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List of Nigeria richest celebrities 2017
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Top 10 Richest Celebrities In Nigeria 2017
In our previous posts, we listed the top actors in Nigeria and their net worth. This time, we are going to list
the current richest celebrities in Nigeria at the moment who through their performances and popularity has
seen their fortune skyrocket due to endorsement deals, assets, collaborations and their brand worth.
These top biggest earners in the Nigerian entertainment industry isn't limited to the male gender alone as
top richest actresses in Nigeria like Genevieve Nnnaji and Kate Henshaw made the list. Also, the likes of
popular Nigerian musicians like 2Face, Psquare and Wizkid made the list of celebrities who are rich in
Nigeria for 2016.
Here are Nigeria's 2017 Top 10 Richest Celebrities
1. PSquare
Nigerian twins, Psquare are the richest musician in Nigeria 2016 and 2017. The twin stars Peter and Paul
Okoye are also the richest twins in Africa. Over the years, their songs have been rated among the top 100
reigning African songs of the decade. Psquare endorsement deals and investments (including properties in
the U.S. and elsewhere, a Lagos mansion worth some N400 million, a fleet of cars. It was rumoured that
they owned a private jet. They also make a lot of cash from live performances and music sales, with their
CD sales estimated at some 15 million units sold.
2. 2Face Idibia
2face was formerly the wealthiest musician in Nigeria 2015 before Psquare topped the list. He was among
the popular Plantashun Boyz before they split and went solo. Today, he is the richest solo entertainer in
Nigeria. 2face Idibia net worth is estimated at N600 million. He also has endorsements deals with top
Nigerian firms like Guinness and Airtel,
3. Genevieve Nnaji
Although, she has not been seen on screen for some time, it may surprise you to know that Genevieve Nnaji
holds the record of the Nigerian richest celebrity with the highest endorsement deals. Deals with brands like
Amstel Malta, Lux, Polo, Etisalat, e.t.c has seen her earn her spot among Nollywood's highest earners. She
bought a N220 million mansion in Ikoyi Lagos and also owns a clothing line, St Genevieve.
4. D'Banj
He is also known as the "Kokomaster". He was formerly with MOHITS Records before he signed a deal with
Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Music in 2011. He is a Nigerian celebrity with his style compared to that of Fela. He
has various endorsement deals and also makes money from his music album sales.
5. Don Jazzy
Don Jazzy is currently the richest music producer in Nigeria and the CEO of Mavin Records. One of his
popular hit songs is 'Dorobucci' is one of the latest songs in Nigeria. His home is said to be worth N100
million and it is rumoured that he owns cars worth N50 million.
6. Davido
He is one of Nigeria's young richest musician. He was born into a wealthy family. His songs are among the
popular songs in Nigeria. He also has endorsement deals worth millions of Naira.
7. Banky W
Thema jaiye orimistar makes most of his money from his performances, where he charges between N2.4
million ($15,800) and N3 million ($19,000) per gig and regularly plays three to four times a week. He's also a
brand ambassador for Nigerian telecom giant MTN, and was featured in Coca ColaNigeria's World Cup
theme song and Microsoft's Anticyber Crime Initiative. He's also CEO of EME Music, one of the top record
labels in Nigeria.
8. Wizkid
The babyfaced artiste's has some major deals with MTN, Pepsi, and a deal with Guinness. He owns a
N150 million home in Lekki, and has a few highend cars, which he likely pays for with the N3 million to N6
million he charges per concert. He recently revealed things he wished for on social media which were studio
time with Beyonce, Rihanna and Nicki Minaj and a private jet encrusted with gold. We hope Wizkid gets his
9. Kate Henshaw
Also on the list of wealthy Nigerian celebrities is popular Nollywood actress, Kate Henshaw. She is reported
to own three buildings and various other properties around Nigeria. She is a Glo ambassador and the face
of foodseasoning company Onga. She recently ventured into politics where she contested for an
Honourable member for Akwa Ibom State house, although she lost at the primaries we are hopeful she will
try again.
10. Iyanya
Last on the list of top 10 richest celebrities in Nigeria 2017 is Iyanya. The Cross River singer who is a proud
owner of a N30 million Aston Martin has a N60 million endorsement deal with MTN, as well as an agreement
with mobile phone manufacturer Solo Mobile. He also just recently signed a multimillion naira deal with
online electronics mall YUDALA.
Others are Olamide, Davido, Don Jazzy and Tiwa Savage


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Last weekend I headed off into Bloomsbury for Hidden Treasures at the Petrie Museum, an event that gave visitors the opportunity to go behind-the-scenes and be shown some of the many objects not currently on display. Throughout the afternoon Curator Alice Stevenson and Public Programmer Debbie Challis led guided tours of their specialist collections, highlighting key pieces to reflect major themes for discussion. Each tour lasted 20 minutes, running regularly throughout the afternoon, and was followed by an opportunity to chat to the museum team and ask questions about the collection.
The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology houses an estimated 80,000 objects, and with only about 10% on display these events are a brilliant way for museums like the Petrie to share and make better use of stored collections.Alice Stevenson's Predynastic and Early Egypt tour included examples of slate palettes, mace heads and grave goods to represent aspects of everyday life, burial practice and the early use of materials. While Debbie Challis' Ptolemaic and Roman tour showcased the museum's collection of finds from the city of Memphis, including a series of terracotta heads, which allowed visitors to reflect upon cultural diversity and identity in the period. Both periods are well represented within the collection and have been the subject of recent research by both guides.
It was great to see two of the less iconic periods of Egyptian history sharing the focus of this event, showcasing material culture and comparing the lived experience from opposite ends of the ancient chronology. Hidden Treasures at the Petrie Museum also demonstrated the value and importance of object-centred events. Not only could visitors examine the objects in detail and experience them outside of the display case setting, something which people can often feel is a negative barrier to access, but also use them as a tool to directly engage with the latest theories and interpretations. For many museum visitors, myself included, this informal and accessible style of engagement is far more effective and conducive to learning.
Now in its second year Hidden Treasures is a national initiative, led by the Collections Trust, to promote and celebrate collections in museums and archives. This year saw over 70 museums and archives across the United Kingdom take part with special events allowing public access to a wide range of stored collections.


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There's a new afternoon tea at The Veranda at The Kahala Hotel.
New furnishings in the Veranda room, new china from Wedgewood (replacing the blue and white stripes from Bernardaud – see 2012 and 2014 visits), and most importantly…
…new sweets!
Remember meeting Michael when he was pastry chef at Mandarin Oriental New York? That was the only time I ever had haupia in NYC. But guess what…Michael just moved back to Honolulu the other month and now he's pastry chef at The Kahala Hotel. Welcome home.
