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Man gets 49 years for role in drive by shooting
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 19-year-old Justin Lewis of Ferguson was convicted last month of second-degree murder. He was sentenced Friday in the 2010 death of 18-year-old Dorione Thomas of Florissant.
Thomas was shot to death while parked with his girlfriend in Kinloch. Police say it was a case of mistaken identity because Thomas' identical twin was the one actually being targeted in a gang feud.
Lewis was the driver of the vehicle used in the shooting. The shooter, Kevin McDavis, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in 2011 and is serving life in prison.
UPDATE: 3 dead in shooting at Marine Base Quantico
The suspected shooter, a male Marine, was killed from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound when authorities found his body inside a barracks building near the Officer Candidate School early this morning, Lt. Agustin Solivan told ABC News.
Authorities found a second victim dead in the Officer Candidate School, Solivan said. The gender of that Marine was not given.
The gunfire started at 11 p.m. Thursday when the suspected gunman killed a male Marine, Solivan said. The suspect barricaded himself inside a barracks building near the east side of the base near the Officer Candidate School, setting off a standoff with authorities.
The base had been put on lockdown but it has since been lifted.
"Marine Corps Base Quantico is Code Green at this time. All normal activities are cleared to resume," Quantico said on Twitter.
No further information on the victims have been released.
Suspect in custody after shooting, chase, in North County
The suspect allegedly shot someone just before 1PM at 314 Hair Gallery on West Florissant. Witnesses told police that suspect ran out of the salon and got into his car. He then led police on a chase that found its way into North St. Louis. That is when the suspect got out of the car and tried to run away, but officers caught him.
No word on the condition of the shooting victim.
U.S Troops Killed by Gunman in Afghan Uniform in Latest Setback
The shooting took place while the troops were visiting the facility to help train the Afghans, a key part of the U.S. handover strategy before combat troops leave in 2014. According to coalition officials, the shooting also left several wounded.
A joint U.S.-Afghan team is investigating the shooting.
This latest insider attack in Wardak, a restive province in the country's east, comes one day after a deadline set by Afghan President Hamid Karzai for all U.S. Special Forces to leave the province. Karzai set the deadline two weeks ago, after accusing Afghans who work for U.S. Special Forces of harassing, torturing and murdering innocent civilians.
The attack also comes just a day after new U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel's trip to Afghanistan, one marred by controversy.
Osama bin Laden's Son-in-Law Pleads Not Guilty in NYC Court Watch Video On Saturday, a suicide bomber on a bicycle struck just outside the Afghan Ministry of Defense, one of the most heavily fortified buildings in the country. At least nine Afghan civilians were killed. Though Hagel was in a meeting at a coalition military base at the time and never in any danger, nearby bases were put into lockdown, and reporters travelling with Hagel's press pool were ushered into a safe room in the basement of the base they were on.
Then on Sunday, Karzai implied the Taliban were serving U.S. interests by creating instability in Afghanistan. The inflammatory comments were made during a nationally televised speech.
Referring to recent insurgent attacks, including the one outside the Ministry of Defense, Karzai said the attacks were "not aimed at showing their strength to the USA, but to serve the USA.
"In fact, yesterday's bombings in the name of the Taliban were aimed at serving the foreigners and supporting the presence of the foreigners in Afghanistan and keeping them in Afghanistan, by intimidating us," Karzai said.
The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Joseph Dunford, quickly rejected the comments, calling them "categorically false."
"We have fought too hard over the past 12 years, we have shed too much blood over the last 12 years, to ever think that violence or instability would be to our advantage," Dunford said.
Later that evening, Hagel cancelled a scheduled joint press conference with Karzai. A spokesperson cited security concerns, though a Karzai spokesperson said it was due to "scheduling pressures." The two still held a private dinner meeting with Dunford in attendance, but the cancellation of the joint press conference was widely seen as a snub to Karzai in response to his inflammatory remarks.
Violent weekend on Laclede's Landing
St. Louis Police were called to the landing about 3 a.m. Saturday after man was shot in the arm following a fight in the 600 block of North Second Street.
Then, just before 2 a.m. on Sunday, a metro-east man was stabbed to death in the 100 block of Laclede's Landing Boulevard. Police identified the victim as 28 year old Kyle Roberts of the 1200 block of Old Ripley Road near Sorento, Illinois.
Investigators say Roberts was killed after a heated exchange with another man. They're still looking for that man, but a suspect is in custody in the Saturday shooting.
Three sought in fatal shooting outside U City club
The victim, 20 year old Preston Freeman was a north county native who'd been living and training in Salinas, California.
