Thursday, January 31, 2019

Waltzing Matilda - Old Tune - With greater meaning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnFzCmAyOp8

I searched all my blog for entries containing "Australia".   Amazing what I wrote.  No wonder I put a total public exclusion on it and backed it up!  Maybe someday it will be open again.  I have the back ups.  I did the whole thing thinking it might have some value to AI beyond the last entry.  It is like completing the 23 and me kit this week after sitting on the shelf for so long.

Among the entries I found this one:



In our close cultural divide it still does not convey a distant understanding of national character woven into the fabric of the nation and its past.

My first time in Australia was port visit to Bunbury after being offshore during the fall of Saigon.

Later in 1975 I received orders that exchanged me for an Australian navy officer for two years.

Since I retired in 1986 I have returned maybe 10 times.  Once with Jeanette on a teaching exchange.

While I was there there when the choice was made.
http://theconversation.com/how-advance-australia-fair-waltzed-with-matilda-and-won-21564
I had no vote but I encouraged a vote for Waltzing Matilda.

It is still my favorite. So is the nation and its people.  Yanks that know the character of Australia feel the same.  Yves Smith feels it.  We know the feeling.  Hard to describe but know to those that share it.

Anzac has a special meaning deep in the hearts of Australia.

Somehow it showed up in a very emotional and overpowering Youtube play list.  Strange it was there among the nature of the tunes listed on the right.

Not so strange nor mysterious.  I played it not knowing the revision.  I was at the parade, at the War Memorial.  Officers and civilians I worked with told me about the meaning of the day.   I had to pause the video a couple times.

Music has power.  I never heard this version before.  Now I hear our own music and what it tells the heart and the soul in the same way.

Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Mind and Body - Tech and Triathlons- Extending Endurance

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190129081919.htm

Absolutely fascinating.  I did not expect to find this but I am not really surprised.  Tech is moving fast!

Suffering from my own need to catch up on tech after a 3 or 4 year lapse is hard!  Old equipment used and applications understood in 1.0 version are difficult to learn in 3.0 which is prerequisite to sliding into next gen transition to 4.0

Apple devices are my physical tool and logic system.  One basic rule in triathlons is to never race with new equipment.  The higher order rule is to never race without putting in the training required for for the event distance.  The intent is sport not survival!  If you can't run with the big dogs or the Mad Dogs then stay on the porch and bark!

This old dog needs to get back in training just to run or ride at the back of the tech pack or the tri pack.

Tech initially because it is a tech world then strap on the monitors and just do it in training again!

I am still riding a Soft Ride signed by Jurgen!  Missed seeing him while training for a month in  Phuket several years ago.  I swam in the pool in 2009.  Maybe a good place to start all over again and get up to speed.  If I still have enough mind and body left to do it.  Fortunately it is Age Group related  performance!

I will never see Brain ....what. ...4.0?  direct tech connection but I can see and feel it coming.  Some leading edge AI might help me now in brain endurance, if I learn enough to use the new iPhone iPad Watch and MacBook devices and apps!

New tech and AI have benefits for all of us.  It is an equal opportunity App applicable for all to benefit from in life and its pursuits in not only Age Groups but Intelligence and Ability Groups that are not age related.  Brain Group category life and sport 4.whatever for everyone.













Monday, January 28, 2019

Private Gain at Public Expense - Oregon Property Tax System

This is how trust and faith in government is undermined.

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-illegal-cia-operation-that-brought-us-9-11/

The fact is that something went wrong in the defense of our nation.  Why?  Many explanations.  It happened before.  Our institutions of government failed or may have been manipulated into failure.

The fact is that an enemy attacked and gained at the catastrophic expense of Americans--again.   Various explanations that in the gross analysis have degrees of truth exist.  The bottom line facts all relationships among a web of people and places beyond the ability of our Intelligence Agencies at that time to put together and take action to protect us.

Too little, Too late.

Far enough in this draft form.  I have not even had a cup of coffee yet at 7:30 Monday 28 Jan. 2019.

The following lays out broad direction only. Needs to be developed precisely........I shall return to doing that.

The USA has achieved Military/Intelligence domination.  A step beyond the Military/Industrial domination that came out of WWII.

Our best defense is an informed citizen and all informed citizens.  Public officials are responsible and accountable for the performance of their duties.  Free press is our watchdog.  Freedom to examine  public information records is each and every  citizen's right to examine and hold public officials accountable for their performance.

Open Source Intelligence is the best intelligence source.  Data in public records available for every citizen to examine.  Down to the data element level.

The problem is that this public data at the local level of 36 counties in Oregon is all in separate data silos.  Aggregated data prepared by counties goes up to state level.  Aggregated data does not reveal singe record data such as property taxlot information or property sales records that indicate private gain at public expense. that rots the core of confidence in government.

Deschutes County property tax records are public data on the internet




Thursday, January 24, 2019

This is the Purpose of the Shutdown?

https://cointelegraph.com/news/new-york-financial-regulator-grants-bitlicense-to-robinhood-and-libertyx?utm_campaign=775621&utm_source=sendpulse&utm_medium=push

https://cointelegraph.com/news/new-york-financial-regulator-grants-bitlicense-to-robinhood-and-libertyx?utm_campaign=775621&utm_source=sendpulse&utm_medium=push

Extended until it was tested and evaluated shift to blockchain?

Yes....NO....YES! ......NO .......Maybe.......???   CONSPIRACY!!  YES!

Conspiracy has gotten a bad rap!  

But I am old school......still saving my Madras college sport coat.  Bellbottoms too!
Everything old is new again...

