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In the 1920s the German banker and businessman Franz Wilhelm Koenigs (Kierberg/Brühl 1881-1941) put together a large collection of Old Master drawings that became world- famous for its superb quality. It is now known as the Koenigs Collection out of respect for its creator, who also owned more than 50 paintings.
Koenigs, the fifth of six children born to a Catholic German father and a Lutheran mother of Dutch descent, became a member of the board of the Delbrück Schickler & Co. bank in Berlin in 1913, and in 1920 he was the co-founder and owner of the Rhodius Koenigs Handel-Maatschappij N.V., which provided credit to German companies and was thus also regarded as a bank. It had its seat in the Netherlands (Keizersgracht 117-121, Amsterdam) in order to get around the trade restrictions imposed on Germany by the Allies after the First World War. In 1921 Koenigs also became a director of the Delbrück von der Heydt & Co. bank in Cologne, and also held many non-executive directorships in major companies at home and abroad, including the Hollandsche Buitenland Bank in 1925. He also had a widespread network of contacts in the financial and industrial worlds, as well as relatives in politics and the army, especially in Germany.
In 1922 he was joined by his wife and five young children, who came over from Germany (Cologne). The following year the family moved into a large villa at Florapark 8 in Haarlem. >SOURCE
Koenigs made a fortune in the Netherlands thanks to the favourable economic climate and low taxation in the 1920s, as well as to his keen business sense, and although he too was hit by the worldwide crisis triggered by the Wall Street crash of 1929, he and his company managed to weather the storm.
In addition to drawings, Koenigs bought several dozen paintings by old and modern masters (mainly the Impressionists). Although he acquired his first works of art before moving to Holland (he bought his first Impressionist works during his time in Paris in 1903- 1904), most of his drawings entered the collection in 1921-1931.
One important source of inspiration for his collecting activities was his uncle Felix Koenigs (1846-1900), a banker and director of Delbrück Leo & Co. in Berlin, who played a leading role in the cultural life of the German capital and had a collection of contemporary art which he left in part to the city's Nationalgalerie and in part to his family. The Koenigssee and the Koenigsallee in a new luxury villa district in Berlin were named after him. In fact, cultural interests were in Franz Koenigs's blood, for his mother Johanna Bunge (1851-1934) was a gifted amateur artist and musician. On 26 April 1914, in Eddelsen/Hittfeld (near Seevetal below Hamburg), Franz Koenigs married Anna (Mucki) von Kalckreuth (1890-1946), daughter of the German Symbolist artist Count Leopold von Kalckreuth (1855-1928). The couple met in 1910 when Von Kalckreuth painted the portrait of Koenigs's mother in her Neo-Gothic castle in Sinzig-am-Rhein (between Bonn and Koblenz).
L: Franz and Anna Koenigs, Berlin, c. 1915
R: Franz Koenigs at Florapark 8, Haarlem, c. 1930
"He had the collecting urge very early on, when as a young man in Paris he bought the French paintings and lithographs of Lautrec. He found it such a shame that the museums and printrooms were always closed after his busy working day, and wanted to have something himself that he could always look at."
(Anna Koenigs, Countess Von Kalckreuth, 1946)
Koenigs was an avid and decisive collector who set himself a clear goal. He wanted to build up an encyclopedic collection that provided the broadest and most complete overview of the development of drawing in Western Europe. He wanted it to be the most important private collection in the world in that respect.
Koenigs was an energetic businessman who travelled widely. He was often in his home city of Cologne, where he was a bank director, and his office there was his contact address and temporary storage facility for the works of art he had bought, and he often visited, even after moving to Haarlem. In 1931 he spent some time in a sanatorium there, recovering from an illness. He contacted local art dealers whenever he visited European capitals, most notably Berlin, Paris, London, Madrid and Vienna, as well as in New York, and they were more than happy to visit him in his hotel, bringing their stock with them. Dealers also got in touch with him when he was abroad, proposing purchases by letter. However many drawings he bought, though, Koenigs was always highly selective.
He often bought extensively at major auctions in the 1920s, and in this he was assisted by the staff of the Paul Cassirer gallery in Amsterdam and by other dealers like Nicolaas (Nic) Beets (1878-1963, the grandson of the well-known Dutch author and poet), who bid for him up to preset limits. Beets also acted for him when he lent 119 drawings (almost half of the 261 works of art in the show) to the major exhibition of Italian art in Dutch collections in Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum in 1934. For many years Koenigs was also in regular contact with the well-known collector F.J. (Frits) Lugt (1884-1970) in Maartensdijk and later The Hague in order to arrange which of them would bid for what at auctions, and to buy and exchange drawings and paintings. Koenigs bought many of his works from the dealer Gustav Nebehay in Leipzig, and later in Vienna. He was usually far too busy to attend auctions himself.
'Now I know why you were in Berlin recently! Best wishes, Huldschinsky'. Franz Koenigs is seated in the middle of the room (second row, behind the man with the glasses) at the Huldschinsky auction at the Cassirer & Helbing premises in Berlin on 10 and 11 May 1928 (newspaper cutting with a handwritten message from the collector Oscar Huldschinsky)
He also profited from the favourable climate for dealing and collecting, and made maximum use of his contacts, particularly in Germany. When the grand-ducal collections were disposed of in Weimar in 1923 he acquired the most important drawings as well as the two famous Gabburri albums containing 401 drawings by Fra Bartolommeo. In 1929 he bought the entire private collection of Julius Böhler in Luzern, a German art dealer with whom he had been doing business since the early 1920s. That group of 238 drawings included sheets by Rembrandt and Giambattista Tiepolo, who were among Koenigs's favourite artists.
The interior of Florapark 8 in Haarlem. The boxes of drawings were stored in the cupboards
Franz Koenigs took good care of his collection. In 1926 he added a wing to his large villa in Haarlem to house his growing collection. He also went to great lengths to store his drawings properly. His wife made the mounts and boxes [ill.]. [enWOKlezing17jan09.pdf] The latter were kept in wooden cupboards [ill.]. Visitors came regularly to view the collection, and if Koenigs himself was not at home they were received by his wife and eldest daughter.
Original black boxes for the drawings, with red labels
The drawings were arranged by school (Netherlandish, Dutch, Flemish, German I and German II, French I and French II, Italian, English, Spanish) and then alphabetically by artist. The German and French drawings were subdivided chronologically: before and after 1600 and before and after 1800. There was a separate section for drawings by Rembrandt and his pupils. The drawings were numbered sequentially within each section and a brief description of each one was entered in an inventory. Koenigs did not do this himself but left it to his advisers from the Cassirer gallery: Dr Helmuth Lütjens and Walter Feilchenfeldt. The first reference to these inventory numbers dates from 1927 (D I 11, 18 and 41).
The Koenigs Collection soon became famous internationally. The collector Frits Lugt, with whom Koenigs was in regular touch, wrote: 'Rarely has such a choice assemblage been put together in such a short space of time, in ten years or so'. >SOURCE In 1930 and 1933 the well-known German art historian, Prof. Max J. Friedländer, director of the Kupferstich- Kabinett in Berlin, edited two large, de luxe facsimile volumes titled Meisterzeichnungen aus der Sammlung Franz Koenigs, Haarlem, each containing 21 high-quality reproductions of French and Venetian drawings respectively, which were published by Prestel-Verlag in Frankfurt.
L: Albrecht Dürer, inv. D I 19
M: Leonardo da Vinci, inv. I 466
R: Rembrandt, inv. R 10
L: Lucas van Leyden, inv. N 13
M: Claude Lorrain, inv. F I 120
R: Cézanne, inv. F II 149
L: Rubens, inv. V 81
M: Gainsborough, inv. E 5
R: Goya, inv. S 16


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A Goodbye Message from Mike Miles
Caltrans District 7 Director, Mike Miles, announced his retirement from Caltrans after 25 years of service
"It is with mixed emotions that I inform you that I am retiring effective July 31.
After 25 years of service to the best transportation organization in the state, I am proud to say that I work for Caltrans. The qualified staff here has the keen knowledge to get the job done and get it done right.
I've experienced the highs and the lows. I'm thrilled that we made it safer for all trucks statewide at night by installing safety working lights (that was started here), and I'm sad that I had to personally report to five different families the loss of their loved ones on the job.
I've seen the Department from several angles – from Permits to Planning, from Project Management to Maintenance, from Headquarters leadership to District Directorship – and I can unequivocally say that you guys are the best.
You're a premier group. Keep up the good work. Continue to be the professional, cutting edge organization we are no matter what changes occur.
I'm going to miss the work, but mostly the people. Be well and thank you for your service."
Kind regards to you all,
Mike Miles
June 17, 2013
(Editor's note: Receptions for Mike will be held on or about July 30. Stay tuned for details).

