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Winter Haven officials are deeming all contracts with The Landings terminated, according to a letter sent to The Landings development team that city commissioners approved Monday night.
WINTER HAVEN | Winter Haven officials are deeming all contracts with The Landings terminated, according to a letter sent to The Landings development team that city commissioners approved Monday night.
The letter could spell the end for The Landings, which was once planned as a grand shopping center akin to Lakeland's Lakeside Village but since has been scaled down.
The letter, which was sent by email Monday night to The Landings developers, gives The Landings 30 days to get off the property and says the city will keep a $100,000 deposit the developer made.
The letter, written by City Attorney John Murphy and supported by a 3-0 commission vote, says The Landings has performed multiple material failures, including not closing on the purchase of .33 acres of city-owned land and not submitting a declaration of covenants,
conditions, and restrictions by May 5, 2012, and for not advancing the project in a manner consistent with the terms of the agreement.
It was unclear Monday night whether the letter will end The Landings' attempt to develop the property. The Landings financier Taylor Pursell could not be reached for comment.
Mayor J.P. Powell said it was time to end the project after years of changes that have altered the development he wanted, which included two hotels, two restaurants and an IMAX movie theater.
"I think (ending the contracts) is a good idea because they haven't followed through with what they're supposed to follow through with," Powell said. "It's time to put this to rest and move for-ward."
The Landings is a $150 million mixed-use development proposed for the city-owned Chain of Lakes Complex. The agreement between the city and The Landings called for the recreation center, swimming pool and Theatre Winter Haven to be relocated elsewhere in the city to make way for the long-planned project.
The motion to support the letter was not on Monday's agenda. It was proposed by Commissioner Pete Chichetto during his commission liaison report.
Chichetto was appointed liaison in the new negotiations with The Landings.
Only three commissioners voted because one seat is vacant and Commissioner Nat Birdsong missed the meeting. Powell said he was sick.
Part of the property already has been developed. The Orange Dome was demolished and The Landings developers replaced it with a Starbucks, Panera Bread and Chick-fil-A.
Powell said he wasn't sure what should happen in the future.
"I think we just need to slow down and step back and see what else is available," Powell said. "Whether it be developing the property or doing something else with it."
Chichetto said city officials have gone "back and forth" on a new amendment to the contract but cannot agree. Those negotiations included keeping the city facilities at the complex.
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Jolt Productivity Award: Araxis Merge
In a world where there are dozens of free diff and merge tools, a product would have to be pretty special to charge for this capability. Predictably, Araxis Merge is an excellent comparison and merge tool. It has a rich set of features, yet manages to maintain a clean and uncluttered user interface. Most notable among its features are the ability to do folder/directory comparison and synchronization in a nice collapsible tree view. You can then drill down and compare text files, binary files, document formats, and even image files. The text file comparison is the most common, of course. It works with various line endings and encodings. You get to decide what counts as a difference (line endings, whitespace, etc). Araxis also supports two-way and three-way merge with a very convenient two- or three-pane window. I have mostly used Araxis Merge on Windows, but it has a very slick Mac OS X version as well.
Araxis Merge also integrates with many IDEs and version-control systems, so you don't have to step out of your main tool just to do a file comparison or merge, or you can use it in standalone mode.
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Travellers' Night In: Travel Nightmares
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Stay Safe in New Zealand's National Parks
You Can't Travel? There Are Two Good Reasons And They Probably Don't Apply To You
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ANZAC Day in New Zealand
Lis's Travel Round Up – April Edition
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How To Get From Vancouver To Victoria – And Why You Might Want To
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On the Tables of Saison: Bountiful-Local
February 1, 2010
If you were to wander to the side of Stable Cafe, just past a shipping container topped with a garden grown by yours truly, you will find Saison. Saison (French for season) is a reservations-only restaurant that opens its doors on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
evenings to serve the locally sourced menu of Executive Chef Joshua Skenes with the discerning and cultivated wine pairings of Sommelier Mark Bright. The feel is secret supper club meets informed elegance. The experience is one of both intimacy and invitation: the tables are small and candle-lit while the kitchen is open and guests can be a part of the culinary magic with wine in hand.
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University of Nebraska President James B. Milliken will recommend the approval of a 5 percent tuition increase for the 2008-09 school year, plus a 1 percent tuition assessment necessary to provide matching funds for NU building renovations authorized by the State Legislature. This is the last year of the required 1 percent increase for the LB 605 building program.
"We are committed to keeping tuition increases moderate and predictable, and this would be the fourth year in a row of tuition at this level or lower," Milliken said. "While we recognize that any tuition increase is unpopular, we are pleased that we continue to trail our peers in tuition costs. Affordable access to high quality education is our highest priority, and this increase allows us to balance our goals of providing both access and quality."
The University of Nebraska Board of Regents will consider the proposed operating budget and tuition rates for 2008-09 at its June 13 meeting. If approved, the university will have kept tuition increases for the past four consecutive years at 6 percent and lower, considerably less than the increases earlier in the decade. Also, if the new tuition levels are approved, UNL and UNK will have the second-lowest and lowest tuition rates, respectively, of all their peer institutions. Undergraduate, resident tuition at UNO, UNL and UNK is significantly below the average of each campus's peer institutions.
"Given the increased earning potential of college graduates," Milliken said, "the tuition at University of Nebraska campuses continues to be a very good investment. On average, college graduates earn about $15,000 a year more than high school graduates."
