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Liverpool went into the game having recorded successive league doubles over their hosts, a statistic which gave Roberto Di Matteo cause to classify the Reds as a 'bogey team' in his pre-match press conference.
His side almost made the ideal start in shaking off that tag when Joe Allen lost possession in midfield on six minutes, inviting Eden Hazard to play Oscar through on goal. The Brazilian was under pressure from Andre Wisdom but should have tested Brad Jones, who was again standing in for the injured Pepe Reina.
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Jones displayed excellent reflexes to stop Torres heading home his first goal against his former employers since departing in January 2011. The save prompted a round of pinball in the Liverpool box but those in red eventually cleared their lines.
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I know you guys don't have to be Christians but you can at least respect it. Saying Jesus didn't exist? That there is no God? This kinda stuff is really offensive.
I know you guys don't have to be Christians but you can at least respect it. Saying Jesus didn't exist? That there is no God? This kinda stuff is really offensive.
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I'm a Christian. And Christians annoy the hell out of me most of the time.
I live. I love. I kill. I catch Pokemons. I am content.
You're right. We'll elect a pope and have him formally apologize to you, ok?
I live. I love. I kill. I catch Pokemons. I am content.
I'm sorry for insulting your imaginary friend. I will try to be more politically correct in the (distant) future and respect to your immature, petty, childish beliefs.
You know why I'm not a christian? Because I read the bible!
BTW, do you have a real, mature, coherent argument as to why we should
a.) respect your belief
b.) believe as you do
c.) give two fucks what you think
b.) No one said you have to believe as they do. Quote it for me.
c.) you don't have to give to fucks but someone REALLY needs to hear the respect song. We're all guilty of this shit but seriously, it's like you're OUT TO GET THEM.
The problem I have with Christianity is the hypocrites who use it to justify their actions. ''I did volunteer work because God wanted me to'' is not an excuse, you should want to be kind just to be kind, not because if you don't you'll go somewhere painfull when you die. I don't agree with the carrot-and-stick strategy that, in a way, mollycoddles society.
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Oh so we have to respect his religion but he doesnt have to respect anyone else?
I'm all about freedom of speech, so they are infinity free to believe what they want, say what they want, feel what they want, screw who they want, marry who they want, abort whatever they want, smoke what they want, etc.
this thread is shit and it's not because of the thread starter
Eh on some level I can hear where you're coming from MS, I get more and more disgusted with these people everyday, sure it's great to criticize Christianity, there's plenty to criticize, it takes a hell of a lot of faith or a hell of a lack of intelligence to Believe, someitmes both, but most of the people here ARE a bunch of slanderous, spiteful jerks. It's not really their fault though, it's KEWL to trash other people's beliefs these days. Especially if it's a mainstream belief. And everyone wants to be KEWL.
But on the other hand, this is a frickin Pokemon forum yo? It's not the 700 club. You can't expect people to be accepting of your beliefs all the time. Hell, don't you know anything about history? The Christians were persecuted for hundreds of years before the belief system slowly seeped in and was absorbed by the Romans. Just because they gained a bit of a highground, doesn't mean they aren't immune to persecution. Some would say we've even earned this persecution by the way people have misused Big J's teachings over the years. People will use ANYTHING as a tool to do whatever the hell they want, and you have to admit that Christianity is the BIG religion, although Judaism and Muslims have a good bit of power as well, and Hell, The Wiccan belief is the fastest growing religion in the world right now, Shit, I got off track, anyways... since We're the biggest religious power in the world, Christianity has been one of the biggest tools to commit attrocities.
Now I'm not saying these people who mock your (and to some extent mine) religion are right, or that they should mock your religion. On the contrary, I think it's as childish what their doing as your whining about it. But people are childish, selfish, biggotted, and a host of other horrible things. Seriously if you're worried about peopel trashing Christianity, then you should make a concerted effort to fix what you can about it. If you want people to accept it, make it acceptable. You see some of your Southern Baptist or Roman Catholic, or Presbyterean or whatever brothers or sisters, dissing someone because of their beliefs, or because their a pasty faced goth whiner. You call them out and defend that person. If HEaven forbid you see some of those same 'Christian' brethren beathing the hell out of some poor gay guy because of his beliefs, or planning to blow up an abortion clinic... well you do your damned best to stop them. Our BUddy Jesus would have... He had all kinds of low life friends, and because he wasn't a pompous Neo Christian Ass, people liked him, and a good many even believed what he was all about.
Anyways.... Not sure what all I jsut said, but I said something.
well you made the thread worthwhile but you started an argument.
I will say this to believe in god is irrational and to not belive in him is also irrational
so which kinda irrational do you want to be.
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She sings with the quire, just like Big Mama
Hey those black churches are damned cool. I'm not one for whoopin and hollerin and stomping of feets myself, my worship such as it is is a bit more quiet, but they are a damned sight more Faithful than a lot of the more 'mainstream' ones...