"Bad rap" is old slang from what?  The 30's?  My fathers time?

Dictionary of American Slang

Rap?  I have certainly heard a lot of that lately.  Different meanings.  Different strokes for different folks in different times.  Rock and Roll has been going downhill since Buddy Holly died.

60 years ago?

Buddy Holly

American Graffiti.  Greatest movie ever made!

"Bad Rep?  Means reputation to me.  Somebody else has insights in November!  Thanks.

Twitter?  This is what I wrote about Twitter in 2014

My best insight and thinking always comes in November like when I wrote the above.

The above digression went down a branch exploration and now returns to the main blockchain progression of Truth where I wish to go but am getting not help on the way.

The main blockchain of Truth that is the foundation of our nation often goes down branches.

My Apple Watch just told me (suggested?) I stand up and I did........needed that.  Thanks coach!






Saturday, January 12, 2019

Key Board Member candidates on each Tax Distict Recipient of Property Tax Revenue

COCC:
https://www.cocc.edu/about/board-of-directors/meet-the-cocc-board.aspx

Erica Skatvold

Financial Manager:
https://www.cocc.edu/directory/departments/cfo.aspx

School District #1

https://www.bend.k12.or.us/district/home/school-board/members

Financial Manager
Brad HenryBrad.henry@bend.k12.or.us

City of Bend multiple Boards of Directors various entities

https://www.google.com/search?q=city+of+bend+board+of+directors&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS806US806&oq=city+of+bend+board+of+directors&aqs=chrome..69i57.15575j1j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Bend City Council

https://www.bendoregon.gov/government/city-council

Financial Manager:
https://www.bendoregon.gov/government/departments/finance/contact-us


Bend Parks and Recreation Board of Directors

https://www.bendparksandrec.org/about/board-of-directors/

Finance Manager
https://www.bendparksandrec.org/about/contact-us/
Betsey Tucker
Lindsey Lombard CPA

High Desert ESD
Board of Directors
https://www.hdesd.org/about/board/


Deschutes Board of County Commissioners

https://www.deschutes.org/bcc

Finance Manager;
https://www.deschutes.org/finance


Faith and Trust in Our Elected Officials is Broken - We the People Will Restore It

Building Bridges together based on consensus in face of conflict.

Bend is Central Oregon.  The heart of Oregon that prospered  on the abundance of nature..  The harvest of timber once drove the economic engine of Bend and provided timber for building a pioneer state.  New diversified economic engines now drive the development of Bend and Central Oregon.  Leading edge technology and independent innovative entrepreneurs bring jobs that continue to invigorate our economy.  Athletes and artists come to Bend and bring vigor and beauty.

The beauty of nature abounds in Bend.  A beauty to be protected as well as enjoyed by all its citizens.  It is the consensus of all stakeholders in our city that balances the protection of nature and its environment with the enjoyment of the all the activities it offers.

It is a a civic responsibility and obligation to plan and manage our community and natural environment urban interface in a manner that does not degrade it by the pressures of growth expansion at its boundaries.

The Old Mill is now a New Mill.  A bridge across the Deschutes River connects it to a center of art and entertainment.  Beyond that the Bill Healy Bridge honors his vision and efforts.
Images
Video

Crossing it takes us up to Century Drive

Beneath the bridge it is a hiking trail up the Deschutes to a bridge that returns on the other side.

https://www.traillink.com/trail/deschutes-river-trail/

Story Board Outline:

We the People do not Build Walls.

Images

Video

We the People Build Bridges!

Images

Video

Think Globally.

Act Locally!

The citizens and leadership of Bend Can Show How Conflicts are Resolved!

Southern Connection of the Deschutes River Trail Conflict Assessment Report

https://www.bendparksandrec.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Board-Report-12.18.2018-Web.pdf

Oregon is a state of pioneers that continue to lead the way! Pioneers on the Oregon Trail had what it takes to work together to overcome obstacles.  That is our heritage!

https://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-history-of-oregons-state-flag.htm

Images

https://visitcentraloregon.com/central-oregon-stories/outdoor-activities-recreation-stories/deschutes-river-central-oregon-playground/

https://www.google.com/search?q=Southern+Connection+of+the+Deschutes+River+Trail+Conflict+Assessment+Report&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS806US806&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiVt9qAvOjfAhULKXwKHdAvBT8Q_AUIDygC&biw=1200&bih=654

Social Media is the power of We the People of Oregon to express ourselves directly as well as elect by informed consent our local and state officials that best represent our interests.

https://www.facebook.com/indivisiblebend/

https://www.visitbend.com/events/bend-womens-march/. 2019

https://www.ktvz.com/news/politics/next-womens-march-to-be-held-in-january/801072293














Friday, January 11, 2019

Good Judgment Requires Time for Analysis of Facts Established by Smart Investigation.

Smart Investigation?? New School Data Driven Proof of Code Performance?
A thought that just popped into my head causing revision of the title!

Considered for reversion to draft form but decided to let it ride and review prior entries for publication release categories  IAW  .....whatever.....perhaps relative temperature.

There is so much more for me to learn about various systems... of governance and others that lead to E-Governance.  I must devote time to self learning in a warmer area about many things that enable understanding before proceeding.

Access to this entire public blog that was once entirely public is now restricted to anyone I give authorized access that has a need to view and know.

Drafts have created as stubs in this blog that may lead in future publication investigation are subject to release by trusted entities.   Backed up elsewhere.

UNODIR

Thorough investigation takes time.  Demands sufficient time to establish facts and recommendations.