Police say Freeman had been involved in an altercation inside the Escalade Bar and Grill in the 7800 block of Olive before it spilled onto the parking lot. Investigators say Freeman was shot in the chest during a hail of gunfire. His friends drove him to the hospital where he later died.
Three black men were seen fleeing in a maroon Chevy Impala East on Olive. Anyone with information is urged to call University City police at 314-725-2211 ext. 8010 or Crime Stoppers at 866-371-TIPS.
Police ID victims in Tuesday's south St. Louis shooting
St. Louis police say 37-year-old Terence Anderson had been returning house keys to his ex-girlfriend 32-year-old Nichole Haynes around one o'clock Tuesday afternoon in the 4600 block of Tennessee. Police say the two had just broken off their relationship and allegedly began arguing. By the time police arrived at the home, the woman was dead--shot and killed on her front porch. The man's 15-year-old daughter was shot but is expected to survive.
Anderson fled but Chief Sam Dotson says officers caught up with him and cornered him on a one-way street on the other side of town.
"As he began to back up, the suspect pointed a gun out the rearview, out of the rear window of the vehicle. And at that time, the officers that were following the vehicle exited their vehicle and took offensive positions. And fearing that the individual was about to shoot at them, began firing at that suspect."
Anderson was shot and killed by two officers who have been on the force four years.
UPDATE: Police shoot and kill suspect in South St. Louis shooting
Police say they have shot and killed the suspected shooter. Officer caught up to the suspect in the 4100 block of Turner. During a chase, one officer shot and killed the suspect. EARLIER:
A suspect is on the loose after shooting a woman and her teenage daughter Tuesday afternoon.
The shooting happened around 1 PM at a home in the 4600 block of Tennessee Ave. A mother and here daughter were rushed to the hospital. The mother was pronounced dead, but the daughter is in stable condition and expected to survive.
SWAT teams were called to the home and they surrounded the residence. Police believed the suspect was in the house, but a search revealed he had fled the house.
This is a fluid situation and we will update you as we have more information.
Children walking to school find body in East St. Louis
Children on their way to school this morning in East St. Louis made a gruesome discovery: a dead body laying in an open field. East St. Louis Police say the 52-year-old male victim was found shot to death around 7am near North 28th Street and Ohio Avenue.
The victim was reported missing by his family. Police are not releasing his identity but are treating the man's death as a homicide.
Two STL police officers and suspect shot in Baden confrontation Wednesday night
Police say a man at the home fired shots at the officers without warning.
The officers returned fire, striking the suspect several times. He's in critical condition at St. Louis University Hospital.
Both officers were taken to Barnes Hospital. A 31 year old female officer was shot in the foot. A 26 year old male officer was shot in the back. Both are expected to recover.
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November 2, 2010
Customer: Star Union Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company Limited (SUD Life)
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Since its inception in February 2009, SUD Life has focused on technology innovation to achieve better operational efficiency and in turn serve its customers more efficiently. Therefore the company outsourced the IT functionality of the core insurance product LIFE/Asia to CSC. LIFE/Asia is responsible for the individual life insurance business for SUD Life. Simultaneously, the IT team also started conceptualizing other systems required for business support, one of them was the Group Life Insurance policy administration system.
SUD Life launched Group Life Insurance products for its corporate customers. The organization required a flexible, cost effective software solution for Group Policy Management. There were a few challenges in building the system for group products. Group products are different from individual products, and hence cannot be maintained on an individual policy administrative system like LIFE/Asia. Secondly, each group product is different in structure and operation to the other in parameters such as Group Term, Group Gratuity, and Group Superannuation amongst others. "The group policy business may not be as large as the individual policy business, but to build an automated system for it is equally complex due to different product structure, variety of policy options and possibility of adding newer offerings at regular intervals," said Harnath Babu, head IT, SUD Life.
In the beginning, the group insurance policy administration was being done using Microsoft Excel, which turned out to be increasingly inefficient as the business grew. "There was a serious need for policy servicing, maintenance, reporting and calculation automation," said Harnath. Thus the IT team decided to implement a complete Group Policy Management system encompassing complete lifecycle of a group policy including; Quotation, New Business, Policy Servicing, Renewal, Member administration, Premium Calculation, Refund and Claims. A critical requirement was that the application required flexibility to implement a variety of group products, and also so the application would have the capability to integrate with its business intelligence, reporting, accounting and investment applications.
With these requirements, the IT team of the organization started evaluating different options for implementing the Group Policy system.
