.
What if instead of burning down the whole assessment system, the City were to hire someone like Benefits Data Trust to do targeted marketing of the existing successful programs to more eligible property owners?
One area where City Council did a legitimately good job during the Nutter administration was designing programs to shield lower-income homeowners and long-time residents from big jumps in their property tax bills due to corrected assessments. A Philadelphia Fed study found that these programs were very effective at preventing displacement caused by property tax pressures, and the main problem with them is just insufficient awareness and enrollment:
"Philadelphia is unique in its offering of gentrification relief programs, like LOOP, and such programs are quite effective in terms of reducing long-term homeowner's tax burdens and preventing tax delinquencies," said Ding in an interview. "However, there is anecdotal evidence that not all eligible homeowners have enrolled in these programs."
Ding credits the lack of displacement among older and disadvantaged homeowners in gentrifying areas "to the programs that sheltered them from rising taxes."
"By raising general awareness of these unique gentrification relief programs and increasing take-up rates, practitioners can help mitigate negative outcomes caused by gentrification," the Fed researcher said.
What if instead of burning down the whole assessment system, the City were to hire someone like Benefits Data Trust to do targeted marketing of the existing successful programs to more eligible property owners to try and sign everybody up who qualifies?
Another thing the Mayor and City Council might consider is changing the law to require revenue-neutral assessments, which is something that's required in all other Pennsylvania counties except for Philadelphia.
In the rest of Pennsylvania, counties aren't allowed to raise net revenue during a reassessment. If the real estate tax base grows overall, the county and municipalities and school districts all have to cut their tax rates enough to keep their revenue intake the same. Those bodies are still free to propose a property tax rate increase during their normal budget season if they want to raise more revenue from real estate, but they have to do it transparently by voting on it, rather than sneaking through tax hikes during routine assessments.
This won't make the anti-tax politics go away, but it would reduce some of the sticker shock, and it would also make it clearer when the City is voting to raise taxes.
Jon Geeting is the director of engagement at Philadelphia 3.0, a political action committee that supports efforts to reform and modernize City Hall. This is part of a series of articles running in both The Citizen and 3.0's blog.
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Moving out of the USA was something that I have always wanted to do. At first I didn't know anyone personally that had done this other than military people. I wanted to do it for the experience of living somewhere that was very different from what I was use to. As the years passed by I started to meet people who had lived abroad and returned to the US. Most of them were people in their 20s and they backpacked around Europe which was the norm. Yes they were gone for a couple of years, but they were much younger than me and they were backpacking, which was no longer of interest to me.
I started to find more and more blogs out there where others were in their 50s and living abroad, but none of them were single women. Regardless, I started to communicate with a few of those that were in my age group. They of course gave good advice, but I didn't totally trust this because I didn't know these people and I didn't think that they would give me the truth about the good and the bad. By not knowing them personally I was reluctant to ask them really personal questions, especially when it came to money. I just decided to take the chance, because if all else failed, I could always return to the USA and get back to work.
When the opportunity presented itself, after much research and planning, I decided to go for 6 months to South America. I was always partial to the Spanish culture and wanted to learn more about it..
After recovering from several surgeries, spending a year in Savannah with my daughter and my new granddaughter, house-sitting for a month (3 wks) in Berkeley, California, and taking a week to drive through parts of Northern California, I decided Peru was where I would start. The plan was to stay for 6 months and move on to somewhere else. Many ask why did I choose Peru? Now I know that I didn't choose Peru, Peru chose me.
The hardest part was leaving this little one. I had to realize that I had to step back and let my daughter be a mother, and trust that I had taught her well.
First to Berkeley, California, then driving to Northern California to see the beautiful Redwood Forrest.
My daughter and granddaughter has since joined me, but I will write about that more later.


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SWINDON & BASINGSTOKE – WEEKEND PREVIEW
The second weekend of the NIHL National season sees the Phantoms come up against two familiar opponents. The Phantoms travel to Swindon on Saturday night to take on the Wildcats, before the Basingstoke Bison come to Peterborough on Sunday for a 5:30pm face off.
PHANTOMS TEAM NEWS
Corey McEwen will be absent for the Phantoms due to injury, but Taylor Romeo is expected to return to the line-up after shaking off the shoulder injury which kept him out of last week's games. Due to commitments outside of hockey, Conor Pollard will not be in the Phantoms line-up this weekend.
Callum Buglass picked up a knock in Bracknell last Saturday but iced on Sunday and is expected to be fine for the coming weekend. Joe Gretton could also be available with Phantoms 2 not in action this weekend.
SWINDON WILDCATS
Aaron Nell's Wildcats claimed the league title in the NIHL South last year, winning 31 of their 42 regular season games. They had the best attack in the league, scoring 184 goals, and also had the best defence with only 97 goals conceded.
Swindon have retained most of their league winning team from last season. Jan Kostal and Max Birbraer both announced their retirement at the end of last term, but both have now returned to the Wildcats roster for another year. Birbraer is now classed as a British player due to the league rules.
One major loss for Nell and his team was defenceman Sam Jones, who made the step up to the Elite League with the Fife Flyers. The Cats will be without new signing Tyler VanKleef, who misses out due to injury.
The Opposition Bench
29-year-old Nell is the player coach of his local side. The Swindon born forward came through the youth set up at the Link Centre, before moving to the Elite League to play for the Sheffield Steelers and Coventry Blaze. The former Great Britain International is now into his seventh season back with the Cats, and his fourth as coach.
BASINGSTOKE BISON
The Bison began the NIHL season with one win and one loss. They beat the Telford Tigers 7-5 on Saturday night, before losing 8-3 to the Raiders on Sunday.
The Bison look as though they will have a full complement of players to choose from for the coming weekend. Richard Bordowski, Michal Klejna and Alex Sampford all scored two goals each on Saturday against the Tigers and will be looking to continue their form into this weekend. The Bison host the Bracknell Bees on Saturday night before their trip to Peterborough on Sunday.
The Bison coaching staff have a decision to make in goal. Alex Mettam played both games last weekend, conceding 13 goals across their two games. 8 of those came on Sunday against the Raiders, who racked up 50 shots on the Bison. Dan Weller-Evans is waiting in the wings and will be hopeful of some ice time this weekend.
Ashley Tait brings his Bison team back to Peterborough just a couple of weeks after the sides met in pre-season. The 44-year-old forward is in his second year as player coach of the Bison, with Scotsman Tony Redmond taking care of the bench duties whilst Tait is on the ice.
BUCKMAN SAYS…
"There are no easy weekends this year so the guys will be going into it with the same attitude as the opening weekend. We know Swindon have kept the core of the guys from last year and will be the team to beat again. Swindon is never an easy place to play so the guys will have to be focused and ready to play a full 60 mins to compete.
Also against Bison who we have already played in pre-season the guys know what to expect and be prepared for a battle against a side that is built on work ethic. We have to be mentally prepared for a solid 120 mins of hockey this weekend from the off"
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Room Eight | Local Government Revenues: What Changed from 1972 to 1987, 2000 and 2007?
Local Government Revenues: What Changed from 1972 to 1987, 2000 and 2007?
