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On Monday, he said one of the adopted committee amendments would prohibit local governments from reducing first responders’ pay just because legislation with a new tax rate rollback trigger becomes law.
“This was the most popular request we got from the public,” Bettencourt said.
A successful amendment from state Sen. Kelly Hancock, R-North Richland Hills, would change the term “rollback tax rate” to “voter-approved tax rate.” He and other senators said that would make the trigger’s point more clear to Texans.
Burrows, who also chairs the House GOP Caucus, told Hasty that each of the lower chamber’s 150 members will “have a seat at the table” when debate on the legislation begins on that side of the Capitol.
This article originally appeared in The Texas Tribune at https://www.texastribune.org/2019/02/11/texas-senate-property-tax-committee-passes-rollback-rate-bill/. The Texas Tribune is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.
The Room is by no means a visual masterpiece, but the budget managed to reach well into the millions. A large part of the unbelievably high price tag was Tommy's insistence on buying not one but two sets of camera equipment. He shot simultaneously in both 35mm film and high-definition video. Wiseau also decided to build sets that easily could've been shot on location; all of the rooftop scenes were bafflingly shot outdoors on a green screen. He's notoriously tight-lipped about the source of his cash flow, insisting that he financed the movie entirely by importing and selling Korean leather jackets.
Published: Oct. 12, 2012 at 02:45 p.m.
Updated: Oct. 12, 2012 at 04:40 p.m.
Stepfan Taylor (left) had 118 rushing yards in a Stanford's 28-14 win over Manti Te'o and Notre Dame in 2011.
Yes, it's true. The college football season is at the midseason point.
Seven weeks ago, we cheered the start of another impending fall. Seven weeks from now, we'll be wondering where it went.
The typical turn in the weather across the northern part of the country has also sprung a change in format in my college football preview. Rather than trying to eye up several prospects in every major game on the Saturday football television slate, I'll keep my focus on five matchups of talented players you'll be able to view at home as easily as NFL general managers will on the road or in their offices.
So enjoy these battles of bruisers and actions of athleticism on the gridiron Saturday -- you might see them again in a year or two on Sundays!
All games are scheduled for Saturday; all times listed are Eastern.
The Red River Rivalry is in full effect this weekend, but this edge matchup alone makes it worth the effort to get in front of a television early Saturday. Johnson (6-foot-7, 303 pounds) played quarterback in high school and junior college before moving to tight end and then defensive end in his first two years in Norman. After one season as the Sooners' starting right tackle in 2011, he's on the left side now, looking like a potential NFL starter with supreme athleticism and a frame that offers plenty of growth potential. The same can be said about the son of former Dallas Cowboys star defensive lineman Jim Jeffcoat, who is really starting to come into his own in his junior year as a somewhat slender (6-5, 245) but explosive hybrid pass rusher. Oh, and Johnson might also have the privilege of facing powerful end Alex Okafor (6-4, 265), who already has six sacks on the year, if Longhorns defensive coordinator Manny Diaz moves his star defender to the other side of the line. Johnson will be a highly coveted prospect if he manages to keep this dynamic duo away from quarterback Landry Jones (6-4, 218), who also needs a big performance here to show scouts he's got the pocket poise to be an NFL starter.
Richardson's (6-4, 295) mouth got him in trouble earlier his year when he said he turned off Georgia's game against Buffalo because it was "old man football." The Bulldogs didn't look so old when they beat the Tigers 41-20 the following week. Now he'll have to pull up his pants for some "big boy football," facing a pair of top-notch senior offensive linemen on Alabama: 2011 Outland Trophy winner and current center Barrett Jones (6-5, 302) and tough-as-nails left guard Chance Warmack (6-3, 320). Richardson has played well this year, racking up 6.5 tackles for loss and three sacks in the last five games by using flashes of power and enough quickness to win gaps. But Warmack will come off the ball as hard as anyone in the country and Jones knows when to get his licks in on double-teams (if he's not taking on Richardson one-on-one).