Milliken highlighted steps the University is taking to improve financial aid for Nebraska students.
The University is expanding the eligibility for the Tuition Assistance Program – one of the first and most far-reaching such programs in the nation – and will now provide need-based financial aid to more middle class families. Currently the university ensures all tuition costs are covered for students whose families earn about $38,500 or less, and who meet eligibility requirements. Next school year TAP will cover tuition costs for families with an income of around $45,000 or less. The Board of Regents will be asked to budget funds to cover the expanded TAP program at the June meeting.
In addition, the University is on track to meet its goal of increasing private funds raised for financial aid, including the new Thompson Scholars Program announced in January providing both financial aid and academic support for Thompson Scholars.
More than 40 percent of University of Nebraska students receive some amount of financial aid.
If the proposed increase is enacted, a resident undergraduate student will pay $10.25 more per credit hour at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, $9.25 more per credit hour at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, and $8.25 more per credit hour at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. Resident students attending the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture in Curtis will pay $4.50 more per credit hour.
Tuition at two colleges will increase more than 6 percent. Resident tuition at the University of Nebraska Medical Center's College of Pharmacy will increase by $4,000 a year to address educational needs and new nationwide accreditation requirements. Resident and nonresident tuition at the UNL Law School will increase $17 per credit hour – or about $500 more a year – to generate revenue for financial aid and faculty salaries. Current tuition rates at the Pharmacy and Law Schools trail far behind those of peer institutions. These increases will begin to get tuition closer to the market numbers and address needs at these professional schools, which will relieve some budgetary pressure on the rest of the institution.
Milliken also stressed that tuition on all campuses remains considerably below the average of their comparable peer campuses.
Estimated annual tuition for UNL will be $5,390 for 2008-09, compared to the peer average of $7,115.
Estimated annual tuition for UNO will be $4,920 for 2008-09, compared to the peer average of $5,438.
Estimated annual tuition for UNK will be $4,365 for 2008-09, compared to the peer average of $5,582.
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GBL necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 106 diseños de 10 diseñadores freelance.
The web site shows the stocks with the highest "buzz" at the moment. A high "buzz" means that the stock appears in many web sites at this moment. There will be a list of stocks with their buzz level and some additional info.
The users are expected to check the site often to examine the stocks with the highest "buzz", or to check the buzz of specific stocks that interests them. The site should be simple and intuitive.
Stock day-traders who trade in the U.S. stock market
This will be the home page. See attached mockup (Layout_Mockup.jpg) that describes the building blocks of the page. The layout of the blocks on the page is part of the designer's job. More pages will be needed (more work for you).
-The site must be intuitive, clean and simple with focus on the "buzz area". Use bright background. Width of 900-980 pixels (a must), height of 600 pixels (preferable).
-Design needs to be submitted in layered PSD.
-Name and slogan: SensoBeat – Minute-by-Minute Stock Buzz. BETA. See attached mockup (Name_Mockup.jpg). Simple text ("word art"), no logo.
-A clock showing EDT time (13:57:36 EDT)
-Indication of whether "market open" or "market closed"
-There will be 2 very similar pages, named "Top Buzz" and "My Stocks' Buzz". The pages are identical besides the title. The default is "Top Buzz". Can be designed as tabbed document or as simple 2-button selection. Part of the design is to make it clear that the two options are available.
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-Registration/Login: Login: 2 text boxes for entering E-mail and Password, with "login", "register" and "Forgot Password?" buttons. See Login_Mockup.jpg
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Yesterday, I wrote that "the Internet has a new enemy," and its name is CISPA, short for the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011. And it's true: this poorly crafted piece of "cybersecurity" legislation is irking concerned Web citizens the world over.
Using our Chartbeat analytics tool, I saw wave after wave of users flood into the article, from all parts of the globe. North Dakota, Sweden, Portugal, Mexico, New York — everybody, it seems, is interested and concerned about this bill that critics (rightly) believe could threaten the types of information we can access online, as well as our privacy and freedom of speech.
In less than 24 hours, a petition on Avaaz.org entitled, "Save the Internet from the US," has racked up more than 300,000 signatures, asking the federal government to drop CISPA. By the time you read this article, that number will likely be well over half a million, or more. And the anti-CISPA movement already has its own hashtag, a sure sign of meme-ability, which is vital to any online campaign.
And yet, I can't shake the feeling that the Internet community will lose this battle, that CISPA will pass — that there will be no blackout, this time around.
The first problem is the nature of the threat this bill poses: At its core, CISPA is about companies and the government sharing information. Now, to anyone concerned with privacy, this is a big issue, especially considering that CISPA places absolutely no explicit limits on the type of information that may be shared with the government, or between private companies, as long as it is somehow related to cyber threats. To me, and a lot of you, that's terrifying.
For most people, however, sharing information about ourselves is just the way things work nowadays. We post every aspect of our lives online, from what we're eating to our location to all the gritty details of last night. These companies already know all our secrets. In other words: privacy just ain't what it used to be. And I just don't see every Jack, Jill, and John getting their knickers in a knot over something that sounds like what they do on a regular basis — share information — or which many people believe is already happening: that Facebook, Google, Twitter, and every other Web company out there hands over our private information the second Uncle Sam looks at them funny. We are in Brave New World, not 1984.
