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The love affair with ports comes from the expansion of the Panama Canal. In 2014, it will be able to accommodate the growing fleets of super-sized container ships from Asia. Right now, these monster ships unload on the Pacific coast. From there, the goods are put on trains and hauled across the country. The expansion will allow the big ships to come into the Caribbean.

Some will unload their cargo onto smaller ships that will go to ports in Latin America and the Gulf coast. Tampa should be a big winner. Some of the big ships will swing around Florida and continue traveling to ports along the East Coast. The problem is that they require 48 feet of water to float, whereas most ports are between 40 feet and 42 feet deep. This has states from Florida to New York scrambling for dredging projects to deepen their ports to get in on the action.

Among the Florida ports lining up for dredging are Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Jacksonville. Doing all of them would cost almost $1 billion. The selling point is that this would make Florida a regional transportation hub for Latin America and the Eastern United States. If only it were this easy. Stuck down in the far corner of the United States, Florida hardly is a central location for delivering goods across the East.

This is particularly true for Miami. Nor is Florida positioned to become a regional shipping hub for Latin America, given the intense competition from other ports in the Caribbean. This makes deepening all three Florida ports a highly speculative venture. Miami has taken the lead in getting its dredging project under way, but Jacksonville probably is better situated with a better rail network. You might think that would concern a governor so worried about building things that could burden taxpayers.

There also is a consistency problem here. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is in charge of dredging. But ports are not in the Corps budget. Putting them in the budget would require a congressional earmark.

Rick Scott is on the record as opposing congressional earmarks. Dredging also is only a small part of the cost of readying the ports. They would need docks, cranes, rail lines, roads, storage facilities, etc. All this would cost a few billion. And the feds cover these infrastructure costs.

And there is this: Right now, as part of an expansion at the Port of Tampa, a connector road is being built to dump trucks directly onto Interstate 4 from the port. As cargo traffic increases at the port, I-4 is going to get a lot more congested. you have high-speed rail, and move people onto rail system and get cars off road, that frees up space for says Richard Wainio, director of the Tampa Port Authority. tends to support the Has Scott considered the impact that expanding the Panama Canal will have on Florida roads? Investing in ports is worthwhile. Instead of paying dockworkers, rail workers, truck drivers and so on in California, Chicago and Atlanta to bring us our goods, we can pay Florida workers.

The energy use and carbon footprint of shipping goods through the canal is much smaller than shipping them across the country by rail. The problem is this requires investment and planning, not a convenient sound bite on CNN. or 407-420-5525 THOMAS Continuedfrom PageB1 The bottom line is this: Gonzalez, 23, will spend the rest of his years in prison for crimes the prosecution called and done out of rage after someone spilled beer at Pub near University of Central Florida. Gonzalez entered his pleas Monday just before his trial was about wrap up. If he had not pleaded guilty and the jury had found him guilty, he faced a potential death sentence.

The prosecution had overwhelming evidence against him: Several witnesses identified Gonzalez as shooter, while videotapes and recorded phone conversations of Gonzalez and others showed him arranging to have a hit man nicknamed take out the witnesses. It turned out that was an undercover Orange County deputy practiced in playing the role of a hired killer, and the case he helped put together cast Gonzalez as aone-time killer desperate enough to have others killed in order to save his own life. my understanding that general population is a whole lot better than death row, if going to be spending your time said Lubet, immediately before sentencing Gonzalez to life. Beyond his guilty pleas, Gonzalez also admitted Monday to mental- health symptoms, a tactic meant to put off his trial after the attempt to kill the witnesses failed. At the same time, he said Monday, sometimes get paranoid, and I sometimes get suicidal At the start of his trial last week, Gonzalez said he had suicidal thoughts.

But he also said he has always understood the charges against him and the roles of the attorneys and judge handling his case. Assistant State Attorney Jeff Ashton asked how he came up with the idea to feign mental illness. heard other inmates talking about Gonzalez said. exaggerated my mental- health symptoms so that I could go to the Gonzalez also said on the record that he understood he will not be able to claim later on, if he wants to appeal, that he was incompetent to enter his guilty pleas. mother, Becky Adair, spoke briefly during the sentencing, describing her son as an energetic child who loved all kinds of music and playing soccer.

miss Jamie so she said. sister, who cried through much of the proceeding Monday, stood up, turned to friends and family and apologized, saying Jamie Adair will not be forgotten. Afterward, Becky Adair said she felt relief. really a closure, I think. just a chapter closed, but my son will always be she said.

know to be learned that senseless. no reason for it. just no reason for The incident began inside the bar one night in late May 2006, when someone in group was bumped and spilled beer. An argument started. Gonzalez and his friends were thrown out of the bar.

