Thursday, January 3, 2019

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
Hexagon is a global leader in digital solutions that create Autonomous Connected Ecosystems (ACE), states where data is connected seamlessly through the convergence of the physical world with the digital, and intelligence is built in to all processes.

Hexagon’s industry-specific solutions leverage domain expertise in sensor technologies, software and data orchestration to create Smart Digital Realities™ that improve productivity and quality across manufacturing, infrastructure, safety and mobility applications.

Hexagon’s Safety & Infrastructure division provides software for smart and safe cities, improving the performance, efficiency, and resilience of vital services.

Hexagon (Nasdaq OXM Stockholm: HEXA B) has approximately 19,000 employees in 50 countries and net sales of approximately 3.5bn EUR. Learn more at hexagon.com and follow us @HexagonAB.

Media Contact
Jim Dobbs
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



















Monday, December 31, 2018

Compelling Images



Written a couple weeks ago held as draft until today

My old printer crapped out just when I thought I needed it most but being old school has its advantages!  So does being old and been there, done that and got the T-Shirt in the old school.  

I love adventure and all of you the most.  The adventure like the Road to Kona never ends!  

It ain’t over till its over! Jeanette said the next day after is the first training day for the next one.  

Her inspiration rests in waters at the start and in my heart.

I had trust and confidence I could do it at 50.  Did it and validated that trust in myself and the volunteers that support us.  They are there for us the whole way.  My family was there to support me.  Nameless volunteers were too.  On the PCT they call them “Trail Angels”.

Angles are watching over me in Bend.  

A Band of Angles are a Band of Brothers or a Team of Search and Rescue. 

Strange that when I slipped on ice at Pilot Butte andI broke my leg.  The couple that was there were first to help me.  They had on backpacks and said they wear them hiking up Pilot Butte for training.   

Someone recently asked how I happened to get to Bend.  The story I like to tell but only now can see it better.  So many things are all telling me the rest of the story in a strange sequence of images.  I had not watched this movie for a long time. I saw it in 1957.  14 years old and had read a lot of science fiction books.  I is not about aliens or science fiction.  It is about an inner compulsion to seek and find the truth, the challenges and obstacles placed in the way of finding it.  The false branching presented that to draw us down a branch to nowhere.  

The greatest obstacle in finding the truth appeared as an image to me and I wrote about the Tower of Babel. The division of people on earth to speak different languages that fail to communicate.

A common language is emerging In the Information Age.

We have so much to learn by self teaching by exploring like Fremont did.

Was he drawn to Bend to  explore the wilderness by same image we were?

Linking to my past is another Mount

You know that the best seat in my home is the left side of the sofa.  I enjoy bringing others into my home and the two things I enjoy most about it.  The inspiring view from the deck and the view from the sofa I invite them to sit on as the best seat ever.  I had to cut limbs on the tree to see it better.  I wanted to make the original deck larger.  Then I put in drive way and parking area in the back.  Am I expecting a crowd?


There are no compelling images in the mid west except corn higher than an elephants eye.  But compelling images have the same intrinsic power.  

The most compelling image of all time is placed on a hill called by different name then than we call it now.  It is at the same place today that remains the crux of the division of concepts as well as languages.

The collapse of Twin Tower is a moving image like a past sinking ships in harbor.  

A succession of paradigm sifts has hit me in the last month.  Many of them or maybe all of them were related to bridges that divide us separate us also join us.  On Nov. 11 I stood for a long time looking at names there.  And the meaning of failures to communicate.  



We need a better definition of terms in our own English Natural Language and an least ambiguous translation to all other languages.

A few derive benefit from conflict in which others pay the price.

Some die and others make a killing.

The power of a few to divide is threatened by the power of the truth and those that seek it, design systems based on the a binary physical and conceptual truth and create a system with liberty and justice for all are a serious threat to them.  That is true in Bend, Deschutes County, Oregon the USA and all Nations.  Stealth, Deception, Sneak Attacks on places and concepts poorly defended with no IFF early warning to detect the threat and counter it serve their purpose.  IFF and If and only If just linked to my surprise!

Public data files that did not talk to each other failed to protect the nation.  

Public data files in Oregon are the sources of citizen protection from our own  fail to provide protection because they are because they exist in so many various places. 


more to add later ........

New Years Eve

Much more to add this year!

Thursday, December 13, 2018

Bridges and Draw Bridges

Draft form written 13 DEC 2018
Published New Years Eve

Some are free bridges.  Some are toll Bridges.  Some are Draw Bridges.

