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Thursday, 2 May 2013
How Key Decisions In Copyright Cases Can Impact The Pace Of ...
Next month, I have a law review article coming out, specifically focused on how much innovation is held back and hindered when courts rule against new and innovative technologies based on the claim that they are infringing copyrights. This goes well beyond just the technology on trial itself, but many follow-on innovators who are held back or hindered in either designing their innovations or receiving investments for those same innovations. Markham Erickson, a telecom and internet lawyer, has written up a blog post that highlights this same point in looking at the recent ruling in the Aereo caes and how important the Cablevision case was in driving the innovation that led to Aereo, and to a variety of other investments in online services, and cloud computing in particular. First, Erickson notes that both the Cablevision and Aereo rulings helped create legal symmetry such that the length of a cable should not impact whether a technology is legal or not (i.e., a remote device is treated the same as a device in or on your home), and then he talks about the wider impact of that clarity:
In reaching this conclusion, the court placed utmost importance on certain technological designs such as the use of an individual antennae and copies unique to the individual. The court also made clear that Cablevision?s holding was not confined to particular, pre-approved technologies: ?[W]e see no support in Cablevision or in this court?s subsequent decisions for the Plaintiff?s argument that Cablevision?s interpretation of the Transmit clause is confined to technologies similar to the VCR.? Aereo, 2013 WL at *11.And yet, he notes, this clarity and ability to invest and to innovate may be at risk. As we noted at the time, the stunning dissent in the Aereo case actually indicated that designing a system to be within the clear boundaries of the law as explained in the earlier case should be seen as intent to infringe. That's a rather incredible interpretation when you think about it. Following the explicit nature of the law should be seen as trying to subvert it? Talk about a way to chill innovation. If that became the law, the chilling effects on innovation would be tremendous. Not only would innovators be fearful of creating new services that might be sued for infringement, they wouldn't even know how to make sure their technologies were considered legal, due to a court system that explicitly argued that any attempt to obey the law may be seen as an attempt to subvert it!This rejection of a technology-specific reading of Cablevision should be heartening to cloud service providers. The reliance of cloud service providers on Cablevision is hard to overstate. After the Cablevision decision, the average quarterly investment in cloud computing in the United States increased by 41 percent. By one estimate, the certainty provided by Cablevision led to an additional incremental investment in US cloud computing firms of anywhere between $728 million and $1.3 billion in the 2 and 1/2 years following the decision. As the Second Circuit observed in Aereo, ?many media and technology companies have relied onCablevision as an authoritative interpretation of the Transmit Clause. One example is cloud media services, which have proliferated in recent years.?
Meanwhile, other courts seem to be attacking these basic principles, which may result in more stifling of significant innovation and investment. We've avoided covering what's now called either the "AereoKiller" or "BarryDriller" cases, because the service, which used to be known as FilmOn, seems much more focused on doing stupid promotional stunts, rather than something serious. His lawsuit against CBS, as well as changing the name of FilmOn to AereoKiller/BarryDriller, highlights the sort of focus that David seems to have. And, unfortunately, when you have someone more focused on publicity stunts and acting like a clown, rather than mounting a serious legal defense, you get bad rulings. AereoKiller is a somewhat similar service to Aereo, but may actually end up killing Aereo and a ton of other important innovations, not because it's better/more innovative, but because it's mounting a horrible defense on a similar issue, and has already lost at the district court. The impact on innovation could be huge. With a split decision and concerns about Aereo's future success, investment in key innovations, including various cloud services, may be held back, while other countries continue to invest in such companies.
It's incredible that we have a legal process, and a tool in today's copyright law, that is being actively used to scare off key investment in new innovations at a time that we should be much more focused on innovation.
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Amazing Fact! Science Proves Health Insurance Doesn't Improve ...