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Ha ha ha ha ha, "I'm not one for whoopin and hollerin and stomping of feets"
*shrugs* I calls em like I sees em.
Keke: Name one point in this thread where I tried to convert anyone. All I said is it's really offensive to just say this stuff, at least have counterpoints. I just mention I'm offended and the topic explodes with hate.
Octazooka: Thank you for insinuating I'm a mindless hypocrite. It's good to know open minded people like yourself frequent this forum. We would all be lost sheep without your peerless and unbiased insight.
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See instead of listening to my advice, you're trying to start crap up with the naysayers. Until you act like a decent Christian (I'm not saying your not, just that you gotta make people believe that you're A O K in their book) trying to argue with these people is like trying to argue ANYTHING on the internet.
Namely: A Pointless Waste of Time
Instead of arguing with Oct (Which the best thing to do in that situation would probably be to ignore the comment) why don't you make some sort of response showing that you actually DO respect the naysayers position? Until you make a decent shot at having an untouchable position, or allowing enough compromising that they can't help but feel ashamed for jumping on your case (some people are so little and insecure with themselves that they won't EVER feel bad for jumping on you, wether they are wrong or not, those you'll just have to endure) then you aren't going to be able to argue your point effectively. And in hindsight, working to make people ashamed of themselves may be a dirty trick, but in cases like this where it's a matter of people attacking something with no one to intelligently or effectively defend it, and in a few other rare cases... I'd say it's acceptible.
but then what do I know?
Yo man, I believe in God, but I don't believe all aspects of Christianity, most of them for all the matter. All I know is that there is a higher being or deity out there. You mentioned earlier for people to respect the belief of God and Jesus, but how can they. Who are you to question someone's belief or non-belief? In all honesty, Christianity is one of the most jacked up, divided, un-original, confusing religions of all. Christianity has bitten of of so many others and it has so many divisions it's inconceivable. You had the Catholics at first, but it was corrupt so you had the reformation, where the protestants created the church of england. That church tried to restore peace, but it too was corrupt, so people came to the America's as Puritans. The Puritans were messed up and.......... now we have so many divisions. It all just spiraled out of control.
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Their are tons of people who believe in god, but don't go to church or over do it with Christianity, and find overly Christian people somewhat annoying. No offense to anyone who is but, that kind of stuff seems quite common among Americans and even people outside America its all upon how you see it. Its your opinion so your kind of being a little over agitated on the fact of others opinions.
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When you see descriptions of mountain bikes they are usually described as XC, trail, enduro etc. and have different geometries based on what sort of category they fall into. What are the defining characteristics of the bikes and their geometries for the different categories of riding? What makes a trail bike a trail bike and not an XC bike for instance?
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So to give an XC example:
Whilst an enduro:
Most MTB frame styles have roughly the same BB height, as everyone wants a better cornering bike and it's difficult to pedal over rough terrain anyway. The only exception I think of are pure downhilling frames, where a very low BB height is desired but to minimise pedal smashes, shorter crank lengths are the norm.
Headangles tend to quite steep on most MTB frames even on very different styles, for example XC and dirt jump frames have similar headtube angles. Once again the notable exception are downhilling frames, which have very slack headangles; although this for improving stability when on steep descents (it's harder to go over the bars).
The above is an oversimplification. In the real world the parts play off each other, and their characteristics will change as a bike moves through the rear travel (if it's got any of course). Also the above are frame characteristics; the length of stem, width of the bars, length of cranks, height of forks, etc. all play their part in the overall feel just as much as the frame does.


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No – despite the strange timing of Amazon Inc's Dash Button reveal, the company's latest effort to allow customers to instantly order products such as laundry detergent and baby food, isn't an elaborate April Fool's joke.
"Freak" is the latest security vulnerability to wash across the Internet. It affects a variety of platforms, including Google Inc.'s Android operating system, Apple Inc.'s line of iOS-based devices and also Mac and Windows computers.
The founder of the Silk Road website faces life in prison for running an underground Internet emporium that catered to hackers and drug traffickers.
After the Pirate Bay's data centre – which is rumoured to be located in a nuclear-proof building in a mountain somewhere near Stockholm, Sweden – was raided by authorities, many assumed the Internet's most popular file-sharing website would be gone for […]
At the trial of Ross Ulbricht, the man accused of running Silk Road, an online black market, lawyers are fighting over important evidence rules that no one ever saw coming: emojis.
A new report says Canada's electronic spy agency sifts through millions of videos and documents downloaded every day through file-sharing services as part of its bid to find terrorists.