One Bridge was too Far.

Link to Christmas Truce.

Christmas is coming and the goose is getting fat.......

Mardell's memory is fading but when we sing the song together again we will laugh again.

I went out to cool off in the hot tub.

Something in the back of my mind and depth of my heart waiting to surface came up to me.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTMMS88gi6c&start_radio=1&list=RDPTMMS88gi6c&t=0


Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Unordir Going to Sea My way

Proceeding at my own course and speed unless otherwise directed.

Drafted 11 DEC

https://2dollarjefferson.blogspot.com/2013/10/hayden-jokes-of-putting-snowden-on-kill.html

Speaking in Terms of Agreement

Draft form 8:00 December 11 2018

After finishing this blog entry I must add more:

Tomorrow starts  a new adventure!

I went back to add it at this link:
https://2dollarjefferson.blogspot.com/2017/11/return-to-standing-rock.html


Much earlier this morning:
Moved so fast I did not even go back to correct mis-spellings that would have slowed speed syntax ore even reducing my fuzzy logic to clarity for any reader to see.  I saw the clarity and intent.  Said what saw as best i could.  Wordsmith and Conceptsmith it later.  Some will see it and Adequacy is sufficient all else is superfluous.

https://history-computer.com/ModernComputer/Personal/Osborne.html

https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=adam+osborne+adequacy+is+sufficient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

A couple days ago I saw this Osborne 1 at Habitat for Humanity.  It was my first computer! Adequate at the time but soon superfluous as a device but in its conceptual heart a building block of the World Wide Web.

When we speak in terms of agreement we understand the the spoken language of agrement  in precise  terms that convey precise coneptul meaning that creates precise conceptual structures.

The Tower of Babel is all about linguistics.

What we have here is a failure to communicate!

The Information Age is all about communication to create conceptual structures like we built things in the Industrial Age.   We built precise machines to go to the moon.

The Information Age is a period of designing and building conceptual structures that will take us far beyond the moon to ....??????  A place beyond it.

A Place Holder that is like the beauty of the space in an unformatted bowl that becomes formattted by precise agreement among all of us on what......the The terms of agreement are beginning at a ....////

come on....don\'t quit.   Never quit.....at the binary level.

Present/Absent meaning and definition of terms built upon them.

Wen it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it is a duck.

Can we all agree on that?

why is it so hard to herd ducks?

Or skin cats in such a brutal manner?

Beyond me!

But not?

That is what I saw going out that dream state door upon awaking from sleep to reality this morning.

My sleep patterns have definatly shifted.

We have build a machine that links physical and the reality of conceptual sructures we have created that have in the time line of history been difunctional and produced dysfunctional results as a fucntion of ambiguity of the terms of reference that were different silos of data, and information.

Concepts created until the Information age....gettin down a new brance here...that lead us down a better patch linking agreement on the dfinition of terms of meaning we define amongst us all.

Codex translates the ambigiity of self governance law and adminstering law in the name of law to the extent that it is .......being used by the few that benefit from skinning our collective selves We The People.

Our fatal flaw is that we do not see the truth.

Truth is is written with a big "T" . if it is written as a small "t".  it can be anything any one wishes it to be, believes it to be and convinces others to be.

We speak many languages in the world.  Lost is translation introduces ambiguity of the slip between the cup and the lip.  We have the tools of machine translation Artificial intelliganence bu there is nothig artificial about the nature of its intelligence in  a Parent Child View.

Socrates

Socratic problem

The problem is s problem to us because we want to see what he said in words he never wrote down.

He expressed communication in Terms of Conceptual Agreement between our Intellegence and the Real World?

That is as far as I can go climbing a tree to get to the moon this morning.

Does it get me  cup of coffee that i have not had yet?

I need more than a cup of coffee to get me launched beyond the first stage.

Perhaps the beauty of the Moon is that everyone in the world sees the same moon in a single night from where they are GPS positiponed.not in real time.   Over the span of eternal now  night time ast the world turns we all see it.

When we all see the move traveling in orbit over time and al have agreement on the terms of reference that meaning that there is no ambiguity of going to the moon then.....

This is where the beauty of the more precise language of numbers leaps to the more precise language of music:

I'll be looking at the Moon but I'll be seeing You.  A reflected image or Image?