The spreadsheet attached below presents data similar to the local government finance data presented in this post and also written about in two others. But whereas the former spreadsheet contained local government finance data for fiscal year 2007 alone, this spreadsheet presents local government finance data for the years 1972, 1987, 2000 and 2007. These were all up years for the economy, beginning with the administrations of New York City Mayor John Lindsey and Governor Nelson Rockefeller, through the most prosperous year of the administrations of Mayor Ed Koch and Governor Mario Cuomo, the peak economic year for Mayor Rudi Giuliani and Governor George Pataki, and the peak economic year of Mayor Michael Bloomberg with Governor Pataki's last budget.
The years were chosen to be fairly comparable with each other, to separate changes in local government finance due to long run policy changes from those related to economic booms and busts. Economic crashes and fiscal crises followed each of them, with the worst for New York City following 1972. The quality of life was substantially lower for nearly 25 years after that; in some cases the quality of public services in New York City has never fully recovered. Is New York heading into another era like that one? And did that era every fully end?
It is hoped that the print tables worksheet will print in six 8 1/2 by 11 pages, although I'm having trouble setting that up on an I-Mac. Sorry if anyone has had difficulties.
Once again, the tax revenues by type and expenditures by function are presented per $1,000 of the personal income of the residents of the area in question. In FY 1972, for example, New York City spent $2.60 on Parks, Recreation and Culture for every $1,000 earned by New York City residents. Data is provided for New York City, the rest of New York State, the U.S. total and New Jersey in the tables intended for printing, and is available for several other states in the worksheet with the data as downloaded.
Once again I made alterations where possible to adjust for varying state and local responsibilities, so the data would be more fairly comparable, but since I didn't have data for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey for past years, that agency's data is stuck in "rest of New York State" rather than allocated between New York City and New Jersey. Unable to accurately allocate the Port Authority, I left data for the Air Transportation and Water Transportation functions out of the tables.
Let's start with what appears to be news, but is not. State aid to both New York City and local governments in the Rest of New York State, was dramatically lower in FY 1987 than in FY 1972, as a share of the income of local residents. In Census Bureau government finance data, that state aid includes federal aid that passes through the states on its way to local governments. At the same time, however, there was a big decrease in local government spending on Medical Vendor Payments plus Public Hospitals, which is substantially financed by the Medicaid program, along with a soaring amount of local government aid payments to New York State from FY 1972 to FY 1987.
All these changes are due to a shift in the assignment of spending on private health care providers under the Medicaid program, from local governments to the State of New York, in the early 1980s. This had a substantial effect on the data, since instead of the federal and state governments sending three quarters of the Medicaid funds paid to private health care providers to New York City and New York State counties, which added their own quarter before "spending it," the local governments sent their quarter to the state, which added three quarters before "spending it" by paying private health care providers itself. (Medicaid-funded spending at locally-run public hospitals and clinics is still recorded as local government "direct" spending funded in part by state to local government aid).
The practical effect of this seemingly huge shift was limited. In fact, from what I read in the newspapers much of the administration of the Medicaid program remains in local hands (at least for now), even if the state cuts the checks. And the share of Medicaid spending financed by the federal, state and local governments did not change at the time, despite the state "takeover." New York remains virtually the only state where local governments pay a substantial share of Medicaid costs. New York is a state where vested interests that benefit from current arrangements are entrenched in the state legislature. This massive apparent shift with little real consequence shows that the state legislature's presumed plan for next year, responding to rising pressure by pretending to make real changes but not doing so, has a pretty substantial precedent.
Another change that is real, but is easily tied to circumstances rather than policy, is the substantial drop in property tax revenues from FY 1972 to 1987, in New York City, the rest of New York State, the U.S. as a whole and in New Jersey, and the related substantial drop in public school spending, as a share of residents' personal income. In 1972 a large share of the very large baby boom generation was still in school, and funding for its education required substantial property tax revenues. Out of a total 1972 U.S. population of 209 million, according to the Statistical Abstract of the United States, 52 million were age 5 to 17, or 24.8% of the total. By 1988 the total population had risen to 246 million, but the population age 5 to 17 had fallen to 45 million, or 18.3% of the total.
With fewer public school students relative to the number of people working and earning income, public school spending fell relative to that income and property taxes along with it. The flip side of this is rising federal spending on the growing number senior citizens, spending is that set to soar as that same baby boom generation reaches age 65. Whether the public will be as willing to pay far higher taxes to meet their needs remains to be seen. In the intervening decades, when their taxable income was at a peak, the baby boomers were among the most anti-tax generations.
Like families, America's governments transfer resources from working age adults to children and the old. The good news is that while an aging population increases one set of burdens, it decreases the other. The bad news is that never before, and probably never again, will the overall "dependency ratio" – the ratio of dependent children plus seniors to working adults – likely to be as favorable as it has been for the past 30 years. At the federal level, instead of saving up resources during those 30 fat years, money was borrowed. We'll look at how the future was served at the state and local level in later posts.
While the decrease in public school spending as a share of personal income from FY 1972 to FY1987 is easy to explain, the rest of the education spending data raises additional issues.
First, public school spending has always been very, very high as a share of personal income in the portion of New York State outside New York City, compared with the national average. It has always been low by that measure in New York City. The biggest crunch and the biggest difference was not in 1972, because the baby boomer school population was concentrated outside the city at that time because middle class families had fled to the suburbs, or in 1987 when the city's school spending was at a very low point relative to income but so was its school age population. It was in the mid-1990s when the children of the baby boomers, and the children of immigrants, flooded into New York City's schools but spending did not rise commensurately, in part due to the distribution of state school aid. Enrollment has subsequently begun to fall, in New York City and elsewhere.
State education aid as a share of personal income increased modestly as a share of residents' personal income from FY 1987 to FY 2007, both to New York City and to the Rest of the State, while remaining much higher for the rest of the state than for NYC. Local resources for education, on the other hand, rose substantially NYC from FY 1987 to FY 2000 (with most of the gains very late in that period), and were flat thereafter. Local revenues for education, like state aid for that purpose, rose gradually in the rest of the state from FY 1987 to FY 2007, while remaining higher than in New York City.
Second, one can see the genesis of fiscal crises in New Jersey and (in the full worksheet) California. These were states with average state and local tax burdens in FY 1987 and FY 2000, but public school spending was very low as a share of personal income in California – among the lowest among states – and about average in New Jersey. With the children of the baby boom entering school, parents pushed to improve the quality of public education in California, where school spending in rich and poor communities was much more equal than in the Northeast due to Proposition 13 restrictions on property taxes and a shift in funding to the state level. Spending on education did rise as a share of income in California, to just slightly less than the national average (as in New York City), but the tax burden did not rise as much. Public referendums, in fact, mandated both restrictions on tax increases and more school spending; money was borrowed and costs deferred to bridge the gap.
In New Jersey, average public school spending became above average public school spending (but not as high as in the portion of New York State outside New York City) as the state attempted to provide a decent quality of education in older poor cities as well as in the state's suburbs. Here the state and local tax burden did rise, but not right away, not until substantial money had been taken from the future through inadequate pension funding. In both states, in other words, an increase in education spending was not paid for at the time. Those states are facing higher costs today, even as spending falls, as a result.
