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The Naval Hospital at Camp Pendleton is one of many nominations submitted so far for the annual Orchids & Onions awards program, one of the headliner events during Archtoberfest in October.

If Oktoberfest is all about beer, local architects hope their first-ever "Archtoberfest" will be about buildings, landscapes, planning and environmental sustainability.

And lots of beer, wine and other refreshments, of course.

The monthlong program in October will start with Orchids & Onions, the nearly 40-year-old awards program for good and bad design, and end with local American Institute of Architects' chapter annual Design Awards program (for only good work).

"I think it's going to be great fun," said Bastiaan Bouma, executive director of the AIA chapter that's putting together the schedule.

(The name is pronunciationally challenging: it's "ark-tober-fest.")

Modeled after the "Architecture in the City" program in San Francisco and the Open House Chicago architectural tour that Bouma previously ran, San Diego's festival also takes its cue from the area's growing reputation as a national capital of craft beer. One of the proposed events is an "ArchiBall" costume party on Halloween at Stone Brewery.

Besides the AIA, other sponsors and partner organizers come from the San Diego Architectural Foundation, Friends of San Diego Architecture, San Diego Design Film Festival, professional design organizations, museums and schools.

Confirmed events include the two award presentations, a four-day film festival and several lectures, museum exhibitions and parties.

Many events will be free, including an Oct. 3 afternoon program on fire safety while building near canyons and in backcountry wildlands. The local chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects is the organizer.

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Published: Monday, July 14, 2014 at 8:38 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, July 14, 2014 at 8:38 p.m.

HAINES CITY | A Celebration real estate developer has proposed building more than 3,000 mostly rental units and 70,000 square feet of retail and office space in Haines City over the next few years.

If CBD Real Estate Investment LLC builds all four projects announced Monday, it would total as one of the largest residential developments in the city's history, said Mark Bennett, a city planning manager involved in discussions with the Celebration developer.

"The cumulative impact of all of them would be significant," Bennett said.

All four developments would aim at creating "market-affordable" housing, meaning no government subsidies involved, said David Waronker, CBD president.

"We see a tremendous increase in demand nationally, regionally and, most specifically, locally for affordable market rate for sale and rental housing," Waronker said in a press statement. "There is no secret that those looking for housing have less to spend, but want now more than ever the best value for their hard earned dollars."

One-bedroom apartments would rent for about $450 a month with three-bedroom units at less than $1,000, or about $400 cheaper than the Tampa and Orlando areas, he said. Single-family homes would sell for less than $200,000, half the $440,000 median price of a Polk County home in 2005-06 at the height of the real estate boom.

The developers expect current Polk residents would make up more than half the renters and buyers with the rest coming from Tampa and Orlando area residents looking for affordable housing, Waronker said.

Construction on two of the four projects could start within a year pending approvals from city and state officials, he said. A third project depends on construction of the proposed Central Polk Parkway, an extension of the current Polk Parkway farther east, and the fourth remains in the planning stage.

First on the block would be the $22.9 million Liberty Bluff gated community on 19 acres off Hinson Road near Power Line Road, Waronker said.

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An artist's impression of the 47,000-square-metre redevelopment planned by QIC at Eastland shopping centre at Ringwood.

Population growth is driving continued retail development across Melbourne and Geelong with about 250,000 square metres of space expected to be completed in the next two years.

Savills Australia's Victorian research chief Glenn Lampard said much of the development involved expanding existing large shopping centres rather than new projects.

"The majority is through expansion of existing centres. A lot of these centres have been performing quite well through this period. You rarely walk around a regional shopping centre and see empty sites," Mr Lampard said.

Victoria's population grew by 107,900 people (1.9 per cent) in the 12 months to December 2013, bringing its total to 5.79 million, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

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"We have been fortunate in the population growth. You don't need people to spend more when you have more people spending. Retail spending has been subdued but it hasn't gone backwards," he said.

Setting up new households means people spend money on fitting out new kitchens and laundries at bulky goods stores.

Three new projects in Mentone, Pakenham and Altona, totalling 60,000 square metres, are due to be finished by mid-2015.

A further 70,000 square metres of space in the large regional shopping centres will open for business in May 2016. The Pacific Group is opening a 23,496 square metre expansion to Werribee Plaza and building works are under way at QIC's 47,000 square metre redevelopment at Eastland in Ringwood.

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4:30pm, Tue 15 Jul 2014 Cabinet reshuffle: Hammond in for Hague as Foreign Secretary - last updated Tue 15 Jul 2014 David Cameron has rung the changes to his team with a host of new positions awarded at 10 Downing Street. Photo: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Prime Minister David Cameron has reshuffled his pack of secretaries and ministers as he bids to win an outright majority at next year's election and end the era of Coalition government.

The highest profile change has seen former defence secretary Philip Hammond replace William Hague as Foreign Secretary and Michael Gove switched from Education Secretary to Chief Whip.

Gove's replacement is Nicky Morgan, one of a number of women handed significant roles following criticism of Mr Cameron's male-led administration.

Here's a guide to the big movers and new faces in the Cabinet, followed by a complete list of the reshuffle:

Nicky Morgan - Education Secretary (replacing Michael Gove)

The promotion to Education Secretary completes a rapid rise through the ranks for the 41-year-old corporate lawyer, who was made a ministerial aide within months of entering Parliament in 2010, a whip in 2012 and a junior Treasury minister last October.