You is each of us, all of us collectively as human beings.  Those that choose? to see beyond themselves  the inner You  in themselves and all others on faith have personal terms of reference and their relationships that are mearly a higher level application of... our worldly terms of reference that are good enough for all of us to agree to.

Those worldly Terms of Reference are what we examine and when we all agree to what the are we abide by them in a state of peaceful co-existence.


When terms of reference are written in different languages can be entered on computers in all the different languagles of the world and translated to the same common conceptual meaning then we know that we are getting where we want to go and are all searching for..

Socrates by any other name is Socrates.  The Socratic Problem is solved by creating a platform for all to contribute structured file data that is by definition public from many different data source public silos that are linked  in the most precise language of numerical values to their conceptual higher order meaning  expressed any given Natural Language.

Building the Tower of Babel again from the ground up...together.  The sum of the bricks is greater than the whole world

https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&biw=1024&bih=591&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=xbgPXLj4F6Ls9AO13p24CA&q=The+whole+is+greater+than+the+sum+of+the+bricks+moon&oq=The+whole+is+greater+than+the+sum+of+the+bricks+moon&gs_l=img.3...11043.12623..13231...0.0..0.51.249.5......1....1..gws-wiz-img.nmEWOTV0ef8

Looking deeply into the above link and the bricks beneath it is one way to see what is beneath going to the Moon and taking us to actually seeing what the next link that will take us to seeing the moon is because we have always been searching for how to go there.

The precise expression and meaning of the above link is difficult to see.

Any computer user can click on the complexity of the above link product of a machine language to see the same result as clicking on this linking representation of the link:

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts

Many have stood on the shoulders of Giants to enable each and all to make and add a brick by creating systems that provide each and all of us to contribute a brick to the structure.  That same system filters out the past and present contribution of any and all that bricks that that did not contribute or undermined to a bigger purpose of the structure.

I have my own unique tree to climb my way.

Coffee time!

The definition of "link"  depends on it frame of reference to give it meaning in sentences and paragraphs. (Terms of Agreement).

Many views:
https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS806US806&biw=1200&bih=654&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=tccPXPWhDOSy0PEP5O21gAo&q=chain+links&oq=chain+links&gs_l=img.3..0l10.25875.31038..32160...0.0..0.147.855.14j1......1....1..gws-wiz-img.......0i8i30j0i5i30j0i67.YWYRtEbor6c

instance of the Class view:

https://www.google.com/search?q=ball+and+chain&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS806US806&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiH9oTP_ZffAhXzHjQIHbUcA-8Q_AUIDigB&biw=1200&bih=654


Break a link and the chain is broken

https://www.google.com/search?q=truth+chains&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS806US806&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiJxIL9_ZffAhXCIjQIHZSmCJkQ_AUIDygC&biw=1200&bih=654


Some chains are never broken.

https://www.google.com/search?q=some+chains+are+never+broken+oath+dedication+love&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS806US806&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiQ4f7e_pffAhU3FzQIHU8MAZwQsAR6BAgGEAE&biw=1200&bih=654

Some promise never to break them.  Some have names recorded some do not.  We may never know their names but honor those unknown symbolically.  We know who they are because known and unknown their inspiration is honored by carrying the torch they carried and handed to us.

Many have held that torch.  It takes different form and means of expression.

https://www.google.com/search?q=flame+keeper+standing+rock&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS806US806&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi2npyzgpjfAhXBITQIHWrhBdcQsAR6BAgGEAE&biw=1200&bih=654

Some stood on the other side of the barricaded bridge with riot control water cannon.  Their weapon to douse the flame in  brave hearts of those on the other side with water they defended as sacred.  An effective weapon to kill flame as well as lives in sub zero temperatures.





















Friday, December 7, 2018

Justice Denied === War====Justice Restored



The Department of Revenue  Forestland Special Assessment Value 0f $79.38 per acre 2018-19 that you certify to all County Assessors for application all Eastern Oregon Forestland on property tax rolls tax perpetrates an injustice upon Oregon taxpayers.  

I know about war and restoration of justice.  Peace was not my profession.  My profession was restoration of justice denied .   A civil society in which government derives its power from the consent of the governed.

Vigilant defense and maintaining a system to attack when justice is violated restores it.  

The certified value is what I intend to attack because it is unjust.   I certified things that I judged myself on and only recently resolved.  It is a very difficult thing to play a defined role in a system.  A good system with critical flaws.  