The 4-1 Cardinal travel to South Bend to take on the undefeated Irish Saturday afternoon, and you can bet there will be some collisions between the tackles. Sure, Stanford's junior tight ends Zach Ertz (6-6, 252) and Levine Toilolo (6-8, 265) will see their fair share of targets from fellow junior quarterback Josh Nunes (6-4, 225), but the offense's true engine is Taylor (5-11, 215), who has both the power and burst to challenge Notre Dame's stingy defense. However, Te'o (6-2, 255) will bring the hammer to Taylor after adeptly searching out his foe through traffic. If the All-American middle linebacker shows the athleticism to make plays against those tight ends in coverage as well as tag Taylor before he hits his stride, NFL teams will have even more interest in securing his services early in the first round.
After losing to Florida in The Swamp last week, the Tigers return home to take on another top-10 foe in a night-time Bayou brawl. Even if LSU's stable of young running backs makes some hay against South Carolina's ninth-ranked rush defense (which allows just 83.8 yards a game), the team's 6-5, 230-pound junior pocket passer must step up to make the big plays the offense lacked against the Gators. Mettenberger will need to move within the pocket and throw more accurately downfield to improve on his 11-for-25, 158-yard effort against Florida. It won't be easy, though, especially with one of the top players in college football, sophomore defensive end Jadeveon Clowney (11.5 tackles for loss, 6.5 sacks) chasing him from the back side. If Mettenberger tries escaping Clowney to his right, though, another long and powerful defender awaits in strong-side end Devin Taylor (6-8, 267). LSU senior tackle Alex Hurst (6-6, 331) can only occupy one of them each play; the rest of the Tigers linemen must also do their job so Mettenberger can do his.
Most would have expected Tennessee to be the 5-0 team in this midseason melee, but it's the Bulldogs with the unblemished record (albeit against a mediocre schedule). Meanwhile, the Volunteers are still looking for their first conference win after defeats to Florida and Georgia. The tall and lean Bray (6-6, 215) has phenomenal arm strength. Tennessee's quarterback can sling the ball to any part of the field, even when his footwork isn't ideal. And he has a couple of fantastic playmakers in junior receivers Justin Hunter (6-4, 200) and Cordarrelle Patterson (6-3, 205), though Patterson's hands already have let him down a couple of times on potential touchdowns this season. The talent of MSU's secondary shouldn't be overlooked. Johnthan Banks (6-2, 185) is an All-SEC pick likely to project as an NFL starter with his toughness and ball skills, while fellow cornerback Darius Slay (6-1, 190) actually has more picks (four) than Banks (three) this year. And tenacious cornerback-turned-safety Corey Broomfield (5-10, 180) will lay the wood on any ball carrier. If Bray gets too loose with his downfield passes, this secondary will make him pay.
Follow Chad Reuter on Twitter @ChadReuter.
The Canadian actor suffered throat lacerations on the set of the CTV drama 'Cardinal,' now shooting in Sudbury, Ontario.
Actor Brendan Fletcher was hospitalized after sustaining an injury during a scene involving a firearm on the set of Canadian drama Cardinal.
Tyman Stewart, an agent at The Characters Agency who represents Fletcher, confirmed the incident to The Hollywood Reporter.
Fletcher, who recently appeared in The Revenant, was shooting the CTV drama in Sudbury, Ontario. On the Cardinal set, the actor took a discharge to his throat from a firearm not fully emptied of blanks and suffered a serious flesh wound.
"Definitely no fault of his. He [Fletcher] is recovering well, but to what extent only time will tell," Stewart said in a statement.
Canadian broadcaster CTV, which will air Cardinal, confirmed Fletcher received treatment at a hospital and has since been discharged.
"Production was interrupted for one day and has since resumed," the broadcaster said. Fletcher plays Eric Fraser in the six-part drama, which also stars Billy Campbell (The Killing) and Karine Vanasse (Revenge, Pan Am).
