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M-D Comm. Experiencing Buyers Remorse On Stadium Reporting David Sutta MIAMI (CBS4) — As the new Florida Marlins stadium rises in Little Havana some county commissioners are having buyer’s remorse.

“It wasn’t a great deal; the financing was even worse,” Miami-Dade commissioner Carlos Gimenez said during Friday’s commission meeting.

The $600 million stadium will cost county and city budgets more than a billion dollars when all the interest is paid off. The Marlins, meanwhile, will collect most of the revenues the venue generates.

“Every single dime goes in their pockets,” Gimenez pointed out. “We get rent payments which by the way pays back a loan.”

Friday’s stadium discussion was prompted by confidential financials that surfaced online last month showing the Marlins were profitable. The revelations prompted Commissioner Rebecca Sosa to ask “If you have more can you give us more?”

Budget strapped commissioners are now asking for a refund from the Marlins.

Sally Heyman even proposed a payment plan. “To voluntarily sit down and give back perhaps $5 million dollars a year over a 10 year plan.” said Heyman.

The reality is the Marlins are more likely to win the World Series this year than to change the deal.

Commissioner Katy Sorenson voiced her acceptance that the fight was over. “It was a giveaway to the rich. I don’t think the rich are going to come back and be charitable. It’s unlikely. I was on the for side of the 9-4 and I am going to get over it. The stadium is going up.”

As the county manager sold commissioners that this was a good agreement, each voiced where they stood now, knowing what they know.

On the bright side, the stadium is on track right now to be the first major MiamiDade project to come in on time and under budget.

“My vote then was what it was; my vote now is what it is,” said Commissioner Natacha Seijas. “I’m not ashamed or embarrassed or even feel bad about what I did.”

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Chairman Dennis Moss said he has learned a lesson.

“I think from this point on when folks are asking for some support I’m going to be asking for some financials. I’m going to be like everybody else in this process.

Because at the end of the day we get burned in the media and everywhere else,” said Moss.

Friday’s discussion on the Marlins was just that, a discussion. It was an opportunity for each commissioner to throw their hands in the air.

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Tide Rising On Water Rates Reporting Joan Murray

Coral Springs and Pembroke Pines all are raising rates.

away.

Johnny Balderrama understands that well.

P O M PA N O B E A C H (CBS4) — It may be there when you turn on your tap, but it doesn’t come cheap.

And from one end of Broward county to the other, residents complain in these tough times that the rising water rates are draining their wallets.

Pompano Beach is just the latest in a string of cities to raise the water - sewer rates significantly.

After paying his $99 dollar bill, Pompano resident Carl Spinnler says it is getting harder to make ends meet.

“I have a very limited income and they just cut into it by $30 bucks a month,” he lamented.

In 2010 Pompano Beach, Ft. Lauderdale,

Last year, residents in Hollywood, Sunrise, Weston, Southwest Ranches, Davie and Plantation all saw an increase.

Some cities say the increase is needed to maintain operating costs. Other cities say they need to make improvements to the water-sewer infrastructure.

Whatever the reason, the spike is sometimes hard to swallow.

He runs a Sunrise pizzeria and is still absorbing his city’s 40 percent hike in water rates last year.

Between his business and home, Balderrama says he’s paying at least one hundred dollars more a month for water.

He works 7 days a week.

In Pembroke Pines where they are proposing a 27 percent increase in water rates, residents are bracing for the shock.

“It’s like more hours and watch my budget. I pay attention to every single bill.”

“It’s awful. Everything else is going up.

Why water? It’s something we need all the time,” said Carmen Alonso.

While there’s little residents can do to stem the flow of these increases most cities say you can console yourself with the fact that if you get an increase now it will be years before there’s another hike

“You have to pay it because it’s what they want. But it’s not fair to everyone,” says Michelle Persiano. Alonso and Persiano work in a beauty salon and they wonder how their boss is going to absorb the rising rates. They say they can’t raise prices because it will just drive customers

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Potential Broward Budget Cuts Not Well Received Reporting Joan Murray

the park several times every week.

“It will hurt us. We spend time here together. This is what we do as a family,” said Bacile.

It’s also possible that park entrance fees may go up. Other services may suffer as well.

FORT LAUDERDALE (CBS4) — As the economy continues to be shakier than a California fault line, the repercussions are being felt everywhere, all the way down to the playground.

Because of falling tax revenue and a $100 million dollar budget shortfall, Broward County Commissioners will soon vote on which cuts to make.

When the new budget year starts in October, chances are likely that most Broward regional parks will be closed two days a week to save money.

That doesn’t sit well with parents like Madge Bacile, who takes her two sons to

In order to save millions of dollars Broward County Transit has proposed eliminating 6 bus routes and discontinuing or reducing service on more than a dozen other routes.

One route proposed for elimination is the number 17 bus route, which runs through largely populated neighborhoods of Hollywood. Darlena Leonard said with eliminating that bus route she won’t be able to get to her home health aide job.

Broward Sheriff’s office is trying to trim five percent from its budget.

According to the Sheriff’s office they are looking at eliminating or reassigning 37 support staff positions, laying off 7 detention deputies, and reclassifying 247 detention deputies. This means the men and women who work in the jail system will become civilian positions with an eleven percent pay cut and a cut in benefits.

It’s not sitting well with the union that represents them.

Anthony Marciano who is the director of the Federation of public employees says they’ve filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity commission.

“A lot of people don’t have the money to buy a car. They’re on social security or retired. They depend on public transportation. This is not fair to the public,” said Leonard.

“Detention is 60 percent black and 70 percent minority,” said Marciano. “Eleven percent less a year can put you in foreclosure. Children are affected. It’s an emotional time. We have one couple where both work in the jail system. That would be $22,000 a year loss.”

Even public safety hasn’t been spared. The

The Broward County Commission will

hold two public hearings on the budget on September 14 and September 28. The public is invited to give comments.