From 1987 to 2007 property taxes fell somewhat as a share of personal income in New York City, as restrictions on assessment increases for one-to-four family homes limited the extent to which rising residential property values were reflected in higher taxes, and the value of commercial property lagged income gains. In the rest of New York State property tax revenues equaled just slightly more of residents' personal income in FY 2007 as in FY 2000 and FY 1987. For all the noise, in other words, the actual burden of property taxes in the rest of the state hasn't really gone up much relative to income, although it is far higher than in other places. The same small increase is observed for the U.S. average, but a far greater increase in property taxes as a share of personal income was recorded for New Jersey. That state's average property tax burden as a share of income is now about even with the part of New York State outside New York City, after having been lower.
New York City had a property tax revenue boom in the period leading up to 1972, thanks to extensive high-end office construction in Manhattan. I would guess that commercial property taxes, as a share of the personal income of city residents, has never been as high as the early 1970s, as office rents have been falling behind inflation for decades nationwide. The decline in property values (relative to inflation) in the 1970s contributed to the city's fiscal problems. A similar windfall occurred in the 2000s in the "other tax" category, due to massive real estate transfer tax revenues during the real estate boom. Revenues in this category increased from $4.22 per $1,000 of city residents' personal income in FY 2000 to $7.91 in FY 2007. There has subsequently been a massive bust in real estate transfer revenues, with the biggest impact on the MTA, after FY 2007.
Business apparently bore the brunt of the New York City higher taxes coming out of the 1970s fiscal crisis, as a local corporate income tax (and unincorporated income tax) was added to the city's local personal income tax between FY 1972 and FY 1987. Census Bureau data puts the date of the new tax as 1982, the last year of the administration of Governor Hugh Carey. So while New York's state corporate income tax revenue fell as a share of state residents' from 1972 to 2000 before rising slightly, those corporations in New York City faced a double tax. Somehow the change in the level of corporate business activity in New York City compared with the suburbs and upstate has not been what one would have expected based on the incentive effect of relative taxes alone, as the city's share of the state's private sector activity has in fact increased. Corporate income taxes also produced a windfall level of revenues for the city in FY 2007 at $16.59 per $1,000 of personal income, compared with just $11.17 in FY 2000, another good year for corporate profits.
If corporate and "other" taxes merely returned to their FY 2000 levels as a share of personal income since FY 2007, therefore, New York City's tax revenues would have fallen by $9.11 per $1,000 of city residents' income. Or about as much as NYC spent on the police department as a share of personal income in FY 2007. These business and real estate related revenues may have fallen even further. And like the commercial property tax revenues that were high in FY 1972, these are taxes that city residents do not have to pay.
Meaning that either spending on city services will have to fall as a share of the income of city residents, over and above any declines caused by the fall in that income itself, or the taxes that city residents do pay will have to rise as a share of personal income. Note that New York City's local individual income tax revenues increased from $15.11 per $1,000 of city residents' personal income in FY 1987 to $18.51 in FY 2000 and $19.10 in FY 2007. New York's state income tax revenues were about the same as a share of state residents' personal income during those three years.
Local general sales tax revenues increased as a share of city residents' personal income from FY 1972 to FY 1987, presumably due to rising rates. After the 1970s fiscal crisis a substantial share of the city's sales tax revenues never reached its coffers, and instead went to pay back debts the city incurred in the period leading up to the crisis. To avoid paying the last $2.5 billion of its Lindsay-era debts in the early 2000s, those debts was extended another 30 years – that cost deferral was a big part of what the rest of the state "did for" the city in wake of 9/11. Since FY 1987, New York City's general and selected sales tax revenues have been falling as a share of city residents' personal income, due to a falling share of personal income being spent on taxable goods, and more goods (such as clothing) being made non-taxable. Some selective sales tax rates, such as those on hotel stays, were reduced.
Tax rate increases have been pushing up local general sales tax revenues per $1,000 of personal income in the rest of New York State, which were higher than in NYC by FY 2007. The same gradual increase in sales tax revenues a share of personal income may be observed nationally, although in many states (as in New Jersey) all general sales tax revenue goes to the state government.
Many New Yorkers believe the have been nickeled and dimed with rising charges for public services, but as I showed in post based on the FY 2007 data alone, charges for services are a substantial source of local government revenue – almost important as taxes nationally – and no higher as a share of personal income in New York City than in the U.S. as a whole. This data over time shows that New York City's revenue from charges for services is slightly lower, as a share of city residents' personal income, than it had been in the past, at $24.51 per $1,000 of personal income in FY 2007 compared with $28.40 per $1,000 of personal income in FY 1972. Charges as a share of personal income have, in general, been trending slightly upward for the U.S. as a whole and New Jersey; the rest of New York State got a bump up from FY 1987 to FY 2000, probably a result of the Long Island Power Authority being tabulated as a local government agency that year (see direct spending on electric and gas utilities, which does not include interest).
There are several issues here. First, these were all good economic years, and New York's politicians have made a habit of pandering to short term selfishness by pushing off fee increases or even reducing changes when tax revenues were rolling in, and jacking them during the state's repeated fiscal crises when people could least afford it. It is likely that charges soared as a share of the (falling) personal income in the less economically strong years after these.
Second, some changes might have gone up while others decreased. What went way down for some time was mass transit fares, which in New York City fell from $12.73 per $1,000 of city residents' personal income in FY 1972 to $9.83 in FY 1987 and $7.09 in FY 2000 (thanks to the addition of all those Metrocard discounts), before rising to $7.21 in FY 2007. Transit fare revenues went down as a share of the total personal income of New Yorkers even as more New Yorkers used transit, and even as politicians demonized the MTA for "unnecessary' fare increases. The MTA borrowed to offset decreases in not just tax revenues but also fare revenues. To pay that debt, and pensions and retiree health care costs that were not fully funded, the MTA is now raising fares and slashing services. Repeating a cycle going back nearly 100 years.
Third, one legitimate objection to fees is that they are not in proportion to income, spending or wealth, like income, sales and property taxes. So as the distribution of income in the city becomes more unequal, fees may fall harder on the less well off, even if their share of the total income of all city residents added together does not increase. On the other hand, while rising inequality is a trend nationally, I'm not sure that is the case in New York City – which already had plenty of inequality after the 1970s, when its middle class fled to the suburbs.
A more detailed discussion of expenditures will follow in subsequent posts.


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Much Ado about Nothing has long been celebrated as one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies. The central relationship, between Benedict and Beatrice, is wittily combative until love prevails. Broader comedy is provided by Dogberry, Verges and the watchmen. The drama ranges between the destructively sinister and the lyrically romantic, giving the whole a complex and sometimes problematic character. Numerous revivals, in the theatre and on screen, have displayed the lively variety and interpretative openness of this engaging comedy.


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Biology and the Bible: Can they be friends?
I have two college degrees. Bible and Biology. Some people might think that those two topics are like oil and water, i.e. they do not mix. I wholeheartedly disagree. Not only can they go together but they even support each other. Keep reading and see if you agree with me.
For an object to be considered living, it must demonstrate the following 6 characteristics.
There it is. The filter of questions that can be asked of literally anything. If the "thing" in question has a positive response for all 6 categories, it is living. To make this more easily understood, ask these questions of yourself.
Do I have cells? Yes.
Are those cells organized in some way? Yes.
Do I use energy? Yes.
Do I maintain a stable internal condition? Yes.
Now let's take a look at the Bible.
Please read I Peter 1:3, "Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,." For the whole chapter, click I Peter 1.