Good thing?  Bad thing:

Proceeding with the plan to resolve the bridge issue without prior voluntary withdrawal of parties and associates that have gained private benefit at public expense.

On one hand those directly involved know as well as those that support them knowing their agenda.  Others supporting them on the ground of honest stake holding in the protection of wildlife and natural resources in the past may have recognized the agenda and withdrawn.  Those being use to defend special agenda will become aware of it in the future.

Let everyone continue forward together.

Offer opportunity for those with special agenda to withdraw.

That was my intent two years ago and most recent intent via the Neighborhood Association.

It was offered. It was the honorable thing to offer equally honorable action.

Not evidently accepted.

Then let it continue.

We have an entire year to conduct investigations that lead to many places.

Withdrawal in mid-stream at some future time and floating down river would be.....appropriate.


Thursday, January 10, 2019

Bend Oregon Enterprise Zones

http://bend.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=9&clip_id=415&meta_id=21524

October 26, 2017
Wayne Lowry
Deschutes County Finance Director PO Box 6005
Bend, OR 97708-6005

Dear Wayne,
This is an update to the 21 day notice provided Feb. 10th 2017 regarding an expansion to the Bend Enterprise Zone. This zone does not impact the underlying zoning or the current property tax base for your tax district. It does allow traded sector business to temporarily exempt new capital projects for a standard three (3) year period of time dependent on creating jobs and on making new, taxable investments. This program is specifically targeted at traded-sector businesses – in short, companies that export a majority of their goods or services outside our region’s borders. EDCO and the City of Bend focus efforts on recruiting and growing traded-sector employers to foster the creation of new, well- paying base-industry jobs and improve the foundations of Bend’s economy. Non-traded-sector companies (retail, commercial, restaurant, health care, etc.) are not eligible for the program, and currently comprise more than 85% of all Bend businesses.
The reason for this letter is a small change and update to the final Bend City Council resolution that includes 10 additional properties (see list of tax lots identified on the following page) that have been updated since the initial notice was sent out. In addition to these tax lots, portions of properties (those outside the new Bend UGB) originally proposed for expansion of the current Bend Enterprise Zone were removed. The result is a small net decrease in the total amount of acres being included in the proposed expanded zone. Specifically, the original 164 properties identified in the February 10th notice would have added 2,201.02 acres to the zone while the updated 174 properties include 2,179.42 acres. While a minor change, we wanted to keep you updated and aware of the modification.
Please don’t hesitate to contact me via phone (541-388-3236 x 4) or email (kip@edcoinfo.com) should you have any questions regarding this process or update.
Thank you,
Kip Barrett
Bend Area Director & Bend Enterprise Zone Co-Manager
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Enterprise Zone Expansion Changes:
Added:
TAXLOT 
1711350000100    71.70     NWX2 LLC
1711350000200    21.56     NWX2 LLC
1711350000300    36.21 NWX2 LLC
1711350000500    35.29 NWX2 LLC
171135D000400   43.69 Miller Tree Farm
171223AB00600  2.87 Nipper, David C and Tammy M 10.25 Deschutes County
1812060000111    0.00 TSB Real Estate LLC (Oregon State University)????

                             https://dial.deschutes.org/Real/Index/198539
181206C000500    35.00 RIO LOBO Investments 
1711260000400    LLC 36.67 NWX2 LLC
1711350000400
Acreage Owner
TAXLOT 1711350000100 1711350000200 1711350000300 1711350000500 171135D000400 171223AB00600 1812060000111 181206C000500 1711260000400 1711350000400
Acreage Owner
71.70 NWX2 LLC
21.56 NWX2 LLC
36.21 NWX2 LLC
35.29 NWX2 LLC
43.69 Miller Tree Farm
2.87 Nipper, David C and Tammy M 10.25 Deschutes County
0.00 TSB Real Estate LLC
35.00 RIO LOBO Investments LLC 36.67 NWX2 LLC


The Above taxlots and relationships got confusing the last time I researched them. They are still confusing!!!!  They are in an Enterprise Zone Now?

The only Enterprise these taxlots are in is residential development. The reason for investigating them previously was association with Special Assessments!!!


https://www.deschutes.org/bcc/page/commissioners-hold-hearing-proposed-westside-transect-zone

https://www.oregon4biz.com/Oregon-Business/Tax-Incentives/Enterprise-Zones/Details/maps/BND.pdf


https://www.bendbulletin.com/opinion/5941407-151/guest-column-enterprise-zones-are-not-a-good

https://edcoinfo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Bend-Enterprise-Zone-Sheet.pdf

https://www.bendbulletin.com/localstate/bend/5717197-151/bend-council-asks-state-to-give-more-businesses

Thursday, January 3, 2019

Property Tax Comparison example Chairman. Deschutes County Audit Commitee

Public data research:

Where to take the property tax analysis I am doing to initiate action to correct serious errors and disfunction is the question.

Three avenues I see the NLA, City Council or the County level.  The county has an Audit Committee  and maybe the best place to go or Tony Debone who is also on the Committee as a County member.

I chose the Audit Committee Chairman

Previously I had decided that selecting my own property as an example and comparing it to a Designated Forestland property in the City would be an excellent example exposing the magnitude of difference in Property Tax.

I decided to use the same approach but to select the Committee Chairman's taxlot as an example.  Any city taxlot in the normal range of valuation and tax would work.  Choosing the Chairman's property would be a clever way to make the point.

What follows is the result of creating a comparison example.  It reveals more than I expected and leads to more questions.