The new sweets portion of tea now include matcha financier with raspberries…
…and a yuzu meringue bar (sablé base, yuzu custard, and toasted meringue).
Brown sugar shortbread with pink guava preserves (I wish I had an entire jar of these preserves)…
…and a macadamia nut caramel tart. It's made from a dark chocolate tart shell filled with salted caramel and roasted macadamia nuts, all enrobed in dark chocolate. This one was my favorite.
Every afternoon between 3-5pm should be like this.
Let's take a look at the savories. Here's pickled egg salad on crostini with serrano ham, herbs, and olive oil.
Crab and mango with yogurt, cilantro, and mint on sesame seed-crusted wheat bread.
Big Island goat cheese and roasted peppers with candied walnuts on white bread.
And a local ahi niçoise with boiled eggs, capers, tomatoes, basil, and celery.
Don't forget about the scones. Served with clotted cream and lilikoi preserves.
Still warm, ahhh. A little bit of each.
And after you're finished with tea…
…don't forget to stroll around the property for a bit. Good exercise…
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Real estate developers are likely to be the first to face investigation by the new anti-profiteering watchdog for allegedly denying consumers the benefit of reduced tax burden under the goods and services tax (GST) regime that kicked in from 1 July.
A standing committee of officials attached to the recently set up National Anti-profiteering Authority (NAA) has received several complaints of builders not passing on the benefit of lower tax under the GST regime, some of which will be taken up for investigation if there is prima facie evidence of profiteering, said a person aware of discussions in the authority on condition of anonymity. The NAA, chaired by senior bureaucrat BN Sharma, will direct the Director General of Safeguards (DGS), an investigating body within the Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC), to probe the issue, the person said.
Under GST, while under-construction houses attract a 12% tax, the quantum of tax rebates available to the developer on the final product is substantial as the tax already paid on raw materials like cement and steel is substantial at 18%.
In the earlier regime, the central government charged a 15% service tax on 30% of the value of under-construction flats, which worked out to 4.5%. This, together with the value added tax (VAT) levied by states on work contracts of 4-5%, took the total tax burden to about 9% without input tax credit.
In GST, the rate is 12% with input tax credit. The high component of tax credits means that the effective tax burden in the new regime is lower than earlier, explained the person cited above.
"Ideally builders should reduce the equated monthly instalment (EMI) to be paid by consumers. However, some developers are claiming higher input costs and change in business strategy to increase (the tax exclusive) price correspondingly. If they are increasing the price, they have to give justification, which has to pass the test of reasonableness," the person said. Another official aware of the complaints said, "We have received complaints against builders from across India. The common tenor of the complaint is that the builders have increased the prices of the houses citing GST. The complaints will now be looked into as the anti-profiteering authority has now been set up."
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Social anxiety can turn out to be really terrible and ruin your life if not treated. There are usually times when the victim feels as if there is no way out of fear, humiliation, and distress. Actually, there are ways out of this situation and anyone can easily treat their social anxiety right away. There are various techniques you can go through; some might work for you and some might work for someone else since we are all different but one or two out of them would surely be for you.
Firstly, you do not need to think about things that you do not want. You get scared thinking about what a social condition might lead you to; well, stop thinking this way from now on.
The more you think about anything, the more it will come closer to you. It is about time you stop focusing over things that you do not like because this will do no good. Now on wards, you will focus over things that you do want. Write down the life you want without this social anxiety problem and make it your main aim.
Secondly, you need to start doing some crazy things. Whenever you feel like that anxiety attack is overcoming you; do something that no one expected including you either. You are falling into fear therefore you should start doing crazy things so that fear factor gets out of your system right away and your mind starts to focus over other stuff. Think about random stuff, sing, dance, run around in your pajamas, etc. when you suddenly change your behavior; your feel for the moment completely changes too.
Thirdly, you need to show some consistency. You need to make a difference every single day. Take steps and put in efforts that will help you defeat social anxiety. It does not matter if you are making little progress, note down your achievements and aim at getting better every time; slowly you will change your entire life and this social anxiety will run out of your system once and for all.Lastly, always stay in a win-win situation. People dealing with social anxiety often take things to their hearts and hold on to them for a long time. They regret about why that happened and why this happened and this drowns them. Change your views and spot the positive aspects out of every single situation. Try to let things go and ignore the little things.


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Industries That Blockchain Will Radically Transform Cryptocurrency Exchanges
A common misconception, held by many newcomers to the blockchain world, is that the technology's potential lies solely in the banking and financial industry. In fact, the recent suggestion of the Indian government to rename cryptocurrency as "crypto assets", and Warren's Buffett's belief that Bitcoin is not in any way a currency, are perhaps closer to the true nature of cryptocurrency than the commonly held belief that it is simply digital money.
Cryptocurrencies should not be seen as just money, but as tools. Blockchain technology, which underpins cryptocurrency, has potential in many more forms than just as a medium of exchange and store of value.
The application of this technology to industries as varied as supply chain management, fashion and publishing is a result of the innate flexibility of blockchain. The nature of a platform can be programmed to suit a variety of needs. The sooner an investor realizes this, the sooner they will see how exactly it might be applied to different industries, giving them a degree of clarity with can help them measure the potential of a project to disrupt a particular industry.
Given the immense potential of blockchain, we take a look at industries, one at a time, that will be upended by its imminent commercial arrival. The shown here is as follows:
Cryptocurrency Exchanges
Oddly enough, for an industry bent on selling the idea of decentralization,
much of its blood comes from trading on centralized exchanges. Millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency have been stolen from centralized exchanges and a secure solution is needed to prevent this from reoccurring. Today, more decentralized exchanges are being launched, with well-known names like ICON, Stellar and Waves creating these "DEXs". A DEX has no third party involved and keeps the coins safely in the hand of the holder. It suffers from the same shortcomings as the underlying blockchain technology, but we know that this is being improved.
Enigma, a project backed by MIT graduates and researchers, is an off-chain network that is trying to solve the problem of scalability and privacy. Catalyst, their DEX, is an investment platform for cryptofunds that is data-driven. Other DEXs include NEX, an off-chain solution by NEO which integrates payment services, and OmiseGO.
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Keeping your website up-to-date improves its performance and contributes to your business goals. Upgrades and customizations make the necessary changes that translate into higher conversion rates and increased revenue for your law firm.
Knowing what options are available helps you determine the best strategy for your website's design. Implementing them properly and connecting your site's design with your marketing strategy help you get the most out of your business website.
Measuring Your Website's Performance
The first step in upgrading and customizing your website is to determine its current performance.