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Maybe you have heard about it since there is a little hype about it right now.
Here's a short description of what passing the hash is all about:
When you normally log in to a SMB share you have to enter your username/password combination.
But the good thing is, you do not have to know the password when you know the password hash. That means you can log in to any SMB share where you do know the username/passwordhash combination.
The main advantage is that Rainbow Tables for LM/NTLM hashes become redundant. You do not have to know the password.
How does it work?
To authenticate to a SMB share, the Samba client/Windows only uses the password hash but not the password, so all that has to be done is use a modified SMB client which takes the passwordhash.
In summary all that is needed is a modified Samba client which uses username/passwordhash combination instead of username/password cominations!
A modified Samba client can be found here:
More information on LM/NTLM authentication can be found here:
A SMB proxy can be found here:
For Windows, the passwordhash is changed using dll injection:


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WATCH: Kacey Musgraves sings new Oreo commercial
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Kacey Musgraves is pondering what might have been in a new Oreo ad. In the cookie company's latest commercial, the country star speculates in song about how her life might be today if she "gave an Oreo to this cute guy" she "used to know."
Musgraves tweets about recording the 30-second spot, saying she "loved singin' & whistlin'" the "sweet little @oreo song." She also includes a YouTube link to the ad, which is posted on her website as well.
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LSU Safety Jalen Mills Arrested, Accused Of Punching Woman
Baton Rouge police have arrested LSU safety Jalen Mills on a second-degree battery warrant stemming from a May 4 incident in which he allegedly punched a woman.
The Advocate reports the 20-year-old Mills was booked Wednesday into Parish Prison on second-degree battery.
LSU sports spokesman Michael Bonnette says Mills is suspended indefinitely from the football team.
Mills has started all 26 games in his LSU career, and he ranked third on the roster last season with 67 tackles and notched three interceptions last season.
Mills, who also was a freshman All-American, was moved to safety late last season as LSU tried to season a pair of freshmen cornerbacks in Tre'Davious White and Rashard Robinson.
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5th Harmony celebrates 1 year with 5 shows in 1 day!
Happy one year anniversary to 5th Harmony! It has been one whole year since Dinah, Lauren, Ally, Normani, and Camila began their journey as 5th Harmony, and the girls celebrated in a very big way!
The ladies shared the excitement with their fans Harmonizers, while in New York City, with five pop-up shows, concluding at the iHeartRadio theater.
The show at the iHeartRadio theater was based on a first-come, first-serve basis, with 20 lucky fans winning entry to the show on New York's z100. Within their celebratory one year, they have built a Harmonizer army, who were waiting outside the iHeartRadio theater hours and hours before the show even started.
In fact, their single "Miss Movin On" was only just recently released because fans demanded it be released early. The music video has over 2.5 million views!
The girls have spent the last 6 months recording their album, which they have been very involved in the process of, and are in the middle of their #HarmonizeAmerica mall tour traveling all across the U.S.
But 5th Harmony isn't stopping there. Harmonizers can catch the ladies, along with Cher Lloyd, in the fall for the "I Wish" tour.
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Following the re-election of President Barack Obama, the AIA has released a statement calling on legislators in Congress and leaders in the executive branch to work together toward building a sound budget for the future.
"Now that the election battle is over, we urge both the White House and the newly elected Congress to launch a new era of statesmanship by putting aside differences on the budget and by enacting policies that will help put the economy on a more solid footing for all Americans," says AIA president Jeff Potter, FAIA, in a release. "In particular, we urge both parties to solve the impending budget impasse known as the 'Fiscal Cliff,' where mandatory budget cuts and tax hikes threaten to cost more than 60,000 construction jobs."
Architects' need for budgetary clarity going into 2013 can't be overstated. According to a report released by the AIA, the $1.2 trillion in mandatory cuts that result from the Budget Control Act of 2011 in lieu of a greater compromise—an eventuality known as sequestration or the fiscal cliff—could mean $2 billion in lost work and more than 60,000 lost jobs for the architecture and building industries. That makes the fiscal cliff the number-one legislative priority going into the end of 2012 and the beginning of 2013.
The AIA also released a number of other priorities for the re-elected Obama administration and the 113th Congress. These priorities include easing access to credit for developers, adopting a comprehensive plan for addressing the nation's infrastructure, enacting incentives to encourage energy conservation in buildings, and promoting tax reforms to benefit small businesses.
Writing for Slate's financial column, Matthew Yglesias observes one point that architects will want to keep in mind while thinking about the fiscal cliff: It is not, in fact, a cliff. Describing it as "a deeply banal situation," Yglesias says that there is no real difference between resolving this crisis before or after its onset. In either scenario, Congress must pass legislation that sets appropriate targets for spending cuts and tax relief.
But that perspective ignores the possibility that markets could react terribly to signs of government dysfunction, the way they did during the original debt-ceiling crisis. To that end, outlining and enacting legislative priorities now is much more effective than after the economy "goes over" the metaphorical fiscal cliff. And according to the AIA's release, the AIA is outlining detailed legislative priorities now, which it will release in coming weeks. Public and private sectors alike should be having this conversation now in order to forestall even the suggestion of legislative or financial crisis.


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Fixed it for me ty vm
if you get this or a similar error when clicking on the volume icon, it can fixed by navigating to System>Preferences>Startup Applications...
now click add
next name the startup application
Then under command type /usr/bin/pulseaudio
now logout and restart the xserver and you should be good to go
Fixed it for me ty vm
no problem, happy to help out
yeah! helped me too.... tnx
thanks, that helped me too
+1 Worked
right on, again always happy to help.
MODS... I know this is kinda basic but since people are having success with it, you can feel free to move this to the how to section if you'd like.
Thanks a lot!
Thanks! it worked here as well....
is there anyway this can be scripted? (i'm writing a script to implement all fixes)