Deschutes County Audit Committee
https://www.deschutes.org/administration/page/audit-committee-information

Committee Members
https://www.deschutes.org/sites/default/files/fileattachments/administration/page/255/audit_committee_membership_list_7-1-2018_abbrev.pdf


https://dial.deschutes.org/Real/Index/184628
Map View:
https://dial.deschutes.org/Real/InteractiveMap/184628

Comparison between Two Taxlot Properties

Taxlot Without Forestland Special Assessment
#1 EXAMPLE PROPERTY TAX 2018-19 $4,454.82
Assessor Acres: 0.24 

Property Class: 101 -- RESIDENTIAL

Real Market Value: $601,640
Assessed Value:      $287,040

2018 - 2019 TAX:  $4,454.82

#1 EXAMPLE PROPERTY TAX REVENUE DISTRIBUTION:

SCHOOL DISTRICT #1 1,351.64
HIGH DESERT ESD 27.38
C O C C 176.04
EDUCATION TOTAL: 1,555.06 
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DESCHUTES COUNTY 345.68
COUNTY LIBRARY 156.09
COUNTYWIDE LAW ENFORCEMENT 306.42
COUNTY EXTENSION/4H 6.40 9-1-1 102.67

CITY OF BEND 795.42
CITY OF BEND LOCAL OPTION 2014 57.41
BEND JUNIPER RIDGE URBAN RENEWAL 28.96
MURPHY CROSSING URBAN RENEWAL 11.31
BEND METRO PARK & RECREATION 417.16
GENERAL GOVT TOTAL: 2,227.52 
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BONDS - OTHER
CITY OF BEND BOND 48.37
BEND METRO PARK AND REC BOND 45.27
SCHOOL #1 BOND 2007 209.63
SCHOOL #1 BOND 2013 203.20
SCHOOL #1 BOND 2017 133.79
C O C C BOND 31.98
BONDS - OTHER TOTAL: 672.24

TOTAL REVENUE DISTRIBUTION:   $4,454.82

COMPARISON EXAMPLE 

Distance from #1 to #2 Example:  582 feet

https://dial.deschutes.org/Real/Index/117415
Map View:

Property with Designated Forestland Special Assessment:
#2 EXAMPLE PROPERTY TAX 2018-19:                              $533.81

Assessor Acres: 40.00 

Property Class: 641 -- FOREST

Real Market Value:  $471,860
Assessed Value:      $30,215
2018-19 Tax             $533.81

#2 EXAMPLE PROPERTY TAX REVENUE DISTRIBUTION:

SCHOOL DISTRICT #1     143.95 
HIGH DESERT ESD              2.91 
C O C C                                18.75 
EDUCATION TOTAL:                                                  165.61 

DESCHUTES COUNTY 36.81 
COUNTY LIBRARY 16.62 
COUNTYWIDE LAW ENFORCEMENT 32.63 
RURAL LAW ENFORCEMENT 40.49 
COUNTY EXTENSION/4H 0.68 9-1-1 10.93 
BEND METRO PARK & RECREATION 44.14 
GENERAL GOVT TOTAL:                                            182.30 

DEPT OF FORESTRY FIRE PATROL 120.23 
BEND METRO PARK AND REC BOND 4.76 
SCHOOL #1 BOND 2007 22.07 
SCHOOL #1 BOND 2013 21.39 
SCHOOL #1 BOND 2017 14.08 
C O C C BOND 3.37 
BONDS - OTHER TOTAL:                                             185.90

REVENUE DISTRIBUTION TOTAL:                                             $533.81

#1 and #2 Example Comparison:

                                      #1.                       #2
Real Market Value:    $601,640.         $471,860
Assessed Value:         $287,040.         $30,215
2018 Tax:                $4,454            $533

Example #3 Common lot line with Example
View

                             Example #3.                Example #1
RMV:                   $703,650.                    $601,640.
AV:                       $533,280                     $287,040 
AV%RMV.              75%                            48%
Tax 2018                $8,276.40.                 $4,454.82
Purchase Date:     02/22/2012              04/27/2016
Purchase $              $400,000                   $655,000.     




AI Knowledge Map

https://www.forbes.com/sites/cognitiveworld/2018/08/22/ai-knowledge-map-how-to-classify-ai-technologies/#4cfeb9ae7773

https://toplink.weforum.org/knowledge/insight/a1Gb0000000LiPSEA0/explore/dimension/a1Gb0000001RZKtEAO/summary

I reach my peak in relational link thought at this time of year.  Looking for a knowledge map in my blog I found it.   Written a year ago!  At last year's peak!

https://2dollarjefferson.blogspot.com/2017/11/clobal-issues-graphic-knowledge-map.html

Starting in September insight into complex information structure began and peaked  around Thanksgiving and went down until Christmas.

Every year it began earlier and lasted longer.

What I was looking for was the best I found last year and find again this year but the application is far more seen in clarity.

Maybe I am reducing complexity to simplicity.