There are many indicators that you can use including the amount of traffic your website receives, pageviews, bounce and conversion rates, and time spent on each page.
Having this data in place helps you develop a plan that optimizes your site for users and search engines. If your website's analytics system isn't already set up, this may be the first upgrade to consider.
It's an invaluable way to see what elements of your website are contributing to your goals and which ones may be negatively impacting your marketing results.
You can determine what upgrades provide the highest return so that you maximize your investment and reduce unnecessary spending.
Optimizing for Search
Search engine optimization (SEO) is an evolving area of online marketing, and law firms need to stay current with the latest methods, tools, and strategies to achieve high rankings in search engine results pages.
This gives your practice greater visibility and allows your website to reach more of your ideal prospects. Search engine algorithms are becoming better at ranking high-quality content that provides useful and relevant information to users.
More importantly, the right SEO strategy improves the user experience of your site. This leads to a higher number of return visits, which further improves your search engine rankings.
Well-written content, fast page loading speeds, link profiles, navigation, and keyword targeting are just some of the methods used to upgrade websites and meet the demands of today's search engines.
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What upgrades and customizations have improved your website's performance? Let us know in the comments below.
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If you or a loved one is facing rehabilitation for drug or alcohol dependency, whether it's street drugs or doctor-prescribed painkillers, there are five very important questions you need to ask. If you choose a rehab facility or program that is wrong for your personality and specific problem, you may find yourself with a less-effective treatment plan. Here's what you should ask any treatment provider before deciding where to go.
Is it behavioral- or drug-focused?
Some drug treatment plans necessarily include different kinds of drugs, like methadone for methamphetamine addiction. For many, the effects of withdrawal are deadly without these secondary drugs. But other addictions require behavioral or talk therapy. Find out which treatments your addiction requires and ask your prospective facility which they use.
Do you personalize?
A personalized treatment plan is very important. Your counselors and doctors should be able to prescribe a treatment plan that is challenging yet comfortable for you, that fits your personality and body chemistry well enough that you can feel safe while fighting your addiction.
Is treatment static or adaptive?
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How long is the treatment?
Let's be realistic; you've got bills and responsibilities, so a 12-month inpatient facility may not work well for you. If you need long-term treatment, you must find a facility that offers it, but for many, a part-time treatment that allows them to continue work or school and retain a modicum of normalcy will be the best option.
Is it community-based or doctor-based?
Most programs combine community support, such as group therapy sessions and volunteer sponsorship, with doctor-based therapy and drug treatment sessions. Your personalized program may require more of one than the other, and once you and your intake counselor decide what you need, you will be able to create a program that will optimize your recovery.
Drug rehabilitation can be scary and intimidating, but creating a system that works well for your personality and your type of addiction will give you the most progress. Recovery is a lifelong process, and you need a program you can commit to for the long haul.


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Title: CP24 television appearance discussing Raptors-Heat Game 7 and Raptors-Cavaliers
Date: May 16, 2016
Original Source: CP 24
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The idea of watching Discovery Channel's Shark Week in the midst of the most beautiful month of summer in New England, when the water is warm, the weather is fine and I am swimming every day, has really never appealed to me in the least. But thanks to Narragansett Beer's (Whoop whoop RI!) re-release of the 1975 can that was made popular in JAWS because Captain Sam Quint crushes one on camera, I feel like I can finally join in the festivities in a more swimming-friendly way. The 12-ounce limited-edition retro can is available for purchase throughout New England where 12-, 18- and 30-packs are sold. What could be more authentically New England than retro tall boys at a summer wedding? Hey, neighbor!
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With the aim of producing the world's cheapest car, the Indian auto conglomerate introduced its compact hatchback named Nano. The GenX Nano is a yet another step in promoting the model in the Indian market and now the car is all set to attract the customers in a significant manner.
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Your cautious driving earns you a 20%-50% No Claim Bonus on your own-damage premium for every successful claim free year. However, once you claim, your discounts will be reset to zero. The NCB Protection add-on helps you to retain your discount even if you make some smaller claims as per the policy terms.
The Passenger Cover protects the passengers traveling in the car financially against death or disability due to an accident. This cover starts from Rs.10,000 and can go higher depending on the insurance company, and the payout differs as per the nature and intensity of the injury.
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He's back on the "Pirates 5" set after hand injury, surgery
At the beginning of this month, word got out in the media that Johnny Depp and Amber Heard's marriage was in serious trouble and that the two were "on the verge of divorce" after only 62 days since tying the knot.
These reports picked up the other day, with Page Six and People Magazine both reporting trouble on the home front for the A-list star. Then, there was also a rumor saying that Depp had been MIA from the "Pirates of the Caribbean 5" set for far too long, making producers sick with worry that he might delay the production and thus make the film go over the budget.
Johnny and Amber put these rumors to rest some hours ago, with a joint public appearance.
Johnny and Amber land in Australia, walk hand in hand
As you can see in the tweets below, paparazzi and the media in Australia got wind of Depp's arrival in the country, and they were on hand to give him the proper reception. The actor was accompanied by his new wife, and they walked out of the private jet hand in hand to the car waiting for them.
This is the best denial they could have come up with for the rumors claiming that they're on the verge of a split: not only is Johnny back to work and showing a bandaged hand to account for his extended absence (he injured his hand on a weekend, cart-wheeling), but he's also brought Amber along, to show those saying they lead separate lives that they're still together.
They also seemed in very bright spirits and they made sure to smile and pose for the cameras, thus further enforcing the idea that all was well between them.
A swift PR move
Undoubtedly, this was a conscious move to do some damage control: even if you don't believe the reports that these two are having issues, such a move was necessary to attempt to make the rumors go away.
The reality is that Amber and Johnny had not been photographed together in some time, and this is always the first sign of trouble with celebrities, especially for a couple like them, who used to do everything together, including red carpet events and premieres.
Another piece of evidence that this is the work of a PR team comes from the fact that People Magazine pulled the story claiming trouble was rearing its ugly head, without as much as an explanation.
PageSix, on the other hand, is sticking by its initial story, namely that Amber has been getting closer to openly bi photographer Io Tillet Wright, and it's causing friction in her relationship with her husband.
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Main reference: Is 1 and 2:1-4
● Isaiah 1
∙Key points of verses 1-7:
It is the vision concerning Judah and Jerusalem that Isaiah son of Amoz saw. Isaiah was a prophet who worked during the reign of the four kings of Judah. Through Isaiah, God spoke to the heavens and the earth (i.e. the pastors and the people) and gave them this message: The children he reared and brought up rebelled against him like Adam and Eve. God wanted to fix their wrong, so he beat them from the top of their head to the sole of their foot, to the point of where they had no soundness. They, however, did not repent. Thus, their country was desolate, their cities burned with fire; their fields were stripped by foreigners right before them, laid waste as when overthrown by gentiles.