Writing at Kaiser Health News, for example, The New Republic?s Jonathan Cohn declared that the study?s design ?makes it unusually significant.? A blog post published by the left-leaning Century Foundation announced that the study?s ?findings were irrefutable.? Aaron Carroll, an influential health policy blogger at The Incidental Economist, emphasized the rigor of the study. ?I?d like to reiterate that this was a randomized controlled trial,? he wrote. ?An RCT is pretty much the best way to prove causality, especially if it?s well done.? And because it?s an RCT, he concluded, ?we can even start talking causality.? Ezra Klein published a column touting the study with the headline, ?Amazing Fact! Science Proves Health Insurance Works.? He explained why the randomized study was so valuable: ?The gold standard in research is a?study?that randomly chooses who gets a new treatment and who doesn?t. That way, you know your results are unaffected by differences in the two populations you are studying.?
Now, well, it?s all a little less clear. ?The problem with the Oregon study,? Klein wrote this morning,? ?is we don?t really know what we?re learning.? Carroll, who was ready to start talking causality when the first study was published, is now counseling caution. ?So chill, people. This is another piece of evidence. It shows that some things improved for people who got Medicaid. For others, changes weren?t statistically significant, which isn?t the same thing as certainty of no effect. For still others, the jury is still out.?
It?s notable that the findings from the first round of study results were actually less robust than this week's results. Not only did the first round only measure a single year, there were no objective physical measures of health at all. Instead, the researchers did find big improvements in self-reported health. People who got Medicaid merely said they felt a lot better. And about two-thirds of that self-reported improvement appeared before any medical treatment had been obtained. Yet that was enough for many Obamacare backers to declare that certain victory was at hand. Indeed, despite the lack of objective measures, it was even enough for many reports to declare that we now had irrefutable evidence that Medicaid definitely does improve health.
The White House blog, for example, headlined an item on the first study ?Health Insurance Leads to Healthier Americans.? An ABC News report on the study opened by saying that the study ?proves that being insured through Medicaid benefits people physically. Health policy analyst Harold Pollack used the initial results to ask, ?Can conservatives please stop claiming that health insurance doesn?t improve health?? Incidental Economist health policy blogger Austin Frakt expressed his confidence that "the research team will find that Medicaid does lead to better health" while singling out the sturdiness of the study's methodology and selection design for praise. A New York Times analysis?concluded that "expanding insurance does not save society money ? as some advocates of preventive medicine?have claimed?? but it does appear to make people mentally and physically healthier." Harvard health policy professor John McDonough hailed the study, and dismissed those who counseled caution about the study?s results. ?Naysayers are already out in force charging that the study results fail to identify actual improvements in enrollees' health status,? he wrote. ?Those kinds of results are down the road.?
We?ve now gone down that road. But we didn?t find those kinds of results. Not with the rigor that the study's authors deemed necessary, anyway. Instead, on the objective health measures, we?or rather the researchers behind the study?found some improvement in objective health measures. But not enough to rise to the level of statistical significance. Not enough to know with high confidence that Medicaid was the cause. This is not nothing. It's even potentially interesting. But it is far from definitive proof, or even just a strong reason to suspect, that Medicaid actually makes a measurable difference in objective health outcomes.
And while some on the left are still claiming victory?in part because of the objective health measures and in part because the study showed decreased risk of health-related financial catastrophe, and decreased probability of screening positive for depression, the particulars of the study's results should at the very least complicate their arguments.
If the primary goal of a program like Medicaid is to protect individuals from financial shocks associated with medical expenses, then why not support a far, far cheaper subsidized catastrophic insurance program instead of low-deductible insurance through Medicaid? If what the poor really need is financial protection, rather than health services, then why not just give them cash?
The depression results are unusual as well, because the study found no concurrent rise in the use of medication for depression. Might some of the difference be attributable to the fact that Medicaid beneficiaries had won the health insurance lottery and, as we know, felt better because of it?
As for the too-small-to-be-statistically-significant improvements on objective measures?even if we could be confident that the improvements were attributable to the provision of Medicaid, would those improvements be worth the high price of the program, both in its current form and its planned expansion under Obamacare? Medicaid currently costs the federal government about $250 billion a year, a figure that's projected to rise past $570 billion over the next decade. That doesn't count the hundreds of billions that state governments also spend on the program. (Health costs, many of which are related to Medicaid, are the biggest cause of budget trouble for states, according to the Government Accountability Office). And for that, beneficiaries are getting health benefits that are, at best, highly uncertain.?
