BRIAN SCAVO VS CYBER BULLIES

BRIAN SCAVO VS CYBER BULLIES
Brian Scavo fights against tax and fee increases!

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

TAX THE RICH SUCKERS

ALBANY,NEW YORK

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Today Brian Scavo said" the Kathy Sheehan Administration is desperately looking for money and is fiscally irresponsible and has done another disservice to the Albany taxpayers , after losing 3 casino deals which would have lowered the tax burden for the city of Albany , now Kathy Sheehan is talking reassessment on commercial and residential property's in this recession is just devastating to the retired senior citizen home owners for next year, this tax the rich mentality has left downtown Albany with a sea of for rent and for sale signs and a city population that is  shirking . 

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Scavo also said "If Kathy Sheehan  had the guts to make the tough choices  instead of having  the state of New York make the recommended cuts in the 16.5 million dollar budget gap, this to me shows lack of leadership and indecision and why many consider her to be a one term mayor,    the people of Albany new york need tax relief now ." 
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Mayor Kathy Sheehan's first budget may ask lawmakers to fund the first citywide reassessment of property values in seven years.
Assessment Commissioner Keith McDonald said his office has requested money in next year's budget for the $437,000 cost of the revaluation, which would take effect in 2016.
The reassessment would be Albany's first since the 2008 financial collapse sparked upheaval in real estate markets across the country.
Currently, the state deems the city's properties overvalued by nearly 9.5 percent, making it difficult for the city to fend off lawsuits by property owners challenging their assessments, Sheehan said.
McDonald cautioned that figure, known as the equalization rate, is an average of all property sales -— commercial and residential — and does not reflect the nuances in individual neighborhoods or specific properties.
"It doesn't tell the entire story of the entire city," he said.
In her January State of the City, Sheehan said the tax base has declined by 7 percent since 2009, with the commercial base dropping 13.3 percent.
In Albany, that matters because commercial properties pay a tax rate 42 percent higher than residential properties. That dual rate depresses residential taxes, but declining commercial values could shift more costs to homeowners.
McDonald declined to speculate on the reassessment's impact.
In the 2007 reassessment, average home assessments increased in every neighborhood.
John MacAffer, an associate commercial real estate broker with CBRE Albany, said that while commercial values dropped, they have been leveling out in the last 12 months.
"That's what you're seeing in that 13.3 percent," McAffer said. "It's a property-by-property basis. ... My guess is you will see values probably hold about the same."
Sheehan said revaluing all properties at once puts homeowners on a level field with commercial property owners who "have the wherewithal and are typically pretty aggressive about challenging their assessed values."
Reassessments are controversial because a property's assessment is part of the formula that dictates how much its owner pays in taxes each year to the city, county, school district and library. The other part is the tax rate.
A revaluation in Bethlehem this year prompted some 1,100 property owners to protest their assessments, which increased on average 7.5 percent. Even so, many are now paying less in taxes, Supervisor John Clarkson said.
McDonald said the goal isn't to boost the tax base, but to ensure the burden is distributed fairly.
"We never do a reassessment to get more taxable assessed value," he said. "The sole purpose of a reassessment is to put the values where they're supposed to be."
If the revaluation plan stays in Sheehan's budget, it's still contingent on Common Councilapproval. Sheehan's budget must be released by Oct. 1.
So far in 2014 the city is running $134,000 under-budget on property tax collections, Treasurer Darius Shahinfar said — a lag he attributed "almost completely" to successful tax lawsuits. Shahinfar said that sum is not out of line with past years.
"It's costing us money not to do it," Sheehan said. "At some point, we're going to have to fix it. And I guess for me I would prefer to do it now because I don't think delay really helps anyone."
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Friday, September 5, 2014

JUDGE PEGGY WALSH RUNNING FOR 2 JUDGESHIPS


Albany New York Today Brian Scavo called on Margret Walsh to make a decision on what judgeship race she is running for since she is running for both  family court and supreme court  and endorsed by the democratic party for her family court race and the supreme court race which the Democratic party endorsed  Legislator Justin Corcoran .DONATE HERE

Scavo went on to say" How can Margret Walsh  run for two judge ship's at once and then criticize Albany county democratic chairman Matt Clyne by saying it's a closed system when she was endorsed for her family court run by Matt Clyne, it's just insane and hypercritical and for Kathy Sheehan to read  book on Dan O'Connell  and call for Matt  Clyne's ouster in my opinion is politically unwise and i would strongly recommend to Kathy Sheehan is to focus on the 16.5 million deficit which the city of Albany is facing  , which by the way Sheehan turned over the budget decision to the state of New York which will make the recommended cuts in the Albany budget and Kathy Sheehan should  stay out of the judge ship race.
 Sheehan  having lost two casino deals and dropped the exclusive endorsement deal with the Hard Rock Cafe  all at the expense of Albany taxpayers.DONATE HERE

Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan on Thursday became the highest-ranking elected official to publicly call for Clyne's ouster as Albany County Democratic chairman.
Sheehan's comments — in which she compared Clyne to legendary party boss Dan O'Connelland took aim at the Democratic machine's exclusionary past — came as she endorsed an insurgent slate of judicial delegates challenging the party's pick of County Legislator Justin Corcoran for state Supreme Court justice this year.
The rebel slate on Tuesday's primary ballot is backing Family Court Judge Margaret "Peggy" Walsh.DONATE HERE
Broadly, the pro-Walsh contingent accuses Clyne of presiding over a closed system that has stopped female and minority candidates from rising to the highest ranks of the judiciary.
In that way, the normally obscure delegates race has morphed into a referendum on Clyne's leadership of the party as a true referendum, a vote on his re-election as chairman, looms later this month.
"I just finished reading a book about Dan O'Connell. It was written in 1973 ... and there is really no difference between what I was reading in that book and how the machine selected judges and what happened here in the city of Albany and in this county" this year, Sheehan said.
Asked if she believes Clyne should be replaced, Sheehan said: "I do. I think it's time."
Clyne, who has been chairman since Dan McCoy stepped down in 2011 to run for county executive, shrugged off Sheehan's critique and questioned how his critics would better manage the constantly shifting political alliances and personalities in the roughly 600-member political organization.
"If they think they've got the votes, they should step up to the plate and vote them. It's like everything else, a lot of grousing and grumbling but no actual contest," Clyne said.
"It may be fashionable to trash the party, but the reality is there were no backroom deals and the decision to go with Justin Corcoran was based on his qualifications and the fact that Peg Walsh had already received the designation to run for family court."
He added: "The larger issue is, what are they doing? What have they done to benefit the countyDemocratic organization?"
Clyne is no stranger to uprisings.
In 2012, Clyne narrowly weathered an insurgency that cost him the chairmanship of his hometown Bethlehem Democratic Committee but saw him hold onto his county committee seat by a single vote and retain control of the county party.
And Clyne had been making moves seemingly aimed at pacifying the progressives.
He personally supported Patricia Fahy even as the party itself stayed out of the five-way 2012 primary to succeed Assemblyman Jack McEneny, and he steered the party's endorsement to Sheehan last year when Mayor Jerry Jennings said he would not seek re-election.
But any good will that Clyne gained with those moves seems to have been vaporized by the party's bypassing of Walsh.
Clyne's critics point not just to that but also to his use of his day job as the county's Democratic elections commissioner to try to block much of Walsh's rival slate from the ballot, accusing the family court judge of improperly running for two judgeships at once.
Walsh is also running for re-election to another 10-year term on the family court bench this year — a fact Clyne's allies say underscores the hypocrisy of his critics.
Walsh, they note, won the unanimous endorsement of the Democratic committee for re-election to family court.
Clyne says that's a "ploy" on which Walsh has largely been granted a free pass.
"To me, this is ridiculous to have a person running for two judgeships," he said.
Not surprisingly, several women have been floated as potential challengers to Clyne.
At Thursday's rally, County Legislator Noelle Kinsch  DONATE HERE
 — the wife of city Treasurer Darius Shahinfar — said she would consider running if there were a "groundswell of support"DONATE HERE
you must know that  Noelle Kinsch wanted to run for assembly , county executive, Albany county  legislature chairman, now county Democratic chairman , no ground swell there folks.

Sheehan, meanwhile, said nostalgia needs to be tempered by reality.
"When you look at the challenges that we face here in the city of Albany, you can draw a direct line to lack of diversity, the lack of engagement, the disenfranchisement that were all part of the (Democratic) machine," she said.
"So when we talk about the machine and people talk about the good old days and the fact that you could get a job for your cousin and that the party took care of people, you have to tell the whole story. Because there were a whole lot of people that never got taken care of, and those are the challenges that we're dealing with today." DONATE HERE
This is Jordan's back handed slap at Dan McCoy. 
editor's note JCE is  political activist deep in the Sheehan  Shahinfar camp
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Monday, September 1, 2014