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Florida Politicians Begin Airing It Out Reporting M i c h a e l Williams MIAMI (CBS4) — There is something in the air. It is the crackle of p o l i t i c a l electricity and it is being channeled into a batch of mostly positive early political tv ads by candidates in the major Florida races this fall. Political analysts say they simply want to play nice, for now, as they introduce themselves to an electorate that largely tuned out of the primary fights all summer.

“I’m the only one against offshore oil drilling before and after the BP spill, the only one against privatizing Social Security.” The latter is a claim his two opponents, Crist and Marco Rubio, are sure to take issue with, but Meek is striving to contrast and compare against two politicians who are better known across the state.

Speaking of Rubio, the Republican U.S. Senate nominee recently ran a television commercial in which he espouses the value of the “American Dream.”

Political pollster Fernand Amandi watched the batch of TV political ads with me. He says every candidate wants to start the general election campaign in a positive light.

Governor Charlie Crist, running as an independent for U.S. Senate, has an ad in which he rearranges the letters in the words “Democrats” and “Republicans”. At the close of the ad he has spelled “Americans”, and tells the viewer that “there’s only one party I work for.”

Amandi told CBS4’s Michael Williams, “Look at the fact that during primary season you had about 20 percent turnout statewide of voters. So, 80 percent of average Florida voters didn’t even participate, likely tuned out.”

His Democratic opponent, Kendrick Meek, has an ad in which he tells viewers,

Rick Scott waged a highly negative primary fight with Bill McCollum. At the

start of his bid to reach out to voters before November, the former health care executive turned GOP candidate for governor has again focused much of his attention on his “outsider” status. Scott has one ad in which he says, “The politicians can’t turn Florida around, but you and I can.”

His opponent in the governor’s race, Democrat Alex Sink, is the state’s chief financial officer. She, too, seems intent on pitching herself as an outsider. In a new campaign ad in which she sternly faces the camera, Sink takes a get tough attitude.

She says, “Partisanship, I’ve got no patience for it, special interests, nothing special about them to me.”

Amandi says, “What you are seeing now is the candidates positive messages, trying to introduce themselves to voters, giving the rationales for their candidacies through these 30 second spots.”

Enjoy the mostly positive early vibe in the latest batch of TV political spots. It is not likely to last long. The gubernatorial race is a tight one, and in a crowded Senate field there will be the irresistible urge to

sharpen the differences between the candidates.

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Local Program Helps College Dreams Come True Great grades helped Frank qualify for the Education Fund’s Citi Postsecondary Success Program, a program that’s helping kids who thought they couldn’t afford college.

This year, Wal-Mart teamed up with the Education Fund to pay for the program, and also surprised Frank with a $250 shopping spree of supplies for school and dorm.

“They don’t know how to do applications, they realize there is expense, they haven’t planned for explained Linda Lecht, President of Education Fund.

“To take someone that maybe didn’t have hope, who now has the future, he can now go out there and become what he wants to be, it’s actually the first step in his dream come true,” said Wal-Mart Store Manager, Donna Shultz.

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The program exposes high school students to college early on.

MIAMI (CBS4) — The cost of college is on the rise. Many students and their families find it hard to afford an education past high school. But there’s a local program that’s helping students pay for their education and change their lives.

Frank Vento is the new man on campus.

Like most college freshman, he’s excited for the future but what makes his story so special is that he’s paving the way for his family.

“I’m the first person to go to college in the whole family tree,” Frank shared with CBS4’s Nicole Maristany.

“We have college clubs, have field trips for kids to campuses, to work with parents, to have all of the different things to make it possible for kids to go to college” said Lecht.

Because of the program, Frank received a full scholarship to Florida Memorial College and will be living on campus this fall.

“The wonderful thing is that there are many, many students that that can happen to,” added Lecht.

For Frank, he describes it as both a reward and a relief, explaining, “I wouldn’t want my mom to be struggling with me and then have nothing for my little brother, so if I could get a full tuition scholarship, then I help her out.”

For more information on the Citi Postsecondary Success Program and other ways to help you get to college, call Neighbors 4 Neighbors at 305-597-4404. (© MMX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.) news powered by

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Dade Commission OK’s Tax Hike With New Budget positions eliminated including 600 employees at work now. Also, many community based organizations would face 25 percent cuts in funding next spring. Park and library service would be impacted.

MIAMI (CBS4) —Despite cries of protest from some residents and some county commissioners, the Miami-Dade County Commission have approved a “rollback” tax rate for the 2010-2011 budget year which will translate into a 14 percent property tax hike for approximately 60 percent of county taxpayers.

During Monday’s budget meeting, which lasted into Tuesday morning, Mayor Carlos Alvarez recommended a roughly 13 percent tax rate hike to help the county deal with a $444 million budget deficit.

Alvarez said even if it was approved it would leave the county with about $55 million less in revenue next year. Without a tax hike Alvarez said even normally untouchable police and firefighter ranks would be hit. He predicted “hundreds of layoffs of firefighters” if commissioners reject his taxing proposal.

Under the budget plan while nearly all county employees would receive a pay raise, an estimated 1200 county job

Alvarez’s plan also calls for certain perks received by the mayor, county manager and commissioners which include everything from car lease allowances of up to $800 per month to benefits packages that total tens of thousands of dollars for elected officials and top county executives to remain intact.

Retiring Miami-Dade Commissioner Katy Sorenson agreed with the mayor’s plan.

“We want to keep public safety whole. We want to make sure children programs and elderly programs are protected and to do all that somebody has to pay. This is an equality budget. I think it is fair,” said Sorenson.

Not so, argued Commissioners Javier Souto who said “It is insane to hit people with higher taxes at this moment.”

Cash strapped residents who may see their tax bills rise as property values plummet also voiced their disapproval of a tax increase.

One protester said, “We tighten our belts.

They never do.”