Let me focus on two words, living hope. Hope is a great thing. In fact, you can read some of my earlier writings about Hope. But we can be born into a living hope. That seems to be better than just regular hope, right?
Let's mash things up and see what we get.
Does my Hope have cells? Yes. I can read about my hope in every book of the Bible. I can talk to other Christ-followers. I can pray and worship.
Are those cells organized in some way? Yes. Church is organized. My Bible is organized. Even my prayers can be organized.
Do my Hope use energy? Yes. Following Christ is work but that Hope keeps me motivated!
Does my Hope maintain a stable internal condition? Yes. Regardless of what is happening outside, my hope remains stable on the inside.
Does my Hope grow? Yes. Certainly! My maturity level goes up which in turn allows my hope to increase as well.
Can my Hope reproduce? Yes. When I share my hope with others, I am, in essence, reproducing what God has done in me.
And there you have it. You have just successfully blended the Bible and Biology.
Now go and enjoy the living hope into which your were born!


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Charles Herbert Best, just a few weeks after receiving an Honours Baccalaureate in physiology and chemistry, jumped at the chance to assist Dr. Frederick Banting with a research endeavour that would eventually change the lives of millions. It was the classic case of being the right man in the right place at the right time. Less than three months later, Best's name was known throughout the medical world, and he had not even begun his medical studies.
Throughout Banting and Best's research at The University of Toronto, Banting completed the surgical work and Best conducted post-surgery chemical analyses. By the end of the summer, their hard work and determination had paid off; Banting and Best had isolated insulin, an internal secretion produced by the pancreas that could be used to treat diabetes.
With the help of Dr. James Collip, the insulin was purified, allowing it to be made available for clinical trials on human subjects. In 1923, when Banting won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with J.J.R. Mcleod, he shared his award and recognition with Best.
Following the discovery of insulin, Best went on to complete doctorates in both medicine and physiology. As a professor of physiology at The University of Toronto, Best joined Banting as co-director of the Banting and Best Medical Research Department in 1930. From the time of the department's inception, Best held the position of Honourary Research Associate. After Banting's death in 1941, Best was appointed Chair of the department and remained in this position until his retirement in 1967.
During his tenure at the Banting and Best Medical Research Department, Best remained committed to research and was successful in isolating heparin, which was found to be an effective anti-coagulant. He also focused his research on various insulin-related problems and contributed to the war effort by researching night vision and seasickness.
For his numerous contributions to medical research, Best was named Advisor to the United Nations World Health Organization's Medical Research Committee and received eighteen honourary degrees from universities around the world.
As a pioneering neurosurgeon and a technological visionary, he was one of the first to recognize the important relationship between medicine and technology.


No, no aliens, no ghost, no magic or anything else. This is a natural event when on the upper layers of our atmosphere are fully with water cristal (common name: ice) that reflects the horizontal sun rays that comes from the Sun. When this ice cristal are perfectly six sides formed the light reflect can be very wonderful (like in the image).
The exact way that it is happen it's very simple. The ice cristals fall from the upper atmosphere layer down (obviously) and if they have a particular shape the way they go down is flat (or nearly). So, if you put one layer of flat ice cristal above other flat layer ice cristal and so on light rays will bend vertically creating a "Sun pilar effect".


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Taking care of your career these days is an ongoing relentless requirement. Your organisation will keep reshaping itself to fit our rapidly changing world. It is the only way to survive in this fiercely competitive environment. Of course, in so many cases, we compete with and against the world, not just the UK. Your organisation may merge, restructure, downsize or form new alliances and partnerships. There is a high chance you may not like some or all of this. In many ways, what you think is irrelevant. Resistance to change is almost always a dead-end street. Success comes when you align with the direction of travel. Further success comes when you spot trends and hone your skills accordingly. By doing this you stay relevant. For example, when I decided to train in mediation skills in 2004 followed by business psychology a few years later I had no real idea how much these areas would be in demand in 2016 but I had a hunch and some good advice.
What about you? What is facing your career and skills? Not sure? You should know.
For example, have you heard of the 'gig economy'? it is one of the most used buzz phrases right now to describe how the world of work is changing. I was at a business psychology conference and the Cheltenham Literature Festival in October. Speakers at both events referred to this term repeatedly. Check it out.
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Is Joe Biden's Peloton Bike Really A Cybersecurity Risk?
Yes, You Can Stop Using WhatsApp—But Don't Make This 'Dangerous' Mistake
Facebook Confirms It's Preserving Account Data Related To Capitol Hill Riot Investigations
The Russian Company Protecting Parler From Cyberattack: We Don't Endorse 'Radical Organizations Or Extremism'
The Most Notorious Marketplace For Stolen Credit Cards Is Shutting Down
iOS 14.4: Apple's Game-Changing New iPhone Privacy Feature Coming Soon
Huawei Vs Google Just Got Real—New Update To Beat Android Confirmed
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What Cyber Threats Await Us In 2021
New Ransomware Threat Jumps From Windows To Linux—What You Need To Know
Davey WinderSenior Contributor
I report and analyse breaking cybersecurity and privacy stories
Ransomware has plagued Windows users for years, but now the cybercriminal crosshairs are aiming at Linux users
Linux users are being targeted by a new ransomware strain that has jumped from Windows
Barely a week goes by without news of yet another organization falling victim to the cyber threat of the day, ransomware. Although there will always be outliers such as the security researcher who managed to execute a ransomware attack on a coffee machine, and yes, you read that right, the vast majority will have targeted users of one Windows operating system or another. That is changing, however, and now ransomware is adapting to compromise Linux servers.
MORE FROM FORBESCoffee Machine Hit By Ransomware Attack-Yes, You Read That RightBy Davey Winder
Ransomware is a hugely profitable business; the Ryuk threat operators are said to have made $34 million (£25.8 million) from just one successful attack, for example. Perhaps the highest-profile operator, the REvil cybercriminal group, allegedly makes more than $100 million (£76 million) a year from extorting ransom payments. Ransomware is, in my never humble opinion, the most prominent cybersecurity threat organizations face today.
The evolution of ransomware has been relatively rapid. The introduction of a data exfiltration element that downloads data before locking up the network being the primary driver of recent extortion success. This involves demanding payment to provide a decryption key and, supposedly, prevent the publication of confidential data stolen during the attack. I say supposedly because security researchers say, unsurprisingly, if you ask me, that paying the ransom doesn't always mean the threat actors delete that data. Sodinokibi victims have been double-extorted, and Netwalker victims have had data published after paying up.
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Nor am I surprised that ransomware is evolving to include Linux users. This follows a cybercrime pattern; back in August, the FBI warned about a cyberespionage threat to Linux called Drovorub, for example. This was apparently developed by Russian military hackers and has been deployed in real-world attacks.
Now Kaspersky researchers have detailed a new file-encrypting Trojan called RansomEXX that attacks Linux machines. This is, the researchers said, a highly targeted Trojan. So much so that each code sample they examined contained the name of the organization being attacked. What's more, this is also a very real-world threat as large organizations have already fallen victim to RansomEXX. Kaspersky cites attacks on the Texas Department of Transportation and Konica Minolta.