ASTEROID IMPACT THE POWER OF A NUCLEAR BLAST

Deadly asteroid strike may be more probable than believed

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(Reuters) - The chance of a city-killing asteroid striking Earth is higher than scientists previously believed, a non-profit group building an asteroid-hunting telescope said on Tuesday.
A global network that listens for nuclear weapons detonations detected 26 asteroids that exploded in Earth's atmosphere from 2000 to 2013, data collected by the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization shows.
The explosions include the Feb. 15, 2013, impact over Chelyabinsk, Russia, which left more than 1,000 people injured by flying glass and debris.
"There is a popular misconception that asteroid impacts are extraordinarily rare ... that's incorrect," said former astronaut Ed Lu, who now heads the California-based B612 Foundation.
The foundation on Tuesday released a video visualization of the asteroid strikes in an attempt to raise public awareness of the threat.
Asteroids as small as about 131 feet (40 meters) - less than half the size of an American football field - have the potential to level a city, Lu told reporters on a conference call
"Picture a large apartment building - moving at Mach 50," Lu said. DONATE HERE
Mach 50 is 50 times the speed of sound, or roughly 38,000 mph (61,250 kph).
NASA already has a program in place that tracks asteroids larger than 0.65 mile (1 km). An object of this size, roughly equivalent to a small mountain, would have global consequences if it struck Earth.
An asteroid about 6 miles (10 km) in diameter hit Earth some 65 million years ago, triggering climate changes that are believed to have caused the dinosaurs - and most other life on Earth at the time - to die off.
"Chelyabinsk taught us that asteroids of even 20-meter (66-foot) size can have substantial effect," Lu said.
City-killer asteroids are forecast to strike about once every 100 years, but the prediction is not based on hard evidence.
B612 intends to address that issue with a privately funded, infrared space telescope called Sentinel that will be tasked to find potentially dangerous asteroids near Earth. The telescope, which will cost about $250 million, is targeted for launch in 2018.
B612 takes its name from the fictional planet in the book "The Little Prince," by French author and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
The video can be seen on the B612 Foundation website b612foundation.org/ (Editing by Eric Walsh) DONATE HERE
Asteroid Hit
FILE - In this Feb. 15, 2013 file photo provided by Chelyabinsk.ru, shows a meteorite contrail over the Ural Mountains' city of Chelyabinsk, about 930 miles east of Moscow, Russia. After a surprise meteor hit Earth at 42,000 mph and exploded over a Russian city in February, smashing windows and causing minor injuries, scientists studying the aftermath say the threat of space rocks hurtling toward our planet is bigger than they had thought. Meteors like the one that exploded over Chelyabinsk _ and those that are even bigger and more dangerous _ are probably four to five times more likely to hit Earth than scientists thought before the February mid-air explosion, according to three studies released Wednesday in the journals Nature and Science. (AP Photo/Chelyabinsk.ru, Yekaterina Pustynnikova, File)

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Aug 28th 2014 3:02PM


scentists working out of trailer in Illinois are testing out the hypothesis that we're all living in a holographic world.
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Yes, that means that Albert Einstein may not have been totally right.

Physicist Max Planck, the father of quantum theory, had a lot of ideas too, and some of them are at odds with Einstein's theory of relativity.

The gray area between the two Nobel Prize winning scientists findings are at the heart of the new research.

Said the Director of the Fermilab Center for Particle Astrophysics behind the research, "For thousands of years, we have assumed that space is made of points and lines. Maybe that is not right -- it might be made of waves, the way that matter and energy are."

That would mean that things like location aren't as fixed as we think they are.

The scientists are exploring the possibility that the world is more like a television image –- made up of tiny pixels that up close appear blurry and agitated.

To get to the bottom of the mystery, they're using an instrument called a holometer specially designed to measure space's 'quantum jitter.'

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Government scientists working out of trailer in Illinois are testing out the hypothesis that we're all living in a holographic world.

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Yes, that means that Albert Einstein may not have been totally right.

Physicist Max Planck, the father of quantum theory, had a lot of ideas too, and some of them are at odds with Einstein's theory of relativity.

The gray area between the two Nobel Prize winning scientists findings are at the heart of the new research.

Said the Director of the Fermilab Center for Particle Astrophysics behind the research, "For thousands of years, we have assumed that space is made of points and lines. Maybe that is not right -- it might be made of waves, the way that matter and energy are."

That would mean that things like location aren't as fixed as we think they are.

The scientists are exploring the possibility that the world is more like a television image –- made up of tiny pixels that up close appear blurry and agitated.

To get to the bottom of the mystery, they're using an instrument called a holometer specially designed to measure space's 'quantum jitter.'

Also on AOL:
'Most American city' study: Nashville tops the list
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Physicists to find out if we are living in a hologram

Aug 28th 2014 3:02PM
o get to the bottom of the mystery, they're using an instrument called a holometer specially designed to measure space's 'quantum jitter.'

Physicists to find out if we are living in a hologram

Aug 28th 2014 3:02PM

Government scientists working out of trailer in Illinois are testing out the hypothesis that we're all living in a holographic world.

⟨⟩


Yes, that means that Albert Einstein may not have been totally right.

Physicist Max Planck, the father of quantum theory, had a lot of ideas too, and some of them are at odds with Einstein's theory of relativity.

The gray area between the two Nobel Prize winning scientists findings are at the heart of the new research.

Said the Director of the Fermilab Center for Particle Astrophysics behind the research, "For thousands of years, we have assumed that space is made of points and lines. Maybe that is not right -- it might be made of waves, the way that matter and energy are."

That would mean that things like location aren't as fixed as we think they are.

The scientists are exploring the possibility that the world is more like a television image –- made up of tiny pixels that up close appear blurry and agitated.

To get to the bottom of the mystery, they're using an instrument called a holometer specially designed to measure space's 'quantum jitter.'

Also on AOL:
'Most American city' study: Nashville tops the list
Deadly, brain-eating amoeba found in Louisiana water system
5 lost cities that have been found

Also on AOL:
'Most American city' study: Nashville tops the list
Deadly, brain-eating amoeba found in Louisiana water system
5 lost cities that have been found

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