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On Tuesday, Oct. 16, City Council unanimously approved guidelines under the growth management ordinance that prioritize which residential projects are eligible for residential growth allotments (RGAs) that entitle developers to permits to build homes.
City planner Bill Dean told the council that the regulations emphasize which projects have secured the most entitlements and are closest to beginning construction.
Under the new guidelines, Dean said that the Tracy Hills, Ellis and Kagehiro projects are the first developments in line for RGAs because they are furthest along in the process.
Tracy Hills is within city limits and straddles Interstate 580 at the south end of Lammers Road. Ellis is slated for land outside city limits on the northwest corner of Linne and Corral Hollow roads, and the Kagehiro project will occupy city land northeast of Valpico and Corral Hollow roads.
"Those are projects that have received City Council approval in the past several times," Dean said. "Those are projects that have developed infrastructure solutions for their projects. Those are projects that are poised to move into the tentative mapping phase … sooner than others."
Dean told council that there are not enough RGAs for every proposed project around Tracy to be built profitably at the same time.
The city's growth guidelines allow handing out a maximum of 750 RGAs each year, with an annual average of 600 RGAs — limits approved by voters in 2000 under Measure A.
The guidelines approved Tuesday also stipulate that infill projects — plans to build homes on lots within city limits that are partially or wholly surrounded by developed land — would also get priority.
Other developments waiting for RGAs would be eligible for allotments that aren't used by infill projects or Tracy Hills, Ellis or the Kagehiro development. RGAs cannot be transferred between projects once issued to a specific project.
Mike Souza, of Tracy-based Souza Realty and Development, is one of the partners behind Tracy Hills, which was annexed into the city in 1998.
Souza said Thursday, Oct. 18, that the project has been at a standstill since 2000, as Measure A virtually shut down residential growth in Tracy between 2006 and 2012.
The City Council's recent vote, he said, will allow Tracy Hills to be built now that the city is able to issue RGAs again.
Souza said he was "pleased" to see the project move forward and expected to start construction as early as 2014.
In previous conversations, Ellis lead developer Les Serpa has also said 2014 is a target for constructing homes.
"We are seeing the market has been strong in the Bay Area for a good year," Souza said. "We usually see the market here follow (the market) in the Bay Area by 12 to 18 months."
He said the housing project perched in the hills overlooking the valley supports the economic development efforts of the city along the Lammers Road corridor — specifically the Cordes Ranch and Gateway properties east of Lammers.
"That Lammers corridor is going to be a very important corridor in the future," Souza said.


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Golden State: C. Jenkins 24 Pts, 6 Reb, 9 Ast
Minnesota: N. Pekovic 19 Pts, 16 Reb, 2 Ast, 1 Blk
MINNEAPOLIS -- Playing all 48 minutes of Golden State's third game in three nights, Charles Jenkins did his best to show everyone the Warriors are not tanking to sew up their draft position.
With no first-round pick this summer, the Minnesota Timberwolves have no reason to dump games. But it sure feels like they are to J.J. Barea, who blistered some of his teammates for not caring enough.
Jenkins had 24 points and nine assists to rally the Warriors from a 21-point deficit to beat the Timberwolves, 93-88, on Sunday night.
"He's a tough New York City kid," said Warriors coach Mark Jackson, a Big Apple point guard himself back in the day. "A tough, hard-nosed kid who has no quit. Totally competes, gets after it. He was banged up, bruised up, battered up, but found a way to gut out a big-time performance."
Brandon Rush scored 10 of his 19 points in the fourth quarter and also grabbed nine rebounds. Klay Thompson scored 17 points for the Warriors, who snapped an eight-game losing streak.
The performance may have hurt the Warriors (23-41) in the long run. Utah holds their pick this year as part of a previous trade, and the only way the Warriors keep it is if they finish in the bottom seven of the league after the draft lottery. Golden State is in eighth with two games to play.
Nikola Pekovic had 19 points and 16 rebounds, and Barea had 14 points and 12 assists in all 48 minutes for the Timberwolves, who announced earlier that All-Star power forward Kevin Love would not play the final two games of the season because of a concussion.
You could've put together a nice All-Star team with the players who didn't play in this one: Steph Curry (right ankle), Andrew Bogut (left ankle), David Lee (groin), Andris Biedrins (concussion), Dorell Wright (right ankle) and Nate Robinson (right hamstring) were out for the Warriors; and Love, Ricky Rubio (left knee) and Luke Ridnour (right ankle) were out for the Wolves.
Being short-handed didn't keep Barea from blasting his teammates after the game.
"We've got problems here," said Barea, who shot 5 of 18. "We've got a lot of guys that don't care. ... We're just going to keep getting Ls until we get players here that care, that care about winning, care about the team and care about the fans."
Barea didn't name anyone specifically, but several objected.
"Until you point those guys out one by one, it doesn't really matter," said forward Michael Beasley, who scored eight points on 3-for-11 shooting and had nine rebounds. "That was a collective loss."
Martell Webster scored 18 points and Anthony Randolph had 14 points, seven boards and five blocks for Minnesota.
With Barea pushing the tempo in the open floor and Pekovic controlling the paint, the Timberwolves surged out to a 53-32 lead late in the second quarter.
Just like in their previous meeting in this building, when the Warriors came back from 20 down to beat the Wolves on April 4, Jenkins got rolling in the second half to bring Golden State back. The super-quick point guard had his way with Barea, scoring three straight buckets during a 10-0 run that cut the deficit to 68-63 late in the third quarter.
The Warriors then ripped off a 12-2 surge midway through the fourth quarter, culminating in a jumper from Jenkins to give them their first lead, 83-81, with 5:45 to play.
"Coach kept telling me to stay aggressive," Jenkins said. "The more the shots started to fall, the more confident I got in taking them. Everything just worked out."
Pekovic's putback gave Minnesota an 88-87 lead with 1:28 to go, but Rush came back with a 3, and Dominic McGuire converted a three-point play when he was fouled on a dunk to seal the win.