For what it?s worth, I am glad to see that liberal health wonks are now preaching caution. Given the study?s results, they are right to do so. I wish, however, that they had done so from the outset, and I hope that they will adopt a less confident approach in the future. The second-round results of Oregon?s experiment with Medicaid suggest that it?s possible that Medicaid may have some improvement on a few health measures. But further study could just as easily show that they don?t, and that the improvements found here are little more than statistical noise. Science, in other words, has not really proven that Medicaid works, or that it doesn?t. But it has strongly suggested, in a gold-standard study, that on objective measures of physical health, those with coverage through the program may not be much better off than those without. ??
Source: http://reason.com/blog/2013/05/02/amazing-fact-science-proves-health-insur
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MTN shares up after Turkcell withdraws $4.2 bln corruption suit
May 1 (Reuters) - Post position for Saturday's 139th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs after Wednesday's draw (listed as barrier, HORSE, jockey, trainer) 1. BLACK ONYX, Joe Bravo, Kelly Breen 2. OXBOW, Gary Stevens, D. Wayne Lukas 3. REVOLUTIONARY, Calvin Borel, Todd Pletcher 4. GOLDEN SOUL, Robby Albarado, Dallas Stewart 5. NORMANDY INVASION, Javier Castellano, Chad Brown 6. MYLUTE, Rosie Napravnik, Tom Amoss 7. GIANT FINISH, Jose Espinoza, Tony Dutrow 8. GOLDENCENTS, Kevin Krigger, Doug O'Neill 9. OVERANALYZE, Rafael Bejarano, Todd Pletcher 10. PALACE MALICE, Mike Smith, Todd Pletcher 11. ...
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Wednesday, 1 May 2013
Emerging Technologies Librarian; College of New Jersey | SLA New ...
The Library at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) invites applications for a 12-month, tenure-track Emerging Technologies Librarian. The successful candidate will be responsible for effective librarianship, scholarship, and service.Job Start Date: 07/01/2013
Specific responsibilities will include:
Emerging Technologies: Identify, evaluate, and promote current and emerging best practices in the application of web and digital technologies; take a leading role in the planning, implementation, and maintenance of innovative web and digital services and resources to improve teaching and learning effectiveness at TCNJ Library (e.g., virtual reference, social media, mobile computing, content management systems, open source applications, interaction design). Foster initiatives by providing expertise and guidance for library staff as they integrate web and digital technologies into new services and operations. Work collaboratively with others on the design and support of the Library?s web site and web services using the most up-to-date web design and applications technology. Work collaboratively with librarians to develop, test, and implement instructional tools and other digital library initiatives. Promote and support usability testing and assessment of new and existing services.
Qualifications:
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Required: Master?s degree accredited by the American Library Association and awarded by the time of appointment. Working knowledge of the principles and practices of web design and development, including applications and scripting languages, such as the Adobe suite, HTML5, or PHP. Working knowledge of a content management system, such as WordPress. Working knowledge of other library-related technologies, such as streaming media and digitization, and current programming languages, such as XML or SQL. Ability to work in a highly collaborative environment. Excellent communication, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills. Initiative, flexibility, and a strong service orientation essential.
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Preferred: Experience creating enhanced services through implementation of innovative user-centered solutions, and integrating technologies such as social networking, virtual reference, mobile technologies, and other Web 2.0 applications. Advanced degree or equivalent experience in instructional technology, digital art, or interactive multimedia. Professional experience in an academic library setting. Reference and instruction experience.
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Founded in 1855, TCNJ is a highly selective institution that has earned national recognition for its commitment to excellence. Emphasizing a residential experience for its nearly 6,000 undergraduates, TCNJ is one of Barron?s 75 ?Most Competitive? American colleges, and U.S. News & World Report?s No. 1 public institution of its kind in the northern region of the country. The College also offers focused graduate programs in nursing, education and English. TCNJ was awarded, in 2006, a Phi Beta Kappa chapter an honor shared by less than 10 percent of colleges and universities nationally. A strong liberal arts core forms the foundation for programs offered through TCNJ?s seven schools-Arts & Communication; Business; Culture and Society; Education; Science; Nursing, Health, and Exercise Science; and Engineering. TCNJ faculty members are teacher-scholars who share a commitment to liberal learning.