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Wheels of Fire
posted at 6:44 pm on November 30, 2009 by Dafydd ab Hugh
I love beginning posts with personal anecdotes, which you can deduce from the fact that I never do it. No time like the present to start!
One week in high school, my all-time second-favorite social studies teacher, Lyle Thornton Wolf, presented us with a fascinating unit:
On Monday, he passed out forty-eight distinct high-school and college level American history textbooks (there being 48 students in the class). Each of us got a different textbook, though some were merely later versions of an earlier text that somebody else had. Each of us took his book home with instructions to read and "brief" (like a lawyer would) the factual events — not interpretations or speculations — recounted in his book about the Boston Massacre.
Then on Wednesday, Mr. Wolf began going through the incident, student by student, making a "comparison table" on the blackboard using every important fact from each book… e.g., the number of colonists killed by the redcoats, the number wounded, how many lobster-backs and Yankee doodles were present, what provocation (if any) did the colonists give to the soldiers, how long the shooting lasted, who was the first shot, and so forth.
As a court trial followed the shootings, and that trial took eyewitness and forensic evidence (future President John Adams defended the soldiers), one would expect nearly all the facts to be reported the same way in every textbook. Not so; there was significant variation in the details taught to students about that infamous eruption of anti-democratic violence.
But Mr. Wolf didn't stop there, and this was his genius; he was more interested in teaching us good researching skills than specific numbers of people killed in the Boston Massacre. Thus he also made each of us read the footnotes, endnotes, and any other errata indicating the source of the supposed facts reported in his assigned book; he then put up a posterboard list of all the textbook titles arranged like a matrix.
As we reported the sources for each book, Mr. Wolf drew an arrow from the source to the book that cited it. After about ten books, we quickly realized that not a single one of the 48 textbooks cited any primary document or original source material; each cited only other high-school or college textbooks. In fact, only a couple of them cited texts not already in our hands (both times older editions of books we did have).
Worse, the entire set of citations was a snarl of textbook "daisy chains": Textbook A (let's say it was the 1962 edition) would have an arrow pointing to B (1964); B pointed to C (1965), which pointed to D (1968)… but D then pointed to a later version of textbook A, say the 1970 edition.
In other words, there was no "ultimate source": The books just referenced and reinforced each other.
Thus it was hardly a surprise that, variations aside, all the books agreed on the core issues: The colonists were disorderly but didn't provoke the shooting; no colonist used a firearm; the British were almost entirely to blame; and they only got off because of the eloquence of Adams. The issue was closed; no need to rethink any basic premise. After all, if that interpretation of the data wasn't perfectly true, what are the odds that all those textbooks would just happen to agree with each other?
On Saturday, as Climategate really began to heat up, the princes of the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) started to get their backs up. They were driven to agree, at long last, to release the raw data behind their predictions… or as much of it remained after they deliberately destroyed most of it in the 1980s.
Faced with the charge that the data they destroyed could have shown that globaloney theory was built on sand (and fabricated sand at that), one of the university's vice chancellors concocted a novel counterargument:
Professor Trevor Davies, the university's Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Research Enterprise and Engagement, said yesterday: "CRU's full data will be published in the interests of research transparency when we have the necessary agreements. It is worth reiterating that our conclusions correlate well to those of other scientists based on the separate data sets held by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies."
Like a speech by Barack H. Obama's teleprompter, it sounds good out of the corner of your ear; but in reality, this argument is a complete non-sequitur. And the inability of Professor Davies to apprehend his own paralogia speaks volumes about the real failure of the anthropogenic global climate-change (AGCC) cabal.
The charge against the CRU is not that they know their theory is unfounded, nor yet that they deliberately and with malice aforethought suppress the opposing view, nor that they do so for sinister, political reasons. Not a bit of it.
The real charge is that certain scientists have utterly bought into AGCC; they consider themselves the "anointed," and they're so adamant in their cosmic certainty that they reject any contrary claims or findings as so much nonsense, unworthy even of an answer. The anointed treat AGCC heresy as they would treat Holocaust denial or creationism.
But while no reputable scientist denies the Nazi mass murders or rejects evolution by natural selection, AGCC hardly enjoys such universal acceptance. In fact, it is quite controversial, with reputable, published, peer reviewed scientists in relevant fields on both sides of the issue.
AGCC proponents insist that they are more numerous than AGCC critics; but scientific consensus is not settled by voice vote. In order for a "consensus position" to form on man-made climate change, it's not enough to have 75% of scientists agree, or 80%, or even 95%. Rather, every respected scientist in a relevant field must agree; and every objection or demur lodged by such a respected scientist in the atmospheric sciences must be fully and completely answered to the satisfaction of the entire field. So long as that remains undone, the hypothesis remains controversial, and there is no consensus.
Scientific consensus is very different than, say, political consensus, which can mean at little as a two-to-one majority; mistaking the one for the other is scientific malpractice.
But that is precisely what to call a process where supposed "consensus" is achieved by patently unscientific means — by extorting scientists into pledging undying support for the AGCC thesis and renouncing all dissenters as unscientists, on pain of never getting another grant, publication, or university position if they refuse.
This isn't a scientific argument, it's a street brawl!
To the anointed (I deliberately use the Thomas Sowell term from his seminal book, the Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy), denying the obvious cosmic truth of AGCC brands the denier as a pseudo-scientist; since pseudo-scientists are just quacks and charlatans, there is no need to answer any of his objections, conveniently enough.
Ergo, all respected scientists agree with AGCC theory… because by definition, if you don't agree, you're not a respected scientist.
Given that explosive charge — that AGCC theory has become a scientific cult — it's immediately apparent that if the charge is true, we would expect to find the identical problem rampant at the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Indeed, Goddard is in fact run by James Hansen, who was one of the first major scientists to sound the globaloney alarmism klaxton, even before the Kyoto Protocol, and has been perhaps the biggest booster of the idea that there is a scientific "consensus" on AGCC (and that anybody who disagrees is not a real scientist).
But if the NOAA and ISS are completely controlled by the anointed, just as the CRU appears to be, then it's hardly surprising that they come up with similar global temperature timelines; more than likely, they all link to and cite each other.
Such a "consensus," based upon shared computation, methodology, and analysis, is purely artifactual… just like the "consensus" of the core story of the Boston Massacre: an artifactual consensus forced by incestuous linkages between ostensibly independent publications.
With such deep links of people, methods, and funding between all three groups, it would be astonishing were they not completely in synch with each other.
What is needed to make the argument that Professor Davies evidently wants to make is the following:
- AGCC supporters within the community should push for full funding of respected atmospheric scientists who are AGCC skeptics.
- Skeptics must be given access to all raw data used by supporters to make their case.
- Skeptics must be allowed to pursue different methodologies and new data streams beyond those used again and again (changelessly) by supporters.
- Results discovered by skeptics must be treated fairly in the scientific literature, not rejected as "pseudo-science" merely because they come to a different conclusion on a controversial, cutting-edge topic.
There are of course limits and caveats; let's take a small detour into another field of science to see the right way to answer skeptics. Recently a new attempt is underway to destroy the edifice of evolution by natural selection; its supporters call it "intelligent design" (ID). Its thesis is that some biological processes are too complex to arise naturally, so they must have been consciously designed by an intelligent being.
The alert reader will immediately realize that, window dressing aside, the "intelligent being" must exist outside the normal confines of physical law — else how could it manipulate the biology of an entire planet — and outside the timeline of the universe… else where did the intelligent being itself come from? Thus, whether IDers are willing to admit it or not, they're talking about God, and this is a variation on Creationism tarted up as science this time.
The same reader will also recognize that such a thesis is literally untestable:
- Just because we cannot explain how a particular biological system evolved doesn't mean it's inexplicable, nor that it's too complex to have evolved naturally. It just means we can't explain it today. No system can ever unambiguously satisfy Michael Behe's requirement of "irreducible complexity," so no evidence can ever be produced to prove ID;
- No claim of ID can ever be falsified, even in theory; if a designer is so intelligent, so powerful, and so remote as to be invisible that it can manipulate the entire biological spectrum of life on Earth, then it's also clever enough to be able to hide its own tracks. So there is no possible experiment that can disprove it, either.
Logically, then, since Intelligent Design can neither be proven nor disproven, it is not science. But wait, what about everything I said about consensus above? Very well: Despite the logical problems of ID, evolutionary biologists have answered ID's questions anyway. Behe presented numerous examples of what he called "irreducible complexity" — a system so complex that its individual components would have no function, hence confer no evolutionary advantage, hence the system itself — the sum of the components — could not have evolved.
But scientists have in fact broken down each of these systems (e.g., the eye, the bacterial flagella) into components and shown how each really did have a function… albeit a different function than what the system eventually evolved to perform. They have answered all of Behe's questions, and he has not responded to any of their counterarguments.
Thus at some point, the field of biology must cease considering Behe and his fellow IDers to be "respected scientists"… not out of prejudice or because the biology mainstream disagrees with them, but rather because the IDers refuse to play by the rules of science everyone else must follow. Their own actions (and inaction) brands them pseudoscientists.
By contrast, while some AGCC supporting scientists make an effort to respond to the arguments of the skeptics — for example, about the role sun activity plays in forcing temperature changes — very few of the skeptical counterarguments have been answered satisfactorally, even to scientists who more or less support AGCC: They agree that skeptics are playing by the rules of science, using proper methodology, taking all previous results into account, and so forth; they admit the counter-argument is powerful and must be answered; they agree it hasn't been so far; but they have confidence that it will eventually be shown to be in error.
(Note, I'm not saying the skeptics have "proven" that AGCC is wrong; only that supporters have not proven it is right… and the supporters have the burden.)
That is not the sign of scientific consensus; that is the sign of scientific controversy. And that is the difference between those scientists skeptical of AGCC and those contrarians who refuse to accept evolution by natural selection.
There is no requirement to respond to ill-performed experiments that purport to overturn long-settled science without any willingness on the part of the contrarians to engage in scientific debate. There simply isn't enough time to debunk them every time they bubble up again, lest we be dragged into a creationism-like endless loop of demanding an infinite number of "missing links." But honestly performed experiments by scientists ready and willing to engage in proper debate, using data not denunciations, must be answered; that is the scientific method in action.
Similarly, nobody outside a particular journal can mandate that it publish submitted paper. But journals need to be forcefully reminded that their mission is to discover reality — not mold it into a congenial shape.
Finally, it's important to bear in mind that there are "anointed" on the anti-AGCC side as well; it's entirely possible that a "skeptical" inquirer may actually be a true believer in the opposite of AGCC. He might reflexively reject pro-AGCC evidence, even from his own experiment, because he "knows" it's a crockobaloney. Such charlatans who have ceased being scientists (on both sides) should be shunted aside; but we mustn't throw out honestly interpreted experimental results that produce alternative, natural explanations for recent temperature rises (or deny such rises altogether).
Only after skeptics get their day at bat can the scientific community truly get its mits around what is really happening to the Earth's temperature, what effects (bad and good) that might have, and what, if anything, we can do about it — and whether we should if we could.
I am quite disappointed that a vice chancellor at such a highly respected venue as the University of East Anglia would be unable to reason through to a scientific solution… and would lunge instead for the classic "teen logic" argument: "But Mom, all my friends are doing the same thing!"
Cross-posted on Big Lizards…
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Roseville Police Department
1051 Junction Blvd.
Roseville, CA 95678
Subject :
Multi-vehicle traffic collision takes one life; driver arrested for DUI
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Dee Dee Gunther, Police Public Information Officer 916-774-5015/257-1942
At 3:41 p.m. April 30, Roseville Police and Roseville Fire Department personnel responded to a multi-vehicle crash on eastbound Pleasant Grove Boulevard just west of Roseville Parkway.
Witnesses reported that a blue 2007 Honda Pilot was being driven in an erratic manner from Washington Boulevard onto eastbound Pleasant Grove, where it collided with a 2004 Saturn Vue SUV that was stopped at the back of a line of vehicles at the red light at Roseville Parkway. That set off a chain-reaction collision involving a total of six vehicles.
The front-seat passenger in the Saturn Vue, Robert Alan Weaver, age 69 of Roseville, was taken to the hospital, where he died. His wife, the driver of the Saturn, remains hospitalized in serious condition. Another driver was transported to the hospital with a complaint of pain, and a passenger in another vehicle had pain but did not require ambulance transport.
The driver of the Honda Pilot, a 45-year-old woman from Lincoln, was arrested at the scene on suspicion of gross vehicular manslaughter and driving under the influence of drugs. She was booked into the Placer County Jail and has since been released after posting a $250,000 bail bond.
The eastbound lanes of Pleasant Grove Boulevard in the vicinity of the collision were closed for almost six hours while investigators examined the scene.
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In his third season leading Old Dominion, Jeff Jones and the Monarchs won the inaugural Vegas 16 Tournament. ODU won a total of 25 games during the 2015-16 season, while winning 15 of its last 18 contests. The Monarchs fell just two points shy of punching their ticket to the NCAA Tournament, losing a 55-53 heartbreaker to Middle Tennessee in the Conference USA Championship.
Jones had his point guard, Trey Freeman, earn First Team All Conference USA honors for the second straight season, while leading the C-USA in scoring, averaging 22.1 points per game, which ranked No. 11 in the country. Freeman also led the entire country in made field goals with 323.
Also in 2016, forward Brandan Stith was named to the Conference USA All-Defensive Team, while teammate Zoran Talley was named to the C-USA All-Freshman Team.
Over the past two seasons, Jones has led Old Dominion to 52 wins, which ranks in the top 20 nationally.
In just his first two seasons as head coach at ODU, Jeff Jones guided the Monarchs to 45 wins, including a 27-8 mark in 2015. The Monarchs finished second in Conference USA in their second year of competition in the league. Under Jones' guidance, ODU advanced to the semifinals of the NIT at Madison Square Garden after reeling off wins over Charleston Southern, Illinois State and an exhilarating three-point buzzer-beating victory over Murray State. He eclipsed the 400 collegiate wins milestone in the Monarchs' NIT-opener against Charleston Southern on March 18.
During the 2014-15 regular season, Jones' Monarchs notched several big victories, as ODU took down nationally-ranked VCU and eventual NCAA Tournament team, Georgia State. His squad churned out 10 straight wins from Nov. 24 to Jan. 17, which included wins against C-USA foes Marshall and Charlotte as well as in-state rivals VCU, George Mason and William & Mary. Even more impressively under Jones, Old Dominion has won 24 straight games at the Ted Constant Center dating back to the 2013-14 season, which is the seventh-longest active home winning streak in NCAA Division I Basketball.
Under Jones' leadership, redshirt junior Trey Freeman was named C-USA Newcomer of the Year, was an All-League first team selection and earned C-USA All-Academic Team honors.
Off the basketball court, Jones was honored nationally as the 2015 Barefoot Coach of the Year for his work, contributions and creation of awareness for Samaritan's Feet, which provides shoes to impoverished children (both domestically and internationally).
Jones was named the 13th head men's basketball coach at Old Dominion University on April 4, 2013. He has been a consistent winner at every school, posting a 23-year career mark of 402-313 mark which includes eight years at Virginia and 13 at American as well as his first two seasons at ODU.
In his first season as head coach at ODU, Jones guided the Monarchs to 18 wins, which led the nation with the biggest turnaround in total victories. ODU finished sixth in its first season in Conference USA and advanced to the semifinals of the College Basketball Invitational Post Season tournament.
His teams advanced to 11 post season appearances (two at ODU, six at UVA and three at AU), including a 1995 NCAA Elite 8, a 1993 NCAA Sweet 16 appearance and an NIT championship in 1992 while at UVA. Jones has a 211-183 record at American for 13 years and 146-104 as head coach at the University of Virginia.
One of the most respected teachers in the collegiate ranks, Jones has developed 49 players who have played or are still playing professionally, including six in the NBA (John Crotty, Cory Alexander, Jamal Robinson, Bryant Stith, Junior Burrough and Courtney Alexander). Three of Jones' players have played in the NFL, and as an assistant coach six of his former players have played in the NBA. Additionally seven of his former assistant coaches went on to become head coaches.
Four of Jones' last six teams at American won 20 or more games and two Patriot League championships. Jones led the Eagles to a 20- win season in 2011-12 and advanced to the CollegeInsider.com postseason tournament. His 2010-11 squad went 22-9 with 11-non conference wins, and advanced to the Patriot League semifinals, while the 2008-09 team capped off the season with a 24-8 overall record, matching the program's record for wins, and a 13-1 Patriot League mark. The Eagles led the nation in road wins that season with 11 and their 59.1 points per game allowed average ranked 11th nationally. Jones was named Patriot League Coach of the Year and NABC District 13 Coach of the Year in 2009.The 2007-08 Eagles captured the Patriot League title, and advanced to the school's first ever NCAA Tournament appearance after compiling a 21-12 record, which included a 67-59 win at Maryland. In 2001-02, AU won the regular season title in compiling an 18-12 record.
At American, Jones was the school's winningest all-time coach. During his tenure he developed 21 players who were named All-Patriot League, 23 who went on to play professionally, two who earned Patriot League Rookie of the Year honors (Andre Ingram in 2004 and Derrick Mercer in 2006), and two Patriot League Players of the Year (Patrick Doctor in 2002 & Mercer in 2009). Prior to arriving at American, Jones served as an assistant coach under Jerry DeGregorio at Rhode Island during the 1999-00 season.
Jones was named head coach at UVA in 1990 at age 29, following a standout playing career with the Cavaliers, and eight years as an assistant coach under Terry Holland. He was the youngest head coach in the history of the Atlantic Coast Conference at age 29 and in eight years compiled 146 wins for a .584 winning percentage. He led Virginia to six postseason appearances (five NCAA, one NIT), one regular-season ACC championship, and four, 20-win campaigns. Virginia's win over Virginia Tech during the 1994-95 regular season gave Jones his 100th career victory, making him the second-fastest coach in school history and the fifth-fastest in ACC history to accomplish that feat. He also directed the Cavaliers to five of their top six seasons for field goal percentage defense. In winning the 1992 NIT championship, Jones became the first person to win the NIT title as both a player and a coach.
Prior to his eight-year run as head coach, Jones was an assistant coach for eight years on Terry Holland's staff at Virginia. During his tenure as an assistant, Jones was a part of the Cavaliers' overall record of 162-95 (.630), participating in six NCAA Tournaments while advancing to the Final Four in 1984 and the Elite Eight in 1989.
A native of Owensboro, KY., Jones had a standout career at Apollo High School in Owensboro before playing the point guard position for Virginia from 1978-82. His father Bobby Jones was the head coach at Kentucky Wesleyan from 1972-1980, winning the 1973 NCAA Division II national title. As a four-year starter for the Cavaliers, Jones was known as a leader and prolific passer. With Jones directing the potent offense, UVA compiled an overall record of 102-28 (.785) while leading the Cavaliers to two NCAA and two NIT tournaments. Virginia captured the 1980 NIT title and advanced to the NCAA Final Four in 1981.
Jones finished his career as Virginia's all-time assist leader (598) while also setting the single-season record with 200 assists during the 1979-80 season. Later, he saw both of those records eclipsed by his own player, John Crotty. Jones served as team captain as a senior during the 1981-82 season and played in 129 games during his career. During that time he averaged 6.6 points and 4.6 assists per game while shooting 52.2 percent from the field and 74.3 percent from the free-throw line. Jones was selected in the fourth round of the 1982 NBA draft by the Indiana Pacers.
Jones is married to the former Danielle Decker of Virginia Beach and is the father of three children, Meghann, Madison Perry, and Jeffrey Rober who is a member of the University of Virginia basketball squad. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1982 with a bachelor of science degree in psychology. Jones is the most recent Past President (2016-17) of the NABC.