"There's some guys in here that have been more worried about other things," Wolves forward Anthony Tolliver said. "It's not that they don't want to win, it's just sometimes the team concept goes out the window. Whenever you're struggling a lot of times people want to blame somebody else, but the biggest thing is people have to look in the mirror, plain and simple.
"The hardest thing to do is to say, `My fault. It's on me.' It's real easy to say `You should've done (this) or you should've done that."
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The Wolves made all 21 of their foul shots. ... McGuire finished with 12 points and seven boards. ... The Timberwolves hosted Rochester resident Igor Voykovinsky, who at 7-foot-8 is the tallest man in America.
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MINNEAPOLIS, MN - APRIL 22: Jose Juan Barea #11 of the Minnesota Timberwolves drives up court during the game...(Photo by David Sherman/NBAE via Getty Images)
Team Stat Comparison
|41-92 (.446)
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|5-16 (.313)
|7-26 (.269)
|6-10 (.600)
|21-21 (1.000)
|Rebounds (Offensive-Total)
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|N. Pekovic 19
|B. Rush 9
|N. Pekovic 16
|C. Jenkins 9
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|M. Moore 2
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Chicago aldermen voted to rename the Clybourn corridor near Larrabee "Honorary Bobby Cann Way" in his memory. Alderman Walter Burnett Jr. made the proposal in this week's City Council meeting.
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Missing two of their top scorers and returning home following a disappointing road trip, the Raptors (25-39) were not lacking obstacles heading into Sunday's contest.
"We had every excuse in the world," Raptors coach Dwane Casey admitted after his team rallied back from a 17-point deficit to top the Cleveland Cavaliers (21-42) at the Air Canada Centre. "Guys (were) groggy coming in, a time change, we had every (reason) to mail it in this game but I told them at halftime that we can't (use) that as an excuse and everybody stepped up."
The Raptors, who dug themselves an early hole, were without leading scorer Rudy Gay -- resting a lingering back ailment -- and Andrea Bargnani, sidelined with a strained elbow.
"It was definitely an energy game," said Amir Johnson, who led the charge with his team-leading 12th double-double, scoring 17 to go along with a career-high matching 16 rebounds.
"We came out sluggish in the first and second quarters," he continued. "We picked it up later in the second and carried it on throughout the rest of the game."
Toronto engineered a 27-13 run in the third quarter -- coinciding with a left shoulder injury that took Cavaliers guard Kyrie Irving out of the game -- to take control going into what turned out to be a back-and-forth final period.
Cleveland took a one-point lead into the final minute before Kyle Lowry answered scoring four straight, including a go-ahead turnaround jumper with 14 seconds remaining.
Six Raptors scored in double figures paced by reserve Alan Anderson, who recorded 15 of his 18 points in the second half. Lowry added 15 to go along with nine boards, DeMar DeRozan scored 13 while rookies Terrence Ross and Jonas Valanciunas chipped in with 14 and 11 respectively.
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The Raptors were simply out-muscled and out-hustled throughout a flat start to the game -- their sub-par offence also did them no favours. Brampton-native Tristan Thompson did his part with six of his 10 rebounds in the first quarter and by the end of the period the Cavs had accumulated an advantage of five on the boards and six points in the paint. Thompson and centre Tyler Zeller did most of the early damage for the Cavs, who closed out the opening frame on a 21-11 run and scored eight of the first 10 points in the second.
That's where Johnson took matters into his own hands, as he has done time after time this season. The Raptors' spark plug had eight points and half his 16 boards in the second quarter, sending a wake-up call to the rest of his under-performing squad going into what must have been a lively halftime discussion, trailing by nine.
"He's just an old vet," Casey said of the 25-year-old Johnson in his seventh season out of high school. "He learned a lot in Detroit. He's one of the old guys I would say but a young guy at the same time. Again, he's a warrior, I've said it all year."
Johnson set the tone with his energy and the team responded, out-rebounding the Cavaliers by seven and besting them by 12 in the paint in the final three quarters.
The Stat: The Raptors have recorded 40 or more points in the paint in five consecutive contests despite ranking 27th in that category.
- Youth is (finally) served
It only took a couple key injuries, an embarrassing veteran-led collapse in Los Angeles and a realization that this team is (was) 15-games under .500 with (now) 18 games remaining for Casey to finally turn to his prized duo of first-year players. The Raptors' coach was heavily criticized for his use (or lack thereof) of Valanciunas (who didn't play in the fourth or overtime) and Ross (who didn't play at all) in Friday's loss to the Lakers. Prior to Sunday's game he admitted that finding both players more playing time was at the top of his end-of-season to-do list, but wasn't something he felt was fair against the likes of Kobe Bryant and Dwight Howard.
My feeling on that rationale is simply, how else are they going to develop if they're not given the chance to get their feet wet against elite competition? Especially at the tail end of an otherwise lost season? Although the level of competition was far from elite Sunday, both rookies took significant steps in the right direction, rewarding their coach for the added playing time.
"JV's heart is in the right place, he's working and getting better," Casey said of Valanciunas, who flashed some impressive post moves specifically in the third quarter where he scored nine points and grabbed four boards. "Next year that's going to be something he can go to and have plays run for him."
Ross -- who went from a DNP-CD in Los Angeles to his first NBA start in place of the injured Gay -- was settling for long jumpers in the first half, a trend that has plagued him through sporadic usage over the last month. Coming out of the break something clicked and the rookie finally started to utilize his high-end athleticism to get to the rim. Not surprisingly that seemed to re-ignite his confidence and ultimately his jumper as he knocked down 2-of-3 three-point attempts in the second half.
The Stat: Ross and Valanciunas combined for 19 points on 5-of-8 shooting the third quarter. It was the sixth time this season where both rookies played over 20 minutes in the same game and first since Dec. 12 in Brooklyn.