Popular Torrent indexing website, The Pirate Bay, could be returning on Feb 1, after going offline roughly a month ago following a police raid on the website's servers in Sweden. Cryptic messages, such as a skull and crossbones and various […]
With the Canadian Copyright Modernization Act's final portion going into effect on Jan. 1, forcing internet service providers (ISPs) to forward copyright holders violation claims to their customers, many Canadians are seeking ways to hide their identity online. The most common […]
Slur, a new website dedicated to selling secrets, bills itself as something "you're going to hate."
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ST would like to thank everyone involved with the House of Blues in S.D. and Catalyst in Santa Cruz. Big thanks to all those that went, and all those that tried to get in to the shows this weekend. Two sold out shows, Two great crowds, a Truely Suicidal Weekend. Once again, Pep was on hand to take pictures of the shows and we'll have announcement about the new ST Tour book. Things are starting to heat up and we'll have several updates shortly on what to expect in 2010. STill to go in 2009 is the Aussie dates and the Long Beach Arena show December 19. ST Tattoo should have the tickets shortly. We'll also have some more info on the Aussie dates coming up. The filming of, the special "MC", the location of the Suicidal Beach BBQ (featuring Cyco's Fish Tacos!) and much more. You know ST is gonna get down, down under! Tickets are going fast, again, once they are gone, they are gone. Thanks for the support.


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College: Virginia Tech (school history)
Drafted by the Washington Redskins in the 12th round (136th overall) of the 1953 NFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 33 (2960th overall since 1950)
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Miami had given up one of its 6th rounders to move up in the trade with Dallas, and they gave up their other in order to move up with New Orleans.
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The New York Post reports a recent survey from the dating site AshleyMadison.com finds—no big surprise here—soccer stud David Beckham is the jock most women (43.1 percent) would want to, uh, score with.
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If you drove to work on a freshly plowed road Tuesday morning, you probably have a public employee to thank. In other places, a storm of Monday night's magnitude would cripple commerce for a week, but for Park City and Summit County road crews, snowstorms are part of their normal routine.
And, if you are reassured by the fact that there are armed law enforcement officers assigned to each of our local school districts, the Summit County Sheriff's Department and the Park City Police force also deserve to be on your Christmas list. This week, in the wake of the school shooting in Connecticut, sheriff's deputies and police officers were busy meeting with school administrators to offer support and advice on tightening security to protect our children.
But instead of gratitude, those essential service providers are facing potential budget cuts and possible layoffs.
The Summit County Council is holding a public hearing tonight in Coalville to hear whether citizens want them to slice those budgets even further than they have been cut since the recession took hold in 2008 or to reinstate the tax increases that were shot down by a petition last fall.
Last year, faced with increasing costs and service needs, the Summit County Council approved tax rate increases for Service Area #6 and the Municipal Services Fund. The rate hikes were intended to bolster road maintenance projects and public safety services in the unincorporated parts of the county and would have been imposed only on property owners within those areas.
But the council can reinstate the taxes for 2013, if there is enough support from citizens. The petitioners, many of whom do not live in the affected areas, only needed to gain signatures from 10 percent of the electorate far from a majority. And it is unclear whether some of those who signed understood its ramifications.
We believe further budget cuts would compromise the safety of citizens throughout the county and that the council is justified in standing up to the irresponsible minority that forced the rollback.
Unfortunately, attending a public hearing in Coalville is not likely to be a high priority during this busy pre-Christmas week. But the stakes are high and your input may well make the difference between preserving the high level of services you currently enjoy and compromising them at the behest of a very vocal minority.
If you support your elected officials' initial call for a tax increase to maintain service levels in many of the unincorporated areas of the county including large swaths of the highly populated Snyderville Basin -- plan to attend the hearing tonight at 6 p.m. at the Summit County Courthouse in Coalville. If you can't attend, make your voice part of the public record by sending an email.
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Federal travelers are required by 49 U.S.C. 40118, commonly referred to as the "Fly America Act," to use United States air carrier service for all air travel and cargo transportation services funded by the United States Government. One exception to this requirement is transportation provided under a bilateral or multilateral air transport agreement, to which the United States Government and the government of a foreign country are parties, and which the Department of Transportation has determined meets the requirements of the Fly America Act.
The United States Government has entered into several air transport agreements that allow federal funded transportation services for travel and cargo movements to use foreign air carriers under certain circumstances.
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Information on the four Open Skies Air Transportation Agreements (U.S. Government Procured Transportation) and other specific country agreements may be accessed via the Department of State's website.
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The Bucs, who earned the program's first-ever trip to the NCAAs by capturing the Atlantic Sun Conference Championship two weeks ago, are excited about the opportunity to compete against the nation's best collegiate teams and battle for the national championship.
"Looking at the teams in the East Region it was really stacked, so I like our region and our chances to advance to the finals," said ETSU head coach Stefanie Shelton. "I think we can compete with anyone in the country right now and I'm really proud of how our team has been playing. I've played this course before when I was in college and I'm familiar with it. It's a hilly course a lot like the courses we play here, so that should be an advantage for us."