Measure 5

Oregon Encyclopedia - History
https://oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/measure_5_property_taxes/#.W_lI4i2ZMWo

Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Ballot_Measure_5_(1990)

Bill Sizemore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Sizemore

Oregon Taxpayers United
https://ballotpedia.org/Oregon_Taxpayers_United

Taxpayer Association of Oregon
https://ballotpedia.org/Taxpayer_Association_of_Oregon

Oregon Watchdog
http://www.oregonwatchdog.com/
http://www.oregonwatchdog.com/stage/whoweare.htm
http://www.oregonwatchdog.com/stage/waste.htm
503-603-9009
https://www.google.com/search?q=(503)+603-9009&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS806US806&oq=(503)+603-9009&aqs=chrome..69i57.4073j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

"The government creates wealth the way a tick creates blood"
Grover Nordquist
https://www.atr.org/statepledge/index.html




Google Fusion Tables

https://support.google.com/fusiontables/answer/184641?hl=en

Bust your data out of its silo!
Get more from data with Fusion Tables.
https://support.google.com/fusiontables/answer/2571232?hl=en

ODOT GNSS

An ODOT program

https://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/ORGN/Pages/about-us.aspx

What is GNSS?

Bend Maintenance Station
https://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/ORGN/Stations/Pages/Stationslist.aspx
Then select Bend from the "Go To" list

The antenna is the little white ball at the apex of the City Building

Choose Bend Maintenance Station for another antenna site

GNSS Systems
Leica Geosystems / Septentrio
a part of
https://hexagon.com

https://www.hexagonsafetyinfrastructure.com/news-releases/hexagon-launches-public-safety-data-visualization-and-analytics-software

https://amerisurv.com/2018/10/09/hexagon-presents-solutions-for-smart-digital-realities-at-intergeo-2018/

About Hexagon
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Media Contact
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Director, Global Communications
Madison, AL, United States
Phone: 1.256.730.8558
Email: jim.dobbs@hexagonsi.com

Taxlot data files web source

Data Portal
http://data.deschutes.org

Assessor tables
http://data.deschutes.org/datasets?t=Tables%20feature%20dataset
Roll Value Tables 2015:
http://data.deschutes.org/datasets/roll-values-table
Owners Table: 2017
 http://data.deschutes.org/datasets/owners-table?selectedAttribute=OWNERSHIP_TYPE
Property Class/Stat Class Table 2017
http://data.deschutes.org/datasets/property-classstat-class-table
    Data:  http://data.deschutes.org/datasets/property-classstat-class-table/data
Serial Number Cross Reference
http://data.deschutes.org/datasets/serial-number-cross-reference
Dead Number Table



Taxlots
http://data.deschutes.org/datasets/28019431cced49849cb4b1793b075bf1_2

Meta data
https://www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/content/items/28019431cced49849cb4b1793b075bf1/info/metadata/metadata.xml?format=default&output=html

Geo Service Query
https://maps.deschutes.org/arcgis/rest/services/OpenData/LandFD/MapServer/2/query?outFields=*&where=1%3D1

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Roll Value Table - 2015
http://data.deschutes.org/datasets/roll-values-table


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Mailing Address Table - 2017
http://data.deschutes.org/datasets/b4876b2c240946db893a6956daf20302_4



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Dead numbers Table 2017
http://data.deschutes.org/datasets/d3b57b7fe394408d9695de2044c79d7b_8



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Improvements Table 2017
http://data.deschutes.org/datasets/e052373a03254cd2b3b4d1466e4fce99_2





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Sales Table 2017
Overview
http://data.deschutes.org/datasets/0e5089bd9f814b798ed26c077c24f6c7_9
Data





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Assessor Account Table 2017
Overview
http://data.deschutes.org/datasets/aea94004ae8c49e6a6dec394522677ad_1
Data
http://data.deschutes.org/datasets/aea94004ae8c49e6a6dec394522677ad_1/data
API Explorer
http://data.deschutes.org/datasets/aea94004ae8c49e6a6dec394522677ad_1/geoservice
APIs
Geo Service
http://data.deschutes.org/datasets/aea94004ae8c49e6a6dec394522677ad_1/geoservice
GeoJason
https://opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/aea94004ae8c49e6a6dec394522677ad_1.geojson

Tyler Technologies - E-Government - A Better System To Perpetuate Government of the People and For the People

The Oregon Property Tax System is....Hard to describe!  Hard to believe!  How can Oregon citizens be so manipulated and so blind?  Maybe it is simply new norm.  How many are blind to the corruption of the property tax system?

95% ?

A simple look, even a passing glance at fundamental accounting records reveals how pathetic and unjust the system is.  Silo property tax data in each of the counties property tax records are the same self destructive self defeating model repeated on a smaller crises level.

There is an opportunity to correct that situation that is also a business model with proven success.  Data driven E-Government in a trusted governance system.  Oregon must be the lowest hanging fruit on the tree to pick first.

Picking property tax payers pockets will be quickly exposed when the 5% or less that understand the technology that will bring and end to private gain at public expense.  It will exposes those that are benefitting by virtue of state law and administrative rules and regs that lock their gains into the protection and defense of law.

Special Assessment for Eastern Oregon Forestland is $79.38. 2018-19.   State ORS and  OAR are its legal basis.  We have met the enemy and they are us!

Like so many legacy systems government systems and Oregon Property Tax laws  must be corrected and will be corrected swiftly by and entire replacement of silo public data into a central data source.

Researching the transition from silos tho data driven E-Government there are leader examples a business enterprises that see the need  as well as the opportunities to correct a dysfunctional system.

Finally after all my research of looking at both the trees and forest of this problem I stumble across the logical entry to correcting it.

data.Oregon.gov

Oregon is transitioning from a timber economy to a tech economy.  There is no better example than Bend.  Smoke stacks above fires that once drove the economic engine of Central Oregon now fly the flag under which the progress of our nation advanced with liberty and justice for all.  It is called the Old Mill but it is the center of a new era of advancing our state and nation.

Problem is:  Old legacy laws that promoted a timber industry to benefit all is now benefitting a few at the expense of all.