- The Kyrie Factor
Isn't it a convenient coincidence when the turning point overlaps with a game-ending injury to the opposition's most productive player? We saw it in Phoenix when Marcin Gortat's early exit sparked a Raptors run that ultimately carried them to an easy victory. Although nothing about this win was easy for Toronto, Irving's injury -- with two minutes remaining in the third quarter -- was clearly a crucial point in the game.
The Raptors were already in the middle of what turned into a 27-13 run when Irving collided with Valanciunas, shot and split two-one handed free throws, then headed immediately to the Cavaliers locker room not to be heard from again. With the momentum already shifting towards the home team, the loss of their All-Star point guard was one that hurt the Cavs going into a closely contested fourth quarter in which Irving's services were sorely missed.
The Stat: Irving leads the NBA in scoring with his team up or down by five points or less in the final minute of the game. Kobe Bryant is second, Kevin Durant is third.
- The Rudy Dilemma
Prior to the game Casey indicated there was a possibility that Gay could be rested in the future if his back pain persisted. "That's been discussed and talked about and it could happen," he said. Little did we know, he was referring to the very near future as the Raptors leading scorer was a late scratch from the lineup on Sunday.
Gay has been slowed by the injury since his back started to act up on him in the loss to Washington a couple weeks ago. Clearly he was not himself in what turned into a disastrous second half in L.A. Friday. (Note: the hard fall he took early in the third probably didn't help considering he's also battled recent shoulder and ankle injuries). Even a fully healthy version of Gay won't soon be cast as the model of efficiency but a 7-for-26 performance -- 0-for-8 in the fourth quarter and overtime -- is uncharacteristically terrible, even for him.
My question, if he wasn't close to full health in L.A. -- as we can only assume he wasn't based on the decision to rest him two days later -- why was he continuously thrust into the spotlight with the game on the line? Of course the player himself is largely at fault for not taking a necessary step back and the coaching staff deserves their share of the blame for not recognizing that and acting accordingly.
The preference, for the Raptors organization, is to have Gay in the lineup as the season comes to an end if for no other reason than to build chemistry with this unit he'll be a crucial part of next year. However, without much else on the line it makes more sense to be cautious and rest him if he's unable to perform at the high level he expects from himself. He's far too important to this team's future, as early as next October, to risk further injury. Back injuries tend to linger.
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After dropping its last two meeting with the Cavaliers, the Raptors split the season series at two games apiece. ... Bargnani, who re-injured his right elbow in the first quarter of Friday's loss, is scheduled to undergo further tests on Monday. He missed 26 games earlier this season with a torn ligament in the same elbow.
"I know where we're at, I know where were going [and] I know how to get there but again it takes these guys committed like they were [in] the second half." -- Casey
"[We] finally got it right. We work on it, we talk about, we drill it. They're human beings, we're [all] human beings, everyone's [a] human being. You'd love to have a perfect situation but again, it's a process."-- Casey on fouling the Cavaliers, up three on the final possession after they failed to execute the same play at the end of regulation in Los Angeles
"We had messed that up a couple times. In the timeout [Coach] was stressing it so I think we all heard him this time."-- Raptors forward Landry Fields on committing that foul on the last possession
"The one thing your not going to beat Amir Johnson on is effort and fight. Tonight it was contagious."-- Casey
"Everything is so fast for rookies and I don't care who you are, what level of rookie you are, it is a learning experience. I've been in this for a long time and I've seen rookies come through and that's what they have to learn; the speed of the game. As a coach it's my job to make sure they're growing the right way, coached the right way and brought along the right way because if you don't you get a diluted product."-- Casey
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To kill an AmericanFebruary 07,2013The New York Times, in an editorial, said the following:
On one level, there were not too many surprises in the newly disclosed white paper offering a legal reasoning behind the claim that President Barack Obama has the power to order the killing of U.S. citizens who are believed to be part of al-Qaida. We knew Obama and his lawyers believed he has that power under the Constitution and federal law. We also knew that he utterly rejects the idea that Congress or the courts have any right to review such a decision in advance, or even after the fact.
Still, it was disturbing to see the twisted logic of the administrations lawyers laid out in black and white. It had the air of a legal justification written after the fact for a policy decision that had already been made, and it brought back unwelcome memories of memos written for President George W. Bush to justify illegal wiretapping, indefinite detention, kidnapping, abuse and torture.
The document, obtained and made public by NBC News, was written by the Justice Department and coyly describes another, classified document (which has been described in The Times) that actually provided the legal justification for ordering the killing of U.S. citizens.
That document still has not been provided to Congress, despite repeated demands from lawmakers. The white paper was sent to Capitol Hill seven months after the military carried out Obamas orders to kill Anwar al-Awlaki, an American who moved to Yemen and became an advocate of jihad against the United States.
In private, administration officials say Awlaki was a commander of an al-Qaida affiliate and actively involved in planning attacks on the United States. Publicly, it has refused even to acknowledge that Obama ordered Awlaki killed or back up its claim that he was an active terrorist. The White House has vigorously fought holding any court hearing over the killing of Awlaki or his 16-year-old son, who was killed in a subsequent attack.
The American Civil Liberties Union is suing to have the operational memo on those killings released, arguing that a U.S. citizen has constitutional rights that a judge must make sure are being respected. We agree.
According to the white paper, the Constitution and the congressional authorization for the use of force after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, gave Obama the right to kill any U.S. citizen that an informed, high-level official decides is a senior operational leader of Al Qaeda or an associated force and presents an imminent threat of violent attack.
It never tries to define what an informed, high-level official might be, and the authors of the memo seem to have redefined the word imminent in a way that diverges sharply from its customary meaning. It talks about due process and the need to balance a persons life against the United States interest in forestalling the threat of violence and death to other Americans.
But it takes the position that the only oversight needed for such a decision resides within the executive branch, and there is no need to explain the judgment to Congress, the courts or the public or, indeed, to even acknowledge that the killing took place.