The Forestland Special Assessment value must stand the test of judgement on the facts.  Those facts are found in every Property Tax statement sent to every property owner. They all have an individual right to appeal their own tax bill for review and judgement.  Any taxpayer, depending on public records available on the internet, may examine the tax record of any and all other taxpayers.  Other records may be obtained as necessary and managed in accordance with privacy rules.

Property Tax Classifications have different property values based on fair reasons in law and administration.

Some categories property ownership and purpose do not pay any tax for valid reasons.  Others pay reduced rates for various officially  approved reasons based on Special Assessments.  Table 7, Assessor Sal report presents total values of all Special Assessments.

Private benefit of property tax reduction at public expense is based on public consensus that the private recipient of the benefit should receive it. All other taxpayers without a Special Assessment pay an incremental amount to offset the private benefit. 

All property tax collected in a county is revenue in an equal amount distributed to tax districts to fund public services. That is.where fair tax based on fair Assessment becomes revenue to our public services.

This is where the $79.38 per acre Forestland Special Assessment Value you certify and therefore authorize for county assessor tax computation requires examination and judgement.

(Link here to all supporting property tax documents and related summary  distribution of revenue to recipients)

That the Forestland Special Assessment intent  fair in its application that is certified?  

 Is it legat? Absolutely,  By some hidden perversion of twisted functions based on law.   

Is the result unjust private gain at public expense?  

I only present the facts of intent and result.  

What went wrong?

It is a loaded question.  You will not, nor will anyone in the entire chain of making and administering the law upon which it is based answer that question.

The fault is not in our system of governance by consent of the governed.

We the People of Oregon voted for our best choices to represent us and serve us.      

The only way it can be answered is that it is the law.  Where is it?  Go to an ORS or a measure or whatever.  That is the reason for unjust operation of our system of government?  Voting against our own self interest?

Why do we do that?

The law says that this Certified $79.38 Forestland Special Assessment value is certified to be legal.  Do you certify it to be just?

There is a difference between and Oath of office and a Code of Conduct by those that hold that office.  In Public Service that  Code is not based on law but on the ethic principals of those that serve our own City, County and Country government that serves us all.  Each and every citizen can fill in the specific names of those levels.

I took an oath to serve many times.  Each time it was a honor to advance based on my dedication to a Code and its values.  Code is not a demanding Law.  

You just happen to be in that unenviable position of certifying it.  

Of course it is unjust.

Has anyone in the entire Oregon Government that serves us ever taken a stand on a Code of personal responsibility and accountability that calls for action on this violation of tax justice?

I took the Oath to Serve. Serving with Honor is a Code of Conduct.

The Military Code of Conduct has changed over the years.  I memorized it.  lived by it.  The final code remains the Code of those who have served continue to serve serve in accordance with a code of conduct as Americans.

 Article VI:
I will never forget that I am an American, fighting for freedom, responsible for my actions, and dedicated to the principles which made my country free. I will trust in my God and in the United States of America.[3]

Is this the best that public servants in our government system of a Department of Revue can do?

Essentially that is the final most critical question that I ever rarely asked of those for whom I had responsibility and accountability for performance of their duties.  The same question I continually asked myself and demand of myself a true answer in self judgement.

It either motivates those that live the same code to do better.  The flip side of that is shame that they cannot measure up.

I did ask the question very few times.  It is only asked when it is positive motivation of leadership responsibilities not to demand performance but inspire it.  
On Nov 28, 2018, at 11:05 AM, BROCKIE Jason D * DOR wrote:

Tim, I will do my best to help. 
Jason
From: Timothy Lester [mailto:timlester@me.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 11:03 AM
To: BROCKIE Jason D * DOR
Subject: Re: Phone call on forestland question
Jason
It is a complex thing!  I appreciate your reply.  
I only have two questions and only need to work on how they are framed.,
I will send them soon.
Tim
Sent from my iPhone

On Nov 28, 2018, at 10:51 AM, BROCKIE Jason D * DOR <Jason.D.BROCKIE@oregon.gov> wrote:
Mr. Lester,
I understand you may have some additional questions for me about forestland special assessment.  I received your message while away, so I instructed my program experts to contact you.  I apologize for not being able to call you myself. 
I understand you would prefer to communicate by email, is that correct? Email is fine with me.  Toni told me you have good understanding of the program , but there might be more specific question(s) you have for me.  What can I help you with?  
Thank you,
Jason
Jason Brockie
Special Programs Manager
Property Tax Division
Oregon Department of Revenue
(503) 507-0576
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