∙Key points of verses 8-20:
Amongst these people, however, a few of those who have God's seed have remained. To the people of God that have become like Sodom and Gomorrah, he said, 'I have no pleasure in your sacrifices or worship or prayer. Defend the cause of the fatherless and plead the case of the widow (those whom God left). If you reason (converse) with me, though your sins are like scarlet and red as crimson, I will make them white as snow and wool, but if you resist and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.'
Let us see how Judah and Jerusalem (i.e. Israel) has become like a gentile nation, Gomorrah.
∙Key points of verse 21-31:
Faithful city has become a harlot. She once was full of justice; righteousness used to dwell in her – but now murderers. Your (Israel's) silver has become dross, your choice wine (word) is diluted with water (lies), your rulers (workers: those who are burdened) are rebels, companions of thieves; they all love bribes and chase after gifts. They do not defend the cause of the fatherless; the widow's case does not come before them. Therefore God declared, 'I will judge my foes and enemies who deceived the chosen people, and restore Israel as it was, by removing all the dross and impurities. Afterward Israel will be called the City of Righteousness, the Faithful City. Zion will be redeemed with justice, her penitent ones with righteousness. But rebels and sinners will both be broken, and those who forsake the Lord will perish. You, Judah and Jerusalem (i.e. Israel) will be ashamed because of the sacred oaks (tree of the knowledge of the good and evil: gentile pastors) in which you have delighted; you will be disgraced because of the gardens (gentile nations) that you have chosen. You will be like an oak with fading leaves, like a garden without water. The mighty man will become tinder and his work a spark; both will burn together, with no one to quench the fire.'
● Isaiah 2:1-4
Verses 2-3 :
In the last days the mountain of the Lord's temple will be established as chief among the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and all nations will stream to it. Many peoples will come and say, 'Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in his paths.' The law will go out from Zion, the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
Verse 4 :
He will judge between the nations and will settle disputes for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore.
'The last days' in verse 2 is the end of the age, and 'the mountain of the Lord's temple' is God's temple. It is 'chief among the mountains because it has the highest truth. Many will congregate there at that time because they will learn his ways there, which is the word of revelation.
As seen in Isaiah 1, God brings the betrayers and destroyers to an end by judging them. While this judgment happens, those who return to the right track, (i.e. those who escape out of the place of destroyers) (refer to Mt 24:15-16; Rv 17:14; 18:4; 15:2-4) become Mount Zion (i.e. Jerusalem) in chapter 2. Because God is with these people, this place becomes the mountain (temple) of the highest grade.
This mountain is spiritual Mount Zion and the temple of new Jerusalem. God dwells at this temple; it is God's kingdom (heaven). It is said that all nations will stream here and learn his ways, that is, the word of revelation. Both the law (God's law) and the word will go out from here (new Jerusalem, Mount Zion) where God is.
In the Second Coming, the place where many peoples will come to is the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony, where the one who overcomes is. This very place is God's mountain, the temple of the God of Jacob (the one who overcame). At this Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony, there is the one who overcomes, whom the Counselor, the Spirit of truth, is one with. Thus, He is the Counselor in flesh. He teaches the congregation members with the revealed word of the New Testament. This is the law and the word going out from Mount Zion, from Jerusalem. Many people gather here to receive this teaching.
After the chosen people were destroyed due to their betrayal, there was a war.
Once the war finishes, however, there is harvest, and the weapons that were used in the war, such as spears and swords, will be made into sickles to be used for harvest (refer to Rv 14:14-16). Both the war and judgment has passed; now we are waiting for the completion of harvest, and the Sabbath-rest.
From Isaiah 1 to Isaiah 2:4 is the conclusion and summary of the 66 chapters of Isaiah.
This happened (fulfilled) at the First Coming of Jesus, and happens again today, which is the end of the age in the New Testament. The church of Jesus has been brought to an end, and harvest has begun.
Those who believe this will know where to go to live. Those who have been harvested have crossed over from death to life.
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The prospect of last year's Field Club
excursion up Dunbeath Strath sent me back to re-reading Neil Gunn's
"Highland River" and once again I was overwhelmed by the sheer magic of
his use of words and the beauty of his descriptions.
For those who have never had the pleasure of reading this exquisite book and for those who have read but have perhaps forgotten I offer the following quotations to be lingered over a and returned to again and again.
" It was a wild coast of gaunt headland and echoing cliff and the bay with its river mouth was a break that would hardly be detected were one standing on some distant headland and looking along the immense sweep of the wall. Here and there were skerries or reefs where even on fine summer days the green water broke in foam and occasionally, in front of the headland itself, a stack would rise sheer like a sword out of the hand of the sea.'
Strength was the keynote of this coast, a passionless remorseless strength, unyielding as the rock, tireless as the water, the unheeding rock that a failing body would smash itself to pulp upon, the transparent water that would suffocate an exhausted body in the slow rhythm of its swirl. There was a purety about it all, stainless as the gull's. plumage, wild and cold as its eye.
To lie extended above the uprising floor of the ocean was to experience the lovely sensation of floating between earth and heaven as lonely gulls overhead breasted the sun in snow white arcs. Even the crying of the gulls down in the rocks grew faint with sunny distance, became the echo of an echo of something forever lost.
It is a lovely strath. The flat river lands widen and narrow, the path goes by and through hazel woods where nuts ripen in harvest weather, discloses sudden meadows where rabbits look and vanish, swerves round and on but ever holds by the river. The slopes that shut out the strath from the moors are steep and wooded to their summits. It is not a glen of the mountains, craggy, stupendous, physically impressive. There is nothing here to overwhelm the romantic mind. Its beauty is an inward grace in oneself akin to what is indefinable in the memory of a masterpiece. Beauty, intimate and secretive, has a lingering, lovely mirth, at the core of it hope and fulfilment meet and tread a measure, while heads turn with glistening eyes to look for any or no excuse to laugh. In some such mood the Creator must have looked upon his handwork and called it good.
A thrush was singing from the tree in the plantation. There was a touch of green in the blue sky over towards the wash. It shone through the wintry branches making dark patterns of the bare twigs. In the air was a faint smell of the awakening earth, a wintry premonition of spring like a scent of distant whin fires not real so much as remembered from former springs and somehow from springs going far back in time.