Second — and this is the real problem — the CISPA opposition does not yet have the technology industry on its side. In fact, many of the most important players, the ones with the big scary guns, have already embedded themselves in the enemy's camp. Facebook, Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, Intel, AT&T, Verizon — all of them (and many others) have already sent letters to congress voicing support for CISPA. And that should come as no surprise. Whereas SOPA and PIPA were bad for many companies that do business on the Internet, and burdened them with the unholy task of policing the Web (or facing repercussions if they didn't), this bill makes life easier for them; it removes regulations and the risk of getting sued for handing over our information to The Law. Not to mention doing what the bill says it's going to do: protecting them from cyber threats.
In short: Supporting CISPA is in these companies' interest. Supporting SOPA/PIPA was not.
This means that the Internet community is on its own. No technology company is going to buy a full-page ad in The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal condemning CISPA by their own volition— unless we somehow force them to. And the only way to do that is to set our sights on them first, and on the actual bill second.
Unfortunately, such a scenario creates a political problem for the CISPA opposition. By scrambling to get the Internet and technology industries on the side of the Internet users, it creates an opportunity for the bill's many supporters in Washington to push forward without the hassle of a concerted resistance.
Now, I could very well be wrong about this. I hope I'm wrong — I hope all of you reading this prove me wrong. I would be absolutely giddy if everything I've just said is rendered moot by the shock and awe with which the CISPA opposition fights against this bill. CISPA is a terrible piece of legislation, one that very well could result in the government blocking access to websites on the basis of copyright infringement, or sites like Wikileaks under the guise of national security*. And just because I'm playing the defeatist doesn't mean that the masses are incapable of rising up against CISPA, and bury it away in the catacombs of legislative hell — they, we, absolutely are. But until I see more than online petitions and Twitter hashtags, my bet is on the bad guys.
*Update: In a conference call with reporters on April 10, CISPA co-sponsors Reps. Mike Rogers and "Dutch" Ruppersberger said that CISPA does not give the government the authority to block access to any websites, which is true. What remains unclear, however, is whether the government may use information shared under CISPA to block access to sites for reasons of cyber security or national security.
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Secretary's Report
The APNA Secretary is responsible for corporate records and taking meeting minutes during official meetings of the APNA Board of Directors. During the past year, the Board of Directors conducted face-to-face meetings on October 18, 2011, February 16-18, 2012, and June 13-15, 2012. Conference calls were held on November 8, 2011, December 13, 2011, January 10, 2012, March 13, 2012, April 10, 2012, May 8, 2012, July 9, 2012, August 14, 2012, September 11, 2012, and October 9, 2012.
Membership has increased since the last activity report. Based on dues revenue collected from January 1, 2012 through October 15, 2012, there has been an increase of 7.3% over the same period last year. Current membership as of September 30, 2012 is 8,293. New members from September 16, 2011 to September 15, 2012 are 2,284, and is an increase over the same period a year ago of 11.6%
During the past year, the website has continued to help APNA serve as your resource for psychiatric mental health nursing. Visits to the site are up 22.93%, while unique page views are up almost 7%, and the amount of time spent on a page on our site has increased by 17%. The newsfeed page continues to be updated in order to show the stream of all APNA activities in one place. Over the past year the eLearning Center and has had 35,042 visits with a total of 5,794 orders. For more details on the website's top content, top traffic sources, etc., see the full report in Appendix D.
APNA has continued to issue press releases to increase its visibility. Ten releases have been sent out over the past year. This engendered 501,511 online impressions or number of times a press release link was seen on a website or via a newsfeed.
Our members-only networking site Member Bridge continues to grow in scope and utility for the members. Unique visits to the site have increased by 18% over last year with 39,523 total visits. Almost 5,000 eGroup posts have been written in more than 300 communities. In the All-Purpose Discussion Forum alone, 2,026 authors have posted 2,229 messages. Through this forum, APNA committees are also able to learn what topics are important to the membership and further their work in those areas.
APNA's Facebook page has a 59% increase in total fans (2,911). With about 3 posts per week, APNA's "Question of the Day" has become a must-read post, eliciting anywhere from 6 to 26 responses posted onto our page. We now have 1,113 followers on Twitter and average about seven tweets per week. For more detailed statistics on the use of Member Bridge and our other social networking sites, see the full report in Appendix D.
We continue to reach the membership through as many communication avenues as possible.
Respectfully submitted,
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In the wake of Braxton Miller's shoulder troubles, Prediction Machine simulates worst-case injury scenarios with the 2014 college football season's projected top quarterbacks.
Ohio State senior quarterback Braxton Miller is a two-time Big Ten MVP and holds nine school records with more in his sights. But his 2014 season is over before it started after reaggravating an injury to his right throwing shoulder.
Miller's condition highlights the at-times tenuous nature of even college football's strongest programs.
Florida State is the favorite to repeat as national champion, but what would happen if Sean Maguire, Jameis Winston's backup, started every game for the Seminoles? How important are the best quarterbacks in the country to their respective college football teams?
To answer these questions we simulated what would happen if the backups for college football's best quarterbacks (Winston, Ohio State's Braxton Miller, UCLA's Brett Hundley, Oregon's Marcus Mariota, Baylor's Bryce Petty) started every game.
How This Works
We simulated the college football season 50,000 times, once with the current starter and then again with the projected backup. Using PredictionMachine.com's proprietary algorithm, we are able to compute the average number of wins and points scored with each quarterback and analyze the impact each signal caller has on the team's potential to reach the new College Football Playoff. Teams are listed in order of their rank in the preseason Amway Coaches Poll.