The Ontario Ministry of Labor, which investigates workplace injuries in the province and is probing the Cardinal incident, was not available for comment.
The Canadian serialized drama, produced by Sienna Films and Entertainment One, has Orphan Black writer-producer Aubrey Nealon executive producing and showrunning.
Cardinal is based on John Cardinal Mysteries, a crime novel series written by Giles Blunt. The series starts with the discovery of Katie Pine, a missing 13-year-old whose body is found in the shaft-head of an abandoned mine.
The series follows detective John Cardinal (Campbell) as he tries to uncover the mystery of what happened to the young girl while coming under investigation by his new partner, Lise Delorme, played by Vanasse, a tough investigator in her own right.
CTV will debut the drama as part of its 2016-17 season. Production started last month in northern Ontario.
New Intra app adds DNS-over-HTTPS support for older Android versions.
Jigsaw, a technology incubator created by Google and operated as a subsidiary under the Alphabet brand, has released today an Android app named Intra that can encrypt DNS queries as a protection against DNS manipulation at the ISP (internet service provider) level.
DNS manipulation is one of the most common forms of online censorship used by oppressive regimes or unscrupulous ISPs, used to block access to news sites, information portals, social media platforms, undesirable software, and more.
Intra protects against DNS manipulation by keeping DNS traffic hidden from third-parties with state-level surveillance capabilities, such as internet service providers in countries with autocratic regimes.
Nonetheless, DoH is a good mechanism that's often more than enough to avoid DNS-based blacklists that some countries or ISPs have implemented to block users' access to "undesired" content, such as foreign media or news sites critical of the local regime.
DoH is currently supported by Firefox and by Android 9.0 Pie, the most recent version of the Android OS, released at the end of August.
Jigsaw's new Intra Android app allows users on older handsets to take advantage of DoH by encrypting connections from the local device to a remote DoH-capable DNS server.
Intra is easy to install and run right away, and comes pre-configured to funnel encrypted DNS queries to Google's DoH-capable DNS servers by default. Users can also switch to Cloudflare's DNS system, or use a custom DoH-capable server as well.
The new Intra app is available from the official Google Play Store, here, and its source code is hosted on GitHub, here.
Perhaps we are dealing with a new psychology, a new class of criminal – aided and abetted by technology and mass communication – and none of our usual boxes fit. Perhaps psychology itself doesn’t fit. As [Jean-Marie] Apostolidès said, some in this growing class of murderers are more than willing to kill brutally to promote their ideas.
Someone else has picked up on the René Girard theme. Anthropologist Mark Anspach at Imitatio (the foundation launched to promote and study René’s ideas) describes Breivik as “a hopeless nebbish,” yet a dangerous one: “being taken for a nobody filled him with murderous rage. He was bent on venting that rage in a way that would make people finally remember his name.” Anspach discussed what we’ve learned from the recently released police tapes, after Breivik telephoned the police following his first round of murders.
The call began smoothly enough. “Hello,” he said, “my name is Commander Anders Behring Breivik of the Norwegian Anti-Communist Resistance. I am in Utoeya at the moment. I want to hand myself in.” Clearly, he had rehearsed those words many times and managed to recite them with only a slight catch in his voice.
Breivik was using a phone he had picked up off the ground. He had no idea what number he was calling from. Like a pupil caught unprepared by a pop quiz, he tried to finesse the question. “I am calling from a cell phone,” he said.
“It’s not mine,” Breivik explained helplessly. “It’s another phone.” The conversation must have bewildered him. Why did it matter what phone he was using when he had just mowed down scores of young people with an automatic weapon?
Didn’t the policeman understand that he, Commander Anders Behring Breivik of the Norwegian Anti-Communist Resistance, had just carried off the biggest terrorist operation in his country’s postwar history?