The great plain of Caithness opens before our eyes. This is the northland, the land of exquisite light. Lochs and earth and sea pass away to a remote horizon where a suave line of pastel foothills cannot be anything but cloud. Here the actual picture is like a picture in a supernatural mind and comes upon the human eye with the surprise that delights and transcends memory. Gradually the stillness of the far prospect grows unearthly. Light is silence. And nothing listens where all is of eternity.
Suddenly while the mind was lifting to the cold bright light of spring, to the blue of birds' eggs and the silver of the first salmon run there came out of the tangle on a soft waft of air the scent of primroses. One quality of the scent of the primrose for which there is an adjective is "innocent". The innocency of dawn in a strath on a far back morning of creation. The freshness of dawn wind down a green glen where no human foot has trod. The grasses and green leaves in the clear morning light have a quality of alertness like painted ears. Any they sway, alive and dancing - cool and deliciously happy.
Throughout this world of slow rising moors the river ran. Its strath, however, was now growing shallow, the slope of trees on the right less steep and less high and the wide grey green flat land had the bare loneliness of a place haunted by peewit and curlew.
The cry of the peewit is the cry of the living human, anxious, swift, floating to earth. The long cry of the curlew passes overhead, disembodied and unearthly.
He looked about him at the far slow rising moors and beyond to where the shapely peak of Morven was half veiled in mist. He saw the shower coming from the mountain towards him, a thin curtain trailing its lace along the heather.
From the high summit watch the dawn come up behind the Orkneys, see the mountain ranges of Sutherland the grey planetary light that reveals the earth as a ball turning slowly in the immense chasm of space, turn again to the plain of Caithness that land of exquisite light and be held by myrian lochs and dubh lochs glimmering blood red."
How fortunate it is that there are writers who can put into words what we lesser beings feel about the beauty that stirs us in our Club writings.
This item was first published in the Field Club
Bulletin April 1984.
Note -
The late Jess Campbell was a leading light in the Neil Gunn Society and wrote a newsletter for the group until about three years before she died. The collection of Neil Gunn books and writing, notes etc are now held by the Dunbeath Preservation Society as the society ceased to operate.


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Southern Oregon Crab Under Evisceration Order Again
Spending Bill Ensures Better Catch Accounting for Gulf Anglers
Chile Looks to Salmon Stability for a Profitable Business Model, Expects Moderate Growth for Years
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SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Seafood News] by Eugene Gerden - March 15, 2018
The Russian government has postponed distribution of investment quotas on the catch of pollock and herring this year until at least the middle of 2019, due to the lack of applications and bidders, according to some sources in the Russian Rosrybolovstvo and Russian leading fish producers.
Such a decision, however, has already been criticized by some Russian fish producers. Those producers say the move was taken to appease a few ...
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How to Get Your Department to the Greener Side of the HR Fence
Setting your department on a course towards more impactful, influential role in your organization is a crucial factor in attaining both individual and company-wide future success. As noted in the SHRM survey, 56% of HR professionals see strategic planning as a top priority, illustrating the growing majority of leaders in the industry who recognize the opportunities presented in this new form of HR.
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I was SO EXCITED to have a garden when we moved into House. Food things made from nothing but my dirt and my own sweat! Doesn't that sound DELICIOUS? And fun! It was going to be an edible metaphor for how grown-up and put together I am in life.
First, there were slugs, who ate holes in all the leaves of any plant large enough to have leaves. Then there were squirrels, who rampaged through anything starting to remotely sprout (<3 u 4eva, strawberry plant. We would've had good times). THEN there was the ultimate betrayer, in the form of one mangy stray dog. It is poetically ironic, since the two reasons I wanted a house were for a dog and a garden. And then the dog destroyed my garden. Touche, Life.
So, if you are keeping track, that is a total of THREE garden apocalypses. BUT I NEVER LET GO, JACK. I replanted after it all. I bought slug repellent, I planted plants the internet said would not tempt squirrels, and I built a little wire mesh cage over the whole thing (which Cosmo still gazes at longingly).
AND I HAD SUCCESS. I got one little itsy bitsy little pepper. And then the first frost hit, and I stopped paying attention, because the wire mesh cage is really ungainly to lift off the garden, and fuck if I was going to go out there and lift it every freezing morning to remove plant blankets on the three tiny plants that were still maybe alive.
But, lo, the Garden Gods have seen my toil and travails, and SOMETHING IS GROWING. It is thriving despite the frost, and even some snow! The problem is that I have no idea what it is. I replanted this last round knowing that it probably wouldn't have much time to grow, and that it would be hit by lightening or SOMETHING, because I am not allowed to be a gardener, apparently. So when at the nursery for the FOURTH time, picking out what I figured were my soon-to-be-dead plants, I was in total farm-kid mode. Didn't want to get too attached, didn't want to name the pig that I knew was going to be slaughtered. I just bought whatever was on sale, and put it in the ground. And this is what I got:
I have no idea what it is!!!! I am hoping maybe broccoli, which is frost-tolerant and the internet tells me looks like this:
Which is pretty close, right? But it maybe is collard greens:
Not a perfect match, but maybe? Mostly I just want to know if I should eat the big green leaves now, before they are killed by whatever decides to kill them, or if something is going to sprout (broccoli, mystery-vegetable-patch-kids, etc) and I need to bide my time.
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Sunday, 25 March 2018
Corned Beef Sour Soup – from the Philippines
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Hmmm, never heard of this soup before... My husband is Filipino so will ask him if he's ever had this soup before.ReplyDelete
I like this Philippine Irish version of the old stand-by. I did it with my sous-vide, and it wasn't as tender as I expected either.ReplyDelete
I don't know, maybe not cooked long enough? Anyway, the flavors sound great.ReplyDelete
Darn! I also threw out my water and the end of the meat.ReplyDelete
Very interesting recipe. My husband is a big fan of corned beef..ReplyDelete
My older son loves corned beef, I bet he would like this soup.ReplyDelete
We like corned beef in our house; this soup sounds interesting. :)ReplyDelete
I would think the cooker would tenderize the meat the longer you cooked it. Hmmmm. Looks intriguing, I wonder if I can get tamarind paste here.ReplyDelete
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Jack Eichenbaum, City Assessor Kaz Fujiki, North American Liaison
NYC Department of Finance-Property Japan Real Estate Institute
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Very large and complex cities around the globe have evolved in ways that sharply differentiate them from smaller cities. Typically they have no peers in the same nation. High population densities in Tokyo and New York City have led to adoption of transportation and housing strategies that support a congested yet vibrant urban culture. These cities function quite differently from the norms for spacious America and even much denser Japan. Nobody moves to Tokyo or New York primarily for housing or efficient roads.