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What's up with that GUI installer that we have now? I don't know about you, but I'm not a fan of it. I haven't even tried it yet! The manual install as always stills the same, but this time we have to take into account that LILO is no longer our default bootloader.
Disclaimer: I only tried this on VMware, but It should work on any real installation. I assume that you have prior manual install experience (BT3...).
BT4 PreFinal Manual Installation
:: HDD Partitioning
P.S refer to this link for detailed HDD partitioning w/ fdisk http://www.offensive-security.com/do...bt4install.pdf
+64M merely means 64 MB which is more that enough to hold the GRUB folder along with the kernel. It is a good practice to install the boot manager in a separate partition from the root partition.
In case you run out of physical memory, swap space will kick in. A rule of thumb is: double your memory size if you have low memory (e.i 1GB), same size if you have high memory (e.i 4Gb). It is all about personal taste!Code:/dev/sda1 +64M Partition Boot Sector
:: Formatting DrivesCode:/dev/sda2 Varies Swap /dev/sda3 Varies / /dev/sda4 Varies Windows
:: Manually InstallCode:root@bt:~# mke2fs /dev/sda1 root@bt:~# mkswap /dev/sda2 root@bt:~# swapon /dev/sda2 root@bt:~# mkreiserfs /dev/sda3
:: Bootsplash SupportCode:root@bt:~# mkdir /mnt/bt4 root@bt:~# mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/bt4/ root@bt:~# mkdir /mnt/bt4/boot root@bt:~# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/bt4/boot root@bt:~# cp --preserve -R /{bin,home,pentest,root,usr,boot,etc,lib,opt,sbin,var} /mnt/bt4/ root@bt:~# mkdir /mnt/bt4/{dev,mnt,tmp,proc,sys} root@bt:~# mount -t proc proc /mnt/bt4/proc/ root@bt:~# mount -o bind /dev /mnt/bt4/dev/
:: Editting GRUB /boot/grub/menu.lstCode:root@bt:~# cd /media/cdrom0/boot root@bt:~# cp --preserve -R {bootsplash,vmlinuz,initrd.gz} /mnt/bt4/boot/ root@bt:~# chroot /mnt/bt4/ /bin/bash
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Code:root@bt:~# nano /boot/grub/menu.lst timeout 5 #The number of seconds GRUB should wait before booting an OS default 0 #The entry which should be booted by default fallback 1 #The entry which should be booted in the event of the first one failing splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/bt4.xpm.gz # This is an example of using a separate partition for /boot title BT4 PreFinal root (hd0,0) # Boot Partition kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 rw vga=0x317 initrd /initrd.gz title Microsoft Windows XP Home root (hd0,3) makeactive chainloader +1
:: Installing GRUB (When /boot resides in its own partition)
Note: The "root" line must point to the location of your /boot/ partition if you have one. If you do not have one, point it at your / partition.Code:root@bt:~# grub grub> find /grub/stage1 (hd0,0) grub> root (hd0,0) grub> setup (hd0) grub> quit