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Nov. 27, 2004) - The ETSU Department of Intercollegiate Athletics welcomed back one of the all-time greats in the program's history on Saturday, as over 6,000 fans gathered to welcome back Keith "Mister" Jennings to Memorial Center.
Fans were treated to a basketball clinic hosted by
In addition, former coaches, players and family surrounded Mister, as ETSU Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Dave Mullins and ETSU President Dr. Paul E. Stanton Jr., presented Mister with his retired jersey.
"This is such an honor to come back to a place where you are so loved,"
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Director of Community & Economic Development:
H. Brent Sinclair, AICP
Chief Building Official:
Will Crew
Business Development Manager:
Linda Boston
Planning Manager:
Patrick Kelly
City Engineer:
Bill Sandhu
Traffic Engineer:
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Urban Growth Review
The Modesto Urban Area General Plan "Community Growth Strategy" (Chapter II, Section C.1) calls for a review of the growth trends in the Modesto Urban Area on a periodic basis. As noted in the Community Growth Strategy, this periodic review should provide for the selection of potential urban areas to be served with urban infrastructure during the next five years. In general, the maintenance of a five-year supply of available vacant and agricultural land served with urban infrastructure is desirable and urban growth should be directed as long as economically feasible to these new growth areas currently served with City services. This periodic review is known as Urban Growth Review (UGR).
The last UGR report was accepted by the City Council in July 2003. Based on the findings of the 2003 UGR report, the City Council scheduled the Johansen and Empire North Comprehensive Planning Districts (CPD)s, and the Shackelford neighborhood for a Measure M advisory election. Each of these three areas received an affirmative advisory vote.
The current UGR process began in October 2008. The City Council's Economic Development Committee is facilitating a series of workshops concerning the 2009 UGR, from January through April 2009 and will forward a recommendation. The 2009 UGR report will address the following items:
1) Inventory of vacant land within the City limits available for urban development;
2) Estimate the land acreage needed for residential,
commercial and industrial
development in the next several years, in order to determine whether a surplus or deficit in supply of vacant land exists;
3) Identification of alternatives for providing additional land for development;
4) Discussion of infrastructure needs to serve future growth and any areas identified for possible annexation;
5) Any recommendations for scheduling growth areas on the
November 2009 ballot for a Measure M vote, to increase the
available sites / vacant land inventory.
For more information regarding Urban Growth Review, contact Brad Wall, Principal Planner at (209) 577-5273 or at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Housing Element Update
Staff is preparing the updated Housing Element, which is one of the seven state-mandated elements of the General Plan. In the past, staff has utilized consultants to prepare the Housing Element. For this update, staff has determined that the necessary time and expertise are available by City staff. At this time, staff is evaluating the 2003 Housing Element's requirement to accommodate 15,300 affordable units to determine whether Modesto has achieved that goal.
For the 2009 Housing Element, Modesto is required to accommodate an additional 11,100 affordable units. The State Legislature passes bills during every session that affect affordable housing; staff is working to ensure that the City's 2009 Housing Element passes muster with the Department of Housing and Community Development, which will extend the City's eligibility for various set-aside funds for affordable housing. In accordance with state law, the Housing Element is updated on a five-year cycle. Among other things, Senate Bill 375 (2008) changed this to an eight-year cycle, beginning with the next cycle.
For more information regarding the Housing Element Update, contact Cindy van Empel, Senior Planner at (209) 577-5280 or at email@example.com.
Kiernan Business Park East
The Kiernan Business Park East project site is located on the east side of Dale Road between Kiernan Avenue and Pelandale Avenue. The Kiernan Business Park Specific Plan is proposed to be amended to include approximately 39 acres of Commercial and Medium High Density Residential development on the east side of Dale Road, with 114 acres remaining for Business Park development. The draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR) was completed and made available for public review on December 17, 2009. The public review period concluded February 2, 2009. Response to comments received and the final EIR are now being completed. It is anticipated that the amendment to the Specific Plan and final EIR will be brought before Council for consideration by mid 2009.
For more information regarding Kiernan Business Park East, contact Josh Bridegroom, Senior Planner at (209) 551-5540 or at email@example.com.
Telecommunications Ordinance
Over the past few years, the City of Modesto has reviewed multiple permit requests for wireless telecommunication (telecom) facilities, mostly proposed on freestanding poles and commonly referred to as cell towers. The City of Modesto has up until now not had specific standards to address telecom facilities and the City review has been based on height requirements in the Zoning Ordinance for the district where a cell tower is proposed.
To address this deficiency, City Planning staff, working with an independent telecommunications expert, drafted an ordinance that provides standards for height, location and design of new facilities. The ordinance provides incentives to encourage co-location on existing facilities, and to encourage "camouflage" designs on new facilities.