"We ruled out the proprietary products available in the market for a couple of reasons," said Harnath. "One was that it was exorbitantly high priced, close to INR 50 millions, because of its specific hardware needs," he added. The second reason was the fact that few of the available products in the market were CUI based and not web-based. "We wanted flexibility in the platform in order to modify it per business requirements in addition to adding newer modules to it at a regular interval," said Harnath. With a lack of an off-the-shelf web-based group policy system in the Indian market, the organization decided to build the system from the ground up, within a phased approach to keep adding and enhancing the feature-set. "Our team needed to have complete control of not only the domain, but also the requisite technology management skills to execute this ambitious initiative," said Harnath.
SUD Life chose Arion Systems, a Red Hat partner in India, to design and develop the entire Group Policy Management system. In consultation with Arion Systems, SUD Life designed a comprehensive roadmap to build the system using an open sourceJ2EE software infrastructure. "We ruled out competitive platform due to scalability and performance issues that we had encountered with it in the past," said Harnath. SUD Life wanted a system that would enable a user-friendly browser-based interface, and would also reuse its existing software and hardware infrastructure. The next logical step was to choose an appropriate middleware platform which is the most critical component in any web based system. "Because the application would be hosted as an enterprise application, we decided to deploy it on an application server instead of web server," said Harnath. SUD Life's IT team began to evaluate the appropriate application server that could fulfill its enterprise needs.
With the parameters such as reliability, scalability, cost, performance, manageability and flexibility, SUD Life's IT team chose Red Hat as its trusted technology partner and decided to build its middleware infrastructure solution based on Red Hat's JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. JBoss Enterprise Application Platform was an ideal fit as it not only met these criteria, but also allowed SUD Life to take advantage of the rapid innovation from the open source community and avoid proprietary vendor lock-in.
"Implementation of the Group Policy Management Application based on JBoss Enterprise Application Platform was one of the key milestones in our IT deployments as it was the first time SUD Life was implementing an open source solution," said Harnath. The POC done using JBoss Enterprise Application Platform was highly successful, raising the confidence of the IT team to choose it as its middleware solution. Red Hat's subscription model also provided SUD Life with a predictable total cost of ownership (TCO), while also ensuring that SUD Life was able to derive continuous value even after initial rollouts.
The system was designed and developed in a just three months. "The system is web-based, and its user-friendly interface has minimized the time required for application training to operations users to just about a week," said Sandip Chintawar, chief executive officer, Arion Systems. The system is also parameterized to easily configure new products. "The system is flexible enough for us to design new group insurance products, add them in the system and deploy them within just one month," said Chintawar. JBoss Enterprise Application Platform's flexible and scalable architecture helps the IT team in this regard tremendously. "With the JBoss platform providing services like clustering, failover, and load balancing, my IT team has more time for other high priority tasks," said Chintawar.
Along with the Java programming language and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, the system uses SQL Server database and Microsoft Windows. Currently, the system is used by the in-house data entry users and certain employees of the two banks in the joint-venture who download the insurance certificate for issue. To date, the system has a database of approximately 18,000 group policies/lives. "We expect it to grow it to about 50,000 in a couple of months," said Chintawar. Currently, the system is handling various types of group policies such as Group Mortgage Reducing Term Assurance (MRTA), Group Savings Linked Insurance (GSLI), and Reverse Mortgage Linked Annuity (RMLA) amongst others. "The system is performing excellently with no unplanned downtime to date."
In the future, SUD Life is planning to build a Group Portal on JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform in order to provide login access to the policy holders who, in turn, are the end users. "We want to implement basic business rules capabilities in the portal by designing a rule- based engine," said Chintawar. Currently, the rules are entered and modified at a database level. "We would evaluate JBoss Rules Framework for this purpose," he added. SUD Life is also planning to build its intranet portal on JBoss Portal Platform and e-Procurement system on JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. "Knowing that JBoss platforms run optimally on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, we are also actively looking at migrating the underlying Microsoft Windows operating system to Red Hat Enterprise Linux for the Group Policy system," said Harnath.
"With JBoss Enterprise Middleware, we were able to reduce the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of the Group Policy Management Application significantly," said Harnath. "Through the use of Red Hat's open source technologies and the implementation of open standards, we have achieved nearly 70 percent savings in costs as well as greater operational efficiencies compared to traditional approaches," he added. The Java based solution running on JBoss Enterprise Middleware also freed SUD Life from proprietary vendor lock-in, and enabled the organization to choose commodity hardware platforms that delivered flexibility and high performance.
The solution further provided SUD Life with simplified management, reduced systems maintenance, and increased scalability and performance. The system was designed and developed in rapidly, which has helped the organization in its aggressive go-to-market strategy.
The JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, in particular, and the overall system in general is flexible enough where small changes can be accommodated quickly. "It also helps us to introduce new offerings with the confidence that the product can be quickly deployed within the system," said Harnath. A good example was the introduction of unique RMLA policy by SUD Life, which became a market success.