Florida State
With reigning Heisman Trophy winner Jameis Winston under center, we project the Seminoles to score 46.2 points per game against an average FBS team and win 11.0 games in the regular season. Florida State is our most likely National Champion.
Substitute Maguire for Winston and the Noles still win the ACC Championship, but without Winston they only average 33.9 points per game and win 9.4 games on average. Florida State earns the fourth seed in the College Football Playoff but does not repeat as champion.
Marcus Mariota is the second favorite, behind Winston, to win the Heisman Trophy. The Ducks' signal caller has thrown for more than 30 touchdowns in each of his two seasons as a starter. Always a threat to run, Mariota has averaged more than seven yards per rushing attempt. Oregon's high-octane offense would average 50.4 points per game with Mariota and win 10.1 games in the regular season. The Ducks are our most likely Pac-12 Champion and the College Football Playoff runner-up.
Oregon has the greatest talent differential between starter and backup of the quarterbacks we have analyzed. With Jeff Lockie as the starter, the Ducks score 35.2 points per game against an average FBS team and win 8.9 games. Oregon wins the Pac-12 North but is defeated by UCLA in the conference championship game.
Ohio State
The Buckeyes and Urban Meyer are always a threat to win the national championship. Miller was one of just four quarterbacks to rush and throw for 1,000 yards last season. We projected the dual threat option to lead Ohio State to 10 regular season wins and score 44.1 points per game against an average FBS team. With Miller, the Buckeyes were our most likely Big Ten champion and earn the fourth seed in the College Football Playoff.
Now second-stringer and redshirt freshman J.T. Barrett is expected to be Ohio State's starter. Barrett was promoted to Miller's backup on Saturday. Without Miller, Ohio State averages 35.1 points per game, wins 9.2 games on average and finishes second in the Big Ten East behind Michigan State.
Michigan State is a big beneficiary of the Miller injury, but the biggest is actually Wisconsin, which is now favored in all 13 of its games, including vs. LSU to start the season and in the Big Ten Championship vs. Michigan State. The Badgers replace Ohio State in our most likely College Football Playoff.
The Bruins finished 10-3 in 2013 and ranked 16th in the final USA TODAY Sports Coaches Poll. The fans in Westwood have reason to be optimistic that 2014 could produce even greater results as Hundley spurned the NFL and returned for another season. In our projections, UCLA with Hundley scores 44.7 points per game and wins 9.2 games on average. The Bruins are our most likely Pac-12 South champions, the third in four years, but lose to Oregon in the conference championship game.
Hundley's backup, Asiantii Woulard, is a redshirt freshman that has never attempted a pass in college. The Bruins would score 35.6 points per game and average 7.9 wins with Woulard as the starter. UCLA would finish third in the Pac-12 South if Hundley were to miss the season.
Bryce Petty threw for more than 300 yards in ten games last season. The first year starter had the second-best touchdown-to-interception ratio in the country with 32 touchdowns to just three picks. The Bears are projected to score 52.2 points per game and average 9.9 wins in the regular season. Baylor with Petty wins the Big 12 Championship and is the fifth-best team in the FBS.
There would be fewer fireworks in Waco without Petty. The Bears, with Seth Russell as the starter, score 41.4 points per game and win 8.9 games on average. Baylor would finish second behind Oklahoma in the Big 12.
John Ewing is Director of Research and Analytics for Prediction Machine. Follow him on Twitter@JohnEwing.


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Marco Rubio stepped into the spotlight yesterday, with a foreign policy speech at Brookings that almost screamed out to Mitt Romney "pick me, pick me!"
The Florida Senator, whose parents immigrated to the US from Cuba in 1956, a few years before the revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power, focused on US foreign policy more broadly, not touching on Cuba. While pundits and watchers of US politics generally deemed Romney's potential running mate as not overly hawkish (here's a roundup of opinion), I see plenty of evidence he favors more military intervention abroad in his speech, at least when I focus on the areas I know best.
His first point was to complain that the US didn't play a "more active role" in the NATO air campaign in Libya that helped bring down Muammar Qaddafi last year. It's true that the Obama Administration stressed that it was part of a broad group of actors in the effort, which involved seven months of sorties in aid of the Libyan uprising against government forces (in deed, if not in word, going far beyond their UN Security Council mandate only to protect civilians).
But if the unstated goal was regime change, it's hard to imagine more bang for the US buck than Libya. The total cost to the US was under $1 billion. There were no US (or any other foreign) casualties, and the mission wrapped up in less than a year. Could Qaddafi have been toppled a few months faster if the US was more active? Perhaps. Would that have also led to more civilian casualties at the hand of US airpower? Also perhaps. The Iraq war, a much more ambitious undertaking, will ultimately cost the US taxpayer about $4 trillion when replacement of equipment and total medical claims for veterans are factored in.
Senator Rubio would also appear to favor military action against Iran, and perhaps in Syria. "The goal of preventing a dominant Iran is so important that every regional policy we adopt should be crafted with that overriding goal in mind," he said. "The current situation in Syria is an example of such an approach. The fall of Assad would be a significant blow to Iran's ambitions. On those grounds alone, we should be seeking to help the people of Syria bring him down."
He continues: "But on the Foreign Relations Committee, I've noticed that some members are so concerned about the challenges of a post-Assad Syria that they've lost sight of the advantages of it. First, Iran would lose its ally and see its influence and ability to cause trouble in the region would be correspondingly reduced, but Hezbollah would lose its most important ally too along with its weapons supplier. And the prospects for a more stable, peaceful, and freer Lebanon would improve."