That was the last straw. Breivik hung up and went back to killing unarmed civilians.
Read the rest here. It’s fascinating.
Cardinal Gerhard Müller, the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), has said that his role is not to participate in the controversy over the four cardinals’ letter to the Pope.
He has also indicated that he does not believe Church doctrine can change on Communion for the remarried.
In an interview with the German website Kathpress, Cardinal Müller said that the CDF’s role was to speak with the authority of the Pope, not to “participate in the controversy of opinion”.
He was answering a question about the dubia – that is, requests for clarification submitted to the Pope by four cardinals. They ask whether certain teachings of the Church, repeated in the last 35 years by Pope St John Paul II, are still valid. The Pope has not replied to the dubia since they were submitted in September.
It is common for the Pope to ask the CDF to answer such a request. Cardinal Müller said the Pope could do so in this case.
In the interview, Cardinal Müller said that the CDF’s 1994 letter to bishops was still Church teaching, and that Pope Francis’s recent document, Amoris Laetitia, had not altered anything in this regard.
The 1994 letter repeated the teaching of St John Paul’s 1981 exhortation Familiaris Consortio, which says that the remarried can only receive absolution, and therefore Communion, if they resolve to live “as brother and sister”.
In the wake of Amoris Laetitia, some bishops have suggested that the Church’s doctrine on divorce, remarriage and Communion might admit exceptions. Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego has issued guidelines which say “the conscience of the discerner” should decide whether to receive Communion.
Cardinal Müller also downplayed the controversy over the dubia, saying that it was wrong to think of a power struggle: emphasis should be on “the victory of truth and not the triumph of power”, the cardinal said.
PERRYTON - B.R. Pletcher, 78, of Perryton died Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012.
Memorial services will be at a later date. Arrangements are by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home of Perryton.
Mr. Pletcher was born March 26, 1934, in Ochiltree County to Byron R. and Gordie Pletcher. He married Janice Miller on July 31, 1955, in Perryton.
sisters, Juanita Dietz of Fort Benton, Mont., and Wilma Srof of Goshen, Ind.; six grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
SANA'A, March 24 (Saba) - Yemen's security authorities have managed to strike al-Qaeda, killing 15 terrorists and arresting others in Abyan and Marib governorates this week.
The Defense Ministry-run website reported that the security forces have killed 12 members of al-Qaeda in Abyan governorate and arrested al-Qaeda information official Khaled Saeed Ba-Tarfi with another member called Ahmed Omar Abdul-Jalil al-Khudhaibi.
A security source said that Ba-Tarfi and al-Khudhaibi has been apprehended along with a grenade, automatic weapon, laptop and a manual to manufacture explosives.
Meanwhile, three terrorists have been killed and others have been injured, while attacking a checkpoint in Marib governorate. The attack led to killing three soldiers, wounding three others.
On the other hand, the security authorities in Marib have revealed the identities of the al-Qaeda members killed last Thursday in an attack on a checkpoint in al-Wadi district in Marib.
According to the authorities, the al-Qaeda killed people are Abdullah Mohammed Faraj al-Mazrouqi, Jaber Mohammed Dafnan, Saeed Saleh al-Whair.
Grand Estate, south of the highway in Bridgehampton. Junior master suite on the first floor. Master suite with fireplace, balcony, study on the second floor. Seven bedrooms total with nine and one half baths. Features a living room with a fireplace, a formal dining room, a great room with a fireplace, and a gourmet kitchen with both sitting and dining areas as well as a fireplace and butlers pantry. The lower level features a recreational room, media room, billiards room and laundry room. Expansive bluestone terrace and stunning pool area including an over-sized spa and newly built poolhouse. All upstairs bedrooms are en suite. Beautiful landscaping with specimen trees and exotic flowers for the perfect Hamptons summer rental!.