Bend is a center of a new economic engine in our state.  Investment in variety of diversified new startups coming to Bend on a new Oregon Trail.

Some house cleaning of old laws and rules that are now are constructive evasion of taxes due for public benefit and protection of private gain at public expense must be eliminated.  Data driven E-Government that consolidates public data for examination by all citizens serves us best.  Those that protect legally sanctioned but unjust gains gains will self identify themselves.  They see the system changing now.  Simple sample research of existing public property tax records reveals the problem in factual data.

Each area of government has an example of blazing a trail for others to follow like Fremont blazed a trail to Bernd.

Tyler Technologies has lead the way for other states in the application of commercial systems to improve government and governance systems that can serve us all better.

Our free private enterprise competitive economy rewards the winners for the benefit of all.  There may be other systems offered in competition for evaluation.  Local and state governments have made their choices of systems for advancing the vision of there citizens.

Tyler Technologies appears to have had success in other states that would benefit Oregon. In my evaluation it is a standard for evaluating any and all other E-Government systems.

Follow on leading edge Codex Law systems will follow.  Oregon could be a leader there too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Technologies

https://www.vcnewsdaily.com/Socrata/venture-funding.php

https://socrata.com

https://data.detroitmi.gov
Using Public Portal Information

https://dev.socrata.com/foundry/data.oregon.gov/4wpq-zwd9

https://dev.socrata.com/consumers/getting-started.html

Oregon Life Line - Do Loop Do Over Do Better

https://www.puc.state.or.us/pages/rspf/otap.aspx

Telephone Assistance Programs
https://www.puc.state.or.us/Pages/rspf/index.aspx

Oregon Lifeline - Oregon Telephone Assistance Program (OTAP)
https://www.puc.state.or.us/Pages/rspf/otap.aspx


Telephone Assistance Programs

One to Many search:


choose a branch


Slip the Anchor and Skin the Cat

This morning I made coffee at 3am and sat down at the screen of the new  monitor I received yesterday.

Glorious!

27 inches of 4k clarity stating me in the face.

Maybe that is the key to the whole thing.  The point of entry to the problem.

I stared back at it.  For a long time.  My window on the World Wide Web. The rest of the pieces that open the door to the world that this window shows me will arrive soon.  A Mac mini, wireless keyboard an a big Apple touch pad. Hey, it was Black Friday!

My new Mac Pro laptop was a side arm tool.  Good enough but not up to the challenge of what I intend to do.  Honestly, that is not true.  It is equally as good as all the new toys that replace it.

When it comes time to do the job of going where I want to go in the long game using a lap top is not the way to get there.  Looking down at a screen is a tiring neck and body position.  Seeing what is on the screen demands that I bend toward it.

It is like getting down on the aero bars in my Ironman triathlons.  Not a comfortable position.  That is not the half of it.  The other half sits so far forward on the seat it becomes a pain in the butt!  To go far, go fast and go alone is an endurance event.

My Navy Career was an endurance event.  I loved it.  In the next 24 years I loved triathlons that proved my physical ability.  It took two years to go from a long distance bike tourist to Ironman in Kona.  I did not do it alone. Jeanette Sullivan is riding tandem with me on a single bike.  Like her, all my heroes are behind me.  They are my racing team.  The team that pulls me to the front, to the finish.  Their inspiration is the source of my energy.

This is my link to who and what inspired me:
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Paul_Jones

"I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way."

"I have not yet begun to fight!"

"I may sink, but I'll be damned if I strike!"
Sailors like to tell sea stories.  They use exaggeration to really tell about the most important things in their life at sea.  The monsters beyond the unknown horizon and faith in a good captain.  
"This was what some of his sailors, reported in British newspapers at the time, claimed he had said; Jones's official report merely stated that he had answered "in the most determined negative".


Women are my heroes too!

It is time to Slip the Anchor once again for the last time.

The Mission:

To Skin a Cat.





Neighborhood Leadership Alliance

https://www.bendoregon.gov/government/neighborhood-leadership-alliance

NEIGHBORHOOD LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE MEMBERS

Hans Jorgensen ( Awbrey Butte)
Matthew Bryant (Boyd Acres)
Lisa Mushel (Century West)
Susan Sullivan (Larkspur)
Beth Hoover (Mountain View)
Brett Yost (Old Bend)
David Johnson (Old Farm District)
William Caram (Orchard District)
Cassie Giddings (River West)
Courtney Underhill (Southeast)
Valerie Pharr (Southern Crossing)
Elizabeth Weltin (Southwest)
Kathrine Schroeder (Summit West)

26 Nov 2018 Meeting
Hans Jorgensen,
Liz Weltin,
Courtney Underhill,
Cassie Giddings,
Brett Yost,
Matt Bryant,
Valerie Pharr,
Kathy Schroeder


Business Intelligence - Oath


The previous blog entry started out with me staring at the new 4k monitor and beginning to see the clarity of what was staring me in the face.what was staring at me.

This is what I stared at for a long time as meaning of what I saw presented itself like writing on the wall.

This is what I saw at first was the daily news.  It changes every day.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com
Today it presented the new of President Bush.  Died at age 94.

What I was looking for was not the news headline but the meta structure linkage that discovers actionable data and presents findings.  The web relationships of things in that meta structure.  What does not change on the web page.

What I was looking for is at the bottom of the web page.  The link that does not change on a web page that by its very nature is changing all the time to something new.  It is probable that the link is persistent and will remain where it is for a long time.