Educated at Surbiton High School and St Hugh's College, Oxford, she notably voted against same-sex marriage on the basis of her Christianity.

Morgan has added responsibility for equalities to her previous brief as minister for women, though due to her opposition will not be given responsibility for implementing gay marriage legislation.

Liz Truss - Environment Secretary (replaces Owen Patterson)

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One longstanding friend of William Hagues said hed lost his appetite for top level British politics. He knew George Osborne (once his aide) wanted his job if the Tories were re-elected. Hed had his one pitch for the top job in 2001 as leader of the Tories in opposition. He didnt want to be chancellor. Pretending to run again for his seat when he didnt have his heart in it wasnt his style.

Knowing this the duo at the top of the party wondered whether they could lure Mr Hague to square their problems over filling the European Commission slot. But Mr Hague wasnt interested. Hed like another big international job if it came along but not that one.

Mr Hague was very wounded by the collapsed attempt to lead military intervention in Syria. Mr Osborne and David Cameron spun round to give a blanket promise not to go near the idea again. Hague was less comfortable with what they saw as necessary trimming.

In Whitehall in recent months you found a lot of people who said the outgoing foreign secretary had lost his motivation but not many who thought hed move out of post ahead of the election. Hell stay in the Cabinet as leader of the Commons in what has become the departure lounge of British front bench politics.

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Although he was deputy prime minister in waiting when the Tories came to office the coalition scuppered that notion. Mr Cameron and Mr Osborne liked having him in the room for strategic chat but the Tory arm of this government was always more of a duumvirate than a triumvirate.

Philip Hammond, his expected replacement, is more instinctively cautious of intervention than his predecessor. Critically, he would start as a more thorough-going Eurosceptic than Mr Hague had become at the time of his FCO departure.

Hes openly contemplated leaving the EU, a position Mr Cameron has (so far) refused to utter. But Philip Hammond has been heard to recite loyally the prime ministers pretty minimilast (to core Euroscpetics minds) version of EU renegotiation as written in the Sunday Telegraph ahead of this years Euro elections.

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London (dpa) - British Prime Minister David Cameron carried out the biggest cabinet reshuffle of his term on Tuesday, promoting several women in an apparent effort to attract female voters ahead of next years general election.

Defence Secretary Philip Hammond is also replacing Foreign Secretary William Hague, who announced his own resignation unexpectedly late Monday, and said he would not be standing for parliament again.

Michael Fallon, who first had a ministerial role under Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s, is to take on the defence portfolio.

Around a dozen men are leaving their ministerial posts, in what British media dubbed the "massacre of the men in suits" or a cull of the "male, stale and pale."

The opposition Labour party has in the past been able to attack Cameron for the lack of female faces on his front bench - until now there had been only three women in the cabinet, including Home Secretary Teresa May.

In the first of several high profile appointments, Minister for Women Nicky Morgan replaced Michael Gove as education secretary and education minister Liz Truss was given Owen Patersons portfolio as environment secretary.

Esther McVey, a former breakfast television presenter, is to keep her portfolio as minister for employment and disabilities but will now also attend cabinet and is expected to continue as a prominent spokesperson for the government.

A former head of corporate affairs for the BBC, Baroness Stowell, was appointed as leader of the House of Lords, Britains upper chamber, and so will also have a seat in cabinet.

The reshuffle is being seen as preparation for the general election in May, and is also setting a new tone for Britains relations with Europe.

While Hague was reportedly well liked among his European counterparts and was committed to remaining in the European Union, his replacement, Hammond, last year said if the bloc did not reform he would be in favour of a British exit.

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Update: Conservative MP Greg Clark will replace David Willettsas minister for universities and science.

UK universities and science minister David Willetts resigned from his role on 14 July as part of a cabinet reshuffle.

A replacement has yet to be announced for the popular minister known as two brains because of his reputed intellectual abilities who has served in the role since 2010. Willetts is reported to also be standing down as member of parliament for Havant at the coming election.

Leading voices from the UK scientific community were quick to praise Willetts.

David Willetts is one of the UKs sharpest and most talented politicians; weve been extraordinarily privileged to have him as the UKs science minister for the past four years, said Imran Khan, chief executive of the British Science Association and former director of the Campaign for Science and Engineering, in a statement.

We in the science sector like to moan about there not being enough scientists in Parliament, but it was obvious from early on that Willetts despite not having had much to do with science previously developed a genuine passion for the subject. Youd be hard-pressed to find many in our sector who have a bad word to say about him, he added.

Under his watch, science received a static 4.6-billion (US$7.9 billion) budget in 2010s austere spending review, seen as such a good settlement at the time that it earned the new minister a bouquet of white lilies and roses from one awaiting journalist.

In-depth knowledge of his brief and advocacy for science mean Willetts has remained popular throughout his term. This is despite a rising clamour around the impact of the flat cash budget which inflation is set to erode by an estimated 1 billion by the end of 201516 as well as the instability caused by slashing and rebuilding piecemeal of infrastructure spending.

The president of the Royal Society, Paul Nurse, said in a statement that Willetts had been an outstanding science minister, respected not only in the UK but throughout the world.

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