The paper argues that judges and Congress dont have the right to rule on or interfere with decisions made in the heat of combat. Some officials also draw a parallel to police officers who use violence to protect the innocent. Even in wartime, there are many ways to review commanders and soldiers decisions, and while courts-martial are internal to the military, their verdicts are subject to appeal to a civilian judge. When a police officer so much as discharges his weapon, it triggers a great deal of review, based on rules that are known to everyone.
The white paper is a confusing blend of self-defense and law of war concepts and doesnt clearly explain whether there is a different standard for killing a senior AQ leader depending on whether he is a citizen, said Kate Martin, director of the Center for National Security Studies. Its due process analysis is especially weak.
The memo could and should have been released months ago. The administration could and should have provided a select number of lawmakers with the specifics on the killing of Awlaki and his son. The president could and should have acknowledged that decision and explained it.
Going forward, he should submit decisions like this one to review by Congress and the courts. If necessary, Congress could create a special court to handle this sort of sensitive discussion, like the one it created to review wiretapping. This dispute goes to the fundamental nature of our democracy, to the relationship among the branches of government and to their responsibility to the public.MORE IN CommentaryWith regard to the article in the paper, Lawsuit: Trooper illegally seized car by Josh... Full StoryLast week John Boehner, the speaker of the House, explained to an audience at the American... Full StoryThe fact that a substantial majority of the voters in Scotland voted last Thursday in favor of... Full Story
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Roberto Martinez is predicting Romelu Lukaku will make an instant impact at Everton.
The Belgian international is ineligible for next weekend's home meeting with parent club Chelsea - but the Blues boss expects the deadline day signing to quickly display the qualities that made him such a hit at West Bromwich Albion last season.
Indeed, Martinez revealed one of the reasons for targeting Lukaku was the 20-year-old's familiarity to English football and the Premier League.
The on-loan frontman's first appearance in an Everton shirt could be the away Premier League fixture at West Ham United on Saturday 21 September.
"It was a perfect fit for what we needed and he is not going to need any settling in period," Martinez said.
"Clearly, he knows the league inside-out and he is not going to need any time to settle into the squad because he knows Kevin Mirallas really well from the international setup.
"I just see him as someone who can come in straight away and hit the ground running - and you don't get many players like that.
"As you can imagine, there were many clubs wanting Romelu but we are pleased that we managed to give him a challenge that he is looking forward to."
Lukaku was an unused substitute on Friday evening in Belgium's 2-0 victory over Scotland at Hampden Park – a result which moved them a step closer to qualification for next summer's World Cup.
Martinez believes a successful season at Everton will guarantee Lukaku's place in Marc Wilmots' squad in Brazil.
He continued: "You look at the player - he is only 20 and he can do anything. He is powerful, strong, direct with his running and a clinical finisher with his left and right feet. He can also assist and see a pass. It's very difficult to see a weakness.
"He started to have a big role at 16 so he has been playing at a high level for a number of years.
"All we want is for him to fulfil his potential at Everton, enjoy his football and make sure that he has an outstanding World Cup campaign."
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For one, nobody out-rationalizes Sam Harris. The guy has a brain the size of Europe—and all of it is connected to his mouth. He also seems entirely compassionate and utterly Pro-Human, two qualities I know I enjoy in a person. I think Sam Harris stands as pretty much the ultimate example of what a person can be and think when they insist that rational thought, above all, should be respected. And I can respect that. It's certainly not the worst thing for a person to stake their claim on.
Rational thought is core to what it means to be human. And that means that ultimately every human, sooner or later, must decide whether or not there's a God. Everything is either created by some sort of Divine Overseer, or the universe is the result of purely mechanistic coincidences. Those are our two choices. It's not like there's a third one. (Unless you count the decision not to decide whether or not there's a God—which, to my mind, is a "choice" entirely too spineless to take seriously.) There either is a God, or there isn't. And everyone definitely wants to know which of the two it is. Not a one of us wants to exist in a system that's grounded in pure, unknowable mystery. That's way too scary.
So people do what they must: They choose either God, or No God. Then they go with that.
We Christians, of course, have chosen God. It's what our hearts tell us is true. More: It's what God tells us is true. To be perfectly accurate, we didn't choose God at all. God chose us.
But we've got to understand that once we decide, for whatever reason, to Vote God, we necessarily mark ourselves, in the eyes of someone who's gone with option No God, as extraordinarily irrational. At that point we can't help but seem to them as fundamentally (so to speak) bonkers.
Which is not to say that we cannot fully justify our faith: My first book, Penguins, Pain and the Whole Shebang, proved (if I say so myself) that the entirety of the Christian belief system is nothing if not rationally supportable. Once anyone decides there is a God—which, since there either is or isn't, is necessarily as rational as deciding there's not—Christianity makes as much sense as opening an umbrella in the rain. It's actually difficult to posit a God, proceed logically from that assertion, and end up anywhere but at the Christian cross.
God became human to right us with himself. It's … well, perfect.
But the final truth behind Christianity is a spiritual, dynamic, mystical, deeply personal phenomenon that has no more to do with reason or logic than fins and gills have to do with koala bears. In the very, very final analysis, we simply cannot rationally defend our belief in God. Trying to do so is like, as they say, trying to dance about architecture.
Rick Warren lost his Newsweek debate with Sam Harris because Sam Harris can take rational thought and language all the way down to the base of what he believes in, while Mr. Warren, struggle though he might, can only take rational thought and language down the point at his belief where both become useless.
So Rick Warren loses the debate. In the end, we Christians will always lose the debate with atheists. Because they're using the language of logic. And there are no words for the essence of the Christian experience. And there never will be, thank God.
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DeKalb County police are investigating a pair of shootings that may be related. One victim was out walking his dog when someone opened fire.
Investigators say a man and his girlfriend were walking the dog along Elkhorn Drive when a SUV drove by, turned around and a person inside the SUV fired shots. The man was shot twice in the abdomen. He was taken to Grady Hospital, and is in critical condition. The woman was not injured.