Well, that's one possibility. But skeptics of arming Syria's rebellion, or of direct US military involvement, are worried about unintended consequences. The sectarian powder in Syria is as dry and ripe for ignition as it was in Iraq. The country has been ruled by the minority Alawite sect (an offshoot of Shiism) for decades, and there's a history of militant Islamism amongst the country's Sunni Arab majority. Israel is worried about a flood of Alawite and Syrian Christian refugees if Assad falls, as is Lebanon. That country's own troubled sectarian history has been fed by refugee waves in the past, most notably of Palestinians, and Hezbollah remains Lebanon's most dominant military force.
So there's also the chance of a much less stable, peaceful Syria in the wake of Assad's fall. That's just one of the factors that gives many policy makers pause as they weigh the undoubted savagery of Syria's Baathist dictatorship against the question of what comes next.
He also said he's been "relying heavily" on Robert Kagan's book "The World America Made," in arguing "how good a strong and engaged America has been for the world." It's hard to argue that the US had a major, and generally positive influence on world affairs after WWII (the central point of Mr. Kagan's book). But Kagan is a militarist who favors extensive US direct intervention in global affairs. A full-throated supporter of the Iraq war, he continues to insist that war was a good idea. He told Salon in April that the Iraq war "probably" led to the Arab uprisings that began at the start of 2011. "There were repeated free elections in Iraq and that undoubtedly had some effect on how neighboring people views their government. I think Egyptians said. 'If the Iraqis can have elections, why can't we have elections?'"
I covered the Iraq war for about half of the time between 2003-2008 and spent the rest of my time living in Egypt. My personal experiences then, conversations with hundreds of people in the region over the years from senior politicians to shopkeepers, and later experience covering the uprisings in Libya and Egypt last spring, convinced me that the Iraq war, if anything, only slowed the inevitable uprisings against those aging authoritarian regimes.
The first major Egyptian protest for years, against the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, was in many ways the spark of a protest wave that bred the new generation of political activists who formed the core of the protest movement that toppled Mubarak last year. Across the region, there was revulsion at the invasion, the human costs (at least 200,000 Iraqis died in the ensuing war), and disgust for the sectarian civil war that raged from 2005-2008 in Iraq.
To be sure, President Obama has also professed admiration for Kagan's book, as have many other policy makers on both sides of the aisle. But his pronouncements and recommendations on the Iraq war over the years have been consistently wrong. In 2004, he and Bill Kristol pronounced the new Iraqi Constitution would guarantee the rights of women and minorities in that country (in practice, the position of Christians and women in Iraq have worsened as a consequence of the war), and wrote that "while no sensible person would claim that Iraqis are safely and irrevocably on a course to liberal democracy, the honest and rather remarkable truth is that they have made remarkable strides in that direction."
They went on to complain the "perpetually sour American media focus on the tensions between Shiites and Kurds" but that "the difficult negotiations leading up to the signing, and the continuing debates over the terms of a final constitution, have in fact demonstrated something remarkable in Iraq: a willingness on the part of the diverse ethnic and religious groups to disagree – peacefully – and then to compromise." Even then the country was sliding into pit of sectarian warfare.
Today? The Kurds complain the Constitution has been ignored by the central government and some of their politicians are muttering about independence; the Sunni Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi is in exile, hiding from a politically motivated arrest warrant. And Shiite Islamist Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki continues to accrue more power, frightening his ethnic and confessional opponents.
As someone who lived the Iraq war, I find high praise for Kagan's wisdom in foreign affairs troubling.


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Confronting cartel violence and combating drug smuggling along the Southwest border will top the list of security concerns that Vice President Joe Biden will discuss today in Mexico City with President Felipe Calderon and three presidential candidates.
Biden will meet with Calderon before traveling on to Honduras to meet with Central American leaders during a two-day trip, White House officials said.
While in Mexico, Biden will also meet with presidential candidates from the country's three major political parties seeking to succeed Calderon when his six-year term ends this year.
Biden wants to hear from each candidate on "how they would lead the country and the concerns that they see the Mexican people having," said Tony Blinkin, national security advisor to the vice president.
"It's also to reaffirm to them the commitment of the United States to work closely with whomever Mexico elects in the presidential contest," Blinkin said.
The election is July 1. Calderon will leave office and a new president will take over Dec. 1.
Biden will speak with Calderon about the ongoing U.S.-backed Mexican military effort against the drug cartels that have lead to an increase in violence in Mexico and an escalation of fear in American border cities and states.
Texas Republicans in Washington and Gov. Rick Perry have been critical of the Obama administration's efforts to secure the U.S. border, protect U.S. citizens from violence and maintaining trade ties.
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said there "is no doubt that the violence in Mexico hurts cross-border trade at a local level."
"I'm hopeful that the vice president will urge President Calderon's potential successors to continue the crackdown on the drug cartels and encourage a strong economic relationship between our two countries," Cornyn said.
Obama administration officials said they were focused on the economic relationship with 1 million legal border crossings and $1 billion in trade every day.
"As has been the case from the onset of the Obama administration, the negative impact that transnational criminal organizations have on communities on both sides of our borders is our primary concern," said Dan Restrepo, the White House senior director for Western Hemisphere Affairs.
Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, applauded Biden for traveling to Mexico to meet with Calderon about the ongoing military efforts against the drug cartels.