Overall, Red Hat and its partner Arion Systems provided SUD Life with enterprise-class solutions at an affordable price and increased scalability and performance. "The solution has not only reduced costs, but has also made our business agile enabling it to react quickly to the changing business needs giving us a competitive edge," said Harnath.
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This morning, The Atlantic featured a piece by PRRI's CEO Dr. Robert P. Jones, The South's Stunning Embrace of Gay Marriage. Amid "the remarkable bevy of judicial decisions overturning bans on same-sex marriage in southern states such as Virginia, Kentucky, and Texas" recently, Jones points to PRRI's LGBT survey, A Shifting Landscape: A Decade of Change in American Attitudes about Same-Sex Marriage and LGBT Issues.
For Your Viewing Pleasure: Video of PRRI's Survey Release Event for A Shifting Landscape: A Decade of Change in American Attitudes about Same-sex Marriage and LGBT Issues
On Wednesday, February 26, 2014, despite yet another snowy day in Washington DC, PRRI released its newest survey, A Shifting Landscape: A Decade of Change in American Attitudes about Same-sex Marriage and LGBT Issues, at the Kaiser Family Foundation. Watch the video now to see PRRI's CEO Dr. Robert P. Jones present the findings, followed by comments about the survey by panelists Dr. Jennifer Kates of the Kaiser Family Foundation, Jonathan Capehart of the Washington Post and MSNBC, and Dr. Clyde Wilcox of Georgetown University. The event concludes with a stimulating audience Q&A. To read the complete survey, click here.
American Support for LGBT Employment Protections
The U.S. Senate's passage last year of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), a bill to ban workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, brought national attention to the issue of job protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Americans. Interestingly, PRRI's latest survey finds that even after the well-publicized vote, most Americans remain unaware that such employment protections don't currently exist.
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Overview : With free entry to most sights, places reserved for pushchairs on most public transport and children's menus in just about every... more »
Tips: The sun can be surprisingly fierce in summer so take plenty of sunscreen and hats - especially for the little ones.
The ideal place to start a tour of the city which was home to fable - and fabled! - author Hans Christian Andersen, is Tivoli Gardens.
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Something the media should keep in mind before glorifying any person. And for every champion to realize when s/he kisses her/his trophy.
KEVIN PIETERSEN is as close to a cricketing genius as England have had since David Gower. Many batsmen are beautiful to watch. Many more are brutally effective. But few have Messrs Pietersen and Gower's ability to look effortless against the toughest of bowling attacks. Such batsmen can also make spectators blink their eyes and wonder: "Did I really just see that?" Witness Mr Pietersen's "flamingo shot"—an imperious, one-legged whip through midwicket, or his "switch hit", in which he spins round while the ball is in flight, to turn himself into a left-handed batsmen.
Kevin Pietersen is breathtaking. Yet the adjective people tend to add to his genius is "flawed". In short, the trouble with "KP" is that he is well aware that he is special. This makes him a difficult character to work with.
He has 21 Test centuries to his name. This is impressive—it is just one behind England's all-time record held jointly by Geoffrey Boycott, Colin Cowdrey and Wally Hammond. But it is fewer than he ought to have. He has a habit of getting out in the 90s, often because he is trying to reach three figures with some outrageous shot. Indeed, he is often accused of playing for himself, rather than the team—showing off at times when the team needs solidity.
KP has a standard response to his critics: "This is the way I am". To which he does not need to add the implied: "take it or leave it". On August 14th, England's selectors finally decided to leave it, dropping him from the squad to face South Africa two days later at Lord's—the final match in a series that will decide which of the two is the top-ranked side in the world.
Patience snapped after what has been a tempestuous summer for the batsman. It started with a fine, following a Twitter rant against Nick Knight, a television commentator and former England batsman, who had criticised him. Soon after, he announced his retirement from one-day internationals. As the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), to which the top players are contracted, does not allow players to pick and choose which limited-overs formats they play, this also disqualified him from Twenty20 cricket. The timing was unfortunate. At 32 years of age, he is at the peak of his powers. What is more, the Twenty20 World Cup is being held later this year, a tournament in which England are defending champions thanks, to a large extent, to Kevin Pietersen.
Last week, on the back of a spine-tingling century against a South African team that boasts the best bowling attack in the world, he hinted that he might retire from Test cricket too. Yet, just a few days later, he recorded a YouTube video saying he had reconsidered, and was now prepared to play for England in all forms of the game.
Almost immediately, another row enveloped him. He was accused of sending disparaging text messages about England's captain and coach to chums in the South African side. When Mr Pietersen missed a deadline to answer the allegation, the ECB dropped him. The South African dressing room dismissed the texts as banter. But you can be sure that they are mighty pleased that the leaking of the texts has caused the furore it has. Their chances of winning the final Test have, at a fell swoop, been greatly enhanced.