Police say another shooting earlier on Hollyhock Terrace may be related. In that shooting, one person was killed.
"It's possible. We're not certain at this point. It's under investigation. Major felony unit's [going to be] following up on it. The situation is there's a similar type vehicle that was given as a description at the scene after the shooting occurred," said DeKalb police Lt. Dane Cunningham.
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Pizza might as well be New York City's official dish. A slice represents a quick lunch for busy New Yorkers, who take it to go, hurriedly eating while walking down the street. It's salvation to visitors who need a quick, inexpensive snack between sightseeing stops. It's often said that the best way to start an argument (a friendly one, of course) between two New Yorkers is to ask where to find the best slice. In the interest of furthering that heated discussion, we offer our 14 favorite slices in NYC


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10 facts about compound interest
To concept is simple, but the rewards can be huge. If the interest you earn on your savings earns further interest, money grows quickly.
When Benjamin Franklin died in 1790, he left $5,000 each to the cities of Boston and Philadelphia. Each city was to create a fund that would last for 200 years. The needy could borrow from the fund at 5% interest. After 100 years, each city could withdraw $500,000 from the fund, leaving the rest to work for the next 100 years. Why did Franklin do it? To help people understand the importance of compound interest.
What is compound interest? It's interest earning interest. Suppose you banked $100 a year ago, and it has since earned $2 in interest. This year, you'll be earning interest on $102 (original savings plus the interest earned). That might not seem like much, but understanding that simple process can have a major impact on your financial success.
Why is compound interest so important? Because it can turn just a few dollars today into big money over the course of a lifetime. Here's a look at 10 things you need to know about compound interest:
1. Anyone can benefit from compound interest. There's no need to be a Wall Street wizard or a Harvard MBA. Almost any investment will earn compound interest if you leave earnings in the account.
2. Compound interest is a double-edged sword. It's great if you're routinely saving money, but it can be cruel if you're borrowing money.
3. You want savings to compound as often as possible. It's better for your savings to compound quarterly than annually. If you're borrowing, just the opposite applies.
4. For savings, time is on your side. The longer money compounds, the faster it grows. Money growing at 6% per year will double in about 12 years, but it will be worth four times as much in 24 years.
5. For debts, time is not on your side. Credit cards and other open-ended accounts use compound interest against you. That's why making only minimum payments is likely to keep you in debt forever.
6. Today's low interest rates shouldn't discourage you. It's true that banks aren't paying much on savings accounts these days. But many mutual funds average a higher return and have very low minimums and no sales charges. If you can't tuck away a few dollars a month in savings, try paying down what you owe faster. Most debts (think home loans or credit cards) will allow you to add any amount above your minimum payment.
7. It adds up faster than you think. If you were to save $5 per month for 10 years, you'd have put $600 into savings. But if you were to earn 5% interest compounded each month on that account, your savings would be $776 at the end of that decade. And even if you didn't add a single dime after that, 15 years later, the account would be worth more than $1,500.
8. Compound interest can free you from credit card debt. Suppose your interest rate is 14% and you add just $5 per month to your payment. In 10 years, you will have avoided $1,315 in payments.
9. You don't have to be rich to make compound interest work for you. The principle works the same whether you invest $100 or $100 million. A millionaire may have more investment options, but even if you have only a modest income, you can use compound interest to build a bigger nest egg or reduce the amount you pay credit card companies.
10. With compound interest, the sacrifice is smaller than the benefit. To save a few dollars today, you'll have to say no to some purchases. But it's certain that the future reward will be greater than the sacrifice.
The bottom line for consumers: Often the difference between financial comfort and poverty isn't that great. Saving a few dollars a week might not seem like much, but if you do it consistently, you could be making a big difference in your financial future.
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Don't get so overhyped about semantics, folks. This article is not recommending PRODUCT, it's recommending you take advantage of compounding. Very sound, based upon math alone.
Don't forget about "not keeping all your eggs in one basket". If the only place you put money is in the bank, you'll eventually lose out to inflation. If the only place you put it is in the market, you risk a 2008 scenario with an average drop of 38%--not good if you need to retire soon after. And for the love of Pete, DO NOT confuse rate of return with interest, as they are vastly different things. Interest is a known figure ahead of time, and rate of return can only be known after the fact, when it's too late to change your mind.
Bank accounts, Mutual Funds, permanent life insurance, stocks, bonds, annuities. If possible, ALL should be in the plan because no matter what's happening in the economy at any given time, some of those are doing well and offsetting the ones that aren't.
Most importantly, you have to actually put the money away. A ten thousand percent rate of return on zero dollars still leaves you with zero dollars.
This is the usual bs. Where do you get 5% compounding anymore? You have to put money in the market and that is now no different from playing the slots. The banks need to be regulated alright and they need to start giving real interest again...they give nothing but if you borrow, they charge a fortune. The mob would probably offer a better rate.
Thank God for FDR and Social Security and the results of the election. We shouldn't hear any more about "privatizing" Social Security, which is not an entitlement program and which, if they do nothing, is solvent until the mid-30s and with minor adjustments will last probably through the end of this century.
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The intersection of social networks in a public service model: A case study.
Date: December 2007
Creator: Schultz-Jones, Barbara Ann
Description: Examining human interaction networks contributes to an understanding of factors that improve and constrain collaboration. This study examined multiple network levels of information exchanges within a public service model designed to strengthen community partnerships by connecting city services to the neighborhoods. The research setting was the Neighbourhood Integrated Service Teams (NIST) program in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. A literature review related information dimensions to the municipal structure, including social network theory, social network analysis, social capital, transactive memory theory, public goods theory, and the information environment of the public administration setting. The research method involved multiple instruments and included surveys of two bounded populations. First, the membership of the NIST program received a survey asking for identification of up to 20 people they contact for NIST-related work. Second, a network component of the NIST program, 23 community centre coordinators in the Parks and Recreation Department, completed a survey designed to identify their information exchanges relating to regular work responsibilities and the infusion of NIST issues. Additionally, 25 semi-structured interviews with the coordinators and other program members, collection of organization documents, field observation, and feedback sessions provided valuable insight into the complexity of the model. This research contributes to the application of ...