After workshops with cellular providers, and the City's Planning Commission and Board of Zoning Adjustment, the City Council formally adopted the ordinance on April 28.
For more information regarding the telecom ordinance,
contact Paul Liu, Senior Planner at (209) 577- 5282 or at
Neighborhood Compatibility and Multi-Family Residential Design Guidelines
For many years, the City's Zoning Code has required second-story additions to existing homes and new two-story houses located in established neighborhoods to go through an administrative review in order to ensure that privacy and massing issues that relate to immediately adjacent residences are addressed. In recent years, there have been increasing concerns expressed by neighbors about the scale and compatibility of some of these homes and additions, and this has resulted in an increasing number of appeals of staff approvals to the Board of Zoning Adjustment (BZA) and City Council. These concerns came to a head in 2007, when a group of residents requested that the City prepare guidelines to address these concerns. On November 11, 2007, the Council acted on this request and directed staff to pursue the following programs:
1. Neighborhood Compatibility Guidelines to address compatibility issues created by new homes and additions in existing neighborhoods.
2. Multi-Family Residential Design Guidelines to ensure
that new multi-family projects are compatible with the
surrounding neighborhoods and are of high-quality design.
City Planning staff, following this direction, prepared drafts of both sets of Guidelines.
The Neighborhood Compatibility effort has been focused
primarily upon providing more effective guidance for
second-story review. For this reason, the organization of
the document reflects those topics already identified in the
Zoning Code for consideration under the current secondstory
review provisions. These topics include Privacy, Scale and
Massing, and Solar Access, with the addition of some general
consideration for design consistency. Additionally, the
Guidelines provide some guidance on lot pattern and
neighborhood layout issues, particularly with regard to lot
size compatibility and flag lots. They are not intended to
be "design guidelines" in the usual sense and do not contain
guidance for achieving any particular architectural style.
The purpose of the Multi-Family Residential Design Guidelines is to encourage high-quality multi-family development that emphasizes safety, livability, and long-term viability. The Design Guidelines include an Introduction and six chapters: Site Planning, Circulation and Parking, Building Design, Landscaping, Miscellaneous Site Elements, and Safety.
The two sets of Guidelines underwent two workshops with
the public and Planning Commission over a period of several
months, and were recently adopted by the City Council on
April 28, 2009.
For more information regarding the Guidelines, contact Steve Mitchell, Principal Planner at (209) 577-5287 or at firstname.lastname@example.com
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The City of Modesto (City) supports economic development through the growth of Modesto businesses. It also encourages the construction of residential and affordable housing development projects within the City. However, due to the continued rise in development costs and today's weak economy, many development projects are stalled or abandoned. Since the early 1990's, the City has offered several Capital Facilities Fees (CFF) deferral programs to encourage economic development as well as affordable housing developments. By implementing CFF deferral programs, the City seeks to ease this cost barrier by deferring the time for payment of certain development impact fees.
New development increases the demand for health and
safety services provided by the City, affects the quality of
the community's infrastructure, and increases the need for
public facilities.
Typically, CFF is paid to the City at the time a building permit is issued and helps pay for the cumulative impact of new development through infrastructure improvements and additions, thereby also contributing to the community's economic development. Facilities partly funded by CFF include park, police, fire and administrative buildings, bike trails, public landscape areas, community centers, transportation and transit facilities, as well as roadway improvements. CFF does not fund maintenance of existing or future city facilities.
CFF deferral programs benefit economic growth and
development by allowing the deferral of impact fees. In most
cases, the programs allow developers and single-family
affordable homeowners to pay a small portion of CFF at
building permit issuance, and defer or delay paying the
remainder of the fees until a later date (deferral period
varies). CFF deferrals are administered by the
Infrastructure Finance Program office located in the City's
Community & Economic Development Department. To defer CFF,
homeowners and/or developers are required to complete an
application and enter into an agreement with the City. Upon
approval by the City
Council, the agreement is recorded and a lien is placed on the property until the terms of the agreement are met. Below is a summary of the City's current CFF deferral programs.
1. Single-Family Affordable Housing CFF Deferral
The Affordable Housing Fee Deferral Program is designed to encourage development of affordable housing projects. This program allows for the deferral of CFF for eligible low and very low income housing projects constructed in the city and the city's sphere of influence.
Qualifications: Any single-family affordable housing unit
constructed by any person or
entity. The home must be purchased by a homebuyer earning between 61-80% of the
area median income who will use it the development as their principal place of residence.
Conditions: All or a portion of the CFF can be deferred
up to five years. Starting in the sixth year, the homeowner
begins making payments of principal and interest and
continues to pay annually over a ten year period. This deferral requires an application, signed Agreement approved by the City Council, Promissory Note and City Deed of Trust to secure the note and places a lien on the property. Interest penalties apply if deferred fees are not paid within the maximum fee deferral period.