RansomEXX itself, however, is not new: it's been a prevalent Windows threat for some time. What is new is the porting of the ransomware to Linux, the targeting of Linux servers directly. As far as I am aware, this is the first time that Windows ransomware has made this operating system jump. Although it must be pointed out that Linux servers have, of course, been successfully targeted by ransonware actors before. There are some Linux specific threats already, and the likes of RansomEXX have infected Linux servers after using Windows as a gateway for the attack. But it does show how the threatscape is evolving, with this porting of a dedicated Windows threat into a Linux one.
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"Although not unique, it is rare to see ransomware appear on Linux," Gavin Matthews, a product manager at Red Canary, said, "while cloud assets can often be reimaged or redeployed to remove threats like ransomware, the increase in Linux threats stresses the need for better detection and protections against threats that bring down applications, put customer data at risk, and hurt business operations."
Mitigation against Linux ransomware threats is no different from mitigation against Windows ones: get the security basics right. This means addressing the human factor with a focus on security awareness and training, and that includes everyone from the shop floor to the top floor. Multiple intrusion prevention layers from simple spam-filtering to DNS protection are a no-brainer. Ditto when it comes to patch management to keep everything as attack-resistant as is possible in terms of not enabling vulnerabilities to give attackers an entry point to your networks and data. Not forgetting the principle of least privilege and robust password management.
Your goal is to make access to the system as difficult as possible, and if an attacker manages to get that far, make movement around the network as difficult as possible.
Davey Winder
I'm a three-decade veteran technology journalist and have been a contributing editor at PC Pro magazine since the first issue in 1994. A three-time winner of the BT
I'm a three-decade veteran technology journalist and have been a contributing editor at PC Pro magazine since the first issue in 1994. A three-time winner of the BT Security Journalist of the Year award (2006, 2008, 2010) I was also fortunate enough to be named BT Technology Journalist of the Year in 1996 for a forward-looking feature in PC Pro called 'Threats to the Internet.' In 2011 I was honored with the Enigma Award for a lifetime contribution to IT security journalism. Contact me in confidence at davey@happygeek.com if you have a story to reveal or research to share.


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Court Enters Summary Judgment Against Plaintiff, Finds No Triable Issues Regarding Revocation of Consent
Matthew M. Morrissey and Michael P. Daly
Automatic Telephone Dialing System, Revocation, Summary Judgment.
The Eastern District of California recently entered summary judgment against a plaintiff because it found that the plaintiff failed to revoke his consent to receive auto-dialed calls on his cell phone. Wright v. USAA Savings Bank, No. 19-0591, 2020 WL 2615441, at *1-5 (E.D. Cal. May 22, 2020). The case illustrates that defendants in the Ninth Circuit can still prevail on consent and other issues even though they may face an uphill battle on ATDS issues.
The plaintiff in Wright applied for a credit card and listed his cell phone number on the application. Id. at *1. He developed terminal cancer in 2018 and failed to make payments on the credit card. Id. Between July 2018 and January 2019, defendants' agent called Mr. Wright's cellphone number using the Aspect Dialing System to collect the credit card debt. Id. Evidence established that the Aspect Dialing System is a predictive dialer that does not have and is not capable of using a random or sequential number generator to dial numbers. Id.
Mr. Wright hired a lawyer, who then sent a revocation of consent letter to defendants' headquarters in Las Vegas. Id. However, defendants used a Texas address on all of their correspondence with Mr. Wright. Id. They also used the Texas address: (1) as the address for making payments; (2) in each delinquent payment notification; and (3) on the "Contact Us" page on their website.
Mr. Wright eventually filed suit but died a short time later. Id. at *2. The court granted his wife authority to substitute as plaintiff in the action. Id. Mr. Wright's complaint asserted a TCPA claim as well as other statutory violations. Id. The parties filed cross-motions for summary judgment. Id.
First, defendants argued that the Aspect Dialing System at issue was not an ATDS. Id. at *3. Defendants asserted that Marks v. Crunch San Diego, LLC, 904 F.3d 1041 (9th Cir. 2018), should not control the outcome of the ATDS dispute because the D.C. Circuit's ACC International decision invalidated the FCC's 2003, 2012 and 2015 Orders but not the FCC's 1992 and 1995 Orders, "which conclude that to be an ATDS the system must itself generate numbers 'in random or sequential fashion.'" Id. (quoting In Re Rules & Regulations Implementing the TCPA of 1991, 7 F.C.C. Rcd. 8752, 8769 ¶ 47 (1992); citing In Re Rules and Regulations Implementing the TCPA of 1991, 10 FCC Rcd. 12391, ¶ 19 (1995)). The court rejected the argument, finding that it was "bound by Marks." Id. The court also noted that the subsequent decision in Duguid v. Facebook, Inc., 926 F.3d 1146 (9th Cir 2019), confirmed that Marks is the law in the Ninth Circuit.
Second, the parties disputed whether Mr. Wright effectively revoked his consent. Id. Under the facts presented, the court held that "no reasonable trier of fact could find that plaintiff used reasonable means to revoke consent." Id. (citing ACA Int'l v. FCC, 885 F.3d 687, 709 (D.C. Cir. 2018) ("In assessing whether a revocation request meets the 'reasonable means' standard,"' courts consider "the totality of the facts and circumstances.")). The court observed that "[d]efendants never made the Las Vegas address known to customers, nor did they communicate to its customers that the Las Vegas address was an appropriate destination for customers' account-related inquiries." Id. Furthermore, Mr. Wright was not even able to establish that defendants received the revocation letter. Id. at *5. The only evidence of receipt was a UPS confirmation notice stating that the letter was "delivered to the front desk, reception area, or mail room . . . in LAS VEGAS NV 89169." Id. Defendants presented evidence that they did not own or control the front desk, and that defendants did not sign for, and could not control the receipt of, correspondence at the Las Vegas address. Id. Thus, the court granted defendants' motion for summary judgment because the plaintiff did not effectively revoke consent to receive the calls at issue. Id.
In light of the unfavorable Marks ruling, companies facing TCPA claims in the Ninth Circuit should consider raising other fact-based defenses that do not relate to the definition of an ATDS. As the Wright decision highlights, an examination of the facts surrounding a plaintiff's supposed revocation of consent could lead to a successful dispositive motion.
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After the wind sort of died down yesterday morning, I left Powderly, TX, and headed for Bartlesville, OK. I had picked out a Passport America campground that looked pretty nice on their website. I've come around to making reservations at parks when I'm traveling night by night, and it's a good thing I did in this case.
Riverside RV Resort and Campground is packed to the gills! A resort it's not, and if you want to feel like a sardine packed into a can then this is the place for you. I can almost reach out my window and touch the rigs on either side of me. Even though I paid for two nights, I didn't even attempt to unhook the toad. The place is filled with utility workers, and when I arrived at two in the afternoon, there were only two vacant sites. There aren't many choices in this neck of the woods.
The 220 mile trip to get here was fairly uneventful. I only had to ignore Jack-in-the-Box twice. The first time was in the middle of massive construction while driving though Tulsa. He wanted me to take a left, while detour signs pointed right. I followed the signs. Then as we were exiting Tulsa, he wanted me to get off of US 75. I knew 75 would lead me to the campground, so I ignored him. That's when a sign on the GPS said there was an unavoidable 11' underpass ahead. Since I was seeing plenty of 18 wheelers coming toward me, I kept going. Don't know where that underpass used to be, but it's not there any longer. Phew!