But, Ashton and others told jurors, Gonzalez and his friends waited outside for Adair to leave. After some fighting outside, Gonzalez fired multiple shots, hitting one man running away and striking him in the shoulder, before turning on Adair. Witnesses testified last week that they saw Gonzalez fire on Adair after he had fallen to the ground. After the prosecution rested its case Friday, F. Wesley Blankner, attorney, said he discussed the plea with his client and the reality of his situation.

have a defense to this case, Blankner said. things being equal I said, are you taking this risk a potential death or 407-420-5447 PLEA Continuedfrom PageB1 Spanish and Haitian Creole. Menu items will include traditional soul-food fare such as fried chicken, oxtails and fish, along with Louisiana gumbo and Harlem-style chicken and waffles. also aiming for a few healthful menu items. food is much broader in scope than most people said Johnson Savage.

Orlando is much more diverse in 2011. Soul food is about the heart. simply home-style cooking from wherever you call home. It have racial Thomas Chatmon executive director of Downtown Development Board and Community Redevelopment Agency, calls embracing the diversity with bilingual servers a is a tossed-salad of the cultures. If you ignore that dimension of our city, you will miss a lot of he said.

The Savages, who live in Windermere, are former Lockheed Martin employees and co-founders of Walk by Faith Ministries in Ocoee. They opened the first Fish Loaves on West Colonial Drive in November 2008. That location will remain open. The couple were on a mission trip when they heard about closing and thought they would be too late to put in an offer on the building just west of the Amway Center when they returned from Kenya in November. They the only people interested.

were over 10 restaurant groups that toured the space, but it came down to two groups that were the best fit, and Fish Loaves was the final said Kane Morris-Webster of Colliers International, the leas- ing agent. Chatmon said the Savages a solid business reputation and were ready, willing and able to take advantage of the location Anticipating crowds during their opening week the Orlando Magic play the New York Knicks tonight, and the Chicago Bulls are here Friday Savages have contingency plans in place. distance between our restaurants is 2.6 said Earl Savage. can help the other if need And, he said, the Church Street restaurant can convert to buffet service in minutes. As for slow nights, the Savages are not betting their entire business survival on this one eatery.

have subcontracted to feed hundreds of construction workers at the Orlando International Airport through our catering said Earl Savage. there are more business opportunities in Just days before the opening, the Savages were admiring the new logos on the doors and entryway. Paint and a new decor have freshened up the spot familiar to many downtown residents and workers. just opening a new said Johnson Savage, an Orlando native. are opening a new chapter as community partners.

Our name is at the core of this mission. In the Bible, Jesus used two fish and five loaves of bread to feed the multitudes. And there were leftovers. We are already talking to the Urban League and other partners about how to get our leftovers to the children who are hungry and the elderly who are forgotten. more than food.

leading by example. being part of the future of downtown The new home has not been an overwhelming boon for all. the new place will bring more said Maria Radojkov- ic, owner of Paittini Pizzeria, which is on the same block as Fish Loaves. hard to get people to this side of town. We have some parking issues.

I wish the free bus that circles downtown could add three blocks of Church Street. But a new neighbor is good. Any growth helps or 407-420-5498. Read her blog at OrlandoSentinel.com/thedish and follow her at Twitter: EATERY Continuedfrom PageB1 Owners Sharon and Earl Savage, center, with general manager Everette Walcott, left, and chef TC Williams plan to open the doors at Fish Loaves on West Church Street in Orlando today. JACOB SENTINEL Fast facts What: Second location of Fish Loaves Where 595 W.

Church Suite Orlando (downtown in Cityview, one block west of Amway Center) When 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Monday-Saturday and noon-6 p.m. Sunday Call 407-841-8130 Online fishnloaves.com Product: OS44Broadsheet PubDate: 03-01-2011 Zone: FLA Edition: ROP Page: User: wojackson Time: Color:.