2. Single-Family Residential Deferral until Final Occupancy
NEW! The Single-Family Residential Deferral until Final
Occupancy is designed to
encourage development of single-family residential homes by deferring payment of the CFF until a Certificate of Occupancy is issued by the Building Safety Division.
Qualifications: Any single-family home constructed by any person or entity.
Conditions: CFF is deferred until a Certificate of
Occupancy is issued by the Building
Safety Division or 18 months from execution of the agreement, whichever is less. This deferral requires an application, $250 processing fee, $12 recordation fee, preliminary title report, signed Agreement, and places a lien on the property. Interest penalties apply if deferred fees are not paid within the maximum fee deferral period.
Rather than paying CFF at the time a building permit is issued, a property owner or developer may elect to defer payment of all or a portion of those fees if the development falls into one of two categories.
1. Category A - Non Residential CFF Deferral:
Qualifications: Any non-residential project, excluding industrial warehouses, where the CFF exceeds $150,000, and where there is a single owner. This may be one parcel or a group of contiguous parcels. For industrial warehouses, the conditions are the same except the CFF must exceed $50,000.
Conditions: 10% of CFF is paid when a building permit is
issued. The remaining 90%
plus interest is paid in equal installments over 10 years. This deferral requires an
application, preliminary title report, signed Agreement approved by the City Council, and places a lien on the property. Interest penalties apply if deferred fees are not paid within the maximum fee deferral period.
2. Category B - Non-Residential CFF Deferral:
Qualifications: Projects, excluding industrial
warehouses, where the CFF is between
$25,000 to $150,000, and where there is a single owner. This may be one parcel or a
group of contiguous parcels. For industrial warehouses, the conditions are the same
except the CFF must be between $25,000 to $50,000.
Conditions: 20% of CFF is paid when a building permit is
issued with the remaining
80% paid in equal installments over 5 years plus interest. This deferral requires an
application, preliminary title report, signed Agreement approved by the City Council, and places a lien on the property. Interest penalties apply if deferred fees are not paid within the maximum fee deferral period.
For more information regarding CFF Deferral Programs, please contact the Infrastructure Finance Program Office @ (209) 577-5211 or visit the City's website at www.modestogov.com.
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The Modesto Action Center is a web-based customer relationship management program on the City's website at www.modestogov.com that is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. This program makes it easy for citizens, businesses, organizations and visitors to send questions, compliments, complaints, suggestions and service requests directly to a City staff person who can help. An additional feature of the Modesto Action Center is a "Frequently Asked Questions" section.
The Modesto Action Center is organized by topics and subtopics so that an inquiry is routed to the most appropriate staff member who can then respond to a customer's communication more effectively and efficiently. The Community and Economic Development Department offers a variety of subtopics under the topics of Building, Business Development, Planning and Traffic. We encourage our customers to utilize the Modesto Action Center so that we may serve you better!
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Statistics for January - March 2009
Residential Permits
Single-Family: 4
Multi-Family: 0
Remodels: 515
Commercial Permits
New: 1
Remodels: 55
Misc: 64
Total Permits: 639
Inspections: 7005
Zoning Applications: 4
Plan Reviews: 11
Tentative Subdivision/Parcel Maps
# of Maps: 2
# of Lots: 47
Encroachment Permits
Encroachment: 72
Subdivision: 0
Well: 2
Outdoor Dining: 0
Transportation: 34
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As a mode of forced concision, Twitter rewards the pithy, and there are many artists, journalists, comedians, and even athletes who have emerged as real adepts of the form since the advent of what the American Journalism Review in 2009 called "the Twitter Explosion." Yet there are some figures who have transcended the laconic idiom of Twitter into another realm entirely. These are the true geniuses of the Twitterverse. Rather than tweeting content that could just as easily go on Facebook or a blog post, these contributors have discovered ways of adapting their expertise into the 140-character form in such a way that the content they share seems to exist in a kind of intrinsic relation to the form of the tweet. An example of this medium-message organicism is the Twitter stream of musician Imogen Heap (@imogenheap) of Frou Frou and Acacia fame (she has also collaborated with Jeff Beck). While using the medium to stay in touch with fans and note upcoming appearances, Heap also tweets fragments of ambient sounds and her own improv that can be heard as short-form audio commentary on her more extended work.