During the late nineteenth century, both New York and Tokyo consciously used the older and larger imperial cities of London and Paris as models for their transportation systems, architecture, city planning, bureaucracies, even for their clothing and entertainment. While guided by underlying and idiosyncratic national identities, similar competitive dense urban cultures were developing a life style that was in many ways more like one another than their hinterlands. With the maturation of the skyscraper early in the twentieth century, New York began creating a city based on high-density high-rise structures. After the devastation of World War II, while the other three cities moderately decentralized in response to suburbanizing trends, Tokyo began consciously rebuilding itself using the New York model, at the same time innovating new dense mixed land use projects around major rail junctions. More recently, central Tokyo has been losing population while Manhattan's population has increased somewhat. The two cities remain highly centralized for commerce.
This paper explores those similarities between New York and Tokyo that relate either to mass appraisal or the technologies employed in mass appraisal. First we summarize the similarities between the cities that are the strength of the present comparison. Next we discuss those dissimilarities which limit the present comparison. Finally we relate the experience of both cities with CAMA/GIS, noting areas where complementary exchange may be likely.
1. Similarities between New York and Tokyo
Our comparison between these cities equates the 23 wards of Tokyo, the city before World War II, with the four dense boroughs of NYC (Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens) hereafter referred to as TK and NY.[1] While neither region represents a current political definition of the city, the areas of TK and NY (250 sqmi ~ 650 sqkm) are approximately equal. Current census estimates for the NY population (7 million) are smaller than TK (7.8 million) but likely to grossly undercount minority and immigrant groups that are not a factor in TK.
Estimated residential population densities for both TK and NY are approximately 30000/sqmi ~ 12000/sqkm. These densities are 4-30X densities in smaller American cities and suburbs and 2-10X densities in their Japanese counterparts. Density is the key factor in this comparison since it ultimately influences, if not determines, such basic urban functions as housing, transportation, and retailing. Household size, another dimension of density, averages about 2.5 in both NY and TK, falling to a minimum of about 1.5 near the central business districts where single person households abound.
Much more than any other city in their nation states, TK and NY rely on subways and commuter railroads to bring workers to dense central business districts. Some 80% of these commuters, including those commuting from outside TK and NY, use public transportation. Less than half of the households living within TK and NY maintain an automobile. Most do their shopping in street markets, traditional neighborhood shopping districts and large regional retail centers convenient to public transportation. About two thirds of the households of TK and NY live in apartment houses but in a cityscape where considerably more land is devoted to private homes.
The natural settings of both TK and NY include estuarine and wetland environments which were first developed as ports and markets, later as great industrial complexes, now being redeveloped as landfill projects, waterfront housing and complex mixed use developments. In remodeling its business center, TK developers consciously invoke the greater densities of midtown Manhattan in NY by planning mixed-use high-rise complexes.
The dense pattern of the two cities, featuring verticality, transit, pedestrians and redevelopment creates a property valuation dynamic dominated by three dimensions and relationships to points (transit stations, high valued intersections, trophy buildings). In newer suburban areas outside TK and NY, areas designed for homogeneity in value are more common (office parks, housing subdivisions, zoning enclaves). Within TK and NY, valuation is a complex process involving nuances of zoning, air rights, view, status, distance and other subtle factors. The dynamic assumes that value is always varying with location rather than held constant within fixed neighborhoods.
In Japan, like the USA, but unlike the majority of economically advanced nations, property valuation for tax purposes is largely a local function. The current system of property taxes was introduced to Japan by the U.S. "tax reform mission" led by Dr. Carl Shoup in 1949. Both TK and NY have developed their own valuation systems, which are departures from the systems used in their populous and complex surroundings. As they are located in premiere world communications centers, TK and NY governments are proximate to rapidly developing information technology. Conversely there is rapidly developing demand for their digitized property data.
2. Differences between Tokyo and New York
TK and NY differ sharply in the locus of power of municipal government. Like most large cities globally, TK has a metropolitan government extending to both the central city and the suburban hinterland in the same prefecture. At the same time considerable power is granted to the individual wards. In NY, as in most American cities, there is a sharp political distinction between the city and its suburbs. Power is concentrated in the central city but nearby suburbs and smaller cities in the states of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut compete with NY for development and residents, often by manipulating the property tax structure. In NY there are the four boroughs as well as 56 "Community Planning Districts" but they have little real political power.
While overall land area and population in TK and NY is similar, distribution of commercial activity and housing is not. In TK there is no concentration of commercial area equivalent to lower Manhattan (Wall St area) or Midtown Manhattan; instead a dozen or so smaller commercial hubs have developed around key rail intersections over a wider area. Housing density and mix tends to be distributed more evenly in TK where rail transit is more ubiquitous. In NY the high-rise apartment landscape common to much of Manhattan yields to a majority of suburban style homes at the periphery.
The wide variety of ethnic groups that cluster to varying degrees in the NY cityscape lend spatially concentrated and distinct impact to property values. More than a third of the population in NY is foreign born compared to some 2% of TK. Similarly, NY's wide range of economic class- from impoverished immigrants to the global super-rich- affects the valuation landscape in ways TK's more middle class population does not.
Japan has historically been a crowded country while the USA has been a spacious one. A very different land ethic has developed. This is expressed not just politically and economically, but culturally as well. The veneration Americans have for the King-size cattle ranch could also be attributed, in Japan, to a tiny rice paddy. While TK and NY have long led their nations in having the highest land values, current land values in TK are 2-3X similar properties in NY. This is not a reflection of profit or current intensity of use so much as reverence for land. In TK land-to-building value ratios tend to be 3-1 to 2-1 as a rule of thumb, compared to 1-1 in NY. Wars, earthquakes and redevelopment have made TK buildings relatively expendable while aggregation of urban land takes wizardry. In contrast many NY buildings and historic neighborhoods have become icons while slum land, brownfields and awkwardly located waterfront land often remain idle for decades.
Property taxation in TK is primarily on land value. In NY it is on property value and the apportionment of value between land and building is neither a primary nor a well-defined task. TK requires carefully graded market values for land and cost values for buildings while NY relies on primarily on an income approach for property value except for private homes. In their housing databases, NY classifies primarily by number of units (related to size) while TK classifies by construction material (related to impermanence). But both NY and TK give substantial tax relief to small houses at the expense of larger structures.
While TK and NY contain about the same land area for the same number of people and also have about the same household size, the equation does not hold true for interior space. TK housing units are smaller than NY. The average housing unit area is 62 sqm ~ 662 sqft in TK while in NY it is about 875 sqft ~ 82 sqm. Office space in TK is also considerably reduced on a per-employee basis. Many TK buildings would be considered "slivers" in NY and smaller spaces are routinely used which would be much harder to utilize in NY, both functionally and legally. The pressure of high land values is a constant stimulus to use more space efficiently. Modern planning and construction in TK tends to surround transportation nodes with carefully designed mixed-use developments that create synergy out of density.