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TCNJ is located within an hour, by train, of NYC and Philadelphia. The College?s campus is set on 289 tree-lined acres in suburban Ewing Township and is known for its natural beauty. TCNJ has 39 major buildings, including a library recently rated the 4th-best in the nation by the Princeton Review. TCNJ Library is a five-story, 135,000 square-foot facility that serves as an intellectual, cultural, and social center for the College. In addition to housing traditional library collections and services, the building provides 26 group study rooms, two instructional computer labs, a cafe?, a late-night study area, and a 105-seat multi-purpose auditorium. The Library?s collections consist of approximately 600,000 volumes that have been selected by faculty and subject specialist librarians to support course offerings of the college and to provide a broad representative collection of titles across many disciplines. The library has access to over 60,000 periodical titles, which are available in a variety of formats: print, online, and microfilm/microfiche.
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Appointment will be at the rank of Librarian III or Librarian II, commensurate with qualifications and experience. Salary ranges: Librarian III (Instructor in the Library) $53,149-82,388; Librarian II (Assistant Professor in the Library) $64,605-100,154. Full benefits package including TIAA/CREF. This position is available July 1, 2013.
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Contact Information
To apply, please send a letter describing how your credentials meet the needs described in this ad, a current copy of your curriculum vitae, and contact information (including phone numbers and email addresses) for four references to Maureen Gorman, Chair, Emerging Technologies Librarian Search Committee. Applications should be sent to: libjobs2@tcnj.edu. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled but must be received by June 5, 2013, in order to receive full consideration.
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Additional Responsibilities: As liaison to the Interactive Multimedia Program and possibly other subject areas, depending on library needs and applicant?s expertise, provide in-depth reference, subject-specific instruction, and collection development. Provide general reference and Library instruction. Some evening and weekend duties required. Plan and carry out a sustained and respectable body of scholarship as outlined in the Library Disciplinary Standards. Serve on Library and institutional committees.
To enrich education through diversity, The College of New Jersey is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The College has a strong commitment to achieving diversity among faculty and staff, and strongly encourages women and members of underrepresented groups to apply.
Employment is contingent upon completion of a successful background check.
To see: https://jedi.tcnj.edu/webteam/employment/show_job.php?jobid=11539&category=Academic/Faculty%20Positions
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Source: http://newjersey.sla.org/2013/05/01/emerging-technologies-librarian-college-of-new-jersey/
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New tool enables to design courses for Intelligent Tutoring Systems simply and intuitively
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HctorEscudero-Jimnez, a Computer Engineer, has created a tool that enables courses for Intelligent Tutoring Systems to be designed simply and intuitively. This is the subject of his PhD thesis entitled Propuesta e implementacin de unaarquitecturagenricapara la creacin de cursosparaSistemasTutores Inteligentes (Proposal and Implementation of a generic architecture for the creation of courses for Intelligent Tutoring Systems), which he has recently defended at the UPNA/NUP-Public University of Navarre.
The field of Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) seeks to apply artificial intelligence techniques to the development of computer-aided learning systems for the purpose of building intelligent learning systems. An ITS approaches learning as a process of cooperation between the tutor and the student, where the former aims to teach a number of concepts which the student is required to learn.
In general, this process is guided by the tutor, who has to analyse the behaviour of the student not only to find out his/her knowledge status but also to meet his/her requirements and thus be able to determine and apply the right learning strategiesat each moment. These strategies need to resolve a series of priority questions like how to explain, with what degree of detail, when and how to interrupt the student, and how to detect and correct his/her errors.
In his research work,HctorEscudero explains that the Intelligent Tutoring Systems we have seen so far are based on creating core rules capable of guiding the student's learning about a subject. "The problem they pose is that they lack an interface that allows a course to be created in a straightforward way," says the author, who highlights the fact that nowadays it is necessary to be an expert in ITSs to be able to create a course. "Above all, bearing in mind that these tools should be geared towards teachers and educators so that they can create courses tailored to their students," explains Escudero.