Another such Twitter genius is Erik Kwakkel, a scholar of book history at Leiden University. Kwakkel's day job involves the teaching of paleography (the study of old handwriting) and codicology (the study of old books) to students at all levels, at Leiden and elsewhere. His scholarly publications include several collaborative volumes on medieval books and readers as well as numerous articles on book history. Kwakkel's Twitter feed (@erik_kwakkel) regularly provides links to ongoing discussions of medieval books, digital archives newly on line, and classroom exercises organized by himself and others (including the live tweeting of a hunt for manuscript fragments). He engages in regular Twitter conversations with colleagues in the field, sharing and commenting on links and images along with Sarah Peverley (@Sarah_Peverley), Kathryn Rudy (@katerudy1), Johan Oosterman (@JohanOosterman), Elaine Treharne (@ETreharne), Andrew Prescott (@Ajprescott), and other members of an emerging community of early book enthusiasts on Twitter.
Since he began tweeting earlier this year, however, Kwakkel has leveraged his professional devotion to old books into a form of digital curation that represents one of the most consistently riveting entrees into the world of medieval manuscripts. His Twitter stream enlists images of and from medieval books–not just beautiful illuminations and grotesque marginalia but unusual scripts, scribal corrections, parchment repairs, mutilated pages and codices, binding fragments–to open fascinating windows onto the past while jarring his viewers with the simultaneously alien and intimate glimpses of bookish life they afford. Even experienced scholars of medieval books will delight in Kwakkel's ability to unstraighten familiar sight-lines, both on ourselves and on the past–and always with a wry humor befitting the subject ("Thanks for sending," he writes to one of his correspondents, "the worm holes went down very well here in Leiden.")
Crucial to the creative artistry of Kwakkel's Twitter stream is the visual mechanism of the individual tweet itself, which initially hides the tweeted picture behind a coded link that must be clicked to reveal the image glossed in the text. This allows his 140-character tweets to prepare you (or, just as often–and this is part of the point–not) for the glimpses of bookish ingenuity you're about to see. While I have expanded some of his tweets below to illustrate this aspect of his curation, I have left others in situ so readers can experience them as they would within their own streams.
A technical note: the expanded tweets below (i.e. the longer ones that show the photos) are 'live,' though you don't have to have a Twitter account to make them work. Just hover and click at will, whether to link to the tweeted image, read the reactions to some of Kwakkel's contributions by his followers, or, if you have an account, follow Kwakkel yourself (highly recommended). I couldn't figure out how to embed non-expanded tweets, so I've simply inserted screen shots that are then linked to the expanded versions; the effect is pretty much the same. If anyone knows how to embed non-expanded tweets I'd appreciate an e-mail or comment with instructions.
Kwakkel's tweets are invariably written so as to lure the reader into clicking on the image (the 'twit-pic' in current lingo). Intrigue, mystery, humor, violence, eroticism: Kwakkel uses all of these appeals to our baser instincts to get his followers looking at a medieval image as quickly as possible. This is the mark of the Master Tweeter, of course: the ability to capture the viewer's attention in the midst of a highly saturated digital environment, inspiring that momentary pause and click-through to the content beneath.
Here are five typical examples from Kwakkel's feed, the first three expanded, the third and fourth not:
Lovely repairs in an 8th-century book: squint and you see two branches of a Christmas tree (StGall730). twitter.com/erik_kwakkel/s…— Erik Kwakkel (@erik_kwakkel) November 5, 2012
Two-for-one armour sale at Knights 'r Us (Crusaders at Battle of Hattin, Amiens635, 15th c). twitter.com/erik_kwakkel/s…— Erik Kwakkel (@erik_kwakkel) October 24, 2012
Poor chap having to model for this medical drawing: "wound-man", illustrating variety of injuries (Welcome 49, c1420) twitter.com/erik_kwakkel/s…— Erik Kwakkel (@erik_kwakkel) August 3, 2012
As this last example shows, Kwakkel's gentle humor invites you in, and the linked image then jars you with the incongruous: in this case, the notion that a screenfold manuscript would cause a viewer motion sickness. (Here as elsewhere in his stream you often have to stare at the image for a moment before getting the joke.) Kwakkel's quirky commentary can sometimes approach the idiom of surrealism or Dada in its disjunctive sensibility. This is particularly true when he tweets images on theological and religious themes, whether Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden…
"Psst, Adam, he's talking about a fruit bowl now." Great Fall of Adam and Eve scene from Escorial Beatus (Spain,10thC). twitter.com/erik_kwakkel/s…— Erik Kwakkel (@erik_kwakkel) November 6, 2012
…or Jonah and the Whale…
"I can't watch!" (says guy on left): Jonah cannot be saved from being swallowed by whale (Stuttgart bibl. 23, c.830). twitter.com/erik_kwakkel/s…— Erik Kwakkel (@erik_kwakkel) November 6, 2012