The College of William & Mary owned over 4,000 books by 1793, making it the second largest collegiate library in the United States, behind only Harvard. These books came from a variety of different sources; however, only the titles of the most well known or ones that are currently extent are known today. All of these books were destroyed in the fires of 1705, 1859, and 1862, unless noted in the "Material in the Special Collections Research Center" section of this page.
Francis Nicholson donated his library of over 200 books to the College of William & Mary in 1698, when he returned to Virginia to take over as governor. 158 of the over 200 books were listed by title. The Special Collections Research Center is currently attempting the recreate the Nicholson library and has acquired 135 of those titles. A list of the books in Nicholson's library can be found in The Early English colonies : a summary of the lecture.
Purchase made with funds from "Dr. Bray's Associates," titles unknown.
Paolo Sarpi's "History of the Council of Trent," donated by Captain Nicholas Humfrys, commander of the ship Hartwell, in 1703/1704. This work is the only work to survive the 1705 fire to the present. The book was donated to William & Mary by Captain Nicholas Humfrys, commander of the ship Hartwell, in 1703 or 1704 and is the only book from William & Mary’s first library to survive the 1705 fire in the Wren Building. It likely went missing soon after the fire and was found well over two centuries later in 1942 at a World War II salvage drive in Bristol, England by the Bristol City Librarian, James Ross. Numerous theories have arisen on just how the book survived the flames and ended up in Bristol. The book was possibly stolen during the confusion caused by the fire or perhaps it had been checked out to a student or faculty member when the fire occurred. How it crossed the Atlantic is still unknown. The title page is marked with a book stamp from Homerton College, a Congregationalist institution situated at Hackney in London and organized in 1769.
The College purchased the "Books & Globes belonging to the said Blackamore be valued and pruchased for the use of the Colledge Library." Arthur Blackamore was master of the Grammar School from 1705 to 1716, and sold his books to pay for his debts where he left the College.
John Gibbon's "Introductio ad Latinam blasoniam." The copy in the Library of Congress bears an inscription that says that Gibbon donated another copy to the College of William & Mary in 1717.
150 pounds were donated by Colonel Edward Hill of Shirley, circa 1720. The Board of Visitors decided that the money would be used "towards the better furnishing of the Library of the said College with Books."
300 pounds were authorized for use from the Brafferton estate for the purchase of books by John Randolph, circa 1720s-1730s.
The General Assembly passed the "Act for the Better Support and Encouragement of the College of William and Mary in Virginia" in 1734, which included a duty of one penny on every gallon of rum, brandy, distilled spirits, and wine imported into the colony. Out of this money, 200 pounds per year were allocated to the College. The only book purchased from this fund to survive to the present is a copy of Pitt's translation of the Aeneid.
Archbishop Wake died in 1737, and left 50 pounds to the College to buy books. The money was used to buy "more useful books of Divinity" and not the classics.
Rev. Emanuel Jones, rector of Petsworth parish in Gloucester County, died in 1739 and donated his personal library. One book, Epiktētou Encheiridion, has survived to the present.
Governor Spotswood died in 1740, leaving his library to the College. Again, only one volume from this library has survived to the present: Piganiol de La Force's "Description des chateaux et parcs de Versailles, de Trianon, et de Marly."
James Blair died in 1743, and left his complete library as well as 500 pounds for the purchase of additional books. One book from this collection was Bryan Robinson's "Treatise of the animal oeconomy"; however, this volume is not held by the SCRC. The nature of Blair's bequest is suggested by his tombstone at Jamestown: "Collegio bene disversam bibliothecam fundaverat; Moriens bibliothecam suam ad alendum theologiae studiosum [et] juventutem pauperiorem instituendam testamento legavit": "He had a well varied library founded for the College. Dying, he bequeathed his own library by will for the purpose of informing students in Theology and instructing the poorer youth."
Entries from the College's Bursar's records include lines for the purchase of books from Williamsburg merchants.
Archbishop of Canterbury John Potter presented the works of St. John Chrysostom as well as his own "Clementis Alexandrini opera quae extant."