England is fond of putting its success down, in part, to what it calls "the bubble" in the dressing room: a hermetically sealed environment from where personality clashes and politics do not leak to the wider world. Yet, it now seems clear that all was not rosy. Mr Pietersen was particularly upset that some of his teammates were following a mock Twitter feed called "KP Genius" which poked fun at his self-regarding persona and propensity to refer to himself in the third person (one typical tweet read: "Note to ex-pros. Make sure you're better than KP before you have a pop. Which means unless you're Don Bradman, keep your mouth shut").
Yet, for all the problems that he brings, England surely cannot afford to discard such a talent lightly. Having had the worse of the series so far, England must now win the final Test to hold onto their status as the world's best team. Yet they will do so without their talisman, just about the only batsman in the side, alongside Alastair Cook, who looks able to tame the ferocious South African attack. Having spent decades trying to reach number one, they seem determined to make it as hard as possible to stay there.
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Nobody is indispensable, unbeatable or invincible.
Something the media should keep in mind before glorifying any person. And for every champion to realize when s/he kisses her/his trophy.
Never fight City Hall ! It's like that whether you are in Moscow or London.
Is the subtext of the SMS scandal KP's loyalty? The article doesn't mention it, but he is South African (originally).
Leaving Kevin Pietersen out of the Lords test is just absurd. Clearly, (and perhaps understandably) the English Cricket Board wants to create a precedence regarding maintaining protocol and discipline within the squad, but their timing couldn't be worse. The South Africans are surely loving it.
Bring back KP Genius! It was the funniest thing on Twitter. As for the man himself... What a knob... Having the piss taken out of you at some level in England is a compliment and sign of affection.
Given that he moved countries early in his career it is hardly surprising that he sees himself as a bat for hire. I'm not his biggest fan but at the same time I am unable to condemn him for this.
For years the English Cricket hierarchy blithely watched as numerous South Africans and Australians flooded into county cricket, retarding the development of young English cricketers, and even, dare I see it, somewhat diluting the "England" brand. It sounds rather sanctimonious to now be condemning the most famous of the "kolpak" players, just because he happens to see better opportunites elsewhere.
To be fair to him he is British by descent through his mother so his growing up in SA is irrelevant as he has held a British passport from birth like any other "pure" brit.
I think the adjective applied to his genius is far more derogatory than just flawed
This article is not fair to England. Had they not dropped him it would have destroyed any credibility of fair treatment of players. He got himself into this hole with his ego, it's up to him to dig himself out.
The South Africans will be doubly happy. Firstly they won't have to bowl at Pietersen (though if he had reverted to his recent, pre- Edgbaston, form he'd have made a scratchy 30 or 40 before giving his wicket away with a silly shot) Secondly their management will be able to nod their heads sagely and say "We always knew he was more trouble than he's worth".
I'm surprised the above article doesn't directly mention the point which has contributed hugely to KP's Marmite-like image amongst the England support- his South African origins. He was briefly part of the SA youth set up before walking out (or being shoved out- it was never quite clear to outsiders which) amid claims of racial discrimination against young white players. He came to England and opted to play for their national side on the strength of an English mother (I think)- which meant he didn't have to serve a lengthy residential qualification. From the moment he was first selected (against Australia in 2005) there's been a section of the England support who regard him as a Saffer with no real loyalty to England playing under a flag of convenience. The role of tweets to members of the SA squad in the latest mess will simply confirm those who've always had reservations about where KP's real loyalties lie in their negative view.
I think this is a case where the old sporting cliche of no player being bigger than the team comes into play. It's clear that KP, fine player though he is at his best, is a difficult character with a habit of opening his mouth or setting his texting finger in motion without engaging his brain. He appears to be a divisive figure in the team (it looks as if there may be even more to the "KP Genius" twitter affair than first appeared; the man who has admitted responsibility for that turns out to be a personal friend of another England player, Stuart Broad) and I suspect he has finally worn out the patience of key figures in the England hierarchy on and off the field. In some ways it's very sad- I can't help thinking that with a bit of common sense all round the initial issue around availability for one day games ought to have been resolvable- but in the end , as an England supporter, I'd rather take the hit now even if we lose the current series than face the prospect of repeated tensions and factionalism in the squad poisoning things for years to come. No doubt others will have different views.
Your background on how he ended up in England is reasonably accurate except there is little evidence that his talent shone through here prior to his leaving. Many white players have made the team since his emigration so his accusations are probably overdone. I was surprised that he had much of a relationship with the SA team members, he is universally loathed in South Africa by players and fans alike for having not just ditched this country but foreswearing it so publically. Plus his fake English accent is nauseating.