Being a person who prefers to use interstates to get from point A to point B while driving the rig, this has been a rather interesting route I've decided upon that uses US highways instead. I did take the Indian Nation Turnpike for a good portion of the trip, and that turned out better than expected. Yes, it's a toll road, but not too expensive in my opinion. ($10.75 for the rig and toad) It also had what has been for me the easiest in and out fuel station that I've ever encountered. No heartburn this time, and the price of the gas was $.40/gallon cheaper than my last fill up in Louisiana!
I had thought about visiting some places here in Bartlesville, but since I can't unhook the toad with the way I'm wedged into the site, I passed on that idea. I've already been to the Will Rogers museum several years ago, and took in more information about Will Rogers than I ever wanted to know. So I spent the day planning out the rest of my journey to Tamarac NWR.
That's where the strategic planning is coming in to play. I weathered one severe spring storm in Louisiana, and according to the weather guessers I may have a window of opportunity to make a run to Minnesota before the next storm comes along. Granted, I don't 'run' too fast, but the next ten days look fairly calm weather-wise. I've plotted out four more campgrounds to get there with two night stays at half of them. Three of them I've been to before, so I know what to expect…no more sardine issues.
If everything goes as planned, I could be at Tamarac a week from today. That would be four days before my scheduled arrival, so I've got some wiggle room. Now if I can just find a few more easy in and out gas stations along the way, I'll be one happy camper.
I'm up in SE WI for the week. The weather feels like it's going to snow any time. Complete with the gray clouds. Glad you're enjoying the trip.
Continued safe travels and easy access fuel stops.
Maybe we have to start making reservations. Planned on arriving in Tallahassee for our rig service and just use the same campground. It was full for college graduation weekend. Who knew:( So we are about 80 miles away still in GA. So it will be an early start tomorrow to make the 9 am appt.
Glad to hear you think you can outrun this terrible weather. I have worried a tad about you there in what seems to me to be tornado alley. I like interstates for short get there fast sorts of things. When it's too far to get to where we are going in one day and we're just going to do an overnight and drive again the next day. Reservations are a pain in the neck but they seem to be becoming more and more necessary.
Oh how I remember sweating the gas/diesel stations. I totally understand!! I suppose in the name of making more money the designers of campgrounds try to squeeze as many in as they can. Sure is a pain for the campers!!
Glad you were able to outrun the bad weather!!! It has sure been horrible in our area complete with a tornado and some crazy strong wind!! Hope we all have a calm summer!!
continued safe travels. . .nothin' wrong with just gettin' there sometimes. . .
I'm trying to find some Passport America parks for my trip north, there is only one near Amarillo and someone who is there tonight told me it is "rough" - not so sure I want to stay just to save $15. I'll drive by and maybe end up in a different park.
When we lived in a motorhome I always dreaded fill ups. Fortunately, our motorhome had a 196 gallon fuel tank. We tried to find a fill up whenever we got to half empty. You can image what a 100 gallon fill up costs. Yikes.
It's wise to pay attention to the weather, especially when you are driving a motorhome! Judy, thank you for the birthday wishes!
We've been in some really "interesting" PA parks. But for a night or two we can handle just about anything. I wonder why there are so many folks on the road or do you think it's workers using the campgrounds. We usually don't make reservations when we're traveling unless it's over the week-end.
We are point a to point b travelers so we understand. We also make reservations during the summer.
We don't usually make long range plans either. Once we were in a park and couldn't even open our sofa slide! We didn't stay but one night.
We always to try to check the reviews on rvparkreviews.com, and even Google Earth, but sometimes you still get a bad campground.
I hope you have a safe and easy trip north and find more easy fuel stations.
Sounds as if you are making tracks--hope all continues to be easy and uneventful!!
We have found that a lot of PA campgrounds are that way...I would just as soon stay in a Wal-mart parking lot!!! We look for Flying J's or Pilots for fuel...there is an rv island you can always count on getting in and out without a problem.
I've always wondered how big rigs complete with toads get gas. I have enough trouble sometimes getting in there with a SUV!
We've also traveled on the Indian Nation Turnpike and were impressed. Don't mind paying a toll on a nice road like that.The PA Turnpike was so bad we thought they should have given us our money back and more!
I get a stomach ache when getting fuel and I'm not the one driving! We find that on the way to and from Texas, we plan exactly where we will be. We prefer Army Corps parks, but in some states, they are few and far between...Illinois being ONE of the them!! Take your time and pick your way to Minnesota...It is going to warm up here in Northern Illinois next week, so it should be warming up waaaay up there!
"...and took in more information about Will Rogers than I ever wanted to know."
Are saying that you are not a big fan and don't read his Weekly Articles that I have been providing a link to in my blog postings every Friday? I have been fascinated by how much of what he said 88 years ago is true today. The more things change the more they stay the same is proved week by week by what he says in his articles.
Good idea to follow those 18 wheelers through the low bridge areas, let them go first and clear the way!
Discovery owners mega file, that can be used to show things like fuel and passport America locations. I am only mentioning a couple as there over one hundred items on the list. These are individually turned on or off, it is slow to reposition the map with them all turned on.
No window of opportunity here in Ohio. Rain, rain and more rain until next week. Yuck! Safe travels.
Yes, gassing up can be nerve-racking in many stations. I've been making a point to start looking when my tank is at the half-way point. It's not comfortable looking for the best place to pull in; but, it's much worse if the tank is getting really low.
I'm not a good "travel long distances every day" sort of RVer. I've told myself that the travel is supposed to be part of the enjoyment of the RV lifestyle. If I get too tired it becomes a real chore. Nice that you have some wiggle room. Hope the weather behaves for your journey.
Glad you are safe and will have good weather, at least for the next ten days. Have fun and drive safe!!!
We only use the large truck stops like Flying J, Loves and others! No problem getting into and out of them. Get their cards and save some money per gallon.
It sounds like you're getting there!! It is nice to have a few cushion days so that you don't have to drive in the wind or crappy weather. We sat out a couple of terrible windy days on our way to Idaho, and I'm so glad that we did. It does seem like many of the campgrounds are filled with oilfield, utility, or construction workers this year!
I've often thought about taking the Indian Nation Tpk but never did. Maybe if I ever go that way again I'll try it. I hope the rest of your trip is smooth and uneventful.
I hate those sardine can 'campgrounds'. They make me very cranky. We've occasionally had to stay in one because there was nothing else in the area we wanted to be. Boy was I glad to leave. They're kind of stretching the word "resort"!


Immediately after payment, you will receive a gift link to activate the game in steam.
Banished is a simple but very exciting game about creating a settlement by a group of people.
You have to start a village from scratch and take care of the inhabitants, providing them with everything you need: food, houses, firewood, clothes and other things.
Despite its seeming simplicity, in fact, the game is very difficult. It requires an incredible sense of internal balance: you must correctly distribute people by occupation, use limited resources, optimally arrange buildings on the map (this affects the efficiency of workers, free time, success of hunting and harvesting), and the most difficult thing is to monitor the demographic situation. If you build too many houses, the settlers will live separately, grow old and die. In fact, any of your actions in this game has a "butterfly effect" and can easily result in the death of a settlement. Therefore, success can be achieved only with full control of all areas of your city. According to the statistics of achievements, 13% of the players reached the city size of 300 people and only 2.5% reached the mark of 900, get ready for difficulties.