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An Examination Of The Variation In Information Systems Project Cost Estimates: The Case Of Year 2000 Compliance Projects
Date: May 2000
Creator: Fent, Darla
Description: The year 2000 (Y2K) problem presented a fortuitous opportunity to explore the relationship between estimated costs of software projects and five cost influence dimensions described by the Year 2000 Enterprise Cost Model (Kappelman, et al., 1998) -- organization, problem, solution, resources, and stage of completion. This research was a field study survey of (Y2K) project managers in industry, government, and education and part of a joint project that began in 1996 between the University of North Texas and the Y2K Working Group of the Society for Information Management (SIM). Evidence was found to support relationships between estimated costs and organization, problem, resources, and project stage but not for the solution dimension. Project stage appears to moderate the relationships for organization, particularly IS practices, and resources. A history of superior IS practices appears to mean lower estimated costs, especially for projects in larger IS organizations. Acquiring resources, especially external skills, appears to increase costs. Moreover, projects apparently have many individual differences, many related to size and to project stage, and their influences on costs appear to be at the sub-dimension or even the individual variable level. A Revised Year 2000 Enterprise Model is presented incorporating this granularity. Two primary conclusions can ...
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Creating a criterion-based information agent through data mining for automated identification of scholarly research on the World Wide Web
Date: May 2000
Creator: Nicholson, Scott
Description: This dissertation creates an information agent that correctly identifies Web pages containing scholarly research approximately 96% of the time. It does this by analyzing the Web page with a set of criteria, and then uses a classification tree to arrive at a decision. The criteria were gathered from the literature on selecting print and electronic materials for academic libraries. A Delphi study was done with an international panel of librarians to expand and refine the criteria until a list of 41 operationalizable criteria was agreed upon. A Perl program was then designed to analyze a Web page and determine a numerical value for each criterion. A large collection of Web pages was gathered comprising 5,000 pages that contain the full work of scholarly research and 5,000 random pages, representative of user searches, which do not contain scholarly research. Datasets were built by running the Perl program on these Web pages. The datasets were split into model building and testing sets. Data mining was then used to create different classification models. Four techniques were used: logistic regression, nonparametric discriminant analysis, classification trees, and neural networks. The models were created with the model datasets and then tested against the test dataset. Precision ...
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Factors Influencing How Students Value Asynchronous Web Based Courses
Date: December 1999
Creator: Pérez Cereijo, Maria Victoria
Description: This dissertation discovered the factors influencing how students value asynchronous Web-based courses through the use of qualitative methods. Data was collected through surveys, observations, interviews, email correspondence, chat room and bulletin board transcripts. Instruments were tested in pilot studies of previous semesters. Factors were identified for two class formats. The asynchronous CD/Internet class format and the synchronous online Web based class format. Also, factors were uncovered for two of the instructional tools used in the course: the WebCT forum and WebCT testing. Factors were grouped accordingly as advantages or disadvantages under major categories. For the asynchronous CD/Internet class format the advantages were Convenience, Flexibility, Learning Enhancement, and Psychology. The disadvantages included Isolation, Learning Environment, and Technology. For the synchronous online Web based class format the advantages were Convenience, Flexibility, Human Interaction, Learning Enhancement and Psychology, whereas the disadvantages included Isolation, Learning Environment and Technology. Concurrently, the study revealed the following factors as advantages of the WebCT Forum: Help Each Other, Interaction, Socialization, Classroom News, and Time Independent. The disadvantages uncovered were Complaints, Technical Problems and Isolation. Finally, advantages specified for the WebCT testing tool were Convenience, Flexibility and Innovations, and its disadvantages were Surroundings Not Conducive to Learning, and Technical ...
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The Cluster Hypothesis: A visual/statistical analysis
Date: May 2000
Creator: Sullivan, Terry
Description: By allowing judgments based on a small number of exemplar documents to be applied to a larger number of unexamined documents, clustered presentation of search results represents an intuitively attractive possibility for reducing the cognitive resource demands on human users of information retrieval systems. However, clustered presentation of search results is sensible only to the extent that naturally occurring similarity relationships among documents correspond to topically coherent clusters. The Cluster Hypothesis posits just such a systematic relationship between document similarity and topical relevance. To date, experimental validation of the Cluster Hypothesis has proved problematic, with collection-specific results both supporting and failing to support this fundamental theoretical postulate. The present study consists of two computational information visualization experiments, representing a two-tiered test of the Cluster Hypothesis under adverse conditions. Both experiments rely on multidimensionally scaled representations of interdocument similarity matrices. Experiment 1 is a term-reduction condition, in which descriptive titles are extracted from Associated Press news stories drawn from the TREC information retrieval test collection. The clustering behavior of these titles is compared to the behavior of the corresponding full text via statistical analysis of the visual characteristics of a two-dimensional similarity map. Experiment 2 is a dimensionality reduction condition, in ...
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Computer support interactions: Verifying a process model of problem trajectory in an information technology support environment.
Date: December 2006
Creator: Strauss, Christopher Eric
Description: Observations in the information technology (IT) support environment and generalizations from the literature regarding problem resolution behavior indicate that computer support staff seldom store reusable solution information effectively for IT problems. A comprehensive model of the processes encompassing problem arrival and assessment, expertise selection, problem resolution, and solution recording has not been available to facilitate research in this domain. This investigation employed the findings from a qualitative pilot study of IT support staff information behaviors to develop and explicate a detailed model of problem trajectory. Based on a model from clinical studies, this model encompassed a trajectory scheme that included the communication media, characteristics of the problem, decision points in the problem resolution process, and knowledge creation in the form of solution storage. The research design included the administration of an extensive scenario-based online survey to a purposive sample of IT support staff at a medium-sized state-supported university, with additional respondents from online communities of IT support managers and call-tracking software developers. The investigator analyzed 109 completed surveys and conducted email interviews of a stratified nonrandom sample of survey respondents to evaluate the suitability of the model. The investigation employed mixed methods including descriptive statistics, effects size analysis, and content ...