Sorry, in case it's not clear by "here" I mean in South Africa
I was rather surprised that KP was on such chatty terms with members of the SA team too, given the history. I seem to recall that he was still trying to make it as a spin bowler when he had his run ins with the SA authorities- his batting does genuinely seem to have developed in England.
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4. Rickey Scott awoke from his slump to lead Arkansas past Louisiana Tech 77-63.
5. The SEC's scheduling issues are wearing on Arkansas AD Jeff Long.
6. With a road victory at North Texas last night, LSU has run its win streak to six games.
7. The Tiger football team weathered off-field drama this year thanks to its "unity council."
8. Arnett Moultrie — a transfer from UTEP — registered his seventh double-double of the season as Mississippi State downed Northwestern State 82-67 last night.
9. That's 11 wins in a row for the 12-1 Bulldogs.
10. Ole Miss forward Murphy Holloway is dealing with a high ankle sprain, not a break.
11. Hugh Freeze will be taking a page out of Ed Orgeron's recruiting book in Oxford. (Hopefully that doesn't mean a 50% wash-out rate.)
12. Florida routed Florida State 82-64 last night thanks to the Gators' defense.
13. It looks like six true sophomores will start for UF in the Gator Bowl.
14. Former Georgia tailback Jasper Sanks can relate to Isaiah Crowell and he hopes he can bounce back from a rough season off the field.
15. Mark Fox's basketball team will be looking or its third win in a row when the Dawgs host Furman tonight.
16. Freshman Kyle Wiltjer led a slow-to-wake Kentucky team to an 87-63 win over Loyola (MD) yesterday.
17. This writer believes Michael Kidd-Gilchrist has been UK's pre-Christmas MVP.
18. As South Carolina wraps up the pre-Christmas portion of bowl practice, the Cocks got word that safety DJ Swearinger will return for his senior season.
19. Left tackle Kyle Nunn might be healthy enough to play in the Capital One Bowl… but if he does he won't be eligible for a medical hardship waiver.
20. Five-star forward Jarnell Stokes — who committed to Tennessee yesterday — could start playing for the Vols next month if cleared by the NCAA.
21. Cuonzo Martin wants his current Volunteers to handle ETSU's "funky" zone tonight.
22. Meanwhile, a UCLA commit made national news yesterday when he said ex-UT coach Bruce Pearl sent a beautiful "groupie" to recruit him to Knoxville.
23. A pair of Vandy football players will feel right at home at next week's Liberty Bowl.
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A small group of landowners has proposed developing a resort and marine center along Tampa Bay at the southern end of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. As proposed, the development would be hinged on a land swap with the state. Some environmentalists worry that building would be harmful to the area's ecology.
Owners of the private land want to give the state just shy of 1,000 acres. In return they are asking the state to hand over only 77 acres. And the tract of land on the table for the state's taking is one they've wanted for a while. But the Sierra Club's Sandra Ripberger cautioned that giving developers what they need to build might damage the fragile marine habitat.
"Terra Ceia is one of the preserves that has been set aside for, not only the sea grass, but for the habitat, the fisheries. I understand there's – I've eaten clams from Terra Ceia. There's a clam-farming facility. The water is quite clean and it's doubtful that it would remain so. Certainly the construction would cause a lot of turbulence that would probably impact sea grass away from the fill area also.â€
There's a reason the landowners are offering more acres than they would be getting. They own the Knott-Cowen Tract and Rattlesnake Key, which can only be reached by boat, while the acreage they're asking for is more accessible. Honey Rand is the spokesperson for the owners. She said they want the swap to protect the area's ecosystem.
"The Knott-Cowen has rights associated with it and it can be built on. Rattlesnake Key can be built. The project that they've developed at this point would be magnificent and it would be located in the most disturbed area, but it's just that it would be a much different looking project if it was located strictly on the Knott-Cowen tract and/or on Rattlesnake Key.â€
Rand calls the area disturbed because it was impacted by construction of the Skyway Bridge. She claims that harming sea grass isn't an issue because there isn't much there anyway. But Sandra Ripberger from the Sierra Club doesn't buy that entire argument.
"It is disturbed because they built the Skyway Bridge there, but it hasn't been disturbed for a while and some of the sea grass definitely has re-grown and some has been planted as mitigation in some of those areas.â€
One of the landowners, Brightman Logan, also owns a native plant nursery. Other owners include Tampa land use attorney David Smolker and businessman Bill Blanchard. Their spokesperson Rand said none of them want to see harm done to the bay.