…or a jaw-droppingly literalist interpretation of a Psalm verse…
Illuminator taking too literally Psalm 37's "For thy arrows are fastened in me." (Met, Cloisters, 54.1.1, 15th c). twitter.com/erik_kwakkel/s…— Erik Kwakkel (@erik_kwakkel) November 6, 2012
…or David and Goliath:
Not bad for a Lego-sized guy: David beating the living daylights out of Goliath (Stuttgart Cod. bibl. 23, 9th c). twitter.com/erik_kwakkel/s…— Erik Kwakkel (@erik_kwakkel) November 2, 2012
Kwakkel's most hilarious tweets inflect medieval visual culture through the droll touch of the master ironist. If you're drinking coffee, swallow before you click this one:
Here's an expanded tweet on the same theme:
The new self-inflicting arrow was particularly popular among disillusioned archers without aim (Royal 10E iv,Fr.c1300) twitter.com/erik_kwakkel/s…— Erik Kwakkel (@erik_kwakkel) September 8, 2012
And a tweeted image of maritime militarism:
And another of appellants at court:
Meanwhile at the court house, the Dalton twins waited patiently for their turn to address the Exchequer of Pleas. twitter.com/erik_kwakkel/s…— Erik Kwakkel (@erik_kwakkel) October 16, 2012
As all of these examples illustrate, one of Kwakkel's accomplishments as a tweeter of book history is his brilliant skew(er)ing of modern perspective, an ability to find the light or dark humor in the codicological truism. I'm thinking here of his marvelous Halloween series posted just this fall. I won't give anything away, but if you click through the eight tweets in the sequence (four of them are below) you'll see how Kwakkel plays on the material substrate of medieval books (animal skin, internal writing, body-as-book, page-as-flesh) with just the sense of irony and empathy the subject demands.
I could go on. Indeed, one of the problems with blogging about a visually rich subject like this one is that you want to post and comment on everything–but Erik Kwakkel's tweets speak for themselves, and the best way to appreciate their effect is simply to follow his feed at @erik_kwakkel. Be prepared to lose a few hours of your day, though. Kwakkel has discovered a breathtakingly original way of bringing the history of the book to a new kind of life. This is digital curation at its best, and a sign of great things to come in book history.
Books abounding indeed!


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Key Scoring Run Lifts Womens Basketball to 65-39 Victory over ISU
It wasn't quite the start Princeton anticipated after its heart pounding overtime win over Delaware Sunday, but after overcoming a sluggish start the Tigers' employed a double figure run midway through the first half to propel past Illinois State, 65-39, Wednesday evening at Jadwin Gym to close out the women's basketball team's home half of the 2013 schedule.
The win extends the Tigers' winning ways to four straight, tabbing them winners of five of the last six, and improves the squad to 7-4. The loss drops Illinois State to 1-7 on the year.
Senior Kristen Helmstetter led with a game-high 16 points, going again nearly perfect from the stripe (6-of-7), while adding a game-high five assists, five boards and a steal over 29 minutes.
Fellow starters and point guard tandem Amanda Berntsen and Blake Dietrick notched 10 points apiece, with Berntsen tallying eight boards and Dietrick making three blocks for game-highs.
As the two veteran lead guards ahead of her added key runs, freshman Taylor Brown displayed a new level of comfort on the floor. Over her 19 minutes, the newest Tiger point guard had nine points, all triples, and eight defensive boards – all career marks.
Down 9-3 at 11:49, Taylor Williams and Brown guided a 15-0 run to put Princeton up for good and give the Orange and Black a 21-9 advantage at 5:32. Williams had six points during that span, while Brown sent in a momentum building trey early in the rally and had four defensive boards.
Williams finished with eight points, going 4-for-4 from the field, with three defensive boards, an assists and a block over 12 minutes of action.
Princeton bolstered its lead to 19 by the break, 32-13, limiting ISU to 13.5 percent (5-for-37) from the field to the Tigers' 56 percent (14-for-25).
The Red Birds struggled to slow down Princeton in the second half, chipping its lead to 16, 47-31, after consecutive three-pointers from Alison Seberger at 7:26. It was the closest Illinois State had gotten since 1:20 in the first half and would get, as Princeton went on to expand its lead to as high as 28 to finish things off.
The Tigers shot 55.3 percent (26-for-47) from the field and held ISU to 20 percent (13-for-65) for a season-best defensive effort and opponent low in points against. Princeton held a 51-30 rebounding margin, but did commit 28 turnovers.
After a grueling opening stretch, the Tigers will have a break in play before resuming action at the Cavalier Classic hosted by Virginia in Charlottesville, Va. from Dec. 28-29. Princeton opens with Alabama on Saturday at 12 noon. Pending the results of day one, the Tigers will face either Coppin State or host-UVa the next day.
Postgame Notes: Freshman Jackie Reyneke saw minutes after missing the last five games due to a broken finger … all active players saw minutes in the game … Princeton has shot over 50 percent in five games this year … Princeton has made 50 or more rebounds three times this season … the Tigers are now 3-0 all-time versus Illinois State.