The three-year, $1.5 billion Merida Initiative that provided Mexico with U.S. military hardware and training now shifts to long-term efforts to strengthen Mexico's judicial system, something Cuellar said would take time and patience.
"It's only to our best interest that we do more to help Mexico," said Cuellar, a member of the House Homeland Security Committee.
Biden's meeting with the three leading presidential candidates to replace Calderon after his six-year term ends was seen as a proactive approach to ongoing collaboration by U.S. lawmakers and both sides of the political aisle.
Biden will meet with the Josefina Vazquez Mota of Calderon's right-of-center National Action Party, Enrique Pena Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, and Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the left-leaning Party of Democratic Revolution, a critic of U.S. policies in Mexico.
"The vice president wants to send a very clear message that this administration is prepared to work with the next democratically elected leader of Mexico," Restrepo said.
Cuellar said it was important Biden is meeting with the candidates; "I am glad he's reaching out to Lopez."
"In 150 years, this is the strongest relationship with Mexico that we have ever had. I hope they will all give the commitment that they will continue working with the United States," Cuellar said. "Mexico is a friend, it is not the enemy."


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Will Windows 8 sticker shock leave Microsoft unstuck?
Metro and ARM threaten Vista-like compatibility badges
"Sticker shock" is a US phrase that denotes a shopper's surprised and generally disgusted reaction upon discovering the true price of an item they're buying.
Microsoft experienced a different kind of sticker shock a few years back with Windows Vista: such a memory and CPU hog was Windows Vista that most PCs of that time struggled to run Redmond's latest client operating system.
A lot of software and many peripherals also didn't work with it.
To try and get around this Microsoft devised four stickers – two for PCs and two for software – that would be stuck on product and supposedly put you on notice. Buyer beware.
The PC stickers denoted whether your machine was "capable" or "basic", the latter meaning it could just about run the lowest version of Windows Vista - Home Basic - which lacked all the groovy new features such as the Aero interface.
The shock? An embarrassing lawsuit from punters who claimed they'd been hoodwinked into buying PCs described as capable when they were only basic. It got so bad that nobody, especially not chief executive Steve Ballmer, wanted to associate themselves with the disastrous label programme.
Windows 7 ended the madness. A machine was "compatible with Windows 7" or not. Simple. Windows 8 threatens to re-open Pandora's Box.
The way it was: Microsoft's Windows Vista logos
This time, it's not whether PCs are able to run the operating system that's the problem, it's that there are now different platforms thanks to Windows on ARM (WOA) and WOA won't run the same way as its x86 cousins, throwing out those just about familiar and comfortable with the Windows PC as it is.
We know Windows 8 introduces the Metro UI for WOA and x86 while also retaining the familiar user interface for desktops, laptops and some tablets.
If you don't like Metro, WOA won't let you seek refuge in the more conventional Windows desktop. That's because while WOA will have a desktop option, just two apps can use it – Microsoft's Office 2015 and Internet Explorer 10.
Also, WOA radically changes one of the basic principles of the PC: the ability for home and business users to customise their machines. Freedom has been an important part of Windows and the PC, as much as price and performance, over the years - but WOA won't let you tweak your machine by installing apps locally or off a CD or USB.
It's unlikely you'll be able to use third-party download sites, either. Instead, you'll have to fetch new apps from Microsoft's marketplace. A byproduct of this is you won't be able to migrate your existing apps to WOA – migration has been a litmus test of any new piece of software for decades. Also gone in WOA is the ability for you to have IE10 your way by bolting on add-ons.
Windows 8 grants new power - WOA, man
There are other differences, too, but these will be of a more welcome nature: power-up, resume and always-on promise to be radically different on WOA compared to x86 while there's the promise of radically improved battery life and performance.
ARM is an extremely efficient architecture that's used in systems like smartphones that - unlike your laptop - aren't often switched off and must run almost permanently. Microsoft's Windows chief Steven Sinofsky said one reason x86 code ports and virtualization of existing apps are forbidden on WOA is because it would defeat the idea of longer battery life.
WOA will, then, be different to Windows 8 on x86. Will consumers know or care, and should they be informed of the change when it comes to buying time? Microsoft's belief system and recent experience says yes.
Microsoft pours billions of dollars a year into making you aware of Windows and trying to make you care about its presence on PCs. That money goes on everything from a humble sticker on a keyboard to TV ads showing "genuine" shoppers "surprised" by the latest version of Windows.
When arguing against Linux or Mac, Microsoft's logic is that without Windows on your PC you don't get the ease or the familiarity of the Windows "experience".
The Windows Vista basic and capable debacle proves that shoppers do care - even if it's for different reasons to Microsoft. Shoppers care because they want to get the thing they thought they were buying. Ambulance-chasing lawyers also care and will side with disgruntled shoppers.
Microsoft has just unveiled a new logo for Windows 8, a Metro-looking flag that dumps the flying flag logo of years past. It would now serve Microsoft well to think about how it's going to communicate the differences in Windows 8 to consumers who won't care about trivial things like architectures and will just want Windows to work the way they are used to.
Sources close to Microsoft tell The Reg that this subject has been raised to Sinofsky but that he's confidently brushed it aside. "Don't worry about it. We've got it handled," Sinofsky is said to have told one prominent Windows watcher.
The Reg asked Microsoft to explain the steps it's taking to inform shoppers of the differences in Windows 8 and whether there will there be a branding or logo programme, but a company spokesperson declined to comment. "We have nothing to share at this time," the spokesperson said.