"Most of the people who have invested in this – these guys are fisherman, their outdoorsmen and women and these are people who grew up here, who love Florida's environment. That's how the whole concept of moving to the most disturbed area camp up.â€
And the Sierra Club's Sandra Ripberger isn't just concerned about the development's environmental impacts. She's also worried about the environment's eventual impacts on the development.
"This is an area of rising sea levels and there's no doubt about that. There's argument about the cause, but the sea levels are rising and this is a coastal high-hazard area. It just seems very unwise to put structures there at this point.â€
Despite concerns, the Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council is interested in taking a look at the proposal. Suzanne Cooper is the principal planner for the group's Agency on Bay Management.
"The developers, or proposed developers, of the Terra Ceia area project had been asked to come and present their project to the Agency on Bay Management which is Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council's natural resources committee and they have declined so far because they say that they are not yet ready to go out into the public with their development proposal – they're still refining it and figuring out what to do on the site and with the land swap.â€
In their original and only proposal to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection last year, owners called the development the Skyway Resort. But there have been changes to the plan, including the name. Now they're calling it the Skyway Preserve. Their spokesperson Honey Rand said changes like that are why the project is at a stand still for now.
"The owners were ready to go start talking to people about it. I had a whole list of groups and clubs and interested parties and others that we were going to go talk to and say 'hey, what do you think about this?' It was supposed to happen about mid-January. And there was one of those charrettes, remember I told you? They go in and they talk to all these experts. They went to a charette with a world renowned expert in developing marine type facilities and I got a phone call from somebody that said, 'don't go out with that, we have a better plan.' Which is exactly what's happened over the last five years.â€
The plan also includes a marine mammal teaching hospital. Critics say the Clearwater Marine Aquarium and the Mote Marine Aquarium in Sarasota are enough to support those needs in this region. But in a letter to the Tampa Bay Times in response to an editorial that criticized his group's plans, Bill Blanchard said there's a lack of marine mammal rescue centers. He also called the land swap a "good deal for everyone†and wrote that the project would be both economically viable and environmentally sustainable.


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About Maria Francisca Isabel Josefa Antónia Gertrudes Rita Joana de Bragança, Rainha de Portugal, Brasil e Algarves
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Maria Francisca Isabel Josefa Antónia Gertrudes Rita Joana
Maria I (December 17, 1734 – March 20, 1816) was Queen regnant of Portugal and the Algarves from 1777 until her death. Known as Maria the Pious (in Portugal), or Maria the Mad (in Brazil), she was the first undisputed Queen regnant of Portugal. She was the eldest of the four daughters of Joseph I of Portugal and Mariana Victoria of Spain.
When her father, Joseph I, succeeded to the throne in 1750, Maria was declared his heiress and given the traditional title of Princess of Brazil, though not Duchess of Braganza.
Maria would grow up in a time when her fathers government and country was governed completely by the famous Marquis of Pombal. Her father would often retire to the Queluz National Palace which was later given to Maria and her husband. The Marquess took control of the government after the terrible 1755 Lisbon earthquake of November 1, 1755, in which around 100,000 people lost their lives; the palace of her birth was also destroyed in the disaster.
After the earthquake, her father was often uncomfortable at the thought of staying in enclosed spaces and later had claustrophobia. The king later had a palace built in Ajuda, away from the city centre. This palace became known as Real Barraca de Ajuda (Royal Hut of Ajuda) because it was made of wood. The family would spend much time at the large palace and it was the birthplace of Maria's first child. In 1794 the palace burned to the ground and Ajuda National Palace was built in its place.
Marriage and Descendants
Infanta Maria married her uncle, Infante Peter of Portugal (July 5, 1717-May 25, 1786), who automatically became co-monarch as Peter III of Portugal when she was crowned Queen regnant, because a child had already been born from their marriage. The marriage took place on June 6, 1760 when the bride was 25 and the groom was 43. The couple, though very different agewise, would have a very happy marriage. In all they had some 6 children:
Infante José Francisco Xavier de Paula Domingos António Agostinho Anastácio of Portugal (August 20, 1761-September 11, 1788), Prince of Beira (1761-1777) and Prince of Brazil (1777-1788). Married his aunt Infanta Benedita of Portugal, Infanta of Portugal, but had no issue.
Infante João Francisco of Portugal (September 16, 1763 - October 10, 1763).
Infanta Maria Isabel of Portugal (December 23, 1766 - January 14, 1777).
Infante João Maria José Francisco Xavier de Paula Luís António Domingos Rafael of Portugal (May 13, 1767 - March 26, 1826), Prince of Brazil from 1788 until he succeeded Maria as the 27th (or 28th according to some historians) King of Portugal.