In the end, the commission voted 8-5 to

approve the tax hike but some commissioners said they may not stick with their ‘yes’ votes when the budget comes up for a final vote. Those who voted for the budget proposal were commissioners Dennis Moss, Barbara Jordan, Katy Sorenson, Natacha Seijas, Dorrin Rolle, Sally Heyman, Audrey Edmonson, and Bruno Barreiro.

Commissioners Carlos Gimenez, Javier Souto, Joe Martinez, Jose “Pepe’’ Diaz, and Rebeca Sosa voted against it.

A second public hearing is scheduled for September 23 in which commissioners will take their second and final vote. In the second vote, commissioners are able to reduce the tax rate, but can’t raise it.

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New FPL Rebates Could Put Money In Your Pocket Reporting Jorge Estevez MIAMI (CBS4) — There is a way for you to conserve more than just energy the next time your electric bill comes in. There are new rebates available from the State of Florida that can save you saving hundreds; all you need to save money is a visit from FPL. “The less energy that is being used by our customers, the less we have to generate,” said Raudel Valdes, FPL Energy Management special.

Since the 1970’s, Florida Power and Light Company has provided energy surveys.

Now, with new rebates and incentives, the surveys have become even more popular.

They are also useful to clear up common misconceptions; like you should not leave your AC at 78 degrees when you are not home.

“When you are not home you should run your AC at 82 degrees or warmer,” Valdes told CBS4’s Jorge Estevez.

You actually save 9 percent with every 2 degrees you raise the temperature. Another misconception is that Instant Water Heaters are a good investment. They can be, but not for large families of people who take long showers.

“If you have teenagers in the house that take 45 minutes showers, it is going to cost you a lot of money,” said Valdes.

Also, ceiling fans should not be left on all day and you should change your filter every 30 days. The best kind of filters are the pleated ones. The goal is to keep out the heat so seal up any gaps in windows and doors.

FPL incentives include: $154 for Duct Repair $300 for Insulation $1000 to replace you unit to a Higher Efficiency AC

There is a newer rebate and incentive being offered by the state of Florida. All you have to do is hire an outside company to see if you ducts leak less than 15 percent.

If that is the case, you can get up to 15 hundred dollars back. (© MMX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.) news powered by

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Lower Interest Rates Help Car Shoppers Too Reporting Al Sunshine MIAMI (CBS4) — Record low interest rates may be b o o s t i n g mortgage refinancing, but it turns out those low rates can help you lower the monthly payments on your car as well.

Josh Mungavin just cut his monthly car payments by about $41 dollars a month.

“Money’s cheap now at the banks, it’s a perfect time to consider refinancing your car,” said Mungavin who works at Evensky & Katz as a financial planner.

He was paying $242 a month on his car but recently found cheaper rates on the internet at the Pentagon Credit Union. He

was able to get a new loan and cut his payments down to about $200 with a new interest rate under 3 percent.

“I read a lot of financial blogs and look for deals. I found the Pentagon Credit Union offering 2.99 percent auto loans which is the cheapest I could find on the market,” said Mungavin.

CBS4 chief consumer investigator Al Sunshine urges everyone to take care when considering these cheaper loans.

For example, a prospective shopper who was three years into a five year car loan at eight percent still owed $16, 600 on the vehicle. Her current payments are $499 a month. Online she found a $6.5 percent loan which she could extend for another five years and end up lowering payments to $346 a month. But here’s the catch.

The extra term of the loan will add another $28 hundred to the final costs.

Sunshine said that’s something some

lenders won’t tell you unless you run the numbers yourself.

While finding cheaper auto loans may sound good at first, you still have to be careful about extra fees or extended terms. Unlike a home mortgage, financial planners say as long as you don’t have to pay anything up front, cutting your interest rates by just a point or two can save big bucks on auto loans.

“There really isn’t a threshold of how many points you should save on interest rates, just be careful about extending the payments when applying for a new loan,” said Mungavin.

Financial Planner Charles Sachs has another money-saver you might consider.

He advises to consider the lowest monthly payment you can find, even if means extending the terms of the loan to several more years. But he says you can beat the bank by still paying your original loan

payments. In other words, you should try to pay down your loan as much as possible each month.

You’ll still have the ability to just pay the minimum payment if you need to. But by paying a little extra each month, you’ll not only pay off your loan sooner, you’ll cut how much money the banks earns on your interest payments and cut your overall financing costs.

Don’t forget, you not only want to look for the cheapest rates, you want to ask about any extra re-financing fees you may be charged up front. Sunshine says also be careful paying anything extra before being assured in writing you actually qualify for a new loan. (© MMX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.) news powered by

Items Go Cheap, Sites Make Money In Penny Auctions Reporting Al Sunshine (CBS4) It seems too good to be true -- socalled online penny auction sites claiming s h o p p e r s bought an Amazon Kindle for $27, an iPad for $32, a PlayStation 3 for 56 cents.

Gupta said some sites offer beginner auctions. There’s a better chance of winning and a better chance shoppers will return.

sites about a year and a half ago. She had fun, then a bad experience. She said she had a strong suspicion one site was using fake bids to keep the auction action going.

me.”

“A lot of people get addicted to this thing and end up buying things that they don’t need and participate just for the heck of participating,” said Gupta.

“When I found that there are actually script developers that are selling these options to people, to actually rip people off that are paying for bid, so you know I didn’t see any other resources online, so I started this back in May of 2009,” Lee said.

“It’s really hard to say when you’re going to win, and when the best time is, it’s all about timing and you don’t know when,” she said.

University of Chicago researchers studied 26 auctions in which bidders were trying to win checks for $1,000.

“In these auctions, you just place a bid,” said Professor Alok Gupta. “When you place a bid, the price goes up by one cent.

And that’s why they call it penny auctions.”

A New York Times article said on average Swoopo.com took in $2,452 every time they auctioned off $1,000. Winning bidders also did well, according to the article.

Gupta heads up the Information Decision Science Department at the Carlson School at the University of Minnesota. He’s researched all sorts of online auctions.