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From the moment he first walked onto a stage when he was five years old, Jacob Bradbury said he was hooked.
"It was automatic," he said, as he recalled singing a song with Gary Graham. "I can't remember what the song was, but I just remember feeling that energy from the audience that every actor wants."
That initial jolt of adrenalin propelled Bradbury into youth theatre with Theatre Newfoundland Labrador and, eventually, the bachelor of fine arts theatre program at Grenfell Campus, Memorial University of Newfoundland, which he graduated from in April.
The next step for him is more like a leap, directly to New York City, where he will attend the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University, a three-year graduate program for the theatre arts.
If the Actors Studio name rings a bell, it might be because of the "Inside the Actors Studio" television program, where Actors Studio Drama School dean emeritus James Lipton interviews famous thespians in front of an audience of students.
The school has launched the careers of a few notable actors, including Paul Dano and Bradley Cooper.
The Actors Studio itself is an organization for professional actors, theatre directors and playwrights in New York City. The current co-presidents are legendary actors Al Pacino, Harvey Keitel and Ellen Burstyn.
Bradbury had looked into the program before, but it wasn't until his last semester at Grenfell that he made contact again, sending in the required letter of recommendation, statement of intent, professional acting resumé and head shot. He was invited to New York for an audition — he actually had three other auditions, all in New York in the same week, with the London-based Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Harvard University's American Repertory Theater, and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts — but the Actors Studio stood above them all.
"That's the one I really wanted," he said. "The Actors Studio has been the school of my dreams for a few years now."
Performed for a panel
With the help of his uncle, fellow Grenfell theatre graduate Mark Bradbury, and Grenfell professor Jerry Etienne, Bradbury selected and perfected a two-person, roughly five-minute scene, which he and Etienne performed for a panel of personnel at the school.
"They were in complete darkness and you couldn't see them, all the light is on you," said the 24-year-old Corner Brook native, the son of Bob and Gertrude. "You basically take a breath and go into the scene."
After the first audition, he was approached outside the room by a member of the panel, who told Bradbury she liked what he did, but wanted him to go further with it, so he was asked to perform the scene a second time. Again he left the room, but was then brought back in for a chat session, where the panel asked about details of his life and acting background.
"I went outside again and another woman, who I had not even seen inside, took me aside and said, 'OK, we usually don't do this, but we want to give you a shot. Usually we don't tell people when they're here that they have a shot,'" he said. "I was completely taken aback."
He's hoping the program enables him to act professionally, whether it be in film or stage.
"I love acting and I will continue to act throughout my life," he said. "There's nothing else that I've fallen in love with like acting."
He said he's also the first Newfoundlander to get into the program.
"I am extremely proud of that," he said. "No one from Newfoundland has gone to the Actors Studio."
Bradbury departs for New York to begin his studies in August.
In the meantime, he'll be starring in the Off-Broadway Players production of Sarah Kane's "Blasted" at the Corner Brook Arts and Culture Centre on April 16-17, as well as at the provincial drama festival at the Stephenville Arts and Culture Centre on April 21.
According to a press release, the play, inspired by the Bosnian war, challenges audiences to see past aggression and violence to the beauty of love, compassion and forgiveness. It is directed by Jordan Stringer.
Bradbury plays the part of the soldier, who enters the hotel room of characters Ian (Jim Parsons) and Cate (Addy Schoichet), after which a series of brutal events unfold. The production contains strong language, violence and mature themes and admission is restricted to those 18 or older.
"I don't want to get into details about what (the solider) does, because I don't want to ruin it," said Bradbury. "But the show is very, very dark."