With Windows 8 expected as a consumer preview next week and a launch due later this year, though, Microsoft's rapidly coming to a point where it has to say what it's got planned.
This year there should be x86 PCs and ARM systems in the market both running Windows 8 and sporting the same UI but with completely different characteristics.
A former Microsoft executive who'd worked on Windows in the past and who wished to remain anonymous told us: "What message is going to make it clear to the user that one of these Windows PCs is different to the other: that they both have the modern, Metro UI but one has the ability to run old applications and the other doesn't," our source said. "They don't have a good track record." ®


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Brand new Spa and Fitness suite opened in October 2008 and all the facilities are avaialable to resident guest. With one AA Rosette, the award winning cuisine is superb. A tempting variety of Classical English and French dishes caters for traditional as well as more adventurous tastes, everything is carefully prepared using locally produced fresh fish and meat, with fresh fruit and vegetables delivered from covent garden each day. The cellar boasts a selection of over 200 wines. Set in the elegant surroundings of Hempstead House Hotel, AquaManda is the perfect place to retreat, relax and unwind, work on your fitness and indulge and pamper yourself. Our philosophy is wellness as a result of a healthy lifestyle as opposed to a solitary fitness regime. With us you will find everything you need to enhance your well-being and awaken your senses. AquaManda has been designed to create a calm and inviting environment to make you feel at ease while achieving your health and fitness goals. Our approach is to devise individual training and beauty programs which are tailored your needs. Your program will be constantly reviewed and you will receive on-going professional consultation to achieve your desired results. We regret that children under the age of 16 are not allowed to use our spa facilities. 15 Meter indoor swimming pool Jacuzzi Hydrotherapy pool Technogym with cardio and resistance equipment Fitness Studio featuring the Technogym Kinesis and the innovative Powerplate Sauna Steam Room 5 treatment rooms, one of which will accommodate two people Exclusive PEVONIA signature treatments and products, JESSICA Nails, ARTDECO Make up And St. Tropez tanning Relaxation Lounge Hair Dressing and Make up Manicure and pedicure area Fitness Instruction and Personal training Disabled access to all areas including the pool. Guest's can use the spa facilities upto 11am on departure day.
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Seaside developer alters plans, seeks zoning to match
Waterford - For neighbors of the former Seaside Regional Center, who have for 15 years followed its transition from a state-owned facility to private hands, two points seemed definite: Any new development would be restricted to people over 55, and an effort would be made to preserve the Beaux Arts buildings on the site.
But over that time the real estate market for age-restricted housing has decreased, and condition of the eight Cass Gilbert-designed buildings has deteriorated.
Farmington-based developer Mark Steiner, who has an $8 million agreement with the state to buy the former sanitarium and home for the mentally disabled, wants a zoning change to eliminate the age requirement and add new language that would permit the demolition of one or more historic structures on the 32-acre campus.
Residents will have chance to comment at a public hearing of the Planning and Zoning Commission 7 p.m. Monday at Town Hall.
"We've had quite the roller-coaster ride," said Kim Bruno, of Shore Road.
In April, the legislature's Government Administration and Elections Committee approved the sale of the property to Steiner, who first inquired about the property in 1997.
The state agreed to sell the property to Steiner in 2006, but in 2007 a legislative panel voted to keep the property.
An investigation then by The Day uncovered emails from former Gov. M. Jodi Rell's chief of staff Lisa Moody suggesting that the property be preserved as a "legacy item" for the governor.
In May 2010, the Department of Public Works announced it would sell Seaside to Steiner.
In May 2011, Steiner received approval for the purchase from the attorney general.
Foreclosure proceedings
In the meantime Steiner has been part of two court cases involving his finances.
In December 2010, Farmington Bank initiated foreclosure proceedings in Hartford Superior Court against Steiner and his wife, Linda Steiner, on their home in Avon. The matter is still in court.
In May, Steiner prevailed in a lawsuit claiming that he owed back interest on a loan dating to 1982. The case is now under appeal.
Reached Thursday, Steiner declined to comment on any matter not related to the zone change application.
For now, the proposed zone changes don't sit well with people who live near Seaside, which has sat virtually dormant since the state closed the center in 1996.
According to Debby Green, who lives on Woodsea Place, dispensing with the 55-plus requirement could strain the public schools and alter the density of the neighborhood.
"That has always been part (of the regulations)," Green said. The current zoning regulations have been in effect since the late 1990s, according to town director of planning Tom Wagner.
Proponents of age-restricted housing say it is a method to expand the real estate tax base without overburdening the public schools with more students.
In an interview Tuesday, Steiner said the market for age restricted housing has shifted since the requirement was put in during the late 1990s, and there have been "a number of failures."
"Most people who buy age-restricted are in their 70s," Steiner said. "It's not a reliable market."
Steiner said the price of the condos would start at about $500,000. "If you are going to spend $500,000 and you have kids, you are more likely to buy a house with a yard," Steiner said.
Steiner plans to market the development to people who live in metropolitan New York for second homes and to empty-nesters. His vision includes concierge service and dining areas for events.
Although the property is zoned for 130 units, Steiner said no final decision has been made on how many will be built.
Steiner is also seeking authority to demolish some of the buildings on the Seaside campus if they cannot be preserved.
"We're not necessarily going to demolish them, but we are seeking a provision in case it is not feasible to keep them," Steiner said. Steiner said he would hire an engineer qualified to evaluate historic structures.