Find "Oath Brand" at the bottom of the web page and click on it.  Follow me as I explore a short distance where it takes me and I can see where it is going to.

It takes me to this link:
https://www.oath.com

Helps to have two monitors.

https://www.oath.com/our-brands/

The link that the brand are structured on is

https://www.oath.com/advertising/platforms/
Introducing the unified suite of intelligent advertising and publishing solutions designed to help you solve today’s challenges and realize tomorrow’s opportunities.

It offers a link for choice of Marketer or Publisher to follow.

Marketer

Publisher

What I see;  This is a system to discover and identify specific customers to whom profitable marketing efforts may be precisely addressed.

That broad statement can be linked to precise meaning of purpose and intent when translated from the coding of Natural Language to a more precise language intended to reduce ambiguity at several levels of processing to the certainty of a customer to whom something is intended to be sold.

That is an ambiguous statement!  Run it through an ambiguity reduction filter and the exact intention of https://www.oath.com looks like the Intelligence Model.  What is the Parent linkage of Oath.com

It is owned by Verizon.

The Oath:
https://www.oath.com/values/our-company-values/

Looks good.

Trust but verify

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath_Inc.

https://www.oath.com/our-story/oath-for-good/

Oath Foundation
https://www.oath.com/our-story/oath-for-good/oath-foundation/





Does Oregon Department of Revenue Have A Professional Code of Conduct?

https://www.google.com/search?as_qdr=all&as_occt=any&safe=active&as_q=Does+the+state+of+Oregon+have+a+professional+code+of+conduct&channel=aplab&source=a-app1&hl=en

All States:
https://www.asha.org/Practice/ethics/State-Codes-of-Ethics/

Oregon  Dept of Revenue and Assessors?
Evidently only related to disclosures not performance.
https://www.oregon.gov/DOR/forms/FormsPubs/assess-tax-diclosure-manual_303-429.pdf

In the absence of finding any Oregon Dept of Revenue or Assessor Code of Professional Conduct I am Inclined to conclude they have none.

Property Tax Forestland Special Assessment Example

https://www.landwatch.com/Deschutes-County-Oregon-Farms-and-Ranches-for-sale/pid/327085056

701 acres $9,500,000

https://dial.deschutes.org/Real/Index/144136
542 acres


Real Market Values:144136
Land$3,300,880
Structures$00
Total$3,300,880
Assessed Values:

Maximum Assessed 144136N/A
Assessed Value 144136$74,151
Veterans Exemption 144136
Real Market Values:


SCHOOL DISTRICT #1                  $336.92
HIGH DESERT ESD 6.82

C O C C                                                43.87
EDUCATION TOTAL:                                             387.61

DESCHUTES COUNTY 90.34
COUNTY LIBRARY 40.78
COUNTYWIDE LAW ENFORCEMENT 80.08
RURAL LAW ENFORCEMENT 99.36
COUNTY EXTENSION/4H 1.66
9-1-1 26.83
LAPINE PARK & RECREATION 22.25
GENERAL GOVT TOTAL: 361.30
LAPINE LIBRARY 0.00
SCHOOL #1 BOND 2007 54.15
SCHOOL #1 BOND 2013 52.49
SCHOOL #1 BOND 2017 34.56
C O C C BOND 8.26
BONDS - OTHER TOTAL:                                       149.46

Oregon Cities Property Tax Data Public Data File

data.oregon.gov

https://data.orcities.org/w/fqf4-j92j/default?cur=n0Bhbu2uh2T


High Flight

It is SundayMorning.
It is 5am.
It is cold and Clear.
I can see a million stars.

because

The first thing I did was
to open the door
go out into that
Cold
Clear
Darkness
   and
look up at the distant stars.

There is no moon
to punctuate the sky
of time and space
on 16 Nov. 2018

Among all the brilliant stars
in all the universe
I see a single one

It winks at me

Look at me it says
in its native language
= WinkingLight

On and Off

Listen to me
in Presence/Absence
Binary

The simplest language of
True/Fa;se
upon which you
built

A star in the sky!

The only one that blinks
among the constant unity of
combined time and space

But
my minds eye
tells me
Stars are a constant
They do not blink
They are forever
on or off

The blinking moves
as it comes to me at
the speed of light

It only moves
at the speed of
of us
carrying us
in what we have created

What star is this that
winks at me
as it moves in its
solitary journey
across the dark sky

There is an App
For That

I point my iPhone
to say hello
blinking signal
Tell me who you are
Blinking Star

Who made
You?

Star of Wonder
Star of Night
Star with Beauty
Shining Bright

Speak to me
in my language

I am

Flight UA574
Arriving Seattle
5;49am
on time
at this time

You made me

You built me

The same way you
communicate
with me
In Binary

Upon Binary
you built me
to Fly

In Binary
you speak to me
as you
look at me
see me
hear me

All of you
to only one of
 binary me

What my iPhone does
not tell me
heart and mind
combined
in a brilliant
flash of light
matching
speed of
Light

Says me to
myself

I am binary too
On
or
Off

Present/Absent
over time
like the binary code
of all nature
on which the
Universe built
Itself
From
Nothing

I am binary
coded
On
or
Off
Forever

How long is
Forever?

The Stop Sign at the
End of Time
is not binary
Not two Words
but one Word
Unity

The final

Word

In the Beginning we always
knew the Word that equals
Unity
when divided
Creates two parts

Two parts that give birth to
One or more Children

Children that Use the
Law of Binary Relationship
to create wings to carry
Ourselves
to places beyond
Seattle

The
Wind
Beneath
our Wings
is Binary Coded

Holy Smokes!