When something is too good to be true, there’s usually a catch. Penny auctions aren’t an exception to that rule.

Of the winners, all but two made money even after accounting for the cost of their bids, with an average profit of $658.

“The catch here is every time you bid, you pay a certain amount,” Gupta said.

“So for every winner, there are a lot of suckers, right? People who didn’t win.

That’s where they make their money,” Gupta said.

Amanda Lee started using penny auction

This being pennyauctionwatch.com -- a forum for people to review sites and report suspicious activity.

With 2,500 members, it’s a big deal. It was even mentioned in the current issue of “Time” magazine.

Penny Auction Watch has clearly upset some people.

“I received kind of vague threats in my email,” Lee said. Some saying, “You’d be better off swimming with crocodiles or jumping out of a plane without a parachute. I’ve received and found some really unsettling things said online about

As for bidding advice, Lee said it’s all about the right timing.

The guy who wins the iPad looks like a genius. The one who used 1,673 bids -more than $1,200 -- and lost? Not so much.

It’s worth noting that some sites let consumers apply spent bids toward buying an item at its regular, full price.

At least then, they’re not totally out the money. (© MMX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.)

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Wilton Manors Police Chief In Hot Water system and appear to come from Chief Perez.

It is not yet clear if the e-mails originated with Perez or were sent by someone else who hacked into his system, but one e-mail titled “Mom’s Memory” forwarded July 23 said, “A little boy said to his mother, ‘Mommy, how come I’m black and you’re white.’ His mother replied, ‘Don’t even go there, Barack! From what I can remember about that party, you’re lucky you don’t bark!’”

WILTON MANORS (CBS4) —Wilton Manors Police Chief Richard Perez is facing disciplinary action following the circulation of controversial e-mails from his official account.

Wilton Manors City Manager Joseph L. Gallegos issued a statement Monday that said “The City of Wilton Manors will not tolerate or ignore any actions

by City employees that do not uphold the highest levels of respect and professionalism within our organization.”

Gallegos, in a prepared statement to CBS4 said he and the city attorney are investigating the allegations against Perez and other top officers who may be involved, and have identified steps for appropriate discipline for those involved, although it fails to mention what that discipline will be.

Perez, who moonlights by teaching classes at Broward College’s Police Academy, also has been removed from his teaching gig because of the controversial emails circulated in his department.

Perez, who teaches ethics classes, among others, apparently has been removed from the teaching schedule while issues surrounding the e-mails are worked out, according to a statement provided by Rivka Spiro, media relations specialist for Broward College.

The decision to remove Perez from his teaching position was made Sept. 11, a day after The South Florida Times broke a story on the e-mails, which were circulated within the Wilton Manors police e-mail

It was prefaced with “Normally I don’t send or forward a lot of these, but even by my standards, it was a bit touching. I want all of my friends to feel what I felt when I read it. Hope it touches your heart like it did mine. This is so beautiful.”

Dean Linda Wood, of Broward College’s Institute of Public Safety and director of the Police Academy said in a prepared statement “We teach all of our trainees that once they enter the law enforcement profession their core responsibility is to provide the highest level of professionalism and service to the communities they serve, and this is reinforced daily by all of our staff. We have no tolerance for disrespect towards any member of the community,” Wood said.

Broward College hosts a rich diversity of students and staff in all of its programs and holds a zero tolerance policy towards any kind of discriminatory remarks, the statement said.

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HURRICANE SECTION 2010 Everything You Need To Know To Be Prepared This Hurricane Season.

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Preparing Your Boat Ahead Of A Storm have died trying to do that.

Drawbridge Lockdown Plans: Miami-Dade County: All drawbridges will be locked down 8 hours before winds of 39 mph are expected. Boaters without prearranged slip space will not be allowed on the Miami River.

South Florida is a boater’s paradise, except when a hurricane threatens. But you can do several things to help your boat survive a storm.

Rule # 1: DO NOT risk your own life to save a boat.

Plan where you will put your boat in the event of a hurricane. A protected garage or well-constructed warehouse is a safe place for a small boat and trailer.

If you plan to move your boat, make sure it is in good running order, has fuel, and has charged batteries.

Keep informed of bridge lockdown schedules and flotilla plans if you are moving your boat.

Remember to allow plenty of time to move your boat, secure it, and return to your own safe place. A practice run before a hurricane threatens will help you figure out how long it will take you to do this and what obstacles you may be facing.

If you keep your boat in a marina, find out from the dockmaster NOW what the marina’s hurricane plans are. You will need to build that into your own hurricane plan.

Check the mooring hardware and equipment for strength NOW. Hurricane moorings require at least double lines.

Coordinate your mooring plan with those of other boat owners around you.

Practicing your mooring system now will make it easier and faster when a storm threatens.

Remove all electronics, personal items, and anything not tied down once you have secured your boat.

DO NOT even think about riding out a hurricane on your boat. Too many people

Broward County: Bridges are to be locked down no later than 3-1/2 hours after an evacuation order is issued or when winds reach 39 mph, whichever comes first. But be advised that bridges have been locked down much earlier than that in past hurricane threats.

For additional information on hurricane safety for boaters, you can call the MiamiDade County Answer Center at 305-4685900. (© MMX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.) news powered by

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Plywood Shutters 2x4’s or something like a piano hinge. The 2x4’s will also help give you something to hold while putting up the shutter. If storage space is a problem, you could store the individual sections of these larger shutters and wait until a storm is approaching to attach the sections with the 2x4’s.

If you can, waterproof (seal or paint) the finished shutters. This will help prevent the plywood from warping quickly.

Be sure to mark each shutter so that you know which one goes on each window.

Keep in mind that NO types of plywood shutters meet the South Florida Building Code. If at all possible, install a commercially produced shutter or other product that does meet the building code.

If you decide to use plywood shutters, the following design is one way to install them on a concrete block stucco home.