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A comparison of communication motives of on-site and off-site students in videoconference-based courses
Date: August 2002
Creator: Massingill, K.B.
Description: The objective of this investigation is to determine whether student site location in an instructional videoconference is related to students' motives for communicating with their instructor. The study is based, in part, on the work of Martin et al. who identify five separate student-teacher communication motives. These motives, or dimensions, are termed relational, functional, excuse, participation, and sycophancy, and are measured by a 30-item questionnaire. Several communication-related theories were used to predict differences between on-site and off-site students, Media richness theory was used, foundationally, to explain differences between mediated and face-to-face communication and other theories such as uncertainty reduction theory were used in conjunction with media richness theory to predict specific differences.Two hundred eighty-one completed questionnaires were obtained from Education and Library and Information Science students in 17 separate course-sections employing interactive video at the University of North Texas during the Spring and Summer semesters of the 2001/2002 school year. This study concludes that off-site students in an instructional videoconference are more likely than their on-site peers to report being motivated to communicate with their instructor for participation reasons. If off-site students are more motivated than on-site students to communicate as a means to participate, then it may be important ...
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A Study of Graphically Chosen Features for Representation of TREC Topic-Document Sets
Date: May 2000
Creator: Oyarce, Guillermo Alfredo
Description: Document representation is important for computer-based text processing. Good document representations must include at least the most salient concepts of the document. Documents exist in a multidimensional space that difficult the identification of what concepts to include. A current problem is to measure the effectiveness of the different strategies that have been proposed to accomplish this task. As a contribution towards this goal, this dissertation studied the visual inter-document relationship in a dimensionally reduced space. The same treatment was done on full text and on three document representations. Two of the representations were based on the assumption that the salient features in a document set follow the chi-distribution in the whole document set. The third document representation identified features through a novel method. A Coefficient of Variability was calculated by normalizing the Cartesian distance of the discriminating value in the relevant and the non-relevant document subsets. Also, the local dictionary method was used. Cosine similarity values measured the inter-document distance in the information space and formed a matrix to serve as input to the Multi-Dimensional Scale (MDS) procedure. A Precision-Recall procedure was averaged across all treatments to statistically compare them. Treatments were not found to be statistically the same and ...
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The adoption and use of electronic information resources by a non-traditional user group: Automotive service technicians.
Date: May 2006
Creator: Almquist, Arne J.
Description: The growing complexity of machines has led to a concomitant increase in the amount and complexity of the information needed by those charged with servicing them. This, in turn, has led to a need for more robust methods for storing and distributing information and for a workforce more sophisticated in its use of information resources. As a result, the service trades have "professionalized," adopting more rigorous academic standards and developing ongoing certification programs. The current paper deals with the acceptance of advanced electronic information technology by skilled service personnel, specifically, automotive service technicians. The theoretical basis of the study is Davis' technology acceptance model. The purpose of the study is to determine the effects of three external factors on the operation of the model: age, work experience, and education/certification level. The research design is in two parts, beginning with an onsite observation and interviews to establish the environment. During the second part of the research process a survey was administered to a sample of automotive service technicians. Results indicated significant inverse relationships between age and acceptance and between experience and acceptance. A significant positive relationship was shown between education, particularly certification, and acceptance.
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A Framework of Automatic Subject Term Assignment: An Indexing Conception-Based Approach
Date: December 2006
Creator: Chung, EunKyung
Description: The purpose of dissertation is to examine whether the understandings of subject indexing processes conducted by human indexers have a positive impact on the effectiveness of automatic subject term assignment through text categorization (TC). More specifically, human indexers' subject indexing approaches or conceptions in conjunction with semantic sources were explored in the context of a typical scientific journal article data set. Based on the premise that subject indexing approaches or conceptions with semantic sources are important for automatic subject term assignment through TC, this study proposed an indexing conception-based framework. For the purpose of this study, three hypotheses were tested: 1) the effectiveness of semantic sources, 2) the effectiveness of an indexing conception-based framework, and 3) the effectiveness of each of three indexing conception-based approaches (the content-oriented, the document-oriented, and the domain-oriented approaches). The experiments were conducted using a support vector machine implementation in WEKA (Witten, & Frank, 2000). The experiment results pointed out that cited works, source title, and title were as effective as the full text, while keyword was found more effective than the full text. In addition, the findings showed that an indexing conception-based framework was more effective than the full text. Especially, the content-oriented and the ...
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NARRATOR: When O'Keeffe made this charcoal drawing, she was teaching in South Carolina, far from the New York art scene. Early in 1916, a friend brought a group of O'Keeffe's drawings to the photographer Alfred Stieglitz. Stieglitz was the proprietor of an influential New York gallery called 291. It was the first to show and support modern art in America. Stieglitz's interest in O'Keeffe's drawings encouraged her to continue her radical experiments. The two also began an intense correspondence, and Stieglitz debuted O'Keeffe's charcoals in May in a three-person show at his gallery.
O'Keeffe wrote this letter to Stieglitz on February 2, 1916. At the time, she was focused on her charcoal drawings.
"Mr. Stieglitz—I like what you write me—Maybe I don't get exactly your meaning—but I like mine—like you liked your interpretation of my drawings . . .
I have been just trying to express myself— I just have to say things you know—Words and I are not good friends at all except with some people—when I'm close to them and can feel as well as hear their response—I have to say it some way—Last year I went color mad—but I've almost hated to think of color since the fall went—I've been slaving on the violin—trying to make that talk—I wish I could tell you some of the things I've wanted to say as I felt them."


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Assistant general manager Gord Ash made the announcement Monday.
The 27-year-old was injured May 1 at San Diego when he hit a wall while chasing Nick Hundley's foul popup, cutting short his season after 21 games.