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Yet it cannot be expected that every man should accept the faith without reasoning; and here Ficino found a place for Platonism.
Platonism is pantheistic in that nature is resolved into God.
Platonism was in the air, at least was in the air breathed by an Augustine.
The contact of the Church with Platonism was on the mystical side.
He was also greatly influenced by Platonism and Zoroastrianism.
The reader will notice the Platonism and Neo-Platonism of all this.
It became popular in Germany, as Platonism, to which it is closely related, became popular in ancient Greece.
I could not rest in your Platonism—I will tell you why hereafter.
As has already been said, the Trinitarian scheme has close affinities with Platonism.
His confusion of Platonism with Neo-Platonism is especially annoying.
The philosophy of Plato, or an approach to philosophy resembling his. For example, someone who asserts that numbers exist independently of the things they number could be called a Platonist.


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PHOTO: Britney Spears Pens Touching Personal Letter To Fan
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One Britney Spears super fan is sharing his special moment with the star. A young man named David LeCours has posted a photo on Instagram of a letter he received from Britney after meeting her at a recent meet-and-greet event.
David says he handed her a letter then told her how her music had helped him battle severe depression while coming out as gay.
The fan says a bodyguard stopped him after the show to get his address and a few weeks later he received a response penned by Britney herself. In it, she says she was inspired by his story and "courageous" words and that it "means so much to [her] to have a fan like [him] who takes the time to sit and write such a touching letter."
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Whiteblack the Penguin Sees the World
Reading Level: Ages 4-9
Whiteblack the penguin is running out of stories to tell on his radio show - not a good thing to happen to the Chief Storyteller of Penguinland. Waving goodbye to his friends, Whiteblack sets off in a little boat, in search of new stories. His journey is fraught with mishaps and misadventures, and doesn't quite go as Whiteblack had planned - but the plucky little radio star takes it all in stride, planning to use everything as a new story!
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A 15-page recollection written by Michelle Hoover's great-grandmother became the basis for Hoover's novel, The Quickening (Other Press), about two neighboring farm wives in the upper Midwest during the early 1900s. The author shifts points of view between the women to reveal their lives, resilience and sacrifices.
The Catholic Irish didn't settle just in the cities of the East and Midwest -- many ended up out West. In David M. Emmons' Beyond the American Pale: The Irish in the West, 1845-1910 (University of Oklahoma Press), you'll discover the conflict created when the Catholic Irish migrated to the frontier -- where Protestant Americans had already gone to reinvent themselves.


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"I realize that it was not my fault. It was an unfortunate event that had big consequences for Ireland, but it wasn't the fault of the refereeing team."
-- Swedish referee Martin
Hansson says he and his assistants weren't to blame for the infamous Thierry Henry handball because their views were obstructed. (ESPNsoccernet)


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Klamath County Assessor
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Klamath Falls, OR 97601
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As of February 1, 2017
As of February 1st the Klamath County Assessor's office will no longer be transferring manufactured home titles. All future transfers will be handled by the Building Codes Division of the State of Oregon. After February 1st, customers can transfer their manufactured home titles at mhods.oregon.gov. For further assistance or questions please contact the Building Codes Division at 503-378-4530.
Who we are and what we do:
Someone has ruefully noted, "The Assessment & Taxation Departments are a county government's greatest political liability and its greatest economic asset". Klamath County has 74 taxing districts and 16 special districts for whom fifty-seven million dollars ($57,000,000) in property taxes and fees will be collected and to whom that money will be distributed in 2008-09.
The purpose of the "ad-valorem" property tax system is to provide a financing mechanism for local governments such as cities, school districts, fire districts, park districts, vector control districts, road districts, cemetery districts, sanitary districts and special districts.
While county government is among those local taxing districts that receive property tax revenues, only 14.5 cents out of every dollar assessed (14.5%) is for the Klamath County General Fund. In effect, most of the work we do is on behalf of all the other taxing districts in the county and the patrons of those districts.
The Assessor's Department is organized into two sections:
The Technical Support Section;
The Appraisal/Sales Data Section
The Technical Support Section is comprised of the following positions and responsibilities:
Two Mobile Home Techs: In addition to customer service, this team handles all the traditional assessment functions such as moving permits and the creation and maintenance of assessment records, plus all the functions of titling and registration that were formerly the responsibility of the Department of Motor Vehicles.
Two Data Entry Techs: In addition to customer service, this team enters into the assessment computer system all the data from the reappraisal of ten thousand existing accounts. They also create new accounts from the appraisal of three thousand and more new properties and buildings per year. They are also in charge of the various exemption programs including the all important veterans' exemptions and senior citizen deferral programs.
Personal Property Tech: In addition to customer service, personal property returns and equipment lists must be prepared and mailed to four thousand business accounts each year. Each business must file a confidential personal property return each year that must be reviewed for changes and accuracy, and processed into the assessment computer system.
Senior Cartographer: In addition to customer service, maintains the over 2,000 assessment maps by computer drafting all segregations, partitions and subdivisions. The cartographer works closely with County Surveyor, Planning and Information Technology departments.
Cartographic Tech: In addition to customer service, thousands of deed records and other recorded documents must be reviewed each year to track owners and their addresses for each of the 70,000+ accounts; this person also reviews deeds for correctness, and enters all changes into the assessment computer system.
In addition to the statutory requirements of each position, the Technical Support Section is responsible for responding to the telephone and public counter inquiries on a wide variety of assessment topics.
The Appraisal/Sales Data Section is comprised of the following positions and responsibilities:
A team of three appraisers handles the following:
a) Residential/Urban Appraisals & Segregations — one-tenth of the county is reappraised each year as well as all new parcels created by segregation, partition or subdivision, and all new residential construction.
b) Agricultural/Forest/Rural & Special Use — an extensive part of Klamath County is made up of agricultural and/or forest lands on which four separate values must be maintained and up-dated, and all of which come under special assessment provisions.
Commercial/Industrial appraisals — an extensive inventory of commercial and industrial properties must be appraised and reappraised each year. One appraiser specializes in this category of properties.
Sales Data Analyst — collects, collates, verifies and analyzes all sales in the county each year. From this data a Certified Sales Ratio Report book is produced that sets the property value "trends" for each year. The Sales Data Analyst also specializes in the reappraisal of manufactured structures (mobile homes).
"Ad-valorem" means "according to value". Since property taxes are assessed "according to value", accurate real market values are all-important. Market value directly determines the amount of taxes assessed against a property for about 10% of the property accounts in Klamath County. It indirectly determines the amount of taxes of all other accounts by determining the "change property ratio" by which the "Assessed Value" of all other new properties is established. Additional reasons for maintaining "Real Market Value" under Measure 50 are presented in the section "Reasons Why We Need To Maintain Real Market Value".
Since it is not feasible to physically appraise each of the 71,000 total property accounts every year, mass appraisal techniques have been adopted statewide. This involves appraising a limited number of properties each year and using area sales to adjust the prior years' value of those properties not reappraised via the "trending" program based on the sales ratio study. State law requires that the assessor's office make every effort to adjust the real market value of every property to as close to "100 percent of real market value" each year as is possible via the mass appraisal process.
Some properties are exempt from taxation, such as government buildings and property or that of charitable organizations. Some properties are assessed at less than market value such as farm or forestland. There are over 40 such statutory programs the assessor's office administers.
It is the responsibility of the appraisal staff to determine the taxable status of each property. Appraising new construction is obviously a priority since new properties add new value, which add new revenue for each taxing district under Measure 50.
Once values are established questions often arise as to the accuracy of the appraisal. This can be done by requesting an appraisal review at the assessor's office, by appeal to the Board of Property Tax Appeals or to the Oregon Tax Court.