1. If you do not yet have a Steam client, download it (http://steampowered.com/download/SteamInstall.msi) and register an account.
4. The Steam website will open with the message "You have been sent a game as a gift." Click "accept game" and "add game to LIBRARY".
Do not choose "add game to inventory" if you have a new (empty) account, as new accounts experience difficulties with the inventory of Steam gifts.
5. The game should appear in the list of your games in the steam client, and it can be downloaded.


A resident at Yarwell Mill Country Park won two awards at the park's fishing match. Twenty-five residents at the country park competed to see who could catch the best fish.
Last Saturday, Colin Deering took the 'Yarwell Mill Annual Catch Match' trophy which came with a two-for-one meal at the Black Horse in Nassington and £20 to spend at the Sheltons of Peterborough fishing store. Colin also won the prize for best fish which was a 1lb 12oz perch.


March is getting away from me already. My February intentions included the usual of daily drawing and exercising and twice a week yoga and bird-watching, plus finishing my reading of "The Artists Way." I did it all! The Artists Way took a long time for me to finish. I was frustrated that it was more focused on writing. I did the "daily pages" of writing at the beginning, but then I decided to put that daily energy into drawing or painting instead of writing. Also, the book was a little too God-focused for me. I DO think it helped give me the kick-start that I needed when I started my daily art practice. And there is some good stuff in the book about creativity and finding one's artist-self, and I'm glad I read it, and may pick it back up again when I'm looking for inspiration.
This month of March, I'm staying with all my usual art and exercise intentions, and I'm going to start reading "The Creative Habit" by Twyla Tharp. I'm still quite busy with some family issues, so am keeping my daily practices limited, but I AM going to keep chugging along.
This drawing was inspired by one of my favorite shapes, the spiral, and branches. Perhaps I'll use it as a study for a larger paining.


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Home Page Chess Life Online 2011 November Heading to Brazil: World Youth Awaits
Heading to Brazil: World Youth Awaits
By Andi Rosen
Andi Rosen with Eric at the 2010 US Junior Closed in Saint Louis
Greetings, chess friends, from Atlanta airport's international terminal, where Brad, Eric and I are awaiting our flight to Brazil, Eric's first trip to the World Youth Chess Championships. As next year he will be too old to qualify, it will also be his last.
Along with 40 other U.S. players and their families (see chessresults.com for the full list), and the very talented U.S. coaching delegation, we'll converging on the resort town of Caldas Novas, Brazil along with about 1,200 other players from all over the world.
We're really excited to be going, but have had almost no time to prepare---Eric to prepare for his chess competition, or me to do my usually thorough pre-travel research, or learn even a single word in Portuguese. I think our experience heading into the tournament is probably similar to many other U.S. families. When Eric visited Dallas last month to check out UTD and play in the Dallas Open, I had the pleasure of getting to know Wayne Xiong, father of Jeffery Xiong, a prodigy who at age 10 is already a veteran of these events.
Jeffrey Xiong
Wayne observed that in many other countries, the players have been intensely studying for months---this is part and parcel of their school day. Their countries are supporting them, and they are under pressure to do well. In the U.S., kids have to secure special permission from their schools to get this time off, and are scrambling to get their homework done. This has certainly been true for Eric, who between taking 3 AP classes, serving as graphic design editor and sports photographer for his school yearbook, teaching in an after-school chess program, giving regular private chess lessons to several students, and finding time to do college applications has barely had time to look at a chess board. While I write this from the airport, he is looking at Chess Base and ICC and beginning his preparation. As Wayne observed that in last year's World Youth tournament, the U.S. kids' pure passion for chess served them well, and I hope that will be the case this year too.
As far as pre-travel preparation, I was excited to see an article in last Sunday's New York Times about what to do if you have 36 hours in Brasilia, Brazil's capital and the city that we're flying into. Author Seth Kugel also wrote about a charming small town in the opposite direction from Caldas Novas. On a lark, I emailed him and asked if he might know of places that might make an easy day trip from Caldas Novas that might be worth visiting. I got a response, but not quite what I expected: "Wow, this is a tough question. You're really in the middle of nowhere out there, as far as I can tell. At least, from what I can see on the map."
Caldas Novas is a resort town very popular with Brazilians, and has attracted visitors since the 1700s because of its natural hot springs. It seems to be barely known outside Brazil, although it did get a mention in the latest editions of the Lonely Planet and Rough Guide books about Brazil. We'll look forward to exploring it once we get there. Meanwhile, Brad and I still have time to crack open our Portuguese Phrases for Dummies book.
We can't wait to meet todo mundo (all the world) in Brazil. Until then, Tchau!
Find out more about the World Youth on the official website and look for more from Andi Rosen as the event progresses--the first round begins on Friday, November 18th. Browse through the entire list of US players on chessresults.com , where you can also stay posted on all our players.
November - Chess Life Online 2011
Sucesso in Brazil Four-Way Tie at Turkey Bowl in Florida The US Chess Scoop on the National Chess Congress Shabalov Wins STL Thanksgiving Open, GM Norm Tourney BeginsThanksgiving Results are in Stars of Chess in Education Gather in Dallas Liang Golden at World Youth; Silver for Li Carlsen Wins Tal Memorial, Plans Trip to NYC Hou Yifan Defends World Women's Title Happy Thanksgiving From BrazilNew York Knights: 2011 US Chess League Champs Nakamura Hunts for a Win in Moscow Hou Extends Lead in Women's World Championship US Junior Congress Smashes RecordsOver 1000 Compete in K-12 Nationals in Dallas US Chess League Final: Chicago Blaze vs. New York Knights A Weekend in Dallas: National K-12 Champs Kick Off Preparing for Brazil: Awonder Has Adream Heading to Brazil: World Youth Awaits Amanov & Akopyan Top 12th FIDE Metropolitan Invitational John Ballow Earns Correspondence IM TitleRuth Haring: President's Report Tal Memorial Begins in Moscow US Chess League Highlights: Quarterfinals Kaidanov Takes Throne in King's IslandWomen's World Championship Begins Grandmasters Attack in Michigan Brooklyn Castle: The IS 318 Story Urgent Update for Organizers of FIDE Rated Tournaments2012 Samford Fellowship: Call for Applications US Chess League: Week Ten Highlights The Scoop on the US Chess League: Eastern DivisionMore Action Than Ever in Irvine & Miami The November Check is in the Mail Kekelidze New Marshall Club Champ; Wu Second Greg on Norms Part I: Please Stop Caring! Pumpkin Patch Chess Tournament A Better Place to Wait in Dallas New in Chess and the FEB show on Nakamura and Kasparov


David Hornsby as Fanboy, and Nika Futterman as Chum Chum.
David Hornsby as Fanboy and Nika Futterman as Chum Chum.
David Hornsby as Fanboy, Nika Futterman as Chum Chum, Jeff Bennett as Boog.
Episode #128. David Hornsby and Fanboy, Nika Futterman as Chum Chum, Jamie Kennedy as Kyle.
David Hornsby as Fanboy, Nika Futterman as Chum Chum, and Dyana Liu as Yo.
David Hornsby as Fanboy, Nika Futterman as Chum Chum, Steve Tompkins as Janitor Poopatine.
David Hornsby as Fanboy, Nika Futterman as Chum Chum ("Well…").