Gamel reinjured the knee during the first week of spring training and a MRI revealed the tear.
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1. About Turnitin
"Plagiarism attracts significant media attention and is damaging to public perceptions of higher education. Expectations of students with respect to the originality and referencing of their work must be clear and unequivocal, and guidance about what constitutes plagiarism must be instilled early in students. The higher education sector rightly takes this issue seriously and institutions will need to continue to develop their policies for dealing with plagiarism, building on the significant work already underway." Higher Ambitions, Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS), October 2009
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Turnitin is an electronic text matching system that can be used to find text matches between students' submitted work and existing electronic sources, including extensive databases of electronic articles, other student assignments, and the internet. Since Turnitin is a web-based system, student papers (essays or assignments) need to be made available in electronic format. Equally, Turnitin cannot find any matching text with sources that are not available electronically – even then, the system cannot search databases that are password protected.
1.1. Oxford University's Turnitin licence
Oxford University has a subscription to the TurnitinUK service, which is supported and informed by JISC. Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS) manages the service and creates instructor accounts for staff members on request. The Turnitin licence allows submission of the work of registered Oxford University students only.
Separate licences can be negotiated for professional use by academics and researchers to screen their own work, or for admissions purposes to screen proposals submitted by prospective students.
1.2. Oxford University's policy
Oxford University policy currently does not allow student to use the system independently – a tutor or supervisor needs to set up a class and an assignment, either in TurnitinUK, or in WebLearn (see separate section). Once this has been done, papers can be uploaded by students, the tutor or an administrator.
From the University's Legal office: "Given the disciplinary implications if plagiarism is found, from the point of view of transparency and fairness, all reasonable steps should be taken to alert a student to the fact that his/her work may be subjected to specialist plagiarism detection software. This is in addition to the overall statement included in the student contract which students are required to sign when they are admitted to the university" (email from Legal Services Office, 24/02/2012). Education Committee provides a Declaration of Authorship, which can be used to accompany the submission of summative pieces of work. The Declaration may be modified by departments and faculties according to their own regulations. (See http://www.ox.ac.uk/students/academic/guidance/skills/),
As University guidance currently stands, if departments or colleges plan to use Turnitin to detect possible plagiarism in examined (summative) work, then advance permission from the Proctors is required. (Note: As at March 2012, the guidance from the Proctors is undergoing review and is thus temporarily not available on their website.)
1.3. Originality Reports
After student papers have been submitted and compared to various repositories and databases, an Originality Report (OR) is produced for each submission. The OR highlights parts of the student's text which match with text already held in the Turnitin and other online databases. An overall score (the similarity index) is assigned recording the percentage of the submitted work which is found elsewhere. Scores can be adjusted to take account of properly quoted text and bibliographies.
"Originality Reports should not be taken as an indication that plagiarism has occurred. They are simply a tool to help an instructor find sources that contain text similar to submitted papers. The decision to deem any work plagiarised must be made carefully, and only after in-depth examination of both the submitted paper and suspect sources in accordance with the standards of the class and institution where the paper was submitted" (Turnitin Instructor Manual, 2010, p. 48).
1.4. Quick submit option
There is a quick submit option in the direct TurnitinUK service, which is useful if a staff member wishes to do a quick check on a small number of papers, without having to set up a class and an assignment.
1.5. Using Turnitin through the WebLearn Assignments tool
Turnitin is enabled via the WebLearn Assignments tool. The assignment must first be set up in a WebLearn site by the staff member ('maintainer' of the WebLearn site). Students should already be enrolled in the site as members, and then they can submit their essays. The Originality Report is returned in the Assignment tool within approximately 10-15 minutes.
1.5.1. Advantages of using the WebLearn-Turnitin integration
1.5.2. Restrictions on using the WebLearn-Turnitin integration
1.6. Support and Training
Various sources of help and support are available in considering using a software text matching system for both the formative improvement of students' academic writing skills and for formal detection of possible occurrences of plagiarism.
1.6.1. TurnitinUK website
Use the TurnitinUK website (http://submit.ac.uk) to activate your instructor account, set up classes and assignments, or use the quick submit option.
The TurnitinUK support site (http://submit.ac.uk – click on Support) offers detailed support for instructors and students in the form of Quickstart Guides, User Manuals and Narrated Videos
1.6.2. Plagiarism Advice website
The website www.plagiarismadvice.org offers a wealth of support material, videos and free training webinars on a regular basis, on both pedagogical and technical aspects.
1.6.3. Supporting academic practice and students' writing
For information regarding supporting students in acquiring academic writing skills, please contact Oxford Learning Institute: email firstname.lastname@example.com.
1.6.4. Face-to-face sessions
OUCS offers a variety of classroom sessions each term. The courses are listed under "P" for "Plagiarism" in the A to Z listing: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/atoz. Bookings open 30 days in advance of the course, but you can express an interest and you will receive an email when bookings open. If any courses are scheduled then they will appear directly below; this list also includes Turnitin User Group meetings.
1.6.5. Further reading
Carroll, J. & Appleton, J. (2001). Plagiarism. A good practice guide. JISC. Available at: http://www.plagiarismadvice.org/resources/institutional-approaches/item/carroll-goodpractice-2
Carroll, J. (2002). A handbook for deterring plagiarism in higher education, 2nd ed. Oxford Brookes University: Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development. Available at: http://www.brookes.ac.uk/services/ocsld/books/plagiarism.html
Carroll, J. and Appleton, J. (2007) Support and guidance for international students: what is good practice? In Jones, E. and Brown, S. (Eds.) Internationalising the University. Routledge.
Turnitin Instructor Manual (2010). Copyright 1998 – 2010. iParadigms, LLC. Available at http://pages.turnitin.com/rs/iparadigms/images/en_gb_instructor_manual.pdf
1.6.6. Online tools
There are various online tools which can assist you in discussions with students regarding good practice in citations and avoiding plagiarism:
1.7. Useful links