This method of plywood shutter construction requires at least a 2-inch inset of the window frame from the exterior face of the concrete wall. It uses 5/8 or 3/4 inch thick exterior grade plywood cut to fit in the outside of the window opening against the window frame. You will need 4-6 barrel bolts, either 3” or 4” size per window. You will need more for larger windows or sliding glass doors. The rule of thumb is one barrel bolt every 18”. To get the shutters to fit properly, you might have to do some planing to fit the shutter in the window opening. A snug fit is very important.

Be sure to attach the bolts to the wood first, them mark where you need the holes in the concrete.

Use a drill to make holes in the window inset to correspond with the size of your barrel bolts.

For large windows or sliding glass doors, attach two pieces of plywood together with

Remember, even the best designed shutter will fail in strong winds if not installed properly. So, try to get as tight a fit as possible on the plywood. You don’t want to allow wind to get under the shutter.

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Florida Politicians’ Job Claims: A Reality Check Reporting M i c h a e l Williams MIAMI (CBS4) — Juan Gutierrez shows up at South F l o r i d a Wo r k f o r c e offices several days each week. It may finally pay off. It looks like he has landed another restaurant industry job—as a banquet server—after losing work in that business.

Gutierrez winces at the thought of the tough times he has had to deal with over many months.

“They laid off a bunch of people, being that business was slow,” he said. “Here we are waiting for the next opportunity to come about.”

The unemployment rate in Miami-Dade stands at nearly 13 percent. In Broward, one of every ten people in the labor force is jobless.

Politicians, naturally, vow to fix that, knowing that jobs and the economy are the priority with an anxious, cash strapped electorate.

Florida’s U.S. Senate candidates talk about it all the time. Governor Charlie Crist, now running as an independent, says

to reporters, “Who is going to do more for job creation?”

my plan to create 700,000 jobs over the next seven years.”

Clearly he thinks he will, though he offers few specifics.

McGrath again adds a big dose of caution.

He argued, “It is impossible for anyone in government to guarantee people jobs in the private sector. You have a very large machine, whether it is the U.S. economy, the Florida economy or local (economy) and the reality is there is no one approach, one plan, one idea that is going to suddenly push things back in their (job creation) direction.”

Democrat Kendrick Meek boasts, “I’ll be the only candidate who would have stood up for the middle class.”

And Republican Marco Rubio argues, “Politicians don’t create jobs. Jobs are created by people from all walks of life.”

Rubio opposed federal stimulus, and wants Bush era tax cuts extended. Crist supported the federal stimulus and likes those tax cuts too. Meek voted for the stimulus plan and wants Bush tax cuts ended for the wealthiest Americans but kept in place for middle class wage earners.

Evensky & Katz investment expert Matthew McGrath puts all of that in perspective. He said, “There is no silver bullet, nothing that is going to be put in place that suddenly creates hundreds of thousands of jobs.”

Few politicians will acknowledge that the levers they want to wield have limits.

Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Alex Sink promises “to bring jobs back to more Floridians.”

Republican gubernatorial nominee Rick Scott continues to say, “We can implement

The best politicians can do, experts say, is hope to find the right mix of tax and regulatory reform, and other government stimulus that might convince U.S. businesses to start investing the nearly $2 trillion they have sitting on the sidelines in new job creation and projects. Of course, if finding that balance was easy, or if one political party had all the answers, the

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Crist May Drop State’s Defense Of Gay Adoption Ban News and said he would not support the privatization of Social Security that many in the GOP leadership seek to institute.

This comes just months after Rubio said he would support the budget proposal from Republican Rep. Paul Ryan.

In Ryan’s budget, workers could invest parts of their Social Security payments into a personal account, which Democrats have said is a way of saying privatization, without saying privatization.

Rubio Calls It Appeal To Democrats Rubio Moving Away From Tea Party Wing Of Republicans To Appeal To Independents TALLAHASSEE (CBS4) — Florida Governor, and independent Senate candidate, Charlie Crist said Tuesday he will review a judge’s order striking down a Florida law that banned homosexual from adopting children and then decide whether the state should continue its appeal of the decision.

The state originally appealed the decision from a Miami judge last year. According to the American Civil Liberties Union, Florida is the only state that bans gays from adopting without exception.

For Crist, if he decides the state should drop its appeal; it will only further alienate and anger the more socially conservative wing of the Republican Party.

Republican Senate candidate Marco Rubio immediately jumped on Crist after the Crist campaign issued a statement that declared he supports adoption by samesex couples and other gay rights issues.

“As I think most of us learned in life, the older you get, the more tolerant you become and the less judgmental you are, and that’s called wisdom,” Crist told the Florida Today newspaper.

Crist, like Rubio, is having to walk back to the center to generate wider appeal amongst the large number of independent voters in the state of Florida.

Rubio was interviewed last week by Fox

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Rothstein Victim Looks To Win Settlement Money Reporting Carey Codd MIAMI (CBS4) — Tim Davis never expected to find himself a victim of Scott Rothstein’s billion dollar Ponzi scheme.

Davis, a technician for a medical supply company, was injured on the job and won a settlement of more than $20,000.

But he never got the money because Rothstein raided the trust account which held the money and fled to Morocco.

“I was having financial problems and was really counting on that,” Davis told CBS 4’s Carey Codd. “It puts food on the table.”

Davis said when he learned Rothstein left the country, he figured his money was as good as gone.

“I didn’t know what to do,” he said. “I was pretty upset. I didn’t think I was gonna get anything.”

Davis is one of more than 35 people who lost settlement money in Rothstein’s Ponzi scheme. Rothstein never handled Davis’s case but his lawyer worked at the firm. Davis’s money was in a secure trust account that Rothstein raided.

Monday, U.S. District Court Judge James I. Cohn ruled that the legal clients of the Rothstein Rosenfedlt Adler law firm should be paid restitution in full before the investors who sank large sums into Rothstein’s fraudulent investments.