Authoring tool
The thesis does not create an Intelligent Tutoring System, but rather an authoring tool that allows courses to be created in a straightforward and intuitive way, as well as a methodological basis that can help to create more tools of this type in the future. The tool will create a course, which will be used by an ITS to guide the student's learning, so that two applications will be needed to set it up: the application that creates the course and the one that represents it.
An ITS consists of a series of general rules which it applies in order to be able to decide the learning methods, the sequences of learning modules, and other sequences that are specific to each course, like Basic Learning Units (BLUs) and the characteristics of the students who will be receiving the course. That way, it will only be necessary to specify the specific rules for each course by means of the authoring tool, while the general rules will be incorporated into the application for representing the course.
The fact that two different applications are needed means that information has to be transmitted from one to the other. So the authoring tool devisedby HctorEscuderowill create an ontology in which the rules and required content will be codified so that the course can be represented. Ontologies provide a common vocabulary about a domain and define, with varying levels of formality, the meaning of the terms and how they relate to each other. In ontologies, knowledge is formalized by using five different components: classes, relationships, functions, axioms and instances.
The structure of the ontology changes depending on the ITS type, in other words, for each different ITS type a different structure has to be created, which means that the instances are also different.So, as mentioned above, a course can be seen as a set of concepts.These concepts may be of different types depending on their ITS configuration.In any case, each concept basically has a name, a set of attributes, some relationships with other concepts, and a content that defines each concept.
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Elhuyar Fundazioa
HctorEscudero-Jimnez, a Computer Engineer, has created a tool that enables courses for Intelligent Tutoring Systems to be designed simply and intuitively. This is the subject of his PhD thesis entitled Propuesta e implementacin de unaarquitecturagenricapara la creacin de cursosparaSistemasTutores Inteligentes (Proposal and Implementation of a generic architecture for the creation of courses for Intelligent Tutoring Systems), which he has recently defended at the UPNA/NUP-Public University of Navarre.
The field of Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) seeks to apply artificial intelligence techniques to the development of computer-aided learning systems for the purpose of building intelligent learning systems. An ITS approaches learning as a process of cooperation between the tutor and the student, where the former aims to teach a number of concepts which the student is required to learn.
In general, this process is guided by the tutor, who has to analyse the behaviour of the student not only to find out his/her knowledge status but also to meet his/her requirements and thus be able to determine and apply the right learning strategiesat each moment. These strategies need to resolve a series of priority questions like how to explain, with what degree of detail, when and how to interrupt the student, and how to detect and correct his/her errors.
In his research work,HctorEscudero explains that the Intelligent Tutoring Systems we have seen so far are based on creating core rules capable of guiding the student's learning about a subject. "The problem they pose is that they lack an interface that allows a course to be created in a straightforward way," says the author, who highlights the fact that nowadays it is necessary to be an expert in ITSs to be able to create a course. "Above all, bearing in mind that these tools should be geared towards teachers and educators so that they can create courses tailored to their students," explains Escudero.
Authoring tool
The thesis does not create an Intelligent Tutoring System, but rather an authoring tool that allows courses to be created in a straightforward and intuitive way, as well as a methodological basis that can help to create more tools of this type in the future. The tool will create a course, which will be used by an ITS to guide the student's learning, so that two applications will be needed to set it up: the application that creates the course and the one that represents it.
An ITS consists of a series of general rules which it applies in order to be able to decide the learning methods, the sequences of learning modules, and other sequences that are specific to each course, like Basic Learning Units (BLUs) and the characteristics of the students who will be receiving the course. That way, it will only be necessary to specify the specific rules for each course by means of the authoring tool, while the general rules will be incorporated into the application for representing the course.
The fact that two different applications are needed means that information has to be transmitted from one to the other. So the authoring tool devisedby HctorEscuderowill create an ontology in which the rules and required content will be codified so that the course can be represented. Ontologies provide a common vocabulary about a domain and define, with varying levels of formality, the meaning of the terms and how they relate to each other. In ontologies, knowledge is formalized by using five different components: classes, relationships, functions, axioms and instances.