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Bruce Irons whips it off the top…poor guy just spilled diesel fuel down his trunks, talk about a burn. Photo: Bielmann/SPL
In the last couple of years, the trials for the Billabong Pro Teahupo'o have become one of the most coveted and highly sought after titles to win—even with no money on the line and zero ratings points to be had.
Two out of three isn't bad…but what's up with those dudes making out? Photo: Chris Cote
Some of the world's best tuberiders and hellman assemble at the "End Of The Road" here in Tahiti every May for one precious slot in the World Championship Tour event, the Billabong Pro Teahupo'o. And while the waves this year didn't measure up to the spectacle Mother Nature has provided in years past, there was no lack of drama, especially when local Tahitian Wildman Heiarii Williams won and was granted a wildcard into the main event. Williams, who surfs fearlessly at Teahupo'o whenever there's a big swell, was the standout from the start and easily dispatched of Hawaii's Mark Healey who couldn't buy a wave in the 30-minute final.
Williams has real potential to kick some World Tour ass—especially if the waves get above six feet—and the Tahitians down here are really stoked to have not only Michel Bourez to root for but Williams as well.
Anyway, today is our first day down here, getting our base bronze on, and we were gonna go surf out front at a spot called "No Pass" but Laurie Towner (who's staying with us at the Maoni compound) just came in with his trunks soiled claiming he saw a 10-foot Tiger mere feet from where they were surfing. Perhaps a Hinano is the call instead…we're working on getting a better email connection so ya'll can spock some mean photos!—Justin Cote
Official Press Release: Heiarii Williams Wins Final Wildcard Into Billabong Pro Tahiti
Wednesday 6th May 2009 (Teahupoo, Tahiti): LOCAL Tahitian surfer Heiarii Williams will compete against the top 45 surfers on earth this week after taking out the Air Tahiti Nui VonZipper Trials at Teahupoo and earning the last remaining wildcard into the Billabong Pro.
Your trusty TransWorld SURF Tahiti reporting team Chris and Justin Cote miraculously spotted without beer in the channel. Photo: Bielmann/SPL
Williams, 22, defeated Hawaiian tube specialist Mark Healey and 64 of the most respected tube riders on earth in idyllic 1.5m waves to claim victory for the second time.
His impeccable backside tube riding netted him a near perfect 9.17 in the man on man final, easily defeating Healey who had been a standout through earlier rounds.
"It's so exciting to get in the main event and surf with all of the world tour boys," said Williams. "I was the last Tahitian in the event, I needed to win and I did."
"I saw that wave coming and I knew that wave was going to be good, I got a nine and it pushed me into first place, so I was happy," he said. "Respect to Mark Healey, he is a good charger, crazy boy at Teahupoo!"
The talented natural footer is regarded as one of the best tube riders at the break alongside fellow Tahitian Manoa Drollet who was eliminated in round four of the trials. He has proven himself a dangerous opponent in the Billabong Pro main event having eliminated Mick Fanning in round one of the event in 2006, before narrowly losing out to reigning world champion Kelly Slater in round three.
"I won the trials in 2006, and I am excited for the main event, I will try hard to do my best and I want to catch some great waves," said Williams.
It is likely as the lowest seeded Wildcard, Williams may face current world number one Joel Parkinson in the second round when the Billabong Pro kicks off on Saturday. Under the new ASP seeding system, Parkinson will forego the sudden death first round and be seeded directly into round two. Having won the opening two events of the year, he admits he won't be taking any wildcard lightly.
"The local Tahitians know it better than anyone, I have been watching a few heats and taking a few points out of it to use in my own strategy," said Parkinson. "I have been enjoying my time here before the trials and I'm feeling ready."
For Healey, 31, the second place result was his best ever at the trials having competed in the event seven times. The stocky goofy footer looked to have Williams's number on the way to the final, winning through round four, quarters and the semis in fine style.
With the swell fading in the final and his Tahitian opponent holding a commanding lead, Healey could only wait for the ocean to deliver the waves capable of finding the scores he needed. At the heats end he still held priority with the surf failing to materialise.
"I'm happy that I made the final, I just wish I would have had a stronger heat and got some waves," said Healey. "The way I look at it is that there are 64 guys that are amazing surfers in this event and to make the top two is insane."
"I knew it was going to be a tough heat when I saw his semi, he picked up a huge score without priority and he did exactly the same thing to me," said Healey. "He has got a really good connection to this place, and you have to get really good waves to be better than him out here."
Healey will still be in with a chance to make the main event should any of the top 45 withdraw.
Hawaiian surfers dominated the 2009 trials event with Kalani Chapman and Reef McIntosh both finishing equal third. Respected Pipeline surfers and well known tube specialists, the pair were on fire in early rounds before losing out to Healey and Williams at the Semi Final stage. Chapman posted the only perfect 10-point-ride of the event in round four.
Sunshine Coast surfer Wade Goodall finished as the highest place Australian surfer after bowing out to Healey in the Quarter Finals. Goodall caused a major upset in round four by eliminating event favourite Manoa Drollet but couldn't keep momentum running through the man on man match-ups.
"I'm disappointed for sure, It was good for me to get as far as I did, but I would have liked to make the main event," said Goodall.
The best surfers on earth have started to fill in to the small fishing village of Teahupoo for an expected swell on the 9th and 10th of May, the first two days of the waiting period. When the event gets underway on May 9, every heat will be played live via webcast on www.billabongpro.com
A full list of today's results can be found at this link http://www.billabongpro.com/tahiti09/results.php
Go to www.billabongpro.com to watch the event live and to catch whatever we missed….
International Sponsors: Air Tahiti Nui, Sony, Honda Aquatrax, VonZipper, Kustom, Nixon. Domestic Sponsors: Coca-Cola, Hyundai, Mana, Opt, Manava Resorts