According to Steiner the structures, which are on the National Register of Historic Places, have fallen into disrepair since negotiations with the state failed.
A spokesman for the National Trust for Historic Preservation said that as long as there is not any federal money involved in the project, any preservation or reuse of the building is at the discretion of the owner.
Town historian and Town Clerk Robert Nye said citizens can apply for 30-day and 60-day delays or file for an injunction to halt any demolition.
Steiner said any replacement structures would replicate the buildings and feature Beaux Arts flourishes.
As a point of comparison, Steiner mentioned the new Ocean House Hotel in Watch Hill, R.I., which incorporated designs from the old hotel into the modern structure.
Neighbors around the Seaside property said they expect a large turnout at the hearing Monday, and some are requesting that both the town and Steiner work more closely with them.
Kathy Jacques said the neighbors were more involved "in the beginning" but are now feeling left out of any decisions.
"It hasn't been inclusive," Jacques said.
Steiner said Tuesday he plans to hold small workshops with neighbors about his plans for the site.
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A 24-year-old Hayward woman was killed when a Range Rover slammed into a car with a flat tire early Thursday morning on the San Mateo Bridge, officials said.
The woman was identified as Marisol Morales by the San Mateo County Coroner's office.
The collision happened about 3:30 a.m. in the westbound lanes of the bridge, on the decline section, according to California Highway Patrol Officer Arturo Montiel. A 2000 Honda Civic, in which Morales was a passenger, had suffered a flat tire and was driving slowly off the bridge, with its emergency flashers on.
The 1999 Range Rover came up behind the Honda at a higher rate of speed and struck it, causing heavy damage to the Honda's back end.
Paramedics found Morales, who was in the Honda's back seat, without a pulse and not breathing. They performed rescue CPR, but she was pronounced dead at the scene.
The driver of the Honda, Louis Gonzalez, 24, of Hayward, suffered minor facial cuts. The driver of the Range Rover, Vincent Ong, 33, of Hayward, was not injured.
The collision is being investigated. Alcohol and drugs do not appear to be factors in the crash, Montiel said.
The crash blocked the right lane of the bridge until just before 6 a.m.
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Tiny "purse": No longer a sow's ear
SIZE: 1272 fin. sq. ft., 384 unfin.
ADDRESS: 306 12th Street NE
NEIGHBORHOOD: Martha Jefferson Hospital
CURB APPEAL: 7 out of a possible 10
LISTED BY: Owners Dennis and Debbie Keener, 979-1007
The old adage "turning a silk purse into a sow's ear" certainly applies to this makeover of a little bungalow near downtown. Dennis and Debbie Keener started with a typical two-bedroom, one-bath '50s box and, with imagination and care, turned it into a charming cozy residence.
The layout of the original building was just like so many other no-frills, utilitarian houses of that era Charlottesville's older neighborhoods are full of them: front door opening directly to living room, smallish kitchen, two side-by-side bedrooms, and one tiny bath, all encased in a shingled box plopped down on a scrubby little plot of land.
This model does have the added benefit of a large basement, probably thanks to the slightly sloping lot which permits outside access from the rear. When you're dealing with such a basic plan, anything extra is welcome, and the basement here makes a big difference. There's an extra bedroom down there, along with a laundry room and lots of storage.
Here's what the Keeners did to the sow's ear. First, Dennis turned three standard doorways into arches. Next, he reconfigured the bedroom/bathroom end of the house, taking several feet from the kitchen (which backs up to the bathroom) to make room for a new tub and shower (whose real tile surround warms our heart), and then bumping out an alcove space for the sink, large medicine cabinet, and pretty etched-glass window. That little touch is one of the best things about the new design.
He angled the bathroom entrance, creating a small two-step sort of hall where none had been before, thereby making the whole bedroom "wing" somewhat interesting. The bedrooms are the same as they ever were, with the exception of refinished oak floors and new windows. (The whole house has hardwood floors, except the bathroom, which is slate.)
After giving up space to the bathroom, the kitchen is now a galley, with marble counters surrounding the sink on the left under a window, and space on the right between counters for a new fridge and stove, which will be up to the buyers to install. (The owners are providing a $2,000 kitchen allowance for that purpose.) The door to the basement leads from the kitchen glass bricks have been inserted to provide light to the stairway.
In addition to the basement, a brand-new sunroom off the kitchen separates this house from its common brethren. This sunroom, with glass on three sides, provides a view to the backyard (not quite fully fenced) and even to Brown's Mountain in the distance. According to the owners, views of sunsets from this room are quite nice.
The outside of the house has been given the same attention as the inside. The entrance was reconfigured to provide an appealing little portico; there's a slate path around to a patio off the basement entrance, and there's a parking space carved out of the yard. However, this block of Twelfth Street is off the beaten path, and the house faces the wild backyard of "The Farm," a historic residence across the way (whose property supposedly also has the oldest house in Charlottesville). There are no other houses over there, and therefore parking on the street is no problem. Returning the "off-street" parking space to yard seems like a good idea.
The usual upgrades have been made: central air, pull-down attic access for storage, original brass door fixtures repaired and reinstalled, and new outside storage under the breakfast room addition. Other lures are the Burnley-Moran school district, Downtown Mall walkability, and new roof and heating system.
The drawback, of course, is the price tag: $210,000 for two bedrooms and one bath, even a fancy bath, is sort of breathtaking when you think about it. But in today's market, we seem to be spending a lot of time gasping.