The structure of the ontology changes depending on the ITS type, in other words, for each different ITS type a different structure has to be created, which means that the instances are also different.So, as mentioned above, a course can be seen as a set of concepts.These concepts may be of different types depending on their ITS configuration.In any case, each concept basically has a name, a set of attributes, some relationships with other concepts, and a content that defines each concept.
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$74.5 Billion Florida State Budget to Get Vote Thursday
Published: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 at 12:04 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 at 12:04 a.m.
TALLAHASSEE | Teachers, state workers, public schools and Southwest Florida projects are among the beneficiaries in the $74.5 billion state budget bill issued Monday afternoon, clearing the way for a timely adjournment of the annual legislative session by Friday.
The budget includes pay raises for teachers and state workers, $1 billion for public schools and plenty of local projects. Under their 72-hour "cooling off" rule, lawmakers can vote on the budget for the 2013-14 fiscal year -- which begins July 1 -- as early as Thursday afternoon.
Legislative leaders and Gov. Rick Scott touted the budget's spending increases for education, including a $1 billion hike in K-12 spending that will raise per-student funding to $6,779, a $404 increase over this year.
The budget also contains $480 million for performance-based pay raises for teachers, with educators who are deemed "effective" receiving a $2,500 raise and "highly effective" teachers receiving $3,500. But the pay plans will ultimately be up to the local school districts, which will develop the criteria for awarding the raises.
The raises also will include non-instructional personnel. But they will not take effect until June 2014, which drew criticism from the Florida Education Association, the state's largest teachers' union. Andy Ford, FEA president, said the teachers were "are disappointed" with the delay.
Nevertheless, Scott, who had originally called for an across-the-board $2,500 increase targeting classroom teachers, was ready to declare success on Monday.
"This is a big victory for our teachers. This is a big victory for students," Scott said about the teachers' raise as well as the $1 billion increase in school spending.
House Speaker Will Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel, agreed.
"This is a huge win for everybody," he said.
However, Scott, who has the power to veto line items in the budget bill, said he continues to oppose the 3 percent tuition increase for university and college students in the budget. "I don't believe in tuition increases," Scott said, adding it "makes it much more difficult for the poorest families in our state to be able to afford an education."
The budget also contains the first general pay raise for state workers since October 2006. In the new budget, workers making less than $40,000 a year will receive a $1,400 raise, while those making more than $40,000 will receive $1,000. High-performing workers will be in line for a one-time $600 bonus.
The increased state spending -- which is roughly $4 billion higher than this year's budget -- will have an impact in Southwest Florida.
Coupled with federal money, there is some $32 million for beach renourishment projects in Venice and Anna Maria Island.
Venice would receive $11.87 million, including $9 million from the federal government and $1.4 million each in state and local matching funds.
Anna Maria Island is in line for $20 million, including $13.7 million in federal support and $3.2 million each in state and local funding.
Sarasota public schools will see a $299 million K-12 budget, up $17.4 million or 6.2 percent from this year. Manatee schools will receive a $311 million budget, up $22.4 million or 7.77 percent.
In Sarasota County, there is $438,000 for continuing work on the Phillippi Creek septic system replacement program. In Manatee, $1 million was allocated for a wastewater treatment system and $500,000 for the second phase of a reclaimed water project in Charlotte County.
New College of Florida will receive $2.1 million in funding for renovations at the Cook Library. Under the capital improvement fee program, New College could see more than $600,000 in additional improvements, including $150,000 for the college's fitness center, $100,000 for the Four Winds Cafe, $250,000 for the Hamilton Student Center and $154,055 for waterfront recreation.
The budget contains $380,000 for a fetal alcohol clinic in Sarasota.
In the transportation budget, there is $10 million for the construction of a Department of Transportation Sarasota-Manatee operations center.
The budget also includes $5 million for the rowing complex under construction at Nathan Benderson Park in Sarasota County and $2.3 million to help expand IMG Academy in Bradenton.
Source: http://www.theledger.com/article/20130430/politics/304305001
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