3. CAMA/GIS in TOKYO (TK)
There are
approximately two million land parcels, excluding condominiums, in TK, which is
divided into 23 wards. Real properties are assessed and taxed by the Tokyo
prefectural government in the 23-ward area because the prefectural government
provides some municipal services including fire, water, and sewer for the area.
Other municipalities in Tokyo prefecture have their own property tax division
to carry out their assessment and tax collection. The 23-ward area
municipalities are given 52 percent of the property taxes collected by the
prefectural government, which expects approximately 1.3 trillion yen ~ $11.3 billion
US for the property tax revenues in the fiscal 2000, which ends on March 31,
2001. The amount of property taxes collected in the fiscal 1997 in TK accounted
for 35.1 percent of the total tax revenues. Income taxes (26.5 percent) and
business taxes (26.6 percent) were two other major tax items in TK.
No property classes exist in Japan for property tax purposes, although there are homeowner's grants in place. Also, only the cost approach is applied for assessment and land and improvements are levied separately. In addition, the property tax rate is constant every year regardless of variations in assessed values. Due to this rigid nature of property tax parameters as well as equity concerns in assessed values, the tax authorities invented various complicated procedures to calculate taxes payable for the land portion in order to mitigate possible fluctuation in property tax revenues.
In terms of land, taxes payable are the product of the tax rate and the taxable value, which is calculated by multiplying the previous year's taxable value by a phase-in factor. The phase-in factor is based on the ratio of the previous year's taxable value against the current year's assessed value. For instance, let's say a piece of commercial land was assessed at 15 billion yen ~ $130 million US in 2001 and its taxable value in 2000 was 5.25 billion yen ~ $45.7 million US. The ratio in this case is 35 percent and its phase-in factor is 1.05 according to the table provided by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs. Therefore, the property taxes payable for this land is calculated as 5.25 billion yen * 1.05 * 1.7% = 93.7 million yen ~ $815,000 US.
Both land and buildings are reassessed in every three years in TK as well as all other municipalities in Japan. In-house staff of the municipality appraises buildings based on the cost manual. On the other hand, many municipalities, including TK, retain consultants for land assessment.
Property assessment contains highly segmented procedures in TK. First of all, buildings are assessed separately from their underlying land as mentioned above. In addition, land assessment is carried out in three phases: benchmark site appraisal, frontage value estimation, and site valuation. Out of the three stages of land assessment, the GIS/CAMA technology is used in frontage value estimation. In terms of buildings, the Tokyo prefectural government uses aerial photographs and digital maps in order to monitor construction, addition, and demolition activities. The valuation method for improvements is strictly mechanical.
There are about 10,000 neighborhoods for the property assessment purposes in TK. In order to deal with drastic land value changes in central TK, the size of one neighborhood goes down to as small as 1,000 sqm ~ 11,000 sqft in some areas. In each neighborhood, a hypothetical benchmark site is created to serve as an indicator of the average land value level in the neighborhood. Licensed real estate appraisers appraise benchmark sites once every three years. Close to 300 fee appraisers were retained for the 2001 revaluation in TK.
In each neighborhood, 70 percent of the benchmark site value is translated into the frontage value of the street segment on which the site faces. The value is actually expressed as an amount per sqm, not by frontage. However, the way the value is plotted on a map resembles the frontage value method. The frontage value is used as the basis for estimating other frontage values in the neighborhood.
The next step is the creation of frontage value adjustment tables. The TK government used a consultant to develop the tables for the latest revaluation. In estimating the values of the factors, which are multiplied by the value of the benchmark site, a multiple regression analysis was employed. About 30,000 land sales comparables were collected for the analysis. Altogether 250 model equations were developed for TK. There were 15-20 variables considered for the frontage value adjustment tables. The most influential factors included road width, FAR, and proximity to public transit and city center. Approximately 27,000 frontage values were estimated for the 2001 reassessment in TK.
GIS played an important role in the formulation of the frontage value adjustment tables. The technology enhanced efficiency in this process by facilitating the following steps.
1) plotting the locations of land sales comparables and government land value survey sites;
2) saving various data, including photographs of each street segment;
3) identifying zoning regulations;
4) measuring the distance to CBD, railway/subway, commercial facilities, public institutions, and
5) checking the consistency of frontage values by comparing sales ratios.
Due to the lack of accurate cadastral maps, digital maps provided by an aerial photography-based map firm were employed as the base maps. The maps were equipped with about 250 layers, including zoning, water bodies, streets, railways, building footprints.
Using the frontage value adjustment tables, the TK government determined the value of each street segment in their jurisdiction. Then, based on the value of the frontage value, the values of sites along the street were calculated by multiplying the size of the site and all applicable adjustment factors, including shape, dimension, and corner influence.
Due to the fiscal constraints and less priority in the political arena, the cadastral survey in TK is going nowhere. This impasse of creating base maps, as well as the existence of the Tokyo prefectural government in the municipal affairs, including property assessment, caused distorted development of GIS in TK. For example, the city planning department of the municipality of Setagaya, one of 23 wards, is building a comprehensive planning database, which includes various maps using GIS. They are launching their web site for the GIS-based database in the very near future. Their database, however, does not include assessment information. In any case, GIS is becoming more and more indispensable for some areas of municipal administration including earthquake restoration planning.
In summary, there are many hurdles to be cleared before realizing a more sophisticated assessment system in TK. In the process of future development, NYC experience in the property assessment practice seems to provide TK with a good path to follow.
4. CAMA/GIS in New York City (NY)
In the definition of the city we are using (NY) there are about 816K separate parcels. Of these, about 80K are condominium apartments leaving about 736K separate land parcels. The NYC Department of Finance centrally administers the property tax though logistically it is run out of separate borough offices. NYC is subject to certain New York State oversights. Assessment procedure is the same throughout the city but some definitions and exemptions are geographically prescribed and CAMA modeling is usually done at the borough level. For fiscal 2001, the four borough NY should generate about $7.7 billion in property tax all of which becomes part of the NYC general fund. For fiscal 2000, property tax revenue was about 35.7% of the total NYC budget with city income tax (24.7%) and sales tax (16.1%) as the next largest revenue streams.