Infanta Mariana Vitória Josefa Francisca Xavier de Paula Antonieta Joana Domingas Gabriela de Bragança of Portugal (December 15, 1768 - November 2, 1788). Married Gabriel, infant of Spain, son of Charles III.
Infanta Maria Clementina Francisca Xavier de Paula Ana Josefa Antónia Domingas Feliciana Joana Michaela Julia of Portugal (June 9, 1774 - June 27, 1776).
Queen Regnant of Portugal
In 1777, she became the first undisputed Queen regnant of Portugal, and the Algarves, and the 26th (or 27th according to some historians) Portuguese monarch. Her husband became her co-ruler as Peter III. Despite the couple being co-rulers, the power was always to remain with Maria who was a good ruler prior to her madness.
Her first act as queen was to dismiss the popular prime minister, the Marquis of Pombal, who had broken the power of the reactionary aristocracy via the Tavora affair, partially because of Pombal's Enlightenment, anti-Jesuit policies. Noteworthy events of this period were Portugal's membership of the League of Armed Neutrality (July 1782) and the 1781 cession of Delagoa Bay from Austria to Portugal.
Queen Maria suffered from religious mania and melancholia. This acute mental illness (perhaps due to porphyria, which also may have tainted George III of the United Kingdom) made her incapable of handling state affairs after 1792.
Her madness was first officially noticed in 1786 when Maria had to be carried back to her apartments in a state of delirium. The queen's mental state became increasingly worse. The year of 1786 saw her husband lose his life in May. Maria was devastated and forbade any court entertainments and according to a contemporary, the state festivities resembled religious ceremonies. Her state worsened after the death of her eldest son, aged 27, from smallpox, and of her confessor, in 1791. After the end of 1791, her mental state seemed to be turning to even worse. In February 1792, she was deemed as mentally insane and was treated by Francis Willis, the same physician who attended George III of the United Kingdom. Willis wanted to take her to England, but that was refused by the Portuguese court. The young prince John took over the government in her name, even though he only took the title of Prince Regent in 1799. When the Real Barraca de Ajuda burnt down in 1794, the court was forced to move to Queluz where the ill queen would lie in her apartments all day and visitors would complain of terrible screams that would echo throughout the palace.
Napoleonic Wars
In 1801 the Spanish dictator Manuel de Godoy invaded Portugal with backing from Napoleon, but was forced to abandon the campaign in the same year. However the Treaty of Badajoz on June 6, 1801 forced Portugal to cede Olivenza and part of Guyana to Spain.
The refusal of the Portuguese government to join the Continental Blockade of Britain culminated in the 1807 Franco-Spanish invasion led by General Junot. The General was appointed governor of Portugal pending Napoleon's decision on its ultimate fate.
At the urging of the British government, on 29 November 1807, the entire Braganza dynasty decided to flee to Brazil to establish a Cortes-in-exile, in the Kingdom of Brazil. Along with the Royal Family, she was transported aboard the nau Príncipe Real; during her move from the Royal palace to the docks she was heard screaming throughout the trip, in the middle of the crow and in the carriage. The Queen's dementia was so great that she feared that she was going to be tortured and/or robbed, during her movement by her loyal servants.
In January 1808, Prince John and his court arrived in Salvador, where he signed a commercial regulation that opened commerce between Brazil and friendly nations, which in this case represented England. This important law broke the colonial pact that, until then, only allowed Brazil to maintain direct commercial relations with Portugal.
On August 1, 1808, the British General Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington) landed a British army in Lisbon and thus initiated the Peninsular War. Wellesley's initial victory over Junot at Vimeiro (August 21, 1808) was wiped out by his superiors in the Convention of Cintra (August 30, 1808). Nevertheless, Wellesley (now Lord Wellington) returned to Portugal on April 22, 1809 to recommence the campaign. Portuguese forces under British command distinguished themselves in the defence of the lines of Torres Vedras (1809-1810) and in the subsequent invasion of Spain and France.
In 1815, the regency government elevated Brazil to the status of a kingdom, and Maria I was proclaimed the Queen of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves. When Napoleon was finally defeated in 1815, Maria and her family remained in Brazil.
Incapacitated, she lived in Brazil nine years, always in a unhappy state; the Queen died at a Carmelite convent in Rio de Janeiro on 1816 at the age of 81 (the Prince Regent succeeded her as King John VI of Portugal and Brazil). Her body was returned to Lisbon, and interned in a mausoleum in the Church of Estrela (Portuguese: Igreja da Estrela), that she had helped found.
Later, a marble statue of the Queen was erected in National Library in Lisbon, by the students of Joaquim Machado de Castro, who directed the project.
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