King George III donated a copy of the Authorized Version of the Bible to the College soon after ascending to the throne.
Mark Catesby donated a copy of his "Natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands."
Governor Robert Dinwiddie donated a collection of books when he left to return to England in 1758. Two books have survived the fires of 1705, 1859, and 1862. They are Henry Grove's System of Moral Philosophy and Felix Anthony de Alvarado's Diálogos ingléses, y españöles.
In 1747, John Sherwin donated Benjamin Hederick's "Graecum lexicon manuale" and Anthony a Wood's "Athenae Oxoniensis."
College presidents William and Thomas Dawson maintained active relationships with the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel and the Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge. William Dawson indicated he received Thomas Wilson's "Essay towards an instruction for the Indians."
The Associates of Dr. Bray, a London Philanthropy, recorded as early as their 1762 Account gifts of books totaling £50; according to John C. Van Horne ("Religious Philanthropy and Colonial Slavery," p. 146) a folio volume presented to the College library bound together "A Course of Lectures upon the Church Catechism" (Oxford, editions from 1696), by the Rev. Thomas Bray; “Allen’s Discourses,” probably "A Discourse of Divine Assistance, and the Method Thereof" (London, 1693), by William Allen; and "The Practical Believer: or The Articles of the Apostles’ Creed" (London, editions from 1688), by John Kettlewell. For the Bray School affiliated with the College from 1760, the Associates also sent a box of books related to the mission of the school, the Christian education of enslaved and free black children (for the titles, see Van Horne, p. 146). Also sent to the President of the College for distribution to slave owners resistant to Christianizing their slaves were five copies of "Mr. Bacons Sermons" (Van Horne, p. 145).
After the death of College president James Horrocks in 1771, the College purchased some material from his library. The list of works selected was transcribed by Samuel Henley. A transcription of the Henley-Horrocks list can be found in the pamphlet The Henley-Horrocks inventory by Fraser Neiman.
The Flat Hat Club established and maintained a library of its own, as undergraduates could not typically use the regular College library. Many of its works duplicated those of the regular College library. A list of the catalog of books desired by the FHC can be found in George P. Coleman's book The Flat hat club and the Phi beta kappa society : some new light on their history.
The library of the College of William & Mary was plundered during the Siege of Yorktown in 1781, by British, French, and American soldiers who were quartered on campus. Richard Randolph, before the General Assembly in 1839, said that "many of the books were lost, and the apparatus seriously injured." In 1779, the grammar school and the chairs of divinity were abolished. In their place were established chairs of modern languages; anatomy, medicine, and chemistry; and law and police.
In 1779, College president James Madison and the faculty instituted a matriculation fee of 10 shillings per year which was dedicated to the library.
The marquis de Chastellux donated a copy of his "De la felicite publique" to the library in 1782.
Chastellux also was key in obtaining a gift of 200 books donated in the name of King Louis XVI of France in 1784. Two volumes survive from this gift: Jean Sylvain Bailly's Lettres sur l'origine des sciences : et sur celle des peuples de l'Asie, adressées à m. de Voltaire and Lettres sur l'Atlantide de Platon et sur l'ancienne histoire de l'Asie : Pour servir de suite aux lettres sur l'origine des sciences, addressées à M. de Voltaire. The gift also included a copy of Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon's "Histoire naturelle." The University of Pennsylvania was also given a gift of books from Louis XVI around the same time, and many of the books are thought to been duplicated between both gifts.
Thomas Jefferson donated copies of his "Notes on the State of Virginia" in 1787.
John Paradise donated books to the College, circa 1780s.
Thomas Wilson donated books written by his father, also named Thomas Wilson, in 1783. As the elder Thomas Wilson was a bishop in the Anglican Church, it is likely that these were religious texts.
It is likely that the library contained approximately 3,000 volumes in 1781 and close to 4,000 by 1793.

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