Attorney Seth Lehrman represented Davis and the other legal clients. He estimates the restitution for the clients will be about $1 million. Lehrman used to work at Rothstein’s firm and said he decided to represent these clients for free, in hopes of winning them their money back.

“Many of these clients were people that I represented and that I knew,” Lehrman

said. “This was an obligation -- a strong obligation that we all felt to these clients.”

Lehrman and several other lawyers who worked at Rothstein’s firm started a new firm in the weeks after Rothstein’s scheme was exposed.

Gary Farmer is one of the lawyers at Farmer, Jaffe, Weissing, Edwards, Fistos and Lehrman.

“All or the vast majority of these clients never even met Scott Rothstein, but they knew us,” he said. “We were their lawyers. And we take that obligation very seriously. We were not gonna walk away from these people.”

Farmer said people like Tim Davis are the true victims of Rothstein.

“The money that Tim Davis is going to recover in his case, I would submit means so much more to him and his family than millions of dollars may have meant to well heeled investors,” Farmer said.

In all, federal prosecutors estimate Rothstein owes about $360 million to his former clients and investors. However, investigators believe Rothstein’s estate will only bring in between $50-60 million.

Davis hopes to receive his money soon.

He also hopes Rothstein is spending his 50 year prison sentence pondering his actions.

“I think he’s in the place he needs to be right now to think about all the people that he’s hurt,” Davis said. (© MMX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.) news powered by

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Memorial Hospital Leading Way On Cancer Research Reporting Cynthia Demos HOLLYWOOD (CBS4) — Cancer has become the costliest disease in the world and should pass heart disease this year as the number one killer in the world.

“This drug has proven that works in colon cancer works in lung cancer, renal cancer there’s also some new studies for ovarian cancer that works as well,” Gordon said.

The Memorial Cancer Institute in Hollywood is now using Avastin in a study for women with cervical cancer.

Researchers in South Florida are working on two studies that hope to change those numbers, especially for women.

“Now we want to prove by adding this drug to the standard of care the chemotherapy if we can improve the patients chances of getting rid of the cancer,” said oncologist Dr. Michel Vulfovich. He said cervical cancer is one of the most common cancers in the world.

Ann Gordon is one of the millions of women who suffer from cancer. She’s gone through nearly two dozen cancer treatments after being diagnosed with ovarian cancer.

Recently, she’s been receiving a drug called Avastin.

“We have a lot of patients who come from South America, Latin America and with them they have this condition,” Vulfovich said. “Most patients, they never had basic health care; so they never had a pap screen test; so by the time they present they have

advanced cancer.”

Regular pap tests can help prevent cervical cancer and detect it early. Cervical cancer has a much better survival rate than ovarian cancer.

That’s why more studies are being introduced to help patients with ovarian cancer, like the one at Memorial Cancer Institute for a new antibody called the insulin growth factor receptor.

“So what the trial does is half of the patients receive the drug with the chemotherapy for 6 treatments and after the chemotherapy is finished they only continue this antibody,” Dr. Vulfovich said.

Vulfovich said the antibody is supposed to help reduce the chances of the cancer coming back; and it’s trials like these that give hope to patients like Gordon.

The Healing Powers Of Kangen Water - Does It Work?

Reporting Cynthia Demos (CBS4) Can water change your life? That’s the claim made by Kangen Water World which describes its product as a “miracle water”—the ultimate anti-oxidant that can reverse some health ailments. But does Kangen water really have the power to heal?

“I tell people they have the option, you could be taking prescription pills or get hydrated and alkalined and you probably won’t need them,” said Harvey Branman, of Kangen Water World.

Branman is a Kangen water believer. He says he can’t promise it will cure you of any diseases but he believes in its power. Its roots in Japan, the word Kangen means ‘return to origin’ “I’ve lost all allergies to cats plus my acid reflux is gone,” said Branman.

You’re supposed to drink half an ounce of water per pound of body weight. So if you’re 120 lbs, you need 60 ounces of

H2O. Purged of free radicals, Kangen water has a ph balance of 8.5 to 11.0. City tap water is alkalined at 7.2 which is neutral.

“When it goes into the machine, its going into a filter, a very high grade filter, which lasts for 15-hundred gallons,” explained Branman. The machine splits the water.

One is acidic and the other alkalined.

Kangen makers believe by drinking more alkalined water rids your body of acid in the cells that the company claims can lead to a number of health problems.

Client Charlotte McKenna has been drinking Kangen water for 9 months.

“I thought it was weird at first and then I saw this demonstration and it was amazing to me. I had a lot of pain in my hands and my fingers, I have arthritis and it went away within a week,” said McKenna. She is also a breast cancer survivor. “I will have a better chance of not getting cancer again as long as my body is alkalined.”

Registered dietitian Sonia Angel with Memorial Healthcare System says drinking more of any kind of water might bring the same results.

“So there’s a lot of signs of dehydration that we feel that we don’t know it’s because

of lack of water, fatigue, hunger, sleepiness, acid reflux and basically when we drink more water in general we’re going to have more energy, we’re going to metabolize foods better, we’re going to digest foods better,” explained Angel.

Angel says when she researched the product she found no scientific data to back up the claims of Kangen water so you might be spending a lot of money when you could just drink regular tap water. (© MMX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.) news powered by

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Fla. Program Helps Keep Kids Healthy & In The Game everyone to enjoy their one shining moment.

Health coverage for kids who want to get into sports is available through Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program, or CHIP. The program, through FloridaKidCare.org, will generally give coverage to a child in a family of four that earns up to $45,000 per year.

MIAMI (CBS4) — As school starts and athletic fields begin to fill up with kids of all ages taking a shot at being a sports star, some kids never get the opportunity to be in the spotlight because they can’t afford the physical or treatment if they get hurt. But now, there’s a way for

The coverage allows the children to receive doctor and dental visits, vision and hearing care, hospital care, mental health services, regular check-ups and shots, and needed treatment including prescription drugs.

lessons about teamwork and the value of both winning and losing. And according to the Centers for Disease Control, children who are part of sports teams have more energy, perform better in school and are successful long after they leave the field.