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Investigation Update: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) inspectors confirmed PETA's findings from its nearly four-month undercover investigation of Triple F Farms, Inc. After a federal investigation found violations of at least eight animal protection regulations, Triple F Farms, Inc., agreed to pay more than $16,000 to settle the matter. The company also agreed to pay more than $28,000 to settle 38 violations of federal labor laws uncovered after PETA submitted evidence to the U.S. Department of Labor.
PETA recently went undercover at Triple F Farms, Inc. (Triple F), a Bradford County, Pa.-based massive ferret-breeding mill whose animals are sold to laboratories around the world and pet stores across the U.S., including Petland.
PETA's investigation revealed that thousands of ferrets are being kept confined to crowded, filthy, stifling barns, where they suffer from chronic neglect and die on a daily basis.YOU CAN HELP STOP THIS!
PETA found …
Read more about PETA's findings here.
The investigator's repeated requests for care and speedy euthanasia to relieve suffering were met with blank stares, shoulder shrugs, and general indifference, as the investigator was instructed to "just leave" ferrets as they were. Triple F forbade its workers—including PETA's investigator—to pick up dying newborns. Many ferrets died slow, painful deaths.
PETA has shared its findings with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which has over the last five years signed contracts with Triple F worth more than $1.5 million for live ferrets used in experiments. Urge Alan Kotch, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Procurement and Grants Office, to investigate why the CDC continues to funnel taxpayer dollars into Triple F.
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Wall Street Journal Gets Everything Wrong In Its Defense Of Romney's Plan To Gut Medicare
Blog ››› ››› ADAM SHAH & ZACHARY PLEAT
The Wall Street Journal's latest editorial defending Mitt Romney's and Paul Ryan's plans for Medicare contains a dizzying number of falsehoods, all of which serve one central function: covering up the fact that Romney would end Medicare as we know it, while President Obama's plan strengthens Medicare.
Journal Falsehood: The Affordable Care Act Arbitrarily Commands Providers To Make Do With Less Money
The Journal first takes aim at the $716 Medicare savings included in Obama's Affordable Care Act (ACA). The Journal correctly notes that these are not cuts, but a decrease in the expected growth in payments from the Medicare program to providers and insurance companies. But that's the extent of the Journal's truth-telling on the subject. The Journal claimed that under the ACA, the government "arbitrarily command[ed] providers to deliver the exact same benefits except for $716 billion less."
In fact, Medicare providers such as hospitals agreed to many of these cuts because they knew it will not hurt their bottom line. The Washington Post's wonk blog noted: "Hospitals agreed to these cuts because they knew, at the same time, they would likely see an influx of paying patients with the Affordable Care Act's insurance expansion."
The American Hospital Association wrote in a Supreme Court brief that it had agreed to the Affordable Care Act's Medicare savings "on the condition that Congress 'succeeded in extending health insurance to tens of millions of people who are not without coverage.' "
Furthermore, Ryan originally included the same savings in his own Medicare plan, but Romney has since walked away from that provision of Ryan's plan.
Journal Falsehood: Obama Favors End-Of-Life Health Care Rationing
The Journal also suggested that in addition to the Medicare savings, Obama supports rationing care for the elderly. The editorial repeats an old right-wing media canard that the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) created by the Affordable Care Act will ration care. In fact, the IPAB is specifically prohibited from making recommendations to ration care.
The Journal then went even further, falsely claiming that Obama has proposed government rationing of health care by musing whether his own grandmother should have had a hip replacement after she was diagnosed with terminal cancer:
Before he decided to fire up Mediscare again, Mr. Obama used to concede that this form of rationing by elites was inevitable. In a 2009 interview with David Leonhardt, he mused whether his own grandmother's hip replacement after a terminal cancer diagnosis represented "a sustainable model" for society.
The Journal, however, is completely misrepresenting Obama's comments about his grandmother. While discussing his grandmother's hip replacement surgery, Obama suggested setting up an independent group that can give people guidance about how to deal with end of life issues, but he made clear that the panel he envisioned would give guidance, but "[i]t's not determinative."
The reality is that unlike Medicare, private insurance companies regularly ration care.
Journal Falsehood: Romney-Ryan Medicare Plan Preserves Traditional Medicare As An Option
The Journal claimed that "[t]he Romney-Ryan plan doesn't 'end Medicare as we know it,' " and "[t]heir 'premium support' reform explicitly preserves traditional fee-for-service Medicare."
But the "premium support" plan, otherwise known as the voucher system, could end up undoing traditional Medicare. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) stated that because Ryan's plan could lead to healthier seniors leaving Medicare for private plans and less healthy seniors staying, this would "drive up its costs and threaten traditional Medicare's long-term viability" and "traditional Medicare would become less financially viable and could unravel."
Journal Falsehood: Seniors Won't Pay More Under Voucher Plan*
The Journal also stated that the GOP plan "doesn't force seniors to shoulder the $6,400 in higher health costs that Mr. Obama mentions at every campaign stop."
But the figure doesn't come from Obama, it was calculated by the Congressional Budget Office in their analysis of Ryan's budget that was introduced in 2011. As PolitiFact reported in April 2011:
According to the CBO analysis (see page 20 -25), under the Ryan plan, the $8,000 premium support voucher in 2022 would cover 39 percent of the cost of the average private plan for a 65-year-old. Which means the plan actually costs about $20,500 and that beneficiaries would be on the hook for about $12,500 of the cost.
The CBO also presented estimates for an "alternative fiscal scenario" -- which incorporates "several changes to then-current law that were widely expected to occur or that would modify some provisions of law that might be difficult to sustain for a long period." Under this scenario, the typical beneficiary who enrolled in traditional Medicare would pay about 30 percent of the cost of the average private plan in 2022, or about $6,150. In other words, the increased amount the 65-year-old would have to pay would be about $6,400.
The nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation, which did an analysis of the CBO data, came up with the same numbers as Obama. So did the left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Additionally, Romney has pledged to get the Affordable Care Act repealed. But repeal of the health care reform law would reopen the Medicare "doughnut hole," the period of time during which seniors exceed their prescription benefits and are required to shoulder the full cost of their prescription drugs. As a result, the Romney plan would make seniors pay more for their prescriptions. As CBPP stated:
Due to these improvements, five million Medicare beneficiaries have saved more than $3.2 billion, according to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Health reform will close the entire donut hole by 2020. The Ryan budget would reopen it.
*UPDATE: After this post went up, a reader pointed out that the PolitiFact article referenced above referred to an earlier version of the Ryan Medicare plan, introduced in 2011. PolitiFact has said that it is "mostly false" to criticize Romney based on an analysis of the 2011 Ryan plan. PolitiFact based its decision in part on the fact that the more recent proposal "isn't specific enough to justify" the claim that it may cost a senior $6,400 in higher health care costs. Media Matters regrets the error.
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WATCH: Chris Martin Sings Emotionally About Ordinary Things
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Coldplay will take the stage at this year's iHeartRadio Music Festival in Vegas, and if you've ever seen them in concert, you know Chris Martin has a way of pulling at the heartstrings and delivering a performance full of emotion.
iHeartRadio's Paul The Web Guy put Chris Martin's ability to the test recently, challenging him to sing emotionally about ordinary things.
Check out the LOL video below!
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Our fourth favorite summer color scheme — plum and silver! This inspiration board is fit for a glamorous bride searching for her sparkle. Add a jeweled brooch or headpiece into your low chignon bun, wear dangling drop diamond earrings, and choose a pair of bridal shoes that have rhinestone decorations like these from Badgley Mischka to enhance your wedding day look. Don't forget about your bridesmaids too. Let them mix and match their dresses and bouquets filled with lilacs, hydrangea, and hyacinth.
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Nick Doyle, WSU Admissions Counselor, will host a Wayne State University information visit at Farmington High School. The information visit will be an opportunity for prospective students to speak with an Admissions Counselor, find out about admission requirements and learn more about Wayne State University.
For more information about this event, please contact Nick Doyle at 313-577-3577.


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As I Wake by Elizabeth Scott
Not quite a true dystopian but an intriguing book for fans of The Hunger Games.
Ava awakens with amnesia and a sense of dread. She keeps having flashbacks about being a spy for a government agency, and the mysterious Morgan appears in her life claiming to know the real her.
I am a fan of Elizabeth Scott's contemporary novels. Although this book is more science fiction, there is enough character development and hints of romance to please her fans.


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Defo, nogi in the X-Games would be awesome.
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I also believe the Olympics has been bad for Judo.
BJJ doesn't meet all the criteria but I agree that submission Grappling will eventually appear via Wrestling.
BJJ at the olympics will never happen. No-gi submission instead of one of the wrestlings, maybe.