David Hornsby as Fanboy, Nika Futterman as Chum Chum, Jamie Kennedy as Kyle, and Jeff Bennett as the Scrivener Elf.


Adjustable Drivers: Should you believe the hype?
As of this year, at least 90 percent of all golf club manufacturers offer some type of adjustable driver. For the few who do not, I would bet they have one in the works. This latest trend in technology is here to stay and can benefit all of us.
Not one player I know (from 20 handicaps to tour players) has identical swings. As people, we are all built differently, have different athletic abilities, and all have our own tendencies. Every person on this planet, who plays golf, swings the club differently.
With the ability to quickly adjust loft angle, lie angle, and face angle, we now have the ability to finely tune a club to a player's specific needs. Add in an assortment of quality shaft options to try, and now anyone visiting a certified club-fitter can be fit like a touring professional.
As the club maker and club fitter at the Gary Gilchrist Golf Academy, I have personally seen gains of over 20+ yards when a student swings the appropriate shaft with the appropriate head settings. This can allow a player to hit a 7 iron into a green where he or she may usually hit a 5 iron and can increase the percentage the player hits the green on their approach, leading to lower scores.
Even the guys and girls on tour, who can repeat the same swing much better than the rest of us, are taking advantage of this adjustable technology. Want to hit a small fade to better fit the venue that week? No need to make drastic swing or grip changes, simply adjust your drivers face angle setting, move some weighting around and swing away.
The hype is real — maybe not quite as drastic as club manufacturers would like you to believe — but this adjustable technology does have its benefits for all levels of ability. To test this newer technology, I advise you to go see your local (outdoor) certified Club-Fitter and get fit the proper way or come see us here at the Gary Gilchrist Golf Academy.


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Barry Hughes: Cabaret football king
Posted by Pink | Nov 9, 2015 | Music, Nostalgia | 1 |
BY GLENN BILLINGHAM
Barry Hughes belongs to a very rare British footballing fraternity. Having made a name, and a sound, for himself overseas, he remains an almost unknown entity on home soil. He scouted and signed one of European football's most famous sons, managed at seven different Dutch clubs and enjoyed a recording career spanning two decades.
'Football is King', Barry Hughes' first single in 1978. Image from here.
It could be said that the Netherlands has something of a troubled relationship with music. Beyond the musical excuses offered by manufactured pop, which are the same the world over, the Dutch mainstream haven't really got beyond sing-a-long cabaret. Even this very weekend, songs like the one below are bellowed out of the gezellig bruin cafes and bars all over the country. For non-Dutch ears, patience wears thin after the first chorus. However, armed with an open mind, a little patience and a loose understanding of the lyrics, a joyful light-heartedness may occur upon listening. Like most things in life, this intensifies after the tenth biertje and you can't help but sing along. Even if you recognise mild self-loathing for doing so. British residents of the Netherlands had particular interest in singing along in the eighties, as they were being belted and crooned out in fluent Dutch by one of their own.
Born in Caernarfon, Wales, Barry Hughes played at youth level and signed full professional terms for West Bromwich Albion. However, aged just twenty-one, he broke his leg in a fixture against Manchester United and was subsequently released by the Baggies.
Upon cutting his losses and ending his playing days in England, Hughes jumped at the chance to sail across the North Sea and start again in the Netherlands. Initially, he played for the semi-professional FC Blauw-Wit Amsterdam and signed for Alkmaar '54 soon after. Alkmaar '54, who would later become AZ Alkmaar, made Hughes team captain and the Welshman's leadership saw an Erstedivisie (the Dutch second tier) title, and promotion, in 1963.
Just a year shy of his thirtieth birthday, Hughes was appointed player/manager of Alkmaar '54 for the 1966/67 campaign but moved to HFC Haarlem a year later. Playing true to the life and style of a footballing journeyman, Hughes was on the move again in 1970, this time to manage Go Ahead. Hughes' first impact on Dutch football came at the Deventer based club, where he re-branded them as Go Ahead Eagles, which they're still known as today.
Hughes had another major impact on Dutch football when in 1973 he returned for a second spell at HFC Haarlem. The Welshman enjoyed his longest stint at one club, seven years, and assembled a squad of, in his own words, 'unwanted crooks and veterans'. Hughes and Haarlem defied the odds to achieve and maintain mid-table Eredivisie status. The seven years did include two relegations, but the team bounced back quickly on both occasions, winning two immediate promotions. Towards the end of his second stint, Hughes was largely responsible for one of Dutch football's greatest gifts to European football. Ruud Gullit received his first professional contract at Haarlem and became the Eredivisie's youngest player. Gullit shone in an average side and made nearly one hundred appearances for Hughes and Haarlem before Feyenoord came calling. Gullit left in 1982, with Hughes having departed two years previous.
Hughes' discovery in 1977. Image from here.
Throughout his time in the Netherlands, Hughes endeared himself to many as a memorable character. He was known and loved nationwide. However, with his trademark sense of humour, flat-cap and affable demeanour, he often teetered on the edge of becoming a caricature of a football coach. A famous raspberry blowing episode offers an example, and a somewhat friendly rivalry with George Kessler, is nicely told by the man himself, here. Furthermore, a blossoming Dutch pop/cabaret music career did little to give credibility to Hughes the football trainer.
Far from fussed by any dent to his footballing reputation, Hughes threw himself into a recording career as his days in the dugout faded away. Shortly after signing Ruud Gullit in 1978, Hughes released his first single, 'Voetbal is Koning' (Football is King). It remained in the Dutch charts for a credible eight weeks, peaking at number seven. By the time Hughes took the hot-seat at Rotterdam's second club, Sparta Rotterdam, in 1980, he'd teamed up with 'de Kwaffeurs' for a second single. Dutch for 'I want on my head a wall-to-wall carpet', 'ik wil op m'n kop een kamerbreed tapijt', a lyrically fun and self-depreciating celebration of Hughes balding head.
Hughes stayed in Rotterdam for three years and recorded two more LP's; 'het is om te brullen' (it is to roar!) and 'we doen de hoela, hoela' (we do the hula-hula). Short spells at FC Utrecht, MVV Maastricht and FC Volendam passed, as did three more released singles. In 1987/88, Hughes returned to the Sparta Rotterdam dugout for what proved a final swan song of his football coaching career. Upon formally announcing his football retirement, Hughes released a selection of albums throughout the late eighties and early nineties. Made up mostly of cover songs, highlights included the 1988, 'Barry's Summer Songs', 'Barry Goes Back to the 40's', and an early-Americana tribute, 'With Barry in Texas'.
Hughes' back catalogue. Images via here.
Barry Hughes is still resident of the Netherlands and will celebrate his eightieth birthday in two years time. The bruin cafes, bars and people of the Netherlands are braced for an epic sing-a-long, a lekker party of smiles and checkered flat caps.A number of Dutch speaking British ex-pats will remain confused.
Barry Hughes, complete with trademark smile and cap. Image from here.
YOU CAN FOLLOW GLENN ON TWITTER @glennbills AND CHECK OUT HIS BLOG HERE http://glennbillingham.blogspot.nl/p/about.html
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comeontheoviedo	on November 9, 2015 at 7:55 pm
Brilliant reading. I have a real soft spot for Haarlem, great to know more about the guy who found Gullit!