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Businesses Getting On The Ball With Weight Loss Reporting Cynthia Demos MIAMI (CBS4) — You’ve probably seen s o m e o n e working out with the big exercise ball at the gym or maybe you have one at home. Fitness experts say the exercise ball is best for building your core and getting those six pack abs. And now, they have become very popular in the workplace.

For most Americans, half of your life is spent just sitting around at the office, at home, even for fun. All that sitting is a silent killer.

now has its employees aiming to build their own strong cores by sitting on exercise balls.

“I love it. I feel my six packs coming in,” said one employee. “It keeps me energized throughout the day,” added another.

The idea began with employee Patty Larson.

“I started working with a personal trainer and found that I have really poor balance and not such a strong core. So he suggested I sit on one at work and it just kind of took on a life of its own,” Larson explained.

“I think we’re up to 57 now. It started in early March and has just proliferated,” said a manager with the company.

“You’ve really increased your risk for heart disease, obesity and diabetes,” said fitness manager Laura Greenfield.

Fitness manager Laura Greenfield said before you use an exercise ball get some instruction including how to safely sit on one.

In order to combat the problem some employees have really gotten on the ball, literally.

“You don’t want your knees higher than your hips when you’re seated,” said Greenfield.

A California construction company known for building structures with strong cores

But she suggested not sitting on the ball all day, but rather vary sitting on a chair so

you can relax your core.

Schools and universities across the country are also starting to offer exercise ball seating in the classroom.

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Do You Suffer From Computer Vision Syndrome?

Reporting Cynthia Demos (CBS4) If working at the computer leaves you with headaches, blurred vision, or neck pain, you could be suffering from what’s called ‘computer vision syndrome’. While computer vision syndrome is not an official diagnosis, some think it’s a real problem.

According to the American Optometric Association, more than 143 million Americans work on the computer daily and an estimated 70-percent suffer from CVS. Brian Donovan is one of them.

“I can read small print. But for some reason the computer just kills my eyes, kills ‘em and yeah they hurt,” said Donovan.

Donovan averages 5-10 hours a day on his computer; emailing, writing and editing documentaries.

“My eyes were so strained even the next morning I felt just a real strain in my eyes and I thought this can’t be right,” said Donovan.

Donovan dealt with the pain for 4 years until he was diagnosed with computer vision syndrome.

“Wow this is a thing, I just thought my eyes were tired and really fatigued,” said Donovan.

Optometrist Dr. Elise Brisco says spending more than two hours a day at the keyboard puts you more at risk for CVS. “Because your eye muscles have to work hard to focus if they’re on the computer and it’s just one distance continuously for a prolonged period the eye muscles are tensed just like sitting cross legged for a long time,” explained Dr. Brisco.

The condition occurs because computer images are created from thousands of tiny dots or pixels and your eyes have to focus and refocus to keep the images sharp.

That’s what Donovan did and he says it changed his life. “I can be at a computer for 6 hours and my lower back would go before my eyes and now it’s kind of pleasant.”

Symptoms include blurred vision, headaches, eye strain and burning or dry eyes.

Optometrists say children and teenagers are even more susceptible to CVS because their eyes are still growing and developing.

Brisco recommends your monitor be 20 to 24 inches from you and take an eye break every 20 minutes just 20 seconds to let your eye muscles relax. Getting yearly eye exams as well as computer glasses can help.

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New Technology Combats Cellulite, Tightens Skin “No matter how much you work out it just starts to form,” said Castronovo.

Lisa is undergoing a new technology called Reaction. It’s the first device that combines existing therapies to treat cellulite and fat, and tighten the skin.

“They get a better overall result with fewer treatments,” according to Dr. Matthew Schulman of Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

MIAMI (CBS4) — Tired of that dimpled, uneven skin texture most commonly known as cellulite? The FDA has recently approved a new device that helps get rid of cellulite and tighten skin.

Lisa Castronovo likes wearing shorts, but she didn’t like showing off the cellulite on the back of her legs.

The treatment uses traditional radio frequency energy to heat the skin, and vacuum therapy to increase blood flow to the area.

“Heating will cause the collagen to shorten to tighten and in effect tighten the skin, it causes a controlled injury to the fat causing the fat to disappear,” explained

Dr. Schulman.

But Reaction technology will leave a dent in your wallet. It costs about 25-hundred dollars for a six week treatment. And since it’s cosmetic, insurance won’t cover it.

Doctors say it usually takes a few visits to see the effects. Some patients might bruise or feel minor discomfort.

“It just felt like someone was giving me a massage but with really hot heat,” said Castronovo.

Lisa is on her last treatment and says she definitely sees an improvement.

“I feel a lot better. I’m not so selfconscious,” said Castronovo.

To keep her newly improved thighs, Lisa

will need a single maintenance treatment once or twice a year. Doctors warn that nothing can reshape the body completely.

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Cheap Eats: From Mighty Meats To Vegan Dishes Reporting Lisa Petrillo MIAMI (CBS4) —It’s lunchtime at The Filling Station in Downtown Miami – the spot serves up sandwiches, burgers, sides and salads.

Serving up such fare is a passion for the restaurant’s owner Adam Feigeles who sold the restaurant in 1994 – only to buy back the name and re-open off Northwest 2nd Street a year and a half ago.

“Every waking moment I’m in” owner Adam Feigeles told CBS4’s Lisa Petrillo.

“I just love the business.”

For a true “filling station” dining experience, sandwiches are named after popular cars including Caddy, Mustang, Delorian and Hummer.

“We call it ‘The Filling Station’ because

everything is really filling – big meals -the burgers are fresh-- everything we do is made by hand,” Feigeles said.