Because the tax parcel layer effectively represents the most disaggregated level in the city, the attribute data contributed by the Department of Finance (parcel maps and data) is among the most valuable in the NYCMAP system. When the system is more fully developed and available to the public, hundreds of thousands of users may access this mappable property data annually. Already, several thousand users from all over the world (including Tokyo!) acquire files of property or tax map data annually. (Eichenbaum, 2000) One user is the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) which initiated a study of potential structural damage in Manhattan in the event of an earthquake. The Property Division of the NYC Department of Finance recognizes this migration of property data and is stepping up efforts to sharpen data collection skills and update property data files. It is also negotiating with the City Planning Department on a project to create a single "legal layer" out of separate parcel, zoning and official street maps.
In NY there are four classes of property for tax purposes. These allow for differences in assessed value percentages, tax rates and assessment methods. Class 1 consists mostly of one, two and three family homes that are assessed using a market approach; it has the lowest effective tax rates and is the largest with respect to parcel count. Class 2 consists of all other residential property. Class 3 is composed of special utility properties. Class 4 is for all other real property and is the largest in revenue generation. Where possible, Classes 2 and 4 are typically assessed by an income approach while Class 3 properties are assessed via a cost approach.
Property taxes calculated by preferred market and income methods are based on the total parcel or property value. Land values, where they are reliable, are usually arrived at by residual techniques but are never the primary data for assessment except in the case of vacant land. Land values in NY are problematic because of definitional problems regarding land vs. building as well as data problems. In NY, most vacant land is an exception to the norm or it wouldn't be vacant! All properties are nominally reassessed every year although this may involve only model parameter adjustments and response to recorded physical change.
B. GIS in CAMA Valuation in New York (NY)
GIS related techniques were inherent in the CAMA procedures introduced in New York in the 1980s. Various forms of software were employed to develop location response surfaces that would quantitatively account for the strong relationship between location and property value. (O'Connor and Eichenbaum; Eichenbaum, 1989; Eichenbaum and McNamee) Land values can vary by as much as a factor of 100 over a distance of as little as two miles (3 Km). (Eichenbaum, 1995) Desktop mapping and contouring software became available to refine the process and much of it was incorporated into the city's CAMA system. For Class 1 (small homes) a multiple-regression formulation generates a location response surface for each borough that provides a multiplicative 'location factor' for each tax block. A 'location-free' property value is multiplied by the location factor to obtain a model value. This multiple regression value is input as one comp in a comparable sales routine. Similar techniques were used to produce values for various commercial properties but have not been very successful.
Instead, GIS has been widely and successfully used as an aid in traditional assessment and administrative activities, particularly where location needs to be illustrated if not quantified. Desktop mapping, using US Census based address files or a digitized version of the city's parcel tax maps, has been helpful in correcting the database, defining neighborhoods and other districts, managing field activity, supporting tax policy scenarios, and integrating data from other agencies. An account of these activities has appeared in the CAMA/GIS forum. (Eichenbaum, 1999)
It has taken New York City most of a decade to conceive and execute the idea of a GIS utility that would serve a variety of municipal agencies as well as public, private and non-profit sectors. Problems were as much organizational as financial and technical. The city's separate agencies (Finance, City Planning, Transportation, Environmental Protection, etc.) are themselves large bureaucracies with existing GIS applications, and hierarchical leadership unused to lateral cooperation. The city's GIS utility called NYCMAP ("Nicemap") is now housed and managed in a 'neutral' umbrella agency, the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DOITT). It consists of a base map, a GIS layer of digitized physical entities (building lines, curbs, street centerlines, railroads, parks, cemeteries, etc) derived from orthographic aerial photography, together with overlays (water main and sewer maps, tax parcel maps, zoning, etc) from other sources that have been registered to the base map. Gradually, attribute date (describing water mains, tax parcels etc.) is being added.
Because the tax parcel layer effectively represents the most disaggregated level in the city, the attribute data contributed by the Department of Finance (parcel maps and data) is among the most valuable in the NYCMAP system. When the system is more fully developed and available to the public, hundreds of thousands of users may access this mappable property data annually. Already, several thousand users from all over the world (including Tokyo!) acquire files of property or tax map data annually. (Eichenbaum, 2000) One user is the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) which initiated a study of potential structural damage in Manhattan in the event of an earthquake. The Property Division of the NYC Department of Finance recognizes this migration of property data and is stepping up efforts to sharpen data collection skills and update property data files. It is also negotiating with the City Planning Department on a project to create a single "legal layer" out of separate parcel, zoning and official street maps.
New York City assessors will eventually have access to much of the data in NYCMAP. The Department of Finance is currently considering simple mapping applications that can help assessors do their job. The layer of aerial photography, for example, clearly exposes such entities as private swimming pools and billboard structures that have previously been difficult to locate.
Eichenbaum, 1989: "Location as a Factor in Determining Property Values" Property Tax Journal
Vol. 8 No. 2 pp. 151-169
Eichenbaum, 1995: "The Location Variable in World Class Cities" Journal of Property Tax
Assessment and Administration Vol. 1 No. 3 pp. 46-60
Eichenbaum and McNamee, 1996: "Approaches to Mass Appraisal of Real Property through GIS"
Eichenbaum, 1999: "Desktop GIS in Assessment Administration" Integrating GIS &
CAMA Conference Proceedings, New Orleans
O'Connor and Eichenbaum, 1988: "Location Value Response Surfaces: The Geometry of
Advanced Mass Appraisal" Property Tax Journal Vol. 7 No. 3 pp. 277-296
Please consult with Mr. Fujiki for sources in Japanese.
[1] Staten Island, the fifth borough of New York City, has about 400,000 residents and 127,000 tax parcels. Population density is only about one fourth that of "NY " and there is no rapid rail connection to "NY".


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I've been in a blog reading mood for a few months now. It started off with my looking for some information on cloth diapers and I literally found thousands of blogs about cloth diapers. I didn't know there was that much information about cloth diapers. That sparked my curiosity and I realized that there are thousands, sometimes millions of blogs about everything. I know I'm a little late in noticing this trend. Really late, but it inspired me to start my own blog. About what, I'm not entirely sure. It'll likely revolve mostly around my son, Brennen and my life as a stay at home Mom. Which is one hundred times more interesting than I ever thought it'd be.
Today's Topic: Family Photos
We're going to get ours done today. They've been put off for months for various reasons. The first one being that Brennen got 5 stitches in his nose in the beginning of August at his 1st Birthday party. Then I gave him a terrible home haircut. Two weeks ago we were supposed to get them and it rained all day. Then yesterday, Brennen fell down and busted his lip for the first time. That being said, we're still getting pictures done in a few hours. Although, I don't believe in "signs" I do wonder with all this bad luck if maybe we're not supposed to get family photos taken. I don't believe in signs, but I will be crossing my fingers that all goes well today and I can make a cute Christmas card!


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