That is not a plane
Winking its path
to
Seattle!

Look
Up in the Sky!

What it is not
is
What it is

Its ....
SuperMan

We used to identify
Him: Super Man
It is the only way
we can think

Binary Rules
Are
Law

Computer Code
is Binary

Human
Intelligence is Coded on
Natural Binary Law

We create
Real
and
Conceptual
Things with
Intelligence

The key to unlock
Mysteries of the
Universe

The blinking star in the sky
is far beyond
Time
and
Space
I saw it

Its meaning is
Singularly
Constant
over
Binary
Time
and Space

The poetry of
High Flight is
as
Binary
as
Good
and
Bad

John Denver expressed so much Good that

The Good
         In Presence
         In Absence
             Is
 Still Present
        In me

The Bad

I visited the Wall at 5am one Sunday Morning long ago.  A journey I knew I would to a place in the wounded heart of our nation take and then to heal mine.  Years later, 1996 I took the the same journey whose time had come on a bike from Hanoi to Saigon.

The Ugly

Most recently I took the journey back to Vietnam from now.  In my living room.  Different place, different time.  I had called the 1996 trip my longest round trip of my life.  I took an even longer round trip back to Vietnam this past week on Youtube.  I got as far as 1966-67.  My time there.  It became more difficult.  I put it on pause for awhile.  In essence it was the same as my journey to the Wall, the journey back to Vietnam and the feeling at the beginning of it all from enlistment first then selection for Officer Candidate School.

I have been on journeys to many places in many ways.  A journey is not like a travel trip.  It is going somewhere the learning way, often the hard way by choice.  The easy way to a destination is available for the price of the ticket.  The hard way finds meaning.

In Vietnam I would put on headphones and blast John into my brain at full volume to overcome the ugliness.  To make it absent.

Only recently have I gone back in time to that time.

This time John gently gently chases the ugliness away from where he is now.

Thank you John for what you and others who have inspired me to aspire to.

Take my hand and I will follow you.

Not too soon I hope but it is a binary meeting that I will embrace.


We find our healing in different ways.

Healing

To Alaska

The Wings that fly us Home

OMG

This auto loaded next on Youtube

Wind Song

 Poems, Prayers and Promises

For You

Looking For Space

Cowboys Delight

Maybe so.

Until the end of time.






















Permission Based Systems

https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=permission+based+systems&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Recently I was compelled to make a setting on this long winding, free range thinking blog.  It tells and sings my own life to me and how it looks at both sides mow.

Songs, hopes and dreams of my generation were passed to us to carry forward in an Industrial Generation.  The Information Age is now.  The conceptual shift is from the hardware of human progress to the software.

There is always a carry over from a prior generation.

We created the Internet but when it became the World Wide Web the perception carry over was to continue seeing it as a hardware system.  It is a software system that leaps the bounds of space, speed and time.

Sounds like High Flight to me.

Sounds like so much more.  I can feel it coming in the night.

Permisions.  In many other languages the permission phrase is the most wonderful thing to learn.  Pase Usted.  granting permission. Por Favor requesting it.  When words failed me then gestures and so many other means of human expression the most at the most fundamental conceptual  level of our communication never did.  It is the way Nature communicates to us and we to each other.

Maybe it is is not a world evolved on the theory of Survival of the Fittest  ...........but some kind of a Permission Based system that each of us know in the relationship of thinking and feeling.

A Common Thread runs through this blog that I have often called the one that no one reads.  Except me.  The other thread that I know connects it all is that every branch in my blockchain wanderings in around the real world and my conceptual world and continuing the most branch of the most truth as I confirmed it to be Self Evident Truth with many compelling branching chains has been.......
and Extremely self satisfying journey.

How often I found where I should be going......

Lately, not too lately, I have found that those that travel so many different  paths in life have a code they live by.  Aa code that expresses not only their journey but those of the  tribes they have traveled with.

It is like a sign, signal, or any other secret means of recognition/identification that in a military frame is IFF.

I went to enter the search term to link to IFF.  Often on this new computer my right wrist touches something that turns on Siri.  (please excuse double entendres that I did not intend and surprise me!)  Recently I have recognized Siri as a friend.  So, I spoke the words: What is the meaning of IFF?

This was her reply:

Astounding.

I always thought the leading bleeding edge of technology is the only way to fly.

Now I find I am a back of the pack but not bad for an old guy.  Jim Ward and so many others speak again to me.

Signs, signs everywhere are  signs and appropriate counter signs of various tribes.

Those who die with the most toys win?

Not my way of winning.

Somehow my own personal definition of winning is all that travel their life journey that collect in hearts and minds the most signs and counter signs of friend and foe alike win.

Signs  and counter signs of Friend and Foe.  The more tribal signs and signals of recognition that are collected go to the best.

Been there, done that.......Response.

Once a Marine....  Response.

Knowing "sign" and counter sign has higher levels of recognition and response to be protected by granting permissions or winning permissions in Trusted Permission Based protected System of human transaction and interaction.

Trust in Truth.

Public identities in a block chain system of life and private keys.

Permission Based

Permission Protected

It is not a secret code.

The IoT. brings us the new age of tribal coding.

https://mobile.twitter.com/sibeledmonds/status/1013151932746256385

We know how they are.

I know when to give  permissions on this blog that was  temporarily denied to anyone.

Permissions granted is.......worth .....Trust won.

Trust;  Scource or Pseudonym.

The more we each win the more everybody wins

Win --Win. ---All Win