And just like their names, the sandwiches are creative – “The Delorian” is made with Nutella, grilled onions and bacon while “The Speed Racer” is a burger with sautéed spinach and mushrooms with jalapeno jack cheese.

There’s a wall of fame for those with mighty appetites who can handle Howard’s Big Mac Truck – two full burgers, which is equivalent to one pound of beef.

While the regulars order the signature fried pickles and onions as sides— CBS4’s Petrillo decided to take a bite out of “The Ferarri”-- a chicken sandwich with fresh mozzarella, roasted peppers and a balsamic glaze.

Petrillo nodded after the first bite and described the taste as “really good.”

For the next spot, Petrillo took a detour – from mighty meats to very vegan.

That’s the best way to describe Jugo Naturales, a restaurant at 115 Southwest 107th Avenue in South Miami that offers a strictly vegetarian fare. Juan Fransisco Cabrera and his daughter Imari serve up the freshest food you’ll ever eat.

“No meat, no eggs, no preservatives, no artificial colors,” Cabrera said. “I don’t fry anything.”

Lentil soup with fresh vegetables is a huge hit-- as is the $2.00 baked eggplant, baked plantains and white beans.

Imari made CBS4’s Petrillo a pineapple, strawberry and mango smoothie that goes through a special juice extractor with no additives.

Juan prepares a frozen mango strawberry banana ice cream that gives Ben and Jerry’s a run for their money.

Below are the locations and phone numbers of the places featured on Petrillo’s Cheap Eats feature:

* Jugos Naturales, 115 Southwest 107th Ave., Miami, FL (305) 220-3430 * The Filling Station, 95 Southeast 2nd Street, Miami, FL 33131 (786) 425-1990 (© MMX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.) news powered by

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Dwight Stephenson Wins Gerald Ford Legends Award Reporting Tim Kephart MIAMI (CBS4) —Former Miami Dolphins Hall of Fame center D w i g h t Stephenson has won the President Gerald R. Ford Legends Award from the Boomer Esiason Foundation.

“I am honored to be included in such a prestigious class of individuals who have received this award in the past. Thanks to the Boomer Esiason Foundation for allowing me to be a part of this elite group,”

Stephenson said.

The award goes to former centers from the college or pro ranks that “made extraordinary contributions to his team during his football career or have proven to be an exemplary citizen, philanthropist or lead in the business or football community.”

Some of the past recipients of the award include President Gerald R. Ford, Jim Otto, and Bill Curry.

Stephenson was drafted by the Miami Dolphins in the second round of the 1980 NFL Draft. He was once described by his college coach, Paul “Bear” Bryant, as “the best center I ever coached. He was a man among children.”

He played his entire career for the Miami Dolphins and earned both All-Pro and AllAFC honors from 1983 to 1987.

Stephenson was the Dolphins’ starting center in the 1982, 1984 and 1985 AFC championship games and in Super Bowls XVII and XIX. He retired from football in 1989 and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1998.

The award will be presented during the 11th Annual Rimington Trophy Presentation banquet on Saturday, January 15, 2011 at the Rococo Theatre in Lincoln, Neb. (© MMX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.)

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Aries (Mar. 21-Apr. 20)

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23)

Ask family members for help and you will be able to complete the projects more quickly. Problems with your partner are apparent. Minor health problems may lower your vitality. Home improvement projects will run smoothly. Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Tuesday.

Business and emotional partnerships will run smoothly. Too much talk might lead to hassles. They won’t pay you back and you’ll be upset. One-sided relationships are likely. Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Tuesday.

Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 22)

Sagitarius (Nov. 23-Dec. 21)

Gemini (May 22-June 21)

Financial investments that deal with joint money can be extremely prosperous. Your tendency to dramatize may be a little much for your partner to take constantly. Travel for business will not only bring you valuable information but also profits as well.

Refrain from arguing with your mate. Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Sunday.

You may not be as well received in group endeavors if you try to force your will on others.

Residential moves will be in your best interest. People you live with will not be terribly happy with you regardless of what you do this month. You can make favorable changes in your home environment. Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Sunday.

You can purchase items that will enhance your appearance.

Take time to talk things over.

Travel for business or pleasure.

Set the ball in motion and be relentless until you complete the project. Problems with female members of your family may play on your emotions. Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Saturday.

Taurus (Apr. 21-May 21)

Aquarius (Jan. 21-Feb. 18)

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 20)

Need some adventure in your life? Exotic destinations beckon you. You can’t lose this month unless you get involved in gossip or overwork to the point of exhaustion. Residential moves will also be advantageous for all concerned. Be cautious while traveling to foreign countries.Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Friday.

You need to keep the peace and you will have to bend in order to do so. Your ability to come up with original ideas will bring recognition from superiors. You should spend your day trying to get things completed at work. Shopping could cost more than you bargained for. Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Thursday.

You may want to sign up for courses that will encourage you to have more confidence in yourself. You will find that social activities will be enjoyable and will promote new connections.

Those you care about may oppose your ideas. You may jump from the frying pan into the fire if you make a move this month. Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Thursday.

Pisces (Feb. 19-Mar. 20)

Virgo (Aug. 24-Sept. 22)

Cancer (June 22-July 22)

You will be your usual charming self and the partners you attract may be the adventurous type. You’ll find it easy to meet new people. This could be the cause of a dispute that may result in estrangement. Think about your priorities. Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Thursday.

If they’re too demanding, reconsider this union. Pursue outdoor activities or any physical exertion.

Partnerships could prove to be lucrative. Be sure to question any detail that you feel could leave you in a precarious position at a later date. Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Sunday.

Your philanthropic contributions will bring you praise. Someone you work with may be trying to make you look bad. Health problems may prevail if you haven’t been getting enough rest. Be extra careful with your valuables; loss and theft are evident this month.Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Thursday.

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(July 23-Aug. 23) You may find it impossible to get the rest you require.

You will not be able to contain your emotions this month. Don’t let your personal partner hold you back or slow you down. Your interests could lead you down avenues you never realized existed. Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Friday.